Chapter 637 (1/2)

Question: how long does it take to overthrow a small African state?

The answer is: a week!

When the whole world is still shocked by the most tragic racist massacre after the Second World War in Rwanda, and when the United Nations and governments around the world are all in a hurry about Simon westero's sending troops to Rwanda in his own name, a series of military actions taken by westero's mercenaries in Rwanda from April 20 to April 26 have once again made the whole country happy The world gaped.

On the morning of April 20, local time in Rwanda, 3000 Ukrainian mercenaries, who had just arrived in this small African country for only one day, took the lead in fighting against Rwanda in the hilly area about 20 kilometers away from the capital Kigali, before 10000 regular troops sent by the government of Rwanda arrived in gutarama City between Kigali and vistro refugee camp on Kivu lake Wanda government forces launched an attack.

The commander of the Rwandese government, who obviously underestimated the strength of the westero mercenaries, made a very stupid decision.

Learning that the westero mercenaries are coming to his side, the commander gave up the opportunity to withdraw to Kigali, the capital. Instead, he stationed in place and planned to fight against the westero mercenaries by virtue of the number of soldiers.

As a result, when the 24 companies of Ukrainian mercenaries quickly completed the three side attack on 10000 Rwandese government troops, only the first round of heavy fire coverage of armored vehicle artillery, helicopter rockets and hundreds of mortars directly led to the collapse of the unprepared Rwandese government troops.

Africa is really poor.

In particular, before the 21st century, the past confrontations between African warlords were mainly based on the backward individual weapons of the Cold War era. The relatively high-end weapons were just tanks and individual missiles. As for more advanced fighters or armed helicopters, on the one hand, they could not afford them. On the other hand, even if they could afford them, they needed to borrow the power of foreign military advisers for the ordinary army In African countries that are trained in large quantities, these soldiers will not be able to use them at all.

After all, if the air force wants to form combat effectiveness, it is absolutely not only able to fly airplanes, but also through long-term and expensive training.

Therefore, in the face of the heavy firepower coverage of Ukrainian mercenaries, the eight tanks on which the Rwandese government troops rely most like babies were destroyed by the anti tank missiles of the Mi-24 armed helicopter before they could make any response. With a small amount of mortars and rocket launchers, the government's heavy weapons failed to organize any effective counterattack even when the army collapsed rapidly.

Only lasted less than 15 minutes, because of the previous Wrong layout of dense battle lines, the Rwandese government troops, who lost thousands of people in the first round of firepower coverage, began to flee in the direction of Kigali gap left by the westero mercenaries.

In order to prevent the government troops from collapsing in all directions, the vistro mercenaries, under the cover of helicopters and armored vehicles, continued to pursue steadily with a three side pocket array. Finally, in the area less than 10 kilometers away from the capital Kigali, the last six mercenary companies responsible for the encirclement blocked the ”pocket” exit.

Simon's order before the operation was that he needed a war of annihilation to wipe out the living forces of the Rwandese government as much as possible.

The implication is already very obvious.

The fewer prisoners, the better.

Therefore, when the westero mercenaries completed the encirclement of the Rwandese government forces and faced with the remaining thousands of African soldiers who had completely collapsed, the mercenary Corps continued its fierce attack for half an hour before they began to shout for surrender.

After three hours of fighting, 10000 Rwandese government troops finally surrendered with less than 2300 remaining.

However, because of Simon's order, the casualties of westero's mercenaries exceeded expectations. Under the absolute advantage, 126 mercenaries were killed and 379 were injured to varying degrees.

If the collapse of the Rwandese government army is oppressed and surrendered after the siege of the vistro mercenaries is completed, the 10000 Rwandese government army will survive at least 5000 people, and the casualties of the vistro mercenaries can also be halved.

Simon didn't.

Because what he needs is a merciless and bloody shock against the government of Rwanda in Kigali, as well as countless onlookers staring at this small African country.

Simon just wants to tell a lot of people.

That's right.

Simon westero, who came out of Watsonville mental hospital, was still a lunatic at heart.

It's never been better.

A total of 505 casualties, accounting for one sixth of the total number of Ukrainian mercenaries, have been very serious.

Adam Lowell, commander of EO company in central and South Africa, was hired by Angolan government forces to take part in the military action against the rebels in 1992. At that time, he led a battalion of 300 people under EO. He cooperated with the government forces to fight with the Angolan opposition for three months. He directly fought against salabi, the leader of the opposition armed forces with 60000 troops, and took the initiative to seek peace talks, Only 19 people died in the camp led by Lowell. There were only a few hundred casualties in the whole EO company in those months.

The main force source of EO company in South Africa is the retired white elite soldiers from several countries in southern Africa, but the combat effectiveness is not as good as the former Soviet Red Army soldiers who have more than 10 years of service experience this time.As for the Rwandese government forces, their strength is comparable to that of the Angora salabi rebels, and they are all of the same low level.

However, rabbits can bite when they are in a hurry.

The casualties of 3000 to 10000505 are not small, but not many.

In fact, the main reason is that the fighting was solely in the charge of Ukrainian mercenaries, and there was no cooperation from Angolan government forces like EO.

Although one sixth of the troops were directly lost and the first battle ended, the vistro mercenaries did not return to the camp to rest. They handed over the wounded and prisoners of war to the EO mercenary team of South Africa. After completing the logistics supply, the remaining 2500 Ukrainian mercenaries who still maintained their fighting capacity went straight to Kigali, the outskirts of the capital of Rwanda.

In just half a day, 30000 regular troops were destroyed and 10000 people were killed. Even if 12000 regular troops and more than 10000 militia were still kept in Kigali, the capital, the government of Rwanda was still shocked. On the one hand, it urgently appeals to the international community to intervene and demand to stop the ”atrocities” of westero mercenaries in Rwanda. On the other hand, it begins to actively prepare for war and tries to incite millions of civilians in Kigali to join in the fight against westero mercenaries.