Chapter 11 Dangerous Nostalgia

After the successful conclusion of the interview in Peshawar, the interview team began to go deep into the Khyber Pass Gorge to conduct interviews.

The Khyber Pass is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, and is known as the northern gateway of the Halal Country.

This famous canyon has been the most frequently used word in the media since the outbreak of war. The military occupation of the Islamic Republic by polar bears is not just a matter of gaining a stable southern frontier for the country. In the Brezhnev era, the polar bears had reached the peak of military power and were more aggressive militarily.

After the defeat of country M in the Vietnam War, in the Cold War between M and the Soviet Union, polar bears had the upper hand. The General Staff of the Red Army had many ready-made operational jihuas, such as the operation of sweeping Europe, the operation of the Americas, the nuclear war of Jihua, and so on. It is difficult to distinguish between the real and the false, and the fear is extreme, and they spend a lot of money every year in order to get those few combat jihua.

The civil strife in the People's Party of the Mountain People Islamic Republic (IRA) was the real trigger for this military occupation. According to the original intention of the war planner, General Akhromeyev, after occupying the Shanren Islamic Republic, the 40th Army should quickly cross the Khyber Pass, occupy the northern border area of the Halal country in the Indus Valley, march into the Indian Ocean, build ice-free ports, and then compete with country M for global hegemony.

At this time, history played a big joke with the 40th Army.

After the successful occupation of the Shanren Islamic Republic, the armored torrent of the 40th Army stopped its advance. In the country of polar bears, within four or five years, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, all the way to Gorbachev, the head of state changed four times. By 1989, the 40th Army had to retreat from the Shanren Islamic Republic. The retreat was by no means caused by a military defeat, but by a complete political rout of the polar bear state.

The rise to power of a completely Westernized, bombastic politician led directly to the total collapse of the polar bear and the entire Warsaw Pact camp, burying a first-class ironclad hero. It also allows country M to dominate shijie from now on and do whatever it wants, Central Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, East Asia and the entire shijie will never be at peace again.

Of course, that's all for later.

Peshawar sits at the entrance to the Khyber Pass Gorge from the land of halal, at the southern end of this international pathway. Yu Songyuan led the interview team to drive about 16 or 7 kilometers west from Peshawar to Fort Jamrud at the entrance to the Khyber Pass Gorge. This fort was built by the Sikhs in 1823 on the site of an abandoned medieval castle.

The majestic stone cross-road arch was built in 1964 in the land of halal. The huge gateposts on both sides resemble blockhouses, supporting the two forts above, which become the symbol of the Khyber Pass. After passing through the archway, you will enter the valley of the mountain pass, which is full of narrow and bumpy zigzag mountain roads.

It has entered the tribal area on the northwestern border of the Halal Country, and along the way there are large and small Patan villages, each of which is basically a large tribe. The tribal areas are governed by complete tribal autonomy and are a vacuum of government governance in a halal country.

Looking out of the car window, the sides of the canyon are mostly bare hills, with occasional sparse greenery. On the slopes beside the canyon road, you can see high-walled compounds from time to time. The outside was all tightly painted with yellow mud, and a large door and small doors on either side were tightly closed. The four corners of the compound are generally built with turrets, and there are black holes on them.

According to Shandra, these are all architectural styles of the Patan tribe, which embodies the concept of the sanctity of the Patan family, and the Patan people generally do not welcome strangers to visit their homes.

Tribal areas are a unique social and regional political phenomenon of the Halal country and the Shanren Islamic Republic, whose origins can be traced back to the 19th century. The tribal areas of the Halal country are dominated by the Patan people, who are of the same lineage as the Pashtuns, the main ethnic group of the Shanren Islamic Republic, and were historically subordinate to the Shanren Islamic Republic.

In the 19th century, when Tsarist Russia and Britain were fiercely competing in Central Asia, in order to prevent Tsarist Russia from invading British Tianzhu and controlling the Shanren Islamic Republic through the Shanren Islamic Republic, after the military conquest of the Shanren Islamic Republic failed, in order to continue to implement its established "forward policy", it resorted to a conspiracy of "divide and rule" to establish a buffer zone.

In 1893, British Foreign Secretary Durand personally surveyed and divided the Pashtun tribal areas in two, thus forming a 1,200-mile-long international border, known as the "Turan Line". Subsequently, the Anglo-Indian government forced the Islamic Republic of the Hillmen to accept the demarcation line between the two sides. In 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, the two sides signed the Peace of Rawalpindi, which for the first time referred to the "Durand Line" as the border between Argentina and India.

After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, according to the Mountbatten Plan, the North-West Frontier Province voted for a majority of people to join the Halal country through a referendum. The Durand Line has since become the border line between the Halal country and the Islamic Republic of the Mountain People. However, the governments of the Shanren Islamic Republic have refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Durand Line, and Pakistan and Afghanistan have been in endless disputes for a long time over the issue of "Pashtunstan" on both sides of the "Duran Line."

Since the partition of India and Pakistan, the central government of the Halal country has continued to adopt the policy of British and Indian rule, giving full autonomy to the tribal areas. The central government does not interfere in the day-to-day affairs of the tribal areas in exchange for the tribal areas joining the Halal State.

After the BJP came to power in 1970, Prime Minister Bhutto announced the redivision of the Northwest Frontier Provinces. The Dil, Swat, Chitral, Malakand and Hazara Territories, formerly part of the tribal areas, were assigned to the North-West Frontier Province. The tribal areas of Baluchistan, namely Zhob, Sibi, Loraiyi and Chagay, became part of the province of Baluchistan.

The remaining tribal areas, namely seven districts known as the tribal agencies, namely Mohmand, Khurram, Khyber, Bajaur, Oklazayi, North Waziristan and South Waziristan, and six districts known as the "border areas" of Peshawar, Kohat, Tan, Bannu, Raki and Dera Ismailhan, were declared "federally administered tribal areas".

In the tribal areas, the Frontier Offences Act, promulgated by the Anglo-Indian authorities in 1872, is still in use today, and the laws of the central government do not apply to the tribal areas. The long period of anarchy has made the tribal areas de facto "independent kingdoms". The power of the central government is not able to penetrate deep into the tribal areas, and the trend of tribal identity is intensifying.

What they saw along the way made Yu Songyuan and his brother team more and more worried. If polar bears take advantage of tribal conflicts and "signal flags" hide in tribal areas, it will be difficult to clean them up. And the war of aggression and counter-aggression of the Islamic Republic of Polar Bears and Mountain People, we cannot be directly involved. The contradiction between the Islamic Republic of Shanren and the Halal country, the contradiction between the tribal autonomy of the Halal country and the ruling power of the central government, cannot be intervened.

Looking at the two sides of the road or on the hillside in the canyon, one after another Pat tribal settlements, with high walls and deep courtyards, and strong barriers. Yu Songyuan felt more and more that this was a bottomless quagmire and trap, and he could fall into it if he was not careful. He had a fuller understanding of the difficulty and danger of the mission.

Winding northward along the winding mountain road, the road is rugged and extremely steep, the widest part of the valley is two or three hundred meters, and the narrowest part is only more than 10 meters. The peaks on both sides are steep, and there is a tendency of "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open". Get off the bus halfway, look back and look down, the road is like a swimming long snake, hidden in the mountains, and feel more thrilling and magical.

There is a constant stream of vehicles and pedestrians along the way, and there is also a railway running parallel to the road, which runs through the mountain stream. On almost every hill along the way, there are ancient and modern forts, pillboxes or forts, which are condescendingly overlooking the mountain stream passes and checkpoint passes, which is the most powerful testimony of the battleground of soldiers.

Yu Songyuan and the others secretly sighed in the car, if the Spetsnaz troops occupied the commanding heights on both sides at this time, they could easily cut off this lifeline related to life and death with just an ordinary SVD sniper rifle. Yu Songyuan suddenly had a strong feeling that at this moment, perhaps a pair of eyes were using high-powered binoculars to observe the every move of their entire interview team.

On the way, we also encountered two large caravans, with fewer dromedaries and about one or two hundred mules. At least one company of partisans or "mujahideen", in the accompanying cover. This is still in the territory of the Halal country, if you enter the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic, how many people should be needed to cover it to ensure safety?

The caterpillar sighed and said, "These mules are old to another country. When the team members heard this, they all had a strong nostalgia and felt very uncomfortable. That's right, these tall mules, all carrying heavy arms and equipment, they all come from China, the homeland of the brothers.

After the outbreak of the war in the Islamic Republic of the Shanren, the CIA struggled to get a large number of weapons to the resistance groups in a timely manner. Southwest Asia has been mired in war for a long time, and there are few large artiodactyl animals such as donkeys and mules, and they once wanted to use airplanes to transport mules or donkeys from country M to the Shanren Islamic Republic.

It is simply not feasible to cross the vast Pacific Ocean and transport mules by plane to Southwest Asia. In desperation, country M turned to China for help, and zuihou purchased thousands or tens of thousands of mules from western and northern provinces of China, followed the ancient Silk Road, crossed the Pamir Plateau Ice Osaka, and entered the land of halal, solving the transportation problem.

These mules have taken on the international obligation to support this war against aggression, and many of them have died in battle or exhausted on the battlefield.

During a break on the way, all five members of the team came into close contact with the mule. But these mules who fought for justice in foreign lands did not seem to have much special affection for the people from their homeland. Perhaps, the heavy labor, the edification of the smoke of artillery fire, and the dangerous battlefield environment have made them unable to think about these nostalgia.

Peace is precious, and nostalgia is not a luxury for the country and people in war?