Chapter 9 Transforming Roadside Bombs
The mountain roads were rugged and seemed to be the same everywhere, but the guerrillas walked very easily. If they weren't carrying the heavy shells on their shoulders, they could almost walk as fast as they could.
Finally, after walking in the bare mountain for an hour, Hwaja said, "It's here."
A cave appeared in front of it, with the entrance almost vertical and the opposite mountain blocking it. It was almost impossible to find it from the air. This natural cave is the natural base of this guerrilla team.
"Herman, go to the back mountain to get some water and cook dinner." Hwaja said to a guerrilla.
"Yes." Hermann took out a large iron barrel from the cave and ran towards the back mountain.
The terrain here is hidden. Even if the Soviets wanted to clear the attack, the road was too rugged and the armored troops could not enter and could not attack. Moreover, there was also water source in the back mountain. The choice of this base was very good.
Mhamad couldn't help but exclaim in his heart. If the guerrilla team he was originally in had such a base, he would not have been taken down. Only he and Durani ran out.
"Transfer these shells to the base." Hwaja said, and after that, he said to Mhamad on the side: "Sir, now we have transported these shells to the base, but we don't have tank guns, and these shells cannot be used. I wonder what your opinion is?"
Hwaja believed Mhamad's record after seeing him in person. Otherwise, he would not have let his subordinates move so many shells back. In his opinion, these shells were of no use.
"Captain Hwaja, please don't call me the instructor, just call me Mhamad." Mhamad said: "Believe me, these shells are our closest treasures."
After saying that, Mhamad spread out a map he carried with him, looked carefully, and said, "There is an outpost twenty kilometers west of our place. Do you all know?"
Of course they knew about this outpost. After the Soviets controlled Jalalabad, in order to deal with the guerrillas, they began to gradually build outposts with the city as the center.
This outpost was just built at the mountain pass. When the guerrillas entered and left the mountainous area, they had to detour from the small road and walked dozens of kilometers of mountain road before they could get back here.
If you remove that outpost, it will be much more convenient.
Moreover, a certain amount of weapons, ammunition, food, fuel and other materials were stored in each outpost, which was convenient for the Soviets who surrounded and suppressed the guerrillas.
Until now, the Soviets firmly believed that they would win this easy victory in encircling the guerrillas, but they did not know that Afghanistan was becoming a quagmire, causing the Soviet army to fall into it and completely bury the Soviet Empire.
There was a platoon of soldiers guarding the outpost. Although there were not many people, the machine guns formed cross-fire power, and it was very difficult to attack there.
Guerrillas are just guerrillas, and strong attacks are not their strengths.
When Mhamad mentioned this, he seemed to be going to hit the outpost, and immediately, Hwaja became interested.
"Mhamad, how can we take this outpost down?" Hwaja asked.
In fact, Mhamad naturally knew that it was very difficult to fight this outpost, but if he came here and wanted to gain the leadership of this guerrilla team, he had to fight a few beautiful battles to convince these people.
Undoubtedly, hitting this outpost is very attractive.
"I have a plan," Mhamad said.
When he finished speaking, Hwaja's eyes shone and he wanted to lead the team immediately, but he had to figure out what was going on there first.
The smell of rice soon came, especially in today's battle, and several cans of canned caviar from Soviet tank soldiers were seized, and the caviar was spread onto the pancake and then put it in your mouth. It was simply delicious.
After Mhamad finished eating, he began his own practical actions.
A large number of people surrounded and watched Mhamad carry out the shell.
For these guerrillas, this shell was still a new thing, but Mhamad knew the structure of the shell very well.
In front is the warhead and fuze, behind is the launching medicine and the primer. First, it is necessary to remove the fuze and primer, which is absolutely safe.
These things are actually very simple.
Seeing that Mhamad was about to remove shells, the guerrillas who had just surrounded him immediately subconsciously retreated. They knew that once that thing exploded, the power was quite huge.
"You are too close." Mhamad said: "This is a grenade. As long as this explosion is used, the entire cave can be blown up. If you want to retreat, you might as well retreat to the back mountain."
Hearing Mhamad's words, two guerrillas immediately turned their heads and walked back, took two steps, and found that no one responded. When they turned around, they saw that the others surrounded them again, their faces turned red and they followed them up.
Others are not afraid, what are you afraid of? Besides, looking at the instructor’s appearance, you will know that you are confident.
True - Lord bless you, there will be no accident. The two of them mustered up the courage and surrounded them.
Of course Mhamad was confident that he knew that the shell could not be blown up at all.
Of course, to be on the safe side, Mhamad still needs to remove the fuse first, and then to transform it into a roadside bomb, that is, it is necessary to transform the fuse.
Mhamad also deliberately dismantled the shells here with such a big fanfare. He wanted to teach all these guerrillas how to do it. After all, he is an instructor.
I saw Mhamad exerting force with both hands, and a cone-shaped thing was twisted out from the bullet with a squeaking sound.
"This thing is just a fuse. Without it, the shell would not explode." Mhamad showed the twisted fuse to others. Suddenly, everyone opened their eyes wide. Fuze? The shell exploded all depends on it?
Then, flip the shell over and Mhamad unscrewed the bottom fire behind again.
"This is the base fire, similar to the bullet. The striker hits the base fire, and the base fire ignites the launching medicine and pushes the warhead out." Mhamad showed the wringed base fire to these people again.
There are admirational eyes everywhere.
"Instructor, I really didn't expect that you would even remove this shell." Dulanie said on the side.
"Durani, take another one as I did just now," said Mhamad.
Removing the shells? When he heard Mhamad say this, Durani was shocked: "I, I..."
In front of so many people, I can't say that I dare not, but if this thing explodes, no one here can survive.
"Don't worry, with my guidance, there will be no problem. Our shells will become bombs under our control." Mhamad said: "We let them explode as the Soviet convoy passes."
The reason why Mhamad had to take these shells was because he knew the function of these shells. Although they could not be used for firing, it was also the best choice to make roadside bombs.
Most of the tank's shells were armor-piercing bombs, and the warheads were made purely to strike armor-piercing targets and could not explode. Therefore, Mhamad did not intend to bring out armor-piercing bombs at that time, but later he had an idea and buried thunder, and used all these armor-piercing bombs. Although the warheads could not be used, the launching medicines in the bullet body could also produce huge power. The dozen armor-piercing bombs and armor-piercing bombs were enough for the Soviets to drink a pot.
Good things should be kept and used slowly. This kind of grenade is ammunition to destroy the enemy by explosion. These thirty grenades will become thirty roadside bombs with great power.
The transformation is also very simple. Although Mhamad does not have a suitable timed fuze or a commonly used mobile phone fuze in later generations, the mobile phone explodes as soon as it rings, but even the most primitive way of detonating ** by connecting wires and then detonating the grenade is simple and effective.
Of course, this requires disassembly of the fuze and remove the ** and battery inside the fuze.
Although removing shells sounds dangerous, in fact, as long as you don’t encounter mechanical failures, there is no danger in removing shells.
The fuze of the shell is very safe. Only when it is fired in the barrel and has a great acceleration, the insurance of the fuze will be lifted. In normal times, even if it is accidentally transported, it will not explode.
Dulani finally accepted the instructor's order and carefully dismantled another shell.
I originally thought it was difficult, but when the fuse and fire of the shell were easily twisted off by Dulani, Dulani had a great sense of accomplishment.
So simple!
"Everyone has seen it? As long as it is similar shells, from mortar shells to aircraft shells, they all have such structures. If we encounter these shells in the future, we must bring them back. We do not have heavy weapons, and these shells are gifts we gave to the Soviets." Mhamad said.
"Then how can we detonate these shells?" asked a voice, and Mhamad looked at it and it was the Hermann.
Hermann finally mentioned the key point, which was also something other guerrillas were very concerned about. Even the guerrilla captain Hwaja looked at it with concentration.
"What everyone wants to learn from me next is to disassemble the fuse, remove the ** and battery inside, and connect the wires to lengthen the wires. In this way, we only need to see the other party enter the ambush range of our bombs in the distance, connect the wires to the battery, and then detonate our bombs." Mhamad said.
Now, in the absence of other materials, this method of detonation is the easiest.
Seeing everyone watching attentively, Mhamad felt a sense of accomplishment. Although dismantling the fuses was more dangerous than dismantling the shells, nothing could be accomplished under Mhamad's agile men.
That night, many people were insomnia. They were recalling one step after another. Tomorrow, they would personally practice and transform the remaining shells. From then on, they had another new trick to deal with the Soviets, which was to even destroy those powerful tanks that could not be penetrated by powerful bullets!
Chapter completed!