Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 671 Trident Breakthrough

"It's too late to break through now."

Xu Jingzhe knew very well that such a breakthrough plan might still have a chance ten days ago, but Meneam held on to the last few broken air force squadrons in his hands and did not let go. The strategy used by these air forces seems to be completely ineffective, but it is not easy to stand out now.Most of Kashmir is under the control of the Chinese Air Force. Even if they can rush out, there are still a large number of anti-aircraft missiles waiting for them.

Someone walked in, didn't speak, just put a confidential document on the table, the major general waited for everyone to leave the office, opened the document and took a look, then sat there for a long time without speaking.This is the information transmitted from the city of New Delhi. Regarding some abnormal call records of the Indian intelligence chief, Charman boldly used the captured radio station and sent some strange messages, which seemed to have some intentions.He mentioned that the 2nd Army is a first-level garrison force belonging to Admiral Pasade, and its intelligence department is mainly responsible for collecting military intelligence, and has little to do with counterintelligence units. This is a particularly strange place, if he wants to Warn Pakistani Internal Affairs Forces personnel, why is this unit being mentioned?And the headquarters of all levels of the 2nd Army were not even in the city.The first thing he, Xu Jingzhe realized, was that the enemy's tree fell and the monkeys scattered gradually. Maybe this intelligence chief or other senior officers wanted to give up the war?Or at least they hope to be able to leave a way out.

Xu Jingzhe suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Could it be that the reason why Charman mentioned the second army was because the army was not in New Delhi?If this assumption is true, then he really hinted at a possible contact location, and General Pasad, who was regarded as the last pillar of the Kahan government, may not want to fight. This is probably the result of his conspiracy with Charmain.

He hurriedly asked a staff officer to come in and pointed out the location of the Indian Second Army's defense zone. It can be seen that the army is responsible for the defense of the north of the city. The location of the headquarters is currently unknown, but there are 3 to 4 locations, which were analyzed through drone and satellite reconnaissance. Generally speaking, the location is indeed more prominent. Several commanders of this unit are old members of Pasade, and they should be different from die-hard elements like the Guards Wing or the People's Self-Defense Army.

If you want to get in touch, who is the most suitable person to send?Maybe give that Pakistani lieutenant colonel a try?If you can get in touch with the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, it is more meaningful than any other espionage activities.

Charmain hurried to Singer's office, where several senior officials were already present.The atmosphere of the meeting was somewhat stalemate, it seemed that Chandra had just argued with Singh again, and the foreign minister was sitting absent-mindedly.On the map on the wall of the meeting room, all the numbers of General Spanga’s troops are still on it, and the arrows are pointing towards the enemy. It is about 30 hours ago. It seems that the update and reporting of the map ahead has come to a standstill. Of course It's a very bad sign.

You have to think of a way, we use the good offices of the international community.We still have a lot of chips. "Singer began to explain his strategy again. Generally speaking, in the past six months, he always looked at the situation too simply, and the facts always ruthlessly crushed his unilateral expectations.

"At least the Fort and Karachi are still in our hands. We have a lot of room for negotiation, provided that we must keep the capital." Seeing that Chandra ignored him, he continued.Singh's meetings in the Ministry of Defense are usually a little more pragmatic. In the basement of the Prime Minister's Office, he seldom talked about using the international community to communicate with the Chinese, which would annoy Kahan. Anyone who tries to negotiate an end to a war until the military clears the country is a traitor.

"With all due respect, your ideas are always too naive!" Chandra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Xin, said with his legs crossed. "The Chinese will eat up wishful thinking like you. You have no entry into negotiation."

"Let's talk about your opinion." Singer suppressed the fire and asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs for advice, while motioning for Charmain, who had just arrived, to sit aside.

"You think you have a lot of leverage, but Fort *** will fall soon, and if the Chinese want to attack, they can take it back, but they intend to take it without firing a shot; In a state of being unable to fight due to shortage, collapse is only a matter of time."

"So what? General Meneam has been preparing a counterattack."

"Don't be stubborn, you know what's going on there. I don't know how to fight, but I know the importance of logistics. You mentioned Karachi just now. At present, this is our only bargaining chip. If the West needs to intervene, they will also The main focus is there, not the fort. Of course, you are well aware of Prime Minister Kahan's non-negotiation attitude, and this intransigence policy is the main obstacle preventing us from seeking a decent ending to the war."

Chandra has always been cautious, but at this point in the war, he doesn't care much about publicly evaluating the prime minister. Charmain knows that Chandra is now hooking up with the United States. The United States hopes that the foreign minister can go to Mumbai to prevent a temporary government.Now he meets with the US ambassador several times a day, and he is less diligent in going to the prime minister's office.

"Do you think the Chinese will stop there?"

"It should be after taking New Delhi, no doubt they will install a new government immediately, and then find a way that is acceptable to the international community, maybe a general election under the supervision of the United Nations in a few years' time."

"But isn't that acceptable to Americans?"

"Of course not. This is also the point where we are currently able to cooperate with the United States."

"Can you speak more clearly?"

"You're such an elm-head," Chandra said sarcastically, "the Chinese want to stop the war after taking New Delhi, and all we have to do is force them to negotiate outside the city, which of course requires some military force." Limited victories, if it weren't for the fact that you soldiers are too useless, how could things have come to this?"

The atmosphere at the venue became tense again. The Minister of Human Resources, who couldn't get in his mouth, seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it, he finally held back.

"Chief of Intelligence, do you have any suggestions?" Singer broke the deadlock and asked Charmain for advice.

"I have nothing to say." Charmain said blankly.

"Do you think we can still fight?" Singer continued to ask.

"Maybe, maybe not, things on the battlefield are always hard to tell." He shrugged and said.

At the Srinagar military airport, the stern air raid siren sounded again. Ten seconds later, various anti-aircraft firearms began to fire from far to near.

Squadron leader Luo Er hid on the hillside not far from the machine fort and squatted to observe.This is another cruise missile attack by the Chinese today. These missiles are launched from heavy bombers, and the distance is never less than 150 kilometers. This is the enemy's strategy. They sometimes rely on the remaining fuel of the missiles to reach the warhead. The long-lasting fire caused by the fuel can detonate the oil depot near the airport, and can also indicate the attack effect for the satellite. They regard the Trident Squadron in Srinagar as a thorn in their side, and they want to deal with it quickly.

A cruise missile whizzed out of the fire net woven by small-caliber fast guns, and hit the surface facilities of the underground oil depot all at once, where there were oil pipes all over the place, leading to the oil tanks below; of course, if the enemy knew all the oil depots in Srinagar There has been no fuel in the car for a long time, so it won't be so expensive.

The siren gradually died down, it seems that only one missile broke through the air defense network this time, and it missed the vital point; of course, it may be just a feint attack, they may wait for the Indian Air Force aircraft to transfer to the runway, and immediately conduct a second attack , this kind of thing has happened many times.

Rolle's rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel three days ago. This was a promotion in line with his position as squadron leader. The Air Force asked him to immediately take all 5 planes through the enemy's air force's control area, as well as a plane with a large attack range. It is possible to bypass the defense zone of the S400 system and return to the airport in the south of New Delhi.Luo Er and his people have had enough of staying in this shitty place, so today they must look at the right time to make a breakout.Seeing that the air strike was over, he and the other 4 pilots jumped into 2 jeeps and drove quickly to the aircraft fort. Within 10 minutes, they would fly the fighter jet into the sky.

The gate of the machine castle opened slowly, and there was the sound of shelling in the distance. It was the AS90 self-propelled artillery firing on the empty valley. These shellings would create an avalanche to prevent the enemy from approaching.

Goya climbed up the boarding ladder a few times and jumped into the MiG-29 cockpit. A ground crew member signaled to him that he could start the engine; he had waited for a long time for this moment, and now it was time to leave.

The airport tower had long been destroyed by cruise missiles, and he could only command the rest of the planes to take off through VHF communication.

"Brothers, take off one by one according to the plan, don't crash into those craters, and pull up neatly."

The runway in Srinagar has been damaged a lot. They have to use a slightly complete runway to pull up the plane with three huge fuel tanks and missiles. It is located on a plateau, and it is not easy to take off in a short distance; and this breakthrough mission has a long way to go , ground guidance has been unreliable.In fact, at the same time, there are several MiG 21s taking off from the airport in Jammu. They will break through directly to the south to try their luck. Since the range of the MiG 21 is shorter, there is no choice of route, and they must immediately pass through the enemy's Radar nets in Punjab without extra fuel evading detours in the mountains.

Roll waited for the engine speed to increase to 8% before releasing the brakes and starting to taxi. He made a mark in front of the huge crater in front of him, reminding himself that he must make full use of the length of the runway. If he can't pull it up once, the heavy plane will fall headlong , there will be no second chance, even if only the landing gear is damaged, Srinagar has no spare parts to repair the fighter.

He saw the wooden stake tied with red silk that he parked next to the crater getting closer, and pulled up the nose at the last moment.The plane could hardly maintain the angle of climb, and it flew close to the damaged runway for a long distance before the speed and altitude improved.Rolle breathed a sigh of relief, retracted the landing gear, and turned to remind the team members behind to be careful.He put the better-skilled players in the squadron at the front, so as not to delay the subsequent take-offs if the pilots with poorer skills failed to take off.

He circled half a circle over the airport, watching his No. 2 plane pull up calmly, and then No. 3 plane.During this period, the army personnel on both sides of the runway began to run. Although they couldn't hear the air raid warning, they knew that the enemy's cruise missiles or satellite-guided bombs were coming again. The Chinese often launched two attacks within a short interval. Some tactical purposes for mobilizing Indian troops sometimes have no purpose.

Rolle looked to the east, and the nearby artillery started to fire again, and a dozen black spots were approaching through the fire net. He knew that the enemy was not rich enough to invest so many cruise missiles at once, so they should be the ones who destroyed it. Satellite-guided bombs on the runway.The jammers put into use by General Meneam were effective a while ago, but recently the enemy seems to have found some way to crack them, and has begun to use these cheap bombs in large quantities again.

"Attention all Tridents, update the route, and don't enter the firefighting area. We will circle Leh from the north side of the snow mountain."

"clear."

The lieutenant colonel watched those gliding bombs flash past him and directly hit the remaining runway. He still had a plane on the take-off line, and he seemed unable to escape now.

"Trident 5, don't force it, the takeoff is cancelled." Luo Er said.

"Squadron leader, what should I do then? You can't leave me here alone." On the other side of the radio, the last pilot was crying out of anxiety.

"Listen, you stay here and wait for the war to end... Who can know their own fate?" The squadron leader said meaningfully. Trying to dominate fate, but changes in fate are not always easy to predict.

The four MiG-4s that took off are almost the entire strength of the Trident Squadron. The squadron did not miss any stage of this war. The survival of the squadron is a gamble. The intelligence department has no idea how many anti-aircraft weapons the Chinese have deployed near Leh. The status of the radar network is also unknown, let alone how many escort planes the Chinese Air Force has arranged near the transportation line. Everything can only be adjusted accordingly. up.For Trident, if it can delay the time of being seen by Chinese early warning aircraft or ground radar, the chance will be greater. This is the first thing Roller needs to do.

Four MiG-4s are flying among the snow-capped mountains. The Chinese early-warning aircraft should still be 29 kilometers away from the northeast. Rolle has a bold plan. He leads the team to move further north, so as to avoid the Red Flag 600 phase control in Leh. array radar.They shuttled at low altitude in the blind spot of the opponent's radar and under the cover of mountains, which greatly increased fuel consumption, but it seemed worth a try.

The formation of 4 planes sneaked around from the north of Leh, and turned on the radar for terrain avoidance flight. At the beginning, they seemed to be very lucky, and they were not detected by any radar. They even saw the wake left by the air transport plane, which was obviously close to the Chinese transport plane. route, but Roll did not launch an attack.

The radar alarm flashed, and at the end of their luck, they ran into the field of view of a high-mountain blindness repair radar deployed on the northern mountain ridge at the Red Flag 16 position. He knew that with the command ability of the Chinese, troubles that should come soon would appear.So he accelerated his flight to the east, trying his best to use the mountain to destroy the possibility of attacking Leh missiles.Luo Er had already studied the mountainous terrain here, and he was sure to quickly avoid the blind-filling radar.

The eight 8mm anti-aircraft guns lurking in the mountain pass opened fire without warning. They were part of the defense system of Leh. At 35 meters, the gunner, who was unable to react in time, still easily tilted his firepower to the last plane.The last MiG-1500 rolled and crashed into the snow mountain in the air, and the pilot had no chance to parachute at all.

(End of this chapter)