Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Panjshir Valley

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With the arrival of December, the temperature in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan is even lower, and it can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius at night, in this case, no one will attack, even the indigenous people of Afghanistan, at this time, are willing to stay in their own homes and quietly endure this winter.

Since the invasion of the Soviets, the usual life in Afghanistan has been destroyed, a lot of land is barren, and this winter, the people of Afghanistan have a hard time.

In the mountainous areas north of Jalalabad, in the villages around the guerrilla garrison led by Mhammad, the villagers have been given food, and in addition to the original Pashtun villages, even Tajik villages have also received food.

With this food, they survived this long, cold winter and are extremely grateful to Mhammad.

Their reward was also heartfelt, and many young men in the village came to join the guerrillas led by Mhammad.

For these young men, Mhammad did not accept all of them, they were in the prime of life, and joining the guerrillas meant that the family lost their laborers, and Mhammad only accepted some of them, so that Mhammad's guerrillas had expanded to 150 people, and they were completely a large guerrilla force.

Such a team has more people than the average convoy of Soviets transporting supplies, and as long as they get information in advance, set up an ambush in the middle of the way, and make a quick decision, they can catch the Soviets by surprise.

In the winter of this year, Mhammad was not completely idle, braving the bitter cold, he was still training his troops, and from time to time he touched the Soviet posts, so that several Soviet posts within a hundred kilometers of the station were all killed by Mhammad.

Mhammad's means of touching the outpost were very tough, not to shoot cold guns, not to pretend to be government troops, not to mention transport convoys, but to bombard them directly with rockets.

107-mm MLRS, which can be assembled as a single unit, or disassembled on the march, with a weight of no more than twenty-five kilograms per person, can travel long distances.

By taking advantage of this winter, Mhamad uprooted the Soviet outposts north of Jalalabad, and the entire guerrilla base was in good shape.

The countryside encircles the city, this is the tactic of Grandpa Mao at the beginning, and in modern Afghanistan, the situation is also the same, soon, the mountains will be the world of the guerrillas, and the Soviets can only retreat in the big cities.

At the same time, Mhammad also knew that there was still a long way to go, and this was only the third year of the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the Soviets had not yet realized that there was a huge whirlpool here......

A river meanders through the peaks, the high peaks are covered with snow all year round, and the slopes are difficult to trek, except for a valley in the middle, where a traffic artery is built.

This is Afghanistan's most dangerous and important Panjshir Valley, which is located at the southern foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains, stretching from north to south, more than 100 kilometers long, and only 5 kilometers wide at its narrowest point. It is about 80 kilometers south of the capital Kabul. It controls the key points of communication from Kabul to the northeastern provinces, as well as Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and Bagram Air Base is more than 20 kilometers south of the valley mouth.

The Soviet troops stationed in Afghanistan now have tens of thousands of people, and if all the food supplies of these people are transported by air, all the transport planes of the Soviet Union will be mobilized and flying day and night, and they will not be able to complete the huge military supply, so most of the supplies of the Soviets will be transported by land through the north.

To get to Guò by land, you have to take the most treacherous part of the valley, Panjshir, which is the only main road to get through.

Unfortunately, since the Soviets arrived, the Panjshir Valley has not been peaceful, and there are many caves on the high hills here, and there are many caves on the cliffs on both sides, and the guerrillas are haunted, constantly roaming the area, blowing up Soviet military vehicles from time to time, and then fleeing when the Soviet troops react.

Moreover, the biggest headache for the Soviets, now, the partisans there, have developed into an armed force of several hundred people!

In the spring, the Panjshir River was opened, and the river flowed downstream with ice cubes and rattling sounds, and on the hillsides, all kinds of trees began to sprout, a tender green color, and the whole valley became full of life again.

Under a fruit tree, an Afghan is standing, wearing a grass-green universal field jacket and overalls pants with a Western-style shirt and the symbolic "Panjshir" scarf that you can see as a famous Panjshir guerrilla. And now this young man is still wearing the boots of the Afghan army, with a belt and a pistol pinned to his belt. On his back, he carried an AKS-74 assault rifle, and under the barrel of this rifle, he also carried a BG-15 40 mm caliber grenade launcher.

At this time, he was looking at the narrow path in the distance, where a group of people slowly approached, and the leading one, a burly man, had a gleam in his eyes.

"Welcome, my friend." The Afghan shouted to the passers-by, while extending his right hand: "I am Massoud, and you must be His Excellency Mhammad who made the Soviets cry wolf." ”

Mhammad's hand was held with Massoud's hand, and he stared into each other's eyes, extremely sincere: "Under the guidance of Allah, we Afghan guerrillas must unite in order to completely drive out the Soviets!" ”

Ahmad Shah Massoud, a famous Afghan combat hero from Panjshir, remembered in his heart what later generations knew about him. Massoud's father was a retired brigadier general from a former Afghanistan, a military family. He attended the French High School in Kabul and graduated from the University of Kabul with a degree in engineering, where he was forced into exile in Pakistan after his activities against the then Daoud government.

After that, the Soviet Union launched a war of invasion of Afghanistan. Massoud returned to his hometown of Panjshir and led the Afghan guerrillas in a resistance movement, and after several years of fighting, he was given the title of Panjshir's Division.

And just after more than a decade of war, the civil war in Afghanistan broke out again, and the Northern Alliance led by Massoud was driven out of Kabul by the Taliban and re-driven into the mountains.

Later, before 9/11, Massoud was assassinated by al-Qaeda.

At that time, an important reason for the Afghan civil war was that there were many factions in Afghanistan, and each guerrilla army fought on its own, and as soon as the Soviets left, they became warlords and fought for their own interests.

Massoud's failure to control the situation in Kabul is caused by Massoud's own limitations, because Massoud is not the Pashtun with the largest population in Afghanistan, but an ethnic Tajik! Massoud was deeply imprinted with the Tajiks, so when the guerrillas from all over the country invaded Kabul and overthrew the pro-Soviet regime, they immediately split over their own ethnic issues.

Mhammad will not let such a thing happen again, in the war, it is necessary to solve the contradictions of various nationalities, so that all nationalities know that unity can lead to victory, and Afghanistan is a whole nation!

So, despite the fatigue of the mountain road, Mhammad personally came to greet his neighbor.

At this time, Massoud did not have the name of the Lion of Panjshir, but the guerrilla force he led was already a force of five or six hundred people, far surpassing that of Mhammad.

The reason why Massoud agreed to meet with Mhammad was not only the rich record of the guerrillas led by Mhammad, including the elimination of an airport north of Jalala, but more importantly, Mhammad's attitude towards the Tajiks.

The guerrillas led by Mhammad are all Pashtuns, but he saved the Tajik Ramal, and in this most difficult winter, Mhammad distributed the grain he got to the Tajik villages, and the Tajiks in those villages were grateful to Mhammad, and Massoud's impression of Mhammad became exceptionally good.

Just mentioning that Mhammad risked his life to rescue the Tajik villagers, but he himself was hit by a poison gas bomb from the Soviets, made Massoud admire Mhammad very much.

However, Massoud is highly vigilant about Mhammad's intentions.

"Your Excellency Massoud, last winter, thanks to the food that His Excellency Mahmad gave to our villagers for the winter, he is a friend of our Tajiks." Behind Mhammad, Lamal said to Massoud.

Massoud nodded: "Your Excellency Mhammad, you are a friend of our Tajiks. Massoud said, and after speaking, he added: "Friends forever." ”

"Your Excellency Massoud, we are all friends, all those who stand on the path of resistance against the Soviets, we are friends, and we have come together for a common goal." "Unity is the foundation for our Afghan guerrillas to drive out the Soviets," Mhammad said. ”

Hearing Mhammad's words, Massoud thought for a moment, and just now he said that Mhammad was a friend of his Tajik ethnic group, which seemed to be a little too narrow-minded.

At this moment, a bearded man behind Massoud suddenly spoke: "Your Excellency Mhammad, listen to your tone, are you here to take in our Panjshir guerrillas?" ”

The tone of this sentence was very unfriendly, and Mhammad looked up, this is an ordinary-looking Afghan guerrilla, wearing a wide coat and trousers, a turban, leggings wrapped around his legs, bare feet, a string of bullet bags hanging from his body, and an old-fashioned Efield rifle on his back, very rough, probably a local Afghan imitation.

"Fahim, don't be rude to your guests!" Massoud couldn't help but say angrily when he heard the words of the person behind him.