Upon arrival in New Lizhber, the SPLM's vanguard did not rush to attack, but began to sweep away the remnants of the surrounding enemy on the north bank.

Bob ambushed a lot of men on the north shore and prepared to carry out another sneak attack when the Ann People's Movement attacked the city, but unexpectedly, the Ann Luck came with this trick.

Under the carpet sweep, many people lurking on the north shore can only retreat, and those who do not run away can only fight hard, and their end is nothing more than to lose in battle, or surrender to the enemy after hitting the bullets in their hands.

The sweep lasted for a week, and it was not until the 50-kilometre radius of the north shore had been completely cleared that the SPLM army stopped.

Later, the main forces of the SPLM also arrived in New Lizhber.

After a simple combat mobilization, the SPLM immediately began to attack the UNITA headquarters, and several artillery regiments began to cover the UNITA defenses along the river and in depth.

It's just that the fortifications that UNITA has been operating for many years are not vegetarian, and the repeated bombardment of 122 mm and 130 mm cannons has only destroyed those defenses outside the surface, and those bunkers built on the banks of the river are almost unharmed.

After the shelling, the SPLM dispatched two infantry companies and began to launch a tentative frontal attack.

As the only link between the north and south banks, the two steel bridges became the focus of contention between the two sides, and the SPLM troops, under the cover of armoured vehicles and T3485 tanks, tried to get close to the bridge, and then used the armoured troops to cover the sappers to remove the explosives placed on them. Look at the book

It's just that the SPLM has not yet approached the bridge deck, and UNITA's artillery fire fell on the heads of the attacking troops, although the caliber is not as good as the opposite side, but because the coordinates have been calibrated and the shooting table has been prepared for a long time, coupled with the correction and guidance of the front-line mercenaries, under the command of these old fritters, the high-explosive shells falling from the sky seem to have eyes, and they exploded in the offensive queue of the SPLM.

The SPLM troops, who were responsible for the first wave of the attack, suffered heavy losses before they could completely break away from their positions, but the soldiers who survived the artillery fire were still determined to rush towards the bridge, led by a few officers and non-commissioned officers.

As soon as they came within range of the defenders on the south bank, the machine guns and artillery guns deployed in the bunkers began to roar, and UNITA received the aid of many old 76mm anti-tank guns and 90mm anti-tank guns, which were hidden in the bunker and blocked the bridge along with the machine guns.

A T3485 tank that rushed to the front was repeatedly hit by a dozen shells, and the tank caught fire and smoked, but at the last moment, the driver forced the car to swing sideways at the bridgehead, providing a barely usable cover for the friendly forces behind him.

The sappers who followed the infantry then tried to use this as a basis to lower the bridge deck to dismantle the explosives under the bridge, but there were more pillboxes on both sides of the riverbank, and the sapper teams were all killed and could not get close to the explosives.

The first wave of the SPLM's attack was a very fierce fire reconnaissance, with two infantry companies and six tanks almost all buried in the attack, and they succeeded in getting the reconnaissance troops in the rear to confirm the fire points of the bunker that they had not found before.

Subsequently, the artillery of the People's Liberation Movement with the coordinates corrected began to cover again, and the fortifications of the pillboxes, which had not been detected before, were repeatedly bombarded by the artillery, and the lids were opened like boiled kings.

After the shelling ended, the second wave of SPLM troops attacked again under the cover of tanks, but the process was the same as the first time, UNITA had been operating here for many years, laying countless defenses, and every time SPLM's shelling destroyed a pillbox, then a new pillbox would appear from an inconspicuous corner and continue to fire.

In order to get close to the bridge, the SPLM troops fought for three days, fired tens of thousands of shells, and killed hundreds of people.

The wreckage of the T3485 tanks, which had been used as targets to attract fire, had been turned into a makeshift defence on the north bank, and SPLM units had erected mortars and recoilless guns towards the south bank

These direct fires are more effective in destroying the fire points that block the bridge deck.

While the infantry gritted their teeth in the rain of bullets flying from the sky, the engineers of the SPLM were also hovering on the verge of death, and these soldiers, who were tasked with seizing the bridge, struggled to cover themselves with simple bunkers and advanced little by little, and when they reached the bridge deck, they began to try to dismantle the explosives on the bridge again.

Although the firepower on the south bank has fallen much quieter than before, the threat is no worse than before, as Savimbi is deploying mercenaries to the front line to fill the gap of UNITA forces.

The elite marksmen from the Boer Defense were lurking in the countless ruins and wreckage, and the bridgehead on the north bank was only three or four hundred meters from their position, and these veteran soldiers would not directly attack the enemy troops on the opposite bank, but waited specifically for those sappers.

Since most of the explosives were under the bridge, SPLM sappers had to use maintenance paths or ropes to lower themselves if they wanted to dismantle them, and there was no cover here.

And the mercenaries were waiting for this time, the enemies on the ladders and ropes were powerless, and when they were attacked, they could not even escape, because the way up and down was blocked, and the only thing they could do was to choose whether they would jump into the rapids under the bridge and drown, or be killed by snipers.

And for these insidious guys, the SPLM is really powerless, they lack excellent accurate shooters, so they can only keep filling in people, trying to solve the problem with numerical superiority, but because of the narrow terrain, these efforts eventually become useless.

But even if there is not one of the troops responsible for the attack in the end, even if the attacking force has no hope of victory, the SPLM command still does not stop issuing offensive orders, and a steady stream of reserve troops is on the way, how much the front line loses, then the rear will replenish as much, for the SPLM, this is a battle that must not be lost, so even if the price is paid, it is acceptable!

Even if it is to send one's own people to the guns of the other side, and all this is just to cover for real offensive operations.

"It's about victory!"