No one can deny the importance of the timely entry of the Imperial Air Force into the war.

Fundamentally, Pakistan and Van Luo are not heavyweight opponents at all.

Even if it does its best, Pakistan can only maintain a standing military force equivalent to 40% of the Van Luo country, and strategically can only be in a defensive posture.

The most representative is the Second Southern Subcontinental War.

In the early days of this regional war, which almost led to the third global war, the Pakistani Air Force could be said to have taken the lead alone, and after the ground defense line was defeated, it took on the heavy task of counterattacking alone, and won extremely valuable time for the ground forces to regain their strength. However, in the later stage of the war, the Van Luo Air Force only dragged down the Pakistani Railway Air Force through hard attrition, seized the initiative on the battlefield, and completed the strategic purpose of dismembering the Pakistani Railway.

At that time, if it weren't for the collapse of the Pakistani Railway, the Liangxia Empire would inevitably send troops to the war, and the third global war would have broken out.

Through this war, the Pakistani railway authorities realized that when the disparity in the size of the force is too large, improving the quality may not be able to reverse the disadvantage.

It's a pity that Pakistan and Tie can't compete with Van Luo in terms of the scale of troops.

Although the industry of Pakistan is more developed, the total population is only 200 million, while the official population of Van Luo is more than 700 million, and the actual population may be close to 1 billion, even if only 10% of the people participate in social production, the industrial population of Van Luo is much more than that of Pakistan Railway.

The large non-industrial population meant that more troops could be mobilized in wartime.

In addition, the land area of Van Luo is about 4 times that of Pakistan!

The two are not at the same level at all.

It is precisely in this way that after the Second Southern Subcontinent War, Pakistan strengthened its relations with the Liangxia Empire, basing its national security entirely on the alliance with the Liangxia Empire. To put it simply, the standing forces of Pakistan and the railways are only responsible for the strategic defense of the mainland.

When it comes to attacking, even if it is a strategic counterattack, it is highly dependent on the Liangxia Empire.

Nowhere is this characteristic more evident than in the Air Force.

The Pakistani Air Force is equipped with all medium and light combat aircraft, and there is not a single heavy tactical aircraft, even if it has to use naval carrier-based aircraft that are not very handy.

For example, the "Attack-6EP" from the Imperial Navy.

Among the second-generation attack aircraft, the Imperial Air Force did not have light aircraft, the "Attack-7" was a 30-ton heavy attack aircraft, and the "Attack-8" also broke through 50 tons. In the equipment system of the Imperial Army, the only light attack aircraft was the Navy's "Attack-6". In order to persuade Pakistan to purchase this kind of light attack aircraft, and the Air Force really needs light attack aircraft to carry out low-intensity strike missions to replace the "Attack-2" that has been in service for decades, only a small number of "Attack-6E" were purchased. The "Attack-6EP" exported to Pakistan Railway was improved on the basis of the Air Force type.

Compared with the tactical needs of the Pakistani Air Force, the "Attack-6EP" can be regarded as an ideal choice.

The key point is that the Pakistani Air Force mainly undertakes tactical strike missions, and the combat radius of attack aircraft is often within 500 kilometers.

Because it lacks strategic depth and is still mainly based on strategic defense, the Pakistani Air Force does not need those heavy attack aircraft with a combat radius of more than 1,500 kilometers. Even a 20-ton medium attack aircraft with a combat radius of about 1,000 kilometers seems a bit redundant.

In addition, the more expensive large aircraft are also more than Pakistan can afford.

From a strategic point of view, when the Pakistani Railway Army stabilizes the front, whether it can launch a strategic counterattack, and when to launch a strategic counterattack, depends on the Imperial Air Force.

In the Southern Subcontinent, the first task of the Imperial Air Force was to strike a de facto strategic strike against the Van Luo Kingdom.

The reason is also simple, the kingdom of Van Luo is an enemy too large to be eliminated by blitzkrieg!

With a land area of nearly 3 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 1 billion, it can discourage superpowers, including the Liangxia Empire.

If you can't fight in a single battle, you have to think long-term.

It is precisely for this reason that the Empire's overall policy towards the Van Luo Kingdom has always been strategic suppression.

Specifically, it is to deploy enough strategic bombers in the surrounding areas of the Van Luo Kingdom to ensure that after the war, the war foundation of the Van Luo Kingdom can be quickly destroyed.

Over the past few decades, the Empire has been actively building the Diego base.

This is located in the middle of the Fanyan Ocean, originally a colony of the Bran Kingdom, before the end of the last war, the island controlled by the Empire's troops, has the largest and most complete air base in the entire Fanyan Ocean region, and can theoretically deploy hundreds of strategic bombers at most.

During the Polish-Iraqi War, the Imperial Air Force deployed 450 strategic bombers here!

In addition, several large air bases on the mainland of Pakistan are capable of deploying about 500 strategic bombers.

If you count the air bases in the southwest and northwest regions of the empire, 2,000 strategic bombers can theoretically be deployed around the country of Van Luo!

Not to mention the Van Luo Kingdom, even the more powerful Riman Empire may not be able to withstand 2,000 strategic bombers.

Of course, the actual amount of deployment is certainly not that much, and it does not need to be so much.

If long-range cruise missiles are used for precision bombing, then a maximum of 1,000 "H-9s" are needed to completely cross the Van Luo country. If absolute air supremacy can be obtained, and bombers can bomb with bombs, 500 "H-9s" can send the country back to the Stone Age.

In addition, the Imperial Air Force had long drawn up a plan of operations against the Van Luo Kingdom.

In the first round of assault operations, hundreds of strategic bombers will be dispatched and thousands of cruise missiles will be launched to attack thousands of military targets of great strategic value in the territory of Van Luo and strive to paralyze the command system of the Van Luo army in one fell swoop and seize the initiative on the battlefield.

Subsequently, it took 7 to 10 days to completely paralyze the combat system of Van Luo's army.

In half a month at most, it will be able to seize absolute air supremacy, and then carry out strategic bombing in the traditional sense, that is, carry out all-round strikes on non-military targets.

This set of combat plans is difficult to imagine in peacetime, but in times of global war, it is not a difficult task.

Take air-launched cruise missiles, for example, with less than 2,000 units in stockpiles in peacetime. After the outbreak of the global war, 7,500 pieces were produced in September alone, and by the end of the year, the monthly production could be doubled, and the annual production of the 151 plan of the new calendar reached a staggering 300,000 pieces.

The main reason for the production of cruise missiles at such a rapid speed is the use of a guidance system that has just been successfully developed.

The most striking feature of this guidance system, which is based on the "Compass" global navigation system, is that it makes the entire system extremely simple.

Of course, this also means cheaper.

Although the "Compass" system was destroyed after the war, and more than half of the navigation satellites deployed in low orbits were lost, the navigation satellites deployed in medium and high orbits are still working, providing positioning accuracy of 15 meters, which still has great military value.

As for conventional ammunition, it is even more sufficient.

Because of the preparations, on the afternoon of the 4th, the Imperial Air Force was able to dispatch bombers deployed at the Diego base to carry out strategic bombing of the southern part of the Van Luo Kingdom.

In fact, this is also the key to the Nuland Air Force's focus on the southern part of the country.

The defensive deployment of the Fanluo Kingdom, that is, the deployment of air defense, has three key directions, targeting the northwest of Pakistan, facing the northeast of the Liangxia Empire, and the southern region that penetrates deep into the Fanyan Ocean. After a formal alliance with the Nuland Republic, Van Rowe Air Force focused on the first two directions and maintained its offensive momentum in the northwest and defensive in the northeast. The defense of the southern sector was undertaken by the Nuland garrison.

It's just that, because of the existence of the Diego base, the southern region is not a strategic rear.

Although the Nuland Air Force deployed 4 AWACS aircraft and more than 100 fighters in the southern part of Van Roe, it was certainly unable to cope with the strategic strikes of the Imperial Air Force in the context of a global war. What I really want to say is just a little psychological comfort for the people of Van Luoguo.

Theoretically, the most the Nuland garrison can do is provide about 30 minutes of strategic early warning time.

It is obviously unrealistic to expect the fighters of the Nuland Air Force to travel more than 1,000 kilometers to intercept those Imperial bombers carrying cruise missiles.

However, Van Roe attaches great importance to the cover provided by the Nuland Air Force.

To put it simply, almost all of Van Roe's strategic reserves, as well as the main strategic counterattack weapons, were concentrated in the defense zone of the Nuland garrison.

It is precisely for this that the Imperial Air Force also attaches great importance to military objectives in the region.

However, it was not the Imperial Air Force that decided the victory or defeat of the war in the Southern Subcontinent.

As mentioned earlier, the kingdom of Van Luo is too large.

Even if strategic bombing can completely penetrate the Van Luo country, this threat cannot be fundamentally eliminated, and at most it will be temporarily alleviated.

As long as the kingdom of Van Luo exists, the threat will not be eliminated.

The only way to eliminate the threat is for the kingdom of Van Roe, or the Southern Subcontinent to be precise, to return to the state it was before it was colonized by the Kingdom of Bran.

That's right, it was divided into dozens of princely states.

There is no doubt that in order to achieve this goal in a major war, it is necessary to use the army to fight a real ground war.

If anything, this is also the core strategy of the Empire against the Van Luo Kingdom.

The key point is not that the ground forces deployed in the southern subcontinent, that is, the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division, which has been stationed in Pakistan Railway since the Second Southern Subcontinent War, is also not a garrison in the southwest of the country, but reinforcements from other theaters.

To put it more bluntly, if we want to keep this ground war within an acceptable range, we must gain a foothold in Pakistan.

Limit the battlefield to the northwest of the kingdom of Van Luo.

Here, it is not only the capital of the Van Luo country, but also the most densely populated area of the Van Luo country, and the current Van Luo country was born here.

It's just that for the Imperial Army, it was extremely difficult to fight in this direction.

There is only one reason: to the north of the region is the Wuji Plateau, and the Pamew Plateau, which is immediately adjacent to the Wuji Plateau, and further north is the northwest of the empire.

Not to mention that the northwest of the empire itself is sparsely populated, just crossing the Pamew Plateau is a big problem.

During the First Global War, the Empire preferred to invest heavily in the eastern part of the Gangaro Plain, in the Yunwu Valley, rather than open a front on the Pamew Plateau, because the terrain of the Pamai Plateau was too steep to commit to a large army.

Even now, the situation is the same.

Due to the terrain constraints, it was difficult for the Imperial Army to attack the northwest of the Van Luo Kingdom from the northwest of the homeland.

In this way, there is no choice but to start from Pakistan Railway.

It is precisely for this reason that among the three major missions of the Western Theater of the Imperial Army, including sending the main force to participate in the combat operation of attacking the Van Luo Kingdom when necessary.

When dividing the theater of operations, it was also taken into account.

Although the southern subcontinent was assigned to the Southern Theater, the Boi State to the west of Pakistan and the Railway was under the jurisdiction of the Western Theater, and from the Pakistan Railway to the north was the Northwest Theater.

It can be seen that the Southern Subcontinent is exactly between the three major theaters.

Theoretically, the Imperial Army could mobilize troops from the three major theaters to besiege the kingdom of Van Luo.

However, this is only a theory.

Needless to say, the Northwest Theater of Operations naturally focused on the mainland battlefield, and the 7th Panzer Division also went to Posha Bay, and it was already a miracle that it did not ask for reinforcements.

The focus of the Southern Theater has always been on the southwest, the Guia and Austria, and it has to take into account the southeast, so at most, the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division can only stay in Pakistan.

On the side of the Western Theater of Operations, the 11th Infantry Division was to guard the Beixuan area, the Xifan Canal and the Kibu Fortress; The 14th Mechanized Infantry Division faced the Republic of There, deterring the southeastern region of the Western Continent Group, pinning down the Boi Kingdom, and taking into account the Caucasus Mountains and the shackled roads and bridges; The two main divisions are both lacking in skills.

It can be seen that for the army, only the 17th Armored Division can be mobilized.

Theoretically, whether the Imperial Army can send reinforcements in time is the real key.

In this regard, Ding Zhenna also expected it.

When making the deployment, he did not assign too many tasks to the 17th Armored Division, and did not even allow the 17th Armored Division to obtain all the reinforcements, because when it was necessary, the 17th Armored Division was quickly withdrawn from Poshawan to reduce the burden of transporting combat equipment.

According to the establishment, the three combat brigades that should be strengthened to the 17th Panzer Division to bring it to the size of a field army will all remain in Karachi, and the supporting main battle equipment will be in a few ro-ro transport ships docked in the port of Karachi, which can be distributed to combat units at any time.

This is also the reason why Ding Jinnan looked for Park Tae-hee and asked the High Ju army to take on the task of occupying it.

It's just that even if these brigades deployed in Posha Bay are transported, it will take at least half a month, and in the battle plan, there is only one week for adjustment.

To put it bluntly, it only takes a week at most for the Imperial Air Force to gain partial air supremacy.

As expected, the Pakistani Army was able to complete a tactical counterattack within a week, crushing the enemy who had entered the country and advancing the front to the border.

Without participating in the early battle, the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division stationed in Pakistan Railway could also be assembled within a week.

A week later, regardless of whether the 17th Panzer Division arrives or not, a strategic counteroffensive will be launched as planned.

If the 17th Panzer Division does not arrive in time and participates in combat operations, it will be difficult to defeat Van Roe before the Nuland Republic enters the war.

It can be seen that the battle plan against the Van Luo Kingdom is interlocking.

Protracted delay will inevitably lead to unforeseen results.

In the strategic plan of the empire, it is emphasized that after the outbreak of war in the southern subcontinent, the first thing to do is to concentrate forces to defeat the Van Luo Kingdom and eliminate the biggest worries.

For this reason, after receiving the news of the surprise attack of the Van Luo Kingdom, Ding Zhennan gave an order to Fu Weimin.

Of course, the occupation had to be handed over to the Allies first.

Subsequently, Ding Zhennan called Shi Zhiliang and proposed that Lu Liao should command the combat operation of attacking Ba Ge X, and he should go to Pakistan as soon as possible.

Shi Zhiliang did not give a direct reply, but only promised to mention the matter to Shoufu on behalf of Ding Zhennan.

Matters involving the selection of commanders must be decided by the chief assistant.

It's just that without waiting for Shi Zhiliang's reply, an update message was sent, which surprised Ding Zhennan.