Chapter 215: The Flames of War Begin
"Boom! Rumble! The sound of cannon fire rang out again, and the two T-72 guns flashed in front of the barrels, and then only two huge fireballs were seen in the sky, flying towards the resisting Philippine troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Before the shells landed, several timid Filipino soldiers were already frightened by the sound of the shells, lying on the ground motionless, shouting loudly: "I surrender, don't kill me, please don't kill me!" ā
No one around them mocked them, they were no better, and if they could surrender, they would like to surrender immediately.
"Stand back, stand back, stand back! Don't huddle together, spread out, spread out for me, huddle together and eat shells? Spread it all out for me! "Lockat told all the soldiers to retreat as soon as the cannon sounded.
Behind him is the police building, which usually looks like a very spacious gate that can provide five people to enter and exit at the same time, but now it is very crowded, and Filipino soldiers and police flock to the gate like crazy, ready to hide in the building to avoid shells.
Two shells hit the building outside the police station, and the Philippine police guarding on both sides were immediately wiped out, and the 125-mm smoothbore guns immediately leveled each other in the surrounding forty or fifty square meters.
Locat, supported by a group of people, fled into the police station building, asking loudly, "How long will it take for support to arrive?" ā
The correspondent hid aside with a walkie-talkie in his hand and asked loudly about the latest situation of the regiment headquarters, and ran to the regiment commander a few seconds later: "Regiment commander, it will take half an hour at the earliest, the emergency team has set off, and you can arrive at the scene by helicopter in about ten minutes!" ā
"Tell them that these emergency teams don't have to leave early, and that they will go with the big army! And let them bring all their heavy weapons! Is it all, do you hear that? Locat's order changed after a brief thought.
Although there are helicopters in the regiment, they are ordinary helicopters for search and rescue and transportation, and they are not equipped with any offensive weapons, and even if they come to the scene, they will not be able to exert the power of tank killers, and they may be shot down by the anti-aircraft machine guns on the T-72.
When all the Filipino soldiers and police retreated to the police station building, Lokat breathed a long sigh of relief, leaning on the building, should be able to delay for half an hour, right?
According to his idea, relying on the building, guarding the gate of the police station, holding on to the backup, and the fighter jets of the Air Force are also on the way to support, and it will take more than ten minutes to reach the sky.
His idea was very good, but the reality was very cruel, as soon as they retreated to the police station building, the armed elements outside the house took out a dozen rockets and pulled the trigger on the building.
More than a dozen rockets slammed into the building with tail flames, and the five-story police station was immediately ablaze.
The Philippines is a country with frequent earthquakes, so most of the buildings are earthquake-proof buildings, and the materials used in the buildings are not very strong, and the RPG shells easily penetrated the wall, killing the Philippine police and soldiers hiding behind the wall.
As soon as the RPG explosion fell, two T-72s opened fire again, a shell hit the gate of the police station, and a hole more than ten meters was blown out of the wall on the first floor.
Another shell was aimed at the stairwell of the police station, and the shell accurately blew the staircase on the second floor of the police station into two sections, separating the soldiers upstairs from the downstairs.
The battle that followed was simple, with tanks and RPGs pressuring the FSA fighters approaching the gate with ease, and after losing a few combatants, they broke through the defenses of Filipino soldiers and police and stormed the building.
The battle went on abruptly and ended quickly, and the entire battle in Puerto Princesa lasted less than five minutes before calming down at one point.
Except for the occasional gunshot, some police officers and Filipino soldiers who escaped are still resisting.
The controlled Puerto Princesa TV station is constantly broadcasting a man's video, telling all the people of Puerto Princesa not to be afraid, to stay at home, Puerto Princesa has been liberated, and so on, so that all the citizens of Puerto Princesa should not panic and so on.
Outside Puerto Princesa
The militants, who had just captured all the important units in Puerto Princesa, drew a part of their forces and quickly drove out of the city.
Twenty kilometers from Puerto Princesa, a dense forest rises above the wilderness, and at the end of the straight road, a large yellow warning sign reads, "Military land, no idlers!" ā
The 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Philippine Division is stationed here, which is responsible for guarding the security of Puerto Princesa.
At around 9 o'clock this morning, the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment received a call for help from Puerto Princesa, and some militants appeared in Puerto Princesa and were attacking the police station and other government units.
Locat, the commander of the 2nd Regiment, who received the request for help, led a battalion of soldiers directly to the city of Puerto Princesa. In their eyes, this kind of task is no different from an outing, and there are a lot of soldiers to bring a battalion, and if it weren't for the fear of not having enough manpower allocated, Lokat only wanted to take a company.
When Locat's message for help was sent from within the city at eleven o'clock, the entire base was already stunned, and quickly gathered all the remaining troops to quickly prepare to support Locat, but their rapid support was also their own opinion, and in five minutes, not a company was assembled.
Five minutes after they received the call for help, no news came, and the deputy head of the regiment and the chief of staff were already in a cold sweat on their foreheads, thinking that there might be a communication problem and so on.
Due to the hasty communication, they were only able to give a general introduction of what had happened, and the deputy head of the regiment and the chief of staff did not know what the situation in the city was really like.
When it took more than ten minutes to finally assemble the troops, and before they had time to say anything, the two men immediately entered the outskirts of Puerto Princesa with two battalions of soldiers.
If this kind of thing happens in some large countries, through the synchronous satellite in the sky, it is possible to confirm what is happening in the city of Puerto Princesa almost immediately, understand the tactical deployment of the enemy's army, and so on.
But there is a premise, that is, these things happen in a big country, the Philippines claims to be a big country in the southeast, but in fact, this country does not even have a geosynchronous satellite, if there is anything needed, look for help from the Americans.
However, due to the suddenness of the incident, the Philippine Congress has not yet discussed the reason, let alone looking for the Americans to use military satellites, and now the Congress does not know that Puerto Princesa has fallen, and they are still pulling each other's skins, checking and balancing each other, etc., after all, Palawan is involved in many things.
The troops of the second regiment, which had just been assembled, were more than 1,000 people, and they brought everything they could take out, ten light tanks, twenty armored vehicles, and two antique 125mm howitzers, etc.
The deputy regiment commander and the chief of staff sat in the jeep (the command car was driven away by Locat) and pointed at the troops beside them, quite high-spirited, obviously they were very confident in their troops, even if they encountered the once rampant Mindanao rebels, they were also confident to wrestle with them, and what made them even more confident was that there was also an air team coming to support. (To be continued.) )