Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 260 Secret Gathering
The incident that a cruise missile launched by India fell into Iran has once again caused an uproar.The consequences of this act appear to be more serious than previous breaches of the waterway, as Iran is India's main oil exporter.The Indian government immediately appointed a special envoy to Iran to appease.

Prime Minister Qahan found himself suddenly a target, even condemned by Iran and the United States at the same time, which was unthinkable just a few days ago.Another reason for the dissatisfaction of Western countries is that this stealth missile may have fallen into the hands of Iran, and no one knows whether it exploded or not.

As a remedial measure, Kahan instructed to temporarily suspend the subsequent attacks and let the submarine return to the port to stand by. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came forward to try to deny the ambush that destroyed the channel, and at the same time, the signs of maritime threats in the region were not related to Vilan. It is hoped that Western countries can recognize the party that provoked the incident, but international public opinion has not oriented towards India. In the eyes of most people, the Villant is a warship after all, and attacking merchant ships on the high seas is another matter. one thing.

At the same time, the Chinese bombers at the Shamsi base took off frequently and appeared on the waterway where Indian ships often appeared. It is enough to show India the powerful intelligence gathering capabilities of the Chinese military in the vast Indian Ocean.

Kahan paced back and forth in the office, while a group of ministers stood around silently.He found that his initial thoughts were really hasty. India has always been the darling of the Western world, but after all, there are still two things that will touch their bottom line. One is the nuclear weapons policy, and the other is any attempt to dominate India.The actions of the past few days have caused so much trouble, and taking advantage of the international uproar, China has secretly expanded the new air force unit to the bases in Shamsi and Quetta.Moreover, Charman obtained uncertain information that China may have an army directly deployed to the western region of Pakistan to ensure the safety of the two bases. That is to say, ground troops are likely to fight face-to-face with Chinese soldiers.Thinking of this made him furious.

"Gentlemen, General Spanga has refused to continue the attack. His tanks have been standing still for almost a week. The Chinese air force has been continuously reinforced." Prime Minister Finally spoke up.

"His tanks are out of fuel and waiting for supplies," Singer interjected cautiously.

"We should always find a way. We can't let the enemy in front of us act recklessly just because there is no fuel. What the soldiers should do is to attack! Attack! Attack!" Kahan shouted tremblingly, which sounded completely contrary to common sense.

"I'm afraid I have another bad news." Charmain on the side continued.

"Let's talk." Kahan plopped down on the sofa.

"The Chinese Il-76 is transporting tanks to western Pakistan. Our spies managed to take pictures, and now we can't be sure if it's the spare parts of the tanks, or they directly dismantled the heavy tanks and airlifted them to Quetta, and then repaired them at the local repair shop Assemble."

"My God, is there anything they can't do? Is the information reliable?" The Prime Minister slumped on the sofa and said wearily.He found that the Chinese government is really capable of making troubles. He has clearly won the victory, but he is still looking for trouble.

"Still verifying, there is a saying that they will not only provide weapons according to the model of the Air Force, but also send Chinese soldiers to operate these weapons."

"With all due respect, Your Excellency..." the foreign minister promptly grabbed the conversation. "A few weeks ago, international public opinion would not have tolerated China's military power so deep into western Pakistan. But after sinking the freighter, things have changed dramatically, and now the world's attention has shifted to our country. The actions of the Chinese are no longer in the spotlight."

Spanga's words were like stabbing the Prime Minister in the back, and Kahan immediately felt that he could not step down.

"Hehe, what I know about international relations is different from yours. I only know that the victor is not to be blamed." The Prime Minister feigned a shot, and then suddenly roared: "Tell General Spanga if his troops continue to stay where they are If you don't, I'm going to fire him. Let his tanks go into action and wipe out the entire Southwest."

Kahan finally became angry, and he began to try to directly intervene in command.He had often had this urge since the first day of the war, but he had never thought it was so difficult to restrain today.

"Your Excellency, General Spanga is not afraid of dismissal. He..."

"Didn't you mention a candidate to replace Spanga? The commander of the 21st Army?"

"General Abia can indeed take over the command at any time, but it is really not appropriate to change the general." Singer argues that it is politically incorrect for him to oppose the prime minister, but he also knows that Spanga stopped at the There was a new attack because of insufficient troops and supplies, not what the Prime Minister thought.

"No one knows better than me what the situation is now. There is only one narrow corridor left in Pakistan, and our generals don't want to cut it off." Kahan shouted in disregard of the facts.In fact, it was his constant intervention in the direction of attack that caused Spanga's mechanized troops to open up too many unnecessary battlefields and run out of supplies ahead of time. This armored force, which relies heavily on logistics, can only stop Waiting for the weak supplies to bring supplies slowly.

In western Pakistan, on a hill 5 kilometers away from the Quetta base, several local nomads are secretly taking pictures on the gray hills. The Pakistani patrol can only control the 4 kilometers around the airport, and these photos can be bought for 200 US dollars. Price bought to Indian spies.The huge Il-76 aircraft on the airport is being unloaded in an orderly manner.The tractor unloaded the huge cargo. Although it was covered with a green cloth, it could be seen from the exposed barrel that it was a huge tank turret.The turret was hoisted to a nearby railway station and then out of sight.

At the end of these transit railways is a secret heavy vehicle repair factory hidden deep in the mountains, where the gantry cranes are responsible for assembling more than 50 tons of vehicles.The Indian spies only took a few photos from a distance, but Chaman's intelligence department could not draw an accurate conclusion based on this. Many intelligence analysts believe that these are only some parts provided for the Pakistani armored forces.Because it has not been found that Chinese tank soldiers have appeared in Pakistan.

In the forest 20 kilometers east of Quetta, a group of tanks is secretly assembled, and this force is composed entirely of Chinese soldiers.This deployment is very urgent, because the Pakistani army is retreating from various battlefields, and the defense of the western airport has become powerless.Although the Indian Army is still stagnant, it will not be like this forever, so at the repeated requests of the Pakistani government, these tanks came here secretly to plug the leak.The tanks and members of this unit all come from a teaching regiment of a certain group army in North China.They will complete the defense of an important place in the west before the Indian Army breathes a sigh of relief and continues westward, that is, to guard a narrow passage in the Suleiman Mountains. If the enemy's intelligence collection work is careful enough, they should find this This channel is suitable for the tank troops to launch a lightning attack on Quetta. Judging from the thunderous interspersed offensive launched by the Indian [-]st Armored Division not long ago, they are fully capable of this kind of surprise attack.

In the depths of the silent forest, a trailer full of antennas is hiding under a huge camouflage net.Wang Zhenbei checked the position of each tank group on the monitor, and each tank had a triangle representing its position and the direction of the front of the tank on the map.All the tanks were deployed [-] kilometers in front of the battalion headquarters. There was only one command tank owned by the colonel and some light vehicles left in the battalion headquarters. These light vehicles could not be included in the battlefield information system, so the positions could not be seen from the monitor.

This battlefield information system has only been integrated into tank units in recent years. Wang Zhenbei has participated in the whole process of digital upgrade and is well versed in the key points.The reason why he came here is because the new tanks are too heavy and need to be dismantled and transported by air, so they can only rely on a small and elite army to achieve rapid tactical goals, and informationization has become a disadvantage in the face of an enemy with a huge advantage in numbers. Two methods.

As far as Wang Zhenbei knows, the informatization level of the Indian armored forces is uneven. The strongest is the 31st White Tiger Division. However, due to the lack of military communication satellite support and the problem of GPS navigation, its overall coordination ability is still extremely weak. .Not long ago, the White Tiger Division had just completed a long-distance penetration to destroy the Pakistani rear and destroy strategic missiles. This battle was generally evaluated as the most classic armored battle since this century, and the ferocity of its attack was far beyond Wang's. Zhenbei's prediction; but as an expert, he can still see the weakness of some T[-] clusters, that is, the lack of communication capabilities.During the battle, the White Tiger Division exposed the fact that they used French communication satellites, and the inter-vehicles did not have a complete information network except for the frequency hopping radio, so it was difficult for the commander to quickly know the location of other vehicles of his own, and The situation of the enemy you are facing.From the situation of a large number of T[-]s rolling down the mountain, he estimated that it would be difficult for Indian tanks to find their positions without GPS. This will be an obvious disadvantage, and the larger the scale of the battle, the more obvious this disadvantage will be.

"Car No. [-], take over my command and spread out the first row," said the colonel.

"Understood." A clear voice came from the headset.

He left the deployment to a forward command tank, which was able to get the same information as the battalion command vehicle.The colonel switched the monitor to the drone channel, the monitor flickered and distorted a few times, and the picture began to appear.The battlefield information capability is a complete system, which is obviously not determined by the ability of a single vehicle. Even the identical tanks provided to Pakistan do not have such capabilities and can only fight alone.

On the sometimes jittery screen, several BMP-[-] combat vehicles are parked beside a collapsed bridge. They have not moved from their nests for several days, and it seems that the fuel problem still exists.

"The drones never found their T[-]?"

"We have to wait for night reconnaissance. Maybe they didn't mobilize at all." A staff officer said.

In the sky in the eastern section of the Suleiman Mountains, there are several drones observing the deployment of the Indians at any time.Since the White Tiger Division made a beautiful assault, these reconnaissance has become very important.However, the White Tiger Master disappeared immediately, and it is not known what kind of medicine was sold in Spanga's gourd for the time being.

(End of this chapter)