Chapter 239: Rout!
"Retreat, retreat, attacker! Get out of here!"
Hannibal was like falling into an ice cave at the moment, his hands and feet were cold, and he watched in despair as the two remaining birds struggled in the fire net, and could only shout on the radio in vain.
The remaining two birds reacted quickly, and they swooped down to the treetop level with all their might, trying to avoid the anti-aircraft guns, but one of the birds was still hit, and the helicopter flew towards the west side of the town in billowing smoke, and then forced the helicopter to fall on the wasteland outside the town under the watchful eyes of everyone.
The rest of the birds didn't care about anything, and they ran away from the airspace as fast as they could.
The two pilots who fell the bird were seriously wounded, and after the medical staff made an emergency rescue, Hannibal immediately had the truck to send them back with several wounded people sent back from the front, he had no hope of holding the town of Cado, but now he could not make the troops retreat, so he could only return the wounded first.
The defeat of the bird's surprise attack was unreservedly staged in front of the defenders, and the blow to morale was unimaginable, but even so, the defenders stationed in the positions continued to fight stubbornly.
"Don't think about counterattacking now, just try your best to hold your position, and pick up Hudson for me!"
After the communication was connected, Hannibal went straight to Hudson.
"There's no hope!"
"I know, the Cubans played us all!"
Hudson on the other end of the radio replied in pain.
"From beginning to end, we were all played by each other, and they sent a full 8,000 people in two days, all combat troops, and the security detachment is finished!"
"And what's next?"
"I've sent reinforcements, but don't expect the SLF troops to last long, the team is planting explosives on those bridges on the Benguela road, and they'll blow them up if you withdraw!"
"I see!"
Hannibal nodded, then called out to a few people around him and asked them to relay their latest orders to the various squads.
"Collect the identity cards of the fallen brothers and shrink the line to the west of the town! Plant mines and explosives as much as possible!"
When this order was passed to the various detachment commanders, several detachment commanders were a little stunned, because this order was not an offensive order at all.
"Why, give me another five minutes, and I'll be able to rush through!"
"Cuba has reinforced 8,000 new combat troops, and now it is on an all-out offensive to the front line!"
The herald could only answer truthfully, while several detachment commanders could only sigh helplessly after hearing this.
"What else is going on in this war, Angola now has more than 20,000 Cubans! I'm afraid they're not going to send all the Cuban troops!"
"It's not impossible!"
Even if the detachment commanders were helpless, they could only carry out the new orders, and the bodies of the fallen brothers could not be taken away, so they could only take their identification badges, which were still covered with blood, and then loaded into the detachment commander's backpack.
Then, the still alive P began to attack more violently, they smashed out grenades, explosives, smoke bombs and everything that could be thrown, the violent explosion and rising smoke suddenly frightened the Cuban special forces who were fighting with them, and everyone's night vision goggles effect was like that, and they couldn't see anything when they flashed, and as a last resort, the Cuban special forces could only fight back in the same way, smashing out all the explosives they had on hand.
After the violent explosion, the Cuban special forces discovered that the enemy, who had just been menacing, had disappeared from the corner of the street, and a squad tried to pursue, but was shot back as soon as it chased it.
The Cuban special forces, who couldn't figure out what the other side was trying to do, could only cautiously grope a little bit, and only after they groped through did they find that their opponent had run away again.
And in order to block the pursuers in the rear, they didn't even lay any mines, they just threw them on the ground, although this trick was quite perfunctory, but these press-haired mines mixed in the ruins are generally unrecognizable if you don't look carefully, let alone mix a few wide in these perfunctory mines
Sword mines.
On the other mercenary side, relying on the smoke of grenade launchers and the traps of Rhodesian mercenaries, they also successfully intercepted the pursuit of Cuban paratroopers, and on the entire front, the defenders began to gradually break away, but most of the combat troops still continued to fight, after all, retreat, if you are not careful, it will turn into a rout, so you must be careful!
In the middle of the town, Hannibal also sent a wave of mercenaries to start planting explosives in the buildings, and the biggest threat to the Cubans was those tanks, so they created more ruins to make it difficult for the tanks to move an inch, so that they could maximize the advantage of their opponents.
And now in the battle, the Cubans have also come back to their senses, although the enemy seems to be more ferocious than before, but the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, and the firepower encountered by their side is not as fierce as at the beginning of the battle. z.br>
"They're going to run?"
"Clamp the assault from the southeast side, close the pockets, and the artillery block the road on the west side, and never let them escape!"
After Colonel Diaz's order was given, the Cuban soldiers became more and more courageous, and the sound of Ula was heard one after another.
The defenders who retreated to the west side of the town were in a mess, the map and radio station were too late to destroy, and they could only throw grenades and blasts indiscriminately, although the vehicles used for the retreat were enough, but because the road was narrow, everyone was fighting for the vehicles in front of them, but fortunately, each other's commanders knew what to do now, and forcibly diverted the flow of people and vehicles.
At this time, the Cuban artillery and rocket artillery units began to fire continuously on the road.
At this moment, Hannibal's plan or anything didn't matter, everyone was jumping on the vehicle and escaping the place as much as possible, although the shells would turn the vehicle into a burning fireball from time to time, but no one flinched, the driver stepped on the accelerator and tried to break through the wall of fire, some succeeded, some failed, and finally disappeared into the endless artillery fire.
"It's all over!"
Hannibal, who was forced into the car by his men, didn't understand why things were the way they were, the defeat was so sudden, even unreal, but no matter how much he didn't want to admit it, they did fail, and it was a complete failure!
Although he was grief-stricken, he still forced a smile on his face in the car to comfort his subordinates who had withdrawn with him.
"Don't worry, this isn't a retreat, we're just attacking in the other direction!"