After almost tripling the de facto control area, Zabi did not continue to expand, as there were a large number of Portuguese army strongholds in these control areas, so it became Zabi's priority to secure the area of control and expel them.

Although the situation of the struggle in the new territory is not good, Zabi is not fighting alone, and there are as many as 100 trainees who have walked out of Mr. Price's training camp, and these newcomers who have completed the training have become the backbone of Zabi's armed forces.

At Shepard's suggestion, Zabi mixed the new cadets and veterans into more than a dozen combat groups, and their mission was to mobilize the masses at the grassroots level, repair tunnels in villages, set up strongholds, and build intelligence networks.

Although these tasks may sound complicated, in reality, simple and complex, it is all up to people, and despite the safety and security of Zabi, the villagers here do not trust Zabi's men too much, after all, the guerrillas are new to the country, and maybe they are more brutal than the Portuguese!

That's why Shepard didn't let Zabi continue to expand, he now controls almost a fifth of Ronda Norte, and it's not just about fighting the Portuguese.

Generally speaking, there is no quick way to win the hearts of the people, after all, there is a saying that the road knows the horsepower, and it will see the hearts of the people for a long time, and it will not have too good results just by buying it for a while.

However, the situation in Africa is special, especially in a place like Angola, which is still colonial and full of conflict.

You must know that the exploitation of the colonies by the suzerainty is all-round, after all, the colonies are here to scrape oil and water, not to help the poor, and the colonial people have to pay all kinds of fancy taxes in addition to all kinds of apportionment tasks.

So, Shepard got a new job for the guerrillas, which was to violently resist taxes!

Although the Black Uncles lived in mud houses, slept on thatched heaps, and ate mud-mixed scones and dried cassava, the colonial authorities were still trying to extract the last bit of oil and water from these civilians, and every three days two would tax collectors armed to the countryside, pinch cattle and chickens, or take useful youths and teenagers to work.

At this point, the role of these groups formed by Zabi according to Shepard's plan is manifested, and when encountering a small number of armed tax collectors, these armed groups armed with South African automatic rifles or World War II submachine guns, led by veterans, will spontaneously begin to besiege the armed tax collectors, and those armed tax collectors of the colonial authorities have only old-fashioned bolt rifles in their hands, and are no match for the armed groups. z.br>

As a result, tax collectors who dare to confront the armed groups often end up in a very miserable situation, either being shot to death, or being shot to death indiscriminately and then stripped naked and thrown to feed the wolves.

And those who surrendered were not much better, because the armed group handed these people over to the civilians who were usually oppressed by them, according to the teachings of the anti-colonial fighter Master Pu.

It's a pity that Africa's infrastructure is underdeveloped, and there are not many telephone poles, so many corpses can only be hung on trees.

But this was only the beginning, and after the scattered tax collection squads were unable to defeat the armed groups, the colonial authorities began to organize larger tax collection teams, equipped with heavy equipment such as machine guns and trucks.

And the armed group also has a good experience, people are in a group, they are also in a group, and even bigger.

When an armed tax collection party of more than fifty infantry drove trucks through three disobedient villages, the assembled guerrillas carried out an unsuccessful ambush along the road, which was not successful because the guerrillas, having paid the price of six dead, had only annihilated thirteen servants and the colonial police, and the rest of the men had fled.

Such a bad battle annoyed Zabi, and he wanted to slap his men in command of the battle, who had been studying with Shepard for three months, how could he learn this?

And the criticized guerrillas were also very aggrieved, he just followed the instructions drawn by those instructors on the blackboard, exactly the same process, and even the position of the ambush was not the slightest mistake, how did he fight like this?

Regardless, the fighting did allow the guerrillas to gain a foothold in the newly expanded area, and even the elders and chiefs in charge of the villages and towns began to pay Zabi

Taxes, although they only pay for food and cloth, are at least a good start, as the colonial authorities are already losing their grip on the grassroots.

In the past, relying on the strong force guarantee, the colonial authorities and the Portuguese army could take turns sweeping in the countryside without the slightest concern, but now, because of mines and roadside bombs, the Portuguese regular army did not dare to carry out any normalized sweeps, and the guerrillas' hunting of the servant army and colonial officials made their former high authority fall little by little, it can be said that the Portuguese army did not make efforts, they dispatched troops to burn villages and farmland on a large scale, and then the guerrillas organized the villagers to run away, And rely on the authentic network to fight again.

In a field situation, the Portuguese army is even confident that the guerrillas will be brushed without injury, because they have artillery and tank armored vehicles, but once they get to the tunnel link, these guerrillas who have just received simple training can pull the exchange ratio to one to three or even one to one, if it is just a single village, then the Portuguese army can still grit its teeth and exchange, but all the villages in the guerrilla area have begun to do this, and the Portuguese army really can't bear it!

And the worst thing is that Helen Parker even invited a number of reporters to Angola in the name of Zabi to report on the humanitarian crisis, and these reporters used their cameras to record the burned villages, burned wheat fields, and many hungry and cold civilians.

Because it hinders the international view, the Portuguese government can only knock out its teeth and swallow it in its stomach, and let the army officers at least cover up what should be covered, hide what should be hidden, and if it can't do it, they will do the reporters!

As for the places that have lost their actual control, then as if there are no such places, just blow up everything that is available, burn it, and then stride back to keep the other controllable areas.

And shortly after the Portuguese army withdrew from the guerrilla-controlled area, Shepard was finally able to appear in his promised land in the name of Shadow Company's humanitarian aid.

"This land is barren!"

Helen, who was dressed in a summer dress, wearing a huge sunhat and sunglasses, couldn't help but sigh when she looked at the desolation in front of her.

"But it's full of opportunities!"

Shepard crouched down, grabbed a handful of land in his hand, and said.

"Get to know the land, discover your strengths, and take the leap!"