After listening to Rajir's words, my first feeling was that the Soviet army didn't seem to be very good at fighting!

It's not ...... Even I, who had never been to Afghanistan, knew that it was not appropriate to use armored units or other mechanized units in the mountains, but the Soviet army used them extensively.

The previous use can be said to make some sense...... Their first phase of targeting the Afghan government forces was to control Afghan cities and communications, and at that time tanks and armored vehicles were a must.

But when it comes to this...... They still relied on armored forces when mopping up the guerrillas...... This is a bit unbelievable.

But it doesn't seem strange to think about it...... The Soviet Union was a country that usually accounted for 60 percent of the country's total area, and they seldom fought any mountain warfare or guerrilla warfare...... Whether it was World War I or World War II, the Soviet Union fought a traditional war...... Even now, although the Soviet Union's military industry and science and technology are also top-notch, it has not fought a war for decades.

The result is a surprising but normal phenomenon...... They are too dependent on modern equipment to adapt to the kind of mountain warfare in Afghanistan or are unwilling to abandon modern equipment and go into the mountains to fight Afghan guerrillas.

On the contrary, it is our troops from China...... But it is the ancestor of guerrilla warfare, so as long as you look at the terrain data, you can know that you can't bring too much modern equipment or even overweight equipment.

The facts also proved that I was right...... In the battles that followed, the Soviet army showed various maladaptations, and later even hired advisers from Vietnam to guide the Soviet forces against the Afghan guerrillas......

It may sound ridiculous, but Vietnam is the little brother of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union went so far as to hire military advisers from Vietnam to guide them in the war...... But the reality of the battlefield is just that. It doesn't matter what position you're in. As long as you don't have the experience to adapt to the battlefield here, you have to keep your head down. Otherwise, you'll have to face more casualties, or a battle that won't make any progress.

"Battalion commander!" After listening to Rajir's words, Zhao Jingping frowned and said, "So it seems...... We don't seem to have much room to play! ”

I understand what Zhao Jingping meant...... It is clear that the Soviet sweep was just a blind fight that had not yet figured out the situation...... The only damage they could inflict on the guerrillas was air liliang and food scavenging.

We don't need to worry about food scavenging at all...... All you need to do is buy food and send it to the guerrillas through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and the Yankees will definitely spare no effort to do this...... What they have is money!

As for the liliang in the air...... On the one hand, the damage of this style of play to the partisans was extremely limited, and at this time the air liliang on the Soviet side was still very weak...... The main reason is that the air liliang will bring a very heavy load to the logistics supply. For example, helicopters...... The bullets, missiles and fuel fired by this thing all require logistical supplies, and a rough estimate of how a helicopter regiment needs nearly 400 tons of supplies per day, because Afghanistan has no railways and is a landlocked country...... Landlocked countries did not have access to sea transport, so supplies were transported entirely by car, so it would be nice to be able to bring in 1,500 tons of supplies from the Soviet Union every day.

Naturally, then, in order to maintain a large supply of armored vehicles, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, automobiles, and soldiers, the Soviet army had to minimize the logistical burden, that is, reduce the use of air liliang.

This is also in line with the conditions of the first phase of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...... In the first stage, the Soviet Union had to face the Afghan government army, which had to capture and occupy the Afghan cities and communication lines that were then garrisoned, so of course it had to be dominated by the army.

As a result, at this time, the total number of air sorties between the Soviet army and the Afghan government army was only a few dozen...... I don't know exactly how many there are. Because even Rajir did not know, what he knew was that the Soviet Union had less than ten helicopters equipped with the Afghan government army.

100,000 Afghan government troops...... There are less than ten helicopters. You can imagine how weak Liliang is in the air.

On the other hand, we ourselves do not have anti-aircraft weapons...... We were carrying rifles, bazookas, mortars, and the like, and even if we wanted to, there was nothing we could do to attack the Soviet army's aerial liliang.

Other words...... Although the Soviet army was called a sweep, it could be said that it was powerless against the partisans.

On the other hand, the partisans were also powerless against the Soviet troops...... Joking, the Soviet army had more artillery, armor and all kinds of heavy weapons in their hands, and as soon as the partisans got out of the mountains, they were afraid that they would never have a chance to return.

So why are we still in Afghanistan......

What we want is to fight a battle, right? But the situation is still in Afghanistan...... I am afraid that I will end up like a guerrilla, that is, I am hiding from the search and arrest of the Soviet army in the mountains, and I dare not fight the Soviet army at all.

The cadres in the conference room also know this...... So everyone is discussing this issue, but the discussion comes and goes, and no one can come up with a feasible jihua.

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping persuaded on the side: "In view of this situation...... I don't think the Soviet sweep is a big threat to the partisans, plus the training of these people in Hassan has only been more than a month, and there is still room for improvement in all aspects, so ...... Are we ...... Wait a little longer! ”

"Yes, battalion commander!" Zhang Zuoliang also agreed with Zhao Jingping's point of view: "We won't join in the excitement, even if we go, I'm afraid we won't be able to find the fighter......"

"No!" I shook my head.

I know that Zhao Jingping and Zhang Zuoliang are looking for steps for me to go down, and they just said that they wanted to fight, but now they don't have to fight...... But I have something else to think about.

"Comrades also know ......" I said, "the most haode training is on the battlefield, so this battle is not only for prestige, but also for training." Not to mention...... None of us ourselves have been on the battlefield in Afghanistan...... I'm talking about the battlefield in Afghanistan, and although we have all fought, the place where we fought was Vietnam, which was humid Vietnam...... The battlefield is different, and the tactics will change accordingly...... Even a small change can have a big impact. If we ourselves are not familiar with the battlefield...... How can you train your Afghan brothers or give them advice? ”

"The battalion commander is right!" The instructor nodded in agreement: "Although there are many similarities between the battlefield in Vietnam and the battlefield in Afghanistan, such as being mountainous, such as the harsh environment, for example, we are still fighting guerrilla warfare that we are good at. But there are also many different places, such as vegetation, such as water sources, etc...... This all determines the difference in the battlefield in Afghanistan. Tactics and strategies are not static, they will always change with changes in external factors such as terrain and climate...... If we are not familiar with these things ourselves, there is a high chance that we will make mistakes when guiding the Afghan guerrillas in the future, so we need to take them seriously! ”

"That's right!" I said, "So it's imperative to go into Afghanistan and now is the opportunity...... Even if we can't catch the fighters, we can still experience the environment in the mountains of Afghanistan in an immersive way, so that we can have a clear purpose in future battles and not be indiscriminately guided by the situation without understanding ......the situation."

"Yes!" Liang Lianbing replied later: "It's like a counterattack...... Many commanders just don't understand the situation and command indiscriminately, and we can't make this mistake and let our Afghan brothers suffer losses! ”

"That's right!" Company Commander Luo also nodded and said: "A mistake we made is very likely to cause the guerrilla comrades to sacrifice many lives, and we must not be careless!" ”

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As the fighters said these words, I could clearly see a flash of emotion in the eyes of the Afghans, including Hassan...... I know what their eyes represent, Afghanistan is a place where the survival of the fittest is the survival of the weak, and it can be said that no one has ever cared about their life or death, not even themselves...... But now, there is a strange team, a team that can almost be said to have nothing to do with them...... Not only does it help them, but it also really cares about their lives......

As a result, the Afghans bowed to us and thanked us, and Hassan came up to me, gave me a chest salute and said, "May Allah bless you...... Camp Commander Yang, I am not sure that I have chosen you the right time, thank Allah for bringing you to us! ”

I also had a few polite words with Hassan and the others, so that the atmosphere in the conference room was more harmonious.

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping continued: "Since the comrades all think that this battle will be fought, then I also support it...... But how to fight this battle? ”

After thinking about it, I asked Ragil: "How was the situation of the Soviet troops at night?" ”

My idea is simple...... It is difficult for Liliang in the air to play a role at night, although there are already night vision devices, but the distance that night vision devices can observe is still very limited, that is, it is difficult to play a role in long-distance and high-speed flying aircraft in the air. So...... When night falls, maybe we'll have a chance to sneak up.

But Ragil's answer quickly disappoints me......

"The Soviet army is very well guarded at night!" "In general...... They would return to the city by car or armored vehicle before nightfall, if it was not convenient to do so...... They would also return to the nearest base, where the Soviets had captured some commanding heights and important points during the first raid, and had built fortifications in those places to transform them into bases, where there would be complete fortifications...... Sometimes they have to camp if they don't hurry back, so they will use tanks and armored vehicles to form a circle, pull up barbed wire around it, lay mines, and then install a searchlight under the open and dark sentry, it is difficult for us to sneak attack! (To be continued......)