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The rain was still pouring down, but the sky could be seen to be gray and dark. Brigadier General Edton, commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Red Guard Corps, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening. The Ethiopian militants in front of him seemed to stop and retreat to lick their wounds.

The Ethiopians and French were exhausted by a day of fierce fighting.

Brigadier General Edon looked at the horizon in silence. It's a vast gray place, and you can't see anything clearly. There was a thick smell of gunpowder smoke between the rain curtains, and it couldn't be dissipated.

"How's the situation with the troops?" Turning around, the brigadier general asked.

"On the offensive on the southern front, we have withstood it. The same goes for the northern line. "It was a young ensign who spoke.

The tired chief of staff didn't care about the mud on the ground, and sat down directly. The deputy brigade commander, who was covered in muddy water, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it several times without lighting it. He simply crumpled the cigarette into a ball and threw it away.

Brigadier General Ekton raised his hand and pointed to the rain in the distance and said, "No matter what, we must hold our ground until the effects of the rainstorm have passed." Take a step back, and our entire 1st Brigade will die without a place to be buried. ”

With the arrival of the mechanized infantry brigade, Li Lan has already invested eleven battalions on the battlefield on the Western Front, including two armored battalions. Rhino tank battalion and Apocalypse tank battalion, a self-propelled howitzer battalion and an attack helicopter squadron. The total strength has reached six thousand. And the enemy they faced, the French Sixth Heavy Cavalry Battle Group, was more than 17,000 people. There is also the assistance of Ethiopia's Eighth Infantry Division, which is now almost crippled, as well as the Delta Special Forces of the United States and the independent artillery units of the coalition forces, which are more than four times the strength of the Red Guard.

Edon was also a veteran of several battles, starting with his role in the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the Battle of Bossaso and the capture of Berbera. Under asymmetric warfare, war presents a pleasant attitude. And this war in front of us is in a disadvantageous situation. Weapons and equipment also do not have much of a lead, and the test of his command ability has been multiplied.

The reinforced battalions of the two small towns in the north and south, relying on the defense of the towns in the continuous hours of fighting, while inflicting a large number of casualties on the enemy, also suffered a lot of losses themselves. The French Army is not easy to mess with, and the 6th Panzer Division is an extremely strong force in both history and modern warfare.

In the face of such an opponent, Ekton is in addition to the blood stirring in his heart. The only belief is to hold this place, even if it is the last soldier to fight to the extreme.

This is not a decisive battle, but a blocking battle, and Ecton's main task is to hold the two towns. There is only one way out, and that is Berbera. However, this retreat must be in a situation where Akchin, the 1st Armored Brigade of Khargeisa, cannot withstand either. to be able to withdraw. Otherwise, armored brigades and garrison divisions in Hargeisa. will be surrounded by heavy enemy troops.

The Somali Army's strong combat effectiveness caused the coalition command to abandon the lightning advance. In addition to not being sure of seizing the air supremacy of Bagua City, the coalition forces were also worried that the Somali Army's combat effectiveness would make this lightning offensive fall into a quagmire, resulting in the cutting off of the front and the vanguard being wiped out by the Somali side with heavy forces.

Therefore, the coalition side can also use the most common tactics to strike at the opponent's vitality, and is not willing to fight an extremely risky and adventurous battle that cannot make ends meet.

After the arrival of Somali reinforcements, the coalition forces also suspended the offensive, holding on to the corner of the town that had been attacked, and seemed to be adjusting the pace of the offensive.

Ekton was not in a hurry, and the coalition's postponement of the offensive gave him more time to adjust the defense of his troops.

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In the base, the rain from the north to the difficult also began to affect Bagua City, and the smoke emitted by the earth quickly dissipated under the rain.

This heavy rain is not Li Lan's masterpiece, the energy of the weather controller has been exhausted, and it will take half a year to save up. Therefore, in the face of the sudden heavy rain, he was helpless.

Fortunately, the impact of this heavy rain on the war was not very great.

However, there is still rain in this part of Somalia after the rainy season, which makes Li Lan very puzzling. It is true that Somalia has had rain during three consecutive rainy seasons because of the weather controller, but he is well aware that these are unnatural rainfalls. And this time it happened to be natural rainfall, and it was when the rainy season passed.

It can only be said that the weather is extremely abnormal.

Li Lan only had doubts about the rainfall, but he didn't really care about it, and his main focus was still on the war.

However, when the assistant suddenly informed him of a very unexpected news, this attitude of not paying attention to it also changed three hundred and sixty degrees in an instant.

There is a cyclone forming in the southern Arabian Sea, and this rain is officially brought by this whirlwind.

Cyclone, which is the name of the Indian Ocean region, is called a hurricane in the Americas and a typhoon in China. Indian Ocean cyclones form mainly in the southern Indian Ocean, while in the northern part of the country, the Arabian Sea region.

Unlike typhoons in the Pacific Ocean, cyclones in the Arabian Sea are concentrated in March-April and October-November each year.

The rainy season in Somalia is over, just in time for the Arabian Sea cyclone to form. However, very few cyclones form in the southern Arabian Sea, usually in the centre or east of the Arabian Sea. The direction in which the cyclone moves is generally east or north.

However, there have been many times in history to move southwest, and Somalia has been affected by cyclones from time to time.

According to the analysis given by his assistant, it is very likely that this cyclone will move towards Somalia, and the wind speed and impact will move closer to a strong cyclone, and the possibility of rising to a strong cyclone or a super cyclone cannot be ruled out.

Now, Li Lan has only been given more than two days to prepare, and once the cyclone is completely formed, it will immediately affect the Gulf of Aden and northern Somalia, and Bagua City and Bossaso are all within its sphere of influence.

There is a good saying, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Li Lan now has a deep feeling.

Heavy rain did not have much impact on the sorties of the Air Force, but the cyclone had a great impact, and if it was a strong cyclone, it would not be small in the damage to Somalia. On one side is war, and on the other side is nature, which makes Li Lan's head instantly big.

However, nature is often a double-edged sword.

The big head is not only Li Lan, but also the coalition forces. The meteorological department of the coalition forces, the arrival of this rainstorm, also allowed them to quickly find the culprit. A whirlwind mass in the making, located in the southern part of the Arabian Sea. The area of influence will extend to the Fifth Fleet, and depending on the angle and direction of the whirlwind's rotation, it is highly likely that it will also affect many military bases of the war and coalition forces in the future.

The ground war has begun, and troops from three directions, outside Hargeisa, Galkayo, and western Somalia, are already engaged, and the air force is coming and going to all corners of the theater, and air battles have broken out with the Somali air force.

This war, which has been on the verge of stalemate since its outbreak, is now also facing the test of nature.

In order to ensure the safety of the fleet, the US amphibious fleet cruising in the waters east of Somalia could only withdraw south. The Fifth Fleet's Combined Naval Battle Group, which happened to be right next to the Whirlwind, could only move at high speed toward the central part of the Indian Ocean, losing the best opportunity to find the Somali fleet.

The coalition navy in the Mediterranean Sea will not be able to support the theater of operations after the whirlwind is formed, and the air force will inevitably be in a state where it cannot continue because of the arrival of the whirlwind. The ground battlefield is no better, and if the cyclone does make landfall in Somalia, those three theaters of operations can only be suspended.

In the Allied Forces General Headquarters in Georgia, Dempsey was frowning slightly at this time, and the report of the meteorological department had been put aside by him, and at this moment he had in his hand the battle report within six hours.

The results of the war report made the general very dissatisfied. The war was fought by four major countries: the United States, France, Italy, and Japan, as well as the three East African countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Djibouti. Needless to say, Djibouti has only a little bit of troops, and its role in the coalition is almost negligible except for its strategic position.

Ethiopia is the country with the largest number of troops, 100,000 regular troops, plus 160,000 reserves, Ethiopia for the status of regional hegemony, plus the many benefits promised by the United States, closely followed the side of the coalition forces, for which nearly half of the country's troops were invested.

As a result of the war, the Ethiopian army suffered heavy losses on all three fronts, with three infantry brigades and one infantry division largely disabled, while the French, Italian, and American armies suffered less than 100 casualties.

After all, when it comes to the front-line battlefield, the coalition forces are comrades-in-arms, and Dempsey does not intend to blame the people below for pushing the Ethiopian army to the front line. However, it is unforgivable that the war has passed for several hours because of the low combat effectiveness of the Ethiopian army, and there has been no slightest result.

He knew very well what this kind of result would be, and he knew very well that even if he went to the front line, he would probably do it. However, all this is on the premise of ensuring the outcome of the war, otherwise it will be a delay in military aircraft. Now, it seems that nature, a human adversary, is also intervening, and if it does not gain a foothold in Somalia in a short period of time, it is likely that the Somali army will have a breathing room with the help of the weather.

"Verbally order all troops, since they are on the battlefield, don't be afraid that you can't explain to the people in the country. This command does not make any records! (To be continued......)