Chapter 773: Bloody Battle of Baraka (3)

Cai Zhongxiao did not expect that the Ugandan Air Force would really dare to drop cluster bombs on the residential area of Balaka, and when the deafening explosion sounded, Cai Zhongxiao still couldn't believe that it was true, which was definitely beyond the bottom line.

However, Cai Zhongxiao quickly reacted, this is an excellent opportunity, through this bloody case created by Ugandans, Ka. The Kurtu armed forces have the opportunity to gain the support of international public opinion, and it is also possible to create an excellent external political environment for the PLA to intervene.

"Colonel Kurtu, can we find photographers and reporters now, we must expose the atrocities of the Ugandan Air Force to the world as soon as possible," Cai Zhongxiao did not wait for the Ugandan bombing to end. "The use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians is a very serious crime against humanity, and if we report the situation here in a timely manner, we can win the sympathy and support of the international community," Kurtu suggested. ”

When Jacques. After Lejit translated Cai Zhongxiao's suggestion, Ka. Kurtu has not yet reacted to why Cai Zhongxiao would make such a suggestion at this moment of war, but after this period of cooperation, Ka. Kurtu also clearly knew that the PLA adviser next to him was indeed amazing, "No problem, I will immediately order someone to find a few reporters." "Card. Kurtu said briskly.

Although the city of Baraka is not too big, it also has its own newspaper and television station. The people of Kurtu have long taken control of these places, find a few reporters for the card. Kurtu is a piece of cake.

Although the northern part of Baraka is still under fire, in the northern part of Baraka. Thanks to the efforts of the Kurtu troops, several reporters, who did not know whether they were coerced or bold, soon followed Ka. According to Cai Zhongxiao's request, the troops sent by Kurtu went to the bombing site to conduct interviews and take pictures.

An hour later, the local reporter brought back the interview minutes from the bloody scene, although the local reporters' camera level was extremely limited, but the scene of heavy casualties, a broken corpse and the angry complaints of the local surviving residents were enough to make this news clip have a shocking effect, Cai Zhongxiao immediately contacted Xinhua News Agency, used wireless broadband to transmit these news materials back to China, and began to select some pictures of the scene to report on major hot Weibo media.

When the fierce street fighting in Baraka was in full swing, Xinhua News Agency's broadcast of the Baraka war news spread the atrocities of Ugandans and Rwandans all over the world, and with the pictures reported on the scene on Weibo, the world's public opinion was in an uproar, and the world was shocked by such a tragic fact, and the Congolese government also changed its ostrich policy of turning a blind eye to the situation in the east under the huge pressure of public opinion.

China's representative to the UN General Assembly took the lead in expressing his full support for the request of the Congolese representative to the UN General Assembly, and used his political influence to join more than a dozen countries in proposing to the Security Council and the UN General Assembly to discuss the emergency Baraka tragedy.

This time, in the face of overwhelming support at home and abroad, as well as the good political situation in which the Chinese representative expressed his full support, the Congolese Government, which had long been dissatisfied with the Rwandans and Ugandans doing whatever they wanted in its own territory, finally began to attack the Congolese Government, strongly condemned the aggression of the Ugandans and Rwandans against the Congolese and demanded that they immediately return to their borders, and at the same time demanded that the General Assembly initiate an investigation into the crimes against humanity committed by the two countries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the face of strong domestic voices to fight back against the invaders, the DRC government has also taken a tough military attitude against the norm, mobilizing two brigades from the center to prepare to enter South Kivu to fight the invaders. The DRC government openly "invited" the PLA into the eastern part of the DRC to maintain peace in the eastern part of the DRC after receiving a pledge of 100 million yuan in secret military assistance from the Chinese side.

In the face of the sudden drastic changes in the political situation, the Americans had a sense of being caught off guard for a while, they delayed the resolution time of the special meeting in the UN Security Council, and at the same time urgently did the work of the DRC government in an attempt to control the situation, but this time the DRC government was facing too much political pressure at home and abroad, and when the Chinese side reported the tragedy to Cai Zhongxiao, the General Staff and the foreign affairs department realized that the opportunity had come, so they set up a joint emergency response team and used various diplomatic resources to contact the DRC government. Significant progress was finally made in the fight to get the PLA into the theater of operations before the Americans moved.

Although these diplomatic moves on the part of the government were very fast, they took two days to complete. For Kurtu, in the face of the frenzied attacks of Ugandans and Rwandans, they all have a feeling that they can't hold on. Kurtu's forces have already suffered more than half of their casualties.

Even the 86th Mechanized Infantry Brigade sent the top soldiers to secretly participate in street battles, even the casualties were not small, if they were not equipped with the new body armor invented by Duke, although there were many wounded, but not many died, except for a few team members who were directly hit by Ugandan rockets, the rest were only injured and withdrew from the battlefield, and then sent to the opposite bank by helicopter for treatment.

However, relatively speaking, the casualties of the Ugandan and Rwandans were even heavier, and the two brigades invested by the Rwandans in the early stage of the Rwandan-Ukrainian coalition were almost disabled. The compensation package of $50,000 for each casualty soldier and $100,000 for officers promised by the Rwandan and Ugandan military top brass for Rwandans and Ugandans made the Ugandan and Rwandan military top brass not care about the casualties of the troops at all, and constantly demanded that the troops on the front line launch an offensive and be sure to turn the card into the army. The main forces of Kurtu were all annihilated.

Although the Ugandan Air Force did not dare to deploy due to public outrage caused by the bombing of civilian areas, the Ugandan and Rwandan armies on the front line deployed all light and heavy weapons except howitzers, especially the frequent use of rocket launchers and light mortars. The amount of equipment in Kurtu, which was used unscrupulously in the course of street fighting, not only against the card. The blocking forces in Kurtu inflicted heavy casualties and indiscriminately inflicted heavy losses on the local population of Baraka.

For these indigenous people in Africa, they used to fight wars like this, so often after a big war, the number of military casualties was not large, but the civilian casualties were tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and not many people paid attention to them at that time.

But this time, at the suggestion of Cai Zhongxiao, Ka. The reporters brought in Kurtu comprehensively recorded the scene of the war, and then handed over the press release to Cai Zhongxiao and sent it back to the Xinhua News Agency for war coverage.

This special public opinion offensive made the DRC government, under the strong pressure of public opinion from all walks of life, finally not pretend to be deaf and dumb again under the pressure of the Americans, but made the decision to invite the PLA to enter the country for peacekeeping under the premise that the Chinese side promised not to station troops after the war.

After receiving the order from the General Staff Headquarters, Senior Colonel Song Jihong, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately ordered the destroyer drones to strike at the logistics camps and supply lines of the Rwandans and Ugandans. At the same time, Senior Colonel Song Jihong prepared to put in the 2nd Infantry Battalion, the 3rd Infantry Battalion and the Reconnaissance Battalion to launch an attack on the Rwandan and Ugandan coalition forces from the ground.

Although the number of ground troops of the coalition forces in Balakaluu at this time was still in the tens of thousands, and the number of ground troops in Balakaluu was still high. Kurtu's troops are less than 4,000 people, and the total strength of the three battalions invested by Song Jihong is less than 2,000, but these three battalions have more than 100 all-terrain combat vehicles, and the firepower is very powerful.

However, as soon as the PLA destroyer drone took off, the Americans discovered the dynamics of the PLA destroyer drone, and they transferred the information to the Ugandans, and soon the Ugandan Air Force F-16 fighters went to Baraka again, but this time they were no longer loaded with bombs, but with AIM-9X as the main air combat missile.

Song Jihong, who closely monitored the movements of the Ugandan Air Force, saw the F-16 fighter plane take off, and decisively ordered the Air Force to take off 10 J-10Cs to prepare for the attack.

Seeing that the situation was completed beyond his own plan, the commander of the U.S. Army Africa Command, James Brown. Lieutenant General Reilly frowned, "General, the PLA has dispatched their Air Force J-10C fighters, the Ugandans have no chance of winning in this air battle at all, we can't wait any longer, it's time to dispatch our fighters." "Looking at the radar signal of the J-10C sortie displayed on the large screen of the command headquarters, Nick. Zieland said anxiously.

For Nick. For Ziland, if he doesn't make a move now, when the PLA finishes cleaning up the Rwan-Ukrainian coalition army, the situation of the US military in Africa will be more passive. "But, Nick, it's completely unjustifiable for us to send troops now" Lieutenant General Reilly certainly knows that the few second-hand F-16C/D fighters left by the Ugandans are definitely not the opponents of the PLA J-10C, but now they are indeed unknown, and they are too passive politically.

"General, as long as you can take out the PLA in Africa, then everything is not a big problem" Nick. Ziland said fiercely, "After all, the world still speaks the loudest fist, and the Chinese can protest at most, and there is no problem in fighting the Chinese fiercely in Diaoyutai." If the PLA is allowed to gain a foothold in the DRC again, it will be even more troublesome for us. ”

For Nick. For Zieland, if there is a good excuse, of course, it doesn't matter, anyway, in the past few decades, there have been more countries that have been "taught" by the Americans by pointing the deer as a horse, and the key is to win the war to make sense, isn't it the case that the Americans are in Iraq or Yugoslavia, or Libya and Syria?

"However, our F-15E/F fighter squadron may not be the opponent of the PLA J-10C" Lieutenant General Reilly sighed and finally expressed his biggest concern, the original plan was to use the F-35 squadron and the F-15 squadron to jointly attack the PLA's J-10C flying group, but now it is only an F-15 squadron in a hurry, and the risk of failure is too great.