"Flares!"

After several unlucky people were killed accurately in the dark, no matter how stupid the person was, he knew that Uncle Black must have a way to observe their movements, and the Portuguese army did not think that the other party would have night vision devices, they guessed that the other party might be using the moonlight, and in order to find out the location of the other party, a soldier immediately fired a flare into the sky.

Immediately, the whole grassland was shrouded in light, and a Portuguese non-commissioned officer raised his head to find his target, but only saw the fire of the mound of earth a hundred meters away from him, and then he fell to the ground with his head tilted.

Fortunately, the Portuguese soldiers had already found their target, and the machine guns and rifles immediately began to greet each other, and dozens of people fired thousands of rounds of ammunition at the mound before the officers who arrived shouted to stop.

Then the Portuguese began to shoot flares into the sky, and when the flares were raised, they would push forward some distance, and when they reached the mound, they saw only a FAL automatic rifle with an optical scope that had been discarded on the ground, but the gunner was nowhere to be seen, not even blood on the ground.

Enraged, the Portuguese soldiers immediately began to chase into the distance, but they ran for several kilometers without seeing a single figure, and finally returned with a stomach full of resentment.

The guerrillas not only reimbursed their four mortars for this raid, but also added seven dead and twenty-one wounded to the casualty list, and even six unlucky artillerymen were so badly blown up by grenades that they had to be sent to the hospital immediately.

After being attacked by the guerrillas, the paratrooper company commander also guessed that there should also be guerrilla tunnels in the field, but in such a large area, he could not search at all, and his subordinates were already stretched thin just to control the current area of the village.

The infantry also lacked manpower, they had to stick to the interception in three directions, but also to guard the artillery, and to support the paratroopers, there were more tasks, and the infantry battalion commander and the paratrooper company commander discussed and decided to abandon the underground area they controlled and withdraw all the men.

And before the evacuation, the paratroopers did not forget to destroy the tunnels so that they would not be reused by the guerrillas.

Then, everyone was in the dark until the next morning.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, a new infantry company with a howitzer company arrived, and with the addition of a new force, the Portuguese army immediately regained its strength and began to sweep the remaining CD area.

Compared to the two areas that were flattened before, the situation in the remaining CD area is even worse, because it has been separated from the forest, so the houses here are more closely packed, the yards are next to the yards, the houses are crowded with houses, the passages are even more crowded, and some paths can only be passed by one person.

The guerrillas also defended this dense housing area more tightly, and in addition to all kinds of tricks, the guerrillas even set some traps.

A newly reinforced infantry squad thought they were safe after destroying the gate of a two-story building with explosives, but when a soldier opened the wooden cabinet of the villager, there was a gunshot sound from the cabinet, and the soldier was directly hit in the chest by the submachine gun at close range, and the comrades who heard the sound only saw a thin wire on the door of the cabinet on the trigger of the submachine gun in the strand.

In addition to the cabinets, the guerrillas even pulled tripping ropes on the earthen staircase, and when a soldier went upstairs, he touched the rope, and then the bombs planted in the wall even directly blew up one wall, and then crushed the soldiers in the house.

In addition to these organs, the guerrillas also took advantage of the height difference to repeatedly shoot black guns at the Portuguese army, although there were reinforcements, the Portuguese attack was not much faster than the first day, but the guerrillas who shot black guns faced greater danger, the Portuguese army directly began to call howitzers to fire on the village after encountering cold guns, 105 mm howitzers are naturally not comparable to mortars, and earthen houses only need one round of ammunition to be blown to pieces.

In less than three hours of fierce fighting, half of the remaining houses in the village had collapsed, and Zabi had also lost four of his men, and there were now less than twenty veterans around him.

But even so, Zabi still led his men to move through the tunnels, constantly shifting their attention, jumping out of the encirclement of the Portuguese army, and appearing behind them to attack.

A platoon of Portuguese infantry who had been thrown into the field had thirteen more wounded in the morning, and although the wounds on their bodies were not life-threatening, they had to be withdrawn from the battlefield, and the platoon even had to merge two squads with larger losses to continue the fight.

The battle was difficult, but the Portuguese army was still gritting their teeth, because they had seen the dawn of victory, the whole village was only the last fifth, and the guerrillas were also compressed into the last fifth, and even they found more than fifty tunnels on the new day, and this time they had enough explosives to blow them up.

So at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Portuguese commander ordered a ceasefire, and then gave the soldiers a half-hour rest, and he wanted to clear the last area by six o'clock in the evening, for which he concentrated most of the people in the village to the offensive line, but what the commander did not know was that when he gave the order to rest, Shepard also gave the order to retreat.

Although a considerable part of the tunnels in the village were destroyed, there were not, so the remaining guerrillas and mercenaries took advantage of the Portuguese to rest for half an hour, and all of them withdrew to the tunnels outside the village, and turned there, and finally came to the forest where the paratroopers attacked.

The Portuguese army did not set up a guard post in the forest at all, and the only few sentries in this direction were in the village, so no one knew that the Black Uncles had run here.

Then, Dhabi and his men discarded almost all of their equipment, leaving only radios and night vision devices, and drove straight into the forest towards the river, four kilometers away, where they had stored their canoes early.

The Portuguese army was unaware of it, and even the artillery bombarded for half an hour before the attack, plus the search lasted for a long time, so when the Portuguese commander entered Zabi's underground headquarters, Zabi and his men were already in canoes and were preparing to withdraw down the river to the border line.

The Portuguese army was still searching the tunnels in the village as if they were facing the enemy, until night, they searched almost every corner of the village, and then found that the guerrillas who had fought with them during the day had escaped through the tunnels!

Unable to accept this fact, the infantry battalion commander angrily slammed his fist against the wall, and the paratrooper company commander who entered the room with him returned to the surface with a mocking face.

"Win?"