Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 478 Shirtless Battle
The change of command of the headquarters saved Li Xiulin to a certain extent. He suffered a loss in the local muddy pond in the morning, and now he still has lingering fears and dare not move.It may be demeaning to be able to simply entrust responsibility, but right now it is desirable; behind the mountains to the north there are occasional fires and delayed explosions; the paratroopers there are being attacked by an enemy ten times their size, and they need more than just It is the 11 artillery pieces here, and a shortcut that can guide the follow-up motorized troops to arrive quickly is also needed.

He Fan did his part and took over the command of the radio station. He was already pissed off by the dawdling Li Xiulin.

The No. 08 tank rushed out from the end of the column secretly at high speed, and at the same time turned on the digital light behind the turret to indicate its position for the assault gun.He already had a route and drew it on the electronic map. The two tanks were completely different, but the inter-vehicle digital network could be connected. He immediately transmitted this information to the Weasel Troop.

Li Xiulin looked at the map in front of him. It was a road that crossed the village and then went up the mountain, and then went north along the hillside. It was completely mountainous and did not take advantage of the nearby flat terrain. Imagination, but it can be seen that He Fan chose such a route because he seemed to consider the problem of vehicles being easily trapped in low-lying areas.

"Company Commander He, let me remind you that our center of gravity is higher than that of the tank, and we cannot drive on terrain that is too steep."

Li Xiulin said on the radio.The Weasel's tank, with a cannon mounted on a wheeled chassis, did have the potential to roll over.

"I heard that you can adjust the position of the center of gravity by turning the muzzle. Think of a way. There is a battle ahead, so you can't drag it any longer."

"Okay, I'll follow you."

Of course, He Fan had his own considerations. He knew more about the terrain of Assam than anyone else. In addition, he had spent half his life dealing with track pads, and he had always paid more attention to the problems of swamps and mud than others.There are many hills here, but the slope is relatively gentle. This can be seen on the map. What cannot be seen on the satellite map is that the soil layer covering the hillside is relatively thin. This is what he personally dug the soil for measurement last week. past.Such soil is not suitable for growing food, so the locals only grow black tea on the mountain.The route he formulated after weighing, avoided the low-lying areas that were muddy after the rain, but followed a route composed of a series of gentle slopes.Although for an assault gun this is still an easy rollover slope, but it so happened that he had tested this vehicle before and it was generally lackluster, but the suspension was good and the chassis was too light, causing the turret to have a lot of control over the center of gravity, as long as Drivers are careful, it is perfectly possible to drive at night.

"Follow me, turn on the lights, and go as fast as you can."

Chariot No. 08 flashed its lights, leading the way, and pushed it to the earthen house blocking the way in a blink of an eye.Li Xiulin followed closely behind, and the other crew members filed forward, risking turning on the lights, and marching towards the flames of war in the distance.

At this moment, the blocking battle of the paratroopers has entered the most brutal truncation.The enemy is still carrying out a full-scale attack. It seems that there are heavy casualties and no focus, but such a full-scale onslaught makes Qin Donghui's reserve team stretched.

In front of the position, a large number of corpses of Indian soldiers who were knocked down by automatic firearms have piled up, as well as more wounded, howling and dying.The Indian army, which was squeezed 50 to 100 meters in front of the position, could not advance or retreat and began to use their own corpses to pile up bunkers.The Chinese Air Force flew in to bomb from time to time. The first three regiments that Sampani dispatched were almost wiped out, but he still sent new troops to attack without stopping. Aerial bombs are not accurate, which is why they dare not attack the front of their own positions. On such a battlefield lacking high-value targets, the role of the air force is greatly reduced.

The Indian army's attacks are endless, and there is no intention of stopping.The seemingly clumsy tactics of the enemy actually exploited their only and greatest advantage—numbers, and no one who was not hard-hearted saw the effect of this advantage so clearly as Major General Sampani.In the face of the continuous skirmish line, the Chinese Air Force cannot implement complete battlefield interception, so it must deploy its forces on the largest front without hesitation. The closer to the enemy's trenches, the Chinese Air Force will restrain its hands and feet.

The major general also temporarily commanded the headquarters to observe the flames on the opposite side of the battlefield. He estimated that within an hour, he had killed 2500 people, and perhaps twice as many were seriously injured. The enemy's casualties would not be too small. All of the reserves were thrown into battle.

"General, the officers of the 109th Regiment and the 116th Regiment have a high death rate, and they have almost been replaced. Most of the companies can't find a commander." Someone reminded the major general.The major general was full of disgust at this indiscriminate argument, and deliberately turned a deaf ear to it, but the staff officer asked again very ignorantly.

"General, should we withdraw the fragmented troops and reorganize them? The wounded should also be withdrawn."

"The enemy is about to collapse, where is the time to reorganize? Let non-commissioned officers take over the command on the spot, the wounded don't have to be withdrawn, we have no medicines, and no hospitals. You must stop thinking about these meaningless questions, only keep attacking, attacking! Until the enemy's will is crushed, not us first. Inform General Kunta not to relax and continue to invest in reserves."

Hearing this cold-blooded agitation, many people in the staff department were unavoidably frightened, but Lu Zuo, the death captain behind the major general, behaved differently, and he couldn't help but move forward again.He and his men took off their shirts, with shirtless arms and heads held high. They had stood in the pattering autumn rain for too long. They wanted to take the lead, but after more than an hour, it was inevitable that they began to feel a little chilly.

"General, is it time for us to go up? If we wait any longer, we will all freeze."

"Very good." Sampani turned his head, stared at Lu Zuo's big bearded face, and said for a long time, "I'm sure the enemy's headquarters is on the opposite side, so let's start from here, and move quickly to keep up with the artillery fire, so don't let Their personnel and heavy firepower have too much time to stay on the surface. I will send tanks to act together to attract the enemy's attention. Before all the tanks are lost, they must break into the first trench."

"Understood, I will use the fastest speed to resolve the battle and cut off the head of their commander. You will see me."

"Wait a minute." The major general winked to one side, and a guard took out a bottle of brandy from a box beside him.He took it and filled the army lunch box.

Lieutenant Lu Zuo was unequivocal, took it and drank it down, took the automatic rifle handed over by the guard, and ran out of the headquarters without looking back.In the depths of the woods, there are 2000 shirtless men who are not afraid of death like him, waiting for this moment, so that they can rush to kill the Chinese soldiers.

Sampani had been waiting for this moment for a long time. Seeing that more than half of the troops he had sent out before had been killed or injured, and the battle line was pushed under the nose of the enemy, it was obviously time to play this trump card.He immediately notified another killer weapon hiding in the distant forest-a total of 45 M777 howitzers, ready to attack in the Luzuo attack area at any time.

"I ordered the 301st Regiment to be on the south flank, and the 108th Regiment to launch an attack on the north flank at the same time to cover the main attack direction here. The tank company is on standby."

"Yes."

During the uninterrupted artillery attack, Qin Donghui felt more and more that behind the dangerous scene, a new offensive was brewing, and the current enemy still hadn't made a final effort. He believed that the enemy would launch a bigger, bigger and crueler offensive, and this This time there will be a main direction of attack.This attack may be decisive, so it is necessary to immediately determine where this direction is.

The major general's gaze crossed the first line of defense in the firefight, past the scattered damaged chariots, and extended to the enemy's departure area one kilometer away.He saw another group of tanks slowly coming out of the dark forest.

"Damn it, it's about to be shelled."

Sure enough, more terrible shelling came soon.The cannonballs fell from the sky with a piercing whistling sound. Unlike before, this time the cannonballs whistled more sharply. Qin Donghui could tell that it was a new, more powerful ammunition.

Immediately after the shells fell, the surrounding earthworks were completely destroyed, and when the floating soil from the explosion fell, it filled the nearby trenches with people and weapons.When the soldiers hiding from the artillery got out, they found that half of their bodies were sunk in the soil.

Qin Donghui knew that this was a 155mm grenade that far exceeded the firepower of the previous shelling, and the enemy really had some powerful guys hiding in it. It seemed that the enemy's embarrassing escape all the way confused the intelligence department, thinking it was a completely defeated army, but among them At least one unit still kept its main heavy weapons.

Under the intensive artillery fire, the surface position of the first line of defense was almost gone, replaced by huge bullet craters and fire piled up mounds, and there were some remaining tunnels during the period.The thousands of Indian remnants who had been blocked in front of the trenches also got a moment of respite. They were not so well-trained and had a firm will to fight. Injure yourself by getting too close.

The anti-tank troops, which had already retreated to the second line of defense, took advantage of the higher terrain and started a hasty counterattack.Missiles with tongues of flame flew directly over the heads of the two warring parties, and their targets were the Indian tanks behind.

Due to interference from the battlefield environment (mainly smoke), most of the missiles launched in the first batch missed the target.The whizzing shells distract the shooter's attention all the time, and the huge fire and ground vibration during the explosion can easily destroy the precise aiming in the narrow field of view sight.While some experienced shooters could catch a target a second time after losing it, enemy tanks also fired hot smoke at long range to cover themselves and what was behind them.

Qin Donghui observed that about 3 tanks were destroyed, and the hit rate was much lower than before. This is a sign that the battle situation is going downhill. There is still a direct company without heavy weapons around him that can be sent, but it will basically have no effect. .The air force is coming, but it is necessary to quickly determine the direction of the enemy's main attack, lest the plane drop bombs in a secondary direction. Judging from the distribution of tanks and the density of shelling, the main attack should be in sight, but he can't confirm it yet.Qin Donghui's headquarters contacted all the troops on the ground, eager to find out the focus of the enemy's attack, but the radio antennas erected by some company headquarters were damaged, some could continue to communicate, and some could not be found, so they had to send a communication Soldiers, riding a car with a radio on their backs, shuttled back and forth behind the front line, conveying orders to restore communication.

The Indian tanks in the smoke still didn't speed up the charge, which means that there is a group of infantry behind them, maybe a few battalions?The endless increase of the enemy's troops really made Qin Donghui feel hopeless.He felt that what he was facing was a trapped beast. Unlike Lin Huaisheng's troops who set out from Jabuwa and collapsed with a single charge, they really came to risk their lives.

"Look at the commander, the people behind the tanks are all shirtless. The formation is very dense."

A staff officer in charge of observation shouted.Qin Donghui quickly grabbed the binoculars to observe.Behind the smoke released by the tanks, some figures flashed sporadically. Unlike the enemies charging ahead, these people were not wearing clothes, but had bullet bags hanging on their chests and automatic rifles in their hands. They looked different from the previous India. The Insass rifle used by the troops is a weapon like the AK47.The men hopped along with the tanks and looked so eager to fight that some even ran in front of the tanks.Qin suddenly realized that the most powerful offensive was coming, and the main attack area was here. '

"Tell the air force to drop bombs on the red smoke bomb area, quick!"

The enemy's shelling preparations did not stop as the tanks approached, but intensified. Four light helicopters flew over the battlefield, and soon saw the blue signal flare launched from the ground, and then fired a burst of rockets at the enemy lying still at the front of the position, but these helicopters did not carry anti-tank missiles, but just turned around Fired a few strings of innocuous cannons at the Indian tanks, consumed all the ammunition, and went back to Tespur.During this period, the artillery correction drone on the clouds has been circling to identify targets for Lin Huaisheng's headquarters to collect intelligence.

Air Force fixed-wing aircraft also drilled out of the clouds and dropped bombs on the dense formation of the enemy below, but the landing point deviated greatly.

Lin Huaisheng's long-range artillery fire finally appeared. A 122 self-propelled howitzer unit launched an attack on the enemy's skirmish line through the observation of the battlefield by drones. One of his artillery companies had just deployed to the range and immediately launched an attack. Makes the battlefield situation more and more complicated.

(End of this chapter)