Chapter 267: A Little Try
After the passage of the Boer Defense, a number of people fled safely, but they also brought bad news, and the pursuers of the SPLM were less than twenty kilometers behind them.
"Give him saliva!"
Looking at the intelligence provider with chapped lips, Shepard motioned to the mercenary next to him to take out the kettle, and after the latter drank the water in one go, he thanked Shepard.
"Don't thank you just yet, your people have to do me a favor!"
Shepard shook his head, this water is not for nothing, he is very particular about fair trade, you drink a sip of water from me, it is equivalent to my grace of dripping water, so the spring should be reciprocated!
Then the unfortunate mercenary leader and his men sat on the high slope of the mountain pass as if no one was around, and a dozen or so unlucky men scolded and looked into the distance, but no one dared to run.
Because they're bait!
Shepard wasn't sure if there were any allies behind, but since the enemy was so close, presumably the allies should be almost dead, so these people are very precious! Look at the book
He withdrew the mercenaries from their pre-set ambush positions and moved back five kilometers, which had left the mountain pass and was a plain, but at the same time a very good place for armored vehicles to maneuver.
According to the intelligence, the SPLM troops pursuing behind those mercenaries are not large, but they are very dispersed with the large forces, so if they move forward, they will inevitably exchange fire with the ambush position, but Shepard is here to intercept the Cuban tanks, if the SPLM troops are exposed in advance and the other side is prepared, then the well-prepared ambush will be in vain.
Therefore, in order to divert those SPLM troops, then a qualified bait is indispensable.
The mercenaries who ran at the end were lying on the hillside as if they were resting, and their commander, the guy who drank Shepard's water, was looking into the distance with a telescope with a blue nose and swollen face, and his subordinates were helpless against the boss's greed, but in fact, when they got supplies, these guys could eat and drink more than the other.
But because he had to run away later, no one dared to eat and drink to the death, and after just a little replenishment, he rested in place.
After more than an hour, when everyone was drowsy, on the other side of the valley, several modified GAZ jeeps finally appeared, these jeeps were painted with jungle camouflage, and each car was equipped with machine guns, and the soldiers on the vehicles looked different from ordinary black soldiers, this was probably a well-trained reconnaissance unit.
They did not venture into the valley, but carefully reconnoitred, and the defenders of the pass were all withdrawn by Shepard, so they did not notice anything unusual.
After looking around, the SPLM troops saw the mercenaries resting on the hillside, and the latter also saw the SPLM troops approaching them.
"Run, run, run!"
After confirming that the other party was hooked, the commander dropped the telescope and led his men to sprint all the way, leaving a jeep for them not far away, and a dozen or so people squeezed into it like a stack of arhats, and then began to run wildly.
The SPLM troops in the rear also immediately accelerated their pursuit, and the two sides began to rush at extreme speed on the plain.
The Italians scolded the ruthless Shepard, and at the same time loudly urged the driver to hurry up, the SPLM troops were less than 1.5 kilometers behind them, and if they got any closer, they would have to eat bullets!
The driver of the car can only press the accelerator to the end, and then rush through the preset ambush point.
At this time, the jeep, which I don't know how long it had been using, finally blew up and plunged into the grass nest with white smoke.
Seeing that something happened to the unlucky guys in front, the SPLM troops pursuing in the rear were also relieved, after all, would anyone really use this method to ambush?
What's more, the best ambush site has passed, how can someone squat on the plain.........
Before the smiles on everyone's faces could freeze, a whistling had already come from afar, and immediately, the jeep at the back of the convoy exploded, and the soldiers on it also disappeared without a trace
Without a trace.
"What's going on? Thunder?"
Before the SPM soldiers in the vehicle could react to what was happening, more than a thousand meters away, the gunner of another Honey Badger armored car completed aiming, and then fired a 90mm heat ammunition.
Although the shell missed, it also told the SPLM what had happened.
The commander sitting in the car picked up the binoculars and saw several tall wheeled armored vehicles emerging from the plain in the distance, their black holes and muzzles pointed at him.
"Go, go, it's a trap, send a message to the armored forces behind! Let's just say that we are under attack in the grassland, and we ask for help!"
The few remaining jeeps immediately began to flee without regard for everything, but before they could go far, another string of shells rained down.
In the direction they were advancing, several more armored vehicles appeared, but on these armored vehicles, ordinary 20-mm guns were installed.
"How can there be so many South African armored vehicles in this place?"
No one answered the SPLM commander's question, they were already surrounded by unsheltered plains, and the soldiers had no choice but to stop their cars and find cover in the grass nests to resist.
"Call for reinforcements!"
The SPLM commander, who was pulling the radio soldiers, shouted at the radio soldiers as he organized the soldiers to shoot.
They were armed with bazookas, so the armored vehicles of the South Africans within a hundred or two hundred meters were enough to pose a lethal threat, but before the commander could disperse his bazooka men, the whistling mortar shells exploded in the crowd again.
Operating 120mm mortar shells, the mercenaries began to fire effectively after a quick calibration, directly pressing the enemy with heavy artillery fire.
And those South African armored vehicles stopped at a distance of three or four hundred meters from the enemy, and released the loaded mercenaries.
After getting out of the car, these mercenaries immediately used all kinds of weapons in their hands to fire at the surrounded SPLM troops, while approaching, and when they were still dozens of meters close to the other side, the mercenaries began to greet them with grenades and flamethrowers, and the SPLM troops who hit them could not raise their heads at all, and in less than 20 minutes, the more than 30 SPLM soldiers were wiped out.
And when cleaning the battlefield, looking at the radio station that was pierced into a hedgehog by shell fragments, Shepard was also glad with a face, after all, if they ambushed each other in the old place, then their position had been exposed!
"Clean up the battlefield, let's go back to the valley!"