Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 729 Assault Gun

The enemy chose the shortest straight line into the battlefield, which is an easy-to-guess route.Some anti-aircraft teams in jeeps deployed early to the vicinity.In the sequence of He Fan's air defense force, the air defense team is the smallest unit, specially used to fill leaks near key locations.His air defense is self-contained, but too compact, especially after he has drawn too many anti-aircraft guns into the attack on the hills, it is even more vulnerable.However, such an air defense system is very effective against helicopters. Basically every air defense weapon of his can restrain helicopters.

The high-speed movement of the enemy helicopter is occasionally detected by the early warning aircraft and ground radar, and then aggregated to the headquarters. Although it appears and disappears from time to time, it is not coherent, but the general origin can be judged on the map, which looks exactly the same as the prediction , the number is still quite a lot.

If only a few planes come, relying on the enemy's superb low-altitude flying skills, the radar may not be effective, but they come too many at a time, and they fly in dense formation.Concentrated use of firepower is not the main principle of helicopter operations, but Eichmann needs immediate results, and there is no room for continued dispersal of troops.

The first air defense team never had time to reach the top of the mountain, and received information from the radio that the enemy was approaching, so they could only wait on the hillside for the enemy to appear.They could hear the rumble of rotors getting louder, and the enemy was clearly flying from east to west not far behind the hill.

After waiting patiently for a while, a long line of helicopters flew out from the side, and the pilots and shooters in the cabin could almost be seen looking around.

The shooter is a little nervous. If he waits a little longer, he can see one or two Longbow Apache helicopters with millimeter-wave radars appear. If he can hit a command plane, the battle situation may quickly turn favorable, but At the moment of lightning and flint, who can be so comprehensive?

The shooter aims horizontally at the target almost like a normal bazooka shooter.He even had to wait for the target to fly a little farther away after the intercept audio sounded, so that the missile could fly far enough out of the so-called near boundary where it couldn't maneuver.As the nervous American pilot turned his head, he met the eyes of the shooter who was aiming at him for a moment.

In the U.S. Super Cobra formation channel, a voice shouted: "Seven o'clock, RPG."

Before the words were finished, a zigzagging white smoke came out from behind the small mound. It made a forced turn and exploded behind a helicopter. The missile barely caught up with the target, but couldn't get any closer. The explosion area was behind the helicopter. Ministry, there is a lack of armor.The tail boom of the helicopter was blown off by the shock wave and immediately fell to the ground.

"King, Blue Skull 4 is down, it's down."

"...Enemy bazooka squad spotted. Request to eliminate."

"Request denied. Elevate altitude to avoid, keep original course."

"Damn, purple lightning report, we've been hit."

"Are you guys okay?"

"Yes, temporarily."

"Black Lightning No. 2, you come to cover. After destroying the enemy RPG team, quickly join the team."

"receive."

Eichmann didn't want to slow down because a helicopter was shot down. He only mobilized a Super Cobra to destroy the enemy, protect the pilots who landed and retreat eastward safely, and the Black Hawk will come to rescue soon.It seems that all it takes to eliminate a squad is to fire a string of shells.At this time, the two pilots who were shot down were still trapped in the cabin. They fell only a few meters from the plane, and they were still alive, almost uninjured, and still able to maintain communication.

However, the helicopter with the call sign Purple Lightning was confused by the call just now, thinking that his real companion was just hit by a rocket, which made him feel a little embarrassed.He must quickly eliminate the surrounding infantry, lest his own people be captured by the enemy to exchange for bonuses.No one knows where the rumors that each mercenary can be exchanged for $5000 came from. In fact, the Chinese army has never issued such an order.

At this time, the deputy shooter standing behind the hillside was also ready to shoot. He watched a helicopter turn around slowly in the scope. If it turned another 15°, the cannon that rotated closely with the helmet would be able to straf. Myself, but the time window is still on the side of the Chinese infantry, because the helicopter chose to turn around on the spot instead of going around first, and then approaching after fully observing, almost like a slow motion.

The pilot saw the second puff of white smoke flying towards him, and he tried to turn sideways in an attempt to avoid it.But the white smoke was closely attached to it, obviously it was not a bazooka, it was too late to know, and he didn't even launch a jamming bomb.

The second helicopter was hit again and fell to the ground, less than 150 meters away from the smoking wreckage of the previous one. It is a very sad story that a team killed two armed helicopters in a row within 1 minute.But on the battlefield, nothing is impossible.

At this moment, the rest of the helicopters have gone away, and it is impossible for Eichmann to stay here. It is really difficult for several American pilots to escape from here. A platoon of Chinese infantrymen is rushing to arrest people in jeeps. They are doing this job The son has no money to take.

On the frontal battlefield, He Fan's entire battalion has already been put into battle. Now he has put in 3 tanks in 6 batches and nearly 70 tanks, but the tank company in the front still hasn't contacted the enemy. In his command career, if he hadn't In terms of commanding the march, this will be the biggest battle. Even when he fought against Spanga, because the enemy was scattered, he did not use his forces so concentratedly. Of course, this is still only his vanguard, and he still has a lot of troops. The reserves are on the way.

The 1st company commander still maintains the momentum and takes the lead.Sure enough, the enemy's howitzer misfired, either being suppressed by one's own firepower, or running away.He must now resolutely eliminate those artillery observation vehicles, which may be a few Humvees or several wheeled chariots.These things can still find the same firepower as the M270 or large-caliber mortars. The laser suppression equipment on the Type 99 tank is an amazing tool. It can not only destroy all kinds of direct aiming, but also work on the forward observation of enemy artillery.Seeing that the opponent's mortars started to fire, but most of them hit very sideways.Moreover, the laser countermeasure equipment can accurately measure the distance of the opponent or indicate the direction of the laser, which is very helpful for tankers to quickly search for these targets and carry out strikes.

Without any warning, an armor-piercing projectile flew close to the ground from nowhere, hit the front of a Chinese tank turret, failed to penetrate, and the core was not broken, and flew into the distance in a whirl.

"Find a tank?"

"What's the situation? Has anyone seen it?" The company commander yelled, not being able to see the opponent, which was obviously the most serious situation.

"Straight shot, like a rifled gun."

"Don't launch interference, maintain speed, pay attention to observation."

For the commanders who concentrate on observing the front, the tail armor-piercing projectile with a relatively large length and diameter fired by the smoothbore gun will inevitably become erratic due to the effect of crosswinds at a long distance, and it is easy to be observed, but the trajectory of the rifled gun is somewhat different.

"At 04 o'clock on 12, a fast-moving armored vehicle, probably a Stryker, was found. No turret was seen."

"Well, maybe it was pointing us with a laser just now."

"The distance is 2400, which is a bit far. Damn, they must have hidden a very accurate gun somewhere."

"Be careful."

Obviously, a few Strykers pointing to artillery do not pose a threat, but there should be some hidden tanks in front of them, and they have never used laser ranging.Being able to hit the first hit from somewhere 2km away at least proves that it should stop somewhere.For modern tanks, the calculation of the lead in fire control is the least accurate. To some extent, it is only a rough estimate of the average value, and does not count the complete trajectory of the target's movement.Therefore, during dynamic-to-dynamic aiming, it is necessary to face the situation that the rate of change of target angular velocity changes nonlinearly and cannot be measured.This is indeed not something that can be solved by tank fire control, unless at certain angles, the target looks relatively stationary, or moves at a constant speed, it is possible to shoot, or the distance is close enough to ignore most of the uncertain changes.

The commander of the tank that was hit just now counted to 10 silently, which is about the time it takes for a general tank to reload and shoot for the second time. Of course, these pure experiences may not be accurate, but most Indian shooters always It is to fire at this rhythm.

Sure enough, there was a small cloud of smoke on the horizon in the distance. The smoke extractor of the tank gun always delayed the discovery time. A shell had already arrived, and it flew again from a place close to the ground. The shell hit the tank for the second time. The wedge-shaped armor in front of the turret, unfortunately, still has not penetrated.The commander clearly felt the weight of the impact this time. Not long ago, he was fortunate enough to be hit by a challenger from a long distance, so he dared to say that what flew over was not fired by a 120mm cannon, but a gun with a kinetic energy exceeding 10 megajoules. shells.

"I saw the shooting direction, like 100 guns, or 105 guns, but still haven't found the turret."

"I saw it too. They didn't use some strange things to stop us, did they?"

The company commander kept close to the stabilized image and searched the smoky area with the maximum magnification of 1.1 meters. Finally, he saw the suspicious turret slightly protruding from the horizon.

He then saw the target's third shot, which still hit.Obviously, the accuracy advantage of the rifled guns with relatively small long-diameter shells is at work. However, it no longer causes panic. The Type 99 tank is not the tank with the best protection, but the front of the turret does make the tanker They are full of confidence.

"It's 2.2 kilometers away. I can't see the chassis. It must be hiding in a pit. It's about to lose its composure."

Across 2200 meters, the two sides can only see each other's turrets. This suspicious tank has been firing accurately, but the armor-piercing projectiles it fires with sliding belts may not work until within 1 kilometer.Why would there be a tank with an outdated artillery?How many foreign legions have secretly assembled, from all over the world, all kinds of armed forces?This question should really make Xu Jingzhe's intelligence department feel a little ashamed.

The Chinese tank group obviously crossed the bottom line, and more hidden firepower became active one after another. Shuttle ranging lasers spread all over the battlefield again, and everything returned to the normal state of previous tank battles.The Chinese tanks moved forward steadily without being disturbed by the enemy's firepower, and they had no intention of rushing to fire at the enemy.

Lieutenant Maeda, who directed the blocking, felt the unprecedented pressure and decided to withdraw from the battlefield.

Last night, as a reconnaissance unit of the mixed regiment, he has been rushing in front of the Type 90 tank, and relying on precise shooting skills, he quickly raised his personal record from 0 to 6, far surpassing Yamura who drove the 90 tank.One of the Pakistani tanks was destroyed by him from a distance of 3 kilometers. It is said that it was the longest night-time destruction since records were recorded (this record does not include the performance of Chinese tanks in this war).But the current facts prove that the opponent is very different from last night, and their armor is no longer so easy to tear apart.

According to the plan made by Frings 10 kilometers away 150 minutes ago, all wheeled assault guns were deployed close to both sides of the road to slow down the enemy's attack and guide the artillery to strike.

The Japanese assault gun company retreated according to the routine of the exercise. The two wings away from the road first fired smoke, and then retreated slowly, while shooting continuously in the middle.Once on the road, they can escape the fire of tanks in a single ride.

However, the retreat was quickly interrupted by a howitzer attack, and a shell fell 13 meters away from the side of a Type 25 tank that was retreating in the smoke.The tremendous power of the explosion first destroyed all four tires on one side of the assault gun, and what was even more frightening was that the howitzer blasts swept away the cover smoke surrounding the assault gun.

Now this weakly armored iron box is completely exposed to the eyes of tankers 1.8 kilometers away.Two of the four wheels on one side of it can be quickly inflated to recover, barely maintaining maneuverability, but the terrible thing is that the commander didn't know that the white smoke enveloping him was gone, so he didn't fire another smoke grenade.

2 Chinese tanks chose to stop for a short time to aim, and the rest chose to fire on the move.About 6 tanks fired from different angles, hit 2 or 3 rounds, and completely tore the tank into pieces.

The data link and laser ranging of the tank provide timely instructions for the rear artillery. The range advantage of the Chinese howitzer allows them to maintain firepower continuously on the position, while the M109A6 is currently out of reach of them.

The two Super Cobras of the lightning team rushed to the corner of the battlefield first, trying to reverse the situation.They hovered in the air and fired laser semi-active anti-tank missiles from 2 kilometers away.

The laser beam directed at the Hellfire missile immediately provoked a counterattack.He Fan's tank battalion began to emit smoke. At this moment, the missile still needs 10 seconds to approach the target, which makes it difficult for the helicopter to aim well. We can only wait for the missile that lost its indication to penetrate the smoke and continue to approach, hoping to find it from different angles. New targeting opportunities.

A Type 95 close-in combat vehicle was the first to rush to the vicinity of the helicopter route. While the vehicle was moving, two avant-garde missiles flew towards the target. The enemy plane immediately discovered the attack and fired tracer bombs to dodge it. When they got lost, the 2mm four-barreled artillery began to shoot violently. The two helicopters had no time to speed up and escape, and fell into the barrage, and were immediately riddled with holes.The Super Cobra has significantly less protection than the Apache.

It's a pity that the radar of the Type 95 failed to track the second batch of targets in time. The third helicopter approaching from one side counterattacked in time and fired rockets, which damaged the top radar of the tank at a long distance, and the tank was forced to withdraw fighting.

In the clouds, a J-10 fighter jet swooped down. Unlike previous air battles, it had to slow down continuously to extend the shooting window so as not to miss the target.At the same time, the Chinese pilot must withstand the pressure of the harsh and chaotic radar warning. He knows that an F15C in the distance is aiming at him.

Finally, a moment before the hovering helicopter escaped the search range, a missile seeker finally found the target.The pilot pulls the trigger, but it's not over. He must continue to reduce altitude and use ground clutter to interfere with enemy radar tracking.As he completed his turn, a mid-range projectile that missed its target hit the ground.Not far away, a helicopter that lost its stability and kept spinning fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)