Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 228 Tanker

The remaining 11 Indian tanks struggled towards the ridge, and such a reluctant climb was an extremely difficult test for the engine.The driver was driving while looking at the stars in the sky. The tank rolling down the mountain kept burning in the valley, and the detonated ammunition exploded once or twice. Be very careful.

"Pay attention to the oil pressure of the oil circuit." Azared said slowly, he had to try his best to control his tone so as not to affect his emotions to the driver.Now he is very anxious.If the enemy's missiles take off before he arrives, all efforts will be in vain.The launch site chosen by the Pakistanis is a bit particular, surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is a difficult place for fighter jets; what's more, because the command of the air force and the army are not unified, and there is no air force liaison officer in his unit, Now it is difficult to count on the Air Force to solve this problem.

"They must be waiting for orders, why haven't they launched yet?" he kept muttering to himself.He knew that the response time of the Shaheen-2 missile was not long, and he would not keep erecting the launcher and waiting. Maybe he was really waiting for the launch order?

Another T90 exploded, and the heavy tank suddenly emitted thick smoke, and then slid backwards.Immediately, the driver completely lost the hydraulic pressure to control the tank, unable to effectively control the speed of the vehicle, the slipping vehicle lost control and hit another tank behind.The two tanks rolled down the hill together.

"Concentrate on everything and don't worry about other things." Azarid yelled into the radio.

You can hear the hissing and exhausted panting sound of the engine when it is overloaded. As long as the driver makes a slight mistake, it will cause the flameout.On such a slope, stalling means that the car is difficult to brake. If it slips backwards, the consequences will be the same as those of the three cars that fell down the mountain.

The tankers gritted their teeth and crawled slowly in the thorn forest on the slope. They didn't realize that they were creating a new marching record in the history of mechanized warfare.

All the tanks turned on the front and rear lights to guide the front, rear, left, and right companions so as not to collide with each other.

Azarid's tank roared and exerted its strength, and it took the lead to climb over the hill. After the hull leveled, he could finally climb out of the turret and look down.But seeing nothing, which meant the enemy convoy was blackouting, he slid into the tank and watched with the thermal camera.Saw an enemy self-propelled anti-aircraft gun turning its turret towards him a few hundred meters away.

"Damn it, turn off the lights," he yelled, turning off the headlights.He walked in a hurry while climbing the mountain. He forgot to turn off the headlights. Now the enemy has seen him.

The dense firepower from the twin-barreled 35mm artillery sprayed towards him, instantly detonating the reactive armor on the hull and turret.He immediately put his head on the periscope and operated the remote-controlled machine gun to open fire on the enemy vehicle.But the firepower of the 12.7mm machine gun was completely suppressed by the enemy.

If the tracer bullet fired by the enemy hits the front of the T90 with a chain of fire, it will make a terrifying sound. Every time the shell hits the armor, it is like a gong ringing in the ear, which makes the occupant's eardrum hurt.This kind of firepower is enough to test the frontal armor of the tank. If they were loaded with armor-piercing shells, they might have destroyed this T90 tank long ago.

"I can't hit him, not enough range," shouted the gunner.

"Rush down." Realizing the problem, Azarid ordered decisively, and he would only be beaten if he stopped on the mountain.

The driver bit the bullet and pushed forward, rushing down the dark steep slope.Immediately, the vehicle body tilted downward by dozens of degrees. During this time, the enemy's artillery fire stopped for a while, and they probably also realized that the tank cannot be destroyed by high-explosive shells and tracer shells alone.

Subsequent T90 tanks turned over the mountain ridge one after another, followed their commander down the valley and rushed down.Relying on the image stabilizer, the gunners accurately destroyed several self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that were stubbornly resisting during the bumpy road.The few remaining infantry fighting vehicles that relied on tracer bullets to guide their shooting stopped abruptly on the side of the road, and the crew members got off and fled without any will to fight.The Indian tank turned a corner and saw the tall missile and the launch vehicle on the side.There are 4 of them in a row.

"Hit me hard," Azarid yelled.

"But sir, these are nuclear weapons." A driver said worriedly.

"It's out of control. They must all be destroyed immediately. It's better for them to detonate here than to explode in India." He ordered.

None of the gunners knew what part of the missile to shoot at, and destroying nuclear weapons was never part of a tanker's routine training, usually the job of the Air Force.So some tanks fired at the launch vehicle, while some tanks fired directly at the missile.After the shell hit the launch vehicle, it caused a fire, and then the missile fell from the launch pad and detonated the fuel.

Within 1 minute, the Shaheen II position in Pakistan was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames, and the explosion caused by the fallen huge missile blew up half of the valley.

"It's finally finished." Azarid took a breath, and then heard the poison meter alarm on the side screaming.

"Attention all cars," he yelled at the top of his voice, "turn on the booster fan and close the intake shutters."

After he finished speaking, he took off the gas mask from the gas equipment rack and threw it to the rest of the crew.He didn't wear this mask himself, his eyes had to keep staring at the cumulative radiation display on the other side, if there was excessive gamma or neutrons, the digital display would immediately respond, that's what was really scary .After waiting for a while, the instrument was the same as before, and there was no response.He thought, maybe it was just a false alarm. In this round of explosion, the fission nuclear weapons should not have been damaged. As for the surrounding poison detected by the phosphorus-containing poison detector, it might just be a false alarm caused by rocket fuel or the explosion.

He hesitated for a while, picked up the intercom, and adjusted the channel to 9, which is more suitable for inter-vehicle communication in mountainous areas: "What happened to the road?"

"Report, we are under enemy attack, they are constantly shifting/shooting, we are out of fuel, unable to deal with the enemy. Call for support."

"I see. I will notify the headquarters and let them send the air force to rescue you." Azared said helplessly.He is now trapped in the mountains and doesn't know how to get out. As for the air force is just his way of comforting his subordinates, he certainly knows that the Indian air force is very inefficient at night.

On the other side of the battlefield, fierce fighting is still going on.Yahini didn't know the greedy plan of the Indians, he just thought that the White Tiger Division had lost their heads and ran out of fuel, and now they could only stop there and be beaten.His hunt went well, his first platoon was firing at the enemy from an area they could not see, and the feint second platoon flanked the other side and joined the attack. The thermal imaging equipment on the T90 tank has been working for too long, and the cooling system has been unable to play a greater role in the hot summer night. The effectiveness of these night vision equipment has been declining, and the discernible distance is getting closer and closer; Type 99 The thermal imaging equipment on the tank is also facing the same problem. Yahini can only rely on continuous approach to make up for the declining imaging performance to search for enemies. Fortunately, the thermal imaging search distance of the Type 99 is always farther than that of the T90 (continuous use shorter time).

As the distance continued to approach, the power of the artillery began to show.Tasim has never missed a static-to-static shooting, and he uses the long reloading time to aim precisely.The enemy had no way to fight back, and such a compact shooting process made him destroy 3 tanks in a few minutes.This artillery with a fast muzzle velocity did not disappoint him. Although the shells would occasionally be bounced off by the armor, the second round after correction would often have no problems.

Lieutenant General Spanga's headquarters, hundreds of kilometers away, received two telegrams at the same time. One was that the squad commanded by Azarid accurately intercepted and destroyed the enemy's nuclear missiles.The second is that another part of the tanks left on the road was surrounded by the enemy in an area 2 kilometers away from Multan because they ran out of ammunition, and there was no possibility of rescue.He knew that his strategic goal of disrupting the enemy's deployment and eliminating the enemy's nuclear deterrence had been achieved, but he had suffered some tactical losses, which was within his expectations.Any unit of the White Tiger Division is important to him, but war is like this, sometimes some important things must be sacrificed in exchange for victory.The rest of the war is less about fighting Pakistan than buying time with China.Pakistan, which has no nuclear teeth, can only linger on its last breath, and it will take time for the Chinese giant to prepare.

Spanga couldn't make a timetable completely in accordance with the intelligence chief's prediction-the judgment of no war before October, which was largely based on the war more than 60 years ago. August is coming soon, and it is still raining heavily in Arunachal Pradesh this month. The rain is so much that the ground attack becomes impossible, but the rain will gradually decrease in September. If the enemy is determined to advance their plan, it is also possible will be in september.If all goes well, after September, Pakistan will only have Peshawar or the Fort in the north still resisting, and the rest of the area should be brought under the control of the Indian army, so that he can calmly withdraw the victorious army back to the mainland and fill in the land. Those dangerous gaps.Singh seems to be quite proud that he is building a quick-reaction force for the Assamese gang. He has mentioned several times that he will rely on these small forces to counter Chinese infiltration, but Spanga knows that is actually playing with fire.The throat of Sigurd is going to be guarded by only one division below the military headquarters. The empty defense is completely exposed to the eyes of the condescending Chinese. Their army only needs a few sunny days to rush there, and the helicopter squadron carries The small group of special forces can't stop it at all.

Sitting at the window, Lin Huaisheng ushered in another round of rising sun.He didn't sleep much that night, and he had been planning how to defeat his plan.Time is running out for him or the entire headquarters, and there is still no conclusion on how to fight or not.He yawned, flipped through a calendar, and remembered that today was the day this army was founded.So far, this army has not been defeated in all foreign wars. Of course, this does not mean that such a record can despise all enemies. On the contrary, the root of all victories lies in the in-depth study of the opponent , this is the intention of the confrontation on the headquarters map this time.Obviously, it will be of great significance to future operations.

(End of this chapter)