Therefore, the importance of Kuwait's Great Burgan oil field can be imagined, and it is not difficult to understand the joy of these people after finally extracting oil. There is still more work to be done after the drilling of this well, such as exploring oil reserves, inspecting oil quality, checking the oil volume of a single well, etc., Xie Guang estimates that it will take at least a month to get preliminary results.

On the same day, Scorpion and Major Lawrence appeared fifteen kilometers west of the small city of Kuwait with three hundred horse bandits, waiting for the riders who had gone to reconnoiter to return.

Three riders, wrapped in turbans, carrying spears and sabers at their waists, emerge from the horizon and ascend the sandy slope where Sand Scorpion and Lawrence are thirty minutes later.

"My lord, I have made it clear that the Chinese sent a convoy of three hundred camels, numbering about a thousand people, six days ago, carrying a large number of supplies and construction machinery, to the southwest, supposedly to the Burgan region. Most of the Chinese returned three days ago, but about 200 people are still there. In addition, the Chinese set up a military camp on the outskirts of Kuwait City, with machine guns, artillery, barbed wire, and heavy defenses. ”

The information of the three spies was quite clear, and the sand scorpion was very satisfied, and with a wave of his hand, he rewarded each of them with a sum of money, and let them go down to rest.

"Sand Scorpion, it seems that you have trained these horse bandits well, a bit like an elite soldier." Lawrence laughed and said he was the only one who dared to call the leader a sand scorpion.

"Hehe, I have to thank the three instructors you sent at the beginning, as well as those weapons and ammunition!" The sand scorpion was in a pretty good mood, with more than 300 horse bandits, all of whom had received formal military training, and Lawrence had sent several military instructors to be responsible for training his men, and organized them according to the British army, of course. Those instructors also got a lot of benefits. After setting off with Lawrence, he first went to the first secret arsenal he said, and sure enough, he found more than a thousand guns, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, and more importantly, a few machine guns, which were the most important firepower of the horse bandits.

After getting the information, the sand scorpion led people to the southwest, and the Chinese in Kuwait City were heavily guarded. He didn't want to touch the bad guy, but the intelligence showed that the Chinese team was very small, only about 200 people, and there were some engineers and workers among them. As long as it is planned properly, it can be eliminated.

The next afternoon, the Sand Scorpion's party arrived five kilometers northwest of Bulgan, personally took a few riders, and went with Lawrence to reconnoitre, returning that evening. The sand scorpion ordered the team to eat and rest, and set off at about half past eleven in the middle of the night. An hour later, we arrived at the outskirts of the Chinese camp.

The oil exploration camp was surrounded by a ring of sand slopes, each of which had a squad of soldiers on the perimeter to guard the perimeter, and machine-gun emplacements were arranged around the camp, with sandbags filled with sand as shelter. What I didn't expect was that it was impossible to dig trenches here, and the sand was more than two meters deep, and the sand in the middle and around it would be buried. It was necessary to fill the sand with sandbags as a cover, but the sandbags were not enough to carry, and the focus was on behind the machine-gun positions. Camels had to be used as temporary shelter around the camp to protect them from the wind and sand.

Skilled riders in the desert will look for shallow sandy places to advance. So as not to sink the horse's hooves into the sand, the Arab cavalry has been crisscrossing the desert for thousands of years, and has already summed up the mature experience of fighting in desert terrain. After the sand scorpion reconnoitre, they found a loophole in the Chinese defense, and there would be a three-minute gap when the soldiers on the sand slope changed shifts, and the cavalry waited for the Chinese soldiers to change shifts after approaching the sand slope at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters in the night. Then rush through the low ground in the middle of the sand slope, it only takes two minutes to get rid of the soldiers on the perimeter, and then, the Chinese can be slashed and killed by the cavalry at will, there is no army in this world that can block the impact of Arab war horses!

Everything was as the sand scorpion expected. The Chinese soldiers changed shifts, and the three hundred horse bandits started to speed up, rushed through the low ground in the middle of the sand slope, and finally threw off the vigilant soldiers, and the Chinese exploration camp came into view, at a glance!

Yes, the sand scorpion saw the Chinese camp clearly, because the night did not work at all - the Chinese installed four sets of large searchlights around the camp, and hundreds of meters of lights patrolled back and forth around the camp, and as soon as they rushed through the sand slope, the horse bandits were spotted by the soldiers inside the camp!

Who would have thought that there would be such a high-tech thing as a searchlight in this desert! Even Lawrence couldn't think of such a thing as a searchlight, let alone a relatively earthy sand scorpion. Although surprised, the superb combat quality made the sand scorpion not reduce the speed of the charge, and the horse bandit behind him was equally surprised, but also did not reduce the speed.

The distance between the sand slope and the camp was less than a hundred meters, and in the blink of an eye, the horse bandits rushed through thirty meters. The soldier standing on the tower in charge of the searchlight immediately blew the guard post, and the soldiers on the machine-gun position below immediately entered the position, lifted the canvas covering the machine gun, pulled the bolt, and the secondary shooter inserted the chain. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves from outside the position made the soldiers extremely nervous, and their hand speed was two seconds fuller than usual, and in just these two seconds, the horse bandits were more than ten meters closer, and through the light of the searchlight, the machine gunners could even see the hideous faces of the horse bandits.

The searchlights also provided a good range of fire for the machine gunner, and the two heavy machine guns arranged in this direction fired almost simultaneously, and the tracer bullets carried the bullets, which were particularly beautiful in the dark night. It's just that, in the eyes of the bandits, those bullets bring not beauty, but terror and death.

In an instant, more than a dozen horse bandits were hit, and the rest of the horse bandits opened the distance between the teams, took off the guns on their backs and tried to return fire, but the shooting during the high-speed advance of the war horse required the rider to stabilize his body and aim slowly, but there was no time for the rider to aim slowly on the battlefield, and the machine gunner hid in a tight position, which made it even more difficult to hit.

"Enemy attack!" The camp was all awakened, and when Gao Cheng, who was sleeping in peace, heard the whistle, he immediately grabbed the rifle beside him, and after running out of the camp, he understood the situation with a little observation, grabbed the soldiers around him, and gave orders in a loud voice.

"All the soldiers enter the battle! Watch out for enemies that may appear in other directions! A platoon returned fire, and the heavy fire platoon immediately arranged mortars! The rest of the troops defend the camp in other directions! Three platoons are responsible for protecting engineers, workers, and logistical supplies! "The camp was not large, and Takashiro's order was heard by the officers, who began to act in an orderly manner according to the order.

After more than ten seconds, more and more soldiers joined the battle, and light and heavy machine guns and rifles opened fire together, pinning the horse bandits to a distance of hundreds of meters. The biggest problem now is that we don't know how many enemies are attacking, why didn't the soldiers on the outer sand slopes raise the alarm? Will the strength of the three platoons in the camp be able to withstand the enemy's attack? What is the origin of the other party?

The sand scorpion was even more uncomfortable than Gao Cheng, and despite his calm image, he shouted at his subordinates around him: "Set up the machine gun!" Three teams charge from the left, four teams charge from the right, all scattered, don't huddle together to find death! ”

The most important thing in a sneak attack is suddenness, taking advantage of the opportunity to break into the enemy camp unprepared, kill people and set fire to them and calmly leave, this is the familiar combat mode of horse bandits. After being discovered by the Chinese army and blocked by machine guns, more than 30 elite horse bandits fell to the ground in a few minutes, and this loss made the sand scorpion feel painful. Had it not been for the lure of another batch of arms that Lawrence had promised, he would have ordered a retreat long ago, rather than a head-to-head confrontation with the Chinese army.

The horse bandits began to circle outside the camp, preparing to take advantage of the disadvantage of the lack of Chinese troops to find a breakthrough point and rush in. They wielded sabers and spears, and rode on tall Arab horses, but they were still within the range of heavy machine guns, and the diameter of the entire central position of the sand slope was no more than 600 meters, which was completely within the range of machine gun fire.

The generators in the camp are well supplied with fuel, providing a constant supply of energy to the searchlights on the tower, and the machine gunners can move calmly and tilt their bullets at the enemy.

"Knock out those headlights!" Lawrence finally discovered the crux of the problem, after being illuminated by a searchlight, the horse bandits were in the light and the Chinese were in the dark!

Unfortunately, the bandits were too slow to react, and before they could shoot at the searchlights, the shells fired from three mortars whizzed down into the middle of the bandits, and although the soft sand neutralized most of the energy, the deterrent effect of the shells should not be underestimated. At least the sand scorpions lost the courage to continue the attack, and the Chinese discovered their own sneak attack, machine gun fire, and artillery bombardment, and there was no tribe or horse bandit in this desert who could break through the Chinese camp!

"Withdraw!" The sand scorpion roared, turned the horse's head and retreated, the bandits suffered a huge blow, but they were still able to react immediately, and after a minute, the sound of horses' hooves faded from all sides of the camp, leaving only the heavy smell of blood and the smoke of gunpowder.

When rushing out of the sand slope, the horse bandit team was attacked by the Chinese soldiers on both sides, and lost more than 20 riders again, and the sand scorpion's team escaped from the clutches of death. It took all the sand scorpions who escaped five kilometers to gather the troops, and when they counted, they almost cried, and the battle of about ten minutes lost more than 130 elite soldiers, almost half of his own men, and he glanced at Lawrence hatefully, this person can make himself miserable, and he will never trouble the Chinese in the future! (To be continued.) )