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From the very beginning, the Indian army's counterattack exposed the problem of insufficient preparation, or lack of commitment. Before the armored units began to advance, the Indian artillery carried out artillery preparations in accordance with standard procedures, focusing on shelling the defensive positions and forward artillery positions of the Pakistani army, in an effort to destroy the Pakistani army's will to resist and the main counterattack force with sudden artillery strikes, and seize the initiative after the battle began.

The reality is that the artillery fire of the Indian army took a long time to prepare, the intensity was low, and there was no suddenness to speak of.

Although the Pakistani army rushed to meet the battle. The defensive preparations were not sufficient, but at 2 o'clock in Islamabad time, the Pakistani army received a direct warning from the front command of the Republic, and immediately issued a combat readiness order, and the first-line defense troops entered the defensive state at 3 o'clock, that is, about a few minutes before the Indian army attacked, and some of the defensive troops also entered the defensive position before the Indian army attacked. Most importantly, Lahore is a major military city in Pakistan, with a military value above Islamabad, and is the region with the highest defensive strength in Pakistan. After decades of construction, Lahore's defense facilities are very well-developed, not only with three layers of inner and outer defense rings, but also with an underground defense system. According to the assessment given by the Republican Affairs Advisor, unless the attacking side gets a map of Lahore's defensive deployment and uses ground-penetrating ammunition on a large scale in battle, any army will have to pay a heavy price in Lahore's defensive positions.

Intensive artillery preparation is not without effect, but its intensity must reach a certain level in order to be effective. After the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, that is, after the signing of the Comprehensive Cooperation Treaty between Pakistan and the Republic, the Republic sent military advisers to conduct a comprehensive assessment of Pakistan's defense infrastructure, with a focus on Lahore. Subsequently, the Pakistani army followed the recommendations put forward by the republican adviser. Adjustments were made to Lahore's defense system. According to the defense method designed by the republican advisers, the Indian army wanted to break through the outer defense line of Lahore. The density of frontal artillery deployment must reach more than every kilometer, and ammunition must be thrown at a rate of 6 per minute per gun in order to suppress the Pakistani troops on the defensive positions. The reality is. The density of artillery deployment in the preparation of artillery fire by the Indian army was only per kilometer of prison doors, and the amount of ammunition thrown per unit width per minute was less than a gala. Only one-fifth of the minimum ammunition throw required. With such an intensity of artillery preparation, it is simply impossible to pose a threat to the Pakistani troops in the defensive positions, let alone form a covering strike effect.

Strictly speaking, the preparation time of the Indian army's artillery fire was not very long. In the comparative Peninsular War, the Republican Army's artillery preparation time was more than minutes, sometimes even hours. The key problem is that the main force of the Indian artillery is the relatively short-range artillery of the Silent Command. And not a railgun. In the case of a limited range of artillery. In order to achieve the purpose of coverage, the artillery must be deployed forward, which increases the risk of counterattack by the adversary. Although the main armament of the artillery of the Pakistani army is also traditional artillery, it has basically eliminated low-caliber barreled artillery with a range of less than 1,000 meters, and introduced a number of electromagnetic guns with a range of more than 1,000 meters from the Republic. Soon after the preparation of the Indian artillery fire, the Pakistani artillery carried out an effective fire counterattack. According to the battlefield information gathered by the unmanned reconnaissance planes sent by the army, the early warning planes of the Air Force, and the long-range unmanned reconnaissance planes, in the artillery battle that did not wait for the bell, the Pakistani artillery destroyed at least many Indian artillery positions and destroyed the Indian artillery close to the door. The Pakistani army only lost a small number of howitzers deployed near the forward positions and with a range of less than a kilometer in the artillery battle.

The only thing to be thankful for the Indian army is that the Pakistani defense forces do not have much armor power.

The Indian army also has the same problem, because it is invested in the second-line troops and strategic reserves, so the Indian army does not have much armored force.

The artillery was ready to end, and the first batch of Indian troops to cross the India-Pakistan border had only three tank battalions and one armored battalion.

On the assault frontal with a width of up to a kilometer. Only 3 tank battalions and 3 catties, armored battalions, it is simply unimaginable.

According to the minimum requirements, even without taking into account the disadvantages of the Indian army, the tank density of the armored assault group should reach more than one kilometer when launching a frontal attack. In fact, the density of tanks in the Indian offensive forces on the frontal battlefield is less than 3 per kilometer, counting the infantry fighting vehicles that work together. It is less than 6 vehicles per kilometer, and it is simply impossible to form an effective armored assault group, and it is impossible to effectively hit the opponent's defense system in an assault operation.

The only thing the Indian army could rely on was a huge number of infantry.

Although the Indian infantry is no longer infantry in the sense of the word, it is basically mechanized, and the infantry can ride all kinds of vehicles and surprise along the road with armored clusters. The problem is that the armored strength of the second-line troops and strategic reserves of the Indian army is not sufficient, and the number of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers used to carry infantry is not large, and most of the infantry can only go to the front line by truck, and then go into battle on foot after arriving at the battlefield.

It seems that the essence of the Indian army has long been figured out, and the army has not forgotten to shell the transportation infrastructure near the border line when carrying out artillery counterattacks. As the Indian army crossed the border and entered Pakistan, the Pakistani army blew up all the bridges and hidden passages along the way while steadily retreating, and did everything possible to delay the Indian army's advance.

Compared with the previous question, the biggest mistake of the Indian army was to choose the wrong time to attack.

The attack was divided into 4 points, and the force was divided into 6 points at dawn, and the Indian army must reach Lahore within 2 hours and will be attacked by the Chinese and Pakistani air forces and long-range artillery.

Although the urban area of Lahore is less than a kilometer away from the India-Pakistan border, and there are basically no natural obstacles, it is almost impossible for the armored forces to "hit the blade for a kilometer in a small hour."

The darkness of the night was not completely unfavorable to the Indian army.

As the Indian army crossed the border and entered Pakistan, neither long-range artillery nor the air force dared to rashly carry out strikes when the situation between us and the enemy was unclear, and they could not effectively stop the Indian army. In other words, night became the "protective color" of the Indian army's attack. ”

The reality is not much different.

After learning that the Indian army was attacking, the first thing Pei Chengyi did was to let the tactical aviation and army aviation units going to fight in Pakistan be dispatched before the point of separation, and arrive at the battlefield at about 6 o'clock, after ensuring the destruction of the Indian army's mobile air defense system. Bombing the ground forces of the Indian army, either visually or with ground guidance, with a focus on striking at the mechanized forces of the Indian army. Subsequently, Pei Chengyi asked Yuan Chenhao to redeploy the No. 1 Cable Artillery Brigade that remained in Wauzirabad, and let it carry out interdiction artillery bombardment of Indian troops during the tactical bombing of the Air Force.

In the past, it was definitely the banquet army, not the artillery, that carried out the task of interdiction and strike.

With the growth of artillery strength, especially with the possession of electromagnetic guns with a long enough range, artillery gradually replaced tactical aviation and became the most effective tactical interdiction force. The situation between friend and foe is unknown. Especially in the event that the enemy's tactical mobile air defense forces are not completely destroyed, the front-line commander will certainly deliver a blocking strike first with artillery, and then with a full-scale bombardment with tactical aviation.

In some cases, front-line commanders will even use artillery and aviation units in a reversible manner, leaving the aviation units with less dangerous tasks and the more dangerous ones for long-range artillery. In the event of a sustained strike mission, artillery will replace aviation. All in all. After a substantial increase in range. The line between artillery and aviation as a support force is becoming increasingly blurred, and front-line commanders are given more room for tactical adjustment to use artillery and aviation according to the actual situation.

2 hours is not a long time, it goes by very quickly.

In the face of the Pakistani army's tactics of "clearing the wilderness", the Indian army's advance was very slow. Look at the thugs when they destroy the rice, which is basically the offensive degree of the infantry.

Because the sky was about to lighten, the Indian army stopped attacking at this time.

In the face of the impending blow, it does not make much sense for the Indian army to stop advancing.

It was also at this time that Pei Chengyi once again adjusted the combat operations of the air force, and in the name of the Pakistan Air Force undertaking the main strike mission, he asked most of the combat planes that were supposed to perform battlefield support tasks to carry out air defense suppression tasks, and gave the list of bombing targets that had already been drawn up to various combat units.

Pei Chengyi's sudden adjustment of the combat piece at this time was for an extraordinary purpose.

According to Yuan Chenhao's "War Memoirs" written decades later, General Pei Chengyi did not temporarily adjust the battle plan, but had already made relevant preparations. Judging from Pei Chengyi's overall deployment, neither can the Indian army easily take Lahore, nor can the Indian army think that it cannot defeat Lahore. In other words, it is necessary to contain the main force of the Indian army near Lahore and give the Indian army a glimmer of hope, so that the Indian army can devote more combat forces and expand the offensive front. Pei Chengyi's purpose is not to smash the richest provinces of Pakistan to pieces, but to use this to contain the main force of the Indian army on the Western Front, create an opportunity for the Tendon Army to attack Srinagar, and also create an opportunity for a large-scale annihilation war on the Eastern Front. From a long-term point of view, giving up a certain amount of strategic space in the direction of Lahore will also be of great benefit to launching an all-out offensive on the Western Front in the future and attacking the northwestern region of India, with New Delhi as the center.

It is precisely because of this that Pei Chengyi is unwilling to invest all his strength in the first place.

Of course, with the help of the Indian army's attack, the field air defense forces will inevitably accompany the opportunity of the attacking troops' advance, and will focus on striking at the Indian army's air defense forces, which will also be of great help to expand the scale of bombing and reduce the risk of bombing in the future. hatchet man

So that at dawn. At least the combat aircraft of the Air Force of the Republic did not take part in the bombing operations in the Lahore direction. In addition to the fighters left behind by Pei Chengyi, only the No. 1 Long-Range Artillery Brigade, the No. 1 Long-Range Artillery Brigade that had just arrived in Gojra, and the three artillery brigades of the Pakistan Army participated in the strike at that time.

Shortly after dawn, and shortly after the first round of bombing began, the Indian Air Force dispatched about two groups of four fighters to arrive on the battlefield with the support of large AWACS aircraft, ready to seize air supremacy.

Because this batch of fighters is deployed in the southern region of India, and the strategic reconnaissance force of the Republic is concentrated on monitoring the northern region of India, it has not been able to show the actions of the Indian Air Force in a timely manner. Combat missiles, in the same years as before, did not completely fall behind.

Before reporting the situation to Pei Chengyi, Yuan Chenhao "ordered the air defense fighter group stationed at Rawalpindi Air Base to take off urgently, and the formation of the small crash group directly killed the Indian army's early warning planes hiding behind the Ma Si aircraft group." Regardless of the purpose of the campaign. The elimination of the combat forces of the Indian Air Force is a mission.

At 6 o'clock, the group of small thugs arrived in the sky over Lahore, and the situation of the air battle changed abruptly.

Although the first four can be a breeze, "ravage" small! than, but there is no temper in front of the "professional air player". The battle in July has proved that half-hung air superiority fighters such as the Masi are no match for heavy air superiority fighters.

Surprisingly, the first four aircraft did not turn to escape.

Afterwards, according to the confession of the captured Indian pilot, in the group of trotters that were said.

At 7 o'clock, the air battle ended as the Indian army's early warning plane was shot down by a small fighter plane.

This situation is also sufficient to prove that the Indian Air Force's low-detectable phased array fire control radar imported from the United States has a detection range of 1,000 kilometers for large high-altitude targets, and the detection range of the concave is only 1,000 kilometers, making it completely unable to perform the basic tasks of early warning aircraft.

There is no suspense in the air battle, but the ground battle has a new situation as a result.

Due to the impact of the "surprise attack" of the Indian Air Force, the National Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force were not able to carry out a second round of bombing of the Indian troops that broke into Pakistan as planned.

Although Pei Chengyi adjusted the artillery strike action to the fastest extent and let the 1st Billet Long-Range Artillery Brigade fully engage in the battle, only 3 artillery battalions participated in the battle and shelled the Indian army entrenched in the east of Lahore with maximum intensity, but taking advantage of the interval between firepower strikes, the vanguard of the Indian army broke through the first line of defense of the Pakistani army with the fastest degree regardless of the possible bombing and artillery bombardment.

Herein lies the problem, the Pakistani army did not follow the plan and held the first line of defense outside Lahore.

To be precise, the problem is not on Pei Chengyi's side. And in the General Staff of the Pakistani Army.

At present, the Indian army has only advanced a few thousand meters, and after the advance suddenly stopped before dawn, the General Staff of the Pakistani army did not organize a defense on the first line of defense outside Lahore in accordance with the operational plan agreed with Pei Chengyi, but put the withdrawn defensive troops on the offensive positions behind the defense line. Prepare to launch a counterattack against the Indian army after the fire strike and drive the Indian army out of Pakistan!

It can be said that the Pakistani army has a lot of ideas, but this idea came at an inopportune time.

Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the Indian army, the Indian army that was engaged in the battle at that time had a division. There are also reserves that occupy a division. Although the combat effectiveness of the Pakistani army is not bad, and it has the support of the republican ** team, it can be said that it will not lose, but the forces of the warring parties have not yet been deployed, and the preparations for the counterattack have not yet been put in place. A rash counterattack will certainly not achieve the desired effect.

From another point of view, the luck of the Pakistani army is not very good.

If the Indian Air Force does not move a surprise attack. Even if the counterattack of the Pakistani army does not have the desired effect. Nor will the first line of defence on the outskirts of Lahore be lost.

As the first line of defense of the Pakistani army collapsed, the attacking forces deployed behind the line of defense line immediately became chaotic.

When the General Staff of the Pakistani Army did not find out what was going on, some of the attacking troops launched a surprise attack in advance, and some of the attacking troops retreated behind the second line of defense. Yes, no. At this time, the Pakistani army lost its unified command, and it was even more impossible to achieve the goal of the offensive.

Using perfect tactical reconnaissance methods, Pei Chengyi grasped the battlefield information in a timely manner.

Pei Chengyi contacted the General Staff of the Pakistani Army, and asked the Pakistani Army to immediately strengthen the second line of defense, and then adjust the combat punishment again, so that the attack from the north of Lahore to the southeast would block the offensive pace of the Indian army's vanguard and buy time for the Pakistani army to reorganize its defense.

Fortunately, the army has long been ready to be introduced. What is waiting is the order of the front-line command.

At 7 o'clock, the 1st Fighter Armored Assault Brigade immediately left the offensive position and attacked the right flank of the Indian army as quickly as possible.

At this time, the General Staff of the Pakistani Army also had problems. Immediately adjust the defensive forces, and ask the troops on the second line of defense to hold the line at all costs, and never allow the Indian army to move forward.

The problem is that in the case of a staggered front, it is difficult for the front-line troops of the Barian army to strictly carry out the orders of the General Staff.

What's more, the 1st Fighter Armored Assault Brigade needs to bypass Lahore, and even if it advances as quickly as possible, it can only encounter the Indian army before the pass.

With the battlefield chaotic, is the Pakistani army capable of holding the second line of defense on the outskirts of Lahore?