Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 633 The plan succeeds again

China's ultra-long-range rocket launchers have been deployed in the Ladakh zone, and their coverage is shown on the map as a circular arc with a range as the radius. This line is drawn a few kilometers south of Chandigarh.At present, the enemies in a dense formation are quickly crossing this arc, but the White Tiger Division that Lin Huaisheng most wants to solve at once has not assembled, and even cannot find the positions of several regiments. If it cannot be solved this time In the future, Spanga is bound to be more careful and difficult in mobilization.But it seems that there is no time to hesitate, because the Pakistani troops can't resist it face to face.In a few hours, they have lost a lot of technical equipment.

A large number of Indian infantry fighting vehicles and tanks are meeting with companies and battalions as units, but they are desperately charging. The Indian military officers instilled a new theory into the soldiers-the enemy's technological superiority is at night. It doesn't exist anymore, so the Indian army should take advantage of being good at fighting at night.

On the 30-kilometer-wide front, nearly a thousand combat vehicles and 4 soldiers roared into battle, and their supporting artillery fire could reach a distance of less than 60 meters from the front of the assault troops, advancing as the troops advanced. It was a courage and a skill in coordination rarely displayed by other Indian armies.

Lin Huaisheng knew that he had to either transfer Wang Zhenbei's main force to fight recklessly, or choose a long-range coverage; the Air Force can't count on it too much. Before more information is collected and the situation becomes clear, they must always keep at least half of their troops to guard against the US military. , because once the U.S. military's stealthy air force gets in, it may destroy some key nodes, and some air force will be used to suppress Meneam's army, making him unable to move freely in his own defense zone.

In the end, Lin Huaisheng decided to take a two-pronged approach, but still let the Pakistanis retreat a little, which can increase the confusion of some enemies.There are signs that Spanga will withdraw his troops back to the starting position before dawn and continue to resume a flexible confrontation with the Chinese army about 10 kilometers away from Chandigarh. A shrewd and cunning man like him, It is possible to see that the Chinese army wants the airfield, so he should use his troops to repeatedly scramble around the airfield to achieve his goal of exhausting the opponent.

The Pakistani army began to retreat quickly along the road to escape the extended artillery fire of the opponent.The trailing Indian army followed closely without relaxing.The various vehicles of these troops gradually approached the road, and the retreat of the Pakistanis was obviously too flustered, and they did not damage or block the road.

The brigade headquarters of India's 2nd Armored Brigade, surrounded by several companies of tanks, crossed the invisible line of life and death drawn by Lin Huaisheng in the early hours of the morning, but the headquarters still maintained radio silence, making it temporarily impossible for electronic reconnaissance troops to detect to its existence.

Ajanan, the field information director of India's Asia News Agency, also rushed forward with the unit. He stood on a 4-wheel drive jeep provided by the army and could see the flickering flames ahead. The driver arranged by the brigade told him , it is only about 4 to 5 kilometers away from the enemy's rear guard.Ajanan couldn't hold back his excitement, and broadcast the progress of this critical battle live to the rear by dictation. He is currently the reporter in India who is closest to the war zone and has not disappeared. Due to the need for confidentiality, he cannot carry the broadcast vehicle and camera equipment.

Ajanan yelled at the headquarters in New Delhi from a marine phone to drown out the sound of gunfire around him. In fact, many media organizations around the world were broadcasting his live voice at the same time:

There are burning enemy tanks everywhere, our artillery fire has been fighting for 2 hours, and now the situation is clear.After destroying the enemy's jamming facilities, communication began to flow.The deputy brigade commander told me that the Chinese army always firmly controls the electromagnetic power on the battlefield, unless they show signs of being unable to support it, so now their front is showing signs of collapse.

The military told me that we were chasing the Pakistani 6th Armored Division. Yes, you must remember this devil army. Their appalling atrocities have been spread all over the world in the past 2 weeks, including attacks on transporting civilians in Punjab The massacre of prisoners of war at Botankot, and various crimes against civilians in various places they arrived, have been recorded as atrocities second only to the Pakistani 1st Armored Division.

It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Justice has identified 6 Pakistani military units for organized crime and crimes against humanity yesterday morning. According to this new judicial interpretation, if their members are captured, they will be treated as members of a criminal organization , not applicable to the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.

As he was speaking, piercing howitzer shells flew over his head and flew towards the west, and there was another light behind the mountain, and the sound of explosion came ten seconds later.

"This is Ajanan, Field News Director, AsiaNews. Can you hear me?"

"I can only see part of General Spanga's full-scale counterattack, but it can be seen that the morale of our army is high. Can you hear the shouts of the soldiers? It's so exciting. The convoy of the brigade and the soldiers of the communication unit I am advancing, yes, I have just passed through the mud 50 meters to my right, Brigadier General Safuli waved to all the soldiers who were advancing, and the soldiers responded with shouts. Obviously, such a move to the front line in person will inspire our army to be more high-spirited Morale."

750 kilometers away, there is a TV set in the corner of Xu Jingzhe's office, playing CNN's live broadcast, but he has been burying himself in sorting out all kinds of information, never looking up at the TV. In the CNN live room, you can hear the reports from the Indian journalists on the front line transmitted by the communication satellite; it is 2 pm Washington time at this time, but since the whole world is paying attention to the changes in the war situation, major TV stations are still interrupting the broadcast various news.

Reporter Ajanan is still passionately announcing to the world that India's counterattack has won an unprecedented victory.

Xu Jingzhe stopped what he was doing, slowly raised his head, and looked at an officer opposite him through his reading glasses.

"Heard what he said just now, did he see the vehicles of the 2nd Armored Brigade Headquarters? Didn't you all fail to monitor the callsign all afternoon?"

"Yes, we can immediately locate his phone and adjust the focus of our firepower."

After the officer finished speaking, he got up and left immediately. He had to contact the Rocket Artillery Brigade immediately to strengthen some spare firepower that was ready to be put into the second round of strikes on the head of the enemy command.

Chinese drones continue to monitor the enemy's aggressive advances as always, completely disregarding losses. The average survival time of medium-sized drones flying at low altitudes over the battlefield is only a few minutes. However, large drones in the airspace above 15000 meters can survive well.The farther the enemy advances to the east, the less capable the S300 system in Ambala is against high-altitude targets.However, the high-altitude drones observed that those air defense controls were not good, and the brightly lit troops quickly gathered together, and then crowded every road going west, wheeled tanks entered the road, and tanks Then drive in the farmland on both sides, forming a mighty long dragon.Although the queue was a bit chaotic, it was not blocked and unable to move. It can be seen that Spanga strengthened the subject training of the country's night pursuit.

With the support of a mobile-deployed beech surveillance radar, the entire offensive force was confident, and some forward-deployed short-range air defense systems were also detected around it, including Doyle M1, which performed well in this war, and A mediocre Armor S1 system.In addition, there are shoulder-fired missiles that often fly into the sky. It is really difficult for small drones to survive in such a dense fire net.

The fire of destruction on the Himalayas is coming. This is the farthest rocket attack in human history. Compared with the previous one in Assam, the straight-line distance is 280 kilometers. It is 100 kilometers farther to wipe out a battalion of the Indian army. ; In terms of scale, there is a huge difference.

It is really an impossible task to control the lateral circular probability error at such a long flight distance, but the lengthy marching pattern of the Indian army is highly consistent with the shape of the coverage area.

In addition, the advantage of the altitude difference of several thousand meters does not only bring the Chinese artillery an advantage in range. This attack also uses some special mid-section correction techniques. The radar deployed on the snow-capped mountains has been monitoring all these rockets. Its position and attitude information, use the gas control system to correct its trajectory, usually this method can only be used in the initial stage, but with the increase of the radar's own field of view, the control distance of the artillery to the rocket is also pushed to the extreme .The precision control of the rocket's coverage can almost pinch the head and tail, covering the dense convoy that is twisted and moving in the center.

The field news director Ajanan, who was reporting on the field, suddenly heard the explosion, but the distance was very far, almost one kilometer. The driver next to him told him very calmly that based on his experience, it was only the enemy's 122mm howitzer.Then Ajanan heard more shelling, and he could see that these running bombs were coming from behind the hills in the west, and each time the landing point was getting closer and closer, he was a little surprised that since the enemy had already collapsed Why can we still gather firepower to fight back?
"I must tell you that it seems that the enemy has not completely surrendered, and they are still counterattacking with artillery fire. But it can be seen that their artillery has fired very hastily. It did not pose any threat to our army." The director suddenly noticed that the soldiers in the north There are some changes in the sky, and the clouds are turning red, as if the gushing sun is about to rise from the Himalayas. This is a strange experience, because the sun will not rise from that direction, and only those who have seen it can see it. At that moment, I realized the weirdness in it.

The rockets fell from the sky, immediately forming a sea of ​​flames, covering the moving convoy. The first to arrive were incendiary submunitions and fragmentation bombs. It is a cloud bomb that is enough to destroy the people inside the vehicle; while the terminal sensitive bomb with the ability of intelligent homing is still floating in the air, searching for the target.

Lin Huaisheng also began to concentrate his firepower to launch a counterattack against the enemy. He didn't put in all his firepower before, just to give the opponent a false feeling that the opponent was being defeated. In fact, the Pakistani 6th Armored Division really fell into a panic at one point and retreated hastily. Lost a lot of equipment, definitely not pretending to retreat.

Many viewers who were anxiously waiting for the satellite connection heard continuous explosions, but they couldn't wait for Ajanan's voice, and then there was no sound. The host at the scene began to speculate that the reporter had suffered an accident. The military adds to its record of harming journalists, but another guest said that attempts to use powerlessness to silence dissenting voices will never succeed.

Several inconspicuous cruise missiles carrying electromagnetic pulse bombs exploded near the enemy convoy cluster. They controlled the timing as precisely as possible, and appeared last after the terminal sensitive bombs completed their attack, otherwise they might destroy these precise ammunition circuit.

These once mysterious and unknown munitions have been used on the battlefield more than once; due to the rationality of using this munition when hunting down the nuclear bomb in Lausanne, the world media at that time had not yet been used in an organized way. The Chinese army took the opportunity to expand the use of this weapon and publicly defined it as a non-lethal ammunition; if it were not for the fear of damaging its own equipment, this weapon would be used in a much wider range of occasions.

The range of action of the electromagnetic pulse is not large, but it is enough to cause the enemy to lose the communication of key nodes, so that the actions of most of the troops are completely out of Spanga's command, delaying time for the subsequent continuous strikes of various firepower.However, it is not without negative effects. Lin Huaisheng's artillery unit lost its aim because the drone was damaged and crashed by the electromagnetic pulse bomb, and could only conduct a series of blind rapid shooting.

Spanga stood in the command post, and half of the 3 monitors in three rows in front of him turned into snowflakes. The reason was that the source of information in front of him was cut off, but he could roughly guess what weapons the enemy used.

The arrows on all sides on the electronic map on the wall also did not change for a few minutes because they lost the information ahead.He is a calm person, no one can see the impatience and anger in his heart.In fact, he had been prepared for a long time. What he was facing was an unfair war. The enemy undoubtedly had an advantage in technology, but the degree of unfairness was beyond imagination. Now he can feel a little comforted by the fact that If not, the White Tiger Division will be sent up.

"They have used all the methods they have used in ground warfare in the past six months, long-range rocket launchers, terminal sensitive bombs, electromagnetic pulse weapons, and perhaps air incendiary bombs." He sighed, obviously still unwilling to admit defeat in his bones "Since Meneam lost the airport in Leh, I had a premonition that they would use the high-altitude Ladakh area as a long-range weapon launch site, but I didn't expect it to be so fast. The American satellites are too low. We are disappointed."

"Commander, what should we do now?" Lieutenant General Makeni asked.

"We can only withdraw the troops as much as possible. They will soon have a second strike. If their tank troops can quickly focus on the defense, they will seize the airport before dawn."

(End of this chapter)