Chapter 359: Clenching your fists

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After hanging up the phone, Li Lan returned to the command center, came to the command platform, and opened the tactical map on the front display.

The map opens with the base as the center, and the circle opens outwards until the end of the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea.

There are three places where the US missiles are attacking, one is in the central and western Indian Ocean, between the island of Madagascar and Moroni, and it is 2,500 kilometers away from Bagua City, which is just within the range of Tomahawk missiles, and the other is in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, where the US Sixth Fleet has also strengthened two aircraft carriers, with a total of three aircraft carriers cruising near Jerusalem in the Mediterranean, and 2,500 kilometers away from Bagua City, which is also within the strike range of Tomahawk missiles. The other direction of attack was the Fifth Fleet, located in the center of the Arabian Sea.

The Tomahawk missile is an out-of-zone long-range strike weapon, and the Americans are also very good at instilling this data outside the stand-off. A military strike on Somalia at the maximum attack distance, divided into clusters in three directions.

Near the island of Madagascar, are six Ohio-class nuclear-powered missile submarines, with fighter planes and surface ships supplied by US military bases in Africa in the sky and sea. The other two directions are under the protection of the heavy forces cluster of the US Navy. Six aircraft carriers, adding up to a total of more than seventy warships. And these navies are all facing the same goal.

Because the enemy is scattered in three directions, and all of them are in a tight protective circle. This is also a major reason why Tanya took the initiative to change tactics.

After all, unlike the US coalition forces, if the Red Guard Corps wants to fight back. The targets of the attack are those that can move quickly, and the Bagua City target is a fixed target. Despite the fact that the Tomahawk missile is only a non-supersonic cruise missile, it does not have the slightest problem attacking stationary targets. Even if the Somali side finds these missiles, it will have to defend itself.

And the supersonic cruise missiles of the Red Guard Corps have enough range and speed. But striking those movable targets, completely devoid of suddenness, at least thirty minutes of flight speed. By the time the missiles arrived, the coalition fleet had already discovered and left. It's not even used to intercept.

Of course, as a cruise missile, it is not suitable for striking moving targets at sea in the first place. Therefore, the counterattack tactics that were initially formulated faced too many difficulties in implementation. Only then did Li Lan agree, let the enemy relax his vigilance, and come back to fight when he got closer.

However, Li Lan is not a target without any counterattack. There is no way to move targets at sea, but this does not mean that he has no way to deal with other ground targets of the coalition forces.

Manama, Bahrain, Command of the US Fifth Fleet. It is also the headquarters of the Central Naval Command of the US Army, located in the Persian Gulf, which is completely within the range of strikes. There are also those air bases and army bases that are subordinate to the US military. It's no exception.

On this map, has been commanded by the staff of the center. All enemy positions are indicated, with a radius of three thousand kilometers to attack at a distance. It is drawn by a red line.

Whether it was for personal revenge or to implement a new tactical plan, Li Lan needed to resolve the coalition air bases around him. Of course, this counterattack is not now, but when necessary.

If this is the case now, the coalition forces will inevitably react, and it will not be difficult to build a temporary airfield and base. Therefore, these targets cannot be hit now, but must wait for a critical moment to carry out a critical strike.

After rummaging through the map and identifying some key goals, Li Lan did not have any joy in his heart, but a rather helpless feeling. The United States is a country with a very novel idea, and although the jurisdiction of the US Central Command is the Middle East, the headquarters of the Central Command is located in Georgia, the mainland of the United States, and its backbone is the 3rd Army of the US Army. The Command has three command centers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The U.S. Central Air Command, headquartered in South Carolina, is the backbone of the U.S. 9th Air Force, which is equipped with well-equipped fighters, bombers, patrol aircraft, and AWACS aircraft.

The U.S. Special Operations Command is the Joint Operations Command that commands the special forces of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and U.S. Marine Corps. The command is part of the U.S. Department of Defense and is headquartered at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

Africa Command, headquartered in the United States, is also on the contiguous United States.

None of these are related to the main arms of the war and the theater headquarters, and none of them are within Li Lan's reach at present. Far away on the other side of the world, conduct transcontinental commands.

Wanting to destroy the US Coalition Command in one fell swoop is simply impossible for the current Li Lan. Therefore, the targets he delineated were all some air bases and some command agencies. The impact on the entire US military's operational and command system is only temporary, and according to the US military's response speed, even if the airfield and sub-organs are destroyed, they can be re-established in a short period of time. And the next time to destroy, it will not be so simple.

Therefore, Li Lan has a lot of helplessness in her heart.

Of course, many times what seems to be a difficult situation can actually be turned into an opportunity at a critical moment, and the United States, which places its core command organs on its own soil, while preventing these command organs from being destroyed, also has a shortcoming that does not exist at all in the eyes of the Americans. The non-existence of such shortcomings is a kind of self-confidence in the heart of the United States, and it is by no means blind, because the United States has made the most adequate preparations for this shortcoming and has the highest level in the world.

At present, Li Lan does not plan to use this method, not that he does not want to use it, but that good steel should be used on the blade. As long as the war comes to a critical moment, he will also take this opportunity to deal the most fatal blow to the United States.

"Tanya, tell Zhuang Zhifen to withdraw from Mogadishu immediately, it is no longer suitable for guarding." Pull open the map. Pointing to the city of Galkayo in the central region of Somalia, Li Lan said to Tanya: "No matter which direction the enemy's ground offensive forces come from, Mogadishu is still too far away from us. At a distance of thousands of kilometers, it is easy to be cut off from the middle by the enemy. Whether it is the enemy who landed from it or the threat from Ethiopia, it is very bad for us. ”

"I see, I'll let you know."

Tanya picked up the phone and was about to inform her, when Li Lan called out to her: "Wait, tell Zhuang Zhifen that those special equipment should not be transferred, and all of them will remain in Mogadishu." The garrison immediately followed the withdrawal, before dawn. I don't want to see our army still within a 200-kilometre radius of Mogadishu. ”

"But ......" Tanya hesitated a little and couldn't help asking: "Leave those special equipment in Mogadishu, so that the whole of Mogadishu will be finished, and there will not be any complete buildings by then." ”

"Is there still a Somali population in Mogadishu?" Li Lan did not answer Tanya immediately, but asked a rhetorical question.

Tanya shook her head and replied affirmatively: "There are no civilians, whether it is the original residents or those refugees, they have already been relocated to the north. Now Mogadishu is an empty city. ”

"In that case, there is nothing to worry about, Mogadishu's buildings are already in a dilapidated state anyway. The rebuilding of the whole city is no less than tearing down and rebuilding, and this time I will directly break it down and stand up. A cold light flashed in Li Lan's eyes.

The withdrawal of troops from the south will be an important part of the new tactics, and the Red Guard Corps currently has about 110,000 elite troops. Plus a garrison of about 60,000 people. With these hundreds of thousands of people, there is no need to defend the whole country. And what he wants is not to defend, the core of the new tactic is to let the enemy in. The original intention was to tighten the fist and concentrate the strength. Deliver a punch to your enemies.

In the southern part of the country, Li Lan naturally needs it very much. But the need is not now, the task of reunifying Somalia has been completed, and the next stage of the task is to have a million square kilometres of land. It would also require him to defeat the US-led coalition forces within eight months, expel them from Somali territory, and take the opportunity to occupy enough territory to complete the base's mission.

However, this land in the south was not easy for Li Lan to get his hands on, not to mention whether the battle was easy or not, but the time and energy spent was not so easy to give up.

The First Heavy Division is Li Lan's first ground division-level combat unit with a full organization, and it is also the main ground force on which Li Lan relies on it, with a scale of up to 17,000 people. In terms of combat effectiveness, they are not at all afraid of any heavy division unit that the United States casually pulls out, and if these special weapons of the Red Alert are used properly, the tremendous destructive power caused by them will become extremely terrifying.

"Yes!" Tanya took the order, turned around and picked up the phone, and delivered Li Lan's order to Zhuang Zhifen in Mogadishu.

"Which city do you think the enemy is most interested in us?" After Tanya hung up the phone, Li Lan continued to speak.

"The most interested city? When it comes to the significance of actual combat, the first place is naturally our Bagua City, followed by Bossaso, followed by Mogadishu and Berbera. These four cities are the only port cities in Somalia that have the capacity to handle large vessels. Tanya naturally knew Li Lan's purpose in asking this question, "When it comes to political significance, there are only two cities, Bagua City and Mogadishu, one is the former capital and the other is the current capital. The political implications are significant. ”

"Not bad!" Li Lan nodded, pointed to Mogadishu on the map, and said, "The United States will not attack Bagua City so recklessly, and Mogadishu will be their best bridgehead." It is thousands of kilometers away from us, and it is also the most suitable city for coalition forces to open up the situation in Somalia. Therefore, in the event of an attack by coalition forces, Mogadishu must be the first and foremost of them. ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Li Lan's mouth curled slightly, and she said extremely sarcastically: "Didn't the United States say that we are illegal? As a guarantee for the Somali government-in-exile that they support, how can it be that these exiled guys should first lay a piece of the sky so that they can have a foothold. That's right. ”

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, the Americans will want not only Mogadishu, but the whole of southern Somalia, and they will be embraced. When we give up the southern lands, we also need to take into account the feelings of the former south-west Somalia. Tanya said.

"Yes! It's just that the Somalis living in the south are not too radical. After taking a deep breath, Li Lan continued: "I will make it clear to the officials in southwest Somalia, and I will also send covert staff to appease the civilians, after all, now they have no weapons, don't make unnecessary moves." There is no such thing as a good invader, and once we have completed the work of concentrating our strength, we will not be able to reach the civilians in the south. ”

Although they are not of the same clan and race, they have been in Somalia for so long, and Li Lan still has a good impression of those normal Somali civilians; although it is difficult to say that he and the Somalis are not speculative, this does not prevent Li Lan from treating them as a family. If the family is too reluctant, then to put it simply, these Somalis are now his people, and they have a share of the base's popular index. At the beginning, they also voted for Li Lan. From this point of view, Li Lan hoped that each of them would live a long life.

Regarding skin color and superficial opinions, Li Lan has never really taken it to heart. If you have to say that the hearts of people who are not of our race must be different, then Li Lan is the non-my race in the eyes of the Somalis. And since these Somalis can take him as a faith, how can Li Lan not regard them as his friends.

In the past, Li Lan often thought about these questions, and his mind often flooded with what would happen if the Somalis drove him away one day? But seeing the rise of the people's sentiment index, this kind of thought is becoming less and less. Now, three or four years have passed, and Li Lan regards these Somalis who sincerely support him as his best people from the bottom of his heart.

"I'm just worried that if the Heavy Division leaves behind those special equipment and inflicts heavy losses on the coalition forces, the coalition forces will vent their anger on civilians. And as you know, the Somalis are extremely hostile to these foreign invaders, and I am afraid that they will cause all kinds of unnecessary casualties. Tanya also has her own considerations, the base has been integrated into Somali society, and as a soldier, she also has an obligation to protect her own people.

"Avoid it if you can!" After Li Lan finished speaking, he waved his hand and left the command center directly.

Out of the command center, Li Lan walked directly onto the elevator, but he didn't go to the console, but entered the password for a while, and then came to the underground-2 floor.

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator door, Li Lan asked A choking smell of smoke, in the deep corridor, under the light of the light, there were clouds of smoke wafting everywhere. At the end of the hallway, there was a small dark door, from which visible clouds of smoke wafted out.

Li Lan first helplessly looked at the air purification device that was desperately pumping out these smoke clouds, and after smiling bitterly in his heart, he raised his legs and walked inside.

Before he reached the end of the corridor, Li Lan first heard a dense keyboard tapping. Before he could walk in, he heard a series of arrogant laughter: "The little one wants to play with me, and he doesn't look at the gap in level, a genius like me, who can beat me." I'm empty, I'm lonely, I'm so cold, wow Ka Ka, is this what it's like to be at the pinnacle of the world? But I like ......" (to be continued......