Battlefield Contract Worker

At this time, Mali's bomber had returned to the base smoothly, and the major was anxiously waiting for the news at the general headquarters. When he heard that Lin Rui had found four crew members including Captain James, he immediately shouted excitedly: "Too Great! I knew this Rick would save them! This guy is amazing! When he comes back, I will buy him a drink!"

The Mali officer looked up at the major and said with a smile: "You can rest assured that as long as Rick finds them, he will be able to send them back. I have confidence in him. You wait and get the bar ready!"

You guys can't imagine how powerful these guys are! "

But the major sitting beside him still frowned. He still has a pilot under him, who is also trapped in the jungle, and there is no news for the time being. This makes him very worried about his pilot.

The Mali officer saw the major's worry, so he comforted him: "Major, I know you are worried about your pilot, I can assure you, as long as Rick is notified, he will try his best to rescue your pilot." !

I can assure you on my credit! "

"Okay, I believe what you said, General, and I hope he is okay! Thank you!" The major nodded and thanked him.

The Mali officer looked at the reports of all parties and said to everyone: "Although we have suffered some losses this time, compared with the results obtained, our losses are still worthwhile.

Rick and the others have confirmed that your air strike was a success, and the ammunition depot of the Tuaregs at the outpost has been successfully destroyed by you.

Judging from the power of the explosion, there is a large amount of ammunition stored in this ammunition depot, and all of them should have been destroyed by now! At the same time, a small oil warehouse was also destroyed, which caused a big forest fire, and some other nearby warehouses were also affected. Now the outpost is basically worthless!

This will undoubtedly be a major blow to the Tuaregs stationed in the west of the Niger Valley by the Eighth Regiment. They will never be able to replenish so much food, ammunition and fuel before the rainy season arrives!

This will play a vital role in our counterattack in the future, allowing us to gain a major advantage! In fact, so far, this air strike has achieved the original goal, even if the operation is ended now, it can be regarded as a successful completion of the operation plan!

So if you all work hard for a few more days, it is estimated that this operation will be over! "

What the Mali officer said is actually correct. The core target of the attack planned by Lin Rui this time is not the regiment headquarters of the Tuaregs, and the vital forces of the Tuaregs stationed in the Niger Valley. .

Their core target is actually the material storage center of the Tuareg Eighth Regiment. After these two bombings, the strategic materials such as food and ammunition stored around the Tuareg outposts have basically disappeared. completely destroyed by them.

Moreover, in the second bombing operation, they dropped a few smoke bombs to a small warehouse other than the Tuareg ammunition depot. Even they themselves did not expect that the small warehouse not too far from the ammunition depot , It turned out to be an oil warehouse, which stored a batch of lubricating oil and fuel oil needed by the Tuareg people.

Anyone who is familiar with weapons knows that guns need to be cleaned and maintained when they are not in use. Especially in tropical jungles, the air humidity is very high. If the gun is not cleaned for a few days, the gun will rust and affect the operation. , so a lot of gun oil is needed to maintain the weapon.

In addition, many of the weapons equipped by the Tuareg are relatively old, which can easily cause the ammunition to freeze when these automatic weapons are used. Their solution is to apply a large amount of lubricating oil to the bullets or ammunition feeding devices of these guns to reduce jamming failures.

So the Tuaregs don’t have many motor vehicles or armored vehicles, but their demand for lubricating oil is not small. Once they lose the gun oil, after a rainy season, they estimate that many guns will not be able to fire. It rang.

Also, after the oil warehouse was bombed, the incendiary bomb ignited the oil in it, causing a big fire. The blown-up oil barrels flew far away with smoke and fire, which caused another fire in the jungle .

After Lin Rui succeeded, although he led his troops to retreat immediately, they kept running far away. Looking back towards the outpost, they saw thick smoke billowing around the outpost. Lao Gao, it can be seen that the fire caused by this bombing is definitely not small.

Even if the Tuareg warehouses were not concentrated together, the fire still spread to a large area around, and some Tuareg warehouses were also affected. Warehouses of military uniforms were also set on fire, burning a large number of Tuareg uniforms.

The military uniforms of these Tuaregs are also mostly cotton, which is not durable. Under the hot and humid environment, coupled with the soaking of sweat, they rot quickly. Originally, the military uniforms they replenished have arrived, but in order to save money, However, they did not distribute these quilts, and asked their soldiers to persist for a period of time. They planned to replace the soldiers with brand-new military uniforms after they entered Gao, and enter Gao to show off as victors.

As a result, this second bombing operation destroyed the quilt warehouse, and the Eighth Regiment would probably have to wait until the Year of the Monkey if they wanted to get another supply of quilts.

All in all, these two actions, intentionally or unintentionally, caused huge losses to the Eighth Regiment. A large number of materials stored in the outpost have now been reduced to ashes. The status of the material storage center of the entire outpost is now Now it no longer exists, and has become a tasteless stronghold.

So the Mali officer was right. Even if Lin Rui and the others withdrew now, the operation would have been considered a complete success. This operation had dealt an unimaginable blow to the Eighth Regiment.

Lin Rui can guarantee that the situation will change because of this. When the counter-offensive begins, the Eighth Regiment will never be able to fight in the Niger Valley for a long time.

Once again, Mali's high-level executives learned of the news quickly, and once again applauded. In his opinion, they now have all the conditions for a counterattack, except that the rainy season is coming, which will bring them trouble. , the rest is no longer a problem.

Immediately, the Mali army decided to celebrate Lin Rui and his troops. These guys would give them a surprise almost every now and then, and each time it far exceeded his expectations. This made the Mali army really love it. These mercenaries are dead.

It's a good deal. Now they are counting with their fingers, whether it is Mali or the local army that is under his control in Mali, there are really few people like Lin Rui who can give him a surprise from time to time.

And the victories, in addition to boosting the morale of the Mali army, also earned him enough attention and face. When he was expelled from the north by Tuareg, many people in the country questioned the capabilities of the Mali military. Some even simply said that the defense chief is a fool and an idiot, and asked to remove him from his post and put him From being transferred back to the country for review.

But fortunately, the president resisted all opinions and continued to keep him in office, and gave him enough power and trust to make him continue to work.

But even so, domestic doubts about the ability of the Mali Defense Minister have not stopped until Lin Rui appeared, first killed a company of Tuaregs with fewer victories, then attacked the station, and later Killed a company of Tuaregs that were pursuing them.

After this victory was reported back to the country, many voices about his ability were immediately subdued. Since then, it has been out of control. Then Lin Rui was ordered to lead a team to attack the enemy's airport again, and it was half like a sharp knife. At the most unlikely time, at the most unlikely place, he stabbed the Tuareg's confidant with a knife.

This victory, coupled with the fact that he sent bombers to bomb the airport later, and the news of these two victories was sent back to Mali together, finally made the voices questioning his ability much quieter. It can be said that he won more domestic support for him and made him have With capital and qualifications, open your mouth to fight for more supplies from the country.

Recently, many material lists proposed by the military have been approved by the country relatively smoothly. It is no longer like before. Open your mouth to submit a material application list, which needs to be reviewed step by step through many review procedures. Even if it is In the end, after passing the review, some discounts are often required to distribute the materials to the front line like alms.

The situation is much better now, and most of the military's requirements for supplies have basically been met.

Because of the successful surprise attack on the enemy's airport, the Mali Air Force gained air supremacy in the north in advance, and Mali's domestic support for the Air Force's transport aircraft increased the number of transport aircraft by more than 30% compared with the same period in history.

In addition, these transport planes used to take very dangerous routes to transport supplies to the front line. Now most of the transport planes can take the safer southern route to the front-line airport, which makes the number of losses of transport planes much less than that of the same period in history. , In this way, the efficiency of transportation has increased by nearly 50% compared with before.

This has also greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the current Mali domestic army, enabling it to obtain more fuel, artillery, and ammunition, and arm more Malian troops.

Of course, it is impossible for the Mali Defense Chief to know these things, but he can personally feel that in recent months, his work has become much smoother than before, and various things have progressed much more smoothly.

What made Lin Rui even more happy was that Mali finally sent him the first formalized Mali army, which was a special synthetic unit that had completed training before.

This force is not officially organized by the Mali Army, but a special volunteer force, the size of which is only a regiment-level force, and the personnel are all volunteers recruited from all over Africa, with a strength of about 3,000.

It is said that they are volunteers, but they are actually mercenaries bought with money.

This allowed Lin Rui to finally get the first Mali combat unit from Mali that could be directly under his command and could be used for ground combat.

Before that, he only had about 1,000 Trident mercenaries directly under his command and the special forces of the Mali Army.

Most of the members of the other Trident troops are actually still deploying shore with the actuary along the joint defense line.

On the other hand, Mali sent basically only the army aviation unit and some transport or engineering units. Except for the aviation unit, those transport and engineering units can only be used for logistical support or road construction projects, but cannot be used. Fight directly.

Now Mali has finally sent him a unit belonging to Mali. Although the number is not large, only about 3,000 people, after all, he has a usable Mali combat unit in his hands.

This was what made Lin Rui happiest. It made him straighten up a lot. He no longer had to look at the face of the Mali army for everything, and needed to constantly coordinate the relationship with Mali.

Now Lin Rui has successfully carried out an air strike. In the Niger Valley, with the support of the Mali Army Aviation, he killed a large number of strategic materials stored by the Eighth Regiment. Now that the Eighth Regiment is in combat operations, it should have been taken It was unspeakably blocked.

As an enemy of the Tuaregs, Lin Rui looked at these issues from the perspective of the new division commander of the Eighth Regiment, and felt a headache for the other party, which also made him more confident in the future counterattack.

Now the Mali military has made up its mind, as long as Lin Rui comes back, he will immediately transfer more troops here, let Lin Rui personally teach them some jungle combat skills, so that they can counterattack in the future Among them, it became another sharp blade in his hand.

But when Mali's high-level executives came up with this idea, the situation on Lin Rui's side was not very good.

The Tuareg front-line commander was at the outpost and was almost killed by the machine guns of the fighter planes that attacked the outpost, and blew up high-value targets such as the ammunition depot, oil warehouse, and clothing warehouse of the outpost. He slapped the Tuareg frontline commander severely.

When the Tuareg frontline commander was bombing, he was disgraced and embarrassed, and he lost his face in front of his subordinates. When he walked out of the air defense bunker after the enemy plane flew away to check the loss of the outpost, he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

After the entire outpost experienced two major bombings, it can be said that the various strategic materials stored here are almost depleted. They also worked hard before, building many warehouses here, and storing a large amount of materials. Burned almost completely, reduced to ashes.

The Tuareg front-line commander looked at the fire that was still burning in front of him, and he was heartbroken. He was so angry that he even ordered to stop fighting the fire, and to withdraw the existing troops here, as well as the troops that had been sent out. return.

A desperate pursuit was launched against the group of enemies who dared to offend him under his nose. (end of this chapter)