The city hall of Jalalabad, which happens to be the center of the city, will also be the site of the enemy's final attack, and the headquarters of this street battle is set up here.

Hevaja was in the basement, looking at the map on the table, the entire city had been quickly arranged into a defensive fortress, even so, he knew how much pressure his side would face, the Soviets were strong, their own side occupied this place, how strong would their crazy counterattack be?

Hang on! Even if there is the last person left, you must hold on until the arrival of winter, until the military operation can no longer be carried out, and only in this way can you be considered victorious!

"Minister of Defense, we have completed the arrangement." Several division commanders reported to him one after another, Herman, Agha, Lamal, everyone's eyes were determined.

"Just received an update from President Hammad." "Not only do we have to build all kinds of fortifications on the ground, but we also have to dig tunnels underground to make it easy to get back and forth, for example, the positions we have captured during the day can be recaptured at night by leaning on the tunnels and going behind the Soviets to recapture the positions," Khwaja said. ”

"Yes." The three of them replied, and immediately went out, went to their own defense area, and began to arrange the excavation work.

Now, their own army in the mountains is dragging the Soviets so that they will not quickly withdraw from the mountains, in order to stop the Soviets, many troops have paid a huge price, they are exchanging their lives for their own precious time, in these time, they must build perfect fortifications, in the street fighting, a large number of casualties!

The purpose of this battle was to kill and wound a large number of Soviet soldiers in street battles! As long as the Soviets had more than 20,000 casualties, they would have no capital to fight again. The casualties of the soldiers, who need a lot of pensions, will also seriously drag down the economy of the Soviet Union, and their General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will absolutely not allow them to continue to inflict such large casualties when the time comes. The battle will weaken again.

This is an operation that completely reverses the situation on the battlefield in Afghanistan! Gotta win! If they are annihilated by the Soviets in street fighting, then they will retreat to the mountains again, and the Soviets will have more advantages. I don't know how long the battle will last.

So, we have to win!

"Osama's guards were victorious, annihilating an armored battalion of Soviets coming from Kabul." Just then, Khwaja received a report.

The first battle is victorious! Hewaja was very happy: "Okay, I'll go and see." ”

In order to facilitate coordination, and at the same time to avoid accidental injury. Each unit set up its own defense zone, Osama's guards, which defended the west, and the remaining three directions, which were defended separately by three divisions of Hewaja, and Hewaja's guards, which were the last general reserves.

When Khwaja arrived. Osama was sitting on top of a BTR, leisurely smoking a homemade cigarette roll. Looking at the fortifications here, they are loose and crumbling, and many of them are ordinary houses, digging a hole and using it as a machine gun hole, even if it is a bunker. There was no reinforcement, no co-ordination, and Hewaja couldn't help frowning.

"Your Excellency, are you here? What are the indications? Even though we've just won, we don't need much encouragement. Or our lads would be proud. Osama said.

"Osama, the fortifications of your defense zone are too poorly constructed." "You see, it's not reinforced with sandbags, if the Soviets' 12.7mm machine guns come at you, the wall on this side will definitely be blown up, and your machine gunners have already been attacked before they can return fire," Hevaja said. ”

"Don't worry, you don't need the Soviets to shoot, our people have already killed them first." "I have faith. ”

"But I have no faith, and you must do as I say." Hewaja said: "Strengthen the earthen wall! Fortifications were fortified, and more tunnels were to be dug here to facilitate traffic back and forth. ”

"Digging tunnels?" Osama said, "Which guy came up with this bad idea?" ”

"Your Excellency Mhammad." "If you do not intend to carry out His Excellency Mhammad's orders, then I can only inform His Excellency Mhammad of your current behavior, and His Excellency will most likely let you continue to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains, and then send a second or third army over." ”

Osama was not afraid of anyone, but he was afraid of Mhammad, so when Khwaja said this, Osama immediately had no objection, and could only say: "Since it is an order given by His Excellency Mhammad, then I will obey it unconditionally and dig a tunnel now." ”

Hewaja watched as the soldiers with sapper shovels began to dig tunnels, and finally reassured and continued to inspect the rest of the defense area.

The preparations were carried out for two days, and every night, a large number of supplies from Peshawar would enter Jalalabad, and the advantage of distance was quite obvious.

The weapons, ammunition and food stored here are enough for the defenders for a year.

In the early hours of the third day, one of the infantry divisions of the Soviets, who had been withdrawn from the mountains, finally came to the outskirts of Jalalabad.

The Soviets moved quickly, they came out of the mountains north of Jalalabad, and when the Third Army came out of it, there was suddenly less force to stop them, and they drove back to Jalalabad almost non-stop, day and night.

"Divisional commander, are we going to attack immediately?" Watching the division commander standing on top of the armored car, constantly looking at the city in the distance with a high-magnification telescope, the adjutant said to him.

"No, we have to wait for more troops to enter together, the Afghan rebels have not left, they are still in the city, we just need to guard the passages around us to prevent them from retreating, our troops are not enough to fight street battles." The division commander was very cautious, after all, the destruction of the infantry battalion was because the enemy was too light, and his own side could not make the same mistake.

The Soviet army is not suitable for small-scale battles in the mountains, after all, they are mainly aimed at the kind of plains of Western Europe, they fight large-scale battles, so to speak, the Soviet Red Army has not fought such guerrilla warfare since its creation.

Now, the Free Afghan Army has finally stopped fighting guerrilla warfare, and wants to fight street battles in the city, which is exactly what it needs!

During World War II, Soviet soldiers fought too many street battles, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow, these places, concentrated hundreds of thousands of Soviet and German troops, and the end was that the Germans lost and their own side won the final victory.

At that time, the Soviet Union was on the defensive, but now, it is on the offensive, and it is even more fearless.

Don't worry, as long as it's surrounded, the people inside won't be able to get out, and if you fight again, it'll be easy!

After waiting for another two days, more and more troops besieging the city increased, but they did not march into the city.

"Captain, what's going on with them?" Standing on the roof of a high-rise building, looking at the Soviet troops in the distance, the fighters of the Free Afghan Army were very puzzled, why did the Soviets keep surrounding outside, but did not attack? Are they trying to trap themselves? There are people from the periphery attacking their transportation lines, and if they are really trapped, they must be in danger of running out of supplies first.

Osama kept looking at each other with a telescope, and he also began to wonder, this is completely out of line with the style of the Soviets, which also means that the Soviets must be having a new trick, but as for what tricks, Osama really can't see it.

Just when he was constantly looking at the opposite side with his binoculars, he saw that behind the opposite position, some big guys appeared, crawler chassis, some with turrets, very stout, the gun on the upper part of the turret seemed to be thick and long, and some did not have a turret, but the artillery on it was also the same length.

What kind of weapon is that? When the equipment was all set, Osama suddenly reacted, no, self-propelled howitzers!

And behind the self-propelled howitzer, you can also see some new equipment, using an ordinary off-road truck chassis, and in the position of the body behind the truck, there are a lot of tubes, placed one after another, several rows, I'm afraid there are dozens of tubes, right? Seeing this, Osama was even more frightened, multiple rocket launchers, the original Katyusha!

By now, Osama finally knew what the Soviets were up to! They are going to destroy the city with artillery fire!

They didn't care about how many civilians there were in the city, and they just used artillery fire to cover it! Fortunately, we evacuated all the residents in advance, otherwise, there would have been a large number of civilian casualties!

Although the Soviets occupied this place, they never regarded it as their own land, and their attitude towards the local people was also enslaved, and now, in order to avoid their casualties, they have unceremoniously adopted this simple, crude and effective way to solve the problem!

Street fighting is brutal, due to the complex terrain, every building, even a broken house, may bring several or even a dozen casualties to the attacking troops, street fighting is the most brutal.

And the Soviets, in order to avoid losing too much for themselves, adopted this method, first using artillery fire and destroying all the buildings! When the buildings are in ruins, the threat is greatly reduced!

Originally, they could still rely on aerial bombing, but unfortunately, the Pakistani Air Force firmly held air supremacy, and in order to avoid the expansion of the war, even if the Pakistani side had air supremacy, there was no air-ground attack to attack the ground forces of the Soviets, and the two sides returned to the original situation. As long as the Soviet Union does not fly fighters in the air, the Pakistani air force will not attack them, and at the same time, the Soviet Union cannot even fly helicopters, which makes their mountain operations very unpleasant.

And now, without relying on the Air Force, the USSR also has sufficient firepower, and the Soviet Army, since its creation, has always advocated artillery doctrine. (To be continued......)