Chapter 1293: Strange Stories Through the Ages

It stands to reason that the local forces of the mercenary corps have made such unreasonable conditions, and the bigwigs of the Northern Alliance will definitely not agree, the finances of the local governments are not under the control of the central government, but the central government still has to come up with money to subsidize the local government, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

But they can't do that, because their tail is grabbed by the US military command in Afghanistan, and the US government has allocated billions of dollars a year to build the country in order to build its image as a savior and show that it is contributing to democracy and peace in Afghanistan.

The major forces of the Northern Alliance have long been dizzy from hunger, and suddenly see such a large amount of wealth, how can they not be tempted? For example, infrastructure projects such as roads, municipal, and office spaces are contracted to their respective related households, not to mention cutting corners, and the price is still expensive, in fact, half of the cost has fallen into the hands of the big guys. Share the cake, everyone has money to earn, this is the right way, otherwise why follow the United States to fight the Taliban government?

In such an environment, Afghanistan's infrastructure construction is like a slow ox pulling a broken car, not to mention the slow speed, the quality is still problematic, the steel bar standard is wrong, the cement grade is low, and the government staff of some units do not even dare to go to the office building to work, for fear that the building will collapse and bury themselves in it.

The US government has long been dissatisfied with the behavior of the Northern Alliance, and the US military command in Afghanistan has begun to investigate and monitor, and if the interim government does not spit out at all, it is really unreasonable, and the US masters are not easy to provoke.

First Kandahar, Kabul, Kundutu, Huram and Memane, then Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Shirbigan, Farah, Jalalabad, these ten cities are now completely run by the local forces of mercenaries, and the US government has nothing to do about it.

"The night before yesterday, I had dinner with the commander, chief of staff, and other generals of the US forces in Afghanistan, and I heard the news that the deputy chief of staff of the army, who had come to carry out the task of clearing up the army, was going to transfer the strange army of the provisional government to the battlefield to assist in the battle.

"The U.S. government and the U.S. Command in Afghanistan have spent a lot of money to form an army for the interim government, using all army equipment, but unfortunately, these guys can't support the wall in the mud, and this time there will be a scandal."

"In just one year, the logistics department of the mercenary regiment secretly purchased more than 20,000 M4A1 assault rifles, more than 100 Browning large-caliber machine guns, more than 600 M252 81-mm mortars, more than 80 M119 100-millimeter howitzers, more than 100 million rounds of ammunition and more than 500 anti-tank missiles, more than 1,000 sets of night vision equipment, and even more than 200 transport trucks, more than 100 bulletproof patrol cars, and two Chinook helicopters.

"Don't look at the roster of the provisional government army, there are more than 100,000 people, at least one-third of them do not exist, and the United States has no choice but to transfer two motorized rifle divisions to Kandahar, which is estimated to add up to one division and one brigade. Thompson said with a smile.

Hearing such a thing, Wu Chen also felt a little emotional, driven by interests, anything can be traded, the official is wantonly corrupt, sells cars, guns and planes, and the soldier dares to sell guns and bullets, if this behavior is out of the mercenary corps, the person concerned will be shot, make an international joke, weapons are the second life of soldiers!

He was not surprised, because it was not news, and in Afghanistan, as long as he waved a colorful dollar bill in his hand, the Northern Alliance could buy anything he wanted, and it would be effective to go up and down.

"In fact, this US government's encirclement and suppression operation is also strange enough, mobilizing so many troops to fight the guerrillas, I damn it, what kind of logical thinking is this? The guerrillas are best at breaking up the whole into pieces and scattering to evade, and it is not easy to hide thousands of people in such a large area, and there is nowhere to find them, and I know that there must be some intelligence agents in the CIA who are operating in the Golden Crescent area and have discovered some bases, but this has no effect on the guerrillas at all. ”

"The terrain in the Rudbar area is dangerous and difficult to defend, to the north can enter the Farah area, to the west can enter Iran, to the south can enter Bagistan, such a terrain mechanized troops are not to think about, the only way is to use infantry and special forces, airborne to launch strikes at multiple points, but this is a mountainous area, it is very difficult to replenish materials and ammunition, the US military is very unfamiliar with the terrain, plus the deliberate shelter of the locals, can they distinguish the guerrillas?"

"Therefore, the US government is anticlimactic, as long as we kill the transport convoy and transport helicopter group, the US military must withdraw, the key is the timing of the move, regardless of them, I still have a visit to Africa, and I will talk about this in half a month." Wu Chen smiled and said.

In order to completely eliminate the Taliban government-in-exile in the Golden Crescent region and reduce the burden and threat of the next Iraq war, the United States has been brewing for a year, and this time it has mobilized three main divisions of the army, five brigade-level combat teams, special forces, and the cooperation of several fighter squadrons of the Air Force, bringing the total number to more than 80,000 people.

This scale is quite terrifying, and it is almost like killing chickens with a knife to deal with the guerrillas hiding in the mountains and forests, and it can also be seen how much headache the US government has, and its wealth is a little too much to resist consumption.

The US Joint Chiefs of Staff did not expect them to be able to fight special warfare and mountain warfare, but only hoped that they would block several exits in the Golden Crescent area to prevent the guerrillas inside from running out to make trouble and interfering with the US military's logistical support work.

"I can't help it, not to mention, and drag our U.S. military back, I simply have nothing to say about the performance of allies like yours! Look at the army of your provisional government, how to say that it is also the standard weapons and equipment of the US Army, and it has also been trained by instructors from NATO countries for more than a year, and it eats and drinks well and receives a high salary. ”

"A motorized infantry division, a rapid reaction force of more than 12,000 people, equipped with so many vehicles and fuel, took a week to get to Kandahar, and was ambushed by a small guerrilla force of the Taliban government-in-exile on the way, so they ran back to Kabul in a panic, the vehicles were lost, the artillery was lost, and the ammunition and materials were also lost, why didn't you lose yourself, it was a trouble-free, it's just a waste!" The commander-in-chief of operations of the US military in Afghanistan, who is also the deputy chief of staff of the army, was furious.