With the precise and fierce mortar fire of our army's mortars, the Soviet offensive soon fell into paralysis...
As soon as the tank came up... the mortar was forced to stop after a few strokes. Although the mortar shells did not have the ability to pierce armor, if the shells hit the tank directly, there was a high chance that the tank's hand would be shaken out, and hid in the moment.
The soldiers on the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass will soon shoot rows of rocket launchers and "blown tube" missiles at these tanks... These equipment is still very effective in dealing with tanks, especially "blown tube" air defense missiles.
...Because you can continuously adjust the direction after launch, the tank hit theory with slow speed is often very high. Generally, one shot will hit the target after two or three shots... So in just a moment, a few are piled up in the mountain pass.
Ten tank wreckage that were beaten to the point of being fire...
Not to mention infantry fighting vehicles and armored vehicles... Although they are much faster than tanks, their armor can only barely withstand bullets and are powerless to do anything about mortars. Therefore, the guerrillas don't need to worry at all.
All they have to do is lurk on both sides of the mountain pass, and then use a rocket launcher or anti-aircraft machine gun to knock out a few fish that have escaped the net.
As for the Soviet infantry... seeing that the tanks and armor-piercing vehicles could not rush over, their flesh-and-blooded bodies certainly could not pass through this fire wall that was bombed with shells.
This is the limit of ground troops... As long as the enemy has enough shells, it can blow up a fire wall on the battlefield... which is what we often call "artillery blockade", then no matter how strong the troops are, they cannot pass.
In this case, there are only two possibilities to escape...
First, use our own firepower to suppress the enemy's artillery... The Soviet army did the same. When we used mortars to block the Soviet army's artillery fire, the Soviet army summoned a large number of long-range artillery to force the artillery toward our army.
The mountainous areas on both sides of the formation were bombed...
This approach is of course correct... As long as we can suppress our artillery, the fire wall standing in front of the Soviet army will naturally disappear or weaken, and the Soviet army will be able to escape from the mountain pass.
However, our artillery force positions are different from other artillery positions... Generally, artillery is used in a centralized manner, which is mainly for the convenience of command... Just imagine, if the artillery is not used in a centralized manner, it will cost every time you change a target.
A lot of time is used to notify the direction of each artillery target, which will not only cause the artillery to lose its fighter plane on the battlefield where every second is necessary, but will also make the artillery positions unable to coordinate.
But our mortar positions are different... The reason is that we basically won't change the targets, which we had already decided when the Soviet army attacked the No. 3 mountain pass... The targets of all mortars were No. 2 mountain pass.
So there is no problem of coordination and loss of fighter jets... Our mortgage position is to draw a large circle in the mountain area with the No. 2 Pass as the center and a radius of five kilometers. Hundreds of mortars are distributed scattered in the
In this great circle... and many of these positions are covered by tunnels, which greatly increases the vitality of the artillery force positions.
Just like what I saw... Although the Soviet army searched our artillery positions with artillery bombing and helicopter searches, there was no way to eliminate these artillery positions... and these scattered artillery positions had only one target
, that is the second pass.
When the Soviet army's fifth charge was hit again, two green signal flares rose in the sky... Because the gun-forced positions were distributed very scattered, we could not arrange a walkie-phone for each position.
For communication, the signal flare is the best choice... When a green signal flare is used, it is a ceasefire, and the red signal flare is a fire.
The guerrillas in the urged artillery position only need to do three things... open fire, cease fire, and avoid the threat of Soviet long-range artillery and helicopters.
"Wang Xianman!" When the correspondent connected to the No. 2 Yamaguchi, I asked on the walkie-talkie: "Are Hassan next to me?"
Wang Xianman is the translation we brought from China when we set out, because we often need Hassan and other leaders to contact us during the battle... Only in this way can we achieve better coordination, so I am Hassan and Aduzai respectively.
A translator.
"Here!" Wang Xianman replied: "But he was a little injured and was bandaged..."
"Hmm! Hassan was injured?" I asked, "Is it serious?"
"Not serious!" Wang Xianman replied: "It just made the shells scratch a little... and... it seems that it was our own shells!"
I couldn't help but feel funny when I heard this... Wang Xianman said it was, that's basically it... Although he is a translator, he has been a soldier like Saheed for many years and has also been on the Vietnam battlefield, so this long-range cannon and
Mortars can still be distinguished... Most of the fired from the Soviet army were long-range artillery, while mortars were probably shot by us.
It seems that the quality of the guerrillas needs to be improved... I'm afraid that some of them will blow the shells on their heads and don't know!
"Battery Commander, Hassan is here!" After a while, Wang Xianman said, "I will translate his words below..."
"Battleman Yang!" Hassan said: "This battle was so exciting... Thousands of Soviet people were blocked in the valley by us, and a large number of tanks and armored vehicles... they could not escape.
We must be good-looking as the Soviets..."
Maybe Hassan said not all, but after Wang Xianman translated it, he brought the tone of our Chinese people.
"This is what I want to tell you!" I said, "Ragir is in your army now..."
"Here!" Hassan replied.
"Let him go and call out to the Soviets!" I said, "As long as they promise to disarm... and do not deliberately destroy equipment, then we can let them leave the valley safely!"
"What?" Hassan was stunned when he heard this. It took a long time to hear Wang Xianman say: "Battery Commander... Hassan asked me if I had a wrong translation!"
"Tell him again!" I said, "Just let the Soviets leave as long as they are disarmed!"
"Battleman Yang!" Hassan said dissatisfiedly: "Why should the Soviets leave? It's just for those equipment?! We don't have enough equipment? What's the use of those tanks and armored vehicles for us? It's worth it for
Did these let the Soviets go?”
“Hasan…”
"Captain Yang!" Hassan said in a hurry: "I have always listened to you because I believe in you... But this time I think you were wrong and we can't let them go back...
They killed many of us, did a lot of bad things on the land of Afghanistan, and they should be punished!"
"Hasan!" I said in a heavy tone: "About the interests here... I will tell you later, but now you must consider my opinion! Of course... you can do it without my advice, after all
We are just military advisers and do not have command over you, but you should also think about it... Who commands this battle? Is it you? Or is there Aduzai? Or is it the guerrillas?
Others in the world...If you think it's due to our decisions... then you should know that you can trust us now too!"
There was a silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie. After a while, Hasan sighed and said, "I believe you, Captain Yang... I was blinded by anger just now. I hope you don't care! But... I have to
There is a reason to convince my soldiers that they are unwilling to let the Soviets go. If I insist on executing them, I am afraid that something will happen!”
I can understand what Hassan said, this is also a common problem in Afghan guerrillas... Some guerrillas are all in the same group when they are fighting, but they actually have several factions inside.
Even Hassan's guerrilla team is no exception. For example, this one, two hundred people belong to this tribe, those two, three hundred people belong to that tribe... Each tribe has its own leader, those two, three hundred people belong to that tribe.
Listen to this leader.
It is precisely because of this reason... we don't need to choose any platoon leader when training the guerrillas. The company commander... they have already chosen it themselves.
If we have to disrupt them... In fact, we dare not do this at all, because there are many conflicts among Afghans of various ethnic groups, and they artificially disrupted them together... This army basically has no
The Dharma belt, one is that there are constant incidents of fighting and causing trouble, and the other is that not only does not cooperate with each other during the battle, but also break up and frame each other.
So... in a short period of time, these ethnic groups were separated and safe... This may be what Persour said, the Afghans are too united, and they are so united that they are incompatible with each other.
Sometimes we have also tried to replace the small leaders of those ethnic groups... For example, select a warrior with strong abilities and quality in this ethnic group to become company commanders to replace the positions of those small leaders... There is no need to do so.
I said that it is to weaken the power of those small leaders.
But what makes people laugh is that... the company commander has chosen and become... but he just has the title of company commander. If there is anything, he will still listen to the little leader, even that company
Long is no exception.
It is precisely because of this... Hassan had to consider the ideas of the young leaders under his command, otherwise if he disagrees... his subordinates might do their own things!
"That's it!" I said: "The Soviet army in Afghanistan is fixed at 100,000 due to supply reasons, so... no matter how many Soviet people we kill, it will not have a fundamental impact on the war situation in Afghanistan, unless we can put it into practice.
The Soviet army was killed! But if their equipment was left behind... at least there would be some substantial interests!"
"Oh!" Hassan also felt it made sense, so he stopped saying anything. (To be continued.)