On the second day of the war, the ground battle began.

This time, the protagonist is not the Chinese army, but the Pakistani army.

Although due to the serious lack of pre-war preparations, the Pakistani Army did not cross the border and ceasefire lines, but only launched artillery bombardment in India and the Indian-controlled Kashmir area, India's pre-war preparations were not very sufficient, and only used long-range artillery to counterattack.

The main battlefield is in the Kashmir region.

Around the military dividing line, India and Pakistan used a large number of long-range artillery, and the large-scale artillery battle lasted from morning to evening, and it stopped after dark.

During these more than ten hours of artillery battle, the Pakistani Army had a very obvious advantage.

There is only one reason: the Pakistani Army is the second army in the world to be equipped with large-caliber electromagnetic guns, while the Indian Army still uses electrothermal chemical guns.

Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the artillery technological revolution had begun.

At that time, China and the United States chose two different development paths, namely electromagnetic guns and electrothermal chemical guns.

Before the Army's large-caliber electromagnetic gun technology matured, the Chinese Army focused on improving existing artillery, improving the accuracy of rocket launchers, and making up for the range of the barrel artillery. The US Army became more radical, focusing on electrothermal chemical guns, and took the lead in developing electrothermal chemical guns with practical capabilities. This is also true. Before 2035, the US Army's artillery performance once exceeded that of the Chinese Army. For the same reason, in recent years, the US electrothermal chemical guns became the darling in the international arms market.

The main reason for this is that the traditional artillery of the US military is weaker than that of the Chinese Army.

To put it simply, if the United States does not focus on developing electrothermal chemical cannons but instead places its hopes on electromagnetic cannons, it is very likely that it will never surpass the Chinese army. Only when electromagnetic cannon technology matures and is equipped with electrothermal chemical cannons will the US Army have the opportunity to surpass the Chinese army.

Affected by this, the US military also gained some advantages on the fourth-generation main battle tank.

Not to mention, the 140 mm electrothermal chemical cannon used by the m27a1 is slightly better than the 24th one, with a tube life of 1,500, while the 24th one is only 800. In terms of accuracy, the 140 mm electrothermal chemical cannon of the US military is also slightly higher.

However, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, this advantage of the US military was soon settled.

As the Chinese Army made a major breakthrough in electromagnetic gun technology, replacing all body-barrier artillery with electromagnetic guns has become a matter of time. If it were not for a global natural disaster, before 2040, the Chinese Army would have purchased electromagnetic guns in large quantities and gradually replaced all body-barrier artillery. Since then, as the Chinese Army focused on the "future ground war platform", the fire support platform mainly equipped with electromagnetic guns has become the world's most advanced army artillery system, and after mass production in 2044, it overwhelmed the US military's electrothermal chemical guns in various performances.

At that time, the Pakistani Army prioritized the procurement of 120 gates and equipped an artillery brigade.

In contrast, the Indian Army only has electrothermal chemical cannons.

Compared with electrothermal chemical cannons, the biggest advantage of electromagnetic cannons is not that they have a longer range, but that they have simpler logistics support. That is, as long as there is sufficient power supply, the combat efficiency of electromagnetic cannons is far higher than that of electrothermal chemical cannons. Relying on their advantageous range, electromagnetic cannons can be deployed farther from the front line to obtain sufficient power supply and can transport ammunition and other consumption materials more in a more comprehensive manner.

To put it simply, the electromagnetic gun has higher combat efficiency.

With sufficient logistics support, an artillery brigade equipped with electromagnetic guns has a combat efficiency of more than three times that of preparing electrothermal chemical guns.

During the battle that day, the Pakistani artillery proved this with its actions.

This artillery brigade, with only 120 electromagnetic guns, undertakes 60% of long-range strike missions and suppresses five Indian artillery brigades.

In the afternoon of the same day, the brigade also bombarded New Delhi, the capital of India for the first time.

In fact, the brigade was also the first artillery unit that could shell New Delhi just by deploying near Islamabad.

For India, this is undoubtedly the biggest challenge.

More importantly, Indian artillery has almost no way to fight back because if you want to shell Islamabad, you have to deploy the artillery front, which is suppressed by Pakistan's frontier artillery.

While the Indian-Pakistan Army was conducting a large-scale artillery battle, the Chinese Army also entered the battle.

According to Mu Haoyang's deployment, the Chinese Army did not use long-range artillery and rocket launchers, but ballistic missiles with even more amazing power.

To be precise, it is a composite ballistic missile.

Traditional ballistic missiles, as long as the range exceeds one thousand kilometers, even if the ballistic is lowered, the highest point of the ballistic exceeds two hundred kilometers. Obviously, when the low-Earth orbit space is filled with space garbage, traditional ballistic missiles are difficult to use normally.

Affected by this, in 2036, the Chinese Army began to develop composite ballistic missiles.

From the perspective of flight trajectory, this missile is more like a vertically launched hypersonic cruise missile. That is, after launch, it first rises to 80 kilometers, then starts the rocket ramjet integrated engine, increase the flight speed to more than Mach 10, and then cruises at a speed between Mach 10 and Mach 20. After reaching the target, it sprints at a speed of about Mach 20 at a close vertical angle. Because the higher flight speed is enough to burn all external sensors, this missile is only equipped with high-precision laser gyroscopic screws.

The deviation of the instrument is about one hundred thousandth. That is to say, if the range is one thousand kilometers, the error of inertial guidance is about ten meters. To further improve the hit accuracy, you have to deal with the warhead, such as reducing the speed of the last-stage penetration and installing a last-stage guidance system. For attacking large targets, a one-tenth of the deviation is not large. Even if the range reaches two thousand kilometers, the error is within an acceptable range. Therefore, the last-stage guidance system will be installed only if the range exceeds two thousand kilometers, or if it needs to be hit with a small target.

During the missile assault that afternoon, the Chinese Army fired nearly 2,000 ballistic missiles in one breath.

It can be said that Qi Kaiwei spent a lot of money on this.

You should know that before the outbreak of the war, the total number of tactical ballistic missiles in the ammunition depot of the Chinese Army with a range of less than 2,400 kilometers was only about 2,400. Although according to the war plan formulated by Mu Haoyang, after the outbreak of the war, the production of ballistic missiles will be greatly increased to reach the level of 600 per month, firing two thousand at one go means that in the next two months, the Chinese Army will no longer expect to use ballistic missiles to conduct large-scale strikes. Fortunately, it will take about two months for the Chinese Air Force to completely defeat India's defense forces, so it will take two months before the Chinese Army's ground forces will take the stage.

The direct benefit of increasing the density of missile strikes is that the success rate of strikes is greatly increased.

Of the fifty-eight targets that were targeted, fifty-six were completely destroyed, and the other two were seriously paralyzed, and only two were spent on this was two thousand tactical ballistic missiles. You should know that if fighters were dispatched to bomb these fifty-eight large targets, it would take at least two days to dispatch 4,000 orders and drop more than 8,000 tons of bombs. Do not even lose dozens of fighter jets, but the Army did not lose a missile launcher, no officers and soldiers were killed or killed, and the total value of the two thousand tactical ballistic missiles was only equivalent to one hundred advanced fighter jets.

It can be said that when fighting high-risk strategic targets, tactical ballistic missiles have much higher combat effectiveness than fighter jets.

This round of strike was also the first climax of this war.

In fact, on that day, China's military strikes reached its peak.

According to the daily battle report released by the Chinese Ministry of Defense, on February 10, the Chinese Air Force dispatched more than 3,600 combat aircraft, of which more than 3,200 carried out air combat and strike missions, dropped more than 13,000 tons of bombs, hitting 268 large military targets and 1,246 time-sensitive military targets, achieving an 84% strike success rate. During this day's battle, the Chinese Air Force shot down a total of 127 Indian fighter jets and destroyed 288 on the ground.

Faced with China's high-intensity military strikes, India's counterattacks in addition to defending them are very limited.

According to the war report released by the Indian authorities, only 26 large military targets in Pakistan and three air bases in China's Tibet region were launched on the same day, and no substantial results were achieved, resulting in less than 100 Pakistani soldiers' casualties.

However, the most important thing that happened on this day was not on the South Asian battlefield, but on the East Indian Ocean.

At around 11:00 a.m. that day, a US reconnaissance plane patrolling the East Indian Ocean discovered a Chinese fleet and was determined to be flying to Australia.

About an hour later, US fighter jets encountered a Chinese fleet over the northwestern territorial waters of Australia.

Although both sides were very restrained, and the Chinese fleet turned back at the last moment, did not enter Australian airspace or attack Australia, during the fierce confrontation, two US fighters collided with two Chinese fighters, causing two of them to fall on the spot and the other two were seriously damaged. About two hours later, a Chinese Navy's vertical take-off and landing transport plane rescued two pilots landed in the Australian territorial waters, and the US military subsequently dispatched helicopters to rescue the parachuting pilots.

In the afternoon, major news media reported on this incident in detail.

Almost everyone believes that war between China and the United States is about to begin, and that China is likely to bomb US military bases in Australia that night.

The problem is that neither China nor the United States responded very strongly.

It was not until around 5 pm that day that the Chinese government issued an announcement claiming that the Chinese fleet was surveillance by US aircraft while performing combat missions in the Indian Ocean, and was forced to take necessary self-defense measures and confront the US military, but the two sides did not exchange fire.

Only then did the atmosphere ease.
Chapter completed!