Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 418
Kambiakun's Pioneer 904 Battalion has reached the area more than ten kilometers southwest of the fuel supply station Nambru, and the straight-line distance from Jabuwa Airport is less than 50 kilometers. However, this force does not plan to attack from the front. According to the route specified by the Chaguye staff, they will also make a tortuous detour in the mountains, and finally launch an attack from Jabuwa's rear.Although Tespur's reconnaissance was not effective, he expected the scale and weapon configuration of the Chinese army, and the attack from the rear was the most appropriate.

Due to the strict control of the lights, the convoy has never been discovered by the drone. Although the effectiveness of the driver's low-light night vision equipment has been greatly reduced due to the dim moonlight, so that some vehicles have turned over the ravine, but the purpose of the surprise attack is still Gradually achieved.Brunham had stored a large amount of fuel and could join up with a mechanized anti-aircraft unit of the Training Command's Synthetic Teaching Regiment nearby.

The major general looked at his watch. It had been 7 hours since he set off from Tespur. His troops had traveled about 200 kilometers on the winding mountain road, and they would definitely arrive before dawn.

A motorcycle honked its horn next to his chariot. The major general leaned over the turret and took the note handed to him by the messenger with difficulty. He glanced at it and wrote a few words on the note. Words, again to the motorcyclists.He had a distinctive yellow triangular chess piece strapped to the antenna of his command vehicle, just to make it easier for these people to find him at night.

Around the noisy tank unit, the motorcycles of the communication unit shuttled back and forth. They searched for the various units on the dark mountain road and conveyed various orders. Fortunately, the troop organization in the state of radio silence remained intact.

The major general was so confident in the upcoming battle that he did not count on the restricted air rights that Chaguye had promised.The Indian Air Force has been severely damaged in the half-year-long war, and there is no early warning aircraft. It is difficult to compete with the cutting-edge Chinese Air Force.He only believed in his own strength and a quick sweep.If there is no accident, this attack can completely cut off the enemy's air transportation line and completely solve all problems.

He knew very well that not long ago, the main regiment of the White Tiger Division was wiped out in a similar mission to compete for Quetta.How the CCP was able to gather a powerful force at the airport in Quetta overnight was still a mystery a day ago, but now the answer is ready to be revealed.Obviously, they should have been plotting in the shadows for a complete occupation of an airfield like Jabwa, so that when Spanga's attack edge approached Quetta, the Chinese were able to quickly airlift a ready-made composite force there.

Based on this logic, the front-line commander of the Chinese army who is now sitting in Jabuwa is very likely to be the one who defeated Spanga in the first place.Kambiakun would like to meet this person. He has studied the failure of Quetta. The Chinese army at that time also had many loopholes, but the situation was stabilized with the strong support of the Pakistani First Armored Division. Now they must not There will be decent armored units.Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little proud. The enemy's armed helicopters might be a threat, but the dual 35mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns should be able to deal with these threats.

He Fan has always been extremely dissatisfied with the bridge-building speed of the engineering troops, and they didn't have a more direct solution, such as a bridge-building tank or something, so he could only stare blankly.

In the woods on the other side of the river, there were still some bombed-out K9 self-propelled artillery parked, and he had been itching to go and have a look.During the day, the stubborn Indian army even sent a few tractors, hoping to pull back some of the usable vehicles.As a result, the infantry who were ambushing across the river caught him squarely and captured several prisoners.The prisoners still had vivid memories of the encounter last night. One of the officers said that if they had not been attacked by the new Chinese heavy tanks, the battle could have been won.He Fan is very interested in the opponent's comments. He has been studying the psychological deterrence of tanks against infantry all year round. It is said that when panicked, most infantry can easily see the size of the tank as larger.

Is there any movement on the other side of the river?From the periscope equipped with low-light night vision equipment, He Fan saw a group of figures approaching the other side of the river under the moonlight.It seems that several people are supporting one person.From the night vision goggles on the helmet and the outline of the weaponry, he could recognize an infantry reconnaissance company with the call sign "Mouse" on guard across the river during the day, so he grabbed the communicator and transferred to external communication.

"Mouse, there is a situation at position 043, is your person here?"

After waiting for a while, the other party turned on the machine but did not answer.This made him a little angry. He gave the tank's external communication mobile phone to the infantry who crossed the river because of his great trust, but the other party didn't take him seriously.

"If you don't answer, you will fire."

"08, this is a mouse. Our people just took a prisoner. Don't mess around. Get a stretcher quickly, and we need a car."

"If you don't answer, I know who you are?"

He Fan nimbly got out of the turret, and waved a flashlight to the opposite bank a few times.The other side immediately reported another set of signals, which seemed to be a match.He swished out of the turret and waited for the infantry on the opposite side to find the rubber boat hidden among the weeds by the river, then oh crackling and paddling over, he could vaguely see a seriously injured man lying on the rubber boat, without a helmet and chest Undulating violently, it seems to be an Indian captive.

He walked closer and saw several soldiers carrying the man off the boat.

"what happened?"

"A motorcyclist, who ran into our guns without thinking, and had documents with him, has to be sent to the headquarters quickly. It may not be possible to survive if it is too late."

He Fan flashed the shot of the Indian communications soldier, and saw that he was panting desperately, with large blood stains on his body, probably because his lung had been punctured, and he was about to die.He suddenly discovered that the enemy's armband was a white lion, which seemed to be the logo of the Indian Fourth Armored Brigade.

"Didn't Lin Huaisheng say that the 4th Brigade is still in Tespur? How did it hit such a close place?" He thought to himself.

"Show me his file bag." He Fan stretched out his hand knowingly.

"How can this be done? Chief of Staff Lin...he..."

"Stop talking nonsense, give it to me quickly." He said without rebuttal.

The other party reluctantly handed over a punctured leather document bag to He Fan. While beckoning the driver Wang Minyong to find a jeep from the engineer, he opened the document bag and took out a blood-stained document bag from inside. map.He then crouched on the ground and watched with a flashlight for 30 seconds.

"Chief of Staff Lin is such an idiot," he said while shaking his head, and the people next to him were inexplicably surprised by his wild words, "Look, the enemy tanks have come from the south, it's a surprise attack. Why don't I Yes, there is still help."

"You mean?"

"This is a map to delineate the attack line for the follow-up troops, and it was drawn up by Major General Kambiakun himself. You can see his signature in it." He pointed his finger at a bloody place on the map. "The enemy has already seized the opportunity, and someone must stop him for a while."

He stood up and threw the document package to the infantry, and a jeep with a machine gun and grenades drove up in the distance.He Fan left the others, turned around and jumped onto the No. 08 tank, and then quickly communicated with the headquarters.

Unexpectedly, Lin Huaisheng was not there. It turned out that the chief of staff had brought some people to the new headquarters in order to avoid the cruise missile attack, but the communications troops failed to keep up with him, so he could not be contacted for the time being.He Fan didn't have time to wait, he simply explained the sudden emergency to a staff officer.Then he made up his own mind and led half of the tanks of the armored company to charge towards the mountains in the south, hoping to find a route to intercept this sneaky enemy in the shortest distance, so as to buy time for the headquarters to adjust and deploy.

At this time, Kambiakun's vanguard battalion had arrived in Namrub, and quickly carried out nighttime fuel supply operations, and then the troops continued to drill into the mountains and advance in the intended direction.

The major general was still full of confidence in this sneak attack, but a little doubt clouded his mind.At the supply base just now, he had a brief conversation with an infantry officer of the 57th Division who had been defeated so far.The other party told him that the Chinese army is almost entirely composed of light infantry mobilized by helicopters, but behind the battle line, there is a heavy tank unit hidden.This surprised the major general slightly. This is obviously not a reasonable situation, maybe it is just the silhouette of a self-propelled artillery in the dark night?But the other party said with certainty that he saw it during the day.The officer went on to explain that when he was maneuvering on the road, a huge Type 99 heavy tank suddenly appeared from a distance, and a shot destroyed the leading truck, and a piece of shrapnel hit him. foot, so he could only drag a lame leg and fled to Namrub on foot.

"It's totally impossible, the enemy doesn't have a transport plane like the C17." He was still guessing, "However, self-propelled artillery is unlikely to carry out the task of flat-firing infantry convoys. Judging from his description, it is indeed a tank attack. "

The screaming sound of the alarm in the turret awakened the major general from his hesitation. He quickly glanced at the flashing light-emitting diode of the alarm, and the received laser beam came from the top of his head.

He didn't have time to guess how the enemy found his command vehicle at a glance from dozens of tanks, so he slammed his fist on the semi-automatic smoke launch button.At the same time, through the inter-vehicle radio, the entire pioneer battalion was warned that there were drones targeting them.

Unleashing billowing smoke can disrupt laser illumination and ranging, but it also necessarily disrupts the driver's line of sight.There is no way, it is better to be in a mess than to be killed one by one.Soon other tanks in the battalion also began to release their smoke, and the entire valley was quickly shrouded in white smoke.

The major general heard a huge explosion outside and the sound of shrapnel hitting the armor. Obviously, the enemy dropped a laser-guided weapon. He turned the periscope on the conning tower to watch. The bomb fell very far, 20 meters away.It appears that the smoke disrupts the enemy's aiming.These countermeasures are not up-to-date, and they cannot automatically deploy photoelectric countermeasures, but they are better than the older system installed on the White Tiger Division T90S.

"It's the enemy's drones. There are not many of them. The whole battalion..."

Before he finished speaking, his car was hit by another friendly chariot that followed closely behind him, and the tank suddenly turned off.This directly led to the failure of the diesel thermal smoke screen device.

The major general removed his head from the air-to-air surveillance eyepiece of the remote-controlled machine gun and shouted to the driver to start it again. At the same time, he put his hand on the switchboard of the smoke launcher, ready to fire a few smoke bombs at any time.

These smoke screens can block the laser and thermal imaging equipment commonly used on the battlefield, but the duration is not long.The second 100kg laser-guided bomb fell from the sky immediately after, and this time it flew towards the lead vehicle in the convoy. It also missed, and just blasted a rock.

The loara self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that accompanied the tank troops finally entered the alert state from the marching state, quickly erected the three-coordinate search radar in the folded state, and then rotated it.

Lin Huaisheng sat anxiously in the new headquarters, watching the video sent by the drone.He just got the news that the enemy appeared behind him, and then watched helplessly as an inexperienced operator dropped two bombs in the wrong place. He could have blocked the enemy's marching formation by destroying a tank. The idea suddenly fell to nothing.

How could the enemy run to a corner under the strict battlefield surveillance environment?He could already tell from the outline of the tanks captured by the thermal imaging equipment through the smoke that there was a row of T90 tanks below.

"Let the drone turn around again, it's best to see their number clearly..."

Before he finished speaking, the screen began to shake, and at the same time bursts of flashes burst out, obviously tracer bullets were flying near the drone.In a blink of an eye, the picture turned into a snowflake, and the transmission was interrupted, obviously being hit.

"What shall we do now?"

The Chief of Staff asked loudly.

Other people nearby heard this sentence, and the entire headquarters fell into a brief pause. Lin Huaisheng is the supreme commander here who shoulders heavy responsibilities, and the entire plan is also from his hands. It seems that such a question without confidence should not be asked.

(End of this chapter)