Chapter 148: Capture of Beira City

The French businessmen were unusually dissatisfied with the performance of their own government, but some businessmen were still more patriotic and adopted the same attitude as the French government, and dealt with the matter with the attitude that if you don't let me do business, I won't do your business.

While the African People's Republic and the French were arguing, the army led by Aldrich, deputy commander of the African People's Army's Southern Corps, in Beira, Mozambia, was also busy preparing to attack again.

In the face of repeated harassment by the Portuguese Navy, its own offensive has been repeatedly thwarted, and the air force airfield is far away in ******** territory, while the airfield in Mozambia is under construction, and the air force cannot leave the coastline for a long time. After all the Portuguese naval demons followed this law, they repeatedly exploited the loopholes of the air force to attack the attacking forces of the African People's Army.

Of course, the African People's Army also figured out the rules of the Portuguese Navy's activities. Even when the Air Force comes, seize the time to attack and kill the opponent's living forces, and when the Air Force retreats, I will also retreat. In this way, a stone mill was pushed in the city of Bella.

In this way, a strange situation arose on the battlefield in the city of Beira, in the province of Yasofara, where the Portuguese army of 20,000 men was loosely surrounded by nearly 80,000 African People's Army. The African People's Army Army (APA) Army touched Portugal under the cover of the air force, and followed after the plane left, but every time it made contact, it had to make a deadly move, causing the Portuguese army's losses to continue to increase, so the pace of the Portuguese army's counterattack became slower and slower each time.

At this time, although the Portuguese army in Beira City had naval cover, it was about to be overwhelmed with the deepening of time.

During the afternoon offensive, the APA repeatedly attacked without being harassed by the Portuguese navy. Aldrich was still surprised at first, but later understood that the Portuguese Navy shells were gone, and he retreated hastily.

When Aldrich received this information, he was immediately trembling with excitement, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to launch a full-scale attack, striving to liberate the city of Beira as quickly as possible.

So then the African People's Army changed its previous offensive strategy and launched a fierce attack on the positions held by the Grape People, and at this time, the 45th Brigade of the Portuguese Army, which was still holding on, was already at the end of its strong crossbow and was about to be unable to withstand the attack of the African People's Army. Around the end of the evening, all the outlying positions on the Portuguese Eastern Front were lost. The troops hurriedly retreated to the city of Bella.

But just as the African People's Army (APA) was making progress in its successive offensives, the nonsense man suddenly stopped the pace of the offensive.

But at about 5 a.m. the next morning, the final general offensive of the African People's Army was fully launched.

Under Aldrich's command, the armored divisions of the African People's Army launched a final assault on the remnants of the Grape Army, which had shrunk in the urban area of Beira.

The large-caliber artillery of the African People's Army's heavy artillery units shook the city of Beira, and at dawn swarms of tanks roared and tore through the Portuguese army's body-forged defenses into the city.

A 105mm heavy howitzer fired a blasting projectile, blasting shallow craters into the ground in the city of Beira. Heavy 155mm howitzers blew buildings into piles of rubble.

The Air Force of the African People's Army, which had been cruising over the area of Bela City, also sent Black Hawk bombers to carry out bombing strikes on the port of Beira City, and some Portuguese cargo ships and cruise ships still in the port were blown to pieces and sank into the sea.

Air Force pilots also sent fighter jets to provide close air support to armored forces on the ground during the bombing of the port of Beira. If the water fleet arrives, then the ground and air are a picture of modern three-dimensional combat presented in front of Aldrich, but at this time Aldrich still shouted excitedly: "Good fight!" Well played! Tanks were ordered, not to be stingy with shells, and in order to reduce casualties, it was necessary to bombard buildings more. ”

By 10 o'clock in the morning, the Portuguese army's will to fight had collapsed, and hordes of Portuguese soldiers and servants rushed to the port in a frenzied run for their lives, despite the guns of the warlords, hoping to find even a small boat. As long as you can go to the sea, even if you are killed by the African People's Army Air Force, it is better than being killed by an artillery shell here, and there is still a glimmer of life at sea anyway. The African People's Army has no navy to stop itself.

The retreat of the Portuguese army could only speed up the advance of the African People's Army tanks, and Aldrich, after learning of the enemy's escape to the port area, contacted the air force aviation in time, and the fighters again went out to strafe the Portuguese troops in the port area.

For a time, the port of Beira City became a hell on earth, and the Portuguese soldiers and servant soldiers on the shore blamed each other and had no order at all, and from time to time dozens of lives were taken away by a cannonball fired from a distance. Or be swept down by the fighter jets hovering in the air with their machine-guns. However, some of the remaining small fishing boats at sea were filled with fleeing Portuguese soldiers and servant soldiers and were struggling out of the port. However, they were not so lucky, either overturned by heavy artillery or blown up by bombers' aerial bombs. The whole ship's people were basically reimbursed. The corpses of soldiers drifted adrift on the sea, staining the entire area red. Some sharks are swimming around in spite of danger and preparing to eat.

At eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the Portuguese army in the city of Beira was declared annihilated. At this time, the strength of a brigade that had escaped north was discovered by an engineer regiment on a hill north of the city of Beira, and then the engineer regiment launched a fierce blocking battle. The commander of the engineer regiment called Aldrich while trying to block it. I hope to keep this rout here and annihilate them all.

Aldrich was also shocked when he received a call from the commander of the engineer regiment, immediately looked through the map, and then ordered his ace mobile division to rush to reinforcements at all costs and make sure to destroy them all. At the same time, the air force was ordered to bomb the rout. to relieve the pressure on this engineering regiment.

Because the Afrika People's Army Engineer Corps is generally only equipped with a small number of Type 35 submachine guns (and Bobosha submachine gun modifications) and pistols, these rout soldiers are not too bad to be equipped with weapons. In the event of an exchange of fire, the engineer regiment will suffer a big loss.

At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the reinforcements arrived, and by this time the engineer regiment had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the regiment commander had been shot four times and fell into a coma. At this time, the commissar and deputy head of the troops, as well as the chief of staff, were already killed. There was a battalion commander who commanded the battle instead of the regiment commander. Soon this division was thrown into battle. The battle lasted more than ten minutes, and the rout was completely annihilated.