After listening to the words of the major general, the artillerymen immediately put away the artillery mounts. After driving the artillery tractor over to register which artillery it was, he immediately increased the throttle and fled.

Not long after that place in the Portuguese artillery car, 105 shells weighing several pounds fell in a roar, blowing up huge deep pits where the Portuguese artillery was just now.

Then the artillery of the two sides fought back and forth for dozens of rounds, but neither of them knocked anyone out. The soldiers on both sides were not lightly tired.

Du Labo, who was watching the battle between the soldiers on both sides, frowned when he saw this, and said to the chief of staff: "It can't go on like this. I didn't have to find a way to get rid of the opponent's artillery, and if we couldn't, we wouldn't dare to let go of our posture and attack. You ordered the Air Force to hover over Tebo non-stop, and if I found the enemy's artillery assembly, I would blow it up. ”

"Yes." The chief of staff once served as a herald.

When the Air Force received another order from Durabo, Black Hawk bombers and intruder fighters took off and swooped down on the city.

At this moment, the Portuguese commander was also gritting his teeth and said: "The **** Africans are really difficult." ”

At this time, a herald ran up to him and said: "Report to Your Excellency, the enemy has dispatched planes, and the first batch of planes is less than 30 kilometers away from our city of Tibo. Your Excellency the Commander, I have asked you to inform you to prepare for air defense immediately. ”

The major general was taken aback when he learned of this information, but he was surprised and ordered the artillery to enter the bunkers and prepare for air defense. Soon the planes flew over Tibo City and began to circle. But after staying in the air for a long time without discovering the target to be bombed, the fuel on the plane had bottomed out at this time. The pilots of the Black Hawk bombers cursed and roared, dropping the bombs they were carrying on enemy positions. For a time, the entire Taibo City was in flames. Boulders flying.

At this time, Durabo said to the commander of the Fifth Army: "We are now in a real competition with Portugal, and the commander of the Fifth Army will give you orders now." It was your Fifth Army that set out at once, interspersed me behind the Portuguese, and cut off the retreat of the Grape Man. Be sure to block the other party's retreat for Lao Tzu. Especially the heavy artillery division that can't let go of the opposing side. Otherwise, it will become a big problem for us in the future. ”

"Yes, I promise never to let go of a single reel of the Portuguese heavy artillery division and leave the city of Tibo." The commander of the Fifth Army is also a senior commander, and he knows very well that once this heavy artillery division survives, it will definitely be a mine hanging over the head of the African People's Army in the subsequent battles. The best thing to do is to get rid of him now.

As a commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, Durabo knew this truth very well, so he gave this combat order to the Fifth Army, the main force of his main force, although the Fifth Army was a trump card force, but the total strength was only 50,000, but at this time, the city of Taibo also had more than 30,000 Portuguese troops and more than 70,000 servant troops. There are also 40,000 armed expatriates. And its commander, Tamboraka, is a more cerebral commander. Once the Fifth Army locks the enemy's retreat, it will definitely organize troops to storm the Fifth Army. There are the 33rd and 35th divisions of the Portuguese Army, one of the few ace troops in Mozambia. So the burden of the Fifth Army is not light.

So Durabo put his bet on this Fifth Army, which is good at fighting tough battles and vicious battles.

"Commander Hubert, please," Durabo stretched out his hand and patted the slender general on the shoulder, "accept the order, this is the trust that I and the entire Southern Front command have in you, as the commander of the Front, I believe that you will be able to survive this difficult time, and I will be here with you, I think this is the only thing I can do for you." ”

"Yes, please rest assured, Commander, I will never fail to live up to the expectations of you and the entire Legion, Commander, and if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent." As a corps commander, instead of giving himself an order, he pleaded with himself in the colloquial language of a request, and Kirizuki took this responsibility with him. This made the commander of the Fifth Army not refuse, but said with assurance.

The heavy twilight of the setting sun once again enveloped the ancient and rich African continent, but the clouds of war had destroyed the harmony and comfort of the city of Taibo. Both sides of the war are fighting to the death.

Then the heavy artillery units of the African People's Army began to bombard from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., which did not destroy the will of the Portuguese army to resist as expected, but according to the intensity of the shelling, Rabo deduced that the defenders of the opponent's front-line positions had been reduced by at least 40%, and according to the practice of Western armies, their own troops had been reduced by 40%, which meant that this army had lost its combat effectiveness.

But to everyone's surprise, the first offensive battle of the African People's Army was met with unusually stubborn resistance from the other side, and the siege battle from half past five to half past six had lasted for a full hour, during which two divisions of the African People's Army were interspersed to cover the penetration of the Fifth Army. Two large-scale attacks were launched against the first line of Portuguese defense. In the second offensive, the vanguard of one of the divisions had even rushed to the forward positions of the opposing side. But after a life-and-death white-knuckle battle, he was finally beaten back by those enemies who looked exhausted. What was most unacceptable to Durabo was that the Portuguese actually took this opportunity to bring back an AFA vanguard assault battalion that was close to the Portuguese forward position. Four or five of the Grizzly tanks were still there, wrecked by the other side, emitting black smoke.

With the help of the telescope in his hand, Durabo can clearly see the situation on the battlefield under the city of Taibo. I saw that in front of the enemy's front-line position, which was less than a few hundred meters deep, it was densely covered with the corpses of our own soldiers, the camouflage color of the Portuguese soldiers' corpses and the light blue corpses of Portuguese soldiers, and the brown of the African land, several colors were mottled and closely blended together. These people lying on the ground no longer have any so-called national and hatred, they just hugged each other as if they were corpses in different uniforms.

The dirt beneath the ancient city of Taybo was no longer the black-brown one, but was littered with the corpses of the Portuguese and African armies. The surrounding land was soaked red with blood.

"I don't want the casualties of your two divisions, I just want the result, even if all of your divisions are dead, your two division commanders will personally carry the flag for me, and you will also check the flag for me to find out on the other side's front-line position. If you don't take down the forward positions of the other side, the interspersed operations of the Fifth Army will be exposed. Got it? Durabo took the phone and roared at the two division commanders: