Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 139 Bicycle Assault
Yahini struggled to squeeze through the fleeing crowd, drove the tank to the center of the town, and jumped out of the tank.He wanted to find the commander of the infantry company, and told him that barbed wire fences on the street were meaningless to the enemy tanks except for getting in the way; but he walked around 2 times but couldn't find the company commander, and a soldier told him the company commander Went to battalion headquarters an hour ago and never returned, and all radio contact has now been lost.Yahini found the town, isolated in the desert, an obvious target, and a low-lying position not well suited for defense.

Disappointed, he went back to the tank, plugged the "RF Cable Transceiver" into the jack on the tactical radio, and tried again to make long-distance contact, but it didn't work.While on the road just now, the digital communication of the tank tactical radio station was suddenly interrupted.The Indians seemed to have blocked the radio communication by some means. The sergeant tried all the preset channels and found that they were all interfered.

He turned on the ECC switch on the security machine and tried to restore the communication with a fully synchronous frequency-hopping digital communication mode, but it was unsuccessful; it seems that the Indian aircraft is carrying out very strong full-band jamming and suppression in the air, which makes his tactical radio It doesn't work at all.

Yahini was struggling to find a way to find his superior, and the driver Saad began to say frustrating words again:
"Come on, we've got 470 liters of fuel left, up to 150km. Sergeant, can't you get some fuel from those infantry?"

"I discussed it with them, but it didn't work. The infantry were thinking of fighting and retreating. They refused to give us some diesel in the truck."

"There's not enough shells, and the communication is over again." The gunner kept repeating the facts, and they had said these words many times between them.

"There is no ammunition supply vehicle, no fuel tanker, and the communication has been interrupted. Damn it. It seems that only one of our tanks is preparing to fight here." The commander scratched his head and said.

"Their plane will drop a laser-guided bomb at us later, and we will be finished," Tasim reminded.

"You reminded me that we can't stay in the small town and wait. There are no planes in the sky. The Indians seem to have complete control of the air. We have to leave this place." Yahini said, leaning out from the turret again When I turned my head, I saw a group of ordinary people on the side of the road desperately climbing into a Toyota car and preparing to escape.

"Soldiers, the Indians are coming soon. Just now their tanks have passed through Bijnord and are heading towards Hangar. Maybe they will arrive here tomorrow morning." An old man with a turban standing at the door of the car Said.

"How did you know?"

"I just came from there after dark. I saw it with my own eyes, and they were shooting civilian vehicles. Look..." the old man said and kicked the car.Yahini looked down and saw a bullet hole in the back of the truck that appeared to have been struck by a 7.62mm machine gun round.

"Fortunately, it was a little bit off, otherwise it would hit the fuel tank. There is no fuel in the desert, hehe. So I can still come to pick up my sister's family. Praise be to Allah, and Allah will appreciate all good deeds in the world." The old man laughed a few times Sound, seems to be quite proud of his righteous deeds.His relatives at the back of the car were frantically stuffing their luggage into the compartment, and no one noticed what the old man said, let alone gave him a grateful glance.

"By the way, old man, how many tanks do they have?"

"You mean on the road? There are at least six...or..."

"Nonsense, there are 10 cars in total." An old woman in the passenger seat retorted immediately.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, lad. There are 10 Indian tanks, and they are parked on the road to Hangul waiting for someone, and they keep firing on civilian vehicles around."

Yahini lowered his head and thought, Hanger is more than [-] kilometers away from the border, have the Indians already broken through that far?As long as there is a little obstruction, it won't be the case.

"Shut up, it's six cars, I remember it clearly. You must be getting old or confused by them, old lady." The old man immediately retorted.

"Stop arguing, please tell me their exact location?" The sergeant immediately interrupted the old couple

"Er... on the km from Khangar to Bijnord, of course they actually park on the side of the road, but it doesn't make any difference, it's the same everywhere in the desert..."

"Is there any infantry?" The sergeant hurriedly interrupted the long-winded old man.

"It seems not?" The old man said with some uncertainty.

"There are no infantry, only ten tanks, I can see clearly, maybe they are just waiting for the infantry." The old woman in the co-pilot seat said, her words seemed to the sergeant to be more reliable than what the old man said.

"Okay, thank you." The sergeant said, he roughly knew that 2 hours ago, a team of Indian tanks was 30 kilometers away from here, but now they should be closer to here.

"If I were you," the old man glanced at the lonely No. 221 group, "I wouldn't go, young man."

"How did you know I was going?"

"Because I was young too. Actually, I participated in the war in 1971, in Colonel Musharraf's artillery unit. That time we suffered a crushing defeat and I lost my finger." The old man shook his head as he spoke. His right hand was indeed missing a section of his index finger. "So, I can see that your heart is very proud. From your eyes, but...they are indeed much stronger than us."

"Hehe." Ciani didn't want to comment on the old man's words, so he could only sneer.

At the same time, another wave of Indian planes roared and flew overhead. The loud noise made it impossible to continue the conversation. The old man got into the cab and drove the fully loaded pickup truck to the west.

Yahini drilled back into the tank and found the approximate location of the desert road pointed out by the old man on the monitor. Now he knew that there was a group of Indian tanks advancing along the road, and there was nothing in this area except his own car. Power can hold them back.

"If you let them come over, the road from Alipur to Yazman can be cut off at once, and the whole situation will be a mess." Yahini said that he knew that the long-term plan of the Pakistan Army in this area was to take advantage of the desert terrain here. Hold down the Indian Army and use the advantage of being close to the rear to counter India's fragile supply line across the desert, so they cannot be quickly inserted into the rear railway line or road network.

"You don't really want to..." Tarsim asked.

"We have to hold them back, that's our job. The battalion commander said, open fire on any enemy who crosses the border."

"But there are a lot of them."

"What's the matter? I just want to teach them a lesson. Instead of staying here and being killed by their air force after dawn. It's better to go east and ambush their convoy in the desert."

"Is there no other option?"

"We can still choose to escape shamefully." Yahini said, just like the common people outside; the other two companions did not speak for a long time.

"Okay, you all agree. Saad, start the engine and move towards Hangel immediately. We want to show them how the [-]st Armored Division fights." The commander Yahini was ready to defy the military order again rashly Attack, but this time the other members feel that his idea is right. If they stop here according to the command of the battalion commander, it will be more or less ominous. Most of them will be discovered and killed by enemy planes. It is better to take advantage of the night to fight against their rashly invading ground forces. some.

"Okay, start."

Saad pressed the start button to energize the power-on delay relay, and soon the crankshaft of the drag engine rumbled, and he pulled the right-hand gear lever to switch the starting gear.The vehicle paused, then began to rumble backwards.When the speed of the vehicle stabilized, the commander drilled out of the turret again to guide the vehicle in reverse, lest Assad drive the 50-ton tank into civilian houses at night or crush the barbed wire fence that the infantry painstakingly arranged into a pile of rubbish.

The infantry in the center of the town saw the only arriving tank reversing, thought they were going to escape first, and pointed at each other.The commander was unmoved. Sergeant Yahini is now preoccupied with how to set up an ambush in the desert and use the remaining ammunition to deal with the Indian tanks. He doesn't care about other things.He has never taken losing his command seriously. For him, not having a command is never a bad thing, and maybe he can perform better.

The vehicle backed out of the town and started heading towards the target at a low speed.Yahini got into the turret, put his head on the forehead pad above the eyepiece of the peripheral viewing mirror, and turned on the thermal imager cooling machine. As the original cooled, the night vision effect of the thermal imager began to appear, which can be Seeing that the desert is a vast expanse of white in the peripheral vision mirror, which is clearly different from the sky. Now he can see it as long as a vehicle passes by the horizon. He knows that the Indian armored division's legal thermal imaging camera is very unstable. , This shows that night combat is one of their weaknesses, but unfortunately today's last quarter moon will undoubtedly offset such a weakness.

"Assad, let's turn north and don't get too close to the road."

"clear."

The vehicle slowly drove to one side, waiting for the enemy to appear from the expected direction. He believed that any insatiable enemy would not stop after going so far in a few hours, but he would be careful, he estimated that he would slowly If you move, you will be here in the middle of the night.

A broad, dim figure flashed across the distant sand dunes.Yahini quickly adjusted the magnification, but the shadow had already moved behind the dunes.

"Pay attention, stop on the edge of the sand dunes." He looked at his current location, it was far away from Shagor, so he wasn't sure if it was a civilian vehicle fleeing wildly on the road or the vanguard of the enemy's armored forces The army, so I wanted to find a place where I could retreat and defend to observe.

"A round of armor-piercing bullets, reload."

Gunner Tasim quickly pressed the loading button, the rotary bomb feeder and the hoist began to work step by step, a round of precious tungsten-core tail-stabilized shell-piercing shells rolled onto the pusher, and pushed into the barrel with a bang, and finally It was the sound of locking with a clatter.The gunner counted silently in his heart: there were 9 rounds left.

"A round of armor-piercing shells is finished."

(End of this chapter)