The offensive began in the first half of the night and began on the entire front, with the Pakistan Army engaged in almost all locations.

All of a sudden, the Indian army was completely stunned.

Of course, this is also normal.

At the first time, Pakistan deployed 40 JF-17 fighter jets and two long-range rocket artillery battalions to hit and strike at the fortresses and fortresses deployed by the Indian army near the ceasefire line in Kashmir, putting on a posture of wanting to fight in Kashmir and preparing to occupy the whole of Kashmir.

Is it possible?

At least, in the circumstances of the time, it was absolutely impossible.

Why?

In Lahore, the Indian army has broken through the defense line of the Pakistani army and burned the flames of war to Pakistan proper, and the Pakistani army has also invested heavily in this direction.

On the southern front, the Indian army also gathered heavy troops and put on a posture of preparing to attack Karachi.

It can be said that no matter how you look at it, the first thing for the Pakistani army to do is to stabilize the front, not to open a new front in Kashmir.

The question is, does Pakistan have that many troops?

It is precisely because of this that after the Pakistani army launched an offensive, the Indian army did not raise its vigilance, but thought that this was a feint attack by the Pakistani army in this direction.

To put it simply, it is to reduce the pressure in the direction of Lahore.

Capture Indian-administered Kashmir?

Let's not talk about the troops, does the Pakistani army have so many mountain troops?

You must know that in the direction of Lahore, the Indian army did not use mountain troops, and the troops that were dispatched were regular troops, and they were mainly armored troops.

The Indian army's mountain troops are still deployed in Kashmir.

If the Pakistani army does not have enough mountain troops, even if it breaks through the Indian army's defensive line, it may not be able to make great strides, let alone make a breakthrough in depth.

Obviously, if there is only a small fight near the ceasefire line, then there is no need to worry.

As long as the Indian army makes a breakthrough in the direction of Lahore, the Pakistani army will naturally adjust its operational deployment and devote more troops to defending Fort ***.

It is precisely because of this that when the Pakistani army launched an offensive, the Indian army did not strengthen its precautions.

The General Staff of the Indian Army even turned a deaf ear to the battle reports sent back by the front-line troops, and only ordered the garrison in Kashmir to hold their positions.

The first round of attack actually lasted less than 4 hours.

Why?

40 JF-17s were dispatched in turns, 10 in each shift, which lasted only 4 hours.

These fighters, all carrying 100-kilogram LS-5 guided bombs, were responsible for bombing the strongest forts and fortresses in the Indian line.

To deal with general fortifications, the Pakistani army mainly uses rocket artillery and artillery.

Of course, in the first round of the offensive, in order to ensure the breakthrough of the Indian army's defense line and allow the mountain troops in charge of the assault to penetrate deep behind the Indian army's defense line, the Pakistani army mainly used powerful long-range rocket artillery, and mainly guided rockets, and did not let howitzers play.

It was only in the early hours of the morning that the Pakistani army began to focus on breakthroughs.

There were three main directions of breakthrough, two of which went directly south, pointing to Jammu, and the other to the east, that is, to the rear of the Indian line.

In fact, at this time, the Pakistani army did not determine the main direction of the assault.

In the three breakthrough directions, the Pakistani army has invested enough troops, and in accordance with the established tactics, it mainly focuses on long-range firepower strikes.

At that time, the Pakistani army drew up two sets of combat plans.

If the southward march goes well, then attack Jammu first, and after capturing Jammu, then make a detour to the northeast to encircle the whole of Kashmir.

To put it simply, it is to sweep the whole of Kashmir.

If you run into trouble in the south, then you will mainly go in the direction to the east, but in Jammu to contain the main force of the Indian army and sweep Kashmir first.

How exactly to fight depends on the situation on the battlefield.

Of course, the Pakistani army also has a bottom line, that is, at the end of the campaign, it must capture all other areas of Kashmir controlled by India except for Jammu.

This time, the Pakistani army concentrated on the use of long-range strike forces.

The key is still the 40 JF-17 fighters.

As soon as the offensive began, the first batch of 10 JF-17s arrived.

In fact, it was only after the arrival of these 10 fighters that the offensive began.

As with the established tactics, special forces provided guidance on the front line, and the JF-17 opened the way for the advancing mountain troops, focusing on bombing the Indian fortifications along the way.

It's just that, in order to prolong the time in the air, these JF-17s all carried two drop fuel tanks.

As a result, the number of bombs mounted by fighters was halved, and the striking power was significantly reduced.

Although an extremely detailed battle plan was drawn up before the war in accordance with the deployment of the Indian army, especially the strike part, in the actual battle, it was obvious that the situation that occurred was not quite the same as the plan, or even very different, and it was impossible to strictly follow the plan.

The most prominent is that 40 JF-17s are far from enough.

In order to respond to the emergency, the Pakistan Army had to use long-range rocket artillery again.

The problem is that the Pakistani army obviously does not have too many guided rockets in reserve, and it is impossible to use rocket artillery to fill the loopholes in long-range strike firepower.

After the fourth transfer of 10 JF-17s entered the operation, the Pakistan Air Force had to temporarily deploy a group of JF-20s on alert duty to participate in the strike operation.

Fortunately, the Pakistan Air Force has a sufficient stockpile of guided bombs.

Although the offensive operation encountered a little trouble, it was not a big problem, at least the speed of the two mountain troops that attacked to the south did not slow down.

As mentioned earlier, speed is everything.

By daybreak, the two assault forces had advanced 40 and 50 kilometers respectively.

Fighting in the mountains, this speed of assault is already a miracle.

The point is that the assault forces met little resistance along the way.

Even if they encounter a small patrol of Indian troops, they will immediately call for long-range artillery support, rather than stop and engage Indian patrols.

Against patrol troops, a PLZ-52G with a 45-fold body tube is enough.

Before dawn, the Pakistani army in the Sialkot direction launched an offensive and threw in the strength of 2 brigades at once, one of which was still an armored brigade.

That scene was definitely shocking.

Dozens of "Khalid" main battle tanks suddenly rushed out of the Pakistani defense line and charged under the cover of infantry fighting vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles.

Up to now, this is the first time that the Pakistani army's "Khalid" main battle tank has appeared on the battlefield.

For the Indian troops on the defensive line south of Jammu, this was not something to be happy about.

Quite simply, when the armored forces of the Pakistani army launched an offensive, the artillery attack began at the same time, and the Indian troops on the defensive line did not have time to enter the defensive position at all.

Although in some areas, the Indian army put up stubborn resistance, but the Indian army's border defense line was quickly broken through.

It was only at this time that the Indian authorities came back to their senses and discovered that the purpose of the Pakistani army was to capture Jammu, not to sweep the whole of Kashmir.