Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 652
Yahini jumped out of the encirclement at the last moment.Although under the strict order of Commander Younis to defend the flanks desperately, he once engaged in a long-range artillery battle with the strongest regiment of the enemy, but the enemy's tactics are not rigid in face, and the mobile combat capability is very strong, and its armored forces are constantly turning around. , in an attempt to take advantage of numbers.

After losing 8 T84s and 2 96s, Yahini realized that it was meaningless to continue to execute division orders. There will be less and less room for him to maneuver.If it is surrounded by an area of ​​only 20 square kilometers, for the tank, it basically loses its mobility and can only use up armor and firepower; but it is flexible and maneuverable, interspersed in a wide range, and finds the enemy's weak link by surprise. The basis of all Ni's tactics, several of his commanders, including the not-so-obedient 3rd company commander, are also experts in long-distance raids, and no one is interested in battlefield warfare or simply serving as a fort.

He simply turned off the communication with the division headquarters. As an independent unit directly under Lin Huaisheng, he did not need to keep in line with the orders of the old chief Younis at all times.At the moment he thought it necessary, he took the initiative to break away from the battle line with his tank troops.Just before the two main enemy regiments joined forces, Yahini's remaining 20 or so tanks sneaked out of a dry river.In the end, the two regiments of the White Tiger Division joined forces behind him. The thermal imager of the enemy reconnaissance battalion observed a troop fleeing, but they were also exhausted and did not pursue it.

Yahini directly contacted Lin Huaisheng's headquarters through satellite communication.Lin Huaisheng's headquarters asked him to stay calm and wait for the opportunity. Since the enemy's aerial reconnaissance ability is not strong, Lin Huaisheng hopes that his troops can get as close to the enemy as possible. Activities in the gaps between reinforcements will be of great value, but the premise is that they cannot be exposed in advance.

At this moment, the electronic reconnaissance unit is searching for the location of the enemy headquarters, but it cannot be confirmed yet.Lieutenant General Makani seems to have learned from Spanga and acted very carefully; he has been very restrained in using radio communications, which makes his headquarters hidden in 4 division headquarters and more than 20 brigade (regiment) headquarters. It was hard to find a place for a while.Moreover, the Indian army added a new code before the operation. The electronic intelligence unit directly under Xu Jingzhe had difficulty grasping its specific whereabouts for a while. Heaney can play some positive role, and perhaps find at least one division headquarters before the general offensive.

Yahini's tank group was hiding in an abandoned village. The sound of guns to the east stopped for a while, and then started to ring again. He knew that the Indians' general offensive was about to begin, and the enemy would not wait until dawn to launch an attack. However, in the battle just now, several units of the Indian army were completely disabled, so they need some time to readjust and deploy, and the front-line combat forces also need to be reorganized, which will inevitably cause some confusion.

When he was still in Pakistan, Yahini, as an acting company commander, conducted research on Spanga's offensive strategy. Spanga always adopted a focused attack strategy, concentrating his most advantageous troops and firepower, Attacking from a certain direction is the characteristic of his offensive. Before attacking, he will establish a three-dimensional depth behind the main attacking direction, and the headquarters will usually be there.But today he should not have time to establish a complete position. To put it simply, the attack on the 1st Armored Division will be a continuous movement operation, and there will inevitably be chaos in the rear, which gives him an opportunity to take advantage of it. .Although tanks are very unsuitable for sneaky and interspersed combat at night, Indians also lack night vision equipment, and they are not familiar with the sound of these types of tank engines when they are running at low and medium speeds. They are very similar to Indian T90 tanks. not come out.

He decided to personally command the 3rd company with only 3 tanks left, and act as a reconnaissance in the front. The reason why he used the 3rd company was because he found that it was generally difficult for Indian infantry to identify the difference between T84 and T90 at a long distance, and even more so. Not to mention at night, he didn't plan to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and launch a few assaults when he hastily launched an attack, which would soon attract the enemy's second echelon reserved in the rear; No waste.So he hoped to find at least a division-level command.When the commander of the 3rd company was hit by a Leopard II tank kinetic energy bomb, his head was injured by metal debris splashed in the turret. He left the wounded to hide in an uninhabited village. He was in this tank. Command the entire battle.

He boarded a T84 himself and led the way.The rest of the tanks in the rear followed his line exactly a kilometer apart.

After the Indian artillery position 2 kilometers ahead began to fire, his tank started and set off, well hidden in the huge artillery sound. When he was less than one kilometer away from the enemy position in front, the artillery fire became more violent, and there was no warning around. force.

Letting more than 20 tanks operate quietly between the enemy's 4 divisions and 2 independent armored brigades does require some courage and imagination. It is obviously safer if he has been lurking until the surrounding Chinese troops start to move and then suddenly attack. But what he wants is to be more proactive in winning the war.

After traveling for 4 kilometers, he sneaked behind a few Indian artillery units, but found no important targets. However, he gradually mastered the sense of sneaking at night. When the Indian Artillery, they could not find themselves.Obviously, the sound of the guns on the ground can cover the roar of the diesel engines of the tanks; while the Indian infantry units left in the wilderness may hear the movement here, and he can see some soldiers 300 meters away, standing up straight and looking around blankly , but they can't see themselves, and eventually they will take the movement of the tank as the mobilization of their own ghost troops in the rear.The Indian army does not have much night vision equipment, even the elite troops. He must fully grasp these situations so that he can take bolder actions when necessary.

A ray of light blocked his thermal imaging channel, and he saw clearly that the enemy's transport convoy was passing by his side. He decided to prevent the enemy from passing by first.

"The 1st company and the 2nd company, stop immediately, there are enemy military vehicles, passing 250 meters west of you, be careful to hide."

He switches the white light channel.A long line of trucks could be seen, dragging guns across the open plain.He had to watch out for the anti-aircraft motorized anti-aircraft firepower that might accompany the convoy, their electro-optical reconnaissance equipment, which always had good night vision, waited a while, and found no systems such as the armor S1.A whole battalion of Indian artillery gradually drove past.He reported the situation to the acting commander Tasim on the Type 99 through the radio, and asked him to use satellite communication equipment to inform the command of the enemy's position before moving on.

The deployment of the Indian troops in the shallow and deep areas is very chaotic. Most of the second-line troops deployed in echelons are almost in marching formation, driving to the designated area, stopping directly in place, and then filling themselves in when the battle ahead requires it. .The infantry fighting vehicles were crowded together, and the soldiers were walking and resting not far from the fighting vehicles. Their attention was generally on the general offensive battlefield in the east, or on air defense, and they did not deploy farther guards at all.For the commander of the army, this is obviously superfluous, which allows Yahini's rumbling tanks to swim between the enemy infantry columns and artillery positions divided into strips, sometimes once or twice, even close to about 100 meters.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Yahini repeated the old trick again, trying to sneak past a unit parked on the hillside to watch the fierce battle in the distance, but the long-range firepower of the Chinese artillery hit the vicinity of the Indian position at an untimely time, causing immediate arousal. messed up.Several jeeps were scattered in all directions. The T84 driver was driving in the middle of a highway. A jeep rushed down from a high place, failed to brake, and hit the side of the tank. Heaney could only climb out with a flashlight to observe.

When he got out of the turret, the Indian driver was reversing the car. It seemed that the damage was not serious, and the Indian was still cursing: "Why is there a tank parked at the intersection, which unit do you idiots belong to?"

"Fool, you are blocking my way. Do you hear me?" Seeing the tank commander crawling out, the Indian yelled out loud. He seemed to be an officer, and his official authority was not small.Yahini looked around, then got into the turret, signaled the driver to reverse, and let the jeep pass first.

But the Indian jeep stalled while making a U-turn, and kept failing to start.Yahini didn't have time to wait any longer. The artillery fire of the Chinese artillery seemed to be extending to this side, and he signaled the driver to run over directly. The T84 suddenly put into gear and roared, rolling over from the Indian jeep. The explosion of nearby shells completely covered up the screams of the Indian officers. When the sound of the guns stopped, everything was already calm, and the tank had already been tens of meters away. Far away, leaving behind a pile of wreckage that is not a car model.

He understood the mark on the car. It belonged to the 4th Infantry Division of the Indian Fourth Army. It was obviously the same unit as the artillery position that passed by just now. Small.

"Battalion Commander, the headquarters received a call. The Chinese drone detected 6 kilometers in front of us, which has the characteristics of the radio group of the Indian division-level headquarters, but the enemy's anti-aircraft fire is very strong, and they cannot get too close."

"Understood. Follow me, hurry up, and don't fall into the fire net of the Chinese."

This is the news from Tasim on the command vehicle. It seems necessary to check it out. He moved forward according to the indicated position. Once the tank moves, there will be quite a lot of movement. However, since most of the Indian troops are directly engaged from the state of progress Combat, coupled with the fact that the headquarters at all levels are afraid to use the radio to contact friends and neighbors and grasp the necessary surrounding information, so Yahini created the freedom of movement to travel between the junctions of several troops.

He covered a distance of 4000 meters, and saw a group of military vehicles in front of him from a distance, and acted in a light control manner.Different from the ordinary infantry and artillery encountered just now, there are many large and small vehicles in the front area, which is indeed a characteristic of the headquarters.Yahini ventured 1500 meters away and began to observe carefully.

I saw about a company of BMP-2 tanks clearing the way ahead, two armored S2 anti-aircraft tanks behind, and behind them, trucks loaded with infantry, and a large number of jeeps, at least the size of a battalion.These teams are not finished, it seems that they are just roles to clear the way.Yahini thought, there must be something important in the future, right?

The enemy's advance troops quickly deployed. Yahini ordered the rest of the tanks to retreat and gather behind the hillside. He idling on his own and stayed at a high place to continue reconnaissance. He knew that the night vision ability of the BMP tank was not good, and he might not be able to see himself at 500 meters .

Just on the route that the enemy was marching just now, new convoys appeared one after another. First, a complete battalion of beech missiles, led by several jeeps that had rushed to the troops earlier, entered the preset position, and the missiles pointed northwest.Then there was another company of armored vehicles, guarding around the air defense position. Although it was night, all the mobilization seemed tight. The field air defense position was much more regular than the deployment of the miscellaneous artillery units that had just entered. Yahini realized , What I ran into was definitely not as simple as a miscellaneous division.

Then there was another large-scale mixed armored force, consisting of T90 and Leopard II tanks. Behind the tanks were communication relays and satellite communication vehicles with various antennas...

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and ordered the car to back up. Since the chariot had been idling all the time, the other party didn't notice it for a while.

He rushed to the assembly point 500 meters away, left the T84 and returned to the Type 99 tank, and communicated directly with the headquarters. Obviously this is the headquarters of the group army, and depending on the situation, the enemy will move every once in a while. So you have to do it early.Lin Huaisheng searched for Makani's headquarters all night, but to no avail. Now he can mobilize troops immediately, including some on-duty tactical ballistics and long-range rockets, but the air force and drones are still not suitable for passing through this tight space. In the air defense area, the final blow must be done by moving Yahini away.

At the same time that the conversation using satellite communication was over, the surface-to-surface missile over there had been launched. Yahini hurriedly arranged the attack formation and attack focus for the troops through the radio station. The enemy would be in chaos later, so he It is necessary to grasp two important goals in the chaos of the army at the same time. One is to find the opponent's command vehicle, which is of course beyond doubt; , all have extremely strong single-vehicle combat efforts, and the deployment is extremely scattered. He must allocate half of his troops to complete this task.

He was sitting on the turret, and when he was deploying, a 2 o'clock cold light flashed above his head, falling from the sky like a meteor.

The first missile fell directly near the anti-aircraft missile command vehicle, and the second one fell in the middle of a pile of enemy communication command vehicles. These communication vehicles had just arrived at their new positions and had not made any radio contact before they were destroyed. disaster.

Since Lin Huaisheng's artillery was carrying out piecemeal attacks all night according to the requirements of the besieged Pakistani troops, the long-range firepower he could invest in the attack was indeed somewhat insufficient.Yahini continued to wait for the second round of strikes. During this period, the headquarters of the Indian White Tiger Division, which had recovered from the blows, (has been expanded to a first-level command of the group army with more than 4 divisions) began to operate. The speed of response far exceeds that of ordinary Indian troops. They are well aware that the position has been exposed, and the firepower projection of the Chinese army has just begun.

(End of this chapter)