Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 227
Yahini hurriedly called the tanks in the first row to retreat.He was not in a hurry to rely on the armor of the tank to fight recklessly, because he saw that the number of enemies was large, but they seemed to be unable to maneuver very much. He could guess that the enemies should be out of fuel.

Indian tanks began to reorganize their defensive formation, but there was confusion in the night, and several tanks collided.At this time, Yahini's four tanks had secretly moved to a dark place. During the entire retreat, the enemy had no fuel to organize a counterattack.He ordered all vehicles to turn off the thermal imaging equipment that needs to be cooled, and only use the driver's infrared night vision device for a new round of large-scale transfers.The road connecting Multan in the north is surrounded by jungle villages, which is very suitable for the large-scale transfer of Yahini's small army.

When the tanks were transferred, he kept using the radio to contact the division headquarters.Hope to get some air support, but the communication in this area is starting to become unsmooth again, and the enemy's attention seems to be back here.There are planes flying by in the sky non-stop. Yahini can hear the roar of the plane's engine from far to near, and then away. He is not too worried that the enemy will shoot at him. He knows that at night, the planes on both sides It is very difficult for the military personnel to distinguish the enemy from the enemy.If the Indian Air Force dared to fire, the possibility of hitting their own tanks was much higher.

The tanks in the first row circled eastward in the dark, during which Yahini ordered the second row to stay in the north and then fired several times, still in order to disturb the enemy's sight and hearing.This group of Indian tanks is deep behind enemy lines and has run out of fuel. It should be difficult to make any unexpected moves.

"This time we hit their other side, they must be unprepared." Acting company commander Yahini said to the radio.His command ability has been recognized by the remaining seven commanders, and no one doubts his plan anymore.But Gunner Tarsim seemed to have something to say.

"Your plan, you can't use it twice. The enemy won't be completely defenseless this time, at least a few guns will be aimed in other directions. Their thermal imaging cameras will probably see us first."

"I've thought about that," Yahini said. "However, I don't think their thermal imaging cameras will be able to find us first this time."

"Don't forget that 40 minutes ago, we had just been hit by an armor-piercing round, and the core snapped off just a few feet from me."

"Hehe, that was just now, not now." Yahini said stubbornly.

"Why do you think so?"

“I bet their thermal imaging cameras are degrading on such a hot night,” Yahini said.His judgment is not unreasonable. On a summer night at 38 degrees Celsius, thermal imaging equipment can only rely on powerful heat dissipation equipment for short-term work, and Indian tanks that are passive and lack mobility are unlikely to be like Yahini. As in, turn off the thermal imager gracefully.

"You'd better know that the bet you're taking is all lives at stake."

"I'm very relieved, even if their thermal imaging camera is still working, we still have this." He said and reached out to pat the inner wall of the turret next to him.There was a dull thumping sound from the heavy armor.

"I hope you're always right," said Tasim, who knew Yahini better than the rest of the crew.I know that Yahini is sometimes overconfident. His confidence and luck sometimes seem to be invincible. However, with the soaring record, the risks faced by the team are accumulating.In particular, the Indian White Tiger Division is not a second-rate force. They may be in chaos for a while, but they will never lie there and be slaughtered.

Yahini has been carefully observing the target directly in front of him.He expected that the enemy would appear from the direction he expected around 12 o'clock, or that someone else in his platoon would be able to spot the enemy first, in short, it was not the enemy who saw himself first.

Heat sinks get the most out of your thermal imaging camera.Are those enemies now in a daze as I expected?Yahini is not very bottom.But in front of the gunner, he can only maintain his prestige by being stubborn.

Faintly, he could see a blurry silhouette rising from the background, then a second, a third...the heat signature of an enemy tank.From the fuzzy images, it is temporarily difficult to distinguish their muzzles, but judging from the formation, the enemy is clearly prepared.Probably an arc-shaped defense, which can take into account every direction.

"Tassim, be careful with the rangefinder. Don't disturb them."

"What's wrong, I can't detect them." Tasim said.This has happened to previous tanks as well.Sometimes the rangefinder is affected by the weather and cannot function.

"Take it easy. Take your time."

Yahini reassured him that he knew that most of the reason why the laser could not measure the distance was that the 1.06-micron beam it emitted could not burn through some kind of obstacle. Usually on the battlefield, the so-called obstacle is the smoke released by the enemy, which shows that the enemy is already prepared. up.In contrast, thermal imaging devices are less susceptible to these obstacles.The only way now is to go forward for a while.But that will obviously increase the chance of one's own exposure.

The tank drove forward for a few hundred meters at a low speed. With 8X magnification, Yahini could already see the outline of the enemy clearly. He estimated that the distance was only about 2.5 kilometers, which is the ideal distance for launching an attack. Not too far and not too close.If the enemy counterattacked, he estimated that the front armor of the turret could also resist it.

"Stop the car and measure the distance again." He whispered. The 4 tanks stopped in a row and began to aim at their targets. The 2 front vehicles are sideways to the enemy's distance.Judging from the numbers reported by the radio station, it was similar to Yahini's guess, the distance was about 2400 meters, which meant that the enemy was already within the shooting range.

"They are indeed playing tricks, but their most fatal problem is that they cannot maneuver." Yahini said proudly.

This brave White Tiger unit is Spanga and Singer's most important bet, but in his plan there is no part of saving this lonely army behind the enemy, and even the promised paratrooper industry did not appear.

"Second row, fire a few more shots." He issued an order to the second row 7 kilometers away.Soon the gunfire sounded there again.Yahini could see from the turning of the enemy turrets that their attention was inevitably drawn again.

"Listen to me, use smoke to back off slowly, first missile, second armor-piercing, third armor-piercing."

Tasim roughly aimed the line of sight at the enemy tank, and at this time Saad had already shifted into reverse gear and backed up.Amidst the loud noise, the missile flew out of the chamber and flew towards the target.He watched in the sight as the missile opened its wings and flew on a spiral trajectory towards the enemy tank.He watched as the flickering bright spots collided with the unclear outline of the enemy, followed by a huge white flash. Based on his experience, he knew that the tank must be finished.

The huddled enemy began to fight back sporadically, and the shells crossed the night sky, leaving clear flashes of light. Yahini could observe from the periscope that all of these ballistic trajectories deviated far away, which confirmed his previous guess that the enemy could not see to myself.Maybe they saw the flames when they fired, but they couldn't see the 99 tanks in reverse.

"Vehicles stopped and continued shooting."

The noisy autoloader had finally loaded an armor-piercing round into place, and now the laser rangefinder wasn't working again, but Tasim could add up the numbers with experience and enter the numbers manually.At such a long distance, the influence of the crosswind is even greater than the ranging error of a mere hundred or tens of meters.

Tasim aimed carefully, and time was of little concern to him, because the enemy seemed to be no longer tanks, but bunkers.They still had some moves in the previous round of attacks; but now, most of the Indian tanks are no longer maneuvering.He guessed that the fuel of the Indian tanks was about to run out, so they could only idle on the spot and use the last power to maintain the electro-hydraulic drive turret, which was obviously suicide.

The cannon fired by Tasim missed, and the shell seemed a little light at the last moment, and flew away by rubbing against the turret.Yahini refrained from speaking, he knew that at such a distance, he couldn't be too critical.He turned the periscope to observe the rest of the battlefield.Another tank on the side accurately hit a T90 and detonated all the reactive armor on the front.Yahini shook his head, obviously in this round of hunting, he fell behind temporarily.

The sound of the loading machine pushing the bomb into place pulled him back from his regret, and he turned the Zhou Vision Device again to find the target.Tasim's carefully corrected second shot finally hit the target, but it didn't seem to penetrate.It can be seen that the enemy's turret is still turning.

"Too bad. Hit it again." Yahini finally couldn't help shouting.The enemy seemed to be the meat of the chopping board mountain, and he really didn't understand how Tasim couldn't penetrate it.

20 kilometers away, Azarid heard the request for rescue from the troops he stayed behind on the radio. They were under attack, and the enemy hid in the night and opened fire from all sides.Azarid knew that he couldn't rush back to save these subordinates anyway, because the task he shouldered was hundreds of times more important than their lives.

The two drones that arrived had just been attacked by ground fire. Before the drones crashed, they took a unclear infrared image of the enemy.It can be seen that 2 launch vehicles have erected the missiles, and the Pakistani government is likely to be sliding to the edge of madness.

Azarid divided the 12 tanks into three teams and charged at the enemy in three directions.The mountainous road here is winding, which is completely different from the map drawn from satellite photos. One of the tanks drove to the dead end road, while the rest of the tanks could not find the correct path under the guidance of the GPS with a large deviation.He simply put his mind to one side and ordered the tank group to attack directly across the hill along the nearest straight line; with strong momentum, his tank group rushed up the hillside of nearly 30 degrees.This was a dangerous decision, and accidents were likely to happen if he forced his way on such a slope, but now he didn't have the heart to think about it.

"Over this ridge, they're right behind." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a violent mechanical twisting sound on one side. He turned around with difficulty and looked out through the periscope, and saw a tank slipping backwards. Apparently it was caused by a flameout.The tank that slid down the hill mistakenly used the brakes to stop the faster slide. As a result, the clutch of one track of the tank was seized. Then roll downhill.

"Calm down, it's no big deal." He said into the communicator, trying to appease the soldiers.None of them had ever experienced such a slope, and Azared was almost completely pressed against the backrest by his own weight.On the electronic display, the red dot representing the enemy is very close in front. Since the enemy stopped fleeing and erected the missiles, they must still be there.As long as you turn over the mountain ridge, you can see it.

(End of this chapter)