Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 472 Preparation for Diving
Immediately there were reports of side penetrations by assault guns, but no reports of damage.Li Xiulin found out that there were major mistakes in the implementation of his plan this time. The main problem was that he was stuck in the quagmire and had no way to remedy it.

The road was covered with smoke for a while, and the Indian armored soldiers began to back up and adjust their formation through the thick smoke, while the assault guns stuck in the mud could only respond at a very slow speed. The smoke was so thick that the soldiers could not see clearly such a change.

The gunner of the No. 01 tank carefully searched for the next target in the scope. During this period, the enemy's shooting tended to be more tactical. The two tires on the left side of the tank were hit once each, and the vehicle quickly tilted to one side. Immediately, the tire inflation system began to work, and the car body recovered in a blink of an eye.Li Xiulin knew that if the wheel on this side was shot a few more times, the gods would not be able to save him. At an extremely low speed, he asked the driver to turn and switch to the other side to resist. However, he still did not ask for help from the headquarters. into chaos.

An armored vehicle preparing to launch a missile slowly drove out of the smoke, and met Li Xiulin 1.3 kilometers away.Both sides quickly identified the main threat object, and slowly turned the turret to prepare to kill the other side first.

The enemy took advantage of the need for precise aiming and opened fire first, and an anti-tank missile threw a section of wire and flew straight towards it.It was a poor old-fashioned missile, but it was enough for Li Xiulin to drink a pot when it hit this wheeled tank.

The gunner aimed calmly, taking advantage of the immobilized target during guidance, and fired a cannon hard.Relying on the huge speed advantage, the artillery shells are fired first and blow up the opponent's turret.Seeing that the missile had reached the front, it lost control immediately, and fell headlong into the muddy pond on one side, and the fragments from the blast hit the assault gun with crackling noises.Li Xiulinyong will not be unaware for the time being, his blow that turned the situation around knocked off the opponent's command vehicle.The commander of this vehicle, who withdrew from Spur two days before, was slightly stronger than all the weasels in terms of actual combat experience.

The battlefield entered a delicate stalemate for a while. It seemed that the Indian troops on the road had more numerical advantages, but after they lost their command, they began to mess up.Some chariots at the back of the queue suddenly became frightened and turned around and fled the way they had come.The hot smoke from the armored vehicles could not cover the fast-moving tanks, and they themselves were exposed from the thick smoke.

Several tanks were quickly killed by the assault guns stuck in the mud with extremely steady fire.For Indian armored vehicles, they have anti-tank missiles with superior range, but no one dares to stop or launch these missiles at a slower driving speed.Instead, the assault gun, which was firmly trapped and unable to move, had no choice but to return fire with precise firepower.The situation turned unexpectedly, the enemy chariots that sped up and escaped completely became the targets of disturbance and were destroyed one by one.

Lin Huaisheng observed the entire scene around the battlefield through the camera of the drone. He was terrified to watch this encounter.He could even see that every time the opponent's powerful machine guns hit the terrifying white smoke rising from the surface of the assault gun, for a minute, he believed that he would face another major loss since the fierce battle of Tespur; Rather like the side with a stronger will, the enemy suddenly stepped down from his momentum.The ground squirrel food company used a passable stop-fire technique to successively destroy enemy tanks in front of them, but the enemy's counterattacks were always ineffective.The ups and downs in numbers eventually turned into a one-sided victory, but the weasel itself did not have a big loss.

After 25 minutes, the Indian armored vehicles equipped with small-caliber weapons no longer dared to shoot at the opponent's thick and long barrels in the open space. They began to hide under the roadbed through the smoke. When they reversed and went down, the front wheels were raised high , Weasel seized the opportunity and destroyed a few more.With nothing else to do, the Indian soldiers resorted to their last resort-abandoning the car and fleeing.Lin Huaisheng didn't breathe a sigh of relief until then.

"It's so risky, we actually won a big victory?" Ding Keguang hesitated, as if he still didn't believe it.

"Winning is too risky. If the enemy is good at using missiles, their tactics will be difficult to use."

After Chief of Staff Lin finished speaking, he shook his head.Based on what he saw in Quetta, he could foresee that assault guns or destroyers should not get too close to the front line, and it was most taboo not to shoot at each other in an open space. The most experienced guy he had seen would look for cover first.Once out of solid cover, these weapons are very weak.It is not unreasonable that these weapons usually belong to the artillery establishment. It is not unreasonable for them to hold on to the lead, but it is only a helpless choice to implement a forced airborne landing in this enemy's hinterland, facing poor air transport capabilities.

"How's the airborne field over there?"

"The second batch has just been dropped, and it has controlled a defensive belt of about 25 kilometers. It has a length of 2.5 kilometers and is equipped with several anti-tank missiles. The firepower is very weak. The ground command system has been completed, and the formation of each unit is complete; , and has basically reached the designated area at present."

"How's the firefight going?"

"Several small-scale fire reconnaissances by the advance reconnaissance troops of the 2nd Mountain Division retreated after a few trials in each section. I estimate that a large-scale counterattack will be in the afternoon."

"It seems that the most dangerous initial time has passed." Lin Huaisheng was a little relieved. He knew that if the enemy had an armored force rushing over in time, it would probably cut off the paratroopers with a chaotic organizational structure and mess up the overall plan.

"The Indians obviously saw the imminent disaster and are mobilizing the surrounding troops to resist." Lao Ding added, "These troops are probably hidden by Moro Ghani to counterattack Tespur. Now you don't have to look for them, they are all on their own. It has been exposed. The electronic reconnaissance unit has monitored several numbers that you are interested in."

"Oh?" the chief of staff said noncommittally.

"Report, the weasel is in trouble, and two of them are stuck in the mud and can't get out?" Someone in the command car reported, interrupting Lin Huaisheng's thoughts.

"What's going on again? It wasn't good just now."

"The tires of the two vehicles were damaged and could not be recovered. They requested to send a rescue force. Our number of tractors is insufficient, and according to the instructions, we cannot get too close to the front. According to the weather report, there will be rain in the afternoon, and the rescue vehicle It might get in too."

"Look at what the hell route he chose?" The chief of staff couldn't help blaming Li Xiulin, "Forget it, just evacuate the people, leave those vehicles there for now, and send someone to tow them later."

Lin Huaisheng thought about it for a while. He knew that there would be moderate rainfall in the afternoon, and the airborne troops moved in advance just to get ahead of the rain. However, this rain did not bode well for some of the units under his command.

"How is He Fan?"

"After emergency repairs, it was restored to 8 vehicles, and they were still fighting on the channel just now."

"It doesn't seem to work without him, tell them to get ready."

Next to the smoky road, 10 assault guns barely moved onto the road. Each car was covered with a thick layer of mud, almost a circle.There are a few vehicles, and there are also some crews on the temporarily abandoned vehicles. These crews cannot participate in the following missions and can only wait for the helicopter to pick them up.

Most of the vehicles were ok, only 2 tanks had too many shots on one side of the wheel and the emergency system couldn't restore the air pressure at all.But this kind of vehicle is very simple to repair, as long as it is dragged back, it can quickly restore its combat effectiveness.

Soon two Z-2 helicopters flew over and picked up the team members. At the same time, a squad of infantrymen came down from the helicopter. They had to keep an eye on the road here, in case a few Indian soldiers came and threw them into the broken-down assault gun. A few grenades.At the same time, these infantrymen are also responsible for gathering intelligence in the abandoned and destroyed Indian armored vehicles.

Lin Huaisheng's staff department is quite efficient, and he himself is a delicate person, and he will never easily abandon any useful unit on the battlefield.At the beginning, Xu Jingzhe judged from his personal temperament that Lin Huaisheng was not suitable in all aspects to be a commander of a battalion or above or a senior intelligence officer, and he even wrote it in his comments, but in this special place, his carelessness showed some effect.He asked the repair company to immediately pull out the trailer and push the two broken assault guns out of the quagmire before the autumn rain.Towing these vehicles is always easier than towing a tank.

The remaining 10 assault guns were given a new task, requiring them to immediately march to the lower reaches of the Poldykla River, waiting for the vehicle to be repaired (change the wheels), and at the same time monitor the enemy forces on the other side and cover a friendly army in the south for reconnaissance across the river.

Upon receiving this new order, Li Xiulin's heart skipped a beat. He reckoned that he had messed up his game just now, and now he was about to change from the assault force to the role of thug.Driving all the way from Jabwa to here, he had had enough of this bleak role, but his superiors still had little confidence in the weasel's combat ability.

"Company commander, what kind of unit is the friendly army that wants us to cover the crossing?" The gunner asked a question in an ignorant manner.

"The headquarters didn't say so, how would I know where to go?" Li Xiulin said angrily, but he almost guessed who the allies on this road were. There is nothing difficult to guess about the assault units.

The Weasel Company drove along the highway to a designated location beside the big river. Across the 120-meter-wide river, there was a vast wasteland and dilapidated villages. From the map, there were small towns and railway hubs 4 kilometers behind, but Can't see clearly.

The Poldikra ​​River will eventually flow into the rolling Brahmaputra River. Now the railway bridges on this river have all been blown up by Indian engineers and the Chinese Air Force for their own purposes, but the upper river is wide but not large. deep.

The assault guns of the Weasel Company have the ability to swim across the river, but the superior did not issue an order to cross the river.Li Xiulin could already vaguely hear the sound of artillery in the north. This was another vehicle-mounted howitzer unit of Lin Huaisheng, using special ammunition to suppress long-distance targets.Seeing that the final counterattack of the [-] Indian trapped beasts is about to begin.Can the weakly armed paratroopers resist?He couldn't help thinking.

Company Commander Li was at the designated location, constantly observing the dilapidated village on the opposite bank with binoculars.

"Wolf den, weasel begs to cross the river quickly and build a bridgehead."

"Weasel, stay where you are and monitor the other side. The enemy situation on the other side is unknown, so there is no need to cross the river for the time being."

He looked up and saw a drone flying slowly across the river. It was obviously on a reconnaissance mission, but nothing was found. It seemed that there was really no enemy.He came all the way from Jabuwa, passing through many villages like this, and 90.00% of them would not resist.

"Wolf den, the weasel once again requested to cross the river for reconnaissance, and occupied the village of Charadia to control the key road. Clear the way for the follow-up troops."

"Not allowed, perform the original task."

The company commander was inevitably a little disappointed, so he looked south.About 1 kilometer away, about 7 or 8 tanks have just arrived and are making complicated preparations for crossing the river.

"Fuck, can these dead turtles cross the river?"

He Fan is currently installing seat ring sealing bags on the tank, adjusting the submersible antenna, and conducting several tests.It is indeed a super cumbersome task for a tank without buoyancy to cross the river. It is as big as the snorkel, the overflow baffle of the partition, and the sealing cloth cover of the air intake louver, as small as the cannon cover of the artillery, and the sealing cover of the side-by-side machine gun. few.Although it looks indestructible, the tank is never seamless. It is a terrifying thing to dive from the river bed to the opposite bank. It is impossible not to be strict.In particular, He Fan's tank was not repaired neatly. Although the penetrating wound on the turret was only as thick as an index finger, it needed to be carefully blocked.

While guiding the preparation work, He Fan looked upstream with a telescope, and saw that someone was looking at him on the first tall, mud-covered assault gun.Although he couldn't see clearly, he had already guessed who that person was.

"How about it, I'm back again, you still help me?" He muttered to himself.

One kilometer away, Li Xiulin also said to himself: "It's so troublesome to cross a river, it's like a submarine, I would have passed it long ago."

He Fan left the assault gun that was covering over there, and got into the turret to check the power-on operation of the underwater courser. This is a device similar to the inertial navigation of a submarine. It uses the gyroscope to guide the direction underwater. If it is an exercise , He can climb up to the snorkel covering the entire commander's hatch to observe by himself, but in actual combat, he can only use the snorkel with a thick bowl mouth, and the underwater course can only rely on the whole thing.

"This is 08, how is the situation of the drone's shore reconnaissance?"

"08, this is the wolf den. No large-scale enemy movements have been found. There are cars walking along the railway in the small town to the east. There may be some infantry firepower in the shadows. No armored vehicles or tanks have been found yet."

"I suggest shelling suspicious areas around the town immediately to see if there is any enemy."

"Commander He, do you know we can't do this?"

"Understood, then I can only take one more risk. Maybe there are no enemies in the town. But I can't pass directly, I can only pass through the periphery."

"Okay, the Weasel will provide fire support on the west bank. The east side of the town is completely within their firing range."

"I don't count on them."

(End of this chapter)