Chapter 20 Recuperate
If you want to ask which Soviet Red Army is the most powerful in Afghanistan now, any insider knows that it is the 103rd Airborne Division. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoDuring the suppression of the Prague Spring, the 103rd Airborne Division told the world how a unit of the Airborne Forces overthrew a country overnight, and the USSR Ministry of Defense once again proved the correctness of the formula Air Transport Forces + Airborne Forces = Victory.
However, after such a team came to Afghanistan, it made a big mistake in the last month of 1980. Hafizollah Qasim Wardak, an unknown fellow, an ordinary Afghan soldier who graduated from the Kabul Military Academy, actually led his group of guerrillas, who were not even soldiers, to defeat the 103rd Airborne Division, which is enshrined in military textbooks of various countries, which is a fairytale victory.
Although the Soviets later announced that they had eliminated most of the armed forces led by Hafizollah Kassym-Wardak, and killed their second-in-command, Hafizollah Kassym-Wardak's own brother Abdul. But anyone with a discerning eye understands that if it were not for the contradictions between the Pashtun and Tajik tribes, Hafizollah Kassym-Wardak could have eliminated these Soviets almost effortlessly.
Hafizzola Kassim Wardak's name instantly became known among the Sheng fighters. These guerrillas know what level they are, and they shoot cold, plant mines, sabotage roads, power lines, oil pipelines, and at most build bombs to sabotage government departments. Now there is a team that fought the Soviets with real swords and guns, and almost annihilated the other side. Hafizzola Kassym Wardak instantly earned the respect of almost all of his fighters. Except, of course, Hafizzollah Qasim Wardak's neighbors, no clan wants to be neighbors with a powerful armed force, even if they are nominal allies.
Soon Hafizzolla Qasim Wardak's turf was filled with admirers. There are small armed forces that bring people to take refuge, and these people have a bad reputation, sometimes they are soldiers, sometimes they are bandits, there are few times when they are soldiers, and there are many times when they are bandits. Hafizzola Kassem Wardak is not going to let these guys join his team.
For Hafizzola Kassim Wardak, others are much more reliable. The first person to reach out to Hafizollah Qasim Wardak was from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Service. They brought U.S. weapons and financial support to Hafizzolla Kassim-Vardak, and Hafizzollah Kassim-Vardak had no reason to refuse their kindness, and he could see that the ISI was just an intermediary, and it was the Americans who stood behind the ISI who really took a fancy to Hafizzollah Kassim-Wardak.
The second link is Hafizzollah Qasim-Wardak is Afghanistan's neighbor Zhong, Hafizzollah Kassym-Vardak is only interested in the military advisers sent by the Zhong, and is not very interested in the weapons provided by the Zhong, after all, there are American weapons in front of them. It's a pity that the Americans behind the intelligence of the three services don't want their weapons such as anti-aircraft missiles to fall into the hands of the Chinese people, so Hafizzola Kassim Wardak can only refuse the help of the Chinese people.
The third wave of musilin volunteers from all over the world, most of them from the Middle East. These people are generally well-educated and full of ideals, and Hafizollah Kasim Wardak is full of affection for them. Although they could not go into battle immediately, Hafizzollah Qasim Wardak kept them all behind, and he set up a training camp for these volunteers, selecting several excellent fighters from among his men to train them.
It can be said that during this time, Hafizzolla Kassim Wardak's strength has not only been resurrected, but also has made a quantitative and qualitative leap. He was now more confident about fighting the Soviets, but it would take some time for the illiterate partisans under Hafizzola Kassim Vardak to master advanced American-style weapons, and some time for the newly recruited Musilin volunteers from various countries to train. So Hafizzola Kassim Wardak needed time to recuperate, so he temporarily reduced his military activities.
Hafizzolla Kassim Wardak went into hiding for the time being, but the other Sheng fighters were inspired by Hafizzolla Kassim Wardak's victory and became active like a chicken. In just one month, several explosions occurred in the city of Kabul, and the Afghan government army and the police of the Internal Affairs Bureau were exhausted and could not maintain the safety of the citizens of Kabul at all, and the Afghan government could only turn to the Soviet army for help.
However, Seryosha did not have the heart to care about the outside affairs at this time, and as Seryosha and they successfully passed the paratrooper assessment, Seryosha was officially appointed as the platoon commander. The rank was directly changed to second lieutenant, and from then on Seryosha became an officer of the Red Army, and he was no longer a big soldier.
However, what Seryosha did not expect was that he immediately ran into big trouble when he became a platoon commander, because he had never been an officer in a combat unit and lacked experience. In his previous life, Seryosha participated in the armed police force, and on weekdays, he faced the "best of the best" among ordinary people such as drug dealers and smugglers. And the 103rd Airborne Division is an airborne unit that can be equated with special forces, and their enemies are professional soldiers with military qualities. Moreover, when the armed police are faced with criminals, they are in an advantageous position in most situations. However, the Airborne Forces are small and large, using small forces to destroy valuable targets, and most of the time they have to face an enemy several times their size. These differences made Seryosha unsuitable for the position of platoon commander quarterly.
What made Seryosha even more angry was that among these newcomers who graduated from the new barracks, all the excellent guys were snatched away by other platoons, and Seryosha's soldiers were all unwanted by others. Because Seryosha has just taken office, he can't compete with those old platoon commanders in other platoons. Lack of experience and a bad hand, the troops led by Seryosha were at the bottom of several consecutive assessments. Seryosha not only felt that his face was gloomy, but more importantly he felt sorry for the head of the regiment Grachev, who had given him trust.
It is impossible for Seryosha to ask Grachev to help in this matter, after all, he is the head of the regiment and wants a bowl of water. Moreover, the instructors introduced by Grachev were mainly in charge of ideological and political affairs, not military affairs, and Seryosha could not consult with him at all. The most terrible thing is that Seryosha, who has just joined the army for less than a year, has no connections among the officers, and only Lebed, introduced by Grachev, can still speak.
Therefore, the desperate Seryosha hit the idea on this Frunze master.