Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 781

The 8 90 tanks and 6 jeeps were not in a hurry to leave in any direction. They had been hiding in a corner of the chaotic battlefield, waiting for Yamura's final decision.

Yamura is much calmer than Yelinsky. He has already concluded that this is not a real encirclement battle, and the Chinese army does not have the strength to completely surround the coalition forces. He feels that this battle is more like a shepherd dog driving a flock of sheep According to this strategy, the main force of the Chinese army is only chasing the leader who runs ahead, and the rest of the troops are handed over to their air force, which lacks experience in ground strikes, or they don't care at all.The opponent knew very well that the coalition forces had no rear and could not run very far, and when Yelinsky stopped, it was probably when he chose to surrender.The current situation is chaotic on the surface, but the reality has gradually become clear. Yelinsky has been watched by the Chinese. It would be foolish to follow him, but there is still a chance to leave the brigade.Of course, the two-stroke diesel engine used by the 90 tank also has the problem of high fuel consumption. Compared with the 60-ton American tank, the road travel is less, so how to plan a route is the most important thing.Like a sailor, he measured slowly on the map with a compass, without appearing in a hurry.

The Americans changed their destination. They no longer went to Agra but to Jaipur, so Yamura tended to do the opposite.In fact, he has always disapproved of Yelinsky's retreat route, which was eager for quick success, because the opponent could easily guess it, but at that time the Americans were in a hurry to go home and could not listen to his words.But the situation is different now. The road leading to Jaipur is full of hills, which is not suitable for mechanized travel, especially the problem of fuel...

"Chief of staff, when we act, the Americans will run far away." The temporary squadron leader Ono ran to the tank and said anxiously, interrupting Yamura's train of thought.

"No, we will not follow the headquarters. Brigadier General Frings said that the troops who lost contact during the breakout can choose their own retreat route."

"But you didn't mean to go from Jaipur?"

"Mr. Ono, the situation has changed now. China will bite the Americans tightly, and its superior air force is likely to destroy the oil depot of the 17th Indian Army in advance. This is called drawing salary from the bottom of the pot."

"So, what should we do? The Australian battalion just surrendered 4 kilometers away, and the enemy rushed over."

"Don't worry, there won't be any enemies rushing over," Yamura sneered, as if he was very sure of his judgment, "We'll wait for Fujimaki-kun's further reconnaissance news."

"We're running out of time."

"You get someone to cut some branches, camouflage the tank so that it won't be seen by the enemy air force, and don't worry about the rest."

Takeshi Yamura waved his hand decisively and sent Ono away.He prides himself on having a clear understanding of the situation. The Chinese army is more dispersed than the coalition forces, especially after Yelinsky expanded the scope of the battlefield, which exacerbated the opponent's lack of troops.According to his idea, if he could fight back to New Delhi in the morning, he would be able to annihilate many enemies, but it is futile to think about it now. Now he plans to cross the newly established supply line of the Chinese army from the east, and then flee to Agra. .

Seven kilometers to the east, a Chinese-made off-road vehicle was shuttling through the open battlefield. There were four people sitting in the vehicle, all wearing Chinese military uniforms.

Lieutenant Fujimaki Toshishiro was sitting in the co-pilot seat, looking ahead vigilantly. The four people in the car were all from the Intelligence Department of the General Staff and Supervision Department. They could speak Chinese, but the only one among them could speak Chinese for a long time without being detected. Only rattan rolls.This off-road vehicle was seized from the Pakistan Army when it invaded New Delhi, and Yamura has kept it since then. He is suspicious by nature and thinks it might be useful to keep it.As a result, bad things come true, and it really works.

Passing through a piece of wreckage that had been attacked by armed helicopters, a long line of trucks on the road ahead was moving rapidly. Among them were a large number of fuel vehicles and ordinary military vehicles covered with tarpaulins, and there were no armored vehicles.

Sure enough, the Chinese army was not in a hurry to wipe out the remnants of the enemy, but galloped all the way to the south. It seems that just as Yamura judged, they were eager to pass here and had no time to clean up the battlefield. It will end like this.

"The defense of the Chinese army seems to be very weak?"

"Listen well. When you encounter a situation later, don't talk nonsense. I will deal with it."

Everyone nodded, and when the timing was right, the gas door opened and there were no defensive troops nearby, and the transport troops on the road seemed to be all Pakistani drivers. He spotted a pause and slipped past the convoy, and no one questioned him at all.

The lieutenant shouldered the task of finding a breakthrough for Yamura to flee to Agra. He thought it would be extremely difficult, but he did not expect to cross the enemy's supply line so easily. According to the principle of combined operations, the Chinese army should build defenses near the supply line just completed. , to form a new support, but the enemy did not do so, they used the most extreme blitz tactics, which of course reflects the commander's distinctive style, this commander has made a great effort between insufficient troops and great ambition A decisive choice.

Fujimaki immediately sent a report to Yamura, suggesting that he take advantage of the enemy's lack of follow-up troops to quickly pass through the eastern highway. It is best to camouflage the 90 tanks without any flaws to avoid exchange of fire.

In the air, Zheng Hui's J-16 formation began to launch air strikes on the Indian Army supply points along Jaipur, in order to prevent the possibility of the coalition forces obtaining fuel.The command has obtained complete information from the guerrillas, including the location of the enemy's oil depot, and nearby air defense forces, etc., but after he took off, the command learned that the Indian tanker had left the oil depot, and its destination was unknown , and now he has to search for the target himself.

The escorting J-10 formation has approached Jaipur, and is attacking the radar there, and the fight is smooth. Jaipur has several headquarters of Indian training troops, but there are many designations of armored units in the sky, and there is no real equipment.

After the Patriot base in Agra was attacked, the threat to the air force has become less. Fighter-bombers can easily pass over New Delhi to attack deep targets, and the air defense forces of the coalition forces that are fleeing are also easier to suppress through jamming pods. .

Zheng Hui slowed down and circled in the air to search for targets. The Indian oil tankers seemed to be hidden in the jungle, and they must be camouflaged. It is difficult to use optical reconnaissance pods.

"We have to try to bypass the low-altitude clouds, please continue to maintain stability." The weapon guide asked.

"It feels good without that radar staring at it." Zheng Hui said with emotion. Through the electronic tactical threat system, he can clearly see that only some low-threat radars at long distances are still scanning weakly periodically, and the azimuth comes from far-reaching To the south, Bareilly in the east, and New Delhi behind.

"What?" The guide was concentrating on searching, but didn't understand what it meant for a while.

"I mean, that radar in Agra, which was shining in the sky like a talisman all day long, is gone now."

"Great Wall Great Wall, I'm Huang He. No ground target has been found. I request to send a drone to confirm the target's location." The guide sent an inquiry to the headquarters.

"Huang He, wait a moment, we are collecting information."

Because the ground is so undulating, it is difficult to search the ground by radar, but local guerrillas have been won over and can indicate ground targets for the air force.

In the jungle below Zheng Hui's three-aircraft formation, a row of oil tankers were hiding under towering trees, and the cars were covered with camouflage nets.

An Indian colonel was looking up at the sky in fear. He could occasionally hear the roar of aircraft engines above the clouds. For 10 minutes, the enemy air force seemed to have been turning around his head without leaving.

Two hours ago, he received an order from his superiors, ordering him to blow up the oil depot and not allow him to help the coalition forces.But before he could do anything, the American personnel arrived, and they came with a box of money. The colonel quickly made a categorical disobedience to the order.Now the war situation is deteriorating, and people's hearts are unstable.Those who give orders are precarious inside the encirclement, while those outside the encirclement can only think more about their own future.For the colonel, as long as he sold the fuel, he could take off his military uniform and flee abroad.

"It seems that the Chinese Air Force can't see me at all."

The colonel cheered himself up, if he could really find out, he would have dropped the bomb long ago.After the war entered India, these logistics support forces, with the help of American advisers, strengthened anti-optical and infrared reconnaissance measures.In fact, covering one's own equipment with some simple facilities makes those expensive passive equipment on enemy aircraft ineffective.

Just as the nerves of the nearby Indian army calmed down a little, something suddenly passed through the jungle and fell near the tanker. It was a red smoke bomb that was smoking.

Immediately thereafter, another 6 to 7 smoke bombs were fired towards the tanker from an unknown direction. Although it was not accurate enough, the smoke spread quickly and roughly indicated the target area.

The bombers in the air immediately noticed the red smoke coming out of the forest. Obviously, the guerrillas were assisting themselves.

The three J-16s immediately made a large circle and approached in a regular formation, approaching the target area.The radar can measure the accurate ground speed for the fighter plane, which will increase the accuracy of pilots' timing of throwing ordinary aerial bombs by an order of magnitude, which is enough for vehicles that are easy to explode like fuel tankers.

The J-16 is one of the few planes in the Chinese Air Force that has the potential to carry out spectacular carpet bombing. Due to political restrictions, cluster bombs cannot be used, but three planes can plow the ground with ordinary aerial bombs approaching 3 tons. Destroy large areas.

Yelinsky was traveling in the northern mountains and received bad news. About 3 gallons of gasoline in front of him were destroyed by the enemy air force. These fuel vehicles were hiding in the jungle and waiting for him. Everything went well, and he had consciously shaken off the enemy. , but he did not expect that the Chinese army made a huge determination to destroy him.However, he still has other routes to choose. Before he entered the mountainous area, the high-altitude drone used synthetic aperture radar to survey and map the ground. Some oil depots of the Indian army along the way, coupled with the characteristics of M1 tanks that do not avoid fuel, opportunities still exist.Of course, he was very confused, why the Chinese were staring at him, in fact, when he was deploying and retreating, he deliberately left some secondary troops behind (similar to Japanese and Australian troops) in an attempt to distract the enemy and fight for himself. Time, but it seems that such cheap tricks are not working.

Fu Xiaoguang's chariot stopped at the foot of a hillside, waiting to confirm a new course of action.His company has been tracking the enemy's main force and is currently the closest force to the enemy.

On the battlefield in the morning, he saw the M1A2 armored group with the blue flag hanging on the antenna of the suspected headquarters several times. Was ambushed once by an enemy Stryker chariot. Although he retreated completely, the main target was lost.

Three tanks in the entire company have withdrawn due to battle damage and various failures. Compared with the various vehicles discarded by the enemy along the way, the loss is not large.

His 9 tanks became He Fan's first unit, shouldering the major mission of discovering the main enemy.Relying on the relay of the drone, the communication is still smooth most of the time, but the superior cannot determine the whereabouts of the enemy's main force, and the enemy seems to have dispersed their formation.

This is consistent with the tracks and wheel marks left by the enemy observed by Fu Xiaoguang. In order to prevent large groups of people from congesting on the low-grade roads in the Indian mountains, the enemy split up and ran to the south in multiple ways, which obviously benefited from its powerful terrain mapping capabilities. However, the Indian army faced in the past did not have such capabilities at all.

Of course, in this way, the enemy headquarters will inevitably be scattered with other troops, and there will not be many troops accompanying it for protection. If you touch it, you will win the first victory in the battle.

His small UAV searched for targets along the ravine with various vehicles and supplies abandoned by the enemy along the way, and then decided to pursue it along one of the roads.

At the turn of the road, Fu Xiaoguang found an abandoned Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which seemed to be a mechanical failure.When his tank arrived, it could be seen that the fuel tank was still stuck with a rubber tube, apparently siphoning off the fuel before being discarded.He climbed into the tank and studied the enemy's digital map. If the enemy left carelessly, it might not destroy the route stored in the system.

Sure enough, after pressing a few number keys, you can see the retreat route on the LCD screen. The route is formulated according to the real-time surveying and mapping data of the drone, avoiding a road that the Chinese Air Force blew up two hours ago. It can be seen that the timeliness is very fast. high.

He was about to leave the chariot when he discovered new geographical information sent by the enemy through the satellite data link. It seemed that this abandoned node still existed in the opponent's information distribution system.

There are often such things that go wrong on the battlefield, and of course it cannot be ruled out as a trap, but after thinking about it, Fu Xiaoguang feels that the enemy is fleeing, so he doesn't have the leisure to set him up.

The data shows that the original route through the jungle was abolished and turned to another location marking the fuel replenishment area. Obviously, after the air force bombed successfully, the enemy changed the route.

In order to prevent the enemy from setting up an ambush in the mountains (the noise of using a diesel engine tank is much louder than that of the M1), he found a road parallel to the escape route of the opponent, separated by about a hill, so that he would not be discovered by the opponent, and it was also convenient for him to use it. Man-machine reconnaissance.

After traveling 5 kilometers, he threw the first drone into the air to grasp the whereabouts of the enemy.

This drone is a reconnaissance method that has only recently been used on tanks. The troops have given different feedback on its significance. Some say it is good, and some say it is useless. There are no regulations restricting its use. Put one or two in its storage space, even if it is not recycled, it will not be held accountable.Its remote control terminal is universal and can set 16 channels, but it does not have anti-jamming and automatic navigation capabilities.Most of the time, this kind of drone is silent, and its shape is closer to the scanning eagle used by the enemy, so it is not easy to attract the attention of the enemy.

(End of this chapter)