Chapter 43: The Hardest Hour

Shio Nagano has a lot of experience, and he has learned the power of "Lightning" and "Ghost" respectively. He quickly ordered the operation team to keep a close watch and keep a safe distance from Miss Ishal. You can't lose it, and at the same time, you can't become a victim of the "two masters".

Sure enough, the Chinese "ghost" made a decisive move.

The "Ghost" team was able to urgently deploy a Jedi ambush at the last moment, and pocketed the "Lightning" team, which was originally in a favorable position. When fierce fighting broke out in the alley and chaos broke out on the streets, Shio Nagano seized the opportunity to secretly plant an explosive device inside a "ghost" off-road vehicle.

That night, a huge fireball like an atomic bomb exploded, and after the earth-shattering explosion sounded, Nagano's team quietly approached the scene in time to investigate. The news agency's premises have been bombed into a deep pit, and there is not a single piece of tiles left. More than a dozen adjacent houses were all damaged to varying degrees.

Shio Nagano's team assessed at the time that it would be impossible for any living creatures to survive at the center of the explosion.

The situation was quickly reported to Uchida, and due to the importance of the matter, Uchida asked for a week to reconfirm the situation of the "ghost" team. As a result, within a week, the personnel of the "news agency" completely disappeared from Peshawar. The staff of the Chinese Embassy in the Halal Country wore small white flowers on their chests and set up a memorial hall inside. The ISI base in Peshawar Savo also set up an internal memorial hall, and the agents wore small white flowers.

General Moore, the head of the ISI, also personally went to the memorial hall to offer condolences, and the agents were in pain......

Uchida was overjoyed when the information was further confirmed, and he quickly officially reported the information to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff Office. The Ministry of Defense did not break its promise, and soon issued a special document allowing the Uchida Foundation to invest $500 million in the establishment of the Wakuni National Space Laboratory.

There was an unpredictable storm, and everything was already calm. However, the summer palace was suddenly attacked bloodily, and the KGB's "Lightning" commando unit in Peshawar was wiped out overnight, and the whole Shijie public opinion was in an uproar, and it also quickly shocked the military and political circles of the Japanese state.

The joke was a bit bigger, and after careful inquiry, the Inoue Quanyang Intelligence Station, which was located in a house next to the Beta apartment in the old town of Peshawar, judged by various indications that the attack was carried out by the Chinese "Ghost" tactical team. Moreover, they are extremely secretive and professional.

The military and political leaders of the Japanese state were strongly shocked, and Prime Minister Takeshita personally intervened and announced the suspension of the establishment of the National Aerospace Laboratory.

So, the next scene of "sitting on the stomach" appeared earlier. According to the "Uchida House Rules", Nagano Shio's group could only collectively take the blame because they did not complete the task. At this moment, the only female team member, Kumiko Haruno, was already crying in fright, and the two young male team members were also trembling. Shio Nagano roared angrily, "Hachige, be like a true warrior, don't cry!" ”

After carefully testing the sharp blade in his hand, he grasped the handle with both hands, stabbed it into the left abdomen, and then pulled it from left to right. Then, he stabbed in from the middle, and the internal organs gushed out of the body with blood, and the person leaned forward, his face twitching incessantly......

At this moment, the wrong person behind him slashed his neck with a knife, leaving only a bit of flesh and skin. Shio Nagano fell down on the tatami mat in front of him.

This bloody scene frightened Kumiko Haruno. She is only 24 years old, and she is also a murderer. But at the moment, she was incontinent. A foul smell began to permeate the room. The other three members of the group were trembling and shivering, and the knife was pointed at the abdomen, and they did not have the courage to stab at all.

At this time, the people behind them ruthlessly raised their knives one by one and beheaded the four of them one by one.

From beginning to end, Uchida Zhiming and the other nine elders, who were sitting on both sides, all watched the whole process of the five subordinates sitting on their stomachs with indifferent expressions.

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The Summer Palace was attacked, and the "Lightning" detachment of the "Vympel" "Vympel" was completely annihilated, which shocked Moscow. Field Marshal Sergei Leonidevich Sokolov, commander-in-chief of the Polar Bear Defense Ministry in the Shanren Islamic Republic, and Lieutenant General Gnielalov, then commander of the 40th Army, reacted quickly.

Marshal Sokolov is a well-known military strategist, an authority on the theory and actual combat of the armored cluster operation of the Polar Bear Army, and an advocate, founder and practitioner of the theory of large-frontal and large-depth operations. In view of the failure of the "Vympel" and "Lightning" detachments, the imminent delivery of large quantities of arms and equipment to the resistance groups and the "Mujahideen," and the grim situation in which winter is approaching, he personally formulated the "Winter Priority Clean-up Jihua."

The battle was swiftly implemented, and the harshest and most difficult moment for the Resistance and the Mujahideen came before the onset of winter.

The 40th Polar Bear Army, in accordance with the "Winter Priority Clean-up Jihua" formulated by Marshal Sokolov, organized heavy troops and launched a new round of fierce and focused "clean-up" against resistance groups and "jihadists" in Kabul, Kunduz, Baghlan, Kunarha, Nangarhar, Paktia and other provinces.

Marshal Sokolov hoped to cut off the foreign aid channels of the partisans and the "mujahideen" by purging them and annihilate the partisans. The key areas of the "clearance" include the Panjshir Valley, Kunarha, Khost, Kandahar and other areas. Among them, the large-scale "purge" of Panjshir has been carried out as many as eight times.

The most serious was when the 40th Group Army dispatched one motorized infantry division, attached to various special operations brigades and regiments, with a total strength of about 20,000 troops, to adopt tactics such as total blockade, saturation bombing, separate and combined attacks, and airborne surprise attacks, and under the cover of heavy equipment such as aircraft, tanks, and artillery, it launched a fierce attack on the Masood guerrilla base in the Panjshir Valley in the north.

During the focus of the crackdown, the polar bears, under pressure from the international community, reluctantly agreed to hold indirect talks in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations. Representatives of the Kabul regime and the Halal Government have held several rounds of indirect talks in Geneva, but have not been able to reach any agreement on substantive issues.

After nearly four years of fighting, the resistance organization has grown stronger and stronger, its weapons and equipment have been improved, and its combat effectiveness has been markedly enhanced. By October 1983, the 40th Polar Bear Army had committed a total of 120,000 troops, the Kabul government army had 70,000 troops, and the resistance had grown to about 100,000.

At the same time as the frontal large-scale offensive, Marshal Sokolov ordered the 40th Army to quickly change its tactics, with the Gruus Bates Naz unit as the mainstay, supplemented by the reconnaissance units set up by various divisions, brigades, and regiments, just as the Northeast People's Liberation Army under the leadership of China sent a number of small units into the deep mountains and old forests to suppress bandits.

The successful implementation of this tactic is also of great significance for our military as a reference. It is an exploration and attempt by Marshal Sokolov, the master of armored cluster operations, on the army establishment and tactics in the non-traditional combat situation of the plateau battlefield. It is also the product of the 40th Group Army, a torrent of steel, that constantly adapts to changes in the battlefield situation.

From December 1979 to February 1980, the 40th Army quickly took control of major cities, military bases and strategic facilities in the Shanren Islamic Republic, and successively established 24 major theaters and 101 small theaters. Each division has a defense area of 200,000 square kilometers, and each regiment has a defense area of 7-80,000 square kilometers.

In the eyes of Moscow, the war should end there. But what they didn't expect was that when foreign troops appeared in this Islamic country, it would provoke an unprecedented spirit of unity and resistance among the people of that country. More and more resistance groups and "mujahideen", with the help of local residents, attacked and harassed the garrison occupation forces, and mountains, valleys and vineyards became natural battlefields.

When the mechanized torrent of the 40th Army faltered into the Hindu Kush Mountains and the southern desert, the resistance could attack from these hidden mountains at any time. When the occupation forces attack from the air, they can quickly burrow into these mountains and become untraceable.

The two oil pipelines built by the 40th Group Army on the side of the road are the "lifeline" of the steel army, and although countless military stations have been set up to defend them, the oil pipelines are too long and the area is too large, and they are attacked and cut off from time to time. Local residents also secretly cut off the oil pipes and stole oil frantically.

The first heavy damage suffered by the 40th Army was in the Salang Tunnel in the early spring of 1980.

At that time, a supply convoy, reinforced by tanks, had just arrived from Uzbekistan. When they opened the tunnel mouth, they were suddenly ambushed, and turned into small groups of resisters, lying in ambush on both sides of the pass and the main road. No matter how the outnumbered marching column of the 40th Army counterattacked, the opposing side always controlled the commanding heights and then easily fled.

The defeat in the Battle of the Salang Tunnel exposed the helplessness of the regular army of the 40th Army in the face of non-traditional operations. In the end, the 40th Group Army reacted quickly and quickly adjusted its original establishment and combat methods.

Beginning in July 1980, the 40th Group Army withdrew a number of redundant units from the country, and the troops remaining in the theater underwent large-scale restructuring and tactical integration, and all the bloated mechanized infantry divisions were reorganized into brigades. The brigade has a battalion battle group that is flexible and mobile and can fight independently, and uses the battalion as the basic combat unit to improve the speed of reaction and combat flexibility.

In order to deal with emergencies, the 40th Army also transformed the reinforced battalions into combat duty detachments, which are equipped with more armored vehicles to ensure the delivery of personnel and weapons, and the number of personnel will be increased or decreased at any time as needed.

However, battalion-sized combat operations are still unable to face changes on the battlefield.

The 40th Army occupied major cities and major transportation routes, while guerrilla warfare waged by resistance groups or "mujahideen" controlled almost 80 per cent of the rural areas. Since it is mainly guerrilla warfare, and all of them are characterized by suddenness, suddenness, and leapfrogging, this requires that the occupying forces must have extremely strong rapid reaction capabilities, good physical and psychological qualities, and indomitable will.