Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 622 The Burning Valley

The drone mobilized by Yahini is on the way. In addition, he exaggerated the enemy's situation and proposed to mobilize a few more armed helicopters to help out, but he has not received a clear response. Most of the helicopters are busy cleaning up Sialkot. With the ready-made targets on the periphery, it is quite difficult to fly so far to the new battlefield in the eastern mountainous area.Unlike He Fan, who is thousands of miles away, he is only a basic unit in the entire command system, and it is not so easy to mobilize the equipment of the Chinese army.

After a short encounter and departure, Yahini decided to try to hold the enemy first, and then use his familiarity with the terrain to wipe out these enemies.He ordered the withdrawal of the armor-piercing bombs, reloaded a smoke bomb indicating the battlefield, and fired it at the rugged mountain ahead.

The drone slowly arrived following the billowing red smoke, and saw the enemy convoy that had been cut into two sections from the sky. Except for the main station tank, there were other vehicles, so many that the tail could not be seen at a glance.It seemed that Meneam was planning to hide his belongings in the mountains so that they would not be taken away by air strikes.

Chang Yong's helicopter brigade has parked on a flat ground 20 kilometers outside Sialkot. About 2 companies of Pakistani mechanized infantry arrived 20 minutes earlier and formed a defense around them.With the arrival of the transport helicopter, the armed helicopter unit began the ammunition and fuel replenishment operation.All supplements are sent by Mi-171 helicopters. Due to the close distance to the front, the whole process is compact and efficient, full of variables.The armies of China and Pakistan have rarely carried out such high-intensity repeated battles before, and the helicopter dispatch rate has always been relatively low, but at this moment, there are too many enemies who are exposed to the ground and rushing back. Broken leg.

On this high ground, Chang Yong can even see the smoke billowing in the Sialkot urban area, and he can also see the smoke and dust raised by the enemy convoy retreating from the southwest about 10 kilometers away. He is anxiously waiting The rocket pod is full, so go clean up these convoys.The Indian army's attack on the defenders of the Chinese and Pakistani coalition forces has completely failed, and it is of course not allowed to retreat calmly.

Two staggering Pakistan Army Cobra attack helicopters, belching black smoke, also flew over here, and they made an emergency landing away from the fuel dump. A group of people rushed to put out the fire in one with fire extinguishers.The cabin of one of them was completely destroyed. Behind the broken canopy, the shooter in the front seat was completely inhumane. The armor on the side of the plane was hit hundreds of times by ammunition of various calibers.

After the air force destroyed the enemy's air defense system, all available air-to-ground firepower was not idle, and launched an attack on the fleeing enemy.However, the enemy has not completely lost the ability to resist. In the counterattack, the armed helicopters invested by Pakistan suffered the most losses. Because of the lack of infrared warning equipment and long-range anti-tank weapons, they perform the most dangerous close-in reconnaissance and rocket attacks over the chaotic battlefield. task, it is easy to be hit by the enemy's small-caliber weapons and individual anti-aircraft missiles.

Chang Yong did not leave the cockpit. He has been checking the street plan of Sialkot at hand. It is said that he has found the enemy’s new tanks. He must be ready to fight. The taller buildings in the city are a trouble. When tall buildings search for ground tanks.Enemies could shoot from windows or fire Sam 7 missiles from the top deck.

He soon received a new mission and found more valuable targets in the mountains. A Pakistani tank commander reported seeing a large number of enemy troops, but he was not sure enough.Since there are no redundant reference materials for the new task, the superior allows him to choose which one to perform.He finally decided to fly to the eastern mountains to wipe out the unknown enemies there. In his opinion, it would be easier to deal with the enemy's anti-aircraft fire in the mountains.

The 6 WZ-10s and 2 WZ-19s that were still able to take off immediately took off and headed towards the indicated target area. It is known that our own tanks are fighting with the enemy, which adds additional complexity in target identification. He carefully received the command along the way. According to the limited information collected by the Ministry of Defense, I was told that there may be equipment of our own in the vicinity, including 99, 96, T84 and 59D tanks. tank.He began to regret accepting this task, and it became a mess.In the unique shadow of the mountain, it is not easy to distinguish the T72 from the T55, especially when the pilot pulls the trigger, he has to risk the huge psychological pressure of accidentally injuring himself.

From a distance the shooter saw several streaks of red smoke rising into the sky in the valley in the distance, some kind of smoke grenade indicating the battlefield for air units, and also a column of moving tanks nearby, which used tree branches for a good This makes it difficult to tell what model it is from the side and rear, but only from the color of the small flag tied to the antenna, it may be a Pakistani T84 tank, of course no one can guarantee it.

He bypassed these suspected friendly tanks far away, so as not to scare them into firing at him and being attacked by his own firepower. He had encountered this kind of thing seven or eight times in the last 48 hours.There is still a crack on the right side of the hood, which was caused by friendly 12.7mm machine gun fire.

Two Wuzhi 2s rushed to the front. They flew over the ridge at low altitude, and they saw the messy Indian convoy huddled together below. Anti-aircraft weapons will be resolved first.In order to guard against some weapons that use search radar, they do not adopt close formation, but fly far apart.

It was too late to fly over the enemy convoy, and encountered ground high-frequency radar irradiation. Obviously, the enemy noticed them first. The characteristic is the most common J-band irradiation radar, which roughly belongs to the Shilka River 4-unit self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

There are a lot of such equipment in the various formations of the Indian Army in Kashmir. It is a very effective weapon preferred by Indian commanders. In addition to having independent air defense capabilities, it also has strong flat-firing anti-armor capabilities.The radar quickly pointed to a Z-19.

The best way to deal with this kind of anti-aircraft gun is to quickly skim at low altitude and get rid of its irradiation radar. If you can't get rid of it, flying over it is a way to survive in danger.Its irradiation radar is installed on the follow-up bracket. When searching, its speed is slightly faster than its turret, but when it is ready to fire, the radar is locked in the shooting direction of the 4 anti-aircraft guns to serve as irradiation. Get rid of the radar, so please firepower.

The Indians couldn't bear the fear and started shooting recklessly.The dense barrage was chasing after the avoiding Chinese helicopter, and a large amount of rubble collapsed on the side of the mountain.These munitions have no proximity fuze, and the high-density fire net is the biggest threat.

The pressure of the helicopter changed sharply, and the flying fire net followed closely behind.Wuzhi 19 deftly made a somersault and hid in the dead angle above the enemy's 80-degree high and low shooting.

At the same time, another Wuzhi 19 used four 4mm anti-aircraft guns and could not track multiple targets at the same time. It hid behind it, hovered and fired a series of 23mm rockets.The launch was a little too hasty, the helicopter has not turned its orientation yet, but the helicopter kept firing continuously during the horizontal rotation, and the rockets whizzing out of the rocket pod fired continuously at the Indian military vehicles in the fan. The dismounted Indian infantrymen were wounded for days.The self-propelled anti-aircraft gun quickly turned the turret, but it was too late and was hit head-on by two rockets.

At this time, the heavier Wuzhi 10 just crossed the ridge. Chang Yong used the millimeter-wave radar to quickly survey and map the valley. The computer quickly identified hundreds of vehicles, most of which were maneuvering at low speeds, while others were stagnant. .Although the radar warning has not yet moved, he knows that the risks he faces are accumulating over time. It is almost 19 seconds since Zhi 40 launched an attack. This is a well-trained ground force in most raids. , can be put into the moment of counterattack.

He ordered all helicopters to continue firing infrared interference tracer bombs. For low-speed helicopters, this method will destroy their own vision, but it is also an effective early defense method, and the earlier the launch, the better the effect.For a moment, the entire valley was filled with dazzling light and white smoke.

Sure enough, the Sam 7 missiles sprang up from below without warning, but none of these missiles could hit the target after penetrating the infrared jamming bomb.

These tracer bombs are not only unusable for passive interference at the last moment, but in fact, if they are launched before the enemy makes a move, they can destroy the aiming process of most infrared-guided weapons that lasts for a few seconds, making these tracers through simple audio prompts Locked-on missiles cannot actually aim at the target, and what the shooter hears can only be uninterrupted false alarms. As a result, the hit rate of these missiles can be reduced to a negligible level. This is Chang Yong's active countermeasure against the enemy.

He tilted the nose of the aircraft downward, and used the cannon to shoot at the targets that were within reach below. This straight valley was more suitable for shooting from the air than the tortuous terrain.The enemy convoy was beaten to the ground.During this period, his helicopter was hit by small-caliber stray bullets fired from below from time to time, but he responded with 57mm rockets to the enemy.The rest of the helicopters that followed also began to fire non-stop, destroying the entire column of the enemy blocked in the mountain.When Chang Yong took off, due to an omission in logistics management, no anti-tank missiles were mounted, but for these lightly armored targets, the cannons and rockets on the helicopter were even more cruel.

Yahini's tanks had already flanked the other side of the valley along the rugged mountain road, and he heard all kinds of explosions in the valley where the enemy was entrenched. He didn't take advantage of the chaos, he was afraid that these red-eyed helicopters would accidentally injure him. Eight helicopters blasted the valley into a sea of ​​flames and turned back. Yahini ordered the tank company to search forward to solve the final battle.

When the helicopter attacked, the drone kept monitoring in the air, but the thick smoke destroyed the observation of the drone. Yahini didn't know what he encountered when he turned the corner, but guessed that most of the enemies might have been wiped out. .

Yahini climbed out of the turret through the choking smoke and looked around.Holding the communicator in his hand, he informed the command that his tank had entered the valley, and other air units should not approach here for the time being.

While waiting for his superiors to speak back, the tank turned the corner through the smoke.A Kaiser self-propelled artillery was tilted to one side, and the artillery was inserted into the nearby mountain. Obviously, the driver crashed into the mountain in a panic during the air strike.An Indian officer was hiding under the truck gun, yelling at Yahini and waving desperately, probably indicating that there was an air strike here and he had to leave quickly.Yahini quickly drilled back into the turret and manipulated the machine gun to shoot at the blind Indian officer.The follow-up 99 tanks all entered the burning valley, spread out as much as possible, and were ready to deal with the enemy.

Yahini's tank quickly passed the second Caesar gun, and a Leclerc tank rushed out of the smoke and rammed directly into the 99 tank.Saad couldn't dodge in time and was hit by his opponent. The tank immediately turned off. Yahini was caught off guard and was almost thrown off the tank.

The Indian commander with a mustache got his head out of the turret and began to swear at people with the worst words. Apparently he mistook himself for being hit by one of his own people. Yahini drew a flare gun from his waist and shot the idiot. , A box set his clothes on fire.The Indian yelled and fell, and then the automatic fire protection system in the car began to spray gas, and the turret began to rotate.

Car No. 4, coming from behind, opened fire on the hapless French tank at a distance of 20 meters with an armor-piercing projectile.After the violent bombardment penetrated the turret, the remaining kinetic energy of the shell still punched a deep hole in the nearby rock.

The chaotic enemy in front finally noticed, and a Gustav rocket fired from a side mountain condescendingly hit the engine of the No. 4 tank, stopping it in place.Yahini used a machine gun to disperse the enemies on the mountain, and then ordered the follow-up vehicles to use the wrecked enemy tanks in front as cover as possible to prepare for the battle. It seems that the armed helicopters did not completely solve the problem. They tilted all the ammunition on the heads of the trucks and infantry, leaving I laid a few hard bones and gnawed on myself.

Yahini immediately used the thermal imaging system to see through the smoke on the battlefield.A 4-link 23mm anti-aircraft gun turned 100 meters in front. It could not see through the smoke, but it fired without hesitation, sweeping down all the Indian infantry standing in front of it ready to launch a rocket attack. The dense barrage would not be able to All the equipment on the mobile No. 4 tank body was destroyed.

Saad restarted the chariot and pushed Leclerc away in one fell swoop. Two of the 4 artillery guns in front had jammed and misfired. In the thermal imager, the heated barrels were clearly visible. Several members of the ZSU-2-23 knew that it was the enemy's turn to shoot, and were about to jump out of the car and escape. Tasim used a 4mm shell directly through the driver's hatch and blew up the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. debris.

Yahini called the crew of his 4 good cars to evacuate, but only two crew members survived. The driver stuck his head out and was unfortunately hit by a 23mm artillery.Before he could get emotional, he ordered Saad to retreat and try to hide the body of the car behind the destroyed Leclerc.

(End of this chapter)