Chapter 265: The City Breaks
The time of the operation was chosen for the second night, and the commander of the Soviet special forces had already negotiated a coordinated plan with the friendly forces on the opposite bank, when the time came, the artillery would carry out a sustained fire strike on the entire coastal defense belt.
The bombardment would drown out the gunfire from the positions and make it easier for them to move, and if they succeeded in taking down the detonators, the Cuban armored forces that had been gathering momentum on the north shore would enter the city in one fell swoop.
During the whole day, the SPLM on the north bank did not sit still, they organized several waves of assaults, trying to get the sappers to go down from the upstream in the way of boat crossing, and remove the explosives under the bridge, but because of the turbulent current, the sappers could not easily get close to the bridge piers, and several rubber boats finally approached it, and as a result, several machine guns that had been dormant on the south bank fired for a while, and then the rubber boats that lost control went down the river and disappeared into the river.
As for the defensive positions on the south bank, the defenders were unaware of this, and Bob Denard even visited the positions during the day, bringing the mercenaries several boxes of bonuses, which Savimbi rewarded for their outstanding performance.
As for the Soviet special forces, they naturally didn't have them, but the logistics did send a few bottles of beer during the day, although they belonged to those cheap things that could not be cheaper, but they were enough for a group of Soviets disguised as British.
Finally waited until nightfall, the soldiers of the Soviet special forces immediately began to act, in the daytime, the commander has drawn the general structure of the UNITA bunker, it is a huge bunker group, composed of a main fort and several sub-forts, interconnected, UNITA soldiers are stationed here, in the outside of the sub-fort are machine gun fire points, can block all the entrances and exits, so, it is impossible to storm that!
The commander's idea was very simple, he took his subordinates and leaned over as yesterday's search for a field, and put on a posture of not admitting defeat to compete with UNITA's people.
The UNITA commander wanted them to go wherever they went, but they were angered by the other party's words, do you dare not provoke, and then beckoned his subordinates to prepare to go out and have a good comparison with the other party.
The two sides chose the men to go to war, but the roar of the shells interrupted everyone's movements, and then everyone rushed into the bunker in a swarm, and the UNITA officers knew that this matter would not end for a while and a half, and the idle farts in the bunker were about to pop out, so it was better to continue the previous written test.
Immediately the crowd opened up in the bunker again, as the shelling continued, and the UNITA sentries on duty left their posts and joined the crowd to cheer on their personnel.
The Soviet soldiers quietly dispersed little by little, came to the back of the crowd, and waited for the commander to give a signal, and then these Soviet soldiers, who had hidden the Scorpion submachine gun in their arms, immediately burst out and controlled the overwhelmed UNITA troops.
"What do you want to do?"
The UNITA officer was furious and tried to reprimand him, but was knocked to the ground by a punch from the Soviet commander.
"We've officially taken over this place, lay down your arms, surrender your guns, and don't kill!"
"What are you kidding, what are you taking over?"
"Stupid pig!"
The Soviet commander looked at the UNITA officer with a blue nose and swollen face, and immediately scolded him in Russian, and the latter woke up like a dream.
"Brothers, they are enemies!"
Immediately, the UNITA soldiers were ready to riot, but the Soviets were also ruthless, and after a few soldiers shot indiscriminately, killing more than a dozen UNITA soldiers, the latter immediately became honest.
"Cut the detonation circuit! Send a signal to your allies!"
After taking control of the UNITA forces and cutting off the detonation routes, the radio soldiers began to call on friendly forces on the north bank to stop the shelling, and the roar of tanks resounded on the north bank.
"These guys are going to force their way through the bridge with tanks? Are they crazy?"
The mercenaries on the south bank are puzzled, even if the Anren send out tanks, explosives are installed on the bridge, and the tanks go up, the rear will definitely decide to blow up the bridge, so why does the other party dare to be so unscrupulous?
At this moment, the first Cuban tank had driven onto the bridge deck, and the wide body mercilessly smashed the barricades above, opening a passage for friendly forces in the rear.
After seeing the appearance of Cuban tanks, the UNITA army also immediately reported the situation, and immediately called the pillbox.
"Detonate, detonate!"
A senior officer's anxious voice changed tone, but he didn't expect that the other end of the phone was not an order, but a word in Russian.
"I'm sorry, but the person who carried out the order is no longer there!"
"What?"
Before the senior officer could react, the phone was hung up, and when he finally reacted, he looked at his colleagues behind him tremblingly, took out his pistol with a dead face, and then pulled the trigger on his head.
And the others also understood that the bridge bombing mission had gone wrong.
"It's over!"
A senior officer didn't want to give up yet, and frantically picked up the phone and tried to do something.
"Quick, get people to plug the gap and send everyone up!"
After learning of the failure of the bombing of the bridge, all the defenders on the south bank fell into collapse, their defense had failed, although the mercenaries tried to rely on street fighting to turn the tables, but the continuous influx of SPLM troops was overwhelmed by a huge numerical advantage, including the Boer defense, the mercenaries held out for less than a day, and were driven out of the city, and a large number of UNITA troops directly abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and there was not one defender who could escape from the city.
Under the huge artillery fire and superiority of the opponent's troops, Bob Denard's Boer defense was severely damaged, and two-thirds of his soldiers did not escape from the city, and all kinds of equipment were lost.
It's just that the heaviest losses are still UNITA!
The loss of New Lizhber is like the atomic bomb dropped in Tokyo, and the foundation of UNITA's existence has begun to crumble, and the most important thing is that the main force guarding the headquarters, these are the main forces of UNITA, but I didn't expect that now, these thousands of troops have been wiped out, and the few who survived are retreating southward in embarrassment, and behind them, there is the continuous pursuit of the SPLM troops.
If you don't think about it, these people will be wiped out, and at that time, UNITA can really raise your hands and surrender!
The situation was urgent, and UNITA's military command system had collapsed, so the CIA had to let Hudson take the lead again, ready to let him organize personnel to try their best to collect the remnants of UNITA, and Hudson After receiving the order, although he looked helpless, he could only follow the order, he could only go to ***, organize the remaining mercenaries in the camp, and then pin the task of blocking the enemy on these people.