Chapter 563: Bombardment Headquarters
The Gendarmerie Command, which received a large amount of funding during Habré's reign, was more miserable than the National Army at the Command, which was built in a sturdy and imposing building, even larger than the House building in N'Djamena and second only to Habré's presidential residence.
The foundation of the building alone was dug nearly eight meters, and there are several hidden protective bunkers, hiding holes, ammunition depots, etc. underneath.
The main body of the building is made of reinforced concrete, which is more than a meter thick, and in addition to the sturdy structure, the gendarmes stationed here are the most loyal battalion under Habré, and the equipment is naturally the best.
Not only did they have artillery, armored vehicles, but also two second-hand 47 tanks given by the French, in addition, the infantry had Apilas bazookas and anti-tank missiles, and even on the roof of the building, the gendarmes frantically installed twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns.
By the time the Nationalist Army arrived at the Gendarmerie Headquarters, the gendarmes here had already learned the news of the Nationalist Army's entry into the city, and when they were prepared, the commander immediately dispatched a small force to lie dormant near the headquarters, ready to wait for an opportunity to sneak attack the invading enemy.
And the Nationalists thought that their offensive would go as smoothly as on the other side, so a 47 tank and about a platoon of infantry appeared on the road with a big bang.
Speaking from the heart, the tactics of the Nationalist army were not bad, with tanks covering in front and infantry flanks, and machine gunners setting up machine guns on street corners to cover the attack, but the problem was that their opponents were not ordinary.
The experienced commander of the gendarmerie did not rush to let people open fire, but waited for the tank to come within 100 meters before ordering the rocketeers hiding in the headquarters building to open fire.
The two rockets accurately hit the tank's upper armor and turret position, and the 47's protection was almost non-existent for the Apilas rockets, so the jets from the two rockets instantly killed the occupants of the vehicle, and ignited the vehicle's fuel tank and ammunition.
Subsequently, the gendarmes on the roof of the building also fired condescendingly at the national army in the street with mortars.
The Nationalist soldier was caught off guard and knocked down a large area, and the machine gunner on the corner tried to suppress the gendarmes with his weak firepower to cover the withdrawal of his teammates, and then he was targeted by the 23mm anti-aircraft gun, and the gendarmes unceremoniously fired a short burst at the position where the machine gunner was, and then the entire corner wall disappeared along with the machine gunner.
The Nationalist soldiers who followed the tanks in front tried to use the wreckage of the tanks as cover, but mortar shells falling from the sky immediately forced them out, and then, under the condescending crossfire of the gendarmes, they were all wiped out.
When this platoon of the Nationalists was completely annihilated, they did not even have time to report to the rear, so that another group of Nationalists came in pickup trucks and armored vehicles, and only then did they know that something had happened to them when they saw the burning tanks and the corpses on the streets.
And this team of national troops, under the leadership of the commander, also tried to move forward, and then was fired by anti-tank missiles, a Tao anti-tank missile from the United States directly blew up the AL90 armored car that posed the greatest threat to the military police, the protection of the four-wheeled armored vehicle carrying a 90 mm gun was almost zero, and after the missile hit, it directly caused the ammunition to detonate, not only to blow the hull apart, but also to blow up the huge turret into the sky.
The surrounding Nationalist soldiers suffered heavy casualties and had to flee backwards in embarrassment.
The commander who had lost the battle immediately called for friendly forces around him, and soon some people came to reinforce them, not only with heavy machine guns on board, but also mortars mounted on pickup trucks, but these firepower were of little use against the fortified building, and the mortar trucks were chased by the 120-mm large-caliber mortars of the gendarmes in the middle of the fire.
The Nationalists tried to advance through the buildings on both sides of the street, but the gendarmes blocked the corridors and opened the rooms between the buildings, making the Nationalist attack a failure.
The unbelieving Nationalist Army refurbished after retreating, and then brought in artillery from the barracks it had just taken, and the artillery deployed the artillery on the main road, and then loaded high-explosive shells and began to bombard the building of the gendarmerie headquarters.
After a few shots, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army waited with great anticrisy to see the effect of the shelling
But when the smoke cleared, the standing buildings and almost only broken outer walls shocked the soldiers of the National Army, and several officers of the National Army who had revolted before the war suddenly realized, no wonder we have not received our salaries for three months, and it turns out that the military expenses have been spent here!
I don't know if it was because of the salary or the envy and jealousy of the gendarmes, the artillerymen then began to reload even more violently, and then opened fire, until the barrels were overheated, and the soldiers carrying the shells could not raise their arms before stopping, and then the building was still the same building, the only difference was that the repeated bombardment finally made a gap in the front of the building.
It's just that before the artillerymen were happy, they heard the rumbling sound of tracks.
"Our tanks?"
"Like...... No, those *** gendarmes came out in tanks!"
Sharp-eyed people saw two 47 tanks climbing over the façade that had turned into ruins. The muzzle of the gun was raised high and aimed at this side.
The Nationalist Army then dispersed, and the attack of the 47 tank followed, and the grenades hit the artillery directly, turning it into scrap metal.
Then, the two military police 47 tanks continued along the road like a domineering crab general, and attacked the fleeing national army with grenades, until they reached the side of the artillery, the tanks stopped, and then the 47, under the control of the driver, began to rotate in place with the track on one side, and the cannon that had turned into scrap metal turned into a pile of scrap metal under the crush of the tank, and then the gendarmes' tanks returned to the headquarters building as if they were satisfied.
The Nationalist Army, which had no choice but to abandon the place and send people to guard it, used all kinds of garbage piled up at the intersection as a temporary barrier to prevent the gendarmerie from counterattacking.
Subsequently, the commander ran all over the city, and finally found Idris, who was directing the operation, and reported the problem about the gendarmerie headquarters.
The latter also had a headache after listening to the war report, those die-hard armed gendarmes were indeed a trouble, but at the moment his national army units were scattered throughout N'Djamena, and the anti-tank weapons were insufficient, so they had to be put aside first to attack the strongholds that were better occupied.
"Have your men keep an eye on them, and when we're done occupying the rest of the city, we'll go take care of the gendarmerie headquarters!"