Chapter 749: Paratrooper Raid II

"You bastards have you seen it, this is the cruelty of war, I am usually like brothers with everyone, to be honest, at this time I am in a very bad mood, distressed and angry, paralyzed, it doesn't matter if you die, what about the parents, wives and children at home? Mercenaries give pensions, but can money buy back your life? ”

"People who are afraid of death should not be mercenaries, this sentence is true, but the point is that your death is worthless, it is a special death for nothing! Also set a record for the death of the 1st Paratrooper Brigade! I have worked hard to train you for more than three years, training day and night, and tilting so many resources for you, just to be shot by the enemy? Brothers, I want you to understand one thing, this is a battlefield for you to live and die, not a training ground, and not a place for special kindness! ”

"What does what just happened tell us? Pity for the enemy is tantamount to suicide, if you don't follow the provisions of the battlefield behavior instruction manual, if you don't disarm the opponent's weapons, you are stupid when you die, you deserve it, the usual education of the instructors, are you all treated as a fart? The brigade commander shouted at more than 3,000 paratroopers.

It's normal to speak foul language in the army, and it's not uncommon to kick and slap twice in a hurry! The people present looked at the lost paratrooper brothers, and they were all in a bad mood, and they hung up before they could fire a shot, which is really embarrassing! Also, the life that was alive just now has become a cold corpse at the moment, and if experience needs blood to accumulate, isn't it too expensive?

The 2nd Parachute Brigade suffered more casualties, their task was to attack the urban area, in an unfamiliar environment, there were so many buildings around, it was inevitable to be shot cold and sniped, and the paratrooper fighting vehicles could not shelter all the officers and soldiers, and the 4th Parachute Battalion alone killed more than 30 people in an hour, and the distressed officers stomped their feet.

However, in the eyes of experts, the performance of these paratroopers is remarkable, as a paratrooper who has never fought before, it is already very good to have such a low loss rate on the battlefield for the first time.

The Ugandan government army and the Congo rebels have been stationed in Bunia for a long time, and they are very familiar with the environment here, and they know where to hide with their eyes closed, and these guys have been fighting for a long time, they are all old oilmen, and they are very experienced, and the old birds fight rookies, almost 30 to 1 casualties, the paratroopers have died more than 30, and the other side has died almost 1,000 people, this achievement is very reasonable.

The Afrika Korps is an important part of the mercenary corps, the main body that protects the interests of Africa, not the so-called cannon fodder army, there is such a definition from the beginning, or the commander-in-chief of the mercenary corps, Thompson, personally grasps the training and construction, these measures greatly improve the survival rate.

Occupying the commanding heights of each street, snipers monitoring and eliminating hidden dangers in the line of sight, infantry fighting vehicles in front, advancing step by step to the target area, moving forward in concealment with the help of obstacles, and doing prostrate and rolling to dodge in case of danger, these are all standard subjects in daily training.

With the roar of helicopter gunships and transport helicopters, the helicopter group that had arrived at the battlefield from Juba, the main city in southern Sudan, began to pursue the fleeing enemy in all directions, Juba was only more than 370 kilometers from Bunia, and the speed of the Longbow Apache helicopter gunship could be reached in an hour.

In the face of the helicopter gunships covering the sky, with paratrooper fighting vehicles and Humvee off-road vehicles chasing after them on the ground, and the Black Hawk utility helicopters still dropping combat teams everywhere, after being killed by thousands of people, the enemy in the Bunia area had to surrender, there was really nowhere to drill, and more than 2,000 people were taken prisoner.

After a six-hour long attack, two armoured divisions marched in tracks, accompanied by two mechanized infantry divisions, and also arrived in Bunia, but the second armoured and second mechanized infantry divisions, under the protection of helicopter gunships, continued to move south, maneuvering 400 kilometres to Goma, on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

The reason for the adoption of the tracked advance was Thompson's actual combat training of two armored divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions of the Afrika Korps, and the long-distance run was a very good test of the soldiers' physical fitness, endurance and mental spirit.

After the 1st Parachute Brigade captured the Bunia airfield, an air assault division was transported to the airfield by a transport group, as well as twenty-four A-10 attack aircraft and twenty-four F-111 fighter-bombers, and most notably, twenty-four Condor-1 propeller fighter-bombers also participated in the deployment, which was the first appearance and mainly equipped the Afrika Korps and South American forces.

Along with it, there was also an artillery cluster, equipped with towed artillery, self-propelled artillery and self-propelled rocket artillery, and a large amount of food supplies and ammunition were also sent to the airport.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, when the 2nd Airborne Division was airborne in the northern area of Goma airport, it was ambushed by the enemy, although these people were wearing the clothes of the Rwandan government army, they were advanced in weapons and equipment, experienced in combat, very accurate in marksmanship, and unusually tricky in attack routes and angles, and they must be veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time."

"The other side used the method of mobile warfare, used transport vehicles to quickly divide us, and also snatched a large amount of equipment and materials, and now the paratrooper group is under fierce attack by the opponent's artillery fire, and requests the bomber force to immediately reinforce us!" The 2nd Airborne Division, which attacked the Goma airfield, ran into trouble this time, and the other side actually arranged an ambush circle in advance, but the distance from the airborne landing site was not calculated well, and there was a slight deviation, about two kilometers, so the parachute group was able to hold on.

The paratroopers are not good at this, once the airdrop is implemented, it is difficult to control the following things, because the landing area is too large, don't want to organize the troops in a short time, and the materials and equipment are floating everywhere, that is, because of this characteristic, the individual combat ability and group cooperation ability are particularly strong, and the paratroopers encountered spontaneously form a team, regardless of which battalion or company is platoon, and the flexibility is much stronger than that of other troops.

The commander of the 2nd Airborne Division lay on his stomach behind a rock, held a telescope in his hand, and patted the dust on his body with a map. He was not in a hurry, although there were many paratroopers, but as an old qualified commander and the commander of the parachute regiment of the former Soviet airborne division, he still had this psychological quality.

The enemy carried out rapid maneuvering operations in a large number of trucks, jeeps equipped with machine guns and recoilless guns, and some pickup trucks equipped with anti-tank missiles.

The commander of the opposing side was very experienced, taking advantage of the time difference in the gathering of paratroopers, taking advantage of their numerical superiority, strong firepower and mobility capabilities, to divide the two paratrooper brigades into several large pieces, unable to support each other, and could only fight on their own. 10