Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 727
The millimeter-wave radar of the 99 tank has always been able to carry out named strikes on those tanks that cannot retreat in a way that the enemy cannot understand through the smoke.During the period, a fuel tank truck was also destroyed, causing the eastern part of the road to be plunged into a sea of ​​flames. This accident caused great interference to the infrared observation means of the enemy's Javelin missiles.With the interference of smoke and flames, it becomes especially difficult to catch the target.

James Wu, seeing that less than 1.5 kilometers ahead of him, Indian tanks were reversing in groups and heading north. During the reversing process, these tanks were hit and caught fire from time to time. Some were hit by javelins, and some were shot by The opponent's armor-piercing projectiles are destroyed.

He knew that these burning wreckages would inevitably affect the Javelin missile seeker's ability to search for 5 to 10 micron far-infrared signals, because there is a coverage area with the infrared band produced by the burning of petroleum hydrocarbons, although the Javelin is still It is possible to capture infrared signals with longer wavelengths similar to those generated by engines through flames, but the deterioration of sensitivity will greatly reduce the detection distance.

He began to realize that his opponents are definitely not idle people, and they will definitely make the best use of these disturbances. They have been casting smoke desperately, and the purpose is obvious, that is, to get as close to him as possible, so when they rush out, they will definitely not be too slow.The major now has reason to believe that this army is definitely not the same as the Pakistani army they encountered last night.

In fact, the Javelin missile does have some flaws, among which the least noticed is that the near boundary caused by the curved launch missile is relatively large; of course, many people will notice his second flaw, which is the first half of the parabolic trajectory, the guide The head will temporarily lose the target. When it dives down, too many sources of interference on the battlefield will affect the judgment of the missile.

Judging from all signs, the enemy is preparing to take advantage of these two points.

"Why are the sons of bitches Indian troops still retreating?"

"Report, we Indians have lost radio communication, and their communication vehicle was destroyed by the enemy."

"Get Sergeant Jennings to take the radio and at least make them fall back toward us, not north, which would expose our flank."

After he gave the order angrily, a tall African-American non-commissioned officer drove the Hummer down the hillside and headed towards the retreating Indian troops. By contacting the Pasade Command, all battlefield communications can be restored almost immediately, which is of course what Major General Elabi wants to avoid most.

"Major, do you think their tanks will suddenly rush forward?" Lieutenant Dylan at the front asked in the communication channel.

"It's possible."

"However, the highland on the west side we control has a very steep slope, and their tanks may not be able to shoot at the elevation angle of their tanks."

"That's right, but the steeper slope also means that it is more difficult for the Javelin missile to hit the target."

"You put Company D on standby with Gustav, maybe there's going to be a close combat."

Sergeant Jennings' jeep drove towards the smoky battlefield, and the artillery shells of the Chinese army kept falling 200 meters away.Even if these 155mm shells landed far away, the shock wave could travel through the air and the ground, and the sergeant sitting in the Humvee could feel the ground shaking all the time.

Finding Major General Elabi in the chaotic army is an almost impossible task. The Americans don't even know that the Indian major general took the initiative to blow up the command vehicle.

Screams loomed in the air, and as the sergeant looked up, a mortar shell fell from the sky, and he turned the steering wheel quickly to the left.The shell landed next to the Humvee, throwing the heavy off-road vehicle upside down, and the sergeant was thrown out of the driver's seat without his seatbelt on.

He stumbled and helped the overturned off-road vehicle to get up. He felt completely deaf, and one leg was covered with rags, which seemed to be injured.He walked back in a daze. As long as he could return to his own position, he could take a helicopter and evacuate to the hospital, but he couldn't run fast with his injured leg.

A huge Indian T72 quickly backed out of the gunpowder smoke. The tank kept hitting its tracks left and right, making evasive retreats. Obviously, it was dodging invisible enemies. Presumably, the people in the car couldn't care less about looking behind.

Seeing that the tank was getting closer, Sergeant Jennings yelled, but hid in the tank, he still knocked over the Humvee, and then reversed towards the sergeant. The sergeant couldn't dodge in time and was crushed under the track.

Major Wu's plan to seize the Indian troops to fight back together failed. The Indian troops still followed their own ideas and routed northward along the road, regardless of the friendly forces still standing on the upper flank.The major thought to himself that the Indian and Pakistani armies were really in the same boat.

Behind the smoke, He Fan was waiting for the last opportunity, he was waiting for the last round of extended strikes, waiting for his follow-up vehicle to arrive.

He must immediately suppress the enemy's condescending counterattack. The infantry's charge distance cannot be too far, so the infantry cannot be exposed to the unsupported area for too long.He had indeed considered the problem of insufficient high and low firing range of tank artillery in urban warfare. Therefore, there were many self-propelled anti-aircraft guns accompanying him in his formation, and now it seemed that he had to use them here first.

The twin-barreled 35mm anti-aircraft gun that is about to be dispatched has the ability to program ammunition to explode close to it. It is very effective in suppressing light armor and soft targets on surface positions. This is what He Fan has known for a long time.

"The 1st company and the 2nd company and the 3rd platoon, stop chasing and guard north. The rest of the troops, use the smoke to attack from the front, cross the road at the maximum speed, and don't make any stops."

After he finished speaking, he got into the tank, and he himself would rush to the front line and kill directly, which would be beneficial for observation and command.He knew that there were not many enemies on the high ground ahead, about a reinforced battalion, but they had a large number of Javelin missiles.

The foreign coalition forces, hiding in the suggested bunkers on the hillside, waited for the enemy to show their heads. They had some machine gun positions and snipers lurking everywhere, but these things could not resist tanks at all.

There was a commotion in the smoke east of the road. Something was about to appear, maybe still a few stragglers of Indian tanks?Maybe the enemy is starting to attack?

A Type 99 tank rushed out of the smoke quickly.The mercenaries took aim immediately.It became difficult to lock the target in the scope, because the infrared signature of the burning wreckage on the battlefield was more obvious, and it was easy to cover the heat source on the front of the tank.

There were still a few missiles that went up into the air, but the impact of the tanks at such a high speed made it impossible for the missiles to effectively lock the target again when they fell, and the missiles invariably chose to attack the burning wreckage.

The marching Chinese tank fired a few shots in a hurry, and immediately lost its range of fire. The tank crossed the road and arrived at a safe area at the foot of the enemy's mountain. Some anti-tank missiles can rely on the shooter to lean out and shoot down, but the Javelin no.

When Major Wu was about to send someone with a Gustav rocket launcher to solve this target, more tanks rushed towards his position.During this period, various shellings on the hillside positions became more and more violent.

Behind the tank, there are two 2mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. The photoelectric fire control of these tanks can quickly search for common ground targets, and the artillery does not have a shooting range problem.

The anti-aircraft tank drives westward at a medium speed, and uses one side of the artillery to suppress the enemy situation it finds from time to time during the journey, so as to avoid the waste of ammunition caused by the excessive rate of fire, and also allows the two guns to cool down at a staggered time.

According to the distance measured by the laser rangefinder to the surface position target and the measurement of the initial velocity of the ammunition by the muzzle coil, the fire control system performs delay control on the fuze of each programmable shell fired from the bore.According to the precisely measured distance, the shell exploded near the target, breaking up about 150 small fragments.This weapon was originally designed to intercept cruise missiles or armed helicopters. For infantry within the explosion range, it is simply a nightmare.It can even detonate ordnance precisely above trenches, killing and injuring those hiding below, something no other weapon can do.

Two double-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft guns tried to suppress the enemy's firepower. One of them was moving slowly and was quickly destroyed by a javelin hit, but the other was not locked because it was close to the burning tanker.

In the continuous impact tank group, another self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle filled up. This is a pgz95 4-tube 25mm anti-aircraft gun. It does not have gorgeous proximity control, but it can still spray barrage at an extremely fast speed.

The firepower of all these anti-aircraft guns could not last.But they can overwhelm the enemy with a flurry of bursts of fire, and that's more than enough.

James Wu found that he was losing control of the battle. He originally thought that with the unparalleled Javelin missile, he had obtained the capital to fight against the tank, but now, he felt unprecedented fear.

He stood behind the monitor and watched one enemy tank after another successfully broke through the Javelin's close range and disappeared from the lower edge of the monitor, which meant that they had run into their shooting blind spot. Soon you can go around to your headquarters and heliport.

His men had already destroyed three enemy self-propelled anti-aircraft guns in a minute, but now, several more were firing on the ground.Even for the Javelin missiles that are left behind after launch, it is difficult to find too many opportunities from the muzzles of these rapid-fire weapons.Any infantryman, whether it is an Indian soldier who receives a monthly salary of 1 rupees or a foreign soldier who is paid 3 dollars a day, in the face of such firepower, there is actually not much difference, and even a complete body will not be left.

"Commander, there are too many of them coming, I'm afraid they won't be able to resist."

Lieutenant Dylan shouted, He Fan's offensive started within 200 seconds, and these conceited mercenaries couldn't stand it anymore, they seemed to be worse than Indian tanks.

"Don't be afraid, their tanks can't rush up, they can't do anything to us."

The major yelled into the walkie-talkie that these small hills had steep slopes, and the tanks obviously couldn't climb them up. If they barely climbed up a few vehicles, the terrain would not be conducive to their firepower. The weak spot below is leaked.

Of course, he also had a premonition that the enemy would not be so stupid, and soon he saw infantry fighting vehicles pouring out of the smoke, a total of 30 to 40 vehicles, that is, about 3 mechanized infantry companies, were rushing towards him.The infantry fighting vehicle did not use the 100mm artillery and parallel machine guns with sufficient range to fire, nor did it rush to put down the infantry, but quickly crossed the road and rounded up with the tanks under the commanding heights.

All the attacks were launched in front of Major Wu in one go. The major felt his throat dry, and he knew that his end was coming.

"Helicopter unit, be ready to retreat at any time."

A strengthened company of Chinese infantry got off the vehicle at several commanding heights. The infantry fighting vehicles used firepower to suppress the enemy on the opposite hill, and disintegrated the enemies on different commanding heights to form crossfire. Since the firepower was not at the same level, even if the enemy occupied the commanding heights, it was very difficult Almost lost any ability to fight back.At the same time, the tank troops had already begun to outflank and set up defenses to cut off the enemy's rear. He Fan promised Lin Huaisheng that he would capture as many prisoners as possible.

He Fan never thought before that one day he would challenge a lightly armed army with such a strong force, but the enemy was not small, so he had to kill chickens with a sledgehammer.

The dismounted infantry began to feint upwards. Since the fire support from all directions was overwhelming, the enemy did not show much tenacity.Soon, a white flag stretched out from the top of the hill with an altitude of 45.5.

The tanks advancing in single file, bypassed the hill, and unexpectedly encountered the Avenger system that was about to escape.The first tank fired a burst of parallel machine guns at the ground, and the enemies on several anti-aircraft missile vehicles immediately stood up and raised their hands to surrender.The superiors have long ensured the status of these people as ordinary prisoners of war. When some of them were still participating in the military parade on the streets of New Delhi, the Chinese government decided to give them special preferential treatment beyond the Geneva Convention.

The entire position has been covered by the fire net of the Chinese army, and the infantry slowly climbed up, compressing the enemy to the commanding heights.In He Fan's vision, this is the true face of war, where the scouting infantry relies on a missile to threaten the armored forces.

He asked the infantry to end the battle quickly, because he had a premonition that reinforcements from the north were coming soon.A company in charge of security is currently lined up 1.5 kilometers north of the battlefield to monitor the enemy who is coming to help.

Several Black Hawk helicopters suddenly took off from behind the hills that were about to be surrounded, and forcibly flew over the head of the tank column. They succeeded for a while and fled to the northwest.Several tanks were fired with 12.7mm machine guns, but failed to take down.It appears that the enemy command is preparing to flee.He Fan called the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns behind the column to come over quickly.

The rumble of rotors was repeated, and this time it was a Chinook helicopter that had fallen behind, also trying to escape at the last chance.Unfortunately, a 35mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun arrived just in time. The self-propelled anti-aircraft gun erected surveillance radar all the way, and as soon as it turned around, Chinook was discovered.This anti-aircraft gun was designed to hit fast and low-altitude targets, but it hit an unprecedentedly slow and clumsy target. Chinook planned to escape slowly from 200 meters in front of the anti-aircraft gun. This is indeed a bit whimsical.The shooter in the self-propelled gun felt like he was watching in slow motion.

In an instant, the huge helicopter was completely covered by the explosion barrage, and it became riddled with holes in about one-tenth of a second.The pilot hugged the control stick and actively fell to the hillside. This was the only feasible way he could think of to save his life.

The helicopter abruptly crashed to a stop on the hillside. Fortunately, the headquarters equipment it was carrying was not ammunition, otherwise it might have been blown into the sky.

"Stop shooting, Mech Company, hurry up and send people to save people, the propaganda department is urging people to live."

What He Fan said is the truth. The film crew in the army is really anxious to catch these people and shoot the promotional video. The enemy and us are relatively close at a critical moment. Every day, both sides are declaring that they are about to win. Who can come up with a group of young people first? With the size of the pow to show, nature prevailed.

(End of this chapter)