Chapter 51: Let go

8 o'clock in July. 【Full text reading】Cang Mei's eyes turned to the capital of the republic. With Sikkim's membership recognized at the United Nations General Assembly, tensions in South Asia have suddenly become strained, and it is only a matter of time before the republic sends troops to Sikkim and goes to war with India, but it is incomprehensible that the republic will launch a military operation before the "deadline" is reached.

One day earlier and one day later, how much difference is there?

After the news of the outbreak of the war spread, the global news media waited for an "explanation" from the republic.

When Yan Jingyu came to the State Council press center, the reporters who had been waiting there for a long time were in a commotion. According to past practice, it should be Yuanqing, the head of the Republic, and not the premier of the State Council. Some keen reporters also noted that Ye Zhisheng, executive vice premier of the State Council, who is also defense minister, did not attend the press conference. It stands to reason that Ye Zhisheng should not miss the opportunity to show his face.

What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the Republic?

Without waiting for the reporter to figure out this problem, Yan Jingyu threw a "bombshell" at the venue.

At a press conference that took less than a minute for thugs. Yan Jingyu released several images taken by reconnaissance satellites and planes of a concentration camp set up by the Indian army on the outskirts of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim

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The photographs were very clear, especially those taken by unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and it was possible to see not only the huge craters and the Indian soldiers who had entered the concentration camp with loaded guns, but also the remains and mutilated limbs of the victims. Without any verbal explanation, it is clear to anyone that the massacre had just taken place in this concentration camp, where thousands of "members of the Sikkim Independence Salvation Movement" were imprisoned. Faced with thousands of "innocent civilians" who were unarmed and did not even have the right to move freely, India not only deployed its troops, but also used heavy weapons, including artillery. It is certainly not appropriate to use the word "repression" to describe what happened in concentration camps, and there is only one appropriate word, and that is "massacre".

After presenting the evidence, Yan Jingyu solemnly declared: In view of India's vain attempt to fundamentally eliminate the independent basis of Sikkim by the most brutal means; In order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe on a larger scale. To save the civilians of Sikkim, who were about to be brutally murdered by the Indian army, the Republic had to assemble troops in Sikkim in advance; If India continues to insist on its own course and does not immediately stop its military operations in Sikkim and fully withdraw its troops from Sikkim, it will bear all the consequences of the war.

The message was brief, but it was very powerful.

First of all, India has no intention of destroying Sikkim. This question is not difficult to answer, if India did not intend to destroy Sikkim, it would not have annexed Sikkim, let alone behaved so the issue of Sikkim's independent statehood. In the century, India completed the annexation of Sikkim in three steps and nearly a few years, and it was in the way of "boiling frogs in warm water" to fundamentally eliminate Sikkim.

The second is whether India has achieved its goal of exterminating Sikkim by the most brutal means. This question is not difficult to answer, after being annexed by India, the exiled Sikkim people established a government-in-exile and have been trying to rebuild their homeland for decades. In order to combat the independence movement in Sikkim, India has deployed an infantry division and more than 10,000 soldiers in this "autonomous state" with an area of just over four square kilometers and a population of less than 10,000 people. Tens of thousands of Sikkim people have been brutalized by the Indian military and police during the independence movement for decades, and tens of thousands of Sikkimese have been forced to leave their homes and go into exile in foreign lands. In order to eradicate Sikkim at its root. India not only dealt with the independence activists with extreme cruelty, but also tried to erase the traditional culture of Sikkim by opening Hindi language schools in Sikkim, promoting textbooks compiled by the Indian government, revising the Sikkim calendar, and importing Indian culture. Although these measures did not have much effect, especially after the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, when the Sikkim independence movement was on the rise, and the guerrillas not only took practical actions to resist the cultural aggression of India, but also awakened the sense of independence in the people of Sikkim, for a country with a population of only a few hundred thousand, it is undoubtedly "spiders and crickets" to resist a "behemoth" like India. If India is able to kill thousands of Sikkimese people who insisted on independent statehood with extreme cruelty, it can deal with other Sikkimese people with the same cruel means.

Again, a "massive humanitarian catastrophe". Although Sikkim does not have a large population, as an independent country, Sikkim has a unique cultural tradition and is a part of human civilization. If Sikkim were to perish from now on, it would be a great loss for the entire human community. Of course, this reason is a bit far-fetched, after all, there are only a few tens of thousands of people in Sikkim. No matter how great the disaster is, it cannot compare to the Korean Peninsula War and the Japanese War.

There are also problems with sending troops in advance. According to the "ultimatum" issued by the Republic, the deadline for India's withdrawal from Sikkim is July and Beijing time. Before Yan Jingyu's news, the war had already broken out, that is. The Republic not only took military action before the deadline, but also before the news. Of course, this is also understandable, because the massacre in the concentration camp on the outskirts of Gangtok was born on the night of the blade. And the military operation of the republic began in the early hours of the day. So the republic acts first and declares later, which is not a big problem.

The key is "all the consequences". Although there was a certain legal basis for the Republic to send troops to Sikkim and help Sikkim establish the state, the military operations of the Republic were also restricted. Now the question is if India does not stop military operations. There is also no withdrawal of troops from Sikkim, will the republic expand the scale of the war? There is no need to answer this question, after the Sikkim question surfaced, India has been preparing for war, and the republic has completed its preparations for war at the end of July. to the historical grievances of the two countries. Sikkim was only the fuse of the war, and finally the bullet of the self-guided attack capability was pasted at a distance of about a height of about a meter.

Such excellent performance is due to its high development.

In the early days, the "composite ballistic anti-plane attack missile" was developed in accordance with the requirements of "anti-missile and anti-satellite." In other words, it is only necessary to replace the missile with a new warhead and guidance system. Increasing the volume of liquid rocket fuel tanks will make it an air-launched anti-missile, anti-satellite missile. It is precisely because the guidance components of the anti-missile corpse and anti-satellite are too expensive, which affects their "economy", that the Air Force has opened a much cheaper ground-attack missile on this basis, and has been purchasing it in large quantities since the beginning of the blade. What's more. At the beginning of the design, this type of missile was required to be carried and launched by tactical fighters, and strict requirements were made for its quality. Although most of the time sound bombers such as the Pestle Blade are used as delivery platforms, heavy fighters such as Xiao Jiu or Xiao Jiu can still be used as delivery platforms when necessary. If the fighter is used as a carrier launch platform, the fighter can carry 2 missiles under the wing. It is precisely because of this that the Air Force has reduced the number of small old purchases and retained a large number of small old fighters.

The main force involved in the attack was none other than the Little Fighter 4 fighters. For the Republican Air Force, this can be regarded as a cost saving.

Combined with different flight trajectories, the penetration performance of the missile is greatly improved.

Because India does not have a national strategic defense capability. Therefore, it is impossible to deal with missiles flying at an altitude of more than 1,000 kilometers in Tadatian, and it is also impossible to intercept incoming missiles in the middle course. As the missile enters the dive attack phase, the flight degree again exceeds that of the Mach missile before it reaches the apex of the trajectory. The rocket motor will stop working, and then rely on inertia and fly along a parabolic trajectory to the target, far exceeding the interception degree of the general anti-missile system. Even if the missile decreases at a height of force kilometers. Its flight degree will not be lower than that of the old Mach, and the interception effect of the general air defense and anti-missile system on it is not obvious.

Compared with the previous high-pitched cruise missiles, the new missile has the advantage of shortening the attack time.

Because the average flight degree of the missile is about Mach concave, the flight time of the high-pitched cruise missile attacking the thug is also about seconds.

The shorter the flight time, the less reaction time is left for the enemy.

The "Advanced Theater Air Defense and Anti-Missile System" provided to India by the Wasteland. The reaction time from the time of receiving the alarm to the conduct of air defense interception is minutes, while the time from the moment the missile is fired to the target is less than 4 minutes. Even if India's anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems were ready before the 8-point score. It can only intercept a nearby missile once within four minutes, and a large air base can only intercept a single target at most. According to the calculation of the interception efficiency of the air defense and the hit rate of the jump, it is only necessary to fire missiles at each air base to ensure that at least eight missiles will hit the target. To destroy the Tang airbase, at most only one missile is needed.

In this round of attacks, a number of small thug fighters fired at close range and attacked many large air bases in India.

In addition, two squadrons of knife bombers participated in the bombing operation, firing at several large old air bases in India.

Because the flight altitude exceeded the detection altitude of the air defense radar of the Indian air defense system before it entered the detection range of the Indian air defense system, when the hundreds of missiles flew to the Indian air base, the air defense system in northern India did not react, let alone knew that a catastrophe was imminent, except for the incoming missile groups from the strategic alert radars deployed in Jaipur and Ranchi.

The strategic air defense system of the Indian Air Force simply could not react within 4 minutes.

At 8 o'clock, the first missiles hit the Hissar airbase, located northwest of New Delhi.

In the next few seconds, several air bases in northern India were bombed one after another.

In order for the bombing to achieve "synchronicity." That is, all bombing operations must be completed in a matter of seconds, and the aircraft groups participating in the bombing operations fire missiles at a distance of meters from the target. As a result, the fleet of aircraft attacking the air base in the northwestern region of India did not come close to the border line at all. Missiles were fired over the Pamirs and the Tibetan Plateau, while warplanes attacking air bases in the southern region of Umqiya fired missiles in the airspace close to the border.

This round of strikes not only kicked off the prelude to large-scale strategic bombing, but also announced the end of the Indian Air Force.

In just one round of bombing, the Indian Air Force lost more than seventy percent of its large bases, leaving only the old air bases at the southern tip of India's central island. Without a base, no matter how many fighters the Indian Air Force has, it will not be able to turn the tide of the war.

It's just that for Pei Chengyi, the commander-in-chief of the front, the war has just begun.

There are also hundreds of Indian fighter jets in the air. There were also close-bladed Indian fighter jets that took to the air before the bombing began. If we want to expand the scale of bombing and allow more fighters to carry out bombing missions in Indian airspace, we must also take out those Indian fighters that are in the way and seize air supremacy on the battlefield.

The bombing has begun, is there still suspense in the air battle?