Attack, attack, attack!

After the start of the Kunduz offensive, all the units of the National Defense Forces that entered Afghanistan moved together, and most of Afghanistan became a war zone. Troops climbed over the mountains and mountains according to the plan, interspersed with lines that covered the entire map. Most of the ordinary Afghans welcomed these Chinese volunteers, and many of them spontaneously took on the work of guides and mule and horse transport teams. According to later statistics, a total of 300,000 Afghans were involved in logistics to a greater or lesser extent, thanks to Zhang Zhidan's nine years of hard work, so that the locals gradually understood and recognized China.

The small and scattered arrows formed two large arrowheads, pointing directly at Baghlan and Kunduz at the center of the campaign. When the two Soviet divisions in Baghlan were trapped in the valley by a dense barrage of shells and machine guns during the breakout, the battle for Kunduz at the core also entered a white heat. The more than 300 heavy trucks that arrived in the middle of the night and the transport brigade consisting of 2,000 mules and horses that arrived from Kabul early the next morning finally made Du Yuming breathe a sigh of relief. After the two battalions of the 16th Mountain Brigade arrived one after another, and after the ammunition crisis was temporarily resolved, he resolutely invested more than 4,000 infantry and hundreds of tanks at one time to launch a continuous attack.

"Do it harder! Let the Air Force concentrate on blowing up the river, and don't let reinforcements come close. The third battalion, protect the 23rd regiment and set up a sniper line here, if the Soviets cross the river, Lao Tzu will kill you! ”

"Come on, come on, don't even drink the soup! You melon baby, give Lao Tzu a good fight, and fight to the Soviet Union together! ”

"Flame guns. ̈Whew.

The flamethrower made a whirring jet, and the hundred-meter-long flames were particularly dazzling in the night. Hiding in the bunker, Yakovic shivered as he nibbled on the last bit of dry food. The soldiers around him, like him, endured the cold and hunger of the Afghan plateau, and had to guard against the elusive Chinese soldiers. Looking out through the cracks, there was no complete building to be found, and there were deep pits left by the explosion, the corpses of comrades and enemies were mixed together, the snow was dyed red, and the whole Kunduz was groaning and bleeding.

The morale of the Soviet troops quickly declined, and the plateau mountain infantry from the 16th Brigade on the opposite side showed the fruits of years of hard training. These men from Sichuan, Xikang and Tibet are short and thin, but they have an amazing tenacity and perseverance in their bodies. The cold area of the plateau is extremely uncomfortable for the soldiers of the 10th Armored Division stationed in Shandong all the year round, and since the beginning of the war, countless people have been reduced due to altitude sickness alone, but in their eyes it is the most familiar hunting ground. They used the most familiar tactics of three or three in squads, like a herd of highland antelopes jumping from one place to another, ignoring the cold and obstacles, and quickly cutting and dividing the reserves invested by the Soviet army in the city.

This is a typical small tactic in urban street fighting, like driving fish for the abyss, first cutting out a small area to form a small encirclement, using superior firepower to block the enemy forces in the adjacent block, and then concentrating on clearing the enemy forces in the encirclement. Under this skillful small-area cutting tactic, the Soviet army was constantly annihilated and surrounded. By the afternoon of the next day, the armored forces and the air force had already occupied the mosque in the center of the city, cutting Kunduz into two parts, east and west.

"Hold on! The 53rd Division is about to arrive. ”

"Company commander, we are surrounded! They rushed up! ”

"Comrades, for the sake of the Soviets, rush out with me!" After receiving the report, Captain Jakovich swallowed the last bite of dry food and led the soldiers to jump out of cover.

He was a veteran officer, and in 1920, at the height of the Soviets' hardships, he resolutely joined the army at the age of 16. In his 17 years of service, he had seen too many tragic battles, and had seen several times more corpses than he had now, and he had always thought that no battle would stump him, but he had never seen this kind of tactic, so before he could understand what was going on, he was surrounded by a mountain company.

Seeing the encirclement formed, and the two Chinese infantry squads began to crawl towards their positions little by little in the night, he completely forgot the tactical doctrine and shouted and led the soldiers to try to break out of the encirclement. "Knock knock, knock knock." Unlike the tearing sound that had been heard for several days, a tongue of fire in the darkness on the left stung the eyes of all Soviet soldiers! "It's a trap, lie down, lie down." A 127-mm fanged heavy machine gun placed in a dark corner opened fire.

The bullet passed through the waist of the comrade next to Yakovich, and the impact directly cut the comrade's body in half! Another comrade-in-arms had two legs directly broken by bullets. Even hiding behind dirt walls is useless, these bullets can easily penetrate the walls and injure people behind them. "Get down and don't move. Get down! Jakovic's eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't wait to rush over and blow up the heavy machine gun, but he knew better that he had to protect his company first. But he was disappointed that he thought he could avoid the bullets by lying down, and two flames swept from both sides in an instant, sparks splashed, and gasoline flowed, directly burning several soldiers to a blur of flesh and blood.

How can this be fought! If you lie here any longer, you will directly become a roast pig. The remaining soldiers jumped up in fright and tried to break out of the encirclement, but the strafing of heavy machine guns and general-purpose machine guns directly reduced most of Yakovic's company. "Long live the Soviets." Yakovic's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and shouted slogans, jumped out of cover and desperately rushed towards the elite mountain infantry opposite, but a precise bullet fired from nowhere hit him in the chest.

In the dark, a sniper made a bar on the butt of his rifle with an iron nail and began to look for the next target. In the faint glow of the fire, you can see that the bars are densely packed on the expensive walnut butts that cling to the cheeks.

After clearing the encirclement, the mountain infantrymen handed it over to the Afghan soldiers and then spread out to the next block. As more and more blocks were cut and cleared, Zhukov was no longer able to effectively organize and command the scattered troops, and the orders he issued could not even cross a few streets, and finally he had to take the lead in withdrawing the headquarters to the other side of the Kunduz River, watching his soldiers and the city slowly swallow up by their superior opponents.

As the main force of the 10th Army continued to enter Afghanistan, the country's military forces were gradually mobilized. More and more soldiers sat on the train, singing loud military songs, and drove all the way to the great northwest that haunted their dreams. Although the veterans of the war have been retired for many years, although these healthy and lively young people do not yet know the horror of war. However, after more than 20 years of compulsory education, patriotism and the concept of the country have gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, and generation after generation of young people who have understood the country, glory and responsibility have walked in the footsteps of their ancestors and put on sacred military uniforms without hesitation.

Compared with the veterans of the Wehrmacht's great exploits, they now have better weapons in their hands and more experience in training, and they are confident that there is no trench that cannot be crossed on Asian soil. As more and more of them got out of the barracks and got into trucks and drove to the nearest train station, the whole of Asia was turned upside down.

Beijing also began to show the achievements of 20 years of national construction, and in just one month, it was able to send a full five infantry divisions and all supplies to the northwest by rail alone. Even the Associated Press was amazed to know that it was winter, and that the railway line from Kannai to the northwest was thousands of kilometers long!

The battle in Afghanistan has affected the whole world, and the cars from Beijing's diplomatic department that have come to hear the news can be lined up in Xizhimen. The most lively Ministry of Defense was even more crowded, and the high-level officers crowded the conference room, can't they pull all the troops at hand over? Exercise! can survive to the position of a senior officer, isn't that a human spirit? Although it has not yet been announced to the public, and no specific regulations and measures have been promulgated, the upsurge of all military factories and equipment manufacturing enterprises in three shifts in a row can explain all the problems! A great war that has been waiting for twenty years is just around the corner!

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the battle in Afghanistan, pulling those little cubs out for exercise is the idea of all officers, and even the Marines have asked to send troops to the war. "Get out, you tell Dongfang Chen, honestly guard the island for me!" In front of the presidential palace, Wang Zhengting just got out of the car and saw Yue Peng puffing and puffing Chen Shaokuan. After listening to the reason, he was a little surprised: "Zi'an, isn't it a good thing for the troops to fight?" Didn't you say yesterday that the Soviet Union was still sending troops to Afghanistan? The pressure on Mei Sheng's side is not small. ”

"My good Prime Minister, you think I don't want to! Just that broken road, how many things have been delayed? If there was a railway, Lao Tzu would have swept through Afghanistan eight times! 200,000 is already the largest scale that can be maintained now. ”

Wang Zhengting didn't know how to fight, and when he heard Yue Peng say that the logistical pressure did not allow him to send more troops, he frowned and said: "Zi'an, I saw Li Liejun a few days ago, and he said that you are in a bit of a hurry to fight this battle. From a logistical point of view, it is not possible to prepare for such a big battle in a month. ”

"It's a little urgent." Yue Peng nodded. It would be a lie to say that there was no hurry, and it took only a month from Nadir Shah's visit to Beijing to the start of the war, and even in a place like the northwest, where there are three railways, it is very difficult to transport the amount of materials needed to complete a campaign, let alone a mountainous region like Afghanistan. So during this time, the most reaction from the front line was supply and road difficulties. But if he is asked to choose again, he will still attack immediately, and say: "Cousin Confucian, you don't understand the things about fighting. Afghanistan is a highland mountainous area, the roads are difficult, and the winter traffic rate of the resource roads is too poor. On the contrary, the Soviet army has been stationed in Kunduz and other places for nine years, and the weapons and ammunition are already sufficient, and there is the support of the railway line, so we have actually lost in terms of geography and transportation. If Kunduz can't be solved quickly, once the railway load comes up after the winter, it will be necessary to fight again. It will be ten times harder than now! ”

Wang Zhengting didn't know how to fight, but he also helped Yang Qiu deal with the mobilization of military materials and other things in his early years, and knew how much material was needed for a campaign. If we do not take advantage of the fact that the Soviet army does not understand the superiority of domestic technology and equipment in recent years, we will quickly eat Kunduz, I am afraid that it will really reach a stalemate. So he then asked: "Afghanistan, you can do it, I won't ask more, but what is the situation in the northwest now?" ”

"Both the Soviet Union and we are increasing our troops, and preliminary intelligence, with the addition of the original troops, the Soviet Union has hoarded 35 divisions outside our borders, half of which are in Karaganda.

We now have 25 divisions, and we are going to add 10 more divisions in the next step. Now the railway from Moscow to this side is often delayed by wind and snow, and unless we take the initiative, the northwest cannot fight for the time being. ”

"That's good, that's good." Knowing that the northwest could not fight for the time being, Wang Zhengting's hanging heart finally let go. Recently, the economy has gradually shifted to armaments, and although it is ostensibly full of vitality and statistics, it has actually slowly affected the civilian sector, and it is really a bit nervous if it is now in full swing in the northwest.

After chatting about the war situation, Yue Peng asked about the support for Afghanistan: "Prime Minister, how about the railway and loans?" The president is in a hurry. ”

During Nader Shah's visit to China, Yang Qiu promised to provide loans to Afghanistan to help the country rebuild and revive its economy, and proposed the construction of a Beijing-Kabul-Tehran railway. Loans must be no problem, if the Republic of China wants to go out of the world, it must strengthen capital export, but the railway made Wang Zhengting a little worried: "I have submitted the loan and aid to the Congress for review, and Guofu said that it can be approved after the solar calendar year at the latest." Just the railroad one. Repair to Tehran, isn't it too dazzling? ”

Iran is a strategic location in the Persian Gulf, so Yang Qiu has been courting. It just so happened that the establishment of Saudi Arabia made the Arab countries see another possibility of independence, eager to get rid of Britain and France, and worried about the threat of the Soviet Union. Khan and China almost hit it off, and relations between the two countries have been very hot in recent years. However, due to the previous fear of opposition from Britain, France and the Soviet Union, only peripheral exchanges were carried out, and it was not until after the start of the war in Afghanistan that Yang Qiu wanted to completely pull Iran, so he put forward the idea of this railway. Not only the railways, but he was also ready to use oil weapons again, imitate Saudi Arabia in buying oil exploration and oil fields from Iran, finance Reza Khan to free himself from the threat of Britain and the Soviet Union, and further establish the position of the Republic of China in the Arab world. It's just that now Afghanistan has made Britain very worried, and Xu Gesen's recent statement proves that Britain has no intention of getting involved.

Yue Peng saw his worry, smiled slightly, leaned in and whispered, "Bai Chongxi took Reza Khan's cronies and generals to Afghanistan, and it is estimated that he has already seen our strength. As for the railroad. What the president means is that you just have to find a way to get the secret approval of Congress and set the amount of money, and it is not a big problem whether to build it or not. ”

"Huh? Secret approval. Wang Zhengting turned his head, what did he want to do?

Yue Peng smiled, and was just about to explain why he did this, when a hurried shout suddenly came from behind him. "Take! Take, haha one. Turning his head to look, Jiang Fangzhen trotted all the way to the president's office, didn't even bother to greet the two of them, pushed the door and shouted happily: "President! Great victory, great victory! Kunduz has taken it! ”

"What!" Wang Zhengting suddenly rushed forward in two arrows, and snatched the telegram regardless of his image.

On December 12, 1, after four days of fierce fighting, the 10th Armored Division, the 23rd Infantry Regiment and the 16th Brigade of the Chinese National Defense Force, two plateau and mountain battalions, as well as the 3rd Division of the Afghan Army, totaled 30,000 soldiers and soldiers, at the cost of sacrificing 67', wounding more than 1,400 people, and losing 29 tanks and armored vehicles, it took only 5 days to break through the Khan Barad Isthmus, which is known as the "Gate of Hell" by various experts, and took Kunduz, a strategic town in northern Afghanistan, in one fell swoop. In the five days of fierce fighting, a total of more than 67,700 Soviet troops were killed and wounded, more than 14,000 prisoners, more than 1,000 tanks and trucks of various types, 21 aircraft, tens of thousands of light and heavy weapons, and the ammunition also successfully forced the remnants of the 57th and 71st divisions of the Soviet army to retreat to Termez outside the Afghan border.

The loss of Kunduz not only means that the northern gate of Afghanistan is completely closed, and the Soviet army can only enter and exit Afghanistan from Herat, but also means that the 30,000 Soviet troops surrounded in Baghlan have completely lost their way back. Although Moscow kept demanding that it would never surrender in a bloody battle to the end, the 131st Division, the 36th Motorized Division, and the 11th Armored K, K, and Tank Brigades of the Soviet Army, which lacked food and clothing and could not be replenished, only held out for two days after learning of the loss of Kunduz, and all of them laid down their arms and announced their surrender.

The thunder over the Pamirs shook the world!

No one expected that in just 14 days, the strength and supply were not perfect, and it can even be said that the somewhat hasty Chinese volunteers relied on their tough combat capability and air force superiority to annihilate the Soviet army in northern Afghanistan, which had more than 170 tanks, more than 200 fighters, and 323 artillery pieces of various types before the war, and only two remnants of less than 10,000 people fled back to Termez.

After the news broke, everyone wanted to know one thing, where will Moscow go?

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