Chapter 224: Aerial Bombs
In the thick of the night, the J-20 quickly climbed to an altitude of 18,000 meters, and then entered the cruising flight state according to the established direction. On the thick clouds, the dark gray painted J-20 faintly shone with a faint silver light in the clear moonlight, and under the control of the computer, the J-20 flew smoothly, and Xia Yu opened the number of chains in accordance with the requirements in the mission plan.
2 minutes later, an unfamiliar voice came from Xia Yu's radio: "Hongqi 2 calls Hongqi 1, please answer if you receive it." ”
"Red flag 1 received, red flag 2, please speak."
"I'm at altitude 16,000, 42 kilometers from 8 o'clock, and I'm converging with you, asking to get into the wingman position."
"Red Flag 1 received, dense two-plane formation, left wingman position, Red Flag 2 please enter."
Xia Yu looked at the multiplexing display in the cockpit, because Hongqi 2 had been added to the combat number chain, so Xia Yu could see the location and flight parameter information of Hongqi 2 in the display screen, and when Xia Yu looked down at the multiplexing display, another signal representing a friendly aircraft appeared in the display screen. At a glance at the displayed target information, it was in the direction of 11 o'clock, 60 kilometers away, flying at an altitude of 15,000 meters at a speed of Mach 0.8, and then Xia Yu heard another person's voice: "Hongqi 1, this is Hongqi 3, please enter the wingman position." ”
"Red Flag 1 received, dense three-plane formation, right wingman position, Red Flag 3 please enter."
"Dense three-plane formation, right wingman position, Red Flag 3 understands."
With Xia Yu's command, Hongqi 3 began to slowly increase the altitude and choose the entry route, and when Xia Yu and Hongqi 2 formed a two-plane formation swept over the head of Hongqi 3, Hongqi 3 immediately accelerated and entered the wingman position on the right.
"Hongqi 3 enters the wingman position, over."
"Red Flag 1 received." Xia Yu said confirmation, and then said: "Red flag 2, red flag 3, please prepare to receive mission information." ”
After passing the specific mission information to the two wingmen and confirming the content of the mission information with both sides, the three J-20s made a neat turn and began to fly towards the Shigatse Air Base. It takes about an hour and ten minutes to fly from Chengdu to Shigatse, and after the three J-20A are refueled at the Shigatse Air Base, they will go straight to the battlefield after taking off again.
The mission plan is that the three J-20s are responsible for counting the anti-aircraft fire of the Indian infantry regiment, ensuring the smooth passage of the air corridor, and providing air cover for the four J-10s responsible for subsequent ground attacks, so as to avoid damage to the J-10 by India's possible air force. That is to say, after Xia Yu and the three J-20 Thunderstone 6 in the belly were thrown out, basically the things on the ground had nothing to do with Xia Yu and them, and the only thing to do was to ensure that the Indian aircraft could not pose a threat to the J-10.
At the same time that the three J-20s were rapidly flying to the Shigatse airport, the ground troops were also ready to attack, and the fighters of the 6th Frontier Regiment, who had received orders from their superiors via the radio, were ambushed on a mountain col, staring fiercely at the Indian soldiers and armed vehicles.
The location chosen by the Indians is very good, it is a wide area, which is very suitable for the movement of armored vehicles, in the event of an accident, the Indian mechanized infantry can attack, retreat and defend, even withdrawing, the Chinese troops are not easy to pursue, because it is a narrow passage, on both sides are snow-capped mountains, the terrain is complex, even if there are personnel to climb over, but it is simply impossible to carry heavy weapons, for Indian soldiers protected by armored vehicles, the threat is very limited, which is why this infantry regiment dares to stop at this position.
India wants to test China's response, but it doesn't want a firefight that is too harsh. Therefore, it was already decided early on that as soon as there was contact with the Chinese ground forces, they would fight and retreat, and eventually return to Indian territory. The Indian government is even ready to lose a few people to each other, which will end up being an excuse and a justification for dealing with each other internationally.
Unfortunately, the Indian government would not have imagined that when they claimed to enter China without authorization and killed three Chinese sentinels, the Chinese government was determined to keep this force in China.
The commander of the Indian infantry regiment was very strange when he could not see the activities of the Chinese troops for a long time, but more often than not, he mocked the Chinese army for being slow to react. They had already stopped in place for two hours, and in another hour, if the Chinese troops did not show up, they were even prepared to continue to probe forward 30 kilometers according to the backup plan, and if they could not provoke the Chinese government to understand the Chinese government's bottom line on such tentative behavior, this force had no intention of retreating.
However, the regiment commander did not expect that the Chinese government had already made up its mind and had already begun military deployment. Just as the commander of the Indian infantry regiment was secretly mocking, 20 kilometers away from his troops, three rapidly approaching J-20s opened the main bomb compartment and put down the satellite-guided gliding bomb Thunder 6.
"Launch." Two simple words, but they represent a merciless killing. Under the command of Xia Yu, the five 500-kilogram bombs under the belly of the three J-20 planes broke away from the pylon, and then the glider kit was automatically deployed, and under the guidance of the satellite, it flew away according to the position information provided by the ground reconnaissance soldiers before.
After dropping the gliding bombs, the three J-20s immediately closed their magazines, then turned around and climbed to gain altitude. At the same time, in the Indian infantry regiment, the piercing air defense sirens suddenly sounded, and the entire infantry regiment suddenly seemed to have woken up from its slumber, and all the people and vehicles moved.
The Thunderstone 6 is a subsonic gliding bomb that can reach speeds of Mach 0.7 and will need to glide for more than a minute if it is flying from a distance of 65 kilometers at its maximum range. In more than a minute, if it was a mechanized infantry regiment, it was really not easy for the prepared personnel to get into the car and flee at full speed, and the Thunderstone 6, which was guided to a fixed target by satellite, wanted to destroy the personnel and equipment.
However, the J-20 took advantage of the terrain and relied on the characteristics of radar stealth, and flew close to a distance of 20 kilometers before opening the main magazine and putting down gliding bombs, leaving the Indian infantry regiment with a reaction time of only 30 seconds. In thirty seconds, even the fastest response of the troops, calculated from the time the air defense siren sounded, will not be able to make an effective response at all.
"Boom, boom!" A huge explosion rang out in the silent night, and three clouds of fire that tumbled and rose lit up the dark night sky. The three 500-kilogram bombs in the shape of a zigzag directly covered an area of about 800 meters. The fate of the people who were shrouded in the killing radius is naturally self-evident, and the countless fragments of human tissue that were lifted away by the explosion are undoubtedly the best proof, even the air defense vehicles and radar vehicles calculated in tons were completely destroyed in the explosion, and even the armored vehicles that were a little farther away and did not suffer fatal damage were also overturned by the huge air wave and could not be spared.
Outside the scope of the explosion, the Indian soldiers who were not directly injured wailed all over the field, some of them were injured by the gravel and gravel blown by the explosion, and some were injured by the strong vibration of the internal organs, although the injuries were not serious, but they had a certain impact on combat effectiveness, especially when the three aerial bombs exploded, they were about to face the Chinese ground mechanized troops that suddenly appeared on the periphery and were in a charging posture.