Chapter 49 Building Roads
The method I used to deal with Pesul was not actually my idea, but came from the practice of modern Yankees......
To control a country...... What's the best way to do it? Is it a threat of force? Is it a garrison?
Actually, it's neither...... The most haode way is actually to sell weapons.
Just like the modern Yankees did...... Sell a large number of armaments to his younger brother...... For example, Japan, on the surface, it seems that Japan has taken advantage of it, and it can buy advanced equipment without spending much research cost, such as fighter planes, warships, armed helicopters, and so on......
But in reality? The core jishu, upgrading, and even the replacement of some parts of these equipment are in the hands of the United States, as long as the United States is not happy...... Stop all this supply and support, and within a few years the equipment will be in a state of old and dilapidated and unusable...... Faced with such a situation, don't you listen to the Yankees?
Therefore, if any country wants to maintain its sovereignty, it wants to protect its politics from interference by other countries...... It is necessary to have its own complete military-industrial system.
The same applies to me and Pesul...... It is true that Pesur was supplied by sneaking up on the Soviets' lines of communication, but we all know that...... This is easier said than done.
The most important thing is that attacking the lines of communication is not the same thing as getting supplies, and it is easier to do it if it is just a sneak attack...... Laying two mines on the road is also called a sneak attack, and asking a few people to lie in ambush on the side of the road to shoot a few shots or fire a few rockets is also called a sneak attack, and after a few shots, you can turn around and run away.
But getting resupplied is different...... In order to get supplies, it was necessary to ensure that the vehicles were not blown up, and this was easily done by the Soviet troops who were attacked. Secondly, it must take more time and risk to get supplies on the road...... Even if it all went well...... They also had to flee in the mountains with captured supplies.
So...... It was difficult and dangerous to get supplies from the enemy, and the amount captured was very small. This is a bit like the state of our troops when they used to fight guerrillas......
How do you sing the guerrilla song?
"There are no guns. There is no artillery, the enemy makes it for us! ”
In other words, the supply of our troops at that time was also replenished from the enemy...... But what is the result? Each fighter can only shoot three shots, and after three shots, you have to fight with bayonets!
This mode may have been a battle power when pulling a bolt rifle in the past, but it is ...... now At a time when everyone is using AK47 or even AK74...... With only three bullets, that's actually looking for death!
I think...... Perhaps for this reason, although Pesul insisted on relying on the Liliang of the Afghans to repel the invaders, he could not resist my offer to help them......
They are already short of food and ammunition, and China is indeed not a great power at this time, as I said. It can only be regarded as a big country...... Therefore, it is better to accept Chinese aid than to accept American aid, and even more so to be annihilated by Soviet troops in the Shigio Valley without ammunition!
So Pesul calculated the gains and losses in his heart...... He felt that accepting Chinese aid was the best way to do it, and it was even possible that he had intended it that way from the beginning.
It's just that what he didn't expect was ...... His promise was actually right in my arms!
You must know that most of the equipment used by the Soviet army at this time was AK74, and the weapons we equipped for the Shigio Valley must have been 56 punches...... The reason is that a large number of equipment must be supplied for a long time, and the replacement of parts must be guaranteed, so naturally only weapons that China has the ability to produce can be used, and there are not so many AK47s captured from the Yue devils, right?
And so the question arises...... After we've been supplying the Shigio Valley with guns and ammunition for some time, it's better to wait for them to change their outfits in large numbers...... What would have happened if we had suddenly cut off their ammunition supply?
So...... The Valley of Higio has promised to accept our assistance. In the long run, in fact, the power of life and death will be in our hands, which is the same reason that Japan and other countries in modern times have handed over the power of life and death to the Yankees.
So our assistance to Sigio was quickly launched......
The first was to organize two teams of mules and horses to transport weapons and ammunition to the valley by two mountain roads...... Say after the second sweep of the USSR. The U.S. government realized that the U.S. military's individual equipment was not suitable for use in Afghanistan, so it reached an agreement with the Chinese government to purchase weapons and equipment from China...... Of course, most of these equipment are Type 56 submachine guns, as for 56 and a half...... This semi-automatic weapon has long been ashamed to shoot.
Therefore, the Chinese-style equipment is continuously transported from the sea in batches, and after it arrives, it is divided into two parts, one part is transported to the US base and the other part is transported to our base...... This makes us have a large number of 56 rushes, 56 squad machine guns and bazookas......
And then we pick and choose from among those weapons...... Although the quality of our country's weapons in this era is not good, but the short ones can still pick out the tall ones, plus our soldiers are veterans who are used to 56 Chong on the battlefield, so it is not difficult to pick out the higher quality of the gun.
Weishenme wants to pick a good gun?
Some soldiers muttered when they picked up guns: "We are sending guns and food, not only risking their lives, but also picking out haode for them!" How do you think about it, how do you feel aggrieved! ”
But what they don't know is that this is part of Jihua, and it's a crucial step...... If the 56 and a half sent to the Shigio Valley were of inferior quality, then it is clear that the partisans were accustomed to the worn-out AK47 and even the Lee Enfield rifle in their hands......
Yes, the guerrillas did have a lot of Lee Enfield rifles, because Pakistan was once a British colony, and when the British withdrew, they left many of these bolt rifles in Pakistan, so it naturally went to Afghanistan.
Don't underestimate this pull-bolt rifle...... This World War II bolt-on rifle has a range of up to 800 meters and a capacity of 10 rounds, and the AK74 equipped by the Soviet army has a range of only 400 meters, although it is powerful...... So most people sighed when they faced the Lee Enfield rifle gunmen who were lying in ambush on the high ground next to the road...... It is a situation in which the guerrillas can defeat the Soviet army and the Soviet army cannot fight the guerrillas.
Because of this...... The Soviets had to equip their troops with a large number of SVDs in order to counter this old pull-bolt rifle.
Right now...... Our aim is to replace these old rifles in the hands of the guerrillas with the 56 Rush, so that their individual weapons can be of uniform caliber and ammunition. So...... If you want them to change their guns ruthlessly, of course, you have to have confidence in 56 Chong, so can you not pick haode for them?
The second is the establishment of several transit points on the Pakistan-Afghanistan side of the border, close to Pakistan...... On the one hand, because of the friendship between China and Pakistan, and on the other hand, because our unit has a good reputation in Pakistan, the transit stations were quickly established with the help of Pakistani engineers, and even the guards of these transit stations were taken care of by Pakistani soldiers.
The purpose of these depots is obvious, as the weapons and supplies we are going to ship to Sigio are stored here, so that the mule and horse teams can travel back and forth between the depot and the valley of Sigio, constantly transporting supplies to their destinations.
zuihou is the most difficult ...... Open!
Like I said before...... It is not enough to have only two mountain roads leading to the Shigio Valley, I would like to see at least a dozen mountain roads between the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the Shigio Valley, some near and some far, some open and some secret, and they lead to the Higeo Valley from different directions.
In fact, this is also to prepare for the confrontation with the Soviet army in the future in the Shigio Valley, just imagine...... If there were so many supply lines, then the Soviet army would be able to defend against this one and not that when besieging the Shigio Valley with its limited strength, coupled with the complex terrain of the Shigio Valley, it would not be surrounded by the Soviet army.
However, it is not easy to open a road in the mountains of Afghanistan, because it is full of rocky cliffs and mountains, sometimes only a few kilometers in a straight line on the map, but in reality it may be a mountain three or four thousand meters above sea level......
Fortunately, all we had to do was a mountain road that could be used by mules and horses, and we had plenty of explosives...... The explosives we used to open the road were actually all explosives blocks from military explosives packets, so with a roar, the mountain road also extended to the valley of Xijieo one by one.
Of course, we didn't do it alone when it came to building these mountain roads...... While doing this hard work, I also pulled Pesur by the way......
My statement is: "In order to be able to send supplies to the Shijjar valley more quickly, and also to avoid the Soviet army cutting off the supply lines one day, I think it is necessary to build a few more mountain roads to the valley, and for this reason I hope that the chief of Pesur will send people to participate in the road construction project!" ”
Because we had already sent a batch of guns and ammunition to the Hijjar Valley, and the guerrillas were very satisfied with this batch of munitions, and my request was reasonable, and it could even be said that it was for the sake of the safety of the Hijjar Valley...... Without saying a word, Pesur immediately sent thousands of guerrillas and civilians to help build the road...... Moreover, the guerrillas and civilians who came to build the road were still full of energy...... Because these roads are what provide them with weapons and food!
It's just that what they didn't expect was ...... These roads, in addition to providing them with weapons and food, will also allow us to send a large army to the valley of Sijar...... (To be continued......)