Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 528 The Elephant and the Poisonous Snake

Like other optical methods, laser ranging is greatly restricted in the smoke, but Tasim can still measure the distance and azimuth of some shallower targets of the enemy. These data can also be transmitted to other tanks through the data link, but it is different from the The battlefield situation obtained by the early warning aircraft is different. These data are not updated, nor can they display the characteristics of the target, the exact number, and the target does not move. They just stay in place as a light point that may appear repeatedly in different areas.

Although the value is not great, Yahini can still get a general idea of ​​the current enemy situation from the large amount of enemy position information sent back by the outflanking vehicles, so as to make a response, and the rest of the vehicles can also use this information to understand The location information of the enemy and the neighbors in the face, to maximize the prevention of accidental injury and coordinated shooting, (to avoid shooting a target at the same time), which is of great significance for the first round of salvo.It must be ensured that after the salvo is fired, it will not be effectively counterattacked by the enemy.

During this period, some [-] tanks retreated a little to keep the distance from the enemy's observation limit in the smoke, because as the guns fired and the barrels heated up, the enemy's Arjun might observe some signs. Difference.

"Company commander, an Arjun has been observed." A chariot on the side reported.

"Only one? It seems that they are still ambush in the north. If you guess correctly, this Arjun is their headquarters' car."

Yahini said he was slightly disappointed.Generally speaking, for a tank group of this size, there will be a platoon-level command headquarters, and the head of the tank is probably on top of one of the Arjun tanks. Of course, in the smoke, it is impossible to distinguish the command tanks, so we can find 3 or 4 tanks. If so, it can be roughly guaranteed to completely annihilate it.The significance of eliminating the headquarters is great. In any battle with any Indian army, almost all of them can receive extreme effects. Even the most elite Indian troops are prone to collapse after losing their command.Rather than relying on command and organization, the Indians feared at any moment that their commanders would abandon them and flee.

"Aim at the nearest target in front of each other, and fire after 30 seconds. Shoot the Arjun tank first, and pay attention to the commander's position."

He specifically reminded.

As Yahini gave the order to fire at will after 30 seconds, each team began to turn the turrets to aim at their current targets. Of course, there is no reason why such close-range shooting cannot be missed, and the T55, which lacks observation means, is still at a loss. Rotate the turret.

Yahini couldn't deploy everything comprehensively, so he could only arrange a unified firing time.The first round must stun the enemy, which is also his deep experience.Judging from his experience, both the Indian and Pakistani armies are easily disintegrated quickly in the first blow. He heard that the Chinese army is better, but I don't know if it is true.

"Infantry company, what's going on with you?"

"We just got off the car, and we are not close to the deployment area. It is so quiet at the moment, and we can't find you for the time being."

"Don't be too careless, continue to deploy to the designated location in the south as planned, keep the defense line as far away from us as possible, and don't participate in the battle here."

"clear."

Yahini was worried that the infantry would accidentally injure their own tanks under poor visual conditions, or that the smoke grenades or shrapnel fired by the tanks would injure nearby infantry. This situation has happened countless times in previous battles.Therefore, most of the plans he made will avoid excessive step-tank coordination, so as not to drag each other down.In addition, the reason why he deliberately diverted the T80UD to execute the secondary direction is also to prevent unnecessary accidental injuries. After all, the single Type 99 tank can be distinguished in outline.

He raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, it was the last few seconds before he was scheduled to fire.
"Tassim, don't shoot the first round of shooting."

"why?"

"Wait a few more seconds, wait for our people to make mistakes, and you will make up for it. You are the best gunner, and I can only trust you in this kind of thing."

"Is that so?"

Although he was unwilling, Yahini's words still spoke to Tasim's heart.Tasim gave up the opportunity to be a platoon leader, and followed this guy who was two years younger than him to continue to be a gunner. The main reason was that he had a lot of trust in his ghost ideas.

In an instant, the entire tank company opened fire, and the sound of cannon resounded through the jungle.This time the fire was launched from a huge fan-shaped formation, just like a shooting execution.The T55, which was transferred by the enemy to defend the flank, finally received the death notice after a long period of silence and fear. In a vast white forest, the entire company was easily destroyed.

Yahini turned the surrounding mirror to quickly distinguish the situation in front of him. It can be seen that not every target stopped moving, drooped the barrel or exploded. In the chaotic thermal imager, these features are the enemy's heavy bullets. Obviously, several Type 99 tanks hit some targets repeatedly, causing other targets to slip through the net.

"Hold on, watch me."

Yahini calmly turned the scope, searching for and killing targets like a submarine captain hidden deep in the seabed. Under normal circumstances, the tank commander needs to indicate the target and fire as quickly as possible. This style is the same as slow Looking for targets, stopping from time to time to use a ruler on the chart to calculate the torpedo corner, the submarine commander is completely different, but Yahini's realm allows him to do some unconventional actions in order to achieve something that other commanders simply cannot Reach for tactical intent.

"Look, see that square box?"

He pressed the left hand mark button so that the gunner could see the indicated target.

"It looks like the front of an Arjun." Tasim said while measuring the distance, but unfortunately it failed. The laser failed to penetrate the smoke from both sides. The hot smoke filled the jungle for a long time and did not dissipate. Shooting is a double-edged sword.However, the gunner knows that at a distance of about 300 meters, he can use the sight rigidly connected to the barrel to refer to the front sight for direct, non-disturbing fire.

The enemy is shaking the gun barrel left and right, obviously making final fine-tuning, which is a sign of capturing the target. From the perspective, he may have aimed at a 99 tank on the flank.

Tasim hastily aimed the crosshairs at the position of the huge gunner's observation mirror on the left side of the front of the Arjun tank turret. Logically, there are both the gunner and the commander standing behind it, but he once got into the destroyed Arjun tank. After investigation, it is not easy to penetrate this weak position to kill two people at the same time, especially because the commander is short, so he lowered the crosshairs and aimed at the lower wedge-shaped armor. The location is more deadly.

With a loud noise that shook the ground, the Type 99 fired a tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile before the enemy.The tiny cannonballs flung off the bullet holder, and hit the hardest, thickest, and sloping piece of armor of the Arjun tank, sparking a burst of sparks in an instant.

On the MKII tank of the command platoon, the thickness of this piece of armor is more than 550 mm, but the tungsten core ammunition still tenaciously drilled through a small hole, killing all the flesh and blood in the rear.

Sandel's command had lost half of its troops within ten seconds, but he also caught the frontal opponent in a calm search, and immediately instructed the driver to reverse, and at the same time let the gunner aim at the target.He could see through the surrounding mirror that it was a small target on the front of the turret, but it was obviously not a low-slung T80UD, which made him slightly relieved. The T80's front armor plus reactive armor is Arjun's bigger head Yes, and this 99 does not seem to have reactive armor.

"Wait for it to turn a little more," he ordered.

However, the gunner was confronted with the opponent at such a distance, and his nerves were almost broken. He chose to fire immediately after the Type 99 barrel turned a small angle, and because he did not understand the structure of this tank, he chose The wedge armor is located more forward.

At a distance of 250 meters, a shell-piercing shell with an aspect ratio of less than 6 flew directly to Yahini's 99 tank.The single core of this armor-piercing bullet is thicker than ordinary armor-piercing bullets, and it has high-speed rotation, and the movement and movement are more special when it hits.After a blunt impact sound, the shell was thrown aside by the sloped armored shell.

Yahini immediately searched for targets in the direction of the impact, and saw a target that was rapidly disappearing into smoke, indicating that it was retreating.However, the efficiency of thermal imaging cameras is declining. Considering the huge results of the first round and the declining cooling effect of the thermal imaging cameras of each vehicle group, he decided to temporarily retire.

At this time, Arjun Company, which was ordered to retreat from the ambush position, was approaching the headquarters area.When the company commander climbed out of the turret, he could only see a large amount of smoke in the battle zone from a distance, unable to distinguish the situation at all, and what was even more frightening was that he could not call the headquarters.Based on the most accurate situation that an excellent field commander can analyze temporarily, he judges that his headquarters should be surrounded by the enemy from east to southeast. It is better to carry out a bolder anti-outflank to attack the enemy's side rear.

His calm deduction is not wrong at all, but he forgot that the opponent has more time than he to speculate on his reaction and plan countermeasures in advance. At this moment, infantry carrying a large number of anti-tank weapons are casting a large net in the jungle and waiting for the lack of The tanks covered by the infantry broke through. No matter whether he was directly approaching the combat zone or wanted to play an outflank, there were people waiting for him.

As Company C approached, the snipers who had climbed up the tree had noticed the Indian commander on the third tank who was holding up a telescope and talking on the phone from time to time.According to common sense on the battlefield, the Indian company commander should appear in the first three tanks.So the sniper with only one M16 rifle hid behind the branches and leaves, waiting for the enemy to approach.

The action of Indian tanks rushing through the jungle behind is undoubtedly a gamble for the isolated tank unit, especially for Arjun, who is not very maneuverable.

At this moment, Pakistani veterans can lurk almost motionless a dozen meters beside the tank tracks and let them pass to wait for the right moment.In order to increase the observation range in the damn woods, the Indian commanders got out of the turret one after another.It was too late when they saw figures flashing in and out of the woods.A duo using an old-fashioned 40mm bazooka is far more likely to spot an opponent in the jungle than a behemoth armed with a remote-controlled machine gun and fire first.

The nearby snipers and machine gunners fired together, regardless of whether they hit or not, they could force the opponent's vehicle commander to get into the turret to avoid, which made the opponent's observation ability lose most of it.

The Pakistani shooters knew that the weapons in their hands were not enough to injure the 60-ton monster from the front, but when the opponent's huge turret turned chaotically, they could still feel how frightened and helpless the people inside were.An unequal engagement ensues between the world's oldest 40 bazooka (Yahini's troops couldn't even make a decent anti-tank bazooka) and the world's most expensive tank, a Viper The battle with elephants is also a contest of courage and patience.

The first team to rush forward easily approached the right side of the first tank, and at a distance of 15 meters, a rocket hit the storage fence on the side of the turret.This is an area of ​​weak armor.However, the angle was not good and it failed to penetrate, and the exposed group was killed by the second tank with parallel machine guns.

But this blow attracted the attention of all the Indian tanks in the front row to the right, and it can be seen that their barrels turned to the right together, appearing uniform.

Another team on the left fired a second round from the bushes and hit the left water radiator of the second tank, an insignificant component with weaker armor, but as the jet passed through it, it hit the left side of the tank. One turn, the outboard diesel tank was drilled, destroying both the oil radiator and the main clutch.

The 0-ton tank was immediately unable to move, like a pile of roadblocks standing still.Several Arjun tanks had to collectively turn their barrels to shoot at the burning grass (ignited by the bazooka), but taking advantage of the slow rotation of the Arjun turret, the group had already escaped like hell.

The paralysis of the second tank made the entire line of tanks blocked, and they were forced to detour to find their own way forward. Since the commander of the tank had been shot and killed in the first round of attacks, this time the formation changed and became chaotic.

Some vehicles rammed recklessly, obscuring the field of vision and firing range of their own vehicles, which compromised its greatest advantage against infantry—the firepower of the remote-controlled machine gun on the top, while at the same time quite agreeing to expose its own side.In addition, the design flaws of Arjun tanks and these MK2 tanks have prominent power loss problems at low speeds, which makes them particularly clumsy in undulating areas that need to slow down, start, and turn from time to time, and where the soil is loose.

Approaching the Pakistani death squads from nearby is almost exchanging their lives for one or two shooting opportunities. The Indian tankers who fought back blindly used shrapnel launchers to launch smoke grenades and extremely lethal close-range ammunition from time to time to carry out self-inflicted attacks. Protect.Some groups that got too close were instantly wiped out, and some were crushed into meatloaf by retreating enemy tanks.But the wrong smoke release also makes the tank's already narrow field of vision more compromised, and the cooperation between vehicles is also more difficult.

So far, no Arjun has been completely destroyed, but the Pakistani shooters have become more and more patient.It is not difficult for them to observe that in this big and small confrontation, the advantage is slipping to the infantry, at least they can see it more clearly.

(End of this chapter)