Chapter 176: Material Delivery
"Yes, yes, we have repelled their first wave of attacks, and for now, the enemy has lost the ability to attack!"
In the hangar on the northwest side of the airport, Hannibal was eating a ration pack while holding a radio to communicate with Agent Hudson at the base camp about the current situation.
"So the runway is still under your control?"
"Yes, there is no problem with the four runways, the enemy did not use artillery shelling today, I guess the heavy equipment may still be on the way, so if you want to deliver something, move quickly!"
"I know you're in a bad situation, but it takes time to move things, so please hold on a little longer!"
Hudson didn't go to Shepard's headquarters, but was right next to the airfield at the base camp, which had been expanded into a standard field airfield that could accommodate a large transport aircraft like the 130 after the CIA's expansion, and at this moment, the Wildcat Lisa PBY seaplane belonging to the Shadow Company was already preparing to take off.
When the first transport planes dropped the fighters over, Shepard had already called Parker, who was dispatching in the rear, although the CIA had been mobilizing reinforcements for the airport as much as possible, but their supplies and personnel still had to be transferred from everywhere, and Shepard couldn't wait that long, and the brothers in the airport couldn't wait that long, so after filling the cabin with supplies, the PBY seaplane immediately began to prepare for the flight.
"Words are not enough, Mr. Agent, I have lost eight of my men today, and more than twenty wounded, and I need more reinforcements!"
"I know, you'll see it tonight, I promise!"
After giving Hannibal a promise, Hudson put down the radio, and then beckoned a dozen of his men waiting outside the house to rush into the seaplane that was about to take off, because the ammunition box was too full, and there was no place to stay on the plane, so everyone could only sit on the ammunition box, and then watch the plane take off little by little, flying towards Luanda.
And in the evening, whether it was the Shadow Company P in the airport or the Security People's Movement on standby outside the airport, everyone saw a black dot flying slowly from the sky to here.
Malashenko's deputy will only then understand why his commander said that, because the seaplane, which was flying with great difficulty, directly dropped altitude after approaching the airport, trying to prepare to land on the airport runway.
"These guys, what bastards!"
"And what can you do?"
"Knock it down!"
"We are four kilometers away from the runway in a straight line, what do you use to hit this distance?"
Malashenko looked at his deputy helplessly, this guy who had just come out of the military academy still had to polish and polish again, but the latter obviously did not believe in evil, and immediately organized more than a dozen machine gunners to try to do something, but the machine gunners fired thousands of bullets into the sky, but they still couldn't stop each other.
And PBY did not pause for a moment after landing, the personnel in the cabin directly opened the side and back doors of the plane, and threw the ammunition box down, this practice is actually very dangerous, but the gaffe is urgent, the daytime battle, has made the ammunition reserves of the three combat detachments almost bottomed out, this kind of moment, there is no time for people to move slowly.
Hudson was also sweating profusely pushing the boxes out, and then when the things were almost empty, he and his men jumped off the plane and joined Hannibal when the plane was turning and preparing to take off on the other runway.
"That's all you mean by reinforcements?"
Looking at the dozen or so agents behind Hudson, Hannibal didn't know what to say, although these agents brought by Hudson seemed to belong to the kind of field agents who were very capable of fighting, but there were only a dozen people, and it seemed that they were a little weak!
"Well, that's all for now, but there's more to assemble, and as far as I know, your boss has brought over a hundred people!"
"What are these people enough to do, it's hard to keep the airport! Shouldn't it be a matter of urgency for the SPLF to move?"
"At present, we can still defend it, after all, the opponents who can come at the moment are only those people, and as for the large army, we have to wait for the results of the negotiations!"
"Me
Yes, it's political!"
Hannibal wasn't complaining, either, because he didn't have time to complain, because of the shortage of manpower, and he himself was now on the runway clearing the ammunition scattered on the ground.
And after these bullets were collected, they did not have time to store and stack, but were directly sent to the positions of various detachments.
Although the PBY shipment was not much, these munitions still relieved the urgent needs of the front line, and when the sun was about to set, there was a louder roar in the sky, and the two 130 transport planes under the control of the pilot, carefully landed on the runway, and then, when the hatch opened, Hannibal saw what he wanted.
Shepard sat on the 0 armored car in combat equipment and slowly drove out of the cabin, in addition, there were more than 100 South Vietnamese Einsatzgruppen soldiers who came in reinforcements, these are all personnel who signed a contract with the Shadow Company, they were supposed to settle their families in the homeland first, and then arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a three-month intensive training, but now the situation is urgent, these guys were sent over without even receiving their uniforms.
"I hope you like the gift I brought!"
"It would be better if there were more!"
Hannibal hugged Shepard with open arms, after all, Shepard could have stayed in the DRC, but now he personally arrived with more reinforcements.
"It's not safe! You shouldn't have come!"
"It's okay, if the situation is not right, I will be the first to run away, and then I will rely on you to cover me!"
"Okay, I'll cut it off for you myself!"
Shepard brought not only ammunition and armored vehicles, but he also carried more radios, generators, fuel, food, medical supplies, and even a Shadow Company flag in his arms, ready to find a place to hang it.
After receiving the supplement, Hannibal immediately began to adjust his strategic deployment overnight, while Shepard came to the highest point of the airport and took a telescope to observe the Anren operation in the distance.
And it was also in full swing over there, with trucks constantly driving into each other's makeshift camps.
"Looks like we're not the only ones busy!"
"yes, no one is going to sit at a moment like this!"
Agent Hudson, who was with Shepard, put down the binoculars and said with a slight jokingness.
"Fortunately, we occupied the airfield first, if they occupy the airfield and we attack, I estimate that the airfield will be filled with Soviet airborne troops the next day!"
"Not only that, I estimate that there will probably be a lot of T55 tanks guarding the airfield by then!"