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In early April, Afghanistan was covered with snow.

In a mountainous area 30 kilometers north of Kabul, the cold mountain breeze gave the mountain battalion soldiers who had arrived from the southwest a taste of what it meant to be harsh. Only at this time did Fei Wenhua understand why Long Yun asked him to prepare more donkeys, because it was difficult to move an inch without donkeys in this place, even if it was an elite mountain battalion that crossed mountains and crossed the mountains and walked on flat ground, it would not be able to go far in a day.

Guides for the mountain camp were several Pashtun mullahs. Although the current king of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, is also Pashtun and is still a good monarch, but the reform plan and pro-Soviet policies that exceed the country's own strength have touched the interests of conservatives, so these mullahs are saying bad things about him along the way, and they can't immediately fly to Kabul to overthrow the king who wants to make the elite of the world (1) vulgarize the veterans all day long, and weaken the tribal armed forces and advocate for reform. In fact, there is no need for them to explain, Long Yun and Fei Wenhua are not interested in Afghanistan's internal affairs, and they also have no good feelings for Amanullah. The reason for this is that Nanking and Moscow are not very friendly, and it is impossible for the British to continue to control it after the Indian riots, and it is not a good thing to let the Soviet Union grow.

After arriving at the predetermined junction point, Long Yun met Zhang Zhidan, the head of the Security Bureau for Central Asia. Since Kolchak was exterminated, Zhang Zhidan has been active in Central Asia and is very familiar with this area. In addition to him, there were several Muslim League guerrilla officers who had come to learn from the fighting experience, as well as the leaders of Pashtun tribal guerrillas selected by the Security Service to cooperate, and finally a young Afghan officer named Chahatu.

It is not surprising that the Muslim League sent people to carry out military operations in this part of Central Asia, even if it is planned to be informed in the future. But the guerrillas supported by the Ministry of Intelligence gave Long Yun a headache, and even Fei Wenhua scratched his head. Although they had heard that Central Asia was in chaos before they came, after seeing these guerrillas, the boys of the mountain battalion were still dumbfounded. Not to mention the mixed number of people, the equipment is also unsightly, and there are even ancient front-loading guns! Chapter 617 Elite vs. Veterans (1) The ancestors are on top, and the Great Qing Kingdom doesn't need this thing!

"Brother Zhidan. Can they do it? Long Yun hurriedly pulled Zhang Zhidan to the side. The latter guessed that he would have doubts, after all, Amanulla had led his army to defeat 45,000 British troops 8 years ago, which showed that he was still very powerful. He smiled and comforted: "Brother Yunlong probably doesn't know that this guerrilla force is the strongest fighting force in Afghanistan. Their patriarch also married the daughter of a Tajik nobleman and was loyal to us. What's more, Amanullah's new policy is unpopular, and tens of thousands of troops in Kabul have not been paid for months, and as long as the guns are fired, they will disperse in a hurry. ”

Long Yun rolled his eyes, Kabul will disperse in a hurry, what about the Soviet army? By them, he shook his head and said that he could not trust the guerrillas. But just as he was about to send a telegram to the reinforcements behind him to arrive in advance. Chahatu, dressed in an Afghan military uniform, walked over.

The young man was very young, probably only twenty-five or sixteen years old, with black hair and deep eyes, and he looked very energetic. But when Long Yun's gaze swept over, he was a little nervous, and he said for a long time: "General, can you sell us some of the rifles you brought?" We can trade camels for that. ”

The not-so-clear Beijing accent made Long Yun stunned, and hurriedly went to see Zhang Zhidan.

Zhang Zhidan laughed and said: "Brother Yunlong, don't be surprised, Chahatu's grandfather used to work as an interpreter in the Ili General's Mansion of the Qing government. After some explanation, Long Yun, who was born in Sichuan, knew that in fact, the influence of China in Central Asia is still very large. But most of this is due to the great cause of the Han and Tang Dynasties. There are also reasons for the strong military deterrence of the early Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was not slowly replaced by the British and Russian powers until modern times, but the influence of the Wehrmacht began to gradually recover after the expulsion of Russia. Therefore, it evokes many memories of the great powers of the DPRK.

Long Yun vaguely understood the reason why these guerrillas were chosen to cooperate, since there was one Chahatu, there must be a second. Maybe the commander-in-chief asked him to come to Afghanistan to regain national influence, right? Thinking of this, he looked at the five hundred new rifles tied to the donkey's back and brought emergency situations, and ordered Fei Wenhua to send them all to the guerrillas. The new Type 12 rifle made the guerrilla leader and the soldiers so happy that he finally gave Chahatu a submachine gun, which the young officer repeatedly thanked. These actions also earned the mountain battalion a lot of goodwill, because in Afghanistan nothing matters, only a good gun is the best expression of identity.

Within a moment, a small group of British troops arrived at the assembly site.

The officers who led the team were of the same age as Long Yun, and compared to the guerrillas, the British army was small in number but very well equipped. Even the Stern submachine gun has a lot.

"British Army Colonel, Archibald Wavell was ordered to come to rendezvous."

Archibald was a veteran of the European War, who had served in the war, but due to the difficulty of promotion after the war, he was assigned to the 2nd Anglo-Indian Division as a colonel. After the war, all countries had this phenomenon of difficulty in promoting officers, and how many proud soldiers did the Wehrmacht have? It is not yet one by one to leave the army to go to the National Defense University for further study, and the company is already with the rank of lieutenant general. Su Xiaohu, who also served as the commander of the theater, took off his military uniform not long ago to replace Su Hongsheng, who died of illness, and went to Changchun to become an industrialist.

So he wants to take advantage of this opportunity.

Perhaps because of the fact that he had dealt with the enemy together, Archibald did not have the rigidity of the English aristocracy, but on the contrary was very easy-going. When asked how many troops he had brought, he made no secret that the 2nd Anglo-Indian Division was dispatched, but he did not say where Nadir Shah, who was ready to support, was. Long Yun didn't care, Britain would definitely not hand over the "baby" so early, but it was strange that Britain was willing to take a division out to carry out this operation.

"Brother Zhidan, what the hell are the British doing? Send a division and don't want India? ”

Zhang Zhidan didn't feel strange, and said, "Brother Long Yun, you are wrong. Do you really think that Britain will send their own people to death? I bet that this division would never have numbered more than 5,000, and most of it was made up of Indian soldiers. ”

"What a clever plan, borrow a knife to kill someone!" The words made Long Yun understand immediately. As India became nervous, the Anglo-Indian division was a scourge at home, and perhaps the Indian soldiers in this division were all Nehru supporters and were deliberately sent to be used as cannon fodder.

Whatever the intentions of both sides, at least for now, they want to prop up an Afghan government that is beneficial to them, so the two sides quickly negotiated an offensive plan. It was decided that two days later the British and troops loyal to Nadir Shah would attack from the east, and Long Yun would lead his troops to take Kabul from the north.

After unifying the contact information, Archibald immediately went back to prepare for the attack.

The new monarch of Afghanistan, King Amanullah, did not expect the danger to be approaching, and he was getting dressed in front of the mirror.

Looking out of a side window, the early morning in Kabul is filled with chaos and disorder. In the flying sand and dust, there are low and dilapidated shanties and ox carts and donkeys everywhere, and there is not a trace of industrialization in sight. In fact, Afghanistan is not without industry, the Kabul Arsenal, which belongs to the country, is not far from the palace, and the machinery and equipment are all purchased by the previous king from the British, but can only make rifles and bullets.

Amanullah was a diligent monarch, at least he thought. Especially since this period started earlier, because he already intends to travel around the world, absorb the experience of other countries, and bring prosperity and strength to Afghanistan. In front of the mirror, King Amanullah, a short man with a thick beard, was trying on a dress specially prepared for the trip, and next to him, Tagil and other ministers reminded him that he should not visit now, because there was already a lot of opposition in the country, and even advised him to order the cancellation of the reform plan, stop supporting the Afghan al-Shabaab, and co-opt the scattered tribal armed forces to avoid being taken advantage of.

Amanullah didn't seem to hear the chatter, he was already disgusted by the feeling of being constrained, and was about to wave his hand away from these pesky ministers when suddenly there was a sharp chirp outside the window.

"Airplane!"

When the British attacked Kabul eight years ago, they had sent planes to bomb Kabul, so the guards quickly discerned that there were planes flying over the capital. Amanulla also hurriedly took off his new clothes, tied the gun around his waist and walked outside, only to look up and find a large plane with a different kind of hovering overhead.

"Give me the binoculars."

Amanullah held up his binoculars and was a little stunned, as he realized that the plane was not under the wings of the British logo. This makes everyone very strange, only the three countries of Britain, the Soviet Union and China can enter this land, and he has seen the British and Soviet aircraft logos, is it the plane of the Chinese people? But after they entered Tajikistan, they stayed in the country, what are they doing here?

Just when he vaguely felt that something was wrong, a dozen small black dots appeared in the sky again, and when these black dots got closer and closer, he found that there were 16 planes that were slightly smaller than his head. Before Amanullah and the others could figure out what was going on, the first plane that appeared behind suddenly lowered its altitude, and a moment later, two black dots quickly smashed from under the belly of the plane in the direction of the palace.

This is not a 50-kilogram bomb dropped by Britain eight years ago, but a 250-kilogram standard high-explosive bomb equipped by the Chinese Air Force.

Two fireballs and dust and smoke suddenly rose from the palace, and the air waves set off by the explosion swept the surrounding people directly away. The Kunpeng bomber from the 2nd Bomber Wing of the Chinese Air Force accurately dropped a high-explosive bomb in the compound of the Kabul Imperial Palace, and the violent explosion not only frightened the faces of the guards, Amanullah and others, but also caused unimaginable damage.

16 bombers dropped bombs in sequence, and the destructive power of 32 250-kilogram aerial bombs was so staggering that in the blink of an eye the inside and outside of the palace were enveloped in smoke and fire.

The sound of explosions from the direction of the palace also completely disrupted the calm city of Kabul, and the whole city was in chaos, and the troops loyal to Amanullah desperately returned to the palace, while some troops who had long colluded with the British army to prepare for a mutiny kept shooting to create tension.

In April 1927, without warning, the battle for Afghanistan began. !!