At three o'clock in the morning, the Afghan defense minister received a report from the soldiers of the Ninth Division that 5,000 people had been disabled and that less than 1,000 had returned.

Knowing that this was done by the Prophet Army, the Minister of Defense immediately became angry, because Ariza removed the post of Chief of the General Staff, so the Minister of Defense Behesud concurrently served as the Chief of the General Staff, for Ariza's abnormality these days, Behesud did not find anything, he believed that the reason why Ariza was strong against public opinion and firmly supported the Prophet Army was just to sell the Prophet Army a face, so that he could take the initiative in future cooperation.

But Behsud did not expect that the Prophet Army actually took the initiative to attack their army, and also routed the entire Ninth Division, although the Ninth Division also had something wrong, but after all, they were just carrying out orders, not to mention that this was still on the territory of Afghanistan.

At that time, Bekhsud did not have time to inform Ariza, so he rushed to the Ministry of Defense and summoned the entire military top brass in Kabul to repeat the incident, and almost all of them had a bad face.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff Kabul said: "The Prophet Army is too arrogant, it has not yet driven out the American troops, they dare to do something against us, they must give them some color, or simply expel them from Afghanistan and do not recognize the legitimacy of their actions!" ”

The other generals also chimed in, only Behesud was calm, he was not carried away by anger, reason told him that President Ariza's recent behavior seemed to be a little wrong, at least on the surface Ariza wanted to cooperate with the Prophet Army, but Behesud felt that even if they wanted to cooperate, they must also get the initiative.

This is why the former chief of the General Staff was removed, and Behsud, when he was at the helm of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense, also carried out a plan to receive American military equipment, believing that the president was too indulgent to the Prophet Army and would make the Prophet Army feel weak and deceitful.

"We can't directly defeat the Prophet Army, let alone expel them, if Afghanistan wants to become strong, we must cooperate with the Prophet Army, New Iraq is such an example, we are a landlocked country, there is no other economic source except poppy, if we can cooperate with the Prophet Army, open up relations with China, and turn Afghanistan into an important transportation hub, it will make a huge difference to the whole country, and the current situation." Bekhsud said calmly.

"Shall we just let it go? In this case, the Prophet Army will become another American army, and it will not be the same on our heads? The deputy chief of the general staff asked rhetorically, "Afghans can become strong without the help of outsiders, and only by driving out all foreign troops can they achieve strong autonomy in the war." ”

Bekhsud's face turned cold, because the words of the deputy chief of the general staff were too inflammatory, he frowned, glanced at everyone and said: "Since the British invasion, has Afghanistan ever been strong?" Use your brains and think about it, if you drive the Prophet Army out now, won't the American army come back? Will you be able to withstand an attack by the U.S. military? Moreover, even the Americans do not really want to help us, they just want to use our place to achieve the goal of constraining the Middle East and China. ”

Everyone was silent, but at this moment, the deputy chief of staff said again: "What is the difference between the Prophet Army and them, with the current situation, the Prophet Army is worse than the US army, can it still help Afghanistan?" ”

"Nope." Bekhsud shook his head, "First of all, the Prophet Army is composed of Iraqis, and Iraqis have the same faith and skin color as us, and even in ancient times we were people of the same country, and we can be regarded as Arab compatriots, which Americans cannot compare with at all; Secondly, although the Prophet Army also wants to use us, but unlike the Americans, you look at Iran, in the creation of the free zone, how rapid Iran's economic development is, even if it has so much oil, but the Iranians can still understand the benefits that the free zone brings to them, not to mention us who have nothing. ”

The deputy chief of the General Staff bowed his head and said, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"Of course we have to fight, because they have killed so many of us, and we have to give an account to the people under them." "However, we cannot annihilate the Prophet's army, or expel them, and fight them completely, all we can do is surround them and threaten them to let them know that we are powerful, so as to take the initiative in this confrontation!" ”

Hearing this, all the generals nodded, and even the deputy chief of the general staff had nothing to say.

Bekhsud was thoughtful, but he forgot that the Prophet Army was not a U.S. army that would surrender once it ran out of ammunition and food, but on the contrary, the Prophet Army belonged to the kind of army that was bigger and stronger, the more stressed, and the more powerful.

So, when Bekhsud mobilized five divisions of the National Army in Kabul to besiege Bagram Air Base, Jabbar also got the news at the same time.

The staff officers on the side had a very ugly face, the five divisions were 25,000 people, and the Southern Front Army of the garrison armored division was only 10,000 in total, and most of the troops were put into the placement of American prisoners and the extermination of the remaining American troops who were resisting.

However, Clark's Northern Front Army Group was attacking Jalalabad and another base that had not yet been recovered, and once the reinforcements were against the Nationalist Army, they would be able to win, but the problem was that they would turn against the Nationalist Army and expand the war, and then they would have to face the whole of Afghanistan, not just the Nationalist Army, and all the plans of the Prophet would be lost.

"Looks like the battle from a few hours ago hasn't hurt them yet!" Jabbar's face was cold, he was not prepared to negotiate with the Nationalists.

The staff officer said: "Chief, if we continue to fight, it will be very unfavorable to us, if we can't take Afghanistan in four days, the country will collapse!" ”

"If we can't beat them, the Afghan strategy will collapse." Jabbar was not angry for a while, but after careful consideration, Karaman dared to receive the equipment with such fanfare, you can see the meaning of the Afghan high-level, so Jabbar believes that it is necessary to deter the Afghan high-level.

In fact, Jabbar does not think that handing over the initiative to the Afghan government can be peaceful, on the contrary, Jabbar feels that once handed over to the Afghan government, this important transportation line with China will be in an unstable state for a long time in the future, and how can an unstable transportation line promote the economy?

I am afraid that they will put more and more manpower and material resources into it at that time, so Jabbar will have to firmly hold the initiative in his hands, so as to facilitate future talks.

He must fight this battle, even if the enemy is outnumbered, even if he fights until the whole army is annihilated, he must understand that the Prophet Army is not something they can use if they want, expel if they want, and knead it if they want.

The staff officer was silent, and then Jabbar asked all about the situation of Army Group South and made a detailed strategic deployment for the Nationalist army to surround Bagram Air Base.

About half an hour later, Behsud saw that the Prophet army at the base was not only not deterred by them, but even more hostile to them, and decided to use force to intimidate them further.

Under the orders of Bekhsud, the infantry of the National Army, with the cooperation of a small number of armored vehicles and a number of old tanks, began an offensive towards the Bagram airbase.

The tactics used by Bekhsud were also very simple, a large-scale siege of troops, but only a small-scale and multi-faceted harassment operation, so that not only did not have to directly engage in a bloody battle with the Prophet's army, so as not to expand the matter, but also reduced the probability of directly facing the Prophet's heavy artillery fire.

In fact, his tactics were very successful, such attacks on all sides made the originally small number of prophetic troops face more pressure, and the people were very tired, the more they fought, the greater the pressure in their hearts, because when the other party seemed to be not sleepy, they kept pressing up and retreating.

The initiative to attack was directly vetoed, after all, their numbers were too small, the opponent's number was twenty-five times that of them, and before the other troops rushed back, the only thing that could support them was the planes of the army aviation regiment.

Jabbar sat in the base and waited calmly, waiting for the other troops to come back, that is, when he launched an attack, but judging from the tactics of the opposing commander, he seemed to find that the purpose of these national troops was to deter, not to fight with them, otherwise, the entire base should be under fire.

Although the Afghan National Army does not have any heavy weapons, it does not mean that there are none, 25,000 people attack their base of 1,000 people, no matter how powerful, in the absence of reinforcements, it is only a matter of time before it is breached, Jabbar does not think that they can defend such a base, after all, they are not the US military, they can use the fighters in the base, and his army aviation regiment can only fly helicopters, but they don't know anything about fighters.

A tug-of-war ensued between the two sides, but soon the situation changed as Army Group Southern, which had cleared the U.S. armored brigade, returned.

When they went around and attacked from behind Behsud's back, the entire Afghan National Army was in chaos, and Behsud, who was slowly confident, did not expect that this would be the case in the end.

However, this was not to blame Behsud, because the remnants of the Ninth Division had misled him with the information he had received, and he really thought that the main force of the Prophet's army had all gone to attack Jalalabad and another American base.

But he didn't expect to be reinforced, by the reinforcements of the Southern Front Group Army, he killed a ghost and cried wolf, and the whole siege was crushed by the armored brigade, and it collapsed in an instant, and there were scattered national army deserters everywhere.

When Abdul-Jabbar ordered the soldiers in the base to attack, the battle fell into the hands of the Prophet Army again without any suspense, and this time Abdul-Jabbar showed no mercy.

By the time President Ariza learned about this, it was already past six o'clock in the morning, but by this time the entire national army had lost its armor and suffered heavy damage, almost crushed, and all five divisions were scattered