Chapter 1312 - Armed Intervention

FARC’s declaration of war on the Colombian government forces not only shocked the UA, but also their advisors, Russia and Xin.

Timochenko not only pushed the plan ahead by half a year, but he also didn’t send a message before he pulled the trigger.

However, he couldn’t take the entirety of the blame.

Juan died at the hands of the CIB… Whether or not he really died because of the CIB, it was an excellent opportunity to attack the pro-UA government.

The Colombian President was dead, the vice president was too incompetent to step in, thus the power struggle within the elites was escalating. The entire political situation in the country was in chaos and the popular support had plummeted…

The excuse and the timing for a revolution were there. If he didn’t use this opportunity, when would be a better time?

With Timochenko’s order, the FARC guerrillas active in the eastern tropical rain forest swarmed out and launched the largest offensive attack in the western region controlled by government forces in the 21st century.

Wrapped in bullet chains and armed with light machine guns, the guerrillas rushed out of the tropical rainforest and swarmed the streets. They fired at any police vehicles they saw, which forced the Colombian police, with small pistols, unable to fend for themselves.

The militia who came to support were no match either. They were forced to retreat, and soon the entire town was under the control of FARC.

The same scene happened in different small towns at the foot of the Andes.

This time Timochenko thoroughly implemented the strategy of besieging cities by taking control of the rural area first, as he executed guerrilla tactics to the extreme. The cities controlled by government forces were not touched at all, and the towns and villages with weak defense forces were his focus.

As for the Colombian government forces, the situation could not be worse.

To describe it in one word, it was chaotic.

The vice president who had taken over for the president was a mascot. He did not have any influence in his party. If it weren’t for Juan’s death, he would never have the chance to become the president.

However, even if he was a mascot, he was still the president. Not to mention a congress with a complex power structure, he couldn’t even manage the issues within the party, let alone to solve the diplomatic crisis and and civil war?

The battle in the Pamplona region was at a deadlock, the central area was once again in a guerrilla warfare. The Colombian government immediately dispatched an armored brigade to the Cucuta area north of Pamplona. On the one hand, the move was to calm the panic among the locals, and on the other hand, it was to prevent the FARC from taking control of this economic center.

Unfortunately, South America was in typhoon season, and heavy rains had continued for many days.

The road conditions in the Andes were terrible to begin with, and the threat of thunderstorms and mudslides turned the entire mountain area into a nightmare for armored forces. Most of the tanks were stranded at the foot of the mountain. The armored brigade had to abandon the cumbersome heavy armor, and the infantries transported by trucks were the first to arrive at the Colombia border.

More unfortunately, this armor brigade just happened to encounter the FARC guerrillas.

A battle broke out in the heavy rain between the two sides.

Both sides were elite forces, especially the Colombian side. Although two tank battalions were forced to stay behind, the armored vehicles were still effective. In the end, the victory was decided after FARC guerrillas were forced to retreat.

As for who really won?

It was hard to say.

After countless hardships, this elite force finally arrived in the Cucuta area, which finally stabilized Colombia’s control of the border. For the next while, it was unlikely for FARC to plan an attack on this city, but it was inevitable for the two sides to fight for the control of this area.

Because this location was a shortcut to Venezuela, Timochenko was determined to control the city in order to receive armored units from Russia and Xin.

At this point in the war, the areas controlled by both sides were already divided.

The Colombia government forces controlled most of the country, while the guerrillas used the Andes to gain a hold of the mountainous region in central Colombia, as well as its traditional sphere of influence-parts of the deepest southern Amazon jungle.

Here, it was worth mentioning the geographical environment of Colombia.

The Andes was a dividing line that divided Colombia into two worlds.

On the left was the bustling west coast, and on the right was the endless rainforest and grassland.

On Google Maps, the crisscrossing highway network in the west created in sharp contrast with the bare east. It was not difficult to see the divided parts of the nation from the differences in the road network.

Although Timochenko was a cruel and evil tyrant, and notorious for drug and hostage issues, he still received support in southeastern Colombia because his drug plantations concentrated in the southeast had greatly improved the living standards of local people.

FARC’s revolution did in fact draw in many young South Americans.

If FARC’s guerrillas took complete control of the Andes, it would inevitably cut off government control of the southern provinces, and there was no doubt the Colombian government would completely lose its influence. As a result, FARC could also take a large chunk out of Colombia’s territory.

And it was an outcome both the government and the UA did not want to see.

Precisely to avoid this situation, just in the twenty-fourth hour when the FARC guerrillas launched a full-scale offensive against the Colombian government, the UA Capitol signed a special order and received an approval rate of more than 80%.

The UA finally intervened.

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Inside the flagship’s bridge, Hogg gazed into the South American continent on the horizon through the heavy downpour and rumbling waves. His eagle-like eyes seemed to narrow, and from his face, it was difficult to tell what he was thinking about.

On a Ford-class aircraft carrier not far away, the crew was busy. A fully loaded F35 slowly moved from the hangar onto the runway, and took off through the curtain of rain to the sky. Although its mission was only reconnaissance, if the situation required, it would not be stingy in pouring the flames of “justice” on the FARC.

The UA invested heavily in order to save their backyard.

The country not only dispatched the Ford-class aircraft carrier battle group that confronted Xin in the Western Pacific some time ago, but also dispatched a brigade of marines and an integrated aviation squadron.

Yes, not just aircraft carriers, but also ground forces.

In a rare occurrence that the Capitol and the Congress reached an consensus on sending ground forces, after they received the authorization from the current Colombia President (former vice president), they sent ground troops to Colombia for reinforcement.

It seemed that this time the UA was not only planning to abuse their air superiority, but the country was also planning to run their tanks up for a lap.

Even the aircraft carrier battle group was the latest Ford-class.

Jiang Chen made a malicious speculation that the UA likely decided to use Columbia as a weapon testing ground to test the Ford-class aircraft carrier battle group’s capability to provide ground support. After all, among all aircraft carriers, this latest Ford-class was the only class not tested by war.

Of course, no matter what the UA’s intentions were, the previously confident Timochenko was no longer certain about his decision when he saw the UA soldiers land on Colombian soil…