Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 529 The Unruly Viper

After several Arjun vehicles successfully accelerated, they pushed away the trees, left their companions and ran westward, which made the winding and difficult following vehicles even more isolated.A daring shooter straddled a tree and waited for his chance. The commander of the Indian tank company was driving in a car in a dazed direction. The tank had no upward vision, and it was impossible to see the threat above.

The shooter waited for the target to get within a few feet in the scope, and then fired a rocket at the rear of the car body. This condescending ammunition easily penetrated the weak engine partition, and the tank stopped instantly and ignited the tank Exhaust gas, the flames that shot out quickly ignited the oil in the sliding pipe.Before the Pakistani shooter had time to get down from the tree, an explosion occurred inside the Arjun tank. The huge explosion force lifted the heavy turret into the air, and covered the Pakistani shooter who hadn't escaped to the ground together, smashing a huge deep hole. pit.

200 meters away, another team focused on the tank that broke away from the brigade and turned around without authorization. They fired several rounds of ammunition from the rear and the side. , the tank stopped slowly and could not move.

The infantry shouted and swarmed up, but were immediately knocked down by the shrapnel fired by the tank soldiers inside the vehicle, but the second wave of infantry still rushed forward frantically and threw more than a dozen grenades at the rear of the vehicle. Some thermite incendiary bombs that can burn through the sheet steel at the rear of the tank.

The flames rose rapidly and became bigger and bigger, engulfing the tank in the 30th temple. The tanker tried to get out to escape, but was shot and killed by an assault rifle.

Within a few minutes, the situation was suddenly reversed. The Indian tankers could only see the enemies scurrying around through the periscope, but the counterattack was very difficult and weak. Due to the weak speed of the turret, it was difficult for the parallel machine guns to quickly attack at close range. Mobile infantry.The most frightening thing is that the external enemy forces quickly became smart. Through observation, they have almost grasped the unique flaws of this Arjun MKII tank, such as the huge blind spot where the shrapnel launcher is blocked by the wedge-shaped armor. Considering that tanks can quickly hide themselves by firing smoke bombs and reversing when they are firing at long distances, but he didn't think much about the approach of infantry.

Experienced infantry even began to judge the direction of attention of enemy members in the vehicle based on the rotation of the turret or the remote control weapon station on the top.Once the gun barrel starts to rotate to track the rest of the troops, the other couples will have no fear to approach from a direction that the rest of the enemies cannot perceive, and then use the rocket launcher to hit the weak link at the rear of the tank at a very sure distance, or use grenades to attack the tank tracks .Although the Arjun tank has 4 crew members, only the commander can grasp the 360° situation at any time. Due to the internal layout problem, it lacks the omnidirectional gunner's periscope, which makes it difficult to use parallel machine guns against close-range enemies. The ability is greatly reduced.

Another weakness is that the commander's perimeter mirror integrated with various sensors on the top of the Arjun tank is extremely tall and thin, which not only restricts the downward shooting range of the top machine gun on the left side, but also has no armor protection.Snipers hiding in high places, after the enemy tank personnel retreated, began to shoot these exposed optical equipment, including the huge gunner's sight. Every time they hit such equipment, it would cause the tank's already poor observation ability to decline further.Such a disorderly attack has also received a miraculous effect.

Soon several tanks became blind, and the drivers who didn't dare to show their heads began to rush blindly, trying to get rid of the enemy's firepower, but the Pakistani infantry in a completely crazy state had almost put life and death aside. The attitude of the behemoth in front of him slowly changed from fear to contempt. Although the Indians hid behind the heavy armor, they collapsed first.

Immediately afterwards, another Arjun tank was destroyed by a recoilless gun. After the broken track rolled down, it was quickly surrounded by infantry.When the commander was hit by the rocket for the 10th time, he was finally desperate. He opened the top cover and stretched out a white towel, waved it, and shouted surrender at the same time.The roaring Pakistani infantry swarmed up, and it was unknown who shot and killed the commander of the vehicle with his hands raised high, and then the situation got out of control.

Within 5 minutes, a tank company lost more than half of it. On the surface, the 160 reinforced infantry company sent by Yahini to intercept suffered even more casualties. With support, they are still attacking frantically. Ten minutes ago, there were only a few vehicles from Company C, which was still invincible, fleeing from different directions.The Pakistanis took no prisoners and repeatedly attacked every immobilized Indian tank until they ran out of ammunition.

Yahini learned from the report that the enemy has been completely delayed. Although he doesn't believe in the result of destroying most of the battles, but now is not the time to worry about these. He must focus on cleaning up the remaining enemies in front of him and destroy another complete tank at the same time. even.He ordered two platoons to approach the core of the enemy's headquarters at high speed, making sure to wipe out all the remaining enemies. He also ordered another infantry company as a reserve to send people to inspect the battlefield to see if there were any important documents that could be collected.On the other hand, he led [-] tanks to outflank another enemy company in the position. What he wanted to do today was to wipe out as many enemies as possible.

Colonel Sandel was in the process of backing up all the way, and he fell into extreme panic.The number of frontal enemies has overwhelmed him, and he watched his armor-piercing projectile fail to penetrate an opponent less than 300 meters away. For a tanker, such an experience is the most courageous, even if you have all His responses were correct and timely, but facing an impenetrable steel plate, running away was the only option.

The colonel kept calling C Company on the road, but the report there was suddenly interrupted (the company commander was killed by snipers at the first time).He realized that today's defeat was inevitable, and he had to get out quickly and go east through the jungle that bound him. Danishiwa Village established a new support point while waiting for air support. There was still his army in the village to suppress the villagers. There was a Vehicle-mounted anti-tank missile units, as well as supporting firepower can be relied on.

The colonel led the only remaining two Arjun tanks in the command and began to turn and flee. There was no pre-deployed retreat sequence, and the infantry on the other side ran first, which caused confusion. However, his original intention was to let the infantry top the tank and delay the enemy.When the 2 platoons of 6 Type 99 tanks that were killed later opened fire on the self-disturbing enemy, Sander had already escaped.

When another team of Yahini passed by the battlefield of about one square kilometer left by the infantry company when it attacked Indian Company C not long ago, it was still deeply shocked. This was the most tragic battlefield he had ever seen.The trunk is covered with various shrapnel, and the branches are covered with broken weapon parts and limbs. The ground is full of track marks left by enemy tanks when they reversed hastily, and the low-lying places are full of blood.

In the track prints, there are still puddles of distorted but flat human figures. If you don't think about it deliberately, you won't be able to tell whether they are flattened corpses or just a few pieces of torn clothes. This shows the brutality of the battle.

When the infantry company commander reported to him, he was already unable to stand up. The company commander lost three fingers on his right hand, which were cut off by shrapnel fired by the opponent when he was fighting with a [-]-ton behemoth; The burns were caused by being hit by the flames of rockets fired by one's own side during the fierce battle.

However, the rocket fired by the company commander when he was injured directly penetrated the joint of the seat ring, leaving a small hole in an enemy tank. The situation of the Indian commander who died in the car was worse than him. worse.

Yahini hastily checked the enemy's losses. There were [-] destroyed tanks in total, [-] of which were concentrated in a very short distance. In all directions, the situation at that time seemed to be frozen.

As a battalion commander, he was of course proud of the performance of the infantry, which far surpassed those who ran away from the enemy tanks, but as a tanker, he was inevitably a little sad.In previous battles, he always rejected the coordination with infantry, either thinking they were slow or delaying things, but the scene before him reminded him that tanks are definitely not an invincible weapon. In fact, tanks have many weaknesses.

A month ago, with the arrogance of a lonely hero, he refused to participate in the exchange activities with the Chinese side assigned by the Army Staff Headquarters. Now that I think about it, this was a serious mistake.The Chinese may not have many actual combat examples to teach him, but they have been exploring informationized warfare for a long time.When a tank is surrounded by enemy infantry, what the tank lacks most is the surrounding information. It is obviously not enough to rely on various sensors on the bicycle or the inter-vehicle data link of a small group to grasp the surrounding situation.Just like the enemy tank company in front of us, it suffered such a big loss.Yahini never took formal conducting lessons, but he was a learner.

At this moment, the T80 troops, which were feigning a frontal attack, had monitored about a company of the enemy. They were withdrawing from their positions and slowly retreating into the village of Danishwa.The enemy did not collapse at once, indicating that the headquarters ran away.The superior suddenly notified him that the enemy air force was found.Not knowing if it was aimed at him, Yahini decided to wait for a while, and he ordered all the troops to retreat into the jungle to avoid being detected by the enemy air force.

After a while, fighter jets of the Indian Air Force appeared in the sky.Yahini listened to the flying above his head in fear, but the enemy was obviously anxious, and finally dropped a cluster bomb on the pontoon bridge 10 kilometers away, and then headed west. A circle, also went back.In the recent air contest, both sides appear to be relatively restrained. Perhaps it is the result of China's containment in the north, or it may be just accumulating strength and preparing for the final battle.The cluster bombs dropped by the enemy planes were obviously aimed at the armored forces. They were not effective against the pontoon bridges, and only part of them were blown up. However, in order not to cause the enemy's overreaction, the Pakistani side did not quickly repair the bridges, which caused Yahini to temporarily fall into a crisis. in isolation.

Lin Huaisheng, who was far away in Tezpur, Assam, had almost reversed the initiative at this moment.

By interrogating captured Indian internal affairs personnel, he learned more information.First of all, Lausanne is indeed preparing to use various means to infiltrate and detonate his nuclear bomb, and the target is the Chinese army near Tezpur.At present, he only has one nuclear bomb left, and there are not many hiding bases left. In other words, he has reached the end of the road and must put all his eggs in one basket.

Of course, the significance of capturing Lujadna Khan is far more than dealing with Lausanne.This man was once the commander of special forces and later the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defense of India.After Singer substantially emptied the Army Staff, the intelligence value that could be obtained from him was enormous, which was why Xu Jingzhe quickly airlifted him to the country.

The intelligence department has obtained a lot of useful information from him through special means. Before the battle of Assam was accepted, he sneaked to Assam with a team. There were two main purposes.One is to somehow lift to Lausanne.According to Singh's intention, it was to give the traitor Lobsang Gyatso some intelligence support, and the secret cave warehouse in Meghalaya State was unknown to Lausanne, and it was Lujadna Khan who sent it to the traitor through his channel. Lausanne's gift.

Another purpose is to integrate the region and maintain the allegiance to Indian troops.Relying on the jungles of Meghalaya and Manipur, a travel base was established, and when the Chinese army shrank, it launched a counterattack.And he resigned from the Ministry of Defense in order not to let the Indian government support terrorism.

Judging from the intelligence obtained by Xu Jingzhe from other channels, the Indian government did not know of Singh's plan to use Lausanne. Although he mentioned it at the cabinet meeting, it was immediately rejected by Kahan.This action was entirely Singer's own idea, and he wanted to use Lausanne's hand to complete a revenge.Worried that Lausanne would not be able to control the nuclear bomb, or could not find a special vehicle, Lujadna Khan also specially prepared some blueprints, which were prepared to be "lost" and fell into the hands of Lausanne for his "reference".Among them are the positions of the remaining helicopters in the maintenance warehouse of 2 Meghalayas, and the circuit diagram of the nuclear bomb detonation device.

As a backup, Singh, who thinks he is smart, has another solution. He hopes that after the terrorist attack in Lausanne, Lujadna Khan, who was born in the special forces, will wipe out all the remaining Indian-Tibetan special forces to avoid future troubles. .However, Lausanne decided to strike first. He pretended to be Yolujadnahan to negotiate, but he was ambushed halfway.There was no indication that Lausanne had seen through Singer's plot, but perhaps ungratefulness was the most natural choice for a man like him.

The captives were not deeply involved in Lausanne's next plan, and had limited knowledge. They only knew that another nuclear bomb had been transported away three days ago, and only Lausanne himself knew the specific delivery method.Lujadna Khan finally confessed that Luosang Zhaxi is a person who does not play cards according to common sense, so the way of the final blow must be beyond everyone's expectations.

(End of this chapter)