Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 623 Target Chandigarh
The drone flew overhead, and the altitude dropped to the lowest level, but it was still unable to penetrate the thick smoke to see clearly, and could only vaguely find a large number of Indian equipment moving in the flames and black smoke.The last round of helicopter attack only fired a large number of non-precision guided weapons. Although the scene was lively, it left many rough-skinned and thick-skinned guys undestroyed. The headquarters did not have much time to study countermeasures. They asked Axi Ni either resolves the battle on his own, or withdraws and waits for the air force to attack and kill again.

Yahini found that he could finally call his other 2 companies. Through the drone to restore the data link communication, he could see his 2nd company on the monitor. These tanks and the Type 99 can have a relatively complete inter-vehicle communication , but can't see the position of the third company, and can only make intermittent voice calls.

The Indian chariot is in the stage of counterattack, and shells are constantly being fired from the opposite side. This prevents Yahini from being distracted and directing other troops to approach him and outflank the route. He can only fire signal flares to remind other companies to think about themselves quickly. Come here, especially if he doesn't know the position of the 3rd company, whether he can consciously choose a good route to join the battle depends on the 3rd company's own performance.

Sure enough, the 96-type tank company that arrived first completely failed Yahini's expectations. They came along the old road of the 1st company and ran directly to the rear of the 1st company of Yahini. Use your firepower.

The inaccurate firepower of the Indian tanks on the opposite side is getting stronger and stronger. A Z-9 reconnaissance helicopter flies over the valley at a very low altitude. It carries 2 anti-tank missiles, which are almost useless except for reconnaissance.

However, when the helicopter flew over at low altitude, it accidentally blew away the smoke in the valley, which made Yahini in the front and a Leclerc on the opposite side see each other at the same time, and the two lasers were within a distance of less than 2 meters. They collided, and each aimed at the opponent's vital points, but because both sides were covered by obstacles, they didn't dare to fire for a while.

Before the smoke shrouded the present again, the Indian tank couldn't bear it, and finally opened fire first. The shell penetrated the wreckage of the tank and hit the front of the Type 99. The strong kinetic energy hit the front of the Type 99 with a terrifying loud noise, which once again tested Yahini. The nerves of everyone in the crew.

Without waiting for Yahini's order, Saad had already driven the tank out of the obstacle, striving for a larger shooting range for the gunners. This team has been working together for a long time, and the crew has already developed a strong tacit understanding with each other.But sometimes, the experience of one battle will become wrong information in the next battle. Just when Tasim thought he had grabbed the shooting window of this round and was about to spend some time aiming calmly, the Leclerc actually took the lead again. Fire was fired, and the shell hit the left side armor under the hull, and flew out of the left side of the hull, destroying the inducer and a road wheel, and the tracks rolled to the ground.

If the driver Saad did not drive in the center, but sat on the left like many other tank drivers, he might have lost his lower body at this moment.Now, Yahini's tank was completely paralyzed before the opponent's firepower and could not walk.

Seeing that the second shot missed the point, Leclerc quickly reversed the car and shrank behind the obstacle after thinking about it, but what it used to resist was a destroyed BMP tank. For the Type 99 main gun, This may be just a psychological comfort, the only function is to prevent the opponent from aiming.

Tasim has two options, one is to aim for an unobstructed spot above the opponent's turret, which he is sure can penetrate, destroy some internal equipment, and with luck kill a crew member or two; but there is no ammo there, or The artillery cradle cannot guarantee the ability to destroy the enemy's counterattack.The second option is to shoot at the more deadly part through the infantry fighting vehicle, but the specific location needs to be judged by experience.

The interval between the two shots of the enemy tank just now seemed to be less than 2 seconds, so he didn't have much time to think. He decided to trust the firepower of the 4mm gun and his own judgment.The artillery was aimed at the position roughly behind the tank turret. Although he couldn't see it, he still fired decisively.

With a loud noise, the shell penetrated the BMP tank, but I couldn't see where it hit the tank. Did it hit it?The battlefield fell into a brief, eerie calm, and nothing happened for a while.The purpose of aiming at that position is to detonate the ammunition. Of course, this is the experience gained after competing with the T 90S. Tasim sometimes does not adapt to the endless new equipment of the Indians.

It was Yahini who saw the trick first, and he ordered Saad to quickly withdraw from the tank and run to the mountain, but he and the gunner remained at their posts, waiting for the next fire.Saad had about 3 seconds to crawl out from under the gun barrel which was adjusting the angle and waiting to be reloaded, but he gave up and fled. He was determined to survive and die with the tank and the crew.

Yahini never saw the Leclerc adjust the barrel angle. He judged that the autoloader was damaged, which was the reason why he finally gave up on abandoning the car.Of course, this judgment is actually based on his outdated experience. Leclerc’s loading principle is not the same as that of the T90. During automatic loading, the barrel can be kept roughly horizontal, and the angle is hardly adjusted (-1.8°). But that doesn't prevent the conclusion from happening to be correct.Tasim's blow just now didn't detonate the ammunition, but it did destroy the loader.

That legal tank did not repeat the magical reload speed of less than 5 seconds last time. It did not fire the third shell. If it could fire, it would definitely be able to tear Yahini's tank to pieces.

The Type 99 tank finally completed a relatively slow loading.Tasim saw that the Indian train crew was crawling out of various exits and fled. He deliberately stopped for a while to let them escape, but Yahini next to him was not so merciful. He had already started manipulating the top machine gun to shoot at these people. The entire group was killed by him. He seldom shot and killed the fleeing Indian tankers, but the second shot fired by the opponent just now scared him a lot. He thought that the extremely high rate of fire of the Leclerc tank destroyed the battlefield. The established rule of one attack and one defense, since the opponent resorts to dishonest means first, then don't worry about his lack of chivalry.

Tasim's second shot completely destroyed the target, but the Type 2 tank could only stop in the middle of the firepower of both sides. After being attacked by rocket launchers from all directions several times, Yahini could only Decided to release hot fumes and abandoned the car.

This is the second time the group has abandoned a tank on the battlefield.Yahini took the radio station and climbed the limping driver (still slightly injured) to a nearby mountain. At this time, the poor 99 tank had been launched by the opponent's infantry. Gustav and 40 rockets The bomb hit nearly 10 times, none of which were detonated by the tank, but the jet still ignited the lubricating oil line near the engine, and the back began to burn.

Yahini, who had a better view of the battlefield from a higher position, realized that he had lost two tanks in succession due to the narrow terrain.In such a narrow valley, the two sides were huddled together, unable to exert firepower at all. He was very worried that if time dragged on for a long time, those Chinese armed helicopters or bombers would appear again, and they would attack indiscriminately.

Regardless of the possibility of enemy snipers nearby, he struggled to climb to the top of the mountain. During this period, he kept in touch with the 3rd company. The company commander said that he could hear the intense shelling, but he couldn't find a way to get close. , if it cannot arrive within 30 minutes, the tank will be out of fuel.

In the valley, several brave Indian soldiers climbed up to the abandoned Type 99 tank and threw grenades into the open hatch. Watching the tank being destroyed by infantry, Yahini was determined not to wait for air support and resolve the battle by himself.

He turned over the hill and saw a group of tanks wandering around the hill from a distance, and he was about to miss the battlefield. He had good eyesight and recognized the small green flag on the antenna. It really was the long-lost third company, so he called out loudly Let them turn north, climb over from one side of the hillside, and go around to the enemy's side; seeing that the 3rd company finally found the right position, he called the headquarters and asked for the air strike to be suspended.

Twenty minutes later, the enemy convoy stretching 20 kilometers was completely surrounded by Yahini's tanks.He commanded the two lines of tanks to start moving together, condescending, crushing the enemies in the center in unison.He still didn't know that there were as many as 3 enemies compressed by him in the valley.

The moment the T84 tanks rushed down the hillside, the trapped Indian troops were using the T72 tanks at the front of the team to push a way out of the wreckage of various vehicles blocking the road, ready to rush out.

Most Indian soldiers couldn't tell the difference between the T84 and some Soviet-made tanks of their own side. The Indian military police waving small flags even stopped in front of the T84, signaling them not to block the intersection and to get out of the way.The unlucky gendarme was directly sent under the track by the rough Pakistani tanker's foot of the accelerator.

The company commander under Yahini, who often couldn't find his way, suddenly became a key figure who dominated the battlefield.Several T72 tanks, which were clearing obstacles, were completely unprepared, and were beaten to pieces by close-range firepower.

Then the heroic 3rd company launched a reverse push, and what they faced were trucks and self-propelled artillery; although some of the 155mm truck artillery had already set up their postures and prepared for the last shot, the muzzles were completely On the contrary, they did not expect that there would be more behind them.Taking advantage of the opponent's complete inability to fight back, the 3rd company pushed forward like a bulldozer, and the machine guns and artillery fired continuously, completely ignoring the enemy column that was caught off guard.Although this company likes to act on its own, it is still quite brave on the battlefield, especially when the battle is favorable, some people will go crazy and perform supernaturally.Yahini couldn't see the battle in the valley clearly, but he could hear the heart-piercing screams of the Indian troops and the sound of various explosions getting closer, and he knew the enemy was finished.

The Leclerc tanks at the back of the formation immediately fell into chaos, and they had fallen into a situation where they were attacked on both sides.

The Indian army is the army that can't stand the chaos most. In the chaos, even an excellent commander will make various low-level mistakes.

Yahini saw the Leclerc tanks behind and started to turn around. Although some of their barrels were still pointing in the original direction, preparing for a two-sided counterattack, the flaws had been completely exposed.

The 99 tanks on the front now use thermal imaging cameras to search for targets through smoke. Generally speaking, the rear of a tank in action is always a very obvious heat source. If the performance of the infrared equipment is similar, it will naturally be easier for the rear to face the enemy. Exposure, not to mention the armor at the rear, is better than nothing. The Indian tank commander was attacked on both sides, so he had to choose this bad strategy.

When an armored battalion on the outskirts of Sialkot killed a mechanized infantry brigade of the enemy.Lin Huaisheng in the headquarters has been concerned about the advancing troops ahead, the distance from Chandirgarh, it seems that Spanga is determined to give up all the important towns on his way forward, and trade depth for time.There was basically no counterattack from the 21st Army along the way, and Spanga's tanks disappeared from the front out of thin air.

However, Lin Huaisheng was still concerned about the battle behind him all the time. He knew that Meneam would not be willing to be trapped on the mountain and starve to death, so the fierce battle was still unavoidable.In addition to the two Indian troops one after the other, he is also worried about another thing, that is, the Americans may take the initiative to pick things up. Without this variable, there is almost no suspense in this war.

In the morning, teacher Xu Jingzhe had already communicated with him. Judging from various information, the Americans are still in the tentative stage, and their determination is still undecided.This is why the Americans did not inform any allies before and after they attacked the Chinese radar, but only quietly intervened.At present, the two sides are tacit, but the fight is already a fact.Of course, overall, this variable is still controllable.

At the end of the day, what needs to be figured out is, what are they afraid of?Xu Jingzhe believes that from a strategic point of view, it is natural to worry about being involved in an unwinnable military adventure, but from a tactical point of view, it is because the stealth aircraft he invested has suffered setbacks.

Pakistan's terrain is long and narrow from north to south, which means that it is difficult for its stealth aircraft to find a suitable operating space that can adjust its route at any time.The first question now was how to inflict heavy losses on the enemy's military ventures.The biggest guarantee Xu Jingzhe can give is that Iran has stated that its radar network and air force will actively participate in the coordinated defense system. They do not directly participate in combat, but even with intelligence support, they can damage the The U.S. military planned.

Lin Huaisheng looked at the new air command post level, Song Ning was adjusted to the ground, and the Pakistani major general was in the air. It is said that Sami also has some contacts in the Iranian Air Force, and there is no difficulty in timely voice communication.In order to deal with the new troubles, not only did Sami seize the power to command the Chinese fighters, but also half of the air superiority fighters were on standby in the air or on the ground, and could not be engaged in operations in other directions.Taking advantage of this opportunity, the crippled Indian Air Force began to move again.And throughout the morning, the US army was not dispatched, or was it dispatched without being discovered?Lin Huaisheng doesn't know how long this state will last. He hopes that before the fight with Spanga, the Air Force can minimize the threat of the US military and concentrate most of its forces on ground support.

(End of this chapter)