Chapter 562: Into the City!
"How's Idris doing?"
"You're almost ready!"
"What did the gendarmes say?"
"The two battalions of the 1st Regiment have agreed to our terms and executed the overseers sent from above, but the 1st Battalion is a bit difficult!"
"What's so hard?"
"The first battalion is full of hardcore Habrés, and the commander is the nephew of the other party, so there is no way to rebel!"
"Then give up and leave them alone! Let Idris's men take care of it!"
Although the main body of the coup team was Idris, the Shadow Company was also busy, and Shepard bet all his cards on Idris, naturally not wanting anything to happen in the process of transferring power.
And in order to reduce the collateral damage as much as possible, he sent his men to frequent contact with the military police officers who were still dutiful, and although there were many die-hards, some of them were also flexible.
Things have developed to such a point, those gendarmerie officers are not stupid, naturally know the balance of forces between the enemy and us, many people are uneasy, they want to surrender, but they are afraid that surrender will be liquidated, and Idris's troops are on the outskirts of N'Djamena, and the gendarmes do not dare to break and flee, so they can only stand up like this.
However, after the representatives of the Shadow Company approached these people, the gendarmes soon had a choice, in the event of an uprising, Idris would not liquidate them later, nor would they persecute them, they would be tried by a military court, and they would be incorporated into the northern national army troops to garrison the line, and serve as the vanguard in the next Libyan conflict in Chad, as a way to pay for their previous mistakes.
Conversely, the gendarmes will not destroy the infrastructure of the city, nor will they resist when the Idris army enters, they will peacefully hand over equipment and weapons, as well as bases and other facilities.
After reaching an agreement with a considerable part of the gendarmerie troops, Idris, who had already completed the reorganization of his squad outside the city, immediately gave the order to march.
Subsequently, an armoured company that served as the vanguard was the first to run over the toll gate on the N'Djamena road and officially entered the city.
Behind the armored forces were a large number of motorized infantry composed of various wheeled vehicles, including pickup trucks, although these people were not necessarily strong in combat, but most of them had several years of military experience, so they could be used to ensure order in N'Djamena in times of turmoil.
As for the war, you can only look at the tank company headed by them, their equipment is more miscellaneous, a company of four tanks, there are three models, the leader is a T55, captured from Libya, and an of40, which is also from Libya, abandoned in the desert by Libyan tank soldiers, and then picked up by the Chadian army, and the remaining two are second-hand 47 tanks eliminated by France.
Although the tank models are varied, fortunately, these tank soldiers have all studied in the law school, and there is no problem in controlling these equipment.
The gendarmes in N'Djamena were unprepared for the surprise attack of the national army, and the police, who were supposed to be used to guard the situation, ran away before they even saw the shadow of the tank, and the gendarmes stationed on the defensive line also turned back early.
It can be said that N'Djamena is a big funnel at the moment, and those soldiers who are still loyal to the Habré regime occupy only a few important strongholds, such as Habré's official residence, the headquarters of the National Army, the gendarmerie headquarters and the two barracks in the city, in addition to the gendarmes in other areas obediently laying down their weapons and waiting for the arrival of the National Army.
The gendarmes set up a 105 mm French howitzer at the location of the headquarters of the National Army, and the artillery used direct fire to aim, staring at the intersection in front of the headquarters.
He sat in the commander's seat and kept urging the gunner to turn the turret around, and at the same time ordered the loader to load an of412 grenade, while the gendarmes on the opposite side were also scrambling to reload.
Both sides completed the loading almost at the same time, and then fired at the same time, but the gunner of the T55 was a little too impatient and fired the shell without waiting for the gun to be fully aimed, so the grenade fired by the T55 flew over the head of the gun crew and blasted off the porch of the headquarters building, by the way
Killed two hapless gendarmes.
And the howitzer group fired a shell that hit the T55 tank solidly.
The huge explosion made the tankmen in the tank feel like the ground was shaking, and the loader who did not stand still even touched his head and broke the blood, but this blow did not penetrate the turret, but only smashed a fist-sized hole in the armor, and at the same time the fragments also damaged the gunner's optical sight and coaxial machine gun, as well as the commander's anti-aircraft machine gun.
"Is the tank alright?"
"Still working!"
"Then continue to reload......
As soon as the commander finished speaking, he saw the loader with blood on his face and extremely painful, and then he cursed secretly, picked up the AK rifle next to him, pushed open the hatch above his head, and fired at the crew who was about to load the second round.
The gendarmes were startled by the sudden bullet, but they hid behind their shields and completed the second reload.
"Shit!"
The commander got back into the car in fright and shouted.
"Second shot!"
This time the crew did not suffer any further damage, but the T55's turret rotation went wrong, and the lubricating oil sprayed the gunner's face through the ruptured pipe.
However, the gendarmes did not have a chance to reload the third round, because the second of40 tank rushed over.
The Italian-made tank saved the first tank by blasting the gun into the air with an armor-piercing shell.
Then, as if venting, the T55, which had recovered from the chaos, then relied on the way of aiming at the vehicle body and launched a crazy shelling of the headquarters building, and the gendarmes stationed here did not expect the other party to hit so hard, seeing that the room in front of the building was almost destroyed by the other party, the gendarmes who had been frightened immediately raised their weapons and waved the white flag.
When the follow-up motorized infantry arrived, they saw two tanks parked on the road, one left and one right, and on the left side of the car stood a black-faced, dirty tanker, who was cursing and bandaging the wounds of his bloodied companions.
Their commander, carrying an AK rifle, commanded dozens of grizzled gendarmes to sit down peacefully in front of the tank.
After seeing the infantry arrive, the commander did not forget to laugh at the other party.
"See, I can do it without you!"
"See, it's a bit costly, right?"
The infantry commander replied, pointing to the position where the fire was being fired on the turret of the tank.