Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 208 Watershed

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, I must go back and deal with this matter immediately." Singer stood up with a serious face, and his mind was now in a mess.He couldn't figure out how the enemy could attack Cochin across such a long distance. Except for ballistic missiles, Pakistan has no weapon that can reach there. However, it is obvious that the Shaheen-2 missile cannot hit the aircraft carrier on the berth. of.Being able to hit an aircraft carrier must be supported by very powerful technical means, such as cruise missiles that do not rely on GPS, or weapons launched from submarines.Needless to say, China must have provided new technologies to make such attacks possible; of course, these are not the key points anymore, what he is worried about now is what if the enemy can repeatedly attack?Immediately after Singer stood up, there was Charman, the director of the Intelligence Bureau who sat at the end of the seat. His department did not provide a timely warning, and it was obviously difficult for him to continue sitting down.

"Okay, you go and find out the situation. I need the most detailed report." The Prime Minister said.

The whispers in the meeting room of the Prime Minister's Office did not stop, and Prime Minister Kahan had no intention of continuing the meeting, and left the meeting early.

At about the same time when the combat conference in New Delhi was interrupted, a speedboat was slowly driving on the calm lake on Pangong Lake, where China and Indian-administered Kashmir were handed over.A five-star red flag was planted on the speedboat, and a soldier with a telescope stood on the bow.This soldier was not observing the hostile actions in the direction of India. In fact, in the history of the Sino-Indian border confrontation for more than 60 years, this area has always been a fairly quiet area. serious conflict.

"Look, squad leader, they are here." The Chinese soldier who was watching from a distance turned his head and said back, while stealing a glance at the Indian prisoners of war huddled behind him.It is 1600 kilometers away from the Milin area where the Indian pilot was shot down last month. It was only because the foreign ministries of the two sides considered that other tense areas were not suitable for such a handover after consultation, and finally chose this fairyland-like lake. Return the captives.

In the distance, a black spot gradually grew larger, and the boat with the Indian flag was also approaching. According to the prior arrangement, the two sides will hand over at the approximate boundary of the lake.Because it was only China's unilateral handover, and there was no need to follow the complicated procedures to let the captives jump onto their own ships at the same time, the procedure was much simpler.

The Chinese squad leader adjusted the walkie-talkie to the pre-agreed channel and began to communicate with the other party in English. Since both parties stuttered in English, the communication was not completed when the ship was already close.

Lieutenant Rajesh, who had been downcast all the time, had a look in his eyes. The motherland has not forgotten him. Of course, he was still a little nervous. He didn't know what would happen when he went back. He knew that he had become evidence for China to accuse India of provocation; Conceded crossing the Line of Control and fired missiles in front of the cameras.The Chinese interrogators also told him that due to this provocation by India, "casualties" were caused to the Chinese side, so that at one point he thought that the Chinese would lock him up for a long time.When someone woke him up at 2am this morning and told him he could go home, he couldn't believe it was true.On the way south from XZ's airport by helicopter, he kept guessing that the war was probably over?The accompanying Chinese personnel either did not speak English, or pretended not to speak English. In short, no one told him any information, only told him that the handover meeting would be on a lake on the border.However, through the window on one side of the helicopter, he could see a long line of dotted car lights on the road around the mountain below. It was obviously a queue of military vehicles, and they were going in the same direction as the helicopter. From this, he was sure that there was no peace. Coming so soon, the day when the two sides will fight may still be behind.

On the lake, the frontier squad leader finally communicated clearly with the other party. At this time, the walkie-talkie is no longer needed, because the Indian sergeant has already arrived.The squad leader walked to the bow of the boat and stretched out his hand, and the two barely crossed the lake and shook hands without any extra words.

Lieutenant Rajesh, with bandages and splints on his hands (injury received during parachuting), stood up impatiently, and then with the help of the personnel on both sides, he straddled from one boat to the other with great difficulty.A soldier with a video camera stood up on the Chinese ship and filmed the whole process calmly.After the handover, the boats of the two sides turned around and headed quickly in different directions, gradually disappearing from sight.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lieutenant Rajesh had arrived at the Air Force's Srinagar base in Kashmir.The 51st Squadron in the base is taking off uninterruptedly to attack Fort Fort, where he will wait for the plane of the Secret Service Squadron to take him to New Delhi for treatment.Here he had just learned that he had been promoted a rank, not because he was captured, but because he destroyed that important radar station.He came with the secret service plane, and the person who received him was a director wearing a Sikh turban sent by the Ministry of Defense. It sounded like a high-ranking officer, but this still disappointed Rajesh.He had expected to see the squadron leader Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini immediately, but the lieutenant colonel did not appear.On the plane, the Ministry of National Defense official named Lujadna Khan kept asking the tired pilots some intelligence questions, such as whether they saw military vehicles and tanks on the route to the border. What is the highest rank among Chinese soldiers?These questions made Rajesh a little absent-minded.What kept echoing in his mind was the footage of being shot down. When the plane fell into an incurable spiral, apart from the horrifying sound of wind coming from the damaged cabin, there was only the hiss of Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini on the radio. call.He was unable to speak to the Lieutenant Colonel due to radio failure, but the last thing he could hear was a sentence from Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini: "Run south after the skydive, we will definitely come to rescue you." In the last sanity of Jash, he desperately pulled down the skydiving handle when he was almost unconscious.

When the parachute finally opened, Rajesh nearly crashed into the hill.His parachute was hung on a fir tree seven or eight meters above the ground and he could not get off. After waiting for several hours, Chinese border guards arrived and rescued him.When he went down the mountain, he saw that his MiG-27 with the big mouth of a shark was broken into several pieces on the hillside, still smoking. About one company of Chinese soldiers were collecting the wreckage of the plane on the hillside. What they were looking for, Probably the storage device of the mission computer.

"Captain. Are you distracted?" the supervisor shouted, pulling Captain Rajesh back to reality.

"What the Ministry of Defense wants to know most is, when the Chinese asked you, did they reveal what happened to the radar on the snow mountain; our satellite photos show that the damn radar antenna is still there, but the surrounding power facilities are gone. Probably destroyed by a missile you fired."

"Why would they say this to a prisoner like me?"

"Think about it and see what parts are useful."

"However, they told me that they had suffered casualties due to my intrusion."

"Great. If there are casualties, it means the missile probably hit the command shelter. This is somewhat close to what Dabrini reported, and he said that after your missile was launched, his radar warning system went off immediately. No more Chinese radar scans were found."

"I just remember I was targeting the power trailer, I didn't see any command post."

"Even if they hit the generator, it will paralyze them for a while." Lujadna Khan said to himself, obviously this is a piece of information worth reporting to the Minister of Defense.For a long time, Singh has hoped that the Ministry of Defense can obtain foreign intelligence on its own, rather than relying on the intelligence agency or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"By the way, Mr. Director, I want to know why our squadron leader didn't come?" Rajesh asked cautiously.

"You mean Lieutenant Colonel Dabrini? He has a new mission and has gone to France a few days ago."

"To France?"

"Yes, I think you should know the original refit plan of the Shark Squadron, but because of this war, the original plan could not wait for another two years, so the Ministry of Defense decided to accept the aircraft currently in use by the French Air Force first."

"Is it a Rafale fighter?"

"Hehe, the first batch is the F2 two-seater type. You must keep it secret. This is a secret agreement between us and France. They have taken advantage of the price increase of these old goods and transferred them to us, but the French still ask us to keep a low profile. Some, because the EU's arms trade restrictions on our country have not been lifted."

"Are we going to war with China?" Rajesh was taken aback, keenly aware that just fighting Pakistan did not require such an urgency to buy used aircraft.

"We have to be wary of China. They are rearming the nearly collapsed Pakistani Air Force with tons of old planes. They are the ones who want to drag the war on. This morning, Pakistan attacked the aircraft carrier INS Blue Sky Guardian in Cochin. They released you, just hypocrisy Just acting."

"I also feel that the Chinese did not relax. When they imprisoned me in LS, their fighter jets were training in the sky day and night."

"What kind of plane?"

"I think they are heavy aircraft. Sometimes these aircraft fly through the clouds. I can hear that they are copying Sukhoi fighter jets. The sound of the engine is slightly different from our Su-30."

"Have you seen their deployment on the ground?"

"I haven't seen it before, but this morning I was in the sky over Ali and saw some communication relay vehicles. There are many military vehicles and tankers on the nearby roads, forming a single-file marching formation of more than ten kilometers long."

"Great, I must report these to the Ministry of Defense immediately."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, all the information was gathered to the Ministry of Defense.Singh already knew that Cochin was subjected to an incredible air strike, and Pakistan dispatched more than 20 feigned attack planes, showing strong combat effectiveness. Could it be that they were brought back to life with China's assistance?Singer began to hesitate. He didn't know whether he should put some pressure on Lieutenant General Spanga to force him to terminate the original plan.The prime minister just called and ordered him to eliminate all possible threats to the naval base in the shortest possible time.If according to Spanga's original plan, Pakistan's southern base is obviously not included in the division of troops, he will still advance westward until the Afghan border; militarily, this is undoubtedly the most correct, but politically it is obviously already It doesn't work anymore.

Singer hesitated to pick up the phone, knowing that he was standing on a watershed that would determine the fate of history.Perhaps the prime minister is right and it would be safer to delay the sweep of the air base in Karachi for a week or two last week.Or, let Spanga go his own way.What if their planes hit Mumbai or Cochin again?At this time, the aircraft carrier Virat is under the escort of four destroyers, taking refuge at sea. If something unexpected happens, the person in the entire government who must be responsible is himself.

(End of this chapter)