Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty-Four
Hou Dasheng closed his eyes and rested. He opened his eyes when the car stopped. After getting off the car, all the members of the mine protection team gathered. Then Kagame arranged them to a camp for them, and took Hou Dasheng, Fat Dog and Mond to the logistics report.
If he could take Kagame personally, the logistics department would not dare to neglect. Soon, all the tents, beddings, camp beds, etc. were distributed. Mond called the members of the mine protection team and took everything back to their camp in a few seconds.
After entering the camp, Hou Dasheng and the crane ordered the mine protection team to set up a defensive position. The trenches were quickly dug, and they found logs from the jungle beside them to start building simple fortifications and castles. The ammunition received was sent into the built storage room and placed, and everyone distributed two base ammunitions.
Long-term training has already caused them to form spontaneous conditioned reflexes. But after all, it was their first time entering the battlefield, and everyone still had a certain amount of tension in their hearts. This can be seen from their silence and solemn faces. No one wants to die, and they all want to earn the money and continue to enjoy it.
"We don't need to consider our number, just call us 'd' team." Hou Dasheng, Fat Dog and Mond were quickly summoned to Kagame's tent and began to discuss their combat missions. However, Hou Dasheng did not agree with Kagame's proposal to incorporate the mine protection team into the Rwandan military system.
Just kidding! After getting it in, is it easier to think of it?! Hou Dasheng knew Kagame's little thoughts clearly. He just wanted to leave an excuse to swallow the mine protection team after the war. Unfortunately, Hou Dasheng did not agree to let go of the mine protection team as he wished.
Hou Dasheng looked at Kagame and smiled and said, "General, I suggest you don't think about the mine protection team. Every battle they have to use money to pile up. They have entered the combat system within the Rwandan army. How much salary can you give them?! How many rewards can you give after every battle?! In their opinion, your current officer subsidies are really not much."
"But they are Rwandans after all..." Kagame did not feel any guilt because of his little thoughts. After a while, he looked at Hou Dasheng and said, "Isn't it supposed to make some contributions to his country?!"
Hou Dasheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then looked at Kagame. Kagame did not avoid his eyes, and the two stared at each other. After a while, Hou Dasheng looked at Kagame and whispered: "I do not object to the members of the mine protection team leaving the mine protection team and joining the Rwandan army. However, you have to bear the training fees they had during their mine protection team."
"Then, if they leave the mine protection team, all the benefits in the mine protection team will be recovered. According to our training requirements and standards, any member who leaves the mine protection team will have to pay at least 30,000 US dollars of training fees. The specific amount needs to be calculated, and I will give you a bill."
Hou Dasheng's words made Kagame widen his eyes and shout in disbelief: "No! This is impossible! One person needs 30,000 US dollars! God! 30,000 US dollars, we can arm many of our soldiers! Your commission fee is too expensive!"
"General, do you know how much it cost to train them?" Hou Dasheng looked at Kagame and sighed: "Just knocking out the bullets, there were at least 100,000 rounds. Also, the equipment they damaged during training and the food supplies they consumed, don't they need to spend money on this?!"
After a pause, Hou Dasheng looked at Kagame and whispered: "There are also the fees we have as training instructors, I, Fat Dog and Crane. Crane is a professional joint military command academy. How much training fee do you think you have to pay to get such a person?! Moreover, the crane also has a lot of practical command experience and practical training experience. His value is not something that can be paid for with a little money. If I calculate this way, it is actually a loss."
Kagame didn't say anything, he lowered his head and said nothing. He knew what Hou Dasheng said was the truth. But he still wanted to get control of the mine protection team. But think about it, are the members of the mine protection team willing to give up their treatment of the mine protection team and go to the Rwandan army, which is only hard and food and clothing?!
Kagame asked himself, how many people were willing?! After asking, he sadly discovered that not many people were willing to do this. Even in the absence of war, most Tutsi people would insist on education. They would let their children study abroad in Europe and the United States as much as possible, and then obtain their identity green card.
After that, they will leave Rwanda directly and leave Africa. They will go to European and American countries to start a new life. Not just Rwanda, it should be said that this is the norm for countries in the entire African region. If there is capital, who is willing to stay here?! If there is the right to choose, who is willing to stay here?!
Even if you go to South Africa, it is better than here, right?! Rwanda, or other relatively backward countries, except for a small number of real patriots, most of the people who stayed are helpless. If you have a choice, many will choose to leave directly instead of staying here.
This is a helpless but realistic thing. There is nothing worth their nostalgia here. As long as there is a slight chance, they will leave the country and the land without hesitation. Kagame, who knew this fact, fell into silence.
"At least, you can still command us to fight for the time being." Hou Dasheng smiled and said to Kagame: "So, don't think so much first! We will obey your combat orders during wartime and do our best to do it well. We will not give any discounts on this."
That's all, Kagame smiled bitterly. Then he waved his hand and asked Hou Dasheng to follow him to the edge of the sand table, picked up the baton and pointed at a few positions. The sand table was made very finely, and the flags spread on it clearly showed the current situation of the battle.
The Rwanda and Ugandan coalition forces still have a great advantage, especially after they directly intervened in the battlefield and supported armed forces loyal to them. Now Karabi in Kinshasa has an extremely troublesome headache, and more than one million troops have entered the Congo!
With the armed forces of all parties in the Congo, the current armed personnel in the Congo have approached two million at one time! This is a terrifying number. Two million armed personnel means that the overall country has been torn apart. The eyes of the entire African continent have been attracted.
All parties sent their own envoys, and no one wanted the situation to continue to deteriorate. If the war finally fell into endless consumption, then perhaps the entire Africa would be implicated. Now a wave of refugees has begun, and the war has caused a large number of Congolese refugees to seek refuge in neighboring countries.
Everyone found that it seemed that a peaceful life was getting farther and farther away from Congo...
"Our troops are in this position, and the opposite of the river is Chad's troops." Kagame pointed at the position opposite the river on the sand table with his baton and said to Hou Dasheng: "We have been confronting them for a long time and have launched several attacks. But they have artillery support and complete fortifications. They have fought several times but failed to hit them..."
After a pause, Kagame pointed to another area with a baton and said: "This is the position of the troops sent by Libya. Their weapons and equipment are better than ours and Chad's. But they don't seem to be too enthusiastic about this war. As long as we don't launch an attack, they will basically not fight back."
"Chad has launched several counterattacks against us, but we have all beaten back. The loss is a bit big, and now it is a deadlock." Kagame took back the baton and let Hou Dasheng return to his desk and look at Hou Dasheng with his hands together and said, "What I hope now is that you can break this deadlock."
Hou Dasheng frowned and looked at the spread map with a look of embarrassment. It was undoubtedly extremely difficult for both sides to cross the river to attack them. It was not only the Chinese people who fought to know this. As long as the troops who had combat experience would know it.
Small groups of troops were raiding at most. However, to complete strategic tasks, a large number of troops still needed to cooperate.
"I can try it, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed." Hou Dasheng was silent for a while and said, "Of course, I still need some assistance from you. Otherwise, we will definitely not be able to complete the task by ourselves."
Kagame nodded and said, "I understand this, what kind of assistance do you need?!"
"I will only know after I go back and make a detailed plan." Hou Dasheng looked at the crane, and he was frowning and staring in front of the sand table. Obviously, he was also considering how to break the deadlock. The terrain here is not too dangerous. What's trouble is that the confrontation between the two sides has invisibly increased the strength of various defense lines.
Moreover, they are very sensitive to crossing the river. If you launch a river crossing battle easily, it will only attract the opponent's artillery fire. Even if there is no artillery fire, the opponent uses a machine gun to block the small river surface, then crossing the river will become a dead end. The most important thing is how to ensure that everyone crosses the river safely, launch an attack to occupy the front line and establish a beachhead position.
As long as you can build a beachhead position and quickly spread the troops on the opposite side, the battle can be fought and the deadlock will be broken. Otherwise, you will be killed. Among the positions marked on the sand table, there are many firepower points that have been tentatively tentated by Rwandan troops.
Chapter completed!