"Captain Lee!"

"Commander, what's the matter?"

"I have a mission for you!"

Hannibal pulled the commander of the Apple detachment and said.

"You go to the arsenal of the defenders, take out all the explosives in it for me, and install them on both sides of all the main roads in the south and east of the city, and send someone to guard it, and as soon as I give the order, blast it immediately!"

"But if we do that, we'll block the road, and our armored vehicles won't be able to move!"

"Don't worry, they will be finished by then, and this is a matter of the lives of the brothers, so please leave it to you!"

"I see, I'll let my best team pass!"

Captain Lee knew that the other party was serious when he saw Hannibal's face, and he immediately put away all his doubts and summoned his most elite men to carry out the mission.

Hannibal then held a brief meeting with all the junior and middle-ranking officers in the town of Cador.

When he learned that he was going to face an attack by an armored regiment and an independent artillery regiment, the American adviser of the SPLF unit rolled his eyes and fainted, his SPLF unit was a reinforced infantry battalion, and the only heavy weapon was 12 mm mortars, in addition to some 42 general-purpose machine guns left over from the Portuguese army, which were even second-hand, which Portugal mixed from Germany in World War II.

In addition, this reinforced infantry battalion is not yet formed, after repeated losses plus air raids, there are less than 400 people left, but there is no shortage of rifles, that is, there are many types, from the old Mauser 98K tethered rifle that was poured out of nowhere, to the FAL automatic rifle, such equipment is okay to fight with the SPLM troops, and fight with the well-equipped Cuban armored forces?

But an order is an order, and the orders that have been given must be carried out, although everyone hates the indiscriminate command from above, but what should be done, but must be done, Hannibal also knows that his African allies are unreliable, so on the one hand, he asked to break up the other party's troops and hand them over to his own people to lead, on the other hand, he also transferred two combat groups to form a field gendarmerie, which is used to use physical means to regain the confidence of friendly troops in battle.

Of course, the preparation for the battle had to be done, and the preparation for running away had to be done as well, the trucks destroyed by the Cuban Air Force were only for the delivery of mortars, and the troop carriers were still intact and parked in the open space west of the town, and Hannibal had them all moved to the side of the road, and if the situation was not right, he would blast the main road in the town to block the enemy, and then simply let his men run away in the car.

Although this kind of thing sounds despicable, the Shadow Company is only contractors after all, and the CIA hired them to fight, not to send them to death, and the situation is urgent, so they can do what they want, which Shepard emphasized early on.

The Cuban army is like a boulder hanging above everyone's heads, everyone knows that it will break its bones if it falls, but they still can't help but want to look up to see what this boulder looks like and when it falls, as if it can be more solid.

"The range of the 6 cannon is about 27 kilometers, that is, at the time of the shelling, the enemy was at most 27 kilometers away from us, and now it has been two hours since the end of the shelling, and according to the speed of the mechanized troops, they should also arrive outside the town!"

"But there's nothing outside the town, so I let the scouts go on motorcycles, three kilometers south of the town, and there's nothing!"

"That's why I'm getting more and more uneasy, our defensive forces, the enemy can handle it with a single charge, but now, if they don't show up, the more I don't know what they want to do!"

The atmosphere in the command headquarters was extremely oppressive at the moment, and Hannibal even had the urge to rush to the commander of the Cuban troops, pull him by the collar and ask him what he wanted to do and why he didn't attack!

"Why don't you attack yet?"

Colonel Diaz smiled and touched his whitish stubble, then looked at the many young armored officers gathered around him.

"Because I didn't intend to let them go, you can see the situation of the first company, the whole company came back with a car, the enemy knows the importance of the town of Cardo, and the defenders there must be their elite, and the shelling just now is to tell them

We're already here, so now, the enemy has two options!"

"Retreat, then collapse globally, or keep throwing reinforcements to defend it!"

"Although the Americans can't fight, but there is no problem with their brains, the SLF is no longer capable of organizing any large-scale combat troops, if Cardo is occupied by us, then next, all they need is a beautiful left hook, their troops on the Eastern Front will be surrounded by us, so it is impossible for them to abandon their positions!" Chinese Net

"And to hold on to Cardo, ordinary SLF troops are definitely not qualified to come, and the Americans will put all the mercenaries they have summoned into it, such as the Shadow Shadow Company, without these mercenaries, our opponent is a toothless tiger!"

"So we're just waiting here?"

"No, it's going to be two o'clock in the afternoon, and our enemies must be busy decorating their burial places like industrious bees at the moment, give them an hour!"

Colonel Diaz patted the shoulder of the person next to him and said.

"It's like a little bee who had taken a hard time to harvest honey and thought it would be able to feast on it, but the hunter took all the fruits of his labor!"

And an hour later, while the town of Cado was still busy building fortifications, the MiG-21 fighters came to the sky over the town again, this time they dropped not a bomb, but 500 kilograms of incendiary bombs, the Cubans seemed to be determined to open up an offensive field in the forest, the incendiary bombs directly burned an area of hundreds of meters on both sides of the road, and after the MiG fighters returned, the Cuban artillery deployed 20 kilometers away once again began to greet the defenders with artillery.

This time, the artillery did not go to the forest again, their target was very clear, that is, on the southeast side of the town of Kado, hundreds of shells fell one after another on the edge of the town, the barricades that Hannibal had prepared, the minefields were once again easily scrapped, even the firepower points that were to be set up around those buildings were all blown into the sky, and the worst thing was that three of the recoilless guns that were already small were blown away, which made their poor anti-tank firepower even more stretched.

And after the shelling ended, the scouts sent out by the Shadow Company also rode all the way on motorcycles.

"The enemy is coming!"