Dominate South Asia

Chapter 353: Recovering Jalalabad

It was pitch black in the middle of the night.

The garrison camp was not far from the city government of Jalalabad. The huge camp was now empty. The main force had left, leaving only the remaining troops.

There were snoring sounds in the camp, and even the two sentries at the door were holding their guns and shaking their bodies constantly. They were too sleepy.

Suddenly, a pair of big hands stretched out from behind and covered his mouth. He wanted to shout, but he only saw a flash of knife light, followed by a sharp pain in his heart, blood gushed, and his body stiffened after only moving.

The bodies of the two sentries were dragged into the darkness beside them. Osama made a nimble gesture, and the people behind followed Osama and moved inside according to the original plan.

The remaining companies all slept in the barracks at the front. Behind, the ammunition depot and fuel depot were only guarded by a few scattered sentries.

In the same way, Osama's men killed the sentries and took over the ammunition and fuel depots intact.

The original plan was to detonate here and create chaos, but when Osama listened to Khadim's introduction, he changed his mind. These weapons can be used to protect themselves!

In particular, some of them can be transformed into powerful bombs. It takes time to transport weapons from Peshawar, so it is faster for our side to seize them.

Now, we have complete control of this place, and only the sleeping soldiers are left!

Opening the arsenal, Osama's eyes lit up. In the boxes next to him, there were large-caliber machine guns!

Looking at these machine guns, Osama was even happier. He quietly pried open the box, took out the machine gun from it, and carried it on his shoulders. Someone next to him was already carrying an ammunition box and followed Osama out.

Six people got three machine guns, walked slowly forward, and lined up in front of the barracks.

After installing the tripod and the ammunition belt, the door inside opened before Osama could shout.

A Soviet soldier. He walked out in a daze. As soon as he pushed the door open, he pulled down his pants. It turned out that he had to pee urgently.

"Hua La." The sound of the bolt pulling woke him up immediately.

"Who?" the Soviet soldier shouted.

"Da Da Da." He was greeted by a fierce burst of bullets.

The 12.7mm machine gun bullet easily tore his body in half. The hand that supported Ding Ding still maintained that posture, but the upper body had already flown away.

The gunshots were loud. The people sleeping inside were in a panic and were constantly hit by bullets. Those 12.7mm bullets easily penetrated the wall, opened a big hole, and rushed into the room with brick and stone fragments, causing greater danger to the people inside.

The battle has begun!

When the first shot was fired here, the government soldiers who were still setting up roadblocks outside were suddenly awakened by the gunshots. What's going on?

No one answered them, and what they encountered was also a fierce rain of bullets.

"Boom!" A rocket flew in and hit the military vehicle parked on the side of the road. In the flames, the military vehicle was blown up into the sky, and the few people in the car followed it to another world.

The remaining few government soldiers. They were also shot and fell down.

The bullets were shot from behind.

Seeing that the exchange of fire had begun here, countless soldiers suddenly appeared in the fields in the distance. They rushed towards the road with their weapons.

The soldiers of the First Army. With great excitement, they rushed to Jalalabad. Almost without any effort, they took the city.

Most of the defending troops were killed, leaving only a dozen government soldiers, who became prisoners.

The residents in the city were awakened by the gunshots. They stayed in their homes, not daring to go out, not knowing what was happening outside.

"It's the Free Army, our soldiers are back!" At this moment, a bold citizen looked up and saw the soldiers walking on the street outside. The uniforms were completely different from before, and he shouted immediately.

"It's our soldiers who have fought back!" More and more citizens came out of their homes and walked boldly to the streets to welcome their own army.

In front of the city government, on the square.

"Fellow compatriots, history will remember this day. After seven years of fighting, we finally started the counterattack! Jalalabad is the first city we Afghans have recaptured!" Khwaja stood high on the top of a building and said to the citizens.

"We are the Afghan Free Army led by the Afghan Freedom Party! Everyone should know us. Our goal is to drive the Soviets out of our territory and build a strong and democratic country! We have begun to develop the economy in the northern mountains. We have countless minerals. As long as we gain independence, we will definitely become a wealthy country!" Khwaja shouted.

"Long live the Freedom Party!"

"Long live the Free Army!"

All the citizens shouted loudly, and the sound waves were stronger than one wave.

The northern mountainous areas have begun to be developed, and many residents in the mountains have already lived a prosperous life. Many of them know this, and even they themselves want to participate in mining and transportation, thinking that their lives will become more prosperous. For a country that relies mainly on agriculture, this is what they most look forward to.

"However, the Soviets will not accept their defeat. They will definitely mobilize a large number of troops. Jalalabad will soon face a brutal battle. So, now, I am very sorry. Please take your belongings and go to Pakistan from the east to seek refuge. After we finish this battle, we will rebuild our homeland with our own hands!" Khwaja continued.

After taking Jalalabad, there will be a fierce counterattack from the Soviets. This battle will be extremely difficult. Maybe after the battle, this place will become a ruin. In this case, it is necessary to disperse the residents of the city in advance to prevent them from being innocently implicated.

"No, we won't leave. We will fight the Soviets together!" A strong young man shouted below.

"Yes, give us weapons and we will fight the Soviets together!" said another person.

With the words of these people, the atmosphere on the scene became lively again. It is their duty to defend their homes! Now that Jalalabad has returned to the hands of the Afghans, they will never give up!

"Fighting is a soldier's job." Hewaja said: "We have a more important mission, which is to build our motherland! We are leaving now to preserve the power of construction. When our war is over, we still have enough population to carry out economic construction. Please leave temporarily. We have made preparations along the way to cover your transfer."

There is no need to drag these citizens to participate in the battle. They are an important force in the country's economic construction! This is Muhammad's instruction. When the war is over, the country needs more labor to restore the economy!

The citizens began to disperse, each went home, packed up valuable things at home, pushed carts, drove donkey carts, left from the east, and along the road, they would soon enter Pakistani territory and temporarily hide there for two months.

And some young men refused to leave no matter what, and must stay to fight the Soviets. Facing these enthusiastic fighters, Hewaja accepted them and issued them weapons for self-defense. At the same time, according to the previous plan, they began to act quickly.

Every room, every road, even a well, is a battlefield. Here, let the Soviets bleed every drop!

When the Soviets suffered too much loss, they had to give up here, and the Afghan Free Army won. This was a great turning point, representing that the Afghan Free Army would begin to seize the initiative on the battlefield!

In the past, the Afghan Free Army was only three regiments, but after several years of war, they have grown stronger. Khwaja still led the first regiment, which has now become the first army, with 26,000 combatants!

And Osama's direct guards also numbered 3,000.

In this way, the entire Jalalabad has a guard force of 30,000 people, which can fully carry out a large-scale street battle.

On the road from Jalalabad to Peshawar, the outposts along the way have been destroyed. When a large number of citizens moved to Peshawar, Pakistan's reinforcements were also quickly mobilized to Jalalabad.

The Steyr truck was full of ammunition and weapons, and it was towed by a twelve-tube 107mm rocket launcher. These can play a major role in street fighting, and are also weapons that the Afghan Free Army is very skilled in using.

There were also some armored vehicles, mainly the M551 tanks supported by the United States, which were light and flexible.

These weapons were quickly transported to Jalalabad at night.

At dawn, the news of the fall of Jalalabad was transmitted back to the Turkmenistan Military District. Marshal Akhromeyev, who was in charge of the command here, was shocked at first, and then happy.

After the air offensive failed, the Soviet army was forced to abandon the original tactics and enter the mountainous area to encircle and suppress the Afghan rebels without air support, relying only on ground troops.

Progress was slow and casualties were increasing. Although the war reports said how many Afghan rebels had been eliminated every day, Marshal Akhromeyev knew clearly that there was a lot of water in it. If all these war reports were added up, the Afghan rebels would be as high as more than 300,000. It was said that the main force had been eliminated, but they were still constantly attacked.

If the Pakistanis had been wandering around in the mountains, it would be really difficult to encircle and suppress them. Now, they dared to leave the mountains and come to the city!

Immediately mobilize all the troops and strangle this Afghan rebel army with all your strength! (To be continued ~^~)

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