Chapter 192 The Military Power of the Taliban

There is no cloud in the blue sky. There is a mountainous area with complex terrain 20 kilometers south of Kandahar.

Three heads suddenly appeared on the gray peak. Three bearded faces were exposed. The three heads were like cobras, and the bodies in gray clothes were close to the mountain, looking around with their heads held high.

Suddenly, there was a low hum from the sky. The three heads changed their faces and immediately lay down, regardless of whether the hot rocks would burn their faces.

Although the head in the middle is close to the ground, it is facing sideways. The dripping eyes kept turning, and soon found the source of the sound in the air.

A white figure flew into the air less than 1,000 meters above the top of the mountain. Afghanistan's anti-American armed guerrillas all know that it is a U.S. military 'predator' unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

This unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is equipped with light spot/infrared reconnaissance equipment, GPS navigation equipment and a synthetic hole radar with all-weather reconnaissance capability, which can be at an altitude of 4,000 meters with a resolution of 0.3 meters. When reconnoitring guerrillas, the U.S. military in Afghanistan uses this kind of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft with a stay in the air for up to 24 hours.

The terrain of Afghanistan is complex and mountainous. This is the paradise of the guerrillas. Here, combined with the lessons of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. military rarely sent reconnaissance troops to the mountains to find hidden guerrillas. Instead, it is scouted by high-tech, satellites and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

The weather in Afghanistan is changeable. The temperature during the day is very high, and the temperature at night is very low. Even in spring, the temperature here reaches about 30 degrees. The guerrilla scouts hidden above the peaks can cleverly avoid infrared reconnaissance equipment with the help of the hot surface.

After the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flew away, the three heads close to the ground were raised at the same time. Without saying a word, he turned around and left the mountain peak.

The three scouts skillfully crossed several hills to the back of a mountain, where there is a small valley. Strangely, a huge stone protrudes from the mountainside next to the valley. Looking in the air, the sight was completely blocked by the boulder.

In the valley, there are a lot of voices. A green tent is neatly arranged. A man in an Afghan robe and an Islamic headscarf walked around with an AK-47. From time to time, there will be a few noisy voices, and a gust of wind blows up the Islamic turban, revealing a childish face.

A cave up to three meters deep was dug up close to the mountain wall. At this moment, in the cave, several men are talking about something around a folding table.

Li Mo and Michael stood aside, holding their arms and watching the senior Taliban officers talking about the tactical deployment of the attack on Kandahar.

"Captain Nurzai, I don't agree with the method you proposed! There can be a U.S. infantry battalion here. According to the composition of the U.S. military, this infantry battalion has 54 M2 infantry fighting vehicles, 6 M3 cavalry chariots, and 6 107 mortars. These armored forces are absolutely not suitable for our frontal attack. That will only kill our soldiers!" A young man stared at a man in his forties, who was not tall and about 40 years old, retorted loudly.

Nurzai looked at the speaker in front of him contemptuously and said sarcastically, "Kalmedin, you are not stupid in the Pakistani training camp, are you? What we great Islamic fighters need is to defeat the aggressors in a dignified way. This time, our Taliban attack on Kandahar is to let the Islamic brothers around the world see the heroism and strength of the Taliban, so as to get the respect and support of other Islamic brothers. If we don't attack head-on, not to mention whether we can take back Kandahar, even if we take back Kandahar, we can only show that we have defeated the invaders with conspiracy and tricks. The 'jihad' we carry out will still be regarded as a terrorist activity. Continue to smear our Taliban!"

The righteous words he said were very well recognized by some older officers.

Whether the Taliban is called a protector of a terrorist organization by the outside world or not, they will never admit it.

"You..." Kalemedin pointed to Nurzai with a red face and couldn't speak. Beside him, there was also a group of young officers who were at the top of the Taliban. These people glared at Nuzai at the same time, and the atmosphere between the two sides suddenly became tense.

Li Mo watched it with relish. This kind of thing will happen in any organization with long-term development. They all belong to the elders and the young and strong. The two sides have the same interests and different means of dispute. This is an inevitable result of organizational development, which must be experienced. As for the result, it depends on how the organization develops.

"Michael, don't you have any resistance to this?" Li Mo suddenly smiled and asked Michael, who was silent beside him.

The group of guerrillas in front of them are talking about how to attack the U.S. troops in Kandahar. As an American, Michael stood aside and looked at it calmly. The bottom of his heart was that Li Mo was very curious.

"NO, I'm a pacifist!" Michael replied in a positive way.

Li Mo, who was stunned, didn't know what to say. An arms dealer actually said that he was a pacifist!

"You should know that they are going to attack the U.S. military!" Li Mo deliberately aggravated the pronunciation of the word U.S. military.

Michael shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently, "Although I have sympathy for those American compatriots, I can't stop them from going to the battlefield. These are all the faults of those damn politicians and conglomerates.

Li Mo is speechless!

"What do you think we should do later? Will it annihilate the delta or hold them down? Li Mo took out a bag of China and pulled out a point. Take a deep breath and spit out a smoke ring all over his body.

"Extermination? Li, this joke is not funny at all! Do our men have the ability to annihilate a detachment of Delta Special Forces? Don't joke. I think it's a victory to hold them down!" Michael has always been full of pessimism about this task. If it hadn't been for the profit after the success of the plan and to deepen the relationship with Omar, the leader of the Taliban, Michael would have slipped away at this time.

Li Mo can understand Michael's current mood. It's just that the two of them need to cooperate later. Although the Meteor Commando alone can drag out or even destroy the delta of a detachment, the plan is to cooperate twice. If the Meteor Commando's performance is too conspicuous, it does not conform to Li Mo's consistent low-key principle. His relationship with Michael is not so close that even the secret of the combat effectiveness of the Meteor Commando can be revealed.

It seems that I have to tell He Xiaoqiang later. Don't expose the real combat effectiveness. He is now afraid that this group of kids will not be able to control as soon as they go to the battlefield and exert all their strength, so that Li Mo's biggest card will be exposed.

The senior military officials of the Taliban are still noisy there, and neither side will take a step back. They all think their tactics are correct. If it goes on like this, I don't know how long it will be noisy.

Omar, who had been sitting there silently, suddenly prayed for a while. One eye flashed with a breathtaking light.

"Enough!"

With a simple shout, the voices of both sides were suppressed.

"Our plan is to attack Kandahar at 7 p.m. tonight. You are still quarreling all the time. How should we send troops at that time? Omar's eyes looked back and forth on the faces of Nurzai and Kalemedin, and said in a low voice until they lowered their heads.

"In the evening, we attacked according to Kale Maiddin's plan. What we need is not how to die in a dignified life, but to take back Kandahar. All tactics should be based on this premise. On the premise of capturing Kandahar, the losses of the Taliban should also be reduced. Omar made a final tone and said firmly.

In addition to the scattered guerrillas distributed in the mountains of southern Afghanistan, the Taliban's armed forces also have two well-organized troops. One of them is the Afghan guard composed of the direct elites in the army when the Taliban regime was in charge of Afghanistan. The current military director of this force is Nurzai. Most of the officers in the Afghan guard are the elders who once fought with Omar. After being ousted by the U.S. military, these direct officers and soldiers They hid into the ground one after another. Finally, under Omar's order, they formed the Afghan Guard, with a staff of 800 people.

Another unit is a young Afghan officer and soldier trained in a training camp established by the Islamic Religious Institute and Pakistani militant organizations after the Taliban came to power. Although they have not fought with Omar, they are elites trained with a cruel and scientific training method. These young and loyal young soldiers were formed by Omar into a force: the Taliban Guard, which was staffed of 700.

At the beginning of its establishment, there were various contradictions between the two sides. As the leader, Omar, in order to better control the military power of the Taliban, has always turned a blind eye to this and let the two sides make trouble. However, Omar will not let the people on both sides make too much trouble. That's not good for the whole Taliban. At the critical moment, Omar will play 50 boards each, splashing cold water on both sides.

Today's plan is the largest plan carried out by the Taliban since they left power. Before that, the Taliban had been making small fuss, such as suicide attacks or car bomb attacks from time to time. With Omar's shrewdness, how could he not know that this method of terrorist attack did not allow him to regain power in Afghanistan, but made the whole Taliban discredited. Neither the attack on civilians nor the single soldiers of the U.S. military can cause harm to the Northern Alliance or NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Omar has his own abacus in his heart. That's the plan to capture Kandahar this time.

All kinds of terrorist attacks can not only divert the attention of the U.S. military, but also make the U.S. military despise the Taliban. Even under various attacks, while making the U.S. military furious, there is an idea of eliminating the Taliban impatiently. At this time, Omar silently arranged this plan.

The U.S. military, who is dizzy by various terrorist attacks, will never think that the Taliban are secretly sticking out a bayonet, targeting Kandahar, Afghanistan's second largest city.

One side secretly deploys, occupying the time of heaven, place, people. After all, the Taliban's nest in Kandahar, where the people's support for the Taliban is not comparable to anywhere else. The other U.S. military lost its vigilance and only knew that they were looking for guerrillas all over the mountains. The protection of the city was mainly focused on the prevention of terrorist attacks, and there was no preparation for the Taliban's counterattack.

In this case, the two sides fight each other, and the result is...

(to be continued)