Since the mobile phone network in the Congolese side was constructed and maintained by the Chinese communications company, the General Staff Intelligence Department quickly contacted the company and found the dialing base station of the telephone number through the backend. The intelligence department found that the dialing base station of the telephone was highly consistent with the information provided by Liu Yunhan's GPS locator. With the confirmation of this news, the General Staff Intelligence Department basically locked the exact location of the kidnapped hostages.

Mpanda Front.

Liu Cheng received the latest information from the headquarters, which was greatly boosted, the hostages were safe, and they were detained together, which shows that the group of hostage-killing criminals were quite unprofessional, which greatly reduced the difficulty of rescue by force. Although the kidnapped group of militants now issued a ransom request, from the Central African group, the pressure to pay the ransom of the 3.8 million US dollars is not high, and they have already started to prepare.

But for the General Staff, if the matter is understood by paying ransom, then for these lawless militants on the other side, this is an extremely bad start.

In the future, the African development strategy will have tens of thousands of Chinese citizens working and living on the land of East Africa. If these militants know that kidnapping Chinese people can make such huge profits, Chinese citizens will become a piece of fat in their eyes in the future. Not to mention that the warlords in the Congo will stare at them with red eyes like wolves, even in the surrounding countries such as Uganda, Burundi, and Kenya, which have weaker control in China, there will be countless hungry wolves-like militants who will cross the border.

With the current strength of the Tanzanian People's Defense Force, it will not be possible to effectively control its border areas within ten years. Therefore, once Chinese citizens become valuable prey in the eyes of these militants, even if they are stationed in Africa, they will be unpredictable.

So from the perspective of the military, this time we will try our best to use force strikes to complete this rescue, and will also severely strike these hostage-taking militants to stop this unhealthy trend.

After the command center equipment was launched in Tanzan, a thatched hut-based resident, several high-power generators quickly made a low roar and began to output powerful electricity to support the command center's large theater joint combat command system. The Winglong drone, which was originally controlled by a portable small monitoring system, is now transferred to the large screen of this theater joint combat command system to monitor.

Colonel Lazaro looked at the magical command center of the People's Liberation Army in surprise. In this extremely simple thatched hut, there are now staggered surveillance cameras of various sizes. The most core is a one hundred-inch super-large magic mirror display. On that screen, all personnel information and main combat weapons information of the entire People's Liberation Army assault battalion and special brigade can be controlled at any time. It can be seen that there is a positioning system on every combatant of the People's Liberation Army and on each main combat weapon.

"Col. Liu, I didn't expect that the PLA's informatization level has developed to such a high level in just five or six years after I left China. I remember that I had never seen such an advanced comprehensive command system when I studied at the Army Academy and went to your country's 38th Army to observe and practice internships." Lazaro said enviously. With this command system, it not only greatly facilitates the commander's grasp of the entire battle situation, but also can adjust the force deployment and adjustments according to the frontline combat conditions at any time, but also comprehensively form a whole and exert greater synthetic combat power.

Liu Cheng stared at the reconnaissance situation sent back by the Wingshode drone on the big screen, and said to Colonel Lazaro, "In recent years, our army's informatization level has developed very rapidly. All of this is attributed to our Dr. Duke. He has changed the level of our entire communications industry. All the core components you see are made by ourselves." Liu Cheng did not mind showing the advantages of the People's Liberation Army for this young Tanzanian officer who has a good impression of China.

Anyway, in the two aircraft and brigades that will be transformed for Tanzania soon, their combat command system will be replaced by similar standards as their own system. Tanzania must follow the Chinese side wholeheartedly and how can they dispel their concerns without showing some muscles?

As an elite force in the army, the 164th Marine Brigade is the pioneer of the PLA's lead in realizing full information digitalization. The comprehensive personal information system used by each Marine is integrated with personal positioning, communication and command.

However, at this moment, Colonel Lazaro didn't care about studying this. He looked at the information sent by the pterosaur drone on the big screen and could no longer move his eyes. "This is the Kalemi city area. The local government troops garrisons are near the lake area in the northeast corner of Kalemi. There are about 1,000 infantry battalions," Colonel Lazaro pointed to the high-definition picture sent back by one of the pterosaur drones and explained. As the highest commander of the Mpanda local garrison, he still has a lot of knowledge about the opponent of the other shore, Colonel Lazaro.

"Xiao Wang, follow Colonel Lazaro's instructions, let's first observe the other party's main traffic line and the situation of its local government troops." Liu Cheng saw that Lazaro was very familiar with Kalemi, so he asked Wang Qiang, the Winglong drone operator on one side to observe the situation on the other side under the guidance of Lazaro.

Seeing Liu Cheng trusting himself so much, Lazaro was not polite, and honestly took on the responsibility of the guide and began to guide the Winglong drone route. Basically, Kalemi City is a lakeside city built on a narrow area of ​​a north-south lake area, with a north-south length of more than ten kilometers.

The middle is connected by a two-lane street that faces north and south. On the west side of this street, it is densely packed with local low buildings, most of which are topped by thatch. In Liu Cheng's view, this city is incomparable to a larger town in China, but in Congo, it is the capital of a province and can be regarded as a rare big city in the east of Congo. Although the city is simple, the urban area has a large population, and now it has more than 200,000 people.

Although Kalemi is nominally under the control of the government, there are many militants in the city with automatic weapons such as AK47, and they belong to militants of different factions. Judging from the reconnaissance pictures sent back by the Winglong drone, the camps of the local garrison of Kalemi are relatively neat. In the empty venue of the garrison, Liu Cheng and his team found more than a dozen pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and several 105mm old artillery.

According to the intelligence obtained by Colonel Lazaro, these weapons are probably the strongest heavy firepower in this barracks.

However, the reconnaissance of Betu Bangjia and his gang were not so lucky. After flying over Liu Yunhan's GPS positioning information, the Winglong drone found that they were in a mountainous area about 2 kilometers away from the city at the south end of Kalemi. There was a mountain hundreds of meters high in the north and south, with a valley of dozens of acres in the east, and a valley with jungle to the west.

Judging from the TV images sent back by the Winghound, except for the houses in the open area of ​​the lake, most of the houses hidden in the dense jungle only faintly reveal some thatched roofs from the trees.

In the north, a simple dirt road was blocked by something like a sandbag. Two heavy machine guns were blocked from the road ahead. Next to it were two 6-7-meter-high watchtowers. A watchtower facing east and south near the lake area was built, which allowed you to see both directions at a glance.

Next, a dense circle of wooden fences was built around the densely packed areas of houses, and behind them were some simple fortifications. Judging from preliminary observations, the defensive measures of this group of militants were still quite close.

It's just that in the jungle, this kind of TV image cannot be seen clearly. Fortunately, the reconnaissance equipment equipped by the Winglong drone is not only equipped with visible light camera systems, but also infrared shooting and synthetic aperture radar systems.

The images captured by these devices passed through the dense jungle, showing the information of the crowds in the woods and even the houses on the large surveillance screen. After circling around here for a few weeks, the information of the personnel in all aspects of the place was clarified.

"The crowds in this place are the most crowded, and it seems that it is the place where hostages are held," Liu Cheng pointed to a place with the largest number of people on the surveillance screen and said, "Please pay attention to counting the number of people to see if they can match the data," Liu Cheng said to the combat staff.

Outside the hostages, there are 5 places with 4 or 5 people living within a range of more than ten meters, and the hostages are trapped in a mess. According to the preliminary data compiled by the entire camp, there are at least 300 militants.

"This is a camp for the 'M23 Movement'. They have always competed with Kalemi's government forces," Lazaro pointed to the camp and introduced to Liu Cheng and others. "However, although this group of militants belongs to the 'M23 Movement' in name, their leader Betto Banga has always been his own way. He is a local force in Kalemi, who controls most of the Kalemi coal mining and cement industry transactions. He has never heard of them doing kidnapping and extortion before. I don't know why this time he crossed the border and committed such a kidnapping case."

Lazaro looked puzzled, "How is their weapons and equipment?" Liu Cheng didn't care about studying this Betu. Why did Banga do this kidnapping case? Now he looked at the opponent's terrain and defense density, which is very unfavorable for the solution by force.

"Most of them are AK47 automatic rifles, with a small number of machine guns and rocket launchers. In addition, they have the tradition of mine-braking, so it is very difficult to attack this camp." Colonel Lazaro returned to the topic, "A few years ago, the Congolese government forces tried to attack them. After dispatching a battalion of troops, they fought for several hours, and dozens of soldiers were killed and killed. They retreated after the arrival of reinforcements in Betu Bangga. It can be said that although the number of militants is not too large, it is an armed force that cannot be underestimated in Kalemi."
Chapter completed!