However, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has not been idle, and the General Staff Department has attempted to take advantage of the fact that the US military has no time to take care of anything else by taking advantage of the US military's large-scale moves in the Persian Gulf to form a huge mixed fleet with the Shanghai aircraft carrier as its flagship and dispatch more than 10 large landing ships to prepare to transport the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade to Tanzania and enter Africa ahead of schedule.

In order to strengthen the combat capability of the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, in addition to updating its two armored battalions with brand-new ZTZ-99S tanks, and equipping all four armored infantry battalions with the latest all-terrain combat vehicles, the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade has specially strengthened a helicopter transport battalion, a Wuzhi-10 attack helicopter army aviation battalion, and two special composite battalions of destroyer unmanned fighters.

In this way, together with the brigade's reconnaissance battalion, air defense battalion, artillery battalion, and logistics battalion, the total strength of the entire infantry brigade exceeded 6,000 people. The strengthened infantry brigade has 6 combat battalions, 60 ZTZ-99S main battle tanks, 30 attack helicopters, 30 multi-purpose helicopters, 60 destroyer unmanned fighters, and 40 155-mm self-propelled guns.

For the implementation of the African strategy, the PLA has spared no expense this time, so that the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade has a super air-ground attack capability.

This time, the PLA not only achieved overseas stationing in advance, but also armed the Tanzanian armed forces ahead of schedule, and under the guidance of a large number of military advisers at all levels who arrived in advance, the Tanzanian military will soon be able to form combat effectiveness after being equipped with new weapons.

But who did not expect that a storm would blow from the heart of Africa without warning.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Li Huafeng's exploration team, which is carrying out exploration tasks in Mpanda, Tanzania, has just finished a day of rock survey and sampling, preparing to conduct preliminary composition analysis of the rocks sampled today.

Analysis of several sampling sites today will finalize the approximate extent of this copper mineralization.

"Lao Liu, I have worked hard today, but the harvest is good, the rocks sampled today, it seems that we will soon be able to end the exploration work here" Li Huafeng smiled and said to Liu Yunhan, the captain of the helicopter who cooperated with them, Mpanda is one of the most remote areas in Tanzania, Li Huafeng and their survey team are directly equipped with a helicopter as a means of transportation, otherwise it is not in such a mountainous area with dense jungles and almost no paths, it may take several days to reach a sampling point, It may take half a month to go back and forth. **--

As it is now, after the collection site is designated, the helicopter can send the survey team to the destination in dozens of minutes, and the survey and sampling work can be completed on several sampling points in one day, which greatly improves the survey efficiency of the survey team.

"It's not hard, as long as you are in need, I can take off at any time, and there is a subsidy for attendance every day" Liu Yunhan smiled honestly, "Now the intensity of this work is far worse than when I was in the army, if it weren't for the fact that I was not used to eating and eating noodles every day, I really like it a little bit here, there are dense forests everywhere, and the air here is much better than the domestic ecological environment." ”

Liu Yunhan is a retired soldier in his forties, originally drove a sightseeing helicopter in China, after seeing the news of the large-scale recruitment of helicopter pilots by the China-Africa Group, he was attracted by the generous treatment of this job, so he signed up to become a captain of the China-Africa Group helicopter flight team, driving a domestic Z-9 transport aircraft, providing transportation services for the survey team of the China-Africa Group in remote and remote areas, if there is a flight mission every day, the flight subsidy for one day is as high as 2,000 yuan, so although life is hard, Liu Yunhan is still willing to work every day.

"Haha, it seems that everyone comes here for the same purpose," Li Huafeng said with a smile, "but although the work is a little hard, the company gives us a really good subsidy, of course, our work results are also worth the price, you see, only a few days of work, we have completed the preliminary exploration of a large copper mine, here is a million tons of copper ore, at least tens of thousands of tons of associated silver, speaking of which is our explorer's paradise, every day I feel that we can find treasures." ”

"Captain Li, where will you go next after you finish this copper exploration?" Through this period of time to get along, Liu Yunhan and Li Huafeng cooperate quite well, Lao Liu is skilled in driving, carrying Li Huafeng and them along the metallogenic area to a lot of dangerous places, sometimes in order to a suitable exploration site, Liu Yunhan can land on a flat land of only a few dozen square meters in the jungle, in this kind of place must have very strong technology, in order to land safely.

"Maybe go to the Mahal Mountains, and from the preliminary exploration results of the Tanzanian side, there may be a large coal mine there," Li Huafeng said, "but it depends on the arrangement of the above, after all, the exploration team is limited now, and the above has priority for the types of minerals that need to be explored." If it's not a coal mine in the Mahal Mountains, it's probably an ilmenite mine near Ugora. ”

"So we might be able to stay in this place for a while?" Liu Yunhan is now familiar with the terrain of Mpanda, knowing that the Mahal Mountains are in the western part of Mpanda near the Great Lakes region, while Ugola is in the eastern mountains of Mpanda, whether it is the Mahal Mountains or Ugola, they are remote reservations with few roads, which means that he has to stay and cooperate with the exploration team, but for Liu Yunhan, this is a good thing.

"It will take at least two months or more to roughly explore these places, in fact, from the analysis of the topography and metallogenic principles here, most of the mountains here have exploration value, but now there are better options, and I can't take care of it for the time being." Li Huafeng said, "After we finish these good things, I think there are still many areas in the future that are worth our careful exploration." If you want, I guess you won't have to worry about staying here for a year or two. ”

"I hope to work for a long time," Liu Yunhan longed, "My daughter has just gone to college, and it is time to spend money, so I hope that I can work for a longer time to earn her a house." ”

"Lao Liu, this is not bad, our kid has just entered junior high school, and he is still growing when he spends money, if it is not to catch up with this wave of African development, we are all worried about how to save enough for him to go to school, if I can work here for two years, I don't have to worry so much." Li Huafeng also said with full expectations for the future. Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, but it seems that whether it is Li Huafeng or Liu Yunhan, it is obviously a big opportunity to change their lives for this large-scale development of Africa.

However, no one expected that at this moment, thirty miles away from Li Huafeng's station, a group of mysterious militants were rushing towards them.

The self-proclaimed colonel Betu. Bangka shouted loudly, "Be careful with me, don't show flaws, if you miss my big things, Lao Tzu will kill you one by one", as a small leader of a local warlord in Kalemi in the Republic of Congo, when a mysterious middleman offered a price of $10,000 a Chinese, Betu. Banga's eyes are green, and in the poor mountainous backdrop of Kalemi, not even ivory is worth so much, let alone Betu. Banga knew from a mysterious person that dozens of Chinese had come on the other side of the lake, which was hundreds of thousands of dollars.

With this money, Betu. Banga believes that he can at least expand his army from a few hundred to thousands, and in Kalemi, a few dozen dollars can recruit a fighter, and more than a hundred dollars can buy an AK47 submachine gun. Bangka will be able to occupy more territory and gain more benefits.

So, Bedtu. Banga took more than 20 people and drove several boats to quietly break through the sieve-like border defense line on the Tanzanian side, preparing to kidnap the Chinese here and transport them back to Congolese territory in exchange for US dollars.

After crossing the border and arriving in Tanzania, they quickly attacked the Mahal Reserve Management Office, killing several management office guards and robbing two pickup trucks, and then whizzing along the rugged wooded trail towards Li Huafeng and their station. They are lawless, they don't care about killing a few Tanzanians, anyway, they will retreat back to Congolese territory immediately after kidnapping the Chinese, and they are not afraid that the Tanzanians will settle accounts after the fall.

And the few Tanzanians who were killed will not be found in this inaccessible protected area for at least several days. It's not a tourist mecca, and it's deserted for hundreds of miles except for poachers.

"Hear it all to me clearly, when I see the Chinese later, I am not allowed to shoot indiscriminately, I want to catch it alive, not a single one is allowed to die, it is all dollars, if anyone slips his hand and kills the Chinese, Lao Tzu wants his life!" Watching the pickup truck get closer and closer to the target, Betu. Banga said viciously.

"Tumba, in a while you take a few people to get a few more cars, and in a while we will catch people and we will retreat quickly" Thinking that although the Chinese garrison in the small town of Mpandarudigo is only a small place, there are only a dozen Tanzanian jǐngcha in Pingrì, but there is a battalion of the Tanzanian military stationed dozens of kilometers away, if you provoke them, Betu. Gbarnga was not sure that he would be able to escape from the Tanzanian soldiers of this battalion.

But if they get a few cars and quickly grab the people and retreat, and when the Tanzanian infantry battalion arrives at the news, they will be almost on the edge of the lake.

The Tanzanian military has only tens of thousands of people, in addition to protecting major cities, in the face of the long national border, it can only be defended by blocking the communication line, and it has no ability to control such a long border, so for most of the inaccessible mountainous areas and natural borders, the Tanzania side is almost unfortified.

Li Huafeng They didn't expect to encounter an army like bandits here, so when Beitu. Banga and the others rushed to the station, and without saying a word, they shot and killed the hired armed bodyguards of the Tanfang, and everyone was stunned and obediently obeyed Betu. At the mercy of Banga and his gang, all the more than 30 members of the exploration team became the spoils of Betu's gang and were taken to Congolese territory.