Chapter Twenty-Three: The Punishment of the Snow Mountain

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At this moment, it was the action team of Ichiro Aso of the Uchida Group who was attacked by the Mi-24P.

After crossing the border, they soon found that the Kabul government army was exploring the border in a dragnet pattern, and several caravans had been wiped out by special forces from the 154th Independent Detachment. They managed to evade the arrest of the 154th Independent Detachment, smuggled across the Kunar River, and entered the snow-capped mountains.

The commander of the 154th separate detachment, Colonel Sakhatov, commanded the troops in the mass search.

The attack on the fortress of Katyar failed, with heavy losses, Colonel Klyudeyev, who personally went into battle, was wounded, and Colonel Sakhatov was severely reprimanded by the GRU.

Not long after, in the Kabul River Valley, it suffered another heavy blow. The 335th Independent Helicopter Regiment in Jalalabad then suffered another devastating blow, with more than 20 helicopters blown up on the spot and the garrison company and the 154th Independent Detachment suffering heavy casualties. This series of blows made Colonel Sakhatov almost want to commit suicide to apologize.

The attack on Jalalababad was the deadliest battle in the four years of the Polar Bears' military occupation of the Hillmen Islamic Republic by the end of 1983. In the 40th Army, the Polar Bear Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, there was a huge shock.

But the KGB and the GRU did not blame him, because they had received accurate information that Colonel Sakhatov had met the old rivals of the KGB and the GRU, the Chinese "ghost". When it was judged that the "ghost" jumped from an airplane into the Kunar River, Colonel Sakhatov was so surprised that he was out of breath for a long time.

He sat silently by the Kunar River for more than an hour, until his legs were completely frozen.

From the assault on Jalalabad airport, to jumping straight from a plane into the Kuna River after an aerial sniper, China's "ghost" has played out a legend that is almost impossible to repeat, and he cannot but be shocked and admired from the depths of his heart.

The KGB and GRU were right, they met a real opponent. The head of the GRU reconnaissance department, Major General Vasily Vasilyevich Kolesnik, had been ordered to return to Kabul and, before leaving, ordered Sakhatov to suspend the attack on the caravan on the Khyber Pass. After the "ghost" of China has been eliminated, it will launch a cross-border covert attack.

Major General Kolesnik also gave unequivocal instructions to Sakhatov to cut off the border and block the "Ghost" on the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic. At the same time, intensify the search on both sides of the Kunar River. And clearly instructed that it was not allowed to collide head-on with the Chinese "ghosts" in a single squad. Together with the 334th Independent Detachment, they should encircle and suppress the "ghosts" with heavy troops, and strive to completely eliminate them.

Colonel Sakhatov, acting in accordance with the orders of the general, quickly coordinated the actions with the 334th detachment of the separate detachment, organized two units, in units of 24 people, quickly divided into several clusters and entered the border posts. The border was completely cut off, and together with a regiment of the Kabul government army, the border was dragged into a strict inspection.

But the search had little success, and apart from the elimination of a few caravans, the detachment found nothing. At this moment, General Iva Shutin personally ordered him to withdraw to Jalalabad. The general wants to protect this tomorrow's general and does not want the Chinese "ghost" to cut him off again. Colonel Sakhatov received the order and had to withdraw his troops in tears.

Several encounters with the Chinese "ghosts" made this proud Cossack, let this rising star, taste the bitter fruit of defeat for the first time.

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Unlike Colonel Sakhatov, Ichiro Aso was excited. Because, at this time, he had already led his squad and quietly crossed the Kunar River at night. Although the temperature on the riverside was in the minus ten degrees at the time, the team was well-trained, did not say a word, and quickly swam across, quickly passed through the tribal area along the river, and disappeared into the Hindu Kush mountains.

Aso's excitement was due to a regiment of Kabul government forces that was busy on the border. And he, based on his research on the Chinese, with his profound study of China's old eight-way guerrilla warfare, accurately judged, at this moment, the Chinese must have gone the opposite way, turned north, and entered the Hindu Kush snowy mountains.

Back then, in North China, the old Eighth Road of ** was also playing hide and seek with the imperial army in this way.

He led the team and silently marched into the mountains. The temperature is getting colder and colder, and they cross subalpine meadows, alpine meadows, and slowly come to the snow line. When camping in a cave at night, he suddenly found traces of the other party. Although the ground has been cleared, careful analysis confirms that there have been camps in the area recently.

From this trace, Ichiro Aso judged that there were at least seven or eight people on the other side. There are five people in their squad, and this is to fight against the famous and very mysterious Chinese "ghost", and a hard attack is definitely not the way. After weighing them carefully, he was determined to try to find their foothold first, and then try to deal with his opponent through a stealthy sneak attack.

The next day, they continued their march towards the snow-capped mountains.

At this time, the great cold snap has come, and the temperature has dropped sharply by more than ten degrees, reaching more than 20 degrees below zero. The cold wind was like knives, but the team members packed their bags and began to continue the pursuit towards the snowy mountains.

Three days later, in the early hours of the morning, they were above the snow line. At this moment, through the telescope, I saw the figure of a large bear skin spread under the snow wall.

"Bage, finally found them!"

Aso and the team members were excited, "Captain, the person of Norinoshi is defenseless, attack!" Team member Kojima said.

"Kojima-kun, do you know who your opponents are? They are a shadow, a group of murderous demon kings, a nightmare of the free world. So far, I haven't seen a record of anyone beating them. Will they let us catch turtles in their urns? Aso taught, "They are numerous and scheming. We have few people and can only sneak up or capture their scattered people, eating them little by little. ”

They secretly set up camping sites and positions in a snow cave about a few hundred meters away from the bear cave.

For several days, the "ghost" shrank in the bear cave without any movement. That morning, a miracle happened. Through the telescope, a man can be seen hunched over in the cold wind, with a dog, unsuspecting, walking out of the bear cave and walking towards the glacier canyon on the mountain.

Aso looked at the military map, there was a huge glacier canyon on the top of the snowy mountain, what did he want to do on the glacier canyon? There are many caves on both sides of the ice valley, is he looking for a new campsite? Or do they still have camping on the mountain?

Seeing that no one came out of the bear cave, Aso made up his mind, "Kojima-kun, notify the brigade and follow this person." ”

The team set off quickly, bypassing the bear cave and heading towards the Grand Canyon on the snow-capped mountain, tracking the people in front of them from a distance. But finally entered the glacier canyon, in the telescope, a person, a dog, and two small black dots were still walking unhurriedly towards the snowy mountain in front of him, Aso felt incredible, what was he going to do?

"Eight Grid ......"

As soon as Aso had time to scold, disaster struck.

In the distance, like rolling thunder, a faint roar of engines was heard.

Two Mi-24Ps stuck to the snow wall on the right side of the snow valley, and they burst out, and the 30mm cannon on the plane was aimed at them and bombarded away. "Boom, boom, boom", a violent explosion, the ground shook like a mountain. "Hide on the right!" Aso shouted, and the team quickly pounced under the snow wall on the right side of the glacier.

Here is the blind spot of the helicopter's view, but the helicopter does not stop attacking. They directly used S-24 rockets and aimed them at the snowy mountains and began to bombard. These hateful polar bear pilots are trying to create a geological disaster.

"Boom", "boom", "boom", a more violent explosion sounded, and in the glacier canyon, the smoke was filled, the snow and fog were flying, and the entire snowy mountain was slightly shocked.

As soon as the sound of rocket bombardment stopped, with a faint, rumbling sound like rolling thunder, huge snowballs and ice cubes were rolling down from the snowy peaks. The explosion of the rocket caused a huge avalanche, and the snow and ice that crashed down buried the canyon in an instant.

The team members huddled tightly on the snow wall, dodging the attack of snow and ice. Soon, the snow buried them. They struggled, little by little, as the snow piled up, constantly improving their position.

After bombarding with rockets for a while, the Mi-24P first hovered above the cliff wall, watching the avalanche disaster they created with great interest, and only flew away when they were happy.

When the avalanche finally passed, Aso saw that there were only four people left in the team. They dug around to find Kensheng Kojima, but the 26-year-old commando had been buried forever on the snowy mountain by the heavy snow and ice.

At this time, it was already noon, and Aso was just about to give the order to replenish his energy so that he could continue the pursuit. At this moment, at the lower end of the snow valley in the distance, "bang", a gunshot rang out, and team member Xiaolin fell onto the snow.

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Yu Songyuan continued to lie on the ice wall and observe, and the scene just now made him dumbfounded. This must be the separate 334th Special Forces Detachment in Asababad, which is part of their area of operations. It is no wonder that the 334th Independent Special Forces Detachment never crosses the border, and it turns out that their main task is to control the Kunar River valley and the surrounding mountains.

The glacial canyon in front of you was quiet at this point. Yu Songyuan continued to observe, and he wanted to confirm the combat effect of the two helicopters just now. After a while, from under the snow in the snow valley, one person, two people, four people slowly came out. Four companions searched for it, but the other was never found.

In the thunderous avalanche moment just now, people who are a little less skilled have to be buried if they hesitate and hesitate a little, and nature is so cruel and ruthless.

The four of them hesitated for a while, perhaps preparing to have lunch on the spot, it was noon, the light was slightly better, and Liu Guodong's gun rang out. With a bang, one of the black dots plunged headlong into the snow. The other three quickly followed and lay on the snow, not daring to move.

"Bang", Yu Songyuan's gun also rang out. Although he also used the captured SVD, the other party was lying on the snow, and the distance was too far, and this shot missed. Compared with Liu Guodong, his sniping ability is still a little worse.

"Bang", Liu Guodong fired another shot, but it didn't hit.