However, the People's Liberation Army was not idle either. The General Staff attempted to take advantage of the US military's major moves in the Persian Gulf and had no time to take care of it. Using the USS Shanghai aircraft carrier as its flagship, forming a huge mixed fleet, dispatching more than ten large landing ships, preparing to transport the 86th aircraft brigade to Tanzania and enter Africa in advance.

In order to strengthen the combat capabilities of the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade, in addition to updating its two armored battalions into new ZTZ-99S new tanks, the four armored infantry battalions under its jurisdiction are equipped with the latest all-terrain combat vehicles, a helicopter transport battalion, a Marine-10 Attack Helicopter Land Aviation Battalion and two Destroyer UAV special synthesis battalions have been specially strengthened for the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade.

In this way, the total strength of the entire mechatronic infantry brigade is more than 6,000. The reinforced mechatronic infantry brigade has 6 combat battalions, 60 main battle tanks, 30 attack helicopters, 30 multi-purpose helicopters, 60 Destroyer unmanned fighter jets, and 40 155mm self-propelled artillery. Such firepower equipment is stronger than that of a Class A armored division in China.

In order to implement the African strategy, the People's Liberation Army has invested so much this time that it has given the 86th Aircraft Infantry Brigade super air-ground attack capabilities.

Following the hybrid fleet, there are also large transport fleets transporting two mechanic and infantry division equipment. This time, the People's Liberation Army not only achieved overseas garrisons in advance, but also armed the Tanzanian armed forces in advance. Under the guidance of a large number of military advisers at all levels who arrived in advance, the Tanzanian military will soon be able to form combat effectiveness after equipping with new weapons.

But no one expected that a storm would blow from the heart of Africa without any warning.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Li Huafeng exploration team, who was carrying out an exploration mission in Mpanda, Tanzania, had just finished a day's rock survey and sampling, and was preparing to conduct preliminary composition analysis of the rock sampled today. Judging from the recent exploration results, Li Huafeng could almost confirm that they had discovered a super-large copper mine. They drilled more than a dozen points in a valley with a radius of dozens of kilometers northwest of Mpanda, and almost all of them found high-grade copper mine samples.

After analyzing several sampling points today, the approximate ore mineralization range of this copper ore will be finally determined.

"Old Liu, thank you for your hard work today, but the harvest is good. The rocks sampled today seem to be able to end our exploration here soon." Li Huafeng said with a smile to the helicopter captain Liu Yunhan, who cooperated with them. Mpanda is one of the most remote areas in Tanzania. Li Huafeng and his survey team directly equipped a helicopter as a means of transportation. Otherwise, in such a mountainous area with jungles and almost no paths, it may take several days to get there just to go to a sampling point, and it may take half a month to go back and forth.

Then, as we do now, after specifying the collection location, the helicopter can send the survey team to the destination in dozens of minutes, and can complete the survey and sampling work at several sampling points within a day, which greatly improves the survey efficiency of the survey team.

"It's not hard. As long as you need it, I can take off at any time. Besides, there are subsidies for attendance every day." Liu Yunhan smiled honestly and said, "The intensity of work is far worse than when I was in the army. If I weren't used to eating instant noodles every day, I really liked it. There are dense forests everywhere. Compared with the domestic ecological environment, the air here is much better."

Liu Yunhan is a veteran in his forties. He was originally driving a sightseeing helicopter in China. After seeing the news that the China-Africa Group recruited helicopter pilots on a large scale, he was attracted by the generous treatment of this job. He signed up to be a captain of the China-Africa Group Helicopter Flight Team. He was flying a domestically produced Z-9 transport plane to provide transportation services to the China-Africa Group's survey team in remote and remote areas. If there is a flight mission every day, the daily flight subsidy will be as high as 2,000 yuan. So although life is hard, Liu Yunhan is still willing to go to attend every day.

"Haha, it seems that everyone's purpose is the same," Li Huafeng said with a smile. "But although the work is a little harder, the subsidy given to us is really good. Of course, our work results are worth the price. You see, in just a few days, we have completed the preliminary exploration of a large copper mine. This is a copper mine of millions of tons, and at least tens of thousands of tons of companion silver. Speaking of which, this is the paradise for us explorers, and we feel that we can find treasures every day."

"Captain Li, where will you go next after you complete the copper mine exploration?" Through this period of time, Liu Yunhan and Li Huafeng cooperated well. Old Liu was skilled in driving skills and carried Li Huafeng and others to many dangerous places along the mineralization area. Sometimes, in order to reach a suitable exploration site, Liu Yunhan can land on flat ground with only a few dozen square meters in the jungle. In such a place, very strong skills must be required to land safely.

"Maybe go to the Mahal Mountains. Judging from the preliminary exploration results of Tanzania, there may be a large coal mine there," said Li Huafeng. "But the specific situation depends on the arrangements above. After all, the exploration team is limited now, and there are priority for the types of minerals that need to be explored. If it is not the coal mine in the Mahal Mountains, it may be an ilmenite near Ugola."

"That is to say, we may stay in this place for a while?" Liu Yunhan is now familiar with the terrain of Mpanda. He knows that the Mahal Mountains are close to the Great Lakes in the west of Mpanda, while Ugola is in the eastern mountainous area of ​​Mpanda. Whether it is the Mahal Mountains or Ugola, they are remote reservations with almost no roads. This means that he must stay and cooperate with the exploration team's work, but for Liu Yunhan, this is a good thing.

"It will take at least two months to roughly explore these places. In fact, from the analysis of the terrain and mineralization principles here, most of the mountains here have exploration value, but now there are better choices, so I can't take care of it for the time being." Li Huafeng said, "After we finish these easy-to-do things, I think there are still many areas worthy of careful exploration in the future. If you want, I guess I will not have to worry about having nothing to do for a year or two."

"I hope to work longer," Liu Yunhan said in a longing, "My daughter just went to college and was spending money. I hope to work longer and earn a house for her."

"Old Liu, you're pretty good. Our kid has just been in junior high school and he still has a lot of money when spending money. If we hadn't caught up with this wave of African development, we would have been worried about how to save enough money for him to go to school. If I could work here for two years, I wouldn't have to worry so much." Li Huafeng also said with great expectations for the future. Every family has a difficult sutra, but it seems that whether it is Li Huafeng or Liu Yunhan, for this African development, it is obviously a big opportunity for their lives to change.

However, no one expected that at this moment, thirty miles away from Li Huafeng's base, a group of mysterious militants were rushing towards them.

Betu, who proclaimed himself as colonel, shouted loudly, "Be careful, don't reveal flaws, and you will be killed one by one if you miss me." As a small leader of a local warlord in Kalaimi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when a mysterious middleman offered a price of $10,000 per Chinese, Betu. Banga's eyes turned green. In Kalaimi, a remote mountainous land, even ivory is not so valuable, let alone Betu. Banga knew from the mysterious people that dozens of Chinese people came from the other side of the lake, which was hundreds of thousands of dollars.

With this money, Betu Banga believes that at least his troops can be expanded from hundreds to thousands. In Kalaimi, he can recruit a soldier in just a few dozen dollars, and buy an AK47 submachine gun for more than one hundred dollars. After someone has a gun, Betu Banga can occupy more territory and gain more benefits.

So, Betu Banga had only taken more than twenty people, driving several boats, quietly passing through the sieve-like border lines everywhere in Tanzania, breaking into Tanzania, preparing to kidnap the Chinese here and then transport them back to Congo for US dollars.

After crossing the border and coming to Tanzania, they soon attacked the Mahal Conservancy Management Office, killed several management offices and robbed two pickup trucks, and then roared along the rugged forest path towards Li Huafeng and his station. They were used to lawlessness and didn't care about killing several Tanzanians. Anyway, after kidnapping the Chinese, they immediately retracted into the Congo territory, and were not afraid of Tanzanians settled the accounts in the fall.

And those Tanzanians who were beaten to death will be discovered in this rarely visited reserve. This is not a tourist destination. Apart from poachers, hundreds of miles away are deserted.

"I'll hear it clearly. When I see Chinese people later, I'm not allowed to shoot randomly. I'm going to catch any living people, and I'm not allowed to kill anyone. That's all US dollars. If anyone's hand slips to kill the Chinese, I'll kill him!" As the pickup truck gets closer and closer to the target, Betto Bangjia said viciously.

"Tongba, you will take a few people and then get a few cars, and then catch people and we will retreat quickly." Thinking of the fact that the Chinese station in the small town of Mpandarudigo is just a small place, with only a dozen Tanzanian policemen on weekdays, there is a station of a battalion of the Tanzanian military dozens of kilometers away. If they provoke them, Betu Banga is not sure that he can escape from the Tanzanian soldiers in this battalion.

But if they get a few cars and quickly catch people, they will retreat. When the Tanzanian infantry battalion receives news and then come, they will almost reach the lake.

The Tanzanian military has only tens of thousands of people. In addition to protecting major cities, facing the long border, it can only set up checkpoints on the transportation lines to defend, and it has no ability to control such a long border. Therefore, Tanzania has almost no defenses for most mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation and the natural border of Tanganiga Lake.

Li Huafeng and the others had never expected that they would encounter troops like bandits here, so when Betu and Bangjia rushed to the base, they shot and killed the hired armed bodyguards of Tan's side without saying a word. Everyone was as stupid as a chicken and obediently obediently obediently the mercy of Betu and Bangjia and his group. More than 30 people in the exploration team became the spoils of Betu and his group and were taken to the Congo.
Chapter completed!