Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 477

In the forest gap area, hundreds of shirtless Indian soldiers are busy working in full swing.Some carried and sorted the propellant, some corrected the shooting according to the information from the forward observation station, and some struggled to reload; trucks transported ammunition back and forth along the road.

More than 40 artillery pieces were bound according to the new target location information that was continuously sent back from the front.Since distant targets hardly move and have no elevation, it is a good thing for Indian artillery who only rely on simple methods and maps to correct deviations, so that the strength and accuracy of firepower projection can be roughly guaranteed.No one here thought of changing their positions. Some of them did it out of courage, but most of them didn't even know that the counterattack by the side with air superiority would be more expensive.

Light scout helicopters stalked from the side and determined the size of the enemy position.The sound of the rumbling guns covered the sound of the rotors, but during the intervals of salvos, there were still Indian sentinels on guard outside. They sensed something was wrong, and the donkeys grazing on the roadside also raised their heads and pricked up their ears—these The animals have undergone special training and are not very afraid of the sound of gunfire. However, they escaped from carrying ammunition and equipment all the way from the north and suffered a lot of bombs, so they are extremely alert to movements in the air.

Some members of the security force began to remove the front cover of the anti-aircraft missile and looked around.It wasn't until the whizzing rockets flew down from the clouds that they could see the target clearly.

The dense firepower knocked out half of the artillery positions in an instant. The command vehicle didn't see it, but it destroyed several artillery pieces in one fell swoop and detonated the stacked propellant at the same time. The truck beside it was full of ammunition, triggering a chain attack. The explosion and the shooting of the entire position came to a standstill.But this brave attack inevitably drew a counterattack from the ground's Sam 16 missiles.

After tilting the ammunition empty, the helicopter pulled up and attempted to turn around.The pilot couldn't see what was going on when he was almost in a vertical attitude, so he could only blindly fire a few sets of jamming tracers.But the Sam 16 missile is not so easy to deceive at close range, especially when three missiles were launched in one go.

Tracer rounds passed the first two, but the last one exploded near the rotor.The Wuzhi 2 helicopter quickly lost power, dragged a ball of fire, and fell into the forest.This sacrifice temporarily interrupted the enemy's artillery support, allowing Qin Donghui's men to concentrate on counterattacking.

These artillery losses were completely within Sampani's expectations. He still has some 105mm and 155mm caliber howitzers hidden in the dark and not used intensively. Or Qin Donghui is more predictable.This large-scale attack is only the first round of his counterattack. He does not have an air force, but the total force is 10 times that of the opponent. The front line can be put into battle immediately, which is about 5 times that of the enemy. It can be consumed slowly.

The J-16 formation led by Zheng Hui arrived quickly, and saw the target area blazing from a distance. There was no need for extra night vision observation. He absolutely used the fire as a reference and immediately implemented horizontal bombing.He roughly determined the bombing area. Without worrying about the enemy's air force at all, the three planes formed in a zigzag formation, avoided cumulonimbus clouds, and used autopilot in the air at 3 meters to complete the automatic bombing aiming.

The plane flew steadily and levelly over the artillery position, and calmly dropped more than ten tons of ammunition.The 250kg bomb dropped screaming, immediately turning the forest below into a sea of ​​flames.

The four larger H-4 bombers that arrived later also used ordinary aerial bombs to carry out unscrupulous carpet bombing of the enemy's starting position (the edge of the forest in Brachaburi National Park). Too large and light cluster bombs are greatly affected by wind deflection, and the landing point is not accurate. However, for the Indian army with as many as 6 regiments hidden in the edge of the forest, such aimless bombing is still very considerable. Destructive power, especially psychological.

Qin Donghui saw the frontier forest being violently bombed from a distance, and felt indescribably happy.He asked for this air attack. He believed that the enemy's artillery observation post or forward headquarters were hidden in places he couldn't see. Now that a large area of ​​forest has been plowed into white ground, some enemies will always be bombed. arrived.Although this kind of attack is inefficient and seems too crude, but since the Air Force has completely seized air supremacy, how can this value be reflected without abusing it?He knew very well that the enemy's attack at night was just to bully the Chinese Air Force's lack of precision attack capability at night, and it was time for them to suffer.

"Master, the headquarters asked about the effect of the air attack?"

"The strength is not enough. I suggest using incendiary bombs to set the enemy's hidden forest on fire and see how they hide."

"The superiors think that the rain is too heavy and the effect will not be ideal."

"Tell the superiors that there are more enemy armored vehicles than expected and that Tespur's gunship support is needed."

"Tezpur doesn't have professional gunship ammunition reserves, their supply routes are too long, and... there are a lot of guerrillas."

"Lin Huaisheng is such a waste."

He cursed, turned his face, and saw the communication soldiers of the communication company in the distance, trotting all the way to the front panting: "Report, the 3rd Battalion and the front were breached by enemy tanks once, and the main position has just been restored."

"How did you do it?"

This shock was really a big deal, and if the tank slipped through the narrow position all at once, the situation would be worse.

"Master, the enemy's infantry and tanks are not well coordinated. A few tanks rushing over alone are not good."

"I issued a military order when I came, but I dare not rely on the enemy's poor cooperation for victory. If the enemy sees a flaw, they will attack harder next time."

After the bomb fell, Lei Tingqian exploded one after another, but the conductor Ruoding Sampani just turned his face and looked at it with disdain, and then pouted; he didn't want to comment, he could afford such a loss.In fact, he had long been prepared to experience huge casualties.Before the attack, he devoted his energy to the deployment of troops, and the field hospital was simply abandoned due to lack of medical treatment.

"Master, should we be allowed to go up?" Lu Zuo, the death captain, couldn't hold back and asked for a fight. He was tickled by the first round of attack. Seeing that the lightly armed Chinese army in front of him was not as invincible as he imagined.

"Wait a little longer, it's not time yet." The teacher said coldly.

He saw that one of his regiments had reached a distance of 100 meters from the Chinese army's defense line, but was suppressed by the dense direct fire and could not move forward.However, the Chinese Air Force may have never bombed infantry close to its own front line, perhaps due to its ability to identify at night.

"It seems that the low-altitude rain clouds have helped us a lot. The enemy's night bombing capability is far below the level of the Americans." He raised his head and said, which was almost a surprise. "Let the 17th Regiment go up. Other directions how's the progress?"

"Report, the two tanks assigned to the 5th Division just now broke into the junction of the enemy's two battalion-level positions, but the follow-up infantry did not keep up. The enemy used the reserve team to take back more positions. At present, General Kunta is also being attacked. Squeeze it."

"Look," the major general pointed to the map, "the enemy's defense line is too long, there must be loopholes, and we will have enough opportunities. By the way, let the 56th Division cross the river from the side to sneak attack. How is the progress?"

"The river in the south suddenly rose. They sent several groups of people to touch it, but they all went there without returning. It seems that we have to wait for dawn."

"Sneak attack at dawn?"

Sampani did quite a lot of tricks. He sent the weakest 56th Division to the southern end of the Chinese paratrooper defense line. There was still a gap of several kilometers between here and Lin Huaisheng's northernmost reconnaissance force. However, due to the increased river flow, This sneak attack plan doesn't seem to work.

On the stretching front, dual-release automatic weapons are weaving into a dense fire net within a distance of several hundred meters, and no one cares about the consumption of ammunition.For the Indian side, rushing over is life, and for the Chinese paratroopers, there is no half-step back.The Chinese army has a slight advantage in firepower and terrain, while the Indian side has a huge advantage in numbers and an armored force.The two sides fought desperately, and dangers abounded on the front line.Sampani was confident that he still had a surprise in his hands that he did not throw to the opposite PLA general. He carefully searched for the weakness of the opposite position, hoping to find a weak point and play this trump card.If the rescue from the west came in time, he could have saved some deaths, but it seemed that no matter whether the 23rd Division came or not, it would be no problem to break through the weak defense line ahead.

Qin Donghui has been commanding back and forth in dangerous areas. In relatively flat areas, he rides on the bicycle of the signal soldier, followed by several soldiers with radios on their backs.In fact, the troops found several cars in nearby villages, but they did not use them because they were worried that they would be observed by the enemy on the opposite side.

Right now, the enemy is firing flares desperately, trying to expose both sides so that they can even out the gap in night vision capabilities between the two sides.Qin Donghui had to admit that the commander on the other side was not an ordinary person. Unlike other Chinese commanders who joined the battle here, he encountered a group of trapped beasts as soon as he came up, and the difficulty was indeed doubled.

A second wave of enemy tanks rumbles out from the starting area, this time the tanks move forward in slow gear, trying not to throw off the infantry behind them.The enemy shelling that disappeared not long ago suddenly appeared again. Judging from the sound of the shelling, this time it was a powerful 105mm howitzer.But the launch of this artillery is more concealed, and it takes longer for aerial searches to find it.

Qin Donghui had to ask Lin Huaisheng for help again. The nearest airport is in Tespur, but only helicopters can take off.

Lin Huaisheng has scattered all the combat-capable helicopters with a little more than one battalion in his hand, and he hopes to play some role.Several Wuzhi 10s led by Chang Yong are at the airport, but due to lack of ammunition, they can only stay where they are.The Mi-17 helicopter that Lin Huaisheng transported ammunition to and from Jabuwa was just ambushed by anti-aircraft fire along the way, and there was nothing he could do for a while.He regretted that he was a little too big and didn't free up his hands to clear out the enemies along the way. Moreover, the transportation routes in the sky have not changed at all, even if the enemies are fools, they should figure out the way.

Due to the need to bypass too many enemy-occupied areas and the poor roads in the area, his troops were not advancing quickly.The troops at the front can communicate with the paratroopers by walkie-talkie, but the advance speed is slower after dark.He desperately searched for Li Xiulin on the map, only to find that he had only progressed 3 kilometers in the last hour.The calls from the paratroopers in front came every few minutes, and the enemy's artillery appeared again for some reason.Originally he thought it was done, but it seems that the Indians did not put their eggs in one basket.

"Is our appetite too big?" Lin Huaisheng suddenly murmured to himself. This sentence was a bit frustrating, but fortunately, not many people heard it.

"It's been a while, and you still say this?" Ding Keguang complained in a low voice, he thought, how could he still say such discouraged things now.

In fact, Lao Ding has never been able to understand Lin's problem of too much appetite for this combat attempt. Although the basic fact that Indians are really not very experienced in fighting, Chief of Staff Lin won every military adventure in the end, but This time is really different, the enemy's numerical advantage is too obvious, and they are here desperately.

"Mr. Qin's defense line, as long as there are a few omissions, it will be troublesome, and there will be reinforcements immediately."

Lin Huaisheng said to himself, as if he was discussing with himself.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, Master Qin is calling again."

"How did he say?"

"He said...you came up with the plan to encircle and wipe out the enemy's main force, so you must reach out and give him a hand."

Lin Huaisheng sat on the spot with his head in his arms, feeling a little discouraged for a moment.The staff officers around didn't dare to ask any more questions, so they could only concentrate on updating the map.

"I've decided," Lin Huaisheng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly became violent, "Get me the weasel."

"How to say?" Lao Ding suddenly had a bad premonition.

"I want to relieve Li Xiulin of his position as commander and let He Fan command the attack."

"He Fan is just a bare-bones commander, how can he command a company of assault guns? There will be a lot of command problems in this way."

"It's not a solution for Li Xiulin to stay stagnant all the time. It's better to let the lion command the sheep than to let the sheep command the lion."

"This……"

"He Fan has a bad idea, and he's lucky, so let him give it a try."

Lin Huaisheng cheered up, quite self-satisfied.No matter how frivolous this whim is, it can only be tried at this moment.

At this moment, the column led by Li Xiulin stopped at the entrance of Lantpur Village in the pattering autumn rain.Company Commander Li Xiulin was in some trouble, his eyes were now darkened, and it was quite difficult to navigate in such an area.On the map, apart from a few roads and sporadic villages, there is only a barren area marked by a closed contour circle marking the elevation. The frustration of being stuck in a swamp in the morning made him shrink back at the end of the road.At this moment, the sound of artillery from the north was clearly heard, only 8 kilometers away, but he didn't know what to do next.

As the search vanguard who paved the way for most of the people, he himself was responsible for scouting the main road. However, at night, the low-light night vision device can only see a distance of several hundred meters, and it is impossible to see the pond in the mud clearly. , it must be admitted that he was lost.

(End of this chapter)