In less than half a year, the vast countryside of Malanje province was transformed into a paradise for the partisans, and the Portuguese army did not fail to try to counterattack, but the dense water network and forests allowed the guerrillas to come and go freely, and their extermination could not catch the tail of the guerrillas.

The Portuguese army tried a combination of helicopter transport paratrooper raid and armored unit outflanking attack, this trick is very effective, the guerrillas who were encircled were not the opponent of the Portuguese army at all, but after such a routine was used several times, it did not work, because the Portuguese Air Force had a limited number of helicopters, and the consequence of the few helicopters invested in the operation in Malanje Province was that in the central and southern regions, the guerrillas of SPLM and UNITA were expanding more and more, and even under the leadership of Cuban instructors, SPLM directly approached the capital Luanda, And fired a round of mortars at the airbase.

Although the shells did not cause any actual damage, they also made the Portuguese army high-ranking angry, after all, Luanda was the symbol of their occupation of Angola, and this place was beaten, and it was not Uncle Black's ass that was beaten, but Portugal's face!

The paratroopers who carried out the rebellion in Malanje were transferred directly back to the capital to defend them, while only the ordinary infantry remained in Malanje.

These ordinary infantrymen armed with light armoured vehicles and trucks relied heavily on road mobility, and although the Portuguese army also had horse-mounted dragoon units at the top, these elites were limited in number, so the Portuguese army was unable to cope with the guerrillas' harassment of the road line, and the guerrillas' favorite thing to do was to use bazookas to fire at trucks on the road within 100 meters, at a distance where it was almost impossible for the shooter to miss.

Moreover, the guerrillas in North Lunda were not war-loving at all, their purpose was to harass the Portuguese army, so after a single rocket fire, the guerrillas would immediately retreat, and they would not even confirm whether they had won the battle.

And the Portuguese army can't do anything about it at all, after all, they can't deal with this kind of hit-and-run guy at all.

So soon, the Portuguese army, which had been repeatedly attacked on the logistics line, also began to rot like their colleagues in North Ronda, they stuck to their strongholds, and no longer carried out any large-scale sweeps, and in response, the guerrillas no longer attacked the Portuguese logistics line, after all, rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry, and the Portuguese army that has no food to eat will go crazy, and everyone can't bear it.

After the two sides entered a calm state of confrontation, Shepard could continue to send those black mercenaries of Sak to further train Zabi's team, Shepard, who adheres to the elite army policy, has always opposed Zabi's brainless expansion of the army, so even if the guerrillas occupy the two provinces, the number of combatants that can be used is just over 1,000, but this number is enough to maintain control over the entire SLF!

And that's enough! Next, Shepard only needs to wait for an opportunity to allow Zabi to intervene directly in the core affairs of the ASP.

And the CIA also sent an assist to Shepard in a timely manner, after the restoration of calm in Malanje province, the CIA drove back the resistance forces that were originally active here, this guerrilla force of more than 3,000 people did not take Zabi in their eyes at all, in their eyes, the North Lunda guerrillas are just a group of thieves who occupy the magpie's nest, as the master, they drive away the thieves, what's wrong?

And Zabi also obeyed Shepard's orders and did not clash with the former, and even the guerrillas took the initiative to cede the control area to avoid any friction between the two sides.

To the disappointment of Hudson, who had been waiting to see the show, he did not understand why Shepard was so weak despite the superiority in force, and it was not until soon after, after the conflict broke out between the Malange guerrillas and the local villages, that Hudson understood what Shepard was trying to do.

After taking control of the vast countryside, the North Lunda guerrillas carried out a series of actions to buy people's hearts, such as distributing grain and dividing the land equally, in addition, the guerrillas also exempted the villages from heavy taxes, and even Parker organized doctors without borders to visit these villages, but the Malange guerrillas were not as easy to talk as Zabi's team. z.br>

After they took over the territory, they didn't even bother to do anything gentle, and directly began to act recklessly in the control area, the officers grabbed land and property, captured the villagers as slaves, and the ordinary soldiers were learned to catch cattle and chickens, molesting women, and should be liberators

The guerrillas who entered the province of Malanje became a thorn in the side of the civilian population.

Especially in the villages that had become accustomed to the policy of the guerrillas in Lunda Norte, in the face of such excesses of salvation, they spontaneously organized militias to try to confront them.

But no matter what the Malange guerrillas say, they also took American aid, they can't beat the Portuguese, how can they not beat ordinary villagers? Relying on a single vote of weapons aided by the United States, the guerrillas directly engaged in a three-day carnival on a large scale, and three villages that did not obey the discipline were directly slaughtered, even more cruel than the Portuguese.

At this time, Zabi immediately criticized and criticized the Malange guerrillas in the capacity of the SPLF, and issued a stern warning, but it was obvious that the latter did not take it seriously at all, and even intensified it.

For a while, both the Portuguese and other members of the SPLF were waiting to see how this conflict would end.

Then, under the joint plea of many villages, the North Lunda guerrillas made a decisive attack, and with the support of the Shadow Company, the Black Uncles used helicopters and seaplanes to carry out rapid intersperse, and the territory that was originally surrendered by Zabi was recaptured in less than a week, and the members of the Malange guerrillas were divided and surrounded by dozens of villages and towns.

Then, a combat unit of military contractors from the Shadow Company, led by a handful of North Lunda guerrilla guides, carried out a decapitation of the head of the Malanje partisans.

Under P's deliberate release, the guerrilla leader of Malanje province fled alone, and he fled into the forest without even putting on his clothes, and then, under the encirclement of the guerrillas and P, the leader continued to flee further west to the province of Kwanza Norte, where he joined the guerrilla leaders of Kwanza Norte.

And this is what Shepard wanted, and after confirming the confluence of the two sides, the Northern Lunda guerrillas directly entered the northern Kwanza in the name of capturing the traitors, and established a stronghold there.

This caused an uproar within the SPLF, and everyone waited for the CIA action team to react, only to find that they did not seem to react.