PS: Today I have advanced one more, and the tickets of the brothers are very powerful, and yesterday's monthly pass was the first time that a soldier got a hundred in one day...... The chicken has been frozen for a long time!

"This meeting ...... It is to summon the comrades to talk about the defense of the valley! ”

As soon as I had reached a conclusion on the issue of supplies and the relocation of the people, I organized a meeting...... It's not that I want to rush like this, but I can't do it if I don't...... According to our past experience, we know that the Soviet army is able to accumulate enough ammunition every one to two months to carry out a full-scale sweep or clearance.

But that doesn't mean we're sure to have a month or two...... The reason is that we are the great enemies of the Soviet army, and the enemies are very angry when they see each other...... It is entirely possible that the Soviets will uncharacteristically accumulate only a small amount of ammunition and carry out a sweep of the valley specifically aimed at us.

What if we are not prepared? Waiting for someone else to come to the rescue?

This is obviously unrealistic, the partisans have always been ununited, watching us being besieged by the Soviet army, they are afraid that it will be too late to hide, even if the guerrillas who have received our aid want to save ...... But he has no power to save. Not to mention the US military bases, although they are allies and share common interests with us, they have long been the ones who have won the battle...... This will inevitably make the Yankees jealous and want to see us defeat so badly that they will have some face in front of the Afghan guerrillas.

Of course, I'm sure Smith will also make a show, after all, we have some personal friends now, and we can't do anything when we see the alliance besieged, but doing it is making a show, and it is unlikely that it will be of any substantial help to Cegio. So I didn't have that hope in the first place.

"First of all......," I said, "let's first get to know the previous defense of the Higio Valley." ”

As I spoke, I raised my head at Aduzai.

Aduzai may not often attend meetings like ours. So I was a little nervous to stand up. Said: "The defense of Xigio...... This is all arranged by Pesul! I...... I don't know much! ”

"Let's talk about how you guys fight!" I asked, "Just tell me about the distribution of forces before the battle and how they moved at the beginning of the battle!" ”

"I know this!" Aduzai nodded: "We started like this, more than a thousand guerrillas were divided into three parts, two of which were more than 300 people, distributed at two ends of the valley and stationed near the mountain pass, and the other part was located in the middle of the valley, with more than 500 people...... Pesur heard that the Soviet army would attack from the north side of the valley, so he transferred more than 300 of the more than 500 people to the north, but he did not expect that the Soviet army attacked from the south side and directly airdropped the airborne troops into the middle of the valley to surround us! ”

"Oh!" I quickly understood...... Pesul focused his defense on the relatively narrow areas of the valley. That is, what Aduzai called "mountain passes".

This certainly makes sense, for there is no doubt that these passes are places where no one can open them, and that the passes are often flanked by impassable mountains, and there are fifteen more passes in the valley...... Therefore, if the Soviet army still attacks according to the conventional method, then it is obvious that it will encounter such a problem...... After paying heavy casualties, they took a mountain pass with great difficulty, only to find that the guerrillas did not suffer many casualties at all...... They left a large pile of mines behind and then retreated to another mountain pass. The Soviet army was faced with an attack on another mountain pass......

Fifteen mountain passes, on average, one mountain pass takes two days to fight for fifteen days to reach the middle of the valley...... The valley had two ends, and the Soviets could attack from both ends at the same time.

The logistical supplies of the Soviet army were not enough to last 15 days of a comprehensive clearance, and the main force of the guerrillas in the middle could still maneuver...... Either to reinforce the guerrillas defending the mountain pass at both ends, or to go around the guò mountain road to attack the supply lines of the Soviet army, and so on.

This defense is really possible...... But this is only possible for the guerrillas or the Afghan government forces. Because these units do not have an air force, let alone airborne troops...... And because of that. So Pesur didn't think about what to do if the other side had airborne troops, and he was transferred away from the mountain by the Soviet army...... So the road was set alight, and the Soviet airborne troops parachuted down in the middle of the valley...... The command center of Pesul was surrounded, and the entire guerrilla force completely lost its center of gravity and ability to resist.

"The airborne forces of the USSR are not easy to deal with!" The instructor frowned and said: "It is good that the Xigio Valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is also for the Soviet Airborne Forces...... They only need to take any point in the valley by surprise with their parachute, and they will divide us into sections that will not echo each other...... And this valley is fifty kilometers long, and we simply don't have enough to defend every vantage point or dangerous point in the valley......"

Of course, what the instructor said makes sense, the merit of the Airborne Forces is that they jumped from the sky...... He is not affected by any linear obstacles, even if we build fortifications and iron walls at both ends of the valley...... They can also easily cross these obstacles and directly occupy important areas in the valley...... If we have too many troops to use up, it is easy to solve it, and every commanding heights or important place should be fully fortified and prepared with sufficient troops...... When the airborne troops come down, one will be destroyed.

But the reality is ...... There are only more than 2,000 of us in total, but the valley of Xigio is more than 50 kilometers, and the commanding heights of all sizes are too large to count......

As a result, there was soon silence in the conference room, and the cadres were all frowning and smoking, and suddenly the air was filled with a thick smell of smoke.

"If you want me to say ......" Scar looked around and said, "What's there to think about, the Soviet devils are powerful in the airborne troops...... Then let's strengthen the air defense equipment! Anyway, most of the time the Soviet devils were airborne by helicopters...... We have a way to knock them down, too! ”

"That's easy to say!" Zhao Jingping retorted: "Let's not say that our air defense equipment is insufficient, even if there is enough air defense equipment...... And do you know from which direction the helicopters of the Soviet devils entered the position? Do you have a way to encircle this fifty-kilometer-long valley with anti-aircraft fire? Even if there is so much equipment, there are not so many people, and even if there are so many people, there are not so many bullets! ”

I also understand what Zhao Jingping meant...... This means that anti-aircraft fire can never keep up with the enemy's frequencies, because the fighters fly in the sky, can change direction at any time, and they are very fast. And what about anti-aircraft fire? Things like anti-aircraft machine guns or small-caliber anti-aircraft guns...... These things are heavily equipped on the ground, and it is impossible to catch up with enemy planes if you want to maneuver.

It is for this reason that anti-aircraft weapons, in general, are secretly lurking...... That is to say, it has been very carefully camouflaged, and it must be laid on the road where the enemy plane is likely to pass, otherwise it will be in vain if the enemy plane does not fly here and hide well.

But here in Afghanistan...... There are bare stone mountains everywhere, it is difficult to hide, it is even more impossible to maneuver quickly, and it is unrealistic to have a large amount of equipment...... So it is clearly not a good idea to stop the airborne landing of Soviet troops only with anti-aircraft weapons!

"There is really only one way to deal with the Airborne Forces!" I say.

"Oh!" My words immediately attracted the attention of the cadres.

"Yamaguchi!" I pointed to a few points on the map.

"Yamaguchi?" Everyone couldn't help but be puzzled when they heard this.

"Look, comrades...... There are passes every few kilometres in the valley of Chigio, and there are fifteen passes in the whole valley, which divides the valley into fourteen sections, each of which is like a 'sausage', and it is the pass that connects these 'sausages'...... There are many commanding heights in the valley, and we can't defend them...... But what if you guard the mountain pass? We can build strong fortifications on the vantage points on both sides of the pass...... This fortification includes anti-aircraft, anti-artillery, and anti-infantry fortifications, and stores ammunition to hold onto...... The danger of the terrain of the mountain pass determines that as long as there is a living person in the valley on both sides, this living person still has weapons and ammunition in his hands...... Then the Soviet army will not want to pass through the mountain pass, so it will be naturally cut into several parts! If we can keep all these passes to death...... Then the Soviet airborne troops will be surrounded by us at once! ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, the soldiers couldn't help but suddenly realize...... Then we don't need to attack the airborne troops who have been airdropped into us, but wait for them to attack us!

This shift may seem insignificant...... Isn't it just a change of hands? The disparity in strength and equipment has not changed.

But this shift is no small in the mountains of Afghanistan...... When we used to fight the Vietnam War, it was a two-to-one tie between the offensive and defensive forces...... But in the mountains of Afghanistan, because of the rugged terrain and little shelter...... Therefore, it is good to have a 3-1 draw between the offensive and defensive sides.

In other words...... That is, if we place a company on the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass, then it would be good if the Soviet army could take it with the strength of a battalion.

"So......" Zhao Jingping looked at the map and said, "We just want to disperse our power to each node?" ”

"Yes!" I nodded: "Based on our previous experience in fighting with the Soviet army...... The Soviet army will not have too many forces in our direction, as last time...... In total, the Soviets threw only 3,000 men in the direction of Shigio. Was it the lack of Soviet troops? Their strength is indeed insufficient, but for the Soviet army, which has a total number of 100,000, it is nothing to throw an extra 1,000 or 2,000...... Why don't they do it? The reason was the difficulty of supplying Kabul to Sijieo, and they threw a little more troops...... There's a good chance they'll exceed the ceiling of their logistical capacity, so ...... I believe that as long as we are prepared, we are fully capable of holding this Xijieo Valley! (To be continued......)