Chapter 439:

Most people's impression of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia seems to be endless deserts, accompanied by high temperatures and uninhabited people, but in fact, there are many places with suitable climates.

The whole of Syria is the most economically developed region in the country, with high vegetation coverage and high precipitation at low altitudes, even though it covers less than one-eighth of the country's area.

More than half of the province of Hama is the central plateau, and only a small half of it is a hilly plain suitable for cultivation, and the small town of Sulan is located here, and it is surrounded by a desert area, where you can see lush woods and lush farmland, and the environment is very good.

Nearly 700 soldiers are all hiding around the town, and the upcoming war is a typical street battle, with a flat river around the town, basically without any cover, so to speak, once the battle is not going well, how to evacuate safely is the biggest problem.

After noon, they arrived in the small town of Sulan, where they prepared the fortifications for almost two hours, and there was no trace of the enemy, and the soldiers were running out of patience.

While Second Lieutenant Sapra was constantly reassuring the second lieutenant of Company C, the news came from Company B, which was stationed at point A7, that the enemy's vanguard had arrived at the front line.

The soldiers of Company B, hiding in the mosque, could clearly see the vanguard of the government army, ten armored vehicles lined up in a long line, dozens of infantry fully armed, along the road in a vigilant posture towards the town of Suran.

The command of the Qashush battalion at point B3 in the center of the town was the first to get the news and then passed the information on to all the companies.

So far, only A7 has found government troops, the other Evan teams stationed on the E4 road, and C Company stationed on the northern edge of the town at C1, as well as other scattered squads, have found government troops.

Gathering intelligence from all sides, government troops came from the northwest direction of Sulan Town.

The soldiers in the town continued to lurk, and the government troops, who were spotted by the Free Army soldiers but were still unaware, continued to drive on the wide road, and when they passed the H7 gas station, they continued to move along the road on the west side without dividing their troops.

At this time, the soldiers of Company B at the A7 point were only 1,500 meters away.

The government forces will continue to drive along the western road, they will be six or seven hundred meters away from the town of Sulan, and the exchange of fire between Evan's team, which is the first to contact the E4 point, will avoid the soldiers of the Qashush battalion lurking in the town, and once this happens, all the preparations in the town will be in vain.

The choice between continuing to allow the government forces to advance, breaking the silence and going to war, or withdrawing, was in front of Andal. Everyone in the entire command was staring at Andal, who was sinking as the map sank.

If not a single shot is fired, then the Qashush battalion can be called a big laugh.

"Evan, the government forces are about to arrive at E4 point, you can have your men tentatively attack, activate the roadside bomb, get the attention of the government forces, and once it's done, quickly withdraw into the city." There was no silence for long, and Andal, who had been thinking for a long time, picked up the headset and gave the order.

"Okay."

The others didn't hear what Evan said, but they saw Andal hang up the headset and stare tightly at the vast area H7 to B3 with a telescope.

Not long after the order was issued, an explosion that was not too loud was soon heard, Xiao Mubai, who was staying in the center of the town, did not see that scene, and the armored vehicles on the road were moving in order.

Suddenly, there was a bang, a roadside bomb exploded, the entire armored vehicle suddenly burned, and in an instant, the body of the vehicle was destroyed and paralyzed on the spot, ammunition and debris were scattered, and the shock wave knocked the infantry behind to the ground.

Of course, it was not a mechanical failure of the armored vehicle, but a real attack.

I don't know who shouted a heart-rending enemy attack, and the follow-up armored vehicles immediately adjusted their on-board machine guns and fired machine guns at the low houses on both sides of the road, regardless of whether there were rebels or not.

"Dada-da-da!"

The bullets were firing wildly, and when the government troops were defending and shooting, they also called people to check the situation of the first armored car, but unfortunately, that armored car was not only completely lying on its stomach, but to a certain extent, it can be said that it was scrapped, and not only that, but even several soldiers in the armored car were all reimbursed.

Roadside bombs are so powerful that what can terrorize the U.S. military in Afghanistan is not as simple as that.

As expected, this wave of exploratory shooting by government troops did not yield any results, on the contrary, cold guns from a corner from time to time made the government commanders angry and inexplicable.

A few minutes later, the machine guns covered the infantry to clear the surroundings, and found a clear trace in the corner of several houses, a few sniper shell casings left on the ground, and everyone knew that they had encountered the stubble of the rebels.

By this time, the number of government troops who had fallen at gunpoint had risen to ten.

The retreat of the rebels was a provocation, but it succeeded in provoking the anger of the government forces. Whoever is attacked by a wave of sneak attacks, but there are no casualties themselves, and no trace is found at all, who can not be angry.

So, a tentative attack came to an end in such a situation, and the counterattack was about to begin.

The officers of the government army quickly changed their previous tactics, and the tactical goal of long-distance raids and rapid occupation was changed to the policy of gradually encroaching on the rebels step by step, thus reducing the space for the anti-government forces to operate.

It is just to avoid large-scale attacks and retaliate against previous tentative attacks.

When they heard the news from A7 and E4 that the government troops were gradually entering the city, the headquarters finally turned cloudy and clear, and the war situation was developing on the predetermined track, all the staff officers were very excited, but Andal's face was still grim.

Evan's team evacuated E4 and evacuated to the post office on the west side of the town, while all the soldiers of Company B at A7 stood by and watched the situation of the government forces.

The news came in real time, first of all, since the tentative attack, the government soldiers on the road began to divide their forces, all the way to the road in armored vehicles, along the road on the other side of the gas station towards the town.

The government troops on the other side were not idle, one by one they got off the road and marched along the deserted land of the town towards the town, attacking the town head-on.

Andal also adjusted the operational deployment in time according to the reaction of the government forces, and first stationed C Company at point C1, when no trace of government troops was found in the north, gathered in the center of the town to prepare for battle.

In addition, Company A, which was stationed in the center of the town, was advancing to the western outskirts of the town to prepare for battle, with a total of two infantry companies, A and B, including Evan's mercenary team, C Infantry Company in reserve, and Olush's militia company.

At this time, the government army was coming in a raging manner, and the anti-government army was in high spirits, and the war was about to break out.

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