"The ancestors of the small landowners were plateau wolves, which, unlike other military dogs, can survive like wolves in the harsh environment of the plateau winters. In the plateau area of the Islamic Republic of Shanren and the land of Halal, it is a good helper for hunters and a famous hunting dog. Its fangs can bite a wild boar larger than it in one bite. ”

The next day, the team members collectively made up for sleep, Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao sat in the spire on the top of the building, and they could see with the naked eye that on the side of the road at the edge of the village, the old man Sadiq was still sitting alone on the snow on the side of the road, next to a sign inserted in the ground. There are still a large number of refugees from the Shanren Islamic Republic, dragging their families and mouths, heading towards the Halal country.

The old man inquired about everyone who passed by, and people greeted the old man in a friendly way.

On the top of the big hills on both sides of the valley, the white bunkers built by the British glittered in the sun. On the other side of the border in the distance, the Mi-24P helicopter could be faintly seen among the mountains, and after a while, on the other side of the valley, a faint explosion of rockets could be heard.

Liu Guodong and Sabusidin have already built a large real-life sand table in the basement according to the high-scale military map. Noor. Elder Khan marked the possible hiding places on the mountains on both sides and the places where several major attacks had taken place, and helped Liu Guodong one by one.

These attacks were carried out by squads of a dozen to twenty or less.

The farthest attack took place at the entrance to the Khyber Pass Gorge, less than five kilometers from the Katyar fortress. That is, the caravan had just loaded the ammunition from the fortress and was attacked shortly after leaving the fortress. In the Kabul Valley, on the left side of the gorge, there were fourteen major raids, all of which were carried out by caravans of more than 100 mules. On the right side of the canyon, in the valley basin of the Caola River behind the Khyber Mountains, there have been more than a dozen major attacks, and more than a dozen caravans of more than 100 camels have been bloodily wiped out.

Polar bear helicopters, avoiding the air defense positions of the Halal Army, often fly deep into canyons, river valleys, and mountains, but the helicopters rarely directly attack caravans, refugees, or villages.

The canyon is tens of kilometers long, and the vast area on both sides is full of continuous Khyber mountains. If the Spatesnaz squad sneaks into such a mountainous area, they can attack any random camel caravan out of nowhere, and it is almost impossible to find them. The army of the Halal country organizes several large-scale clean-up and mountain search activities every year, but nothing has been found.

Yu Songyuan and Lin Tao returned to the basement, and everyone gathered around the sand table. In order to keep it secret, Yu Songyuan strictly ordered that in order to conceal the whereabouts of the team, everyone was not allowed to go out during the daytime. Everyone gathered around the sand table, pondering the direction of the attack. Liu Guodong took Sabusidin with him and was nervously making an explosive device. Lin Zhumin took Abdullah and stood guard in the minaret.

In the courtyard, the small landowner sat in front of the stable, quietly watching the mules grazing on the grass. The white horse is a tall and majestic horse and mule, which is Yu Songyuan's mount and the head mule of this group of mules. The little landlord would take a look at it for a while, and would jump on the trough to watch the white horse click and chew. Or jump on the back of the white pony and sit comfortably for a while.

The white colt didn't pay any attention to it, and chewed on the hay to himself.

Every night, Yu Songyuan led a team to conduct experiential reconnaissance on the main hills, river valleys, and large caves on both sides of the canyon to familiarize himself with the battlefield environment.

That night, the team was just about to set off. Elder Khan came. He said, "Captain Yu, it has now been ascertained that some of the attacks that have occurred in the mountain pass canyon in recent nights were not carried out by people from polar bears. Rather, it was the Sharkhan tribe in the town of Landkutl, who attacked and looted arms and equipment. Now, the commander-in-chief, Major Ishaar, is commanding the ISI and the military police, and is raiding them. ”

When Sandra arrives in town, she will definitely come to Torham in a moment. Yu Songyuan had no choice but to decide to postpone the night investigation and wait for her arrival. As the head of the ISI frontline, she will not make a special trip to visit the door.

"Have polar bears been crossing the border lately?" Lin Tao asked.

"Yes, but the situation has changed. After the failure of the attack on the fortress, their attack on the caravan on the border line has entered a white heat. Although a large number of caravans were wiped out, the 'caravans of death' were fought more and more. At the same time, strange phenomena appeared. The 154th Independent Detachment frequently crossed the border by plane, attacking the Kabul Valley and the Khyber Pass Gorge with precision as if it had eyes. "Noor. Elder Khan said worriedly.

Beginning in the summer of 1983, the 40th Army implemented a new strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle on a large scale, but it did not achieve much practical results. Before the onset of winter, after the failure of the 154th Independent Detachment's focused attack on the fortress of Katyar and the cutting off of the "grain route", they had to put the main foothold of the operation on cutting off the border supply lines of the mountain resistance groups or "mujahideen", and severely attacking those caravans coming from foreign countries.

The "grain route" could not be cut off, and the "caravan of death" could not be cut and killed, so the 40th Group had no choice but to quickly implement the strategy of "preventing the border line".

The profession of "caravan" has been practiced for hundreds of years in the tribal areas of the northern border provinces. Many people have been engaged in this work since childhood, and they are familiar with every road, every ravine, every cave along the way. Unlike ordinary caravans, caravans carrying arms are escorted by well-trained armed men almost all the time.

Not only do the escorts have automatic rifles and grenades, but there are even anti-aircraft weapons hidden in the vans. In some large arms caravans, there are often more than 100 camels, Chinese mules or vehicles, and the escort personnel are often more than 100 people. They rode in high-performance Nissan and Toyota jeeps, and sometimes the escorts consisted directly of "mujahideen" who had completed their training at the training camps, and after escorting the goods, they stayed directly behind to fight in the Shanren Islamic Republic.

These caravans had a very well-established system for transporting munitions. First they loaded the arms from the territory of Persia and the Halal countries, and then after a great deal of hardship, they were transferred to a transit point in the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic. Finally, it was broken into pieces and sent to the resistance groups or "mujahideen".

Although the scouts of the 40th Army of the Polar Bears have discovered dozens of transit points in the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic, the 40th Army has carried out air strikes and ground assaults on these transit stations on more than one occasion, but with little success. Resistance groups, or "mujahideen", generally set up staging stations deep in the mountains on the border that are difficult for the polar bear army to reach, and are difficult to find.

The caravan organization has a wealth of industry experience and combat experience, and is very cautious. Before each departure, they send people disguised as shepherds or itinerant vendors to conduct reconnaissance to determine whether the roads are safe. Markers are placed not far from Polar Bear Army posts, patrol lines, and aviation flight paths to warn caravans to stay away from these areas, while local residents mark minefields and Polar Bear Army ambush areas.

The caravan will only set off if it is determined to be very safe. Before leaving, they will also rent some herdsmen to send some normal goods to fight in the front, and the real arms caravans will keep a relatively safe distance from them. Most of these caravans moved at night, and during the day they generally hid in bushes or caves to rest.

After the CIA's Director Kelsey and Colonel Gates of the Peshawar Intelligence Station pioneered the private operation of arms transportation caravans, arms transportation quickly became a very lucrative and popular "industry". The starting arms were provided free of charge by the people of M, from which the caravan earned freight and reward fees. Later, arms became "goods", and caravans had to be "traded" to get "goods".

In the "trade", they generally only charge valuable gems and drugs, a kind of Shanren Islamic Republic marijuana called "Hai Suxi", which is very popular in the international drug market. In some cases, arms chambers conceal their arms in general cargo and easily evade border control by bribing them through checkpoints set up by the Government of the Shanren Islamic Republic.

The 40th Army and the GRU special forces detachments had the most troublesome problem of dealing with caravans. Although the Kabul government has 24 border divisions, stationed on the border between the Shanren Islamic Republic and the Halal country. For example, the 25th Frontier Division and the 59th Frontier Regiment were stationed on many routes through which caravans could pass, and caravans could easily enter and exit the Shanren Islamic Republic from a distance of 10-30 kilometers from a distance of 10 to 30 kilometers.

The biggest difficulty in ambushing an arms caravan is how to spot it. There are more than 100 large and small roads entering the Islamic Republic of the Mountain People from the land of Halal, and there are many mountain passes that are inaccessible without roads. Even if the route of movement of a certain caravan has been mastered through intelligence in advance, it is simply impossible to completely intercept them in actual combat.

Therefore, more than 90% of the ambush operations were in vain. According to information provided by MLH and ISI, since the summer of 1983, the Polar Bear Army has set up more than 2,800 ambushes in the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic, and only 262 times have stopped the arms caravan.

It was precisely because the mountains were vast and impossible to intercept them, so after the failure of the attack on the fortress of Qatyar and the cutting off of the "grain route", they quickly shifted the battlefield to the border line, trying to focus on closing the two arms and material distribution centers in Peshawar and Quetta, and still based on the source to block the spread of arms to the Shanren Islamic Republic.

The 154th Independent Detachment intensified its cross-border strikes against the Khyber Pass Gorge and the Kabul River Valley. The constant attack sirens made it impossible for the Blood Alliance team to sit still any longer.

Noor. Khan pointed to the sand table and said, "Everyone wait patiently for a few more days, the current enemy situation is unknown, and it is not suitable to act." MLH and ISI intelligence officers in Jalalabad are trying to gather intelligence through covert channels, and will soon be able to relay back the latest deployment of the 40th Army's tactical adjustments. ”

Yu Songyuan didn't want to wait, and after a few nights of searching around, he had already smelled the smell of war. In the border area of the Kabul River Valley, although an infantry battalion is stationed and an air defense company is equipped, the Soviet-made SA-7 Grell hand-held anti-aircraft missiles, which are equipped with visual mechanical targeting and infrared guidance, can only be used during daylight hours.

The improved Mi-24P, which flies from a distance of 800 to 1,000 meters at night, enters and exits as if it were a no-man's land, and the SA-7 is powerless against it. Therefore, Yu Songyuan had a hunch that at least a Speznaz team often took the Mi-24P and frequently crossed the border into the Kabul River Valley to carry out attack missions. A large flat-bottomed fleet was bloodily wiped out by them.

Now that their whereabouts have been discovered, it is necessary to quickly set out to try to hunt them. But Noor. Elder Khan insisted that they wait for Shandra to come before attacking, and while they were arguing, Sandra came.