Chapter fifty-ninth race against time
When Mu Haoyang received the news, the carrier-based fighter jets carrying out the strike mission had set off for half an hour.
According to Yang Yufang's arrangement, the Dindy Vonam Air Force Base, which is more than 50 kilometers northwest of Pondicherry, will be first bombed to launch combat operations against India.
This is the largest air force base in the southern part of India.
According to the intelligence provided by the Ministry of the Second, the Indian Air Force deployed twenty F-22i and forty F-35a here, and a squadron's Su-30mki, and was the main advance base for Indian fighters to enter the Bay of Bengal. In addition, three E-3gs from the Japanese Air Force are also here.
If the fleet wants to enter the Bay of Bengal, it must first destroy the air force base.
Although it was a sudden attack, Yang Yufang made careful arrangements.
According to his deployment, with the support of two zy-1s, twenty-four J-25s were responsible for dealing with Indian fighters that had taken off the airlift and seizing battlefield air supremacy. Then forty-eight J-25s will enter in three batches. The first batch will focus on bombing the air defense positions near the base, the second batch will bomb the command and communication center, and the third batch will go to bomb the airport. In addition to destroying fighter jets on the ground, they will focus on attacking infrastructure.
If everything goes well, Dindivonum Air Force Base will lose its mobility within the next three days.
With the fleet's continuous combat capability, high-intensity aerial strikes can be carried out, and at most, three days of activity in the Bay of Bengal, and then you have to return to replenish ammunition.
In order to achieve the suddenness of the attack, Yang Yu's side set the strike time at around 11:00 pm.
At this time, it was the night shift time for the Indian army.
To this end, the attack aircraft group must set out before 9:30.
Although j-25 can be used to hang two tons of ammunition in a strike mission, it is more than one ton more than when performing air control missions. Therefore, in order to save fuel, it can only reduce its cruise speed. It takes about an hour and fifteen minutes to fly. Before launching an attack, at least fifteen minutes of tactical preparation time must be left for the attack aircraft group.
As a result, Mu Haoyang received the message from Huang Zhibo at 10 o'clock.
At that time, the Air Force had already participated in the war.
At about nine o'clock, under the cover of four J-20s, the twelve J-22s that took off from Yecheng Air Force Base, relying on the intelligence provided by early warning aircraft and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, bombed the Indian artillery positions and troops gathering grounds south of the Siachen Glacier, destroying an artillery battalion and hundreds of tons of combat supplies.
The bombing came suddenly and the Indian Air Force did not even have time to react.
More importantly, the j-22 entered along the route commonly used by Pakistani fighter jets, so the Indian Air Force thought it was attacked by the Pakistani Air Force at the first time.
Forty minutes later, the Chinese Ministry of Defense announced the participation in the Kashmir conflict.
It was not until this time that Indian authorities learned that the Chinese Air Force had dispatched fighter jets to provide direct air support to the Pakistani army.
The most shocking thing was not the Indian Air Force, but Indian Prime Minister Krusha.
Before this, China had been very restrained and once claimed to send fleets into the Indian Ocean, just to end the India-Pakistan conflict as soon as possible, and had no intention of expanding the scale of the conflict.
Now, is the Chinese military directly involved in the Kashmir conflict, ending the conflict or expanding the scale of the conflict?
Although in the release of the news, the Chinese Ministry of Defense mentioned that the dispatch of air forces was to prevent the Indian army from continuing to penetrate into the actual controlled area of Pakistan and limit the scope of the war, any politician knew that limiting the scope of the war was definitely not to control the scale of the war.
Politically speaking, whether China intervenes in ground conflicts will have a greater impact on the scale of the war.
If China is on the grounds of restricting the attack of the Indian army, it can not only bomb the frontier positions of the Indian army, but also bomb the rear bases of the Indian army, and even have reasons to bomb the local military bases of India. In this way, China's actions not only did not limit the scale of the war, but also expanded the scale of the war.
For Krusha, there is only one most critical issue.
Will China expand the bombing range on the ground as a citing restriction of the Indian army from launching ground attacks?
If so, then before the Indian Army wins, the Chinese Air Force can destroy the rear infrastructure on which the Indian Army relies for attack. The result is very obvious, that is, the Indian Army cannot achieve a final victory at the Siachen Glacier without rear support.
Krusha has only one choice: announce a ceasefire when the situation is not completely out of control.
Perhaps India must hand over all occupied areas, but it is much better than the local bombing and the national defense forces retreated overnight for decades.
Of course, this is not what everyone knows.
At the meeting, several officials, including the Minister of Defense, proposed that a ceasefire should not be ceased at this time, but should express India's position. As long as the local area is bombed, India will launch a strategic counterattack, causing China to pay a heavy price, thus allowing China to give up its air strike.
The army commander even proposed that the strategic missile forces should be put into combat readiness.
In fact, India's strategic missile forces had entered combat readiness at that time and were able to launch ballistic missiles within half an hour after receiving the order.
Krusha firmly opposed this, because it means total destruction for India.
If China is afraid of India's strategic strike force, it will not send troops to the Indian Ocean, nor will it send troops to Kashmir. Obviously, China is not afraid of India's strategic forces, or has enough ability to offset India's strategic forces, and hopes to take this opportunity to gain an excuse to launch a strategic strike against India.
Nuclear strikes will make China afraid.
But by the same token, China's strategic revenge is enough to make Indian leaders afraid and be afraid of them when making strategic decisions.
The meeting was not over yet, and a latest battle report shocked the audience and scared Krusha.
At around 11 o'clock, Chinese Navy's carrier-based fighter jets bombed the Dindivonum Air Base, destroying dozens of aircraft staying on the ground, including three Japanese Air Force e-3gs, blowing up runways, hangars, fuel warehouses, ammunition warehouses and barracks and other infrastructures, and also destroyed three air defense positions near the airport before the bombing. Then the Air Force sent more news, Chinese fighter jets also bombed the nearby air defense command center and the communication center in the southern region, and shot down more than a dozen fighter jets of the Indian Air Force during air combat.
Now, the problem is complicated.
The Chinese army not only attacked military facilities on the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, bombed Indian ground forces in the Kashmir region, but also bombed local Indian military facilities.
All these signs indicate that China is expanding the scale of the war.
According to Krusha's estimates, the Chinese army will continue to expand the scope of the attack, which will soon make India suffer and force India to surrender with bombing.
At this time, it was not the Air Force who advocated continuing to fight, but the Army.
The Air Force Commander's opinion is very simple. Without air supremacy, India will not only fail to win the war, but will also lose all. Its rational move is to announce a ceasefire before being hit by a large-scale air strike, and request the United States to come forward to let China and Pakistan stop military operations.
This attitude is completely understandable.
By this time, the Indian Air Force had lost more than half of its advanced fighter jets. Although there were still thousands of fighter jets that could be launched into the air, their performance was very backward and they could not compete with the Chinese army for air supremacy, and even the Pakistani Air Force could not deal with it.
The air force is paralyzed, and it is useless to fight the ground troops no matter how hard they can.
In fact, without air cover, the Indian Army will sooner or later be defeated.
The problem is that the army commander still opposes peacekeeping and continues to advocate the use of strategic threats to prevent China from further expanding the scale of the war and protecting its existing victory.
The meeting continued, and the new changes made Krusha no longer hesitate.
At around 2 a.m. on July 31, the Pakistani President delivered a televised speech, claiming that as long as the Indian army is still in Pakistan, the war will not end.
Then, Krusha received the latest information.
When the president delivered his speech, the Pakistan Army's strategic missile forces had entered combat readiness, and dozens of launch vehicles carrying ballistic missiles left the station. Because this is Pakistan's main strategic threat, these missiles must be equipped with nuclear warheads.
Although the Chinese Air Force did not expand its scope of strike, the momentum of war expansion was very obvious.
More importantly, the speech delivered by the Pakistani president has shown that India cannot occupy the Siachen Glacier for a long time, and before withdrawing troops, even if India announces a unilateral ceasefire, Pakistan will launch a counterattack in Kashmir on the grounds of defensive counterattack.
As long as the ground war is not over, the war will not end.
As long as Pakistan launches a counterattack, China has reason to continue bombing India and destroy India's strategic defense facilities before the Indian army retreats.
By this time, even the commander of the Indian Army realized that it was impossible to win, even if it was to save the victory.
After the Chinese fleet seized the sea power, the Chinese army is adjusting the focus of the war, and it is very fast, and it is likely to be completed within 24 hours.
As long as China and Pakistan adjust the focus of the war, India will lose its initiative.
At that time, China and Pakistan will decide when to end the war.
The meeting was in the early morning... and halfway through the morning, Crusha received another very bad news: the Chinese army bombed Port Blair again.
Because the bombers that bombed Port Blair this time were bombers, and some bombers dropped bombs over the port, the Indian Air Force believed that this was a bomber dispatched by the Chinese Air Force, and these bombers must have been through Myanmar, otherwise it would not have been possible to rush thousands of kilometers.
In fact, it was the Chinese Navy's h-6x that bombed Port Blair.
In any case, Krusha has believed that China is expanding the scale of the conflict in steps and is about to achieve its strategic goal before India announces a ceasefire.
What is China's strategic purpose?
At least one thing is certain, that is, occupy Port Blair, obtain a strategic base to enter the Indian Ocean, and improve the strategic chain in the Indian Ocean.
Chapter completed!