Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 782
Fu Xiaoguang stared at the screen, and the remote control drone flew along the valley. Since the scanning resolution is only 480X480, even if it flies over the opponent, it must have a pair of experienced eyes to clearly identify the target.

From the flashing pictures, he saw several tanks with small blue flags tied to their antennas, advancing slowly, keeping a good distance between vehicles, and Humvees speeding up to overtake them from time to time, on the narrow mountain road Appears to be in order.

It seemed that he was right, this was at least the main force of a battalion level, he was a bit aggressive, and gradually lowered his altitude, wanting to further see the number and general organization of the enemy.

He has no experience in fighting in mountainous areas, but judging from the collected battle examples, it is often close-range combat, armor is not effective, and shooting range and shooting timing become extremely important. [-] tanks do not have a large depression angle, so they can only ambush in valleys. So he wanted to figure out the opponent's situation in advance.

As the plane continued to fly over the enemy convoy, he noticed a group of infantry fighting vehicles and Humvees parked on the side of the road ahead, and they were clustered together, obviously something was wrong.However, he got too close in broad daylight, which still attracted the attention of the security forces. Someone discovered that the drone did not belong to the coalition forces.

At this moment, Yelinsky and his staff are discussing the next step in an armored command vehicle.This kind of command vehicle uses the M[-] infantry fighting vehicle chassis, without a turret, it looks clumsy.There is a square personnel compartment at the rear, stuffed with command and communication equipment, and there are as many as [-] top antennas on the top of the car body, but there is a camouflage net on the top of the BCP, which is still not easy to match with other turret-less modifications of this type of chassis (such as BGP and self-propelled mortars) distinction.

Yelinsky sat in the cramped space, with a map and a water bottle spread on a folding table in front of him. His command trailer could not pass through the high slopes in the mountains, and it had been discarded [-] hours ago. Now it can only be here Command, but with the advantage of satellite communication, he can contact his troops and superiors at any time.He looked at his watch, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and several company commanders sitting next to him were swallowing food. They hadn't eaten for more than [-] hours.

"We must continue to speed up. The situation is now in our favor. The main force of the enemy has been thrown out by us a lot." He said while tapping the map with his fingers.

"It's a pity that tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline were lost."

"Don't worry, the Brigadier General is planning a new solution. Of course, there is still a gap of [-] gallons. The Chinese army is also facing this problem, so it is impossible to pursue it endlessly." Yelinsky comforted himself. He felt that if the situation continued to deteriorate, The big deal is to throw away some cumbersome equipment to reduce fuel consumption.

"What about the Japanese? Yamura has lost contact for a long time." Lieutenant Colonel Buck, the chief of staff, suddenly thought about the fact that the Japanese hadn't escaped.

"Who knows, maybe they can surrender like the Australians, and the Chinese won't make it hard for them. At worst, they'll be on TV for publicity, at best."

"Maybe they can't stand such humiliation and commit suicide. The Japanese have this tradition."

"Then we don't care, at least they bought us time," he said as he pushed the kettle on the map, "but there is still a small group of enemies near us, there is no doubt about it. The car was handed over and then disappeared, we need more information on this."

"Currently there is no air supremacy, Brigadier General Fries can't give more air reconnaissance support, but... the reconnaissance battalion has already used the scanning eagle to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of a radius of [-] kilometers around the headquarters, and found the tank they abandoned. Location."

Lieutenant Colonel Buck said, pointing on the map, "The chassis is facing north, maybe it is retreating."

"Well, I agree with your judgment, if they are near us, they should have been discovered..."

The gunshots outside the car interrupted Yelinsky's words. He quickly recognized that it was his own automatic weapon firing, and immediately remote-controlled the external camera to observe the location of the gunshot. He saw several soldiers picking up a gun from the grass. drone.

When he stepped out of the command vehicle, the soldier was already carrying a small drone, then walked over and handed it to Buck.

"Isn't this our Scan Eagle?" The lieutenant colonel tossed and turned, "Damn, one of them is very close?" Of course, it was not difficult for him to draw this harmful conclusion from the communication capabilities of this small aircraft.

"Maybe it's less than 2 kilometers away?" Yelinsky roared, threw the drone on the ground and stepped on it a few times. The reconnaissance battalion launched dozens of drones and was still caught by the opponent. This really made him Angry, he chose this road only after he abandoned Agra in the morning, the enemy could not have known in advance.

"All in the car, we have a tough battle to fight."

"Let the rest of the nearby troops come closer?" Buck asked.

"No, the terrain here is too complicated, that will only cause confusion. Inform the other troops that the original plan will not change, and advance according to their respective established routes. We will fight out by ourselves."

As he spoke, he jumped into a command tank, where he would be in charge of the final breakout.When he was ready, he picked up the intercom and set the communication to the tank group broadcast:

"Soldiers, we are facing the most serious situation. The enemy has come to us, but history has proved that the communists have never been able to stop our way. You are all good. We must destroy them and beat them together. A pile of scrap metal."

"Company A requested an assault." A commander volunteered for an assault.

"Very well, your department will follow the reconnaissance company closely."

Before the drone fell, Fu Xiaoguang roughly confirmed the opponent's strength. He was lucky to escape several rounds of drone reconnaissance by the opponent. The main reason was that he was too close to the enemy's headquarters. blind spot.In order to avoid the exposure of the command post, Yelinsky has been restricting the communication signals near the command post to prevent the opponent from finding the place through radio direction finding. Of course, his own drones are also prohibited from flying near the command post.

Fu Xiaoguang knew that the enemy must be vigilant, and it was impossible to strike cleverly. He must decisively intercept the opponent and prevent him from getting away. When the relay drone approached next time, he could request air force support from the headquarters, but before that, he had to rely on Block your opponent yourself.

The [-] tanks started quickly and headed towards the preset position he designated. If they were fast enough, they could grab a little advantage of the location before the battle.

During the operation, he threw out another drone, deliberately circled it in a big circle, and then approached the target (to avoid revealing his position), but he didn't get much money. When the drone passed above the enemy column, it was caught An infrared guided missile launched by the Avengers was shot down.

While the enemy was still in chaos, he charged at the fastest speed.He judged that the oil near the enemy headquarters was less than a battalion's strength, but those M1A2sep were undoubtedly quite powerful.

Seeing that they had seized the preset blocking position, about [-] Humvees felt almost at the same time that they rushed out from the front, and the two sides almost collided.

The leading tank did not slow down, and directly slammed into it, crushing a jeep. At the same time, the tank fired shrapnel, killing the Humvees that were crowded into a pile nearby.The tanks coming from behind fired at the fleeing enemies with parallel machine guns.

Under such one-sided shooting, there was still a Javelin missile launched into the air, but the distance was too close, and the missile lost its target when it fell along a parabola.

A reckless Bradley infantry fighting vehicle then arrived and confronted the oncoming 30 tank less than 99 meters away. The tongue of flame hit the front of the tank turret and splashed in all directions, forming a terrifying fire net, enveloping the nearby infantrymen who had hid in the blind spot of the 99 tank's firepower.

The tank ended the head-to-head encounter with a single 125mm shell.The battlefield fell silent again.

"One platoon is reversing, prevents smoke, and the second platoon monitors the enemy infantry."

Fu Xiaoguang hastily ordered, the situation was very cramped, he had no time to make detailed arrangements.

According to his plan, of course he had to avoid reckless fighting. He imagined that the entire valley would be covered with smoke, so that the enemy would have scruples when they advanced, and he could try to hold them back until the plane arrived.

The tank withdrew for 200 meters, filling the entire valley with smoke. Fu Xiaoguang deployed the tank to continue to retreat, but stopped to prevent the smoke. He waited for the opponent with black eyes to rush out of the smoke, so that he could fire at the first time .He didn't notice that the nearby hills were actually not high, and a tank with enough power might turn over.

The first M1A2 appeared from one side of the hillside, and the opponent did not rush along the valley as he expected. In fact, this tank was trying to catch the Chinese tank by surprise.

Yelinsky also likes to surprise, he doesn't like to be led by the nose by his opponent.However, his plan was too cramped. If his infantry fighting vehicle had arrived in time, the tank could have climbed over the hill at the same time as the infantry of the same company, condescending to form a firepower advantage, so as to cover the frontal breakout, but those infantry The battle was one step too late, and in the end only lone tanks turned over.The tank immediately found itself in a bad situation, with at least 300 geothermal tanks less than 5 meters ahead, and its depression angle seemed to be off by 5°.It tried to back up, but this time it didn't go well.

A 99 tank reacted quickly and hit the tank body with one shot. The hit position may be the thickest piece of tank armor in the world, but it was still penetrated by the powerful depleted uranium armor-piercing projectile.The tank explodes within 5 seconds and rolls down.

Taking advantage of the attention of the Chinese tanks being drawn away, an M1 tank hiding in the thinning smoke quietly approached from the front. Through the mist, the gunner saw the huge flames when 99 fired. He could not see the target clearly. Next, shoot first to a place slightly behind the fire.

This shell penetrated the frontal armor of the 99 tank turret.

When the M1A2 was launched, the huge air pressure emitted from the muzzle immediately dispersed all the nearby smoke.

The two sides saw their opponents at the same time, less than 200 meters apart, with the muzzle facing the muzzle.At such a distance, even a one-meter-thick armor will not work. The tank immediately fired a smoke bomb in an attempt to hide in the smoke again and the mobile soldiers completed the next round of loading. However, it is not so easy for a tank of more than 60 tons to change its position. .

Before the tank could make any maneuvers, it was hit by three armor-piercing shells.The Chinese tanker saw a turret fly high in the smoke and hit a side hillside.

Before the autoloader could finish reloading, a third M[-]A[-]sep burst out of the smoke.He opened fire on a Chinese tank that was temporarily unable to shoot, and also penetrated without suspense.The tank tried to retreat behind the burning tank to seek cover, but the wreckage of the lost turret could not completely cover it, and Fu Xiaoguang personally shot beyond it and destroyed it.

Combat has never been so brutal, tanks on both sides have become like paper, and the outcome no longer depends on other factors, only on who strikes faster.

Fu Xiaoguang saw his opponent rushing towards him frantically to fight for an exchange. The enemy's bravery was far beyond his expectations. He thought that as long as he succeeded first, the enemy would stop for a while, and then slowly grope, which would act as a delay, but The enemy is completely in a battle of trapped beasts, appearing unstoppable.

He called for a quick retreat so as not to run out in a few minutes.Fortunately, at this time, his short-wave communication was finally restored.He yelled for air support, but was unable to make a target designation.

An infantryman quietly climbed up the mountain ridge carrying a Javelin missile. He quickly found the 99 tank with two antennas on the turret, and opened fire. When the missile searched downward, it missed Fu Xiaoguang and hit the other side of him 99 tanks.

Within 1 minute, the wreckage of 6 vehicles from both sides was parked in a haphazard manner in the valley.Yelinsky was faced with the dilemma of being unable to exert superior firepower brought about by the mountainous terrain, but he quickly got the information that the infantry had succeeded, and the opponent seemed to have no infantry.

He ordered the Humvees not to get in the way on the road. The infantry got out of their vehicles and rushed over the hill. The tanks and infantry fighting vehicles continued to protrude a bloody road in front of them. How long would it be better not to wait at this time?
Desperate enemy infantry appeared from the ridge one after another, and the tank commanders were forced to drill out and suppressed with high-level machine guns, but the enemy was not those Indian soldiers who used rocket launchers and bombarded them without aim. They had a large number of anti-tank Missiles, fire-and-forget weapons, can go from aiming to firing in seconds in an experienced hand.

Missiles rose from behind the ridge one after another, and Fu Xiaoguang's company lost a fourth tank in an instant.He loudly called for rescue from his superiors. If the air force could not arrive in time, the enemy would break through the defense within 4 minutes.

A Su-30 hovering in the sky arrived first, the pilot could not quickly identify the enemy tanks on the smoky battlefield, but he made a very decisive decision, dropped the bomb in the middle of the two sides, tried to block the passage, and then came distinguish.

A Russian-made 1.5-ton TV-guided bomb fell from the pylon. It carried such a heavy bomb. It was originally intended to attack targets such as underground oil depots or bridges. Under certain circumstances, it can also be used to destroy terrain.The weapons director aimed the crosshairs at the rocks on one side of the valley, hoping for a landslide.

The huge explosion separated the tanks on both sides, and the collapsed rocks buried the infantry who climbed up the ridge to prepare for a surprise attack.The Slamlam missiles accompanying Yelinsky's command reacted immediately, and the radar tracked the target in an instant, and then launched as many as 4 missiles.

The Su-30MKK pilot did not see the missile lift off from the chaotic ground, and the fighter plane was hit before it could escape.At the same time, another J-20 16 kilometers away detected the guidance radar and launched an anti-radiation missile.

He Fan is leading the army to come. The enemy headquarters hid their tracks well before, making it impossible for him to judge whether the enemy's main force has jumped out of his encirclement. However, within a few minutes, all the fox tails were exposed, including various communication signals and Air defense radar, air reports saw about a battalion strength, he was pretty sure the enemy headquarters was here.When it was finally time to close the net, he personally led the main force to penetrate from the south, and soon blocked all retreat routes.

(End of this chapter)