Chapter 86: The Northern Expedition (5)
At this moment, it suddenly began to rain heavily in the sky, and the fire was finally extinguished by the rain. The fighters began to clean up the battlefield. At this time, the eyes of the warriors were greeted by a tragic scene, where the burnt corpses lay charred, in their last postures before the end of their lives. The weapons and ammunition they carried here were burned, making the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield vomit for a long time. For a long time after that, the warriors stopped eating meat. When they got to the machine gun position, they quickly counted the results. In this battle, a division of the British army was completely annihilated, and there were no casualties of its own.
After the noisy in the middle of the night, for fear of preventing accidents again, the African People's Army expanded the search area of the surroundings, and after Fan Xian had no accidents, the soldiers rested once, but also deployed a considerable number of guards.
The next day, the war machine of the African People's Army began to roll forward. Along the way, the African People's Army did not encounter a single decent resistance, and it can be said that it was a smooth ride, connecting Condo, Hammarby, Babati, and Arusha.
The military operations of the African People's Army can be said to have been smooth sailing along the way, which makes Jeriola feel very puzzled, is this because the British are afraid of themselves or what kind of conspiracy is waiting for them in the back. Of course, Jeriola is still very biased towards the latter, and the British must still have nearly 100,000 troops in ********. Because of the African People's Army, the British government has gathered almost 60% of the British army in Africa in ********. That would have to be close to 100,000 people left, not counting the number of servants.
The city of Arusha is a famous city in the north of the ******** and the capital of Arusha Province, at the southern foot of Mount Meru. At an altitude of 1409 meters, the climate is cool and pleasant. It covers an area of 93 square kilometers and has a population of about 280,000 people. It is a trading center for coffee, pyrethrum, sisal, and agricultural and livestock products. There are factories for coffee and meat processing, flour, textiles, tires, dairy processing, radio assembly, etc. Specialty sepiolite pipes. Transportation hubs. Railways to Tanga and Mombasa. The road leads to Dodoma and Nairobi. Later there was the largest Kilimanjaro International Airport in ********. Tourism is well developed. There are volcanoes and safaris nearby. Therefore, it is also a city that non-British troops must fight.
Jeriola's reasoning was quite correct, ******** Governor K. Peters had moved his office here before the fall of Dodoma. Then head to Arusha City after K. Peters learned that the British mainland was preparing to negotiate with the rebels, and the end result was the recognition of ******** independence. In this way, he will become the last governor of ********. At the end of the negotiations, his fate will definitely be to return to London and sit on the cold bench. But K. Peters was not reconciled, and he decided to fight the rebels in Arusha in a final showdown to hit the African People's Army (APA) hard and pave the way for his future. So K. Peters decided to take on the African People's Army (APA) near Mount Meru.
Jeriola, who then entered the city of Arusha, received a copy of the intelligence service's increased intelligence on the British forces around Arusha. The general content is the current deployment of troops in Arusha. According to the information description, the troops stationed here at present include the 15th Infantry Brigade of the Army, the 21st Infantry Brigade of the Army, the 24th Infantry Brigade, the 31st Infantry Brigade, the 37th Infantry Brigade, the 39th Infantry Brigade, and the 43rd Infantry Brigade of the British Army; The 12th Artillery Brigade, the 13th Artillery Brigade, the 9th Cavalry Brigade, the 10th Cavalry Brigade, the 15th Cavalry Brigade, the 7th Mountain Brigade, the 8th Mountain Brigade, the 9th Mountain Brigade, the 10th Mountain Brigade, the 11th Mountain Brigade, the 12th Mountain Brigade, the 13th Mountain Brigade, the 14th Mountain Brigade, the 55th Infantry Brigade, the 56th Infantry Brigade, the 57th Infantry Brigade, the 58th Infantry Brigade, etc. In addition, there are a number of mixed brigades. By calculation, the troops here amounted to 34 brigades! Although of course most of these brigades are not satisfied, the number of establishments is indeed frightening!
Jeriola was also afraid that the intelligence bureau's information was wrong, so he was suspicious when he saw this information. Later, when he thought about it, it was already the end of May, and he had the impression that the British army had almost been wiped out by himself at this time, but in order to prevent accidents, he didn't know what their situation was at the moment. After thinking about it, he called the reconnaissance platoon commander and a few other people and asked him to take a few fighters with an Arusha accent to Arusha City first to touch a few tongues and find out the situation. Because he knew that each language was distinctive, it was the reason why Jeriola sought out some fighters with local accents from the army for the sake of mobility.
Soon the fighters passed through the enemy's defense zone and entered the city of Arusha, and after many inquiries by the fighters, they found that the information they knew was exactly the same as that reported by the intelligence department, but for careful reasons, the fighters took advantage of the night to catch a British lieutenant colonel who was drinking at night to understand the situation. Then he was surprised, it turned out that the so-called 34 green in the city were empty shelves, and the real main force had set up a large pocket formation in Meilu Mountain, waiting for his army to get in. Then several people who were frightened broke out in a cold sweat. He then urgently contacted the city's intelligence department, and reported it to Jeriola via radio.
After getting this information, Jeriola broke out in a cold sweat, and said in his mouth: "It's a little bit of a shame to be careful, otherwise you will really make a big mistake, not to mention that the previous efforts will be ruined, but the losses of the troops will definitely be great." Jeriola hurriedly informed the troops to redeploy. Prepare to fight back and let the British steal chickens and rice.
However, due to the successive defeats of his own army, the ******** governor was highly concentrated, and he also deployed a lot of scouts around the AFP march to observe the AFP intelligence. At the same time as the KPA made changes, K, who was far away in Arusha. Peters received an update on the African People's Army.
Soon, he also concluded that the African People's Army had apparently discovered his own plan based on the deployment of the African People's Army, and this deployment was to make a plan for himself and then eat himself. He then urgently ordered his troops to make changes.
Soon Jeriola also learned that there had also been a military change in the British army on the other side, which surprised Jeriola and felt a little sorry that this opportunity was wasted. Subsequently, the two sides fought back and forth several times, but they all ended in a draw.
The angry Jeriola threw away the pencil in his hand and said, "****, Lao Tzu can give you a strong attack." I don't believe that you can withstand the attack of Lao Tzu's hundreds of thousands of troops. ”