After discussing Xiang Linghui's order, Pei Chengyi finally breathed a sigh of relief. 【Reading.com】

Pei Chengyi's concern was not that the preparations were not in place, but that Yuan did not give the order for a ground war in time.

According to the war plan, after the Indian army sends reinforcements to Sikkim, the Republic will send ground troops to occupy the transportation hub of the western part of Siliguriasa in the name of preventing India from invading Sikkim again, which is the only ground passage between the eastern region of India and the interior, and completely divide the eastern part of India. Before receiving Xiang Linghui's order, Pei Chengyi did not adjust the battle plan. Rather, it prepared the troops for battle. In other words, if the Yuan fails to veto the battle plan before the old point, the offensive operation will begin without the authorization of the Yuan.

Even if Pei Chengyi could find ten thousand reasons for explanation, he didn't want to go against Yuan's will on this issue. The reason is very simple: ground combat and air strikes are two completely different things.

According to the international "unspoken rule" of "bullying the small with the big," an air strike does not constitute aggression.

As early as the Kosovo War in the last year of the blade century, the NATO bloc led by the United States bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for dozens of days, destroying almost all important facilities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The international community has also not condemned NATO's aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the beginning of the century, the United States bombed Iraq under Saddam Hussein several times, and bombed other countries many times in the name of counter-terrorism, but it was not condemned by the international community. The point is that neither NATO nor the United States has sent troops to occupy the territory of other countries in these military operations.

Several wars in which the Republic participated were similar. In the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, the Republic Air Force destroyed most of the military installations and important strategic targets in the northwest region of India, and because it did not send ground troops into India, it did not constitute a substantial aggression against India. During the conflict in southern Tibet, although the ground forces of the Republic fought deep into Indian territory for a time, they were not preceded by a ceasefire. After all ground forces have withdrawn to the Line of Actual Control, i.e., after the traditional Sino-Indian border established by the Republic, they have not remained in India, thus not constituting a substantial act of aggression.

This operation was different, and the Republic's invasion of Siliguri was a substantial invasion.

While the reasons for the invasion were sufficient, after this step was taken, the scale of the war would grow rapidly, and a full-scale war between the Republic and India would be inevitable.

As the commander-in-chief of the front, Pei Chengyi has no authority to make such a major strategic decision.

Fortunately, Yuan made a decision in time and gave the chief of the General Staff an operational order.

Authorized and all that remains is how to complete the combat mission.

In fact, before Pei Chengyi received the order, the combat operation to attack Siliguri had already begun.

After completing the bombing mission, the Air Force quickly adjusted its operational deployment and extended the southern boundary of the "air restricted zone" to the old northern latitude. That is, fighters performing air supremacy missions will autonomously attack any Indian fighter who crosses this line. Because the Indian Air Force has basically lost its combat capability, the fighters who have escaped to the southern region of India are not ribbed, and the fighters who remain in the no-fly zone probably have persuasion, among which the Ma Si and the North fighters who can carry out air supremacy combat missions will not be thorough, so the Air Force has greatly reduced the number of air supremacy fighters, and only deployed thugs in the three "standby zones", that is, over Hydbara in southern Pakistan, Jaipur in central India, and Kolkata in eastern India. Some of them were involved in ground strikes. Although it is said that Xiaoyang cannot carry large ammunition to attack important targets. For example, air-launched missiles used to bomb Indian air bases.

Because the results of the round bombing exceeded expectations, the combat mission of the Air Force before the start of the second largest scale of bombing was not heavy. In order to ensure the completion of the second round of bombing missions and support the Airborne Forces in the attack on Siliguri, the Air Force also prepared some tactical aviation units as reserves.

The battle began according to the sentence.

There was only one target for the bombing, and that was the Indian army's facilities and defensive positions in the area around Siliguri.

In order to break the Indian army's will to resist to the greatest extent, the air force mobilized 3 catties, saying that the number of fighters in the Xiaoyuan Brigade was only a couple. The Air Force also mobilized four groups of suave bombers and strategic aviation units were reorganized in three years, and the size of the group was reduced by half. Prepare for a massive bombing of Siliguri after tactical fighters. The main reason why the Air Force invested in strategic aviation at this time was that the aircraft group could be deployed in the domestic strategic air base. There is no need to rush to front-line airfields with tactical aviation. In other words, in the context of the limited support support capabilities of front-line air bases, the dispatch of strategic aviation is the only means of increasing the strike power of the Air Force.

In one battle put 7 four more fighters. In modern warfare, it can be regarded as a fight in the air.

With the exception of the "Knife BY1 point", which is deployed at strategic air bases in the rear, tactical fighters take off before the point. The first tactical fighters will arrive on time at the old point to attack several important targets near Siliguri with standoff munitions, followed by a large group of aircraft, with a variety of weapons

Book price "ammunition for volley bombing. Although the Air Force's fighter jets are not missiles, there is no problem that they cannot be recalled after takeoff. But Pei Chengyi could only give the order to cancel the combat operation before the old point, otherwise it would be too late to recall the fighters. More critically, the combat units of the army act with the air force!

As early as the beginning of the day, the first group of Gandasangqiao planes carrying airborne troops left the air base in the southwest.

Because the flight of transport aircraft is slower. So the transport fleet will arrive in Siliguri in about 2 hours. According to the operational calculations, at this time, the preliminary strike operation has ended, and the transport aircraft group will drop the airborne troops on the airborne field opened up by the Air Force. As long as the Airborne Forces land. The ground battle began.

In other words, Pei Chengyi can stop before the old point at the latest.

Of course, after the order was given by the meta, the problem no longer existed.

At the point of point, Pei Chengyi gave the order to attack.

Very timely, so to speak.

Because the batch of fighters has not yet reached the theater of operations. Therefore, the long-range artillery deployed in the Shannan area first entered the battle.

In the concentrated artillery bombardment, which lasted for the last minute, a total of artillery brigades attached to individual armies, as well as four artillery brigades under the direct command of Army Group East, took part in the battle. Listening to the artillery brigade, there were a total of knife artillery battalions, that is, there were beaters who Qumen electric end artillery participated in the shelling operation. Because of the short shelling, the artillery involved in the battle opened fire at the same rate as per minute, and within a few minutes, nearly 10,000 Tianqi heavy artillery shells were dropped on the Siliguri area. The amount of ammunition thrown in the minute exceeded that of the Koukoutun. The powerful striking capabilities of the artillery are jaw-dropping. You know, if the Air Force is to carry out a strike operation with the same amount of throwing, it needs to dispatch 4 Si Hao Yi Xu, or a strong fight. Obviously, even if all the fighters of the Republic Air Force were on the battlefield, they would not be able to drop so many ammunition in a single strike.

This shelling will also go down in history.

Although the electromagnetic cannon appeared on the stage of war as early as the Korean Peninsula War, and shone in the strategic strike operations of the later part of the Japanese War. But before that, the electromagnetic cannon had not participated in such a large-scale tactical artillery operation. At the same time, use the thug Asahi multiple electromagnetic cannons, regardless of the scale. Or from the point of view of the strike effect, it can be regarded as the pinnacle in the history of artillery. If calculated according to the amount of ammunition thrown per unit time. This shelling, in which ammunition was thrown at an average rate per minute, was absolutely unprecedented in the history of warfare. Judging from the effect of the strike, the power of this round of shelling was in no way inferior to the atomic bomb dropped by the US military on Hiroshima in World War II. Red tons, the total explosion power is equivalent to. ton

It has to be said that the artillery once again robbed the Air Force of the job.

At the old point, that is, about a minute after the end of the shelling, the first small fighters arrived in the airspace of the attack.

After waiting for a full 3 minutes, the pilots did not receive the order to attack.

It is not that there is a problem with the command system, but that the new generation of early warning aircraft in charge of command and coordination tasks has integrated most of the functions of the previous air command aircraft, and the Air Force has not purchased air command aircraft separately and has not been able to find the planned attack target.

This is also not surprising, since several important targets near Siliguri, namely air defense facilities that pose a threat to tactical fighters, are important targets for artillery strikes. For example, when attacking an air defense position in the northeast of Siliguri, the Jinduo electric contact guns of the Tiga Artillery Brigade assigned to the task threw a total of thousands of shells and completely destroyed the air defense position covering an area of less than 20,000 square meters with hundreds of tons of ammunition.

In order to avoid returning home with bombs, the group of small thugs switched to other tasks.

When the group flew over Siliguri, the pilots saw the surface of the moon

On the ground, there are large and small craters everywhere. It's as dense as a hornet's nest. One can imagine how fierce the previous shelling was.

The other two squadrons that arrived later said that the small pin and the small crash group were not so lucky, because the fighters were carrying short-range ammunition for volley bombing.

The bombing target could not be found, and the pilot could only carry out the "battlefield support mission." ”

That is, all fighters hover over the battlefield, looking for any target worthy of dropping bombs, returning home after running out of ammunition. Because the shelling was so intensive, all exposed vehicle-type targets were not spared. So many pilots had to drop bombs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Indian infantry who were taking refuge in all directions.

Later, even Pei Chengyi had to sigh that the Republic Air Force could fight like the US Army.

You know, in the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military often attacked tents worth tens of dollars with million-dollar Tomahawk cruise missiles.

From a certain point of view, this can be regarded as the progress of the republic's strength.

The belated arrival of the fleet is even more unfortunate. After the tactical fighters dropped ammunition on the scattered Indian infantry, the bombers could only drop dozens of tons of mounted unguided bombs on the already empty Indian positions. Returning the bombers with bombs is not a matter of calculation, because the group needs to carry out the next round of bombing missions as soon as possible after returning to base. If the bomber returned with bombs, ground crews would have to spend a lot of time unloading the bombs in the bomb bay. It not only delays the time for the next sortie, but also increases the workload of ground crews.

Unguided bombs are not expensive anyway. No matter how much the Air Force uses, it will not feel distressed, it is better to throw it into the positions of the Indian army.

The war has reached this point, and the Air Force has a more or less helpless feeling

After the war, as the army set out to develop electric bumper coil electromagnetic guns with better performance and longer range, the Air Force had to ask the General Staff to strictly distinguish the strike range of aviation and artillery, so as to avoid repeatedly consuming strike force and wasting expensive ammunition in the same battle.

No matter what the process was, by the time the small thugs arrived at the group, there were not many Indian troops still active on the battlefield.

The airborne operation went very smoothly, and even Colonel Li Dongshi, who had just been promoted to the commander of the airborne thug trade brigade, was a little incredulous.

All 4 ground combat battalions were airborne within minutes. The two engineering battalion fighters were looking forward to arriving left and right, and landed smoothly at the airborne field.

After deploying the battalion headquarters, Li Dongshi began to deploy the defensive line.

The mission of the Airborne Combat Brigade is not to attack Siliguri, which is defended by the Indian Army, nor to occupy other Indian military camps and military bases, but to hold the airborne field so that the engineering troops have enough time to establish a front-line field airfield.

For the officers and men of the Airborne Thugs Trade Brigade, such a task is easier than a holiday tour.

Of course, Li Dongshi did not forget to let the transport plane send the brigade's artillery battalion and logistics battalion over as soon as possible. Although the brigade artillery battalion is armed with large-caliber mortars, not powerful electromagnetic guns. But in positional defensive warfare, large-caliber mortars are not necessarily less powerful than electromagnetic guns. More importantly, Li Dongshi participated in all the combat operations of the Airborne Thug Trade Brigade, and he will never forget the tragic battles before him, nor will he forget the artillery unit under his direct command.

The transport fleet can transport most of the troops of the old 3rd Airborne Brigade in one batch, not because of the large number of the old brigade, nor because of the combat strength of a platoon of fighters. Ganjiu fully took into account the airborne combat when designing, the cabin is more spacious, the capacity is too pregnant, and at the same time of transporting pellets and airborne combat vehicles and 2 airborne squads, it can also airlift 2 old tonnage pallets, or airborne tasks that can only be completed, thus greatly improving the efficiency of airlifting.

The key to improving the efficiency of air freight is not airborne. Then there is the landing.

To do this, the engineering units that arrived first had to lay the runway before the transport fleet arrived again.

2 engineering battalions, without any equipment, simply could not have done such a difficult job

There is no problem that cannot be solved, and the best is yet to come.

After taking control of the airborne field and deploying the defensive line. Li Dongshi gave a signal.

At this time, "the group of aircraft is on its way to the airborne landing site." These low-rise transport planes, which were part of the 1st Zhanmian Air Transport Brigade, were not carrying combat units. Rather, it was the equipment used to build field airfields.

At the time of the improvement, the Army Aviation made it clear that the new VTOL transport aircraft must be able to carry airborne combat vehicles with the side armor removed and the remote control turret on the top, but its airlift capacity is still substantially improved compared to the 2 Marshes, especially suitable for transporting equipment of huge size. There were no problems with the delivery of engineering equipment for the construction of the field airfield, as well as the prefabricated parts for the laying of the temporary runway. The combat weight of the airborne combat vehicle is more than a ton, because the mass of many large equipment that can fill the engine room is less than a concave tonnage, and the two zhang of Sooda can transport about concave stew materials to the front line in one batch. Set up a place that includes a trade brigade to provide some additional assistance.

Occupy the point of "2 aircraft group arrived at the airborne landing field.

Li Dongshi didn't want ammunition, because the transport plane dropped a lot of ammunition.

What he wanted was several sets of logistical support equipment that could not be airdropped, such as a set of field cooking equipment that could provide three famous officers and men with delicious meals within a day, a field bath that could bathe such officers and soldiers at the same time, a field cinema that could accommodate famous officers and soldiers, and a set of field doctors who could simultaneously rescue the seriously wounded and contain the lightly wounded.

Only by keeping the officers and men vigorous in their energies can we fight a good war.

Li Dongshi, who climbed up from the grassroots level, is very aware of the significance of logistical support to combat effectiveness. More importantly, Li Dongshi knew very well that the strong brigade of airborne fighters at this time was no longer the airborne stuffy brigade during the Wulao Blockade War. Several batches of officers and men have been replaced, and now the cultural quality of the soldiers has been greatly improved, but the spirit of enduring hardships and standing hard work is much worse than before. Although the excellent tradition of the airborne trade brigade can become the spiritual pillar of the fighters in an extreme environment, under the conditions of the situation, not many officers and soldiers are willing to hide in the tunnels to resist the enemy who is to the teeth like Li Dongshi did back then.

Is this progress or regression?

Li Dongshi couldn't figure it out, he just didn't want the mood of the officers and men to be affected, because no one could say when the airborne thug brigade would be able to complete its combat mission.

According to the plan, the transport fleet will arrive again around the lead point.

That is, in the next few hours. The officers and men of the 2 engineering battalions must set a new war record!