Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 461 The South Falls

Chapter 461 The South Falls
While Fair was wrestling with the DOD officials, an argument broke out between Song Heping and Morins at the ELN command post in the Tbilisi Mountains far away in Colombia.

"Morins, if I were you, I would immediately order the soldiers in the southern defense zone to retreat northward, concentrate the forces, and shrink the entire defense area, otherwise you will lose half of your troops."

A whole day passed.

Fair has not taken any action since he obtained accurate evidence.

Song Heping has been keeping in touch with Irigo and asked Ferrari and Henry to keep an eye on the developments in Washington.

However, based on the current situation, the White House and DOD have not responded to the leak of Operation Columbia.

The media heat has picked up.

Many talk shows used prime time to report and discuss this incident.

Social groups have begun holding signs and demonstrating outside the Congress and the White House to protest the US military's involvement in Colombia's internal affairs.

In one day, the DOD will face its regular press conference.

Many news media have submitted applications and listed questions on the question list, many of which involve issues related to this operation.

As per past practice, spokespersons from the military and the White House would come out to do some crisis public relations.

But not this time.

The water is still and the river is full of flying birds.

They all remained silent and acted like turtles, seemingly not intending to respond to the matter, acting like dead pigs that were not afraid of boiling water.

But on the ELN side, the situation is getting worse and worse.

The ELN armed forces' defense lines in Santa Rita and San Jose have been breached, and several key defensive towns have all fallen.

The AUC armed forces are heading straight for Santa Rita. As long as they take Santa Rita, more than a thousand ELN armed forces in the southern theater will be surrounded in an area with a depth of more than 200 kilometers between San Jose and Santa Rita. All they have to do then is to encircle and annihilate them.

Song Heping believed that this was the ELN armed forces' last chance to preserve their combat forces in the south.

Once Santa Rita falls, it means that the more than 1,000 troops remaining in the southern war zone will be cut off from their escape route to the north.

If the Tame area further north is captured by government forces, the more than 1,000 armed soldiers will be surrounded and isolated, with no other options: either die in battle or surrender.

It wasn't just the southern sector where the situation was getting dire.

The Tame region was also under great pressure at this time.

Although he had previously thwarted two government raids and infiltrations, Colonel Lawrence now seemed to have come to his senses and no longer blindly resorted to so many tactical maneuvers. Instead, he honestly stabilized the front line and advanced steadily northward relying on his equipment and personnel advantages.

Tame's defense zone has been compressed by half, and the casualties of Anthony's two elite combat battalions continue to increase. So far, more than a hundred casualties have been added in just one day.

If this continues, in two or three days Anthony will be left alone with no soldiers left to serve.

Losing Tame was only a matter of time.

"I can't retreat!"

Molins remained stubborn.

"The southern defense zone cannot be lost!"

"FUCK! Are you crazy?! Fight, big brother! Do you think this is a game? Just cheating? You can just say you won't lose it!? Your entire organization only has more than 4,000 people, and the southern part alone is about to be surrounded and annihilated by more than 1,000 people. You really are selling out your father's land, don't you feel bad?!"

Song Heping was no longer polite.

Hitting Molins where it hurts.

Anyway, the ELN armed forces were not founded by him, but were the territory conquered by his predecessors.

When it came to Morins, he actually let his men die in vain for the sake of face. He was a typical example of someone who sold his father's land without any regret.

"Once the soldiers in the south retreat, it will affect the morale of the northern defense zone. At that time, not only will the soldiers in the south be unable to be defended, but the soldiers in the north will also scatter like birds and beasts. You know shit! You are just a Chinese and don't understand what we Colombians think!" Morins spoke confidently and was very excited. While speaking, he kept waving his hands, using body language to emphasize his emotions.

"Fuck!" Song Heping was furious. "I've never seen you fight like this. Your soldiers must be dying with a leader like you! I'm blind to have a client like you!"

The reason why he was so angry was that in his eyes, Morins's combat command was very rigid and that was not the way to fight.

If the enemy is strong and we are weak, we must engage in mobile warfare rather than fighting a stubborn and positional war.

He also spent a lot of money to buy two fighter-bombers and build an airport runway. Now it seems that this huge amount of money is going to be wasted!
Can you not be excited?

"Can you blame me for this?! Can you blame me?!"

Morins was no longer polite. He pointed at Song Heping and said angrily, "You said before that there was no photo of the three parties in the same frame as evidence to support your so-called propaganda war. A day ago, my people risked their lives to obtain evidence. In order to obtain this photo, the spies I had planted in the government army headquarters and trained for many years were forced to withdraw. Do you know how much I lost? What did you tell me before? You said that as long as you had solid evidence and intelligence, you could guarantee the withdrawal of the government forces! What about now? Where are your people in Washington? Are they doing anything?!"

"Time! News takes time to ferment!" Song Heping said, "You can't send the photo one second and force the government forces to cancel the operation the next second!"

"I don't care! You promised it yourself. You arranged the whole plan! You are responsible for it!"

Morins's brutality almost made Song Heping go crazy.

He really wanted to abandon this stubborn guy and go back to Venezuela.

But in the end, reason made him calm down.

When I took on this business for $8 million, wasn't it because of the lucrative profits? Wasn't it also to gain a foothold in South America and expand my territory?
In the final analysis, he just wanted to use ELN and Morins to strengthen his own strength.

If you have a date, you have to finish it even if it means crying.

There is no easy money in the world.

Seeing that Song Heping didn't say anything, Morins slowly regained his composure.

"Song, I treat you like a brother. I know you're under a lot of pressure, but we can't give up on San Jose in the south. There are things you don't know. ELN established its first territory in the San Jose area, and that place holds special significance for the entire ELN organization."

He sighed deeply and said, "That's why we value this place so much and can't give it up. If I choose to give it up, the higher-ups in the organization will question my authority. We also have factions within the organization, and some are eyeing my position. I have my own difficulties, and I'm not trying to embarrass you!"

Song Heping listened to him quietly. Although he still couldn't understand Morins's stubborn decision to stick to his idea, he at least had a better understanding.

If San Jose has a special meaning for ELN, Molins giving up on it is equivalent to giving others an excuse to attack him, and there is a reason for him to insist on defending it.

"Report."

A staff officer came to report to Molins.

He doesn't look well.

Song Heping turned his head to look at the other person, thinking that something must have happened.

"Say! What's the matter!"

Molins became excited again and he also had a bad feeling.

"Santa Rita fell... just now..."

Molins's face turned pale.

Song Heping felt his heart sinking little by little.

A force of more than a thousand people is not a big number compared to the regular army.

But for an organization like the ELN armed forces, that is one-third of the troops.

The facts are in front of us. The more than 1,000 soldiers currently deployed in the jungle near San Jose in the south have become isolated.