Chapter 109: Falklands

The date was May 20, 1982.

The location is 59 degrees west longitude and 52 degrees south latitude, in the Malvinas Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean.

Yes, Xiao Mubai's current location is the Falklands, and he is about to experience a famous Falklands War.

Xiao Mubai's identity is a lieutenant in the Argentine Army.

This mission is about the Falklands War, and Xiao Mubai has just entered the mission world just now.

As many people know, the Falklands War was a war between the Argentine and British armies over sovereignty over the Falklands.

The war, which lasted 74 days, was more of a military conflict than a war.

Yes, after the outbreak of the war conflict, neither Argentina nor Great Britain declared war on each other.

At the beginning of the war, it was carried out in a strange way.

At this time, an economic crisis broke out in Argentina, inflation was very serious, and in order to divert domestic contradictions, the head of the military government brazenly launched a war.

The aim was to divert public attention from what was supposed to be a clean campaign to seize the island, with its victorious outcome.

At the beginning of the war, Britain was in a period of strategic contraction, and the colonies were withdrawn and disarmed, so that the British government was unprepared and did not have a unified opinion.

But after the outbreak of the war, the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, the leader of the Conservative Party at the time, took a tough stance and quickly responded diplomatically to the pressure on Argentina and sent a Royal Navy task force.

International public opinion is also divided into two factions, with European and North American countries supporting Britain and South American countries supporting Argentina.

The Falklands War is interpreted by many Chinese as its significance lies in how an emerging country with land power challenges a traditional sea power country and maintains its island sovereignty.

It's like the Chinese island of Taiwan.

Argentina is to the United Kingdom, China is to the United States, a familiar scene.

The Falklands are a British overseas territory inhabited mostly by British, but in the eyes of Argentina they are its territory.

And now the South China Sea issue, it seems, is the same.

The southernmost tip of the South China Sea, Zengmu Dark Sand, is far away from Chinese mainland, just like the Falklands are to Britain, and thousands of miles away.

Britain, on the other hand, has never taken up international law to ask for judicial rulings, nor has it ever put forward the idea of 200 nautical miles, but has only used war to solve the problem.

The war ended in defeat for the Afghan army, although the Afghan army was in good shape for a time and captured the entire territory of the Falklands.

However, in the later period, under the three-dimensional attack of the British army on land, sea and air, it was overwhelmed and defeated.

This was a modern island battle in the 20th century, which had a far-reaching impact on the two countries and the international situation in later generations.

Xiao Mubai knew about this, but never thought that he would become an Argentine soldier.

The Falklands War was divided into two sides, one was naval warfare at the beginning of the war, and the other was land warfare at the end of the war.

Xiao Mubai's mission was naturally not a naval battle, the naval battle was too far away for him, and he had not participated in the training of naval sailors.

Moreover, whether this land battle can be passed, whether it can be completed or not, Xiao Mubai felt very worried.

In fact, the Afghan army was too incompetent and defeated himself by himself.

With more than 10,000 defenders of the island, the Argentine army fought at home, but it still could not withstand the attack of thousands of British soldiers who had traveled long distances across the ocean and had heavy logistics.

At this time, the Afghan army implemented a compulsory military service system, and the supply of ordinary national defense troops was sufficient, but there was a shortage of professional soldiers and long-trained elite soldiers.

Britain, on the other hand, has a professional military system, has participated in NATO's live military exercises for a long time, and has mastered military and combat skills.

Indeed, the morale of the Argentine army was high in the early stage of the war, but in the later stage the war became brutal and fierce, and it quickly fell into disadvantage without being influenced by the war, so that the Argentine army surrendered as a formation.

In the end, it is not surprising that the Afghan army was defeated.

Whether this war is lost or not, it has nothing to do with Xiao Mubai, the British and Argentina fought over and over, it doesn't matter who dies, Xiao Mubai doesn't care.

But now, Xiao Mubai's identity is a lieutenant in the Argentine army, which also means that Xiao Mubai must fight to the death with the British army.

As for surrender, it is not in Xiao Mubai's consideration now, not to mention that the system task does not allow it.

It's May 20th, and there will be a landing of British troops in the early hours of tonight.

Xiao Mubai is a lieutenant in the Afghan army and has 50 patrol members under his command.

Prior to this, the British army carried out special operations, and the special air service regiment infiltrated the island by helicopter and used the operation team to carry out targeted killings by approaching reconnaissance.

On the night of May 16, six members of the patrol had died, under the British Special Forces Operations Group, killed by infrared laser high-precision sniper rifles.

As you can imagine, it was an unusually brutal battle.

Xiao Mubai was frustrated about whether he could survive, but he had not experienced military training before, and he did not know much about modern combat and individual weapons, and he had no contact with it.

I've been to the mission world before, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, and the most recent one was Vietnam in 1965, and the weapon used was only an assault rifle.

And this time, it seems to have escalated all of a sudden, escalating to modern warfare, which made Xiao Mubai feel bottomless in his heart.

Modern warfare is not an American blockbuster, and it seems to be very simple to watch, but it is actually not easy.

Although the Chinese army in 1982 was still in the exploratory stage of modernizing the army.

But in fact, the level of foreign armies abroad is already very advanced.

For Xiao Mubai, this battle is the first time in a modern war, but it is not the Argentine army but the British army.

Xiao Mubai's side is used to experience modern warfare, and it is the passive loser side.

In their own primitive combat mode, they patrol the field with guns on their shoulders, and at this time, the British special service regiment is ready to attack somewhere.

The Royal Navy task force cruised and patrolled the nearby waters, and large-caliber naval guns shelled the coastline, Afghan positions and airfields.

There are also sky, helicopter gunships and bombers, flying above the heads of the Afghan army all the time, or dropping aerial bombs for targeted bombing, or rocket artillery concentrated strikes.

Carlos Brown, which is the name of Xiao Mubai, is an Argentine army lieutenant officer, a white Hispanic.

Yes, Argentina was historically a Spanish colony, with more than 97 percent of the population being white, mainly Hispanic and Italian.

Argentina, like South Africa, is an emerging white country, but because of national interests, war broke out with Britain, a traditional white country.

Therefore, this war, that is, a dog-eat-dog war, although China was a quasi-ally of the United States at that time, and was on the side of Britain at the beginning of the war.

Xiao Mubai doesn't care about this, how to survive and how to complete the task is the most important thing for him.

Xiao Mubai is a lieutenant in the Afghan Army and has a patrol of 50 people.

The strength of these fifty people is the foundation of Xiao Mubai's survival.

Tonight, 4,000 British soldiers will land.

Representatives from the 3rd Marine Brigade and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Paratrooper Regiment were landed by landing vessels and a safe beachhead would be established the following day.

This is the information provided by the system, and the situation is very critical now, and there is not much time left for Xiao Mubai to prepare.

(To be continued)

PS: Although it's the weekend today, the school has made up for it, so I don't have much time to write. What's even more troublesome is that the author has a fungus, sitting in front of the computer for six hours, but not many words can be coded. This is the author's first time Calvin, and it feels terrible. This chapter is a transition.,Roughly introduce the background.,The plot starts right away.,Sorry for the only one more.。