Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 658 Main Force Showdown
Charman could see that many self-defense soldiers were full of confidence in winning, and some even had contemptuous smiles on their lips. It seemed that the enemy had come to the door from thousands of miles away, just waiting for them to be short of equipment. , The poorly trained patriots beat up.

Where did this unreasonable self-confidence come from, Charmain didn't know, but since India's independence, there has always been no shortage of such people, and at this moment, they are also needed.

He sneaked a peek at the guest seats, all the martial arts schools stationed by Western embassies were present, and most of them were whispering to each other, and it was hard to tell from their expressions whether they were admiring or worried.However, the rabble below are carrying 40 bazookas and AK47, no heavy weapons bigger than recoilless guns, anyone with a clear mind will not expect them to play a big role, maybe... Prime Minister Kahan really except.

At the moment, Prime Minister Kahan is shaking hands with the leaders and representatives of the Self-Defense Forces in front of him.Most of these people have big beards, only some minors have no beards. There are indeed many young people under the age of 17 in this team composed entirely of volunteers. Most of them are from Kahan’s hometown and belong to the most fanatical. supporters.

Someone walked behind Charmain and coughed lightly. The director didn't look back, he knew it was his intelligence personnel.

"Well. Tell me."

"Boss, those Pakistani spies captured in the city yesterday, tortured all night, finally got some results."

"Is it the Inter-Services Intelligence system, or the Internal Affairs Force system?" Charmain looked ahead, watching the Prime Minister shake hands with a group of boy scouts carrying Gustav rocket launchers, while pretending to speak casually.He seldom shows his face on formal occasions, and even when he does appear in such crowd-gathering occasions, it is under the false identity of an ordinary government official.

"Boss. It's from the internal affairs force system. They entered the city with an infiltration and sabotage plan. The plan is incomplete, but their leader may have also come in. The current situation is that this person's code name is 'Viper', and the action plan includes the army. Instigation of rebellion, assassination of dignitaries, and all kinds of rumors."

"Understood. To continue the interrogation, the Viper must be captured; also, the captured people must not be known by other units, they must be kept alive."

"Understood." The visitor quietly retreated.Charmain continued to sit where he was.

He knew that New Delhi had been infiltrated to the point of being riddled with holes. Not only were the more professional ISI spies, but even the second knives of the Pakistani Internal Affairs Force had mixed in with the previous refugees; although they were not good at collecting intelligence, they were They are all desperadoes, and they brought radio stations, explosives, and propaganda materials to incite riots; in the recent period, most of the rumors and explosions in the city were made by these people, and they are relatively more powerful than serious spies much.Now that the Indian Intelligence Agency is unable to continue to collect external intelligence, it can only downgrade to carry out anti-infiltration activities in the country (strictly speaking, New Delhi). Make the fence as tight as possible.

Kahan didn't have the energy to perform his best part of the speech, so a general of the People's Self-Defense Forces came to the front and began to shout loudly. The theme of the speech was still the same: the motherland has reached the most critical moment, and every Indian needs to show his strength Come to defend India, defend freedom, and defend values; these words seem to be addressed to the diplomatic attachés present, but these attaches are not responsible for formulating policies, they are only here to evaluate the remaining combat effectiveness of the Indian army and provide reference for the country.

"On behalf of all members of the People's Self-Defense Forces, I hereby promise the enemy," the leader said with a stern expression, "Our guns must make you regret starting a war!"

Charmain felt that this inflammatory speech had become a little unnatural at this point, because it was actually India itself that started the war.

At the scene of the swearing-in meeting, there was a clamor immediately. Obviously, this sentence was very inspiring, but by accident, the anti-aircraft artillery positions outside New Delhi suddenly started firing, so the crowd who were still roaring to give the Chinese army a head-on blow were all quiet. Come down and start listening to the movement in the distance. After a while, the sound of the artillery in the distance subsided, and the majestic cheers here came back one after another, as if the Chinese cruise missiles were scared off by them.

Charmain got up to leave. He needed to go to the garrison headquarters in Pasade to learn about the battle situation in Spanga and the new progress of the city defense force in searching for suspicious persons. Find out the radio station here, and there will be some gains every day.

When Charman's car moved to the south of the city, he could see the burned-out slums all around. This was not caused by the enemy's bombing. The government office area separated by barbed wire is completely cut off from the soil that may breed rebels to prevent these people from doing anything wrong.

In the recent period, Kahan has turned from restlessness to hysteria. He no longer trusts the people, the army and officials. He always seems to have a nameless anger. There were too many traitors in the country. In the end, when poor people rioted in some areas of New Delhi due to food shortages, he ordered the guards to drive tanks to ruthlessly suppress them, and burned down those dirty and dilapidated houses. Of course, it was blamed on the cruise missiles of the Chinese army.

On the street, there is a guard at three steps and a sentry at five steps, checking pedestrians from time to time.A gendarme, holding a no-go sign, signaled Charmain to stop in his car, and waited a while.A convoy of trucks loaded with dead bodies passed by Charmain. He counted them carefully. There were a total of 17 trucks with more than 300 dead bodies. These were just civilians who died of cold and starvation in the western district, not the whole of New Delhi and Old Delhi. The scale of the dead, the enemy is still 100 kilometers away, but the inside of the city has become like this. Deep in Charmain's heart, a thought that he had never had before suddenly popped up-is it necessary to continue the war?Perhaps Western countries and Prime Minister Kahan have different plans for the war. They hope that India can continue to fight, regardless of winning or losing?
After the Minister of Agriculture defected to China, the Internal Affairs Forces searched the Minister's residence and found a letter left to the Prime Minister, which stated the Minister's various concerns about the situation. One of them was that if the planting season came in March, the war If it has not ended in any form, he dare not continue to face a cruel autumn, when an astronomical number of people will inevitably die of hunger; so the minister is not too concerned about who wins and loses in the war, he only cares about the war The time is over.

Charmain knows that Western countries are doing everything they can to arm India, hoping that India will continue the war for a long time, hold China back, and consume China. Of course, this is definitely not a good thing for the Indian people.

Just as the swearing-in meeting in the center of New Delhi was full of hustle and bustle, while the Self-Defense Forces were preparing to set off, 120 kilometers to the north of the city, the war that really determined the fate of India was in full swing.

The combat plan deployed by Spanga to completely devour the Pakistani troops has fallen into the brink of bankruptcy. The several troops involved in the encirclement are all on the near or far flanks, and they have found signs of activities by the Chinese and Pakistani troops, and even Spanga’s own Near the headquarters, there is already a panic, facing pressure to transfer.

The headquarters of the 21st Army Group was already in chaos at this moment. The staff members were shuttling back and forth through communications, trying their best to collect and summarize the situation of the various troops ahead, and describe the general situation clearly.There are two problems they are facing now. One is the serious lack of intelligence collection capabilities; the other is that the communication is suppressed by the enemy's power station warfare forces, which makes it impossible to collect the front information in time. These two problems make the command headquarters become clumsy and inefficient. , Originally, this unit was a model of the strongest intelligence collection capability and the most efficient command in the entire Indian Army.

Spanga stood still in front of the new map that he hadn't followed for a long time, watching his subordinates walking around like headless chickens really made him anxious. He simply closed his eyes and waited for the chief of staff to read various reports.

"The flanks of the 1st Armored Division had sporadic exchanges of fire. According to reports from the front, at least 4 enemy tanks were destroyed, belonging to the 6th Armored Division of Pakistan. Also, the headquarters of the 26th Division was shelled and the deputy division commander was killed... the enemy in the encirclement We carried out two counter-assaults, and we beat them back. In addition, the 2st Artillery Brigade was covered by fire just now and is counting the losses. For the time being, we only know that 41 officers below the brigade commander are missing..."

Unmoved, Spanga continued to stand with his eyes closed.

"A new report, 25 minutes ago, the enemy newly deployed a HQ16 anti-aircraft missile position on the west bank of the Yamuna River, and our unmanned reconnaissance aircraft can no longer cross the river."

"There is also a new report from the 26th Division. At 4:30 in the morning, one of their troops saw a group of enemy tanks crossing the river from an area 6 kilometers north of their defense zone. Because of poor visibility, it was impossible to distinguish the types of vehicles. Then there was no trace of the enemy troops."

"4:30? Why didn't you report it now?" Spanga suddenly opened his eyes, obviously this information was very important, "Such an important report was delayed for 3 hours?"

"The enemy's drone destroyed the trolley. The unit's field communication has never been established, and the radio communication has also been suppressed. It is only partially restored now." The chief of staff said blankly. He knew that there was an accident in Makeni. Afterwards, many generals no longer dared to use encrypted communication. The enemy may not be able to decipher the communication code, but they can judge the location of the division and brigade level headquarters from the strictly encrypted communication, and then drop a few satellite-guided bombs.

"It's too bad that we didn't notice that the enemy's roundabout actions on the outside line are very bold. The problem is that our reconnaissance has not worked."

"Commander, just now the 31st Division's intelligence office captured a few prisoners. They are Pakistani paratroopers with radio and laser pointing equipment."

"Location." Spanga realized that the situation was getting worse, and immediately lowered his body to check the map.The position of the White Tiger Division in the general offensive was to the east. If there was an enemy situation near them, the situation of the entire group army would be extremely critical. It seemed that it was not a few infiltrated troops making trouble, but the enemy's large-scale mobilization of the entire outer line.Spanga has indeed deployed half of its troops to wait for the enemy to come to the area where the enemy may cross the river and the water is calm. However, this winter is extremely cold, and the snowmelt in the upper reaches of the Yamuna River is insufficient, causing the water level to be lower than in previous years. This makes the enemy's actions possible. It will not be restricted by the hydrological conditions of previous years, and if the Chinese army does not hesitate to sacrifice the besieged Pakistani army to delay time, it will indeed have time to calmly complete a larger encirclement.

"Tell the troops in front to continue bombarding the enemy's positions and make an attack posture, but the troops will withdraw from their starting positions one by one and prepare for a general retreat. In addition, let the 7th Armored Brigade, 474th Engineer Regiment, control the main retreat roads."

"Commander, are we going to withdraw?"

"Yes, the command is also starting to prepare, maybe all the way to New Delhi."

According to Lin Huaisheng's instructions, Wang Zhenbei's troops crossed the river overnight in the area north of the enemy's outer line security forces, and carried out a large roundabout operation. This troop has been hiding its whereabouts and has not been involved in the rescue of friendly troops. Now his troops have moved to the designated area. Position, the flank of the Indian 31st Division (White Tiger Division), finally it is time to completely annihilate this Indian ace.According to intelligence, this main Indian force is currently leaderless, and electronic warfare aircraft will completely cut off the possibility of communication between the enemies, increasing this confusion.

5 full tank battalions and 3 mechanized infantry battalions easily broke through the security zone established by the enemy's rear guard 5 kilometers behind the core troops, and then the troops spread out and opened their 8 kilometers long front to attack the enemy , to cooperate with the attack, and the Pakistani 411 Paratrooper Regiment, which arrived with chariots.

After the rear guard was attacked, the White Tiger Division received an early warning of about 20 minutes. However, after the disappearance of Lieutenant General Makani, the troops have been lacking effective command and can only be in a state of fighting on their own. Turn around, the rear team becomes the front team, facing the Chinese tanks in the rear.

A contest of disparity in power between the two sides started hastily on the plains of northern India. Wang Zhenbei had always guessed that the decisive battle with the White Tiger Division would be extremely difficult, but in fact, the enemy was already exhausted after fighting overnight. The firepower communication command, the disadvantages in all aspects, the war quickly became one-sided. If the Pakistani troops in the encirclement can take advantage of the situation and cooperate, the battle will be easier, but Younis' troops have already been immobilized and unable to attack in any direction. up.

The drones were operating above the Indian tanks at any cost, trying to launch laser-guided missiles at the target. The enemy's anti-aircraft firepower was very sharp, and quickly shot down a large number of drones flying too low; but the unmanned drones staying at high altitude The aircraft continued to provide target designation for the artillery.The artillery shells hit the Indian army head-on, including the 155mm laser-guided artillery shells that the Chinese army put into actual combat for the first time. As long as it is hit by one shot, any tank will become a damaged part.From a height of 4000 meters, the UAV can still clearly distinguish those Leopard II tanks with square heads and square brains. They are deployed at the forefront of the counterattack formation, so the laser pointer always gives priority to these tanks.

After all kinds of smoke on the battlefield finally blocked the sight of the drone and the firing instruction laser, the long-range rocket launcher began to shoot roughly at the enemy tank formation, and the Su-30MKK passing by in the air was out of the range of the beech. Throwing down the terminal-sensitive bullet dispenser and intercepting the charging enemy step by step. Of course, due to the uncertain wind direction and the chaos of the battlefield environment, there is no way to completely block the enemy's pace. In the end, the duel between tanks is still unavoidable .

(End of this chapter)