Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 456 Beautiful Ambush
Along Highway 86, Anthony had just returned to his command position after inspecting the ambush position when his deputy Sacre complained to him.

"Captain, it's so late and we're not allowed to sleep yet. What on earth is our boss doing? Doesn't he know how hard we fought during the day? My legs are almost broken from running."

As he spoke, he glanced back and added, "Everyone is very resentful. If they continue fighting like this, they'll probably collapse in three days."

"Tired out? Better than dead." Anthony said, "Our principal is right. You'd better not complain here. If the government troops really advance north along the highway from here tonight, it will be too late by the time we find out during the day."

"headmaster……"

There was a hint of disdain in Thackeray's tone.

"Ever since you came back from two months of training in Venezuela, I've noticed you keep talking about this principal... I heard he's Chinese. Are Chinese people that powerful?"

Anthony rolled his eyes at Sacre and said, "You know shit! When the 50 of us went to the school in Venezuela for training, no one took him seriously at first. But when we graduated, no one was dissatisfied. He's got real skills!"

Thackeray yawned, stretched, turned over, and lay on his back. He looked at the bright moon in the sky and whispered, "We've already ambushed a government convoy here during the day. Do you think anyone would be so stupid as to come here and let us attack again?"

Thackeray's words made Anthony stunned.

What he said makes sense.

For a moment, Anthony didn't know how to refute.

In the end, he could only quote Song Heping's words: "Obeying orders is a soldier's duty. Why are you talking so much nonsense?! Just follow orders!"

Having said that, Anthony was still feeling very nervous. The troops had been fighting mobile warfare all day.

Although this tactic is very effective in pinning down large government forces, mobile warfare is extremely exhausting.

Thackeray reflects the real situation, everyone is tired.

If you can't get effective rest at night, your physical strength will not be enough tomorrow and it may really affect your combat effectiveness.

But he also knew that if Song Heping's prediction was correct and he didn't set up defenses here tonight, it would probably be too late when he woke up tomorrow.

With mechanized troops infiltrating their rear and attacking them from both sides together with the government forces south of Tame, they had no chance of winning.

Just be tired if you want to.

he thinks.

Let’s talk about tomorrow’s things tomorrow.

"Thackeray, keep an eye on me. I'm going to close my eyes and rest for a while."

A wave of fatigue came over Anthony, and he couldn't help yawning.

Thackeray couldn't help but say, "Captain, you can't even bear it, let alone your brothers..."

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? At worst, we can rotate. I'll take a half-hour break, then you take a half-hour break, and we'll take turns resting. Pass the word down that everyone else will take turns resting this way. Send out guards to monitor the situation on the highway."

"it is good……"

Thackeray reluctantly responded to Anthony and then relayed his orders by radio.

After conveying the order, Sacre looked at the stars and the moon in the sky, and couldn't help yawning. While yawning, he cursed the Chinese military commander whom he had never met.

"Damn it, I don't know what the boss was thinking, letting a Chinese person command us to fight..."

He muttered to himself, his mouth opening uncontrollably and yawning again.

Anthony was shaken awake.

It was Thackeray who woke him up.

"Captain! He's really here!"

"Ok?"

Anthony was still in a daze, looking at the face that was approaching him with his eyes full of boogers.

"What's coming..."

"Enemy! Government forces!"

Thackeray no longer showed any trace of fatigue.

"That Chinese guy was right! The government troops are here! They're only two kilometers away, heading this way!"

Because a guard post had been set up about two kilometers outside the ambush circle, he would be able to detect any movement on the road.

Anthony rolled over and sat up, grabbed the radio and began to issue orders: "Attention everyone, those who are still not awake, please be alert, the enemy is coming, less than two kilometers away, prepare to meet them immediately! Detonators, keep an eye on the serial explosion points at points A and B, and execute everything according to plan!"

In order to fight this ambush well, Anthony really put in some thought after receiving Song Heping's order.

First of all, he currently has only more than 500 men under his command, divided into two parts. One part continues to stay in the jungle area near the line of fire, and he brought the other half here to ambush.

An ambush can help a few outnumber the larger force, but he felt a little uneasy about relying on just over 200 people to ambush a mechanized government force of unknown size.

If the system is complete, there is nothing to be afraid of.

But now the casualties are quite a lot, and it is his responsibility as the commander to make good use of the only 200 people who can be mobilized and maximize the combat effectiveness.

During the call, Song Heping mentioned that they should make more IED-type things.

The ELN armed forces have grown from a small guerrilla group to their current status in Colombia, which shows that they have some skills.

One of them is their bomb-making skills, which are truly unique.

Because of the lack of funds when they first started, ELN armed forces often kidnapped government officials, local tycoons, or senior executives of foreign oil companies here to extort money and use the ransom to support the troops.

Later, after becoming big, they directly occupied the territory and started to fight against the rich. They also collected pipeline tolls from oil companies here, which was actually protection money.

Every year, foreign oil companies operating in Colombia have to pay a sum of money to the ELN armed forces, otherwise the oil pipeline will soon be in trouble, and it will be useless to send security personnel. If you send them today, your ashes will be scattered tomorrow.

Forcing the government troops to take action is like a tiger biting a turtle, and it is difficult to know where to start. There are many pipelines, and many of the places they pass through are sparsely populated jungles or swamps. If the government sends too few soldiers, it will be ineffective, and if it sends too many, the cost will be too high. The oil companies might as well just pay the ELN to buy peace.

Therefore, years of livelihood have made every ELN armed person skilled in making bombs. When Song Heping was training them, he found that among the 50 backbone members, each one was a bomb expert. When asked how they were so good at making bombs, those ELN trainees would say to the principal, "This is our livelihood. Without it, we can't even blackmail them."

Song Heping was amused at the time, and thought that these guys really had some of the flavor of the Irish Republican Army.

An entire mechanized reinforced company of the government army was now driving at a distance on Highway 86 with its lights off.

All drivers carry AN/PVS-7 night vision goggles provided by the US military, which can ensure the convoy's safe driving with the lights off.

On the radio, the commander in charge of this infiltration mission kept reminding everyone to be careful.

After the machine gunners in the vehicle entered the ELN-controlled area, they all leaned half of their bodies out from the top, operating the roof-mounted machine gun, ready to respond to any emergency at any time.

boom--

Just as the government soldiers were praying in their hearts that nothing would happen and that they could reach their destination safely, a ball of fire emerged from the ground in front of them and suddenly lifted the light high-mobility Hummer vehicle into the air.

"Contact! There's an ambush!" A scream came from the radio.

All, all, all—

All, all, all—

The rooftop machine gunner responded immediately.

Although they didn't know where the enemy was, they were almost certain to be on either side of the road.

The large-caliber machine guns mounted on the roofs of more than twenty Humvees began firing wildly at the woods and hillsides on both sides of the road.

"Go ahead! Go ahead! Don't stop!"

The commander realized that something was wrong.

The most urgent task is to get out of the ambush circle immediately.

The ELN’s armed forces do not have many troops. Even if a battalion was ambushed here, they could only control a few hundred meters of the road at most.

If they rush forward, the whole team will be saved.

In the Hummer in the second place, the driver looked at the car in front of him that had flipped over on the ground with all four wheels facing up. He gritted his teeth, turned the steering wheel with one hand, and rushed to the right side of the road.

Although the leading car was lying across the road, it was positioned to the left. The space left on the right side of the road was not enough for a Hummer to pass through, but as long as it rammed hard, it could knock the Hummer, which had already become scrap metal, away.

"Everyone sit tight!"

He gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator.

Suddenly, there was a crackling sound outside the car windows and doors, like the sound of stones hitting the car body on the highway.

Several spider-web cracks appeared on the car window. It was obvious that someone was shooting at them. Although the armor of the Qing light Hummer was not as thick as some specific models, it could still block rifle bullets.

Just as the driver of the second car was driving the Hummer towards the overturned car in front, a flash of fire shot out from the woods on the right and rushed straight towards the Hummer.

"RPG!"

The machine gunner controlling the roof-mounted machine gun screamed.

While roaring, the machine gunner turned the barrel and fired a fierce rain of bullets at the direction where the RPG rocket was coming from.

All, all, all—

Amidst the dull sound of gunfire, bullets rained down on the man who had just fired the RPG, directly hitting the trunk of the bowl-sized tree and causing it to shake violently.

The rocket launcher operator had no time to get down and was pierced through the body by the 12.7mm bullet, with his internal organs and bone fragments flying in the dark night.

However, the machine gunner soon found that his retribution had come.

The rocket hit the right side window squarely and then exploded violently.

boom--

Fire splattered.

Under the effect of the shaped charge blast, the metal jet penetrated into the car.

Even the Hummer's bulletproof glass couldn't stop the RPG rocket.

The machine gunner felt a sudden pain in his abdomen.

"what--"

His whole body went limp, and he slid into the car like a snake with its bones and muscles pulled out, and sat down on the floor.

In the slightly blurred vision of the night vision goggles, he saw something flowing out of his abdomen.

Perhaps because of the excessive pain, he was a little confused, so he reached out to touch the things that were flowing out, wanting to see clearly what they were.

Soft, sticky, warm, and a bit strange...

When he took a closer look at the "thing" in his hand, he raised his head and let out a desperate scream.

"My intestines... my intestines... help me..."

The driver was even more unlucky than the machine gunner. The jet generated by the explosion actually enhanced the killing effect in the closed Humvee.

Half of his face was blurred, his right eyeball was blown out and hung outside the eye socket. The car was out of control and crashed head-on into the overturned Hummer in front. The whole car banged and turned over, falling sideways on the road.

The highway has been blocked.

Two Hummers overturned, blocking the entire road.

"Turn around! Turn around! Retreat!"

The commander screamed and gave urgent orders.

The convoy began to frantically turn around on the road. However, an explosion was heard from behind. The commander saw the rising fireball in the rearview mirror and realized that the road behind them had also been cut off...

The enemy had planned this ambush long ago. The explosives buried in the front and the explosives buried in the back were two hundred meters apart. The calculation was very precise.

"Get out of the car! Fight back!"

The commander gave the order again.

Hiding in a car and commanding people to eat RPGs is also waiting for death.

It would be better to get out of the car, use the bulletproof car body to fight back and then wait for rescue, then there is still a glimmer of hope.

The soldiers who received the order were already in the car and could not catch them.

The car was cramped and it was inconvenient to fire back, but lowering the windows was also fearful of losing the protection of the bulletproof glass and the car body. Therefore, apart from the machine gun on the roof, the rest of the people were effectively trapped in the car and unable to do anything.

Finally, the car doors opened one by one, and government soldiers got out and fought back.

The commander, using the walkie-talkie in the car, called out frantically, "Scalpel calling Viper, Scalpel calling Viper, we're under attack on Highway 86, Pecardo! Requesting emergency reinforcements! Repeat, requesting emergency reinforcements!"

Just as he called out, loud noises were heard from both sides of the road.

Several explosions occurred in succession.

The weeds on the roadside fell to the ground one after another, and the fire flashed across the night like thunder. Then he heard a strange sound, like the sound of sand being poured on glass.

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(End of this chapter)