Chapter 169: The Eagle of the Plateau

Warhawks roar into the air at Lhasa's Dangxiong Airport, piercing through the clouds and fog in the unpredictable cold and humid air currents, looking down on the glaciers and canyons, and they will fly over the roof of the world to the other side of the Himalayas to hunt their prey. His prey will be strategically important ground targets such as command posts at and above the division level of the Indian army, important airports, India's transportation hubs, and distribution centers for strategic materials, and launch "point-and-point" strikes against these strategic targets.

Liu Yingtian, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division of the D1 Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Air Force, who took part in the bombing of the US airfield in Suwon in 1950, is now the commander of the 1st Air Force Division of the Tibet Provincial Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army; today he personally led 36 "saboteur" bombers and more than 70 "Falcon" Jian-1 fighters to carry out a "strategic point" air strike against India.

On the morning of 18 April, pilots of the 20th Squadron of the Indian Air Force, who were on combat duty at India's New Delhi airport, sat in the cockpit of the British-made "Spitfire" MK19 fighter early under the leadership of Squadron Leader Ram Singh, ready to take off to meet the enemy at any time.

Suddenly, the ground guidance station indicated that 8 Chinese Air Force planes were approaching the airspace over the New Delhi airport. Because China has implemented electromagnetic interference on the Indian army's communications and radar, and the Chinese Air Force is flying at an ultra-low altitude, it will be too late to take off to meet the enemy when the Indian Air Force discovers it. But where the responsibility of the military lies, Ram Singh still ordered all the pilots to urgently take to the air for battle. He sat in the cabin, folded his hands, silently prayed for himself, begging the Buddha to bless him with victory and success, and then he launched the Spitfire MK19 fighter engine

The escort mission for this operation was Wang Wei's apprentice, Liu Hai, one of the first pilots in New China, and four other "Falcon" Jian-1 fighters. Liu Hai has passed a series of air battles against Taiwan, and the young eagle in the past has grown into the captain of the fighter aircraft brigade. The master's words and deeds have given him a fighting style and style like a master.

Ram Singh's stupid order caused his squadron to be the first to be hit hard by the Chinese Air Force. The thermal radiation generated by the engine of the British-made Spitfire MK19 fighter was immediately discovered by the infrared system of the Chinese "Falcon" J-1 fighter, and Liu Hai launched a PL-8B missile without hesitation through the helmet sight, and the missile accurately hit the engine of the "Spitfire" MK19 fighter piloted by Ram Singer, who was entering the runway, and immediately smashed the old aircraft of the World War II period into pieces. Subsequently, the other three "Falcon" J1 fighters also opened fire on these engine-running planes.

At the same time that Liu Hai and the fighters on duty at the New Delhi airport were firing at the fighters on duty, the two "saboteur" bombers led by Deputy Division Commander Jin Hongchang were also ready to bomb the New Delhi airport; they flew at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour and swept over the air defense position 2 kilometers north of the New Delhi airport. Eight 250-2 napalm bombs were then dropped on the New Delhi airport, parked in a group of aircraft parked next to the runway, followed by another "Saboteur" bomber, which carried out supplementary bombing of the New Delhi airport.

The New Delhi Airport is the most important airfield of the Indian Army, and is the location of the Indian Air Force's Central Regional Command and Support Command, with six squadrons of attack fighters, 15 British-made "Spitfire" MK19 fighters, 15 British-made "Tempest" fighters, 24 Canberra medium bombers, one helicopter squadron, eight Mi-4 helicopters, one reconnaissance squadron, four "Canberra" reconnaissance planes, two transport aircraft squadrons, 10 British-made DC-3 Dakota transport planes, and two special planes of Indian political leaders. There are more than 70 aircraft of all kinds.

When the napalm with red paint on the warheads hit the ground, with a loud bang, dazzling white flashes rose into the air, and the flames continued to expand with the poisonous thick smoke. The whole New Delhi airport is like a gushing crater, burning fiercely, and the explosions in the fire are one after another, throwing the wreckage of various planes in the sea of fire into the air, and the fire is mixed with black smoke and rises into the sky. The scorching air contained a large amount of toxic smoke that suffocated everyone, and the fire was spreading, and the blazing heat had burned the entire airport area. Flammable materials in concrete buildings are burned to the ground. The corpses lying on their backs were like piles of bonfires burning with a disgusting scorching stench, and the wounded stared in horror in pain, slapping the flames on their bodies with their hands, and letting out bursts of desperate wails. Some of the charred corpses that were still "alive" with a trace of breath were constantly twitching their limbs, and their deaths were extremely painful

Faced with this creepy scene, no one knows what to do? "It's all the damn Nehru's fault! I have gotten along well with the Chinese on the other side of the mountain for more than 2,000 years, so why should I provoke those Chinese now? People in pain reflected.

However, the flame that awakens the Indians is not over yet

This is only the beginning of the punishment of the perpetrators of this war by the Tibetan Provincial Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. For those who dare to challenge China's core interests and offend our China, kill!

Liu Yingtian, commander of the 1st Air Force Division of the Tibet Provincial Corps, personally led two "saboteur" bombers to carry out an air strike on the Indian Ministry of Defense and the Indian Army Headquarters, the organs of India's military chief.

After taking off from Dangxiong Airport, they flew westward, flying over the deserted Ali region to the east of Gang Rinpoche Peak at an altitude of 6,656 meters. Entering India's Uttar Anchar Pradesh from the sky over Baga County in Tibetan province, it is only about 240 kilometers from the Indian capital New Delhi.

Yenching time, April 18, 8:48 a.m. The two "saboteur" bombers led by Liu Yingtian flew over the city of New Delhi, and they very calmly circled over New Delhi. Four 250-kilogram aircraft sub-carriers and 100,000 small steel balls covered every corner of the air defense positions around the Indian Ministry of Defense. Then Liu Yingtian slowly pushed the longitudinal rod and lowered the altitude very calmly, and the navigator and bomber crew stared intently at the sight connected with the navigation bombing computer, pressed the bomb drop button, and three 500-kilogram aerial bombs and three napalm swooped down from the magazine opened by the "saboteur" bomber, directly hitting the office building of the Indian Ministry of Defense.

In the operations hall of the Indian Ministry of Defence, Admiral Thapar, Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Lepson, Commander of the Indian Navy and Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Commander of the Eastern Theater, and Lieutenant General Kaul, Commander of the Fourth Army, were all waiting for the arrival of Indian Defense Minister Menon to report to him on the all-out offensive launched by the Squadron [***] against India this morning.

"I've been waiting for 30 minutes, and it's supposed to be the minister's arrival." The commander of the Indian Navy looked at his watch and said with some anxiety.

"Okay, don't wait, everyone. The minister was approached by Prime Minister Nehru, so Prime Minister Nehru asked me to talk to you first" Cabinet Secretary Kayla hurriedly walked in, stood in the position of the moderator of the meeting, and said: "Prime Minister Nehru's order to fight China is being drafted, let me first tell you Prime Minister Nehru's opinion." 1. The whole of India will enter a state of war from now on; 2. The army, navy and air force entered a combat state; 3. Commands at all levels responsible for operational command tasks are deployed in advance, and forward command organs have been set up; 4. All arsenals are open at night to produce arms to the maximum extent to meet the needs of the war against China; 5. Urgently send additional troops to the border areas; 6. It is necessary to urgently deliver war materials to the front line; 7, the Indian Air Force wants to carry out strategic bombing of China"

Hearing this, Lieutenant General Kaul, who was frightened by the one-sided fighting between China and India on April 15 in the eastern region, interrupted the speech of Cabinet Secretary Kayla and said with some concern: "Will such measures provoke a stronger reaction from China?" Should we not?"

"Now is not whether it will cause a stronger reaction from China, in fact, China has launched and is launching a major attack on us," Lieutenant General Lipson, commander of the Eastern Theater of Operations, interrupted Lieutenant General Kaul and said: "I am afraid that some of these deployments of the prime minister will not be implemented in time, and we will be finished." ”

"Although the Chinese are strong, they are also people," General Thapar, chief of the army staff, said very indignantly: "We in India are also a large country with a population of hundreds of millions, and we must resolutely respond to China's armed invasion." ”

"Oh no!" The secretary of the Ministry of National Defense, Ksapati Singh, ran in a panic and stood in front of the door and shouted loudly: "The Chinese Air Force has carried out a large-scale air raid on our country, and now the New Delhi airport has been bombed." There are also a lot of local theater command posts, airfields, transport hubs and

With a loud bang, plumes of smoke and flames suddenly burst out of the Indian Ministry of Defense building, and then collapsed, and the fire rose into the sky with smoke, forming a huge orange-red sea of fire and a mountain of smoke that kept rolling upward. Smoke and smoke hung over the Ministry of Defence's wasteland, and a strong warm Indian Ocean wind blew the flames of black ash farther and higher. The fire spread rapidly in all directions. Blaze were also raging everywhere. The strong winds blew the burning debris in all directions. The scattered flames also quickly converged into a raging sea of fire, and after completing the task, Liu Yingtian could still see the sky-rushing fire dozens of kilometers away from New Delhi, and the entire New Delhi was burning. All of India is burning.

He handed over the plane to the co-pilot, closed his eyes, and thought: "It is indeed cruel to use napalm, but this is the best way to create psychological deterrence for the enemy, this is war, and war itself does not mean mercy." His actions are noble and admirable, but at the same time despicable and despicable.

Ten hours after the Chinese air strike, Nehru spoke on New Delhi Radio, in which he strongly condemned the most brutal and barbaric Chinese and called on the people of India to unite to resist Chinese aggression.

(To be continued)