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There is no doubt that those who can be deployed to the peacekeeping force are the elite of various countries - after all, this is the only way to demonstrate their military strength to other countries through international cooperation.

Therefore, it is not just Kolo. The troops from Burkina Faso and Niger who are participating in the AU peacekeeping mission in Mali are also the most elite troops in their country, and they are equipped with the most advanced equipment.

Take Niger for example. In the past, their army mainly cooperated with France, Italy and the United States and received training from them.

In terms of military equipment, Niger's peacekeeping forces are mainly equipped with French and South African equipment.

There is no need to mention the French equipment. After all, Niger was once a French colony, and France still has garrisons and military bases in Niger.

Therefore, their foreign arms purchases were mainly French weapons.

As for their South African-made weapons and equipment, including the Puma M26-15 armored vehicles and the Mamba Mk 7 armored mine-resistant vehicles, they all come from American military aid - after all, the United States has deployed troops in Niger second only to Djibouti.

The situation of the Burkina Faso peacekeeping force is similar to that of Niger, except that they are almost all equipped with French weapons.

Burkina Faso also has an air force of several hundred people. Its main combat mission is to assist France in combating domestic armed forces. It has one attack aircraft squadron, one transport aircraft squadron and one helicopter squadron.

This also shows the influence of France in West Africa.

However, even though the 1300 soldiers from Niger and Burkina Faso in the three-nation peacekeeping force are already their most elite troops and equipped with the best equipment in their countries, they still could not conceal their envy when they saw the equipment of the Kolo Corps.

After all, the French equipment in both countries were either eliminated by the French regular army or from second-line troops.

Even if Niger has military aid from the United States, it is all equipment produced in South Africa...

But what the Kolo Corps used were all active equipment of the British and American coalition forces in the Iraq War. Not only were their individual soldiers well-equipped, they even had M3 infantry fighting vehicles and M109 self-propelled howitzers.

It’s not that the Kolo Corps can’t get the US military’s M1A2 main battle tank, it’s just that the cost-effectiveness is not high for them.

However, what made them most jealous were the aerial drones of the Kolo Legion.

Although it is far inferior to the US Predator drone, which can directly launch Hellfire ground-to-ground missiles, destroy enemy facilities and kill personnel...

But the Jungle Wolf II drone is still very useful in detecting enemy movements and deployment.

At this time, the peacekeeping forces of the three countries have arrived at a small town about 200 kilometers northeast of Bamako, the capital of Mali. It is located on the flank of the road from Kona, a major town occupied by the "Defenders of the Faith" organization, to the capital. The straight-line distance from Kona is about 400 kilometers.

A total of 1800 peacekeeping troops from three battalions of Kolo, Niger and Burkina Faso were deployed on three sides of the town to maintain a certain range of security zone to prevent the rebels of the "Defenders of the Faith" organization from continuing to move southward from here, and to accommodate and protect civilians fleeing here from Kona.

In fact, they did not face much pressure from the rebels in this direction.

After all, according to the intelligence obtained, the main armed forces of the rebels are around 10,000 people. Although their number is far higher than the number of peacekeeping forces of the three countries, it is even more than the total strength of the African Union peacekeeping mission stationed in Mali this time.

But at this time the rebels had split into two forces and were still on guard against each other.

In addition, they have considerable forces to garrison towns and exert pressure in the direction of the capital, so the number of rebels opposite the three kingdoms does not pose a great threat to them.

However, the peacekeeping forces of the Kolo Corps are not satisfied with simply maintaining their safe zone from being attacked by the other side. Although the rebels have received training from terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the excellent matching mechanism in the African region, and although the rebels have previously pinned the Mali government forces to the ground, the Kolo Corps does not take their combat effectiveness seriously.

In fact, these armed forces in Africa are quite powerful when the wind is in their favor, but they are not well organized. Once they face an unfavorable situation, they are easily defeated.

Moreover, through the reconnaissance of the Jungle Wolf II drone during this period, the peacekeeping force of the Kolo Corps has already grasped the situation on the opposite side.

There are nearly 2000 armed rebels stationed in Kona, of which more than 400 have established a forward position in a village about 50 kilometers southwest of Kona.

According to drone reconnaissance, it was discovered that the enemy often sent several teams of dozens of people to harass and attack nearby towns and villages.

At the closest point, these small harassment teams were less than 150 kilometers away from the safe zone where the Kolo Corps peacekeeping force was located.

Therefore, the peacekeeping force of the Kolo Corps is prepared to eliminate these small harassment teams with the cooperation of drone intelligence.

Their original intention was not to use ground forces to occupy the enemy's strongholds, but to destroy their manpower.

The Kolo Corps' peacekeeping force has five attack helicopters, three Lynx and two Apache attack helicopters.

There are also three Chinook transport helicopters, each of which can transport 45 fully armed soldiers or 10 tons of cargo.

Therefore, three Chinook transport helicopters can easily transport a company of soldiers (about 120 people) or half a company of soldiers along with their heavy equipment such as military vehicles to the designated location, so as to maneuver and ambush the rebel harassment team.

These actions can also be used to practice information transmission and coordination between drones and ground forces in actual combat.

You have to know that specifying tactics is one thing. The Kolo Corps peacekeeping force that came to Mali this time, except for a 15-member drone technical team, is composed entirely of black soldiers and officers from Kolo. Among them, the commander of the peacekeeping force, Malcolm Oliver, was sent to a certain army command academy in China by the Kolo military government. After graduation, he joined the Kolo Corps and then led a team to Iraq to perform security missions.

It can be said that Malcolm Oliver is the best of the local black officers in the Kolo Corps. He has outstanding performance and excellent leadership style. Therefore, he was appointed as the commander of the peacekeeping force entering Mali this time.

Malcolm's most admired book is "The Art of War" and he is an officer who likes to use various tactics.

This time, he personally led the team to carry out the operation.

After discovering the rebel harassment team had set out, Malcolm led nearly 50 elite soldiers, using the enemy's movements provided by the Coyote II drone, and flew stealthily to the nearby area in a Chinook transport helicopter. Then they got off the plane and took a military vehicle to ambush in advance at the place where the enemy must pass on their return journey.

Attack helicopters will also provide air support.

In this way, even if their numbers were similar to those of the enemy, under such an ambush, the rebels were basically unable to organize an effective counterattack and were completely wiped out in the rout.

After carrying out these two ambushes and killing more than a hundred rebels, the rebels near Kona began to retreat into the town, no longer daring to go out in small groups to harass.

With such a result, the peacekeeping force of the Kolo Corps finally suffered almost zero casualties - the only unlucky guy was that he was too excited and got his arm grazed by a stray bullet when he stood up and fired.