Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 497
Like most Indian troops who like to fight with the wind, the Indian 9th Armored Brigade suddenly found the feeling of a victorious army, although for most of the war, this unit was only in the hands of General Meneam, A card that was not played, I stayed around Chandirga and waited and watched; but in the past three days, after a small trial, after fighting with several vulnerable Pakistani troops, the brigade commander, Brigadier General Anida, was very motivated. I am convinced that the defeatist sentiment towards war permeated among the top generals is actually unnecessary, and the Indian Army should not be afraid of any opponent at all.

Brigadier General Anida was dazzled by the simple victory. He was full of thoughts and imaginations. In the violently bumpy command vehicle, he replied fiercely to General Meneam's telegram asking him to act cautiously and not to break away from the cover of the two wings. The reply pointed out that the enemy has entered a real defeat, and they only want to escape into the mountains early to escape this winter; maybe they may forget their lessons next spring and make a comeback, so they must not be given such an opportunity.The Brigadier General specifically mentioned that the enemy lacked supplies and was not prepared for winter combat. They attacked the national arsenal in Rawalpindi, probably to seize the hoarded winter equipment there. Now this attempt has failed. He judged that as long as the pursuit, The enemy will retreat all the way to the vicinity of Peshawar.The message, sent by radio, was forwarded to Srinagar by the forward relay station and also distributed to the Army Staff.Then it became a shot in the arm for the battered Defense Minister Singh.Singh hurried to the Prime Minister's Office and read this heroic telegram aloud, so that Prime Minister Kahan, who was haggard by the defeat in the East, suddenly recovered.

After Assam's defeat, Kahan became distracted for a while, and kept explaining his previous mistakes with some metaphysical and strange theories of divine missions in meetings; he no longer issued specific instructions, so that senior officials Some people say that the time of Kahan's cabinet is not long.

The command headquarters in Srinagar sent the second and third telegrams in a row, reminding Brigadier General Anida that the Indian Army is also not well prepared for winter operations, and that the snowstorm in northern Pakistan may come earlier this year, requiring the 9th Brigade Slow down your march and monitor enemy movements.The fourth telegram with a similar content has not yet been sent. The Ministry of National Defense suddenly sent a collective commendation order to the 9th Brigade, and directly asked Lieutenant General Meneam to seize the favorable opportunity. Before the Chinese are ready for the next offensive, , to complete a decisive victory over the Pakistan Army.The request to put the southern armored units under his command has been approved in principle.

Singh pointed out in the telegram that the war is entering a crossroads. Who can continue to persevere will determine the pattern of the subcontinent in the next 100 or 200 years. On the surface, India is in a serious defeat, but the enemy group is coordinating with each other Weaknesses have created an exploitable strategic gap that should be exploited.During this window period, the Indian army still has a short-term advantage in geographical and military strength. It can eliminate as many Pakistani troops as possible and occupy the northern territories, so as to facilitate the decisive battle in the spring of next year, or provide a more favorable border for diplomatic peace talks.

Meneam has always been Singh's loyal follower, although he actually doesn't like Singh, who has only been the head of the regiment, gesturing and interfering in command in front of him.He felt that Anida might not have suffered, while Singh was mostly forced by political pressure. In short, both of them were keen on military adventures.This made him a little embarrassed. If he put himself in Singer's shoes, military adventure might be the only way out.

The lieutenant general ordered to suspend the telegram sent to the 9th Brigade urging to stop the offensive, and re-examined the map of the entire northern counterattack. He originally planned to stop all offensives today and let the enemy one yard away. Attack from the direction of Kesai Chin.

The adjutant next to him saw what the lieutenant general was thinking, and said slowly: "If you agree with the higher-ups this time, they will probably hand over Spanga's troops to you to command."

"The first snowfall this year was 7 days earlier, and the blizzard in the north may come earlier. By then, more than half of the logistical capacity may be lost. Anida's tanks will be frozen there and call Tiantian unresponsible."

"With all due respect, the key problem is that populists don't understand military affairs, and they are used to imposing the responsibility for failure on conservative generals. Those who start wars and lose them will be forgiven instead."

The adjutant woke up the lieutenant general with one sentence. If he stagnates and misses the so-called "gap" that Singer pointed out can reverse the situation of the war, future political commentators will probably impose the full responsibility for the defeat of the war on himself. After all India's largest military power is in his hands.The lieutenant general stroked the few hairs on his head:
"Okay, let the 17th Mountain Division, the 21st Mountain Division, keep up with the 9th Brigade and secure the Anida flank."

Anida immediately replied with an extremely contemptuous and confident telegram. He vowed to cut off the enemy's retreat immediately and expand the results of the battle.Then I sincerely sighed that the Indian Army has the best equipment and training, but it lacks decisive generals.After reading it, Meneam tore the telegram to pieces on the spot, and almost lost his breath.

Seeing that someone was going to convey the order, the lieutenant general suddenly stopped, "The order is not urgent, first send a telegram to the Ministry of National Defense and ask them to transfer all the Su-30 squadrons who are sitting in Bareilly to watch the show."

In any case, New Delhi must be held hostage for more support.

At the same time, Yahini was charging towards the soft flank of the 9th Brigade.The fists of the armored brigade are all in front. They run so fast that the D30 towed artillery with insufficient range can only follow closely behind the main force and move in quickly to catch up with the next round of offensive.

The 9th brigade is not really an armored brigade, it's semi-mechanized at best, all its artillery is completely motorized, and most of the infantry is also in trucks, the panicked Pakistani troops can't see this, but Yahi Ni has long known that this army is anticlimactic. He can even guess where an arrogant Indian general will place a towed artillery with a range of less than 18 kilometers in the column. In the past six months, he has fought with similar Indian generals too many times Make friends, know that this group of people is a virtue when they are proud.

Indian artillerymen are huddling on trucks and crane their necks to see the fire ahead. This is Brigadier General Anida's striker beating the enemy's ass. On the side of the road, a long line of Pakistani Army prisoners of war in rags are looking back dejectedly Let's go, if the range of the artillery is not too close, they should have tried their skills.Someone finally noticed the smoke and dust rising from the side, but couldn't see anything in the billowing loess, maybe it was just dust picked up by a gust of wind?

The 8 guns of the Pakistani tank company started to fire, and a row of oil tankers was hit. The high temperature of the tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile passing through the oil tank at high speed immediately ignited the convoy, stunned the stunned enemies for a while, and then they realized Until an enemy emerges from the side.

The gas fire of the oil tanker truck quickly ignited the entire passage, and some ammunition trucks that had no time to turn around fell into a sea of ​​flames instantly, and the propellant powder piled up on the truck was ignited by the high temperature, triggering a series of explosions.The Indian soldiers jumped out of the car to hide, and the unattended Pakistani prisoners hurried to the other side of the black smoke.

Yahini ordered the tank to move to one side quickly to find terrain support, and at the same time stretched out his head to observe the situation.He used the binoculars to look at it several times, and confirmed that the results of the battle were much better than expected, and the secondary damage caused by the salvo was very considerable.The enemy took advantage of him by mixing fuel and ammunition transport vehicles together.At this moment, the sound of ammunition explosions was one after another, and the immobilized artillery tractors were engulfed in flames. The fuel leaked from the tank truck spread rapidly on the ground, and the fire followed the fuel. Those 122mm artillery with solid rubber wheels encountered The flames quickly slumped on the spot, billowing black smoke.

"It seems that my luck is good, and I found the most suitable place again this time." The company commander boasted to the whole company through the radio.

"What do we do next?"

"Rush over and let them see our majesty."

He had carefully observed the entire enemy column in chaos, and did not see any weapons that might pose a threat to the tank, so he decided to go straight to intercept the enemy's marching formation. ?
The 8 tanks started quickly and plunged into the flames.In front of more than 1000 panicked Indian soldiers, a group of tanks drove past like a wind, fired in two directions of the column at the same time, and then disappeared into the black smoke and disappeared.

Brigadier General Anida was punching the Pakistani Army's rear guard in front, like a cripple, he kept urging the fuel and artillery to be in place for the next round of strikes, but the bad news came suddenly from the rear, and his own ass was also kicked In one kick, a total of 15 liters of fuel and various ammunition were lost, and personnel losses are being counted.The brigadier general judged that there were not many enemies breaking into the rear, maybe a broken regiment of the enemy was left behind?Obviously, it was not worth turning back for such an enemy, so he immediately urged the rear reinforcements to speed up to the headquarters, and at the same time asked for air force support to find out what was going on.

Yahini was most afraid of the enemy's air force, so he quickly hid in the mountains after launching an attack at the right time.Now he had to wait for the sky to get dark and the enemy's air force to lose its function and dispatch again. He was no longer interested in kicking the 9th Brigade's ass again. At night, he was sure to meet the so-called "iron fist" of the 9th Brigade for a while.During this period of time, his company was deployed in a defensive position like a decoration, and only fought a few positional battles. He couldn't wait to show his attack power.

In the Assam war zone, a large number of drones have been circling the area that Lausanne may occupy. The enemy has considerable experience in anti-infrared, so the timing before sunset must be grasped.

Lin Huaisheng has been waiting for good news to come from somewhere, but this wish has not come true.Lausanne is still in the dark.It stands to reason that the general route of Lausanne has been exposed, and the search area can be quickly narrowed in the southeast of Tespur, but the situation is becoming more and more unclear.If the enemy escapes during an encounter at night, then by calculating the walking speed, he may have run 50 kilometers away at this moment. This is the approximate radius where the enemy may hide. Assuming that the enemy should still act as usual outside this radius right.Of course, it is not ruled out that the enemy is still using radio communication, although no communication equipment was found from the dead enemy's body.

Xu Jingzhe traced the more specific sources of the military vehicles and uniforms, but it was not very useful for searching for this enemy. After tracing the source, the Chinese side used Myanmar's airspace, which caused some dissatisfaction, so the local brokers lurking in Lausanne found an opportunity to trade. The time was half a month ago, and all payments were made in US dollars; at that time, Lausanne hadn't turned against his master, which shows that the planning time was not short.

The staff sent the latest map of the deployment around Tespur. The red line area is the guaranteed area, and the area outside is the possible activity area of ​​the enemy.It can be seen from the map that the area controlled by the Chinese army in the Assam region is actually not large, and even Xu Jingzhe's intelligence team has not had time to intervene in a large part of the area.The victory against the Indian Army is due to the fact that the enemy always follows the general military principles and concentrates its forces to stick to the important strongholds on the traffic arteries.Of course, these military principles have no effect on Lausanne. He can hold a powerful nuclear bomb and appear in any unexpected place.

"He must need a fuel supply base. This is a possible clue. The 4th Brigade used fuel from a secret base during its assault. Maybe General Kunta can find out." Lin Huaisheng said.

"I've already found someone to go there. General Kunta can only provide the location of the logistics base in the eastern region." Old Ding replied.

"How's the investigation from Snow Wolf going?"

"The wheel prints disappeared in the Chadha River. Most of the river's watershed is very fast. The enemy may have a special place to cross the river. In addition, the military dogs transferred from China also failed by the river."

Lin Huaisheng walked back and forth by the map a few times, and finally couldn't help but said again: "If you were that lunatic whose purpose was to kill our army as much as possible, what would you do?"

"For me, first of all, I will separate the two devices to increase the chance."

"Well, it makes sense, but the Americans attacked his southward convoy and found nothing."

"So, that convoy must have been deliberately sacrificed by him for some purpose. It can be determined that he does not intend to smuggle nuclear bombs from land and sea."

"So, from his point of view, what is the biggest difficulty?" Lin continued to ask.

(End of this chapter)