Mercenary's War

Chapter 2447: Chapter 2423: Enduring the Limit

Gao Yang was even worried that the prolonged stay in Yemen would weaken Satan’s combat effectiveness.

Playing chess with a bad player only makes you worse, and fighting an enemy with poor skills can also lead to a decline in combat effectiveness. When the enemy is too weak, you don’t even need to be fully alert to defeat them. Over time, this leads to mental slackening, and ultimately, a decline in combat strength. If at this time you suddenly encounter a strong opponent, even if their strength is inferior to yours, you may inexplicably lose the battle.

In Yemen, although Satan’s main opponent is the regular army of Shah right now, one can’t help but say that this opponent is still too weak.

Gao Yang had never seen a troop like Shah’s army with such a lack of fighting spirit. Even the makeshift armed forces he encountered in Libya at the beginning of his career were braver than Shah’s soldiers.

It’s not really being tougher, but rather bolder in fighting. To put it simply, the Shah people are too afraid of death.

Although what has happened so far are only small-scale skirmishes, the level of Shah’s army is still apparent. Not to mention Satan being able to easily bully Shah’s soldiers, even the Houthis Armed Forces could bully the Shah people in terms of momentum and combat effectiveness.

Shah’s soldiers are really cowardly, but it’s strange that the troublemakers are always the Shah people, not the Houthis Armed Forces.

Now, the frontline mainly consists of outposts constructed by light infantry and small patrol units, with no more than fifty people mainly preventing opposing infantry from crossing the border. Whenever two patrol units meet, or when outposts are on two not-too-distant hilltops, the Shah people are always the ones to shoot provocatively first. Then, they are often the ones fleeing in panic.

With such opponents, Gao Yang is really worried that continuous relaxation might cause Satan to be unable to quickly revert and maintain the necessary state of tension.

Moreover, always fighting with opponents like Shah makes Gao Yang lose interest. He even starts thinking that retirement might be more interesting than fighting these bullying battles.

After spending a full ten days at the frontline, Gao Yang is indeed planning to leave again. The Houthis Armed Forces dare not attack, and Shah is unwilling to engage. Even under provocation, they remain restrained. Furthermore, living in the barren gulch is quite miserable. Gao Yang doesn’t see any point in staying any longer.

But just on the morning of the tenth day, as Gao Yang was about to start another boring day, Yake ran out of the tent next door and directly stood in front of him, urgently and solemnly saying: "Shah has launched an attack! Najran line is under full assault! Now it’s 7:36, the command was issued at 7 sharp!"

Gao Yang paused for a moment, then shook his head and asked in amazement: "Shah officially attacked?"

"Yes! It’s a large-scale assault, attack immediately upon order!"

Gao Yang immediately picked up the walkie-talkie, but before he pressed the signal transmission button, he heard Peter urgently saying in the walkie-talkie: "Turtle calling Head Sheep! Highway traffic jam! Highway traffic jam! Repeat, highway traffic jam! Please respond, please respond!"

"Highway traffic jam, Head Sheep understood."

The highway is the river valley, jam means a large number of armored vehicles rushing along the river valley.

The order for the full assault was issued at 7 sharp and intelligence was obtained and delivered to Gao Yang in just over thirty minutes, truly rapid. However, Najran city is located too close to the border line, so when Gao Yang received the intelligence of a large-scale enemy attack, the Najran city’s enemy had already reached the doorstep.

Nervousness was there, but not panic. Gao Yang immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Everyone attention, the enemy has launched a full assault, emergency assembly!"

After shouting into the walkie-talkie, Gao Yang rushed to Salim’s tent, where he saw Salim running out with the walkie-talkie in hand.

Upon seeing Gao Yang, Salim urgently shouted: "The enemy has launched a full assault! They’ve launched a full assault!"

It seems Salim already knows, so Gao Yang doesn’t need to say more. He directly shouted at Salim: "Counterattack! We must hold the river valley entrance! Resolutely counterattack, we can’t let the enemy come through!"

Salim grabbed the walkie-talkie and roared: "Block the enemy, we must block the enemy, don’t let them rush into the river valley, hurry! Hurry!"

Salim is commanding a large unit of the Houthis Armed Forces, but he is not an officer, so he just has to express resolute counterattack; the rest will be executed by Houthis Armed Forces’ various levels of commanders.

Gao Yang had to personally command his own men into battle, urgently saying into the walkie-talkie: "Sheep, prepare, ready to support at any time, Antelope, Free Attack, resolutely repel the enemy!"

Everyone knew Shah would come sooner or later, but when Shah indeed launched the attack, even though there was preparation, chaos occurred to some extent. Satan is surely fine, it won’t be chaotic nor panic, but the Houthis Armed Forces Command post, led personally by Salim, became unnecessarily nervous and busy.

At this point, Rebrov calmly spoke into the walkie-talkie: "Cobra calling Sheepfold, the enemy’s armored vehicles are too many, beyond our capacity! Estimated to encounter after three minutes, over!"

Shah Army’s armored force is very powerful, and Houthis Armed Forces doesn’t have the capabilities to have a tank battle with Shah in the valley, so Houthis Armed Forces’ primary countermeasure is anti-tank missiles, deploying a large number of anti-tank missile bases on the Highlands on both sides of the river valley.

Logically, Shah shouldn’t send a large number of tanks rushing through before clearing Houthis Armed Forces’ anti-tank squads, so Rebrov’s words puzzled Gao Yang.

"I am Head Sheep, please explain what exceeds the capacity? Over."

Wolvitsky loudly responded: "Boss, the enemy is about to enter the valley, the dust is too heavy we can’t see how many enemy vehicles there are, but leading them are twelve M1A2 tanks, following vehicles are not visible, the dust is too heavy, only twelve tanks can be seen, the distance between tanks is less than ten meters! I don’t understand, Boss!"

Tanks are not designed for intimidation, they should be fighting with cannons, Gao Yang really didn’t understand the meaning of concentrating tanks and armored vehicles together, except for the leading tanks being able to fire cannons, subsequent tanks would have to worry about friendly fire when firing, what does this formation mean, it’s puzzling.

At this moment, Rebrov urgently said into the walkie-talkie: "Sheep calling Sheepfold, requesting fire coverage for the highway, Head Sheep, this is a great opportunity!"

With the enemy concentrated so densely together, not executing covering fire would be a waste of the enemy’s goodwill, Gao Yang decisively said: "Head Sheep calling Wild Duck, authorize Sheep to execute covering fire, over!"