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It has been confirmed that the Pakistani troops deployed near the Kargil Pass have been shelled, and three artillery battalions have suffered heavy losses and almost total annihilation.

Before the arrival of Admiral Gilani, the staff officers of the command had already acted according to the plan.

The main thing is to give orders to the troops at all levels.

Because of the perennial confrontation with the Indian army, the Pakistan Army has drawn up operational plans for various situations, and the main forces deployed in Kashmir have been in a state of combat readiness for a long time, and the front-line troops can enter a combat state within 12 hours after receiving orders.

In fact, the Pakistani army in Kashmir was ready for battle yesterday.

That is, 70 percent of the combat units of the Pakistan Army are already in place.

The Pakistani Army has no choice but to place 70 percent of its forces in Kashmir, because the shortest straight-line distance from the India-Pakistani ceasefire line to Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is less than 150 kilometers, and if the Pakistani army loses its defensive line, the capital will be threatened.

Of course, India has also deployed heavy troops in Kashmir.

In the same way, south of Kashmir, all the way to New Delhi, the capital of India, is the Gangetic plain, which is undefendable, and losing Kashmir is equivalent to losing the barrier to defend the capital.

After India and Pakistan became independent, two wars were fought around Kashmir and the confrontation lasted for decades, precisely because neither side could afford to lose this strategic commanding height.

Of course, the situation is not serious enough to lose Kashmir.

In addition, the Kargil Pass is not a place to use troops.

To put it bluntly, even if the Indian army takes control of the Kargil Pass, it will not be able to continue its advance, because the area is not suitable for an offensive at all.

If this is a full-scale war against Pakistan, the Indian army should focus its main forces south of Kashmir.

Not to mention that India and Pakistan have already fought two wars for Kashmir, as long as they have a little military common sense, they will try to avoid Kashmir.

First take the border military town of Lahore, and then wave north, Islamabad is at your fingertips.

In addition, advancing westward from Lahore, that is, into the heart of Pakistan, could also cut off the arteries connecting the north and south of Pakistan.

In the Third Indo-Pakistani War, the Indian army used this method to defeat the Pakistani army in one fell swoop.

For this reason, after coming to the headquarters, General Jilani first inquired about the situation in Lahore and was relieved to learn that there was nothing unusual in the Indian army on the other side of the border.

This is just a border conflict, not a full-scale war.

It's just that the situation is not optimistic at all.

The terrain determines that any important place in Kashmir is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and whoever holds the ground first will have the initiative.

If the Kargil Pass falls into the hands of the Indian army, the Pakistani army will become extremely passive.

So, will the Indian army attack the Kagil Pass?

Or rather, how can you hold the Kargil Pass?

Without artillery, only the infantry deployed in sporadic posts, and mainly the officers and soldiers of the border guards, can withstand the attack of the Indian army?

Admiral Gilani did not dare to have any illusions about this.

At that time, the Pakistani army was able to fight the Indian army in the Kargil Pass for several months, and it did not fall behind, relying on artillery deployed behind the ceasefire line.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that immediately after the incident, the Pakistani army sent artillery to the front.

Unfortunately, the reinforcements of the artillery units could not arrive until more than ten hours later.

It's not that the Pakistani army is not well prepared, but no one thought that the three artillery battalions deployed at the front would suffer at the same time.

Where did the Indian army get such a strong fighting force?

Although the scale of the Indian army's artillery is several times larger than that of the Pakistani army, in terms of quality, it is inferior to the Pakistani army.

In Kashmir, the main force of the Indian artillery is the FH-77 towed howitzer, and the M198 deployed by the Pakistani army in the Kashmir region is not bad.

In terms of performance, the two towed howitzers were on par.

In the rear, that is, in the reserves, the Indian army does not have decent self-propelled howitzers at all, while the Pakistani army has hundreds of self-propelled howitzers of the M109 series.

As a theater-level strike firepower, the Pakistani army has A100 long-range rocket artillery, but the Indian army has nothing.

It can be seen that simply compared with the combat effectiveness of artillery, the Indian army is inferior to the Pakistani army.

It was precisely for this that the staff officers of the Pakistan Army Command never considered a similar situation, that is, the artillery units deployed in front of them were completely annihilated by the Indian army.

In fact, as long as the forward artillery is still there, even if the combat effectiveness is reduced, the Pakistani army will be able to hold the Kargil Pass.

The problem now is that the forward artillery has completely lost its combat effectiveness.

In the next 10 hours or so, the Indian army had a great deal of confidence in taking the Kargil Pass, gaining the initiative and forming a strategic advantage over the Pakistani army.

After figuring out the situation, Admiral Gilani did not dare to delay and immediately called the Prime Minister's Office.

The top priority at the moment is to hold the Kargil Pass, which means to defeat the main force of the Indian army's attack, that is, the Indian army's artillery.

Without artillery support, the Indian infantry would never have been able to capture the outpost at the Kargil Pass.

However, reinforcements from the Pakistan Army could not arrive in time, so other forces, such as air force fighters, had to be used.

In fact, Gilani is well aware that the prime minister may not let the air force go to war.

As long as the fighters of the Pakistan Air Force participate in the war, the Indian Air Force will participate in the war, the scale of the conflict will increase, and it will no longer be a border conflict.

In addition, the artillery of the Indian army is deployed in the area of actual control of India.

Sending fighter jets to bomb the Indian zone of actual control?

Obviously, unless he is ready for an all-out war with India, the prime minister will never approve such a crazy operation.

Gilani still called the prime minister.

According to his idea, even if the Air Force is not allowed to participate in the war and the Air Force fighters are allowed to take to the air, it can effectively curb the offensive actions of the Indian army.

Under the threat from the air, the Indian army will never rush to cross the ceasefire line.

In addition, the Indian authorities are concerned that India is not mobilized and therefore not prepared for a full-scale war with Pakistan.

As long as it drags on for more than ten hours, and waits for reinforcements to arrive, the situation can be stabilized.

What Gilani didn't expect was that before he called, the prime minister had already given an order to the Air Force to bring it to the highest combat readiness.

By the time Gilani arrived at the Army Command, hundreds of fighter jets had taken to the skies.

What is this for?

War with India?

Gilani was shocked, but it immediately occurred to him that there was not that point yet, because if that was the case, the prime minister would first mobilize the army.

If not a war with India, then why?

During the phone call, the prime minister gave instructions for Gilani to immediately issue combat readiness orders and to send more troops to the conflict zone, namely the Kargil Pass, as soon as possible.

It's just that the prime minister did not give a mobilization order.