It did not take long for anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber artillery to reach the valley of Shigio...... Of course, these things are all dismantled and shipped.

The anti-aircraft machine gun was easier to disassemble, as it was designed to allow infantry to be disassembled and transported by mules and horses. But it was relatively cumbersome to transport small-caliber anti-aircraft guns...... Anti-aircraft artillery, although it is a small caliber, weighs more than 2,000 kilograms...... Our army used a Type 65 37 mm double-barreled anti-aircraft gun in this era, which was a big guy with a length of 6 meters and a width of nearly 2 meters and four wheels. And we can't pack it when we take it apart and transport it to the valley like this...... The second company did learn the operation of various weapons, but the disassembly of this anti-aircraft gun did not learn.

But this will not work if it is not demolished...... Our transportation routes are all mountain roads, and none of these mountain roads are more than two meters, even if there is a mountain road that is more than two meters...... But who would dare to pull this thing down the mountain road full of cliffs!

Fortunately, the Pakistani military provided us with a full range of one-stop services, they not only helped us dismantle, but also secretly sent several military engineers to demonstrate the entire assembly process and precautions for us...... They are all people who are used to assembling and disassembling weapons in their hands, and guns and other disassembling are actually like that, so they quickly learned.

Once these things are here, the next step is to build some fortifications for them...... The fortification was not a simple sandbag fort or anti-aircraft gun emplacement...... Just kidding, we didn't work so hard to toss this equipment in order to blow up the artillery and helicopters of the Soviet army.

We're all people who have been on the battlefield, so we know what these fortifications do...... For example, the Nadeshka anti-aircraft machine gun. Not only can you hit a helicopter. It was also a very formidable weapon to fire at the infantry. Not to mention the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns...... It can fight not only infantry, but also armored vehicles and even light tanks.

Therefore, we have also put a lot of effort into building their fortifications...... The method was to dig a tunnel for each machine gun and anti-aircraft artillery, a tunnel for concealment...... Normally, this equipment is hidden in the tunnel, which is not only secretive but also safe...... You can't see it from outside and you can't blow it up. When fighting, you can push these things out to fight, and even push them back into the pit if you find danger after fighting for a while.

Of course, it took us a lot of work to build these fortifications...... Especially the anti-aircraft gun, whose huge "body" forced us to build a wide tunnel for it to hide.

Fortunately, we also have a lot of men, and our troops plus the guerrillas of Hassan and Aduzai...... The total number of people has reached more than 3,000, and this is the result of our continuous streamlining...... Just when we were busy building fortifications. Batch after batch of guerrillas came to defect. I don't know if it was because we won several battles on the battlefield one after another, or because those guerrillas were frightened by the Soviet army's sweeps and sweeps in the field, but anyway, the number of guerrillas who came to take refuge was increasing day by day.

This is very busy with the instructors and other people, who are busy inquiring, understanding, and verifying these guerrillas who have come to take refuge all day long, and then choose some guerrillas who are really credible and have good combat effectiveness to join, and others who have not passed the test...... I sent some food to persuade me to leave.

These new additions also make it possible for us to operate this equipment...... You must know that a Type 65 anti-aircraft gun needs six people to operate, and we need at least 300 people to install 50 guns at random, plus high aircraft and logistics...... Not a single five or six hundred people could not come down.

"Battalion Commander Yang!" While we were still tossing here, Major Rana hung up the phone and came over: "All the equipment you want has been delivered, I don't know what else Battalion Commander Yang needs?" ”

"This ......," I replied a little embarrassed, "Major Lana...... Before, we thought that we were only coming to Afghanistan to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains. So there has been no heavy mortar, now ......"

"No problem!" Major Rana didn't think about it and asked, "How much do you need?" ”

"Major Lana!" I said, "I'm grateful for your help. But it's not okay to be so white...... So I think that even if we borrow this batch of equipment from the Pakistani government, we will return it to you when the Chinese side ships it! ”

"Battalion Commander Yang is too polite to say that!" Major Rana said: "The Chinese government has not helped us less, if all this equipment is borrowed...... Then don't treat us as your own. Give me a number, and we'll send it to you! ”

"Alright! Thank you so much! I said, "Then ...... A HUNDRED 100MM CALIBER GUNS, PLUS TWO BASE SHELLS! ”

"No problem!" Major Rana replied: "We will send it to you as much as possible!" ”

In fact, we don't need so many mortars for a while...... Just like the anti-aircraft artillery, we can only carry a maximum of 50 guns if we bring in 100 guns...... On the one hand, because of the lack of troops, and on the other hand, because the guerrillas had to be trained to operate this equipment...... We can't train so many people at once.

But this luck still has to be shipped...... Because I am afraid that the further this battle goes, the more difficult it will be to transport supplies, and the Soviets will pay more and more attention to the development of our Shigio Valley, and will definitely increase their efforts in blocking the supply of our army in the future. So...... When the Soviet army has not yet recovered its breath, there are still many mountain roads that have not been blocked...... If you can transport more, you can transport more.

When I hung up the phone, I couldn't help but be glad to be ...... Fortunately, with a lot of support from the Pakistani government, otherwise if this batch of equipment had to be shipped from China, I am afraid that we would have been wiped out by the Soviet army long ago.

As a result, time was pressing, and all kinds of equipment were allocated and deployed.

I began by numbering the passes from No. 1 to No. 15 in order, and numbering each section of the valley separated by these passes from No. 01 to No. 014...... These numbers may seem like a small thing, but they are useful when it comes to real combat.

To use an analogy...... If the enemy is airborne in one of our valleys...... Then our geographical description of this valley becomes a problem.

I can't always say...... It would be difficult, time-consuming, and inaccurate to describe the enemy in a valley with a hill or a valley with a forest, but if you give them all a number and make them a unified army...... Then it is very convenient to start a war, and on the radio it is enough to say in the valley of the number and number.

Naturally, the work of measuring the altimetry of the various highlands in the valley and naming them after their elevations is also indispensable...... This is especially important for us to command the guerrillas, many of whom do not know the direction, the words, or even the language, and we cannot quickly describe the terrain to them...... But they still understood the numbers, as long as they reported the numbers of the valley, followed by the numbers of the highlands...... They will soon be able to find the corresponding location on the map.

Our newly equipped weapons were distributed according to the passes and valleys, with three or four anti-aircraft guns in each valley, three or four anti-aircraft machine guns in each pass, and a few more reinforced in dangerous positions......

Then came the training of the guerrillas...... You must know that we have only more than 300 Chinese soldiers, and if we were to do everything ourselves, just operating those 50 anti-aircraft guns would be almost enough.

So we had to let go of the guerrillas to do it...... This includes anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and mortars.

Of course, most of these trainings take place at night...... One of the reasons for not conducting training during the day is not to expose our army's firepower prematurely, and the other is to try to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by the blows of Soviet air power.

In fact...... On the third day of our entry into the Higio Valley, Soviet helicopters launched reconnaissance against us, and the Soviet reconnaissance can only be described as "unscrupulous."

Perhaps this is because they found out that we lack anti-aircraft weapons...... The missiles that hit them before were still 'blowpipe-style', and they didn't even need to dodge against them.

However, the Soviets were still more cautious, and they still had two Mi-24s hovering high above us at first...... This helicopter gunship was well protected by firepower, and there was basically no danger in hovering at high altitudes, but when they saw that we did not move, they became more and more bold, and the altitude became lower and lower, and sometimes they flew over our valley......

"Battalion commander! Let's fight it a few times! Looking at the arrogant appearance of these straight ascensions, he only hated Scar and the others and gritted their teeth: "We also have anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns now, don't we?" It's time to try the power of these things! ”

But I didn't think about it, so I dismissed their proposals......

"Pass the order on!" I said: "No anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery are allowed to be used without an order!" ”

"Then ......" Scar heard the name, so he asked suspiciously, "What about other weapons?" ”

"Fight the other weapons however you want!" I said, "But be careful about saving ammunition and your own safety!" ”

"Yes!"

So soon there was a strange battle scene...... A few helicopters were flying in the air, while below we were shooting indiscriminately into the sky with assault rifles and bazookas, which didn't pose much of a threat to helicopters at all......

The helicopter seemed to be very disdainful of this kind of firepower, and hovered in the sky with an attitude of "you hit yours, I will scout me". Of course, when he was idle and bored, he occasionally rushed down and fired a few rockets, but because the soldiers had built solid bunkers, he did not suffer many casualties.

This made Scar and the others very puzzled...... At this time, we obviously had air defense capabilities, but we didn't allow them to be used, and we still had to let the Soviet helicopters hold down and hold their breath like this.

What they don't know is...... I'm doing this to catch big fish with a long line! (To be continued......)