First the No. 1 pass was occupied by the Soviets, followed by the No. 2, No. 14, and No. 13......

It seems that the Soviet tanks, helicopters and infantry have taken effect, and our army has been defeated and retreated under the fierce offensive of the Soviet army, and the mountain passes have been lost one after another.

The Soviets marched all the way...... In less than a day, five mountain passes were descended in a row...... It is surrounded by three passes to the north and two to the south. Among them, the No. 3 mountain pass in the north surprised the Soviet army...... Because the other passes were "collapsed" under the attack of Soviet armored forces, airborne troops and helicopters on three sides, and there were no airborne troops on the other side of the No. 3 mountain pass...... Therefore, the Soviets did not expect to be able to knock down the No. 3 mountain pass at first, but just tried to use armored units and helicopters to bombard the mountain pass indiscriminately before it was dark, and then sent a company of infantry to launch a charge.

But I didn't expect the guerrillas in the No. 3 Pass to be so unrelenting, and they fled in less than half an hour.

Later I got word from the partisans...... At this time, the Soviet army explained this phenomenon as follows: "The guerrillas were frightened by them", "The guerrillas' defense is strong on the outside, the elite soldiers on the outside, and the old and weak soldiers on the inside!" ”……

As a result, the morale of the entire Soviet army was unprecedentedly high, and there were even rumors in the troops that they would be able to occupy the entire Shigio Pass tomorrow and annihilate the "Unit 74...... The "Unit 74" mentioned by the Soviet army refers to our Chinese army. The Soviets don't know our number, but because our entire army is equipped with Ak74s, and we always cause heavy losses on the battlefield...... So they called us "Unit 74".

I almost laughed out loud when I heard the name...... It's a good name for us, because we've always made the Soviets angry...... So isn't Unit 74 just a "unit"? Angry with the troops of the Soviet army!

But what the Soviets didn't know was...... Even the previous rumors were released by the Afghan guerrillas, including "foreign power and middle work". Including "the battle will end tomorrow".

It's not that hard to spread these rumors...... Because part of the Soviet army was Afghan government troops...... This was characteristic of the Soviet army's operations in Afghanistan. Bringing Afghan government forces with them can be said to have many benefits. For example, when demining, when the fire is tested, and when the guerrillas are searched for in the mountains...... On the one hand, the government army could be used as cannon fodder for the Soviet troops, and on the other hand, they were familiar with the terrain and had the advantage of the locals.

However, while there are many advantages to doing so, there are also many disadvantages...... For example, the combat effectiveness is not strong, but it also consumes supplies, and sometimes it becomes a gap for the guerrillas to escape, and so on.

As for now...... My use of government forces is to spread rumors...... Just let a few traitors in the government army say a few words, and the others will be combined with today's battlefield shì...... Five passes were laid in one day, and there are only 14 passes in the entire Higio Valley...... Then fight harder tomorrow. Maybe it's really time to encircle and annihilate the "74 troops". So I believed it.

This greatly reduced the vigilance of the Soviet troops, and we even heard Soviet soldiers singing "Katyusha" in the barracks in the dark night......

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping asked beside him: "Look at the Soviet army like this...... Let's do it tonight, lest we have too many dreams at night! ”

Zhao Jingping's construction is certainly justified...... New Soviet victory...... Although this victory can only be described as a pyrrhic victory, because they lost much more helicopters at the end of the day than they did after the invasion of Afghanistan combined, strictly speaking, it cannot be called a victory...... But the Soviets did not know this, so they have already begun to be arrogant and arrogant, just waiting for tomorrow's revenge.

On the other hand, it should be the night that is more suitable for the partisans to fight...... The reason is simple, it is difficult for air power such as helicopters to play a role in the night, especially when our army still has a lot of anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns...... At this time, if Mi-24 still dares to come up to the spotlight to participate in the war, it will be no different from looking for death.

So if our army launched a surprise attack at night...... That will undoubtedly have a big head start.

But that's not what I think......

I shook my head. Pointing to the map, he said, "Here's what the result of the sniper company's reconnaissance is...... This time, the Soviets dispatched two regiments of mechanized troops, one in the north and one in the south. Plus four battalions of Afghan government forces, as for the Airborne Forces...... So far, the Soviet army has invested two battalions, that is, the total strength has reached more than 10,000 people in four regiments! ”

Zhao Jingping couldn't help but gasp when he heard this: "There are more than 10,000 people in the four regiments...... Against our guerrillas of four or five thousand people? And that's not counting the Air Force? ”

"Hmm!" I nodded: "This time the Soviets are specifically targeting the clearing of the Xigio Valley, and I have already confirmed it from the base just now...... The Soviets did not carry out large-scale clean-up operations elsewhere! ”

"This means ......" Zhao Jingping said with a very ugly face: "The Soviet army will not have supply problems in this operation!" ”

Of course...... The Soviets would have accumulated two months' ammunition to have enough troops of 200,000 troops to carry out a full-scale sweep or clearance operation, so now it is only targeting the Shigio Valley and only dispatching 10,000 troops...... Although 10,000 troops are a lot for us, they are only a small part of the 200,000 Soviet troops.

"Here's how the Soviets disfigured out," I said......, pointing to the map, "take a regiment from the north, for example...... They put the main forces of the two battalions outside the valley, two companies in Valley 01, a mechanized company and an airborne company in Valley 02, two airborne companies in Valley 03, and the rest are Afghan government forces! ”

"Oh!" As soon as I said this, Zhao Jingping understood: "The main force of the Soviet devils did not enter the valley!" ”

"That's right!" I said, "It's not like you didn't get in...... Rather, it was the Soviet troops who withdrew the main forces out of the valley before dark, which speaks ...... Although the Soviets were despissing us, their commanders were cautious. Or rather...... The Soviet commander knew that the partisans would act in the dark, so the precautions were still in place...... For example, each mountain pass sent several T62 and T72 to assist in the sentry...... These tanks have night vision and can spot us before our troops get close to the mountain pass! ”

Zhao Jingping nodded: "The Soviet army may be afraid of a sneak attack at night, so they are more careful at night......"

"So......" I concluded, "we're going to have a better chance of sneaking up during the day, and we're going to have a greater success...... Because at that time, the Soviets would send their troops into the valley to launch a strong attack on the No. 4 pass...... The attention of the other mountain pass garrisons will be drawn to the battle in the depths of the valley......"

"The battalion commander is right!" The instructor nodded and said: "The Soviets always think that the day is their world, and they think that they have helicopters and tanks, so we don't dare to sneak attack, but we can sneak attack at this time, but we can take him by surprise!" ”

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping asked, "Then ...... Are you going to do nothing tonight? ”

"Of course there is something to do, how can it be so cheap those Soviet devils!"

looked at Zhao Jingping and the instructor's puzzled eyes...... I continued, "Have you forgotten the tactics of the Yue devils against us? It's time for us to move on to the trees! ”

Zhao Jingping and the instructor couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then they couldn't close their mouths for half a day.

What I call the tactics of the more devils...... It is the suspicious tactics of the Vietnamese army, which we suffered from when we were on the battlefield in Vietnam...... The price paid by the Vietnamese army was very small, and only a few Vietnamese soldiers disguised as our army were needed to infiltrate our troops and find an opportunity to shoot indiscriminately and create chaos...... Soon it will cause chaos in our entire barracks...... The reason is that it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe in the dark night, and sometimes they can't even understand whether the people around them are friends or foes, so they fight indiscriminately...... When I saw it at dawn, most of the people I had knocked down were my own people.

This move can be said to be very damaging, not only to the enemy, but also to one's own people...... Because the fighters who were sent out to blend in with the enemy basically didn't want to come back alive. And because of this...... So although Zhao Jingping, the instructor and others all knew this trick, no one wanted to use it on the battlefield.

But I didn't hesitate to put it forward......

There are two reasons for this...... One is that the enemy is a mixture of the Soviet Army and the Afghan Government Army, and the two forces do not understand the language, which is undoubtedly a good time to use the "tactics of doubtful soldiers".

Another...... It's because I clearly know that there is no such thing as "loss" or "no loss" in war...... The battlefield is a place where everything is done, a place where everything is done to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost...... Now the opportunity is in front of us, and if we don't seize it, one day the opportunity will be in the hands of the enemy...... They don't care what humanitarianism they tell us!

Besides...... If you want to talk about humanitarianism, the Soviet army should not invade Afghanistan, let alone target the Afghan people!

For this...... The Afghan guerrillas felt that way, so I put this plan forward to Hassan and Aduzai, and they accepted it without thinking about it...... Because of their bitter hatred for the Soviet army, there are many fighters in the Afghan guerrillas who hope to exchange their lives with the Soviet army, not to mention that this plan still exchanges the lives of a small number of guerrillas for the lives of a large number of Soviet people.

So the plan was quickly decided, and of course the candidate would not be a problem...... In the guerrillas, a large number of volunteers were summoned at the slightest call. (To be continued......)