Day and night, the whole of India went crazy. Half a day has passed, and hundreds of thousands of Indian troops have not found an assault force of only a few thousand people!

The area of engagement is only a few thousand square kilometers. An assault force with several thousand officers and men and thousands of combat vehicles does not have the ability to go to heaven and earth, and it is impossible for it to disappear out of thin air. Not to mention anything else, so many chariots with special appearances that can be recognized at a glance will definitely not be able to hide all of them

Where the hell did that assault force go?

Rurajapani is thinking about it. Gujarad is thinking about it, and so are the military and civilians in New Delhi.

News of the absence of assault forces is the worst news.

Although the Indian government is trying its best to block the news. But there was no impermeable wall, and news of the imminent attack on New Delhi by a large armored force spread in the evening of the same day. Arguably. The Indian government's practice of blocking information has backfired, and the rumors have become increasingly terrifying because there is no right source. There are even many New Delhi citizens who believe that the squadron has surrounded New Delhi and is about to launch a general attack.

Panic spread, and night had just fallen. New Delhi is a mess.

Citizens with some ability dragged their families to flee to the suburbs, and those who did not have the ability could only stay at home. Those who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic will take advantage of the fire to rob. At least 1,000 shops were looted and hundreds of people died in the riots before the Indian government could order the defenders to suppress the riots and execute the rioters summarily in accordance with wartime law. Subsequently. The army entered the city to maintain order. Hundreds of thugs and civilians were killed by military police.

That evening, Rurajapani declared New Delhi a renunciation

The chaotic situation was brought under control. But the fear in the hearts of the citizens grew.

The edifice is going to fall, and no one wants to stay and die.

More and more citizens are choosing to reopen New Delhi to escape the war-torn city.

Panic soon spread from the population to the desertion of many of the newly formed reserve divisions in the army, even though Rurajapani signed a wartime decree that officers could shoot deserters on the spot. But when the deserters still have a glimmer of hope for survival, staying in New Delhi can only be a dead end.

At this time, what New Delhi needs most is not military law, but a tool that can stabilize people's hearts.

The problem is that neither Rurajapani nor Gujarad have such news.

Although there is already enough intelligence to prove it. The squadron that broke through the Gwalior and Agra lines was not large. There are only a few thousand people. It is simply impossible to capture New Delhi. But it was in the evening of the same day. The three main field armies of the Chinese Army on the Western Front entered a state of combat readiness, and the main force of the Pin Army reached the Bernihar Pass, leading troops and armies to assemble near the India-Pakistan border. Whether Rurajapani believes it or not, it is necessary to recognize the reality. That is, the squadron on the Eastern Front is only a kilometer away from New Delhi, and the squadron on the Western Front is only a kilometer away from New Delhi, if Pei Chengyi plans to attack New Delhi. The three field armies plus the battalion-level assault force reinforced by the thugs were enough to tear through the inadequately built New Delhi defensive line and attack New Delhi in a matter of days

Before you decide how to fight, you have to make sure that you are right.

The squadron has already put on a stance. It was as if the attack on New Delhi was imminent.

The question is, the battle in Bhopal has already begun, will the squadron attack two cities at the same time?

Rurajapani did not dare to make a decision lightly. Gujarad also couldn't make an immediate judgment either.

Although the American advisers have repeatedly stressed that the main purpose of the squadron is to take Bhopal, not to capture New Delhi, Rurajapani and Gujarad must consider one issue, that is, the Indian army will definitely hold on to New Delhi, and the squadron will definitely occupy New Delhi. If Pei Chengyi decides to wait until the Indian army has deployed its defenses, it will attack New Delhi. The squadron will pay a very heavy price in the urban war, and it is possible that he will choose to play New Delhi first. Of course, it's not that Bae will give up Bhopal for New Delhi. According to Gujarad's analysis, Pei Chengyi is likely to use the Bi army to consume the Indian army's vital forces in Bhopal, and wait until the small army and the army will occupy New Delhi. Assault on Bhopal with the main field armies of the Bi Army, the Sword Army, the Diao Army, and the Dispatch Army, which had been fully rested. By the end of the month. Pei Chengyi will also receive three airborne armies, the Zhan Army, the Old Army, and the Kou Army, as well as the Sword Army that swept the Northeast region. And so it goes. Even if the squadron has to pay a lot of money in Bhopal. Bae Seung-yi was also able to move westward after capturing Bhopal. Push the front to the Arabian Sea coast and join forces with the Eastern Front Army. What's more, according to this style of play, the squadron will be able to cross the Narmoda River after capturing Bhopal, and put the main force on the battlefield in the south without having to turn back to attack New Delhi. From the point of view of the war as a whole, this can not only avoid the logistical problems caused by the large-scale movement of the main forces, but also speed up the course of the war.

If you look at the superficial analysis, Gujarade's speculation makes perfect sense.

From Pei's standpoint, it is undoubtedly the best result to be able to capture New Delhi before capturing Bhopal.

The question is, is it possible to lay down New Delhi first?

It seems that the 3 armies of the squadron on the battlefield on the Western Front are very threatening to New Delhi, in fact. These three armies basically did not have the ability to reach New Delhi.

Not to mention anything else, the logistical support problems of the three armies were enough to make Pei Chengyi give up the operation of attacking New Delhi first.

The Army of the Republic was invincible on the Eastern Front, advancing the front thousands of kilometers to the west in one go, except for the offensive capabilities of the main battle units on the front line. It has a lot to do with the logistical support to a steady end.... Without adequate logistics, the Republican Army would have stopped in Varanasi.

Counting the three armies on the battlefield on the Western Front, the main combat forces of the Republic Army only have a field army and three airborne armies, and the total strength of less than 10,000 is only 10,000 including the participants of the army aviation and air force, and the support troops that provide logistical support for these troops are as many as 10,000, and the national army is powerful 10,000, including the logistics personnel left behind by the field armies, Pakistan has Wuwan, and the Bangladesh Army has 10,000, if you count the troops used to control the occupied areas, and the Nepalese Army that is about to enter India to participate in the war, Support the number of combatants in the troops. If strictly calculated. If only the combatants participating in combat operations are counted, and all the logistics personnel of the combat units are included in the support forces, the ratio of combatants to support personnel is 6.

Realistically speaking, this percentage is not high.

During the war in Southeast Asia, every combatant needed to fight a hand, and there was a lot of love between fighting mainly in the air and at sea. Even if you look at the world, this percentage is not very high. In the Iraq War, the U.S. military had as many support personnel per combatant; In the war in Afghanistan, the proportion was as high as red; Even in the Iranian war, it reached the old.

The reduction in the proportion of support forces has a lot to do with the improvement in the performance of transport vehicles. For example, in the Peninsula War, the main means of transport for the support forces of the Republic Army were trains and trucks, but the main means of transport in this war has become transport planes, and air transport accounted for a quarter of the total amount of transport calculated in terms of "tons and kilometers" of thugs, and the proportion of tactical transport was even more than that, and strategic transport was still dominated by sea transport. Compared with land transportation, air transportation has two obvious advantages, one is that the transportation degree is fast, and it is more than twice the force of land transportation. The second is to occupy a small number of people, only about land transportation. In other words, Xiao persuaded the battlefield thousands of kilometers away to transport the heart stew materials. And to achieve the same volume of transport. Even if you don't take into account the fact that the road mileage is longer than the actual distance, at least a concave truck will need to be dispatched to deliver supplies to the front line in a relay manner. It can be seen that the transport aircraft saves not only time, but also human resources. Although the cost of air freight is higher than that of land transportation, and the payload truck travels the same distance, the cost of air transportation is already within an acceptable range after full electrification, especially in high-intensity military operations. The time and manpower saved by air transportation have the effect of reducing costs. All things considered, the cost of air freight is not much higher than that of land transportation.

The increase in the efficiency of logistical support has little to do with the basic idea of war.

In other words, front-line commanders still have to think about logistics first. Only if logistical support is ensured. Commanders can be used to combat operations.

For combat operations in the attack new technique. The biggest problem is logistics.

Because of the concentration of forces to win the decisive battle on the Eastern Front. The troops on the Western Front were stationing as their main task, so when Pei Chengyi ordered the three armies on the Western Front to enter combat readiness, the logistics support was not in place at all. In other words, even if Pei Chengyi gave the order to attack New Delhi. The 3 armies could not reach New Delhi.

In addition to the logistical support of the troops for the transportation of supplies. There is also the question of war materiel.

According to the general war plan, the transfer of war materials to the Western Front began only after a decisive victory on the Eastern Front. Because of the need to mobilize combat units at the same time, combat materials were delivered mainly by sea to the Western Front. The longest cycle by sea was the longest, and supplies had to be delivered to Karachi and then sent to the front by rail. Affected by the remnants of several submarines of the Indian Navy, the convoy carrying supplies will follow the fleet to the Raklab Sea.

In this way, after the fleet leaves the Bay of Bengal, the fleet will enter the Indian Ocean, and the war materiel can only reach Karachi in the first half of the month at the earliest, and be delivered to the front-line troops in the middle of the month. The entire material delivery work is carried out in strict accordance with the plan. It is not possible to advance it.

That is, the 3 armies on the Western Front did not even have enough combat materials.

It can be seen that no matter how ambitious Pei Chengyi is, he can only attack Bhopal first. The assault on New Delhi will certainly not begin before the middle of the month.

Gujarade's inferences are not at all boundary. But it was right for Rurajapani's appetite.

The squadron of ** troops pressed the border, and the defense of New Delhi became an important task, and the relocation of the capital became a natural thing.

At the strong request of Fernandez and other naval and air generals, Rurajapani signed a wartime administrative order to move the capital to Hyderabad on the night of sunrise, and the relocation of the capital began on the morning of the first day. It was not the Prime Minister's Office that was transferred first, but the Supreme Command of the Indian Army and the Commands of all branches of the armed forces. Then there are the war mobilization agencies, the central government administrations, the presidential palace, and finally the chancellery.

It can be said that the relocation is a decision that has to be made, and it is also a decision with very serious consequences.

In order to get the first train carrying people to leave New Delhi after dawn, the work of moving the capital began in full swing that evening.

Although Lula feared that Ni had already announced that he would defend Zhenhuang, the government's move to the capital still caused even greater panic.

Prime ministers are ready to flee to Hyderabad, will New Delhi still hold on?

It can be said that the night of August was the most chaotic night in New Delhi since the outbreak of war.

In order to prevent the rioters from storming the railway station and affecting the relocation of the capital, Rurajapani stationed the New Delhi garrison at the railway station and authorized the garrison to open fire on the rioters who stormed the railway station if the warning was ineffective, and to maintain order at the railway station at all costs.

The order led to the shooting of thousands of people outside the military blockade at the railway station in New Delhi.

The storming of the railway station was hopeless, and desperate citizens began to spread to the outskirts.

The problem is that at this time, the Indian army in New Delhi is stepping up the construction of defensive positions, and the peripheral forces are looking for the assault force of the Chinese army. If citizens flock uncontrollably to the outskirts, it will certainly have an impact on the construction of positions and on the movement of the assault force.

As a last resort, Rurajapani raised the level of martial law, and only those with a pass order were allowed to leave New Delhi.

The order is issued directly by the Prime Minister's Office. Most of them were given to the garrison, not to mention unarmed civilians, and even the soldiers of the general army did not have a pass order.

At this point, Rurajapani's intentions had been revealed.

It was cruel, but he had no other choice. India needs a bloody battle. A battle is needed that will allow all Indians to rise up and resist. Although it is very cruel to sacrifice tens of millions of citizens in New Delhi, it is worth it to be able to make hundreds of millions of Indians take up arms, even if they sacrifice thousands of hearts.

As in the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, the Soviets forced the soldiers who had just picked up their arms with machine guns to rush into the German fire blockade. At this time, India also needed a battle like Stalingrad to awaken the fighting spirit of the Indians with the blood of the Indians.

It has to be said that Rurajapani began to fight hard.

One of the most important martial law orders he issued was "non-discrimination"

It doesn't matter if you have money or you don't have money. Whether they are powerful or not, whether they are poor or noble, whether they are soldiers or commoners, whether they are men or women, whether they are old or children, whether they are citizens or parliamentarians. As long as there is no passage order from the Prime Minister's Office, no one will be able to pass through the blockade of the garrison.

According to outside speculation. In doing so, Rurajapani probably wanted to give confidence to the overwhelming majority of the poor citizens, and it was everyone's duty to stay and guard New Delhi, and what determines the individual's social status in peacetime has no value in war, as long as he is a citizen of New Delhi, he has to stay.

The question is, how effective is this doing?

For the ordinary citizens of the lowly society, they only want to leave New Delhi with what little possessions they have, not for the officials who used to be powerful and prosperous, and for the nobles who squeeze their hard-earned money. For the interest groups that have traditionally held India's lifeblood, they also want to leave New Delhi rather than heed the prime minister's call. Defend New Delhi alongside the penniless poor.

Non-discrimination does not change the mentality of Indians, but only drives some people to death.

For the desperate, their enemy is not a squadron hundreds of kilometers away. Rather, it is to prevent them from leaving New Delhi and let them stay behind to send the prime minister to his death.

The reality is brutal. Rurajapani played with over-the-top

Although the situation has not yet reached the worst, after all, the garrison forces are still under the command of the prime minister, and the field troops deployed in the suburbs have not been greatly affected, but as the anger against the prime minister gradually heats up. As the Republican Army approached, sooner or later the situation would spiral out of control.

For his part, Ruraja was not even aware of the changes.

In the circumstances, Rurajapani had to focus on the elusive assault force.

According to Gujarad's judgment, the main task of the assault force was not to storm New Delhi. It's about attracting attention. As long as the assault force pinned down the defenders of New Delhi, the three main field armies that were eyeing each other in the north and west would come out and attack outside New Delhi as quickly as possible.

There is only one way to deal with it, and that is to eliminate the assault force as quickly as possible.

Only then will it be possible to redeploy the line of defense before the arrival of the enemy's main forces, turning New Delhi into a graveyard for the middle **.

Rurajapani heeded Gujarad's advice and had all the defenders south of New Delhi participate in the search and encirclement of the assault force. Annihilate the assault forces at any cost.

No doubt. Rurajapani is even more pessimistic than Gujarad.

The excruciating pain of the citizens of New Delhi told Rurajapani. Don't leave a main force, even if the assault force enters New Delhi, the military and civilians of New Delhi will immediately give up resistance, except for the garrison force that is absolutely loyal. If the assault force cannot be kept out of the city of New Delhi, New Delhi will not be the grave of the Chinese people, but the end of India's central power.

It is so, in Rurajapani's view, that it is a hundred times more important to take out the assault troops than to hold Bhopal.

The question is, is the Indian army capable of taking out the assault troops?

For a whole night there was no news about the assault forces.

It wasn't until the sky brightened that Rurajapani received a message from the army command that the assault force had been found, to be precise, the assault force had taken the initiative to show up!