Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 263

Lin Huaisheng, who was worrying about the difficulty of improving the performance of the Army Aviation Brigade at night, suddenly received an urgent order to fly directly to XJKS from Yunnan.Xu Jingzhe told him that the most serious situation has occurred in southern Pakistan, and the situation is deteriorating rapidly, and emergency mobile forces must be used for rescue.And the headquarters happens to have an armored force on standby that can be put into use. This was originally to solve the southern Tibet issue. The specially assembled troops can only play this card in advance.And the chief directly ordered Lin Huaisheng to participate in the front-line command; because Comrade Ding Keguang has experience in armored forces, he will participate in the work of the headquarters as Lin Huaisheng's subordinate.

In a daze, Lin boarded an important personnel transport plane and flew northwest. He felt that things had become inexplicable.He has never known the existence of such an armored unit that can be transported by air. Even in the red-blue confrontation exercise, the red team did not use armored units in the attack on Jabwa, but only used light aircraft that can be landed. chariot.Now it can be seen that the headquarters' planning of the 4157B plan is thorough, and the depth of thinking is far beyond what I expected.He once mentioned the suggestion of using armored soldiers in the plan, but his superiors were noncommittal at the time, but now it seems that the plan has been going on, but he, as the initiator, didn't know it yet.The superior sent him to the front line to command relatively unfamiliar troops, probably due to his experience in high-intensity take-off and landing deployment at the airport, and his experience in paper operations. However, it can be expected that the tanks that can be transported by Il-76, It should be a Type 96A tank with weak offensive and defensive and night combat capabilities.Judging from the chaotic intelligence, an unknown number of enemy T90s have almost reached outside the fence of Quetta Airport. Is emergency rescue still meaningful now?He is not sure.

"Look at these maps that were updated an hour ago. According to the enemy's attack speed, when we landed, the enemy should have reached the runway in Quetta." Lao Ding, who was looking at the map, said that he had already discovered the distance between the enemy's tank and the airport. There were no barriers left in the space, and Quetta was almost an empty city except for a few garrison troops with weak combat effectiveness. "Is it too late for the superior to take such an action? The transport plane will definitely fall into the enemy's fire net."

"As far as I know, our cannon king is still there, maybe he can hold back the enemy."

"I'm not so optimistic. A tank is always a tank, and it can go anywhere he wants." Lao Ding said, he felt that the tank commander could use the tank's maneuverability to such an extent that he should not be rejected. Blocked by mere landmines.

"How could Wang Zhenbei make such a major mistake?" Lao Ding shook his head in confusion. He wanted to criticize his teacher at the Academy of Armored Force Engineering, but this time the teacher made a big mistake.

"Take a dead horse as a living horse doctor! If the enemy succeeds, the whole plan will be in vain."

"It's not just in vain," Lao Ding continued to shake his head, "In the future, India will be much more difficult to deal with."

"Have you noticed that Quetta's airport runway is very special?" Lin Huaisheng suddenly asked a very strange question.

"Yes, there are many spare runways. It may be because of the temporary landing of transport planes after the runway was destroyed during wartime. But what's the matter?"

"How effective is the armored force for airfield control?"

"Hehe, destroying the airport is a research issue for the aviation army. Which country's armored forces have you ever seen study this kind of subject?" Lao Ding replied puzzledly. He really didn't know why Lin Huaisheng asked such a layman's question.

"I just don't think tanks are good for destroying airports."

Two thousand kilometers away, Azarid's troops finally got out of the forest, and now Pakistan's largest air force base, Quetta Airport, is just around the corner.He ordered the troops to stop on the hillside, and then drilled out of the turret.

It can be seen that several enemy fighter jets are still taking off in the general direction of the airport.Although the runway is still blocked from sight by the town, it is obviously there. If these enemy fighter planes on the airport do not evacuate within 30 minutes, they will become the targets of the tanks. Thinking of this, he can't help but feel a little proud. This seems to be A story unheard in the annals of warfare.He noticed that several enemy planes that had just taken off began to turn towards him, but they seemed a little hesitant and did not attack decisively. It seemed that they did not have precise anti-tank weapons at all.

"Company A bypassed the city of Quetta from the south and quickly occupied the main runway of the airport. The rest of the troops occupied the city area according to the original plan to block possible enemy support from all directions. As long as we control the airport, General Spanga's reinforcements can continue to flow. landing."

"Sir, do you want to take action?" Several company commanders on the radio asked angrily.

"Throw away the spare oil barrels for all vehicles, we don't need them anymore, spread out and watch out for the enemy's air force's final counterattack." He said unhurriedly, he is not worried about the enemy's air force at the end of the road, and soon they will Disappearing in front of his eyes, he was worried about the enemy's long-range rocket artillery units, but as long as they got into the enemy's towns and bases, the enemy's rocket artillery units would be useless.The spy lurking in Quetta has been sending out information, and he knows that the entire defense of Quetta is useless.

In the entire plan drawn up by Azarid and Spanga, the most sloppy part is the occupation of the airport, because in his opinion, this is not difficult, as long as a company of tanks rush over and cross the runway, That's it.

According to the plan, he will not destroy the runway, but only need to control the control tower, and hold on to the entire city of Quetta, waiting for the air force to quickly clear the airspace. Of course, this will not be difficult, because the enemy air force has already lost the airport.Afterwards, the C Globemaster transport plane will quickly transport a large amount of airborne troops and supplies here. It doesn't matter if the enemy runs out of the runway by itself. The 21 armored divisions of the 3st Army have already started operations and will be in the next 24 hours. Break through the already shattered enemy's southern defenses and advance west of the Suleiman Range, so that the last corridor in southern Pakistan will soon disappear.

Faintly, he heard the roar of the plane above his head. A transport plane in the sky was slowly lowering its altitude and preparing to land. It seemed that the enemy's airport was still fully functional.

"What's going on, they're still landing? It's so brave." Azarid couldn't believe his eyes. He didn't know that at this juncture, dozens of tons of supplies would continue to be transported or the company's soldiers would arrive here. What's the point?
"Boys, charge," he finally gave the order.The rumbling tanks on the hillside began to speed up first, and the formation instantly became a little chaotic, but Azarid didn't care. From his point of view, the formation no longer mattered.Several Thunder fighter jets in the air finally began to attack with rockets, and a tank was hit and set ablaze, but such a trivial attack was of no avail, and the Pakistani aircraft after the attack flew north, fleeing their last stronghold in the south.

During the landing of the Il-76 aircraft, Lin Huaisheng had already seen enemy tanks gathering on the eastern mountain from the air, which was slightly faster than the worst outcome he had predicted a few hours ago.According to the original plan, he will lead a vanguard company carrying anti-tank missiles, deploy in the city as quickly as possible and establish a temporary headquarters, and then more planes will land at the airport, and these transport planes will carry out high-intensity transportation Homework, now it seems that it is too late to implement this plan.However, when Lin Huaisheng landed, he also saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the southwest. It seemed that a column was approaching. It was lucky, because according to intelligence, there were only a few companies of Pakistani infantry around Quetta without any heavy firepower.

Before the transport plane came to a complete stop in the middle of the runway, the rear hatch was opened, and several parachute combat vehicles rushed down, followed by infantrymen with weapons running down the loading springboard behind the cabin.The last one to get off was Lin Huaisheng's jeep.His original headquarters was at the control tower of the airport, but seeing that the enemy had already arrived, he knew that there was no time to set up the headquarters and deploy them in the city. He had to immediately command this strange force to defend around the runway and try to make the second A plane with another reinforcement company on it landed.

The Il-76 transport plane made full use of the length of the runway, did not turn around and take off, but rolled forward while closing the hatch.The second Il-76 in the sky is already preparing to land, and the current situation is so tense that no minute can be wasted.

The Pakistani military officers beside the runway came forward, and Lin Huaisheng simply asked a few words, but no one knew what troops were approaching from the south.Then Lin Huaisheng stood on the edge of the runway and issued the first order:
"Old Ding, you take a Pakistani liaison officer and the radio station to the south. I see that there seems to be an armored force approaching there. Go see if you can make contact."

"Yes."

Lao Ding was driving at a gallop and saw the Il-76 pulling up while rolling. During this period, shells began to fall near the runway. It seemed that the Indian tanks 5 kilometers away could not wait to shoot at the plane.From a distance, he saw several extremely majestic chariots flashing in the smoke and dust. As Lin Huaisheng expected, it should be an armored force, but as the distance approached, he gradually found that the outline became more and more familiar. It was obviously not What armored corps, but some kind of self-propelled artillery.

"How could this happen?" His heart sank. He didn't expect to encounter a Type 89 self-propelled anti-tank gun when he was abroad. He originally hoped that it would be at least a few Khalids or T84s.He had been in the armored regiment for several years, and he had no interest in this kind of weapon with strange design ideas. When Lin Huaisheng suggested sending the Type 89 to the front line, he even thought it was a joke.

Abad covered his head with a turban, standing on a high turret and looking into the distance.After he escaped from the encirclement of Karachi, he retreated all the way to Quetta (Quetta is the assembly point of the 12th Reserve Corps, and the special brigade retreated here along the railway without command.) He has been waiting for such an opportunity , Fight the enemy again on an open ground.The platoon he commanded was one of the few reserve forces that could organize itself and take the initiative to fight. It was also the only heavy firepower nearby. After receiving the news that the airport was about to fall, he immediately brought the remaining vehicles of the special brigade to fight.

(End of this chapter)