When the guerrillas drove through the tunnel, we prepared for battle outside the tunnel entrance... Of course, we didn't want to use these two hundred people to fight head-on with the Soviet defenders.
As a result, even if we were able to capture the tunnel and blow it up, we would still have to pay a heavy price.
The reason why we have to be ready for battle... is just in case. Once the guerrillas' plan to blow up the tunnel fails, then we will have no choice but to fight.
"The team members have passed through the tunnel!" Saheide's voice came from the walkie-talkie.
Sahid is a translator who can understand Afghani, so of course the messages sent by the death squads must go through him. As for why the death squads have communication equipment... it is actually very simple. Our soldiers are equipped with a large number of micro walkie-talkies. As long as the death squads have communication equipment,
Just give them a few pairs.
So the news of the death squads came to my ears from Saheide one after another:
"The team found a suitable position and prepared to hijack the car!"
"The team members are waiting for a suitable target to appear!"
…
Then there was a wait of more than half an hour. This half hour was very unfortunate. The convoy that came over was either transporting food and clothing, or it was a group of more than a dozen vehicles, or it was accompanied by troops for protection... The Soviet Union
Supply convoys are always attacked by Afghan guerrillas, so some convoys are protected by troops.
But not all convoys have protection units... The reason is very simple. The Soviet army's troop strength is seriously insufficient. Especially during the sweep, a large number of troops were sent to the east and south to "suppress bandits"... Its general
The troop strength is only 100,000, and the Afghan government troops are only 200,000. Ten thousand are invested at the border, and 10,000 or 20,000 are invested in the city. Another hundred thousand are used to suppress the bandits, and they will soon be gone.
What's more... protecting supply lines can never be protected if troops are used to follow them.
On the one hand, this is because doing so requires a lot of troops, and it is very tiring for the troops to follow the convoy on the supply line.
On the other hand, there are mountains all along the road in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the country is mountainous. It is really difficult to find some areas without mountains. This determines that the troops cannot afford to follow the convoy to protect them.
What a role... As long as the Afghan guerrillas ambush in the highlands on both sides of the road... No matter how many people protect the convoy, it will not escape the fate of being attacked. It can even be said that the more troops that follow the protection, the greater the casualties will be... Cars
What is transported are bullets, artillery shells, explosives or diesel. A few rockets or a dozen mortar shells... are likely to cause a chain explosion, and the following troops will naturally be destroyed together.
So... smart people will not send too many troops to follow the convoy when protecting the supply line. Of course, it is necessary to send troops to follow, but only a small amount is needed... Its role is only for reconnaissance, or when it is attacked by a small number of guerrillas
It has the ability to defend and wait for reinforcements from its own troops.
More importantly... it is to set up blocks along the supply line to occupy the commanding heights... There should not be too many people occupying the commanding heights. If some places are not very important, only a few people are enough. In this way, the role of the outpost can be played. Important
You can invest more troops in this position.
This is what the Soviets did, so we saw a company of Soviet troops stationed at the Salang exit...
Fortunately, the team members finally found an opportunity after half an hour...
"Battal Commander!" Saheide said: "We have found a suitable target, and the team members are ready to hijack the car! There are a total of six target vehicles..."
After that, there was no report for a long time, and it wasn’t until more than ten minutes later that I heard Saheide’s excited report: “Batalion Commander, they succeeded...successfully hijacked these six cars!”
Later, I heard a report from a guerrilla who was lucky enough to come back alive, and I learned about the situation at that time...
In fact, these six cars were not very suitable targets. The reason was that there was another convoy less than a mile behind these six cars, and they simply did not have enough time to hijack these six trucks.
But I don't know if they were afraid that they would be exposed if they continued like this or something else. These guerrillas had no patience to wait any longer, so they decided to take action immediately after discussion.
The method is to drive the car and pretend to have broken down on the road to buy time for your own people...
From this point of view, I think these Afghans are quite courageous... If it were me, I wouldn't dare to do this, because I know... For the smooth flow of the Soviet Union's entire transportation line, a car is not worth mentioning.
What? So if you encounter this situation, the more appropriate way to deal with it is to push the car down the cliff instead of waiting there for more than ten minutes. In other words, this method simply won't work.
However, there is a saying that "foolish people are lucky", but the people they stopped were a group of Afghan drivers... The Afghan drivers were either Afghan people or Afghan government forces. They had no enthusiasm at all. In addition,
Those who have been running up and down this road all day and night have long been tired of it. Now when they saw that the road was blocked by cars, they took the opportunity to find an excuse to rest for a while, so they gave the guerrillas a few minutes.
So other guerrillas held guns in the middle of the road... and easily robbed the six ammunition-carrying cars. The reason why it was so easy was because the drivers were also Afghans.
He was unwilling to risk his life for the supplies of the Soviet army, so he handed over the car without any resistance. There were even three drivers willing to drive for the guerrillas...
Of course, the reason why these three drivers were willing was because they didn't know that the guerrillas' purpose was to blow up the tunnel. They thought the guerrillas were here for the ammunition in the car.
The plan went smoothly like this... I couldn't even believe that it would be so easy. Even just now... I regretted not sending Li Zuolong and several others to follow the car to help them complete it... The reason why I didn't
This was done because once the tunnel exploded, it would take several hours for Li Zuolong and others to circle back.
But now it seems... I don't seem to have to do this at all.
"Everything is normal!" Saheide reported to me: "The first ammunition truck has entered the tunnel!"
"Tell the team members!" I ordered: "Don't worry, divide it into several parts and insert them into the ammunition truck and enter the tunnel!"
"Yes!" Saheide quickly conveyed the order.
So communication equipment is really important. If it weren't for the micro walkie-talkies... we would have had no choice but to wait here like fools, not knowing the situation, unable to give orders, and even less likely to coordinate with them.
"The second car enters the tunnel!"
"The third car enters the tunnel!"
…
Just as I was waiting for the sentence "The fourth car entered the tunnel", a gunshot suddenly came from the other side of the tunnel... Because the other side of the tunnel is separated from us by a mountain, so this gunshot
The sound was not obvious, but even so I knew there was probably something wrong!
Sure enough, Saheide reported to me the next second: "Batalion Commander, the guerrillas have been discovered!"
At this time, I couldn't help being surprised... The plan went so smoothly, and when it was time to get in the car and drive into the tunnel, how could it still be exposed?!
Later I found out that the original problem lay with the Afghans who helped the guerrillas drive the car... They originally thought that the guerrillas were aiming for the ammunition in the car, so they were willing to cooperate regardless of whether it was for public or private... For the sake of public...
That is to do things for their own people. They don’t like the Soviets to occupy their country. For selfish reasons, they think that they can at least survive by doing so...
So they have no reason not to cooperate.
But they soon discovered that something was wrong. First of all, they didn't understand why the guerrillas dispersed and drove into the tunnel after handing over the car. Secondly, the guerrillas knew what would happen to the car after it drove into the tunnel, so it was inevitable.
I would be so nervous that I would be sweating profusely, and keep chanting words such as "God bless me"...
So those drivers soon knew what they were going to do... The guerrillas were ready to die, but Si Yao had no intention of dying with them... So when the fourth car was about to enter the tunnel, the driver
The guerrillas jumped out of the car without noticing and ran to the Soviets for help!
Originally, this was not a big problem... The Soviets couldn't understand Afghani at all, so they were confused... The guerrillas only had to move to the cab and step on the accelerator to get in, but this team member had poor mental quality.
Not good enough... But then again, at this critical moment of life and death, not many people will have such a good psychological quality, just like him... He picked up the gun and shot out the window, and the Soviets quickly understood
Got the problem!
So the scene quickly became chaotic... The Soviets were afraid of detonating the explosives on the ammunition truck because they were afraid of detonating the explosives on the ammunition truck. However, their reaction was quite fast, and they soon knew
The guerrillas' goal was the tunnel... and tanks were immediately mobilized to block the entrance of the tunnel.
This prevented the three cars behind from entering the tunnel... The first car ignited the explosive pack and rushed towards the tank blocking the entrance of the tunnel. With a loud "bang", both the tank and the car were blown up.
It went up to the sky, but the tunnel was not affected. The remaining two vehicles saw that they could not enter, so they also set off their explosive packs and fled to the side of the road... This allowed two suicide squads to miraculously survive.
And also returned to base.
Of course, we can't see the situation on the other side. We only know that the Soviet troops on this side are also getting nervous... The tank blocks the middle of the road and no vehicles are allowed to pass. The searchlights shine around randomly, looking for every trace of suspiciousness.
place.
However, at this moment... there was a dull loud noise in the tunnel...