The Jalalabad Municipal Government happens to be the center of the city, and it will also be the last place for the enemy to attack. The general command center for this street battle was established here.

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 he was facing. The Soviets were powerful. After his own side occupied this place, how strong would they be to counterattack?

Persist! Even if the last person is left, we must persevere until the arrival of winter. We can no longer carry out military operations. Only in this way can we win!

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

"We just received the latest news from President Mhamad." Hwaja said: "We not only need to build various fortifications on the ground, but also dig tunnels underground to facilitate back and forth. For example, the positions we regained during the day can be leaned against the tunnels and entered the back of the Soviets at night and regained the positions."

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

Now, our army in the mountains is dragging the Soviets down so that they will not withdraw from the mountains quickly. In order to stop the Soviets, many troops have paid a huge price. They exchanged their lives for precious time. They must build perfect fortifications during these times and kill and kill the enemy in large quantities in street fighting!

The purpose of this battle is to kill and injure Soviet soldiers in street battles! As long as the Soviets had more than 20,000 casualties, they would have no capital to fight again. The casualties needed a lot of pensions and would seriously drag down the Soviet economy. Their General Secretary Gorbachev would never allow them to continue to create such a large number of casualties. At that time, the battle would weaken again.

This is an action to completely reverse the situation in the battlefield in Afghanistan! We must win! If we are annihilated by the Soviets in street fighting, then we will say that we will retreat to the mountains again, and the Soviets will have more advantages. We don’t know what year and year the battle will take.

So, you have to win!

"Report, Osama's guards won the victory and wiped out an armored battalion of the Soviets from Kabul." At this moment, Hwaja received the report.

The first battle was won! Hwaja was very happy: "Okay. I'll go and see."

In order to facilitate coordination and to avoid accidental injury, each unit has set up its own defense zone, Osama's guards to defend the west, and the other three directions are defended separately by three divisions of Hwaja, and the Hwaja's guards are the final reserve team.

When Hwaja arrived, Osama was sitting on the top of a BTR, leisurely sucking earthen cigarettes, looking at the fortifications here. They were loose and sluggish, and many of them used ordinary houses to dig holes as machine gun holes. Even if it was a bunker, there was no reinforcement or coordination, Hwaja couldn't help but frown.

"Mr. Minister, are you here? Do you have any instructions? Although we have won the battle just now, there is no need for too much encouragement, otherwise our young men will be proud." Osama said.

"Osama. The fortifications of your defense zone are too poorly built." Hwaja said: "Look. There was no sandbag reinforcement. If the Soviet 12.7mm machine guns came over, the walls here would definitely be blown up. Your machine gunners had been attacked before they could fight back."

"Don't worry, if the Soviets can't shoot, our people will kill them first." Osama said, "I have confidence."

"But I have no confidence, you must change as I said," said Hwaja. "Reinforce the earth walls! Strengthen the fortifications, and more authentic tunnels are needed here to facilitate back and forth traffic."

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

"His Excellency Mhamad," said Hwaja: "If you do not intend to carry out the orders of His Excellency Mhamad, then I can only inform His Excellency Mhamad of your current behavior. Then, His Excellency Mhamad will likely ask you to continue to fight guerrillas in the mountains and then send the Second or Third Army over."

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

Hwaja watched the soldiers holding the engineer's shovels start digging tunnels, and finally got relieved and continued to inspect the remaining defense areas.

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

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

In the early morning of the third day, a Soviet maneuver trainer who had withdrawn from the mountainous areas finally arrived at the periphery of Jalalabad.

The Soviets acted very quickly. They came out of the mountainous areas in the north of Jalalabad. When the Third Army came out of the inside, the force that blocked them was reduced. They almost rushed back to Jalalabad, day and night.

"Teacher, will we launch an attack immediately?" The adjutant said to him as he stood on the top of the armored vehicle and kept 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 did not leave and remained in the city. We just need to guard the surrounding passages to prevent them from retreating. Our troops are not enough to fight street battles." The division commander was very cautious. After all, the destruction of the Jibu Battalion was because it underestimated the enemy and could not make the same mistake.

The Soviet army was not suitable for small-scale battles in the mountains. After all, they mainly targeted the plains of Western Europe. They fought large-scale battles. It can be said that the Soviet Red Army had never fought such guerrilla warfare since its establishment.

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

During World War II, Soviet soldiers fought too many street battles. Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow, these places concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops of the Soviet Union and Germany. The ending was that the Germans failed and their side achieved the final victory.

At that time, the Soviet Union was the defending side, but now it was an attack, so its own side was even more fearless.

Don’t worry, as long as you surround yourself, the people inside will not be able to come out. If you hit them again, it will be easier!

After waiting for another two days, more and more troops were sieging the city, but they just didn't move towards the city.

"Captain, what's going on with them?" Standing on the roof of a tall building and looking at the Soviet army in the distance, the soldiers of the Afghan Free Army were very puzzled. Why did the Soviets stay surrounded outside but not attacking? Do they want to trap themselves? If there are people from the outside attacking their transportation lines, if they are really trapped, they will definitely face the danger of supply shortage first.

Osama kept looking at the other party with a telescope, and he began to wonder that this was completely inconsistent with the Soviet style, which also meant that the Soviets must have new tricks, but as for the tricks, Osama really couldn't see them.

Just as he kept staring at the opposite side with his telescope, he saw some big guys appearing behind the opposite position, some crawler chassis, some with turrets, which were very thick. The cannon on the upper part of the turret seemed thick and long, and some did not have turrets, but the cannons on it were the same length.

What kind of weapon is that? When all the equipment was arranged one by one, Osama suddenly realized, "It's not good, just carry howitzers!"

Behind the self-propelled howitzer, you can also see some new equipment, using ordinary off-road truck chassis. At the back of the truck, there are many pipes, one by one, in several rows, and there are dozens of pipes? When you see this, Osama was even more shocked. Multiple rocket launchers, the original Katyusha!

Until now, Osama finally knew what the Soviets were trying to do! They were going to destroy the city with artillery fire!

They actually used artillery fire to cover the city without carriage! Fortunately, they evacuated all the residents in advance, otherwise, civilians would suffer a large number of casualties!

Although the Soviets occupied this place, they never regarded it as their own land. Their attitude towards the local people was also enslaved. Now, in order to avoid their casualties, they have taken this simple, crude and effective way to solve the problem without hesitation!

Street fighting is cruel. Due to the complex terrain, every building, even a broken 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 from their own losses, the Soviets adopted this method, first using artillery fire to destroy all buildings! When the buildings turned into ruins, the threat was greatly reduced!

Originally, they could still rely on air bombing, but unfortunately, the Pakistani Air Force firmly controlled air supremacy. Moreover, in order to avoid the expansion of the war, even if the Pakistani side had no air-to-ground attacks, even if it had grasped air-to-ground attacks, the two sides returned to their original situation. As long as the Soviet Union did not fly fighters in the air, the Pakistani Air Force would not attack them. At the same time, the Soviet Union could not even fly helicopters, which made their mountain combat very unhappy. When they all started relying on ground troops, the two legs of the Afghan Free Army could completely run past the Soviet armored vehicles.
Chapter completed!