Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 272 Waiting for the Night
The leading Indian tanks approached slowly, unable to attack at high speed due to fear of landmines.The two paratrooper combat vehicles hiding behind the bunker fired missiles at it one after another. The first missile flew from the front, hit the turret part of the tank, and detonated the reactive armor, but failed to destroy the tank.The shooter, who controls the second missile, immediately corrects the missile to fly to the same impact point.This time the missile directly hit the steel armor, but the tenacious Indian tank was still moving. Within ten seconds, it showed its opponents a strong frontal defense capability.

The gun barrel of the Type 89 Tank Destroyer moved slowly. Abad observed from behind the periscope. The T90 can obviously deal with this small anti-tank missile without relying on reactive armor. Now it needs a smoothbore gun to deter it. The arrogance of the enemy.At a distance of less than 1000 meters, Abad has full confidence in penetrating the Indian tank from any direction.

The Indian commander had just endured a thrilling half minute, and he had a premonition that the next battle would become easier.He put his face behind the perimeter mirror and searched slowly, trying to find the target who fired the missile at him.He saw a huge flash of fire behind a gap in the wall, and watched a shell fly towards him, knocking off the entire turret.

The second Indian tank immediately used the wreckage of the first tank as a cover and fired at the target, but its white light sight was disturbed by the setting sun, so it could not accurately track the retreating tank, and the shells it fired failed to hit the target other side.

The dexterous paratrooper tank quickly loaded another missile while it was backing up.This time, the shooter was careful and did not control the missile to fly straight to the front of the tank. He knew very well that it was better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers. The line of sight in the scope was aimed at the lower part of the tank fender.If the track or inducer can be destroyed.It can paralyze the tank.In the flames of the explosion, the Indian tank turned half a circle and stopped in place. It began to emit smoke to try to prevent it from being attacked again.But the smoke interfered with the comrades in the rear, and the driver of the third tank that was rushing couldn't see the ground situation clearly for a while, and ran over a landmine, and the two tanks with more than 2 tons lost power and lay across the assault of C Company on the route.This presents an excellent opportunity for the nimble paratrooper fighting vehicle.Several tanks bounced and moved between the bomb crater and various bunkers, trying to find a better shooting angle.The turrets of the Indian tanks did not keep up with the small vehicles, and just fired at them with machine guns.The size of these tanks is too small and easy to conceal, and the Indian tankers also noticed that the missiles fired by these tanks were not as threatening as the artillery on the front.

Several paratrooper combat vehicles gradually ran out of the fire net woven by 12.7mm machine guns, and then began to capture fighters.The Red Arrow 73B missile may be more suitable for attacking infantry fighting vehicles, but if the angle is right, it can also cause trouble for the weak main battle tanks on the side and rear.

The two tank destroyers on the front attracted most of the attention of the Indian tanks, and Abad commanded the tanks to fight and retreat.Another team seized the opportunity to destroy a T2 that was paralyzed on the runway. However, during the retreat, the weak point of the tank destroyer's power was exposed. It could not back up in time and was hit by the accurate firepower of C Company , paralyzed on the runway.Abad watched as all the occupants of the car escaped through the hatches calmly within ten seconds after the fire started, showing an extremely high level.

In the city, Azarid saw that the breakthroughs of the two companies were hindered.Since the beginning of the war, he has never seen such a dense firepower composed of anti-tank missiles. Pakistan's Javelin missiles have impressed him deeply, but those strikes are very sporadic. The Pakistani Army has never concentrated so many mobile launch platforms.And the minefield in front of him became the best support for anti-tank missiles, otherwise his troops would have rushed over as soon as they stepped on the accelerator.

"First Battalion, let B Company and C Company retreat immediately." He said to the radio.

"However, we've broken through half the minefield."

"Listen, you can't attack head-on, you have to bypass this minefield."

"Commander, their missile range has a great advantage. It is difficult for us to maneuver under their noses, unless we circle around a dozen kilometers."

"There is no fuel to do this kind of maneuver, and it will be dark in an hour. I don't think their armored vehicles will have very advanced night vision equipment. We can only wait." Azared said, he has lost the storm Now he wants to use the advantages of the T90 thermal imaging camera to make a breakthrough at night.He did not see main battle tanks on the enemy's position, which means that even if the enemy had completed the arc, the advantage in range would be weakened at night.

The two companies on the battlefield began to emit a large amount of smoke and retreated slowly.The Chinese infantry on the front really lacked thermal imaging equipment, and through the white smoke emitted by the diesel engine, the attack launched was very inaccurate.Finally, the firing from both sides gradually stopped.This round of frontal attacks seems to have ended with heavy losses for the 2th Regiment.

New Delhi.Inside the Prime Minister's Palace, Prime Minister Kahan is furious.An hour ago, the Chinese government issued a public statement and a note to the Indian ambassador to China. The content of the statement and the note is the same, which is to ask India to immediately stop advancing to the six areas designated by China where Chinese troops are stationed.After the mutual closure of the consulate general, this is obviously another climax of the confrontation between the foreign teachers of the two sides, and it seems that the direct face-to-face confrontation is not far away.

What makes Kahan most angry is not China's hostile attitude, but the timing they choose and the contempt for India hidden behind it. In his opinion, the war is clearly over, but the Chinese still intervene and propose such Ridiculous request.

In this world of the weak and the strong, it is common sense that the victor should always be respected; even the United States has been forced to admit the present fait accompli, while China's statement clearly shows that their decision-making process does not take into account the The illustrious martial arts of the Indian army is included for reference.

"How could they do such absurd things?" The Prime Minister looked around and saw that no one in the meeting wanted to speak, so he continued, "Everyone told me that if China wanted to intervene, it should have happened last month, and it would happen in the next month." north."

"That's right, the report of the American Institute of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies is also written in the same way." Chandra interjected very ignorantly. "It is irrational to intervene in southern Pakistan now."

"But now their soldiers are in Quetta, face to face with our soldiers! I let go of their Indian Ocean route, and they got carried away. They have reached this point. Do they think they can turn the situation around?" Kahan brooding.

"20 minutes ago, I received the latest request from China. They not only asked our ground forces to stop advancing towards designated airfields. They also asked our air force to stop operations in Sindh province."

The scene at the venue was a bit cold.Because the prime minister suddenly bowed his head and fell silent, a long time passed like this.

"When I was a child, adults always told me that the British had stolen India's thousands of years of glory," Kahan suddenly began to speak, his tone calm and serene. "Gandhi and Nehru led us to independence and rejuvenation, but in 1962, the Chinese again stifled our rise, and since then, India has practically sunk into a second-rate country that was also used by the US and the USSR to contain China .”

The meeting room was silent, all waiting for the Prime Minister's next words.

"This is the third time. I think all of you will become witnesses to history, which is written by ourselves. Hehe, the Chinese did it at the last moment, with a self-righteous face, wrapped in 50 Years ago, they arrogantly asked our victorious army to stop, as if insulting our women in front of us. They thought it was a matter of course, as long as they stood in front of our army Machine guns, the Indian army will retreat like in 1962, and India will go back to the long and painful sinking."

"No, history should not simply repeat itself, we need a victory to teach them respect. I can't bear it for a second, our army can't stop, just in those characters they draw on the map Where we are forbidden to attack, we must attack! Attack! Attack! Beat them to pieces."

Kahan became more and more excited, knocking on the table and saying.What makes people feel that what he hates is not the presence of Chinese troops in Quetta, but the fact that the Chinese simply ignore the combat effectiveness of the Indian troops.

Charman stood up and tried to add to the Prime Minister's speech: "It is a consistent problem of the CCP to belittle the Indian army. They thought it was 1962..."

"So, we have to make them pay enough to remember for 100 years."

Kahan interrupted the intelligence chief.He calmed down a bit and sat down. As the most hardline nationalist in the BJP, he hated any behavior that slighted India.

"What do the generals say?"

Defense Minister Singh stood up slowly, considering what to say.The Prime Minister's speech was encouraging, but he refused to accept the fact that India's army in the south was at the end of its strength.

"General Spanga believes that this night will be the most critical moment in this war. He hopes to devote more air force to participate in the attack, and at the same time cover the landing of airborne troops over Quetta airport. Our tanks need infantry cover."

"Is airborne hard to do?"

"The supremacy of the air is still not completely obtained. We tried to carry out airborne in the afternoon, but it failed. We lost more than half of the elite airborne troops of the battalion."

"Then go and seize air supremacy." The Prime Minister said lightly.

"Yes Prime Minister, I have deployed the 13th Wing to fight at the front and they have never let me down."

"I remembered, it's the unit of the two young men who I awarded the Warrior Medal to?"

"Yes, that is the 13th Eagle Squadron of the 24th Wing. This is our most elite Su-30 unit. In this war, this squadron has shot down 20 Pakistani fighter jets, and its own loss is only 2."

"Yes, we should invest the main force and give the Chinese a little bit of color."

(End of this chapter)