.Chapter 96 Return to the main position

On the morning of February 16, Mu Haoyang handed over the important task of commanding the fleet to Zhang Yuting, and flew to Pakistan on a carrier-based transport plane under the cover of eight fighter jets and an early warning plane. The escorted fighter jets would not return immediately, but would wait until the afternoon to return to the fleet with the additional fighter jets.

At that time, the fleet was still in the process of transporting the supplies sent to Karachi to the northern region and then sent to the front line by the Chinese Army's logistics forces.

After the attack began, when the Chinese Army was advancing towards New Delhi, it would conquer the northern part of New Delhi, cut off the connection between the Indian Army and the Kashmir region, encircle and annihilate the Indian army near Kashmir, and then four divisions of the Pakistani Army sweep the Kashmir region.

On the southern battlefield, the Pakistani army will simultaneously attack the Kach area and restrain the Indian army in that direction.

In this way, if the Indian Army defends New Delhi to the death, the Pakistani Army's offense in the south will become easy and will not encounter much trouble at all. If the Indian Army abandons New Delhi, the Chinese Army will advance along the railway line from New Delhi to Kachi Bay at the fastest speed after occupying New Delhi, capture important cities along the way, and establish a strategic defense line that divides the northwestern India, assist the Pakistani Army in capturing the Kachi area, and then seek to advance eastward along the Ganges River and capture the Ganges Plain.

In fact, Qi Kaiwei had enough reason to believe that the Indian army could not give up on New Delhi.

The reason is very simple. As long as New Delhi falls, even if India is defeated, it will be difficult for the final outcome even if the Indian government moves to other regions.

Of course, this is not only related to military and political factors, but also to India's domestic environment.

You should know that before 2040, China was India's largest trading partner and India's largest commodity export destination. It can be said that more than one-third of Indians have economic relations with China. More importantly, during the global natural disasters, only China provided India with a large number of anti-cancer drugs free of charge, and sent medical assistance personnel to India to help hundreds of millions of Indians. It can be said that before that, even if China-India relations were not close, the civil exchanges between the two countries were frequent enough.

Many people in India oppose the issue of seeking the United States and confronting China, and this led to the fact that India changed seven governments in a row after 2038, with an average term of less than one year for each government, but each government pursues a pro-US policy.

During peacetime, Indian people cannot affect the political situation in India under the control of the family.

But during the war, the situation was very different. As long as the Chinese army captured New Delhi and supported a pro-China government that was supported by the people, the legitimacy of the Indian regime would be tested, and no one could guarantee whether the Indian people living at the bottom of society would support the former government. If the people turn against each other, then what India wants to fight is not a war against Chinese invasion, but a large-scale civil war.

In fact, this is also China's main strategic orientation in this war.

When formulating the war plan, Mu Haoyang clearly mentioned that it is almost impossible to occupy a country like India with a land area of ​​3 million square kilometers and a population of more than one billion. Moreover, the occupation will have unpredictable consequences and bear huge military and economic losses. Not to mention, if the entire territory of India is occupied, at least 1.5 million ground troops will be deployed, while the total strength of the Chinese Army and Marine Corps is only 800,000, and the annual deployment of 1.5 million ground troops will be as high as trillions of yuan. If it really becomes like this, China will not only be unable to obtain the benefits of the war, but will also be dragged down by this war.

Obviously, this is also what the United States wants to achieve.

To this end, we must avoid occupying India. The only way is to support the pro-China regime after capturing New Delhi, form a New Indian Defense Force, and then let the Indians print out and save people. Although doing so will greatly reduce the dividends of the war, and a long-term civil war will make it difficult for China to use the Indian market, the price that China needs to pay will also be greatly reduced, which will be of great help to the upcoming Sino-US full-scale war.

In fact, after this war, India's strategic position will also be greatly reduced.

To put it bluntly, even if we do not occupy the entire territory of India, it will be difficult for India to recover within a few years after large-scale strategic bombing. Therefore, India no longer has strategic value to affect the balance between China and the United States, but will become one of the poorest and most insignificant countries in South Asia.

India has little strategic value for at least the next decade.

As for ten years later, I'm afraid China needs to consider not how to use India, but how to repair the trauma after a full-scale war with the United States, or how to completely defeat the United States.

Based on these factors, we concluded that the scope of large-scale ground wars must be narrowed as much as possible.

In other words, the rapid capture of New Delhi is a strategic goal that the Chinese Army must achieve, and any combat operation that violates this goal is of no value.

In order to achieve this goal, China had to make compromises with Pakistan.

According to the information released after the war, Mu Haoyang had made a promise to Pakistan that as long as the Pakistani army could capture the Kachi area, China would not emphasize this issue after the war, that is, to abide by the legitimacy of Pakistan's occupation of the region, and to recognize Pakistan's sovereignty in the entire Kashmir region. What Pakistan needs to do is to assist the Chinese army in combat, not cause trouble for the Chinese army, and to recognize China's sovereignty in southern Tibet and the legitimacy of the 20,000 square kilometers of land controlled in northeastern Kashmir after the war.

Of course, such political transactions will never be published to the public.

The reason is simple. This secret transaction itself has no legality, and no country will recognize the legitimacy of Pakistan's occupation of the Kachi region.

It can be seen from this that neither Mu Haoyang nor Qi Kaiwei had much hope for the Ba Jun.

Given the situation at that time, before the war broke out, the two had never thought of fighting together with the Pakistani army, otherwise Qi Kaiwei would not have sent three armies to Pakistan.

On March 8th, on International Women's Day, Qi Kaiwei came up with a complete set of combat plans.

According to his arrangement, the ground war will begin on March 10. At that time, in addition to the Thirteenth Army, most of the troops of the Twenty-Seventh Army will also arrive in Pakistan. Its main task is to support the Thirteenth Army and cover the logistics supply line.

Relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness and equipment level of the 27th Army are not bad.

However, compared with the 13th Army, which was the first to change into the "Future Ground War Platform", it was still a big difference, so it could only do some groceries.

Of course, there is no need to invest too much offensive forces when advancing towards New Delhi.

On the contrary, more attention should be paid to the logistical support issues after entering India, which will directly determine the assault capabilities of the Thirteenth Army.

Chapter 100 Steel Torrent

On March 10, the ground battle began as scheduled.

The first one to launch the attack was not the 13th Army of the Chinese Army, but the 3rd Armored Division of the Pakistan Army, which was the ace force of the Pakistan Army.

After three hours of fire preparation, the Third Armored Division crossed the India-Pakistan border line, quickly captured the border town of Munnabao, and then advanced along the railway line to Barmel, which has 200,000 residents. According to the offensive plan formulated by the Pakistani army, after capturing Barmel, that is, establishing a forward base in India, it will continue to advance eastward, capture Jodhpur and Bali, and cut off the railway and highway routes from Jaipur to the Khachi area. If necessary, continue to capture Udaipur eastward, establish a sufficiently solid strategic defense line to prevent the Indian army from moving south, and then sweep the entire Khachi area southward.

Of course, a teacher will definitely not be able to do it.

To this end, the Pakistan Army also mobilized three ace troops, including the Seventh Armored Division, the Eighth Mechanized Infantry Division, the Ninth Infantry Division, and dispatched the 11th Independent Armored Brigade, the 13th Independent Tank Brigade, the 16th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 42nd Artillery Brigade, the 44th Artillery Brigade, the 45th Artillery Brigade and the 47th Artillery Brigade, and a total of eleven main troops were invested, and an independent artillery brigade was added to each ace division, with a total force of more than 250,000, of which the combat troops were more than 150,000.

What the Pakistan Army needs to face is only 200,000 Indian troops.

Including the gap in equipment and the support provided by the Pakistan Air Force, the Pakistani army has a great advantage.

More importantly, the Pakistani army fought in the southern region, and all combat supplies were transported from Karachi, and the total length of the logistics supply line was less than 600 kilometers.

In other words, the Pakistan Army's logistics support burden is relatively small.

It can be said that with the combat capabilities of the Pakistani Army, it is only a matter of time to capture the Kach area.

Of course, this must be due to the Chinese army.

At four o'clock in the morning, after only half an hour of artillery preparation, the 13th Army of the Chinese Army crossed the India-Pakistan border from the Sartrej River and captured Abohel before dawn.

It can be said that the Chinese Army's offense is even more sharp.

Abohell is a medium-sized city with a population of more than 300,000. It is a military important military garrison in the northwest border of India. It guards the railway and highway routes of Zhitong Pertinda. Pertinda is the most important railway and highway hub center in the northwest direction of New Delhi. There are six railways and four highways intersect here, two of which lead directly to New Delhi. It can be said that as long as the Chinese army captures Pertinda, it can reach New Delhi within two days, without considering the logistical support issue.

To put it simply, Pertinda is the gateway to New Delhi, while Abolher is the gateway to Pertinda.

At that time, there were two Indian military divisions stationed in Abhul, one of which was the main armored division, with a total force of nearly 30,000, equipped with nearly a thousand tanks and armored combat vehicles, and more than 600 large-caliber artillery. The Indian army built a defense line with a width of more than five kilometers along the border line.

Even so, the Indian Army failed to defend the defense line, and even failed to defend Abolher.

In the battle to break through the border defense line, the main armored brigade of the 13th Army was rushing in front of the attack. The armored battalion in front of the sudden took only an hour to tear a gap of more than five kilometers on the Indian defense line, and defeated the Indian armored troops coming to reinforce with lightning.

During the battle, the battalion's forty-two anti-armor combat platforms destroyed more than 100 Indian tanks within half an hour.

It is incredible that the battalion did not lose an anti-armor combat platform, only three were injured, and they were all repaired on the front line, and they participated in the battle again that morning.

According to the combat report of the 13th Army, the hit rate of the anti-armored combat platform to maneuver targets five thousand meters away is as high as 87%, and the destruction rate is 100%. It should be not only the third-generation main battle tanks were destroyed by the anti-armored combat platform, but also more than 30 m27a1s, half of which were directly destroyed by the armor-piercing bombs fired by the anti-armored combat platform four thousand meters away.

At this distance, m27a1 cannot pose a threat to the anti-armor combat platform at all.

The three injured anti-armor combat platforms were all hit by armor-piercing bullets fired by m27a1 in close combat, and none of them were penetrated by armor-piercing bullets. After being shot, the inner armor was removed, resulting in damage to the vehicle body and the equipment in the turret. Because the anti-armor platform uses an unmanned turret and the three crew members were all inside the vehicle body, no one was killed after being injured.

It can be said that the anti-armor combat platform has withstood the test of actual combat.

This battle is enough to prove that the protection design of the anti-armor combat platform is relatively reasonable. The only shortcoming is that there are quality problems with the inner armor.

After tearing open the Indian army's border defense line, the armored troops continued to advance.

However, the protagonist is not the ground troops, but the air force.

At that time, the Chinese Air Force used at least 300 fighter jets to provide air support to the ground forces in turn, focusing on attacking the Indian mobile defense forces behind the defense line. In order to assist the air force in combat, the 13th Army dispatched inclined rotary wing aircraft to transport reconnaissance troops to the front line, and the scouts directly guided the fighter's attack targets. As a result, the armored troops were almost not blocked when they advanced towards Abolher.

It’s not that the Indian Army did not fight back, but that it was not able to fight back successfully.

On the road leading to Abolher, at least thousands of Indian Army tanks and vehicles were blown up, and most of the counterattack troops of the Indian Army were bombed after leaving the position. According to the combat records of the Indian army, at that time, the Indian army dispatched at least two brigades to counterattack, and they were all hit by air on the way to the battlefield. After suffering heavy losses but not even seeing the enemy, the morale of the two brigades completely collapsed. As a result, they stopped when they were only a few kilometers away from the vanguard of the 13th Army. The surviving Indian officers and soldiers did not organize defense on the spot, but quickly fled back to Abolher, which also brought panic back.

Before dawn, the vanguard of the Thirteenth Army invaded Abolher.

Although some Indian troops resisted tenaciously, they were quickly defeated. More Indian troops did not resist at all, but escaped.

The reason is very simple. During the battle, Indian soldiers discovered that the anti-armored weapons in their hands could not deal with the main battle tanks of the Chinese army.

According to some Indian soldiers' recollections, a Chinese tank was once directly hit by five hypersonic kinetic anti-tank missiles at a very close distance. As a result, the tank seemed to be fine at all. Not only did it destroy the Indian army's anti-tank positions one after another, but also destroyed three M27a1 main battle tanks hidden in the building, and then covered the infantry to capture the building, and then evacuated the battlefield.

You should know that the kinetic energy anti-tank missile used by the Indian army can penetrate the front armor of m27a1 within an effective range.

At that time, China and the United States had begun to eliminate anti-tank missiles using energy-energy armor-piercing warheads, providing the troops with kinetic energy anti-tank missiles. The main reason is that the previous anti-tank missiles had relatively slow flight speeds and could not break through the active defense system that had become the standard equipment for the fourth-generation main battle tank. Only by adopting the kinetic energy armor-piercing principle and flying speeds above Mach 6 can the fourth-generation main battle tanks be dealt with.

In fact, kinetic energy anti-tank missiles are anti-tank guns in the hands of individual soldiers.

The warhead of this anti-tank missile is a sub-caliber high-strength metal rod, which is similar to that of armor-piercing missiles. It only relies on high-performance rocket engines to increase the speed to more than Mach 6, instead of using chemical or electromagnetic energy to accelerate armor-piercing missiles like tank guns.

After the emergence of kinetic energy anti-tank missiles, some people proposed to replace anti-tank guns.

In any case, the performance of kinetic energy anti-tank missiles is very close to that of armor-piercing missiles, and there is no need to install a bulky artillery system. A tank can carry at least dozens of them. If it weren't for the rise of electromagnetic guns, especially the coiled electromagnetic guns, the performance of armor-piercing missiles has been improved to a new level, I'm afraid that when developing the fifth generation main battle tank, China and the United States will use kinetic energy anti-tank missiles to replace tank guns.

Such an advanced anti-tank missile cannot deal with anti-armor combat platforms. It is strange that Indian soldiers are not afraid.

It can be said that at that time, there were only two effective ways for the Indian army to deal with anti-armor combat platforms. One was to use large-caliber artillery to conduct direct aiming and shooting at close range, and use the huge power of large-caliber shells to directly destroy the anti-armor combat platform. The other was to bury hundreds of kilograms of high-energy explosives on the roadside, which detonated when the anti-armor combat platform passed, and used the huge power generated by the explosive explosion to destroy it.

It can be said that these are all pretentious methods, and they are not about breaking through the armor of the anti-armor combat platform, but about using huge energy to directly destroy it.

Not to mention anything else, if two hundred kilograms of explosives are detonated under the anti-armor combat platform, it can be blown away.

The problem is that it is impossible on the battlefield.

After the Indian army collapsed across the board, a brigade of the 13th Army captured Abolher, a population of 300,000 in less than two hours.

This may be a good thing for the residents of Abolher, as collateral casualties caused by large-scale combat are avoided.

If the Indian army relies on the city to fight to the death, it will definitely cause many residents to suffer. In the battle, the Chinese army will definitely not strictly distinguish between soldiers and civilians.

In fact, in the eyes of Chinese soldiers, almost all Indians look the same.

After capturing Abhul, the assault troops of the 13th Army did not stop advancing, but handed over the occupation and cleaning work to the mechanized infantry that arrived later, and then continued to advance. With the performance of the "future ground warfare platform", it would be no problem to advance a few hundred kilometers.

Chapter 101: Progress

Abohel quickly fell, sounding the alarm for the Indian army.
To be continued...