"Batalion Commander!" Zhao Jingping handed me a telegram as soon as I walked into the battalion headquarters that day: "The Soviet army is getting tighter on our supply line! The strength of the troops has increased from one battalion to one regiment, and additional troops have been dispatched.
More than ten armed helicopters cooperated with the ground troops to implement the blockade. Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao is under great pressure... Do you think we have to send more troops there?"
I didn't answer. I took the telegram and glanced at it. As I walked into the battalion headquarters, I asked, "Has Chen Qiaoqiao requested support?"
"This...not really!"
"Yeah!" I nodded secretly. This Chen Qiaoqiao fight was still to my liking.
"Battal Commander..." Seeing this, Zhao Jingping was a little confused: "You mean... we won't send reinforcements? The Soviet devils have a regiment, and there are helicopters... We don't even have a full battalion!"
"That's why we can't send reinforcements!" I said: "We are fighting guerrilla warfare... Small numbers make us more flexible and easier to conceal. In addition, we don't have effective air defense equipment... There is no big deal with more people.
Instead, it will increase the risk of our troops being exposed!"
"Hmm!" Zhao Jingping couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed after hearing this, but he can't be blamed... Although our army has a tradition of fighting guerrilla warfare, it hasn't fought a war in decades. The most recent battle in Vietnam was "
"Killing a chicken with a bull's-eye", using absolutely superior force to deal with the Vietnamese army's guerrilla warfare, and now the Soviet army is attacking the supply line that has a great impact on the Xijiao Valley... That's why Zhao Jingping took it for granted that reinforcements should be sent.
Chen Qiaoqiao is different... In the decades since our Chinese army has not fought, the Vietnamese army has not been idle... They have been fighting France, and the United States has recently been fighting China, and they are all using guerrilla warfare, so once
It was Chen Qiaoqiao, commander of the Vietnamese army's special agent company, who was very familiar with this aspect.
It can be said that she has rich experience, which is why I still insisted on letting her go south to open up our army's supply line even though I knew that as a woman, she might have some barriers with the Afghan guerrillas... I knew early on that this
In the end, this battle will still be resolved through guerrilla warfare!
I think Chen Qiaoqiao already understood this, so she didn't ask for reinforcements from us.
"I agree with the battalion commander's opinion!" the instructor continued: "I also think it is not suitable for us to send additional reinforcements to the southern front... Although these mountain roads determine the lifeline of our army, but... this is not the Soviet Union's
Another strategy of the army to "lead the snake out of the hole"... The Soviet army increases its troops to a regiment. If we add a battalion, then the Soviet army
What about adding another regiment? Should we continue to add troops to the supply line? There are hundreds of thousands of Soviet devils, and the lost troops can be replenished immediately from home, but what about us? If this continues... our effective strength
They will be slowly mobilized out of the valley by the Soviet army, and then eliminated one by one!"
The instructor's analysis is very insightful... So even though the instructor is not good at fighting, he is still very good at strategy!
"Battal Commander, instructor!" Zhao Jingping frowned and replied: "What you said is right...but...are we just going to watch the Soviet devils cut off our supply lines again? Just like what the battalion commander said last time...
…Winter is coming soon. If we don’t store enough supplies... we won’t survive this winter!”
"The situation is not as bad as you think!" I smiled and patted Zhao Jingping on the shoulder and said, "You should have some confidence in Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao!"
"I know very well and have full confidence in Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao's abilities!" Zhao Jingping said, "But this... the disparity between us and the enemy is too great..."
Zhao Jingping is in charge of the logistics supply, so if he cares, he will cause chaos!
"My idea is this..." I pointed to the map on the table and said: "There are more than a dozen mountain roads connecting the Xigeo Valley, and this does not include those with weak supply capabilities and relatively remote and dangerous roads.
...So the Soviet army even has one regiment, but this regiment is divided by these dozen mountain roads... There is not even a company in the direction of each mountain road! But Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao has a battalion in his hands!"
"Oh!" Zhao Jingping nodded and said, "We can use concentration to disperse!"
"This is just one aspect!" I said: "The essence of guerrilla warfare... is to shoot and change places, and never confront the enemy head-on... These more than ten mountain roads have given us this opportunity... We control today
In the past few days, when controlling these mountain roads... I will notify the supplementary department.
Send the team to these mountain roads for transportation. Once the supply team passes, we can lose these mountain roads, and then control those mountain roads by surprise... This will make the Soviet army focus on one thing and lose the other, even if there are more than us.
Even with several times the number of troops and powerful air power, there is nothing we can do!"
"Battal Commander..." Hearing this, Zhao Jingping couldn't help but marveled: "It turns out you have already thought of a countermeasure! You didn't even bother to tell me...it made me anxious!"
The instructor laughed and said: "Who told you to think about things a beat slower than others... Look! Not only the battalion commander has thought about it, but Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao has also figured out how to fight! Otherwise Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao wouldn't know how to fight.
We haven’t asked for reinforcements yet… This is called heroes seeing the same thing!”
The instructor was right... having subordinates like Chen Qiaoqiao on the battlefield. Sometimes I really feel that it is luck... If he had been cruel enough to kill her on the battlefield, now she would have lost a capable assistant.
Got it!
"But just to be on the safe side..." Zhao Jingping said: "I think it is still necessary to tell Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao about this tactic, or we can exchange opinions... learn from each other's strengths!"
"Yes!" Of course I agreed with this, and immediately nodded and said to Zhao Jingping: "I'll leave this matter to you..."
"In addition..." I suddenly said as if I remembered something: "Let me tell Comrade Chen Qiaoqiao... the pressure is temporary. We will soon take action in the north, harassing the Soviet troops from the south to the north, so that
They don't want to please both sides...then the pressure on the south side will naturally be less!"
"Oh... the action in the north?" Hearing this, Zhao Jingping became interested again: "The battalion commander said... that the Afghan sniper team is about to be sent to the battlefield?"
"Yeah!" I nodded: "And it's not just the sniper troops, but also the mortar troops... This is our cold-blooded campaign on the battlefield in Afghanistan!"
"Cold gun movement?!" The instructor and Zhao Jingping are certainly not unfamiliar with this, because it is our glorious tradition on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, especially the instructor... I don't know how many times I have said it in politics class. But they
But I didn’t expect that the modern war fought on the Afghan battlefield can still use tactics from decades ago...
"It's just a cold-blooded campaign!" I said, "Don't you think our current situation is very similar to the comparison between the Volunteer Army and the US Army during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea?"
"When the battalion commander said this... I think it's true!" Zhao Jingping nodded in astonishment: "Why didn't I think of that? When we were resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea... it was also the U.S. military that had control of the air, and it was also the U.S. military that had powerful artillery... and the Volunteer Army
Most of them are individual equipment!"
"Yes!" the instructor said with a hint of contemplation: "And the terrains of North Korea and Afghanistan are very similar... Both are mountainous, and the enemy also has puppet troops!"
"The difference is..." I continued what they said: "Back then, the US military basically had no supply problems. Their supplies had to be transported continuously from the sea to South Korea. Therefore, the Volunteer Army's cold-blooded artillery campaign was mainly to attack the enemy.
The main purpose is to consolidate a small victory into a big victory. But now...the Soviet army is not as good as the US military back then...Afghanistan is a landlocked country, and the terrain is very complex and difficult to transport, so...our current cold-blooded attacks
Movement can target the Soviet supply lines!"
"Good idea!" The instructor nodded: "While the Soviet army is attacking our supply lines... I'm afraid they didn't expect that their own supply lines are also weak points. Their own supply lines will also be blocked by heavy snow!"
"Yes!" I said: "Although the Soviet supply line capacity is much stronger than ours, they also need to supply more troops... so the problems they face are actually the same as ours... not storing enough food or ammunition
If we survive the winter, we will be in danger this winter, let alone attack the Cigeo Valley!"
"This is what we must attack to save it!" the instructor said: "And... if we can also publicize this tactic to other guerrillas and mobilize the entire Afghan guerrillas to harass the Soviet supply lines... then the Soviet Union
I'm afraid the army will be very busy!"
This is the habit of instructors...No matter what happens, they will think of the call and mobilize all Afghan guerrillas...This idea is of course a good idea, and it is also feasible in the country...The reason is that our people and the army can be said to respond to one call.
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But in Afghanistan... the guerrillas basically fight in their own way, and a considerable part of the guerrillas even only care about their own interests. They hope that the Soviet army will focus all its attention on our Hijeo Valley! So
I don't think this call will have much impact!
"But..." Zhao Jingping hesitated for a moment and then said: "The sniper troops formed by the guerrillas... now mostly use old-fashioned bolt-action rifles. Although this kind of rifle has a long range, it is not very accurate because it is too old...
…Isn’t this used in a cold-blooded campaign…”
"That's why I transferred a batch of Type 79 sniper rifles from China!" I interrupted Zhao Jingping: "This batch of rifles will almost arrive in the next few days... Although it is not as good as SVD, it is still better than those decades ago.