Bae Seung-yi had given the order to fight, but the Chan thugs against India "started immediately." There are two issues involved here: first, the shortest time required for the units participating in the war at all levels to complete their preparations for war, and second, the fundamental purpose to be achieved by air strikes.

After the bombing of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Pei Chengyi issued orders to the troops participating in the war at all levels to prepare for war.

There is an essential difference between an operational order and an order to prepare for war, and some units with a higher alert level, such as the strategic aviation unit of the banquet army and the strategic reaction unit of the army, are in a state of readiness for war at all times. For the vast majority of troops, combat readiness begins only after receiving an order to prepare for battle.

The main issue at stake here is confidentiality.

Camouflage a few aircraft carrier battle groups is nothing, and all major naval powers are exploring camouflage technology for fleets, especially camouflage technology for strategic reconnaissance means. But camouflage hundreds of military bases is not so easy. First of all, military bases cannot be moved, their coordinates on the earth are fixed, and important military bases are always under the surveillance of the enemy's strategic reconnaissance system. Second, military bases are too large, and it is very difficult for the existing camouflage technology to achieve the purpose of deception, and even if it is possible to deceive the enemy's strategic reconnaissance system by placing false targets, it is impossible to achieve the effect of complete concealment. Finally, camouflaging a military base is itself a signal for war, and it is necessary to camouflage a military base in an adjacent theater of operations only if it is determined to start a war.

It can be seen from this that camouflage military bases will not only be impossible, but will also expose the war intentions of the republic.

Pei Chengyi did not give the order to prepare for war before the outbreak of war, because he did not want to expose the war intention too early, so that the naval fleet could attack by surprise. As a result, the biggest problem is that it is very difficult for the units participating in the battle at all levels to complete their combat preparations within six hours.

As the best general of the republic, Pei Chengyi can only solve the problem through other methods.

During the attack, Pei Chengyi sent early warning planes, strategic reconnaissance planes, electronic warfare planes, and other support combat planes deployed in the southwest and northwest regions of the Republic of China to take off and go to Shannan City and the Pamir Plateau to monitor the movement of Indian troops in eastern and northwest India.

These support combat aircraft are all-electric aircraft, capable of patrolling the front line for several pounds and hours, with minimal dependence on logistics support. In order not to crowd the front-line air bases with tactical aviation, all support combat aircraft are deployed in second- and third-line bases. In order to extend the patrol time of these aircraft, the Air Force mobilized eight power supply planes and set up charging airspace over the southwest and northwest regions. As a result, the patrol time of all support combat aircraft has been extended to more than an hour, which is sufficient to provide full support and cover for air strikes.

Even in peacetime, it is very common to use early warning aircraft, strategic reconnaissance aircraft, and electronic warfare aircraft to monitor military movements and deployments in the territory of hostile countries, not to mention that when the war has already broken out, Pei Chengyi sent support combat aircraft to monitor the movement of the Indian army at this time, which is not a military invasion action, nor will it make the Indian army overly nervous. According to Pei Chengyi's guess, after the bombing of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Indian Air Force will definitely raise its security level, and believes that the Republic Air Force will immediately strike at military targets in India.

This is exactly what happened, and the Indian Air Force was put into combat readiness before the midnight hours of Beijing time.

According to the report of the AWACS aircraft, "the fighters that appeared over the eastern and northwestern regions of India passed the milkrack, and they were all fighters carrying out combat missions of air supremacy."

The adversary chose a strategic defense rather than a strategic offensive. Pei Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief.

The actions of the Indian Air Force also illustrate the fact that India does not believe that war will break out. In other words, India thinks the war will be fought in August. Only then will the Indian Air Force opt for strategic defense.

At this time, all Pei Chengyi can do is wait.

Units at all levels begin to prepare for battle at around the point of O, and even the most reacting units take several hours to get into combat condition. What's more, the navy's battle has not yet come to a conclusion, and it is a question of whether it is necessary to launch a full-scale air strike against India according to the plan.

Pei Chengyi was waiting, but Yuan Chenhao was busy calculating the air battle that was about to explode.

On the afternoon of the first day, a military reconnaissance satellite appeared at the tanker group at the airbase in Gangipuram in southern India, about 1,000 kilometers from Chennai, and concluded that the Indian Air Force would send tankers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to support carrier-based aviation units operating in the eastern Indian Ocean. Because the main fighter of the Indian Air Force is also the first four, and the US Navy fighter jets use hose refueling devices, mainly the Navy's partner refueling pod is a hose refueling system, so the relaxation tanker purchased by India from Europe is equipped with a hose refueling device, which can replenish fuel for the Indian Navy's first four. Although the hose refueling system is not as efficient as the hard pipe refueling system, the off-the-shelf tanker is enough to refuel all the carrier-based fighters in a fleet.

This intelligence corroborates the Navy's assumption that the Indian Navy is preparing to blockade the Straits of Malacca and Sunda Straits.

Because it basically coincided with the navy's combat plan, Pei Chengyi did not intervene in the navy's combat operations on the afternoon of the first day.

Yuan Chenhao had to consider this factor when calculating the air battle that was about to explode.

The Indian Air Force only has tanker planes, and if this batch of tankers reaches the northern battlefield, for sure! The degree of combat operations of the Air Force provides a great help is. "Will the tanker planes at the Ganganjibula Demon Air Base be able to return to the northern battlefield at night?"

The answer is no, because the transfer of tankers is more troublesome than that of fighters.

If the Indian Air Force were to send tankers to the northern theater, it would first send a ground-based fuel supply system to an air base in the northern region. The ground fuel replenishment system of a tanker is much more complex and bulky than that of a tactical fighter, and the delivery is very cumbersome. If the air transport is carried out by transport aircraft, the ground maintenance equipment of 8 tanker aircraft of a squadron of tankers needs to be picked up by hand, tactical transport aircraft, or 6 strategic transport aircraft. The transport capacity of the Indian Air Force is very limited. It is also impossible to mobilize tankers in such a short time. What's more, under the threat of war, the Indian Air Force is unlikely to send tankers to air bases in the northern region.

The tankers could not be deployed north, and the only way was to let the tankers go north.

Based on this situation, Yuan Chenhao quickly came up with an answer. Even if all the tankers go north, the fighters that support the air defense combat mission can only support the Gujia fighters at most. The reason is simple, the Gangepuram airbase is too far from the front line, and the round-trip flight of tankers will consume a lot of fuel, and the fuel that can be supplied to fighters is very limited.

With this data, the subsequent calculations are much simpler.

The air supremacy fighters of the Indian Air Force will not be less than the small thugs of the Republic Air Force. In other words, the first four that takes off before the old minute must return before the 3 o'clock Feng minute. Counting the time required to return home, ground maintenance, and rush to patrol the airspace again, this batch of the first four can only return to the battlefield at about 6 o'clock at the earliest. The actual situation must be worse, because the Indian Air Force has dispatched too many air supremacy fighters after the outbreak of the war, and the time required for ground maintenance must be more, coupled with the quality of the Indian Air Force's ground crew, it is very good that the first four take-offs can return to the battlefield between 7 o'clock and 7 o'clock. If something goes wrong, it's a question of whether you can return to the battlefield before 8. In this way, if the Indian Air Force sends the remaining air supremacy fighters at 2 o'clock, that is, these fighters still arrive over the battlefield at about 3 o'clock, then after 6 o'clock, there will be an air defense gap of at least the old minutes. The solution is only 2 catties: first, divide the remaining fighters into two batches and lift them off at 2 and 3 points respectively, so as to extend the patrol time of the air defense fighters to 7 points; The second is to let some of the air defense fighters that took off before return to their homes at about 2 o'clock and take off before the old points, so as to replace the second batch of air defense fighters at about 6 o'clock and extend the air defense patrol time to 8 o'clock.

What kind of tactics the Indian Air Force will adopt will be known before 2 points.

Around 2 o'clock. AWACS aircraft patrolling the Pamirs reported that some fighter jets patrolling the Indian-controlled areas of Kashmir and northwestern India were returning. A few minutes later, AWACS aircraft patrolling over the city of Shannan and the Himalayas north of Sikkim also reported that some Indian fighter jets had returned.

There is no doubt that the second tactic was adopted by the Indian Air Force.

This now provides a basis for Pei Chengyi's subsequent tactical adjustments.

The Indian Air Force's response is enough to illustrate a problem, that is, India's vigilance for war is not high, and it even believes that it will not break out into a large-scale war, otherwise it will not reduce the intensity of its air defense patrols in the first two hours after the outbreak of war, and still less should it withdraw its air defense fighters when it may be attacked from the air at any time.

For Pei Chengyi, this is definitely a good consumer tool.

It's just that Pei Chengyi didn't make a decision blindly. Because the monitoring range of the early warning aircraft is relatively limited, the early warning planes patrolling over the Pamir Plateau can at most monitor the airspace north of New Delhi, while the early warning planes patrolling over Shannan City and the north of Sikkim can only monitor the eastern part of India and the lower reaches of the Ganges River at most.

At 3 points, the Military Intelligence Agency sent the latest satellite reconnaissance report.

In order to cooperate with the Forward Command, the Military Intelligence Agency has mobilized all intelligence resources, including the mobilization of all reconnaissance satellites under its jurisdiction. In order to complete the analysis in the shortest possible time, thousands of intelligence analysts of the Military Intelligence Agency voluntarily gave up their vacations.

The reconnaissance satellite passed over India at about 3 o'clock, and the Military Quiet Bureau completed the analysis operation with only a few minutes and sent the latest reconnaissance report to the front-line command. This catty, efficiency, can not be said not high.

After getting the reconnaissance report provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Pei Chengyi made up his mind.

The vigilance of the Indian Air Force is indeed not high, as can be seen from the fact that the returning fighters did not prepare for takeoff in time.

After returning to the airbase, if a fighter needs to take off again urgently, it should be refueled and necessary maintenance should be carried out as quickly as possible. The maintainability of the first four is not bad, and the life support system equipped for pilots is also advanced; In case of emergency, maintenance and replenishment operations can be carried out in the open air; It doesn't need to be like the previous generation of fighters, that is, Wan. He had to go to the Hindu militant church to work in the open air in constant temperature and humidity, and was instead dragged into a closed hangar built for him. From this it can be concluded that these fighters will not take off immediately, and will not even go on a second combat readiness patrol before dawn.

The specific analysis work is in charge of Yuan Chenhao, and Pei Chengyi does not need to worry about it.

At 3 points, Yuan Chenhao handed over the analysis results to Pei Chengyi.

The air supremacy fighters sent out by the Indian Air Force before 3 o'clock will not be too young, and the air supremacy fighters sent before 4 o'clock will not be sent by the letter frame. In this way, after 7 o'clock, the number of fighters carrying out anti-aircraft patrol missions on the front line will certainly not exceed four, of which about the field frame is deployed in the northwest direction and about the number of fighters deployed in the east direction.

After getting Yuan Chenhao's analysis report, Pei Chengyi did not immediately adjust the combat operations.

As expected, there was no need to make adjustments to the combat tactics.

At that time, Pei Chengyi considered two scenarios: one was to annihilate the Indian Eastern Fleet before 6 o'clock, which attracted great attention from the Indian Air Force and forced the Indian Air Force to strengthen its air defense; Second, it failed to annihilate the Indian Eastern Fleet before the 6-point score, and the Indian Air Force still took it lightly.

Relatively speaking, Pei Chengyi only has the former situation to consider.

With the collapse of India's Eastern Fleet, the Republic's war intentions have been exposed, and even if the Indian Air Force is weak, it will not be taken lightly. It's just that it's too late to react at this point. Even if the Indian Air Force reacts very quickly and sends air supremacy fighters immediately after 6 points, it will need at least 7 points for the air supremacy fighters sent by the Indian Air Force to reach the northwest and eastern regions.

The previous situation shows that the Indian Air Force does not respond so quickly.

Those Shi-4 fighters who have already returned to the sea are sent to the hangar, and they will definitely release the remaining fuel in the tank. Conduct a full maintenance inspection of the fighter. Even if the Indian Air Force were to receive the alert at 6 a.m. and immediately give the order to attack, it would take minutes for the combat units to complete their preparations for takeoff. Fighter jets rush to the front line from different airfields, and it takes about minutes to minutes. In other words, the Indian Air Force's reinforcement fighters can only arrive at 7 o'clock at the earliest, and wait until 8 o'clock at the latest. Because the distance between the air bases and the front line was not consistent, the air supremacy fighters arriving in batches could not form a combined force, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the air force of the Republic in the battle for air supremacy.

For modern warfare, where victory is measured by seconds and minutes, any mistake will cause irreparable losses, let alone such a serious mistake.

According to the operational plan formulated by Pei Chengyi, after the navy annihilated the two Indian fleets, the air strike would begin before 8 o'clock.

The gap of half an hour is enough to determine the final success or failure.

It can be seen that as the formulator of the war sentence, Pei Chengyi knows Mao very well

In other words, his 2 years in Pakistan were not in vain.

As a senior general of the Republic in Pakistan, when Pei Chengyi was working in Islamabad, in addition to communicating with the Pakistani army, the most he did was to help the Pakistani army improve its operational command system. In order to prove that the new command system can be more effective in wielding the combat capabilities of the Pakistani army, Pei Chengyi participated in several small-scale military operations over the past two years, including provocative actions against the Indian Air Force. Taking the "Autumn of Friendship in the Autumn of Friendship" as an example, Pei Chengyi, as the commander-in-chief of the exercise of the Republic, formulated a "surprise strike action plan before the thugs reacted later." Although this response is much faster than it was many years ago, it is still far from keeping pace with modern warfare. You must know that in the same situation, the Air Force of the Republic only needs a few minutes to react, let all the fighters at the front-line bases rise into the air, and at the same time send air supremacy fighters deployed at the second-line bases, which can increase the air defense force of the front line several times within a minute, and the first batch of reinforcement fighters will not arrive at the front line until after the first minute, and the air supremacy fighters deployed at the second-line bases will be sent after a few minutes, and the air defense force of the front line will be increased several times after the young minutes.

If the Indian Air Force still meets the fight at this degree, the bombing will end before its air defense fighters take to the skies.

The fact that he did not adjust the battle plan does not mean that Pei Chengyi does not have any worries.

Behind India is the United States, and the number one imaginary enemy of the United States is the Republic. As long as the United States is willing, it will provide greater assistance to India and help the Indian Air Force establish a more complete command system. Although there are various indications that the Indian Air Force has not only not progressed, but has degraded, there is no assumption about war, and only when it is fully prepared can it take timely countermeasures when it comes to sudden changes.

At 4 points, Pei Chengyi personally contacted the Strategic Defense Command.

Because according to Wang Yuanqing's arrangement, the strategic forces are not controlled by the front-line command, Pei Chengyi did not include the strategic forces in the operational sequence of the front-line command, and could only issue combat orders to them alone.

After a minute, a "silent" battle began.