Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 559 New Artillery Battle
The Chinese army on the Dilmocok front did suffer a blow of astonishment. No one would have expected that the enemy would launch a counterattack; The most timid general in the army, even the junior officers of the People's Liberation Army often make fun of the dull and passive tactics of the Indian lieutenant general.

At this moment, the Chinese troops approaching behind the commanding heights have more than one brigade of troops. The front of the Diem Cuoke area itself is also one of the starting positions of the Chinese army's offensive, but it has been in a concealed state; Satellite reconnaissance is the highest principle, invest in limited forces to fight, and see what the enemy's intentions are.

The enemy's situation immediately reached Xu Jingzhe's hands. From the monitored calls, the enemy has invested at least one regiment and one battalion. The troops are two Sikh battalions and one Kumaang battalion below the 25th and 39th Infantry Divisions. The supporting firepower is very strong, and it seems that there is a howitzer artillery battalion in the rear. Such firepower allows them to easily gain an overwhelming advantage on the front several kilometers wide.

India's attack was so resolute that China didn't know for a while that Meneyam went to New Delhi and took some wrong medicine, and there was a huge change from before.From the perspective of the ability to react quickly, the enemy has always had the ability to launch a decent attack in one aspect.In addition, due to the ingenious location of the enemy's artillery positions, its trajectory is relatively straight, and it is blocked by high mountains. The Chinese artillery radar is relatively far behind, making it impossible to determine its position.Superiors expected immediate air force to drive back the invading enemy force while searching for the location of its artillery positions.

The J-16 fighter jets of the Chinese Air Force on duty immediately took off from the RKZ to perform this temporary mission without a specific plan. Due to the hasty order, the aircraft only carried unguided 250 kg bombs and air-to-air weapons.

After Zheng Hui and the wingman of the rack took off in an emergency, the first wave of J-10 aircraft that launched an attack in a more hasty situation had already dropped bombs and returned; the command plane learned through it that the enemy's assault force had arrived very close to the defense line , bombing became very difficult.Randomly remind approaching Air Force fighters that bombing must be done carefully, not forcefully.

Zheng Hui rushed to the battle zone and was unable to go into battle immediately. He could only fly over the ridge and visually observe the target.I can only see that on the western hillside, a large number of enemies are charging on the snow. There are about 1 people in a scattered formation, and the forward is already in a state of hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese army on the ridge. In fact, some of them have already rushed up. At the top of the mountain, the green smoke bombs thrown by the Chinese defenders to indicate the target are near the top of the mountain.Zheng Hui even saw an Indian military flag with a red background fluttering 100 meters below the commanding height. This was the first time he saw the Indian military flag.It really gave him a feeling of being a mouse-hunter.

After quickly coordinating with the command plane, he made a decision to drop bombs horizontally to the enemy's second echelon and support firepower far from the commanding heights, to give the enemy a bottom line, and then lead the formation to search for the enemy's artillery. There is nothing that can be done.At present, the command plane can roughly determine the position of the artillery, but it needs to find it carefully in this direction.

The 1st Battalion of the Indian Kumaang United is gathering at the bottom of the valley, ready to go into battle.Part of this force had suffered in Assam, so it was not as eager to fight as the Sikh troops, but just hid behind, hoping to stay out of the battle.But sometimes, the more you avoid the battlefield, the less safe you are. They have not learned such a lesson in Assam, so they will make up this lesson soon. The 3 Chinese planes flew over the commanding heights for the second time, and still did not fire at the top of the mountain. After turning in a distant area, they rushed towards the valley.

The temporary battalion headquarters of the Kumaang Battalion is composed of a bunch of scattered jeeps and communication vehicles hastily covered by camouflage nets. Their communication companies and mortar companies are also deployed very close to the battalion headquarters.The officers were standing sparsely at the foot of the mountain, watching their neighbors attack with binoculars, whispering to each other from time to time, and complimenting each other. This is a place where the enemy's mortars are not easy to hit, which naturally made them feel more at ease.

The weapon controller of the J-16 can easily find the pod's field of view through squinting, and find the approximate location of the bomb among several piles of enemies. He marks the target with the front sight on the display, and continues to measure the distance from the location for a few seconds. An hour later, the fire control completed the automatic tracking.The crosshairs are now automatically aimed at the enemy HQ.

At the same time, a corresponding orientation guidance mark appeared on Zheng Hui's HUD.He made his third contact after a huge turn and this time he was determined to really drop the ammo.The pilot in the back seat has selected all six 6kg bombs, so all he has to worry about is reducing the speed and altitude so that the aircraft can fly to the designated area corresponding to the bomb drop window of the fire control calculation. When he arrives at the target, he only needs to aim at the target, keep level flight as much as possible, watch the front sight disappear under the HUD, and then press the bomb release button; the timing of the bomb release is determined by the distance measurement data and the aircraft ground speed calculated by the computer for the pilot in the back seat all the time. And get.

The 6 bombs were dropped at different time intervals according to the intention of the weapon controller to increase the bombing area.What can be seen are all completely exposed soft targets, and the deployment is scattered. This kind of extensive bombing method cannot accurately hit every target, and it will not bomb nothing.

The other two planes in the formation tried to bomb the other groups of enemies on the hillside, and the conspicuous military flag became the target of one of the planes.

When Zheng Hui maintained level flight, he couldn't help turning his head to look at the battle for the high ground on one side. He didn't know why the enemy suddenly launched an attack in an area without air cover, but the momentum of that group of enemies was indeed extraordinary.It can be seen that some people have jumped into the simple fortifications of the Chinese army on the commanding heights. It seems that the highlands will change hands and it is difficult to avoid.

Fighting on the high ground is a part of the Chinese frontier defense force, and an infantry company that is on defense.They really did not expect that the enemy would sneak up on the ridge in such a cold night, and they did not know how long they had been lurking. In general experience, Indian soldiers are not so cold-resistant and not so brave.

The fighting on the commanding heights has not stopped, the troops have been calling for fire support, and also dropped some smoke bombs to guide the air force to the target, but the air force did not dare to bomb these areas, and the Indians rushed forward shouting desperately.

A senior soldier who had just been in the army for a year hid behind the bunker, patiently waiting for the noisy enemy to approach, and an invincible Indian soldier took the lead singing battle songs and rushed into the trench.Chinese soldiers operated a Type 95 light machine gun and fired at about a squad of enemies who swarmed up.For him, the condescending advantage is gone, the only advantage is that those enemies who climbed to the commanding heights appear to be too brave and a little dull.After receiving such a round of sudden shooting, the enemy's corpses and wounded people rolled down into the trench one after another, and the 75 rounds of the drums of the Chinese soldiers just emptied.

The shouts of the second batch of enemies outside the trenches were very close. The first class had no time to change the drums, so he could only grab the bazooka and stand up, facing the second wave of bearded beards climbing up within the distance that they could look at each other. The soldier fired a rocket, killing the nearest group of enemies, and the flying fragments wounded his own shoulder. He didn't care about dressing up, but squatted down quickly, and then threw the enemy's position on the slope according to the position of the enemy in his memory. Out a few grenades, in order to stop the enemy.

A huge explosion that shook the ground came from below, and the movement was much more powerful than a grenade.He was glad that the hesitant planes finally started dropping bombs.The enemy's charge stopped for one.The first class poked his head out from the commanding heights, and found that the bombing point was a little behind, and a large number of Indian soldiers were lying in the snow to avoid it. He seized the opportunity to change a drum for the light machine gun and continued to fight.

Most soldiers would not be so brave in their first battle, but he only had one thought, which was to collect some spoils after defeating the enemy; among the soldiers, the dog-legged sword of the Gurkha mercenary was always the best In fact, he didn't know if the enemy that fought today was the legendary Gurkhas.

Zheng Hui's bombing completely enveloped the enemy battalion headquarters below. Although a 20mm gun kept shooting at him, it did not hurt him at all.Now his second mission was to search for enemy artillery and relay location information to the command plane.He glanced back at the sea of ​​flames in the valley below, and turned to fly west.The enemy’s radar in the southwest has been intensively scanning his plane, but the tracking has not been completed. The high mountain area here does bring a lot of variables to the aiming of air-to-ground weapons on both sides. The Indian S300 is deployed to the west of Nengong Mountain , Most of the time it can only play the role of defending Srinagar.

The No. 2 fighter plane in the formation is responsible for the search on the ground, while Zheng Hui stays in front of the higher airspace alert. His formation is about to enter a blind spot in the line of sight of the early warning command plane of the side, so the formation must allocate its own alert range. Fortunately, there are six pairs of eyes in the two-seater J-16 fighter-bomber formation, which can calmly stare at a range of about 6° from due west to southeast.

The radar quickly acquired the air target.It was a series of low-speed targets that were easily scanned, with abnormal characteristics, and disappeared after passing the mountain pass. Based on experience, Zheng Hui guessed that it was the enemy's helicopter.He decided to temporarily separate from the formation searching the ground and go around to identify the target.

He called the command plane on the radio to issue a request, and at the same time disbanded the formation and slid south.He predicts that if the enemy detects his radar, he may lower his altitude and use the mountain to hide, or use the air-to-air mode of hovering to avoid the radar. This is a small advantage of the helicopter against the jet in the mountain, but he can also use the naked eye. Spot the target.He monitored the search of the other two fighter planes in the formation at any time on the data link, but there was no result for the time being.In such a fragmented mountainous area, it is quite a hassle for both the attacker and the defender.

The weapon controller in the back seat has been looking up into the distance. After the snow falls, it has a little advantage in terms of visual search.Enemies are easier to spot at a greater distance if they are moving against a white background.Sure enough, he saw something moving in front of him. It was different from the previous targets. It was not a high-speed moving point target, but a low-speed moving line target.Bo Yun quickly blocked his sight, and he waited for a while, waiting for the plane to get out of the clouds, and continue to look in the direction of 10 o'clock.It was a sneaky helicopter with a cannon hanging from it.

Air Force Intelligence did not incorporate the Chinook helicopter into the list of possible enemy weapons in this theater until 2 weeks ago. It was only known that the weapon had just entered the army and belonged to a new 205th Squadron and did not enter the Northern Military Region the sequence of.

"Did you see anything?" Zheng Hui asked, "I can turn around right away."

"Wait a minute... it's got a cannon hanging. I see more than one, maybe a battery?"

Zheng Hui knew that he was going to be lucky again, but for the time being, he had to be patient, see how many there were and make an attack plan.In fact, as soon as he approached the front, the enemy's shelling stopped, and it seemed to be mobilized.The mystery of the strange appearance of the enemy artillery has been solved, and they used these heavy helicopters to divert these artillery.He was very sure that the enemy had seen him. The condensation trail of the fighter jet against the background of the blue sky was not as easy to hide as a helicopter. Now he had to pretend that he hadn't spotted the enemy plane, and then launched an attack from a different position.Since he shot down 4 MiG-21s in one fell swoop, his understanding of air combat is different from others. He is more inclined to formulate a complete plan when the advantage is obvious; Running away in one direction is obviously not good for annihilating the enemy.

In the end, it can be confirmed that a total of 3 Chinook helicopters with 2 guns really tried to cross here, and there was no scale of a company. The Indian helicopters lowered their altitude and tried to sneak through the valley at an altitude of 2100 meters.Two of them had howitzers hanging from them, and the other might have been loaded with ammunition. Under the light of the rising sun in the east, they left a long shadow on the snow, which was the biggest threat to their concealment.

Zheng Hui turned and hid behind the mountain where the enemy could not see.The terrified Indian pilots began to speed up. At such an altitude, they could not hover with a load, and even at low speeds, it was difficult to control the stability of the helicopter.Of course they didn't know that Zheng Hui had seen them, if they knew they should disperse immediately and fight for a one-third chance of survival.

The Indian M777 howitzer unit is being deployed in a dispersed manner according to the precise plan of the Meneam Staff Department.Since he has such a set of mature vertical mobility capabilities, he always looks forward to the opportunity to try it out; for Meneam, a large part of the purpose of this tentative partial breakthrough is to practice new high-tech combat capabilities. In order to prepare for the long-term competition with China in the high mountain area in the future.However, the range of the M777 is not outstanding, and the attack target is at a high altitude, which makes it relatively risky to complete a hit-and-run tactic like using a helicopter under the nose of China.

(End of this chapter)