Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 442

Tespur's air defense capability only recovered about half in 6 hours, but a new blind-filling radar was deployed in the direction where the previous sneak attack was successful. After calculation, its defense radius against high-altitude targets was reduced by 20.00%. The Su-30 fighter-bomber that took off from Yunnan began to use a new tactic, approaching the boundary of the enemy's defensive circle at close to the maximum ceiling and speed, in order to obtain the maximum range by throwing glide bombs.The first few bombs fell in an area 30 kilometers away from the runway because of the fluctuating airflow in the area. The Indian Army preliminarily determined that the main target of the next round of air attacks should be to block the air passages. When the light is gone, they can only deploy backwards for their own safety.In a very short period of time, the Chinese army has gained the advantage of air-to-ground system confrontation.

After the heavy rain, the headquarters has launched a synchronous weather satellite over the Bay of Bengal to make up for the lack of grasp of the weather in the area.At this time, the satellite had just entered the predetermined orbit, and immediately obtained more accurate and timely reports than the unmanned weather observation aircraft launched from time to time by the frontier.

When the second batch of bombers took off to attack, they had already begun to use the new weather information to chart their course.Taking advantage of the range, these aircraft turned in the south, then rose to 16000 meters, and dropped bombs on the edge of the enemy's air defense circle.The bombs, boosted by warm, moist updrafts, greatly increased their range, and most of them landed on the Tespur runway.Before dawn, the changeable airflow in the Bay of Bengal turned into a boost for the Chinese Air Force.The wind attack was carried out three more times, all of which landed on the Tespur runway, and the satellite-guided bomb was also upgraded to an extra-area weapon with a very high cost ratio.

After the attack, Tespur's runway was riddled with bomb craters.Observed from satellites, these circular craters spread evenly and landed ideally. For the defending engineers who lacked steel plates and quick-drying cement, how to restore their functions in a short time has become an unsolvable problem.In the end, the bombing speed of the Chinese Air Force far exceeded the speed of the enemy's filling of potholes.

Sure enough, when a C17 transport plane forced a landing, the runway collapsed when it passed a hastily repaired bomb crater. The last large transport aircraft entering Tespur.

With the pouring of 5 tons of ammunition per hour, the runway eventually lost its value for repair. The 557th Indian Engineer Battalion finally gave up repairing after losing a large number of personnel.The headquarters ordered it to pass through the Plakalia Brahmapu Bridge, defending the town on the south side of the bridge and the bridge approach.Mainly its mission shifted to destroying the bridge if necessary.Jabwa's airborne enemy forces are advancing on the south bank of the Brahmaputra River, rapidly approaching the bridge every minute.

Prime Minister's Office, New Delhi.

After Prime Minister Kahan's escape from hell, he can finally attend the military meeting.When he walked into the conference room with the help of a doctor, most of the Indian officials present were immersed in pessimism.Some people saw the Prime Minister coming in and couldn't help clapping their hands. Finally, the lengthy applause turned into a frantic clamor. Let the prime minister wake up?Of course, after this kind of wishful thinking, India's embarrassing state of having no soldiers to send has not changed in the slightest.

The prime minister smiled and waved to everyone, including some he didn't like.

"I am very glad that you are still so closely united under the Mahatma's ideals during my coma. It can be seen that our enemy has miscalculated." The Prime Minister waved his dry hands, stopped the restlessness of the crowd, and went underground The meeting room gradually fell silent. "The enemy's attack has been planned for a long time, so like all plots that history has witnessed, it has put us in great passivity for a short time. But their atrocities are accumulating, and we will become more united, which is destined Their ultimate failure."

"We will present to the United Nations the evidence of Chinese artillery burning down villages, destroying towns, massacring the elderly, weak, women and children. Evidence of massive use of inhumane weapons."

Singer answered in good time.

"Have Western journalists already entered a war zone?"

"Every news agency sent people there, but the electronic interference from the Chinese delayed their publication. This morning, the whole world will see the first batch of battlefield pictures." Someone replied.

"What's the current situation?" the prime minister asked.

The scene suddenly fell into a deathly silence, and no one answered the Prime Minister's words, so he had to turn around by himself and look at the map on the wall.

The blue arrow departing from Jabuwa has already advanced greatly to the west. The Prime Minister adjusted his glasses, trying to see clearly.When he was in a coma, the enemy was still on the defensive. Now they are attacking along two... actually three lines, and the battlefield is divided in a mess.The enemy army from Jabwa was marching towards Tespur along the banks of the Brahmaputra River. The south road had progressed more than half of the way, and our reinforcements were still blocked in the Sigurd Corridor.Farther to the east, the borders were being fought, and one frontier seemed to be in the hands of the enemy.

After these days of experience, even the cardiovascular doctor standing behind the prime minister can already understand the arrows on the map and the situation they represent at a glance, so the doctor hastened to grab the prime minister's arm to prevent him from suddenly what happened.

But the prime minister didn't feel any excitement, he just let out a long sigh: "It seems that the situation has become very troublesome, and the time to test our determination has come."

140 kilometers southwest of Tespur, He Fan was commanding his company to refuel in an orderly manner. The infantry formed a security circle and exchanged fire from time to time with the enemy who was several times their size. The enemy had no night vision equipment and no desire to fight. When encountering a battle, they fled in other directions.The artillery fire in the distance is getting closer and closer. He must take advantage of the last night to complete the refueling work as soon as possible. He is very worried that the enemy may react and attack the tanker, but everything is going well. The tanker was only shot by automatic rifles Hit a few times and didn't punch through.

From the monitor, He Fan could see that the rear troops were approaching. It was difficult to move. Obviously, the Indians’ measures of burning vehicles to block the road had worked. He was unavoidably proud. In his opinion, the motorized infantry still relied too much on roads and engineers. Well, in Assam, where the rivers are criss-crossed and undulating, it is really not very good off-road mobility, unless it is really necessary, he must get rid of them.

Our own drones have been hovering overhead, conducting various reconnaissance.In the area east of Tespur, no large-scale radio group activities have been detected. The enemy in front either lost contact or lost the radio station; from his pursuit all the way, at least lost the cumbersome supplies, In terms of traveling lightly, the Indians are quite decisive.He switched to the video of the drone and watched it for a while, but the tracking warning indicator on the edge of the screen did not light up. It seemed that the enemy's air defense capability had shrunk greatly.

Before the last car finished refueling, he had carefully studied the next situation.Obviously, the Kalia Brahmapu Bridge will be the top priority in the next stage. If you are fast enough, you can catch up with the large group of remnants of the enemy, cut off their escape back to Tespur, and wipe out the enemy's road along the way. anti-aircraft weapons.He hastily set the route on the computer, and then sent it to every other vehicle through the inter-vehicle network. He knew that after a while, the chief of staff would send a similar but slightly conservative route for his reference.

The last tank was finally filled with fuel. It was very lucky to find 6500 liters of diesel on the battlefield. Before that, he had used up three-quarters of the fuel.He called the infantry into the vehicles and began a new assault.During this period, the UAV kept providing it with video images ahead, and did not turn to other directions until the UAV detected the threat of ground radar.

Lin Huaisheng did not restrain He Fan's assault, but only provided a reference route.He finally had enough aviation fuel, and immediately sent four light helicopters carrying anti-tank missiles to chase after He Fan to replace the drones to provide him with aerial reconnaissance and cover.Xu Jingzhe has already conveyed a secret to him. He may be able to solve the problem on the north bank of the Kalia Brahmapu Bridge. If He Fan can quickly control the approach bridge on the south side of the bridge, the enemy's plan to destroy the bridge may be prevented.

Chief of Staff Lin thought, this bridge is Tespur's escape route, and the enemy has no commander, so no one should be able to make up his mind to blow it up. This leaves a chance, if He Fan's speed is really fast, maybe He can take advantage of the enemy's chaotic period to capture the southern approach bridge, so that his troops can march directly into Tespur, but he doesn't know how Xu Jingzhe will deal with the bridge guards in the north; he can only guess that Xu Jingzhe is in the city There may be several high-level insiders, otherwise it would be hard to explain, how could he easily grasp the movements of the enemy leaders?
At dawn, Chang Yong's armed helicopter formation flew over the Zayu River against the sun, and intercepted the fleeing enemy's 5th Division.Due to the sudden change of climate, he was unable to climb over Duoxiongla Mountain to join the assault on Jabuwa, and completely missed the battle ahead. Facts have proved that Lin Huaisheng does not seem to need the support of heavy-fire gunships.Now he has returned to the directly-administered troops of the command headquarters, and the command headquarters left his brigade as the main strike force in Zayu, which was originally planned to be used in the battle to annihilate the Indian-Tibetan special forces.However, after learning that India would deploy Rajasthan's 104th Squadron into Assam in batches, he got a fighting chance ahead of schedule.

The 104th Squadron is also India's trump card. They don't fly Su-30 or Mirage 2000. They drive Mi-35 armed helicopters, which pose a great threat to various assault forces, especially Lin Huaisheng's tank vanguard.In addition, the No. 117 Squadron, call sign Himalayan Dragon, is secretly refitting with new equipment in Kolkata. A lot of information shows that the United States has delivered a batch of used Apache helicopters to India. This will be Chang Yong's very much-anticipated opponent.

He flew all the way along the set route, 15 kilometers parallel to General Kunta's retreating troops. He did not lead the team to fly over the deserters and shoot them. There are not many high-value targets in the enemy formation, and it seems that directly attacking them is not worth the loss. He had to do even more absolutely—destroy the bridges and air defense units along the way one by one, completely cutting off the escape route of the enemy.

The 6 helicopters are flying slightly above the ridge, so that the millimeter-wave radar above the rotor can play a certain role.

The radar lived up to expectations, and quickly intercepted the moving convoy from north to south in front, as if to catch up with another enemy of the Fifth Division.The shooter had a good eye and soon saw a large convoy of jeeps and horses.Before Chang Yong had time to ask his superiors for instructions, someone on the radio told him that there was no need for routine identification. It was an artillery unit of the enemy, and it needed to be dealt with first. In addition, special precautions should be taken against weapons such as Sam 7.Chang Yong guessed that this was the information sent back by the snow wolf on the ground, but who cares, there is enough ammunition at the moment, so you must not miss it.

"The formation is spread out, pay attention to the infrared alarm, and be ready to launch jamming bombs at any time." He made a simple arrangement, so there is no need to spend too much time on such a weak enemy.

The enemy heard the sound of the helicopter approaching from a distance and began to panic. The men and horses began to find their own escape routes, leaving only the vehicles in a mess on the simple road.

The shooter adjusts the cannon to aim at the larger targets. The shooting cross in front of him is always moving due to the change of the helicopter's attitude. The cannon has the ability to stably follow the line of sight, but it cannot stand up to too violent movements.He had to keep adjusting until he was close to a more reliable range.

3.5 kilometers away, the helicopter began to launch infrared jamming bombs, which will help destroy the aiming of ground missile shooters. The air defense missiles of the Indian army in this area are relatively backward. Under similar circumstances, launching the jamming bombs first can make the missile seeker very Distinguish/difficult to catch targets.Sure enough, there was only one missile in the enemy convoy flying into the air. Chang Yong immediately turned to one side. The enemy missile did not keep up with this movement and flew straight past hundreds of meters away. He suspected that the ground shooter hadn't finished at all Aiming and firing the missile in a panic.

The shooter reminded him to maintain stability immediately, and he immediately pushed the pitch change stick and the control stick at the same time, keeping the aircraft slightly forward, and at the same time lightly stepped on the pedals to restore the original nose pointing.During this time, the shooter fired a volley of shells, missed, then corrected, and fired another volley of shells, destroying the jeep from which the missile had just been fired.A round of small-caliber ammunition hit the windshield of the helicopter, leaving a white spot, and he immediately pulled the collective distance rod to gain some altitude.

The other 5 helicopters also started free fire, but didn't waste a single rocket to destroy these unarmored vehicles, and only used the cannon to set fire to all about 40 military vehicles running from end to end. Fortunately, there are some left in the battalion Horses can also carry some weapons.Chang Yong didn't do anything to these animals, he didn't think it was necessary.

On the ground, Wang Tiechuan nodded repeatedly while hiding in the dark, finally he was much stronger than the jets throwing bombs in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)