Shante stood on the beach by the sea, letting the strong Indian Ocean monsoon wind ruffle his hair.

"It's going to rain again!"

This is a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and from October every year, continuous rains come one after another, as if to completely submerge this small land that is not much above sea level.

Shante and his salamander commandos have flown more than 3,000 kilometers from KOKO Island to Egmont Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean for three months, during which they have been training in underwater, surface, airborne, building clusters and jungles with robot warriors in this archipelago and sea, and "fighting" with the Mole Commandos on the adjacent island of Diego Garcia In several battles, a large group of salamanders performed well under his command, and each time the mercenary army from the African continent was defeated. For this, they received a special commendation from King Osm, and the whole team was awarded 1 million gold dollars!

According to the performance of the players, Shante distributed the prize money, kept a small part for himself, and converted it into dollars with the prize money he received on Koko Island, and sent it all home.

His family business is currently experiencing unprecedented difficulties, and $3 million may not help much, but he will feel comforted to be able to help his father and show his heart.

After graduating from Shante University, against his father's wishes, he did not stay in Mindanao to help his father take care of the family business, and insisted on going to Koko Island to become a preparatory disciple of Sanqingguan, and he already felt ashamed of his father.

Shante is from Lubpakan County, in the Medan region, the capital of Sumatra, and is a fellow villager with Xuantong. His father is a Chinese Indonesian surnamed Guo and his mother is New Zealander. Shante also has a younger sister named Li Na, who is studying at university in Chinese mainland.

The surname Guo is a large family in the Medan region, and the mining industry on the island of Sumatra has a history of more than 100 years. Now, due to the economic downturn, the price of mines has plummeted, and now his father's mining group has encountered a crisis, and several other branches of the Guo family have taken the opportunity to force his father to hand over control of the group, which can be described as internal and external difficulties.

Shante couldn't help much, and only hoped that through his outstanding performance in the commando, he could win the trust of the elders and become an official disciple, so that he could use the power of Koko Island to help his father's business tide over the difficulties.

The barracks behind him were noisy, and the soldiers had just been rewarded and were reveling. Drinking, gambling, and finding women are the pleasures they can find on this remote island, and after three months of training, they will go to the battlefield tomorrow, and although General Xuan Tong assured him that the battle will be very easy, who can guarantee that bullets will not fly at you on the battlefield? Enjoying yourself before going to the battlefield is a habit that these commandos have formed over the years.

Their first combat objective after training was to attack Kismayo, the fifth-largest city in Somalia, and to occupy the city and control the surrounding transportation arteries.

The armed occupation of the territory of another country in chaos was a means for the Osme kingdom to expand its actual territory. In a country like Somalia, where civil war has been raging for decades, a unified government does not exist, and regions are divided by warlords. By defeating the local forces occupying Kismayo, it would be possible to effectively control the area, making it an enclave of the Kingdom of Osme. When the time comes, the kingdom will be able to set up factories there, build airfields and military ports, and become a base for the kingdom's forces to advance into the African continent.

There are many other enclaves like the Kingdom of Osm, such as the Chagos Archipelago, the Kocosling Islands, and Christmas Island, where they are located.

According to the information revealed to him by General Xuantong, the headquarters of the Osme Kingdom is in the Malti Islands, and there is a very powerful group behind the kingdom to support it, and the Osme Kingdom is actually a puppet manipulated by this group.

They deliberately select small countries in remote areas to seize territories through capital acquisition or armed occupation, and establish nominal sovereign states, which are actually controlled by that group, and the real purpose behind them is unknown.

This Chagos archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean was forcibly seized by the British from Mauritius in the 60s of the last century. After the establishment of the Kingdom of Osmus, it instigated Mauritius to claim back the islands from the British. Due to the intervention of the Southern Community and the group behind the Kingdom of Osme, coupled with the exhaustion of British national power, it was unable to maintain the continued occupation of the enclave, and finally returned it to Mauritius on the condition of $15 billion. Mauritius then "leased" it to the Kingdom of Osim, which expanded its de facto territory into the central part of the Indian Ocean.

Places like the Cocosling Islands and Christmas Island were also acquired in this way.

As a fighting soldier, he doesn't need to know too much, it is his most important duty to carry out General Xuantong's orders and protect the lives of his brothers in the team as much as possible.

The clouds in the sky were getting lower and lower, and a heavy rainstorm was approaching, and Shante turned back to his battalion headquarters.

In the command room of the battalion headquarters, several squadron leaders were waiting for him inside, and the robot warrior Benny, who had trained with him, was among them.

Seeing the captain come in, the people in the room stood up together, Shante walked to the head of the table and sat down, raised his hand to signal his subordinates to sit down together, and then turned on the combat computer and called up the combat diagram.

The offensive mission consisted of three teams: 3 brigades of 1,500 people and 300 robot warriors of the Salamander Commando, 5 brigades of 2,000 people and 300 robot warriors of the African Mercenary Legion Mole Commando, and 100 heavy armored robots led by Abbe for fire support.

The commander-in-chief of this operation was General Xuan Tong, and the commander of the Mole Commando was Coster, his deputy. The Mole Commando outnumbered the Salamander Commando, but he had lost to his opponent in all previous confrontation drills, so his leader could only serve as Xuantong's deputy to command the battle.

Kismayo is a coastal city in northwestern Somalia, resource-poor and remote, occupied by the armed forces of the Orem Liberation Front at the beginning of this century, backed by certain tribal forces in Kenya, and is a relatively stable area in Somalia.

The civil war in Somalia lasted for more than half a century, and the people were unable to bear the hardships of the war and moved to the relatively stable Kismayo, which led to the rapid growth of the population and the size of the city. At present, the city of Kismayo covers an area of 50 square kilometers and has a population of 370,000.

The Orem Liberation Front, which actually controls Kismayo, currently has 15,000 militants, who are well-equipped and have tanks, armored vehicles, long-range artillery and other heavy weapons, and have built three barracks in the city of Kismayo:

a seaside fortress next to the port;

Downtown Fortress;

Outside the city is a stronghold at the entrance to the highway leading to Mogadishu.

After decades of careful management, these barracks and fortresses are a force to be reckoned with in Somalia with their strong fortifications, firepower and soldiers.

Shante's 1st Brigade and Mole's 5th Brigade were responsible for attacking the barracks by the sea, which consisted of 3,500 militants, built a strong fortress around the barracks, and had 50 artillery pieces and 75 tanks.

The battle plan that Xuan Tong formulated for them was:

The 1st Brigade of Shante was airdropped between the seaside barracks and the urban area, cutting off the connection between the seaside fortress and the urban area, and luring the militants in the fortress to attack.

The fifth brigade of the Mole attacked from the sea, and after taking out a small number of defenders of the port, they launched a fierce attack on the fortress from the other side.

The operational requirement is to launch an attack at 1 a.m. tomorrow and end the battle by 5 a.m.

The ratio of forces is 1:3, and if you attack a strong fortress with the enemy on your belly and back, you have to settle the battle in four hours! Officers, if you look at me, I look at you, you think this battle plan is a bit strange.

"I'm going to attack the seaside fortress with all my might!" Shante opened the attack diagram: "The enemy must not be allowed to enter the city, otherwise once a street battle is formed, it will definitely not be resolved before dawn." ”

"But what about reinforcements from the city direction?" asked one officer.

"I bet General Xuantong would never let an enemy break out of the barracks in the city!" Shante smiled mysteriously.

"And what if?" the officer was still a little skeptical.

"By the time they come, our side has already captured the fortress, so it's time to invite you into the urn. Shante said with a relaxed face.

"Will we be able to take the barracks in such a short time? Will there be a lot of casualties?" Among them, they fought to earn money and eat, and if the losses were too heavy and many soldiers were killed or wounded, they would not be able to explain to their brothers.

"Let them take the lead. Shante pointed at Binny: "You lead the robot warriors, launch an attack as soon as you land, concentrate on quickly breaking through the enemy fortress position, and immediately destroy the artillery and tanks and other heavy weapons in the fortress after breaking through." We waited on the periphery to destroy the enemy who had escaped from the fortress and tried to enter the city. ”

The officers understood Shante's tactical intent, which was called opening inside and out, and under the internal and external attacks, the enemy would soon collapse, or the battle would be over in less than an hour.

Just now at the seaside, Shante thought of this battle plan. In this battle, the most threatening to the commandos were artillery and tanks, as well as the heavy machine guns in the forts, and the soldiers' protective clothing could effectively resist the bullets of light weapons, but they could never withstand the attack of heavy weapons.

Therefore, the enemy in the fortress could only run out on his own, and the commando soldiers remained on the perimeter and, under the cover of buildings, eliminated the enemy soldiers on the flat ground.

Shante made a good deployment of his forces, ordered the officers and soldiers to rest early, assemble at 12 o'clock in the evening, take a boat to the island of Diego Garcia, and board a transport plane at the military airfield to Kismayo.

The officers received the order and went out one after another to prepare for their own departure.