The battlefield fell silent at that moment, whether it was from the south or from the north...... When the Soviets learned that the helicopter fleet had suffered heavy losses, they had no interest in fighting any longer.

I think...... When they contact other units on the radio, they will be very depressed and say, "Go back!" We've failed! ”

Truly...... The Soviets had already failed, when we had beaten only six of the 40 helicopters to the point of desertion, and it was not only a matter of the 30 helicopters that we shot down, but also the Soviet soldiers in the Mi-8 helicopters...... Each Mi-8 had a platoon of Soviet troops, and it was also a well-trained Soviet airborne troops...... Although these airborne troops are also not adapted to the battlefield in Afghanistan, they are undoubtedly much better than other ordinary troops, so it is an incalculable loss for the Soviet army.

In other words, the Soviet army temporarily lost air superiority, and at the same time, it was no longer possible to use the airborne troops to form a flanking attack on our No. 5 mountain pass...... Unless the Soviets still have the guts to plan a parachute in Valley 05.

But...... Now I am afraid that the Soviet commander will agree, and the Soviet Airborne Forces will not agree.

This also means that the strategic goal of the Soviet army to take the Shigio Valley this time is unlikely to be realized...... Another way to say what can't be said is "failure".

On the contrary, there was an earth-shattering cheer in our guerrilla camp, and the Afghan guerrillas even exaggerated their guns in celebration...... It seems to be the habit of the Afghan guerrillas, who always shoot in the air when they are excited...... However, it seems that this is also a wish, and they spend most of their time running around in the mountains. There was basically nothing else in his hand except guns and bullets. When you want to celebrate, there are no gongs, drums, firecrackers, etc. So you can only hit a shuttle into the sky to vent, and over time it has become a habit.

This habit may not be much for us now, but if it is when supplies are cut off by the enemy......

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping reported to me: "The enemy has begun to retreat! ”

Without thinking about it, I replied with two words: "Close!" ”

"Pass the order on!" Zhao Jingping shouted at the walkie-talkie: "Close the door!" ”

And so another battle ensued......

After a burst of gunshots, there were only ten minutes before and after...... The mountain passes occupied by the Soviets were once again under the control of the Afghan guerrillas.

This is not a question of whether the Soviet troops are strong or not, but that the Soviet troops stationed on the mountain passes have no defense against the partisans at all......

On the one hand, they always thought that the battlefield had extended to the No. 5 mountain pass, so of course there was no danger for them to be in the No. 1 and No. 2 mountain passes, not to mention that it was still daytime at this time.

On the other hand, they could not have imagined that the Afghan guerrillas were hiding at their feet......

Coupled with the news of the crushing defeat at the front, they had no intention of fighting again...... So the Afghan guerrillas took advantage of this time to crawl out of the tunnel and launch a surprise attack on the mountain pass. Three and two strokes took the mountain pass back.

This caused great confusion in the Soviet army...... You must know that the mountain pass is the throat of each section of the valley, and the loss of the mountain pass means that the retreat route is blocked, and it also means that the logistics supply is blocked...... This is a nightmare for mechanized troops!

What's the use of a tank being more advanced? A tank has only thirty or forty shells, including armor-piercing shells, and when the shells are finished, it is a pile of scrap metal!

What's the use of an armored car running again...... No diesel to see how long you can run!

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As a result, the loss of the mountain pass soon caused a panic among the Soviet troops, and a large number of Soviet troops drove all kinds of vehicles and tanks to the mountain pass like a tide...... They hoped to be able to force their way out of the pass with the firepower and armor of the mechanized troops before our troops could gain a foothold on the pass!

This is certainly true...... In fact, the Soviet troops from the south managed to break out of the pass......

However, this is normal for two reasons:

On the one hand, the Soviet troops in the south did not penetrate deep into the hinterland of the valley, they only fought two mountain passes from beginning to end, and their main forces were always stationed outside the valley...... There were few passes laid, and the main forces were still outside the valley...... This made it much easier for them to break out of the valley.

On the other hand...... We don't have much to do in the south. Not only are there fewer troops, but mortars and anti-aircraft artillery are also more in the north and less in the south. This also allowed the Soviet troops in the south to rush out of the two mountain passes without much effort and casualties...... After all, the Soviet army is a modern army, and they have a large number of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles, etc., while most of the partisans in the south have assault rifles and light machine guns...... It was impossible for these equipment to stop the mechanized units of the Soviet army.

But the north side is completely different......

The Soviet troops in the north had a regiment of mechanized infantry battalions plus a battalion of airborne troops...... After deducting the two companies that the Soviets had placed behind the outer hall of the valley and the losses and casualties in the battle, the total strength of the Soviets in the valley to the north was about one regiment.

That's a lot of troops, and it's about as good as the total strength of the guerrillas I have arranged in the north...... If the Soviets have an advantage in equipment and training, we are afraid that we will not be their opponents.

But here's the problem...... This regiment of the Soviets occupied a total of four mountain passes in Sigio...... Now that the four mountain passes have all fallen into the hands of our army, the regiment has been divided into four parts at once, each with less than a thousand men...... And these 1,000 people still can't echo each other and can't support each other...... The middle is separated by mountain passes, which are only a few hundred meters wide, and the light machine guns on the fortifications on both sides can strafe them.

We in China have a saying that unity is great...... In fact, this is also the case on the battlefield, if a unit is divided into several parts that cannot be contacted and coordinated, it is very likely that it will be broken by the enemy individually.

For example, now...... Both sides were about the same in number, and the Soviets still had an absolute advantage in equipment and training...... But we can divide them into four pieces with a small part of our forces, and then eat them one by one with several times our strength.

Of course, the Soviets also knew this, after all, they were also a fighting country, although they had not fought in these decades, but they had finally accumulated a lot of combat experience...... So there is also this common sense, so the first reaction is to do everything possible to take the mountain pass to open up the connection between the various troops, and at the same time to open up the supply line of the entire army......

The Soviet offensive was still the same as before...... Under the cover of helicopter fire, a two-sided attack was launched on the mountain pass......

Helicopter or Mi-24...... They can be said to be the only six remaining planes that the Soviet army has invested in the 30 Mi-24 Mi 24 of the Sigio this time, and they have escaped because they were on the task of high-altitude reconnaissance, and now they are taking on the task of opening up a retreat for the Soviet army.

The ground forces are the armored forces and the airborne forces...... The Soviets were panicked, but I still had a clear sense that their offensive was much stronger before.

This is actually quite normal...... The previous battles had little to do with them...... This is a war in Afghanistan, without the support of the spirit of defending the homeland and the country, and winning or losing has little to do with themselves, so most of the Soviet troops choose to protect themselves...... In this case, if any Soviet soldier said that he was fighting for the motherland and the people, he would definitely be laughed off by his comrades-in-arms...... Because most of the Soviet troops thought that this battle was nothing more than a trick played by the political family, and they were nothing more than cannon fodder for the political family.

But that's no longer the case...... A whole regiment of Soviet troops was trapped in the valley of Shideo and either rushed out or died here...... Moreover, because we had almost blown up an entire Mi-8 fleet before, the Soviets had every reason to believe that we had the ability and determination to eat their regiment!

In the face of the threat of death...... People will have two extreme reactions, one is to do nothing but kneel and beg for mercy, and the other is to gamble with the enemy with a certain heart of death, which is what we often call a trapped beast fighting.

The Soviets were clearly the latter...... As I saw in my binoculars, patches of Soviet troops, under the cover of helicopters and tanks, rushed towards the mountain pass near us...... I couldn't see the previous appearance of a few dead people retreating and waiting for fire support, as if it had become another unit.

Tank gun elevation angle is not enough?

It doesn't matter, just drive the tank up the slope of the high ground...... The angle of the bevel solves the problem of elevation angle, and although this almost exposes the tank to enemy fire, it can at least provide a little fire support for the charging infantry, and even if it is destroyed, it can also be used as a cover for the infantry behind it.

As for the life and death of the tankmen themselves...... I can't think about it that much, if I don't do that, everyone will have to die here.

Too thin armor for armored vehicles?

It doesn't matter...... The armored vehicle also has at least two layers of iron sheets, which can block most bullets and shrapnel, which is better than the infantry's flesh and blood to face the enemy's bullets.

As for the safety of the driver...... There's no way, if you don't rush out, the result will be the same, it's better to fight!

The enemy's fire is too fierce to rush forward?

I can't care about that much...... The Afghan guerrillas were not soft on Soviet prisoners...... The Soviets were aggressors to them, and it was better to die on the battlefield than to be tortured!

So the Soviets shouted "Ula" while stepping on the corpses of their comrades and rushed up the mountain pass...... It didn't take long to gnaw down the No. 4 pass.

This was not what I expected...... Therefore, things on the battlefield can change unexpectedly at any time, just like now...... On the surface, it seems that the Soviet army is about to be annihilated by our army in a slump, but it has changed dramatically! (To be continued......)