Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 577 Interception Operation
Lin Huaisheng simply climbed to the top of the command vehicle and observed the surrounding troops with binoculars.The troops behind are arriving one after another, and the convoy with simple camouflage nets is moving forward on the road.They will soon be squeezed together with the vehicle in front, unable to move.

Vehicles such as tanks and armored vehicles that do not rely on roads can still move freely in the fields for the time being, and they can also wade across certain designated rivers.

The tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the 1st Armored Division in the south have successfully crossed the river (in the wrong place) but the artillery and supplies are still in place and cannot pass.Due to the strict enforcement of battlefield communication discipline, the correspondents who delivered the news rode motorcycles in the wild like headless chickens.

The 6th Armored Division in the north was even more chaotic. The only thing that was alive was the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns deployed on the mounds that were often separated by a certain distance. Only the warning mines on the top of their turrets were constantly rotating.The area air defense missiles are not yet in place, and these systems that can fight independently can temporarily support the low-altitude defense, which makes Lin Huaisheng feel a little relieved.

"It's really overestimating them, and the efficiency is too low." Lin Huaisheng laughed loudly as he spoke.He really did not expect that after a long and careful planning, such a situation would happen in the first deployment of the troops.

"Boss Lin, what's so funny about this?" a bystander asked confusedly.

"We have been stuck here for a long time, and the Indian Air Force has not been dispatched. In your opinion, is this considered inefficient?"

As soon as the voice fell, the air defense alarm sounded on the east bank, and then the alarm sounded one after another, stretching to the west bank.

He quickly jumped out of the command vehicle and moved to an open area. This is a trick he learned in Quetta. When encountering an air attack, stay away from the command vehicle.I saw flames bursting into the sky at the bridgehead on the opposite bank, and the sky was instantly covered with black barrages, which were 35mm anti-aircraft guns firing.Then the Indian cruise missile approaching screaming turned into a ball of fire and fell into a wilderness.

This seems to be the first counterattack by the Indians. The weapons they used are intriguing. It seems that they have no targeted method, so they can only counterattack symbolically?
"It doesn't seem like it's coming for us?"

"Maybe it's just a passing missile?"

"Mr. Lin. Good news." A staff officer ran over, "The main tank regiment of the 6th Division just passed by from diving."

Lin Huaisheng looked at his watch, and he didn't know how much later than the scheduled time, so let's consider it good news.

"How about Younis in the 1st Armored Division?"

"I heard that the headquarters passed by in the morning. If there is no smooth radio communication, I'm afraid I won't be able to find it for a while."

Seeing that Lin Huaisheng was still hesitating, the staff officer hurriedly said, "I think it's difficult to keep such a large-scale transfer secret. If it is delayed until night, the follow-up troops will be blocked here."

"Okay then, we must hurry up to restore the radio contact of the headquarters above the battalion. Also, the pontoon facilities must be sent up first, and the channel must be widened." He thought for a while and added: "Let Yahini's independence The tank battalion continues to penetrate, they are all locals, and it is easier to collect intelligence than Wang Zhenbei."

"Mr. Lin, if the Indians fight back now, we can suffer with long-range rocket launchers."

"No, I bet they haven't figured out the situation yet. Besides, we have the air force to protect us." He looked up at the blue sky with confidence, and there was no one in the sky. plane.

The first stage of the entire operation was so bad that it was almost beyond his expectations. He specially chose a night to start the operation. He originally wanted to surprise the enemy, but the enemy was still in a daze. Instead, he himself was the first to surprise.

The superior transferred him to be the commander-in-chief of the former enemy only because he had experience in fighting the Indian Army, but the superior ignored one thing. Lin Huaisheng did not have the experience of leading the Pakistani army in combat. Yaohua was better than him last week in this regard, but it was limited. .Lin himself had some reservations about the capabilities of the Pakistan Army, so in the first phase of operations, only the two most elite armored divisions were mobilized. A stubble, and the lack of basic organizational skills.Perhaps it was Yahini's independent tank unit that gave him a great illusion. He thought that even if he could make a half, the rest of the Pakistani army could still fight.Younis once reminded him that Yahini's troops had been serving as firefighting teams in the north, and that was actually the only unit that the [-]st Armored Division could pull out to fight. Lin Huaisheng thought it was polite.

Of course, having said that, as long as the Chenab River is crossed, there will be a vast plain ahead, which is very suitable for mechanized troops to fight.

Xu Jingzhe just encouraged him through satellite communication. He said that a delay of half a day might not matter too much, because the battle between Aksai Chin and Assam had already started ahead of time, especially in Assam, the battle for the Sigurd Passage. The feint was carried out with great fanfare, and the enemy was forced to shrink back against Darjeeling.In addition, the opponent deliberately intercepted the falsified recording of the secret conversation of the Bangladesh Chief of Staff, in which the recording agreed to the Chinese Army's entry into the country's northern territory, with the intention of threatening Calcutta.If India cannot obtain more critical intelligence, it is bound to be unclear about the three-sided offensive and which aspects are the main direction of attack.

Since Assam's offensive threatens the eastern city of Calcutta, and the offensive launched from Aksai Chin is directed at New Delhi, this will obviously make Indian decision-makers anxious.If they are calm enough to think from the opponent's point of view, they may be able to realize that due to terrain problems, the offensive launched by these two aspects is actually unsustainable, but Lin Huaisheng has always been very confident in the Indians' misjudgment.According to his observations, the upper echelons of India have always been wrong in judging the direction of the main threat. Those who can be fooled for the first time will definitely be fooled for the second time. This is determined by his thinking habits.

Xu Jingzhe was really not too worried about Lin Huai making such a fool, he just sent necessary reminders and warnings to his superiors or frontline troops based on the necessary information.And on this busy and chaotic morning, he did get a lot of information about the mobilization of Indian troops. India's large early warning aircraft and fighter jets of the Lion Squadron have all been mobilized eastward, apparently in response to the threat of Assam.But in Punjab this line, but unusually quiet.Communications at a corps headquarters actually remaining in Amritsar were less active than usual.At the moment when about 3.5 people in Lin Huaisheng are trapped by a river, the Indian chooses to turn a blind eye, so he can only wait for a drone that stays in the air for a long time to conduct a second search today to see the enemy artillery Field and tactical missile units.

A high-altitude drone slowly approached Lahore controlled by the Indian Army.It will conduct reconnaissance on the movement of Indian troops in this area without provoking the dispatch of the Indian Air Force as much as possible.Of course, due to the altitude it occupies close to 2 meters, the defense range of the sky missile system deployed in Lahore has been limited to a small piece of sky above the missile's head.This is a new challenge that India rarely faces, which allows it to cruise calmly in the gaps between various enemy air defense points that are not very maneuverable.

Throughout the morning, the China-Pakistan coalition forces only dispatched a few reconnaissance planes, just to avoid alerting the enemy. However, this drone carries a synthetic aperture radar that can replace ordinary optical sensors for active search in a wide range, and it is also equipped with a The Taichung medium-thrust turbofan engine can quickly sweep across the enemy's entire front for reconnaissance, and its efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary drones.Behind it, there is even a zdk-03 early warning aircraft for support.

At noon, India fired several cruise missiles to the west of the Chenab River. Two of them fell into the anti-aircraft artillery positions and were shot down after lowering the altitude. Another one flew to Sago along another route. Da.Lin Huaisheng wanted to find out whether this attack meant that the enemy had noticed that the ground offensive had begun. He had always been lucky, thinking that the missile was not attacking the bridgehead, but just happened to be flying in this area according to the set route, so it hit his own Flak.

The imaging data scanned by the synthetic aperture radar was transmitted to the headquarters through the data link, and no abnormalities were found.The ground troops, the three front-line Indian divisions that will be faced have not been mobilized, the known howitzer positions are still in place, and the radars of the air defense positions also stay at the previous position.Only the tactical missile unit, the latest addition to the 3th Infantry Division, disappeared.This missile battalion is equipped with an unknown number of land missiles that are towed by the 9X8 chassis. Not long ago, the Pakistani Air Force touched the Mirage V fighter jets to carry out an attack. The results of this attack are unknown, and the shadow fighters were shot down by sky missiles. .After that, they were like frightened birds, always in a blind maneuver.

Sammy sat in the early warning aircraft and served as the first commander of the air cover today.Sitting in a slow plane, of course this is not what he wants, but it is also the best way he can think of to maintain close combat between the Chinese and Pakistani air forces.

Islam has disappeared so far, and his superiors have given up hope whether he will survive.Today, a large number of Chinese warplanes are returning to Pakistan.Sami has become the most important part of the air force, and only he has enough qualifications to keep the air force's right to speak in the joint command system.

Song Ning, who returned to this land, stayed at the ground command post at the moment, serving as the ground command, which was lower than Sami in terms of command level, but some Chinese aircraft had to be coordinated by him, which is why this early warning aircraft did not become a command aircraft s reason.

In the future command system, Sami and Song Ning will cooperate closely, but they cannot appear in one place at the same time.If two people are involved in the same battle at the same time, no matter who is in the AWACS, the ground command post or the fighter plane, the other person must avoid this place. This is the lesson learned from the fact that Islam was shot down.The maturity of technology ensures that the commander can grasp the whole situation in any position, and then conduct command.In fact, in previous battles, Sami has commanded fighter jets more than once.

The Thunder fighter jets in the air are preparing for mid-air refueling. The newly delivered locally manufactured fighters have a refueling tube, which greatly increases the tactical capabilities of this light fighter.

Sami reminded the Il-78 tanker to go higher and avoid the clouds. Those young pilots kept complaining that they could not find the tanker.

If there is a battle, of course, these inexperienced guys can't be relied on. They just need to pounce on the enemy after discovering the enemy's situation, and fire a round of medium-range bombs to delay the enemy's movement.The real fight to solve the problem.It is bound to be handed over to the Chinese Air Force.Song Ning returned here again, bringing fighter jets from 2 regiments, and various types of Chinese fighter planes arriving one after another, gathering secretly at the northern airport. All the Chinese fighter planes did not take off on standby on the first day of the ground offensive.Since there is only a narrow strip left in Pakistan, the launch is easily detected by NATO ground radars stationed in Afghanistan, and the NATO army will inevitably tip off the Indians.

"The owl called the wild wolf. I found the enemy's flying snakes moving from north to south along the border." Sammy called the ground with a new call sign, "I judge. This is a harbinger of their fighter jets."

"I'm a wild wolf. I've seen it." Song Ning replied on the ground.

"There is no movement from the Srinagar Trident. Fighters will definitely take off from the deep airfield."

"Is it a lion or an eagle?"

"The Lions have just been transferred to West Bengal, and the Eagles are in New Delhi. They will not be dispatched easily. It is probably the Tiger Squadron." Sami made an analysis calmly. At least sitting in the cabin of an early warning aircraft is more comfortable than that of a fighter jet.However, he had already made up his mind that the next time Song Ning was to sit here, he could switch to a fighter jet.

700 kilometers away, two Mirage 2 fighter-bombers are flying straight to the target.The speed of the target is relatively fast, and the time spent in the air is surprisingly long, which is really a serious problem.Since the radar cannot distinguish the model, fighter planes must be dispatched to solve the problem.Given the current predicament of the Indian Air Force, they can only send the remaining Mirage 2000s to this secondary command to carry out this mission.

Sami hasn't seen the phantom approaching yet, but he can see two planes coming from the north on the radar monitor, and they seem to be landing at an airport in the hinterland. The two planes are flying very carefully in formation, obviously avoiding the Kabul U.S. military radar, but the major general cannot obtain more characteristic information, which rarely happened before. This early warning aircraft is made in China, and there has never been a problem of data link compatibility with Chinese fighters.

"Wild Wolf, this is Owl. I saw a batch of unrecognizable fighters. Is it yours?"

"Yes, that is a new transfer, and it is specially used to intercept the high-speed fighter jet of the MiG-25. I haven't had time to inform you yet."

Song Ning replied proudly, obviously quite satisfied with his good cards, of course, additionally, if he could make the polished commander who was promoted to major general envious, it would also be something that would make him very happy.The so-called high-speed fighter actually refers to the Su-35.

Sammy was silent for a while. This was a moment worth appreciating. At least Indians wanted to compare themselves with Pakistan. Behind him was China.

(End of this chapter)