Chapter 1058 How can I stand by the river without getting my shoes wet
According to the initial CIA investigation, the army under the command of the Taliban government has about 30,000 regular troops, which are professional soldiers with combat capabilities, and the local armed forces are about 100,000 people, which is a serious shortage of guns and ammunition, but the semi-military personnel who can fight, and the mobilization capacity of the Taliban government is about 300,000.
But now, after investigation and statistics, the coalition command has obtained the figure that the number of professional soldiers is at least 200,000, and the local armed forces, that is, guerrillas, are about 100,000, and the capacity for general mobilization exceeds 500,000.
The figures obtained by the coalition command are indeed very close to the truth, and with the covert help of the mercenaries, the Taliban government-in-exile has successively equipped at least 100,000 professional troops, mobilized more than 200,000 local armed forces in the villages and towns supporting them, and all guns and ammunition are provided by the mercenaries.
The former Soviet AK-47 assault rifle and PK general-purpose machine gun are the main force, equipped with rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles and mortars, and many SVD sniper rifles, although they are not very sophisticated equipment now, and they can be used to fight guerrillas, which is indeed more than enough.
Since the establishment of the mercenary corps, Wu Chen has attached great importance to its own reserves, and the logistics department has more than 10 million AK-47 assault rifles made in the former Soviet Union alone, which come from the Ukolan government and the Russian army that was about to retreat at that time, and the Ukolan government army also has more than 3 million in stock, and also reserves more than 2 million American-made M-16 assault rifles.
There are hundreds of millions of magazines of various models in reserve, billions of bullets, enough for ten years of use. These are the classic guns of the army, which are durable, mainly because of their strong reliability, and they are also the main weapons used in armed conflicts in various countries around the world, and they will not be obsolete in another 30 years.
These are not amazing, Wu Chen, through President Park Kim, has bought more conventional weapons from the Russian side cheaply, and the quantity can scare people to death, because people have begun to replace them with new, more technical weapons, and these old weapons are no longer of much use.
There are more than 20 million AK-47 assault rifles, more than 1 million well-known PK series general-purpose machine guns, 70% of which are brand new, have never entered active service, are war reserves in the former Soviet Union, and are still top secret. The number of bullets for assault rifles and general-purpose machine guns is as high as six billion, and there are millions of sniper rifles of various models and hundreds of millions of special bullets.
There are more than 20 million anti-infantry mines and anti-tank mines left over from the former Soviet Union, more than 10 million grenades, more than 10,000 portable missile launchers, and more than 100,000 anti-aircraft missiles.
There are more than 20,000 old-fashioned artillery pieces of various types, more than 200,000 mortars of various calibers, tens of millions of artillery shells in reserve, more than 50,000 anti-tank missile launchers, and hundreds of thousands of anti-tank missiles.
Wu Chen was definitely born in a good era, just in time for the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the United States lost its opponents, both sides are dealing with a large number of weapons and equipment, coupled with the increasing development of science and technology, high-precision weapons and equipment have become the mainstream, and mercenaries can get so many quantities, otherwise don't even think about it.
Judging from the above data, if the mercenary group wants to arm the army of the Taliban, it will not be a problem at all, and the ammunition depot of the logistics base has guns and ammunition, as long as the other side has enough people to use it, there is no problem in arming the whole country.
What's more, the General Headquarters of the Mercenary Corps secretly trained more than 100,000 guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan for this war, which are professional soldiers trained in modern military combat subjects, are absolute regular troops, and are capable of head-on confrontation with the armies of most countries, and are also the main players in this war.
The number of guerrilla forces must not exceed that of the Taliban army, otherwise it will not have the effect of fishing in troubled waters, so the main hiding place of the guerrilla forces is the mountainous areas, and the Taliban army and the local armed forces fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains, villages, and towns, and they have a clear division of labor and cooperate very closely with each other.
Even if the Taliban army follows the path of the guerrillas and obeys the command and dispatch of the guerrilla headquarters, perhaps the high-level people have guessed something, but no one will take the initiative to say it, as long as it is to fight the US and NATO aggressors, everything is easy to say.
Not to mention that the top brass of the Taliban government-in-exile can only speculate to a limited extent, even the members of the guerrilla forces, most of whom do not know what their identity is, only know that they are a group of foreign military officers, and they all have a very special mission, and the relationship with the mercenary corps seems to be very delicate.
An infantry brigade in the Taliban, with the cooperation of a battalion of guerrilla forces, first fired rockets at the airport, then used mortars to bombard the US defensive positions, and then launched a death squad-like attack.
"Paralyzed, order the Taliban troops to quickly withdraw from the battlefield and retreat to the western mountains to hide, the US military actually transferred the air gunboats, as well as A-10 attack aircraft, coupled with the cooperation of armed helicopters, we will be covered by dense firepower, so the losses will be too great. These bastards in the intelligence department, why didn't they get the news in advance, this will cause great variables to our plan, and we will retreat on all fronts! "The commander of the guerrilla forces, after receiving the notification, said loudly to the signal corps.
Fortunately, at this time, the main force had not launched an attack, and the American army did not expect that in the eastern wilderness, there were actually two infantry brigades of guerrilla forces in ambush, and if they were all exposed, this time it would be a complete fiasco.
The AC-130U Ghost Air Gunboat is an important strike weapon of the US military, especially the lateral 40mm L/60 Bofors gun and the M102 105mm howitzer, as well as a 25mm GAU-12 cannon with 3,000 rounds of ammunition, which is a nightmare for the ground troops!
On the lower left side of the front fuselage of the A-10 attack aircraft, a 30-mm GAU-8 seven-barreled Gatling cannon was installed, with 1,350 rounds of ammunition in reserve, capable of carrying 18 227-kilogram MK82 general-purpose bombs.
Under the cover of Apache helicopter gunships, the U.S. forces used armored units as the vanguard, mobilized the strength of a mechanized infantry brigade to chase closely, and with the arrival of attack aircraft and aerial gunboats, the retreat of the Taliban army was completely called the road of death.
A battalion of the guerrilla armed forces, because the distance to the mountainous area was very long, that is, two kilometers away, the losses were naturally smaller, but this infantry brigade of the Taliban army was bombarded by three types of air-equipped machine guns and howitzers.
In particular, the gunboats in the air kept pouring shells on the retreating soldiers, and the ground dust was splashed everywhere, broken arms and stumps flew around, and some soldiers were blown up with no bones!