Chapter 146: Fierce Fighting
Urn strike troops. The first attack on Edava by the First Armored Brigade was even more two-two
Actually, you can't do it without being strong.
As soon as the inferior army's butt moved, Du Qiwei guessed that Pei Chengyi was going to attack Bhopal desperately. For India, Bhopal must not be lost, at least not at this time. After Pei Chengyi sent out the Witch Army, it was not easy to hold Bhopal. In fact, even Duchway believes that it is impossible for the Indian army to hold Bhopal. At most, Bhopal can only be turned into a cemetery for the middle **. As a result, Pei Chengyi could not continue to advance westward after capturing Bhopal, buying enough time for India to adjust its strategic defense. Because Rurajapani listened to Duchway's advice, the Indian army deployed the defense of Bhopal in full accordance with Duchway's arrangement. Defending Bhopal is certainly necessary, and it is very necessary. Just if you want to defend Bhopal, you have to send more troops to Bhopal before the Witch army arrives, so you need to keep the Umno army out of Bhopal for at least 3 to 3 days.
The Indian army had no choice but to strengthen the defenses of Edawa. Use Edawa's defensive positions to hold off the Bi army. Since most of the reinforcements were concentrated in Bhopal, the Indian army had to use all means to strengthen the fortified position of Edawao.
Whether he can hold 3 to the sky, Du Qiwei is not sure.
Only one thing is certain: after two days of intense construction, the Indian army's positions basically have the ability to resist artillery bombardment. Other words. The power of the kilogram-level artillery shells of the thugs is equivalent to that of the kilogram-level aerial bombs, so the ordinary bombs used by the tactical aviation and army aviation are difficult to pose a threat to the Indian military fortifications underground.
Before the start of the fighting, the military intelligence provided relevant information and recommended the use of special bombs.
Pei Chengyi did not immediately take the advice of the Military Intelligence Agency and decided to try his luck first.
Because of the "fame" left by special bombs in Kolkata. It is very shocking that the Republic is trying to change its international image and want more people to believe that this is a just war, so after the offensive and defensive battles in Calcutta, Pei Chengyi has been more cautious when using special bombs, and he is not a last resort. Never use.
The reality is. Pei Chengyi had to make a choice.
3 points of edge, sustained thugs armored brigade began to attack.
Although the surface positions of the Indian army had been blown up beyond recognition, when the tanks of the Armored Brigade of the First Witch Thug drove onto the positions of the Indian army, they suddenly encountered relatively strong resistance firepower.
After a few minutes, the attacking troops withdrew under the cover of the second round of air support.
Tang Yinglong, who personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, did not immediately organize a second attack, but contacted the front line command, hoping to obtain "more effective" air support.
Needless to say. What Tang Yinglong wanted was a special bomb.
When requesting support, Tang Yinglong mentioned a very important issue, that is, the Indian army adopted very clever defensive tactics, and seemed to have absorbed the defense experience of the airborne fighter Shao Brigade in Ranchi.
Although there is no evidence that there were officers in Edawa's Indian army who participated in the offensive and defensive battles of Ranchi, the actual situation is similar to what Tang Yinglong said. According to the images of the deployment of the Indian army's defensive positions returned by the unmanned reconnaissance plane, the officers in charge of intelligence work immediately saw the characteristics of the deployment of the Indian army's defensive positions. Undoubtedly, it is the kind of deployment of the Airborne Forces. Use the underground tunnel system to connect the various fire points to defend against the armored forces in large depth. Although in a lot of details. The defensive positions of the Indian army are still not able to make trouble with the armored brigade of airborne thugs.
There is no doubt that U.S. military advisers play a very crucial role.
Relying on military reconnaissance satellites, the US military must have mastered the deployment method of the defensive positions of the airborne brigades. The Military Intelligence Agency has enough intelligence to prove that the United States has developed a radar-forming satellite capable of detecting tunnel systems at meters underground. If this is the case, it is very likely that the US advisers will pass on the experience they have just summed up to the Indian army, and let the Indian army conduct field tests in Edava.
The most effective weapon against such defensive positions, which are supported by underground tunnel systems, is special bombs.
In the words of the combat staff officer, even if thermobaric bombs are used, they will not necessarily be able to destroy the underground fortifications of the Indian army. As long as the Indian army is slightly prepared. Heat-resistant and pressure-resistant doors are installed on the main underground fortifications to deal with thermobaric bombs. It makes it difficult for thermobaric bombs to kill and injure officers and soldiers hiding inside. In fact, when the Airborne Forces were building defensive positions. It will definitely install heat-resistant and pressure-resistant doors for important underground caverns such as garrisons and ammunition depots.
In order to avoid the use of special bombs as much as possible. Pei Chengyi decided to give it a try.
4 point cutting edge. The mouth frame of the army aviation successively dropped many tons of thermobaric bombs over the positions of the Indian troops.
Minutes later, the Dinu Thug Armoured Brigade again stepped onto the Indian positions.
As predicted by the operational staff. The Indians once again swarmed into their positions, exchanging fire with the armoured forces, and causing the attacking armoured forces to lose their handhoe tanks and vehicles.
Clicked. The attacking forces were again withdrawn.
This time, Pei Chengyi had no choice.
According to the calculations, the armored brigade of the Dinu thugs had to make a breakthrough before dawn and capture at least part of the positions. Only then can more troops be committed to dealing with the stubborn Indian army.
Seeing that the sky is about to dawn, the 1st Worm Armored Brigade is still lingering outside the positions of the Indian army, and it is not a way to drag it down.
At three o'clock, the most central support begins before dawn.
The army aviation was still in charge of the support mission, and the low-altitude attack planes formed a column in the west and under the guidance of ground scouts, they successively entered the airspace over the Indian army's positions and dropped special bombs.
In order to maximize the power of special bombs. To avoid entanglement with the Indian army after occupying the position, Tang Yinglong not only sent scouts to provide on-the-spot thug "command" for the attack aircraft group, but also asked the combat staff of the military headquarters who came with him to plan the entire bombing operation and carefully arrange each bombing point. The distance between each bombing point and the adjacent bombing point is persuasive meters, and the detonation depth of special bombs is blade meters. Although the depth of detonation exceeded the maximum depth of the Indian army's underground fortifications. But when the shock wave generated after the explosion of a special bomb reaches the surface. Because of the change in the density of the medium, a part of the shock wave will be reflected back on the surface, which will produce a superimposed effect in some areas, doubling the energy of the shock wave and producing greater destructive power. Tests have long proven that the destructive force of the shock wave is proportional to the 3rd power of the energy it contains. That is, the energy is doubled, and the destructive power is increased by 8 times. Although in addition to the areas where the stacks are strengthened, there are also areas where the stacks are weakened. However, the powerful destructive power generated by the strengthened area is more than enough to compensate for the loss of the weakened area. At a distance of a small meter from the horizontal projection of the explosion point, only underground structures with an earthquake resistance level of mouth can withstand the shock wave generated by special bombs. Except for the strategic-level underground command center, no underground building is earthquake-resistant to the mouth level.
The effect of the bombing was so obvious that even the officers and men of the 1st Worm Armored Assault Brigade, who were waiting many kilometers away, could feel it.
Because one by one into the bomb drop, before each bomb drop. It was up to the scouts to determine the effect of the last bombardment and decide whether they needed to supplement the bombing, so the bombing continued until dawn, and finally it was time for the fighters to leave. It's already 6 o'clock.
While the scouts were assessing the final bombing results, Tang Yinglong let the officers and men who were on the third offensive mission have breakfast.
7 o'clock. Scouts came to report that there were no signs of life activity on the positions of the Indian troops.
After the battle, the first batch of main battle tanks and armored fighting vehicles drove into the positions of the Indian army.
For the sake of prudence, Tang Yinglong asked the infantry who coordinated the attack to get off the car and fight after stepping on the Indian position, so as not to be like the previous two attacks. Let the old multi-infantry finish off with the chariot.
Although in the process of occupying the positions of the Indian troops, the attacking troops encountered sporadic resistance, but it did not have much impact, and it was difficult for a few Indian troops who were not dead to breathe to pose a threat to the attacking troops.
Of course. Tang Yinglong is still unruly.
After taking control of the surface position, he did not let the infantry search the underground tunnels that had not completely collapsed, but let the scouts and engineers go to the position with life detectors and small radars designed to detect underground targets, and conduct a dragnet search of the entire position.
It was not until the search was completed that Tang Yinglong came out with the news of the occupation of Edawa.
There is no doubt that the battle against Edawa was fought fiercely. It was so fierce that Pei Chengyi had a little palpitation.
The 2 Indian divisions guarding Edawa are about enough to fly enough for the Indian army to survive!
Although according to standard combat procedures, after the 1st Worm Armored Brigade occupied Edawa, it should clean up the position, Pei Chengyi asked Tang Yinglong to leave the task of cleaning the position to the troops behind, and specially instructed the staff officer in charge of logistics to send disinfection and epidemic prevention tools to the logistics troops following the 1st Mi Thash Armored Brigade in time. Because there are no civilian disinfection and epidemic prevention tools, they can only provide logistics troops with three-defense equipment.
When the officers and soldiers wearing the three-defense suits appeared in Edawa, the first message to the outside world was that there was a nuclear explosion here.
Of course, the first information is not true.
Whether nuclear weapons were used or not, test the local radioactivity index, as well as the radioactive fallout in the nearby air. Besides. There are tens of thousands of seismographs around the world, and even halfway around the world, they can receive seismic waves from the explosion of nuclear weapons.
Countries with advanced seismic detection equipment know that the Republican ** team has once again used special bombs in Edava.
Unlike a few days ago, the US news media, including the interior, did not make a big deal of it, and did not even mention "special bombs" in their reports. The reason is simple, Edawao is not Kolkata, and although the town had about the bladed inhabitants before the outbreak of the war, all the inhabitants were driven away by the Indian army before the arrival of the 1st Worm Armoured Brigade. As another country that has mastered catalytic metallic hydrogen explosive devices, the United States will sooner or later use "special bombs" on the battlefield. If too much emphasis is placed on the powerful destructive power of special bombs at this time, and their use in regular military operations is severely restricted by the international community, it is tantamount to tying one's own hands and feet.
The U.S. news media remained silent, and the rest of the Western news media remained silent.
For Pei Chengyi, the news media's failure to report on the real fighting situation of Eda Ying is undoubtedly the best news.
For the Indian army, the loss of Edati overnight is definitely the worst news.
Although there is enough information to prove that the Guili troops of the Wu army can only reach Champal at the earliest in the night of Feiri, and reach Edati before dawn in Sunri, and even if they go south immediately, they can only attack Bhopal by day and night or in the early hours of the day, but according to Duchway's calculations, Edawa's defenders will at least hold out until the night of the day, so that the Chinese army can attack Bhopal as soon as the day and night of the month. Other words. Edawa fell overnight, leaving Bhopal in a three-day battle!
Three days was too crucial for Bhopal.
If war
As soon as the night started, the Indian army that arrived in Bhopal had only one old division at most, and the Indian army stationed in Bhopal was not more than 10,000 troops in the sixth place. More importantly, Pei Chengyi will definitely not immediately besiege Bhopal, but will take advantage of the opportunity of the Indian army to continue to increase the number of troops in Bhopal, and adopt the tactics of encirclement and reinforcements to drive out the reinforcements first. Striking reinforcements would not only fully utilize the army's field capabilities, but also deal a heavy blow to the morale of the defenders of Bhopal. As long as reinforcements are hopeless, the defenders of Bhopal will not fight desperately with the Mi army, and may even be like the defenders of Kolkata. Surrender en masse at a time when there is absolutely no hope of victory. No doubt. This is what Pei Chengyi wants to achieve. If Bhopal can be captured without blood, there will be enough capital to move westward and sweep the north bank of the Narmoda River in one go, and even push the front to the coast of the Arabian Sea. Hit this far. China has achieved a strategic victory, even if the Indian army is holding on to New Delhi and causing heavy casualties to the squadron in New Delhi, the Chinese government may grit its teeth and persevere, send heavy troops to sweep the southern region of India, and completely kill the Indian government!
If the battle starts on the day of the Kouyue Fighter. The results will be very different. When the time comes. The Indian army stationed in Bhopal will have as many as one division. The total number of troops is too ugly. Although according to Dugway's guess. It is very likely that Pei Chengyi will let the poor army besiege Bhopal, destroy the living forces of the Indian army with firepower, drag on for ten days and half a month, and wait until the other armies regain their combat effectiveness, and then storm Bhopal. However, such a fight will not do Pei Chengyi any benefit, because it will not only consume a lot of ammunition, increase war expenses, and increase the burden of logistics support, but also allow Pei Chengyi to put all his already small forces into Bhopal, so that he will not be able to sweep the area north bank of the Narmoda River after occupying Bhopal, and even have to delay the decisive battle on the Western Front. Just drag it out. When India completes its mobilization for the war, the squadron will have to pay an extremely painful price for the war. At this point, even Pei Chengyi still refuses to give up. The Chinese government will also sign a kind of armistice treaty with the Indian government that has fled to southern India, or by propping up a puppet regime, after taking into account various factors. Let India fight a civil war. Whether it is the signing of an armistice. Or let India break out into a civil war. China will not be able to achieve the fundamental purpose of this war. Other words. On the whole, it was neither China nor India that won the war in the end. It's the United States.
Three days decided the fate of three countries.
The reality was cruel, and the Indian army in Edawa did not hold out for 3 days.
Of course, the problem is not that simple.
When receiving news of the fall of Edavou. Duchway had to consider another issue, and that was the armoured assault force that suddenly appeared between Agra and Gwalior.
To be honest, Pei Chengyi's tactics of luring the enemy are not clever. Dudgway could see at a glance the underlying intent.
The question is. Does Dudgway have the power to change reality?
After receiving the pictures from the reconnaissance satellite and grasping the accurate situation of the assault force, Duchway had to admit it. Mu Chengyi played a very clever "Ming Chess".
The size of the assault force is not large. Then a few thousand people. Even if you attack New Delhi, you can't occupy it; It is not small, there are thousands of tanks and combat vehicles, which can defeat any Indian army, and it is even possible to tear through the New Delhi defense line, which has not yet been fully deployed, and go around the city of New Delhi.
From Du Qiwei's standpoint, I have to believe that this force is not there to contain the Indian army. It's about pinning down the Indian government.
To put it simply. If an armored unit with thousands of tanks and fighting vehicles were to rush into the city of New Delhi, the most unfortunate thing would certainly not be the citizens and buildings of New Delhi, nor the defenders of New Delhi, but the Indian government.
If you can't even hold it, what can you hope for such a government?
What's worse is that Rurajapani has sworn that he will defend New Delhi at all costs. It doesn't matter if the people don't trust the government, if New Delhi is broken by the enemy shortly after the prime minister's oath, I'm afraid that even the Indian officers and soldiers will not believe the government.
There is no doubt that Rurajapani will not let the situation get to this point.
The only way to stop that assault force is to mobilize all the surrounding armies and block it with all their might.
This was the last thing Dudgway wanted to see.
Because he had long expected that Bhopal would not be able to hold it, when Du Qiwei suggested that the Indian army would defend Bhopal, he also suggested that the Indian army should send troops to attack Occupy West when the Umno army attacked Bhopal, forcing Pei Chengyi to return to defense. Because Pei Chengyi no longer has enough reserves in his hands, unless he is willing to bear greater battle casualties, he has to let the Nu army stop. In fact, Pei Chengyi was definitely unwilling to suffer greater casualties, otherwise he would not have let the inferior army rush to join the battle.
In other words, Duchway has long been left behind, waiting for the Umno army to attack Bhopal.
Du Qiwei is prepared, and so is Biao Chengyi.
At this point, Du Qiwei also had to admire Pei Chengyi. Pin down an enemy more than 100 times the size of an assault force of a few cadres. Such courage and decisiveness are inferior to even Dudgway.
It can be said that Du Qiwei is facing a dead game of chess with no solution.
Although let Stark try to convince Rurajapani. Don't throw too many troops in the direction of New Delhi, but you should counterattack Occupy West according to the plan, but Duchway doesn't have much hope, because Rurajapani is a politician, and an Indian politician, not a beautiful ** like Duchway.