"If the Cubans play today, our shells may not last even three days!"

"And it's not just the shells, it's the most important wounded! I just came from the ambulance station, and today we have seven dead, eighteen wounded, three of them seriously injured, I don't know if we can carry it through tonight!"

Shepard picked up the kettle and took a sip of it, then said.

"Luckily, water isn't a problem, if even water has to be flown in, then it's over!"

"I've contacted the base, they can come again tomorrow morning, but if the Cubans come again!"

"The fleet is coming in vain!"

The logistical support of the army has been the top priority since ancient times, otherwise why is there a proverb that soldiers and horses go first before grain and grass are moved, and there are more than 500 combat personnel guarding the airport, and these people consume more than 3,000 cans every day, not to mention the fuel and spare parts for chariots.

In addition, the infantry also needs additional rifles and machine guns, after all, the weapons on the battlefield are damaged, it is impossible to repair them on the spot, plus other miscellaneous things, more than 500 people in the absence of land transportation, basically rely on transport planes to ensure food, drink and Lazar, and even the wounded have to rely on transport planes to evacuate.

Although Hannibal had stockpiled a lot of supplies in the previous days, it was only for emergencies, and if every day was like the day of the Cuban army's attack, the mortar shells alone would have to be delivered by a special transport plane.

This is also the reason why a big guy like 130 is needed, only it can meet the supply needs and send supplies from thousands of kilometers away in one go.

If you change to an ordinary small and medium-sized transport aircraft, not to mention the range problem, the capacity alone makes people's scalp tingle, which is why Hannibal has to stick to the runway.

But now, the runway has become a burden to them, if you want to get supplies, you must ensure that the runway is not okay, if you want the runway to be fine, you must ensure that there are no problems on the front line, if you want to ensure that there are no problems on the front line, you must ensure that there are no problems with supplies, which is stuck in an endless cycle.

The SPLM's troops are not capable of threatening the runway, but that does not mean that the Cuban army is not capable of this, and the Cubans can have extended the shelling target to the runway at the beginning, but because the airport is also very important to them, everyone tacitly did not make a fuss about the runway.

"By the way, can't you just drop it?"

The commander of a mercenary suddenly raised his hand and asked.

"The premise of the airdrop is that we have enough places, and if you throw two things out at an interval of one second at high altitude, their landing points may be thousands of miles different due to other factors such as wind direction, and if you carry out an airdrop at this airport, I am afraid that 9 out of 10 of the supplies will be lost on the heads of Cubans!"

"Well, I'm sorry, I don't know!"

"Anyway, let's get ready!"

Hudson, as the representative of the CIA, immediately stood up and said to everyone.

"First of all, the issue of ammunition, we are not very short of basic ammunition, but mortar shells and recoilless ammunition must be spared, everyone, the tripartite talks have reached a critical moment, the next thing depends on our performance, as long as we complete the task, we will not treat everyone badly!"

Hudson said that the tripartite talks are the current negotiations between the three armed forces in Angola, because the formation of a government cannot be discussed, so the meeting entered the next issue of the division of control territory, a place like Luanda, naturally depends on who can hold out to the end, so it is still the old saying, firmly hold on, there is a way!

But Shepard is not as optimistic as Hudson, because of the problem of airlifting, he is now worried about another thing, that is, the air force, the forces that have emerged in a place like Angola, naturally there can be no air force, but the problem is Cuba and the Soviet Union, now that they have sent paratroopers, there is no guarantee that the shadow of MiG fighters will appear in the sky.

However, Hudson knew about this first, so as long as Hudson is not panicked at present, it means that there is no leader in this matter for the time being, and what he has to do is to take the company's employees to complete today's task, after all, the CIA is really generous with money, and it costs one daily combat allowance alone

10,000 yuan, this is not counting the combat allowance apportioned to everyone, but simply for the Shadow Company, if it is a year and a half, it will be cool!

However, the top priority was still the problem of logistics, Hannibal pulled a group of detachment commanders and Shepard overnight to count the remaining supplies, and then calculated and divided, and when everything was done, it was already dawn.

In order not to give the Cubans a chance to interfere, the transport will make a surprise landing in the early morning, which really caught the Cubans off guard.

When Garcia learned that the transport plane had landed, his men were almost still resting, after all, yesterday's one-day attack was also a huge burden for the elite paratroopers, and the soldiers braved the rain of bullets and bullets to repeatedly intersperse the battlefield, even the robots could not bear it.

So Major Garcia could only watch the transport fleet land so swaggeringly, and then unload the airport defenders with a full supply load.

However, Major Garcia quickly thought of a way to deal with it, he transferred his two elite paratrooper platoons, and the remnants of Malashenko formed a mobile unit, which did not participate in the attack, but was only responsible for interference when the transport plane landed, and Garcia was very chicken to put the 120 mm heavy force in the truck compartment, and whenever the transport plane was about to land, these trucks loaded with 120 mm mortars would attack with the mobile force.

This trick once again frustrated Hannibal's plan, and he did not dare to bet on whether the enemy would use these mortars, so he could only let the transport plane take off again, and when the transport plane took off, the Cuban mobile troops would simply retreat neatly.

At other times, the Cuban paratroopers who could get the An-22 airdrop supplies and personnel continued to launch assaults with various tactics, each of which was frantically consuming the defenders' reserves.

Because the rated base number of shells was depleted and the emergency ammunition had not yet arrived, there was a gap in their fire interception line, and a platoon of Cuban paratroopers even attacked directly to a position 50 meters from the defensive line.

The two sides could even throw grenades at each other, and if it weren't for Shepard with an urgent reinforcement of armored vehicle units, the mercenary line might have been torn open by Cuban paratroopers, and by that time, the entire Western Front would have collapsed.