Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 197 Additional Advantages
"There is no other way. I have to move the White Tiger Division. It is too late to inform the staff. I ask the 21st Army War Department to immediately revise the original plan. Immediately formulate an action route along the Indus River." Spanga faced Abia, commander of the 21st Army, said.

"But Commander, our frontal victory is imminent, how can we abandon the original plan for the flank?" Abia argued with wide eyes.In the past 48 hours, he managed to cross the Indus River with 10 troops. Seeing that he could cut off the final passage to the southern city of Karachi, the commander suddenly changed his determination to fight, and wanted to deploy the most powerful main force to other places. The secondary battlefield, which is unacceptable to him anyway.

"I know it's hard for you to take, but Sahri's armored regiment is finished, and their 1st Armored Division has surrounded Janaguri's 16th Infantry Division. Now they must be given a strong counterattack to force them back to Sahri. On the south bank of the Teraija River," Spanga replied absent-mindedly.

"The Tenth Army alone can completely keep them north of Fort De La Voor. It is enough to keep our flank safe. I don't know why we disrupted the established attack plan." Abia continued to argue, He knew very well that Spanga's original deployment was very complete, and an army group in the north was enough to block the attack of one or two Pakistani divisions.

"No no, you don't understand, it's politics. I have to get that idiot Janaguri out. The Tenth Army has only one armored brigade and can't do that."

"Commander-in-Chief, you can let the 16th Division stick to it for a while, or let the Air Force think of a way. The deployment of the 21st Army is putting the cart before the horse. This offensive has devoted all your efforts, and time is the only factor for victory. "

"I know this, but... I am well aware of the combat effectiveness of the 16th Division. They are likely to collapse before completing the field defense positions. Have you ever thought about the captured Su-30 pilots they showed in front of CNN last month What a blow to the Ministry of Defense? If they capture Janaguri alive, I think the whole world will see that fool in no time," Spanga replied.As the commander rather than simply the commander of the front army, he can actually feel the pressure of the Ministry of Defense very clearly.

"Think about what Clausewitz would say? It would be a major strategic mistake to involve too many mobile forces in the secondary battlefield. The victory or defeat of a war depends most of the time on the decisive choice of the commander, not on the It’s a sloppy refueling tactic.” Abia argued rationally, and he knew very well that Spanga was not a fool.

Abia's words worked, and Spanga stopped talking.He also knew what kind of judgment a wise commander should make at this time, obviously Abia was right.If you deploy the main assault force to carry out a rescue in the secondary direction, it is obviously a mediocre act.He can be sure that Pasade should do that, but the pressure on Spanga at this time is not something that the frontline officers can understand.

"I really hope they can do it sooner." Spanga shook his head and said.

Commander Abia was a little puzzled, and it took him a long time to realize that what the commander wanted to say probably referred to the destruction of the 16th Infantry Division. If Janaguri and his thousands of people disappeared from the map , might not be an acceptable result.

"You mean, we continue to attack as planned?"

"That's right. Jacob Abad is the last railroad to Karachi, and she's in front of you now, so go ahead and do it."

"Commander, how do you explain it?" Abia asked cautiously, and he realized that Spanga was about to take the scapegoat that he couldn't help.In Indian Army tradition, this is a nuisance ten times deadlier than losing a battle, and whatever it might mean militarily, it is never politically correct.In fact, politicians in Congress will not pursue officers who have lost battles, but they are very good at strangling those commanders who try to win wars and give up local interests on the battlefield from various non-professional moral heights.Therefore, the upper echelons of the Indian Army are always filled with mediocre things without edges and corners.Thinking of this made Abia feel unbearable.

"I am the only one responsible for the above matters. Minister Singh began to directly intervene in the staff, which is a bad sign. For the time being, we can only use the 6th Armored Brigade and the 24th Rapid Assault Group to fight."

"The 6th Armored Division will not be their opponent." Abia said.He knew that the pretentious brigade of You Neighbor had only one T72 regiment.The defense is sufficient, but it is another matter to rely on them to rescue others. If they fail, they will put themselves in like Sahri's armored regiment.

"As long as New Delhi sees the plan, I will naturally have a way to shift part of the responsibility to the Air Force or Janaguri. You only need to worry about your own affairs. By the way, how is the A100 rocket launcher unit now?"

"Still fleeing in the Gilter Mountains, my artillery brigade is watching him closely. As long as they dare to enter the preset position or stop, my tornado will make a fatal attack in the shortest possible time."

"Did you deploy the tornado on the forward position?" Spanga was surprised. He found that during the few hours he went to New Delhi for a meeting, Abia changed his principle of using artillery and let the tornado stay on the position for a long time. , seems to be a little underestimated.

"Commander, you are also aware of the current situation. The GPS signal is not accurate enough, and we have too few vehicles on the side of the front line. It is difficult for the vehicles to deploy quickly on the enemy's land, so I am going to take a little risk," said A Biya walked to the map and pointed out several locations marked with red pencils.

"This is your position?"

"That's right, these are four preset positions that have been accurately measured. I plan to gather all the rocket artillery units, move them every 5 hours, and then deploy any of them in an orderly manner. And our drones lag Stay in the air for a long time to monitor the enemy's movements. Although the maneuverability is somewhat reduced, this can give full play to our drone reconnaissance advantages, and it is also convenient for our army to concentrate superior firepower."

"I always feel that maneuvering away from the road will be a very dangerous thing. After all, Chinese satellites will stare at you. Moreover, the Chinese Air Force bombers at Shamsi Base will also be a problem. If they touch your mobilization rules , and then use Giltel’s mountainous area to approach at an ultra-low altitude, it will be on top of you in no time.”

"I have carefully considered this point. In the case of information asymmetry, they have little chance, and the newly allocated S300 air defense missile force to me is enough to offset their tactical aircraft threat. As for the A100 force, it is only from Judging from their recent attacks, the reaction speed of the unit is very slow, I promise, as long as they show their flaws again, I will be sure to kill them all."

"Well, I hope so." Spanga replied. He knew that Abia was proficient in artillery. Since he dared to deploy like this, he naturally had his reasons. The fact that the 16th Division was besieged had already overwhelmed the lieutenant general, so much so that he no longer had the energy to care about the minutiae of these battalion-level confrontations.He thought, it's better to leave it to Abia to handle it.

On the winding road in the Gilter Mountains.A command vehicle with a 6X6 chassis was moving slowly along the rough road.This kind of maneuver may be able to escape the strike of India's long-range firepower, but it still cannot get rid of the drones overhead. The Indian Army's continuous launch of the Nishant drones is always buzzing in the clouds and chasing after them. These annoying The UAV's lingering distance is very long, and it can track the target very well during the day.

Inside the command vehicle, all kinds of information are being continuously collected through the VHF radio station.As the Indian tornado rocket launcher position continues to push forward, the room for the A100 troops to maneuver is decreasing. Now Yu Zhendong is wandering on the edge of the opponent's range, constantly testing their reaction.In the past few hours, he has already detected the trajectory of this miraculous force of the Indian Army from the latest satellite pictures. The enemy's maneuvering path is becoming easier. This is probably because the Americans have tampered with the GPS signal. The adjustments made, for precision shooting, position measurement is always the first, so they made a trade-off. The Indian commander tended to choose a relatively fixed position and gave up the maneuvering of the vehicle.Of course, seasoned hunters will still make mistakes for a moment, especially Pakistan's previous combat records, which have indeed played an objective role in admiring the enemy.Yu Zhendong knew exactly what those distant tornadoes were waiting for.The mobile 3D radar of the nearby Pakistan Army continuously found that the opponent's drones were following the convoy, and the army's anti-aircraft firepower had shot down at least 4 of them, but the Indians still sent drones to track the convoy regardless of the cost. A convoy, its wolf ambition can be seen.

In fact, the Pakistani Air Force has been trying to knock down the Indian heavy firepower unit, but this tornado unit is mobilized at least 5 times a day, and the route is erratic, and the 21st Army has deployed a set of S300 systems in Suku The place 15 kilometers east of Seoul makes the air strike plan unrealistic. At present, the 8 A100 rocket launchers commanded by Yu Zhendong have become the only weapons that can start a duel with the opponent.For the commanders on both sides, the battlefield has long been silent, and all the supporting characters with insufficient range have left their sight, and all they see is each other.

"Report to Commander, domestic satellite communications." The communications soldier in the front row suddenly turned his head and said.

Yu Zhendong took the page torn off by the communications soldier and looked at it. It was the latest technical information on Indian weapon specifications.He finally determined that India's Tornado rocket launchers are currently unable to use Russia's GLONASS system.Before he set off, he knew that the configuration of the tornadoes purchased by India could be compatible with dual-G satellite positioning systems (GPS and GLONASS), but this mode has not been available.Now the intelligence community has fully confirmed this claim.Since Russia is currently unable to maintain a huge satellite network, the number of new satellites launched after [-] is not enough to make up for the number of satellites in orbit.At least in the South Asian subcontinent, there is still a gap here.In other words, the A[-], which can use Beidou positioning, seems to have gained an additional advantage.

(End of this chapter)