Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 755
"It seems that we need to knock the mountain and shake the tiger to find out the location of the headquarters of this mob." Wang Zhenbei looked at the image and said, he knew he had plenty of time, so he could use some safe methods.

"It's a pity that Huang Dexing's tank unit is too far away. Otherwise, after destroying the enemy's headquarters, they can directly push over and wipe out this part of the protruding enemy." Said the staff officer on the side.

"Our tank troops are too worn out in this battle. This kind of weak enemy can let Li Xiulin's assault guns and wheeled chariots go around and do a favor."

"It's too risky. Although the enemy is prominent, the Indian Army's positions on both wings are very close. They may attack the flanks of the assault artillery units at any time. It is difficult for light armored vehicles to deal with side attacks."

"Let Li Xiulin stand by in the designated area. I found that after these fanatics joined the battle in the morning, the Indian Army directly withdrew from the airport, retreated to the second line, and took away the trucks and supplies. There seems to be no cooperation between them." Wang Zhenbei said , No one has ever been able to see the internal contradictions of the enemy from the video of the drone, but he can.

"We did notice that the People's Self-Defense Forces did not take over the underground communication facilities left behind by the Army's two divisions. So far, the intercepted radio communications have not decreased, which is indeed very unusual."

"Just wait and see. Although this prominent enemy is arrogant, it is in a very isolated situation."

"The firepower we can mobilize is only 122mm howitzers and rocket launchers. Should we ask our superiors to use long-range firepower or air force support?"

"No, I have a plan..."

In the north of New Delhi, several Humvees galloped out of the underground garage of the 2nd Army Headquarters.

Members of the U.S. military advisory group rushed back to the city to meet with the Prime Minister and made a final effort to get him to leave. Brigadier General Ogudan still did not know where Marshal Pasad had gone. The Indian liaison officer said that he had gone to the front line of sight. truth.On such a crazy morning, it was indeed unusual not to see the commander-in-chief of the Indian Army at the headquarters. He originally planned to exchange views with the marshal on the direction of the battle, but now he has no chance.

Augudan saw in the garage that the vehicles of the marshal's security force did not move out. He thought, could this old man go to the front line by helicopter? If so, his courage should be admired.

Pasade did not leave the command post. He sat in a dark room on the third basement floor, watching his cronies chat with the prisoner in the next cell through closed-circuit television.

Lieutenant Colonel Ghiam sat on the bed with his knees hugged, and faced the Indian colonel sitting in front of him. They talked about some things that were far beyond the sea and the sky, but they didn't get to the core. Pasad instructed Colonel Lance Neal not to be too direct. He's still afraid of getting stuck in it, and now the two over there are going in circles.

"Where was your birth?" Ghiam asked politely. He had met Lancenell several times. After he voluntarily surrendered, it was the command post that the colonel took him into.

"Army camp near Jaipur, where my father has been serving."

"Jaipur? I suppose your father served in the Punjab Hussars."

"Yes, he fought for the British before independence, and my grandfather actually served in this army. Where is your hometown?"

"My grandparents all farmed in Saxiwal. Of course, in my father's generation, I have some skills in shoe repair."

"Saciwal? We were there half a year ago. At that time, it was very peaceful and there was no fighting," the colonel said as he took out a pack of cigarettes to open, and handed over one. "If it doesn't offend your faith."

Ghiam took out the cigarettes without hesitation, apparently not abstaining from them.

"American cigarettes? I thought you guys from Army Intelligence liked to smoke Berkeleys. I'm not used to Indian cigarettes."

"Yes, part of the US aid. In fact, the United States has directly entered the war, and all intelligence agencies could not have guessed such an ending a few months ago."

Ghiam paused. This information was indeed unexpected. Before he was arrested, he only heard that the West had taken over several bases in the South.

"Why don't you just ask Chief Intelligence Officer Charmain to talk to me?"

"Not necessary yet."

"What do you mean by no need, do you still have a chance?"

"We want to find out whether the information behind you is the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, the Internal Affairs Force, or...the Chinese side."

"I guess you would prefer to negotiate terms directly with the Chinese? No, we will not have peace talks with the Indian army behind each other's backs."

The colonel was speechless for a while, and Pasade next door stood up and turned around twice. He felt that hiding from this messenger would not help reverse Dading's defeat, but he always felt that he had to be more careful, This could be a far more serious act of treason than Lieutenant General Chaguye, who was sentenced to death.

"If you can still fight, why bother to come to me, I can wait." Giam said and glanced at the camera, thinking too much that there must be a big man behind.

Someone quietly walked up to Pasade and handed him a telegram. He took it over and glanced at it quickly, then sternly scanned the few cronies around him.

"Pakistans have marched into the Fort. Two divisions of Indian troops have surrendered. Maybe Meneyam will surrender soon. The Prime Minister will not be able to stand it. He will die of anger."

"Yeah, if the Prime Minister passed away at this moment, the situation would be easier," he muttered to himself, "the civil servants would come forward to solve it, and my historical responsibility would be minimized. History will only record me as an incompetent Commander-in-Chief, not..." He paused cautiously, not uttering the last few words.

Behind the apron on the south wing of Indira Gandhi Airport, Major Li Xiulin's assault gun unit has just completed the supply of ammunition and fuel, and replaced the damaged tires. They are ready to enter a new battle. The advantage of wheeled assault guns over tanks is here. It immediately became apparent that these 8-round weapons always maintained a high dispatch rate, which tanks could not do.

During the Battle of Assam, he participated in several battles. At that time, the transportation capacity was limited, and his troops used relatively backward 6-round assault guns, but this time the battle was changed to an 8X8 chassis, so that he was able to fight in most of the battles. In terms of shooting angle, there is no need to consider that the car body will shake due to excessive recoil; and the artillery has also been changed to 105 mm.

The 8mm howitzers assembled behind the assault guns, using the same 8X122 chassis, will shoot at the enemy after 15 minutes according to the plan, and his assault guns must seize the designated commanding heights at a fairly precise time point, and then use direct fire Firepower to clean up the frightened enemy units 2 kilometers away, and if possible, give priority to destroying the headquarters.

Wang Zhenbei taught him the instructions through the radio. When encountering shelling, the commanders and vehicles of the People's Self-Defense Forces will keep still. Of course, this is also heard from Pakistani military officers.

The assault guns of the two companies started to move. They used the wreckage of Boeing and Airbus planes strewn about on the runway, as well as the smoke fired by the mortars, to move quietly to the east of the enemy. At present, the main battle on the airport has been suspended, but they are hiding underground. The Indian death squads in India often pop up, and snipers from both sides are still competing with each other.A large number of ruins provide good cover for snipers. India is currently at a 2-6 disadvantage. Chinese drones can sometimes see enemy snipers lying behind the rubble and indicate the position for their own artillery fire.

Li Xiulin reminded all the commanders not to stick their heads out of the turret to avoid being shot.India has received some large-caliber anti-materiel weapons from the Americans, as well as crash training, which is a complex situation that has not been encountered in previous battles.Experienced Indian shooters can damage all 4 wheels on one side of the assault gun in half a minute. If the tank stops, they will hit the optical sighting equipment on the turret. Although these damages will not destroy the assault gun, But it was enough to send the chariot back to the starting position for repairs.

However, the People's Self-Defense Forces still lack professional capabilities. They would rather wait on the empty runway for hand-to-hand attack and defense than send a few companies to occupy the commanding heights at the end of the runway. This is a mistake that any commander who understands maps should not make. , they committed.

The assault gun quietly turned to the north at the end of the runway, without attracting the attention of the enemy. Li Xiulin briefly put his head out of the turret and scouted the front with a telescope. After 10 seconds, he confirmed that there was no one on the high ground ahead before entering the turret.Dragging a puff of smoke, he quickly rushed up the high slope, and the rest of the chariots followed one after another. Now the enemies who thought they were hiding in the depths had a panoramic view.The 105mm gun on this tank has a 5° depression angle of fire, which is slightly inferior to the Japanese Type 13, but the target is 2 kilometers away and can be dealt with.

The bombardment from the howitzers started every second, and thousands of enemies on the second line were quickly bombarded.

Li Xiulin turned the observation mirror to watch the chaotic situation of the enemy in the distance.As observed by the drone, the enemy has no tanks, only Land Rover and BTR90 armored vehicles equipped with weapons. The latter's 30mm cannon may pose a threat to Chinese assault guns and is the priority target, while Land Rover equipped with grenade launchers is A slightly lesser threat.

The assault gun's laser warning detected danger, and the direction of the laser came from the ruins of several terminal buildings on the side. Li Xiulin was unmoved. He forbade his subordinates to use smoke for cover, which would confuse the gunner's eyes, but he instructed a platoon to be on alert. If the opponent uses anti-tank missiles, he has about 10 more seconds to take measures.

The Indian snipers in the dilapidated terminal were the first to see the Chinese assault guns that had not fired after seizing the high ground. They fired the ranging laser, and they fired at these assault guns from 1.5 kilometers away.Li Xiulin patiently searched for the main target and ignored the mosquito bites. Of course, these weapons still pose a threat to the assault gun at a long distance.

These short-term trained People's Self-Defense Force snipers are bold and unprofessional, they are not good at finding positions, and they have little patience to wait for opportunities, but one of their advantages is the use of a new light spot injection auxiliary aiming system , making these fires still deadly.However, when these weapons are fired, the smoke that rises is very large and easy to observe.

The enemy who was shelled from the front began to scurry in all directions, and hundreds of vehicles of various types were activated together. They didn't even have special command or communication vehicles, special antennas or flags.Li Xiulin searched the front patiently, and did not open fire easily. He finally noticed a guy wearing a red beret in the woods in the distance. He reduced the magnification of the field of view to make sure he was right. He had seen a guy with bird feathers on his head before. The Indian national army, but I never thought that one day I would see a guy with a red hat on the battlefield.

He ordered the gunner to abandon an 8-wheeled armored vehicle that had been following him and turn to the Land Rovers parked in the woods.

A 122mm grenade landed not far from the woods. When everyone in the vicinity got down on the ground, only a few guys in red berets kept standing, and one of them casually folded their arms. It seemed that the rumors of the Pakistanis were true. In fact, the officers of the People's Self-Defense Forces are so brave that they are almost stupid.

At the same time, two tires on his side had been damaged by a 2mm anti-material weapon in the distance. The Indian sniper did not move his position, but lay down on the spot and fired three more shots, persistently shooting to one side. The air-conditioning vent shoots, maybe he thinks that is a relatively weak position.

Several assault guns fired together, sending the explosive bombs to the ground close to the enemy headquarters, and the shells exploded, killing all the people standing upright.Only then did Li Xiulin turn to Zhou Shijing, and saw a huge explosion in the terminal building. It was a drone that dropped a 50-kilogram bomb, blowing up the sniper team who refused to escape.He thought these people were simply monsters.

Wang Zhenbei in the headquarters observed for a while, and he found that the flanking enemy did not move out. In fact, the right wing retreated a little distance to get away from the artillery fire. Whether it was intentional or not, it objectively exposed the flank of the Self-Defense Forces.This made him underestimate the enemy, and ordered Li Xiulin's wheeled chariot to kill down the hillside, advance 500 meters northward at low speed, and at the same time ordered the artillery fire to extend the attack.The wheeled chariot carrying the infantry was still on the road, and he should have waited until the infantry arrived before launching his weak assault gun.

More than 20 assault guns were advancing, destroying all the main threats that could be seen. The smooth driving at low speed and the accuracy of the rifled guns made them hit every shot.However, the death squads hidden in the underground fortifications are sneaking out. These personnel have lost their command, but they use the underground passages extending in all directions to move towards the place where the gunfire is concentrated. This is the active fighting consciousness that other Indian Army locks lack.The daredevils who climbed to the ground, carrying rocket launchers, lay still on the ground, waiting for the assault guns with poor vision to approach.They didn't have enough tactical literacy to find the best fighter, but they just caught up with the gap between the assault gun and the rear armored troop carrier.

Due to the threat of snipers, neither the driver nor the commander can stick their heads out, which gives the enemy lying in the grass a good chance.

The enemy launched operations from the side of the assault guns lined up, and fired RPG7 from a distance that was impossible to miss. The jet easily penetrated the side armor and stopped several assault guns on one side.

Several assault guns began to release smoke that temporarily blocked the enemy's view.Li Xiulin's vision was limited, and he could only see the burning chariot and the thatch ignited by the tail flame of the rocket launcher, but he could not see people.The most logical way is to use the super high reverse speed to gain distance, but he can't drop the few burning assault guns.He could only give the order to drive down a blurry front.He kept using the periscope to observe the surroundings, and he could see that the enemies in the smoke had already arrived, and he could even hear shouts.An enemy suddenly jumped out, squatting 5 meters away and preparing to launch a rocket.

He pressed the shrapnel and smoke bomb launcher button, and the turret fired shrapnel and white phosphorous smoke bombs to the front and the fan-shaped area on both sides, and screams of pain came from outside immediately.

"Hurry up and save people." He yelled, then lifted the top cover, operated the machine gun to shoot at the enemy holding the rocket launcher in the grass in the distance, the loader pushed open the side door, got out of the car with a fire extinguisher, and put a nearby car on fire. The flames at the rear of the assault gun were extinguished, and then several enemies lying on the ground struggling in pain were shot and killed with pistols.

(End of this chapter)