Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 609 Green Arrow Missile
Pakistan's 1st Armored Division actually didn't need Yahini's reconnaissance. China's intelligence was placed on the desk of Deputy Division Commander Younis early in the morning.

Younis didn't know where the Chinese got such important news, but he couldn't help but not believe the detailed troop strength and firepower allocation and deployment details in the intelligence.This information shows that Meneam can't wait for the cooperation of other direction 1 forces and the air force. He will launch a counterattack alone at noon today. The purpose of the first phase of the campaign is to threaten the retreat of the Chinese and Pakistani coalition forces.The main forces involved were the 15th and 19th Mountain Infantry Divisions under the 28th Army, the independent 10th Artillery Brigade, and some units represented by letters with unknown numbers.

In fact, due to the Chinese air force's air strikes around Jammu, a large number of communication facilities were systematically and preferentially destroyed.This forced the enemy to use radio communication to communicate, and Xu Jingzhe had been sitting in the office, waiting for the orders that he thought were encrypted to fall into his hands.Of course, the Chinese side has not disclosed the source of these intelligence to the Pakistani side, because the mutual infiltration of Indian and Pakistani intelligence units is very serious.

Lin Huaisheng dared to directly enter the hinterland of India, not only because of his confidence in hard power, but also because he could accurately grasp most of the enemy's deployment and real-time mobilization; he also knew that the enemy could not coordinate the attack well from a strategic perspective ; Sure enough, the enemy's counterattack was launched in batches, which was like fueling. The various groups could not agree on the time and place of the counterattack, which eventually led to him being able to deal with it calmly.

By eavesdropping on the radio, Xu Jingzhe had a general idea of ​​the rift among the Indian military officers and the conflicts between different groups.This is also the reason why Lin Huaisheng always chooses an offensive route based on his suggestion, which is always near the combination of Meneam and Spanga.

Facts have proved that Xu Jingzhe's strategy is very reasonable.After the Chinese army broke through the border, Spanga quickly adjusted and retreated, completely ignoring the possibility that Kashmir's logistical supply line might be cut off; while Meneyam retreated to the mountain even faster, almost deliberately pulling the 4th The flank of the armored division was exposed, and he even destroyed the road ahead of time, blew up the bridge, and forced Spanga's troops to "break the rear".

At present, Pasad, the chief of staff of the Indian Army, is working on both sides to bridge the mutual disruption, hoping to promote cooperation, but Spanga has a whim and insists on returning. For the time being, Meneyam can only find a way to save himself.For this counterattack, he also carried out feints and deceptions in Patanko, and formulated a fake operation code name. The foreplay is not insufficient, but unfortunately, Lin Huaisheng almost completely mastered this counterattack plan.There are only some units that use letters as code names, which seem a bit mysterious. Lin Huaisheng estimates that they may be the large-caliber howitzers or K1 tanks that Meneam regards as treasures.He felt that no matter what new equipment was invested, this attack was not a concern, because Meneam did not have air superiority, so he simply lined up and waited for the enemy to throw himself into the net, and at the same time hid Yahini's tank troops, waiting to take advantage of the situation The recovery of Sialkot in one fell swoop will completely remove the threat from the flank.

Song Ning was still commanding the battle in the sky. He was wary of the invisible threat from the south. At the same time, he had to keep an eye on the Indian Trident Squadron stationed in Jammu. This was Meneam's last air ace. The troops came out in full force, and there was no reason not to use this force to cover the attack aircraft fleet, although intelligence showed that the squadron currently only had half of its combat power left.

At noon, the air police early-warning aircraft saw a large number of enemy drones dispatched. Jammu is located in a mountainous area, and it is temporarily impossible to see the movement, but the attack aircraft group at Fort Airport began to take off, which is a signal that the enemy is about to attack.After taking off, these planes flew secretly along the mountains and turned towards Sialkot.

India is stationed in Fort ***, which are unknown throughout the war, including the 5th Wild Boar Squadron, the 14th Bull Squadron and the 16th Black Cobra Squadron, all equipped with Jaguar IS that is completely behind the times attack aircraft.These planes lack defense penetration capabilities and backward electronic equipment, and can only perform limited front-line support missions. Due to the relatively small number of dispatches, they have remained relatively complete so far.

After Meneyam's army occupied Beibuto International Airport, they decided to take advantage of the take-off and landing capabilities of this airport, which is far superior to that of general front-line airports, so they deployed a large number of second-line attack aircraft squadrons here as one of his cards.

Song Ning saw about 20 targets take off, and then flew close to the mountain. This was the most enemy plane dispatch he had seen since he was the air commander. Much more.Of course, the airports in Uttar Pradesh, India, were all quiet and there was no cooperation, which showed that this dispatch was just a shaved peach.

Due to his powerful intelligence, he already had 7 J-10 fighters on standby in the air. He ordered Zhao Lin to quickly lead the J-10 formation to intercept, and at the same time let Liu Zhaolin's Su-2, which was dispatched for the second time today, quickly take off to support. The goal is not to attack Those weak attack planes set up their nets and waited for the Trident to dispatch.Major Rolle had fought against Song Ning several times, and he had always been a thorn in his side. He looked forward to solving the Trident Squadron today.From the command plane, he could also see the Wuzhi 35 brigade taking off from Gujrat. Lin Huaisheng hadn't informed him of this transfer, but it was obviously used for anti-tank purposes.

At this moment, several squadrons of Jaguar attack planes were heading straight for the target.Based on the intelligence obtained by drones from morning to noon, they will bomb the positions established by the Pakistani army and the rear artillery.Since Indian drones are unable to penetrate too far, the pilots are also blind to what kind of anti-aircraft firepower they will face. They only know that the loss rate of drones dispatched in the morning is as high as 9.5%.

These old aircraft have certain low-altitude flight capabilities, so that they can use the terrain to effectively avoid the Chinese Air Force's downward-looking interception when flying in the mountains, but this is also bound to pass through the air defense network composed of anti-aircraft guns, and the electronic weapons of these attack aircraft The warning equipment is not sensitive to the anti-aircraft gun radar signature, and actually does not have the warning capability.What the pilots don't know is that the Pakistani army has many 35mm double-barreled towed anti-aircraft guns made in China, as well as a complete command system.Due to the poor maneuverability of this kind of towed anti-aircraft guns, the Chinese army does not use them very much, but these anti-aircraft guns have strong defensive capabilities. At this moment, Lin Huaisheng has deployed them on both sides of the position as the first line of defense, waiting for India. Planes come crashing.

The fighter planes of the "Wild Boar" squadron arrived first. They flew over the mighty Indian mechanized troops dispatched from Sialkot and flew towards the Pakistani Army defense line.According to intelligence, the 122mm howitzer positions behind the line of defense must be eliminated by them.

About 14 Jaguars plunged headlong into the anti-aircraft artillery net.The bison squadron that arrived later will detour and attack the road network in a deeper area.

The Indian pilots, who were exhausted after a long flight at low altitude in the mountains, suddenly found themselves surrounded by locust-like artillery shells.The programmable proximity munitions fired by these guns immediately blasted a black barrage of barrages through the air in hot pursuit of the lumbering Indian planes laden with bombs.For a moment, the smoke screen of the explosion almost covered the sky. Within 20 seconds, three jaguars fell down with thick smoke. They carried a lot of ammunition, and exploded in the air, bursting out with terrifying flames.

The Jaguar fleet without any effective means of counterattack immediately fell into a chaotic situation where they fought on their own. Simply this kind of aircraft can use the lower armor to resist fragments when climbing at a small angle of attack, provided that the bomb must be thrown away.Instinctively, the pilots began to throw away the load, climbing desperately to survive.They still don't know that the Chinese Air Force is already waiting at high altitude.

Zhao Lin was 30 kilometers away, and quickly tracked the targets flying around like headless chickens with a radar downsight, preparing to launch medium-range bombs.At this moment, the enemy planes are throwing bombs indiscriminately in order to increase the chance of escape, but the increase in climbing speed is also very limited.

The radar irradiation of the Chinese Air Force finally touched the warning equipment of some fighter planes, but these old equipment can only issue this sound to remind the lock, but cannot provide the precise position of the enemy radar (there is a circular indicator, through 360° Surrounded by eight light-emitting diodes, providing a very rough direction indication) and no altitude information, in such a chaotic situation, the screams in the cabin can only increase the pilot's excessive reaction, rather than effective maneuvering and avoidance. Turn on the radar.

Zhao Lin observed the enemy's further confusion, so he made up his mind to attack.The four J-4s in front of the formation all completed tracking and fired medium-range bombs.The missiles were directed to fly to each group of targets, and most of the targets were hit.

Song Ning's command plane can judge whether it has hit by the appearance of sudden deceleration, disintegration or falling of the tracked target.

He found that there were as many as 14 enemy planes when they came, but now the sky is clean. Although there are still many clutters forming continuous tracks, there are not many that match the flight characteristics of fighter jets. They seem to be reflections of falling wreckage .

The "Wild Boar" attack aircraft squadron of the Indian Air Force has been quietly preserved in the brutal war, but in this desperate attack, due to lack of intelligence and poor coordination (Trident Squadron has not arrived yet) ), suffered heavy casualties.Behind such a price, none of the bombs of the Wild Boar Squadron hit the target.Zhao Lin could have grabbed more victories, but Song Ning kept reminding him that he must maintain altitude to avoid Pakistani anti-aircraft fire, and now he is looking forward to fighting the second Indian attacking force that is coming straight.

The first round of offensive by the Indian ground forces was launched amidst the sound of rumbling artillery. When the T55 tanks are advancing all the way, you can see the fighter jets in the air flying bravely towards the enemy's formation, and then being swallowed and falling by the dense, whirlwind-like explosion barrage.Obviously what Lieutenant General Meneam said during the morning mobilization before the battle: the enemy has low morale and no defense is wrong; now it is the turn of the tanks to hit this line of defense.

The first line of defense is the 11th regiment and an artillery battalion from the 119th Infantry Division in northwest Pakistan. The regiment has no heavy weapons, only 122mm towed howitzers and Pakistan's homemade Green Arrow anti-tank missiles, as well as a large number of rocket launchers.

Lin Huaisheng did not invest any Chinese ground troops to defend against the enemy's attack. He believed that the combat effectiveness of the Pakistani army was inferior, and it would not be a problem if the troops were not superior. Yam suffered a big defeat.For this reason, he left a part of the 1st Armored Division with slightly stronger combat effectiveness and field capabilities as a reserve team, waiting for a counterattack.

The Pakistani howitzers fired inaccurately and blasted piles of yellow dust on the horizon. Under the strong northerly wind in the dry early spring, these plateau dust well covered the enemy tanks.Although the plan of the Indian Wild Boar Squadron to attack the artillery positions failed miserably, the performance of the Pakistani artillery also showed that their threat was actually limited.

In the yellow sand all over the sky, the figures of Indian tanks appeared and disappeared from time to time, and the commanders bravely drilled out of the turrets to observe the situation ahead.From time to time, shells and the wreckage of Jaguar fighter jets fell from the sky.The Pakistani army hiding in the trenches was anxiously waiting for the exchange of fire. Since the laser ranging failed in the sand and dust, the officers who lost their composure ordered to fire immediately. Kilometers away, that's a distance that can't be shot.

Several Green Arrow missiles swished away from the launch pad. After a long flight, these missiles missed the target due to insufficient wire length, or due to the failure of infrared angle measurement due to flying into the dust.However, the 119th regiment has a large stock of missiles and does not care about these necessary tuition fees.

Most of the regiment's soldiers are recruits from the Pashtun tribal areas in the northwest, with a tradition of bravery. This area has also been the main force area of ​​​​the Pakistani Taliban.The main characteristics of these soldiers are lack of discipline, low level of education, usually fighting fiercely, but relatively reckless in combat, but Lin Huaisheng saw that they had more potential for mountain warfare than soldiers in other regions, so he transferred them to this line of resistance Indian Army.

Although the unit basically knew little about technical weapons, Lin Huaisheng didn't care about spending more money. He shipped 400 Green Arrow missiles overnight to replace the RPG7 previously equipped by the unit.The key to launching this kind of missile is nothing more than to track the target steadily until it hits the target. Since illiterate terrorists can quickly master the method of using this kind of missile, Lin Huaisheng thought, there is no reason why these recruits can't learn it.But he may have overlooked the psychological pressure of facing the frontal tank group.

Indian tanks gradually emerged from the yellow sand, and there were more and more of them.Without waiting for the commander's order, the missiles on the position were launched one after another, and finally the mania triggered a chain reaction, and all the missiles on the launchers were fired.

(End of this chapter)