Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 154 Street Fighting
The Pakistani infantry company under the hillside was shocked by the scene just now, and a platoon of the enemy was reimbursed in a blink of an eye.But soon the tank above also misfired.

Yahini commanded the tank to drive down from behind the slope. He knew that it would be impossible to stay on it, and now it was time to move to the village to play hide-and-seek. The No. 221 tank drove crookedly towards the sparse woods on one side, and turned into the village to find a shooting position.

Janaguri, the commander of the 16th Infantry Division, was standing on a small hill 4 kilometers away to watch the attack. He hardly saw the Pakistani army on the opposite side, nor did he see anyone firing, but in a blink of an eye, several of his tanks became Scrap iron.At this time, his artillery regiment was still trekking far behind in the desert, and they must not be counted on in this battle.

As a third-rate unit, Janaguri's division has only a few self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. All suppressive firepower must be pulled by trucks. The air support assigned to him by his superiors is also the worst. Those MiG 21s flew all day today. The hard-working performances that come and go don't seem to have received any practical effect.In fact, the only effective unit of this division is the tank regiment in front of us, but all the tanks are much older than the soldiers.These tanks have backward fire control, poor night vision capabilities, and don't even have reactive armor.

"What's the matter, didn't the aerial reconnaissance say that there are only a small group of enemies here?" the division commander complained.

"However, there is indeed no sign of a large number of enemies on that mountain." The staff officer on the side looked at the map and said, it was just a small mountain and it was impossible to hide a large number of enemy troops.

"Let Satgerh send another plane," he said.The staff officer on the side turned around to make contact.

"Report, it's Lieutenant General Spanga." A soldier with a radio on his back came over and handed over a communicator.

"Understood." He took the intercom.He thought, what good would it be for the commander to find him at this juncture?

"This is the headquarters of the 16th Division. This is Janaguri, over."

"Dear Janaguri, you fought well last night and disrupted the enemy's deployment. Now your division is in the most prominent position on the entire front. Hehe, their main force is still trapped 100 kilometers away, so it must be done tonight Occupy Wujie to completely control the road. Completely divide the battlefield." Spanga said.

"Old fox," Janaguri cursed inwardly.

"Thanks to the commander, I will arrive at the designated location according to the stipulated time, but I lack reinforcements. I just fought against the vanguard of the enemy's [-]st Armored Division. The enemy has a clear advantage in technology." Commander Janaguri said, Now is the best time for the lion to speak up. He knows that Spanga has a lot of reserves in his hands, and they are saving them for several divisions in the Western Military Region.

"Speaking of support, that's exactly what I mean. How about the 43rd regiment?"

"Arjuna Tank Regiment?"

"That's right, our heaviest tank." Spanga said it was a tank regiment, which made Janaguri overjoyed. It seems that the 16th Division's breakthrough yesterday made the commander-in-chief ignite an attempt to attack the northern flank.Of course, Janaguri knew very well that this regiment was not wanted by the 21st Army, but it was undoubtedly a gift from the sky for him.

"Great, when can I arrive."

"Uh... it's being shipped in Ossian. Thanks to you occupying the enemy's road, you can reach it tonight." Spanga said.

Janaguri was overjoyed. It seemed that his control of the desert road had paid off. Spanga was good at calculating, showing that he felt that it was most cost-effective to use the 4-lane road he occupied to transport these heavy tanks to the front line.In all fairness, the roads built in the desert by Jana Gurijue’s Pakistan are better than the highways around New Delhi. When his tank regiment was assembled in the country, it wasted a lot of motorcycle hours in the wilderness because there were no decent roads. maneuver.

"Commander, I want to say that there is also the problem of air support. Sartgerh's Panther Squadron is not good at fighting. It is a mess. They can't effectively destroy the armored units and other strongholds scattered in the desert." Jana Gu Li went on to say that he wanted to try to see if he could make further progress.

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Spanga pretended to be surprised, but of course he knew very well in his heart, what can those old-fashioned MiG-21s in the Black Panther Squadron expect?However, how to allocate resources to the various troops is like a mirror in his mind. These former enemy commanders are all greedy and must not be fed too much; what's more, he also knows that there is no decent enemy army in front of Janaguri.So, now is not the time to use all the good steel on his head.

"Commander, what I said is absolutely true. The air support is simply nonsense. They have no precision-guided weapons at all, and their reconnaissance is also very ineffective. All reconnaissance reports are ambiguous." The division commander said, really He was a little annoyed. Since the morning, the air force reconnaissance reports he received were full of words: it seems, it is likely, and it is very similar. Know.

"Okay, I will find a way." After finishing speaking, Spanga decisively stopped the call.

Janaguri confidently walked to the mirror facing the gun, bent down and looked at it for a while, the enemy's precise firepower had disappeared from the hillside, maybe it was killed by the mortar?The advancing tanks had already approached the village below Fort Delaware, and the skirmish line of the infantry was still far behind.He looked at his watch, and the sun was going to set in 15 minutes. Time waited for no one, and he couldn't wait for those dawdling infantry.

"Let the tanks into the village. Raze that village."

Yahini directed the tank to drive slowly into the village. The damage to the walking part made the noise of the tank suddenly increase a lot. If the enemy commander was careful enough, he could identify his position.He also knew that in close combat, the enemy's advantage in speed may be more obvious, and infantry must be used to distract them.

"Captain Saleh, I will soon enter the southwest of the village, how is the situation of the enemy?"

"Thank God, I thought you escaped. Their tanks are only 150 meters away from me, and there are many of them coming from the southeast." The company commander said in a panic.

"Where's their infantry?"

"I didn't see it. Where the hell are you now?"

"Just behind you, after the enemy enters the village, you must shoot from all directions to make them dizzy. Also, the machine gunner must kill all the commanders who poke their heads out of the turret."

"I'm doing my best. But it won't last long."

Yahini knew exactly what he was about to face. In close combat in such an area, first detection was the most important thing, but here were some low bungalows, completely blocking the line of sight, and it was difficult for him to find the target for the gunner.

"Stop," he yelled.

After the chariot stopped, he got out again and stood on the top of the turret. He found that he could see just over the roof.

Looking through the telescope, as Saleh said, behind a cattle fence in the south, the whip antennas lined up are slowly moving.He counted at least three tanks, and one that might have been an infantry fighting vehicle.

He pondered for a while, then jumped into the turret again, but leaned out half of his body to command, if the enemy was covered by infantry, it would be extremely dangerous to show his head, but he also knew that in such a chaotic battlefield environment, sticking out his head , much more effective than looking through the periscope under the hatch.If a car leader is always afraid to show his head, he will be dizzy if the turret or the car body is turned a few times in the street melee.

"Advance slowly. Muzzle toward 2 o'clock."

The car started slowly, and Yahini could hear the roar of the rumbling diesel engine not far away, getting closer, and then the sound of houses collapsing. Obviously, the Indian soldiers thought that walking in a straight line was a shortcut to cross the village.

He heard it very clearly, that's right, the leading T72 was pushing towards the house in that direction with overwhelming momentum.The sergeant can understand the state of mind of the tank soldiers. A powerful tank with nearly 1000 horsepower will make the tankers feel that they are the masters of the ground and can do whatever they want.

"Stop the car and stare at the intersection ahead, it's about to appear. We'll be teaching him a lesson in 10 seconds," he said, pressing the call button on his chest.

A T72 rumbles into view from the back of the house, its side facing the muzzle of No. 221, the muzzle is facing diagonally in the wrong direction, and now the behemoth is only 221 meters away from No. 50, of course Sergeant Tasim passed What the scope sees is bigger and scarier.

Perhaps the members of the enemy were still immersed in the joy of crushing the houses, and did not carefully check the surroundings, so it just drove past the No. 221 exit without fear.It was impossible for Tasim to miss such a distance.

"Fire!" the sergeant ordered.

Amidst the loud noise, the armor-piercing shells accurately penetrated the turret, which was a fatal hit area, because the tank ammunition was right behind the weak side armor.Sure enough, the tank's turret quickly began to burn, followed by a huge explosion that blew the turret away.Yahini, who was exposed outside the car, dodged in time, so that his head was not wiped out by the shrapnel.Judging from the experience of many shootings, the explosion suppression system of these T80 tanks produced by India under license in the 72s has never worked.

"Don't worry, there are still a lot of vehicles behind. Slowly back up and let the infantry distract them." The commander spoke and ventured out of the turret again.In this way, he will have a great information advantage over the Indian tank soldiers who are huddled in the turret and observing with a periscope.

"Captain, what are you waiting for? Do it quickly." He shouted, almost giving orders to the company commander.

There was a sudden sound of machine guns all around, followed by the firing of recoilless guns.For a moment, Yahini couldn't figure out who was firing. Did the enemy's infantry also follow?This is what he fears the most.

The turret moved slowly.The sergeant saw an infantryman on the roof of one side of the building creeping along the eaves, then lay down on one side of the eaves, and within seconds, he fired a rocket towards the other side.

He heard a bang behind the house, which seemed to have hit him, but the subsequent explosion was far away, and it was obvious that the super-caliber rocket was blown away by the armor.The soldier on the roof dropped the bazooka and jumped downstairs to escape.Moments later a huge explosion blew the house to pieces.

(End of this chapter)