While young people in China are still shooting around in the wilderness with drones costing thousands of dollars, Hamid's men have already used such inconspicuous things to achieve complete air-holding surveillance of local battlefields.
The advantage of total stasis is that the drones can remain stationary in the sky, watching the target closely, unlike the US Global Hawk. It needs to keep flying in circles around the target.
Hamid, on the other hand, had already made his tactical arrangements while admiring Charlie wade's planning.
He analysed through the chart transmission signals coming back from the sky that the other side should not exceed 1,200 men at most.
Moreover, they were now detouring towards the west flank, and were probably going to encircle themselves from the west flank. Therefore, he had already sent down orders to send three hundred more soldiers to defend the permanent fortifications on the west flank proper slope.
Three hundred soldiers was not much, but using the timing and location, it was more than enough to defend against an attack of over a thousand soldiers.
The permanent fortifications built by Hamid, although not yet fully constructed, were specially camouflaged on the outside.
The camouflaged fortification, if it did not fire. It would have been almost impossible to detect it even if it had passed by ten times.
The firing holes of these fortifications had been blocked with large fist-sized pieces of rubble and then covered with a layer of loam from the outside. This camouflage was extremely realistic on a mountain that was already full of rubble and yellow earth, and was extremely difficult to detect.
Moreover, when they made the camouflage, they left a few slits like doorways from the inside.
With these small gaps alone, those inside could easily observe the outside.
The camouflage, made of rubble, is also very easy to remove.
Once you need to fire, you can simply pick up the rubble with one hand and then you can put your gun out and fire with full force.
If Logan's troops were to outflank him from the west flank, they would be in the path of these concealed fortifications, and all his men would be exposed to the crossfire of the machine guns.
But Logan knew nothing of this.
He only thought that he had to take down Hamid in a hurry, and use a victory to cover up the mistake he had just made.
This time when he came to Syria, all of them were a bit gullible.
They always felt that the opposition forces were just a bunch of third world bandits with little military education, not much better than the pirates in Somalia.
It was easy for the elite to come over and fight these guerrillas who could only shoot indiscriminately with their AKs.
Therefore, they were not fully prepared before the battle and did not carry very expensive high-end weaponry.