Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 668 Breaking Through the Line of Defense
The 35mm automatic grenade launchers and the general-purpose machine guns on the position also started firing. The enemies in the first row were stunned for a moment, but the guys behind with heavy weapons rushed up, and the Indians quickly set up machine guns on the high ground and started to attack. In the counterattack, the mortars in the rear and the 2.5-tube hail rocket launcher mounted on the 9-ton truck also began to fire.

The dual advantages of the Indians in numbers and firepower gradually emerged. Although there were rumors that they were just a group of rabble, they did not appear at a loss on the battlefield like other Indian troops with weaker combat effectiveness; The army launched a counterattack decisively, and the individual charge was very heroic. This may not be the result of military training, but a kind of courage brought about by self-confidence.In terms of the firepower they carry, they have far suppressed the small number of Pakistani paratroopers.

The style of play of the Indian Self-Defense Forces is completely different from that of the general Indian Army. Their charge regardless of losses made the sparsely formed Pakistani paratroopers immediately feel the pressure.Salter had no manpower to set up a deep position, and the reserve team in the rear was also small. The colonel soon found that he had to put the reserve team into use.

A convoy of 15 paratrooper assault vehicles moved quickly behind the position. At least 7 paratroopers were squeezed into each vehicle. The weapon was equipped with a 35mm grenade launcher in front of the co-pilot's seat and another on the rear bracket. 12.7mm machine gun or an 82mm recoilless gun.During the second batch of airborne, the vehicles dropped from the sky are exactly the weapon platforms and motor vehicles that traditional paratroopers desire most on the battlefield. The only disadvantage is that they have no protection for personnel, and they don't even have doors.About one reinforced company of troops on this batch of vehicles was Colonel Salter's "fire brigade" repairing the defense line. He hadn't thought that they would be needed so soon.

The colonel regretted spending too much time digging trenches and not sending people to collect other weapons dropped by the Chinese Air Force in time. Generally speaking, the weapons dropped at the airborne site were sufficient, but they were not fully utilized. The task of fighting in the morning It's anti-tank, so some of the 12.7mm machine guns that were supposed to be used for anti-aircraft were left aside, because the intelligence unit found no signs of Indian helicopters or drones being dispatched, and these weapons are useless at the moment. If it can repel the enemy After a charge, there may be time to send a car to send people 2 kilometers away to retrieve these weapons.

The colonel felt that the Chinese must be aware of today's battle. The Pakistani paratroopers will face a very difficult situation. All the weapons they airdropped are very large, while the Chinese counterparts are only on the other side of the river. They are responsible for monitoring the Indian troops in other directions, as if they have nothing to do .

Contrary to what the colonel had guessed, in fact the Chinese paratroopers on the other side of the river are also preparing to go into battle at this moment. Several other forces dispatched from New Delhi, including the more elite forwards of the Indian Guards, are at a slightly lower distance than the People's Self-Defense Forces. They were dispatched quietly at all times, approaching the battlefield from the east in an attempt to rescue the besieged Indian army. The actions of the Indian Guards were much more sneaky than those of the Self-Defense Forces. The drones found almost no signs of large-scale assembly, and the radio communication did not leak any movement. Now they are not far from the battlefield.

In the plans made by Lin Huaisheng, there are always some extremely difficult parts that are difficult for the troops to complete. For example, he will allow the tank group to leave the rear and go deep into the enemy's rear, and let the paratroopers who lack heavy firepower serve as blocking enemy tanks. Such a deployment that seems to violate common sense will make the Indian troops from all walks of life particularly uncomfortable.Of course, his plan is not unrealistic, but based on a series of technical and operational advantages. The new lightweight anti-tank missiles endow the paratroopers with the ability to directly face enemy tanks in a relatively narrow position, airborne assault The tank allows the paratroopers to have strong maneuverability and firepower as soon as they land; and the vertical supply ability imposes the confidence of the tank group to penetrate behind the enemy's rear. Based on this series of advantages that ebb and flow, he added Spang The wishful thinking of being able to attack, retreat and defend is completely disrupted. Spanga must not have guessed a day ago that his main force will be blocked by a partial division and a pair of paratroopers.

More than a dozen paratrooper assault vehicles galloped behind the front line and rushed to the most dangerous area. The 12.7mm machine guns behind the vehicles proved with indisputable facts that they are the best firepower for defending infantry, which made Colonel Salter Regretted, beside the airborne site 2 kilometers behind him, about 20 similar machine guns and a large amount of ammunition collected in the morning were hastily piled up. At that time, he also complained that the Chinese should throw more missiles down instead of this 27 kg machine guns, but in today's second round of blocking battles, missiles were useless.

The colonel lay down on the mound and watched with a telescope for a while. The enemy had already approached the position relying on his bravery. The foxholes were dug too shallow to withstand the enemy's dense grenade attacks.

He could see that the enemy possessed a considerable number of American-style light weapons, and the formation was very strange, including an unimaginable number of 40mm grenade launchers, which could overwhelm his own Chinese-made weapons of the same type in terms of power.These grenade launchers are especially suitable for this brave but unskilled army. Even if they fight together, the flying shrapnel is a great threat to the defender.

The colonel saw that the Indian Self-Defense Forces almost created a new tactic of using grenade launchers. What they used, except for a group of a few people, carried a powerful MK19 automatic grenade launcher that could suppress a position, and even carried a rotary There are usually more than a dozen people in the wheel launcher team, all carrying this kind of thing to launch a charge. For the colonel, this is the first time he has experienced the enemy's concentrated use of these firepower.

For an undertrained unit, the rifle shooting level of the Self-Defense Forces is far behind that of the elite Pakistani paratroopers, but the layman's imagination creates such a terrifying infantry firepower configuration that the paratroopers cannot bear.The colonel has never seen the Indian Army so recklessly before. The Indian Army always prides itself on being professional, and its offenses are always sloppy. The various firepowers always need to cooperate with each other, but the Self-Defense Forces are completely different. Very powerful at close range.

For their own consideration, the Americans did not give the Indians the M1 tanks or Patriot missile systems they wanted, but the light weapons they gave did make up for the lack of front-line firepower of the Indian Army in the past, and the favored leader of the Self-Defense Forces They, on the other hand, obtained these weapons first, and expanded their troops into melee monsters. This troop is inaccurate at 200 meters, but once it gets closer to within 100 meters, its power will increase greatly. When it gets closer to 60 meters, it is simply is a nightmare.

The colonel picked up the communicator, and he had to talk to several of his company commanders, "C company, let your snipers shoot MK19 first, do you hear me? Don't let them set up a firing position."

He kept turning his head to observe the several companies in front, and he didn't care about the possibility that Indian snipers might see him. He saw that the Indians were breaking through his frontal defense with their strong firepower.

"A company, what are you doing, let the enemy break through and we are finished. Use your firepower to block those bastards."

"Yes, immediately..."

The communication of the commander of Company A suddenly stopped. On the position of Company A seen by the colonel through the binoculars, an Indian wearing a body armor jumped into the ditch dug by the paratroopers. The Indian with the explosives on his back dropped his assault rifle and charged directly Enter the nearest foxhole with a whip antenna, and then there is a violent explosion. In the colonel's memory, it should be one of the two company headquarters of A Company, and at least one company commander was there.

"Listen, find the deputy company commander and resume command."

"I can't find the deputy company commander. The platoon leader is currently in command."

"Damn it, pick up the headquarters immediately and tell them that if there is no more fire support, our side will be finished."

An assault vehicle rushed to the position of Company A. Brave paratroopers stood behind unprotected machine guns and beat the Indians trying to break through with 12.7mm bullets. Wherever they went, the Indian infantry charging with cat waists were all bloody and broken.The driver of the assault vehicle also raised a 100mm assault rifle and fired, without any intention of hitting and running.The co-pilot on the side opened fire with a 5.8mm grenade launcher, and after running out of ammunition, jumped out of the car to open fire with a pistol.

The assault vehicle blocked the tide of enemies for a while, but less than 15 seconds later, the Indian grenade fire began to concentrate on it.After the machine gun shooter was knocked down by the fragments, another paratrooper dropped his submachine gun and jumped on it, and continued to shoot. The shooting lasted for a few seconds. The shells completely destroyed the combat vehicle, but the time gained by it and its crew allowed the second assault vehicle to arrive, organize a fire net a little further away, and continue to block the enemy's rush. The sustained firepower of the 3mm machine gun far exceeds that of the grenade launcher, and it has double the killing effect on the enemy army that is not lying down and only focusing on charging.

"Damn it, their charge should have been repelled," said the colonel.He has experienced the most difficult battles in his life on the outskirts of the Fortress, but Meneam's army is not a monster after all, their charge will be stopped due to heavy losses, so that both sides will have a chance to breathe, and the enemy in front of them seems to be In a hurry to reincarnate, completely disregarding the casualties of himself and his companions, the colonel saw enemy grenades hit the area where the two sides were fighting directly several times.

Gunshots whizzed by his ears, which meant that the enemy had noticed an old man with a white beard holding a telescope and looking into his head. Unfortunately, the enemy was not good at shooting, which gave the colonel a chance to move his position.

On the other side of the river, the Chinese mortar troops finally completed their shooting preparations. The drone accurately transmitted the enemy's position to the gunners. The Chinese paratroopers started the village battle, but the gunners could not shoot them for the time being, but must immediately support the invisible target on the other side of the river, which is the key point of this battle.

The video sent back by the drone showed that the enemy had already broken through part of the defense line of the Pakistani paratroopers, but the enemy’s lack of basic training was exposed. The weakness of the grenade launcher to launch an onslaught also began to show-the ammunition was exhausted and it could not continue.

There was a scream of shells falling in the sky, and the 82mm mortar shells landed very accurately. The first one fell into the crowd, blowing up a group of Indian Self-Defense Forces.The enemy stays in the occupied position, blindly waiting for the ammunition supply, which gives the gunner who checks the landing point through the drone a good opportunity. If the enemy disperses or runs, the hit rate is bound to decrease.Rapid-fire mortars pour projectiles onto positions at an extremely fast speed. Under the direction of drones, the accuracy of such ammunition is lower than that of laser-guided weapons, but not inferior to satellite-guided bombs.Its insufficient power is very suitable for the precise support of infantry on both sides entangled within a range of more than ten meters.The drone observes the target and the landing point from a perspective overlooking the battlefield. The enemy's position is unobstructed. The Indian Self-Defense Forces wear uniforms different from the Indian Army and use gray urban camouflage. In this early spring, when viewed from the air, Such clothing is difficult to play a hidden role.

The mortars of the two companies fired in succession, just like the 2mm grenade attack that the Indian army imposed on the Pakistani paratroopers just now, but this time the ammunition used was much more powerful, and the attack was accurate and ruthless.

A squadron leader of the Indian Self-Defense Forces was on the phone with the headquarters 600 meters away to report the good news that the enemy's position had been breached. However, while talking on the phone, he saw a strange scene. He suddenly jumped up at the position of the breakthrough less than 150 meters wide. It was not from a howitzer, but it must have come from some kind of curved-fire weapon.

The Indian troops on the ground finally realized that a catastrophe was imminent. The paratrooper pits dug by the Pakistanis were too shallow to hide their entire bodies.

Finally, an even more terrifying scene appeared. When about one platoon of soldiers tried to withdraw from the position and avoid the intensive firepower, the enemy's artillery shells fell almost following their course of action. The enemy seemed to be strong enough to use precise Weapons chasing down lone infantry?After several rounds of shooting, only a few people left in this shoot ran out.

At this moment, the drone has noticed several Land Rover jeeps approaching the front, and they are gathered together. The hood of one of the vehicles seems to be covered with something, and there is a circle of people around, observing the attack with binoculars.

After the drone zoomed in on the video, it was confirmed that it was a military map with an AKM pressed on one corner, and a soldier carrying a radio was quickly identified next to it. The distance from this vehicle to the breach was less than Judging from the straight-line distance of 700 meters, it is likely to be at least a battalion-level headquarters commanding the enemy army attacking in front of it. The rear headquarters immediately asked for a part of firepower to knock down this headquarters.

As judged from the rear, the Indian commander was commanding the second squadron to immediately fill in and expand the breach. There was a piercing howling sound in the air, and then a shell shot fell on him 2 meters away, knocking down the station on the spot. 15 soldiers there.The Indian commander realized that the enemy had noticed this place. This shell may be for checking the landing point, and follow-up shells will come soon.

His military common sense told him that it would be better to change positions, but his pride forced him not to look too embarrassed. The commander didn't know what kind of mortar he was facing yet, but he would soon.

"Hehe, the Pakistanis fired insignificant mortars with a caliber of no more than 100 mm. With such firepower, they wanted to sneak attack us?" the commander said contemptuously, and his composure largely calmed the surrounding officers.

"Clean up, let's get out of here," he ordered, standing straight, before jumping into the back of the convertible Land Rover, holding onto a machine gun there, still standing straight, even with his chin raised higher, as if ignoring the threat altogether.

(End of this chapter)