As soon as Gorbachev took office, he began to save the Soviet Union and make the Soviet Union great again, and his reforms touched all aspects of the country, including the economy, politics, society, etc.

Of course, there is also a military aspect, and the Soviet army has not been affected at the moment, but the Soviet army in Afghanistan has really felt a lot of changes.

Although the treatment of the soldiers has not changed, the resources that can be mobilized at the top have been limited, that is, the 40th Army can no longer launch large-scale battles at every turn as before, the air force can no longer bomb at will, the army can no longer continue to launch large-scale clearances, and even conventional artillery strikes have been restricted.

The only ones who have not been greatly affected at the moment are the Soviet helicopter pilots in Afghanistan, who have not even been affected, but have been strengthened even more.

The helicopter unit got a larger number of Mi-24 helicopter gunships, because those Mi-8 and other big guys were simply not enough in front of the increasing number of anti-aircraft missiles in the hands of the Afghan guerrillas, not only the Stinger, but even the French Northwest Wind inexplicably appeared on the Afghan battlefield, and the French were very confused.

It was later found out that the Mistral missiles were resold to the arms market by the Chadian army and then bought by the Pakistanis for Afghanistan, and even included a batch of Soviet-aided arms from Libya.

This matter has nothing to do with the Shadow Company, after all, the international arms market is so big, and the Shadow Company is only one of the participants, but when he found out that the Afghan guerrillas got the Soviet aid arms from Libya and began to beat the Soviets, Shepard could only sigh that the boomerang was a real spirit.

The reason why the Soviets vigorously strengthened the helicopter force was also very simple, the complex terrain of Afghanistan made it difficult for the Soviet army to supply, and ordinary supply convoys went out, either by the guerrillas planting mines or being bombarded by rocket artillery, and even the Afghans learned to use self-detonation tactics without a teacher, because they knew that the Soviets would be wary of pedestrians on the road, so some guerrillas would tie bombs to them

Sheep, and then let the flock stay on the road, so that the Soviets had to get out of the car to drive the flock, and then detonate the bomb.

However, the guerrillas did not do much of this, because the sheep were also a valuable asset to the Afghans, and killing a sheep was equivalent to starving a family.

The Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan often launched some offensives to expel local guerrilla forces in order to ensure the smooth flow of transportation lines.

But now, due to the lack of resource support, this method of opening up communication lines at any cost to alleviate the immediate need is no longer feasible, and the Soviet army can only rely on air supplies.

Fortunately, the Soviet Union during this period had an extremely large strategic transportation force, so there was no need to worry about the volume of transportation.

But not all airports can allow transport planes to land safely and securely, in those large cities controlled by the Soviet Union, the area around the airport is safe, but in the front-line area, it is not necessarily, thanks to the teaching of the Shadow Company, the guerrillas under the control of that man are now obsessed with picking on the pain points of the Soviets, for example, when the transport plane is about to land at the front-line airfield, while bombarding the airport runway with rocket artillery, while locking the transport plane with anti-aircraft missiles, and when these things are going on at the same time, There were also partisans who managed to capture alive a few lone Soviet soldiers.

Ordinary Soviet soldiers fall into the hands of Afghans, but under the words and deeds of the Shadow Company, the members of the jihadist student organization already know that these guys may often be worth tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition or hundreds of catties of rice noodles, so they will not torture the prisoners, but will be very forward-looking to let the prisoners record a video to prove that they are alive, and then send the film to the Soviets to see.

If the Soviets refused to exchange prisoners, it would be simple, the partisans would tell them to send the news to the soldiers' families in the Soviet Union through Western countries, a trick that was tried and tested, and in order to prevent the news from getting through, the Soviets had to pinch their noses and secretly exchange with the Afghans.

But fortunately, the man knew that he had to be quiet to take advantage of the situation for a long time, so the guerrillas in other areas had not yet learned this trick and were stationed in Afghanistan

The Soviet army has also issued many bans, requiring soldiers not to be left alone, even if they go out to the toilet at night to, they must go hand in hand with their comrades, and then come back hand in hand.

It can be said that if the previous situation in Afghanistan was a strategic offensive by the Soviet army and a strategic defense by the Afghans, then now the two sides have entered a stage of strategic stalemate.

And the Shadow Company, as a battlefield hyena with milk and motherhood, naturally accepted the dollar hire from Washington and returned to Afghanistan.

In fact, another reason is that the Shadow Company's theft of oil in Libya was discovered by the Libyans, although Gaddafi himself didn't care about the oil, after all, those things were only resold for tens of millions of dollars, he sat in the office and waited for a few weeks, and his own oil company could dig up the money back, but this kind of petty theft made the other party very annoyed.

I can give it, but you can't rob it, but you not only stealthily rob it, but also sell it on the market, saying that a hand of Libyan oil, cheap out, fast buy, this is your mistake!

As a result, the Shadow Company's PCs, especially those who participated in the war and directly resold oil, were offered bounties ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 by the Libyans.

But fortunately, Shepard is not so unproductively betrayed his boss, PCs will be forced by him to cover their faces or wear masks, and a small number of high-level executives who don't need to cover their faces are also very low-key, plus the PCs' own identities are also doing a good job of keeping their identities secret, so no one is wanted with their real names yet.

But in order to prevent some daring guy from actually kidnapping the PC in exchange for a bounty, Shepard rotated the personnel.

All four detachments deployed in Africa have been redeployed to Pakistan to help old friends continue to train their staff.

And the current PCs in Africa are newly recruited from all over the country, and putting these guys in Africa can be regarded as letting some guys who have not been in battle for a long time adapt to it in advance, so as not to have any PTSD in the future!

You know, when the Shadow Company recruited, it was detailed in the notes that easy PTSD people were not allowed to enter.