Chapter 564: Can't afford to ask for foreign help?
The Eviction of N'Djamena was so successful that most of N'Djamena's strongholds were captured overnight, and in many cases the government forces took them without firing a single shot.
However, there are exceptions, such as the bombed and dilapidated Nationalist Army Headquarters Building, Army Reserve Warehouse, etc., where the gendarmes stationed here are die-hard faction, and the Nationalist Army often has to spend some effort to take it.
And when it was daybreak, only two places in the whole city, the Gendarmerie Headquarters and Habré's residence, were still resisting.
These two places gathered the last traitors in the city at this moment, the hopeless kind, these guys have done those angry things in the past, and they are not doing it secretly, but doing it in a bright and bright way, so that Idris does not dare to put forward conditions, you must know that most of the armed forces in the city are following Idris to take revenge, so these people will definitely die.
The gendarmes also knew that they were certain to die, so they resisted very resolutely, and both the headquarters and the official residence had built a large number of defenses and warehouses in the past, which contained enough ammunition and food for an army to hold out for weeks or even a month, and these facilities were still hidden underground, and there was no good way to destroy them.
As an African army, the national army also lacked the ability to attack fortifications, and its artillery was only 105 caliber old howitzers, and most of these guns were sold to Chad in poor condition after being used crudely by the French, not to mention damaged, and sometimes the accuracy of the shells could be crooked to the point that I don't know where to go.
And the tanks and armored vehicles in the hands of the national army are also very few, and the anti-tank firepower is almost non-existent, and the advanced gadgets given by the French are all thrown by Habré to the gendarmerie units, so for a while, the national army really can't gnaw on these two hard bones.
However, even so, the Nationalist Army still did not give up, they had a lot of mortars and large-caliber machine guns in their hands, relying on these firepower, the Nationalist Army after paying not a small casualty, it can be regarded as pressing back the small group of gendarmes on the periphery of the military police headquarters, but in the subsequent attack, these mortars and heavy machine guns were not very strong.
After the anti-aircraft guns on the top floor of the headquarters were leveled, they were condescending, and there was no opponent within two kilometers, whether it was a pickup truck or an armored car, it was not a unified enemy at the moment in the roaring barrage, and it was useless for Idris to then transfer the of40 tank, the tank crew was constantly fired by the anti-aircraft guns, first the sighting device was damaged, and then the engine was also paralyzed, and as a last resort, the crew could only escape from the tank in embarrassment.
Now that Idris had only two tanks left, he had to give an order to the Nationalist Army, stationed in Mongo, another major industrial town, a few dozen kilometers away, to send an ERC90f armored company stationed there.
This is a wheeled assault vehicle produced by Panhard, which Habré purchased from France, a total of 36 units, but France has only delivered 12 units so far.
This kind of armored vehicle is currently used by the French, not only with improved 90-mm guns, but also with infrared night vision devices, ballistic computers, laser rangefinders and other equipment, which was originally prepared by Habré to deal with the Libyans, but unexpectedly, the first operation, the task was to destroy the rebels.
However, even if the armored vehicles were transferred, the national army still could not help the other side, and the military police headquarters was located on high ground, and there were three roads in the company, but now these roads were covered with the wreckage of destroyed vehicles, so that the subsequent arrival of armored vehicles could not advance, and the roads had to be cleared.
But clearing the road will be bombarded by 120 mortars on the high ground, and the national army is now directly in the situation of adding more water and more water, and they have gathered hundreds of troops under the high ground, including infantry, artillery, and armored troops, but they just can't go any further.
When Idris came to inspect the battle after taking a break from his busy chores, he saw his troops retreating in disarray under mortar bombardment, and the 120 mortars locked up the kilometres of road leading to the high ground.
However, most of the howitzer bombardment on the side of the government army was blocked by the headquarters building, because of the angle problem, they could not directly hit the building, let alone long-range curved fire, according to the technology of these two knives, the shells in the warehouse could not be suppressed.
"Let the brethren get down!"
"Sir, let me rush with my brothers one more time!"
"There's no point in retreating, and then rushing down!"
Idris lowered his binoculars, his brow furrowed, and finally, as if he had made an extremely difficult decision, he spoke to his lieutenant.
"Bring the phone!"
A few moments later, in a private estate not far from N'Djamena, the conversation was interrupted by the rapid ringing of a bell.
"Hey?"
"Mr. Hannibal, I need your help!"
Hannibal, who took the phone, raised his left hand to signal the others to be quiet, and then nodded at Shepard, who was playing chess with others, before replying.
"Half an hour!"
Subsequently, Hannibal hung up the phone.
"That guy doesn't seem to be able to do anything with those strongholds?"
"It's the same with us swapping places, unless we're besieged for a few days, but Idris is in a hurry, he can't wait a few days!"
"Then let Sandman do it!"
Shepard pushed the chessboard in front of him away and said with a straight face.
"Boss, can you push the chessboard just without seeing if you lose?"
"What? Am I going to lose, how come I don't remember? If you don't believe us, we'll have another plate!"
Shepard's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he was ashamed to put the chess pieces back in place.
At a small military airfield not far from the estate, three Little Bird helicopters are making final preparations for takeoff.
With the ground crew's ready gesture, three Bird helicopters with rapid-fire machine guns and rocket nests took off into the air, then quickly climbed in the direction of N'Djamena.
It was already ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was already high in the sky, and the gendarmes on the roof of the headquarters had a rare break to rest, and they immediately hurried to replenish ammunition, eat and drink, recover their strength, and prepare for the next wave of attack.
And just as one of the gendarmes was about to put it in his mouth with a scone roll meat sauce, he suddenly seemed to hear something, and then stood up.
His companion was puzzled, and was about to speak, when he turned around.
"Did you hear anything?"
"What's the sound?"
"It's like some kind of whistling ......."
"The sound of a helicopter?"
"yes, that's it!"
Several gendarmes then began to look around, but there was no sign of the helicopter until the rotors grew louder and louder, and at last someone saw a bird swooping down with its back to the sun.
"An American helicopter!"