Chapter 29: The Outpost

We returned to base in the early hours of the third day......

It's hard to imagine...... It took us three and a half days to get there, and when we came back, there were helicopters chasing after us, which made us even faster.

But this also seems normal...... On the one hand, because we have almost run out of ammunition and have eaten almost all the dry food we carry with us, we have nothing else in our body except a blanket and a gun. What's more...... There were Soviet helicopters chasing after them...... Is it not pleasant to be threatened with death!

So we came back half a day faster than we went...... In the meantime, the Soviets sent an army to occupy Lake Dahar, as we had expected.

On this point, we listened to Zhang Zuoliang's report when the contact point was in contact with the base, and Zhang Zuoliang's news came from the internal response of the Afghan government army......

Here's the thing...... Perhaps the Soviets didn't trust the Afghan government forces very much, or they wanted to take revenge for their shame, so they occupied Lake Dahal with all-Soviet forces...... Of course, the Soviets reached Lake Har by helicopter maneuver, and there were two companies of Soviet troops...... Under the cover of helicopters and fighters, several heights around Lake Dahar were taken and held.

I believe that the Soviet troops of these two companies are not ordinary Soviet troops...... Otherwise, it would not have been just two companies that would have dared to occupy the guerrillas' water supply, even though these troops had artillery and air liliang cover.

The guerrillas in this area will be miserable...... Although they were also prepared for this sweep of the Soviet army...... This preparation mainly comes from US military bases, and we only have one guerrilla unit in our hands, so we can get inside information from the Afghan government army. The U.S. military has trained so many guerrillas. Naturally, they are much better informed than we are. So, of course, there will be news of the sweep of the Soviet army in advance.

I found out later...... In fact, the information on the US military base is much more detailed than ours, and they even know the time and the jihua of the raid very clearly, but they just didn't tell us.

However, the information they have has harmed them...... Because intelligence said that the focus of the Soviet sweep was on both sides of the road...... This made the Afghan guerrillas not take it seriously at all, thinking that they only needed to withdraw from the road and go deep into the hinterland, who would have thought that the Soviet troops would suddenly and directly occupy Lake Dahar by airborne......

Such an occupation made it impossible for all the guerrillas who needed to be rehydrated...... Either wait for death or knock Dahar down, so they desperately attack Dahar Lake...... The guerrillas were numerous, and there were thousands of guerrillas in a few guerrilla units together. But the helpless thing is that the Soviet army has air liliang and artillery support, so the killing is dark, and it is incendiary bombs and long-range shells for a while, and it only beats Lake Dahal to the ground.

I can understand the purpose of the Soviet army......

On the one hand, he wanted to use this victory to stabilize the morale of the army...... You must know that the Soviet army has only recently taken Afghanistan, and the political situation is still unstable...... Many Afghan government troops gave up the idea of resisting because they believed that their arms could not be twisted into their thighs, that is, they thought that neither the Afghan army nor the guerrillas could confront the Soviet army.

But...... What if they find out that this is not the case? Just like the previous battle...... Not only did we raid the capital Kabul, but we even annihilated two battalions of mechanized infantry!

This gave confidence to the Afghans, and the intifada erupted one after another......

So. The Soviet army had to tell this group of "ill-intentioned" people with real deeds...... The last defeat was just an accident, and the Soviet army was still able to easily control the situation on the battlefield.

On the other hand...... Of course, these Soviet troops would have hoped that we, who had attacked the Soviet troops, would have ...... You'll also need to rehydrate and attack them.

Of course. It's going to disappoint them...... The staging points we set up earlier worked to make it easy and quick for us to get back to Pakistan.

In fact...... We caught the attention of the sentinels as soon as we entered the Pakistani outpost!

The reason is that we have Ak47 and AK74 in our hands...... At this time, most of the weapons equipped by the Afghan guerrillas were AK47 or American-style M16, AK47 was given by the Soviet Union before, and M16 came from American bases...... Equipped with AK74s are very rare...... This small-caliber assault rifle was advanced equipment for the Soviet Union and could not have equipped the Afghan government army.

So, when the Pakistani army saw that we were holding AK74s, they became nervous...... One by one, they all pointed their rifles and machine guns at us, and told us to stop from afar.

Then they found out that many of us still don't understand Persian...... They were even more convinced that we were Soviet troops and Afghan government troops pretending to want to infiltrate Pakistan, so they raised their horns and shouted at us: "This is Pakistani territory, please leave!" ”

I was a little surprised when I heard Saheid's translation...... We also had AK74s in our hands when we left the country, so why didn't the Pakistani border guards be suspicious of us at that time?

Thinking about it quickly becomes clear...... We had a pass when we left the country, and it wasn't a tense time at that time, and now the Afghan side is already in a mess...... No wonder the Pakistani army is so careful!

Then Hassan shouted and showed his pass, but the Pakistani troops still didn't believe it...... It's no wonder that if the Soviet army wanted to get a pass to get into the border, it would be too simple.

Zuihou couldn't help it, so we ripped off our headscarves and showed our identities...... We are all Chinese, and dark glasses and yellow skin are our identity cards...... This made the Pakistani army let down its guard, and an officer who looked like a major ran up to us and couldn't stop daoqian at us.

"Battalion commander!" Saheid translated: "Major Takkara expresses his sincere daoqian to you, he is very strange how we can equip AK74s!" ”

"The fighters at our Chinese base in Pakistan are all equipped with AK74s!" I said, "Major Takara can call and verify this!" ”

"No, of course not!" Major Takara replied: "Of course I believe the words of my Chinese friends, but we have less information, and our superiors have not told us about your equipment!" ”

"Be careful, it's always haode!" I nodded: "As long as there is no misunderstanding!" ”

"Of course!" Major Takara gave me a chest salute and said, "Please rest assured, Chinese friends, I will tell the other troops about this and let them pay attention to it so that there will be no misunderstanding!" ”

At this time, one of Major Takara's assistants whispered something to "Ji Lilu...... Major Takara's eyes widened...... He looked at me in surprise with his mouth half-open and said, "My assistant told me...... Said the army that attacked Kabul three days ago and annihilated two mechanized infantry battalions of the Soviet Army...... It's AK74, is that you? ”

I just smiled...... It seems that this Major Takara has a lot of information, so he knows so quickly what kind of equipment the "guerrillas" used to start that battle!

But this does not seem surprising...... The warhead of AK74 is easy to recognize, but small-caliber bullets are not? If you hit the target, it will shatter, and it will also leave the steel stamen in the body...... The Soviets, of course, would have known what kind of gun it had fired, so they called on the Afghan government forces to search for a group of guerrillas armed with AK74s...... So the news will soon reach Pakistan.

If I don't answer this smile, I will acquiesce...... So the whole outpost quickly became a sensation, and the Pakistani soldiers gathered around them to ask this and that...... Of course, few of us will understand what they are saying, but we don't have to know what they are asking...... It's nothing more than "You really hit it?" "How many Soviets have been killed?" "I heard that a helicopter was shot down, is it true? Something like that.

Although the language is different, we can understand the eyes, and the admiration is undisguised...... Therefore, the soldiers in this world are actually almost the same, they are all fighting, and the most admired are those who bravely kill the enemy on the battlefield.

When we walked into Pakistan, we felt much more comfortable...... To tell the truth, although we won this battle, the feeling of being chased and killed along the way was really uncomfortable, especially being chased by the enemy's air liliang, the feeling of powerlessness and depression that the enemy could hit us and we couldn't hit the enemy is indescribable.

But I know it...... This is the guerrilla warfare on the Afghan battlefield, this is the reality of the Afghan battlefield...... In the future, we are afraid that we will all take this as a daily routine.

The rest is simpler...... Major Takara wanted to keep us at the post to eat with them, but he couldn't force it after I postponed it because I thought I had a mission, so he volunteered to help us replenish food and water...... Then dozens of cars were arranged for us to take us back.

Anyway, if it was to arrange a car for us...... The border is only 15 kilometers away from Peshawar, and it takes 20 minutes to get there in the car, so there is no need to replenish food and water, but this is also a kind of hospitality from the Pakistani soldiers, and we accepted it without refusing.

So with the sound of the motor of the car "rumbling...... The convoy was a bit of an exaggeration, and there were a few sentries on three wheels in front of us, so we soon came to the stone factory that was the base. (To be continued......)