Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 505 Leaving the Combat Post
"I hit it?" Tasim still couldn't believe it as he looked at the dazzling ball of fire falling from the scope.

"I said earlier that it's nothing special. With me around, there's no reason why you can't hit."

Yahini's words of monopolizing the credit sounded so pleasing to the ear at the moment.

"Company commander, all the tanks in the camp of the 9th Brigade have come out for revenge." On the radio, the commander of another tank shouted.

Yahini quickly turned Zhou Shijing, and sure enough, taking advantage of the huge victory brought by the Apache helicopter just now, the 9th Brigade dispatched more than 20 tanks to outflank it in a fan-shaped front.Apparently, just a force with good timing.

"You counterattack immediately and destroy them as quickly as possible. There is still an enemy plane in the sky. Maybe it hasn't left. I will monitor it."

Tasim quickly loaded another laser beam shell, and all the tanks fired smoke at the same time to hide themselves. This measure can destroy the enemy's thermal imager or other optical equipment for reconnaissance at a long distance, but if the enemy's head With a radar on it, that's another story.The other Apache should be much more vigilant now, and it will be very difficult to shoot it down by unusual means.

Yahini did not call the remaining two tanks of the other group to move closer in time. At this moment, he needed them to continue to act as targets to attract enemy firepower, and the enemy would be exposed once they opened fire.In fact, gathering in a group is more likely to attract enemy firepower. If you disperse, it is easier for the enemy to act more cautiously. He suddenly became hungry just now. Sometimes the commander must make such a decision to reduce the overall risk.

The indian pilot on the longbow apache is moving slowly trying to find the right opportunity to attack, although his millimeter wave radar can spot 5 enemy tanks hiding in the distance, the old Hellfire missiles still can't directly use the radar As a source of illumination, he must use infrared thermal imaging equipment to see the enemy through the smoke, which is destined not to be too far away at night.

He wasn't afraid of the remaining seven tanks. What he was worried about was that there must be an anti-aircraft tank hidden in the surrounding mountains, or an anti-aircraft unit using shoulder-fired missiles?Otherwise, Unit 2 cannot be destroyed suddenly.He didn't see the process of No. 2 being shot down, nor did he get a description of the enemy's air fire from the radio. Type 99 is almost equivalent, but at this moment Type 99 is hiding in the hot smoke, moving constantly, further reducing the observation distance.

Of course, the pilot didn't know and didn't care, and his retreat caused Commodore Anida's battlefield speculation to fail.

The remaining 20 T72s are engulfed in hatred, aggressively outflanking the past in a general direction. Although they can't see the target, and can't exchange information with the condescending helicopter through the data link, the tankers know that the enemy is retreating at the moment, and they can't help it. That means it's time for revenge.

The four Type 4s fired while retreating, almost without missing a beat.These tanks have a very high hit rate and penetration rate at a distance of 99 to 1500 meters, especially when the enemy is surrounded by a fan, there will always be a part of the tank exposed on the side. For a calm gunner, It's a great opportunity.

The enemy adjusted their formation several times during the beating, but the number of tanks was still getting smaller and smaller.By the time they could finally see in the thermal imager the enemy, whose gun barrels were heating up due to continuous firing, making it difficult to hide, more than half of the tanks had already been lost.

The next shot was one-sided again, and the T72's hit rate against long-distance moving targets during maneuvers was appalling.The vehicles of the Yahini troops are all veterans who have survived countless battles. They constantly use the zigzag route to destroy the tracking of the enemy's angular velocity sensor. It takes about one second for a distance of 1500, and the calculation of the advance is particularly important); this point is the same for the ballistic calculation methods of both sides, and there is no technical advantage or disadvantage, but the difference is that the tankers of the 9th Brigade do not have too much With a lot of actual combat experience, they mistakenly believe that high-speed sprinting is a good way to avoid the enemy's precise firepower. This is indeed the reason they have figured out from the low-level confrontation in recent days. They don't know that the opponents they are facing now are far from those novices can compare.Soon the warriors of the 9th Brigade paid a huge price for these misjudgments.The high-speed impact tanks eventually hit the enemy's running bombs.

Everything seems to have fallen from heaven to hell. Only in the daytime today, the opponents they faced were still so vulnerable. The shells fired either fell behind or hit the ground. The 9th Brigade rushed to the front. The main reaction of the enemy tanks It was to turn the car around and escape, exposing his weak buttocks.Some Pakistani gunners don't even know how to use laser ranging. They can only use the heading machine gun to aim at the vehicle body at a very short distance. It can only be used as a bunker. Most of the shots fired over 900 meters are not accurate. , and it was still daytime.

The advantage during the day will inevitably make the tankers of the 9th Brigade think that they have become a decisive war resource. The biggest mistake of the Indian strategic department is to put the 9th Brigade into the battlefield too late.Such psychological hints deepened the illusion of the 9th Brigade from top to bottom. The battle progressed extremely rapidly during the day, and at the same time began to complain about the lack of logistics and poor air support; Support, he can fight all the way to the outskirts of Peshawar.

In the blink of an eye, the opponent's strength has undergone earth-shaking changes. Every tricky shot by the opponent is a sharp sword hanging over the head of the 9th brigade.

Brigadier General Anida heard the howls of ghosts and wolves from his subordinates on the radio, and realized that his previous experience had suddenly become invalid.However, the assaulting tank battalion was in an open area that was not moving forward or backward. If they were to retreat now, they would undoubtedly lose the opportunity to fire in vain, and would expose their buttocks for a long time.

"What did the aviation team do? They missed it?" The brigadier general complained about the helicopter in the command vehicle.He originally wanted to grab the credit, but now he is making a fool of himself.

"The enemy may not be a small force, perhaps accompanied by anti-aircraft fire?"

One officer made wild guesses, they had no direct contact with the Apache pilots, so they had to guess on their own.

"Brigadier general, do you want to send another army to rush? Simply fight with them."

"No, no, don't be impulsive for now, and wait." Anida shook his head and said, "Maybe our armed helicopters will be able to launch a counterattack immediately. We must reserve our strength for tomorrow's attack."

So the 9th Brigade did not make any command adjustments, and let the tanks in front continue to charge.

Yahini's tank has not joined the attack, but during the period when the enemy's helicopter retreated out of the observation range, he kept turning the periscope to observe the entire battlefield.The tanks of the 9th Brigade were parked here and there in a barren area, some caught fire, some exploded, and most of their muzzles were pointed in the wrong direction. So far, no one in his unit has been hit by the opponent's tank fire once, but he dare not take it lightly. Once the helicopter appears, the situation may be reversed in an instant.

The sound of the guns in the ears became sparse, and almost all the tanks attacked by the enemy were wiped out. Only then did Yahini hold back and count. In the wilderness one kilometer before and after, there were a total of 24 tanks parked, about 2 companies.He calculated the time, and after a while, the helicopter might have to go back, but it was very dangerous at this moment, because the detection capabilities of all tank thermal imaging equipment were weakening.He ordered the tank to continue back out of the battle with the 9th Brigade and advance into the mountains on the planned route, and then turned off the thermal imaging camera.

It will take some time for the observation equipment to cool down. At this moment, he is thinking of retreating to the ravine first, so that it will be more difficult for the helicopter to attack himself. After all, the terrain will block most of the shooting angles; its weapons want to shoot accurately , it is not so easy, and the pilot is bound to be distracted with the terrain.

The driver used the low-light night vision device to drive the tank into the ravine. During the day, such terrain is a dead end, but at night, the situation is different.Yahini inserted a flare gun in his waist, then lifted the top cover and got out instinctively. He hoped to stay away from the tank and find some useful information from the howling wind. He didn't know what the helicopter was doing at this moment. Did you go away?

The Indian pilot has been circling in the air, trying to launch an attack from a suitable angle. He could always see the enemy's movements from the radar before, but now the enemy is gone.Radar can outline the approximate terrain nearby, but India did not map out the digital map of this area before the war, so he only knows the location of each gully, but the situation at the bottom is not clear.Things were getting complicated for him, maybe the enemy anti-aircraft fire was hiding on a nearby hill?

The battlefield became silent for a while, and the Indian pilot decided to take a risk. He made an insurance plan and found the anti-aircraft vehicle first (he preconceived that there was an anti-aircraft vehicle with one shell on the battlefield, because there was no search radar Cooperate, it is not easy for soldiers carrying portable missiles to find the non-stop maneuvering helicopter through the simple night vision system).

The helicopter quietly crossed several hills, leaving the two lone tanks aside. The meat on the lips may be the bait left by the enemy, and if they are too eager, they may fall to the end of the No. 2 aircraft.Of course, he also found that this enemy was different. Even when death was imminent, he never abandoned the car and fled.In this war, after the tankers on both sides suffered blows, it was not uncommon for them to discard their tanks. Almost all the Pakistani army tanks seized on the battlefield were new. Obviously, they encountered a very tenacious force that was different from ordinary ones.

The pilot's attention is always on the radar warning device with audio prompts and the millimeter-wave radar screen, while the shooter in front keeps using the thermal imaging equipment that can rotate horizontally to search for prominent high ground, which is theoretically a place where anti-aircraft weapons are likely to appear , The error in judgment made them miss the opportunity to simply block the tank in the ravine and wipe it out.If he followed the map directly and used the most direct route to go around to the back of the ravine, then the tanks crowded together would be no problem at all. He only needed to use a burst of rockets to attack, and the 5 tanks would be reduced to scrap iron in an instant.However, the Indians' plan is much more complicated. They are going to search and test the enemy's air defense positions through the S-shaped route, and make sure that nothing goes wrong before launching the final attack.

Yahini ordered all the tanks to stop and idle, and one person quickly ran to the south about 150 meters away. When the cold wind whizzed by, he heard the clear sound of helicopter rotors, but he couldn't tell the direction from near to far. This may be the mountain It may be caused by the wind, or it may be caused by the opponent's overly cautious route.He used hands and feet to climb up the gravel covered with residual snow. When he reached the hillside, a few dumb blue sheep ran away soundlessly from in front of him, and then the dejected snow leopard in the distance also left with a low growl; The fighter plane whizzing over the mountain drove the prey of this big animal from the snow mountain to the valley, so it had to follow up here, but the war between humans continued here, and the shelling and bombing have been repeated many times Destroyed its hunting, which inevitably made it a little angry.

Yahini squatted in place, closed his eyes and judged the position of the helicopter. He relied on a mobile phone outside the vehicle to keep in touch with the crews. He felt that as a company commander rather than a vehicle commander, his command position was not necessary In the turret.

"All the crews listen to me, point the muzzle at the 200 direction, and point the machine guns in the same direction. If something comes out of the gap on the ridge, shoot immediately without hesitation."

"Commander, the question is, we can't see it at all now?"

said a driver.The problem he pointed out is true. Although the machine gun can be remotely controlled in the turret, when shooting in the air, it can only be carried out through the scope parallel to the barrel. The scope has a narrow field of view and only has general low-light night vision.

"Don't worry, I will point the way."

Aki, you turn off your phone and carefully distinguish the approaching voice.He tried to separate the movement of the helicopter from the sound of the huge airflow at the vent.The enemy obviously turned off all the navigation lights that might expose the position, which shows that it does not form a formation, there is only one plane, and it is afraid of ground firepower.

"Turn to the 240 position."

The tanks in the ravine maintained the lowest power in order to drive the turret to turn and escape at the last moment, but everyone was at a loss. After Yahini left the combat post without authorization, he seemed to be acting as an eyeliner, but what could he do? Seeing the helicopter at night and pointing out the position, this is the doubt in the minds of the tankers. Maybe this slicker just wants to take the lead to get out of the most dangerous position?Only Tasim knew in the whole company. The company commander is certainly cunning, but it is not accurate to say that he is greedy and afraid of death.

(End of this chapter)