"But what about our artillery?" The infantry can run away from the mountains and forests at any time, but the artillery is different, although the 105 howitzer is already a very light guy, but the total weight is more than a ton, this weight can only be pulled by the road in a pickup truck. Kurtu was really reluctant to throw away these baby bumps, so after completing the retreat arrangements for the infantry, he raised this question with Cai Zhongxiao.

"It doesn't matter, the artillery can retreat first immediately after this round of heavy strikes, they are several kilometers away from the front-line positions, and they retreat faster than anyone else" Cai Zhongxiao saw Ka. Kurtu's painful look on his face, knowing that he was reluctant to leave this bit of belongings, couldn't help but smile and said, "Colonel Kurtu, when the artillery battalion retreats to twenty or thirty kilometers away, our people can disassemble these cannons into more than a dozen parts in 3 or 4 minutes, so that the cannons can be transported to the mountains and forests to hide, and when we deal with the Ugandans' fighters, we can kill them again, and then we can take out these cannon parts and assemble them for use, and save us the inconvenience of transporting them around." ”

Card. Kurtu obviously didn't expect that the cannon from China still had this kind of function, and couldn't help but stretch out his thumb and exclaim: "Chinese artillery, amazing!" "This time the card. Kurtu was spoken in Chinese, and although it seemed extremely stiff, Cai Zhongxiao still understood. He smiled and stopped talking, because this guy Kurtu was getting closer and closer to the Chinese side, and felt that the language barrier was affecting his career more and more, so he was busy and found Jacka. Came to Git as a translator and began to learn Chinese from Cai Zhongxiao, although the Chinese vocabulary he knows is still relatively limited, but he has memorized a lot of military Chinese terms.

Heaven helps the self-helper, card. Although Kurtu was born as a small warlord in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he has a good vision and knows how to advance and retreat, so he can continue to receive support from Tanzania and the People's Liberation Army. Ruatu is both literate and martial, and they are now relatively compatible with each other.

The retreat quietly began here, and the Ugandans and Rwandans over there were looking for places to hide under heavy artillery fire. Kurtu bombarded, but as soon as they entered the position, they were spotted by the Pterodactyl drone in the sky, and after a burst of accurate artillery fire, the Rwandan artillery battalion position was only a pile of scrap metal and corpses.

The artillery battalion of the Ugandans was so frightened that they did not dare to press it at all, they never dreamed that in such a fierce artillery fire, the opponent would actually start to grease the soles of their feet, so even after the opponent's artillery stopped shelling, the two infantry brigades of Rwanda and Uganda waited motionlessly in place and waited for the air force to solve the card. Kurtu artillery.

More than half an hour later, Ugandan F-16 fighters arrived in a hurry. The so-called artillery position was not found after wandering around the rear of the Kurtu position for a long time, and then an F-16 fighter carefully lowered the altitude to conduct reconnaissance, and found that the opposite position had long been empty and there was nothing left.

They hurriedly called the ground troops by radio, and the Ugandan brigade on the ground could not believe that the enemy had retreated, and they cautiously sent sharp soldiers to reconnoitre, only to find that the enemy position was indeed empty. Wait until the Uganda completes this reconnaissance confirmation card. The Kurtu troops have retreated, and another half hour has passed.

In this half an hour, the Ugandan Air Force, which rushed to the ground, did not expect that this time it would be empty, they were unwilling to set off from Bukavu, along the No. 5 kilometer to Balaka to search, from Bukavu back to Balaka there is only this No. 5 road alone, Ugandan F-16 pilots are not afraid of not finding the road, they do not believe that in such a short period of time, Ka. Kurtu's artillery was able to fly into the sky.

It's just that they searched for more than 100 kilometers along kilometer 5 at an altitude of 4 or 5 kilometers in the direction of Balaka, but they didn't find the card. Traces of Kurtu artillery, although dozens of pickup trucks were found bits and pieces along the way, but these pickup trucks were only carrying a dozen soldiers, and the artillery did not even see a shadow. And once you hear the sound of an airplane coming from the air, these cards. The soldiers of Kurtu scattered at once, jumped out of the pickup truck and hid in the mountains and forests by the roadside.

A target such as a pickup truck alone was certainly not worth wasting precious ammunition, and the search for nothing made the Ugandan pilots extremely frustrated, and on the way back, two F-16 pilots were unwilling to fly at a low altitude and drop the altitude to more than 1,000 meters, so that they could clearly see the situation on the ground, even if Kurtu's troops heard the sound of the aircraft and temporarily hid the howitzer in the grass and bushes on the roadside, they would have left some clues for them to find.

The pilots of the two F-16 fighters were hit by these portable anti-aircraft missiles in a volley of these portable air defense missiles almost before they could react, and a huge fireball exploded in the air, and the pilot was directly killed by the huge blast wave and aircraft debris before he could eject a safe distance.

It turns out that this is Cai Zhongxiao's suggestion card. Kurtu left a plan to ambush the Ugandan fighters, but he didn't expect it to come in handy, and he killed two F-16C/D fighters of the Ugandans with a few FN-16 man-portable missiles!

The pilots of the four Ugandan F-16 fighters that were following at high altitude were startled, and after desperately pulling up, they found that they had not encountered any more attacks, so they turned the nose of the plane and returned to the sky above the place where the attack was attacked, and threw precision-guided missiles at the mountains and forests where the missiles had just been struck. It's just that all of them are in vain, and there is no use for anything other than to start a small forest fire. The Kurtu air defense company fled long after firing the missile.

For the high-ranking figures of the Ugandan military, the accidental loss of the two F-16s is not a big loss for them in addition to being embarrassing, because the Americans promised that in this war, all the lost materials will be compensated according to the price, and things like fighters will not only supplement the losses of new fighters, but also give the Ugandan military an additional $5 million in pilot losses, regardless of whether the pilots can be saved in the end or not, it is the same price. Although it is not easy to train a fighter pilot, it is all paid by the state and the national military budget, and it is still somewhat difficult for these high-level military leaders to get their hands on it.

But the compensation for war damage given by the Americans has completely become a small treasury at the discretion of the Ugandan military leadership. It would be good for the families of Ugandan pilots who died in war or were captured to receive one per cent of this compensation. The remainder of the large amount of compensation dollars will go to the pockets of senior Ugandan military generals. Therefore, with regard to the loss of these two F-16 fighters of the Air Force, the high-ranking generals of the Ugandan military did not pay attention to the reasons for the loss except for the first time to report the battle situation to the Americans and ask for compensation.

In their opinion, the card. Kurtu's troops only relied on the MANPADS in their hands to get their hands on it, and the Ugandans knew very well the advantages and disadvantages of this missile, as long as the fighters remained above 3,000 meters, there would be no big problem, so they just issued an order to keep the fighters above 3,000 meters and the task was over.

However, this time the air force pounced on the air, which greatly dissatisfied the Ugandan military leadership, and they demanded that the army and air force draw up a closely coordinated combat plan to ensure air-ground coordination, that is, the army must wait for the arrival of the air force before launching an attack. Now the Ugandan Air Force still has 10 F-16C/D fighters. Kurtu has no air force at all, so the Ugandan Air Force's F-16 fighters will all carry ground attack weapons, the most important of which is the CBU-87 cluster bomb for large-area destruction, which weighs 430 kilograms and has 202 submunitions, each of which will shatter into hundreds of metal fragments when triggered by an explosion, all of which form a huge kill area of 200 meters × 400 meters.

For the infantry, this is simply a terrible weapon of mass destruction.

In addition to the CBU-87 cluster bomb, the Ugandan also prepared the JDAM precision-guided bomb, a joint guided attack weapon for the F-16 fighters, which can accurately hit the target after being dropped at an altitude of several thousand meters, with a circular probability error of no more than 10 meters, which is almost negligible compared to its explosive killing power, and is an excellent weapon for targeted killing, which is the best for destroying high-value targets such as artillery positions.

So when the card. After Kurtu's troops retreated safely to Baraka, Cai Zhongxiao was not happy because he retreated, and Cai Zhongxiao did not receive any early warning from the intelligence department of the General Staff or the Tanzanian side when he unexpectedly appeared on the battlefield, and it was a bit of a fluke that he was able to retreat this time.

But then things are not so simple, the Ugandans and Rwandans, who have suffered a little loss, once the air-ground attack is coordinated, with a card. Kurtu's current troops are very difficult to resist. In particular, the F-16 fighter, Ka. Kurtu does not have the ability to deal with it at all, and the method of sneak attack with portable anti-aircraft missiles can only be used once, and such a good thing should not happen again in the next battle.

What's next? While thinking hard about how to solve it, Cai Zhongxiao informed the PLA headquarters in Tanzania of the latest battle situation and information for help.