Chapter 71
It was a little after four in the morning.
The first C-17 transport plane landed at the Bogota airport.
It stopped steadily, and when the rear door of the rear cabin was opened, fully armed soldiers rushed out.
After the cargo hold was emptied, the transport plane slowly slid to another runway, which was the take-off runway.
At the same time, the second transport plane also landed on the runway and slowly slid to the apron.
One after another.
In less than 40 minutes, the soldiers of the 6th Brigade were delivered to the airport on 9 transport planes.
They did not take the initiative to attack, but quickly guarded the intersection leading to the airport.
After all, the ammunition of the armed helicopter formation is not unlimited. After the fight, they have to return to the air force base to replenish ammunition. At that time, the real difficulty comes. After all, the enemy has armored vehicles, and the aircraft carrier is full of light infantry, and no vehicles have been transported.
The only deterrent to the enemy armored vehicles is the RPG-7 rocket launcher and the Stinger air defense missile. The latter is fine for thin-skinned armored vehicles, but if it encounters a thick-skinned vehicle, it will just be a tickle.
���Only RPG can destroy enemy armor.
Cartagena.
Gavin and others breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the soldiers of the 6th Brigade had been deployed to Bogota Airport.
With the thousands of people in the 6th Brigade, they can at least hold out for a while.
Looking at the situation of both sides on the map, Gavin looked solemn:"For the second wave of deployment, take out 5 transport planes, load the armored vehicles of the 6th Brigade, and focus on the ZTL-11 105mm wheeled assault guns.
They are in urgent need of firepower support.
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"Yes, the commander is right. The current situation is the most difficult. Once the armed helicopter formation is unable to provide firepower, the two enemy brigades will rush to the airport quickly and use armored vehicles to cause a major crisis to our army. Corey said
"Commander, two brigades of the enemy's 5th Division are coming back to support. According to the drone footage, they are expected to reach Bogota in an hour. We must delay their march, otherwise the 6th Brigade and the Special Service Regiment will face too much pressure.'"
Chief of Staff Bosney said worriedly while looking at the map.
Gavin frowned.
This is not good news.
"Let the Black Hawk take over the Z-10 and Apache flight formations, and continue to block the enemy's rapid reaction force, special forces and the 14th, and tell them to hold them off. Also, let the Z-10 and Apache flight formations return to the base immediately to replenish ammunition, and the Super Stallions should not be idle, and hoist some armored vehicles over."
The Black Hawk helicopter is a general-purpose helicopter. Although it is mainly used as a transport aircraft by the National Army, it is still equipped with weapons and ammunition, and also carries rockets and missiles, but it does not carry as many as the armed helicopters.
"Also, order the 1st Xiaolong Squadron to re-equip itself with air-to-ground missiles and rush to reinforce the 6th Brigade.
The so-called 1st Xiaolong Squadron is the Xiaolong fleet that first launched a fire attack.
After a fierce bombing, it returned to the air force base.
"Commander, do you think you should let the ground forces deployed along the Magdalena River attack the remnants of the enemy's 7th Division? This will reduce the pressure on the troops in Bogota. If the enemy's 7th Division is annihilated and the defense zone is captured, it will also be connected with Bogota, so that they will not be isolated."
The deputy chief of staff, former commander of the 1st Division of the government army, Waters, made a suggestion.
Gavin looked at him twice, then looked at the battle map in front of him, and after thinking for a moment, he nodded:"Your suggestion is feasible"
"Order the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade to encircle the remaining forces of the enemy's 7th Division from two directions, and after annihilating the remaining enemy, advance quickly towards Bogota.
"After being crippled for several months, the enemy's 7th Division retreated to the Lower Maria area for rest and recuperation.
Now it has restored the organization of 3 brigades, but it is easy to recruit people, but there are almost no weapons and ammunition, especially armored vehicles and tanks.
After all, the government army is already poor.
Where is the money to replenish the 7th Division with heavy equipment.
Just when the National Army and the government army were fighting fiercely.
The US military was not idle either. Satellites overhead were observing the situation, and drones were also conducting high-altitude reconnaissance.
After some analysis, it was believed that the National Army was too bold and actually wanted to score in the middle and send soldiers over long distances through air assaults.
If this is not handled well, it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out.
However, in Taking into account the advanced weapons and equipment of the National Army and the poor combat effectiveness of the Colombian government forces, the National Army will most likely be the winner of this Bogota assault.
In addition, the U.S. military also gives a very high evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the National Army. (To read the exciting novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)
They even think that in terms of the use of strategic delivery and helicopters, the strategic and tactical differences are not much compared to them, the only difference is that the scale is much smaller.
In short, this war has improved the status of the National Army in the hearts of the U.S. military.
Bogota.
Seeing the Black Hawk helicopter flying away, the commander of the 1st Special Operations Brigade breathed a sigh of relief, finally leaving.
Looking at the armored vehicles that were blown up all over the ground in front of him, he felt very aggrieved.[]
Our side lost dozens of armored vehicles and hundreds of people, but in the end, they didn't even shoot down a single armed helicopter of the enemy, which meant that the enemy suffered zero casualties.
Thinking of this, he, who had never been so aggrieved before, almost vomited blood.
Huh!
He took a deep breath and suppressed his depression.
He ordered the entire army to move forward.
At this point, the rapid reaction force and the 14th were in a similar situation, being beaten unilaterally.
Leaving behind a large number of destroyed armored vehicles and corpses, they continued to move quickly towards the airport.
They all knew that the rebels had transport planes and had already sent a wave of troops. If they didn't step up the attack and wait for the enemy's second wave of troops to be sent, they would be in danger.
Therefore, facing this dangerous situation, they could only bite the bullet and go ahead.
At an intersection a few hundred meters away from the airport.
Dozens of special forces were guarding here.
""Here they come," a soldier observed with night vision goggles.
As soon as the words fell, the soldiers who were lying in ambush around Wang Dehao immediately took their positions.
Some of them were carrying RPG rocket launchers on their shoulders. As long as they were within their sight, they would immediately pull the trigger.
""Swoosh!"
Seeing an armored infantry fighting vehicle coming into sight, a soldier immediately opened fire and a rocket flew over at high speed.
""Boom! Jian!"
The thin-skinned armored infantry fighting vehicle was immediately blown up.
The sudden attack made the soldiers of the rapid reaction brigade panic. They were already scared and it was no exaggeration to say that they had psychological trauma. Being beaten unilaterally.
Seeing the tragic death of comrades who used to eat, drink and train together, not everyone has such a strong heart.
What's more, the combat effectiveness of the government army is already poor.
Otherwise, with more than 200,000 troops, they can't even eliminate drug dealers and armed organizations in the country, and often ask for peace talks. How good can the psychological quality of these soldiers be?
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