"West Asia is already in chaos, and Peshawar, the land of halal, has become the busiest spy capital on Shijie. The military, political and intelligence organs of various countries, various political shili, various religious shili, and various tribal armed forces took turns to perform on stage. In the midst of chaos, how can the tactical team create a safe environment for China's institutions and personnel stationed abroad? How to safeguard China's national interests around the western strategy? ”

"First of all, we must clearly understand what is the main contradiction of the chaos in the western region and what is the essence of this war? This is the first important task that we have come here today. Next, Director Yu of the Asia-Pacific Intelligence Division will give a briefing on the relevant contents. After Shi Hefei finished speaking, Director Yu stood in front of the map and sand table, and began to introduce the origin of the war, the essence of the war and other task backgrounds.

Director Yu said, "Let's start with the political turmoil in the Shanren Islamic Republic since the 70s. Throughout Asia, the Islamic Republic of Shanren is a strategic location in West Asia that has suffered from wars throughout its history. In the 19th century, the country became a buffer zone for the two empires of Britain and the polar bear, vying for hegemony in West Asia. ”

The unique historical tradition of the Shanren Islamic Republic, as well as its unique geographical environment located on a plateau and mountainous area, make it a hard bone that the two empires have not gnawed. But the ongoing war has also completely undermined the country's economic development, and the Shanren Islamic Republic has become one of the poorest and most backward countries on Shijie.

The Hill People Islamic Republic is a multi-ethnic country, with the largest ethnic group being the Pashtuns at 52 per cent. This is followed by Hazaras at 19 percent, Tajiks from the north at 21 percent and Uzbeks at 5 percent. Religiously, 85% of the country's population is Sunni Muslim, while the remaining 15% belong to Shia Muslims.

For a long time, the country resembled a backward and impoverished medieval island in the modern Shijie. After the independence of the Shanren Islamic Republic, polar bears were the largest donors. Not to be outdone, country M also provided a lot of assistance in order to be able to exert a certain influence on the Shanren Islamic Republic in the Cold War.

In the late 60s and early 70s, the power structure of the Shanren Islamic Republic began to change, the middle class continued to rise, and although industry was still blank, the country's economy also developed to a certain extent. But this was just a flash in the pan, the good times didn't last long, and with the intervention of external shili, the huge social ** soon began again.

In 1973, after experiencing a severe drought across the country, King Zahir's cousin, former General Secretary of the People's Party, Daoud, and his deputy, Taraki, jointly staged a military coup d'état, deposed King Zahir of the Shanren Kingdom, overthrew the corrupt Zahir dynasty, and proclaimed a republic.

But Daoud's political alliance with Taraki also quickly came to an end, and society began to divide. In April 1978, Taraki launched the so-called "April Revolution", assassinated Daoud, and became the country's president. At this time, the People's Party had split into three factions, Taraki, Karmal and Amin, and each faction was fighting with each other.

Under the general situation of the Cold War between the two superpowers, the survival of a small country located in a strategic position never depends on itself, but on the struggle between the two blocs. Since the Taraki government completely fell to the polar bear, it determined its tragic fate of future demise, becoming a victim of the great power struggle for hegemony.

Outside of Kabul, the new government has not formed a social base at all. Since then, the land reform it has introduced has also been widely opposed by the whole society of the Shanren Islamic Republic. As soon as the new regime in Taraki was formed, it was crumbling. It is like a lonely boat, completely isolated in a vast rural area.

They did not conduct investigations and studies, nor did they have a contingent of cadres who were familiar with the local rural conditions, but they parachuted some inexperienced officials from Kabul into various rural areas to forcibly carry out land reform. The simplicity and brutality of these people led to Jihua's eventual defeat and the growing antagonism between the government and the rural areas.

Protests broke out in the countryside and quickly spread throughout the country. Although many of the protests were spontaneous, with the support and instigation of Western countries led by country M, an Islamic group calling itself the People's Mujahideen fanned the flames everywhere, making the situation worse and worse. And this so-called "People's Mujahideen" was later known to the world as the "Mujahideen".

At this time, the new government was already shaky, and President Taraki was on the same page as Prime Minister Amin, who was pro-American. After the failure of land reform in the country, the MKO (an Islamic group led by Islamic fundamentalists such as Hekmatyar and Rabbani) supported by State M began to organize armed resistance. In March 1979, armed forces broke out in Herat, the third largest city in the Shanren Islamic Republic, and the situation quickly spread throughout the country.

Taraki, who had no soldiers or money in his hands, had no choice but to ask the polar bear for help. The Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU held a symposium from March l7 to 19. In the end, he only promised to provide Taraki with a polar bear guard battalion, and said that the conditions were not yet ripe for sending troops. Only at this time, the polar bears had no intention of military occupation.

But contrary to the expectations of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the situation is getting out of control. In September 1979, with the support of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Halal Intelligence (ISI), Prime Minister Amin executed President Taraki in a military coup d'état, killing more than 50,000 pro-Soviet officials and soldiers.

At this time, the Central Committee of the CPSU was faced with a difficult choice, either to abandon the Islamic Republic of the Shanren, or to intervene militarily and carry out military occupation. This is because once the semi-primitive Shanren Islamic Republic becomes a bastion of religious extremism, it will inevitably affect the stability of several Central Asian republics of the polar bear.

At this time, the KGB intercepted the CIA call records of country M, showing that country M had deployed a rapid reaction force on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which could enter the mountain people Islamic Republic at any time. In the face of the crisis, on November 14, Polar Bear leader Leonid Brezhnev said in an interview with Pravda that "we will never allow the Islamic Republic of the Mountain People to become a bridgehead for the imperialist invasion of the southern part of the polar bear." ”

The speech of the top leader of the CPSU, opened a Pandora's box. It means that the Kremlin has made a choice, thus giving the green light for the Polar Bear army to intervene in the Mountainsman Islamic Republic. As a result, the combat operation codenamed "Storm-333" with the goal of military raid and occupation of the Shanren Islamic Republic officially began.

From November 19 to 20, 1979, under the command of Colonel Kolesnik, more than 500 officers and men of the 154th Independent Detachment of Spetsnaz Independence of GRUU entered the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic on An-12 and An-22 transport planes, and landed at Bagram Air Base in the north of the capital Kabul.

On 13 December, the 154th Independent Detachment entered the city of Kabul. At the same time, two units subordinate to the KGB's Vympel special forces, the "Thundering" special operations team under the command of General Drozdorf and the "Apex" special operations team under the command of Lieutenant Commander Kozlov, also entered the city of Kabul at the same time.

Only by this time, by order of the GRU and the KGB, Colonel Kolesnik announced to the 154th detachment of the Independence a new combat mission, that is, to quickly capture the Tashitbek Palace, where the center of power was located, and eliminate Amin. General Drozdov and Lieutenant Commander Kozlov also announced to their troops a new mission, that is, to occupy all important departments, such as the Ministry of Defense building, the Ministry of Communications Hub, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, within a specified time.

According to the operational jihua jointly formulated by the GRU and the KGB, the most difficult thing was the more than 500 officers and men of the 154th separate detachment of Spetsnaz under the command of Colonel Kolesnik.

According to Jihua, the 154th Independent Detachment sent five platoons to occupy important military and political places such as the General Staff Headquarters and the communications hub, and then used one company and two platoons to capture the Tashitbek Palace. However, the actual situation is that in addition to Amin's private guard company and guard brigade, there are three tanks behind the palace, and an air defense regiment is deployed outside the palace, equipped with 12 100-mm anti-aircraft guns, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, and more than a dozen 14.5-mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

Outside the city of Kabul, two tank brigades were also deployed. As soon as the battle began, they would quickly come to their aid. In terms of numbers, in addition to the two tank brigades, the number of three motorized infantry battalions of the Shanren Islamic Republic Guard Brigade is about 2,500 people, and the 154th independent detachment must use its own three companies to deal with Amin's three battalions. And the forces that directly attacked the Tashkbek Palace were only 1 company.

The disparity in forces was so great that it became almost an impossible task. But in front of Spetsnaz, the more impossible it is, the easier it is to become possible.

At 19:20 on December 27, the battle officially began.

Colonel Sakhatov, deputy leader of the 154th independent detachment, led 12 members of the team to set off 5 minutes ahead of schedule in a gas car. As they passed the 3rd Battalion of the Hillman Islamic Republic Guard Brigade, the battle alarm was sounded there, and the Hillmen ISR soldiers, armed with guns, were beginning to assemble in front of the barracks, with the battalion commander and other command palaces standing in front of the group.

Colonel Sakhatov made a quick decision and ordered the car to rush at full speed towards the enemy commander. In the blink of an eye, the commander of the 3rd battalion was rolled under the wheels of Gas. Sakhatov and his crew jumped out of the car, quickly occupied favorable terrain and began to attack the 3rd battalion. The incident happened suddenly, and the soldiers of the third battalion, who lost their commander, turned into a crowd. Under the fire of 2 machine guns and 8 submachine guns, more than 200 soldiers were wiped out in an instant.

Subsequently, Sakhatov commanded 12 more of his team members and successfully captured 3 tanks behind the Tashkbek officer. Having heard the sound of Colonel Sakhatov exchanging fire with the enemy, Colonel Kolesnik immediately gave the order to attack.

Under the blow of the AGS-1730 mm "Flame" automatic grenade launcher, the officers and soldiers of the 1st battalion of the Afghan army could not break out of the barracks at all. At 19:30, the main attacking unit of the 154th separate detachment, riding in a BMP-I infantry fighting vehicle, rushed to the Tasbek Palace. The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka River" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns provided fire cover for the attacking troops.

And each member of the attacking force has a combat jihua in his hand, which is marked in detail with various firing points and sentry posts in the Tashkbek Palace, and even the direction in which the door is opened is clearly marked. The tactical organization ability and battlefield assault ability of the Spetsnaz troops can be seen from this.

Yu Songyuan and the members of the brothers' squad didn't know at this time that this independent 154th detachment, which had a strong style and was accustomed to fighting, was their main opponent after entering the Western Regions!