The current situation is that the government forces are completely on the defensive, shrinking across the board, sticking to Takikati, the palace, and the airport. Takikati is a desert city with large distances between houses and buildings. In addition, this is a war between Arabs.
In a civil war, there will be no desperate resistance, and brutal street fighting can be avoided.
Liu Handong's command was determined, and he sent two battalions to attack the airport in a feint attack posture, while the other two battalions laid an ambush on the road from the palace to the airport. This strategy was tried and tested many times during the Liberation War.
The airport is an important link between Colin and the outside world. If the airport falls, the royal family will lose even the chance to escape. If they attack it, they will be rescued, and the chance of winning is high.
The army set off in a mighty manner, with pickup trucks kicking up billowing smoke and dust on the desert. The mercenaries wore goggles and wrapped in Arabic tea towels, looking majestic and murderous.
Liu Handong was sitting in a Humvee, looking at his army with great pride in his heart, as if he were a warlord. Once Tajikati was conquered, he would have a taste of what it was like to control a country.
Barnes and he were sitting in the same car. The CIA agent was also very proud and confident. The two exchanged words and laughed heartily from time to time.
In the evening, the battle to attack the airport began. The guerrillas were best at feinting attacks. They could just fire artillery from a distance. The international airport had long been closed and all flights were grounded. Air Force fighter jets were frightened by the guerrillas' anti-aircraft missiles and did not dare to take off.
, because the take-off and landing stages of aircraft are the most vulnerable to attack. In the Afghan battlefield, a considerable proportion of Soviet aircraft were shot down by guerrillas ambushing nearby when they were landing or taking off.
The airport was in crisis, and the army defending the palace rushed to help. A mechanized infantry battalion was surrounded and was subjected to a round of rocket launchers and large-caliber machine guns. After raising the white flag, it surrendered.
The army was not absolutely loyal to Said. It gave up resistance as soon as the gunshots were fired. The rebels did not kill prisoners like ISIS did. Instead, they hugged and kissed the surrendered government troops and welcomed them to join the team of jihadists loyal to Allah.
With the support of the Army's armored vehicles, the rebels' morale was greatly boosted and they rushed into the airport with force. After sporadic fighting, in the early morning of the next day, the green scimitar flag of the rebels was raised over the airport building.
At this time, Liu Handong could already see the white spire of the Tajikati Grand Mosque with his telescope. He was very proud and had thousands of elite soldiers under his command. He felt like Guderian in early December 1941, with Moscow right in front of him, but
We cannot repeat the mistakes of the Germans and must take this city in one go.
The order in Takikati City is good. Over the past year, coups have come and gone, and the people have become accustomed to it. The king's flag changes on the city wall. No matter how it changes, it is still a member of the Saleh family and has little to do with them.
Those migrant workers were extremely excited, because rumors said that after the victory of the resistance army, the second-generation immigrants would be granted citizenship, which was something they dreamed of.
The regime change in Takikati seems to be happening soon. Some Western reporters have even prepared pages and articles, just waiting for the rebels to enter the city.
The Zhongyanhuang construction site is in a state of complete shutdown. The situation in Colin has further deteriorated. The leaders are worried. Behind the resistance are Americans. They will definitely tear up the contract after taking power. All the efforts of the past two years have been in vain. This is still light and the most difficult to accept.
What is happening is that the national energy security strategy has come to a standstill. A good move was made badly.
Tang Jianjun, general manager of the power plant construction headquarters, is full of complaints. He is not a low-ranking person and has access to some inside information. According to him, if the country could spend a lot of money to support Saied, it would not lead to today's situation. Not to mention the heavy losses to the country, the workers
Your life safety will also be threatened.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is already organizing the evacuation of overseas Chinese, and the warships escorting the Somali waters are coming again. Of course, they are limited to protecting workers and will never interfere in Colin's internal affairs.
The palace was still under heavy defense, and no elite paratroopers or marines were dispatched. Said sat firmly in the central military tent, taking his time and posture as if he would live and die with the soldiers, which boosted morale.
In a room on the second floor of the palace, Mr. Thorpe blew the ink on the secret contract and picked up the satellite phone.
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Outside the city of Takikati, hundreds of military vehicles of the rebel army were ready to attack. Liu Handong was about to give the order to attack. Suddenly, Barnes came over with a satellite phone and said: "Wait a minute, the king proposed negotiations, let us give him one day."
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Liu Handong looked at his watch: "Give him one hour."
Barnes shrugged: "So harsh?"
Liu Handong said: "Things are changing so fast that we cannot afford to wait."
"Okay, one hour," Barnes replied.
In the sky, a Global Hawk drone flies over.
An hour later, while Barnes was still talking on the phone, Liu Handong became impatient. He gave the negotiation time because he did not want any more bloodshed. Attacking a city is different from fighting in the desert. The casualties will inevitably be huge. If it can be resolved peacefully, why must people die?
I was just seeking money, and I couldn't commit so many crimes.
Suddenly, Barnes stopped and looked at the horizon with confusion. Liu Handong followed his gaze and saw an FA18 carrier-based fighter jet emerging from the clouds and roaring towards him.
There is no doubt that the US Fifth Fleet intervened, which were fighter jets on the USS Washington.
Then several more fighter jets appeared. This fighter nicknamed the Super Hornet has powerful ground attack capabilities. It is far from comparable to the Colin Air Force's Mountain Eagle attack aircraft. The quality of the U.S. Navy pilots is even worse. It's cliche.
Hongying No. 5 should not cause any trouble to the Super Hornet.
The resistance's armaments were still in the 1960s, and they were completely unable to compete with the world's strongest armed forces. They suddenly collapsed. Liu Handong saw fireballs rising in front of his eyes, and his eardrums were shocked to the point of hearing no sound. All he saw was Ba
Enns looked horrified and shouted something at himself with his mouth wide open. The military vehicles behind him were blown to pieces.
Liu Handong didn't even remember how he escaped. His memory was full of purgatory-like colors. The bodies burned to charcoal in the wreckage of military vehicles, the sky-high flames, the charred ground, and the team of thousands of people were massacred within five minutes.
Clean and without any power to fight back.
The Super Hornets finished firing their ammunition and walked away, followed closely by the reserve force of the government army. The rebels were completely gone and they simply fled without even fighting.
Government troops were in hot pursuit, and Said issued a death order that must be eradicated.
A pursuit started in the desert. Liu Handong drove wildly in his car. Barnes sat in the car and made a loud phone call. He was completely confused as to why the US military would support Saied. He was clearly the spokesperson of US interests, but he
All the numbers are blocked.
"Look!" Liu Handong pointed forward, frightened.
The desert storm came, pushing over quickly like a wall, reaching a height of hundreds of meters, overwhelming the sky, and swallowing everything.
After the sandstorm ended, King Said, dressed in military uniform, personally inspected the battlefield. There was a scorched earth outside the city. The wreckage of dozens of military vehicles were burned by fire on the spot. Corpses were strewn across the field, covered with a layer of sand. This scene reminded him of
In the 1990s, on the Highway of Death from Kuwait to Iraq, tens of thousands of armored troops were bombed by the coalition air force during their evacuation. Vehicles and corpses stretched for dozens of kilometers.
This was a civil war, and a large part of the corpses were Corinthians. Said had a stern expression and was silent. After looking around, he said: "This was an avoidable war."
The rebels were wiped out, and the situation in Colin was dramatically reversed again. News spread that Said would sign a contract with a little-known American company, Norman Petroleum, to sell the oil field with the richest reserves in Colin.
The stock price of Norman Petroleum soared, doubling several times overnight, and it is still rising at a rocket speed. The stock market is forward-looking, and the prospects of Norman Petroleum are promising. Financial analysts analyzed that Exxon Mobil will acquire this small company at a sky-high price.
company.
In a villa in Beijing, Yao Guang and Feng Yong celebrated each other. They bought a large number of shares of Norman Petroleum at an extremely low price, and now they have made more than a hundred times. Moreover, this transaction was done extremely beautifully and basically cost nothing.
cost.
"Open the wine, open my bottle of 1998 red wine." Yao Guang beamed with joy and patted Feng Yong on the shoulder, "Fat man, you can do it. You can make a lot of money from Americans."
Feng Yong smiled reservedly: "Who am I, a stock market sniper? Wall Street is trembling under my crotch."
Yao Guang laughed and scolded: "You said you were fat and you still had asthma. If it weren't for my great help, how could you have been so successful?"
Feng Yong said: "Isn't it okay for me to treat you? I'm going to Macau tomorrow. If you win, it's yours. If you lose, it's mine."
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In southern Iraq, Liu Handong and Barnes, who had survived the disaster, were hiding here. The troops were dispersed and almost all the troops were destroyed. The benevolent Majesty Said announced an amnesty. Many people surrendered, leaving only mercenaries and some extreme
The religious people and mercenaries did not leave because they had not received the money yet, and the religious people hated Said so much that they were incompatible with him.
A group of extremely fierce mercenaries outside were clamoring for money, but Liu Handong had been squeezed dry. All his money was invested in arms advances, but the CIA's funds were probably never available.
Barnes is extremely corrupt. As a senior agent, he understands that he has been betrayed. Just like in the movie "Wild Goose", the capitalists and the rulers reached a dirty deal, and the soldiers became outcasts.
, this is understandable, but what makes him despair is that the CIA even tricked its own people without notifying them in advance. If it were not for his fate, he might have been bombed outside the city of Takikati.
He learned some things through old relationships. Langley classified him as an out-of-control person, which meant that he was no longer organized, could not go to safe houses, could not use various resources, and could not get support and trust. He was no longer a
A member of the CIA.
"We really have to do something for ourselves now." Barnes said to Liu Handong worriedly.
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