Chapter 627: The Air Force wants to give a big gift
…… News of the imminent evacuation soon spread through the troops, with some happy and others complaining. After nearly four months of hard fighting, he finally received an order to retreat, which displeased many arrogant soldiers. But everyone also knows that 10 battalions and tens of thousands of Afghan militia cannot be stopped, because Moscow, which is already in a rage, is drawing troops from all over the country. On the other hand, maintaining the air route has consumed a lot, and the pilots are in the sky every day when they open their eyes, so in the end everyone accepts the order to retreat.
After the first retreating wounded soldiers and gold, hundreds of wounded soldiers left by plane, Zhang Zhidan, the "arms tycoon", escorted nearly 100 tons of gold and silver, and followed with a smile. If you want to say who is the victor in this war, then except for Britain, who thinks that it has provoked the contradictions between China and the Soviet Union and delayed the time for the 627 chapter air force to give a big gift in order to stabilize India, it belongs to this famous arms dealer. In just four months, the total amount of arms sold from him was as high as 75 tons of gold, and with the opening of the line between the Soviets and Afghanistan and Iran, you can already see the sky full of gold falling from the sky.
After repeatedly contacting the British forces in control of Kandahar to no avail, Nader Shah hesitated for a long time and finally accepted Yue Peng's suggestion to send his family to the Faizabad area of Badakhshan province on the border with Tajikistan, where for four months the IDF had worked with local tribes to build an airfield and interim government facilities, where he could continue to command the Afghan resistance movement remotely. The 30,000 Afghan Forces nouvelles and guerrillas in training will all be withdrawn to the northern mountains to fight the Soviets and prepare for the recapture of power.
Kabul at night is nowhere to be seen. To save fuel, only one generator is still working at the airport. Due to the large number of wounded soldiers and logisticians have left. The base that was lively a few days ago was a lot colder. The oil warehouse next to the base had been emptied, and Fei Wenhua and other officers were sitting in it to carefully record the retreat plan.
Retreat is not simply a matter of pulling out its legs and running back, a mature army will never expose its back to the enemy, not to mention the 10 battalions and tens of thousands of Afghan 627 Air Force Gifts Khan guerrillas are also scattered throughout the 50-kilometer defensive circle centered on Kabul, so it is far more difficult to coordinate a successful retreat than to achieve an offensive victory.
The retreat plan was formulated by Long Yun. It is planned that the 10 battalions, divided into three arrows, will lead the guerrilla and Afghan Forces nouvelles in their retreat to the northern provinces of Takhar, Baghlan and Nurstan, respectively. These three provinces act as a natural ring of defense, protecting the province of Badakhshan, where Nader Shah is located. Geographically. The four northern provinces are all treacherous places with high mountains and difficult to defend, as long as the Wehrmacht can provide proper protection, unless 100,000 troops are invested to pull the net and clear it. Or there are vehicles that can climb mountains and mountains, otherwise the Soviet army can only look at the mountains and sigh.
So Long Yun thinks that as long as the troops drill into the mountains. Unless he was insane, Yegorov would have plunged headlong into the mountains unprepared. "We take the four northern provinces, the British control Kandahar, and the Soviet Union occupies Kabul and Herat, how do you feel like three countries?" After a battalion commander finished speaking, even Yue Peng and Wu Peifu smiled, and the latter deliberately asked: "Then you say, are we Shu Di or Dongwu?" ”
The battalion commander scratched his head, Wei is definitely not, Kabul is the seat of the central government of Afghanistan. Eastern Wu is even more different, Wu is rich and rich to describe Kandahar and India behind. That's all left of Bashu. But Bashu seems to have been swallowed in the end! This does not bode well, I can't say. Seeing that he was hesitating, Wu Peifu suddenly hooked the corners of his mouth and scolded with a smile: "What dare you not say!" Bashu Zhongxiu is an outstanding person, with abundant resources and no shortage of grain and rice, but only Zhuge is left after the early death of Yingcai. How can he be Cao Mengde's opponent? But the four northern provinces are different, and we are standing behind them! How can you use romance to speculate on victory or defeat? ”
Fei Wenhua didn't think of any Three Kingdoms, but wondered why he even gave up the Kunduz that he had worked so hard to take, and stood up: "Report!" Why abandon Kunduz? Kunduz is located halfway between Dushanbe and Kabul, and is an important place to cut off the north-south connection of the Soviet army, so it should be heavily garrisoned. ”
Long Yun first glanced at Yue Peng, who was silent. Only then did he say: "We know that it is an important place, and the Soviet army knows the same." Originally, this retreat was to retract the fist and direct the troubled waters to the south, if we occupied Kunduz and did not retreat, the Soviets would definitely attack with all the forces of the northern front. According to intelligence, two divisions supporting Yegorov were already on the way, arriving in a day or two at most. Not to mention three or four battalions, even if all 10 battalions are in Kunduz, you can make sure that you hold on? ”
"But." Fei Wenhua originally wanted to continue fighting, but Yue Peng suddenly raised his hand: "Your three battalions must all withdraw to the west of Farhar to garrison the gold mine until the country sends troops to take over." ”
"Gold mines?" Not to mention Fei Wenhua, even Long Yun was a little surprised. Although everyone now knows that Afghanistan has a lot of gold, they didn't expect to find another gold mine! How large? A full three battalions are needed to garrison?!
Wu Peifu knew that these officers couldn't bear to see the Soviet Union's hard work for several months in vain, so he stood up and explained: "It took geological experts more than half a year of painstaking efforts to find it, and we also took out 20 million yuan and tens of thousands of guns to exchange the mining rights from the Afghan government and tribes. After the retreat, someone will take you there, and now the conditions are difficult and the planes can't land, and there are many tribal guerrillas loyal to the former Afghan king, so you have to continue to fight for a while. ”
Although it is not said how large it is, it is clear from the need for three battalions to ensure security. Yue Peng and Wu Peifu looked at each other and smiled, this newly discovered gold mine is simply a cornucopia! Geologists have been very sure that the veins are very large, and the reserves are likely to be as high as more than 1,000 tons, so before Yang Qiu returned to Nanjing, he had already strictly ordered to immediately organize a special mining force, prohibit the private and outside world from interfering, and must hollow out this gold mine within ten years.
Now that Kunduz had decided to give up, Long Yun began to arrange other retreat steps. At this moment, the base intelligence officer hurriedly walked to Yue Peng's side, saluted and handed over a telegram. After reading it, Yue Peng raised his eyebrows and handed the telegram to Wu Peifu, who immediately said after reading it: "The Soviet support force has arrived!" A division, which entered the Termez corridor this afternoon, had 137 trucks and quite a few artillery pieces. They didn't rest but traveled overnight, and as expected, it would have been Kunduz! Immediately send a telegram to the Garm base, asking the Air Force to send a big gift to welcome you...... Hurry up and ...... In order to support the Afghan operation, three squadrons of bombers were deployed in the interior of this forward base closest to Afghanistan, totaling 66 Lei Gong bombers.
The Lei Gong bomber is the third type of bomber installed after the Kunpeng, and it is numbered H-3 within the army. Based on the Albatross 1924, the body is thinner, with a three-bladed propeller, the engine is enhanced to 600 horsepower, a 5-person crew, 4 12.7 mm self-defense machine guns are installed, the internal magazine can be mounted with 1 ton of bombs, and the combat radius is 400 km. Comes with ...... and 500 kg of four basic high-explosive bombs, as well as optional aerial bombs such as incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs. However, because Afghanistan is a mountainous area, the effect of arson and poison gas is not good, so this time the special ammunition was not used.
But Yu Fei can be sure that he has never seen the small bomb that will be planted tonight.
At the age of 35, he is regarded as the oldest batch of aviation technicians in the Air Force, and when he participated in the European War, he studied aircraft maintenance and maintenance in the French Army, and after returning to China, he studied at the aviation school for two years.
It is about the same size as the usual 50-kilogram high-explosive bomb, but it is longer and has a small protrusion in the front. The shell was also not cast in one piece, and several cracks could be seen on it. A horizontal bar is drawn on the surface with red paint for distinguishing. The most bizarre part is the springtail, which has a small cloth bag in the middle of the four tail wings, and a metal ring and cotton thread are connected to one end of the cloth bag. When the cloth bag is lifted, there are two clock-like holes at the tail, with obvious indication of the direction of rotation on the side of the small holes.
"Give."
The technician who came from the country with the ammunition handed him the hollow key: "The hole on the left turns three times along the arrow, and the right side turns five times in reverse, don't be wrong!" When hanging bombs, put a metal hook on the bomb pylon. Remember, make sure the leash is sturdy to make sure it doesn't come loose after dropping it. "The technician crouched under the bomber and personally instructed everyone to install the bomb. Because the bombs are small, the H-3 can be loaded with 18 of these small bombs at a time, and from a distance it looks like hanging two strings of large black pomegranates. But from the technician's expression, it can be seen that this string of "pomegranates" may not be so delicious.
"Technician Chen, what kind of bomb is this, why have you never seen it?"
The technician who wore glasses said with a smile: "Of course you haven't seen it, this is called a flowering bullet, we are still researching it, I didn't hear that it was urgently needed, so I specially asked me to send a batch to the experiment to see the effect...... The technicians and pilots had a chill, what was going on! Since the start of the war in Afghanistan, all kinds of weapons and equipment have been sent for testing, and it is said that the army has tested dozens of new equipment, including bullets. Now these guys don't even let go of the Air Force. "Master Chen won't have a problem, right? Throw it down and don't blow it up, it's to blame. ”
"Fried, fried! How can we not blow it up, and we won't dare to test it if we don't blow it up. Technician Chen pushed his glasses, and behind the thick lenses, his eyes and eyebrows were squeezed together with a smile.
"Is there a small bomb in the flowering of the mother and child?" Yu Fei looked at the bomb and always felt an indescribable chill. When he looked up, several technicians carrying cameras and cameras had already boarded the bomber.
Three hours later, the sun jumped out from behind the mountain. The 96 wind-cooled engines hissed one after another, and when the neighing converged into a piece, it turned into a rolling dry thunder faintly piercing.
12 escort Falcon C fighters, 32 Lei Gong bombers took to the skies, and the fighters that covered the sky and the sun flew towards Kunduz with 576 flowering bombs...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )rq!!!