Chapter 397: Resource Wars III
However, the foreign mercenary group has waited for a long time, and has not seen the follow-up troops and materials arrive, according to the plan, there will be a large number of weapons and ammunition to replenish it, just relying on the ammunition supply brought by the airdrop, it will not be able to withstand the crazy counterattack of the mercenary army, let alone build a base here!
"Paralyzed, what the hell is going on, immediately contact the group of bigwigs in the Ministry of Defense, if there is no more support, just wait to collect the bodies of more than 2,000 of us!" The leader of the team roared. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Your Excellency Regiment Commander, just now I kept in contact with the Ministry of Defense, the second batch of transport planes has already taken off, and they should arrive here fifteen minutes ago, followed by two squadrons of Phantom fighters!"
"The transport ships have also arrived in the waters near Algiers for a long time, helicopters and armored vehicles and large-caliber howitzers, and the normal situation should have arrived a long time ago, but I don't know what happened, and there has been no movement until now." Said the communications officer.
These people don't know that more than 20 transport planes are being chased by fighter planes, and there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the ground! This time, the French Air Force dispatched 48 Mirage 2000 fighters to escort the escort, and collided head-on with the 96 fighters that intercepted it, and a fierce air battle immediately began.
The most unfortunate were of course the transport planes, not all of them were blown up in the air, the Mirage 2000 lost thirty-one and escaped seventeen, the mercenary regiment lost twenty-three F-16 fighters, and a squadron was almost lost.
"It's a two-to-one ratio with others, and you give me a special way to look like this, not only to shame the Air Force, but also to shame the Golden Triangle mercenary corps, how can I explain to my boss?" Air Force Commander Walter was very embarrassed, this was the first air battle in the history of mercenaries, and the result was so poor that he couldn't help but be angry at the officers.
Even more unfortunate is the French Navy, in order to transport a large number of armed helicopters to participate in the operation, the French Ministry of Defense has hired more than a dozen bulk carriers from several shipping companies, carrying more than 100 armed helicopters and transport helicopters at a time, as well as a large number of armored vehicles, mainly off-road vehicles. For the sake of safety, the Navy dispatched the latest model of the 10,000-ton lightning dock landing ship and two Kagetsu-class frigates to escort the fleet.
The squadron of Shield Defender 1 fighters on the two aircraft carriers, the Shield 3 and the Shield 4, quickly arrived in the waters around Algiers, found that the fleet was taking off helicopters, and immediately launched a fierce attack using Maverick air-to-surface missiles and laser-guided bombs.
In the face of the mercenary regiment's new main fighter, the fleet has almost no power to fight back, a fighter can carry six air-to-ground missiles, as well as two laser-guided bombs, such a huge bomb load, directly sank these dozen bulk carriers, and even the dock landing ship was carried to the bottom of the sea.
"Where did the mercenary corps get so many fighters, those bastards in the intelligence department should be pulled out and shot, such important intelligence actually knows nothing, and killed more than a thousand French elites alive, this is an unforgivable mistake and an irreparable tragic loss!" The Minister of Defense was furious.
More than two dozen transport aircraft were left, and thirty-one Mirage 2000 single-seat fighters, fourteen bulk carriers and more than a hundred helicopters, including the latest Lightning dock landing ship, such losses almost drove a group of generals mad.
The more than 20 transport planes and 14 bulk carriers had a large amount of weapons and equipment, such as Milan heavy anti-tank missiles, off-road vehicles, Sand snake anti-tank missiles, Mistral man-portable missiles, mortar shells and machine gun bullets, as well as all kinds of food and medicine.
Regardless of the equipment, the most terrifying thing is that there are more than 100 pilots on the bulk carrier, more than 200 navies on the dock landing ship, and more than 1,000 elites of the 11th Airborne Division on the transport plane, which is not a mercenary!
To put it simply, Algeria was a French colony in the early twentieth century, and during World War II, Algeria supported the Central Powers and the French Free Armed Forces.
But in the forties, the French turned their backs and brutally suppressed the Algerian revolt, and after more than a decade of struggle, it was not until the mid-fifties that it became independent.
France is certainly unwilling to give up this treasure land, one percent of the world's oil reserves, and the world's tenth largest natural gas reserves, but due to the international situation, it can only look at it. It just so happened that several oil companies in France were plundered by the rebels here, giving the French government the best excuse.
The Algerian government would definitely not allow the French army to enter its home, so the Ministry of Defense formulated this operation, directly airdropped a regiment of the 2nd Parachute Regiment and the 11th Airborne Division of the Foreign Mercenary Regiment to the oil-producing area, and severely cracked down on the mercenary regiment.
At the same time, a paratrooper regiment and a large amount of advanced equipment will continue to be added, and it will be completely established in the local area, protected by fighter jets of the Air Force, and then the warships of the Navy, including nuclear submarines, will quickly rush to the waters of Algeria to implement nuclear deterrence against the mercenary corps.
This was a very well-thought-out plan, but the bigwigs of the Department of Defense did not know that Marcas had purchased a large number of advanced weapons and equipment in the United States, and a large part of them had been shipped to major bases in Africa. However, the port of Tangier in Morocco is a strategic point designated by Wu Chen, and because of the existence of the Strait of Gibraltar, it is equipped with a large number of fighters.
The United States also does not want to allow itself to be criticized too much, so the deal with the mercenary corps is at the top secret level in the military, and only a few high-level figures know the specific inside story, claiming to be dealing with expired stocks.
As the saying goes, details determine success or failure, in fact, this is the situation in front of us, after the middle link is interrupted, the whole plan is finished, and the most troublesome thing now is that more than 2,000 paratroopers parachuted into Algeria have no support from the air force and navy, and the situation has become very bad.
"Mr. Minister, the division commander of the 11th Airborne Division called and asked us to quickly come up with a way to rescue those airborne troops, the Tu-22M3 strategic bombers of the mercenary regiment, which are carrying out saturation bombing of our soldiers, and a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft, also rushed to the battlefield."
"Right now, all around are the main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored vehicles of the mercenary corps, forming an encirclement, and a large number of helicopter gunships participating in the attack, at most half an hour, they will be completely wiped out, this is the elite of the French airborne division!" The commander of the Air Force was so anxious that he jumped to his feet.
"I don't have a good way for the time being, the Golden Triangle International Security Company belongs to the United States overseas enterprises, and I don't know the reaction of the Americans yet, please ask the NATO Secretary General to personally come forward to adjust, we French don't want to see the faces of the Americans!" said the Minister of Defense.