Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 784 The End of Yamura

Yelinsky's various troops, like a giant snake entrenched in the valley, could not be launched for a while, and the main way out was blocked by the Chinese army that rushed quickly.

His radio station began to be interfered, unable to maintain contact with the headquarters at any time and receive nearby image intelligence. What's more frightening is that the opponent's propaganda offensive began to appear on the preset channel of the radio station. When some tanks were preparing to communicate with friendly troops At that time, I could hear those repeated broadcasts in English. The Chinese army promised the status of prisoners of war once the coalition forces surrendered.These signals are sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, indicating that the platform from the sky is far away and close.

Although most coalition soldiers still dismissed the surrender, the role of propaganda still appeared. At least most people knew by common sense that a large enemy air platform could come and go freely in the vicinity, that is to say, Major General Wenk The promised air corridors no longer exist.

Yelinsky left the command tank and returned to the BCP command vehicle. At least a few more people can be packed here, and the satellite communication capability is stronger, so it is not easy to be disturbed.

He knows that the enemy that intercepts the front is not stable, and he still has a chance, but it is very difficult to mobilize tanks in the mountains, and the troops are currently not in place. He must wait patiently, which means that other enemy troops will also use this time. He is worried that the enemy will transport light howitzers to nearby commanding heights. At present, he does not have the strength and time to compete for these areas, so he can only hope for a breakthrough.

"Their air attack seems to have weakened," said Lieutenant Colonel Buck. "Maybe our makeshift air defense network is working. Their anti-radiation missiles seem to be much less effective in the mountains."

"Mountains are a double-edged sword. The effectiveness of our anti-aircraft weapons will be greatly reduced. The search radar is limited by the terrain and is almost useless. We simply don't have time to deploy them to high places." Yelinsky said, He looked frowning, the army was like a dead snake, the situation really gave him a headache, but this dead end was chosen by himself, and no one else could be blamed.

"If we insisted on rushing southeast in the morning, maybe we would have gone out by now?" A staff officer said an inappropriate remark, which immediately drew a sigh in the command vehicle.

Yelinsky kept shaking his head. He knew that if he was annihilated in the end, this battle would definitely appear in the armored warfare textbooks of various countries in the future, and he would become an absolute mediocrity who led mobile forces to death and appeared in the notes.

"Now we can only use the last tank to make an assault, and we can always fight from two directions to survive. I hope General Wenk's air force can become stronger." Buck said.

"It would be great if Yamura was here. He is the most suitable candidate for the feint attack direction, and these Japanese tanks are very suitable for mountain warfare. I don't know how he is doing now."

Yelinsky suddenly became worried about Yamura. It was his plan to abandon Yamura, but now he felt that he could use the Japanese.

"We listened to the enemy's propaganda on our channel. They updated our lost troops every 30 minutes. They mentioned soldiers from various countries who were captured, but they didn't mention Yamura's troops. Maybe he is still in a certain area in the north. Persevere?" Buck said.

"How is this possible? Enemy drones will spot theirs soon enough."

"Maybe they abandoned their equipment and fled? Or mass suicide? It's good that they didn't surrender."

40 kilometers away, Yamura is carefully advancing along the forest road.He does not have a drone to provide forward intelligence, but he has a reconnaissance section chief who is proficient in Chinese to solve this problem. Fujimaki will report the situation to him every once in a while. It seems that the main force of the enemy has gone south. Although supply lines were established on the road ahead, there was no defense.The sound of nearby guns was gradually left behind, and the Chinese army still did not devote its troops to wipe out the remnants of the enemy in this generation. Obviously, they focused on the two directions of New Delhi and Yelinsky, and they did not take care of the middle ground.

The dense forests of southern India gave the small Japanese army a chance to hide themselves, and Yamura ordered the tanks to be covered from head to tail with various branches.And behind the chassis, a tree was tied horizontally and dragged backwards to destroy the traces of the tracks.He hoped to use this method to get away from the chaotic battlefield, and he knew that a serious enemy might find him following the tracks of the tanks.

A line of heavy helicopters flew south in the sky, and a light howitzer could be seen hanging under the plane.Yamura looked up and counted carefully, there are 26 doors in total.

He has been keeping the radio silent at a long distance, and has not communicated with Agra or Yelinsky long-distance, so he cannot contact Yelinsky, but it seems that the US military is in a bad situation now. If they can get away from them at this moment They should have already arrived in Jaipur, and the enemy will not send these weapons over.He saw a car in front of him, trying to leave the forest path and hide in the woods on one side.He tuned the radio, and he could hear the enemy's repeated broadcast of persuading surrender announcements, but he couldn't be sure whether it was addressed to himself or to Yelisky.

"Keep a distance between cars and don't panic, it will arouse suspicion instead."

He immediately alerted the vehicles in front, because he found that several vehicles unconsciously moved to one side to avoid the helicopter in the air. Such unnatural movements would arouse suspicion. He knew that it was the most difficult to distinguish the tank model from the air.

A reconnaissance Z-9 helicopter following the group almost flew overhead, but the column did not arouse its suspicion.Yamura reckoned that looking at his column from the air, it looked like a small army of his own who obeyed and dispatched from west to east.

"Everything is calm in the east. You can wait for the right time." Fujimaki sent a signal in Chinese. Yamura had worked in the intelligence department and could understand some Chinese. Now they simply communicate in Chinese to avoid being monitored.

However, it is easy to get in the middle of the enemy's transport queue, which will disrupt the opponent's queue and will inevitably be exposed.Breaking in is not what he wants. Yamura plans to hide in an uninhabited village near the main transportation line. Maybe he will have to wait until after dark when it is not easy to distinguish at close range before sneaking out from the road.If he had abandoned his equipment, the breakout plan would have been much easier, but he thought it would be a disservice to the SDF's reputation, so he chose to flee with his weapons.

At noon, Fujimaki sent a telegram from a few kilometers away from the encirclement. He observed that a convoy of Chinese transport vehicles had just passed by, followed by a convoy of Mercedes-Benz and Tata trucks, apparently a convoy using The Pakistani second-line transport troops who seized the equipment, these people usually did not have any military training, and they were recruited into the army to serve as transport tasks just because they could drive.

Yamura immediately realized that the opportunity had come, and he ordered all 8 tanks and several jeeps to start immediately and move quietly to the vicinity of the transportation line.Parking and idling in the jungle 300 meters away, you can already see trucks passing one after another on the road from a distance. As Fujimaki observed, it is indeed a Pakistani army, occupying the two-lane lane to the south Galloping, between every 70 to 100 vehicles, there will be a large gap. He didn't see the transport troops carrying heavy weapons, and it was easy to rush over, but he thought, there should be a better way.

Ono in the car in front couldn't bear it anymore, he jumped off the chariot and jumped onto Yamura's command car in a few steps.

"Chief of Staff, we don't have to wait any longer. Let's get out now and get to Agra before dark."

"No no, now is not the time." Yamura said and looked up at the sun above his head.

"Now is a god-sent opportunity. If we wait any longer, I'm afraid there will be long nights and dreams."

"So what if we rush over by force? The enemy will soon catch up. Not only do we have to go over, but we must not expose ourselves."

"Could it be possible to sneak past the enemy without firing a shot? This is impossible."

"Who said this is impossible? Go back to your post and wait." Yamura waved his hand impatiently, and then he started talking to Fujimaki on the other side of the road to discuss strategies.

Ono returned to his chariot full of suspicion, waiting for orders from his superiors.

According to common sense, even if the Pakistani army in front is a second-line force, they will not be so confused as to stop and let the road pass. If they want to pass through the advancing column of the opponent, even if the opponent thinks it is their own, they must inform their superiors, and then In order to negotiate and let the other party make an opening, tanks are not as easy to fool around as captured jeeps.

A miracle happened.The advancing Pakistani convoy suddenly stopped collectively, which created a gap nearly one kilometer long between the front and rear convoys.The Japanese could see with binoculars that a commander wearing sunglasses in the first car jumped out of the car and talked to the car behind with a walkie-talkie.Soon all the drivers and co-pilots in the car got out of the car.

Yamura knew that the time he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

"Attention all the crews, they are going to carry out religious activities, we have a few minutes to pass through, enough time, please don't show your flaws," Yamura said.

"Chief of Staff, you are like Zhuge Kongming descending to earth?" Ono said sincerely on the radio.

"Let's say these words after we go out, everyone is waiting for the signal from the rattan curl."

On the other side of the road, the Fujimaki team wearing Chinese military uniforms suddenly appeared from the hiding place. They parked their jeep next to the Pakistani convoy preparing to worship without anyone else. A pair of them began to wave small red flags into the distance, and Fujimaki himself walked Speak to a Pakistani commander who does not attend religious services.

One after another, tanks filled with branches appeared from a distance and passed the road in an orderly manner. It was obviously just a friendly force. As for why they were heading east, the Pakistani lieutenant had no time to think about it.

The other Pakistanis were even more unsuspecting. After they knelt down, they kowtowed to the west and prayed to the west. After all the tanks passed, Fujimaki's reconnaissance team finally left.At this time, the Pakistanis have not yet completed the religious ceremony.

Yamura is very careful about sorting out the information. He knows that the Pakistani Army regulations stipulate that the front-line troops do not pray during wartime, but the newly recruited second-line troops are not subject to this restriction. Of course, at least one commander does not participate in prayers. In order to maintain the ability to observe, so it is enough to divert his attention.His meticulous and serious intelligence work, coupled with his bold personality, enabled him to escape from enemy-controlled areas.But everything is kept secret, no matter how cunning a fox is, there are times when he shows his feet unintentionally.

It is impossible for Yamura to know that there is a Chinese army at this moment, which has already noticed the existence of this Japanese army, and is chasing and searching for traces left by this army on the battlefield.

Two companies led by Huang Dexing had just received the surrender of a New Zealand unit in the morning. The map submitted by New Zealand showed that when the US troops fled, there should have been a Japanese tank unit left nearby, but they are nowhere to be found.

He was in the general position and quickly found traces of 90 tanks, but then the traces disappeared. Judging from the signs of destruction of nearby woods, this unit should have been camouflaged.The enemy may destroy the trail by dragging trees, but they can't find their whereabouts anyway.

Huang Dexing had no choice but to leave the army and search around in a Z-9 helicopter. At the same time, Huang Dexing commanded several drones to search.Soon he got the news that a high-altitude drone had photographed a tank action near the rear transportation line, but he was not sure whether it was from his own side, and hoped he could verify it.He hurried there, the tanks had already left.After the plane stopped by the uninhabited village, he quickly entered the village.Traces of tanks were found, but nothing identifiable.It is not easy to verify the movement of a unit on a chaotic battlefield, especially with Wang Zhenbei and He Fan's two units in action nearby, and the two sides do not communicate with each other on all movements.Judging from the tire marks left behind, at least the jeep belongs to the Chinese army, maybe just our own?Huang Dexing was skeptical, but his intuition told him that He Fan believed in using troops to attack well, and it was unlikely that a tank unit would wander in the rear.

He noticed that under the collapsed low wall, there was a pool of red oil, which was obviously left by the tank when the wall was pushed down.He walked over to have a look, and saw at a glance that it was not the engine oil used by his own tank, so he knelt down, dipped some oil on his tongue, and licked it, immediately confirming his previous judgment.

"Do you want to escape from under my nose?"

He jumped onto the low wall and looked east, and he could see the road to the east.He immediately asked his superiors to correct the drone's search range and cross the transportation line to search eastward.He called on his tank troops to move closer to him.But since the enemy has already jumped out, if you try to chase him, you may not be able to catch up.

He quickly unfolded the map and found that there was a tributary of the Zhumuna River in front of him, and there was a railway bridge on the river that could be used.If the bridge is blown up, they will not be able to pass easily, and if they dive, they will have to work at least for a while.

Yamura galloped all the way to Agra. Judging from what he heard, Agra was still under his own control. It seemed that he was going to be lucky.He decided he had run far enough, and started telecommunicating from Agra, hoping that after he crossed the river, he would send a plane to blow up the bridge and be out of danger once and for all.

After crossing a high slope, the bridge ahead is already clearly visible, but a white trail in the air is rapidly developing toward the bridge. Did Frings' plane come too fast?
He was suspicious when he saw a few bombs falling, blowing up the railway bridge in an instant.He suspected that there was a problem with his communication with the U.S. military in Agra, but the fighter plane was clearly a Xiaolong.

Has the enemy already noticed?He felt it was almost impossible.Without time to analyze the situation, he ordered all the tanks to quickly prepare for the dive.It was no easy feat, and included sealing the gaps in the door seats everywhere, plugging the machine gun and muzzle, and installing a snorkel on the commander's hatch.Moreover, tank crossing is an extremely dangerous thing. There is no ability to counterattack during the process of crossing the river. Usually, this method of crossing the river is only carried out in protected areas and will never be used on the front line.

(End of this chapter)