Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 666 The Noose Tightens
The electronic reconnaissance plane circling in the air to collect radar signals was the first to notice the disappearance of the air defense threat. It could still detect the scattered illumination radars, but the warning radars that could monitor the entire airspace had all disappeared, and a high-altitude drone ventured into it quickly. 1 meters above the enemy's troops, a large number of wreckage scattered within a radius of ten kilometers was photographed.

The staff officers of the Lin Huaisheng Command deciphered the enemy's losses through images. If the enemy hadn't panicked and set up some false targets during the retreat, then their important air defense nodes should have been defeated by the Yahini Department.

However, due to poor communication, Lin still decided to be cautious. He ordered the JH-7A, which had already arrived at Chandigarh Airport, to remain on standby. To be on the safe side, he decided to let the J-10B fighter plane carrying the bomb go first. Enter the enemy's head to test, and the enemy's air defense firepower is still the priority when attacking the target; sure enough, the enemy can no longer organize effective air defense firepower.After breaking away from the instructions of the battlefield surveillance radar, those beech guidance radars with a narrow field of view can hardly pose a threat to the high-speed and smart fighters. Even if they can occasionally illuminate the J-10 fighters, it is difficult to form a shooting window in a hurry. The fighters always It can be easily dislodged by virtue of its mobility.

Of course, Lin Huaisheng's hesitation made He Fan still have to face the final challenge of his impatient opponent. Tactical aircraft such as Thunderbolt or J-10 could not stop an entire army from advancing.In front of He Fan's final line of defense, as many as 4 types and more than 150 enemy main battle tanks were concentrated.When the White Tiger Division organized the offensive, it even took in the remnants of the 1st Armored Division that had lost its command. Some Challenger tanks were also mixed in the attacking group, trying to find a way out.

The enemy's choice of He Fan's direction to launch a breakthrough is not a rational result obtained through reconnaissance. In fact, they have already lost their reconnaissance capabilities, and communication with the rear is often interrupted; but they can still simply draw a path leading to The straight line closest to the Spanga headquarters, He Fan happened to be on this route, and the terrain here is flat and easy to attack. As for how many enemies are guarding where, they don't care to know, they can only know through limited communication, The 1st Armored Division in Pascianita to the east has been overtaken by the main force of the Chinese army that fought in the morning, and is currently in a state of disintegration.

The first wave of Indian tanks attacked the formation and pushed forward in a dispersed formation, but in the area 4 kilometers in front of the selected breakthrough, the formation began to narrow. The main point is to concentrate the sharp striker to attack one point, which is bound to have a strong breakthrough ability. However, if the formation is closed too early and the lack of secondary feints, it is easy for careful opponents to detect the focus of the attack, and it is easy to be covered by firepower.The White Tiger Division lacked a unified command and could not carry out complex coordination. All the troops just made up their minds to escape from here. This kind of group charge is the only simple way.

He Fan tracked the opponent's movement based on the drone intelligence, and the enemy did not attack separately, which allowed him to calmly mobilize the troops on the front line and strengthen the defense at a certain point. Of course, it is wishful thinking to rely on a line of defense to block the frontal enemy. Try to hold off the enemy as much as possible, and let the long-range firepower and air force fully play their role.

A long-range howitzer 20 kilometers away on the other side of the river was the first to fire, and the shells fell and exploded among the enemy tanks.The horizontal interval between the enemy's frontal attack tanks is between 70 and 80 meters, and the distance between the rear tanks and the rear tanks is about 100 meters. The formation of infantry combat vehicles is relatively dense and disorderly. After a battalion-level ammunition of half a base is dropped, these vehicles bear the brunt and stop. The huge charge of the 155mm grenade gives its fragments a strong penetrating ability , as long as you get close, you can easily penetrate the armor of BMP tanks; those light wheeled tanks are even directly overturned by the air waves.

"Damn it, the spread is too large. We should focus on attacking the frontline tanks first. What happened to the artillery commander? The first round was like this. After a while, the enemy's smoke will not be accurate."

He Fan drilled outside the turret, using his huge 15x binoculars to observe the front, swearing non-stop, and the mortar shells fired by the enemy with the firepower exploded from time to time at a distance of 90 meters, but he turned a deaf ear to it; as expected, the truth was unfortunately caught by his words , the enemy's forward began to release smoke, the smoke drifted, and finally blocked the tanks in front, which inevitably reduced the visibility of the artillery on the ground and in the air; Being able to attack at once, his laser-beam shells became a display when the enemy just entered the range. Of course, if we look on the bright side, the T[-]A in the enemy's formation could not fire similar ammunition.

Then it was covered by long-range rockets. The 302mm rockets flew from about 100 kilometers away, and the spread was larger than that of grenades. Surface killing weapons have a good killing effect on groups of enemies hiding in the smoke.Cloud bombs have special advantages in attacking relatively dense armored clusters. Some tanks with poor turbocharging capabilities, usually infantry combat vehicles and wheeled combat vehicles with insufficient power, can easily stall in negative pressure areas, and lack Internal pressurized vehicles are also bound to cause suffocation.

Seeing a large amount of ammunition explode above the enemy's head, but the attack effect is still unknown, the billowing smoke on the horizon is still pressing here, no matter what the killing effect is, the enemy is still in the assault.

"It's our turn, turn on the radar aiming."

As soon as he gave the order, a paratrooper assault vehicle drove to the side. The Pakistani colonel was already grey, but his skills were not bad, and he climbed into He Fan's tank in no time.

"The second-line position is completed, I'll go to the front to take a look."

"You came at the right time. Look at how dense the enemy's front is. There are at least 3 battalions," He Fan said, pointing to the front. "Later, we will release the smoke and turn around and retreat. You will resist with missiles for a while. You must restrain your people so that you don't accidentally injure them. Then we will pass through your defense line to establish a third line of defense."

"Well, what if the third line of defense still can't stop it?"

"Then there is no other way, we can only let this old enemy pass by, and we will go back and intercept the infantry. We can't let them retreat unscathed."

The Pakistani colonel nodded, jumped into the assault vehicle, and went back in a hurry.He Fan's plan seemed a bit complicated. He split up the poor troops in his hands and fought against the superior enemy.He knows that the opponent has no extra tactics, and there is no time to detour it. After tank missiles, it also has certain field mobility).He just wanted to let the enemy hit the cotton in the assault direction they chose, neither letting them run away nor allowing them to take advantage of the attack, but to let the gradually concentrated firepower effectively consume the enemy.

During this period, the tank began to use millimeter-wave radar to fire at targets 3 kilometers away, hiding in the smoke.Enemy chariots are approaching, reducing the displacement in the horizontal direction, which eliminates the need for too much advance calculation and greatly increases the accuracy of artillery fire, but it is difficult to directly destroy the target if the distance is too far.

He Fan calculated that the enemy's striker should stop releasing smoke and charge with his head exposed. Usually, about 2 kilometers is the distance they are more confident in shooting. Continued release of smoke is not conducive to their firepower.

Sure enough, a row of Leopard II and T90A tanks exposed their barrels from the thick smoke. The formation was extremely dense, and the tanks were completely concentrated on the front less than one kilometer away.These tanks are followed by sparse infantry fighting vehicles. There are no longer groups of wheeled tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. Those secondary vehicles that may carry anti-tank missiles are also He Fan's big head, because they are always hard to guard against. ; Obviously, the artillery uses a variety of ammunition for continuous strikes to eliminate the tanks with insufficient armor in advance, so that the enemy's weapons are relatively simple.

"Don't be in a hurry to penetrate the target. Use the grenade to hit the enemy's front first, and then use the armor-piercing projectile when you enter 2200 meters. The order of the targets is the same, and the protruding position will be hit first."

As He Fan said that, he got into the tank. He knew that the scene of shooting each other directly was about to happen, and it would be risky to stay outside.

The range-measuring lasers of the two sides swept across the open area alternately. This is the opening scene of modern tank warfare. All tanks on the Indian side have difficulty coping with the laser countermeasure systems of Chinese tanks. In the range sampling, the wrong signal is added, which will generally make the range measurement number when the meter is automatically loaded. Only experienced gunners can manually intervene to correct the trajectory, but it is only noticeable after one or two misses. of.

He Fan ordered the first round of shooting to use a slower grenade, because he knew that the effect of the long-distance grenade is better. Once it hits directly, it can damage the top equipment and track, and it is likely to kill the internal personnel. However, the kinetic energy grenade is due to the speed decline. For this reason, it is best used at closer distances.

Indian tanks are not so particular about counterattacks. The ammunition they return is all kinetic energy ammunition. Due to the interference of ranging, most of them miss the target.The attack on He Fan's side was also unsatisfactory, and most of the enemy tanks that were shot and damaged were still advancing; fortunately, the first batch of air forces arrived during this period to launch precise strikes on the outcropping enemies below.The bombs carried by fighter jets are limited, but they always take special care of Leopard II tanks. Perhaps because they always run relatively forward, and the turrets are large and conspicuous, the last two platoons of the White Tiger Division Leopard II, after this round After that, it was basically wiped out.

The air force attack greatly disturbed the attention of the Indian tank soldiers. During this period, the low paratrooper assault vehicle quietly moved behind He Fan's tank. They had to make full use of the terrain for cover to prevent the enemy's direct fire from noticing themselves.The paratroopers carried anti-tank missiles in groups of three or five and separated from the vehicle according to their tactics. Within 100 meters of the assault vehicle, they each looked for the best attack measurement area. Once the missile was launched, they did not observe the attack effect, but Withdrew to the car at the first time and ran back a few kilometers.

When the enemy tanks were within 2 kilometers after all, He Fan ordered all the tanks to release smoke, and all the tanks turned their heads, gave up the line of defense and retreated.He didn't want to stalk the desperate enemy. At this stage of the battle, it would be a foolish move to continue to compete with armor-piercing bullets. Reversing the car can certainly give full play to the frontal armor firepower, but he will be caught up sooner or later, so he should take advantage of the time and continue to pull. It doesn't matter if you run a little ugly for a long distance.

India's T90A tanks continued to attack regardless of losses. The active avoidance and retreat of Chinese tanks gave them hope. Of course, speeding up is also the best way to avoid the enemy's uninterrupted shelling. There is always a lag, the tanks run fast, the shells may not be able to catch up.

At this moment, six JH-6A aircraft carrying terminal-sensitive bomb dispensers took off from the newly repaired runway in Chandigarh. They will carry out an important and decisive attack mission.Lin Huaisheng has been reluctant to play this card until he has obtained the precise enemy's action route and weather information. Once the throwing area is inaccurate, or is deflected by the very unpredictable subcontinental monsoon, the attack effect will be greatly reduced .

Pakistani paratroopers fired anti-tank missiles from various positions, attacking those protruding tanks, due to inexperience, some missiles were launched from the distance where the seeker could catch the target, but a large part of them were beyond the maximum range and could not hit.Indian tanks also realized that in addition to tanks, the enemy also had some small vehicles floating on the edge of the battlefield, trying to attack themselves.

Eventually some calm paratroopers started firing missiles at reasonable distances, these missiles were so close that the paratroopers were still in dangerous range of the Indian tank guns when they escaped in vehicles, and some paratroopers were eliminated. However, the Pakistani paratroopers continued to challenge the Indian tanks one after another.Although these crude vehicles have no armor, they can still use their low hulls and various covers to escape enemy fire.The Indian tankers soon discovered that there was actually no ready-made line of defense waiting for them to break through. The enemy did not intend to fight openly as in the morning, and they kept using the deep zone to harass themselves.

The attack has continued so far, and the Indian tanks have never had a chance to compete head-on. The enemy keeps using various unconventional tricks to slow them down and consume them, rather than a decisive battle.From the beginning of using rocket mines to interrupt the offensive rhythm, to the cloud bomb attack carried by rockets, using laser jamming equipment to destroy the fairness of tank battles, the millimeter wave radar that can see the target clearly through the smoke, and the drone above the head is always They are all providing impact point correction for the artillery, not to mention the small paratrooper jeeps that are waiting around like mosquitoes. The top-attack anti-tank missiles carried by these weak paratroopers are completely an unsolvable problem, as long as it is launched within the range , it was almost hopeless.

There is no Indian commander to count the losses so far, and no one cares who is still in command. These are not important anymore; the Indian officers who are still in combat only know one thing, and they can still be contacted on the radio in the morning Of the 20 or so regimental and battalion commanders who arrived, there are only five or six left now. The enemy's noose is being tightened, their attacks are everywhere, and the White Tiger Division is about to perish

The JH-7A drops long-range dispensers at the precise location indicated by the command plane, and these dispensers fly to the designated location to drop ammunition according to satellite navigation.The enemy's dense formation and attack route have been repeatedly detected by various reconnaissance methods. Lin Huaisheng decided to play the last card; After entering New Delhi's S300 air defense circle, he will order He Fan to open the passage.Of course, the air force has been scouting that the origin is unknown, and the Indian army with an unknown number is approaching He Fan's rear from the rear. too weak.

(End of this chapter)