Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 406 The Chief of Staff's Nightmare
An Il-76 in the air barely landed on the remaining half of the runway according to the emergency dispatch on the ground, but it could not take off immediately after unloading its troops, so it could only make a slow U-turn before taking off. The efficiency of the entire aircraft drop dropped by more than half.

There was a loud bang on the side of the runway, and the unexploded bomb was detonated by the engineer. Lin Huaisheng suddenly remembered that he hadn't carefully investigated the source of the unexploded bomb.But forget it, he has roughly guessed what type of weapon it is. The arms contract between India and South Korea has existed for a long time, but the delivery method and timing are extremely sneaky.There are a lot of undulating landforms around this generation, which are not suitable for radar reconnaissance and strikes in the air, but the hidden curved firepower can accurately hit the airport from behind the concealment.Even if the opponent does not have the ability of battlefield reconnaissance/assessment, he can still carry out blind strikes according to the marked runway position.If the opposing commander had a brain, he could use this high-precision weapon to completely paralyze its functions with a limited number of attacks on various parts of the runway. This was what Lin was most worried about.

He Fan was working in the uneven hilly tea garden. He got new information that the airport was under heavy fire. When the two drones sent for reconnaissance entered the target area, they were shot by ground fire, and none of them were shot down.The situation seems to have become a little more complicated. It seems that there is something famous hidden there?He roughly calculated the time, and the drones that arrived later would arrive there at roughly the same time as himself.The straight road on the map must be relied on by the enemy to carry out operations. Even if his artillery unit hides in a corner, his support convoy must travel around this road.

He immediately ordered the formation to spread out, and searched from the south across the road all the way to prevent the enemy from escaping from his field of vision while maneuvering.

A tank that soon crossed the road reported seeing a line of trucks driving outside the woods, where there seemed to be another road that was not marked on the map.He Fan's unit ordered an attack.He himself led another team and quietly rushed from the north of the palace to see if there were any more valuable targets that slipped through the net or were driven over.

Someone in the command reminded him that the main attack target was changed to self-propelled artillery.The second target is mobile air defense systems, followed by infantry fighting vehicles.He scoffed at this kind of prioritization of targets based on imagination. The headquarters may have the order they are worried about, but when the tank soldiers are fighting hand-to-hand, they can only give priority to the part that threatens them the most.

From the south came the sound of artillery and machine-gun fire, and it was evident that another squadron had already started.He put his head on the front of the periscope, slowly turned the handle, and searched carefully in the narrow field of view. The excellent suspension and image stabilization system allowed him to stand steadily while the tank was jumping forward, and search for the target carefully. , just over ten years ago, all of this was unimaginable.When his fathers were driving tanks, it was not uncommon for tank soldiers to have their heads smashed due to undulating terrain in the narrow turret. Today's tank drivers hardly need additional head protection to participate in combat.

"If the enemy doesn't have tanks, then they don't have reliable night vision equipment," he thought to himself, "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns should be dealt with first." He judged.He is not thinking about the air force, but because the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun may have better night vision equipment, and when it fires tracer armor-piercing shells, it can easily penetrate tanks, and it may also indicate targets for other units, so it must be given priority solve.

A shadow that almost blended into the background flashed before his eyes, barely visible if it didn't move.The long gun barrel swaying in the woods revealed its true identity.

"Damn! T72. Who the hell told me there are no enemy tanks here?"

"Commander, I see a target that seems to be a tank?"

The gunner also saw the same silhouette on the front.

"It must be a tank, pay attention to tracking, don't fire for now. Slow down to a low speed."

The gun barrel of No. 08 pointed at the looming tank in the woods, but the peripheral vision device on the roof was still turning around. He Fan couldn't imagine that in this area, the tank dared to go out alone (unless he himself), so he had to Take a closer look.

According to the dividing line, the gunner roughly judged that the distance of the tank was 2 kilometers away. Since the commander did not order to shoot, he did not conduct laser ranging for the time being. At such a distance, it may be considered to use a gun-launched missile to knock out the target. , but this has to wait for the commander to make up his mind.

"Wolf Cave, this area has Indian armored forces. I repeat, I saw Indian T72 tanks."

The encrypted message was quickly transmitted to Lin Huaisheng's temporary headquarters, which surprised Ding Keguang who was sitting there, because all the information showed that Lieutenant General Chaguye left all the armored troops in Tespur as a strategic reserve. No sign of dispatch.

"08, if possible, find out the number of the enemy's armored unit."

"Wolf Den, I don't have infantry, so I can't complete such a ridiculous task."

He Fan simply rejected the command post's suggestion.

The target quickly disappeared, perhaps hiding behind complex terrain. The southern detachment reported that they were slowing down and crossing the destroyed truck column. There were 7 trucks in total, which seemed to be ammunition delivery vehicles, and there were not many personnel.Some trucks were burning, exploding.He Fan could hear occasional explosions across the road.He reminded the team to bypass the burning convoy, close to such an area, it is easy to expose itself, and the night vision equipment will also be affected.

He had good eyesight, and soon found an enemy tank again. The enemy thought it was hidden in the night and was speeding up. Its gun barrel was pointing south, probably because it was frightened by the fighting there.The gunner measured the distance in time, and the detected distance was 1.9 kilometers.

At this moment, He Fan's five tanks had already formed a wild goose formation, ready to launch an attack.This is a reasonable night battle formation summed up by He Fan in long-term drills, which can give full play to the night observation ability of each vehicle, and is also conducive to the use of firepower in encounters.

Taking advantage of the fact that the target was still far away, he quickly left the peripheral vision goggle and turned to the LCD to retrieve navigation information. There were famous places in the woods ahead, and he didn't want to rush in blindly. After 20 seconds, he drew the offensive route with a pen on the electronic map.In the information-based combat mode, an attack mode can be drawn up and a bicycle route assigned, which is a more calm aspect of tanks than aircraft.If the commander responds properly, there should be time to deploy the outflank of the second part.The tank crew does not have an early warning aircraft to coordinate the command, and the company commander must take this responsibility.This is also the part that He Fan and Wang Zhenbei have been worrying about in the past few years. They are the combination of armored soldier theory and army practice, and they are the elite members of the tank.Inevitably, He Fan would regard Yahini's way of observing while fighting, and then commanding through the radio, as an unreliable wild way.

"The commanders take a look at the forward route, pay attention to the angle of the target and the favorable position of the neighbors, and don't forcefully fire."

The 5 tanks formed an outflanking formation, slowing down and approaching the woods.It can already be seen that the two tanks ambushed in the middle, both of which only exposed the narrow turret and gun barrel, seem to be on guard. Maybe they have a radio connection with the infantry, but their muzzles are pointing in the wrong direction, indicating that they are not equipped at night. Far observation ability.

Dispersing troops has long been a taboo for military strategists, but in the era of complete inter-vehicle information systems, distributing firepower is also a tactic that He Fan has explored for a long time. Although he has not experienced the test of actual combat, he knows very well in his heart. Nine is not far from ten.

The No. 06 tank on the south wing took the lead in occupying an unavoidable favorable position. The line of sight controlled by its gunner could already aim at the weak position on the side of the target, and the artillery following the line of sight was also moving, steadily pointing at the target.The tank did not stop to aim again. Although the disturbed aiming reset after parking can provide more accurate static-to-static shooting, it will destroy the stabilized aiming and waste about an extra ten seconds, commander Feeling unnecessary, he decisively ordered to fire.

He Fan saw a white light in the surrounding mirror, and the flickering light temporarily obscured the background near the target. He immediately adjusted the magnification and continued to search for nearby targets in a larger field of view, but the burning tank in the background still had no effect on the thermal image. The instrument observations have had a negative impact.The other T72 tank that the gunner had been staring at began to turn the turret, but it did not launch a counterattack, but stopped at the same place blankly. The No. 06 tank was still not visible to it after firing. Powerful thermal imaging device.

"08, this is the wolf's lair. The drone found that there are enemy armored troops gathering in the deep area, and there is also a continuous wave air-to-air radar. It can't get too close."

He Fan glanced at the monitor next to him. There was a hill 2 kilometers away. There may be anti-aircraft firepower on the hill. In short, facing the well-organized Indian ground forces, the drone became somewhat powerless.

When he put his head against the perimeter vision mirror again, the second enemy tank also became a white shadow, obviously destroyed by his neighbors. In the night, these Indian tanks lacking night vision equipment are simply vulnerable. As the commander As a member, he must give up the shooting opportunity to the teammate with the best position, and he doesn't really care about one or two more records, because He Fan's destruction rate is [-]% now, he doesn't want to fight for a certain target, and reluctantly stop.

From the surrounding mirror, he saw an explosion at a higher position in the distance. Obviously, the external drone has secretly raised its altitude and launched a counterattack. No one told him if it hit anything. , he couldn't see clearly for the time being.

"The southern troops don't have to approach us, and continue to search the southern wing of the highway."

The battlefield is unprecedentedly chaotic, but the initiative has been observing the stronger He Fan's side, and his command can be regarded as calm and orderly; now we must deploy as large a force as possible, otherwise the mobile artillery that Lin Huaisheng strictly ordered to be eradicated may slip out of sight Go, after all, the range he can observe is only a few kilometers.

At about the same time, the south wing detachment spotted the fleeing Indian towed anti-aircraft gun column and immediately engaged in an exchange of fire.Another odd situation.It seems that the Indians took advantage of the ear terrain and secretly stuffed a lot of things under the drone's eyelids. Obviously, the enemy's establishment is not a few companies, nor does it look like a certain battalion of the 57th Division. A synthetic mechanized army.

As the cooling efficiency weakened, the observation distance of the No. 06 tank began to decrease. He Fan stopped observing and let the tank on one side be responsible for reconnaissance.He simply began to carefully observe the entire area through the data link.

He Fan has never rejected aerial reconnaissance methods. Drones have the huge advantage of being condescending. Although they cannot see some terrain-covered areas, their sensor reconnaissance capabilities are obviously much stronger than tanks.He Fan once predicted that future tanks would carry small unmanned aerial vehicles to enhance the reconnaissance capabilities of various terrains, but he never agreed with the statement that tanks would be replaced by air power.

When the drone turned around, you could see a square armored vehicle parked on the side of the hill to the east, without a turret, not even a machine gun.The drone has been searching for nearby 40mm anti-aircraft guns, not paying much attention to this strange thing on the enemy line.A drifting wisp of cloud and mist blocked the target, and then it hid in a blind spot.

He Fan had never observed the ammunition delivery vehicle for the artillery from this angle, but he still recognized it before anyone else in the command post. It was an ammunition delivery vehicle for the K9 self-propelled artillery.

"Wolf Cave, can you let the drone fly around the river to the east, maybe there is something hiding there."

"08, we do not have authority to command drones."

"Understood, I will do the reconnaissance myself."

He commanded the tank group to quickly go around the forest and rush towards the hill tens of meters high. The hill was still burning, and it was not difficult to find it even with white light.

The enemy ranks that had already been encountered were along both sides of the road, and they were sparsely separated for a long distance, but he didn't think it was deliberately done for defense. It was probably because the lights and communications were turned off to avoid air strikes, which eventually led to the formation falling into a trap. confusion.Trucks wandering around, tanks lost in the jungle, it can be seen that the size of this combined force is not small.The enemy commander's attempt was not small. In order to get close to Jabwa, he deliberately sacrificed lighting and chose a strange route. The result was somewhat self-defeating; even so, this unit still showed a level beyond the general Indian Army.

Neighboring vehicles fired continuously, destroying the ammunition delivery vehicle with the engine stopped.It can be seen from the air that the fleeing Indian soldiers really ran towards the river.He Fan switched the surrounding mirror to the 1X white light state, turned to that direction, and saw a violent fire flickering on the horizon, and then there was a loud sound. It was the enemy's artillery positions firing salvos. He knew that the chief of staff was about to Suffered.

Lin Huaisheng's airfield was subjected to a second intensive shooting. This time the direct damage caused was slightly smaller than the previous one, but half of the shells still covered about one-third of the area on the other side of the runway, and this shooting together with the previous one , forming a destructive effect of pinching the head and removing the tail, completely paralyzing the entire runway.His men had just taken over the runway lighting and secondary ATC radar, but the runway was in disrepair.Now we can only count on the engineers to quickly complete the repair.It would be useless to fix that nightmarish artillery piece if it couldn't be dealt with quickly.

(End of this chapter)