Chief of Staff Somerville was also very supportive of McLean's plan, and the 500,000 Boston troops stationed in Gabon and Angola immediately became nervous, and they began to be fully prepared, relying on inland waterway shipping to transport supplies along the course of the Kunene River to the Ruacana area. At the same time, the Boston River Fleet was also nervous, and they intensively searched the channels of the Kunene and Okavango rivers, carefully guarding against the Chinese Imperial guerrillas who might cross the river and attack the interior of Angola.

"There has been a movement of the Boston army in the Angolan region, they are raising supplies, and the other party's river fleet on the two rivers has also stepped up patrols, which shows that they are going to make a big move recently." Walbeck crouched in front of the map table, looking at the map with a magnifying glass.

After Wilhelm II announced the formation of the Restoration Army, the colonial army under Walbeck that had retreated into the Chinese Empire was reorganized into the Yaman Restoration Army in the Southern Subcontinent Front, referred to as the Southern Army, with Walbeck as the commander.

With the help of the Chinese Empire, the Southern Army of the Yaman Restoration Army carried out systematic training, and incorporated many of the defeated colonial troops who had fled into the Chinese Empire from Angola into Walbeck's troops, expanding the number of Southern Army under his command to 30,000.

At this time, at Wallbeck's suggestion, the Southern County Garrison and the Yamannan Army formed a joint command, and Walbeck also entered the command. At this moment, at the same table as Walbeck was Cheng Guangling, who had made great achievements in the defense of Alexandra Harbor, and at this time he had been promoted to the rank of third-class general and transferred to the commander of the Southern County garrison, with the strength of four corps in his hands.

Hearing Walbeck's words, Cheng Guangling nodded and said, "Yes, this is the prelude to a large-scale attack by the Boston army, it seems that our old friend Lieutenant General Craig is a little restless." Oh, wrong. ”

Cheng Guangling smiled and corrected himself: "It should be Lieutenant General McLean, Lieutenant General Craig has returned to China to report on his work, and he is going to be reappointed." It seems that our new friend can't bear the loneliness and wants to earn some military merit. ”

Walbeck shook his head with the stereotypical look of the Yamans: "Your joke is not funny at all, now we should consider that we only have 150,000 men in our hands, and the Bostonians have 500,000, plus they have the advantage of the river fleet, it will be difficult for us to fight." ”

Cheng Guangling admires this excellent Yaman officer very much, and the only bad thing about him is that he is too rigid. Cheng Guangling waved his hand and said: "General Baker, you can't always be a one-sided person, you will be tired to death, sometimes the combination of work and rest is the king." I'm not worried about the Bostonians, and although we don't have enough offensive ability, if the Bostonians dare to cross the border and attack our turf, they will definitely learn a lesson that will last a lifetime. ”

Wallbeck shook his head and said: "There is a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, we must carefully study the countermeasures, and I have said many times, my full name is Paul 61 Feng 61 Letowen 61 Wallbeck, please call me General Wallbeck, or Paul, don't call Beck, this is a very rude title in our Yaman Empire." ”

"Well, well, General Wallbeck, in fact, in our Chinese Empire, calling nicknames means cordial. As for the battle plan, let's let the staff officers draw it up, and we just need to grasp the general direction. Cheng Guangling said helplessly.

After gathering a large number of staff officers, the battle plan was quickly drawn up, but Walbeck insisted that he should preemptively strike into the enemy's territory before the enemy could attack, so as to delay the opponent's action. Cheng Guangling resolutely believes that the Boston people have finally made a move, and it is the time to annihilate a large number of the opponent's living forces, and they must not drag the opponent back and scare the enemy back, and only by entering their own territory can they better destroy the opponent.

The two argued in the staff, but no one could convince each other, Walbeck knew very well that Cheng Guangling was approachable, very receptive to other people's opinions, and did not oppress others, so Walbeck did not care about his identity as a guest army, and did not back down in the face of Cheng Guangling.

The two of them argued fiercely, and they saw that the staff officers were staring at each other, the staff officers of the Chinese Empire were okay, they knew Cheng Guangling's temper very well, and the Yaman staff officers were afraid, they were already in a weak position, and now they were guests, they were afraid that Cheng Guangling would take out his pistol and directly collapse Walbeck.

The fears of the Yaman staff officers did not come true, and after both sides gave their reasons, they decided to give in and adopted a more compromise plan, that is, to send a task force to infiltrate deep into the Angolan area, wait until the Boston army arrived at the front line and exchanged fire with the Chinese imperial army, and then carry out sabotage activities, so as to better attack the Boston army and disrupt the deployment of the other side.

Walbeck had been the colonial governor of the Angolan region, and was quite popular there, and the task of entering the Angolan region to disrupt the enemy's rear was naturally carried out by Walbeck. In order to narrow down the target, Walbeck took only 3,000 men with him this time, and the remaining 20,000 men were commanded by his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Baden, who of course has now been promoted to brigadier general.

Cheng Guangling was more labor-saving than Walbeck's method of crossing the river, and he directly dropped dozens of mines on the upper reaches of the river, which were floating mines, and they went down the river and directly sank three Boston river gunboats patrolling downstream.

Taking advantage of the confusion among the Bostonians, the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces quickly sent Walbeck's troops across the river using assault boats with small motors. Armed with all the advanced weaponry provided by the Chinese Empire, Walbeck's troops soon disappeared into the rainforest on the other side of the river.

"The Seventh Army began to cross the river." Standing on the banks of the Kunene River, McLean's heart was filled with pride, and he felt that he was very sure of this attack. As long as he can capture the southern counties of the Chinese Empire, which His Majesty the Emperor attaches great importance to, and collect a large number of diamond mines and gold mines into the private collection of the Boston Imperial Family, he will definitely be able to rise to prominence. By that time, not only will the position of the patriarch be secure, but it may also be able to improve the family's status in the empire.

"Your Excellency, the Seventh Army has all crossed the river, do you want the Third Army to start crossing the river as well?" Somerville asked, his words pulling McLean out of his thoughts.

McLean said, "Okay, let's get started." Let the guards prepare, and we will cross the river too. ”

The Boston Empire originally had only the largest military-level units, with only more than 30,000 people in each army, but after the army size was expanded to 10 million, the Boston Empire had to release a number of large military units, of which the corps level was 150,000, the group army generally had 450,000 people, and some large group armies even had 1 million people. McLean was the commander of the Sixteenth Army at this time, and he also had a local garrison of 50,000 men under his command, making a total of half a million troops.

McLean did not dare to leave the rear too empty in this attack, and he left the weakest Twentieth Army in the Angolan region, guarding Angola and Gabon with 50,000 local garrisons. The river flotilla increased the frequency of patrolling back and forth on the two boundary rivers, and the garrison troops also strengthened patrols on the banks of the river to prevent attacks by small forces of the opposing side, but they did not know that their small and heavily guarded troops had already entered the Angolan region and had been hidden among the indigenous tribes who had a favorable opinion of Walbeck, scattered in the upper reaches of the Kwanza River.

Most of Walbeck's troops were native, they did not wear military uniforms, as long as they were not seen with weapons, even the Boston inspection could not see any flaws, and the few white people such as the remaining Walbeck were hidden and secluded, so that they were not afraid of news leaks.

Walbeck knew very well that the power in his hands was too small, and he had to wait until the opponent's interior was empty before the three thousand people could exert enough strength, so at the beginning of the river, he did not rush to act, but hid and waited for the opportunity, and now the time has finally come.

When Lieutenant General McLean crossed the Kunene River with two legions and marched toward South, Walbeck quickly assembled his 3,000 Southern Army for a major operation. If you want to make a big operation, the best way is to conquer a major town, which will definitely attract the main force of the other party back, but with the 3,000 troops in his hands, it is simply not enough to take down a major town.

Walbeck thought about it for a while, and finally decided to target the attack in a place that was not taken seriously by the Bostonians, close to the Angolan region and close to the Caballo in the middle of the southern subcontinent.

Caballo is not a strategic location or a logistical supply point, so its defenses are very weak, but it is the closest town to the central town of Bukavu, and it is also at a point on the transport line from the seaport of Luanda to Bukavu. Although the strategic location is not important, it is a resting place for the logistics troops after arriving in Bukavu, where a large number of transport trucks of the logistics department are parked all year round, and there is a small maintenance department responsible for the maintenance of the trucks of the logistics troops.

In the middle of the night, Walbeck's troops slowly approached Caballo, and some elite soldiers entered the town first, intending to find out what was going on. The reconnaissance of these soldiers proved to be superfluous, and their characteristic blow arrows did not play any role at all, because the laxly guarded Caballo did not even have a combat unit, and only some logistics troops were stationed here.

The heightened vigilance of the Bostonians was limited to the border areas along the river, and places like Caballo, which was in the heart of the Angolan region and was not a strategic point or a logistical supply base, were rather lax, and the few guards were already dozing off with their guns pestle, and the officers who were supposed to check the posts were already sleeping like dead pigs with the indigenous women in their arms.

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