Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 649 Suicide
He Fan thought, how will the war history record this in the future?The credit for conquering Tespur and Leh is nothing compared to the elimination of the main force of Spanga, or the capture of New Delhi.If my bold outflanking operation today is successful, it can at least be compared with Rommel’s miraculous performance in Tobruk in 1942, and even with Kravchenko’s 1943 crossing of the Dnieper River, a long drive of hundreds of miles, and the smashing of the German southern group. ?Or rated a little higher?In any case, I launched the attack by diving, and the above two did not have such difficulty.

The problem he is facing now is that the original plan to covertly engage the enemy, strike the artillery group and the main supply line from the flanks, and then outflank the main force, is already facing the possibility of being spotted by the enemy, especially Spanga's staff The Ministry is famous for its quick response. Although He Fan has not fought against any of Spaga's troops, his research on the enemy started a long time ago. Obviously, a clever battle may turn into a tough one, but this is not bad. He can ask Lin Huaisheng for more firepower and aerial reconnaissance, and finally turn the odd soldiers into regular soldiers.

While waiting for the tank to be assembled, the infantry fighting vehicle has already set off first, and the long-range firepower is under the instruction of the machine infantry company, continuously extending the blow to defeat the enemy, chasing in the direction of the enemy's retreat, and the machine infantry company will turn to the northeast at the right time , to sweep up the pots and pans hidden behind the enemy's starting position.

When He Fan was near Leh, he had studied Spanga's tactics in depth. He knew how his night battle tricks would pile up troops. In fact, his technical disadvantages allowed General Spanga to play to his full potential. There is not much leeway. Those command, artillery, and air defense units will all be closely arranged within 5 to 10 kilometers behind the attacking troops. After the attack, they will advance to the starting position of the tank troops and cover them one by one. In view of the Indian field air defense The control range of the system, as well as the range of the artillery, without this, they would not be able to cover the troops ahead.In fact, He Fan can roughly point out their current approximate location from the map.The only problem is that Spanga will definitely keep a relatively strong tank group as a reserve, and this is the part he has to deal with carefully.

The huge group of tanks finally began to move, lined up in multiple columns, and pushed across to the east on a new route that slightly deviated from the tracks of the machine troop company. After a few minutes, they would drive to the south flank of the machine troop company. It was the direction He Fan was worried about.Of course, at night, the only time when the enemy can act, He Fan's advantage is not only the overhead reconnaissance of the drone, but also the millimeter-wave radar on the tank, which also makes the tank more comfortable in night battles, and the enemy's intelligence collection department, for this The advantage should still be completely unknown, and frontline armored units would not have received the necessary warning

The infantry fighting vehicle advanced 4.5 kilometers in front without encountering a strong enemy counterattack, and easily flattened an artillery position hiding in the jungle at a loss. It seems that the expected weakness of the Indians has appeared.This area is only 5500 meters away from the enemy's supply line detected by the high-altitude drone, but it could not be further confirmed, and the rear artillery fire refused to fire.

He Fan was afraid that the Mechanized Infantry Company would go too far and suffer losses, so he ordered it to slow down its advancing speed. The Mechanized Infantry Company Commander was very dissatisfied with this. He thought it was a slow-moving tank group, and he was afraid that the auxiliary infantry fighting vehicles would cut off the enemy's supply before them. Line, too steal the spotlight.However, new news came from the rear, which confirmed that He Fan's idea was reasonable. No matter what his original intention to curb the advance of the machine company was, two electronic reconnaissance planes 35 kilometers away detected a sudden dense crowd in the southeast area. After a brief short-wave communication, the enemy started to move.

After analysis, it was confirmed that the inter-vehicle radio equipment of the mechanized troops was inconsistent with the frequency-hopping communication characteristics of the Indian armored troops collected in the past, but it was close to the characteristics of NATO encryption equipment.

He Fan checked the position of the measured radio station group on the electronic map. It was only 7 kilometers away from him in the mountainous area, that is to say, it took about 20 minutes to travel, and there was a mountain ridge blocking it, which was really helpful to avoid air radar and optical search. Yes A good place to hide troops. If he stands on the enemy's position, he will choose to deploy the reserve team there, which can not only directly support the front, but also support all directions of the battlefield at any time. If he comes to command, he will even send the most Powerful troops are deployed here.

He ordered everyone to keep a distance, and the gun barrel pointed to the southeast for warning. He drove his old troops directly under the enemy to the direction of the enemy, trying to detect the existence of the enemy with radar. The forest in front could not block the detection of the millimeter-wave radar, but the detection was nothing. In addition to finding some trucks driving on the road, towing artillery.

"What tricks must you be doing?"

He urged the rear to collect new information, but the group of mobile radio stations had disappeared at this moment. Obviously, the enemy realized the necessity of radio silence. What direction might they hide at this moment?
Everything was as expected. Before a mechanized unit took action at night, it was necessary to coordinate the formation through the radio, or agree on some matters, and then they disappeared.He Fan still can't rely on the existing information to confirm whether it is a tank unit, an infantry fighting vehicle unit, or just an electronic deception unit composed of a few jeeps.

Obviously, He Fan couldn't let such a new and complicated situation delay his actions, but he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, so he adopted a strategy of dividing his troops, allowing half of the troops to continue the assault, while he headed southeast. If he crossed the road, he still couldn't find the enemy , he turned back to join other troops.At the same time, he urged the rear to take off more drones with bombs, and moved closer to his own direction.If it's the enemy's reserve, it can't be just a company level unit, he needs some extra scouting and firepower.On the horizon in the north, there were flames from time to time, but no gunfire could be heard. The Pakistani First Armored Division was desperately resisting there. Now that Lin Huaisheng invested a large number of drones here, it was obviously necessary to test his strategic vision.

The tank was advancing in the jungle. He Fan switched to the channel of the thermal imager, and used the large field of view to search the frontal range of about 200°. He could see the depths of the jungle to the east. In the sky, the lurking self-propelled anti-aircraft guns fired a long burst into the air from time to time, dancing wildly in the air like a fire snake.

The battle is entering a fierce stage, and the enemy has no intention of retreating early.Apparently Spanga made a desperate move. In order to eat the Pakistani 1st Armored Division, he invested in housekeeping forces. The air defense force that was only discovered was no less than three battalions. The way of firing shortens the start-up time of the radar, offsets the detection and hunting of the Chinese Air Force, and delays the time to provide cover for ground troops.It seems that with their backs against New Delhi, there is no way to retreat, and the Indians are indeed ready to spend their money.

In the fully cooled thermal imaging camera, there are some traces suddenly, and there seems to be something moving in the background noise?He adjusted the magnification carefully to identify the target.

Before the opponent was identified, the laser warning device in the turret beeped, and He Fan realized that the opponent was already measuring the range of his attack. This was an unprecedented thing since the battle, and the enemy obviously detected him before himself.

Knowing that the opportunity was lost, he ordered everyone to release smoke and retreat, but it was too late. He saw the front muzzle fire and the tank turret that appeared immediately. It was indeed the Leopard II that he wanted to crush under the tracks. .

The rapidly approaching dazzling light flew over the head, which was a characteristic of the opponent's range measurement error, and it was obvious that the laser resistance system above the head had played a role.But this kind of thing may not always be reliable. The laser range finder of Western tanks has the ability to adapt to the coded anti-jamming of confrontation.

He immediately overtook the shooter and turned the turret towards the target.Before the cross-haired line of sight turned to its position, someone from the friendly vehicle crew had already fired first and hit the front of the target, but the tungsten-core bullet formed scattered and splashed fragments on the front of the turret, which is a typical form of no penetration.

His laser rangefinder got a figure of 2665 meters, which is indeed a bit far away, and it is difficult to maintain the kinetic energy of the long rod bullet, but at least the enemy can at least see himself first.If possible, he would like to be able to aim a shot at the position below the barrel.

However, with the formation of smoke emitted by the opponent and our own side, the number obtained from the distance measurement began to jump sharply. This is not caused by laser confrontation, but is obviously caused by the smoke particles blocking the laser. If the deviation of this number exceeds 50 meters, it may lead to a sharp increase in shooting. Deviate.

He yelled at the driver to back off while holding down the launch button.The stable image fire control has a shooting gate control with shooting timing control. The shell will only be fired when the shooting line coincides with the aiming line. This design makes it easier for the gunner to seize fleeting opportunities on the battlefield.

The moment the firing line was rotated in place, the cannon fired. He watched the cannonball fly in the direction it was aiming at just now. After about a second or so, the cannonball plunged into a white smoke.

"Damn, I can't see it at all. Each vehicle group, load the grenade, and shoot 2 times in the original direction."

After He Fan gave the order, he began to switch to the millimeter-wave radar mode. Of course, he himself did not need to shoot inaccurately at the blurred area. He was actually just scaring the opponent. If the enemy retreated faster, his radar would be able to detect it more accurately. horn.

The radar quickly caught the retreating enemy tank. He didn't want to shoot at a distance of 3000 meters, which would easily expose his magic weapon, and at the same time, it would be difficult to wipe out the enemy.Just when the enemy was shooting first, he had already judged the character of the opponent's commander. He was the kind of guy who strikes first, so he would come to the door by himself.

Sure enough, the Indian tanks retreated less than 500 meters. They thought they were out of contact and started to drive north. They were confident that at a distance where they could not see the Chinese tanks, it was impossible for the Chinese tanks to see them. In fact, the thermal imager In terms of detection distance, they should really have an advantage. He Fan estimates that they have an advantage of about 300 meters. Such an advantage can already constitute an overwhelming chance of winning under the command of a veteran.

"Commander, are you launching a missile?"

"No, they think we can't see them and will outflank them."

He Fan checked the map. The enemy was driving along the dry riverbed in the jungle. Given the depth of the riverbed, they would escape his radar vision later. However, he was confident that the opponent's route had been seen through, and they were going to go around to To the northeast of oneself, and then quietly approached, taking advantage of the advantage of night vision ability, to attack the weak side of oneself, this is the correct strategy based on the advantage of thermal imaging night vision equipment, and the action is extremely decisive, the commander is an old hand .He should know that Chinese tanks will continue to guard the direction of the previous exchange of fire according to the general idea, so that the front armor and main guns will be aimed there.So as long as he moves in place, he can shoot at the side of Chinese tanks from the limit distance of 2600 to 3000 meters.However, the biggest mistake he made was that he broke into the middle of the northern and southern tank groups formed after He Fan divided his forces. This was not He Fan's foresight, but the enemy did indeed come to his door.

He Fan is certainly arrogant, but he has never rejected the idea of ​​using more to fight less. The number of enemy troops detected by the radar is about 30, which means that there may be twice as many as those who have not seen them. Some of them are very fast, unlike leopards. II, maybe T90, whatever it is, they're trying to get around from the north.

"Company 2, Company 3, turn the car around. Within 10 minutes, there will be enemies who will pass in front of you. Don't fire, and don't use laser ranging to disturb them. After firing, launch an attack."

After issuing his new order, he turned and waited for the enemy to come around.The radio silence of the enemy convoy has been a hallmark of their smug tactics.

Soon the enemy drove over from the north of the two tank companies whose heat signature was not obvious at idle speed, and the commander could count nearly 2 Leopard IIs from them, and the rest were all T10s.There is another machine link at a farther position, and they can't see anything. They can only wait for the battle to start, and use the light source of the flare to launch a missile attack.

The two companies of the Hefan Tank are 2 meters away, and they are the first to conduct fire control with radar measurement. This attack mode is more similar to a ship than a tank. The measurement accuracy of radar is much higher than that calculated by measuring the speed of the turret. The passive mode of the advance angle suddenly stunned the sneaky Indian commander, because he couldn't see the target at all.

Although the armor-piercing projectiles fired at a distance of 3 kilometers did not pose much threat to the frontal defense, He Fan fired at this distance to prevent the opponent from getting too close. He did not want to engage in an artillery battle with the enemy face to face.The Indian commander immediately noticed the laser ranging from all directions, which meant that his troops had been caught in crossfire, which is a taboo in tank warfare, because the side and rear armor of tanks is always very weak.

The other two Type 2 tank companies in the rear occupy an excellent geographical advantage and massacre the Russian-made tanks hiding behind the Leopard II.They aimed the engine compartment of the main heat source to the north, and had just run 99 or 7 kilometers, which was very conspicuous in the thermal imager.

The Indian tank group began to release smoke and moved at high speed in an attempt to avoid a section. Only then did they realize that the most strange thing was that the hit rate of the frontal enemy was already very high.For a moment, they were caught in a situation where they were flanked by two sides and had nowhere to hide.

A Leopard II rushed towards He Fan with heavy smoke. He probably sensed the bad situation and decided to charge forward with a desperate fight. He Fan was the first to catch the target, but he was not in a hurry to shoot, but Steadily aim at the target and watch it walk through the undulating area. The tank is blocked by the inner slope from time to time, unable to carry out the attack, and can only wait for it to leak its vital points.

This time he still aimed at the bomb nest area in front of the opponent.He knew the enemy driver was in that area, and if he couldn't hit him a little too high, it would be better to get into the turret to destroy the artillery and detonate the ammunition.

During the period, the two 2s next to it also hit the tank, but they were too hasty and failed to penetrate.He Fan waited until the laser ranging number jumped to 99 meters before pressing the launch button.

The shell contained huge energy and hit the part he wanted to hit. As if the tank was stopped instantly, it stopped one side of the track and turned half a circle on the spot. Judging from this action, it should have hit the driver. Party member, he must be ugly.

(End of this chapter)