Dominate South Asia

The Jalalabad City Hall happens to be the center of the city. It will also be the location where the enemy will attack last. The general headquarters of this street battle is set up here.

Khwaja was in the basement, looking at the map on the table. The entire city had been quickly arranged into a defensive fortress. Even so, he knew how much pressure his side would face. The Soviets were powerful. After occupying this place, how powerful will their crazy counterattack be?

persist in! Even if you are the last person left, you must persist until winter arrives and until military operations can no longer be launched. Only in this way can your side be considered a victory!

"Minister of Defense, we have completed the arrangements." Several division commanders reported to him one after another. Herman, Aga, and Lamel, everyone's eyes were firm.

"I just received the latest news from President Mhamad." Khwaja said: "Not only do we need to build various fortifications on the ground, but we also need to dig tunnels underground to facilitate entry and exit. For example, the positions we recaptured during the day, You can rely on the tunnels to get behind the Soviets at night and regain the position. "

"Yes." The three of them replied, and immediately went out to their own defense area and began to arrange the excavation work.

Now, our own troops in the mountains are holding back the Soviets so that they will not withdraw from the mountains quickly. In order to stop the Soviets, many troops have paid a huge price. They have given their lives to their own side in exchange for precious time. , our side must build perfect fortifications during these times, and kill a large number of enemies in street battles!

The purpose of this battle is to kill a large number of Soviet soldiers in street fighting! As long as the Soviets suffered more than 20,000 casualties, they would have no capital to fight anymore. The wounded and injured soldiers will require a large amount of pensions, and will also seriously bring down the Soviet economy. Their general secretary, Gorbachev, will never allow them to continue to cause such heavy casualties. By then, the fighting will weaken again.

This is an operation that completely reverses the situation on the Afghan battlefield! Must win! If we are annihilated by the Soviets in street fighting, then our side will retreat to the mountains again, and the Soviets will have more advantages. I don’t know how long the battle will last.

so. Must win!

"Report, Osama's guards achieved victory and annihilated a Soviet armored battalion coming from Kabul." At this moment, Khwaja received the report.

The first battle was a success! Khwaja was very happy: "Okay, I'll go and have a look."

In order to facilitate coordination and avoid accidental damage, each force has set up its own defense zone, Osama's guard, to defend the west. The remaining three directions were defended separately by Khwaja's three divisions and Khwaja's guard. It is the final reserve team.

When Khwaja arrived, Osama was sitting on the top of a BTR, smoking a homemade cigarette leisurely, looking at the loose fortifications here, many of which were ordinary houses dug with holes. For machine gun eyes. Even though it was a bunker, there was no reinforcement or coordination. Khwaja couldn't help but frown.

"Mr. Minister, are you here? What instructions do you have? Although we have just won the battle, we don't need too much encouragement, otherwise our boys will be proud." Osama said.

"Osama, the fortifications in your defense area are poorly constructed." Khwaja said: "Look, they are not reinforced with sandbags. If the Soviets' 12.7mm machine guns come over, the wall here will definitely be hit. Explosion, your machine gunners were already attacked before they could fight back."

"Don't worry. There is no need for the Soviets to shoot, our people will have killed them first." Osama said: "I am confident."

"But I don't have confidence. You must change it according to what I said." Khwaja said: "Reinforce the earth wall! Reinforce the fortifications, and dig more tunnels here to facilitate transportation back and forth."

"Dig a tunnel?" Osama said: "Which guy came up with this bad idea?"

"Your Excellency Mhamad." Khwaja said: "If you do not plan to carry out the order of Your Excellency Mhamad, then I can only inform Your Excellency Mhamad of your current behavior. They will probably let you continue to fight guerrillas in the mountains, and then send the second or third army over. "

Osama was not afraid of anyone but Mhamad, so when Khwaja said this, Osama immediately had no objections and could only say: "Since it is His Excellency Mhamad "I will obey the order unconditionally and dig the tunnel now."

Khwaja watched the soldiers with engineering shovels begin to dig tunnels. He finally felt relieved and continued to inspect the remaining defense areas.

The preparations were carried out for two days. Every night, a large number of supplies from Peshawar would enter Jalalabad. The advantage of distance was quite obvious.

The weapons, ammunition and food stored here are enough to last the garrison for a year.

In the early morning of the third day, a Soviet mechanized infantry division that had withdrawn from the mountains finally arrived at the outskirts of Jalalabad.

The Soviets moved very quickly. They came out of the mountains north of Jalalabad. When the Third Army moved out from inside, there was suddenly less power to stop them. They almost worked non-stop, day and night, and rushed back. Jalalabad.

"Division Commander, should we launch an attack immediately?" The adjutant asked him as he watched the division commander standing on top of the armored vehicle, constantly looking at the city in the distance with a high-magnification telescope.

"No, we have to wait for more troops to enter together. The Afghan rebels have not left and are still staying in the city. We only need to guard the surrounding passages to prevent them from retreating. One of our troops is not enough for street fighting. "The division commander was very cautious. After all, the mechanized infantry battalion was destroyed because he underestimated the enemy. We cannot make the same mistake.

The Soviet army is not suitable for fighting small-scale battles in mountainous areas. After all, they mainly aim at the plains of Western Europe. They fight large-scale battles. It can be said that the Soviet Red Army has never fought such a battle since its establishment. A kind of guerrilla warfare.

Now, the Afghan Free Army has finally stopped fighting guerrilla warfare. It has come to fight street fighting in the city, which is exactly what it needs!

During World War II, Soviet soldiers fought too many street battles. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet and German troops were concentrated in Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow. In the end, the Germans failed and our side achieved the final victory. victory.

At that time, the Soviet Union was on the defensive side, but now it is on the offensive side, and its own side is even more fearless.

Don't worry, as long as you surround it, the people inside won't be able to get out. If you fight again, it will be easy!

After waiting for another two days, more and more troops besieged the city, but they refused to advance towards the city.

"Captain, what's going on with them?" Standing on the roof of a tall building, looking at the Soviet troops in the distance, the soldiers of the Afghan Free Army were very puzzled. Why did the Soviets keep surrounding them outside and not attack? ? Could it be that they want to trap themselves to death? There are people from the outside attacking their transportation lines. If they are really trapped, they will definitely face the danger of shortage of supplies first.

Osama kept looking at each other with the telescope, and he also began to wonder. This was completely inconsistent with the Soviet style. It also meant that the Soviets must have a new trick, but as for what trick, Osama Really can't tell.

Just as he kept looking at the opposite side with his binoculars, he saw some big guys appearing behind the opposite position. Some of them had tracked chassis, and some had turrets, which were very thick. The cannon on the upper part of the turret seemed to be thick and long. Some have no turrets, but the cannons on them are also the same length.

What kind of weapon is that? When all the equipment was laid out, Osama suddenly realized, no, self-propelled howitzers!

Behind the self-propelled howitzer, you can also see some new equipment, using an ordinary off-road truck chassis. At the back of the truck, in the body of the truck, are many pipes, placed one after another in several rows. I'm afraid there are dozens of tubes? When he saw this, Osama was even more frightened. Multiple rocket launchers, the original Katyusha!

By now, Osama finally knows what the Soviets are up to! They want to destroy the city with artillery fire!

They actually ignored how many civilians were in the city and just used artillery fire to cover them! Fortunately, we evacuated all the residents in advance, otherwise, civilians would have suffered heavy casualties!

Although the Soviets occupied this place, they never regarded it as their own land. Their attitude towards the local people was also enslaving. Now, in order to avoid their casualties, they are even more unceremonious in taking measures. This simple, crude and effective way to solve the problem!

Street fighting is cruel. Due to the complex terrain, every building, even a dilapidated house, may cause several or even a dozen casualties to the attacking troops. Street fighting is the most cruel.

In order to avoid too much losses, the Soviets adopted this method, first using artillery fire to destroy all the buildings! When the buildings are turned into ruins, the threat is greatly reduced!

Originally, they could have relied on aerial bombing. Unfortunately, the Pakistan Air Force firmly controlled the air. Moreover, in order to avoid the expansion of the war, Pakistan did not have air-to-ground attacks even if it had control of the air. It attacked the Soviet ground forces, and the two sides resumed Come to the original situation. As long as the Soviet Union did not fly fighter planes in the air, the Pakistan Air Force would not attack them. At the same time, the Soviet Union could not even fly helicopters, which made their mountainous operations very uncomfortable. When they began to rely on ground troops, the two legs of the Free Afghan Army , can completely outrun Soviet armored vehicles.

Now, without relying on the air force, the Soviet Union also has sufficient firepower. Since its creation, the Soviet army has always advocated artillery doctrine. (To be continued ~^~)