Chapter 148: Good Things, Everyone Should Use Together

Compared with the regimental headquarters, the situation of this Portuguese infantry company is still good, after all, they only dropped about a hundred rockets, and the casualties did not break through double digits, compared to the regimental headquarters that were attacked, this can only be regarded as a small thing!

The Portuguese army in the northern province of Ronda Norte is not very many, but there is also a full division, this division is responsible for the task of suppression, so the garrison is not concentrated, but in the form of regiments, battalions and companies scattered in front of the towns and villages, a unit radiates an area, and then supplemented by artillery, paratroopers and other special arms, and the Portuguese infantry regiment greeted by Zabi, his station is in Hitato, on the northern border of Ronda Norte.

This is also a small border town, adjacent to the Luachim River, flat terrain, well-developed transportation, whether it is water or road transportation is very convenient, so for the attack here, Zabi did not hesitate to take out the latest equipment of the guerrillas.

Simple wartime towed rocket artillery, as the name suggests, is a simple handicraft workshop produced without warranty, and even no unified standard for emergency production of towed rocket artillery, but although simple, but Shepard has prepared a high-specification transport for these rocket artillery, four-wheeled pickup trucks produced by RB Toyota, these new vehicles that were only launched in 1968 have not yet made their name in Africa, but with Shepard, they are bound to make their extraordinary name in Africa earlier.

The three Toyota pickups drove along the road all the way to the outside of the Portuguese barracks at night, and they did not attract anyone's attention during this time, because the bodies of the three pickup trucks were stuffed with debris, and the black man in the lead looked like he was moving.

Such people in Hitato cannot be said to be everywhere, but they can also be seen from time to time, after all, Hitato is also a border logistics town, and it is normal for chiefs to want to live in the West.

Then, when late night fell and the streets were deserted, the guerrillas lurking in the shadows quickly appeared, quickly removed the debris piled up in the wagons, and assembled a whole dozen launchers, and then taught the well-defended Portuguese military camp a good lesson.

Within a thousand meters, a full 400 rockets covered the camp in two minutes, and compared with the field camp, the alert level of the military camp on the outskirts of the city was significantly lower, and even when the rockets fell, half of the sentries in the camp were not at their posts.

And the results of this wave of attacks were not bad, the war room of the Portuguese regimental headquarters was bombed into the sky, with a little and two unlucky orderlies who were working inside, and the soldiers wandering around the camp were also affected, almost ten people were blown away, and the shock wave even tore their clothes.

Even a rocket landed outside the regimental commander's dormitory, although it did not cause any fatal damage, but it shattered all the regimental commander's beloved ceramic tea set, and the exploding sand poured into his room, causing a mess.

After firing the rockets, the guerrillas took advantage of the fact that everyone had no time to react, and got into a Toyota pickup truck and ran wildly, sneaking out of the city before the Portuguese army could react.

In fact, these two waves of attacks did not cause much killing, in total, only about a dozen people were killed, but this is like a big slap in the face to the young man, it does not cause any physical damage, but the psychological trauma it can bring is unimaginable, the Portuguese army used to be the one who dropped bombs everywhere, but now the two sides are reversed, the guerrillas attacked the heavily guarded Portuguese military camp with rockets, and even fled after the attack, which made all the Portuguese officers only feel a hot pain in their faces.

After being attacked, the Portuguese garrison immediately dispatched all the troops and began to sweep all the guerrilla activity areas within their own range, and the commander even offered a big bounty to catch the culprit of the attack, but Zabi is no longer the simple guerrilla leader in the past, he is now through Shepard's words and deeds, and deeply understands what it means to advance and retreat, so after the attack, he immediately retreated to the territory of the Congo with his men, and even deliberately left a few empty camps, And let others pretend to be spies to lead the way for the Portuguese, so as to confuse the public.

The Portuguese carried out the raid with great fanfare for many days, using countless manpower and material resources, but in the end, they found nothing but three empty guerrilla camps.

Even the bounty was a mess, and there were countless black uncles who came to inform, but few of them brought useful information, this one said it was a cow, the other said it was a horse, and some even threw the pot on the Soviet guerrillas operating in central Angola, and the garrison commander could not screen any useful information at all, and in the end he could only drive all these gossipy people out of his military camp.

And Zabi, after the attack, returned to Angola again, this time he did not plan any attack, but ran to the central region, met with his distant uncle, and decisively presented the latter with instructions on the use of rockets, and Savimbi although he did not look down on the other party's petty fights, but the rockets did attract his attention, so he began to use his own channels to start looting useful rockets.

And Zabi's successes spread farther through the mouth of the people, and now the guerrillas throughout Angola know that a colleague hit the Portuguese in the face with a rocket, although most of the black uncles don't know a single word, but they know what is good and what is bad, plus Zabi scattered his own pamphlets all over the streets, so in less than a month, the central region of Angola, as well as the Soviet-backed guerrillas active in the capital region, also pulled out their rockets.

These large-caliber rockets, which also carried the cold Siberian wind, were much more ferocious than the mere RP3, far superior to the RP3 in terms of range and power, and therefore caused even more suffering to the Portuguese army in the central region.

Of course, the Portuguese army is naturally not vegetarian, with the intensification of rocket attacks, they have also strengthened the sweep and blockade of the control area, and continue to invest more efforts to counterattack, aircraft bombing and artillery salvos in turn, so that this Angolan chicken game has once again entered a climactic state.

And in this climactic chicken eating competition, Shepard is getting closer to his original goal.