Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 526 Well-trained
Elders and guerrillas in the village are gathering at the village chief's house to discuss the next step.The main issue is whether to take advantage of the retreat of Indian troops in the surrounding area, send people to harass military vehicles and seize some weapons.The scouts left by Yahini in the village attended the meeting and dissuaded them from doing so. The original intention of crossing the river this time was to drive a wedge and test their tolerance without disturbing the Indians as much as possible. To fight.But the words of the reconnaissance platoon leader had no effect. The people participating in the meeting became excited for a while, and expressed their opinions impassionedly - since the army is incompetent, watching the Indians blow up the dam and harm the people, it is better for the people to defend themselves home.When it came to anger, the guerrillas forgot their weight, some even celebrated and fired into the sky.

Just when the meeting was out of control, the guerrillas who were standing guard at the entrance of the village suddenly came to report. From a distance, they saw an armored vehicle approaching in the woods in the west of the village, but they couldn't tell where it was.The elders were muttering, as if they were not in the direction of the Indians.Just thinking about it, a mortar shell landed in the courtyard, killing several people on the spot.Immediately, dense machine gun fire came from outside, and the wall of the adobe-built house was riddled with holes.The reconnaissance platoon leader who was at the scene quickly reported the situation to the rear by radio.

When the Indian armored vehicles rushed into the village, they encountered weak resistance, and at the same time found several jeeps of the Pakistan Army. This gave Sandor an excuse. He ordered the troops in front not to restrain their hands and feet, and to use any means to destroy the enemy and buildings.For a while the Indian infantry got the order they wanted and started massacring civilians.

What Colonel Sander had to do was to attract the Pakistani troops hiding nearby so that they could ambush them halfway.Arjun may have failed as an offensive weapon, but it has value in defense.

Yahini was making the same preparations as his opponent. He also set up an ambush near the pontoon bridge, preparing for an ambush. At this moment, the person in charge of communication in the village informed that the enemy infantry fighting vehicles were rampaging in the village, but no tanks were seen.He calculated it carefully, and if he rushed to rescue, he would be led by the nose by the enemy, and he would suffer a loss, so he had to wait a little longer.Although he doesn't know who this opponent is, he still feels that this is not the first time he has fought against each other. The Arjun tank is nothing more than the troops directly under it. It should be said that the level of its commander is still acceptable.

Yahini stood by a table with a map spread out in the headquarters for a long time in a daze, surrounded by many people, all of whom said nothing.

"Commander, the enemy is slaughtering our people, don't we want to save them?" a driver couldn't help shouting.

"If the enemy's situation is unknown, they are dispatched rashly. Do you still want to repeat the same mistakes?" The captain said nonchalantly, "At least wait for the reconnaissance situation, it's too late to go now."

"This……"

"Don't worry, the Indians are gradually losing control of this area. Our intelligence advantage will be revealed. After all, the people are on our side." He himself is from Punjab province and knows the unyielding character of the locals And fierce folk customs, in the past few months, there has been an endless stream of people who have crossed the front line from the Indian-occupied area to deliver information, and guerrillas have also sprung up like mushrooms. Maybe after a while, someone will report the situation.In addition, the scouts he sent out in all directions will definitely be rewarding; relatively speaking, the intelligence capabilities of the Indians are far inferior to him, so it is necessary to make use of strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Sure enough, after waiting for an hour, he received all kinds of information, including that a shepherd and his flock were shot dead by Indian infantry when they were approaching the woods east of the road.The scouts followed the tank track marks left by the enemy in the battle area in the morning and found a blown up Arjun tank. Judging from the serial number, it was the 43rd Indian Armored Regiment. It was indeed an old enemy.The scouts in Danishiwa Village also sent back news that someone saw about 20 lurking tanks in the woods south of the village.

Most of the information points to the same area. From the map, the pine forest 3 kilometers west of the village is indeed an ideal ambush area. When the rescue troops of Danishiwa Village slow down and turn, and the first place is difficult to look at, they can go up the gentle slope from the side. Take advantage of numbers.In order to utilize Arjun's firepower, the Indian commander had to use his brains quite a bit.And judging from the reconnaissance situation, the size of the enemy is much larger than that reported by the 3rd company in the morning.Yahini saw his own car commanders around him, and they all shook their heads and whispered, as if they were a little doubtful about whether they could win this battle, but he himself knew more and more clearly that he could win.

"Okay, brothers, be quiet." He beckoned everyone to listen to himself.

"To sum up all the information, I dare say that the enemy is a large-scale army, maybe 50 to 60 tanks, otherwise they would not dare to rampage in this area. And we only have 15 tanks for the time being." He judged beyond doubt Dao said, "It is known that there are two types of tanks. There may be a company of T2, at least 55 Arjun tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles and other fire support vehicles. The equipment is more complete than ours."

As he spoke, he looked around to see if anyone wanted to add his opinion. It was quiet all around, and no one wanted to speak.When Yahini said that the enemy was fully equipped, he meant that his combined forces had no supporting firepower, and the headquarters only had towed artillery, which he could not want; while the opponent seemed to have a self-propelled mortar with a large caliber.

"Battalion Commander, they set us a trick. We might as well attack from the side. We'll catch him off guard," said a vehicle commander.

"It should be fully considered. Since they are veterans, they will concentrate their firepower on the side of the road where they thought we would appear, just like the ambush of the 3rd company in the morning, and our strength is insufficient and cannot be dispersed." The captain did not directly say his own Ideas, but wait for the opinions of subordinates in a persuasive manner.

"In that case, we can only fight head-to-head. Our armor and firepower are superior."

"But fighting in the woods, the distance will be very close, and if the enemy releases smoke, the fighting distance will be even closer. In this way, our armor and firepower advantage..." Someone retorted.

"If this is the case, we can take advantage of the opportunity of the thermal imaging camera to penetrate the smoke to capture the target, and the enemy cannot use the infrared reconnaissance channel at any time for 360° observation, and Arjun's turret rotates too slowly, which is not suitable for close combat It will inevitably lead to passiveness." Another driver said.The pre-battle meeting is quickly turning into an active brainstorming session.

"Hehe, we can also launch smoke at the same time to completely confuse them and offset their numerical advantage."

"I suggest that we can send a force in front of them to attract their attention and make the enemy dizzy and confused about the direction of our main force."

"That's right, when they come to their senses, we've already dealt with half of their troops." Someone cheered.

"And we can use our firepower and frontal armor as much as possible." Another person took over the above topic.

"Our infantry can play a greater role in the jungle. We can use trees as cover, approach enemy tanks and use rocket launchers to destroy them." Said the infantry commander who had been unable to speak.

Those who participated in the meeting were all veterans who had survived many battles. Naturally, the opinions they could put forward would not be divorced from reality. Discussing tactics, the setbacks in the morning made many people even more dejected, and the enthusiastic atmosphere at the moment made him sincerely happy.

"Very well, let's do it like this. We don't have extra strength to deal with them, so we will compete with them at close range."

After Yahini made the final decision, all the crews returned to the chariot excitedly, looking high-spirited.He has rarely fought fiercely against superior enemies at close range, which means giving up many technical advantages, but he firmly believes that suddenness is the shortcut to victory in wars, so he did so.

As a step to divert the enemy's attention, one of his mechanized infantry companies and the last T80 platoon went straight to Danishiwa Village from the route the enemy thought they had. Smoke is raised to attract the enemy's attention, creating the illusion that a large force is approaching.

Sandor has served as a teacher of armored tactics courses at the Indian Armored Forces Academy for more than ten years. He was once known as the most theoretical armored commander in India. What he will face again is Yahini, who only has a middle school degree. Yeluzi tactics.The colonel stood on the tank vigorously, holding up the binoculars, and was a little puzzled at the smoke rising from the northeast direction: Why did the enemy shrink back?Could it be that he had seen through his plan, and thought again, that the battle he fought in the morning was indeed too beautiful, maybe it frightened them, and it is very reasonable for them to be a little timid at the moment, he looked at his watch and decided Get in touch with the command first, maybe ask for some air support.After the first battle in the morning, he ran around for several hours without having time to report the results to his superiors. He thought that the battered General Meneam would like this report. Go in a hurry, mainly rely on the naked eye of the MiG-27.

Lieutenant General Meneyam, who was being suspicious in Srinagar, had no time to listen to reports of engagements in secondary areas, but someone in the staff department submitted the schematic diagram of the enemy's envisioned battle line captured by Sandor, which is indeed doubtful.Generally speaking, the Pakistani Army will take the initiative to break away from the Indian front because they do not have enough supplies and troops to maintain combat engagement.

After hearing Sandor tell him on the radio that the enemy dispatched an armored force using main tanks, but after he wiped them out, the lieutenant general's heart tightened, not because his subordinates wiped out a company, but because the enemy seemed to be very Take this action seriously.

The lieutenant general was about to make further inquiries when Sandel reported that there was a new battle at his place. The call was suddenly cut off, leaving the curious lieutenant general four hundred kilometers away alone.He hurriedly asked the nearest unit to send an unmanned reconnaissance plane to reconnaissance, but the 28th Division replied that it had to wait 25 minutes before dispatching the reconnaissance plane.

In the area west of Dani Shiva Village, the chaotic battle has already begun, and it is doomed to be irreversible.

Yahini's tank took the lead and rushed to the front of the queue. His gunner Tasim kept aiming at an armored vehicle that appeared and disappeared behind the high and low hills. This is the latest Russian-made BTR that appeared on the battlefield -80 wheeled tank, faster than most of the old armored vehicles.He uses a wider field of view to track the movement of the target. Dealing with such a dexterous wheeled target at a long distance is quite a test of the gunner's level, especially on such undulating terrain, the horizontal velocity of the target is always changing. For angular velocity tracking solutions Calculating the amount in advance is a hassle.However, he was an experienced gunner, so he simply gave up the calculation of the ballistic computer and aimed the aiming sight at a point that the enemy must pass through.

The enemy armored vehicle has obviously seen the sudden appearance of a large group of Pakistani tanks. The low-slung vehicle body was well concealed by the terrain here, but the driver was eager to get out and tried to take a shortcut and climb over the high slope, which made its movement direction different from that of the enemy. The lines of fire remained consistent, and for a short period of time, the Pakistani gunners could assume the enemy was stationary, although not long enough for range finding and standard distraction aiming.

Tasim glanced at the jumping ranging numbers, and with experience, raised the muzzle, and then decisively disconnected the gun.The fired shells follow the target with an almost straight trajectory.At the moment when the opponent thought he was finally out of danger, he pierced through the target from tail to head.

Sandel was listening to the reconnaissance vehicle deployed 2 kilometers behind the side to report on the new enemy situation. A few seconds after the communication was interrupted, an explosion came from the southwest direction.He turned his head and looked over there, but couldn't see anything.It seems that the reconnaissance vehicle was destroyed. It just reported the discovery of the enemy, and it was too late to inform the number and nature of the enemy, and it was over.

"Tell the reconnaissance platoon to support the rear defense line and report the enemy's situation at any time." He calmly ordered, and then continued to hold up the binoculars to observe the billowing smoke and dust in front of him as if nothing had happened. The enemy seemed to be slowing down several hundred meters. Soon to be in his ambush circle.

"Company B and Company C must only fire after I give the order. Do you understand? Don't be disturbed by movements from other directions. Your only mission is to wipe out the frontal enemy." He added an order.Due to Arjun's low cross-country speed, when chasing the T80UD in the morning, the opponent's last few vehicles escaped, and at the same time caused the only loss in this battle-one Arjun tank damaged the gear box when going down a steep slope and broke down. Self-destructing and discarding, this made him very regretful, so he hoped that this ambush must wait until all the targets have completely entered the ambush circle before attacking, leaving no time for the enemy to escape.

Yahini, who was a few kilometers away, knew that there was no time left for the opponent to judge the situation and make adjustments. His tank company maintained the maximum cross-country speed and rushed towards the enemy's ambush area, and slowly expanded its formation.He didn't need to arrange all this, and his veterans fully understood it.

He saw the formation of the formation from the data link, and he was very satisfied.Not a single crew fell behind, hiding behind someone else's armor, and not a single crew ran in the wrong direction.

(End of this chapter)