Chapter 354 Kill the mechanized battalion
In fact, without the order from Marshal Akhromeyev, after learning that Jalalabad was captured by the Afghan Free Army, in Kabul, a mechanized battalion, the largest reserve force of the Forty Army, was dispatched. The wheeled btr infantry fighting vehicle was quickly exerted on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad. In just three hours, it drove to the periphery of Jalalabad.
This is the latest btr-80 infantry fighting vehicle, which was only equipped last year. The Afghan garrison was the first army to obtain such infantry fighting vehicle, even surpassing the West German garrison.
Compared with the original BTR-70, this armored vehicle was switched to a diesel engine, which is more suitable for operating in mountainous areas. After years of testing on the Afghan battlefield, almost all of the heavy and fuel-consuming T-62 tanks in the early stages have been mobilized. They need this light and sturdy infantry fighting vehicle rather than tanks.
The wheeled infantry fighting vehicle driven by the 8*8 drive led the reserve team to run quickly towards Jalalabad. The Afghan rebels who had been hiding in the mountains finally dared to come out and fight head-on with their own side!
As long as they leave the mountainous areas, they can easily wipe them out! Therefore, the Soviet garrison did not feel how scary this army that suddenly appeared in Jalalabad. They were afraid that the Afghans would suddenly run away and let their side lose their lives.
The traffic was rolling, getting closer and closer to Jalalabad, and the huge wheels of the btr infantry fighting vehicles were pressing on the road, rolling up countless dust.
"Boom!" At this moment, suddenly, a violent explosion occurred under the wheel of an infantry fighting vehicle in the front. During the explosion, the armor was blown away, and the first half of the vehicle body turned into pieces. The soldiers inside had already sacrificed before they even had time to shout.
Roadside bombs! The Afghan guerrillas like to use the most! They want to delay their actions in this way! Regarding this lingering method, Alexander, the battalion commander of the mechanized battalion, said on the radio: "Please note, everyone drives off the road!"
If the Afghan guerrillas buried roadside bombs, they must have been buried on the highway. Now, if you drive off the highway, you will not be hit by the bomb again.
Hearing his orders, the infantry fighting vehicles behind turned around and drove down from the roads on both sides.
The four rows of wheels, both rows of steering wheels in front, were all steering wheels. As the two rows of wheels rotated, the body began to turn, and they quickly moved down from the highway.
When you get down, you can have a wide attack surface, not only limited to the width of the road, but the speed will slow down slightly.
Just as one infantry fighting vehicles drove off the road, I heard the sound of "boom, boom!". With the sound, one infantry fighting vehicles after another were blown away.
Damn, we were caught in their trick! Alexander then realized that the situation was not good. The other party had predicted that after the first armored vehicle was bombed, it would attack from both sides. Therefore, not only mines were buried in the front, but mines had also been buried on both sides of the road!
What to do? Wait for the engineers to arrive and see what the width of the mines on both sides is? Otherwise, you can only retreat along the road just now.
More than a dozen infantry fighting vehicles were lost, and the rest of the armored vehicles had stopped. They realized that the situation was not good. Where were the mines on the road ahead?
Without knowing where the mines were, they could not continue to move forward. A mechanized infantry battalion with more than forty armored vehicles, now they have lost one-third of the losses. And this loss was actually caused by mines.
Alexander looked at the damaged landmines around him and gritted his teeth and said, "Get out and walk forward!"
The buried areas on the ground must be anti-tank mines. They will explode only if the tracks are pressed on or the tires are crushed on. Even if ordinary people step on them, they will still not be able to explode due to insufficient pressure.
In order to prevent the Afghan rebels from having time to escape, they can only arrive as soon as possible. Since they cannot take infantry fighting vehicles now, they can only marches on foot!
A car was an infantry squad. When he heard Alexander's order, the infantry squad opened the back cover, jumped out of the infantry fighting chariot, and then lined up to run forward.
Running, running, you must be quick and catch up with those rebels!
I ran for a few kilometers in a hurry. On both sides, there were scattered houses, which were already the suburbs of Jalalabad.
A straight road leading directly to the city center, hundreds of Soviet soldiers ran on the road in unison. They did not notice that at some point in the houses on both sides, black muzzles slowly stretched out on the walls and roofs.
Osama held a 12.7mm heavy machine gun and was on the top of a private house. He watched the Soviets hurry to die, and smiled. The mines on the road were also his masterpiece.
Seeing all the Soviet soldiers entering their encirclement, Osama shouted: "Fire!"
With his orders, countless firepower on both sides suddenly poured into the streets. The running Soviet soldiers were still thinking about how to catch up with the Afghan rebels. Here, they had already caught up and were surrounded.
The bullet poured over and the Soviet soldiers screamed and fell down. The firepower on both sides was so dense that almost half of them were machine guns!
Alexander discovered that he had made a mistake, and he escaped from the protection of infantry fighting vehicles and came directly to the city, and was easily ambushed by the Afghan guerrillas hidden in the buildings on both sides!
"Quick, retreat!" Alexander shouted, and he wanted to retreat with the remaining people, but unfortunately, there was no chance.
"Boom, rumble." A roar came from the front yard, and then a steel monster pushed the wall directly from the yard and rushed out.
m551 tank! The thick and short gun barrel is the best sign. The side of this tank has been painted with the Afghan Free Army logo. The side of its turret machine gun spit out flames towards the Soviet soldiers here.
The rear road was blocked. When they got off the armored vehicles, they did not carry any weapons to attack. Facing such steel monsters, they had no ability to resist.
The firepower on both sides was still firing continuously, surrounded by surroundings, and Soviet soldiers had no way to retreat.
Alexander's chest hurt suddenly, and his body was pushed back by a huge force. When he looked down, he saw that blood was surging in front of his chest. A 12.7mm machine gun bullet hit his lungs. He wanted to breathe hard, but what he breathed was blood. His lungs were flooded with his own blood. They could no longer breathe. When he opened his last perceptual eyes and looked around, he only saw corpses everywhere, and few people could stand up.
What came was not the small troops of the Afghan rebels, but a large army! If they wanted to continue to stay in Jalalabad, they would have the only fate of being eliminated!
His eyes were no longer able to open, his body became relaxed, and he was finally relieved.
"Hmph, the combat effectiveness of the Soviets has always been so poor." Osama got off his position and saw that the streets were already bloody, and all the Soviet soldiers blocked them here, and couldn't help but say.
"Osama, you are better in command. You judged the movements of the Soviets in advance." Hadim, who was standing beside him, said, accustomed to the rampage of the Soviets, and this time he beat the Soviets hard, Hadim felt very satisfied.
Osama's landmines were buried very carefully, which forced the Soviets to give up their infantry fighting vehicles and go down to fight with the Afghan Free Army on foot, but ended up in ambush.
"It's nothing. Although it's street fighting, in my eyes, it seems no different from our previous battles. As long as you regard these houses as our mountains, it's the same." Osama said.
Osama said this and couldn't help but make Hadim happy. Can this be compared with Dashan? "Report, what should we do with these corpses?" a soldier asked Osama.
"Is that necessary?" Osama said, "What did we do before?"
“Skin.”
"That's alive, when did I let you peel the dead?" Osama asked.
"Make a thunderbolt."
"Yes, make a thunderbolt, move these corpses away, move them to various intersections, and make them into thunderbolts!" Osama said, "The rest of the people, come with me and drive all the infantry fighting vehicles!"
All the Soviets got off the infantry fighting vehicles and abandoned them here, leaving only the drivers behind. When the battle was over here, the remaining Soviet drivers had already jumped off their armored vehicles and ran away. The infantry fighting vehicles were just driven by their own side and acted as a force for mobile defense during street fighting.
After Osama finished speaking, he walked towards the infantry fighting vehicle in the distance. The guerrillas here moved the body away, moved it to various intersections, pulled the pull ring of the grenade, and placed it under the body. A simple thunder was made.
Osama approached the infantry fighting vehicles, and the mines scared them all. In fact, these mines were the mines. If they continued to drive forward, then there would be nothing in front of them.
These wheeled infantry fighting vehicles of the Soviets were better than those of the tracks. They used less fuel and ran faster to adapt to the mountainous areas of Afghanistan, which was because the weapons were too backward. The main weapon was a 14.5mm machine gun, which did not even have a small caliber artillery.
Standing on this infantry fighting vehicle, Osama suddenly had another idea. He put on the Soviet clothes and hid in the infantry fighting vehicle. The Soviets absolutely did not know whether the people inside were friendly troops or enemies. In this way, they were fishing for troubled waters and starting the infantry fighting vehicle. In the middle of the Soviets, they suddenly attacked and could cleverly beat the Soviets!
Chapter completed!