In fact, it was not only UNITA's resistance that fell into a trough, 1976 was a year of many events, there were great men who left the country he founded in this year, and there were also divided countries that were reunited in this year.

Not long after UNITA was defeated, the sad news from Asia that brought tears to the eyes of countless American boys came that their bloody and sweaty South Vietnamese government had finally come to an end, and now that the whole of Vietnam had been reunited, the United States had spent decades on Vietnam and sacrificed all its lives.

Not only did they not do any good, but they even left the newly formed Vietnamese government with a large amount of military equipment, including a large navy and the world's fourth-largest air force.

Such a huge amount of assets were taken over by the other party without any damage, which caused serious turmoil in the domestic political ecology of the United States, which caused a result that no one expected.

That was in 1976, at the moment when the Cold War confrontation was extremely sharp, the United States ushered in a real good president!

When he learned that Jimmy Carter had successfully run for the presidency of the United States, Shepard was counting his assets from Vietnam, and when South Vietnam collapsed, he immediately feasted on this huge corpse.

By forcible seizure, Shepard obtained a large amount of heavy equipment, including three CH47 helicopters, which were sold to Shepard by high-ranking South Vietnamese generals who were in a hurry to run away at the price of cabbage.

"Good old man, that's good news!"

It is no exaggeration to say that Jimmy Carter is a good person in the true sense, in the Internet media of later generations, he even has the nickname of Meirenzong, he signed a lot of documents that can be used to mediate conflicts during his tenure, and also did a lot of measures to alleviate conflicts, such as the return of the Panama Canal***, etc., even after retirement, he is still running for the homeless apartment project.

For Jimmy Carter's coming to power, Shepard personally welcomes it, anyway, the other party's policy platform has no conflict with himself, but he is happy to see this good old man fight in the international ring.

But soon, Shepard discovered that a good old president with a pacifist philosophy was not so good.

Because, he cut the funds!

The CIA's original funds to support Savimbi were drastically cut after the other party took office, although out of support for friendly countries, the funds were not cut, only cut in half, but this was enough to irreversibly damage the deterioration of the war situation.

For example, the salary of a mercenary!

When the Angolan civil war broke out, the CIA was hiring armed men to participate in the war, and the mercenaries who came to participate in the war could get more than 1,000 yuan a month, although this money was not enough to make the mercenaries rich, but there was no problem in supporting their families, so there were about nearly 10,000 mercenaries involved in the Angolan civil war, and here in UNITA, there are still thousands of people still being hired.

But now, after the funding cut, the CIA has no money to pay these mercenaries, and Savimbi, who has lost the port, cannot pay these mercenaries without a stable income, and a vicious circle is created.

Because the salaries of the mercenaries cannot be paid, the mercenaries who can fight are rapidly lost, and UNITA's survival territory continues to be crushed, so that UNITA, which continues to have a sharp decline in income, cannot afford to pay salaries, and the loss of personnel will become more serious.

And the situation of South Africa's friendly forces is also not much better, because of the consistent policy, South Africa, as an alternative located in Africa but bent on colonial hegemony in Africa, has been targeted by a number of African countries, and even South Africa is not monolithic, at home, the full name of the African National Congress of South Africa is vigorously attacking the government's foreign policy, and they are also staring at the money bag.

The military and intelligence agencies, which have strongly advocated interference in Angola, have not been able to tear up with each other, and it can be said that since the second half of the year, everything has not gone well.

Even the Shadow Company was affected, and the two million funds that Savimbi had originally used to pay the Shadow Company became one million, but the content of the contract remained the same, and the Shadow Company was to train 2,000 military personnel for UNITA.

However, yes

2,000 people, and finally able to be sent to the Shadow Company, in fact, it is only more than 1,000 people, although UNITA is not to the point of exhaustion, but it is true that the human resources that can be called up are constantly decreasing, before UNITA can still mobilize child soldiers to fight, but now, there are few child soldiers, let alone young adults who can take up arms to fight.

"UNITA has no soldiers to fight!"

It is also ridiculous to say that two years ago, UNITA was the largest in Angola, not only occupied a lot of territory, but also had the best economy, and as the leader, Savimbi was even more prosperous in the international arena, but now, UNITA, which has only the last big city in hand, cannot even do a corner of safety, while their opponents are winning one after another.

At the end of '76, UNITA, which had been resting for more than half a year, tried to launch a counterattack on an unprecedented scale to regain lost territory, and with the support of the South African Army and Air Force, the plan went very smoothly in the early stage, with mercenaries going deep behind enemy lines to interfere and destroy, and the regular army attacking cities and territories on the front line, invincible, and the two sides cooperated closely, and the situation was about to be reversed. Look at the book

At the beginning of the fighting, the SPLM lost thousands of fighters, but then the Angolan government, which had established an initial mobilization system, immediately filled in with these losses.

On the front line, the Cuban Volunteers continued to rely on the terrain to block and consume, and after UNITA exhausted its reserve resources and there was no offensive spearhead on the front line, the SPLM immediately began a counteroffensive.

At the beginning of the new year in 1977, UNITA simply ceded Lubango, the last major city in its hands, and by this time, there were no more cities in UNITA-controlled areas, only the vast southern countryside.

Although he had lost the city, Savimbi did not intend to end there, and he was determined to continue the struggle by waging a guerrilla war from the countryside to encircle the city.

But in any case, the Angolan civil war has finally turned a new chapter, and in the past two years, Shepard, who has grabbed nearly 10 million benefits, can be regarded as completing his initial capital accumulation, and then his second step plan can be launched immediately.

After all, it's not good for a manly husband to always send people under the fence!