On October 16, 2020, at 6 a.m. local time in Tanzania, 15 hours after the kidnapping, the 164th Marine Brigade Assault Battalion and Special Forces Group quietly landed at a military base in Mpanda Tanzania in the morning light in Africa after a long-distance flight of more than ten hours.

The marines of the 164th Brigade, who had already painted their bodies yellow-brown, came out of the stream, and if they did not carefully distinguish their eyes, they could not see much difference from the local Tanzanian blacks.

Liu Cheng, deputy commander of the 164 Brigade and deputy commander of the 164 Brigade, stepped out of the cabin, squinted his eyes to adapt to the strong light outside the cabin, and then shook his somewhat stiff neck a few times from side to side, looking at the outside of this dusty field airport, rows of heavily loaded Tanzanian soldiers surrounded the entire field airport, and not far away, a group of Tanzanian soldiers surrounded an officer wearing the rank of colonel and was coming quickly.

Looking at the other party's style, Liu Cheng guessed that this officer should be Colonel Lazaro, the highest military commander of the Tanzanian military in Mpanda mentioned by the General Staff.

The visitor quickly walked up to Liu Cheng, he glanced at Liu Cheng's epaulettes, and then saluted Colonel Liu Cheng with a very standard PLA military salute, "This must be Colonel Liu, welcome to beautiful Tanzania!" Liu Cheng was a little surprised that the Tanzanian colonel could speak Chinese fluently, "I am Colonel Lazaro, commander of the Mpanda garrison, and I am ordered to cooperate with your operation. ”

In addition to the difference in skin color, in terms of speech and demeanor, Colonel Liu Cheng felt that Lazaro was almost no different from his colleagues in the People's Liberation Army, and because of the rush of time, Liu Cheng knew very little about the Tanzanian officer who was about to fight with him, and in fact, Lazaro, who had spent four years at the Chinese Army Academy, was one of the backbones that the Chinese side had cultivated for the Tanzanian People's Defense Force.

Being able to meet such a foreign soldier and a familiar military salute like a Chinese expert made Colonel Liu Cheng, who had been tense, suddenly have a sense of cordiality, raised his hand and quickly returned the salute, and then stretched out his hands and shook the Tanzanian soldier tightly, "Colonel Lazaro, hello!" I am Liu Cheng, deputy commander of the 164th Marine Brigade of the People's Liberation Army, and this incident has caused you trouble! ”

"No, no, Colonel Liu, it was my dereliction of duty that led to such a regrettable incident." Colonel Lazaro shook his head and said with some shame, "It's our limited ability that we have to bear. ”

Seeing that Colonel Lazaro felt ashamed like a student doing something wrong, Colonel Liu Cheng couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart, and he added a little good impression of Lazaro, and it was undoubtedly a very happy thing to meet a partner who had a good impression of the Chinese side, especially in this foreign country where he was not familiar with his life.

"Colonel Lazaro, it's not your fault," Liu Cheng said. As one of the least developed countries in the world, although Tanzania has a land area of nearly one million square kilometers, the total strength of the Tanzanian People's Defense Force is only more than 30,000 people, and the equipment and combat power of the entire Tanzanian People's Defense Force are not as good as a mechanized infantry brigade of the People's Liberation Army, and the main combat power is about 100 Type 59 tanks and more than 40 J-6/J-7 fighters, and the annual military expenditure is only more than 100 million US dollars. It is already very good that such a force can ensure that the territory is not eroded by neighboring countries, and it is really not enough to effectively maintain the security of its own borders, and most of the border areas are almost undefended.

Because of this, the Tanzanian side is so concerned about the Chinese side to reorganize two infantry brigades and provide 30 new Thunder fighters for it with a future revenue share of mineral resources, and they cannot support a large army like the chaotic Congo, so they can only provide the quality of the army to maintain a strong deterrent against neighboring countries.

"Now let's see, how to solve this matter," Liu Cheng turned the topic to the matter in front of him, "According to our plan, this operation needs to be covered by the Tanzanian People's Defense Force, I wonder if the guides in military uniforms and tribal languages who are fluent in English and Congolese are ready?" ”

This is the issue that Liu Cheng is most concerned about at present, in order not to startle the snake in advance, the assault battalion and special brigade of the 164 Marine Brigade will disguise themselves as opportunities for the Tanzanian People's Defense Force to wait for action before the operation.

"Colonel Liu, I have all these ready," Colonel Lazaro said, "1,000 sets of combat camouflage uniforms are in the barracks, and in order to cooperate with the actions of the PLA, we have selected 50 excellent soldiers who can speak Chinese and Swahili as PLA guides to follow the PLA in Tanganyika Province, which is on our coast of the Congo, where most of the tribes mainly use Swahili as the language of communication." ”

It seems that Colonel Lazaro is still relatively reliable, and after accepting the task assigned by the People's Defense Forces Command, he has prepared all this in just ten hours. What is especially rare is that he also found 50 soldiers who can speak Chinese, although due to the Chinese side in Tanzania decades of painstaking management, Chinese in Tanzania has also developed to a certain extent, with the proposal of China's African development strategy, the Chinese market has soared to become the first foreign language of Tanzans in addition to English, but as a remote area of Mpanda, it is still not easy to find soldiers who can speak Chinese.

"Thank you so much! Colonel Lazaro, thank you! Although the 164th Marine Brigade also organized officers and soldiers to study English in order to meet the needs of modern warfare, there are still very few officers and soldiers who can really communicate in English, and when he heard that Tanzania still speaks a dialect of English, Liu Cheng is even more drumming in his heart, worried that he will become blind and deaf after coming to Tanzania.

He never expected to meet not only a Tanzanian colonel who was fluent in Chinese, but also dozens of guides who could speak Chinese. It can be said that the biggest problem has now been solved, for the Congolese tribal forces, although there are many of them, but in Liu Cheng's eyes, for the Marines who have been tempered for thousands of years, these are just a group of local chickens and dogs. It's just that the situation of the hostages is still unclear, and Liu Cheng didn't dare to act without permission.

Once the location of the hostages is figured out, once there is a hole in the opponent's defense and gives Liu Cheng a chance, Liu Chengcheng will take decisive action and attack with thunder.

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