At this moment, Hamid, dressed in camouflage uniform, is standing in the southernmost highland fortification of the base, using a tripod-style high-powered telescope to look to the south.
The thirty kilometre distance is so far away that ordinary binoculars cannot see it at all, and these high powered binoculars can only give an approximate view. Moreover, the distance was so great that the lens distortion was severe and it was very difficult to see things.
However, he could still see the large army advancing towards him in the distance from the field of view of the binoculars.
He was a little confused, hadn't the government forces been fighting the larger resistance forces recently? How come they had freed up their hands to come towards them so quickly?
So he immediately instructed his adjutant: "Go, contact the hidden sentry in front and prepare to release the drones immediately. Within five minutes, tell me the number of men and their equipment!"
"Yes Commander!"
Hamid's adjutant immediately turned and left, running inside to contact the concealed sentry at the front by radio.
Soon. The hidden sentry immediately released several civilian aerial drones bought from China.
These drones, which only cost a few thousand dollars in China, are just toys for photographers and aerial photographers in China, but in the Middle East, they have a very strategic role to play.
The first is that it can fly high, with some modifications it can fly to an altitude of one or two kilometres, and its map transmission can reach nearly 10 kilometres in the open, and its flight speed can reach 60 to 70 kilometres per hour.
If you were facing modern troops with advanced equipment, it would be useless and you would be spotted and beaten down before you got up there.
But if you're facing ordinary motorised troops, you can't really defend yourself against them.
That's why these drones are used so much in the Middle East for military purposes.
Once a few drones were in the air, the size of the enemy force was quickly scouted out.
The adjutant reported to Hamid: "Commander. The size of the opposing army is around eight thousand men, with ten armoured vehicles, thirty-six towed howitzers, and about sixty other transport trucks of various kinds. The scouts in the front said it looked like it should be Russian 152mm towed howitzers."
"Shit!" Hamid cursed, "That's two fucking artillery battalions' worth of firepower! What are they trying to do? Are they trying to blow us up?"
As he was talking, the deputy commander hurried in, panting, "Commander, I just got word that the government army has hired 10,000 mercenaries from an overseas mercenary group called the Ten Thousand Dragon Temple. It is said that these 10,000 mercenaries are extremely powerful and have already conquered several anti-government forces one after another! Including Hafiz, who used to be on good terms with us. Two nights ago it was taken down with a company!"
Hamid was dumbfounded: "What? Hafez was taken out? How come I've never heard of that before?"