"Obviously......" said Colonel Smith, "this is a continuation of their last unsuccessful sweep, which means that the Soviets did not open the road safely the last time, and the Soviets want to fight the partisans further...... Then keeping the road open is a must! ”

I shook my head and said, "Colonel Smith...... First of all, I don't think the guerrillas need to rush into Afghanistan to fight this time, after all, there are still many guerrillas in the mountains of Afghanistan...... Even if the Soviets wanted to clear the occupation, it would not be possible to complete it with one or two sweeps. Secondly...... I don't think this time the Soviet army will be so simple......"

"Battalion Commander Yang means ......"

"It is quite possible that this is a trick of the Soviet army!" I said, "Two almost identical battles...... It's hard to believe! ”

"Battalion Commander Yang!" Colonel Smith said with a displeased face: "I know that you didn't plan to participate in this Jihua from the beginning, but there is no need to speculate like this, this information we obtained from reliable sources, and not just from one source!" ”

"Hmm!" I spread my hands helplessly and said, "I'm just talking about my thoughts...... If Mr. Smith insists, there's nothing I can do, given that I can't do much here...... So...... I'm sorry! ”

With that, I politely bowed to the Afghan leaders and withdrew, followed by two more guerrilla leaders...... was so angry that Colonel Smith scolded inside.

I thought it was kind of funny when I listened to it outside...... This American, maybe it's a bit of a bullying gene, or maybe they're used to doing the "shijie police" thing, so they habitually feel that others have to listen to him......

But the problem is that this is not Japan, South Korea, etc...... We have nothing to do with you. Neither by you nor by you...... Which green onion are you? Why let others do your bidding!

But then again...... Before, I was blaming the Afghan guerrillas for not being united with each other. Now I have to make small calculations with the US military base...... So I can now understand the fact that the Afghan guerrillas do not buy anyone's account.

Of course. There were still many guerrillas who spread out under Smith's jihua...... The Yankees are rich, and the equipment they give to the guerrillas is all lavish, and it is equipment and supplies, and they are almost constantly being shipped...... Many guerrillas now depend on American aid to survive.

So the guerrillas at the U.S. border base set out that night......

There were thousands of people, and this was only sent by the bases, and we generally trained the guerrillas on a rotational basis...... That is, a batch of training will be withdrawn from Afghanistan, and a month and a half later, a month and a half later, a group of people will be replaced in Afghanistan after this training. Therefore, it is conceivable that the guerrillas organized by Smith this time should have two or three thousand people.

And then with a large number of mules...... The Yankees are rich. Then they knew from us that mules were the best way to enter the mountains, so they swept away all the mules in the Peshawar market overnight, and these mules carried water, food, and all kinds of ammunition, and went into the mountains in several parts.

I could only shake my head as I watched their backs into the mountain...... Colonel Smith, what's the matter? He may be trying to compare our Chinese base...... The last time the Soviets swept us, it was clear that the American bases were disgraced, so they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to save the face they had lost.

But didn't he know that these Afghan guerrillas were difficult to manage?

The first is the language barrier...... Colonel Smith's solution to this was to hire a translator who could understand English and Persian at great expense...... There are many such people in Pakistan because Pakistan was a British colony before, and English is even the lingua franca of Pakistan...... It's just that there aren't many people who can really speak fluently.

If you do this as a translator in normal times, then there is no problem, but this battle will start as soon as it starts...... Where do you go to find a translator to give orders?

The second is the discord between the Afghan guerrillas...... The reason they're in the pile now is simply because they're worried that Smith won't be able to help...... It's fine in normal times, but when a war starts...... Will anyone die for the sake of aid? Then it's going to be a mess, and everyone will be fighting their own battles!

Later I learned that Smith was also worried about this, so he assigned several American instructors or staff officers to each guerrilla unit as military advisers...... From this point of view, the US military still has a bit of a spirit of sacrifice. At first I thought they wouldn't even dare to enter Afghanistan.

But this is clearly not enough...... You must know that when we entered Afghanistan with the guerrillas, it was basically a one-to-one formation of the guerrillas and our soldiers, or even more of our army. This is still under the condition that our army and Hassan's troops trust and respect each other, and our army is still the main force of operations, and the guerrillas are mainly learning......

For these reasons, I would love to persuade Smith to abandon the operation...... After all, we have the same goals and common interests, and the losses suffered by the Afghan guerrillas are also our losses.

But I thought about it and gave up...... The reason was that I knew Smith wouldn't listen to me, like he had said in the conference room before.

Now I can only hope that my suspicions are wrong......

This sweep of the USSRs...... If it is really as Colonel Smith's intelligence describes, then the Afghan guerrillas will not lose much even if they fight indiscriminately, after all, it is a mountainous area...... The Soviet army has not yet adapted to the climate and terrain here, and for the time being, it does not dare to go deep into the mountains to chase and kill.

But...... If the Soviets had written otherwise, as I suspect, then this sweep would most likely have been a trap, a trap for the partisans.

"Battalion commander!" I don't know when, Chen Yiyi came behind me and put on a dress for me, and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

"Hmm! It's nothing......" I was a little surprised: "Why are you free now?" ”

I don't know weishenme, Chen Qiaoqiao always seems to be sticking to Chen Yiyi's side during this time, so that Chen Yiyi rarely has the opportunity to contact me.

"Coincidentally asleep!" Chen Yiyi said: "She has been thinking about going back, saying that it is not fun here at all!" ”

"Fun?" I couldn't help but smile wryly, this is the battlefield...... We're all playing with our lives, and she's still complaining that it's not fun.

"Do you want to go back too?" I asked.

"I originally wanted to, but now I don't want to!" Chen Yiyi said.

“weishenme？” I'm a little curious about this answer.

"Because ......" Chen Yiyi raised her head and said, "Here you are, and Qiaoqiao......"

I was speechless for a while, the shijie in Chen Yiyi's heart was as small as ever...... So where it makes no difference to her. (To be continued......)