Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 599 A Hand-to-hand Showdown

After waiting for most of the day, the Indian tank soldiers did not hit their heads with the bomb, but because they were afraid of being detected, the commander of the army did not dare to make radio contact, but the wired communication was interrupted at noon, and there were signs that it was destroyed. Molecule cut off.Summing up all aspects of the situation, the spies sent in by Pakistan not only moved faster than the Chinese army, but actually retreated faster than many Indian troops.

The special forces of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency and the Rangers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are far more powerful than their army. This is the case when fighting in Pakistan. Indian soldiers who are alone are most afraid of falling into their hands.These people can speak the Indian language commonly used in Uttar Pradesh, and their accents are flawless; they may form small groups or act alone, some of them have specific tasks, and the rest do not have specific tasks, but only specialize in destroying military facilities.

Now, the few troops staying here can only wait for the communication troops to continue to check the line.The division headquarters issued a final order 6 hours ago requesting that all units stranded in this area try to retreat at least several battalion and regiment first-level headquarters to the east before dawn tomorrow.

For the main force with a disadvantaged division, the most hateful thing encountered so far is not the poor communication, nor is it that the 125mm smoothbore shells that are completely unused have been dragged by the muddle-headed transport troops, making it a powerful challenge. The Raider II tank can only hold less than 1 base of ammunition, and these are secondary things.The most hateful thing is that last night, an engineering unit of the neighbors, for some unknown reason, moved the bridge ahead of time before the two most important units of the 4th Armored Division and a large amount of equipment were withdrawn across the river. It blew up.

The Indian Army has always been plagued by low execution efficiency and unreasonable delays in various orders, but this time, these engineers under Meneam completed their tasks ahead of schedule. The decisive engineer commander may have thought he was doing a good job.

Challenger II has the ability to dive, and the tank also carries complete equipment, but even the Indian tank soldiers who have received strict training lack the necessary training for diving, and they are very psychologically resistant to this way of putting the tank underwater to cross the river .Especially now that the sky is getting late, the risk will increase exponentially, but if you don't act quickly, it is difficult to guarantee that you will be discovered by drones and encounter air strikes tomorrow.

Most of the reconnaissance vehicles sent by the regiment headquarters to the northwest have returned, and 2 vehicles have not turned around. The known intelligence shows that the air and frontal enemy situation is getting more and more serious.

There are no longer any organized Indian troops nearby, and the tank regiment hangs alone in the northern corner of the battlefield.The head of the Indian regiment decided to retreat to the river overnight and wait for the engineers on the other side to build a bridge after dawn. Of course, the air defense battalion of the division headquartered with him also had no time to retreat.

In the twilight, a small drone driven by a motor quietly flew over this quiet lurking area, circling at a height slightly higher than the trees. No Indian soldiers noticed this small aircraft, and then the second one, the same Silently.

The rays of the setting sun pass through the snow-covered forest, leaving mottled tree shadows on the ground.Indian Challenger 2 tanks with white and dark stripes are scattered in the vast forest to prevent being seen.In order to avoid aerial reconnaissance, the tank soldiers could not light a fire to cook, and each team could only go to the kitchen to receive cold flatbread to satisfy their hunger.

Even though this elite Indian army has professional camouflage and anti-infrared means, which can avoid various reconnaissance sensors flying at high altitudes, it is difficult to guard against eyeliners flying at ultra-low altitudes less than [-] meters.Especially those gun barrels that are too late to camouflage with branches are very conspicuous from the air, and infantry walking in the forest are also easy to be spotted. The trucks of the headquarters and transport troops use emerald green camouflage nets that do not match the environment. , making it completely incompatible with the lifeless jungle-even the most professional Indian troops, it is difficult to completely avoid such imprecise problems; The potholed road is also a part that is easy to be captured by drones. Some details can even interpret the location of the wrong assembly area and the size of the troops.

A sharp-eyed Indian veteran who was acting as a scout near the security circle of the army saw trees falling down in the direction of the setting sun in the distance, as if there were several bulldozers below.He realized that if it wasn't for a certain friendly army, getting lost, the worst must have happened.He immediately broke the radio silence and called his superiors in an emergency manner.Judging from the distance, there may still be time to line up the tanks and hit the enemy head-on.

Huang Dexing has not been able to roughly grasp the size of the frontal enemy. Judging from the situation of aerial reconnaissance, there are not as many as a regiment, but it must be more than a battalion.And it can also be confirmed that it is the Challenger 2 tank that disappeared from view for a day.However, the unit did not fight alone. In addition to taking pictures of infantry fighting vehicles and trucks transporting troops, the drone also took pictures of the search radar on a tracked chassis in the forest glade. The radar probably did not turn on or control the power, otherwise It is impossible for your own drone to infiltrate the enemy so easily, and the Air Force will definitely find out, but the antenna is indeed rotating.

It's a mind-boggling weapon, definitely not a long-range system like the S300 or Aster, the enemy wouldn't deploy it that far ahead, it should be part of a field air defense force, maybe a Doyle M2 or a Sam 6 system one of your cars, or worse.

The UAV did not capture the rest of the radars and missile launch vehicles that can confirm the nature, which means that the enemy situation is still unknown, which greatly limits the formulation of the Air Force's dispatch plan. In this case, the Air Force will only agree to carry out conservative operations. Attacks outside the area, usually using a dispenser to drop cluster bombs or terminal bombs.

In the end, Huang Dexing made a request to the headquarters to launch an attack with the air force first, and then regardless of the effect of the attack, he will use tanks to engage in hand-to-hand duels with the enemy. He believes that he can take advantage of intelligence and establish a positional advantage. This is very important for tank warfare. very important.Wang Zhenbei can only agree to such a plan. His troops are crossing here and advancing towards Pathankot in the northeast. Regarding the enemy's mobile forces, he cannot simply go around and wait for the infantry to solve them.

Huang Dexing had observed the formation of the enemy tanks, which were roughly arranged in platoons and scattered. The barrels of the enemy tanks were aimed at all directions except due south, preventing both air attacks and sneak attacks from the ground; he knew that before the attack, , it is best to deceive the enemy's attention to one direction. Generally speaking, tankers will face the gun barrel and frontal armor towards the main threat direction they think, but this will inevitably expose the weak area to other directions, so even though The troops are at a disadvantage, and he still has to spread the troops of the two companies.

The tank deliberately made various movements from the front, just to remind the enemy of its arrival, expecting to cause the enemy to panic.Once the enemy starts the latent chariot, Huang Dexing can hide behind the sound of the rumbling engine and secretly move the main force to the sides. In the dusk forest where the visibility is only a few hundred meters, it is necessary to cover up the sound.Of course, the assembled and active enemies are also conducive to the role of the terminal sensitive bomb.However, Huang Dexing had a premonition that air strikes would not be very useful. The terminal sensitive bombs were not effective in attacking the tanks sheltered by the huge tree canopy. Whether it was infrared or millimeter wave detectors, they could only work in open areas. In addition, the enemy's unknown Air defense capabilities are also a serious concern.

Six Flying Leopard bombers flew here again. It was confirmed that the Indian long-range radar had been destroyed by the attack just now. The Indian army lost complete surveillance of the entire area. For the Air Force, the corridor has been opened.But still, don't take it lightly, because there are still a large number of ground anti-aircraft weapons hiding right under your nose.These weapons also have their own aerial surveillance capabilities, which can cover large and small airspaces. Although they have never dared to show their heads, they will bite when pressed.

A large drone flying above the enemy is observing the movement of tanks in the forest at an altitude of 6000 meters. When the engines of these tanks are running at low speeds, infrared sensors can easily find their tracks.

Once the enemy's concentrated area is found, the coordinates can be sent to the command plane, and then the polygonal area for distributing ammunition can be optimized by computer, and finally the flying leopard already in the air can modify the attack area to complete the final blow.But the situation changed suddenly. The enemy realized that he had been exposed, and the radar below did not continue to deceive himself and remain silent.

The drone was quickly spotted by the guidance radar, and a few seconds later, two powerful flames in the depths of the forest rose into the sky from the inclined follow-up launcher.

The size of these two missiles is quite large, which is completely different from those short-range missiles that are small and lack stamina.With plenty of power, they will continue to accelerate all the way until they hit the target.

It only happened in a short time from the radar turning on to the loss of communication with the UAV. The approaching Flying Leopard bomber also immediately sensed the danger, because the same guidance radar also tracked all 6 bombers.The sirens showed up as Sam 11 missiles—another new face on the battlefield.

The command plane warned the fleet not to continue approaching, no matter how desperate the enemy on the ground was, they did have several sets of powerful beech missiles to back them up.The phased array guidance radar simultaneously tracked the 6 Flying Leopards and electronic jammers farther away, and the temporary electronic jamming could not destroy its guidance capability.

In a hurry, the bomber can only release the strangely shaped dispenser at the farthest distance allowed to drop the bomb, and then turn around and leave.

The unpowered glide devices dropped, each of which can carry less than a ton of payload, navigate similarly to satellite-guided bombs, but do not directly attack the target.

These things can fly over the heads of a large number of enemies, and then launch ammunition in batches in a wide area according to the requirements of the set location and time, which is conducive to suppressing large-scale gatherings of enemy vehicles.The weapons used are generally cluster bombs or terminal sensitive bombs.Of course, because the drone was shot down, the new target area information was not collected. These peculiar square carriers can only drop terminal sensitive bombs in a much larger area according to the backup plan.

It is the 4th Armored Division, the housekeeping air defense force of the division, that is struggling on the ground. They eliminated the old-fashioned Sam 2 system to the second-line troops two months ago, and equipped themselves with Russian-made Sam 6 systems. 2 missiles.Since this missile has a certain degree of inheritance from the Sam 11 and has a high degree of autonomy, the troops quickly completed transition training and formed a reliable combat effectiveness.

Pascianita had been carefully deploying this unit in case it was in an unfavorable prominent position, or the enemy's radio information was collected in advance; but with all the secrets, the unit was still cut off in the rear in an organic way today.

His retreat plan, like the attack plan, is interlocking and too tight (for Indian troops).He arranged the troops that needed enhanced bridge transportation into a compact queue and crossed the river one by one. In order to prevent the Chinese army from using various means to blow up the key bridges, he sent this housekeeping air defense force to this area.In fact, the Chinese army has no plan to blow up the bridge. In Lin Huaisheng's plan, this bridge belongs to the category of facilities that can be used.

The troops of the 4th Armored Division have received rigorous training, and they are one of the few units in the Indian Army that can execute careful plans without losing shape. However, Pascianita’s plan did not anticipate the possible role played by other surrounding Indian troops who do not have a sense of time. , The last engineer under the order of General Meneam came out and blew up the bridge a few hours in advance, and at the same time destroyed the plan of Pacianita and Lin Huaisheng.

The guidance radar of the Beech missile can clearly see all the actions of the opponent as soon as the Flying Leopard drops the dispenser. The targets on the display screen have changed from 8 to 14, which are 6 bombers and 2 jammers. source, and what the bombers dropped.

Apparently what the bombers dropped was of such a large size that it had to be intercepted anyway.

Simply these weapons are arranged very densely, and the speed is not fast. The 6 launch vehicles launched all 22 missiles in three batches in a short period of time (the launcher of one launch vehicle lacked 2 missiles.)
The launching vehicle of this missile can quickly complete the second loading, so the commander can make up his mind to carry out such a desperate attack.

The counterattack was very successful. Although it was impossible to attack all the targets at the same time, it still intercepted in several batches without any risk, and miraculously shot down all 12 dispensers.The frightening first round of confrontation came to an end like this, without harming the enemy on the ground at all. Of course, the matter is not over yet.

During the stage of the air attack, Huang Dexing's tank approached quietly from the enemy's flank. He thought that after the first round of air attack, the enemy should fall into panic and confusion, and he could seize the opportunity to hit the enemy hard, and then retreat completely, and take turns to take turns. Troops in one direction continue to sneak attack, and the enemy will be torn apart after a few rounds.

His troops were outnumbered and divided into several parts, and the superior number of enemies could only be dealt with by several assaults in different directions.In his original plan, the air assault will also be a crucial part, but now he finds that he has made a wrong calculation, and now he must conduct a cruel tank contest, and he still has an advantage in position.

(End of this chapter)