Threatening Benguela

Although the Angola Colony government lodged every kind of complaint, if they lost the colony, everyone would be left holding an endless share of the blame. It might even trigger a new round of political turmoil within Portugal.

But the 331st and 421st Divisions did not care whether the Angola government's mood was stable. They had already begun a forced march toward Luanda.

As for the reinforcements General Madrid had mentioned, returning to assist would likely be extremely difficult, because the East African Army and the Portuguese Army had already become a pot of porridge on the front lines.

At this point, everyone had become tangled together in a chaotic mass. Some East African forces were even advancing faster than the Portuguese Army could flee.

The newly formed East African 416th Division encountered precisely such a situation. The 416th Division had been established for less than two months, yet it performed exceptionally well on the Angola battlefield.

Upon entering the battlefield for the first time, it crushed one or two Portuguese brigades. Afterward, the 416th Division became locked in a race against time, one side pursuing and the other fleeing.

Major General Kapuchi, commander of the 416th Division, had originally been a brigade commander under the East African Eastern Military Region's 112th Division. During this expansion, he had been promoted to command the newly established 416th Division.

Kapuchi asked his staff officer Hans, "How are our forces progressing now?"

"The Second Brigade pushed forward too quickly. According to the message they sent back yesterday, the Second Brigade's advance troops have already reached the Mutombo area. The First Brigade is still fighting the enemy on the east bank of the Kwanza River. This enemy force is a unit of Black auxiliary troops under the Portuguese Army. Because they failed to cross