Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 792
Pakistanis can easily lose their judgment in hate, which is what the field marshal wanted.He knows that time is running out, and winning a battle cannot save the crumbling Kahan regime, but it is obviously very beneficial to the existence of the Indian Army after the war, and may also have a major impact on the pattern of South Asia in the next 20 years or even longer. significance.So he ignored the opposition of the intelligence chief and resolutely chose to run the bureau in the east.

Of course he dared to do this, not only because Kahan has the ability to attract hatred, but also because the main attack force gathered here is the Pakistani army, and several of his mobile forces have gone abroad to fight, so they are not too afraid of the Pakistanis.

The staff took some time to finish reading the army's losses in one day, and then Muall's staff notified the garrison commander's losses.

In addition to the casualties, about 1000 Self-Defense Forces were lost in the fighting in the east, and 70 heavy weapons were lost.Interestingly, there were still some bright spots in the battle there. An assault group headquarters of the most elite [-]st Armored Division of the Pakistan Army was taken away. Judging from the information obtained, several senior officers of the enemy (possibly including long) was eliminated.This was exactly the army he was staring at and trying to annihilate.

The marshal woke up from the silence and asked a few more questions. The staff officer told him that a 15-year-old commando went deep into the enemy's rear and used a rocket launcher to complete this feat.

The marshal didn't have much to comment on Kahan's disrespect for the world and the practice of recruiting minors to join the war. He also knew that the regime had few days left.However, the bravery of this young warrior delayed his battle. He was worried that the enemy would be stopped because of this, or that a shrewd guy would be replaced to command the battle.

"Wait a minute, is there any latest personnel change of the enemy in the intelligence department? I mean, the one who took over from the original idiot and commanded the most ferocious assault group in front of you?"

"Yes, the interim commander is Ibrahim, whose current military rank is unknown. As far as we know, he is not a Pakistani, but another younger brother of Crown Prince Fahd."

"What about your background in military training?"

"Graduated from Sandhurst Military Academy 3 years ago, majoring in artillery. The year before last, he won a war wound medal in a battle with Yemeni armed forces, but he has no other commendations, probably because of his mediocre performance."

"It looks very tender."

"Yes, judging from the performance of the Pakistani army this afternoon, this officer is still continuing the previous tactics, but the coordination between infantry tanks and infantry guns is even worse. The Self-Defense Forces organized several counter-charges, but he failed to defend well. Mu Yar claimed that today he destroyed 35 armored vehicles of various types in this brigade in one day, and I think this figure is very telling even if there is water."

"Well. The enemy's progress is slow, we can only suspend our actions."

"Commander, do you insist on not informing Lieutenant General Muyar in advance? Is it our strategy? He had more than [-] calls in one afternoon, asking for heavy fire support, and said that medicine is worthy of our conscience, or tell him directly Our plan is to let him retreat to the river."

"No, no, tell him now, his performance is not realistic, I didn't expect him to send children, but it is easy to confuse the enemy; besides, we use the prime minister to attract the enemy to attack , a foolish and loyal guy like him may not be able to accept it, and it might destroy our plan."

"How can he reply when he comes to urge reinforcements?"

"Tell him that the northern line of defense is even tighter. 90% of the enemy's air force is here, and he only has the enemy's second-line air force there."

"understood."

In Yixi Industrial Zone, Ghaziabad, Yahini climbed up a crumbling dilapidated factory building and looked towards New Delhi with a telescope.

During the day, he still can’t see what Delhi looks like, but at night, several brightly lit high-rise buildings in the city can give him a general direction. There are high-end hotels where foreigners gather, and it is one of the few areas in New Delhi where lights are not regulated.India hopes to rely on these well-equipped hotels to retain as many Westerners as possible and build a foundation for public opinion warfare. Of course, there are inevitably negative problems. These buildings allow the drones of the Chinese and Pakistani troops to rely on these buildings for simple navigation at night. .

Judging from the distance, it only takes one assault to hit the bottom of Kahan's nose. It is true that a Chinese tank unit quickly broke through to the bank of the Zhumuna River more than ten days ago and fired several shots at the Ministry of Justice building, but now the enemy has mobilized more The troops organized a tight defense, frontal assault and hastily interspersed will cause huge losses, he must not take this risk.

"Boss, have you seen any signs of enemy mobilization?"

asked Faisal Rahman from below the building through a walkie-talkie.His brigade of tanks hid in the area 1 km to the east, waiting for the enemy counterattack confirmed by Yahini, but it was already midnight, and nothing seemed to happen.

"There is no movement. It seems that the enemy will not move. Let everyone sleep. Today's mission is cancelled."

From time to time there were fierce gun battles in the south, and the troops commanded by Prince Ibrahim continued to exchange fire with the enemy death squads that had infiltrated during the night.At night, the Indian army on the opposite side will launch a counterattack, because the fighting falcon squadron assigned to this theater cannot attack at night (the target cannot be identified), so once the Indians touch it, they can roughly restore one-third of the positions lost during the day .

Yahini turned to look over there. Judging from the tracer bullets fired by both sides, the Pakistani army had the upper hand in firepower, but the enemy used the underground passages unknown to the Pakistani army to create explosions in the rear from time to time. Very unstable.

Yahini felt a little guilty, because he promised the headquarters to launch an attack at night, and now he can only resist and delay. If the enemy still doesn't attack tomorrow, he doesn't know how to deal with it.He knew that Younis was also under tremendous pressure. At present, the supply of the Pakistani army was tilted to the First Division, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among other troops. is nothing.

He sat on this dangerous building that had been directly hit by a 500-kilogram bomb, and waited until the early morning.

Sunrise is the most favorable time of day to attack. Facing a round of rising sun, the effectiveness of the enemy's optical instruments is weakened and it is easy to be exposed.Prince Ibrahim is deeply inspired by Amir, so he will definitely take this opportunity to attack.

Sure enough, just after 6 o'clock, the artillery of the division began to shoot, and the attack extended to downtown New Delhi.Then the tanks of the Pakistani army began to attack step by step. Within 500 meters of the tank group, 5 of them were blown off their tracks by landmines. The infantry had already discharged mines once yesterday, but the Indian army secretly buried them again at night.This shows that the combat capability of the Indians has also been improving.A "Buffalo" repair vehicle drove over to prepare for repairs, but the track was also damaged by a landmine.

The tank group moved forward like a tortoise crawling. During the period, the opponent fired more than a dozen AT5 missiles, but this kind of missile was really helpless against the front of the Leopard II. Before noon, the Indian defense line was torn open, and then He began to retreat, and the prince advanced 1.5 kilometers in the morning, which was faster than yesterday.

Yahini observed for a whole morning, his ass was numb, and he didn't see the decent shelling of the Indians, and he began to feel uncertain. If he continued to stand still, the Amir brigade might be pushed all the way to New Delhi. , At that time, I will be self-defeating.

"Indians really don't want Congress and the Prime Minister's Office anymore?"

He forced himself to think about this question, thinking that it would not be so simple, and he had to wait.

A signalman ran upstairs and asked him to return to the command vehicle, because the deputy division commander was waiting to talk.Yahini suddenly had an ominous premonition, and he returned to the command vehicle, and when he picked up the receiver, he was scolded by Younis more than ten kilometers away.

Younis' anger can be imagined. He prepared a battalion of artillery and several basic ammunition for Yahini. These firepower were not invested in the direction of Ibrahim for fire support.The prince asked several times, but he resisted and did not move this force.As a result, Ibrahim was not easy to mess with, and directly brought the matter to Crown Prince Fahd.

30 minutes ago, the crown prince in the Middle East personally called the commander of the group army. He said that for the cause of the Pakistani people, he had already sacrificed one brother, and even sacrificed the second one. However, Pakistani professional soldiers seem to be easily available He was so frightened by the victory that he dared not move forward before the Indians were about to fall. Especially he had to consider whether it was worthwhile to continue to provide assistance to the Pakistani Army.

Such invisible and huge pressure finally fell on Younis. The chief of staff of the army directly called the division headquarters and asked him to make an immediate decision, either to launch a full-scale attack with reserve forces before 3 p.m. Someone else will take his place.

Younis almost repeated the words of the chief of staff to Yahini.Forcing Yahini to agree that the attack must be launched before the above time limit.

Of course, Yahini is very clear that a frontal impact on the enemy relying on the solid defense of the town will inevitably lead to heavy casualties. At present, 7% of his troops are Type 96 tanks, which cannot carry AT2 missiles head-on like Leopard 5, let alone those companies marching in columns They are all bad recruits.

Time passed by, and Ibrahim's army was slowly advancing like a clumsy but brave badger.And Yahini can only continue to hesitate.Once Amir's people plant a flag in the prime minister's office, he will definitely be kicked out of the army, and maybe even get a deputy division commander.

In the basement of the Prime Minister's Office in New Delhi, Kahan sat in the office on the lowest floor, staring at the ceiling silently, almost motionless. The air in this cage seemed to freeze, only when the liquid in the hanging needle beside Kahan dripped down , only slightly broke the silent atmosphere.

Every time the enemy shelled, some fine dust would be shaken down.Today is the densest day since the siege, when the enemy's ammunition fell near the Prime Minister's Office.It is no longer an aerial bomb dropped by accident, but a continuous bombardment.It hasn't stopped since 9am.

Every 10 minutes, someone would come in and report the progress of the enemy to Kahan. In the morning, the nearest enemy was about 10 kilometers away, and now it is 9 kilometers away.

Heavy and impatient footsteps appeared in the corridor behind the door, and Kahan could hear that it was the tall General Muyar.

"Prime Minister, that old bastard in Pasad refused to send artillery to support us. He simply ignored your safety. I really don't know what's the point of him staying still once the defense line of the Jumuna River is lost? I suggest you hide Go to the underground bunker in the west of the city, the Pakistani artillery can't reach there yet."

He spoke a long paragraph without breath, explained the general situation, and even sued Pasade severely.

"No, I'm not going anywhere," Kahan said categorically, "you go and tell the Field Marshal that at the last moment, he must put the interests of the nation first, and counterattack and counterattack quickly. The enemy is not that terrible, and they have already There's no going on."

"Okay, I'll call him right now and hope he can wake up."

At 01:30 in the afternoon, Pasad and his generals gathered at the headquarters, ready to launch an offensive. The purpose of the counterattack was to repel a relatively isolated Pakistani army in the east. Try to negotiate with the Chinese army.

Pasade's idea of ​​preparing to negotiate with the Chinese army has been blown by several cronies among senior military officers. He no longer has too many scruples. Even if the prime minister knows something, it will be difficult to dismiss him now.To some extent, he has become the actual controller of the Kahan regime, and he determines the direction and final destiny of this regime.He decided the final bottom line, even if it negotiates, New Delhi cannot be occupied by foreign troops.

The intelligence chief stood aside expressionlessly, he had just been persuaded by Pasade.This counterattack may be beneficial. After the war, the soldiers can occupy a favorable position, which is conducive to India's rise again; in addition, the soldiers are generally unwilling to surrender to the Pakistani army because they regard Pakistan as a defeated general Incidents of shooting and mistreatment of prisoners of war often occurred in the Pakistani army.

"Gentlemen, I don't need to say more, it's the last moment." Pasade stood up and said.

"If we have any chance to choose our destiny, then Pakistani soldiers must be prevented from entering our capital. I think that if Prime Minister Kahan refuses political negotiations and allows India to perish, our Army should take up this mission, provided, of course, that we We must let our main opponents know that we can fight and that we will not surrender unconditionally."

The twenty or so officers in the room began whispering, mostly nodding.Pasade's pragmatic attitude really touched many people.

"In the current situation, we still have the advantage to annihilate the enemies that are too prominent in one direction. The Zhumuna River is currently in a dry season, and tanks can easily cross the riverbed," he said, walking to the wall, and someone opened the covering curtain, The newly updated map is revealed.

"From here, here, here, we will block the enemy's 15th Division, the 25th Division and part of the 6th Armored Division, isolate and annihilate the main force of the enemy's main force, the [-]st Armored Division. At present, the main force of the Chinese army is still in the Mountainous areas on the Rajasthan border, it's too late to come back. This is our good time."

"The First Armored Division again?" Lieutenant General Pascianita said bitterly, "This division was annihilated by us twice before and after, and it still has the face to attack New Delhi."

"Yes, they are back again, commanded by a foreign officer whose name is now known, called: Ibrahim, Bin Sahrifahd, about 35 years old, it would be better to capture this man alive, for us Negotiations have been very beneficial.”

"Report!" A staff officer walked into the headquarters, "Lieutenant General Muyar sent a distress call."

"Read!"

"He said that the enemy has stepped up artillery fire on the eastern defense line, and five Pakistani military divisions with about 5 tanks have launched an attack at the same time. For sake, give him a hand, he is grateful to Dade."

"Tell him, for India's sake, I will launch a counterattack and let him hold out for another 2 hours."

(End of this chapter)