Since the mobile phone network on the Congolese side was built and maintained by a Chinese telecommunications company, the intelligence department of the General Staff Department quickly contacted the company and found out the base station of the telephone number through the background, and the intelligence department found that the base station of the telephone was highly consistent with the information provided by Liu Yunhan's GPS locator. ()

Mpanda front.

Liu Cheng received the latest information from the headquarters, jīng Shen Dazhen, the hostages are safe and they are being held together, indicating that the gang of hostage-takers is quite unprofessional, which greatly reduces the difficulty of rescue by force, although now the kidnapped gang of militants has issued a ransom demand, from the Central African group, the pressure to pay the $3.8 million ransom is not great, and they have begun to prepare.

But for the General Staff side, if the matter is understood by the payment of a ransom, then this is a very bad start for these lawless militants on the other side.

If these militants know that the kidnapping of Chinese can obtain such huge profits, Chinese citizens will become a piece of fat in their eyes in the future, not to mention that the warlords on the Congolese side will stare like wolves with red eyes, even in the surrounding countries such as Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and other countries where Chinese control is weak, there will also be countless hungry wolf-like militants who will cross the border.

With the current strength of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, it will not be possible to effectively control its border areas for 10 years. Therefore, once Chinese citizens become valuable prey in the eyes of these militants, even 100,000 troops will be unable to defend against Africa at that time.

Therefore, from the military's point of view, this time it will try its best to use force strikes to complete this large-scale rescue, and deal a heavy blow to these hostage-taking militants to stop this unhealthy trend.

After the deployment of the command center equipment in Tanzania, which is mainly a thatched house, several high-power generators soon emitted a low roar and began to output powerful power to support the command center's large-scale theater joint operations command system.

Colonel Lazaro looked at the magical command center of the PLA in amazement, in this extremely simple thatched house, it is now scattered with all kinds of large and small monitors, and the core is a 100-inch super-large magic mirror display, on that screen, all personnel information and main battle weapon information of the entire PLA assault battalion and special brigade can be controlled at any time, and it can be seen that there is a positioning system on every combat personnel of the PLA and on every main battle weapon. **

"Colonel Liu, I can't imagine that I have only been away from China for five or six years, and the level of informatization of the People's Liberation Army has developed to such a high level. I remember when I was studying at the Army Academy, I went to your country's 38th Group Army to observe and practice, but I never saw such an advanced integrated command system. Lazaro said enviously that with this kind of command system, it is not only very convenient for the commander to grasp the strength of the entire battle situation, and he can adjust the deployment of troops at any time according to the situation on the front line, but also can comprehensively form the entire military strength into a whole and give full play to greater combined combat power.

Liu Cheng stared at the reconnaissance situation sent back by the Pterodactyl drone on the big screen, and said to Colonel Lazaro, "In recent years, the informatization level of our army has developed rapidly, and these are all thanks to our Dr. Duke, who has changed the level of the entire communications industry in our country. For this young Tanzanian officer who has a good impression of China, Liu Cheng does not mind showing the advantages of the PLA.

Anyway, in the two infantry brigades that will be renovated for the Tanzanian side in the near future, their operational command system will also be replaced to a similar level to its own system, and the Tanzanian side will follow the Chinese side with all its heart, and how can it dispel their worries without showing some muscles.

As a sharp force in the army, the 164th Marine Brigade is the pioneer of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to realize full informatization and digitalization, and the integrated personal information system used by each Marine integrates personal positioning, communication and command.

But at this moment, Colonel Lazaro didn't care about studying this, he looked at the information sent back by the pterodactyl drone on the big screen, and he couldn't take his eyes off it, "This is the Kalemi City, the garrison of the local zhèng fǔ army is in the northeast corner of Kalemi near the direction of the lake area, there are about 3 infantry battalions of more than 1,000 people," Colonel Lazaro pointed to the high-definition picture sent back by one of the Pterodactyl drones and explained, as the supreme commander of the local garrison in Mpanda, he still has a lot to know about the opponent on the other side, Colonel Lazaro.

"Xiao Wang, you follow Colonel Lazaro's instructions, let's first observe the situation of the other party's main communication lines and its local garrison" Liu Cheng saw that Lazaro was very familiar with Kalemi, so he asked Wang Qiang, a member of the Pterodactyl drone on the side, to observe the situation on the other side under the guidance of Lazaro.

Seeing that Liu Cheng trusted himself like this, Lazaro was not polite, honestly assumed the responsibility of the guide, and began to point out the route of the Pterodactyl drone, basically Calemie City is a lakeside city built by relying on a narrow area of the lake area in a north-south direction, and its north-south length is more than ten kilometers.

It is connected by a two-lane north-south street, and on the west side of this street is densely populated with low-slung local buildings, mostly thatched. In Liu Cheng's view, this city cannot be compared with a larger town in China, but in the Congo it is the capital of a province, which can be regarded as a rare big city in the east of the Congo, although the city is simple, but the urban population is quite large, and now there are more than 200,000 people.

Although Kalemi is nominally under the control of the zhèng fǔ, there are quite a few armed men in the city who are armed with automatic weapons such as AK47s, and they belong to different factions. Judging from the reconnaissance pictures sent back by the Pterodactyl UAV, the camp of the local garrison in Kalemi was relatively neat, and in the open field of the station, Liu Cheng and his team found more than a dozen pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and several 105-mm old guns.

According to the intelligence obtained by Colonel Lazaro, these weapons were probably the strongest heavy firepower in the barracks.

But for Betu. After the Pterodactyl drone flew over it according to Liu Yunhan's GPS positioning information, it was found that they were in a mountainous area about 2 kilometers away from the city in the southernmost part of Kalemie, and there was a valley of several hundred meters high in the north and south, with a lake area in the east and a jungle-dense valley in the west.

According to the TV images transmitted by the pterosaurs, except for the houses in the open area of the Lake District, most of the houses hidden in the dense jungle only faintly peeking out of the trees with some thatched roofs.

To the north, an improvised dirt road is blocked by sandbags, blocked by two heavy machine guns, and next to it are two watchtowers six or seven meters high, which are erected near the lake area facing east and south for an unobstructed view of both directions.

Next, a dense wooden fence was built around the densely populated area, and behind the wooden fence were some improvised fortifications.

It's just that in the jungle, this kind of TV image is not clear, but fortunately, the Pterodactyl UAV is now equipped with reconnaissance equipment in addition to a visible light camera system, infrared shooting and a synthetic aperture radar system.

The images taken by these devices are displayed on the large surveillance screen through the dense jungle, and the information of the people in the woods and even the houses is displayed at a glance. After a few weeks of circling around the place, the Pterodactyl drone has figured out all the personnel information of all aspects of this place.

"This place is the most crowded, it seems that it is the place where the hostages are held," Liu Cheng said, pointing to the place with the largest number of people on the surveillance screen, "Pay attention to count the number of people and see if you can match the data," Liu Cheng said to the operational staff officer.

Outside the place where the hostages were held, there were five places where four or five people lived within a radius of more than ten meters, and the place where the hostages were held was surrounded by water, and the entire camp, judging from the preliminary data, there were at least 300 militants.

"This is a camp of the 'M23 Movement,' and they have always fought against Kalemie's zhèng fǔ army," Lazaro said, pointing to the camp, to Liu Cheng and others. Bangka has always done his own thing, he is a local force in Kalemie, controlling most of the coal mining and cement industry in Kalemie, and he has never heard of them kidnapping for ransom before, and I don't know why he crossed the border to do such a kidnapping case this time. ”

Lazaro looked puzzled, "How is their weaponry?" "Liu Cheng doesn't care about studying this Beitu now. Why did Banga do this kidnapping case, now looking at the terrain and the density of the other party's defense, it is very unfavorable for the solution by force.

"Most of them are AK47 automatic rifles, with a small number of machine guns and rocket launchers, and in addition, they have a tradition of laying mines, so it is not easy to attack this camp." Colonel Lazaro returned to the topic, "A few years ago, the Congolese army tried to attack them, and with 1 battalion of troops, they fought for several hours, and suffered dozens of casualties and only broke through their outlying positions. As soon as reinforcements arrived in Banga, they retreated. It can be said that although the number of these militants is not too large, they are an armed force to be reckoned with in Calemie. ”