Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 405 Sudden Shelling

Lin Huaisheng's headquarters is very small, with only 40 people. In fact, the command of most units is still taken over by the domestic command center.

Even such a small headquarters is now divided into two parts.This kind of preparation comes from Quetta's experience, so as not to be caught by the enemy. Although here he has complete electromagnetic suppression power, it is almost impossible for the enemy's electronic reconnaissance troops to track down his position through radio stations like in Pakistan, but Headquarters still ordered him to move from time to time, and the staff was split in two.

Standing at the end of the noisy runway, Lin watched a flash of light on the edge of the sky, which fell about a kilometer below, and he knew that the enemy had almost woken up.Could it be an earth or a fire?In short, as always, the accuracy is not good.He was secretly thinking about the mobilization time of the Indian Ballistic Missile Force. Maybe he was about to face a difficult period. Fortunately, the engineering troops had arrived. As long as the runway was not continuously hit in the middle, he could still handle it with confidence.

The motorized column of the 57th Infantry Division of the Indian Army, in the form of a march, was divided by the Chinese Air Force on a rugged route about 150 kilometers long. Now it is shrinking, and one of them may rush over.

The artillery regiment of this division was also divided on the fragmented railway line, which was the part that Lin Huaisheng was more worried about.He is not afraid of those relatively heavy 155mm howitzers, the air force's continuous aerial surveillance, and it is easy to find heavy trucks towing artillery through night vision equipment and radar ground searches. There are not many decent roads in India that can transport these weapons; On the contrary, he is more worried about India's light artillery. It is known that India still retains a considerable mule and horse transport team in this area, which can transport disassembled light artillery without having to go on the road, which is quite useful for aerial reconnaissance. difficulty.In order to win over the separatist forces in the region, this operation strictly limited the scope of the attack, and everything was based on precision, so as to prevent the occurrence of incidents of accidental injury to the greatest extent.For the front enemy command, such unrealistic requirements will inevitably restrict the hands and feet to a large extent.

Where are the guerrillas?Lin Huaisheng also wanted to clarify this matter.

"Chief of staff, the reconnaissance company found four captured guerrillas in the detention room of the police station. It seems that the information is completely true?" A staff officer said, it seemed that the accurate news of the headquarters thousands of kilometers away seemed a bit confusing. be surprised.

"The old man has been talking about it lately, and he knows all these trivial things. It's very abnormal. There must be something hiding from us. How is the communication?"

"As if it's not bad, they call us the liberators from the tyranny of the Indian colonialists."

"Oh, so fast?"

Lin Huaisheng was a little flattered.He has always been worried about the Indian intelligence unit's instigation of rebellion in Balochistan.Because the Baluch separatist guerrillas quickly cut off their retreat, they actually caused great losses to the Chinese troops entering this area.Almost all ground equipment was lost, and more aircraft remained at the airfield than were destroyed in the fighting.He believed that the Indians would soon organize press units for propaganda.But now it's all right, he finally found the trick to fight back, which is to fight back with his own way.

"Chief of Staff, the latest information, found a senior leader of the left-wing guerrilla who was wounded in the hospital, and offered to cooperate with us in combat."

"Very well, tell them our purpose is to drive the Indian colonists back, to provide a basis for their self-control, and never to occupy this place permanently. Sooner or later we will retreat from the traditional borders."

The traditional border that Lin refers to is the illegal Arunachal gang, who knows that the Chinese government will not spy on this piece of Assamese territory, even though most of the original residents here look more Chinese.

"The engineer asked for some more machinery and equipment," while the staff officer was speaking, another ballistic missile fell to the far east area, and the huge explosion reflected the sky red.The atmosphere in the headquarters began to become tense, and it was inevitable that some people worried that the next shot would be closer.

"If they always aim at the runway, they will never hit it." Lin Huaisheng said with a sneer. Most of the staff in the staff department participated in the battle for the first time, and after he said this, they all calmed down.Of course, Ding Keguang knew very well that Lin Huaisheng was talking nonsense again.Quetta Airport was hit by ground missiles several times, and finally it was repaired by Pakistani engineers.The engineering soldiers who have just arrived are stepping up construction, using quick-drying cement and steel plates to extend the runway to increase efficiency and prevent being completely paralyzed by a single hit.

The light tanks by the airport have gathered a company size. He Fan is debugging the inter-vehicle communication system. Indiscriminate noise interference also has some impact on the inter-vehicle communication distance. He hopes to minimize the impact. He cares about the data link system , but he doesn't care much about the caliber of the artillery.

"Chief of Staff, the helicopter spotted an unknown number of enemy armored units fleeing to the west of the hills and suddenly disappeared. 20 kilometers away from us."

Lin Huaisheng walked to the edge of the map. This distance has indeed threatened the airport, if the opponent has artillery.At this moment, all the army aviation units and helicopters have been dispatched to carry out the task of occupying important areas. For the time being, he only has He Fan, a mobile unit that can fight, should I bother him to dispatch again?He also knew that the sudden appearance of the infantry fighting vehicles just now did not appear for no reason, and there must be other units nearby.

"Can you figure out the unit?"

"Maybe it's the Mechanized Battalion of the 57th Division. This division has only been established for half a year, and the information has been incomplete. We only know that there are no tanks. All the tanks in this area are in Tespur."

"There may be self-propelled artillery. Let He Fan dispatch it, lest he always feel that I left all the soft persimmons to the Air Force."

Lin Huaisheng knew that a month ago, a batch of South Korean-made 155mm self-propelled artillery urgently ordered by the Indian Ministry of Defense was unloaded in Calcutta. Like the Rafale fighter jet, this was one of the few off-the-shelf weapons (of course old) that India could buy during the war.At that time, the focus of the intelligence agencies was on Balochistan, and the dispatch of spies to India had to rely on the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, because their spies were more likely to mix into the Indian population, and Pakistan was in a state of desperation and was unable to assist.Intuition told Lin Huaisheng that India would not deploy such heavy weapons in Assam, and probably went to Kashmir.

He Fan is carefully adjusting the ECC module. After the battle just now, there was a short-term problem with the digital frequency hopping system, which caused his own communication to be interfered. In night combat, this is a serious problem. Poor communication may lead to inability to The man-machine shoots itself.This chariot has not yet been finalized, and there are always some minor problems.

The suspected fault has just been ruled out, and a new task is coming again.The information was not complete, only that about ten enemy tanks had penetrated into the hilly area to the west. The helicopter occasionally saw the enemy on the way back from transporting the infantry. Since they did not carry anti-armor weapons, they came back with peace of mind.Lin Huaisheng pushed everyone out, and maintained a large and useless defense line with various towns as support points to protect the airport from being attacked by enemy firepower. In fact, many loopholes were left in the defense line. These problems require him to get more help. It can only be resolved by hand.

He Fan listened to the task carefully, and then got out of the turret.

"Commanders of all vehicle groups, gather at my place immediately and deploy new missions." He shouted through the radio.

"04 report, synchronous motor rectifier failure, cooling fan stopped working."

"You stay where you are and fix it. Other drivers come over." He shook his head and said.If Lin Huaisheng knew that the tank that could have transported a company's capacity had broken down innocently, I don't know how he would feel.

Soon the 10 commanders gathered beside the front armor of the No. 08 tank, and He Fan spread out a map there.

"Anything as simple as searching for and destroying an enemy mechanized unit that's dazed and rams into the perimeter, possibly with infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery, whose firepower poses no threat to us until daylight."

It can be seen that the red circle around the airport is the absolute defense circle of the headquarters, which is actually specially set up for the enemy artillery.

"What about the number of enemies?"

"Thanks to the Army Aviation Reconnaissance Brigade, they didn't see anything clearly."

"Have to leave all the problems to us armored soldiers?"

"Yes, we are here to solve problems for Chief of Staff Lin. The Chief of Staff has suffered a lot in southern Pakistan, so he knows very well that the war can do without anyone, except us."

He Fan looked around, his propaganda of shaping the armored force into the savior was quite effective, and everyone was eager to try it.

"Okay, let's talk about the plan. The essential difference between us and those chaotic guys is our rigorous tactics. For this mission, we will advance in a double-file search formation." He began to point fingers on the map.

"Proceed along the low-lying area on the side of the road. The forwards use the cooling thermal imager intermittently, and the rear vehicles do not turn on the cooling equipment. The formation artillery on the left is pointed at 9 to 11 o'clock, and the right is pointed at 1 to 3 o'clock."

"Based on search and attack?"

"Yes, you see, the terrain here is not complicated, but there are many jungles and the soil is soft, which is more suitable for our operations. However, the enemy lacks night vision equipment, and it is very problematic to travel off the road. Well, I will announce other matters through the radio In addition, be careful not to fall behind, the drones are controlled by novices, and they are likely to shoot at lonely tanks."

As he spoke, he quickly rolled up the map and climbed onto the tank.Everyone also dispersed and went back to their cars.

The tank started and headed in the general direction.He Fan has devoted himself to studying the combat of Pakistani sergeants. Most of the time, the vehicle crew encounters Indian tanks along the road, and then they shoot at each other. In his opinion, head-on confrontation has no technical content at all.

Lin Huaisheng has been anxiously waiting for Chang Yong's heavy armed helicopter brigade to approach. He has to rely on the armed helicopter to deal with the next T90 counterattack.But their dispatch was delayed because there was a sudden wind on the Duoxiongla Pass, so everything was planned. He also knew that accidents are inevitable in war.

A sharp whistling sound suddenly pierced the sky, and he yelled and fell down, rolling to the ground.

A shell fell on the runway 200 meters away in a blink of an eye, and the camouflage net of the headquarters was blown away by the air wave in an instant.A landing Y-8 made an emergency turn to avoid the crater, but ran off the runway and broke its wing.

Within ten seconds, the artillery shells that flew in immediately fell on the surrounding area of ​​the airport densely, and there were huge explosions one after another.This is not a 105-caliber artillery. Lin didn't know where his plan went wrong, or it was the negligence of the air force. Obviously, an artillery unit had leaked into the defensive circle.

The shelling was fleeting, and the shells left dense, smoking craters on the airport runway and the surrounding area.This round of shooting is bound to block the airborne operation.

"Quickly use lighting to indicate the crater, and remind the air command that we have lost one-third of the runway." The chief of staff immediately started to deal with it according to the prior plan.

Judging from the number of craters, it is obvious that it was a concentrated shooting of units above the company. They should be changing positions at this moment?He does not have artillery radar to detect the direction of artillery fire, and all reconnaissance can only be handed over to the Air Force, but the Air Force obviously cannot give an answer immediately.But when he was lying on the ground, he could tell the direction of the shells, which was where He Fan went.

"Sure enough, he's heading for the airport. Could it be that Chaguye is still hiding a treasure?"

Lin Huaisheng was inevitably a little surprised. If the enemy had more than 105mm artillery in the surrounding area, then a 15-kilometer defense circle would not be enough, and more troops would be needed to expand the defense. However, this ghostly artillery now blocked the airborne operation.

"Chief of Staff, found an unexploded bomb, NATO standard 155 caliber!"

Someone yelled in the distance.

"The headquarters has been transferred, let the engineers detonate the shell as soon as possible, repair the crater as soon as possible, and restore the complete landing."

Finally, there is one thing Lin Huaisheng is quite proud of. After much hesitation a few days ago, he finally persuaded the headquarters to put the engineering troops ahead of the air defense troops and transport them into the theater.The six craters walking on the runway should be solved soon, but the enemy is still in the dark. If it is really a self-propelled artillery, then it is likely to tilt the firepower again within 20 minutes, so that you will be in big trouble.India has a 155mm towed howitzer with an amazing range, as well as a lightweight 155mm howitzer that can be transported by helicopter.However, judging from the opponent's tactics of stopping after one round and the dense dispersion, it looks like a self-propelled artillery unit with mobility and good technology, shooting within 20 kilometers.

"What happened, did you find any clues?"

"Not yet, the search is being stepped up, and two drones have been mobilized to fly to the suspicious area."

(End of this chapter)