Red Alert Somalia

Just as Li Lan was talking about the army, a report sounded in front of the console: "The report commander, on the highway 120 kilometers southeast of Kalin, found the small army of the Republic of Puntland. The number was almost one company, riding in an armed pickup truck, no tanks or armored vehicles were found, and no other large unit was found behind."

"When did you find it?" Li Lan immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.

"It's been three minutes since the discovery. The Fourth Infantry Battalion asks whether to annihilate this small unit." Ahmed, who was on the second floor of the base vehicle headquarters at this time, continued to ask.

"Don't worry, wait until they get close to Kalin City, and then see the situation."

After Li Lan finished speaking, Natasha on the side had already taken the initiative to mark out the general location that Ahmed had just reported on the electronic map.After giving instructions to Ahmed, Li Lan also focused on the map.

"This location is the most difficult point in the Bosasso East Mountain Range, and it is also the exhaustion that connects Bosasso and the eastern city of Puntland. The entire East Mountain Range has a complex topography, spanning 20 to 30 kilometers. The mountain is steep and only a few trestle paths can be walked. For some years, these small roads were basically impassable. Therefore, in addition to the sea route, this road only connects Bosaso and the eastern cities of Puntland. There is no shortcut to march on land.” Natasha explained.

"Yes, it was with this in mind at the beginning that we sent troops to capture Carlin just after the war in Bossasso, just to guard the east-west passage to Bossasso." Li Lan nodded and pointed to a large area on the map. Tran’s nominal homeland continued: “At present, Puntland wants to send troops to Bossaso quickly. Only this way is feasible. Puntland. Up and down. Now if we can gather a force of about 30,000, I think It's all choking. Unless Puntland is now ignoring the domestic security."

In fact, the so-called republic of the Puntland Republic is not strong, and in terms of military strength, it is not as strong as Awell after the expansion of strength.And equipment.Nor can it be compared with Arwell who has received aid for a year.In terms of concentration of troops, Puntland occupies nearly 150,000 square kilometers of land. Although large areas are abandoned, it also dispersed Puntland's army.

With the help of modern warfare's army equipment, and occupying the commanding heights of public opinion and morality, Li Lan's fight against Awell is extremely easy, so it is naturally not difficult to fight Puntland.The difference between the two is that the Puntland Republic is scattered, and Arwell’s army is concentrated.In three days, he was able to dismantle Arwell's seventy or eighty thousand army, but he could not eliminate the Puntland Republican army in the same time.

And now Li Lan didn't want to destroy Puntland in one go, but he wouldn't make Puntland better.There is a chance that he wants to wipe out the morale of the Puntland army, and then concentrate most of his strength to compete with Ethiopia.

In Li Lan's eyes, Somalia is torn apart.The only thing he can see is Somaliland, whether it is Puntland or Southwest Somalia, or the fiercely fighting Somali nominal government and the Somali sect organization designated as armed forces, Li Lan did not see it.

Only Somaliland's 40,000 regular army troops.In order to enter Li Lan's eyes, but it's just so-so.After all, Li Lan pursues excellence in equipment modernization.His requirements for the Army are world-class standards.And throughout Africa.There is no army of any country that can reach world-class.Even in Egypt.

In the modern warfare, it swept Bossasso with more than 10,000 people in three days and defeated the 70,000 or 80,000 people under Arwell. In fact, there is nothing to be proud of.Look at the gap between the weapons of the two sides and the quality of the soldiers. Under such an asymmetric war, on the one hand, the morale is like a rainbow, on the other hand, most of the recruits who have no faith.If such a gap cannot be swept away in one go, that would be a strange thing.

In Li Lan's eyes, what is called an enemy, perhaps the regular Ethiopian army is his current good opponent.But it was in the combination of Ethiopian air and land that was qualified to become his opponent's army.It is by no means that Li Lan despised the enemy, but this is the fact.

If Li Lan now has an air force and missile force, then he would dare to challenge first-class countries now. This is the confidence brought to him by the Red Police soldiers and the confidence that the Red Police weapons and equipment have brought him.

Now, a small army of the Puntland Republican army appeared around the city of Kalin. What Li Lan wondered was whether there was a large army in the rear to follow up and where they would advance.How much power do I have to use to give Puntland a high-level punch.

"Ethiopia, whether there is any action, it has been four days, it is impossible to still be preparing!" Puntland's actions quickly reminded Li Lan of Ethiopia.Through more than three days, Li Lan has shown the combat power of his army to the world. There is no reason Puntland dare to come alone. This is obviously an act of seeking death.

"There is currently no intelligence in this area, and our own intelligence department has not yet been established. Ethiopia's intelligence has recently been provided to us by the Chinese side. If the commander wants to understand clearly, you might as well ask Lin Meiqi. Miss." Natasha said.

"I don't think this matter can be dealt with carelessly. It is probably a joint action by both Puntland and Ethiopia." Li Lan thought for a while and said: "We have a detailed understanding of the most important situation in Ethiopia. See if we can learn from it. What useful information can I get? Let me take a look at the Ethiopian intelligence in the past few days."

"Okay." Natasha responded, and soon retrieved the Ethiopian information from the base vehicle database and transferred it to the display in front of Li Lan.

Li Lan didn't say anything. He opened the contents of the folder and looked at it.

Since the NATO countries have always supported the nominal government of Somalia in Mogadishu, they did not openly support Puntland, but instead let Ethiopia, which has always liked to intervene in the situation in Somalia, give aid to Puntland.

Ethiopia has had political contacts with Puntland in the past, and has always supported the will of Puntland high-level leaders to form a coalition government in Somalia.On the other hand, Somaliland is also very supportive. Although Somaliland has not agreed to form a coalition government in Somalia, Ethiopia has always had deep political and economic cooperation with Somaliland.

Supporting Puntland is Ethiopia and hopes that Somalia will not be too messy, and the cooperation with Somaliland is Ethiopia's hope that by wooing Somaliland, it will create a kind of peripheral political pressure on Eritrea.This is because although Ethiopia and Eritrea have stopped their border conflicts, conflicts have always existed. No one knows when the next military conflict will break out.

The formation of peripheral political pressure on Eritrea also hopes that in addition to military confrontation methods, Ethiopia will gain greater advantages.Therefore, Ethiopia has had political contacts with Somaliland and Puntland over the years, and the relationship is fairly good.

This time, the rise of Li Lan in Somalia has made Ethiopia see a great crisis.It can allow Somalia to remain unrest, and it can also see Somalia complete peaceful reunification in the true sense.Because in this area, it is the traditional boss.

Regarding China, although Ethiopia has a lot of economic contacts with China, it is more inclined to cooperate with European and American countries, especially in the military field.I have always hoped to receive military assistance and support from European and American countries. It is not difficult to see this from the many US air bases in Ethiopia.

However, Ethiopia does not intend to tolerate China's desire to expand its influence in this region. In addition to the instigation of European and American countries, it also does not want to let the situation in Somalia lose its control, let alone see it. A powerful regime was born around it, taking away the name of a regional power.

These days, the United States has promised many benefits to it, with only one purpose, to destroy Li Lan.Ethiopia, which has not interfered with the situation in Somalia once or twice, is very moved by the bargaining chip given by the United States, plus its own wishes, agreeing to use force against Li Lan.

However, in these three days, the Ethiopian military saw that Li Lan was very difficult to provoke, especially the army.Under the tracking of US spy satellites and drones, the Ethiopian military clearly understands the combat effectiveness of Li Lan’s soldiers.

This caused Ethiopia's enthusiasm to quickly cease, and the original vigorous dispatch of troops could not cool down much.Sending troops is simple, as long as the logistics and troops are assembled in place, starting from Ethiopia and arriving at Li Lan's territory, it only takes five or six hours.

However, seeing the strong combat effectiveness of the Red Police soldiers really made the top leaders of Ethiopia hesitate.If they just go to Somalia to fight the autumn wind, they will be very happy.But if you can't catch the fox and make a show, it won't be worthwhile.Moreover, once the troops were dispatched, the casualties were too great to explain to the country.

Therefore, in the past two days, Ethiopia has hesitated.However, when the U.S. saw Ethiopia's swaying attitude, although they were also very surprised by the strength of Li Lan's subordinates, they did not want Ethiopia to give up, but directly increased their bargaining chips.

Now, the United States deliberately wants Ethiopia to be a touchstone to see how much strength Li Lan hides in that territory.