Chapter 106 Marine Corps Warm Up

The result of the Battle of New Delhi was more or less unexpected.

Although the capture of New Delhi was very smooth, it had to face greater trouble after the occupation.

New Delhi is the second most populous city in India, second only to Mumbai, and the largest and most populous city in the northwest region of India. According to data released by India before the war, New Delhi has a population of more than 18 million, while the population in Greater New Delhi has exceeded 60 million.

What is this concept?

The urban area of ​​New Delhi is only a few hundred square kilometers, and the Greater New Delhi area is only a few thousand square kilometers. More than 60 million people are crowded in such a large place. It is completely imagined how harsh the living environment is. At that time, of the 18 million residents in New Delhi, six million lived in slums, and about three million wanderers and beggars. Each citizen received less than three liters of clean drinking water every day.

It can be said that occupying New Delhi is much more difficult than attacking New Delhi.

Affected by this, the 13th Army stopped the attack on the 26th. When the 27th Army was unable to catch up in time, it had to be responsible for public security.

At this time, logistical support problems emerged.

Because there are only three railways between India and Pakistan, one of which passes through Kashmir and has very limited transportation capacity, and the other is in the southern region, mainly providing logistics support for the Pakistani army. Therefore, even if the railway line is opened, the materials that can be transported into India in time are very limited, and the speed of supply cannot keep up with the consumption speed.

More importantly, when the Indian government left New Delhi, it took away almost all the stock of food.

Those who were not taken away were burned by the Indian army.

Not to mention anything else, feeding 60 million people is a big problem.

These people consumed at least 60,000 tons of grain, 150,000 tons of drinking water, and about 50,000 tons of other necessary supplies every day. In other words, only meeting the living needs of 60 million people, they had to transport 260,000 tons of various types of daily necessities to New Delhi every day, which was eight million tons per month. According to the situation at that time, the Chinese and Pakistani troops transported up to five million tons of supplies to New Delhi within one month.

Qi Kaiwei had to temporarily stop the attack and set out to solve the problem of material transportation.

If only 60 million people are guaranteed to live, the problem is not very big. After all, the Chinese Air Force has a sufficiently powerful transport aircraft fleet and the Army also has enough inclined rotary wing transport aircraft. As long as the airport in New Delhi resumes operation, the material transportation problem can be solved.

However, this is by no means a long-term solution.

You should know that the settlement of civilians has occupied most of the transportation resources, and the troops cannot continue to attack, and the cost of air transport is also very high. If you use large transport aircraft to transport food, the value of fuel consumed by a round trip will exceed the value of transporting food.

To solve this problem, you have to open up the railway transportation line.

A train with fifty standard trains can transport 5,000 tons of grain in one trip, while a monorail line can send at least 300 trains a month, and a doublerail line can send thousands of trains a month. In other words, as long as a railway line can be opened, the material transportation problem can be solved.

However, this requires a prerequisite, that is, the railway must lead to a certain port.

Only by connecting the railway line with the sea route can the materials sent from China be continuously delivered to the occupied areas.

More importantly, this must be a port of India.

The reason is very simple. Pakistan's Karachi Port is already full of ships and its throughput capacity has reached its limit.

At that time, the closest to New Delhi and the easiest one to succeed was Baonagar on the left bank of Kenpad Bay. The problem was that by March 26, the Pakistani army was hundreds of kilometers away from Baonagar, and did not go south, and still fought against the Indian army in the north.

The question before Qi Kaiwei was: Is it necessary to dispatch a ground force to attack Bao Nagar?

Obviously, attacking directly from the ground is the stupidest choice.

On March 27, Qi Kaiwei and Mu Haoyang had a phone call, and mentioned that the Marines landed in Kenpad Bay, captured Baonagal, and then went north to meet with the Pakistani army. The 13th Army headed south from New Delhi, captured Jaipur, and then met with the Pakistani army of Ajmer.

Only in this way can this strategic railway line be opened as quickly as possible.

At that time, Qi Kaiwei also mentioned another plan, namely, sending additional army troops down the Ganges, capturing Kanpur and Lucknow, and opening up the transportation line to Nepal.

However, this proposal is meaningless at all, or it is used to bargain with Mu Haoyang.

You should know that Nepal and India had not yet connected to railways, so even if the highway was opened, the logistics support problem could not be solved at a high level. The most important thing is that the additional dispatch of army combat troops would only further increase the burden of support, but would not have the effect of reducing the burden.

Obviously, Mu Haoyang has no better choice either.

On the same day, he spoke with Pang Yuelong on the phone, asking Pang Yuelong to send a landing fleet and a landing division to land in Kenpad Bay with Gwadar Port as a base.

In the evening, the landing fleet that had arrived in the Andaman Sea set off.

At that time, there were two land divisions in the landing fleet, one main land division and the other standing land division.

According to Pang Yuelong's arrangement, these two divisions will be the main force for landing in India. Although he is reluctant to fight a landing battle in Kenpad Bay, after all, this is different from the plan, but the second landing fleet will not arrive until after April 10, and he only has this landing fleet in his hand.

Of course, it is also a good choice to warm up the Marines in Kenpad Bay.

You should know that in the war ten years ago, the Marines' performance was not excellent, and they suffered too many casualties, and they had never fought a large-scale war in the past ten years. No matter how confident Pang Yuelong was, he had enough reasons to let the Marines get familiar with the battlefield situation before setting foot onto the key battlefield.

That night, the Yangtze River aircraft carrier, which repaired the power system, also embarked on a voyage back to China accompanied by two destroyers and four frigates. Because the nuclear reactor was not damaged, the Yangtze River only needed to repair the steam turbine and replace several generators. Before setting off, the engineers conducted the last inspection of the aircraft carrier. According to the navy's arrangement, the Yangtze River will leave the Arabian Sea under the escort of the task force, meet with the South China Sea fleet at the Galle Port in Sri Lanka, and then follow the fleet to return to Guangzhou.

At that time, there were two different opinions within the Navy on whether it was necessary to repair the "Yangtze River".

Some people believe that there is no need to repair the Yangtze River, because due to the basic design restrictions, the Yangtze River cannot carry the fifth-generation fighter jet and will not play a key role in future wars. If improvements are made, in addition to occupying the shipboard cycle, it will also cost a large budget. In terms of repair costs alone, it is equivalent to building a "Kunlun Mountain" class.

Of course, some people believe that the "Yangtze River" should be repaired and necessary improvements should be made.

In the end, Mu Haoyang adopted the latter, namely, repairing the Yangtze River and installing two 120-meter-long electromagnetic catapults for it. However, after the restoration, the Yangtze River will be converted into a reserve service and will no longer be incorporated into the combat fleet, and will mainly be used to train pilots and fleet officers and soldiers in the rear.

You should know that after the retirement of the "Huangdi" the Chinese Navy no longer trained aircraft carriers.

Although major fleets have undertaken the task of training pilots in daily use and have achieved good results, the efficiency ratio is very unsatisfactory. Not to mention, after three years of service, the "Kunlunshan" and "Tianshan" conducted the first comprehensive overhaul of the catapult, spending nearly 500 million yuan in maintenance funds. Their design life should be five years, mainly because of too much daily training, resulting in the early scrapping of the catapult. Affected by this, the "Kunlunshan" and "Tianshan" had to dock in the shipyard for half a year. If there is a training aircraft carrier, this problem would not exist. At least there is no need to spend the current aircraft carrier in the shipyard due to equipment failures such as catapults. You should know that with the cost of the "Kunlunshan" class aircraft carrier, docking in the shipyard for half a year would be equivalent to wasting hundreds of millions of yuan.

For the Chinese Navy, the "Yangtze River" can still exert its residual heat.

In the next two days, the Marine Corps and the Army were dispatching troops, and Qi Kaiwei also discussed new combat deployments with the Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army.

At this time, the characteristics and advantages of the Marine Corps emerged.

Although the landing fleet is nominally affiliated with the navy, in actual use, the landing fleet is organized into the Marines' combat system. According to the Marines' organization, a landing fleet is an independent combat unit that can carry out landing operations alone and can provide all-round combat support to the landing troops. For example, the rapid transport ships in the landing fleet carry enough ammunition and drug resources for two Marine divisions to fight for one week. That is to say, when carrying out landing operations, the Marines do not need additional logistical support.

The only thing needed is the air support and artillery support provided by the Navy.

It can be seen from this that the Marine Corps' independent combat capability far exceeds that of the Army and its combat effectiveness is more comprehensive.

That is to say, the Marines can get ashore anywhere without much preparation.

On March 30, the task force returned to the Arabian Sea and began to prepare for the preliminary firepower for the Marines to land on Kenpad Bay.

That night, the landing fleet arrived south of Kenpad Bay.

Although it is not a secret that the Chinese Marines landed in Kenpad Bay, the Indian army was also silent because the Pakistani army had already advanced south on the 28th, and the vanguard troops had arrived outside Ahmedabad and captured Gandhinagar on the night of the 29th. In this way, if the Indian army defended Kenpad Bay, it was very likely to be surrounded by the Pakistani army and annihilated by the Pakistani army before the Chinese Marines landed. For the Indian army, the only option was to give up Kenpad Bay, retreat the main force to the opposite shore of Baonagal, and prevent the Chinese and Pakistani army from moving south from the coastline on the west side of the Indian Peninsula. You must know that if this line of defense cannot be defended, Mumbai will be attacked. After losing New Delhi and then losing Mumbai, the morale of the Indian military and civilians will definitely suffer a heavy blow, and it is possible to be defeated quickly.

The Indian army's voluntary retreat to Mumbai was equivalent to clearing the landing obstacles for the Marines.

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