Imperial Elite

Chapter 109 Wagner's Weakest Moment

Logically speaking, the Mediterranean Sea is a calm and pleasant inland sea.

Especially compared to the windy and turbulent North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea is like a calm bathtub.

So when Joe devised the plan to raid the fishing boats, he figured that since his troops in Newagna had survived the terrible conditions of the North Sea, sailing in the Mediterranean by fishing boats would be no problem at all.

Taking into account the distance and the relatively weak power of the fishing boat, Joe planned to set out at night and arrive at the coast in about 24 hours.

After accurately calculating the sailing time of the fishing boats, the large ships transporting the main force will arrive at the designated sea area two hours after the beach landing force to begin the landing.

Based on experience, this would have been a perfect plan. The only mishap was that the beaching troops failed to control the port, preventing subsequent troops from getting on.

Therefore, in order to ensure the success of the plan, Joe personally led his guards to join the first wave of troops on the beach.

Prepare to give these Sudanese a little Wagnerian shock.

However, just one hour after the fishing boat left Cyprus, Joe discovered a serious flaw in his plan.

After taking into account factors such as hydrology, tides, and mechanical failures, Joe realized that he hadn't considered the possibility that he and the other Wagner crew members might get seasick.

Originally, due to the Baltic Sea separating NATO member states, and the fact that Joe also had a training base on Emerald Island, the situation was different.

At this time, although Joe had always wanted to build some transport planes and form an air transport force, the only large aircraft capable of carrying a large number of people was the Teutonic airship.

Therefore, almost all of Wagner's members had experience going out to sea by boat and were not landlubbers who had never been to sea. So those who were seasick were excluded from the beach assault team from the beginning.

But what Joe didn't expect was that traveling on a large ship in the stormy North Sea was a completely different experience from traveling on a small boat in the relatively calm Mediterranean.

Taking a ride on a large ship sailing in the North Sea is like sitting in a giant, slowly swinging pendulum. The continuous, slow, rhythmic but large-amplitude swaying can make many first-time ship passengers throw up their Christmas dinner from last year.

However, sailing in the Mediterranean on a fishing boat is a completely different experience.

Although the Mediterranean Sea is very calm, this calmness does not mean that there are no waves at all. On the contrary, like all seas, there are always waves that make fishing boats sway with the waves.

The tonnage of a fishing boat determines that even the gentlest waves will cause it to rock wildly.

It felt like being a hamster crammed into a cage and shaken wildly, a completely different experience from riding a large ship in Beihai.

Joe, who had never experienced seasickness in Beihai, began to feel dizzy and started vomiting violently an hour after setting sail.

Meanwhile, the members of Lucia's Guard who were on the same boat as Joe were also vomiting so badly that they were completely disoriented and disoriented.

During the few moments when they weren't feeling so bad, they all looked at Joe with green faces.

The members of the Northern Guard, though they looked uncomfortable, didn't seem to be vomiting up bile like Joe.

After vomiting all night, Joe looked at the pale sea in the distance and had no mood to appreciate the scenery.

At this moment, Joe's longing for the land was stronger than ever before.

While missing the land, Joe was also thinking about a question: if he and some of his Lucia Guard members were vomiting so badly, would others be vomiting just as badly?

If everyone is vomiting like this, it will take a long time just to recover their fighting strength after landing, let alone to fight.

Although Joe wanted to call a halt to the operation immediately, fishing boats of that era didn't have high-end equipment like radios, so Joe had no way to stop the operation.

Faced with the choice between abandoning his troops and running back, or leading his troops to the shore to fight, Joe unhesitatingly chose the latter.

The reason he dared to make this choice was, on the one hand, because Joe believed that the ongoing deception operation would definitely divert the Sudanese's attention. The Sudanese had a limited force, and they could concentrate their troops to deal with the feint attack.

There won't be many troops facing them.

At the same time, the Sudanese wouldn't be so crazy as to think they would land with their troops in fishing boats.

On the other hand, it's because he is no longer the unknown ordinary sapper he once was. If he really encounters an unexpected situation, he will definitely be able to survive as long as he doesn't do anything reckless.

So why not give it a shot?

After drifting at sea for another half a day, it got dark again.

Joe, who was almost vomiting and unconscious, heard the captain of the fishing boat tell him that they were now close to the Sudanese coast.

Upon hearing this, Joe felt as if his very soul had been shaken out of his body by the waves.

But Joe forced himself to stay alert and began preparing for the landing.

With a submachine gun and a backpack, Joe jumped off the fishing boat without hesitation as it entered shallow water.

When he stepped into the icy seawater, the soft sand under his feet and the cold waves made Qiao a little unsteady on his feet.

After vomiting for a whole day, Qiao felt extremely weak.

However, just as Joe had thought, the Sudanese did not have enough troops to defend their long coastline.

Although Joe is in very bad shape, both the Wagner crew who landed on this beach and Joe's guards are in terrible condition.

Most people had to help each other to get to the shore, and once there, many collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily.

Faced with this situation, Joe could only organize those men who were in slightly better condition than his Northern Guard, and who at least didn't look like they had been boiled alive, to set up defenses near the beachhead.

If Joe can get through this most dangerous period, he will be able to continue with his original plan.

While organizing the defense, Joe, who had finally recovered from his vomiting ordeal, remembered another problem.

If the main force that stormed the beach is already in such a bad state, what about the infiltration and sabotage teams? Are they facing the same predicament as the main force? In fact, just as Joe feared, the elite infiltration and sabotage teams encountered the same problems as the main force; they were seasick and disoriented at sea, completely disoriented.

Like Joe, within the first hour after setting off, they felt that the reloading task would be difficult to complete once they landed.

However, compared to the main force that stormed the beach, they had two obvious advantages: firstly, they were outnumbered, and secondly, none of them were Greek.

Since they're not Greeks, there's a way.

Some sabotage groups, like Joe, were lucky and completed their landing without much trouble.

After a short rest, preparations began for the infiltration and sabotage mission.

Some less fortunate groups encountered coast guard personnel.

However, these veterans at this moment displayed the shrewdness typical of veterans.

Some people said they were tourists who went fishing at sea and were forced to come here because of mechanical failure.

Some of the people in better condition simply pretended not to understand anything, gesturing and speaking in Buntanian and Gaulish languages ​​to them. Once these people approached in confusion, they would suddenly kill them and then begin a rapid interrogation.

After a short rest and a slight recovery, the sabotage team began their operation.

After all, with the Indomitable SUVs around, they can wreak havoc and are safer anywhere than on the beach.

At this time, Joe also encountered trouble.

Although Joe chose to land near Lake Tuz because the lagoon area was sparsely populated, making it difficult to detect a large-scale landing there.

However, sparse population does not mean that no one lives here.

Such a large-scale landing operation was quickly discovered by some local elderly people who were taking a stroll and young people who were relaxing by the sea.

Although the Sultanate has disintegrated, the residents, as residents of the former core area of ​​the empire, naturally still have some awareness.

Especially considering that they were currently fighting the Greek army, these men immediately ran into town without looking back to report their discovery to the police: "The Greeks are attacking! They've landed on the beach! There are so many of them! And so many ships!"

When the local police chief first heard the report, he didn't take it seriously.

After all, since the start of the war, there have been frequent instances of false alarms caused by excessive tension.

The most outrageous incident was when someone saw a piece of tree stump floating at sea and immediately reported it to the coast as indicating the presence of a Bonitania submarine!
The Buntanians are preparing to launch another surprise attack on us!

The result of that false alarm was that the police chief was severely reprimanded by his superiors.

However, as the number of people reporting the incidents continued to increase, the police chief also felt that something was amiss.

However, having learned from past experiences, the police chief did not dare to notify the nearby garrison for the time being. Instead, he asked those people if they had seen any other ships at sea.

What kind of ship did those people use to land?
Then the police chief heard that there were a lot of people, but they all came ashore in small boats and rushed to the beach to rest as soon as they got ashore. He didn't see any other boats on the sea in the distance.

Upon hearing this, the police chief wondered if something had happened at sea that caused the fishing fleet to temporarily dock.

Although the Mediterranean is relatively calm, there have been instances where fleets have had to make port due to storms at sea.

Because I really don't understand what's going on right now.

The police chief decided to go to the beach himself to see what was going on.

As Sudan's granary, although it's just a small town, the police station is equipped with vehicles.

Just in case, the police chief ordered both of the station's vehicles to be dispatched, and the town's police officers also ran to catch up, since they would have to immediately maintain order on the beach if the fishing fleet really had a problem.

To prevent the fishermen who come ashore from causing any trouble.

If it really was a problem with the fishing fleet, he could send a car back to report the situation, and let the gentlemen in town decide what to do.

As the police chief's two vehicles approached the beach, Wagner members who were on guard near the main road immediately noticed the two vehicles and the police following behind them.

There were vehicles, and people running behind them. Although there weren't many, it was undoubtedly the Sudanese troops counterattacking the beachhead.

Despite the dire situation, the Wagner members on guard still managed to ambush the police chief's convoy.

After a burst of fire from a light machine gun and submachine gun, most of the police officers in the two vehicles and behind them were killed instantly.

Only one old policeman, who was running slowly and fell behind the group, witnessed everything.

After hearing gunshots and seeing the convoy wiped out instantly, a group of people in unfamiliar uniforms emerged from the roadside and shot the bodies one by one.

Before he was discovered, the old policeman scrambled back to town.

With trembling hands, he made a phone call to the nearby garrison.

"It's terrible! The Greeks have landed! Our police chief was just ambushed and is dead!"

The local garrison was taken aback by the news that the Greeks had landed.

As the most important granary of the Sultanate, although the Sultanate does not station many troops here, most of those remaining are troops who fought against the Bunitania on the beachhead in the past.

Although startled, the local garrison commander reacted quickly.

We must stop these Greeks on the beach; if we let them cross it, everything will be over!
(End of this chapter)