Chapter 75 Ground Combat
At 4 a.m. on the moustache, code name, fire point god thug... The Indian army's Western Front is reversed by Yushang
From the beginning, the Indian army's counterattack exposed the problem of insufficient preparation or unsubsidy. Before the armored forces began to advance, the Indian artillery prepared artillery fire in accordance with standard procedures, focusing on artillery defense positions and frontier artillery positions, trying to use sudden artillery fire to destroy the Pakistani army's will and main counterattack forces, and take the initiative after the battle begins.
The actual situation is that the Indian army's artillery fire preparation time is long, the intensity is low, and there is no suddenness.
Although the Pakistani army rushed to fight and was not fully prepared for defense, at 2 o'clock in Islamabad time, the Pakistani army received a direct warning from the Republic's Front Command and immediately issued a combat readiness order. The front-line defense forces watched at 3 o'clock, which means that the Indian army entered the defensive state about minutes before the Indian army launched an attack. Some defense forces also entered the defensive position before the Indian army attacked. The most important thing is that Lahore is a military center in Pakistan.
The value is above Islamabad and is the area with the highest defense intensity in Pakistan. After decades of construction, Lahore's defense facilities are very complete, not only have three-layer defense circles inside and outside, but also have an underground defense system. According to the evaluation given by the Republic's military adviser, unless the attacking party obtains the defensive deployment map of Lahore and uses drilling ammunition on a large scale in combat, any army will have to pay a heavy price on the defensive positions in Lahore.
The intensive artillery preparation is not that it has no effect, but that its strength must reach a certain level before it can be effective. After the Fourth India-Pakistan War, that is, after Pakistan and the Republic signed a comprehensive cooperation treaty, the Republic sent military advisers to conduct a comprehensive assessment of Pakistan's defense infrastructure and focused on Lahore. Then the Pakistani army adjusted the defense system in Lahore according to the suggestions put forward by the Republic's military advisers. According to the defense method designed by the Republic's military advisers, if the Indian army wants to break through the outer defense of Lahore.
The deployment density of frontal artillery must reach more than 0 gates per kilometer, and ammunition can be dropped at a speed of 6 rounds per minute to form a suppression effect on the Pakistani army on the defensive position. The actual situation is that the deployment density of the Indian army when preparing for artillery fire is only the prison gate per kilometer, and the amount of ammunition thrown per unit width per minute is less than one-fifth of the minimum ammunition throw required. Such a strong artillery preparation cannot pose a threat to the Pakistani army on the defensive position, and it is even more impossible to form a cover strike effect.
Strictly speaking, the Indian army's artillery preparation time is not long. In the relatively common peninsula war, the artillery preparation time of the Republic Army exceeded the blade minutes, and sometimes even reached several hours. The key problem is that the main force of the Indian army's artillery is the quiet artillery with relatively short range, rather than electromagnetic guns. In the case of limited range of artillery, the artillery must be deployed forward in order to achieve the purpose of coverage, thereby increasing the risk of counterattack by the opponent. Although the main equipment of the Pakistani artillery is also traditional artillery, the range is basically eliminated.
The low-diameter body-barrier artillery was lowered, and a batch of electromagnetic cannons with a range of more than 1,000 meters were introduced from the Republic. Shortly after the Indian army's artillery was ready to begin, the Pakistani artillery launched an effective fire counterattack. According to the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft sent by the army, the early warning aircraft of the Air Force, and the battlefield information collected by the long-range unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, in the artillery battle without the beating, the Pakistani artillery destroyed at least several Indian artillery positions and destroyed the Indian artillery near the brewing door. The Pakistani army only lost a small number of howitzers deployed near frontier positions and had a range of less than 1,000 meters in the artillery battle.
For the Indian army, the only thing that is thankful is that the Pakistani defense forces do not have much armored power.
The Indian army also had the same problem, because they were investing in the second-line troops and strategic reserves, so the Indian army did not have much armored power.
The artillery fire was about to end, and among the first Indian troops crossing the Indian-Pakistan border, there were only three tank battalions and armored battalions.
On the assault front of the 1,000-meter wide field, only 3 tank battalions and 3 kilograms and armored battalions were unimaginable.
According to the minimum requirements, even if the disadvantages of the Indian army are not taken into account, the tank density of armored assault clusters should reach more than 1000 meters when launching a frontal attack. In fact, the tank density of Indian offensive troops on the frontal battlefield is less than 3 vehicles per kilometer, including infantry fighting vehicles that cooperate with each other. It is less than 6 vehicles per kilometer, and it is impossible to form an effective armored assault cluster, and it is impossible to effectively attack the opponent's defense system in assault operations.
The only thing the Indian army can rely on is a huge number of infantry.
Although Indian infantry is no longer an infantry in the sense of play, it has basically been mechanized. Infantry can board various vehicles and launch attacks along the road with armored clusters. The problem is that the armored forces of the Indian army's second-line troops and strategic reserves are not sufficient. The number of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers used to carry infantry is not large. Most infantry can only take trucks to the front line, and then enter the battle on foot after arriving at the battlefield. There is no question of armor protection and fire support, nor does it have any field assault capabilities, so it becomes difficult to leave the highway.
It seems that I have figured out the essence of the Indian army. When the army launched an artillery counterattack, it did not forget to shoot the transportation infrastructure near the border line. As the Indian army crossed the border line and entered Pakistan, the Pakistani army steadily retreated, blew up all bridges and hidden passages along the way, and tried every possible means to delay the Indian army's advance.
Compared with the previous question, the biggest mistake of the Indian army is to choose the wrong attack time.
At 4 o'clock, the attack will be launched, and at 6 o'clock, the Indian army must arrive in Lahore within 2 hours and will be attacked by the China-Pakistan Air Force and long-range artillery.
Although the city of Lahore is less than a thousand meters away from the India-Pakistan border, and there are basically no natural obstacles, it is almost impossible for the armored troops to hit the blade in a small hour and a kilometer within a minute.
The night is not completely unfavorable to the Indian army.
As the Indian army crossed the border and entered Pakistan, in the uncertain situation of the enemy and us, neither the long-range artillery nor the air force dared to carry out a strike rashly, and it would not be possible to effectively stop the Indian army. In other words, the night color became the "protective color for the Indian army to launch an attack."
The actual situation is not much different.
After learning that the Indian army launched an attack, the first thing Pei Chengyi did was to let the tactical aviation and army aviation troops who went to Pakistan fight be dispatched before the point of the matter, arrive at the battlefield at around 6 o'clock, and ensure that the Indian army's maneuverable air defense system was destroyed. Under visual circumstances, or with ground guidance, bomb the Indian army's ground forces, focusing on the mechanized forces of the Indian army. Then, Pei Chengyi asked Yuan Chenhao to redeploy the cable-guided artillery brigade left in Vozilabad, allowing him to conduct a severing artillery bombardment on the Indian army during the tactical bombing of the Air Force.
In the past, it was definitely the Yan army, not the artillery, who carried out the mission of interrupting strikes.
As the artillery strength grows, especially after having electromagnetic cannons with a long enough range, artillery replaced tactical aviation and became the most effective tactical interruption force. In the situation of the enemy and us is unknown, especially when the enemy's tactical maneuverable air defense force is not completely destroyed, the front line commander will definitely first use artillery to conduct a blocking strike, and then use tactical aviation to conduct a full bombing.
At some point, frontline commanders will even use artillery and aviation, allowing the aviation to perform tasks with smaller risk factors and leave tasks with larger risk factors to long-range artillery. If you encounter continuous strike tasks, artillery will take the initiative to replace aviation. In short, after the range is substantially improved, the boundary between artillery and aviation as support forces is becoming increasingly blurred. Frontline commanders have gained greater room for tactical adjustment, and artillery and aviation can be used according to actual conditions.
2 hours are not long and it passes very quickly.
In the face of the Pakistani army's tactic of "strengthening the walls and clearing the fields", the Indian army's advancement speed was very slow. Look at the thugs, the attack speed of the infantry was basically the infantry's attack speed.
Because the sky was about to brighten, the Indian army stopped attacking at this time.
Faced with the upcoming strike, it is not very meaningful for the Indian army to stop moving forward.
At this moment, Pei Chengyi once again adjusted the combat operations of the aviation force. In the name of the Pakistan Air Force taking on the main strike mission, he allowed most combat aircraft that were supposed to perform battlefield support tasks to perform air defense and suppression tasks, and issued the list of bombing targets that had been drafted to each combat force.
Pei Chengyi suddenly adjusted his combat piecework at this time, and his purpose was extraordinary.
According to the "Memoirs of War" written by Yuan Chenhao decades later, General Pei Chengyi did not temporarily adjust the combat plan, but had made relevant preparations long ago. Judging from Pei Chengyi's overall deployment, the Indian army could not easily take down Lahore, nor could the Indian army think that it could not be defeated. In other words, the main force of the Indian army must be restrained near Lahore and given a glimmer of hope in the Indian army, so that the Indian army can invest more combat forces and expand its progress.
Attack the front. Pei Chengyi's purpose is not to defeat Pakistan's richest province, but to use this to restrain the main force of the Indian army on the Western Front battlefield, create opportunities for the Jin army to attack Srinagar, and also create opportunities for large-scale annihilation wars on the Eastern Front battlefield. From a long-term perspective, giving up a certain amount of strategic space in the direction of Lahore will also have great benefits for launching a full-scale attack on the Western Front battlefield in the future and attacking the northwest India region centered on New Delhi.
It is precisely because Pei Chengyi refused to invest all his strength as soon as possible.
Of course, with the help of the Indian army to launch an attack, field air defense forces will definitely accompany the opportunity for the offensive troops to advance, focusing on attacking the Indian army's air defense forces, expanding the scale of bombing behind and reducing the risk of bombing.
In this way, at dawn, at least the combat aircraft of the Republic Air Force did not participate in the bombing operation in the direction of Lahore. In addition to the rough thugs who stayed by Pei Chengyi, the only ones participating in the strike operation were the Long-range Artillery Brigade. The net had just arrived at Gojla's Long-range Artillery Brigade and the three Artillery Brigades of the Pakistan Army.
It seemed that they were determined to make their opponents believe that the Indian army would drive straight into the Punjab Province. Shortly after dawn, shortly after the first round of bombing began, the Indian Air Force dispatched about two brigades of Mama four fighter jets, and arrived at the battlefield with the support of large early warning aircraft, preparing to seize air supremacy.
Because these fighter jets were deployed in southern India, and the Republic's strategic reconnaissance forces focused on surveillance in northern India, they failed to detect the Indian Air Force's actions in time. When Pei Chengyi received the news, the last batch of fighter jets had not completed the bombing mission, saying that the Xiaokang fighter jets were carrying interceptor missiles and fighting missiles, which were not completely at a disadvantage in the old year.
Before reporting the situation to Pei Chengyi, Yuan Chenhao issued an "order to the air defense fighter brigade stationed at the Rawalpindi Air Force Base in accordance with the combat plan and took off urgently. He said that the small crash group "group directly rushed to the Indian early warning aircraft hiding behind the Ma Fourth Air Force. Regardless of the purpose of the battle, eliminating the combat power of the Indian Air Force is the primary task.
At 6 o'clock, the little thug Ji Ji Group arrived over Lahore, and the air battle situation suddenly changed.
Although Shi Si can easily "ravaged" small, but he has no temper in front of the "professional air-controlling player". The battle in July has proved that half-baked air-controlling fighters like Ma Si are not the opponents of heavy air-controlling fighters at all.
Surprisingly, the Shi Si Machine Group did not turn to flee.
Afterwards, according to the captive Indian pilot's explanation, he was said to be a trotter group.
At 7 o'clock, the air battle ended as the Indian army's early warning plane was shot down by a small thug.
This situation is enough to prove that when the thug introduced by the Indian Air Force from the United States, the low-detection frequency of the thug is low, the detection distance of large high-altitude targets exceeds the rainbow kilometer, the detection distance of the thug to kilometer is only a detection distance of thugs to thugs, making it impossible for it to perform the basic tasks of the early warning aircraft.
There is no suspense in air combat, but new situations have emerged on the ground combat.
Affected by the "sudden attack" of the Indian Air Force, the Jianheguo Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force were unable to carry out a second round of bombing on the Indian army that broke into Pakistan according to the plan.
Although Pei Chengyi adjusted the artillery strike operation as quickly as possible, allowing the Dijiu Long-range Artillery Brigade to fully enter the battle, and only three artillery battalions participated in the battle, and the Indian army entrenched in the east of Lahore at the greatest intensity, the Indian army's vanguard ignored the possible bombing and artillery attacks and broke through the first line of defense of the Pakistani army at the fastest speed.
The problem is here. The Pakistani army did not follow the plan and defended the first line of defense outside Lahore.
To be precise, the problem is not Pei Chengyi's side, but the Pakistani General Staff.
It was discovered that the Indian army had only advanced a few thousand meters and suddenly stopped advancing before dawn, the General Staff of the Pakistani Army did not organize defense on the first line of defense outside Lahore according to the combat strategy agreed with Pei Chengyi, but instead placed the withdrawn defensive troops on the offensive position behind the defense line. He was ready to launch a counterattack on the Indian army after the firepower strike and drive the Indian army out of Pakistan!
It can be said that the Ba Jun has a lot of ideas, but this idea came from the wrong time.
Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the Indian army, there were more than one Indian army that was involved in the battle at that time, and there was also a reserve team that occupied one division. Although the combat effectiveness of the Pakistani army was not bad, it was supported by the Republican army. It can be said that it was stable and safe, but when the forces of the warring sides had not yet been launched and the counterattack preparations were not in place, a rash counterattack would definitely not be able to achieve the expected results.
From another perspective, the Ba Jun’s luck was not very good.
If the Indian Air Force does not launch a sudden attack, even if the Pakistani counterattack cannot achieve the expected results, it will not lose the first line of defense outside Lahore.
As the first line of defense of the Pakistani army collapsed, the offensive troops deployed behind the line of defense immediately became in chaos.
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When the General Staff of the Pakistani Army did not understand what was going on, some offensive troops launched an assault in advance, while some offensive troops retreated behind the second line of defense. Kenuo. The Pakistani army lost unified command at this time, making it even more impossible to achieve the purpose of the offensive.
Using perfect tactical reconnaissance methods, Pei Chengyi promptly grasped battlefield information.
With a clever separation of the reef, Pei Chengyi contacted the General Staff of the Pakistani Army and asked the Pakistani army to immediately strengthen the second line of defense, and then adjust the combat plan again, allowing the attack from the north of Lahore to the southeast, block the attack of the Indian vanguard, and buy time for the Pakistani army to reorganize defense.
Fortunately, the army was ready to go. What they were waiting for was the order from the front line command.
At 7 o'clock, the first thug led the armored assault brigade immediately left the offensive position and launched an attack on the right wing of the Indian army at the fastest speed.
At this time, the General Staff of the Pakistani Army also discovered the problem. He immediately adjusted the defensive forces and required the troops on the second line of defense to defend the defense line at all costs. He must not let the Indian army go further.
The problem is that it is difficult for the front line troops of the bar army to strictly implement the orders of the General Staff Department when the canine teeth are intertwined.
More importantly, the Armored Assault Brigade of the First Invader needs to bypass Lahore. Even if it advances at the fastest speed, it can only encounter the Indian army before the verbal point.
In the chaos of the battlefield, is the Pakistani army capable of defending the second line of defense outside Lahore?
Chapter completed!