Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 788 Yahini's Recruits
Fu Xiaoguang galloped all the way in the valley, with a large number of tanks parked on both sides. The enemy seemed to have deliberately mobilized troops that could act as a facade to show him, but it was too late to hide the damaged weapons. Behind these tanks, all kinds of smoking vehicles blocked together.No one used a piece of cloth to cover his eyes, either the enemy forgot, or they wanted to show their strength.Fu Xiaoguang secretly laughed in his heart, why bother negotiating if he really has the strength?
The fighting in the south gradually subsided, and in New Delhi, more than 100 kilometers away, the various tentative attacks of the day also came to an end before nightfall.The Pakistan Army of course knew that Pasad and Kahan would not be able to surrender, so the final battle was inevitable.

During the day, the 1st Armored Division attacked again, and Amir's troops impatiently launched three violent attacks on the outer Indian army joints, in order to seize a more favorable starting position for the general offensive.

In order to cooperate with its actions, the artillery directly under the division headquarters destroyed 3 shells within 4000 hours. Amir finally ushered in a small victory. His chariot advanced 1.5 kilometers to the urban area. It is said that the most advanced troops can already I saw the Gate of India in the distance.The division headquarters reported this ordinary victory to the group army. Strangely, Amir's brigade won a collective award for this.Of course, for Amir himself, the reward is still secondary. The important thing is that he occupied the most flat attack channel originally allocated to Yahini, just like occupying the opponent's runway at the start, which made him proud for a while.

The division headquarters called and negotiated to allow some passages, which is of course unacceptable.In fact, it is more than just Yahini. If he performs well in the final battle to capture New Delhi, he will definitely be able to drive the one-eyed Younis out of the division.However, the problem that bothers Amir today is that Yahini did not come forward to argue with himself at all, as if he was too lazy to argue with himself, which inevitably made him a little disappointed.Amir couldn't help but think, isn't this guy Yahini afraid of challenges?
In fact, Yahini doesn't care about Amir's actions at all, nor does he care about the flat frontal attack channel. The Indians are not fools, and they will definitely be full of various anti-tank mines on the obvious attack path. If he is allowed to attack, He will also choose to bypass that area.

Of course, Amir's actions did not have a negative impact on him. His new car group has just expanded to 30, and he needs some simple exercises. However, because the front line is in urgent need of various supplies, he can't get extra fuel for these novices. For forward drills, there are no shells to practice target shooting.Most of his gunners only shot 1 or 2 times before they graduated from the Kakul Armored Forces Academy about half a year ago.At that time, the Pakistani certificate was at a critical moment. They used this crash method to train tank crews to operate the Type 59 tanks in stock that the Chinese urgently provided. They did not expect such crews to survive for too long.

Now he can only disperse the car group into units to avoid being discovered by the scouts sent by Amir. The drivers can only sit in their seats and practice simple starting actions, while the gunners keep simulating aiming.However, he still gathered the commanders in his own headquarters, and deduced various tactics against the sand table; of course, he hoped that it would be impractical for these people to grow up quickly by this method, but at least he could let them know how to deal with all kinds of tactics. measures to be taken in case of such problems.

For the past few days, he has been trying to subvert what these people learned in the Armored Forces Academy, and instill in these guys the thinking methods he summed up: observation, judgment, and cooperation with neighbors. I have received several days of training and have not fought under the wrong guiding ideology, and those wrong ideas have not had time to take root.

He filled the sand table with various small flags to represent the situation of the enemy and us, and used some water glasses to represent buildings, and changed the arrangement of buildings from time to time to challenge his novices.

"If the infantry tells you that there is an enemy tank behind this house, idling, with its guns aimed at 5 o'clock, and you are exactly at 5 o'clock, what do you do? Dihyaman, you answer." Heaney asked.

"Am I...will I go around and hit it from behind?" the rookie driver replied hesitantly.

"Wrong, if the enemy is idling, they will know you are a block away, and if you approach, he will know in advance. In defensive battles, most commanders will stick their heads outside to increase observation ability ;Of course, another problem is that their infantry may be right above the house, specifically to shoot our tank commanders with their heads sticking out of the turrets."

"Then what should we do?"

"Don't expect to solve the battle one-on-one, you are not there yet. My advice to you is to fire a few shots at the wall in a row, that will be enough to distract the enemy tanks, and more importantly, force them to The commander of the tank drilled into the turret, so that they fell into a passive position; then slowly approached him from several directions, forcing him to make a choice, and he rushed out from any place, and he could not fire first."

"That is to say, we must always maintain the advantage in numbers?" Another driver said.

"Yes. It is no exaggeration to say that if you make a wrong decision, those Indian tank soldiers who have fought for a year can easily defeat you in a 1-on-1 or even 1-on-2 situation. Everyone first In the face of tanks, people will make mistakes due to nervousness, and the enemy is a veteran. Veterans know when to retreat and when to attack. Therefore, there is no shame in retreating when necessary. It is also good to draw the enemy out and expose it to the air force and infantry Tactics. When fighting, I will let you perform some simple tasks before entering the real battle."

"Brigade Commander, did you feel timid when facing an enemy tank for the first time? They said that when you fought for the first time, you blocked the attack of a division of the enemy with a single vehicle?"

"The first time, I can't remember, but at that time Indians were also newbies, and they seemed rather stupid."

Yahini pretended to forget and hastily avoided talking about this issue. Of course, he would not forget the scene when he hid behind the dunes and ambushed the entire company of Indian T72s at that night, but at that time, his crew occupied a considerable amount of night vision. In addition, his first battle was quite reckless, and there is really not much reference value.He also knows that the emergence of an excellent car captain has a certain degree of chance, and the key thing is that he must live long enough.

"Okay, the deduction of the town's capture has come to an end today, and now we are all seated. Let's take a look at the video of Amir's brigade fighting near the train station the day before yesterday. When the video is played, I will point out their mistakes one by one. .”

After everyone was seated, someone turned off the lights, and the projection device began to play a video, which was part of the battle video of a tank of Amir's army, recorded by the camera above the turret.

As the footage begins, a Leopard II tank can be seen advancing down the street with its muzzle pointing slightly to the left, turning once in a while.The tank didn't use any side cover, and basically drove from the middle of the road. After driving for a while, suddenly sparks flew around the turret, and something flew out from the camera.

"Look, this is the first RPG. It can be launched from the roof of a side building." Yahini explained calmly. If it wasn't for the darkness in the headquarters, you could still see a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth.

The tank didn't respond, and continued to move forward. Soon the turret was hit for the second time, and the barrel began to turn at this time, appearing blind.

"Look, this is the second time we've been hit. The commander doesn't know where the enemy is. You'll find out when you're in the car that it's hard to find these stragglers. If you stick your head out, there's a sniper Hands are waiting for you."

The tanks began to fire at surrounding buildings, then stopped and waited for artillery support.During this time, a spiral of flames from the side hit the tank.

"You see how sluggish the driver is? He was parked in the middle of the highway for six minutes and look... this is the third time he's been hit, probably by a cornet missile. In this position, there's a big Opportunities will be shot down.”

"Is Leopard II really tough?" Someone in the darkness sighed softly.

Judging from the direction of the gun barrel, it can be roughly seen that the attention of the commanders and gunners of the two Leopard IIs has been hitting the left side, which is indeed a bit sluggish.Until a few minutes later, a large number of shells fell from the sky, blowing up the hidden houses of the Indian army.

"The way to guide the artillery is right, this is where the score is, but the commander still didn't pay attention to concealment during this time," Yahini said, "Our artillery response is not as fast as the Chinese, or even worse than the Indians, so While waiting for the artillery fire, you should retreat first, and at the same time strengthen communication with neighboring vehicles, different vehicles can see more directions, so that you can understand the surrounding situation."

The video suddenly shakes violently once.

"This time it was hit by an enemy tank's armor-piercing projectile. It came from the direction of 12 o'clock at the end of the road. I want to score 80 points for the Indian crew. If his gunner can target more vital parts, he can reimburse the leopard II, and trust me, the Leopard II is not as strong as you make it out to be. If you're close, you can shoot at its ring."

The Leopard II turret began to rotate, and the muzzle pointed at an Indian tank about 600 meters away.During this period, the chassis still did not make any movement.After about 15 seconds, the Indian T72 fired for the second time, this time it missed, and then the Leopard 2 artillery fired, hitting the T72 that could not retreat in the distance.

The tank finally started and moved straight along the road. After advancing 200 meters, it stopped and fired at the Indian infantry fighting vehicles that escaped like headless flies from the residential area on one side. Rolling over the edge and falling into the camera's field of view.

After being hit dozens of times by the machine gun of a stubborn BMP2, the Leopard 2 finally recovered and destroyed the target. So far, there are a total of 5 burning vehicles in front of it.

"The Indians' retreat was a bit hasty, and this team took advantage of it. But the Leopard 2 team did not give priority to shooting dangerous targets. He was firing at jeeps and trucks at the first time. It was a big mistake." Yaxi Ni said.

The tank continued to move forward, suddenly shook violently again, and finally the video fell to one side and was obscured by thick smoke.The rest of the Leopard 2s in the back passed the tank and continued to march forward, the video ended, and suddenly the lights came on.

"This time it ran over a landmine, destroyed the tracks and several wheels, and slightly injured the gunner. This tank has almost assembled all the anti-tank weapons on the battlefield, and it is not easy."

Yahini said with a sneer.

"You see, this is the video that Brigadier Amir specially submitted to his superiors. Obviously he thinks this kind of operation is perfect. The commander got the medal in the morning. You know what I think after watching this video? I think this The famous driver was lucky not because he got the medal, but because he survived."

Yahini looked around, saw everyone looking at each other, and continued talking.

"I don't want such mediocrity among my men. You must have noticed that this guy made seven or eight mistakes in just 30 minutes. Because of these mistakes, he was hit first by the opponent every time. What a dangerous thing? Yes, he got the medal of bravery for his bravery, but who can guarantee that he will survive the next 30 minutes?"

The scene was silent, and the tank commanders knew that what the brigade commander said was right. When they repaired the damaged tanks on the battlefield, they had already seen a large number of punctured tanks and turrets. Some tanks even had remnants left by the dead. Limbs, the tank is far from being a safe, in fact, it is easily destroyed by various anti-tank weapons.

In Yelinsky's headquarters, Fu Xiaoguang sat in front of about 20 aggressive US military officers. He seemed calm and in no hurry to speak.

Yelinsky has already hidden those officers who were injured, so as not to encourage the enemy's arrogance. He deliberately let this Chinese officer see his last troops that can fight, hoping that the enemy will realize that he is still strong the hole card.

"Continuing the stalemate is obviously not good for both of us. Although we disagree with what your country has done in India, our mission in India has been completed. We have been ordered to withdraw from the battlefield and will no longer participate in the war. If your army Let go of the road, and we can leave some of the heavy equipment behind." Lieutenant Colonel Buck first made his opening remarks, his tone seemed tough, but the proposal to leave the equipment itself showed that he actually had no confidence.

Fu Xiaoguang raised his hand and looked at his watch.

"There are still 3 hours, you have 3 hours to consider our surrender proposal, all of you leave your arms, open your positions, you are not free to leave India, but we will give you prisoner of war status. This is our condition. "

"Let us surrender, this is absolutely unacceptable." Yelinsky rushed over and shouted, "I am willing to accompany you to the end to see how capable you are."

Fu Xiaoguang shook his head and stopped talking. If Yelinsky was really capable, he wouldn't need to talk so much nonsense. When the commander of the 101st Airborne Division faced similar situations back then, he only said one word.Language itself is just a means to cover up the essence, the more you talk, the weaker you are; just like when he came, he found that Yelinsky deliberately placed several anti-aircraft missiles pointing at the sky on the side of the road, which is obviously because he is afraid of air strikes , let him make this overreaction.

There was a stalemate in the venue for a while.

"Actually, we still have a strong air force, which can cover our breakthrough." When Buck spoke, the roar of fighter planes sounded in the sky, and several Chinese fighter planes flew over the valley. "If you continue to fight, you will lose both sides."

"Your air force will not work. The American planes at Jaipur are turning south; we have already carried out several attacks on the airfield and will soon paralyze all the runways there. In addition, the coalition forces in Agra are also The retreat has begun, and we have detected Frings' headquarters moving 40 kilometers south. I am telling the truth, and you all know that."

Fu Xiaoguang said and stood up.

"Okay, it's time for me to go too. I will report your refusal to surrender to my superiors. As for the loss of both sides, we are not afraid. A few hours ago, the tank unit under my command had already fought hard with you in the valley. There's been a fight. If you want to fight, keep fighting."

As Fu Xiaoguang said, he really got up and walked out, without even asking his superiors through the radio. Obviously, it was impossible for him to accept Yelinsky's conditions.

"Wait, stop." Yelinsky called Fu Xiaoguang to stop. He wanted to be like his predecessors, scolding and driving away the guy who persuaded him to surrender, but he knew it was suicide.

"...Okay, we accept your terms."

(End of this chapter)