Several mercenaries took out the bolt cutters they had prepared in advance and cut a large hole in the barbed wire fence. The group of people crawled into the airport one by one like geckos.
Looking from behind, you can only see piles of weeds moving slowly. As long as they stay still, their figures can no longer be distinguished. The Tuareg people also set up many sentries inside the airport, and also built a base lookout. In addition to monitoring incoming enemy reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, they also used it to monitor the surrounding areas of the airport. Condition.
The entry point Lin Rui chose was in the northwest corner of the airport. Due to the terrain, there was a lookout tower with a searchlight on it, which could monitor a large area around it.
The Tuareg have always been relatively confident in their night fighting capabilities, because before this war, when they fought against the Malian army in northern Mali, the Tuareg achieved brilliant victories through hand-to-hand combat and surprise attacks. , so they are proud of this, writing hand-to-hand combat and night combat into their infantry drills, and regard it as their magic weapon for victory.
So the Tuareg people believe that the night is on their side, and they also believe that no one can defeat them at night.
The Tuareg people stationed at the airport are not directly under the Fifth Regiment, but the airport garrison under the Tuareg General Headquarters.
¡°Compared to field troops like the Fifth Regiment, the combat effectiveness of the airport garrison is relatively worse than that of the Tuareg field troops.
And their alertness will be slightly lower than that of the field troops. This creates more favorable conditions for Lin Rui and his group to sneak into the site.
Due to the current limitations of aviation technology, the Tuareg do not have the ability to fly at night. The North Airport is stationed by a squadron of Tuareg transport aircraft. Therefore, after night, all flights are grounded, making the airport quiet. After that, only the airport guard team was left on duty.
The entire airport had become quiet at this time, and there was no more noise from the personnel. Only the lights were still on in a hangar in the south of the airport. It was a maintenance hangar for the Tuareg people, and it was probably for ground maintenance. People are working there to repair the malfunctioning aircraft.
This also made Lin Rui and the others¡¯ seemingly risky infiltration operations actually not encounter much trouble. The Tuareg airport garrison never expected that so deep into the hinterland, surrounded by troops from their fifth and third regiments, that someone would be bold enough to sneak up on the airport.
This also made the Tuareg people guarding the airport become careless. On the surface, it seemed that they were heavily guarded. In fact, when Lin Rui and his team sneaked in, they found that the Tuareg people here were not as good as before. Alert as expected.
Lin Rui took Black Mamba to the watchtower and nodded to Black Mamba.
Black Mamba immediately turned around and walked ahead, climbing up the ladder to the observation deck. The wooden ladder made a creaking sound with his feet.
The Tuareg people on the lookout heard someone climbing up the ladder, so they faced
Black Mamba immediately replied in fluent and standard Berber: "I'm here to bring you a midnight snack!"
After hearing this, the Tuareg man above immediately relaxed and said with a strange smile: "What kind of supper is tonight?"
Black Mamba replied angrily: "What else can there be? The same old thing!"
Although the Tuareg people are currently relatively short of supplies, they are not yet at the end of their rope. Especially the aviation force, which has much more supplies than the field force. They often use aircraft during non-combat missions during transition missions, especially The bomber, when empty, loads some supplies and takes them to the airport along the way.
Therefore, the quality of life of the Tuareg airport garrison is much higher than that of ordinary field troops. Even when on duty at night, a small amount of supper is provided to the soldiers on duty.
This is not a rare thing for the Tuareg people. It was not until the Tuareg people were defeated one after another in the later period that their supplies were severely lacking, which made the Tuareg people become miserable. At present, the two sides are still fighting happily around the northern defense line, and the winner has not yet been determined.
Therefore, although the Tuareg people are currently short of supplies, they are not at the end of their rope yet. Especially the aviation force, which is a priority branch of supply, the current quality of life is still so-so.
Black Mamba¡¯s answer did not arouse the suspicion of the two Tuareg people on the watchtower. I heard that it was still the same as before, and the two guys actually expressed dissatisfaction, saying that the late-night snack was not delicious.
"But they never expected that what was brought to them was not a midnight snack, but a butcher knife to send them home to the west. The Black Mamba broughtTo provide cover and fire support, Hobson also personally brought a demolition team and headed towards the Tuareg oil depot.
Eric, on the other hand, took his sniper team, found two suitable sniper points, and was ready to coordinate the retreat of other personnel. Another assault team pounced on an anti-aircraft gun position north of the Tuareg airport.
Lin Rui himself took the Black Mamba, an American mercenary and a newcomer to form an assault team. The four of them rushed towards the Tuareg maintenance hangar where the lights were still on.
They used the shadows everywhere in the airport as cover and quickly approached the target. When they couldn't find any cover, they lay on the ground and crawled forward. The Tuareg airport guard's main focus is at night, and they basically focus on the outside of the airport. Once they break through the airport and enter the airport, the guards are not so tight.
The carelessness of the Tuareg people and the concealment of the Venomous Fang detachment made their operations so far very smooth. Each demolition assault team approached their target within twenty minutes.
Because this place was previously just an ordinary airport for the French army, with a limited scale and insufficient number of hangars, and it was basically an open-air field. After the Tuareg people occupied this place, they expanded some simple wooden hangars, but some aircraft still had to be parked next to the runway.
Therefore, these fighter jets parked next to the runway have become their key targets. Sausage and another commando group soldier covered the two demolitioners and reached the vicinity of the runway.
From a distance, you can see a Tuareg sentry on duty on the tarmac, carrying a rifle and wandering back and forth among the dozen or so planes on the tarmac.
This Tuareg sentinel is very vigilant. He does not slack off and play around because there is no one around in the middle of the night. Instead, he is always walking back and forth. The area around the airport runway is a very open place, it can be said that it is unobstructed and unobstructed, except for some grass growing on the ground next to the runway that is not too deep.
So Sausage made a few gestures to the others, and all four of them immediately got down and began to crawl forward. The ghillie suits they wore provided them with a very good camouflage. With the cover of the wind, they blocked the sound of their crawling. After about ten minutes of crawling, they finally approached the tarmac.
Sausage made the others stop advancing, and he handed a submachine gun to another black mercenary who was following him. He only brought a pistol and a short knife, and slowly climbed towards the plane.
The Tuareg sentry failed to detect them. He was still walking back and forth on the tarmac with his gun on his back, constantly looking around.
But although everyone in the mercenary team is very careful, there is still one thing they cannot avoid, that is, the grass at the airport is often a place where birds like to hang out. Because in this season, the airport grassland is open, and many weeds are about to produce seeds.
Various vegetarian birds like to forage on the grass at the airport, and even build nests in the grass to lay eggs and hatch their offspring here.
Birds are also a scourge at airports. They often collide with aircraft during takeoff and landing, causing serious damage to the aircraft. Therefore, no matter which country you are in, you don¡¯t like birds at the airport and will try every means to drive them away.
The Tuareg armed forces have limited technical capabilities, but driving away birds has always been a problem for their airport management. It is difficult to effectively drive away the birds.
But as a result, the birds that inhabit the airport grass have created great difficulties for the mercenary unit's operations. It is inevitable that some birds that inhabit the airport grass at night will be disturbed during the operation. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com