Chapter 60: The Wakhan Corridor
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"Your Excellency Instructor, this battle is really painful!" Osama said to Mhammad: "Let's use those boxes of things to completely destroy the Soviets' air base!" ”
Not only Osama, but everyone's face was full of smiles, even the injured Durranni, who was grinning at this time, enduring the pain, and was happy.
The last sneak attack on the air base, everyone risked their lives and almost went there to see Allah, and this time, far away, relying on those things, easily covered the air base of the Soviets, remembering the sight of those rockets flying past, Durrani couldn't help but blossom.
This is the real battle! It was a turning point, a turning point in the military struggle against the Soviet invaders!
"Your Excellency Instructor, why don't we take rockets and turn a hundred kilometers up the mountain road to attack the air base in Bagram! There was a large air base for the Soviets, fighters, bombers, helicopters, everything, dozens of them! Durranny said.
"Yes, Your Excellency Instructor, let's go and attack Bagram Air Base!" The rest of the group chimed in.
Mhammad looked at these people, Khwaja, who had just finished out several Soviet soldiers who had disembarked from the BMP infantry fighting vehicle with a sniper rifle and stopped them from outflanking him, was also looking at Mhammad with longing eyes at this time, as long as Mhammad gave an order, he would not hesitate to carry it out.
Several victories made the partisans a little arrogant, riding on horseback, walking on rugged mountain roads, Mhammad said: "This tactic, can not be replicated, we sneak attack once, easy success, the second time, it is not so easy, I don't know if you have thought about it, if the Soviets took off a hind at that time, patrolling around the airport, it would bring us a lot of trouble, how can we easily set up those rockets?" ”
"We have stingers!" Aga said, "If there's a hind, we'll beat it down!" ”
"Stingers are not omnipotent." "We use the stinger, and it's just a sneak attack, and if the hind in the sky finds us, then we don't have a chance to shoot the stinger at all, and we're killed by the hind's rockets," Mhammad said. ”
This is the early stage of the war, the Soviets Hind, flying in the sky at will, no opponent, when the Soviets found out that the Hind was facing the threat of Stingers, they would soon equip the Hind with infrared decoy bombs, and the pilots would strengthen their guards, and if they wanted to shoot down again, it would not be as easy as now.
Helicopter gunships, which are always the natural enemies of the infantry, confronted the hinds head-on, and the end was also miserable.
Muhammad knew very well in his heart that this attack would soon let the Soviets know that the task now was not to continue the sneak attack on Bagram, but to return to the mountains.
With the character of the Soviets, I am afraid that they will send thousands of troops into the mountains to encircle and suppress their own guerrilla force, and they will not be willing to completely break up their own guerrilla force.
The last time we killed two test pilots, the Soviets had already gritted their teeth with hatred, and this time, with another move on their base, the Soviets' anger will be completely burned to the mountains to the north.
"Go back to our base and set up secret posts on various important hills, ready to meet the Soviets for a sweep." "This time you have also seen the power of rockets, and when you go back, everyone will learn how to aim and launch them," Mhammad said. ”
"Yes." Everyone replied.
For Mhammad, the guerrillas are very respectful, and this kind of respect from the bottom of their hearts, not only because Mhammad led them to victory, but also because Mhammad taught them a lot of guerrilla warfare skills, which is what they desire the most.
Seeing the power of this rocket, everyone was thinking about how to master this weapon to the best of their ability, which was one of the three magic weapons of the guerrillas!
Mhammad is very cautious, there are Afghan civilians on all the hills, and an ordinary shepherd may be an intelligence agent of the guerrillas. They are the head snakes of the land here, and they can't hide from them when the wind blows and the grass blows.
The guerrillas have horses again, and once they find out that the Soviets are sending troops and burrowing into the mountains, they will soon get the news, no matter how many Soviets come and enter the mountains, they will gradually become smaller and finally disappear, this is the power of guerrilla warfare!
Back at the base, Mhammad waited all the time, who knows, the days passed day by day, but he never waited for the arrival of the Soviets.
This made Mhammad begin to wonder, what idea did the Soviets play?
Autumn is coming to an end, Afghanistan is located in the plateau, the winter will be unusually cold, the snow will cover the whole land, the coldest time, enough to minus 40 degrees, even the Soviets born in the cold land, have to nest in the base, do not want to come out. And the Afghan locals are barefoot immortals, and in such a cold weather, they dare to walk barefoot in the snow, and the clothes they wear in winter and summer are the same, robes, turbans, and no extra warm clothes.
Afghanistan in winter will not fight, even if the Taliban in later generations will not launch an offensive in winter when they fight the most fiercely, winter is a season of recuperation.
Should the Soviets wait until after the spring of the following year to attack? Just let yourself be happy?
At the same time that Mhammad was very puzzled, he ordered the intelligence officers who were lurking in Jalalabadri to operate around, and with the help of Osama's funds, the intelligence agency under the leadership of Dana began to expand, and several women infiltrated the headquarters to wash clothes, and they could get more information.
Even so, nothing was found, and there was no sign of soldiers gathering at the military base in Jalalabad, and various war supplies were not further stored, which meant that the Soviets would not launch a large-scale military offensive into the mountains for the time being.
Could it be that the arrival of winter made the logistical supplies of the Soviets unable to keep up, so they had to smash their teeth and swallow in their stomachs to watch themselves bomb their air base? Mhamad could no longer find any other reason, perhaps only that.
Mhammad looked at his guerrilla force, which was training in full swing, and after a winter, they would become more skilled in warfare and skillful in the use of all kinds of weapons, and when the time came, the Soviets would have to pay a greater price when they came to the mountains to encircle and suppress themselves.
These days, the guerrillas have grown in size to more than 100 people, and there is a shortage of weapons, and the United States has promised to help the guerrillas replenish another batch of weapons.
I heard that this new batch of weapons was purchased from Eastern countries, and the Type 56 submachine gun, which is very similar to the AKM rifle, as well as 107 rockets, and it is said that several multi-barreled launchers were also obtained. Mhammad is very much looking forward to the arrival of this batch of weapons.
A heavy snowfall, one after another, covered the entire Central Asian region, and everywhere was covered in snow.
"When you are long, when you are long." Under the donkey's neck, a bell hung from time to time, and the donkey's hooves stepped in the snow, stepping out of one deep pit after another.
"It's goddamn weather!" Pulling the donkey forward in the snow, looking at the dozens of donkeys in front and behind, and then looking at the rolling mountains on both sides, James kept cursing.
If you look at it from the sky, it is a valley that winds down in the middle of two huge mountain ranges around it, and there is only such a narrow passage within a few hundred kilometers of the surrounding area.
It is a narrow strip of land from Badakhshan Province in northeastern Afghanistan to Xinjiang in China, and is actually a canyon formed by the collision of the southern part of the Pamir Plateau and the northern section of the Hindu Kush Mountains during the process of orogeny. The Wakhan Corridor is 300 kilometers long from east to west in Afghanistan, and the long and narrow Wakhan Corridor is east of Afghanistan, with more than 90 kilometers of borders between Afghanistan and Eastern countries, and more than 100 kilometers of extension in Eastern countries.
Since ancient times, it has been a bridge between the East and the West, and the Silk Road passed through here, and it is also the only way for Eastern countries to go west.
There are high mountains on both sides, and only this narrow strip in the middle can be walked, and in the summer, the cold wind blowing in the mountains is still a pleasure, but now, such a cold weather, it is simply deadly.
This was the last supply before the closure of the mountain, and by the time the road was opened next year, the Soviets would have to attack the guerrillas in the mountains of Afghanistan, so this supply was a must.
U.S. military satellites observed the condition of the field airfield north of Jalalabad, which had been completely destroyed, and it was the guerrillas under the leadership of Mhammad who carried out the attack.
The top level of the United States was very excited, and this second operation to support the Afghan guerrillas began.
The United States is risking the supply of Stinger missiles and Tao missiles to the Afghan guerrillas, because after all, the two superpowers are likely to cause a war if they misfire, and this is only a proxy war, and moreover, the cost of American weapons is expensive, and shipping them from the United States will increase the cost.
Therefore, the United States has secretly contacted the eastern countries, and now the eastern countries are mired in a border conflict with Vietnam, and naturally they also hate the Soviet Union for supporting Vietnam, and both sides have common interests, so the United States has paid for the purchase of weapons from the east, and it has become the best choice to transport them to Afghanistan through the Wakhan corridor.
The weapons of the East, cheap and powerful, were just for the use of the Afghan guerrillas, but James, as the direct person in charge, was not so reluctant