In fact, the AFPA artillery fire was instructed by Durabo to carry out a night of indiscriminate saturation attacks. You don't want Portugal to have a respite. So the time when the artillery stopped that the commander was expecting was extended indefinitely.

Durabo has already suffered the defeat of the battle of Tybo City, and he is now part of the strategy that you can lose ten shells and not a single soldier. Therefore, the artillery of the African People's Army also arrived, and the miserable picture of those sacrificed comrades-in-arms was also very hard to fight the artillery.

105-mm howitzers carry out carpet bombing, 150-mm carry out focused strikes. The combination of the two can be said to have made Portugal suffer enough. There were many dead and wounded.

Seeing that the African People's Army artillery had no intention of stopping, the commander was also a little panicked, but he resisted his fear and said to the announcer next to him: "Send a telegram to the Governor immediately to say that we have encountered a saturation attack by hundreds of African People's Army guns of more than 100 mm, and now we have suffered heavy casualties and eight of the soldiers have been gone. Ask for reinforcements or retreat. ”

This is a Portuguese staff officer who said: "Commander-in-chief, we now have no way out but to wait here honestly for death or surrender." ”

Just as the Portuguese were preparing to surrender, the reconnaissance plane of the African People's Army Air Force provided a piece of information to the artillery unit: "Our plane has spotted some grape people gathering in the open area north of the city of Shimoyo. It could be the other side's command or the other side's ammunition depot or something. The coordinates are 117. 653。 ”

The artillery unit then received this information, and thanks to Laborde's instructions again, it was possible to fire on all the valuable targets in the city of Shimoyo. So the artillery commander also gave the order for a direct shelling of the area without any big hiccups.

Soon a large number of cannonballs of tens of pounds were knocked down in this area, which was originally an area of scarce buildings, and at this time, after this round of shells, those buildings became ruins. Some of the Portuguese soldiers who survived were congratulating themselves for surviving when orange shells fell from the sky and flew straight away.

Soon the sky gradually brightened, and at this time there were not many shells left in the artillery groups, and they had to send telegrams to Durabo that the shells were urgent, and Dulabo saw that the time was already six o'clock in the morning, and there was no point in blowing it up again. The artillery units were ordered to stop shelling. At the same time, he ordered all the armies to begin to assemble and prepare to take the city of Shimoyu in one fell swoop. Half an hour later, the city was attacked.

When the soldiers heard the rallying cry and walked out of the tents, they were startled by the tragic situation of the city of Ximoyo not far away, which at this time no longer had the prosperity and vitality of yesterday. What appeared in front of everyone was the tragic situation of a city wall collapsing, broken tiles, and some wood was still emitting black smoke and small flames. Since the weather is still talking about heavy rain. So the fire did not burn.

The soldiers muttered in their hearts: "What did the artillery brothers do last night, I didn't see the city in front of me all night, and it was already a rubble and ruins." ”

At this time, the surviving Portuguese people in the city also carefully walked out of the rock mass where they were hiding to celebrate the rest of their lives. The commander also walked out of bunker command and came to the surface to breathe a sigh of relief. Then he said to the staff officer beside him: "You go and count the casualties of our army immediately, and report to me quickly." ”

After about ten minutes passed, the staff officer ran to the commander out of breath and said, "The results of the count have come out." At present, there are less than 980 surviving soldiers in our army, and less than 4,000 servants. In terms of weapons, almost all of them have been scrapped. The ammunition depot was blown up by the other side. What should the Commander do now? ”

The commander sat down on the ground and let the sewage stain his uniform. It was a soldier who ran up to the commander in a hurry and said, "Lord Commander, those African-keeps are attacking, most of the brothers are wounded, and there is a serious shortage of weapons. ”

The commander stood up after much deliberation and said, "Fart, give the order to surrender." If we go any further, we will end up like our brothers who have gone to see God. ”

At the very moment when the attacking force of the African People's Army approached the city wall, the Portuguese raised a white military flag. It was a sharp-eyed soldier patting his company commander and saying, "Company commander, those Portuguese have surrendered." ”

Durabo, who was far behind, received information from the attacking troops in front that the Portuguese had surrendered, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Hehe, our mission has been completed within time." ”

"Yes, the loss of the city of Shimoyo means that we have completely conquered the six provinces of Mozambia, occupying about 65% of their land and annihilating 80% of their forces. The Portuguese government will then be powerless to prevent us from attacking his two remaining provinces and one municipality. The chief of staff also said with a smile on his face:

Just as Durabo captured the city of Shimoyo, another army led by Aldrich, deputy commander of the Southern Army of the African People's Army, also made a triumphant intervention during this time, and basically encountered little resistance along the way. Following in the footsteps of Durabo, he followed the coastal city of Beira in the Sofala province of Mozambia. It was here that Deputy Commander Aldrich met his first large-scale campaign into Mozambia.

At this time, the city of Beira gathered almost 20,000 Portuguese who fled from all over the world, and then the mayor of Beira urgently transferred a large number of young people from these people to enrich the army. In this way, the strength of the city of Beira can exceed 30,000 people. Among them, the servant army accounted for 20,000 men.

Also, although the Portuguese suffered heavy losses in the army, there were no losses in the navy. At this time, all the main forces of the Portuguese Mozambian navy were gathered in the city of Beira, including the four heavy cruisers, namely the Vasco, the Gamma, the Cabral and the Aldean. These capital ships are all old warships before World War I, the displacement is quite weak, only 4800 tons, and the main gun caliber is also very small, only 260 mm. There are six doors in total. The secondary gun was 152 mm and there were only six guns. There were no anti-aircraft guns. The rest of the warships were some old destroyers and frigates 25 units. The total displacement is less than 50,000 tons.

At first, Aldrich, deputy commander of the Southern Army of the African People's Army, led the army to attack without stopping, and at first the attack was successful, taking 50% of the city of Beira in one fell swoop, but near the coastline, it was attacked by the warships of the Portuguese Navy, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and were forced to retreat for nearly five kilometers and stagnate.