Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 456
Their conversation made Wang Tiechuan feel like his subordinates were upside down.

The electronic warfare aircraft near Tespur have strong reconnaissance capabilities. After the suppression was stopped, the enemy's radio stations in the urban area became active again a few minutes later. Most of them were communications between teams. A large number of dialogues of combat command were monitored in the unencrypted channel, but it was too complicated to analyze the dialogue at the grassroots level.

Through the reconnaissance equipment on the ground enemy's radio sideways, the area with the highest density was quickly found, and all the tank radio stations found were also in this area, basically surrounding the original communication support force station, very close to the ruins of the headquarters.

Lin Huaisheng and He Fan on the battlefield, after analyzing the battlefield situation in Shinjuku, came to a similar conclusion, and decided that the Air Force would first launch a large-scale bombing of the area with the most densely populated radio stations, forcing the enemy to carry out a large-scale bombing operation under the pressure of the exposed headquarters. Transfer or other countermeasures; while He Fan and Xuelang outflanked to appropriate positions, observed the situation and made appropriate countermeasures.

A series of battlefield decisions were quickly reported and approved.After the informationization transformation of the Chinese army, its flat organizational structure has greatly improved the coordination between the battlefield and the headquarters, while the Indian troops in Tispur can only fall into a situation of fighting on their own under various suppressions. .

At the airport 450 kilometers away, Zheng Hui, the head of the regiment, immediately received the take-off information. He was ordered to lead two J-2 fighters and form a 16-machine formation with 3 J-10B fighters to launch an attack on the core target of Tespur.

The attack mission is not complicated, and the formation will directly use the "Joint Assault Munition" that has been proved to be very effective in actual combat to bomb the appropriate area.The mission does not require high precision, and the range of the target area is 0.5 square kilometers.The only difficulty is Tispur. There are a lot of buildings over 20 meters high, and there are still civilians in quite a few areas, so it is necessary to avoid the areas marked with special colors on the map. He can only choose some effective paths so that these will not Turning smart munitions are able to bypass obstacles in their way and drop to the target area.

Since the original mission was to attack the Indian Army retreating from Tawang, the new plan seemed very urgent. He only glanced at the map while the ground crew was replacing the bomb, and found that the target area was the last time he dropped a giant war bomb near the area.There are many restrictions on the map, not just for Indian civilians, but even 250 meters west of the target, there is a red area that needs to be avoided. According to his experience, that is the position of one's own personnel after the battlefield is divided.

After simply setting the route, the three planes took off in a single file, each carrying nearly 7 tons of various ammunition.The flight route this time is different from the previous ones. It no longer takes a detour from the easternmost Zayu area into Assam, and there is no need to avoid the opponent’s radar at low altitude. Instead, it flies directly over Tawang and follows the shortest route along the border of Bhutan. , for the J-16 with a larger range, the biggest advantage of taking such a route is that it can get the full cover of the J-10 fighter. This is the most annoying thing for fighter bomber pilots to rush out of the battlefield before the bombing phase of the aircraft.

"Move twice, and pay special attention to the mountains to the west. The threat of gusts still cannot be completely eliminated."

"Yangtze River, I will pay attention, what about ground threats?"

"The threat can be eliminated at medium and high altitudes. All long-range radars in this area have been suppressed, but the enemy still has relatively dense mobile anti-aircraft firepower at low altitudes, and the time for firepower preparation is very short. You must remain vigilant at all times."

"Okay, I know."

He glanced down at the electronic warning device, and there was no great threat.When the plane flew over Tawang, one could see through the hood that this fortified city, which the Indian military boasted could hold its ground for half a year, was smoking.

2 hours ago, the last bastion also stopped resistance as the air force bombs fell, there is no fighting there now, and when flying over this area, there is no sense of any air surveillance.His gaze extended to the south, and he saw four pontoon bridges built at the same time on the Tawang River. Most of the pontoon bridges have been completed, and the other two were blown up by the Indians themselves. The pontoon bridges that belonged to them are also being repaired.The attacking team was advancing along the winding mountain road, without too many heavy weapons, and a new battle had broken out on the outskirts of Derangzong, where he was going to drop bombs.

The troops that outflanked Bundila arrived at the designated area ahead of time, but failed to encircle Datou. The main force of India had already fled south to the Poldikra ​​River Basin.In the encirclement that was forming, only the 56th Infantry Division was left to fight part of the blockade.The goal of an annihilation battle similar to that of 50 years ago was not achieved. Most of the 2nd Mountain Division and the division headquarters of the 56th Division fled. No one can expect the enemy to make the same mistakes forever.

The fleeing enemy may wait for the 5th Mountain Division from afar in the northern area of ​​Assam, and then may counterattack southward to Tespur or flee westward in a group. Zheng Hui is not interested in the task of attacking the enemy's fleeing troops. Precision weapons are Seeing these mountainous areas, the sparse team has no effect and will not slow down the enemy's speed. It is far less valuable than the mission of hunting down the opponent's leader not long ago.

Three J-3 fighters approached quietly from the side, blocking a kilometer to the west.Today's task will certainly not be too much trouble for them. 10 hours ago, the air force stationed in XJ attacked Chandigarh, forcing India to transfer all the last elite squadrons, including the Rafale troops, to guard New Delhi. I heard that only Some second-rate troops have been brought here to fill up.

"The Yangtze River calls Mount Tai." He called the escort formation leader who had been silent on the formation channel. In fact, he was quite familiar with the escort formation leader, who often took on the task of escorting and suppressing ground radar.

"Tarzan heard."

"You have an easy task today. The Indian Air Force is not active these days."

"We can't take it lightly." The other party replied seriously, unaware of Zheng Hui's teasing.

"Actually, it's enough for us to deal with it by ourselves. You have nothing to do when you come."

The radio station was silent for a while, apparently the other party heard a faint smell of gunpowder.

"Yeah, if it wasn't for your escort, our regiment would have gone to the west to beat up the Eagle Squadron. There are only some dilapidated MiG fighters left in this area, but the headquarters is still worried that you can't handle it."

"Is there any Indian squadron in Assam that we can't handle..."

"Attention the Yangtze River, the high-speed target is found in the front, and the distance is still far away."

The command plane cut in, and the two stopped talking through the air, and checked the target situation at a low altitude.

After adjusting the magnification, Zheng Hui saw two targets in front of him flying from west to east, as if they were going to cross Tespur. Could it be that the Indian pilot was getting impatient, or was there a navigation problem?
"It's too late for us to start, the cheap surface-to-air missile force is gone."

"It seems to be their attack plane, heading for the bridge, flying at 8000 meters, so brave enough."

Everyone knows that Tespur's Hongqi 16 system will work immediately, and the two Indian pilots are flying at such a high altitude, obviously without any suddenness.However, the flight speed of the target captured by the early warning aircraft has been rising, and soon reached Mach 1.5 or more.

"Is it really an attack plane?" Zheng Hui thought, if any attack plane wants to launch an attack at such a high speed, it will definitely miss in the end.

On the air defense position on the north bank of Tispur, the radar had already captured two targets that were directly entering the bridge from a high altitude, and one of them turned north and left, but such Xu Huang's movements could not fool the commander on the ground. I watched the other plane climb to 8300 meters and was still accelerating. The situation was a little unexpected. This is not a common attack, and it is almost suicide.

The commander of the missile position patiently waited for the opponent to enter the attack range. He judged that the opponent was a Su-30 fighter jet and attempted to approach and bomb the bridge.According to his experience, he gave the order to fire at the optimal distance, and the two missiles pierced into the sky like thunder, intercepting them according to the instructions.

The commander realized that his order was too early, and the opponent's speed suddenly increased to Mach 2.2. In an instant, the attack envelope of the missile was greatly compressed, and it was still accelerating, offsetting a G gravity, and the climbing missile might not be enough Time occupied a higher altitude, and then launched an effective interception.

"Mach 2.3? The missile is about to miss."

Lin Huaisheng, who was in command of the car, realized that the opponent was coming towards the bridge, but unexpectedly, the opponent did not drop a bomb. It flew across the south side of the bridge like a rocket, and directly penetrated the prevention and control net he had carefully arranged.

India's MiG 25R passed through Tespur directly from a high altitude and completed photo reconnaissance. At the same time, the pilot saw the billowing smoke below and the bursts of fire when the artillery positions on the other side fired. He knew that the battle was still going on, and the scale was not small. .As for the scale of Tespur's resistance, this is what the superiors hoped to find out when they took off.

In principle, this is an aircraft that should not exist on the battlefield. It appeared just as the Chinese command calculated the loss of each fighter plane on the Indian side and used it to judge its ultimate resistance limit.

After completing the reconnaissance, the MiG 25, which is making a huge turn, appeared in Zheng Hui's 11 o'clock area. His radar has been completely capturing the opponent's movements. The distance is 47 kilometers, and the number is still decreasing. It is expected that it will soon be from It flashed before my eyes.

The command plane did not give any order to Zheng Hui, she alone gave the interception order to the J-10 formation on the right.

Those J-10s dropped their fuel tanks confidently, accelerated and rushed towards them. Zheng Hui also had a chance to shoot, but he held back. He knew that such shooting was completely futile. Whether the impact of J-10s would have any effect, we will know later .

The Indian pilot of the "Triple Sonic" squadron is fully aware of his situation. Although he does not have the support of an early warning aircraft, he can still roughly judge his situation from radar tracking in all directions. He knows the approximate location of the enemy, but the distance information Unknown, all he can do is push the throttle firmly, so as not to change.What can save him at this moment is not any evasive maneuver, but the speed of this old plane.

There are at least two Chinese fleets in the north watching this fighter closely, and the situation is very urgent.

The aircraft had just recovered from a poor state of storage, and even had only a short ground test drive, before it had time to conduct the necessary flight tests, it accepted this reconnaissance attack mission.Of course, the Triple Sonic Squadron is not in vain. The veteran came out, and the reconnaissance mission was completed in an instant. The window of the camera cabin captured the Chinese troops advancing on the bridge, as well as the convoy gathering on the south bank, and at least two places where helicopters took off and landed.

After being closely watched by at least 20 Chinese air and ground radars, the pilot saw the missiles rising from the side of the cloud, and the visual distance was very large. They quickly turned to themselves, but did not seize the opportunity, but were thrown behind , It disappeared after ten seconds. Obviously, these missiles are designed to deal with low-altitude maneuvering targets with large overloads, and they have their own shortcomings when dealing with high-altitude and high-speed targets.

Reserve pilot Labbadia, full of pride in serving the country, completed this impossible task in the first month of his return to the Air Force. He completed the impossible task even when the Su-30 fighter jets did not dare to cross the threshold. for this reconnaissance.In fact, the Ministry of National Defense in New Delhi didn't even know that there were thousands of people resisting in Tezpur. The Chinese used electromagnetic interference and ground penetrating bombs to accurately destroy most of the communication channels above and below the ground. If there were no internal traitors, such a thing Can't explain.

But the matter is obviously not over. Now for Labbadia, he must avoid the attack of the Chinese plane in the north. He has lost contact with the wingman who turned in advance to interfere with the enemy, and everything is on his own.

Labbadia pushed the throttle carefully while slowly turning south a few degrees, and the overboost quickly reached 5.5.

When necessary, he can use a dive to speed up, but it's not necessary right now. The speed reading on the HUD quickly reached 2.05. He sprinted too hard in Tespur, and the speed once reached Mach 2.39. At that time, he was very worried that such a speed might cause the old aircraft to be scrapped and regretted. But now it seems that, The old man is ok.

He carefully observed the northern sky. One of the advantages of flying above the clouds was that the background was relatively simple, and he could see the traces of most approaching aircraft. Apart from this, he had no other way to know whether the enemy had launched an attack.

The three J-3s attempted to quickly climb to 10 meters, and then launch medium-range missiles at the highest altitude and speed possible, but this aircraft accelerated quite well before Mach 11000, and then it seemed a little weak and threw it away prematurely Although the fuel tank increases the speed, it also makes the afterburner flight a luxury fuel consumption competition. The pointer of fuel consumption always reminds the pilot that enough is enough.They had only one chance, and when the enemy plane passed in front of the nose, they made a desperate attack.

A thin track stretched in the distant sky at an unusual speed, just 8.5 kilometers away, and quickly passed the head-up display of each J-10 in front, with an altitude of less than 10000 meters.It can be said that the interception distance is very unsatisfactory. 3 J-10s, unable to occupy a better position, launched a total of 6 medium-range missiles almost at the same time. Such a salvo seems a bit redundant. If they can catch up, one is enough. If they can’t catch up, more shots are meaningless .

(End of this chapter)