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Chapter 65: Long Line Fishing for Big Fish

The anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber artillery were transported to the Sigeo Valley soon... Of course, these things were all decomposed and transported here.

It is more convenient to decompose the anti-aircraft machine gun because its design can be decomposed by infantry and transported by mules and horses. However, it is relatively troublesome to transport small-caliber anti-aircraft guns... Although the anti-aircraft gun is small, it has more than 2,000 kilograms... Our army used the 65-type 37mm double-barreled anti-aircraft gun in this era. It is a big guy with a length of 6 meters and a width of nearly 2 meters and four wheels. He usually uses a car to pull it on the road, so it is very inconvenient to disassemble it. Moreover, we can't even install it when we disassemble it in the valley... The Second Company has indeed learned the operation of various weapons, but we have never learned the disassembly of this anti-aircraft gun.

But it won’t work if we don’t demolish it… Our transportation lines are all mountain roads, and none of these mountain roads are more than two meters. Even if there is a mountain road more than two meters... Who dares to pull this thing to the mountain road with cliffs everywhere!

Fortunately, the Pakistani military provided us with a full-scale one-stop service. Not only did they help us disassemble, they also secretly sent several military workers to demonstrate the entire assembly process and precautions for us. The soldiers under my command are not stupid... They are all people who are used to assembling and disassembling weapons in their hands. The disassembly and assembly of guns and cannons is actually that's the case, so they quickly learned it.

After these things arrived, the next step was to make some fortifications for them... These fortifications would never be a machine gun fort or anti-aircraft gun position built by a few simple sandbags... Just kidding, we worked hard to get these equipment in not to let the Soviet army's artillery and helicopters explode.

We are all people who have been mingled on the battlefield, so we are very clear about the role of these fortifications... For example, the Deshka-type anti-aircraft machine gun can not only fire helicopters, but also shoot at the infantry with a flat end, which is also a very powerful weapon. Not to mention the 37mm anti-aircraft gun... It can not only fight infantry but also armored vehicles or even light tanks.

So we also made great efforts when building their fortifications... The method is to dig a tunnel for each machine gun and anti-aircraft artillery, and a tunnel for hidden... Usually, these equipment is hidden in the tunnel, which is not only hidden but also safe... It is invisible and cannot be blown out. During the battle, you can push these things out and hit them. If you find that there is danger for a while, you can push them back into the tunnel.

Of course, it took us a lot of time to build these fortifications...especially the anti-aircraft gun, its huge "body" forced us to build a spacious tunnel for it to hide.

Fortunately, we have a lot of people. Our troops, together with Hassan and Aduzai's guerrillas... the total number has reached more than 3,000, which is the result of our continuous streamlining... Just as we were busy building fortifications, batches of guerrillas came to surrender. I don't know if it was because we won several consecutive victories on the battlefield, or because those guerrillas were swept up by the Soviet army in the field and were scared of the clearance. Anyway, there were more guerrillas coming to surrender every day.

This made the instructor and his group very busy. They were busy asking, understanding, verifying, and then choosing some guerrillas that were indeed credible and had good combat effectiveness to join. Others who had not passed the test... They sent some guerrillas to persuade them to leave.

These newly added personnel also make it possible for us to operate these equipment... You should know that a Type 65 anti-aircraft gun requires six people to operate, and we can install fifty gates at least three hundred people, plus high-speed aircraft and logistics... Without five or six hundred people, we can't get off.

"Captain Yang!" While we were still struggling, Major Lana hung up the phone: "All the equipment you want has been delivered. I wonder what else does Captain Yang need?"

"This..." I replied a little embarrassedly: "Major Rana... We thought we came to Afghanistan just to fight guerrillas in the mountains. So we have not been equipped with heavy mortars, now..."

"No problem!" Major Rana asked without thinking: "How many do you need?"

"Major Rana!" I said, "I am very grateful for your help. But it is not possible to be so useless... So I think that even if we borrowed this batch of equipment from the Pakistani government, we will return it to you when China ships it!"

"It's too polite to say this!" Major Rana said: "The Chinese government has helped us a lot. If you say you borrow this equipment... then don't treat us as your own people. Give us a number and we will send it to you as soon as possible!"

"Okay! Thank you very much!" I said, "Then... one hundred 100mm caliber, plus two cardinal shells!"

"No problem!" Major Rana replied: "We will send it to you as soon as possible!"

In fact, we can't use so many mortars in the first half of the time... Just like the anti-aircraft guns, we can only install fifty at most... On the one hand, it is because of insufficient troops, and on the other hand, it is because the guerrillas have to undergo training to operate these equipment... We can't train so many people at once.

But this fortune still needs to be transported... because I am worried that the more I will transport supplies in the war, the more difficult it will be. The Soviet army will pay more attention to the development of our Xigeo Valley, and will definitely increase efforts to block our army's supplies in the future. So... when the Soviet army has not recovered yet, there are still many mountain roads that have not been blocked... If you can transport more, just transport more.

When I hung up the phone, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice... Fortunately, with the large amount of support from the Pakistani government, otherwise this batch of equipment would have been shipped from China, I'm afraid we would have been wiped out by the Soviet army long ago.

So time was tight, and all kinds of equipment were allocated and deployed.

I first sorted the passes from No. 1 to No. 15 in order, and composed each section of the valley separated by these passes into No. 01 to No. 014... These numbers seem to be a trivial matter, but they are very useful when fighting.

For example... if the enemy lands in one of our valleys... then our geographical description of the valley will be a problem.

I can't say... the enemy will airborne in a valley with a hill or a valley with a forest. This description is difficult, time-consuming and inaccurate, but if they are all assigned a number and these numbers are unified by the entire army... it will be very convenient to fight. In the radio, just say what number is in and what number is in the valley.

Naturally, it is also indispensable to measure the heights in the valley and name them with their altitude... This is particularly important for us to command guerrillas to fight. There are many people in the guerrillas who do not understand the direction and cannot read, and even have language. We cannot quickly describe the terrain to them... But they still understand the numbers. As long as they report the numbers in the valley, followed by the numbers in the highlands... they will soon find the corresponding location on the map.

The weapons we have newly equipped are allocated according to the mountain passes and valleys. There are three or four air defense guns in each valley, and three or four anti-aircraft machine guns in each mountain pass, and a few more are strengthened at the critical location...

Then there is training for the guerrillas... You should know that there are only more than 300 of us. If we let us do everything ourselves, just operating the fifty air defense cannons will be enough.

So we have to let the guerrillas operate... This includes anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and mortars.

Of course, most of these trainings are conducted at night... One is not to train during the day, one does not want to expose our army's firepower points too early, and the other is to try to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by the Soviet air force.

In fact... on the third day we entered the Xigeo Valley, the Soviet helicopters conducted reconnaissance on us. The Soviet reconnaissance can only be described as the words "王子子".

This may be because they found out that we lacked air defense weapons... The missiles we used to attack them were still the same "blowing tube" type, and they didn't even need to dodge against such missiles.

However, the Soviet army was still relatively careful. At first, they were two 24 meters high in the air above us... This kind of armed helicopter has strong firepower and there is basically no danger in hovering at high altitudes. Later, when we saw that we were not moving, we became bolder and lower and lower in height. Sometimes we passed over our valley...

"Battery Commander! Let's take a few shots!" Looking at the arrogant look of these helicopters, Scar and others gritted their teeth: "We also have anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns now, right? You can try the power of these things!"

But I denied their suggestions without thinking...

"Pass the order!" I said: "No anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns are allowed to be fired without orders!"

"Then..." Scar heard the reason and asked in confusion: "Where are other weapons?"

"You can fight other weapons at your disposal!" I said, "But be careful to save ammunition and your own safety!"

"yes!"

So soon a strange battle scene appeared... Several helicopters were flying in the air, but we were holding assault rifles and rocket launchers, which were not very threatening to the helicopter mechanism, fired into the sky...

The helicopter seemed very disdainful of this firepower, so he circled in the sky with the attitude of you hitting you and reconnaissance me. Of course, when he was bored, he would occasionally rush down to fire a few rockets, but because the soldiers built solid cover, they did not suffer much casualties.

This made Dao Scar and others very puzzled... At this time, we obviously had air defense capabilities but were not allowed to use them, and we still had to let the Soviet helicopters press and get angry.

What they don’t know is... What I do is to fish for big fish with a long line! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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