Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 476 The Onslaught After Nightfall
"What's the new news from the Army Command?" Sampani asked eagerly, wanting to know Morogani's opinion.

"The communication was restored for a while just now. At this moment, the enemy's electronic interference has gained the upper hand again. General Morogani's last message is, don't begrudge the shells."

"Does he still need to say that?"

"The commander also said that although he wanted to come among us and fight with us, the enemy paratroopers blocked the road, and he could only command the 23rd Infantry Division on the outside to rescue."

"What a ridiculous reason? After dawdling for so long, the enemy pretended to be positive when he landed in the air?"

Although Sampani was the temporary division commander recommended by Morogani for promotion, he was still deeply disdainful of Morogani's practice of running away and not daring to return to the army.As for the specific attack, Lieutenant General Freedom, who was outside the front line, had no say. He also knew this, so he didn't interfere too much with the plan.In fact, some generals believe that if the details of the plan are communicated to each other on the radio, the Chinese army may monitor it. There are some gaps, the intention of which is worth noticing.

"Look at the firepower configuration behind the trenches and simple fortifications on the opposite side. It took them 6 hours to complete such a remarkable project with only a paratrooper shovel, and they also made full use of the commanding heights on both sides. This must be prepared Come, so you must not underestimate the enemy."

"It's a pity that they didn't have time to deploy mines and anti-tank trenches." A captain behind Sampani said contemptuously. The major general turned his head and found that this person was Lu Zuo, the leader of the death squad.

"We can use tanks to break through this line of defense in one fell swoop."

Lu Zuo said casually while pressing the bullet into the magazine, completely ignoring the enemy.

"Listen, this is a fatal blow, but it's not a death blow. Be careful of the crossfire formed by the commanding heights on both sides. When charging, don't be left too much behind by the tank."

"Don't worry, commander, as long as you give me a base artillery support, I promise to insert the military flag on the commanding height within an hour."

"Haha, well said. According to my observation, the defense depth of the enemy's main position is only 200 meters, hehe, 200 meters, there must be only a small amount of reserve troops and mortar groups in the rear." He patted the shoulders of the death squad, "Do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood, even if the corpse is used to make a way out, it will definitely rush over."

"Once our artillery fires, they will soon be targeted and eliminated by their air power, so I can't invest too much firepower at once, but I will spread my forces and try to make every shell fall on the enemy's head. "

"When shall we do it?" Lu Zuo eagerly asked.

"Let the 109th regiment go up first, you and your people stay behind and carefully observe the enemy's weaknesses, understand?"

"understood."

The sky is getting darker and darker. There are more than a dozen T55 tanks and the same number of BMP-1 tanks in the forest, followed by a large number of infantry.As the main force of the first wave of attack, the purpose is the same as the previous firepower test, which is still to test the Chinese army's defense line. The difference is that there will be an infantry regiment charging behind them.

Sampani's plan is brutal and direct, and he does not spare the lives of soldiers at all. He needs to use the advantage of numbers to engage in round-to-wheel battles and fatigue battles with his opponents; at the same time, he needs to use his own lives to fully expose the opponent's firearm configuration.He holds 11 artillery batteries in his hand, which have been deployed in the rear. He hopes to use these artillery fire support to knock a few holes in the front.

To launch an attack on such a rainy day, there is an additional benefit, which will make it difficult for the opposite infrared observation means to detect the movement of the tank at the initial stage.Sampani will have to wait until after the sun goes down for better results.Unlike other Indian generals, he didn't expect the rescue of other troops. He didn't care about the news that the 23rd Infantry Division was rapidly approaching. He only believed in his own strength.If the 23rd Division can arrive in the middle of the night, that's great. They can attack and eat the enemy in front of them. If they don't, he is confident that he can break through the blockade and throw all the pursuers far away.

At this moment, Qin Donghui, who is guarding against death, is also observing at a place less than 2 kilometers away from Sampani. It is impossible for the airborne troops to have a safe and comfortable headquarters. The only thing that needs to be carefully guaranteed is communication, which is currently smooth; Transportation is a problem, but in a nearby village, the first batch of search troops who landed found more than a dozen Atlas brand trucks discarded by the locals. It seems that they can still be used to carry Dan ammunition, just right It is equipped with the communication link in case of emergency.

Major General Qin turned the artillery mirror left and right, and the burning chariot was almost extinguished, and there were many other damaged chariots parked here and there within 500 meters of the front.He knew that these were just odds thrown out on purpose, and there must be some heavy weapons hidden in the forest.After studying the map, he felt more and more that the enemy's breakthrough would be here. If he was the commander on the opposite side, he would do the same, because the calculation distance here is the closest to the enemy's starting point - the Brachabury Wetland Forest Reserve. On the edge, there is an open area of ​​about 700 to 1000 meters in between, and it is uneven, and the defender's shooting range is not good.If there were enough artillery, he would definitely hit the woods in front of him first, but all he could mobilize were a few mortar batteries, and the ammunition was so precious that they could not be fired towards unconfirmed targets.If the enemy swarms, these mortars are completely irresistible.

The more he thought about Lin Huaisheng's armored unit, the more he hated it. According to the plan, it should have arrived an hour ago. According to Lin's staff, it took a long way to delay time.He only hoped that Lin's artillery could take care of the overall situation and support it with extended-range artillery shells after the start.

The major general was feeling angry in the dark. He could only see the edge of the dark forest on the opposite side, and there were trees shaking and falling down. He quickly adjusted the focus and watched carefully, and confirmed that there were some heavy vehicles slowly approaching him under the trees.

"Tell the troops that the enemy's next attack is coming soon, and there will definitely be more heavy weapons. Keep your spirits up, the anti-tank missile team, don't be too anxious, stay steady."

When formulating the airdrop plan, the staff department relied too much on Lin Huaisheng's mechanized troops to rush to help quickly, so they dropped more supplies instead of airborne combat vehicles. Now he has a lot of anti-tank weapons, ranging from missiles to rockets of various calibers. Yes, relying on these things to resist for a while is almost enough.

"Tell the front, don't rush to show up, maybe the enemy will bombard you."

Qin Donghui hadn't finished speaking when the dense and sharp whistling sound of shells, coming from far to near, was almost overhead.The company commander standing next to him had performed missions in Quetta and was extremely accurate in judging the enemy's shelling.Hearing that the voice was not right, the company commander quickly grabbed the major general who was still looking up at the sky and ran out of the observation post, pushed him down in the traffic trench, and then pressed his whole body on Qin Donghui.

In less than a second, the shell landed in the simply camouflaged observation post. With a loud noise, the floating soil covered his head and head, and then burning fir debris fell from the sky and fell into Qin Donghui's neck. He was burned The moment he fell, he suddenly realized that the commander on the other side must not be an ordinary person.

This was the closest he was to death in his life.The enemy's first bombardment accurately overturned his headquarters.His mind paused a little, thinking to himself, could it be that he had neglected something during deployment?
Qin Donghui is one of the few people in the army who is proficient in both paratroopers and engineers. He has a deep research on paratrooper defense construction. He has a lot of experience in connecting ordinary foxholes into a compact three-dimensional defense system in a short period of time, but he has never experienced actual combat; Sang Pani didn't have radio measuring equipment, but he had experience in confronting the Chinese army, so he only guessed the location of the enemy's temporary headquarters from the movement of people in the trench after a few rounds of trials.

"Damn it, Lin Huaisheng is responsible for this account." He began to curse, and the company commander directly under him pulled him up. The matter was not over yet, and the enemy's shelling had just begun.

The howling shells fell one after another. This rapid shooting stunned some paratroopers (the Indian Army did not use artillery fire in the previous fire reconnaissance). .However, the personnel escaped the shelling in time.Over the past few hours, the paratroopers have dug out vertically and horizontally connected and extremely deep trenches without engineering equipment, and now they can finally save their lives.

The Indian artillery shells lasted for a while. Qin Donghui sat in the trench with his back facing the direction of the shells and listened carefully. He could hear that these were 122mm howitzers mixed with some less powerful mortar shells, and no larger ones were found. Caliber of fire.

After a short period of arrogance, the enemy's artillery fire gradually weakened. Does this prove that the enemy's artillery shells are limited?He didn't know how long the firepower preparation would last, but judging from the information obtained by the intelligence department of the headquarters, the enemy's supplies were tight, so it shouldn't be too long.

Sure enough, after a while, the shelling became sparse, which was a signal that the infantry was about to dispatch.A dozen or so flares of various colors rose from the woods on the opposite side. That should be a simultaneous action signal for all units on the front stretching over ten kilometers?
"Watch out for the tanks!" someone yelled.

The major general wanted to poke his head out to see, but was pushed down by the people around him.

Maybe the enemy is determined to use all their trump cards in the first round of attack, not even waiting for the 23rd Division to the west. Maybe they have calculated the time from dispatch to arrival of the Chinese Air Force and think that the first wave of attack must be all-or-nothing?
"Clusters of flames erupted on the front line, and the paratroopers fired the first round of flares according to their preparations, the purpose of which was to reveal the enemies hidden in the night."

When the flares fell one after another, it could be seen that the Indian tanks full of branches rushed to the front, like hedgehogs, and in the shadow behind them were low infantry fighting vehicles.They traversed the undulating open area at extremely high speeds, breaking through half the distance in the blink of an eye.However, the enemy's infantry and infantry-tank coordination is really lacking, and the infantry's dispatch time lags behind, and their actions are more hesitant.When the artillery preparations were about to end, the tank was landing on an exposed position that was not moving forward, while the slow-moving infantry fell at a further distance.Enemy infantry was at least 250 meters away from the tanks and appeared quite out of touch.

The first 10 or so tanks were just 500 meters away from the trench, brightly lit by flares.This is a distance sufficient for anti-tank missiles to exert their power.The Red Arrow missile moved out of the tunnel was deployed very quickly, just in time for a counterattack.These missiles are much higher than the trenches, and they are not advanced in all aspects, but one advantage is that the shooter can hide in the trenches and operate through the periscope.The enemy tank traveled to a distance of 400 meters, and several missiles flew towards the enemy with flames. The shooter was in the eyepiece and always aimed the line of sight at the moving target. The missile made necessary adjustments to the flight path according to the information of the goniometer.

The T55 that rushed first was hit by a missile on the side. After the explosion, the track shoes fell off.Immediately, the turret turned and the clutch was out of control, and the barrel tilted to one side, pointing at the ground.Then the gun barrel began to emit a large amount of white smoke, which indicated that the tank had begun to burn, and the smoke leaked out through the breech block.

No one was seen escaping, and the chain ammunition exploded and the tank turret was blown away.The flames exposed the low-slung BMP1 tank hiding on one side.The enemy immediately began to counterattack with firepower. The Indian soldiers who got off from the rear of the car did not retreat, but charged forward with shouts, and were quickly swept down by the machine guns lying in ambush.The Indian mortars hiding in the rear immediately fought back and fired at the firepower point.

For a while, the enemy's momentum seemed to have the upper hand. About one regiment of Indian infantry formed a long and loose skirmish line, rushing from the front, and the Indian soldiers stopped and stopped, firing blindly from time to time far beyond the range.The mortars fired by the Chinese army bloomed in the crowd, but due to the lack of power and projection density, they could not stop the enemy's charge at all.

Sitting in the trench, Qin Donghui received reports from various units that the enemy's offensive was launched across the board, with more than 2 regiments invested, and the focus of the attack has not been found for the time being.

After about 10 minutes of insufficient firepower preparation, the Indian artillery firepower did not stop. They gradually switched to support shooting. The accuracy of this round of shooting was better. Obviously, the observation post hiding in the woods played a role.However, the fact that the enemy's artillery did not move really surprised Qin Donghui. He called on the Air Force to find an artillery position not far behind the front line. It seemed that the Indian artillery was not prepared to flee, and was desperately trying to make this hammer deal.

A reconnaissance helicopter, after taking off from Tespur, flew straight to the rear of the Indian front. The pilot flew low through the dark forest and searched the deep forest according to the order.Seeing the constant flashes of light in the middle of the forest from a distance, the pilot checked the map and found that this location was just near the road crossing the Brachaburi National Park. It was obviously an artillery position to sneak attack on the front under the cover of virgin forest.At night, however, the forest could not hide the fire of the artillery.The pilot immediately reported the sight of enemy artillery and swooped in there.There are only 2 sets of rockets on the plane, but people are dying in front of them, so we can't wait for a moment.

(End of this chapter)