Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 525 Small-Scale Fire Reconnaissance

Although Colonel Sandel would prefer to go to the main force, such as Spanga's army, he must also admit that Arjun, who has frequent breakdowns and is too heavy, is more suitable for defense.For this reason, he also painstakingly created a set of active defense strategies.Sending a platoon of T55 tanks to harass the enemy at the bridgehead this time was the first practice of this strategy; sure enough, the enemy chased after them without thinking.The first step succeeded; meanwhile, he dispatched another platoon of infantry fighting vehicles carrying infantry, to spy on the enemy, who remained there without moving.Now that the Indian army is retreating, he stays here to fight, and he is the first to control the intelligence around him at any time.

He has already learned from the front that the enemy's pursuit may be a T80UD tank, which means that it is a huge challenge. Judging from his painful experience in the past half a year, it is very difficult for Arjun to penetrate the front of this tank. For the weak rifled gun, it is a bit difficult.

"Colonel, the radio station has received an adhan from a nearby radio station. You should have listened. The imam is announcing that since this morning, the demons have been driven out of their homes."

The communicator in the command vehicle reported to him.

"Fabir, are you free?" Sandel shouted, "Give me the third row."

"Yes." The communications soldier stuck out his tongue.

"Listen beetle, I'm a mousetrap, I need you to double check if it's a wooden box, not a matchbox?"

As an instructor of the Armor Academy, Sandel is considered to be able to run the army well. The radio communication of his unit has always been relatively standardized. In addition to using the preset frequency hopping settings, he also uses a new code name every time for calls, and will never call directly. unit, so that even if the enemy can invade the channel, they will not understand what they are talking about for a while.

"The mousetrap is confirmed to be a wooden box, about one company, and it is 1 km behind me."

"Listen, change the plan, don't let them enter the original area, you pass directly in front of us, and use the law to let them expose their sides."

"But the enemy is on our way."

"I repeat, don't enter the original area."

"The beetle understands."

The colonel temporarily changed the plan, but it was actually based on concerns about Arjun's firepower.He originally expected to use the swampy area left after the river flooded and retreated to set up an ambush position, but this kind of frontal shooting, which relies on suddenness and superiority in numbers, may be sure to deal with 59, but he has not dared to engage in hand-to-hand combat against T80UD. fighting.Now, he hopes that the enemy will pass through the front of the position, so that the side can be exposed. Although the distance is relatively long, he can use the long-range accuracy of the L11 rifled gun to hit the opponent's weak side armor. Now it's up to the beetle.

38 Arjuns plus 8 T55s were hiding behind the simple bunkers piled up with river mud. These Arjuns were obtained by the patchwork of the original two regiments after half a year of losses.There are also some infantry fighting vehicles carrying anti-tank missiles being prepared nearby, and some infantrymen carrying RPGs are scurrying around near the tanks to supplement some shooting dead spots, although they may not be effective.

The colonel is looking forward to a battle that can turn Arjun tanks into a battle to sweep away the humiliation of the past; now in the state-run Awadi Heavy Vehicles, there are about 100 Arjun tanks in different assembly stages that are parked on the production line, waiting for the engine And various other parts, while the final assembly operation has been at a standstill; the priority funding of the Ministry of Defense seems to have flowed to the second-hand T90A tanks promised by Russia, and it is not very interested in the production of Arjun.

In the distance, the third platoon with a small red flag quickly passed in front of the position, a little hastily, and did not get as close to the position as possible.After the tank passed the dry river bed, it raised a cloud of smoke and dust, and after slowing down in the river, they huddled together, thinking that the plan was temporarily changed, and they failed to find a way to quickly get out of the river embankment.In this way, they are exposed to the opponent's muzzle for too long.The Pakistani army tank seized this opportunity to fire and hit a T3 turret from a long distance. After the tank was turned off, it was hit by two more bombs and started to smoke, and then the fourth shell destroyed it.Colonel Sandel was secretly surprised by the hit rate of the Pakistani army's fire while marching, but then the enemy would also huddle together in the same area, and his troops could slowly aim in a quiet-to-quiet manner.

"Every crew should be careful, the enemy is very accurate and they are all veterans."

he reminded.

"Take out the armor-piercing projectile and replace it with an armor-piercing projectile." He switched the dialogue in the car and asked the loader to say.

Rumors that Arjun's tank spear is not good, and the shield is not strong have spread among the troops of both sides. Out of sinister intentions, the opponent has been trying to portray Arjun as a waste that is easy to break down while marching, let alone fighting. Of course, the comments are exaggerated, but they are not completely groundless, but a smart commander only plays some tricks, and such equipment can still hit the enemy hard.

The enemy's tank columns were faintly visible in the smoke.From the unanimous pointing of the artillery to the east by the Pakistanis, they did not notice that they were about to learn a lesson.The laser ranging and subsequent tracking and targeting of each vehicle group went smoothly, and the enemy did not have the slightest vigilance, but before Colonel Sandor ordered to fire, the leading tank turned its artillery around, and seemed to be aware of it.He overtook the gunner and aimed the reticle at the tank, which delayed the firing by about ten seconds, so that Sandel's gun still hadn't fired after dozens of guns had fired.This salvo was not satisfactory, with only about one-third of the hit rate. In addition, the coordination before firing was not good. The gunners all chose the nearest and easy-to-target targets for free fire. Some targets were hit by the excess firepower, and others Some were not hit by shells, and the damage effect was very unsatisfactory.

The leading tank company commander was also hit by several shells in a car, but he turned the turret predictably and resisted this round of attack.The company commander had seen a lot of battles, and immediately ordered the commander to back up, replace the injured gunner himself, and fight back.However, the last shot of this tank was fired by Colonel Sander from the car. It was a distinctive armor fragmentation shell. It was this shell that shattered all the retreats or counterattacks that this tank might have chosen.After the shell exploded on the front of the turret, it instantly destroyed the sighting equipment. At the same time, the interior of the turret was poorly cast, and fragments flew across, killing all members.

Sandor has gained a lot of experience in actual combat in the past six months. He knows that if these outdated ammunition are matched with armor-piercing ammunition to form a salvo, they can achieve good results.Sure enough, he observed through optical equipment that thick smoke was billowing in front of him, and then he stopped slowly. No one was seen escaping, and the artillery also drooped.

"Its armor has collapsed, and another armor-piercing shell?" shouted the gunner?
"No need," Sandel said. "Attention all, don't fire on the first tank again."

Although the front armor of this T80UD was not actually penetrated by the shell, the explosion energy was completely transmitted to the inside of the tank, and the fragments of the inner wall of the armor collapsed, which played the same role as the armor-piercing shell.Sandor had recognized it as a command vehicle, so he couldn't set it ablaze, and maybe get some vital information.

Yahini called the 5rd company to retreat 3 kilometers behind. He didn't hear the company commander's reply, but only heard the chaotic calls for help among the various vehicle groups.When he heard a crew member shouting: There are as many as 30 enemies in front of him.He knew that the rescue was too late, so he could only call for air support, but the Cobra helicopter, which was showing off its might in the morning, could not be dispatched at this moment.

At the end of the first round of shooting, all Arjun tank loaders began to desperately load shells.The remaining enemies were in a mess and retreated one after another. Sandor looked at his watch. He was counting on a few rounds of shooting to finish off all the enemies.

"Order the mouse to move out, get close to the wooden box, and collect some information. After everything is done, we... retreat within 30 minutes."

The infantry on the slow-moving BMP-1 tanks jumped off one after another and began to charge forward. They planned to search for information on the destroyed enemy tanks.General Meneam made a sudden phone call in the morning, asking Sandel to look for information while assaulting the opponent's bridgehead. It is more important to eliminate this bridgehead.

At this time, the Arjun tanks started the second round of shooting one after another, and the remaining six T6 tanks could only reverse, aiming the front armor at the Arjun tanks.At a distance of 80 meters, the armor-piercing shells fired by Arjun hit the target repeatedly, but none of the tanks slowed down or caught fire.Sandor ordered the crews to also try their luck with fragmented armor bullets.

This kind of grenade-like ammunition can not receive miraculous effects all the time, but for flawed armor, even if it is thick enough to resist armor-piercing bullets, it can effectively kill personnel and damage the interior by collapsing fragments. Equipment, he is roughly convinced that this batch of T80UD belongs to the shoddy goods that came out during the rush.Even if it cannot be completely destroyed, for the Pakistan Army, which also lacks spare parts, a frontal shot is enough to make the tank irreparable.

Yahini ordered his tank company to stop, and he made up his mind to give up the rescue of the 3rd company.When he gallops on the battlefield for a long time, there are nothing more than two things that he taboos the most. One is to fight against an opponent whose details are unknown, and the other is to sneak into the pockets that the enemy has arranged; Interrupt action.He is not stupid, he knows that he is two pounds, even if he uses the same equipment as China, but does not have the same system support, so far his superiors have not even been able to send a helicopter or unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, everything has to be done by himself .

The captain briefly checked the map, and then called to the remaining vehicles of the 3rd company, asking them to get rid of the enemy's pursuit by themselves, retreat to the east bank of the Chenab River, abandon the bridgehead if necessary, and retreat to the west bank.

After arranging all this, he himself led the rest of the troops to temporarily move south, preparing to face the marching enemy from the side when the enemy was chasing him, laying an ambush and testing the enemy's strength at the same time.

At this time, new information came from the scouts he had left in the village of Danisiva. It turned out that the villagers Gangan had captured three Indian soldiers and were about to lynch them.The reconnaissance platoon leader temporarily rescued the captives and conducted inquiries. Now he has roughly figured out the situation. These people belong to an independent tank unit under the Indian Northern Command. This unit does not belong to any group army and has nothing to do with the Indian troops originally stationed here.

This group received orders to monitor the bridgehead in the morning and wait for an opportunity to destroy the enemy.When they were patrolling outside the ambush circle in a BMP-1 tank, a malfunction occurred. Nine people walked across the farmland in an attempt to find troops, but were ambushed by armed villagers, killing six of them.

Yahini hoped to ask about the size of the enemy through the radio. The Indian soldiers were frightened by the furious villagers, and they explained everything like pouring beans, including the location of the preset positions in the delta river valley. Unfortunately, the news is a bit late. Only 3 vehicles of the 2rd company escaped.The failure nearly killed about half the tanks in his synthetic battalion, but Yahini, who had suffered worse failures, didn't care much.He checked the map carefully, predicting that the enemy would soon rush over with the momentum of victory, pursue and kill them, and destroy the pontoon bridge in one fell swoop.He radioed to request that the prisoners be sent to his headquarters for further investigation while the pontoon bridge was still being sent across the river.However, the elders in the village were resolutely unwilling and insisted on dealing with it according to their own rules. Time was running out, so he had no choice but to give up.

He inquired about the remaining retreat route of the 3rd company, and then arranged several companies on the enemy's pursuit route, and then sent scouts around, ready to deal with them in their own way.

15 kilometers away from Yahini, Colonel Sandor did not rush directly to the pontoon bridge as Yahini expected.Aerial reconnaissance showed that there was no traffic on the pontoon bridge, and it seemed that there was no need to rush.

The colonel found the marked crossing area from the map seized by the enemy tank.

The Pakistan Army plans to build a total of 1.5 bridgeheads along the river with a distance of 6 kilometers. About 20 pontoon bridges are needed. Such an assault zone that stretches for more than ten kilometers is really quite amazing. It is not like a false attack. At present, only one has been established The pontoon bridge, and the small troop sent over, seemed to be just testing the truth.What kind of ambition do they harbor?This is indeed worth digging into.

After the colonel reported the situation, General Meneam's headquarters soon sent a telegram requesting that the enemy's villages and towns along the river should be swept first, and all areas that might be used by the enemy for reconnaissance and infiltration should be razed to the ground. Through these methods, we can further test how the opponent sees his tricks.

So the colonel ordered to march towards Danishiwa Village, which was abandoned just yesterday, to kill a carbine.He himself took a wheeled reconnaissance vehicle as a forward reconnaissance approaching the village.In his memory, this is a peaceful village. Although the villagers in it are not willing to give in, they still look honest.

From a distance, he saw the BMP-1 chariot burning blazingly at the edge of the village, then he saw the Indian soldiers hanged at the entrance of the village, and then he saw the corpses of the headless Indian soldiers who had collapsed on the side of the road.

The situation made the colonel furious, and he ordered the infantry fighting vehicles to attack quickly to completely flatten the village.At the same time, deploy tanks to stay on favorable terrain outside the village, ready to fight at any time.

(End of this chapter)