However, during his time in Kistan, Pei Chengyi developed the habit of watching TV news posts, but after he became the commander-in-chief of the front line, Pei Chengyi no longer had time to calm down and watch the news program of thousands of hours.

Back at Wozilabad, Pei Chengyi first adjusted the construction tasks of the engineering troops.

Establishing a front-line air base can be said to be the top priority. When attacking Surat, the problem of weak air force support was exposed. Although the combat radius of most tactical fighters is over 1,000 meters, under the maximum combat radius, tactical fighters can only carry pitiful ammunition, and their residence time over the battlefield is also calculated in minutes. Generally, only when performing long-range key strike tasks and battlefield closure tasks, are considered to attack with the maximum combat radius. If the battlefield support tasks are performed, especially support tasks that assist ground troops in launching attacks, the combat radius of tactical fighters will be strictly limited. Generally, two-thirds of the maximum combat radius is allowed to allow fighters to carry more ammunition or obtain more battlefield patrol time.

In other words, the combat radius of tactical fighter jets is best controlled within kilometers.

According to the early combat situation, because ground forces rely heavily on air support and often require air support forces to accompany the action, the combat radius of tactical fighter jets should be controlled within kilometers. Only in this way can tactical fighter jets stay at least more thugs on the battlefield while carrying blunt ammunition, but the problem of combat radius also exists, or even more serious. The combat radius represented by the low-altitude attack aircraft is not as good as the tactical aviation force represented by the small thug. When the land aviation is carrying out battlefield support missions, it is affected by combat.

The influence of airspace and basic tactics is much more air stagnant than tactical fighters. According to the statistics of previous combat operations, the average air stagnant time when performing anti-armor missions is as long as 10,000 times that of tactical fighters. The average air stagnant time when performing auxiliary offensive support missions is Nu minutes, which is also Shaofen of tactical fighters. The average air stagnant time for performing large-scale bombing missions is blinking minutes, which is twice that of tactical fighters. In other words, the low-altitude attack aircraft of the mainland aviation must be deployed more forward. This disadvantage basically offsets the advantages of the mainland aviation dependence on bases.

Needless to say, the importance of air support is, no matter how powerful the artillery is, ground forces cannot do without air support.

Of course, air support is not just fire support.

In early combat operations, air transport support even exceeded fire support.

To sum up after the war, Pei Chengyi said: Without strong airlift power, the Republic's Army would not be able to defeat India with an "blitzkrieg" beyond imagination. It would not be possible to occupy the entire India within a month; what determines the attack speed of the ground troops is not the speed of the armored troops or the extension of the support firepower, but the maximum support force that the airlift power can bear; only when the airlift power is strong enough can the ground troops launch a large-scale strategic assault without worrying about logistics support; if there is no strong airlift power, the Republic's Army can only fight a peninsula-style ground war, and it would be very amazing to be able to end the war in a thug or even fall.

It can be said that the last sentence reflects the importance of airlift power very intuitively.

Peninsula War. The Republic took more than half a year. India's area is dozens of times that of the Korean Peninsula. If the peninsula war is attacked according to the peninsula war, the Republic will definitely fail. It is precisely because before the war broke out, almost no one believed that the Republic's Army could win in India. Similarly, before the war broke out, the Republic spared no effort to establish the world's largest support aviation and army aviation; when the "lightweight" was not fully completed, the Republic's Army took the lead in proposing the development strategy of "airlifting.

Although the Indian War has not ended yet, "empty vehicles" have become the weather vane for the future army.

In the words of Western military experts: The Indian War is a war to test the airification of the army, and it is also this long war that proves the feasibility and power of the airification of the army. If you want to win future wars, you must have an airized army; the Republic's Army is once again at the forefront of the world.

Of course, in the history of Army development, there is no strict distinction between "lightweight" and "air"

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According to a relatively common view, "lightweight" is the first stage of "airlifting". The army aviation force represented by vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft is the second stage of "airlifting". The third stage of "airlifting" is to distinguish airlifting forces according to strategy and tactics, and the army has obtained independent airlifting capabilities.

In any case, when considering air support, Pei Chengyi must consider the reasonable allocation and utilization of air transport forces.

Among strategic transport aircraft, tactical transport aircraft and vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, the first thing to consider is vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft and tactical transport aircraft. Because the range of strategic transport aircraft is large enough and often undertakes the task of transporting combat materials, it is not greatly affected by the region. Even if it is deployed on the mainland of the Republic, it can participate in combat operations. The problem of tactical transport aircraft is a little troublesome. Although the adaptability of tactical transport aircraft is far greater than that of strategic transport aircraft, it can even take-off and land on a sandy runway of less than meter in length, it is limited by the range and combat missions.

Transporters are often deployed in front, and try to shorten the transportation radius as much as possible. The problem of direct take-off and landing transport aircraft is the most numerous. It is called "sex": "It can be deployed at any location, and even does not require a dedicated base, but it no longer needs to undertake a large amount of material transportation task. The deployment location must be close to the center of the transportation hub, preferably a train station, to reduce the pressure of ground transportation. This requirement greatly limits the deployment scope of the vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, and also brings corresponding troubles. It is important to know that most train stations are located in cities or towns, and there is a lack of the site required for deployment and 1000-machine clusters nearby.

Like the tactical aviation force, the air transport force is deployed in three levels.

After making the request, Pei Chengyi handed over the work to the staff who were responsible for logistics. Although this made people feel that he was a little irresponsible, Pei Chengyi did not have much logistics management experience and basically only knew how to make requirements and did not know how to solve the problem, especially the details. If he was asked to make random arrangements, the result would definitely not be much better. It would be better to let the staff who know how to do logistics work be responsible.

After arranging this matter, Pei Chengyi began to formulate a combat plan.

According to his initial idea, he first concentrated his strength to attack Bala in the sea, and then drove his troops southward, advancing in both east and west directions, and finally occupied the southern part of the Indian Peninsula. According to this plan, large-scale combat operations can only end before the Spring Festival at the fastest time. Of course, the benefits of doing so are very obvious, that is, concentrated efforts to capture Bala in the sea in the early stage of the battle, reduce the combat burden of ground troops, and give more troops sufficient rest opportunities. When advancing south, more ground troops can be invested to speed up the advancement. If the combat time is not considered, this plan is the most feasible and the requirements for each combat force are the lowest.

The problem now is that combat time must be considered.

To end large-scale combat operations within the year, we cannot just make a fuss in one direction.

The actions of Bala who attacked the sea cannot be changed, and the time for attacking south must be advanced.

In this way, the biggest problem is that the support force is dispersed again, and the Air Force, Land Airlines and HNA have to provide support to offensive forces in both directions.

The direct consequence of dispersing support forces is that more ground forces must be invested.

Just like arranging logistics support work, Pei Chengyi handed over the details to Yuan Chenhao.

In the early combat operations, Yuan Chenhao's performance was very eye-catching, and his ability to handle detailed affairs was the most commendable. At some point, Pei Chengyi couldn't help but sigh. If the person who chose not Yuan Chenhao, but an officer similar to him, he would probably have to be responsible for many things himself.

According to Yuan Chenhao's calculation results, if the support force in the direction of Haidebala weakens, he will have to invest more in the thugs and a brigade.

Among the three field armies, there must be Jingjun. According to Pei Chengyi's meaning, the other two field armies are strategic reactive troops. They either lead the army and out of the army, or Mijun and Zhijun. Pei Chengyi tends to choose the latter because the Mijun and Blade Army have combat experience in this direction. It is easier to arrange the air brigade, and no matter which brigade is, there is no big problem.

After determining the troops to attack Haidebala, Pei Chengyi led Yuan Chenhao to disagree in the direction of the main attack on the southward direction.

According to Yuan Chenhao's meaning, since he has invested heavy troops in the direction of Haidebala, the main attack direction should be placed in the Arabian Sea coastal areas, and two heavy armored troops, three strategic responsive troops and at least two air brigades, the heavy armored troops are responsible for sweeping the areas of the coastal plains, the strategic responsive troops are responsible for sweeping the internal mountainous areas, and the air brigades are responsible for advancing assault tasks. In this way, only a fraud of supporting forces can be used to make a breakthrough in this direction and reach Trivandrum as fast as possible. According to Yuan Chenhao's estimate, the fastest way can be occupied Trivandrum as early as early as possible and at mid-Julyu.

It seems that Yuan Chenhao’s suggestion makes sense, but Pei Chengyi does not agree with it.

When analyzing the situation, Pei Chengyi only asked two questions: one was logistics support and the other was the front width of the assault.

The ground troops headed south from Surat and attacked Trivandrum. Along the way, dozens of towns including Mumbai, Hubli, Talwar, Menglor, Kalikat, Kochi, etc., many of which were big cities and strategic locations. Even if one army and two brigades were invested, the advancement speed would not be much faster. What's more serious is that when the troops headed south, only the logistics support troops of the Republic Army were following, the troops of Bangladesh and Nepal would not go south, and the troops of Pakistan were basking in the sun in northwest India. Only after occupying Kochi could they get assistance from the Sri Lankan Army. In other words, on the logistics support line that was long and long, thugs were persuading thousands of meters, they had to rely on themselves.

In response to this problem, Yuan Chenhao believed that it could be solved by occupying the port. After proposing this idea, Yuan Chenhao felt that it was untenable, because every time he occupied a port, it meant that a force would be left to guard the port. Although there was an army plus two brigades when he set out, there would be very few left when he arrived in Trivandrum. If he really wanted to fight according to Yuan Chenhao's method, he would have to dispatch 7 brigades to add brigades. In the case where there were only old troops in total and the three airborne brigades could not participate in the battle at the beginning of the battle, Pei Chengyi had no reason to place more than half of the combat troops in one direction.

If the logistics support is in the diary after the attack, the wide front really blocks the way

Compared with logistics support, the problem of the width of the assault front is more prominent.

The Indian Peninsula is high in the west and low in the east. The western mountains that run across the peninsula from south to north become an invisible barrier, dividing the plains on both sides. Relatively speaking, the eastern plain is more vast and the western plain is very narrow. If you follow Yuan Chenhao's proposal, two heavy armored troops and three strategic reactive troops will be dispatched. With the width of the western coastal plains of the peninsula, let alone two heavy armored troops advance at the same time. Even the thugs and one heavy armored troops cannot tolerate it. It makes the strategic reactive troops sweep the inland mountains even more outrageous. The strategic reactive troops are not mountain troops, and the most suitable mountain combat is the air assault brigade, while Pei Chengyi only has 6 air assault brigades. It cannot be wasted at will. Because the front cannot be opened and the flanks are difficult to obtain, the troops invested in front-line combat are very limited, so no matter how much force is used, it is equivalent to waste.

According to Pei Chengyi's view, the focus must be on the east side.

When attacking the sea, two strategic responsive troops and two air brigades were sent to the south from the coastal plains, advance to Chennai at the fastest speed, and occupy the port of Chennai. At this point, the assault forces operated separately. "The strategic responsive troops and thugs. The strategic responsive troops continued to move south and sweep the southeastern region of the southern end of the Indian Peninsula. The initial campaign was to capture Chennai as the main purpose, and the reason was very simple. According to the secret agreement reached between the Republic and Sri Lanka, after the Republic occupied Chennai, Sri Lanka would send ground troops to assist in the operation, that is, provide logistical support for the Republic's army.

Of course, Pei Chengyi is not the kind of person who likes a war.

The Eastern Front is the main attack direction and give up the Western Front. According to Pei Chengyi's idea, before the Eastern Front assault starts, at least a thug must be sent from Surat to advance southward. The task of the assault is not to attack cities and villages along the way, but to move south at the fastest speed from the coastal plains to strive to reach Mengelol when the Eastern Front forces conquer Chennai and surround Bangalore from the west. Because the action of attacking Bala in the sea will not be too easy, when the two assault forces surrounded Bangalore, the battle in the Bala in the sea may not end, or have just ended.

When describing the idea of ​​the battle, Pei Chengyi mentioned very clearly. If the battle in the direction of Haidebala was not over when surrounding Bangalore, the battle in the direction of Haidebala must be defeated first. If the Indian army does not give any retreat, the capture of Haidebala will become the ending song of the Indian war. If the situation is the opposite, the encirclement of Bangalore should be as fast as possible. Then concentrate troops to sweep the surrounding areas. After adjusting the support force, then attack Bangalore. In other words, the war will either end in Bala in the sea or in Bangalore, thereby avoiding the long-term sweep.

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It can be said that this is the only way to end a large-scale war within the year.

For this purpose, Pei Chengyi had to leave enough reserves. According to his plan, the combat troops invested in the early stages of the battle only had 6 armies and 3 brigades, and those who served as reserves had more troops and 3 kilograms and brigades. Because they only used thugs and heavy armored troops, when attacking Bangalore or other strategic areas, Pei Chengyi had 3 heavy armored troops in his hands, which was enough to ensure the smooth capture of any big city.

From the battle deployment proposed by the two, it can be seen that Pei Chengyi pays more attention to the flexible application of troops, while Yuan Chenhao prefers to fight large-scale battles. In other words, Pei Chengyi prefers to leave enough reserve teams and then decides how to apply the reserve team based on the actual combat situation. Yuan Chenhao likes to defeat the enemy as soon as he comes up and not give his opponent too many opportunities.

There is no distinction between these two different military ideas, but it just depends on how to apply them.

Simply put, if you fight easily, Yuan Chenhao's playing style is more effective. If you don't fight easily, Pei Chengyi's playing style is more ideal.

This can also show the difference between the two.

When Pei Chengyi stepped onto the command post, the Republic's military strength was not as strong as it is now. The East China Sea War, the South China Sea War and the Peninsula War were very difficult, which made him develop the habit of leaving more room when commanding the troops to fight. Yuan Chenhao and Pei Chengyi were younger than the old year. When he took the command post, the Republic's military strength was already strong enough. The Japanese War and the Southern Tibet conflict were easy, which made him develop the Xi of fighting fiercely when commanding the troops to fight.

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Different experiences create Wu Ran’s command style, which is understandable.

After determining the overall battle ideas and the purpose of the battle, Pei Chengyi began to be lazy again and threw the work of formulating tactical plans to Yuan Chenhao. Of course, Yuan Chenhao had no complaints, which was a good opportunity to study. Not to mention hardship and fatigue, other people would not have the opportunity to learn.

In fact, Xi Chengyi was not lazy.

On the 3rd of the Old Month, he left Vozilabad and took several guards to various troops to inspect the situation.

As the front-line command center, Pei Chengyi must know the situation of each unit well. Although he had not visited the troops before, it did not mean that he did not pay attention to the situation at the grassroots level. During the early combat operations, because all units were sent from the country and were in an ideal state, Pei Chengyi did not need to worry too much. The war was mostly fought, and the casualties of each unit were very serious. It was normal for grassroots officers and soldiers to have some ideas. If Pei Chengyi still stayed in the front-line command center, he would definitely not be able to accurately grasp the grassroots situation based on the reports submitted by each unit.

Only by going to the grassroots level can we know what the officers and soldiers are thinking.
Chapter completed!