The speed at which the situation deteriorated far exceeded Wang Dong's expectations.

The next day, India declared a state of emergency, and all its armies were ready for battle within 24 hours.

Subsequently, the Indian authorities issued an ultimatum to Pakistan, demanding that Pakistan hand over within 24 hours the culprits responsible for the bombing attack, that is, the leaders of several rebel groups that had been operating in Kashmir before the Indian authorities.

India's attitude is that it does not want to negotiate with Pakistan at all.

Why?

While accusing Pakistan of supporting these opposition groups, India has failed to produce evidence that they were responsible for the attacks.

What's more, blaming multiple resistance groups at the same time is clearly not wanting to negotiate.

Quite simply, even if the rebel groups in Kashmir were to carry out the bombings, they could not be all the rebels.

In fact, these organizations themselves are incompatible, and it is simply impossible for them to act together.

In the face of India's arrogance, Pakistan has also taken active actions to clarify the facts or its own innocence to the international community, and on the other hand, to put its armed forces in a state of combat readiness to prepare for a possible surprise attack and to fight back.

It was in the afternoon that the first clashes took place between the two sides.

At that time, a JF-17 fighter jet flying in the northern part of Kashmir, which is Pakistan's area of actual control, was attacked by Indian fighter jets, and because it was unable to make a timely turn to evade, the JF-17 was shot down by a missile about 50 kilometers deep into the ceasefire line.

Subsequently, Pakistan proved that it was an AIM-120D missile that shot down the JF-120, and that only the F-35AI fighter jets imported from the United States by India were equipped with such missiles.

Obviously, it was an F-17AI that shot down the JF-35AI.

At the time of the incident, there was a ZDK-05 early warning aircraft more than 100 kilometers to the north, and the formation of this JF-17 was just south of the early warning aircraft, serving as an escort mission.

It can be inferred from this that the F-35AI that attacked JF-17 was most likely headed for ZDK-05, but the JF-17 formation happened to be in front, because it could not approach the sneak attack ZDK-05, so the Indian fighter fired missiles at JF-17 about 80 kilometers away.

Immediately after the attack on the JF-17, the ZDK-05 turned back.

The strongest evidence is that after the JF-17 was locked on by radar, the ZDK-05 detected a target that appeared suddenly and only existed for a few seconds, and the JF-17 was hit by a missile shortly thereafter, so it is believed that the target opened the bomb bay and launched the missile F-35AI.

When launching a missile, the F-35AI must open the bomb bay, so its RCS value will increase by several orders of magnitude, and it is possible that it will be detected by AWACS.

Immediately after the incident, Pakistan issued accusations.

However, the Indian side refused to admit it, and even bit back, claiming that Pakistan was a desperate excuse and was diverting attention from the attack on India's military camps.

On the same day, the United Nations urgently mediated.

Under the arrangement of the United Nations, India and the Permanent Ambassadors of Pakistan to the United Nations held a brief meeting to exchange positions.

Can the United Nations intervene to resolve disputes?

At least at the time, almost everyone believed that since India and Pakistan were willing to negotiate under the auspices of the United Nations, there was hope that there would be a negotiated resolution of the dispute.

In any case, if there is a real conflict, it will not be beneficial for either side.

If it turns into a large-scale war, the whole world will be affected.

Let's not forget that both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, and both have the ability to strike a lethal blow against the other, even if they may not use them in the first place.

After the first round of meetings, the situation seems to have eased somewhat.

At the very least, both India and Pakistan acknowledge that the level of readiness of the armed forces should be lowered to ensure that the situation between the two sides is under control.

In addition, both sides expressed the need to hold a meeting at the level of foreign ministers in the near future.

Obviously, the ambassador to the United Nations has little say at all, so a higher-level meeting is needed to discuss more important issues.

It's just that these are all illusions.

Wang Dong received the news just after 10 o'clock, and when he arrived at the base, Yunlong had already sent the news to the Pakistani military.

India has no idea of negotiating at all, but is preparing for a surprise attack.

As for the source of the information, it must be very reliable.

On July 7, 2023, at 1:30 a.m., the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War broke out.

At this very moment, the Indian Air Force dispatched nearly 500 combat aircraft to launch surprise attacks on dozens of military targets in the border areas of Pakistan.

The key target of the attack is Pakistan's air base.

In the first round of assaults alone, the Indian Air Force dropped dozens of ballistic missiles and hundreds of tamed missiles at several Pakistani air bases near Lahore, Multan, Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi, and also bombed the airfields with fighter jets.

In addition to air bases, the most important are air defense positions, especially those where long-range air defense systems are deployed.

Although Pakistan's air force is not strong, the four sets of HQ-9B imported from China in the past few years pose a huge threat to Indian fighters.

The four air defense systems were deployed on the outskirts of Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi.

The biggest threat is the HQ-9B deployed near Lahore.

Why?

Lahore is a border city in close proximity to India, and the HQ-9B's range of up to 200 kilometers allows all Indian fighters deployed in the front line to come within range of it after takeoff.

In fact, the first bombing by the Indian Air Force was the air defense positions on the outskirts of Lahore.

According to the information disclosed later, the Indian Air Force dispatched at least 4 F-35AI, using standoff ammunition, first bombing the radar of the air defense system, then more than a dozen Su-30MKI, bombing the deployment positions of the fire control irradiation radar and anti-aircraft missile launchers with anti-radiation missiles and precision-guided munitions, and finally using more than a dozen Mig-27s to carry out a final sweep of the air defense positions.

Against a set of air defense systems, almost 30 fighters were used!

It can only be said that the Indians really can afford this air defense system.

Of course, this high-intensity bombing also shows India's tactical intentions.

As expected, after the end of the previous air strikes, the Indian Army will attack Lahore and use this as a breakthrough to march towards Islamabad.

In fact, in the previous Indo-Pakistani wars, India had its eyes on Lahore.

Quite simply, the eastern part of Islamabad is the mountainous region of Kashmir, which is not suitable for a large army to advance, so a breakthrough from Lahore and then north is a more ideal route of march.

For the Pakistani army, it will definitely have to hold Lahore.

In the Third Indo-Pakistani War, the Pakistani army was quickly defeated because it failed to hold the Lahore defensive line, and it almost lost its country.

Only, will history repeat itself?