Chapter 556: Aerial Strike
The Jamuna River is a major river in Bangladesh, originating in China and called the Brahmaputra River. In entering the territory of Bangladesh it is called the Brahmaputra River. The Brahmaputra River is known as the Jamuna River after it turns two hundred miles downstream from Gohati. The Jamuna River flows from north to south and joins the Ganges near Goarondo. The river is 240 km long, with many rivers, sandbars and shoals, and the floodplain is 56-64 km wide. The slope of the riverbed is gentle, the width of the low water level is 5-7 km, and the width of the flood level is more than 11 km. It is the world's famous plain wandering river, the water is turbulent, the river body is wide and shallow, the Han road is intertwined, the shallows are dense, and it is very difficult for Bangladesh to build a bridge on such a river, so Bangladesh has only built a bridge across the river in total.
As long as this bridge is blown up, the Indian armored forces that have entered Tangail will be in a situation where there is no logistical support, and their gas turbine tanks will quickly run out of fuel, and when the time comes, see what they do!
The A-7 attack planes continued to fly, relying on advanced navigation devices, and although they had come long distances, they quickly discovered the bridge.
The on-board guidance device illuminated the laser beam, and after reaching the bridge, it was reflected back and received by the seeker of the laser-guided bomb, and then, with a shake of the wings, the two bombs had already swayed and fell.
In order to completely blow up the bridge and make it impossible for the Indian engineering units to repair it, four bombs from two A-7s were dropped.
The pilot counted down in his mind, ten, nine... When the count reached zero, a loud explosion was heard below.
"Boom!" 900 kg of laser-guided bombs, which fell precisely on the deck of the bridge, with a huge explosion. The piers below were blown up, and the bridge deck that was more than 20 meters long was completely destroyed.
"Boom!" Another bomb exploded, and another section of the bridge deck was destroyed.
When all four bombs exploded, the entire bridge was blown into several sections. If you want to recover again, even if you are a sapper, you have to repair it for more than half a month!
The two A-7 attack planes pulled up and flew in the direction of Chittagong, and when they landed, they would reload the Maverick missiles and prepare to strike the Indian armoured forces tomorrow.
At the same time, the Tomcat fighters of the Pakistani Air Force and the rest of the A-7 attack aircraft also flew to the Zarul-Haq airbase. Their arrival means that the Pakistani side has entered the war!
Dhaka International Airport.
Flights have been suspended, in fact, because of Bangladesh's economic backwardness, there are not many flights in the first place, only two flights in the evening.
The airport was brightly lit, and President Ershad stood on the runway, watching the C-130s land.
The cabin door in the tail section opened, a light wheeled infantry fighting vehicle. Out of it came heavily armed Pakistani soldiers. With a determined look on his face, just looking at the momentum of this unit, it is the elite of a hundred battles.
"President Elshad, we have been ordered to come to our aid." The commander of Unit A, Colonel Youde, said to Elshad.
"Thank you very much for your support." Elshad said, "Don't you have heavy armor? ”
The ones who got off the planes were all light equipment. Including the M551 tank, although the barrel looks thick enough, it is too short and small.
Can you win against the Indian army without main battle tanks? To know. The Indian army is equipped with M1 tanks imported from the United States!
"Rest assured, Mr. President, we will definitely keep the Indian army west of Dongi and will not let them invade Dhaka." Colonel Youde said: "No matter what the cost, we will complete our mission and protect our brotherly country. ”
When Yude said this, he really moved Elshad, how did he know that the main task of this rapid reaction force was not to fight, but to pick up loot!
At this moment, Ranard hurriedly walked over and said to Elshad: "Mr. President, I just received a report that five minutes ago, our bridge over the Jamuna River was blown up. ”
The Jamuna River Bridge was destroyed? Elshad's face suddenly changed: "We spent a lot of money to build it, who did it?" ”
It seems that that bridge is more useful for India? Indians probably wouldn't do that, so who is that?
Elshad turned his head and looked at Youd, the expression on Youd's face was very resolute, and he only said one word to Elshad: "Mr. President, it's war now!" ”
War! War has to pay a price, it's just a bridge, compared to the death of the country, what is a bridge?
With that, Youd returned to his wheeled chariot, and the troops had been assembled and left the airfield one by one.
"What? The bridge was blown up? After receiving this news, the face of the commander of the Indian armored division suddenly changed.
He found out that he had made a mistake, leaving only a small part of the mechanized infantry to guard the bridge to prevent it from being destroyed by ground personnel, that is, there was no air defense left!
However, it is useless to stay afraid, and the advance of his armored troops is only self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery, and in actual combat, the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery is far inferior to that of anti-aircraft missiles.
Did the Bengalis do it themselves? Probably not, their air force is very weak, and now it's night, if they want to blow up the bridge, they just rely on their planes, I don't know how many sorties they have to fly, to be able to blow up the bridge!
If it's not a Bengalis, it's definitely a foreign force, is it Pakistan? Thinking of Pakistan, the commander of the armored division suddenly became even more anxious: "Order, concentrate all the fuel, add it all to the M1 tanks, and advance overnight!" ”
Not all the fuel is used up, and there is still a certain amount of fuel left for other accompanying vehicles. Although the engine of the M1 uses aviation gas turbines, it is not a picky eater, and in addition to the commonly used No. 1 and No. 2 diesel and No. 4 and No. 5 jet fuels, gasoline and kerosene can even be used when needed. If you need to change the fuel, you can simply turn the dial in the cab according to the specific gravity of the fuel, which is very convenient.
Now, the commander of the armored division is preparing for the worst, once the fuel supply cannot arrive on time, then he needs to gather the most powerful force of the division, that is, the tanks, and charge towards Dhaka, as long as these powerful American-made tanks pass, they will definitely be able to scare away the head of government of Bangladesh, and their army will not have strong resistance.
And even if Pakistan sends in ground troops, it will take days to get here, and by then they will be invincible by the time they have captured the capital of Bangladesh.
All the soldiers were in a hurry to prepare, sucking out all the oil from other vehicles, loading them into tanks, and making up fuel for them, and there were also some shrewd soldiers who quietly left some in case of emergency.
When the weather was bright, the preparation was finally completed, and after putting together the fuel of the other vehicles, they finally had enough fuel for their tanks to continue driving and go straight to Dhaka!
However, at this time, the roar of planes was heard in the sky, and the Pakistani A-7 attack aircraft, again arrived!
The A-7 attack aircraft was carrying Maverick missiles specially designed to attack armored targets on the ground, and the pilots looked at the armored vehicles of the Indians on the ground, their eyes full of excitement.
It's time to slaughter the Indians again!
If it was just a confrontation with ground forces, those M1 tanks might have played a considerable role, but now, when the planes specializing in ground attack arrived, the ground forces could only be slaughtered.
When he found that the Pakistani attack plane flew overhead, the commander of the armored division of the Indians, with despair on his face, suddenly woke up, the bridge was bombed last night, and the Pakistanis were not trying to fight their logistical supplies at all, just to block their retreat road!
"Retreat, immediately to the city of Tangail!" The commander of the armored division shouted over the radio that although there were anti-aircraft artillery units under the division, it would be a drop in the bucket to deal with the planes overhead, and the only way to retreat to Tangail was to retreat to the city of Tangale first, and in the densely populated urban area, the attack of the opposing air force should be less, and they would have to face the risk of accidental hit.
However, the hiss of a noisy current came from the headphones, and the radio had been jammed!
In the eastern part of Tangale, where there was no danger to defend, the Indian Panzer Division had another unforgettable experience.
A Maverick missile, dragging a tongue of fire, flew down from the wing, the target was obviously the retreating M1 tank, at this time, black smoke was rising from the side of the tank, and the engine had burst out with maximum power, dragging the steel monster to retreat.
"Boom!" The composite armor M1 tank did not block the attack of this Maverick missile, and the missile pierced through the top of the turret, piercing through the weak top armor, and the metal heat flow entered the inside of the tank.
"Boom!" With a violent explosion, the tank smoked and stopped moving.
Obviously, the targets of the first round of Maverick missiles were those high-value M1 tanks, which made Colonel Youde of Unit A, who had just arrived in the war zone from a distance and was observing the battlefield with a telescope, couldn't help but shake his head: "Damn, you can't blow them all up, the president explained, let us clean up the battlefield, those M1 tanks, they should all be ours!" ”
That's an advanced tank made in the United States! Colonel Youde's eyes were very hot, and he felt as if it was his equipment that had been destroyed as if it had destroyed one M1 tank after another.
"Gah." An M1 tank stopped, and the armored men inside opened the hatch and ran without looking back towards a mound in the distance, preparing to take shelter there.
In the tense air raid, he was still able to find that the attack planes above his head were attacking their tanks that were still in action! Their tanks couldn't withstand the missile attack, so he had to escape first! (To be continued......)