Chapter 62 Meritorious Heads
After Mekale and a group of guards went to the village, there were only a few soldiers left on the warships. There were eight fully armed soldiers on the deck of each ship to keep watch and control the turrets and machine gun towers.
After Mekale left, these soldiers showed obvious relaxation. They were chatting and laughing with each other, taking out cigarettes and smoking among themselves.
In Gambia, the warships of the National Army are invincible. As long as they stay on the warships, there is no danger. Although the armed forces of various ethnic groups have guns and ammunition, they cannot have such large-scale military facilities.
The Gambia government will not let them stay, otherwise it will be a prominent threat to the government and Yahya. The Gambia River runs through the entire Gambia. As long as there are warships, it is easy to fight all the way from the east to the capital Banjul.
Therefore, warships are the most powerful existence in Gambia, and the so-called Gambian Marine Corps naturally becomes the strongest existence in Gambia.
Half of the head slowly emerged from the water surface halfway to the warship. Zhao Ziyang used a piece of algae floating on the water to observe the movements of the soldiers on the warship. After taking a quick glance, he immediately dived under the water again and continued to move towards the warship.
The soldiers who had no idea about this continued to chat, laugh and smoke. One of them even took out a Taiwanese pornographic magazine and leaned against his machine gun to read it with relish. These Gambian naval soldiers were as blindly arrogant as President Yahya. They believed that owning warships meant they had absolute power.
“Pah! Pah!…”
A slight sound was heard, and Zhao Ziyang and others who had successfully dived under the warship used magnets to firmly attach themselves to it.
The hulls of these warships donated by Taiwan were not treated with anti-magnetic treatment. If magnetic mines were placed on the water surface, these warships could be easily blown to pieces. However, Zhao Ziyang and his men did not carry magnetic mines specifically for warships, which were large and inconvenient to bring from Libya. They chose MK6 magnetic mines, which were small and easy to carry.
Magnetic mines are non-trigger mines that are detonated by non-trigger fuses and do not require collision with ships. They are equipped with magnetic needle fuses that can sense the magnetic field formed by ships passing within a certain distance. Because most ships sailing on the ocean are made of steel, they are like a floating "big magnet". There are countless tiny magnetic areas inside the steel, and the earth is a big magnet, and the ground space is full of magnetic fields. This magnetic field has a magnetic effect on the magnetic areas in the steel. When a collision occurs, the magnetic areas in the steel will be vibrated, and there is a chance that the magnetic areas will loosen slightly, and the friction will also decrease due to the loosening. In this way, the magnetic areas are twisted in the same direction by the magnetic force of the earth, and magnetism is generated.
Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction states that when the magnetic flux in a loop changes, an induced electromotive force will be generated, or an induced current will be generated in a closed loop. Therefore, when a ship passes over a magnetic induction mine, the moving ship's magnetic field sweeps across the induction coil on the mine's iron rod, generating an induced current in the induction coil that connects the detonation circuit, causing the mine to explode.
The magnetic mines used by the Lurkers in Norway before were buoyant mines, which were huge in size and extremely powerful. However, this time, due to various reasons, it was impossible to lay mines in advance, so this small magnetic mine was chosen.
Zhao Ziyang stretched out three fingers in front of Pandora and others, and then gently patted the hull with his palm.
Pandora and the others nodded, and dived towards the other two warships to complete the placement of mines.
Daofeng, who was in the same group with Zhao Ziyang, took out a magnetic mine wrapped in ceramic from a sealed iron box and handed it to Zhao Ziyang. He used a saber to hook out the fuse of the mine, connected a sealed bag of explosives to it, carefully used a magnet to attract the mine and explosives to the warship, and then immediately dived into the water and retreated.
Pandora, Swart, Omo and others also successfully installed mines and explosives. They dived and retreated almost at the same time, retreating to the mountains on the opposite bank, hiding in the mountains and waiting quietly.
"Crack... crack..." The ceramics used to isolate magnetism began to produce slight cracks. As the ceramics cracked, the magnetic mines would gradually emerge from the ceramic shell and would detonate themselves when they sensed the steel magnetic field of the ship's hull.
The power of the explosion was not very strong, but it was easy to blow a big hole in the hull. If three warships were blown up, the Gambian army would be completely wiped out and would not have any advantage. At that time, they would be extremely powerless in the face of wars among various races and would not be able to stop it at all.
The ceramic shell is vacuum sealed after special treatment. When it comes into contact with air, the ceramic will gradually crack and eventually break. This is because during the firing and cooling process, due to different shrinkage rates, the green body is vacuumed before the cooling and shrinkage are complete. After contacting the air, it continues to shrink and form cracks.
This is thanks to the Taiwanese businessman, whose factory has a ceramic firing workshop. With the help of some skilled workers, Zhao Ziyang easily made a shell that extends the triggering time of the mine.
The ceramic shell cracked bit by bit, but the soldiers on the warship were still chatting casually, unaware that the enemy was right under their feet.
Led by Zhao Ziyang, the lurkers entered their respective combat positions and used the natural cover of the woods to keep themselves in the dark. However, they only presented a defensive response to the battle, in order to deal a heavy blow to the enemy as soon as they discovered them.
Zhao Ziyang, lying in the grass under the tree, stared at his watch and calculated the time. If nothing went wrong, the ceramic shell would completely break in three minutes. After breaking, the magnetic mine would immediately feel the magnetic field effect of the warship and explode, and the time difference would not be too big.
"Boss, why don't you kill them all?" The sickle man asked Zhao Ziyang via the radio.
Mercenaries do this kind of thing quite a lot, often creating many convenient conditions for themselves in secret. In order to achieve their goals, they don't mind making the situation chaotic before acting as the savior.
The original purpose of coming to Gambia was to disrupt Gambia, and then help Yahya quell the civil unrest as mercenaries. Now they have the strength to kill all of Yahya's marines, but Zhao Ziyang has no intention of killing them, which makes the sickle man feel puzzled.
You know, if people like Mekale are killed, the Gambian government's armed forces will collapse instantly. Then if we go to find Yahya, won't they have the final say?
"Why should we kill them?" Zhao Ziyang licked his lips and said with a smile: "These are our friends, we have to help them."
The Gambian ethnic hatred civil strife was planned by Zhao Ziyang. All the plans were implemented in his mind. Other mercenaries knew nothing and just followed his orders. He didn't want to tell everyone about the whole plan. The mercenary group was at a critical period. What he wanted to do was not to overthrow the government, but to control a government. Any leak of information would make him fail.
Hearing Zhao Ziyang's words, the sickle man seemed to understand, and Omo beside him was also confused, but he didn't care, as long as he was paid for the war. Blade and Swart smiled, and they both understood what Zhao Ziyang meant now.
Amid the conversation, a group of soldiers walked towards the dock from the village with excited faces, each of them holding a bloody head in their hands. The blood on the head dyed their camouflage uniforms dark red. The air became restless with their appearance, and the sticky smell of blood came clearly against the wind.
The soldiers boarded the ship, threw the heads in their hands onto the deck, and kicked them around like footballs, having a blast. In a short time, hundreds of bloody heads gathered on the deck, forming a small mountain.
Dark red blood slowly flowed along the deck, seeping in bit by bit. A group of omnipresent flies swarmed over after smelling the blood, biting the rolled-up flesh and greedily sucking the dirty blood.
These heads were the trophies that Mekale sought for credit. Compared with armed forces, these unarmed civilians were naturally easier to kill. After killing them, using these heads to intimidate various ethnic groups could achieve very good results.
The most important point is that if we fight with the armed forces of various ethnic groups, they will not have the strength to chop off heads. It is better to complete such work in advance, killing two birds with one stone.
This kind of massacre carried out by the army under the command of Mekale was not uncommon. It was the same as the ancient Chinese practice of using the heads of ordinary people to fill the number of people when going out to suppress bandits. The officers and soldiers were weak and could not defeat the bandits, but they had to complete the mission, so they could only massacre ordinary people and use the heads of ordinary people to fill the number of people's heads to falsely report their merits.
This can be called the most incompetent atrocity, but this atrocity has made many people's careers successful, so much so that each other will choose this easy-to-use behavior.
The people are exploited and their lives are worthless.
The sound of women crying and wailing could be heard from the other side of the river. It should be that the soldiers picked a few good-looking women to please Mekaler when they massacred the villagers. They were comfortable when Mekaler was happy. It was actually quite good to follow such an executioner. As long as you followed his wishes, you would be able to go smoothly and drink the broth in the back.
The soldiers on the deck laughed unscrupulously towards the village. They knew that Mekale was very happy, and it was enough that their immediate superior was happy.
A dazzling white flare suddenly appeared in the distant sky. This flare seemed very different from the usual flares, but the difference was not the flare itself, but the fact that this flare came so abruptly, so abrupt that it made people stand there in a daze.
"Return to the warship! Return to the warship!" An officer widened his eyes and shouted, leading his soldiers to run towards the warship frantically.
At this time, there were less than a hundred soldiers on the three warships. Most of them were at the port, and those farther away were still in the village.
Signal flares only appear on the battlefield. The appearance of signal flares at this time means that they are surrounded and will suffer a devastating blow!
Warships are their greatest reliance. As long as they have warships, they will be invincible.
Almost at the moment the officer gave the order, some soldiers quickly organized themselves into defensive positions with the help of trees, while other soldiers retreated to the warship in an orderly manner, demonstrating their well-trained character.
Mekaler, who had already appeared in the field of vision, immediately pushed away the woman he had robbed, took out his pistol and pulled the trigger at the women.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." Gunshots rang out and several women fell in a pool of blood.
Mekale, who had killed the women, reached out to the soldier beside him and took the rifle. He stood there with his head held high and his chest held high, facing the village to the north, with a strong bloodthirstiness on his face. His right index finger on the trigger trembled slightly, showing his excitement without reservation.
Zhao Ziyang narrowed his eyes when he saw Mekaler. He suddenly realized that he had underestimated Mekaler. This was not only an executioner, but also a real soldier. His troops had already demonstrated his qualities. The looseness of the soldiers on the deck before was not due to loose discipline, but the normal behavior of these well-trained soldiers.
Any powerful army will give people a very loose feeling, but when it comes to fighting, they will instantly become another person. In China, it means that they can be pulled out and will not fall down at the critical moment.
This was indeed the case. The soldiers on the deck immediately entered combat mode, sweeping away their previous laxity.
The soldiers' reaction was thanks to Mekale. Only a lion could lead such a force. It seemed that Yahya was not arrogant without any basis. His Marine Corps was indeed very good, at least it was a very powerful force in the surrounding area.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
At this moment, an extremely violent explosion sounded from the bottom of the warship. Three magnetic mines broke free from their ceramic shells and detonated simultaneously with the explosives, blasting a horrible hole in the steel bottom of the cabin.
As the bottom of the cabin was blown through, the river water rushed into the warship frantically, causing the warship to tilt instantly and slowly fall towards the water surface.
Mekaler, holding the gun, turned his head suddenly. A hint of surprise appeared on his face, but he instantly became the same as before, except that the viciousness was even stronger.
Zhao Ziyang was also surprised when he saw the expression on Mekale's face. He saw it clearly: there was no fear or panic on Mekale's face, only surprise!
