Chapter 161: Afghanistan (1)
Lined with high, bare peaks, only on the middle side was a road for trucks, with Soviet sickle axe flags flying in front of the cars.
This huge group of logistics vehicles is carrying out the task of transporting logistics supplies.
Now, the Soviet Union has deployed about 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, and it is not easy to support the fighting of 100,000 people.
Most of Afghanistan is located on the Pamir Plateau, which is mountainous and the terrain is rugged and inaccessible. There is not a single railway in the country, and most of the roads pass through the mountains, which is extremely steep.
Although there have always been transport planes transporting supplies, there is only a fairly small amount of traffic, and most of them are transported by road.
And the most troublesome use of road transportation is those Afghan guerrillas who have always been like Xiaoqiang who can't be killed.
Especially in this kind of mountainous terrain, the opponent is condescending, and it is very easy to attack the supply vehicles, which is quite a headache.
And the Soviet army, too, came up with a solution, in addition to the patrol of helicopter gunships in the sky, on the ground, they also installed twin 23-mm ЗУ-23 anti-aircraft guns on the trucks. This is a decommissioned old weapon taken out of storage, but this gun has a large elevation angle and a maximum range of 2,500 meters when firing obliquely at mountain targets, which is just right to suppress the large-caliber machine guns of alpine guerrillas.
Here, on the contrary, tanks are useless, the elevation angle is too small to shoot at the enemy on the top of the hill, and self-propelled combat vehicles are not easy to use, only such trucks with anti-aircraft guns, on the contrary, are the most suitable weapons.
The higher altitude restricts the movement of trucks, which are all half-loaded, otherwise there will be a lack of power, and so are the personnel.
The helicopter gunship in the sky, hovering all the time, monitoring the suspicious situation on the ground, this improved Mi-24 gunship, with a 7.62mm machine gun in the back, is specially designed to deal with Afghan guerrillas.
On one of the trucks in front, the commander of the supply team, Vlamir. Colonel Makarov, vigilantly patrolling around.
Vlamir was a very confident type of person in the Soviet army, and he also had the great power sentiment that existed in the tsarist era.
Peter the Great, the most famous in Russian history, once said that Russia needed to advance south to Constantinople and India, and whoever ruled there would rule the world. He argues that when Russia has free access to the Indian Ocean, it will be able to establish its own military and political domination around the world. Peter the Great envisioned three routes for Russia to go south: one from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus in Turkey to the Mediterranean; the second is from the South Caucasus to the Persian Gulf via Iran; The third is from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea via Afghanistan.
Although the Soviet Union became a socialist country, it still had the mantle left by the Tsar, and they were always thinking about going south.
Especially in the 70s, in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, there was a chess game in which the Soviet Union attacked the defense of the United States. The Soviet Union began to attempt to use Afghanistan as a base for its southward expansion, and then open a land passage directly to the Indian Ocean, threatening the oil-producing areas of the Middle East and encircling Europe in a roundabout way, and echoing its Pacific strategy, and finally achieving its goal of world hegemony.
Vramyr raised his hands in favor of this, and now, at last, he entered Afghanistan and began another expansion of the Soviet empire.
At this time, in a hidden corner of the mountains, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin **, using a telescope captured from the Soviet army, was watching the convoy slowly approaching in the distance.
Behind him, a dozen brothers, members of his Islamic Jihad.
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin **, who had a rich and legendary life, was born on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, into a wealthy family of construction businessmen, and his family was 17th. In 1974, he married Nayiwa Ghanim. In 1976, the eldest son, Abdullah, was born. From 1976 to 1979, he studied at King Abdulaziz University, but after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 79, the young man in his twenties finally became enthusiastic, and he brought a group of young people with the same beliefs as him to Afghanistan and began the process of resisting the invasion of the Soviet Red Army.
Later in life, he was angry at Saudi Arabia's opening of bases and welcomed the presence of American troops, believing that it violated Islamic teachings, and began a fight against the West.
Of course, the current Osama has only one thought, to help the Islamic brothers and defeat the Soviet invaders!
"Security ahead." The helicopters in the air searched twice, but did not find Osama and others hiding in the mountains, and they began to search forward, while the convoy continued to move forward.
Here's your chance!
Osama picked up the mine detonator in his hand and pressed it down.
For no reason, suddenly, violent explosions sounded everywhere, and suddenly, several trucks in the front had been blown into the sky.
Afghan guerrillas! Vlamyr was shocked, and immediately ordered the soldiers of the two squads behind him, alternating cover, to search the surrounding mountains and forests.
At the same time, the anti-aircraft guns on the trucks also vigilantly patrolled the surroundings, and at any time they would use the 23-mm anti-aircraft shells to blow the enemy into several pieces.
"Kill their, pay attention, shoot one shot to change places, and after three shots, retreat immediately." Osama said.
Now the distance is almost five hundred meters, can they use the old-fashioned Leinsfield rifle in their hands to kill each other? Although this rifle is not automatic firepower and has a slow rate of fire, it has a long shooting distance and has been converted into a sniper rifle, which has great advantages in the mountainous and valley terrain of Afghanistan.
Osama knew that their role now was to constantly delay the opponent's actions and make the opponent's supplies unblocked, rather than fighting the enemy.
The Soviet army has more than 100,000 people and is well-equipped, and if it is hard to fight, it will definitely not be able to fight.
Osama's favorite thing is to engage in this kind of attack and harassment, and only by preserving himself can he destroy the enemy.
However, his subordinates did not think so, especially the few people who came to assist him from the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, who carried the more common AK-47 assault rifles.
There are more than 3,000 tribes in Afghanistan, and for a long time, these tribes were not subordinate to each other, and the central government had difficulty controlling the tribal leaders. Afghanistan is a country that is actually very difficult to manage. After the invasion of the Soviet army, the various Muslim organizations and tribal forces, although with different political colors, gradually united in order to fight against the common enemy. After March 1980, the armed forces of three Muslim groups formed the "Islamic Liberation of Afghanistan Coalition for Afghanistan".
Osama contacted the coalition when he arrived in Afghanistan, and now, for their first battle, ambushed Soviet logistics supply vehicles.
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