Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 430 Precursor of Breakdown

The terminal sensitive bomb uses a composite infrared/millimeter wave composite sensor. Even in a pouring rain, the infrared scanning is interfered, and it has a high target recognition ability.In the rolling sky thunder, countless flames formed by self-forging warheads flew directly towards the hostile target, and Kambiakun's flanks came to a complete standstill in an instant.Most of the parked tanks thought that the engine inside was destroyed, but there were also some members of the crew who escaped the disaster, found that something was wrong, pretended to be damaged in battle, and abandoned the vehicle and fled.

Before shooting, Lin's artillery deliberately corrected some angles to avoid hitting the artillery observation vehicle trailing the enemy.

The second round of grenade shooting fell into the formation with an extremely precise impact point, and the fragments hit the tank armor, crackling and crackling.Through the periscope, the major general saw that the airport runway a few kilometers ahead was brightly lit. It seemed that the enemy was afraid that he would not be able to find the north?Or maybe they treat themselves as nothing and are ready to resume transportation early?
He was completely dizzy, knowing that the battle was bound to be defeated, he still commanded the whole team to rush over. There were always car crews in the army who understood the situation, made wise choices between life and death, and secretly escaped. up.In the end, only about ten tanks followed the major general onto a translucent runway, completely exposing themselves.

The ambush troops were all from the engineering unit. According to Lin's thinking, they would be idle anyway on rainy days.And other combat troops were put into more important directions by him.In order to avoid unnecessary confusion and accidental injury, Lin Huaisheng even strictly ordered He Fan not to intercept along the way, and to hide as far as possible. He firmly believed that he had already won.

The silhouette of the low Indian tank appeared in the white light sight of the anti-tank missile, and the Red Arrow missile immediately launched an attack from all directions. The first tank that drove at the forefront of the entire sparse formation was the major general himself. Too prominent in the troops, it became the target of criticism.This T90 was hit by 5 missiles successively, including a heavy Red Arrow 9.

The Indian tanks, which lost their command, began to counterattack randomly in all directions. They were too close to the burning brigade commander's car, which was more completely exposed from the night.The 35mm double-barreled artillery in the ambush began to fire violently, but the tank missile attack was interrupted.Due to the lack of professionalism and composure of the blocking forces, after the first tank appeared, almost all the teams fired missiles at it, so that when facing the second wave, the firepower was significantly weakened; another side effect was that Lin Huaisheng When trying to collect the body of Major General Kambiakun with military etiquette, he couldn't even find a piece of cloth on the wreckage, so he had to find a track shoe on the brigade commander's car for burial instead.

The tracer bullets of the machine guns guided the infantry to a closer area, and the bewildered Indian tanks began to retreat at this time, but it was too late. The 120mm bazooka and anti-tank missiles fired at the remaining tanks, and all the tanks stopped. Finally, one tank lifted its cover, threw a white shirt from it, and hung it on the antenna.The firepower from the Chinese side gradually stopped.

Lin Huaisheng was always on the other side of the runway, only 2.7 meters away from the firefighting area (the engineers miraculously extended the runway by 48 meters within 900 hours. We must thank the satellite for discovering the piles of building materials and engineering vehicles at the end of the runway in advance. As for setting out Lin Huaisheng’s imagination, he even boldly transported a battalion and a half of engineers here at the first time.) Now, he is beginning to reap the rewards of this speculation-he can solve Tespur once and for all roughly a week in advance up.

Although he put on a calm and relaxed look, Chief Lin's entire headquarters is almost in the car, and can be transferred at any time if necessary.

The sound of artillery from the east gradually stopped, and it seemed that the problem had been solved.The chief of staff was the first to jump out of the jeep. He threw off the rain cap and let the rain fall on the helmet.

"I told you a long time ago that the enemy is at the end of the crossbow, so I stand here and let them not reach me."

After he finished speaking with a sneer, there was another loud explosion sound from the east. He hurriedly raised his binoculars to observe, for fear that a tank would really leak in front of his eyes, which would be ugly.

Seeing that it was just a second explosion of a T90S, he calmed down again and sneered.

"In the next 50 years, all Indians will lament today, because today, we cut off Assam!"

Lao Ding came over and said solemnly: "There are only a few thousand people in Tespur now, it is almost an empty city, and it is completely within reach."

He knew very well that the chief of staff was full of ambition now, and that was all he wanted to hear.

"Yeah, we have been most worried about the enemy sending an armored force from the interior to Tespur. We have only one company of tanks here, and they are a brigade. It is they who want to gamble and lose the last hole card , why bother?"

What he said is quite reasonable. Even if the C17 supply line in Tespur is still open, there is no armored force in India that can be used as a rescue force.At this moment, the main force of the Indian armored forces is in south-central Pakistan, confronting the four Pakistani armored divisions in Quetta. If they plan to withdraw their front-line troops, at least Wang Zhenbei must be eager for it.

"Our... next step?"

"The next step? No need to ask, of course it is to go to Tespur."

He had already determined not to give the enemy any respite, and immediately captured the empty city.The strategic significance of capturing Tezpur is of course self-evident. The enemy’s two heavy forces—Tawang’s and Warong’s clusters—will lose their rear. According to the experience of 50 years ago, no Indian army can Hold on for too long without losing your rear.

"Chief of Staff, Prime Minister of India, must hate you now."

"I think it's probably slapping the table?"

The prime minister's office in New Delhi really fell into chaos. As soon as the news arrived that the 4th Armored Brigade had lost contact, the prime minister collapsed on the ground unconscious.Kahan has never worked in the army, but he knows what it means for such a powerful mobile force to be eaten by the enemy in a blink of an eye.

For more than 50 years, India has been emphasizing that it has never been afraid in the shadow of military failure.In order to boost confidence, successive governments have been obsessed with using large-scale outsourcing to support a powerful army. When all these appearances imply that India is fully capable of crushing the Chinese army in terms of quality However, this time the main force battle clearly showed that the opponent's advantage is still unshakable.Thinking of the above, Kahan inevitably triggered the old wound and fell headlong. Right now, the Prime Minister is undergoing first aid. The doctor said that apart from the distorted and painful facial surface, his physical indicators seemed to be fine, and it seemed that he needed to rest.

The war cabinet has completely fallen into a state of no leader. Everyone is there talking about various strategies, but no one can really make up their minds for a while.

"At this time, the Americans must be immediately asked for comprehensive military assistance. As long as the US aircraft carrier strike group enters the Bay of Bengal, the Chinese will stop immediately. If necessary, some areas west of Karachi can be given up to the Americans."

Unusually, Singh began to talk about diplomatic issues.

"At this moment, you still want to drag the Americans to fight the fire?" Chandra said disdainfully, "Do you have any common sense in diplomacy? The candidates of both parties in the United States are avoiding the possible involvement of this war with the United States. Talking about killing their submarine."

"A judicial agreement can be made immediately to hand over the drunk Russian who ordered the shooting, and we can stay out of it."

"Too naive, you just wait for Petrov to interrupt the delivery of those paid weapons."

When the prime minister was away, the foreign minister suddenly became stronger and dared to confront Singh tit for tat.

"Stop arguing, the key now is how to make up for this hole." A minister shouted and asked.

"Aksai Chin's troops must not move. It's too close to the capital circle, too close. I bet the Chinese are staring at it." Singer shook his head desperately. He knew the strategic situation better than others. , China has deployed heavy troops near Liecheng, and he knows too well what the consequences will be if they can't stand it there.

"If there is no rescue, the entire east will fall within a week, and our border will retreat to Sigurd."

"Even if a few divisions are transferred back, the journey from Chandigarh to Tezpur is 2000 kilometers, but now they only have 270 kilometers to Tezpur." Singh sat down on the seat, and he suddenly realized that he had never been to Tezpur. How opportunistic it was for the eastern part to deploy troops to attack Fort ***, it seems that Pasade's intuition has always been right, but there is no medicine for regret in this world.

"There is only one way right now." The chief of intelligence interrupted suddenly.

"Tell me?"

"Immediately abandon the Zayu River defense line, and withdraw the 5th Mountain Division in Walong."

"Abandon the territory?"

"There is no other choice. Facts have proved that the enemy's control in Jabwa is stable. This is doomed to the eastern border of Arunachal and northeastern Assam. Their ambitions are already very strong. Clearly, and I remind you, the people there have been unreliable."

Chaman just participated in cooperation with separatist forces in southern Pakistan not long ago. He is very clear that India also has such weaknesses.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese army's firepower test on the surrounding areas of Warong gradually started.

The staff of India's 5th Mountain Division has counted dozens of large-caliber howitzer shots and aircraft bombings, all of which fell on some critical areas.The most terrible thing is that two Su-2s dropped two one-and-a-half-ton giant laser-guided bombs, which broke the underground communication cable of the Warong headquarters.In addition, another grenade landed very close to the interim headquarters, less than 30 minutes after Commander Kunta moved to the new headquarters; the lieutenant general believed that the enemy's intelligence unit had penetrated under his breath .

In the flickering lights driven by diesel generators, the lieutenant general sighed from time to time in front of the map.Tispur's retreat order never came, and the enemy that Jabwa was about to descend from the sky was about to cross the Brahmaputra River to the north and cut off his retreat.

The lieutenant general no longer believes that the local recruiting forces under his jurisdiction are no longer in the surrounding area, and the military council no longer informs the commanders of these troops. Leaked, thus being taken away by the enemy.Of course, more importantly, he didn't want these friends and neighbors to find out that he was going to run away, and let them die in the lower reaches of the Zayu River.Apart from Tespur, Kunta has been in close contact with the Indian-Tibetan special forces across the river from him.He is very clear that in the current situation, only Lausanne and his people are the most reliable.Of course, it is impossible for him to know that the Chinese army's attack on the communication cable in Walong was actually done on purpose. The Chinese intelligence unit has the complete communication key of the Indian army, and any radio communication at the front is under control.

Various telegrams from the 5th Mountain Division flew to Xu Jingzhe's desk like snowflakes. The time he saw these telegrams was about 15 minutes later than Chaguye's, which was told him by the deciphering unit.

The major general flipped through the telegrams with the key points drawn by the staff staff with red lines. Most of the content was the same, and they were all asking for instructions to evacuate.

"This Kunta is very cautious. Looking at Houji, he didn't disclose the retreat route. Maybe it was to guard against us, or maybe it was to guard against our neighbors."

The old man nodded. As an intelligence officer, he expressed certain affirmation of his opponent's good secrecy style.

"His telegram to Lausanne marked 11 highlands that must be controlled, as well as 2 bridges, and his telegram to the engineering unit of the 5th Mountain Division requested that pontoon bridges be assumed on several tributaries overnight."

An officer pointed out on the map where Kunta had instructed to control and where bridges were to be built. It could be seen that there were some separations in the area and did not constitute a complete route. It seemed that the enemy command had not yet determined the final retreat.

"He knows our long-range firepower is powerful. You see, he chose areas that are not easily covered by curved firepower." The old man said, "These pontoon bridges may be just a cover to attract us to reconnaissance, but when the weather improves, let them go immediately." The Air Force blows them all up."

"There is some bad news. The flow of the upper reaches of the Zayu River is still too large, and our interspersed troops are temporarily unable to pass through. Our early hydrological surveys and forecasts are a bit optimistic."

"Well, it's really delaying things. How is the instigation of the frontal enemy armed forces going?"

"The Imphal Supplementary Regiment of the Indian National Army is no longer a problem. Thirty percent of this regiment is Indian Kachin. The middle and upper-level officers have a tendency to separatism. As soon as we pass by, they will automatically be changed to the 1st Army of Democratic Self-Government."

"In the long run, it will be troublesome," the old man shook his head. "There will definitely be pressure from the Burmese government, but for now we still have to stop these people."

"The 2nd Division of the General Staff's Intelligence has also contacted the national army recruited by Nagaland through some connections with the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency. The defense area of ​​this motley army is in the south of Zayu. There are currently more than 6000 people. Most of them are Bangladeshi Hindus and have left-wing ideological traditions. , Now the guarantee is that at least the position will be given up."

"The situation is good."

"The 5rd Battalion of Gurkhas in the south has just shot and killed the local guerrillas who went to contact them. Obviously, they will advance and retreat with the [-]th Division and need extra precautions. By the way, the latest intercepted news, Lieutenant General Kunta hopes that Tispur Send a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the front to monitor the "unreliable" troops infiltrated by left-wing and separatist forces in case they fall against us."

"Send a supervisory team? Who will you send?"

"Only Lobsang Gyatso is the most suitable. He is ruthless and the most loyal and reliable. Tespur mobilized his troops to the river valley in the middle of Arunachal and assigned him a transport helicopter unit. It should have been early There is this intention."

(End of this chapter)