Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 10
"He's on the hill to the east," Salim called.

Lin Huaisheng jumped out from the left side of the plane, and a precise three-shot burst hit his ass and hit the wing of the plane. It was obvious that there were other soldiers besides a sniper.He hid in the shooting blind spot on one side of the plane, and took a few breaths with his back against the wreckage of the plane. The gunshots began to intensify.Lin Huaisheng poked his head out and looked around. Next to the landing gear, Sergeant Nuerman was looking at him with ashen eyes, and his gun fell beside him.Lin Huaisheng crawled over and touched the cowhide gun belt. The debris from the stray bullet hit the ground and hit his hands and face. He slowly dragged the gun over from the landing gear; this movement was very slow. Lin Huaisheng was finally able to fight back so as not to attract the attention of snipers on the snow line hundreds of meters away, but this gun had fallen from a high place, and in principle it had to be corrected before shooting, which was not easy to do in battle.Lin Huaisheng climbed from the nose to the broken part of the tail, poked his head out from the broken skin, and could see several firepower points on the ridge firing. These were not his primary targets.

"He's hiding in the snow. There's camouflage, maybe 300 meters away." The captain shouted from behind a rock. These were just his feelings, which were of little value for indicating the target.

Lin Huaisheng knew that this was obviously just an encounter. The Indian army did not complete an ambush. They just rushed to the commanding heights in the east. If there was crossfire from two directions, it would be very difficult for him and this small Pakistani army to survive today. .He poked his head out for the second time and searched the entire ridge aimlessly with a 2x scope, but found nothing; You'll do the same yourself, so just be patient.

"Crack!" A gunshot across the valley.

This time, Lin Huaisheng saw a cloud of snow and mist rise from a snowdrift on the top of the mountain, and a Pakistani soldier beside him who had stretched out half of his body to fight back fell in response. one shot.Lin Huaisheng quickly aimed the aiming cross at the snowdrift, and pulled the trigger. Unexpectedly, the shot missed, but Lin Huaisheng saw the point of impact, he pulled the bolt to load, and then aimed again. This was a dangerous confrontation. Bet, because the opponent has probably seen him, the snowdrift is slowly shrinking, and the Indian shooter is retreating, which means that he is aware of the threat and is trying to hide behind the ridge. Lin Huaisheng corrected it according to the first impact point. Deviating, he pulled the trigger again, and this time he saw a red mist of blood erupting above the snowdrift.

The rest of the firepower on the ridge began to concentrate on the plane where Lin Huaisheng was hiding. The second half of the plane was just an empty shell, unable to withstand the bullets. Lin Huaisheng climbed to the nose again and fired two bursts from behind the broken landing gear, trying to The enemy firepower above was suppressed, but none of them could hit.An Indian soldier squatted up from behind the ridge, and the Gustav rocket launcher in his hand could be seen in the scope, but Lin Huaisheng's rifle had no bullets.Obviously, the purpose of the sudden appearance of the Indian commando here is not to annihilate the patrol, but to destroy the plane. He hurriedly told Captain Salim to back off the way he came and stay away from the plane. He picked up the one next to him. The blood-stained assault rifle shot upwards, hitting the enemy above who were about to launch rockets. He estimated that there were no more than 10 enemy troops above, but it did not mean that there were no other people on the hillside behind. come over.Captain Salim retreated behind the rocks tens of meters away, and started shooting again. The range of the assault rifles of both sides was barely able to reach each other; Lin Huaisheng quickly fled the plane while the firepower was drawn away.The sound of a helicopter propeller turning became more and more clear. It was probably a light helicopter. Although it was not visible yet, it could be heard that it was probably behind the ridge.

"Is it your Skylark?" Lin Huaisheng asked.

"No, of course not," Lieutenant Salem said after a pause, and he had to make a careful distinction.

"It's the sound of a cheetah, we have to retreat quickly."

The sparse firepower of the Indian army above the head could not stop the retreat below. When Captain Salim commanded a small group of people to carry the wounded back for 200 meters, the Indian soldiers on the ridge fired the first rocket and hit the jaguar. The wreckage, the wreckage rose and fell, obviously not completely destroyed.Immediately after the huge rotor appeared on the ridge, a Cheetah helicopter sprayed with colorful camouflage roared over the ridge and began to descend. A soldier stood on each side of the plane on the skids. The Pakistani soldiers opened fire on the helicopter. But it's too far away to be accurate.

The cheetah hovered tremblingly about half a meter from the ground of the valley. An Indian soldier jumped down, ran to the side of the badly damaged plane, threw a large explosive device into the cockpit, and then ran back to the plane. When the cheetah rose from the ground and left the valley, the jaguar exploded again. This time it was blown to pieces, and it must have been unable to dig out anything of value.

"We wish we could have arrived 30 minutes earlier," Captain Salem said.

"Don't blame yourself too much. Anyway, it's not too important. The information on the frontline airport can also be captured by satellite." Lin Huaisheng comforted him.

"Why are they so freaking out? Going deep into the border just to blow up a plane?"

"It's really interesting. I think this is the information worth analyzing. It seems like an overreaction in a special period." Lin Huaisheng said, using a telescope to watch several Indian soldiers on the ridge dragging their dead bodies and gradually disappearing above the snow line .

"Lieutenant Colonel, do you mean they are going to attack? So they need to destroy the identification friend or foe device?"

"Attack? I don't think...at least in this area, unless the scale is small."

The radio station of the communications corps finally received new instructions from the headquarters. In addition to reporting that it was attacked by the Indian army, it also received an order from the headquarters requiring Lin Huaisheng to return to Gilgit Airport immediately, but did not explain the reason.Lin Huaisheng was full of suspicion. He guessed that this should be a domestic meaning, but he couldn't figure out why, because he had only been here for a week, and he hadn't had any real information except for looking at the sand table at the underground headquarters. Only then did he propose to the Pakistani side the idea of ​​visiting the frontier, and this was only his first stop.

At 8:172, Lin Huaisheng and Captain Salim drove to Skardu’s airport to wait for his plane. This is a simple plateau airport with only a few passenger flights every week. Today is no exception. The entire airport empty.The one who came to pick them up turned out to be a Cessna 4 liaison plane sent by the Northern Military Region Command, which only had [-] seats including the driver's seat.

After the plane took off, it has been flying northwest at a very low altitude.Pilots don't seem to pay attention to safety like civil aviation pilots. The radio station on the plane has been playing intermittent Urdu news programs. Lin Huaisheng can't understand it, so he doesn't care, until the captain sitting beside him has been dozing off Suddenly looked up.

"Lieutenant Colonel, I think the Indian army is going to attack."

"Oh?"

"Listen, this afternoon, the Indian Parliament just passed a large amount of anti-terrorism budget," Captain Salim began to translate, "Prime Minister Kahan announced the establishment of an emergency cabinet." Captain Salim said anxiously.

"I don't think there will be much trouble, and the United Nations."

"No, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, you may not know that it is not just Kahan who wants to go to war. His Defense Minister Singh is the most belligerent Indian Defense Minister ever. Together, they will definitely fight looking for trouble over Kashmir."

"Don't worry, don't we still have us?" After Lin Huaisheng finished speaking, he immediately realized that he shouldn't express his opinion so rashly. In fact, he can't represent anything. Fortunately, the captain can't take his words seriously.However, Lin Huaisheng intuitively told him that his temporary transfer back to China might have something to do with this incident. From the time point of view, it was very consistent. Could it be that the intelligence department noticed that India was about to launch an attack?But rationality tells him that under the current climate conditions, there will be no large-scale battles in the Kashmir region on the plateau. As for other directions, all the Pakistani army officers he met strongly denied such a possibility. The attitude even made Lin Huaisheng feel that he was deceiving himself; he believed that the India-Pakistan war had only happened a handful of times, and it would be unwise to always use previous experience to plan the possible course of the next conflict. It will happen as planned, especially since they also know that the new Minister Singh is different.

(End of this chapter)