Western Front Counteroffensive

The situation now faced by the Portuguese forces stationed in Angola was, in fact, the same one East Africa had encountered during its early immigration period.

It was just that conditions in East Africa had improved greatly by now, especially in those developed provinces, which looked no different from the rest of the world.

Night.

Alding's company decided to rest for the night in Luaina Village before continuing eastward to search for traces of the East African Army.

However, most of the Portuguese, Alding included, unanimously believed that finding East Africans would be a very difficult matter.

After all, for three months they had not even seen what the East African National Defense Army looked like. Other units had clashed with East Africans, but among the Portuguese forces invading Danube Province, such incidents had practically become legend.

So after setting up their temporary camp, Alding's unit maintained very lax defenses. There were not even many sentries.

Compared with the "empty" East Africans, getting a good night's sleep amid the "ruins" of this unknown village was far more important to the Portuguese, who had endured months of hardship.

Yet sometimes things simply fell together by chance. While Alding and the others were camped in Luaina Village, a squad of soldiers from East Africa's 411th Division happened to be in the same area.

"According to the map markings, Luaina Village lies ahead. This was once one of our reclamation settlements, but after the war broke out, the villagers were arranged to evacuate to the rear. The Portuguese are simply too inefficient—they've only now felt their way here. If we'd known this would happen, there would have been no need to evacuate Luaina Village in the first place," said Ronald, the squad's company commander.

According to the Western Military Region's plan, nearly