Less than two hours had passed since the Battle of Meru, and large swathes of the city had fallen under the control of the Red Police, and the small group of Kenyan soldiers who had resisted in the occupied area were being cleared in an orderly manner by the terrorists.

Inside the Meru Defense Headquarters, Lines was pacing back and forth with a stern face, and as the gunfire approached, there was no need to report at all, and he also understood the speed at which the situation was deteriorating.

"Report to the commander, the defenders of Maoua City have sent a message that the Somali troops have occupied the entire city, the back road is blocked, and it is expected to be able to resist for half an hour, and ask for support."

"Tell the defenders of Mau'a, our task is to hold on to the three cities for at least three hours, and after three hours, reinforcements will arrive. Let them hold on for an hour anyway. Lines commanded without stopping.

"Report, a telegram for help from the Issi Garrison Command."

"In response to the order just now, we don't have a single soldier to support them." Stopped, Lines emphasized.

Just as Rains's order was conveyed, there was a sudden sound of falling to the ground at the door, and without any hesitation, he pulled up Kabuqi, who was studying the map next to him, and ran directly towards the other back door of the headquarters.

Just as he ran through the back door, several flashbangs suddenly flew in, and after a slight sound, the bright light made a staff officer inside hide his face and howl.

Hearing the sound behind him, Lines, who ran into the secret passage, took out the detonator in his pocket without hesitation and pressed it casually.

"Bang!"

A huge explosion came from behind him, and the headquarters behind him collapsed directly under the powerful explosion. The fall was rubble and blocked the secret door. After detonating the bomb, Lines didn't look back. Continue running towards the front of the passage.

Outside the headquarters, six were dressed in camouflage tight-fitting combat uniforms. After looking at the headquarters that collapsed after the explosion, someone asked aloud: "Did you throw the wrong bomb, grandma finally found the other party's headquarters, and this kind of thing happened." ”

In response to him, everyone shook their heads firmly, none of them were new, how could they throw an explosive grenade into it as a stun grenade?

"It's not the consequence of what we did, it seems that we were too careless, and the other party obviously planted the explosives in advance." One of them walked over to the collapsed ruins to take a look. continued: "The amount of explosives placed has obviously been carefully calculated, and the important people inside are afraid that they have already escaped, and there must be a way out here. ”

"How dare you be so sure?"

"If the other party was going to die with us, then we would have died a long time ago, and it is clear that they are just trying to stop us in our way, and at the same time blow up the equipment inside and destroy the evidence." The special soldier who spoke before touched the wall where there was not even a crack, and said, "We just pasted it on this wall, and the amount of explosives is a little more." We were also buried. ”

"In this way, the other party is really calculated." After the leader of the team sighed, he waved his hand and ordered: "The decapitation operation failed." Notify the command, continue to collect all suspicious electronic signals. ”

The group quickly emerged from an ordinary house and disappeared into the streets of the city.

At the same time. Lines and Kabuqi also followed the underground passage to an underground warehouse with a large amount of munitions, but there were not many weapons in this warehouse now.

"The commander is really a god. How do you know that the other side will be coming to our headquarters? Pausing for a moment in the arsenal, Kabuqi immediately asked.

"The reason is simple. This is a common trick used by the Somali army, and they have used it many times in Ethiopia and Vietnam, and the effect is very good. And the radio station of our command will attract them over, but alas, I can't die right now, otherwise there should be a little more explosives. Lines lamented, he didn't hesitate from hearing the sound of falling to the ground and the feeling of danger hitting his body.

Kabuqi nodded, he had always been confident in his old chief. After a brief break, the two opened a secret door in the arsenal, and soon they were on to another underground headquarters.

There were more than a dozen staff members and staff officers inside, who were debugging the equipment, and when they saw Lines coming in, someone stepped forward and reported: "Report to the commander, the standby command has been activated, and I just received a secret message from the Ministry of Defense." ”

"Reading ......"

"Reinforcements will arrive in half an hour, please make arrangements."

Lines exhaled, and the whole person seemed to be much lighter, and then ordered: "Let the reserve troops go, and in half an hour flank the enemy forces behind us, and bring in reinforcements." ”

Hearing this order, Kabuqi frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "Why don't you just destroy the enemy behind us?" ”

Hearing this, Lines simply shook his head and said: "There is no way to eliminate, the encounter will start soon, rather than fighting hard against the Somali armored forces on the grassland, it is better to buy more time in the city." ”

This is a very negative tactic, but Lines has no better choice, losing air supremacy, he can only rely on the urban environment, so that the main combat force can avoid the enemy's air superiority as much as possible.

This is also the original plan, the core of the Kenyan army's operation is to constantly consume Somali troops in urban street battles to delay the opponent's attack.

There is only one reason for choosing this tactic, the Kenyan side does not have enough strength to fight a large-scale decisive battle with the Somali troops, and even if it is a reinforcement composed of all NATO-standard equipment, the Kenyan army cannot afford to play a large-scale decisive battle.

The core of this war is to block the invasion of Somalia, so all tactical purposes need to be considered in the core of the war, and urban street fighting is the most able battle to close the gap between the two sides, and Lines has no more options.

"I'm afraid that even if there is no decisive battle, there is no way, the Somalis have long known about the reinforcements, and they have set up a position behind us, can the reinforcements get in?" Kabuqi asked rhetorically.

"I'm sure it can, and the Ministry of Defense is well prepared for this." Lane said.

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At the same time, two squadrons of Intruder fighter-bombers soon flew towards the road from Nairobi to Meru, and their mission was simple, to bomb reinforcements coming from Nairobi.

However, before the group arrived at the battlefield, the early warning planes sent an urgent message to the group and discovered the figure of the enemy plane; because they were carrying out a ground attack mission, the two squadrons of Intruder fighter-bombers were only carrying a routine air-to-air missile, and they had no ability to take the initiative to participate in air combat at all.

As a last resort, the group of planes could only return first, and the early warning planes also immediately mobilized the surrounding group of air superiority fighters to go to the airspace where the enemy planes were discovered to intercept this group of enemies.

In the city of Nanyuki, less than twenty kilometers from Meru, a large number of tanks rushed through the city, and soon encountered the paratroopers of the Red Guard Regiment and the troops of the mechanized infantry brigade.

The same is true for the other three directions, with the supporting forces forming three arrows and advancing towards the three cities, and the skirmishes ensu.

However, the encounter was not comfortable for the Red Guard, as they were not confronted with the outdated weapons of the Kenyan army, but with world-class main battle weapons.

At the beginning of the encounter, the superiority of the Red Police Corps was completely suppressed, and the mechanized infantry brigade sent three tank battalions in three directions, one tank battalion in each direction and thirty-two Rhino tanks.

However, the Rhino tank does not have the ability to resist the 60-odd tons of M1A2 main battle tanks, and the weapons and equipment of the paratrooper brigade are also lightly armored, and it is also powerless to deal with these behemoths.

Individual anti-tank weapons cannot stop the footsteps of these behemoths. In addition, the defenders of the three cities also went out of the city to fight, leaving the blocking troops vulnerable to the enemy.

The Somali High Command, informed of this, ordered the paratrooper brigade and mechanized infantry brigade to spare the reinforcements. Ten minutes later, the reinforcements quickly entered the three major cities.

In fact, the order to spare the reinforcements was given by Li Lan himself, and it was better to put his lightly armed troops and the other side's heavily armed troops to fight on the front than to let his lightly armed troops fight to the death. Of course, the main point is that the Red Guard Corps has taken the initiative in the battle for the city and has various advantages.

On the plains, the heavy troops could not arrive quickly, and the air force combat units also went to intercept enemy aircraft, and there were no effective enough means to destroy the enemy's heavy forces outside the city.

At this moment, Li Lan was sitting on the control platform, looking at the pictures transmitted back by the front-line troops, and on the clear film and television images, the figures of the three tanks Leclerc, Challenger 2, and M1A2 were very clearly presented in front of Li Lan's eyes.

"No Leopard tanks found?" Li Lan asked with a certain head.

"No Ashkenazi weapons have been found so far, but Merkava main battle tanks have appeared in Nairobi." Natasha replied.

"Quiet Germans, restless Jews." Li Lan muttered to herself.

"Commander, whether to send bomber groups or missile units to strike at targets in depth in Kenya and destroy Kenya's weapons sources." Natasha asked.

"No, I don't." Li Lan shook his head very abnormally, looking at the film and television pictures that appeared in front of him, he said confidently: "In the absence of a sound military system, the Kenyans can only exert their combat effectiveness with these weapons and equipment that have been supported. ”

Speaking of this, Li Lan's voice changed and he ordered: "However, we can't let the other party comfortably receive the weapons and equipment here, and order the amphibious combat group to attack according to the original plan." Inform the Air Force that Kenya's air supremacy must be completely controlled today, and I don't want to see Kenyan warplanes still taking off. (To be continued......)