The department is Major General Bu Fu Weimin. Pei Chengyi made a decisive decision in only a few minutes

It's not that the concave army fought badly, but that it fought "too well".

Before dawn, the vanguard of the Cave Army entered the city of Howrah and was met with stubborn resistance from the Indian army. As a heavily armored army, the Correction Army did not lack the means to attack fortifications, nor did it lack the experience of attacking cities. You must know that in the Peninsula War, without the cooperation of other ground forces, the Au Army captured Seoul, which was defended by the Third Army of the ROK Army, in one fell swoop, and annihilated hundreds of thousands of enemies. Of all the combat units of the Republican Army, the Recess Army had the most experience in urban fortifications.

By daybreak, the Hollows had taken control of several streets in the northeastern city of Howrah.

Using a large number of advanced urban warfare equipment, the concave army swept away the remnants of the Indian army in the control area while steadily advancing. By noon, the Concave army had captured one-third of Howrah's city, advancing far more than expected. It's just that even Fu Weimin didn't expect that a disaster was about to come.

There are advantages and disadvantages to fast propulsion.

The good thing is that the defenders did not have time to adjust their defensive lines, and could only continue to retreat under the pressure of the attacking troops. If you can capture the entire city in one go, you will be able to drive the enemy into the wilderness outside the city and avoid engaging the enemy inside the city. When attacking small and medium-sized cities, the attacking troops often adopt the tactics of rapid advance, that is, they do not want to entangle with the enemy in the urban area and try to make use of the superior strength of the attacking side.

The disadvantage is that the attacking forces are unable to clear out the remnants of the enemy in the zone of control in time. When encountering large cities, the attacking troops rarely adopt the tactics of rapid advance, because with the expansion of the control area, the difficulty of eliminating the remnants of the enemy increases, and if the remnants of the enemy cannot be eliminated, it will be impossible to ensure the safety of the support line, so that the troops on the front line will be disconnected from the support troops behind, leaving the enemy with an opportunity to counterattack.

It can be seen from this that relying on the strength of the crowd, Fu Weimin made a low-level mistake.

When the rescue troops arrived, in addition to the destruction of many vehicles by the Indian army, many officers and soldiers were killed, and the rest of the logistics personnel were all wounded.

Before Fu Weimin could react, the other three convoys were also ambushed by the Indian army in the city.

Fortunately, Kong Xun, who was covering the concave army, sent combat troops to occupy the commanding heights on the transport route and repelled several other Indian troops, so that the transport convoy entering the city was not completely wiped out.

Fu Weimin also quickly adjusted his tactics, stopped the attacking troops, and let the supporting troops press up.

When arranging more troops to clear out the remnants of the enemy in the area under his control, Fu Weimin thought of a question, that is, where did the Indian troops who attacked the transport convoy come from?

Although Fu Weimin made the mistake of underestimating the enemy, he did not make a mistake in the details.

After the vanguard troops entered the urban area, the first thing Fu Weimin did was to have the reconnaissance unit dispatch unmanned reconnaissance planes to monitor the urban area behind the battle line and assist the attacking troops in destroying the remnants of the enemy. In order to strengthen control, Fu Weimin also put down his subordinates and asked for air to assist in the operation.

At the time of the attack, at least a muzzle unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was circling over Howrah.

Counting the air surveillance forces in the skies. As well as dealing with small units of the remnants of the enemy in the city, Fu Weimin invested enough forces in the rear of the battle line.

Herein lies the problem, before the attack, there was no reconnaissance and surveillance force to warn.

From this it is certain that the Indian army is not from the ground, but from below.

After stabilizing the situation, Fu Weimin asked the staff officer to call up the distribution map of the Howrah underground pipe network provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, and sorted out the underground passages in the control area.

Nothing turned out of this, and the ground forces had long since taken control of the entrances and exits of the underground pipe network system.

The Indian army is not a marmot and it is impossible to burrow in the ground. What's more, there is no indication that the Indian army has established a network of underground tunnels in downtown Howrah.

In order to prevent a similar tragedy from happening again, after allowing the forward troops to continue to advance, Fu Weimin strengthened the escort force of the transport convoy, and asked the air breakout thug brigade to provide air cover for each transport convoy and control the commanding heights on the transport route in advance.

Tight protection, only to reduce losses.

Around the old point, the convoy of transport entering the city was again attacked by the Indian army.

Although the reinforced escort forces defeated the Indian army, and the air assault force, which controlled the commanding heights, counterattacked, eliminating hundreds of Indian troops who did not have time to escape, the threat to the transport route was a fact, and if it was not resolved as soon as possible, the forward force had to stop advancing.

Or the question, where did the Indian army come from?

After the offensive was stopped, Fu Weimin asked the support forces assisting in the operation to reallocate the Sokong Li area, especially the urban area near the location where the convoy was attacked.

It wasn't until around the old point that the scouts of the concave army found out the "knot".

The most important, and the most unneglected underpass, did not appear on the map provided by the Military Intelligence Agency!

This is the road tunnel that will be opened to traffic at the end of the year, passing from the bottom of the Ganges River and connecting Kolkata to Howrah!

In order to figure out the situation, Fu Weimin immediately sent scouts into the tunnel.

There is no doubt that the intelligence provided by the military intelligence was incorrect.

Although the tunnel has not been officially opened to traffic, it has been fully completed and the foundation works have been put in place. That is, the main forces of the Indian army deployed in Kolkata can enter Howrah. What's worse is that the exit of the tunnel on the Howrah side is in the control area of the Howrah army, and the Indian army has opened the tunnel and the Howrah subway network, and also drilled the tunnel connected to the main line of the city's sewers. That is to say, the Indian army entered Howe and "led the concave army of the surface of the land and went to any part of the city."

The scouts who entered the tunnel were blocked by the Indian army and had to withdraw

Fu Weimin had to solve this problem, and he didn't have the ability to solve it. Issue. Even if the tunnel exit is blown up, the Indian army will be able to quickly open up other underground passages. The only way to block the tunnel is to blow up the main project of the pass at the bottom of the Ganges.

Obviously, the concave army does not have this ability.

It is precisely because of this that Fu Weimin sent a message to the front-line command, hoping to get support.

Although he did not witness the battle of Howrah with his own eyes, and he did not know the situation on the front line, Pei Chengyi knew that the famous Iron Army of the Concave Army was not only stubborn in fighting will, but also had a strong sense of honor.

At Fu Weimin's request, Pei Chengyi sent a low-altitude attack aircraft for a special bombing mission.

The water in the river is more than a meter deep, and as long as the location of the tunnel can be determined, the entire pass can be destroyed with the special bomb.

The Military Intelligence Agency also actively cooperated and sent accurate information.

Because the river pass connecting Kolkata and Howrah is a civilian foundation project, there is not much secrecy to speak of, and if it had not been for the mistake of the Military Intelligence Agency that the tunnel had not been dug through, the hasty army would not have made such a big mistake. Now that it has been determined that the road is fully connected, there is no reason for it to continue to exist.

In the evening, pick up... One Chi reaches the sky above the Ganges to the east of Howrah.

To be precise, it was a Hanger HNA's 2-Hui anti-submarine patrol aircraft. The purpose of sending an anti-submarine patrol plane over is to use the sonar of the anti-submarine patrol plane to determine the exact location of the tunnel. Of course. There is a difference between the sonar used to detect tunnels at the bottom of the river and the sonar used to detect submarines, mainly in that the sonar sinks to the bottom of the river instead of floating on the surface. To this end, HNA's technicians made some improvements to the sonar buoy, eliminating the pontoon that floats on the water, connecting the communication antenna with the sonar body with a cable, and increasing the power of the sonar.

HNA's technicians can't say for sure, because no one has ever used a sonar buoy like this before.

After circling twice over the Ganges, he dropped a special sonar buoy.

When the image appeared on the sonar detector's screen, the sonar controller on the 2 crash immediately figured out what to target.

The river bottom tunnel is built according to the standard of double-decker two-way four-lane tunnel, with a maximum width of over the force meter. For sonar buoys capable of displaying sunken mines with a diameter of less than a hitter's meter. With about a meter of silt at the bottom of the river, it is not difficult to achieve such a huge goal.

Besides, the bombing mission... Only approximate azimuth coordinates are required, and no accurate data is required.

The power of special bombs is large enough that even if they deviate by a few meters, they will not reduce the bombing effect.

After confirming that he had found the river bottom pass, he gave the coordinate data. … wounded, and then Jia flew away.

In the last rays of the setting sun, a special bomb weighing pure was dropped about a liter meter above the river. He also didn't dare to stay longer, and after dropping the bomb, he flew away as fast as he could.

Fu Weimin, who ordered Pingda to drop the bomb, did not know that when Yishui dropped the bomb, there were at least Indian troops with swords and blades in Liandao, and there were also Indian troops with about the name of the knife concentrated at the eastern exit of the pass. According to the Indian army's operational plan, they will besiege the concave army that entered the city of Howrah at night, and strive to drive the hasty army out of Howrah. To this end, not only did Howrah's defenders prepare for a counterattack, but the Indian army deployed in Calcutta also sent three reserve divisions. In order to attack after dark, "the reserve division entered the pass ahead of schedule, and the other two reserve divisions also entered the eastern section of the tunnel.

The bomb has been dropped, and the consequences are inevitable.

According to the test results of the Republic Army's investment and development of the bomb, when it explodes in the underground field, it can destroy all underground facilities within a radius of persuasion, and if the depth of the explosion is increased to four meters, the front tandem ground-penetrating warhead must be increased, and the absolute destruction range will reach the power meter. During the finalization test, the bomb left several large craters with a diameter of more than one meter at a certain ammunition test base in northwest China. Because the surface conditions at the explosion site were very similar to those of an underground nuclear test, the United States once believed that the Republic had conducted an underground nuclear test.

Using special bombs against the bottom of the river about a meter below the riverbed is like killing chickens with a knife.

The bomb passed through the water, which was a meter deep and a meter thick of silt at the bottom of the river, and after entering the pass, the pressure dropped suddenly, and the pressure sensor immediately detected "air pockets." "The detonation current of the fuse is turned on, and under the excitation of the strong voltage, the catalytic metallic hydrogen loses its stability, and the internuclear energy is first released, and the hydrogen element is transformed from a metallic state to a gaseous state, which is fully mixed with a strong oxidant, and finally reacts with the strong oxidant biochemically to release chemical energy in an explosive way. The entire explosion process took only a few milliseconds, which is equivalent to the powerful energy released during the explosion of several tons of training corners, which instantly crushed all the surrounding objects into powder, and the shock wave spread to all sides, destroying everything that could be destroyed.

On the surface of the river, thousands of tons of river water were thrown into the air by the shock wave.

Beneath the surface of the river, the silt that had been deposited for thousands of years spreads out like a good spread.

When the explosion was born, there were many thugs in the pass, and the rest of the hearts were immediately swallowed by the water at the beginning and the beginning.

Comparatively speaking, these Indian soldiers died quickly and without a little pain.

Because the attack came too suddenly, mainly because only the fighter plane appeared over the Ganges, the Indian army did not know that the combat plane carried deadly weapons, so they did not raise their vigilance, so when the explosion occurred, the Indian army in the eastern section of the pass did not know what was going on.

By the time the mouth of the 2 reserve divisions was enough for the Indian army to react, it was already too late.

When they saw the flood water surging in the pass, the first reaction of the Indian officers and men was to rush for their lives. If there were only a few people, even a few hundred, they could escape from the pass before it was swallowed up by the flood, but there were people in the narrow pass, and so many people fled in panic. Few people were able to escape.

When the flood filled the tunnel, only the Indian army escaped.

In a moment, the Liezu Indian army became a ghost in the Ganges.

Judging by the results of this bombing alone, the power of special bombs has caught up with nuclear weapons. So far, among the thousands of weapons known to mankind, except for nuclear weapons, none of them has such a lethal power.

In fact, Fu Weimin and the one who dropped the special bomb... 2 Zhao's pilots didn't know that they had killed so many Indian troops at once.

Only one thing is certain, Fu Weimin's goal has been achieved.

After the blew up of the pass, Kolkata was completely cut off from Howrah, and Fu Weimin no longer had to worry about the safety of the transportation channel.

Because the troops fought very hard during the day and were not very favorable to the attackers at night, Fu Weimin did not let the concave army continue to attack, but let the troops rest on the spot.

Early the next morning, when the officers and men of the Air Rush Brigade guarding the lower reaches of the Ganges River were carrying down the river to the corpses of Indian troops, Fu Weimin knew that tens of thousands of Indian troops had been killed in the bombing last night.

Is this good news, or bad news?

Fu Weimin was not sure, because it was not necessarily a good thing to kill tens of thousands of enemies with a single bomb.

When Fu Weimin ordered the attack to be stopped, Pei Chengyi was also waiting for the results of the bombing.

The special bomb was specially applied for by Pei Chengyi, and its main purpose was to capture Kolkata as soon as possible. Although special bombs have been used by the army in combat operations in Sikkim and Kashmir and have achieved good results, the defensive positions previously used against the Indian army have not been used in the city. Pei Chengyi did not doubt that the power of the special bomb was not enough, but he was worried that it was too powerful. When attacking enemy positions, there is no need to consider collateral damage to civilians, let alone the threat posed by bombs to civilian targets. Even according to the principles of war in Western countries, humanitarian protection is necessary only in the event of the surrender of the enemy, and there are no humanitarian principles that apply to the enemy who is still fighting. Urban warfare, however, must take into account humanitarian principles and cannot be expanded at any time. If a special bomb is too powerful and poses a serious threat to civilians and civilian targets in the vicinity, it must be used with caution.

The results of the bombing somewhat made Pei Chengyi feel a little palpitating.

Although Pei Chengyi did not know that tens of thousands of Indian troops were killed that night, judging from the images of the scene of the explosion returned by the unmanned reconnaissance plane, the power of the special bomb was very large, and the scope of destruction was much larger than the test results of the army. Kolkata is located in the lower reaches of the Ganges River, and beneath the city is a sedimentary layer thousands of meters thick that has been formed by the sediment brought by the Ganges River from the Himalayas over tens of millions of years.

Compared to the mountainous regions of Sikkim and Kashmir, sedimentary layers are softer and more susceptible to destruction than rock formations. Although the explosion was at the bottom of the river, it is not known how much damage was caused to the riverbed, but the results of the analysis by the computer using the software used during the test showed that the explosion was likely to collapse the riverbed by 2 to 3 meters. In other words, if the explosion is under the ground in the same geological conditions, all buildings within a meter of the explosion point will be severely damaged, and some buildings with low seismic strength will even collapse. According to this calculation, it only takes about a special bomb to blow up Calcutta, which covers an area of square kilometers in the city.

This kind of power is comparable to a small nuclear warhead.

Is it necessary to use a bomb of such great power?

Pei Chengyi did not make a decision immediately, because special bombs are conventional weapons, not nuclear weapons, and whether they are used or not is not up to him, but by the combat situation.

Compared with the nearly 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Cave Army, as well as the thousands of empty officers and soldiers who shed blood and sacrificed, Pei Chengyi would never care about the survival of an Indian city.

Before leaving the tactical command center, Pei Chengyi asked Yuan Chenhao to formulate a strike plan based on the new calculation results.

Yuan Chenhao fulfilled his responsibility as the deputy commander-in-chief of the front line, and made a suggestion before Pei Chengyi left, asking the Hurried army to make one last effort, and if it could not persuade the Indian army to surrender, then use special bombs.

Pei Chengyi did not veto this suggestion because he also did not want to get into trouble.

It was not Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao who decided the fate of Calcutta, but the Indians.

As long as the Indian army surrenders, not only the officers and men of the Concave Army and the Kongtukou Thug Brigade will be liberated, but also the nearly one million Indian officers and men in Kolkata and Howrah will be relieved, and tens of millions of Kolkata citizens will have a chance to survive.

Will the Indian army choose to surrender?

Pei Chengyi didn't hold out much hope, if the Indian army planned to surrender, it would not have waited until now.

Yuan Chenhao retained the last glimmer of hope because he felt that the Indian army had no other choice.

Fu Weimin was more optimistic, because he had witnessed the power of special bombs, and the Indian army had also witnessed the power of special bombs.