As soon as Ye Chen heard this, his whole body suddenly gave a jolt, hurriedly pulling over first and saying offhand, "Older brother, don't panic first, let me ask you. How is the overall level of the government army?"
"Not great." Hamid said, "But the mercenaries they hired this time are very powerful, they are the top five in the world, the Ten Thousand Dragon Temple, it is said that the Ten Thousand Dragon Temple sent ten thousand soldiers over at once to help the government army."
Ye Chen frowned and asked, "Ten Thousand Dragons Hall, what's the origin?"
"I'm not really sure." Hamid replied, "It's said to be a Chinese founded mercenary organisation that has been developing rapidly in recent years, and is very strong in size and strength! The quality of their individual soldiers is much higher than that of the government army! Basically, they are of the standard of the special forces of developed countries!"
Ye Chen was surprised and said, "I've never heard of this organization, I only know about the American Blackwater and the Russian Cossacks, but this Ten Thousand Dragon Temple. It's the first time I've heard of it."
Hamid sighed: "You usually don't have much chance to deal with mercenaries, you definitely don't know much about this group of people, they are, to put it bluntly, professional soldiers operating on a commercial basis. Collecting money for their work, they are most active in places like ours where there are more wars, this Ten Thousand Dragons Temple, it is said that they have tens of thousands of people under their command, among them there are nearly a hundred top experts, they are very strong, their war god has sent one of the four strongest war kings under his command to Syria ......"
Ye Chen asked him, "First, don't be nervous, the special forces level will die even if you hit the gun, your single soldier quality is not as good as his, but you occupy the time and place, as long as you can play to your advantage, you may not lose when you really fight."
Saying that, Ye Chen asked again, "How are your permanent fortifications and anti-slope pits being repaired?"
Hamid said, "I've been making them work overtime lately! But it's really too much work, and it's really difficult to fully implement the whole plan in such a short period of time ......"
Ye Chen said calmly, "I understand, just tell me, you now have permanent fortifications for the frontal defense as well as the anti-slope trench. Are they able to be put into use now?"
"Can." Hamid said, "I have almost finished building the frontal fortifications at the entrance to the base, which is, after all, the main focus of my entire defence, and the backslope trench. I have excavated on all sides, but I have not yet opened up the inside or formed a network of internal pits, but I have stockpiled a lot of supplies into it as you said, so supplies will not be a problem to hold for a year or two."
"Good!" Ye Chen said offhandedly, "Then I ask you, do you know this 8,000-strong force of the other side. What exactly is the firepower allocation?"
Hamid said, "Ten armored vehicles, over 30 towed artillery pieces, and fifty to sixty trucks. The ones pulling should be supplies and ammunition."
Ye Chen thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you know what specifications and models the thirty or so towed artillery pieces are?"
Hamid said, "The scouts said visually that they should be Russian-made 152mm artillery."
Ye Chen's father, Ye Changyang, was a standard military enthusiast and used to have a whole room at home piled with models of various weapons and equipment, and countless books, magazines and materials on various weapons and equipment.
When Ye Chen was a child, he learned a lot about weapons and equipment under her influence.
Therefore, he said almost without thinking, "There are many models of Russian-made 152mm artillery. But I presume that the ones that made it to Syria should all be models produced in the 1970s and 1980s, or even older, so the effective range should be around twenty kilometres."