More than two hours later, the news of the kidnapping of 38 members of China's exploration team was transmitted back to China, and the Central African Group urgently ordered the exploration team in Tanzania near the border area to fully shrink back to a safe area, and before confirming the safety, the Central African Group suspended the exploration work in the border area of Tanzania. \/\/\/\/

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After learning the news, Chief No. 1 took the case and summoned the military and foreign affairs leaders. "How is the military responsible for security?" The No. 1 chief unceremoniously accused the military in front of Vice Chairman Liu, "The military must come up with a complete set of emergency solutions to this matter, and we must not only rescue these kidnapped exploration team members in time, but also ensure the safety of our African developers in the future." ”

Although Vice Chairman Liu and other military personnel have a hundred reasons to justify, such as the fact that the garrison has not yet been in place to form combat strength, such as the inaction of the Tanzanian side...... Vice Chairman Liu, however, did not say a word, saying that in the strategy for Africa's large-scale development, the military, as the person responsible for ensuring the security of the entire development strategy, has absolutely no reason to shirk such a major safety incident.

The military can only clear the shame by organizing a rescue as soon as possible, rescuing the kidnapped exploration team members, and dealing a heavy blow to the kidnappers.

"In general, I have a great responsibility for such a big accident," Vice Chairman Liu said heavily, "In this kidnapping incident, the military will organize a perfect military rescue plan, and once the political settlement is facing a dilemma, the military will launch a resolute rescue operation to rescue my kidnapped personnel." ”

Seeing that the military did not shirk, the No. 1 leader slowed down his tone slightly, "In this matter, the China-Africa Group, the foreign affairs department and the military must work together to ensure the safety of the kidnapped personnel, and if necessary, a certain ransom needs to be paid to ensure the safety of the personnel first." ”

"However," the No. 1 leader changed his words, and his tone became cold, "The organization involved in this kidnapping, the military should have a proper plan to uproot it to show that it is a warning!" ”

Since it is not yet known what kind of organization planned this shocking kidnapping case in China at this moment, but in the view of the No. 1 chief, in the future development of Africa, there will be a large number of Chinese people to stay in Africa to work, if this trend cannot be effectively stopped, it will have a major impact on the implementation of the future strategy, in a fearful environment, one cannot be expected to work well. (.) If such kidnappings continue to occur, no one will dare to work in Africa again.

Therefore, after rescuing the hostages, the kidnappers must be severely cracked down on to set an example.

General Staff War Room.

"Vice Chairman Liu, according to the preliminary analysis of the situation reported on the scene, this gang of bandits should be from the neighboring Congo of Tanzania, they dispatched more than 20 people, the main combat weapon is AK47 submachine guns, according to the local surviving jǐng cha report, this gang of bandits has no mercy on the Tanzans, but for our personnel is quite restrained, not a single Chinese was injured at the scene. It shows that this gang of bandits is very likely to kidnap people and extort money. Major General Zhu Shaoguang, head of the intelligence department of the General Staff, reported.

Being able to get so much information in a short period of time shows that the military's efforts in Tanzania have not been in vain. But for Vice Chairman Liu, this is not enough.

"Is there any news of the hostages, how many bandits are there, and where is their lair?" Faced with Vice Chairman Liu's series of questions, Zhu Shaoguang couldn't answer any of them.

"These problems are not clear, needless to say, the military rescue plan cannot be completed?" Vice Chairman Liu ignored Major General Zhu Shaoguang, who looked embarrassed, and turned to General Yang and asked. Mr. Yang's cheeks were also hot and he couldn't speak.

"Who are the current warlords on the Congolese side of the western border area of Tanzania?" Vice Chairman Liu sighed lightly and asked again.

"On the other side of the Tanzan Mudanda region is mainly the area of activity of the Congolese anti-*zhèng fǔ armed 'M23 movement', but there are also members of the Congolese anti-*zhèng fǔ armed faction 'National Congress for the Defence of the People' who are active, and in addition to these two armed forces, there are also four or five small local warlords with a size of several hundred people, plus the Congolese zhèng fǔ army, which controls the urban area of Kalaimi, and the local situation is quite complicated, with about 10,000 armed men of different factions active." Zhu Shaoguang replied stiffly.

According to the estimates of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), there are at least 200,000 armed men under local warlords of all shapes, including the 'M23 Movement' and the 'Congrè for the Defence of the People's Congress' There are more than 150,000 members of the fǔ armed group.

When Vice Chairman Liu heard this answer, he couldn't help frowning, and now the situation in the accident area is more complicated than he expected. In this chaotic situation, the military's military rescue plan could not even find a suitable combat target. Faced with this situation, the People's Liberation Army, which is preparing to go abroad for the first time, is not ready, and both military experience and intelligence preparation are extremely lacking.

It is no wonder that the General Staff Department has been unable to draw up a plan, and who can draw up a feasible battle plan for such a battle in which the combat area and the combat targets are unknown?

However, under the current circumstances, even without the necessary intelligence support, the PLA cannot do nothing, and the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade that is preparing to garrison Tanzania has just passed through the Strait of Malacca, so it is impossible to count on the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade in the short term.

Vice Chairman Liu frowned and pondered for a long time before he said categorically to General Yang, "Order, with the assault battalion and special brigade of the 164th Marine Brigade as the main combat force, immediately draw up an operational plan, drop it into the Tanzania accident area by air, make military preparations for the settlement by force, and take immediate action once the specific location of the kidnapped person is known." ”

As one of the PLA Marine Brigades, the 164th Brigade has a strong style, and its subordinate assault battalion is a reinforced battalion, which is composed of a total of 750 marines, and its combat power is considerable, and it has always been the sharp knife of the 184th Brigade, and although the number of the 164th Marine Brigade Special Brigade is less than 300 people, each of them is the jīng sharp of the jīng Rui, and has rich experience in special operations. The main force that has always undertaken the task of decapitation.

Vice Chairman Liu named these two jīng sharp combat units to fight, even in the face of tens of thousands of outlaws on the Congolese side, they would not fall behind.

"Yes! I'll do it right away. Commander Yang said awe-inspiring that the Marine Corps, a sharp force like the Marine Corps, has always been a dual leader, and it is one of the strategic mobile forces directly under the General Staff Department.

Although the information coming from the front line at this moment was vague, the assault battalion and special brigade of the 164 Marine Brigade boarded the PLA Y-20 large military transport plane with full personnel two hours later and began to set off for Africa, which is 10,000 miles away.

At the same time, the helicopter detachment under the Central African Group began to assemble towards Mpanda, according to the deployment of the General Staff, they will undertake the 164 Marine Brigade assault battalion and special brigade air delivery tasks, for the existing pilots of the helicopter detachment, if they are retired military personnel and are willing to undertake combat flight missions, the military will temporarily recruit them, and if they are unwilling, they only need to fly the helicopter to Mpanda, and there are also many personnel in the Marine Corps who have flight experience of various types of aircraft.

On the Tanzanian side, three infantry battalions were mobilized near Mpanda to rush to the area where the accident occurred, preparing to cooperate with the PLA's operations. Their main task is to cover people's eyes, and after the arrival of the PLA 164 Marine Brigade Assault Battalion and Special Brigade, the PLA will operate under the number of these 3 infantry battalions.

After more than 8 hours of silence, Lai Youwei, the captain of the Central African Group helicopter detachment who was the first to rush to Mpanda, was pleasantly surprised to find that the fleet's GPS tracking system had discovered the information of the GPS locator carried by the missing captain Liu Yunhan! In order to ensure the safety of every helicopter pilot, CAC has equipped them with a small GPS locator in case of an accident with the helicopter.

Originally, this was a security measure prepared by the China-Africa group, but I didn't expect that after being kidnapped this time, the GPS tracker on Liu Yunhan's body was not confiscated by the bandits.

Judging from the information sent by the GPS tracker on Liu Yunhan's body, they were indeed taken to the depths of a dense forest in Kalemie, on the other side of Mpanda, although it is not known whether all the kidnapped people are gathered together, but after having such a target, at least the scope of the target has been greatly reduced.

Moreover, according to the GPS positioning information on Liu Yunhan's body, the Tanzanian military preliminarily judged that the M23 movement planned and carried out the attack, because this area is one of the areas where the M23 movement is active.

Soon, the Tanzanian military obtained more specific information about the armed forces of the M23 movement, as their close neighbors, the Tanzanian military has been collecting intelligence on these armed forces on the other side, so the intelligence information such as their main person in charge in this area, the main equipment and the number of personnel are relatively clear, so that when the two combat units of the 164th Marine Brigade are still in the air, a perfect battle plan gradually takes shape in the hands of the operational staff of the General Staff. And through the Beidou system, there were full exchanges with the 164 Marine Brigade Assault Battalion and the Special Brigade. A special battle in which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has crossed thousands of miles is on the verge of breaking out.