Chapter 38: The First Shot
In the combat command center, Pei Chengyi glanced at the electronic clock hanging on the wall
The old point of Islamabad time, that is, the ugly point of Beijing time. 【】
Pei Chengyi frowned slightly and looked at Yuan Chenhao. The colonel officer shook his head. Indicates that no message was received.
There was a bit of tension in the command, and the staff officers knew it. If all goes well, you should have received the message before the bell.
Yuan Chenhao instructed the senior staff officer next to him. walked towards Pei Chengyi.
"Mr. Xiang is gone?"
"I didn't give up, I'm talking to the chief of the Pakistani General Staff." Pei Chengyi sighed and said, "Mr. Xiang said that the action cannot be stopped, and if you don't receive the news within 2 hours, you will take action according to the backup plan." ”
"Need to contact Lu Chengwen?"
Pei Chengyi glanced at Yuan Chenhao and said, "Is this necessary?" ”
Yuan Chenhao smiled bitterly and didn't say anything more.
After Xiang Linghui came to the front-line command and told Pei Chengyi the news of the early start of the war, Pei Chengyi immediately raised a very important question. That is what reason to start the war in advance. Although Wang Yuanqing has kept a hand in diplomacy, no one can deny that India will make last-minute diplomatic concessions until August Day, thus depriving the republic of a reason to go to war. Xiang Linghui has the same question. After Pei Chengyi reminded him, he immediately contacted Wang Yuanqing and asked about how to deal with it.
Yuan didn't ramble on the time of the war, and clearly told Xiang Linghui and Pei Chengyi that there was no reason to make a reason.
When there was no word left, Xiang Linghui dared to hesitate and immediately asked Pei Chengyi to arrange relevant actions.
Fortunately, Pei Chengyi had already taken this into account and did not disappoint Xiang Linghui.
In fact, after the East China Sea Fleet left Zhoushan, Pei Chengyi predicted that the war was likely to explode early. The Navy's operations could not be delayed at all, although the new camouflage curtain wall would allow the warship to temporarily avoid the surveillance of US reconnaissance satellites. Slipped silently into the sea, but the more the fleet stayed at sea, the more likely its whereabouts were exposed. As long as the fleet's whereabouts are revealed, it will be intercepted by the Indian Navy with all its might. In the absence of geographical superiority, even if the Indian Navy can be defeated, it will only be a crushing victory. If we want to win this war and complete the strategic blockade and strategic strike against India, the navy must not be able to bear too many losses. If you count the possible American fleet, you can't let the Navy suffer heavy losses.
In this way, it became inevitable to start a war in advance.
There must be good reasons for starting a war in advance. When the military deployment was carried out, Pei Chengyi sent the special forces directly under the General Staff to the front line. In the absence of other options, the special forces can only be left to create conflicts and provide a reason for war. Doing these things, the special forces under Lu Chengwen can be regarded as familiar with the road.
The biggest problem is that the time is too tight.
On the afternoon of the first day, when Xiang Linghui had a secret meeting with the chief of the Pakistani General Staff, Lu Chengwen's special forces came out.
Although Pei Chengyi was an army general, he did not interfere in the combat operations of the special forces.
As long as the special forces are in accordance with the operational plan formulated by the front-line command, they will attack the Indian troops stationed in Gangtok at about some point in Beijing time. According to the general situation, the Indian army will certainly counterattack the "guerrillas" who launched a surprise attack, and the special forces will cut off the communication lines of the Indian army at this time, and use the communication code provided by the military intelligence bureau to issue an order to the Gangtok defenders to carry out artillery bombardment against the "guerrillas". Of course, the coordinates of the shelling provided are not the area of the workers where the "partisans" are located. Rather, it is a concentration camp on the outskirts of Gangtok where thousands of "rioters" are being held. As long as the shells fall, the massacre of civilians in Sikkim by the Indian army will be the trigger for war.
This reason is a bit far-fetched, but it is much better than no reason at all.
After waiting for a while, Pei Chengyi was really a little impatient. In the event of a failure in the operation of the special forces. Failure to get the Indian army to fire at the concentration camps in accordance with the "plan" will put the republic in a diplomatic dilemma in the coming war. Even if Yuan had already made second-hand preparations, it would have caused great trouble for the republic.
Before he could speak, the senior staff officer in charge of communications and liaison trotted over.
"Recommend the army
"Got news?" Yuan Chenhao was even more excited than Pei Chengyi.
The major officer nodded and said: "The net received a message from the special forces, the battle has begun, and the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft will return the image in ten minutes." ”
Pei Chengyi nodded and asked the staff officer to prepare.
After the thugs looked forward to the bell, the footage taken by a high-altitude long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance plane appeared on the big screen.
The shelling was so heavy that the entire camp was covered with artillery fire, with dead bodies and mutilated limbs everywhere, and even the dying wounded could be seen.
Pei Chengyi was secretly startled and glanced at Yuan Chenhao.
Yuan Chenhao also looked a little surprised. It seems that the battle is over.
"Are there any casualties among the special forces? Pei Chengyi asked the major officer.
"No, the retreat has been reached. Soon to be able to leave the war zone. ”
"Calculate the number of casualties in the concentration camps as soon as possible." Pei Chengyi turned his gaze to Yuan Chenhao, "According to the plan, give the air force a combat order." I'll go find Mr. Xiang and come back later. ”
Yuan Chenhao didn't say much, and immediately acted according to Pei Chengyi's instructions.
In Islamabad, Pei Chengyi left the operations center of the front-line command and rushed to the military liaison office. Xiang Linghui was there discussing joint operations with the chief of the Pakistani General Staff, and was actually waiting for the most thug of the front-line command.
It was also at this time that the test flight units of the dual-phase airbase received an order for operation.
Jia Baoguo did not delay a moment, and immediately ordered the thugs, who had long been ready for battle, to operate the bomber to take off.
Within the bells, "all the bombers rose into the night sky."
Looking at the group of planes that gradually disappeared into the night sky, Jia Baoguo seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
After receiving the battle order in the afternoon, Jia Baoguo put the troops into a combat state. Although it was only a test flight unit, all the pilots were from combat units, participated in the Japanese war, and had an average flight time of more than Danwaki Bu Toki, making them the best bomber pilots in the Air Force. Among them was Colonel Zhou Shuanglian, the first to throw a special incendiary bomb at Japan.
All afternoon, Zhou Shuangfeng stayed in the cockpit of the bomber.
Compared to fighters, the life support system of the bomber is more perfect. Although it is said that Xiao is not a treble bomber, and there is no need for the pilot to be equipped with anti-load clothing, but in order to keep the pilot energetic during the flight cycle of several hours, or even many hours, the Air Force has specially developed a "life support system." "Actually. It is a flight suit that concentrates multiple functions. Compared with the general flight suit, the new flight suit not only has a waste recycling system, does not need to set up a toilet on the bomber, the food supply system is similar to the fluid high-energy food used by the first generation of astronauts, the taste is not good, and the life support system is mainly oxygen supply. It also refers to the standards of fighter jets, and has the ability to resist load and catapult life-saving. To put it simply, after the pilot wears the new flight suit, he does not need to move his buttocks to eat, drink and lazar, and the comfort of high-altitude and high-altitude flight is far greater than that of the general flight suit.
It is not that this new flight suit should be used first for test flight units, because tactical aviation units, especially combat pilots who carry out air supremacy tasks, need such equipment even more. The main reason is that the test flight units themselves are shouldering the nature of the test, so taking advantage of the opportunity of the test flight to test the performance of the new flight suit can save a lot of money for the test.
Sitting in a confined environment for hours is never easy.
Zhou Shuangfeng didn't complain about anything, the allowance of the test flight unit was very high, and it was also the dream of all test pilots to be able to fly the latest bomber to the battlefield.
Waited patiently and finally waited for the result.
After taking off, Zhou Shuangfeng kept following behind the leader of the plane. Although in combat units, he was a veritable "ace pilot." But in the test flight unit where there are many masters, top pilots like him abound. Being able to become the "second-in-command" in the team Zhou Shuangfeng is already very satisfied. He also knew that compared to Colonel Yujie, the "number one", his ability and qualifications were a little worse.
As early as the Korean War, Bu Yujie was one of the best bomber pilots in the Republic. Throughout the war, he carried out cable combat missions, dropped more than tons of bombs, destroyed more than one target of all kinds, and his achievements ranked high in the list of strategic air forces. During the Japanese War, Yujie carried out combat missions, dropped bombs, and destroyed various targets. What's more, in so many missions, Bu Yujie has never been shot down or injured. Although this record is not unusual, Zhou Shuangfeng also has the same record, but compared to the bombing success rate of Bu Yujie Gundam, Zhou Shuangfeng can only sigh to himself. When the slinger Shifei unit was formed, the first person to be transferred by the Air Force was Bu Yujie. It can even be said that Bu Yujie's seniority in the test flight unit is longer than Jia Baoguo's. If he hadn't been serving in the front-line combat units and test flight units, Xi Yujie would have become an air force general long ago.
Zhou Shuangfeng didn't want to compare with Bu Yujie, and in the test flight unit, no one could compare with Bu Yujie.
To be able to fight with a captain like Bu Yujie, bomber pilots are willing, because when performing bombing missions, the ability of the captain leader determines the combat capability of the group and the return rate of the group. Bomber pilots are not fighter pilots, none of the bomber pilots want to have an accident in battle, all bomber pilots want to get back to base alive.
War is like this, and soldiers in different positions have different goals to pursue.
The fleet flew hundreds of kilometers over the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. When it was about to enter Burmese airspace, the flight altitude was reduced to the relative altitude of the thug Tien Mi and the ground. And not altitude.
Bu Yujie did not activate the active electromagnetic interference system, and other bombers did not activate the jamming system.
Slammers have excellent stealth abilities and will only use active electromagnetic interference systems as a last resort.
The flight was long and monotonous.
Zhou Shuangfeng and the co-pilot take turns to check the flight data on the four horizontal displays, as long as there is no abnormality, the pilot does not need to intervene in the automatic driving system, and the bomber will fly according to the route set by the pilot. Only before the attack is the pilot required to take over control
Command.
After checking the data on the screen again, Zhou Shuangfeng handed over the work to the co-pilot.
With that, the small adopts a new propulsion system. Compared to conventional turbo motors. The noise level of the "electromagnetic propulsion system" reduces the force decibels. In accordance with the Air Force's test standards, its frontal is similar to... The old pretending is only shell and enough decibels, than the sound of the horn of the car. Zhongzhong Group, which has invested in the development of "electromagnetic propulsion system", sees broad commercial prospects. As long as the price can be lowered and the noise can be further reduced, it can not only be used in general aviation passenger aircraft, cargo aircraft, business aircraft, but also in civil vehicles. Other words. If the car is fully equipped with an "electromagnetic propulsion system." "It's no longer a car, it's a flying car that can fly in the air." ”
How the commercial application, Zhou Shuangban didn't care, he only knew that the driver said, small is a very boring job.
The more advanced the technology and the more advanced the technology, the more maneuverable space is left for people, and Xiaozhan has become a kind of unmanned bomber, just taking into account the need for strategic bombers to carry out strategic alert tasks. No one was willing to hand over nuclear warheads to computer control, and the Air Force changed its mind. Added the name pilot.
Obviously, the main role of the pilot in the slinger is not that of the controller, but of the watchman.
What made Zhou Shuang and other pilots feel even more depressed. Even the "watcher" can only face the dashboard. In order to maximize stealth capabilities. The mountain hitter times adopted a "fully enclosed cockpit. "The pilot is like sitting in a cage, and he can only understand the outside world through sensors mounted around the fuselage. Even during take-off and landing; The runway outside can only be seen through the small window in front of which is less than half a square meter. During the flight, the pilot sees not the outside sky, but various flight data on the screen.
The more boring it is, the slower time passes.
When the red light that indicated that the attack point would be reached in a few minutes came on, Zhou Shuangfeng felt that several days had passed.
In fact, the fleet is only flying when it is uncertain!
Beijing time, on July O'clock O'clock, the mouth frame "reached Motama Bay in the northern part of the Andaman Sea, between the mouth of the Irrawaddy River and the coast of Tanintharyi.
As the long plane piloted by Colonel Yujie dropped the ammunition it carried, the other thugs dropped the ammunition within 2 minutes.
The bombing campaign began methodically and ended without danger.
Except for the bomber obviously jumping up a few times when the bomb was dropped, Zhou Shuangfeng didn't know what was going on outside.
To the famous pilot on the mouth frame bomber. They have completed their mission, and the next thing they need to do is to "ride" the thugs back to the dual-phase air base.
Of course, Bu Yujie and Zhou Shuangfeng didn't know. They fired the first shots of the war in India.
When the bombers turned to return home, "a high-pitched cruise missile was heading towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, hundreds of kilometers away.
Because the targets of the attacks were scattered on several islands hundreds of kilometers long from north to south, the flight routes of the old four missiles were not completely identical. The missile attacking the target in close proximity descends to a height of four meters and moves along the course of the formation in order to consume more time during the flight. Missiles attacking distant targets rise to a height of meters and follow a straight course to the south in order to shorten the flight time.
According to the requirements, the missile must miss all targets at the same time, but the hitter misses all targets.
It looks like a hassle, but it's actually not difficult.
The fire control data required by the missile is input by the computer on the bomber, and the pilot only needs to provide a few key data such as the target situation and the time it hit the target, and the computer can derive the most ideal flight trajectory. That is, the pilot was spared even the most basic work.
Although when the group returned, a second group of bombers followed the same route to the skies over Motama Bay.
This is a fleet of aircraft consisting of Akira out of the shelf. Their mission is to bomb air bases, naval bases, and other military targets on the islands after destroying air defense positions and communications command facilities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with hand-fired cruise missiles.
To achieve the maximum striking effect, "the book did not carry air-launched cruise missiles, but brought more gliding bombs.
Because there was no fleet to arrange escort fighters, the bombing operation had to begin within minutes of the first missile falling. That's the only way. In order to complete the bombing before the Indian fighters take off, or at least to turn back before the Indian air defense fighters arrive.
The difficulty is not small, and the pace must be highly artificial.
In support of the group, an AWACS aircraft from Krabi Airport in Thailand was patrolling about 1,000 kilometres west of Phuket, using its radar with a range of up to 1,000 kilometres to monitor the Indian fighter jets patrolling over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
At O'clock Beijing time, the first air-launched cruise missile entered the airspace over Indian territorial waters.
Although the missile has a decent stealth effect. But the enormous heat generated by its high flight still exposes its tracks.
A few minutes later, the AWACS aircraft showed an Indian fighter that was taking off urgently.
o The group began to drop bombs about a kilometer from North Andaman Island.
It took only three minutes for the bomber to drop hundreds of long-range gliding bombs it carried. Then turn to the north and sail back.
At this time, India's air defense alert radar deployed on the island of North Andaman had already been destroyed by cruise missiles.
o 4 o'clock, this moment is written in history.
The war in India broke out!