Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 342 Big Fish
In the staff department of the military region in Tispur, most of the staff members were busy collecting information on the downing of the Chinese fighter plane. The officers urged the search team to rush to the scene as soon as possible so that they could take the video and send it back to the command post, so that it would be convenient for them in the command post. Get everything in order before you get up.Although Chaguye's headquarters is facing the double challenge of the enemy's pressure and the shortage of troops, this has not changed the commander's two habits. For subordinate officers, this is obviously the best time to please their superiors.

Unlike these people, Charmain was not concerned with the downed Su-30.He was well aware of the superiors and the subordinates, so it was not surprising that they sent so many people to the crash site instead of searching for the pilot.It's a pity that in this area, he doesn't have the troops directly under the Intelligence Bureau that he can use, otherwise he will hunt down the pilot immediately.At this moment, the Indian-Tibet special forces are 120 kilometers away, so he can only wait patiently.

"It would be great if Lausanne's troops could be mobilized there, even a company." He began to complain that the job of tracking down pilots required a eagle dog with a keen sense of smell like Lausanne.However, since the Mi-17 of the Special Service Squadron fell into the Yarlung Zangbo River, Chaguye has strictly ordered that only with his approval, the army helicopters can be dispatched at night, and he always sleeps at night, and no one dares to ask for his approval. .

"Mr. Director, we have mobilized 3500 people from the National Army and 56 people from the 900th Infantry Division. We have completely blocked the Zayu River Basin. If the pilot falls on our side, he will not be able to return. You can rest assured ’” a staff officer explained to Charmain.

"I hope so. Thousands of people are still too few for that mountainous area."

Charmain doesn't really believe in the efficiency of the army, but now he can only wait quietly. After all, the pilot is not an infiltrated special agent team, and should not have such a strong ability to hide. Maybe there will be news in the near future.

Sure enough, there was a very definite news from the front. An army unit that happened to appear on the west bank of the Zayu River, after a brief exchange of fire, had captured a Chinese pilot who had landed. It is known that two Chinese pilots died One injury.This disappearance was transmitted from the command post in Warong through the telephone line. The content was very simple and did not mention the specific number of this unit.

This news eased Charmain's mood a little.After all, he had a living, which was something he had been wishing for recently. From the mouth of the pilot, or the items he carried, he should be able to detect the purpose of some enemies.A few days ago, the map he found from the gunship that was shot down has already made him deeply aware of the seriousness of the problem. Although this map is not enough to convince an elm head like Chaguye, if there is further In terms of intelligence, he believes that he can piece together the general purpose of the enemy's next stage, and in that case at least Singer can be convinced.

Charman immediately dispatched a few Chinese-speaking agents from the logistics organization of the intelligence force stationed in Tespur to come and stand by. Tespur, but the staff officer told him that the order could not be communicated immediately, because the officer who conveyed the message had left Warong, and the unit was on radio silence, and it was inconvenient to send and receive telegrams.Charmain glanced at the sand table, and there was a small flag with 296 in that area.He knew that it was the mysterious air defense unit that shot down the enemy's helicopter a few days ago. This unit has been well hidden by him in shallow and deep areas as Chaguye's killer weapon.

"The Battalion Commander Mogawa must be a person protected by the gods, otherwise, how could he encounter such a good thing again? It seems that he will get a second medal."

In fact, Chaman has always been disapproving of Chaguye's deployment. In order to make up for the lack of range of missile weapons, the lieutenant general used the simplest method. He secretly hid the "sky" and "earth" missiles in the Under the eyes of the enemy, on the surface, it seems to have its own cleverness, but in essence, it is obviously a military adventure that very underestimates the enemy's intelligence capabilities.

"It seems that everything will have to wait until the daytime," the intelligence chief couldn't help becoming irritable again, and looked at his watch. It was 2 o'clock in the morning; he knew that the Chinese would not tie their hands and feet at night.

2 am ET.A small team is walking cautiously through the deep mountains. They are rushing towards the direction of the gunfire not long ago, preparing to find the whereabouts of the pilot.

What's the next step?Zhao Changbin had to wait for orders from his superiors.What surprised him was that there was no deployment of Indian Army units in the direction where the gunshots came from. The Indians always went out with great fanfare, but that direction was always quiet, and there was nothing suspicious before the gunshots suddenly rang out. After the gunfire ceased, there was complete silence again.

From the map, it can be seen that there is a deep ravine in the middle of the mountain, and the ravine is full of stones. For most of the time of each year, there is a river with a large flow at the bottom of the valley, which is the mechanized troops. Difficult to pass areas, so it has not been the focus of reconnaissance, and just a week ago, a drone carrying a synthetic aperture radar also conducted terrain mapping and sampling of the valley, when there was nothing there.

Zhao Changbin stopped, and the five people behind him also stopped, and dispersed in a guard formation.He now needs to contact his superiors again and confirm the location.He has a small computer with a butterfly antenna, which can be used for satellite communication after it is turned on. This kind of communication is currently the safest ultra-high frequency communication in this area. It is more reliable than using the radio rashly. Now the radio in the team is always on , but only passively accepts signals.

The new order issued by the headquarters is still to search and move forward. In addition, the drone has determined that several Indian soldiers have retreated. Obviously, the pilot has fallen into their hands.It's not clear what's going on in the ravine ahead. Air reconnaissance cannot see the bottom of the ravine clearly, and there's no record of enemy radio activity there.

Zhao Changbin looked back, and the burning hill to the north had been left several kilometers behind him.It seems that the fighter plane was carrying a lot of fuel when it crashed.

"Maybe you can wait until dawn and wait for the drone to play a role." A soldier suggested.

"No, our pilots must be found before dawn. Now they must be somewhere nearby. They will be transferred to Walong after dawn. We will have nothing to do by then."

"But we don't have the equipment to climb the cliff?"

"This valley is only narrow, but not very deep. If the enemy can go down, so can we."

After resting for 10 minutes, a group of people made gestures and equipment and sneaked south in the primeval forest again.This area has always belonged to no-man's land. The nearby Indian Army patrols have always adhered to the principle of not going out at night, so as not to get lost and freeze to death. However, for the well-trained and well-equipped military commander, the danger of getting lost does not exist. , the biggest problem right now is that the enemy is no longer moving.

A biting cold wind blew through the woods, and Zhao Changbin noticed that there were voices of voices in the wind.He motioned to stop, and the scouts slowed down.It can be seen that 200 meters ahead, a beam of weak flashlight light is shaking among the branches.The scouts moved a few steps sideways. From the night vision goggles, two Indian soldiers were desperately pulling something on a fir tree.Zhao Changbin guessed that it was probably a parachute.After observing quietly for a while, he made sure that there was only a jeep and two soldiers nearby, and there was no other target, so he led his soldiers to approach slowly. Under his feet were weak and thick fallen leaves of pine plants, which hardly gave off a sound when he stepped on them. Too loud; at night, Zhao Changbin was sure to get close to the enemy 15 meters away.

Walking into some places, you can see that a parachute has been piled up on the Indian jeep. It can be seen that this is left by the pilot after parachuting. Obviously, as long as they are tracked, the whereabouts of the pilot can be found; he launched a line of text to the command post , requiring the mobilization of drones to monitor the surroundings.The area had long been considered impassable to mechanized forces, but it was clear that enemy jeeps could drive through the woods.

The Indian soldiers began to talk. No one in Zhao's team could understand Hindi, but Indian soldiers always made a lot of gestures when they spoke. From the thermal imaging camera, we can roughly guess that one of the officers wanted to speak Hindi. Assign another soldier to go up the tree and cut the paracord.The soldier muttered something and began to climb the tree, while his superior turned on the headlights to illuminate it from below.

The drones in the air were hovering silently nearby, and they could not find any clues. When the Indian soldiers opened the car, it immediately spotted this light and started tracking it.

After a while, the whole parachute from the tree fell down. The two packed it up for a while, bundled it up and threw it on the back seat, then got in the car, put it in gear and left.

Zhao Changbin was still hiding in the dark, turned on the computer to check the enemy's route, the high-altitude drone completely recorded the enemy's whereabouts, and it was indeed heading towards the valley ahead.His team didn't hesitate any more, and headed straight for it.

After 45 minutes, they finally reached the top of the ravine. The enemy's jeep had already gone down a sloping path. There was about a squad of secret sentries guarding the path. They simply communicated with the jeep by shaking their flashlights. The whole process was short. And quiet, looks well-trained.However, the image-enhanced starlight night vision devices of these soldiers are obviously not as wide as the cooling thermal imaging cameras of the Shanying team. If these well-hidden secret whistles are not easy to be found during the day.

Zhao Changbin walked around to the edge of the mountain and poked his head out.The valley below was dark and silent, save for a jeep with its lights on, wobbling at the bottom.In front of the vehicle, a huge tracked platform covered with canvas is particularly conspicuous. From the outline, it is not difficult to see that there is a downed lifting arm and long-range ESR radar on it.

Gradually, the jeep disappeared into the darkness in the distance. The moment it turned a corner, its headlights illuminated a neat row of missile launch vehicles parked close to the cliff, each with three rockets pointing to the sky. The missile looks a bit like a Russian beech in appearance, but Zhao Changbin knows that there should be four on the beech's follow-up launcher, not three.

"It's the Sky Missile Battalion?" He was shocked, how could the rescue mission hit a big fish?He suddenly had an unreasonable thought: "Is this discovery enough to overwhelm the snow wolf?" This was the biggest wish he suppressed in his heart.

He retracted his head and calmed down for a while, then turned on the computer to check the aerial reconnaissance. Sure enough, the drone lost its target again when it tracked the mountain. In addition to silence, they also found a special terrain to avoid air search.I don't know what wind got the pilot here, but things seem to be going well.

"We always thought there was a river in the valley, but we didn't expect the enemy's air defense force to be hidden underneath." A soldier said in a low voice.

"The rainy season is coming to an end, and some rivers will indeed stop flowing. It can only be said that we are a little careless."

Zhao Changbin reported the general situation to his superiors. Thousands of kilometers away, Xu Jingzhe only took a short time to figure out the general situation.First of all, the pilots of the Su-30MKK should be in the enemy camp below. Unfortunately, or fortunately, they landed near the enemy who kept the radio silent. The enemy sent a search force to capture the pilot, and then Shanying followed them all the way. enemy camp.Now that this force has been exposed, this is simply great news.But the major general immediately realized that there was probably a whole battalion of enemy regular troops there, and there should be more than a company of security troops, and Shanying's troops had been scattered several times, and now there were only 6 people left.It is obviously very difficult to rescue the pilot with such a force.A thought flashed through the major general's mind, it might be the best way to directly dispatch the air force to blow up this valley to the ground. To a certain extent, this is also a solution to the problem of pilots falling into the enemy's intelligence agency; but he immediately denied it. the idea.Although there are not many right and wrong in the war, it is obviously unacceptable not to make an attempt to save.From a moral or human point of view, this is a critical juncture.In the end, he decided to hand over the decision-making power to Zhao Changbin. After all, he was the one who knew the specific situation best, so it was obviously appropriate for him to make a judgment.At the same time, the major general began to contact his superiors to see if there was any way to attack a target hiding in the valley. Most of the methods of searching for targets based on fighter jet radar mapping were obviously not feasible, because the terrain there would inevitably block the radar beam. It is also not advisable to send drones to forcibly enter. Drones commanded through data links will also encounter the problem of geographical shielding, and the ammunition that drones can carry is too small.

Using terrain-matching guided cruise missiles may be a solution. The terrain data of every valley in this area is complete, but this requires the opinion of the superior.

He walked to the row of phones in front of him, the last one leading directly to the commander's bedroom, and without hesitation, he picked up the phone.The commander's confidential secretary was on the other end of the phone, and Xu Jingzhe told him that the commander must be woken up immediately.

(End of this chapter)