Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 772 The Goddess of Dawn
In the China-Pakistan coalition headquarters near Chandigarh, the meeting called by Lin Huaisheng was in progress. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting, he called the main generals to his side to review the victory and look forward to the next move.

Since relay communications and satellite communications were easily intercepted by the enemy, and the engineers did not have time to lay underground communication cables in the vast combat area, he did not adopt the method of video conferencing.When the opponent was only the Indian family, he even used ionospheric scatter communication to discuss the war with the front-line generals, but time has passed, and the current enemy is not so easy to fool, especially in the field of electronic communication.

In order to prevent sneak attacks by enemy missiles, the venue is 360 kilometers away from the front line, and there are 40 anti-aircraft missile battalions within a radius of 2 kilometers.In fact, for the past one or two months, Lin Huaisheng himself has been sitting in Chandigarh. There are many missiles and a large number of air force protection here, which basically does not leave room for the enemy to sneak into the headquarters.

Before the meeting, he had been warned that the Foreign Legion was planning a breakout.The superiors have fully discussed the solution to the large-scale troops remaining in New Delhi. There is an opinion that if they want to break through, it is better to open the net. It would be the focus of the propaganda, perhaps touted as a Dunkirk-style retreat; letting the enemy go meant they might come back.In fact, the major Western countries (including two Eastern countries) that have sent troops have rejected the Chinese government's suggestion that troops move out of the city, abandon heavy weapons, and keep light vehicles to leave. They feel that it is not much different from surrender.

"...After a long period of operation, we have a very reliable high-level intelligence source within the Indian Army. Unlike those sources in the past, we can directly obtain the highest decision-making and give early warning of the direction of the enemy's breakthrough, which is conducive to our early deployment. " Lin Huaisheng said, he seemed extremely confident in annihilating the enemy.

"The key is how long can your intelligence source come in advance? If it comes too late, we still have no time to organize enough defenses."

He Fan said that he returned here in a helicopter and a jeep for several hours, and found that Lin Huaisheng was still talking about these retreats without any real information.

"The people commanded by Frings will definitely come out. They will not live and die with New Delhi. As long as they coordinate with the Indian side, such as when to take over the positions left by them after they evacuated, we will get more than 10 hours in advance intelligence."

"Well, it is better for the enemy to come out than to hold on. It is much easier to annihilate them in motion than to consume them bit by bit in urban combat." A Pakistani military officer said.

"If they don't know the Indians and just break through from one direction, can we still get information in advance? It's not unexpected that these guys betrayed the Indians." He Fan continued to speak, still focusing on intelligence issues, and he was still worried Yelinsky's troops would move suddenly.

"In that case, we can take advantage of their breakout zone, wedge into the enemy's defense line, and disrupt the enemy's city defense deployment." Wang Zhenbei said.

"Why are you always so used to thinking in good places?" He Fan said, "Once this group of enemies escapes, it will form a serious threat behind us, and it will definitely restrain us from dividing our troops to defend. I have fought against them, and they With strong combat effectiveness and maneuverability, they can pose a huge threat to us in any direction they choose by themselves. New Delhi will not run away with long legs. The key is to annihilate the main force of the enemy. This is the solution once and for all. "

The atmosphere at the venue became a little strange. It seemed that the current good situation had turned into a crisis in He Fan's mouth. Lin Huaisheng also felt that He Fan was a little unfounded, but Xu Jingzhe really had no way to obtain information on the direction or time of the enemy's breakout. Relying on front-line reconnaissance, then the warning time is not enough.As He Fan said, this group of enemies still has a large number of assault weapons, and the Chinese and Pakistani troops are distributed on a nearly 200-kilometer front, and they can protrude from anywhere on the defense line. Get ready for deployment.

"I think Brigadier He is right. Annihilating the enemy is indeed the first priority."

"Annihilating the enemy is the first priority. It's easy to say. Unless you get information in advance, concentrate the main armored forces near their routes, and form an absolute advantage of 2.5 to 1 or at least 2 to 1. If it is lower than this number, there is no guarantee. Carry out a war of annihilation. I would like to remind those of you who have not fought against this enemy that these mercenaries are absolutely different from the Indian Army."

An early warning aircraft in the sky is flying around the defense line of the Chinese army in the east of New Delhi, always on guard against enemy fighters taking off from the south.The early warning aircraft still needs to rely on ground long-range radar from time to time to see distant targets in advance, and then rush to make up for the leak.

After being reminded by the ground command, the early warning aircraft turned to the east to monitor the newly emerging suspicious targets.Due to the insufficient resolution of the ground radar, the nature and height of the target cannot be determined; however, the ground command suspects that there may be more than one target in the indicated direction, because the continuous jump of the target is large, unlike a single aircraft leaving a linear flight trajectory, unless its velocity is large.

Liu Zhaolin's five Su-5 fighters were ordered to intercept. Su-35 fighters are one of the few units in this airspace that can maintain close to the speed of sound and cruise for a long time. With powerful radar, they are very suitable for interception operations.He deliberately spread out the formation to form a 35-kilometer-wide frontal flight towards the target, like a large net that does not leak. If the target is F70C again, he is sure to launch missiles at an advantageous altitude first.However, he didn't think it was possible to engage in a fight. The enemy always only dispatched one or two planes, usually probing for a reaction and then turning.

"The target speed is very high, close to Mach 2.5. The altitude is 25000, and it is flying towards you." The early warning aircraft reminded.

"Why so fast, what is this thing? Could it be some unmanned aerial vehicle or missile?"

Liu Zhaolin has intercepted Indian MiG-25s in the north. These planes can fly at twice the speed of sound for a period of time, but they never dare to hit them head-on.In a blink of an eye, his radar had spotted the target, whose high speed made it leave a clear trail.

"I don't know what it is, the speed is increasing further. It's already Mach 3."

"I see, request to fire."

"Fire allowed."

Liu Zhaolin found that he had to climb up quickly to seize the shooting position. If the target turned slightly, he would easily escape the envelope. The aircraft seemed to be coming straight towards him, and there was no dodge at all. It seems that either the pilot did not see him, or a plane unmanned aerial vehicle.However, the Su-35 is not a stealth aircraft. His formation has been under the surveillance of Agra's ground radar, and even drones are unlikely to remain indifferent.

He pushed the throttle valve to afterburner, trying to block the target's path as soon as possible. In this airspace, no plane could escape from under his nose simply by relying on speed.The MiG-25s that tried to challenge him were all shot down.

However, the readings of the opponent’s distance detected by the radar decreased very quickly, completely surpassing his common sense. He suspected that his speed increase was working after the routes overlapped, but the early warning aircraft quickly reminded him that the target’s speed had exceeded Mach 3.5. , has surpassed the speed of MiG 25 or most missiles.

The opponent's intentions are already very obvious, it seems that they want to fly over his head with speed, but how is this possible?He saw a strange arc of light in the blue sky, it flickered and disappeared.

When the Su 35 increased the speed from Mach 0.8 to Mach 1.5, the speed of the target increased from Mach 2.5 to Mach 4.It abruptly flew over an area about 1 meters above Liu Zhaolin's head. Although the radar could track it, Liu Zhaolin had no chance to launch the missile at all.He watched the flickering flickering above his head, the non-sustained acceleration like a pulsing fire.He felt that this was a manned aircraft, and that the opponent might be controlling the speed intentionally, instead of accelerating at full speed.

That aircraft easily passed above the Su-35, which was an impossible altitude for the Su-35. Liu Zhaolin noticed that his plane had gradually lost control in the thin air, and he had already entered the limit altitude. If he continued to climb, Lake Comprehensive barely fired missiles, and the engines might stall.Although he shouldered the task of defending the early warning aircraft, he was powerless at this moment, and the line of defense had been completely broken through.

However, if it wants to attack an early warning aircraft at a distance of 1 meters, it must slow down and lower its altitude in advance, otherwise it will not have a good chance. ability.

"What is this, crossing our airspace in broad daylight?"

He plunged down with doubts, and the plane regained control at a depth of 2000 meters, but at this time, the plane was already hundreds of kilometers away, and it did not attack the early warning plane. It was a strategic reconnaissance plane.

Chandigarh remembered the long-lost sirens. The officers in the meeting thought it was another ballistic missile attack. Lin Huaisheng walked out of the conference room and asked the staff outside. He was told that it was not a missile, and that a plane might have passed through the air defense network. , coming this way.

He hurried back to the meeting room and asked to interrupt the meeting, and evacuated according to the protocol, so as not to be taken over by something.When the officers walked to the entrance of the command department, they saw two S2 missiles rising straight into the sky in the distance. It was different from the way the missiles rose and turned to a certain direction in the past. Can't see it at all.An officer reminded Lin Huaisheng and other senior generals that there may be no need to transfer. This enemy plane has already flown westward over Chandigarh, and its speed exceeds Mach 400.

Unwilling to give up, Lin Huaisheng asked whether the anti-aircraft missile unit had hit the target. Someone told him that the reaction time of the missile position was insufficient. The two missiles missed the interception point, and then they were unable to catch up and were thrown off. Now the radar can no longer track the missiles. , probably fell somewhere in the direction of Punjab.

Everyone returned to the venue one after another, discussing this strange incident in twos and threes.Unlike others who became worried, He Fan was a little excited, as if he had some opinions to express. This enemy plane that inexplicably disrupted the meeting agenda had the opposite effect on him.

"You seem to be in a good mood?" Wang Zhenbei asked.

"Of course, the enemy tried out the magic weapon, which shows that they are more eager to obtain information than we are. This is the best news today."

"Good news? Why do you have such an idea."

Wang Zhenbei felt strange, even though he knew that He Fan always liked to express some strange opinions, which made him appear to be unique, or stand out from the crowd, but he still wanted to hear his reasons.

"I don't know the enemy's flight path yet, but I guess it is from south to north, entering along the eastern defense line of New Delhi, then turning over our head, and leaving from the west to south... Simply put, they are spying on our defense line. "

"What does this mean? Their satellite river drones are doing the same thing every day." When Wang Zhenbei asked, Lin Huaisheng on the side winked and asked the staff to check the enemy's routes intercepted by the air defense force, but he expected He Fan's judgment was correct.Generally speaking, reconnaissance aircraft can only conduct reconnaissance in a local area, but this time the enemy may be eager to obtain information on the deployment of Chinese troops in a larger area.

"Our idleness on the defensive line really made them bother to guess, and they are a little at a loss now. If I guess correctly, today is just the first test, and they will use this new method in two days. Aerial reconnaissance, mainly at night, is used to make up for the reconnaissance satellite time window."

"It seems that the more we don't move, the more they will be caught blind?" Lin Huaisheng said.

"It's to our advantage that they've adapted to information-based warfare and lost the courage to go all-or-nothing. But we have the same problem, and we don't know the enemy's deployment."

As night fell in New Delhi, no bombs fell or air defense sirens sounded throughout the day. Except for the central police force sweeping the slums and destroying two Pakistani intelligence strongholds, there was no battle worth mentioning.

Associated Press war correspondent Carpenter came out of the New Delhi Municipal Council building and got into his Volkswagen on the broken road where a guided bomb fell nearby, killing several Americans who had retreated into the city. People, but in the last 2 days, these mercenaries have completely disappeared.

He must find out where these men were and, if possible, obtain information on the direction and timing of the possible breakout of this force.He had safely sent the information given to him by Mulit, and then he got a new mission.His special pass and his identity as a journalist allowed him to travel unimpeded in New Delhi, and the Indian police and self-defense forces usually let Westerners go directly.They are always wary of those who wear ragged clothes and have darker skin.They believe that most of the spies who steal information for China are those from the bottom of society.

Through a mobile phone of the same model as the police, he could hear the internal mobilization information of the nearby police.He pays attention to the few words on the communication channel. Indians don't pay much attention to secrecy, and some useful information will always be leaked.

Soon he heard talk of blocking roads near the Gilgit Grand Mosque as coalition tanks moved in the area.

He quickly drove towards that area. In order to prevent the opponent's reconnaissance methods, the defeated foreign legion in the city was always in constant mobilization.He turned around Jawaharlal Nehru University, which is not far from the Chinese army outside the city. It is currently a defense zone of the Self-Defense Forces. It can be seen that many people were hanged on the trees along the road, and some of them were still hanging on their chests. Most of them were accused of treason without approval. In fact, many people just violated the martial law order and wanted to escape from the city and were caught.

(End of this chapter)