CHAPTER XXII
"Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan!" Hassan replied: "If such an important place is attacked...... Then they will definitely send reinforcements! ”
"That's right!" "Kabul is the political, economic and cultural center of Afghanistan, and it is also an important transportation hub...... If this place is lost, it will be a big deal, so ...... If it was attacked, the Soviet army would definitely panic! ”
"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping frowned and said, "But the problem is...... Our troops combined were just over 500 men...... Can it pose a threat to Kabul? ”
That's a real problem...... Although Zhao Jingping didn't go into details, I understood what he meant...... If we were to lure the snake into the hole, it would mean that we had to have one force feint to attack Kabul and the other to set up an ambush on the way back for the enemy...... We have two troops, which is no problem, but the problem is that Ragil's troops are only about 300 men...... How much of a threat does this pose to a city like Kabul? If the defenders of Kabul felt that our offensive was not worth mentioning at all, it was impossible to inflict harm on them...... Then the Soviet army will not return to the aid either!
"There is another question......" the instructor asked, somewhat puzzled, "since the enemy is sweeping along the road, we cannot set up an ambush next to the road...... Then the battalion commander, you, Weishenme, still think that we can set up an ambush in Kabul? And are you sure you can get out of it? ”
"This can be done!" Hassan explained: "Battalion Commander Yang is right...... When the Soviet troops did not launch a sweep, they were heavily stationed in Kabul. And both reconnaissance planes and helicopters took off from Kabul...... None of the guerrillas dared to attack the Soviet supply lines on the road close to Kabul, so the guerrillas near Kabul were very little active, and some were spontaneously initiated by angry civilians...... But at the time of the sweep of the Soviet troops......"
"Oh!" The instructor nodded: "When it comes to sweeping, it's the other way around, because the Soviet army and the government army sent a large number of troops out to sweep, and the target is the mountainous area deep in the road, so in Kabul, which is usually heavily defended, it has become a defensive empty area at this time!" ”
"Yes!" Hassan nodded: "And we still have people inside Kabul who can get information about Kabul, so I think Camp Commander Yang's Jihua may also be able to do it!" ”
"The problem is that we don't have enough troops!" Zhao Jingping said: "Even if it's a feint...... A force of more than 300 people is far from enough......"
"Inside and out!" I interrupted Zhao Jingping's words.
"What?" Everyone looked at me in confusion, not understanding what I meant.
I didn't answer. Instead, he asked Hassan: "How many of us should we have in Kabul?" ”
"Yes...... Heptad! Hassan replied: "There are a few who are still plotting rebellion." It should be very promising, too! ”
"Seven is too little!" Zhao Jingping seemed to understand what I meant.
"It's too little!" I said, "And it's not worth exposing for a small fight...... But...... Did they have the means to stir up strife within Kabul, or to cause riots or something? ”
Hassan pondered for a while, then nodded slowly: "There are still several drug cartels inside Kabul...... One of them is a drug dealer...... As long as you cooperate with each other to make a small move, it is very likely that the two drug dealers will fight! ”
For the Soviets weishenme did not take the word about these drug cartels...... I can understand that. The main reason is that the USSR did not seize Kabul by means of war. Rather, it entered without firing a single shot at the "invitation" of the Afghan Prime Minister. Since that's the case...... Then they should be directed against the opposition. And they need to try to maintain stability within Kabul, so that they can devote more energy to the guerrillas in the mountains.
It is for this reason...... They don't dare to take the drug dealer under the knife, otherwise many problems will be exposed immediately...... How to control the large number of addicts? How to eliminate the arms of drug dealers? How to eradicate it?
And even the Soviets should not only have purged drug dealers. Instead, you should work with them...... As long as you give those drug trafficking groups a little benefit, those drug dealers can provide them with information about the opposition, and they can also control a considerable number of people, who are always the most well-informed, and there are many people who are controlled by drugs, and they are also very willing to sell the interests of Afghanistan for the sake of benefits, so they have become a tool for the Soviets to control Kabul.
"If there is a gangster ......fighting inside," Zhao Jingping nodded and said, "There is a siege by our army outside...... That could easily have given the Soviets the illusion that Kabul was in and out of the country...... I agree to do so! ”
"I agree!" "And we can launch an offensive against Kabul with this small force," the instructor said...... This is not a trivial matter, no matter how many Soviet troops we annihilate, this will cause a great repercussion among the partisans! Just hit it like that! ”
We quickly began a series of arrangements:
The first is to inform Jihua of Rajir and tell them to immediately turn to the march towards Kabul. It was not difficult to do this, and Ragil's troops had radios, and all we had to do was inform them of the decision.
The second is to contact Hassan's internal response in Kabul and get them ready.
This is more troublesome because there is no radio station to contact us...... Jokes aside, most of them were soldiers in the Kabul government army, and if there was a radio station, it wouldn't have been discovered in the second half of the day. And some of them have already gone out with the troops...... We can only hope that not all of them have been sent out!
All we can do is have Hassan send a few of his cronies to go first...... They disguised themselves as civilians and walked ahead of us, first to get in touch with the inner authorities in Kabul, to get the information we needed, and then to contact us outside the city.
Zuihou is the redesign of the retreat route and the assembly point...... It is not difficult to design a retreat route, anyway, it is where it is easier to hide, and the difficult thing is the assembly point...... Send someone to find them and have them carry water and food to the designated place...... This is not an easy task in the desert, but some of Hassan's guerrillas are capable of doing this, so sending a few people out will solve the problem.
So the direction of the march of the troops soon turned to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan......
I'm no stranger to the name Kabul...... It's not because Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan, in fact I don't know much about Afghanistan as a modern person, or even where its capital is.
The reason why I know about Kabul...... It's all because the river in Peshawar is called the "Kabul River...... Will the name of the river in Weishenme Peshawar be the Kabul River? I asked Hassan to find out...... The river in Peshawar is the same river as the one in the city of Kabul...... In other words, Kabul is located upstream of Peshawar.
It's not far from where we are...... This is thanks to our previous Jihua, who had ambushed the Soviets on the road from Kabul to Kandahar, so we didn't deviate too far from the main line, so we arrived a few kilometers outside Kabul before dawn the next day......
We didn't go any further, for fear that the enemy would find out where we were...... However, as previously speculated, this area was not a target for Soviet and government forces, as we could see the road in the distance through our binoculars...... There there groups of cars, tanks, armored vehicles rushed by, and sometimes several helicopters flew by from low altitudes...... But no army would stop and search the mountains where we were.
This may be the so-called "dark under the lamp"...... In addition, the Soviet Union and the government army did not have enough troops in the first place, so it is not surprising that if you take care of this side, you can't take care of that side.
But we still didn't dare to take it lightly, and after we scattered and hid ourselves, we rested and waited under the scorching sun...... By noon, several of the men sent by Hassan had returned.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" Hassan said excitedly: "I contacted Neiying, and they said that the only troops left in Kabul were one regiment of the government army and one battalion of the Soviet army...... And the Air Force has all been sent out today! ”
"Very!" I said, "What about the drug dealers?" ”
"Got in touch too!" Hassan replied: "As long as you give a time!" ”
"Without further ado!" I said, "It's seven o'clock tonight!" (To be continued......)