Chapter 625 625 Dismemberment of India
Even if the "full-scale invasion" of the Chinese was detected, the response speed of the Indian government and military was still unexpectedly slow; not only was there a great panic at the command level and a lack of a sufficiently effective response plan, but also some grassroots units of the Indian army at the lower level, after hearing about China's military action, refused to participate in the war, and there was also a phenomenon of desertion.
The Indian army has always had the problem of feeling good about itself, but it does not mean that all Indian troops who feel good about themselves are brain-dead to a certain point. Even though India's population is about the same as China's, China is far superior to India in almost every way. This is especially true in terms of military strength, and many discerning officers of the Indian army understand that the overall combat strength of the Indian army may be comparable to that of one large military region in China, and China has seven such large military regions. Naturally, if the Chinese military is made to think that using the strength of a large military region to deal with India can be regarded as killing chickens with a knife. It is the norm that the total combat strength of the Indian army is inferior to that of a military region.
Even in the southern Tibet reconquest operation launched against India this time, in fact, in addition to the airborne division of the airborne troops, the main contribution was mainly the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of the Tibet Military Region, and at most a part of Qi Yiming's Red Police unit assisted it. Only when India is convinced that it will launch a full-scale major war will the PLA consider increasing its forces to southern Tibet, otherwise it will be more than enough to conquer and defend southern Tibet with its current strength.
Naturally, in fact, the area seized by the PLA is not only southern Tibet, but also in the disputed border areas between China and India in the central and western sections, and China has launched a huge military operation, and the Indian army is difficult to cope with these sudden attacks, and is either defeated or retreated, basically within a day, except for southern Tibet, most of the small disputed areas have fallen into the actual control of the PLA and China.
As for the Indian army in southern Tibet, although the scale is not small, it is basically defeated, and it is almost powerless to fight back in the face of the strong PLA. In the Sino-Indian border war in '62, the Indian army, as a colonial mercenary army, was very unsuitable for the Chinese army's style of play. Although many military commentators at that time believed that the Lee Enfeld rifle equipped by the Indian army was inferior to China's 56/6 and 56 rifles, the role played by equipment in such a harsh environment was actually far less important than the soldiers' sense of battle and the overall fighting style of the troops.
In order to solve the problem of being often surrounded by Chinese troops, the Indian army devised a set of plans to seize important terrain and strongholds and hold them at fixed points. In this scenario, it will be difficult for the Chinese army, which is more mobile and interspersed, to break the defense of the entrenched Indian army, and as soon as the Indian reinforcements arrive, the Chinese army will be directly crushed.
However, this is aimed at the tactics involved in the Chinese army several decades ago, and even if the complex terrain restricts the combat power of the army, the new tactical units established by the Chinese army in a different way have far exceeded the imagination of the Indian army. Not to mention the fact that the Tengu mecha, a near-cheating weapon, can follow the lightly armed mountain troops against such hard-point targets, China's powerful air force alone is enough to strike a ruthless and sharp blow to any entrenched Indian army.
Especially in the face of China's military action, the Indian army is like a headless fly in the theater of operations, and it is simply impossible to counterattack the Chinese PLA in an orderly manner, some troops want to break through, some troops want to resist on the spot, and some troops want to break into the city to recapture important strongholds, in short, this chaos is more convenient for the PLA to encircle and eliminate it.
After the local airfield in southern Tibet was opened up for use by the PLA, the Y-20 and Kirov transport airboats brought a large number of soldiers and heavy equipment to the war zone. Even main battle tanks, wheeled armored vehicles, which could be used in relatively flat areas, arrived on the battlefield. Within hours of its arrival, the Infantry Brigade, which was part of the Red Police, was on its way to the battlefield and engaged in operations against an Indian army.
The artillery regiment of the infantry brigade opened fire on the Indian army immediately after it was deployed, and the Indian army still had a certain degree of resilience, and in the face of this fierce artillery fire, it was not directly dispersed like the non-professional army, but the overall formation had also been dismantled, and the command and communication system was also destroyed. Subsequently, with the coordinated advance of the main battle tank and the infantry mecha, this Indian army was completely annihilated without accident.
In fact, the base camp of the Indian army in the rear also wanted to get in touch with the Indian army in the southern Tibet theater, but the Chinese army was accustomed to fighting modern warfare, and the first thing to do when the war started was to block communications and cut off the command system, so that the command layer had no eyes and ears, and the enemy troops in front had no brains and no leaders, and they were in chaos. Although the Indians made great efforts to restore communication and command, this was not an easy task, and it was difficult for the engineering troops to enter the rugged mountains of southern Tibet, and then there were Chinese troops guarding it, and it was inevitable that they would be attacked.
The more this situation is, the more the Indian army fights the war to a pulp, and the more the war situation develops in the direction that the Chinese envision.
When the PLA was in southern Tibet, Qi Yiming began to carry out his next step of layout, and southern Tibet was actually more of a knot that had been in his heart for many years, and the final disputed territory with India was resolved, so that China's last territory that was controlled by others was also taken back. Even if Qi Yiming has expanded China's territory in disguise over the years, no matter how much he gains, he can't cover up the lost part.
And in his real expanse of blueprint, the conquest with India is definitely not just a few local low-intensity battles in southern Tibet and other disputed areas. In any case, the only big country in China's periphery that is not under China's control is India, a country with a population of nearly one billion, and relatively rich in natural resources, and not too weak in strength.
Qi Yiming believes that it is not appropriate for China to have an overly powerful country in its neighborhood, or even if it has the potential to develop into a strong country. This logic is somewhat similar to the original idea of the United States to contain China, and it is a complete hegemonic logic, and Qi Yiming does not deny it.
India is a multi-ethnic country, and the ethnic and religious complexity is far greater than that of China. This point can also be easily exploited by Qi Yiming as a basis for the future dismemberment of India. In general, India can be divided into three parts: (1) Central, Northern, and Western regions, including Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Punjab, Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal, and are the homeland of the Aryans. The main ethnic groups that originate from this race are: Hindustani, Sikh, Oriya, Gujarat, Marati, Bengali, etc. (2) The southern region, which includes Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, is home to the Dravidian people. The main ethnic groups that originate from this race are: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, etc. (3) The northeastern region, which includes Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, and Mizoram, is the meeting point of the Aryan and races. The Assamese are basically of Aryan descent, but have elements, while the race is dominant among other ethnic groups.
Among the hundreds of ethnic groups living in India, although some have reconciled and developed together over a long period of time, the conflict between the ethnic groups is still very acute, and it only takes the slightest spark to break out into a terrible catastrophe.
The contradictions between the Northeast and other Indian regions are more acute, and the ethnic groups in the Northeast suffer the most serious racial discrimination and ethnic persecution.
Other areas are a little more difficult, such as Hindustani and Sikhs, who are ethnically and religiously different, but have a strong sense of identity with each other, and it is not very easy to forcibly separate them. Of course, Indian Muslims living in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and other places are quite different from other Hindus because of their religion, and if they are given the opportunity to establish an Islamic state independently, they will certainly not let it go.
The Dravidian peoples of the south are less developed and poorer than those of central and northern India, and although it is more difficult to separate them, there will always be political opportunists who are willing to sacrifice their lives. The task that needed to be accomplished in advance was to occupy the whole territory of India and subdue the Indians.
The Indians themselves are actually relatively docile in character, and they have the typical characteristics of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and the method of spiritual victory. They can be colonized willingly, and they can take pleasure in it. At that time, they also flattered and flattered the British in every way. Today, if the Chinese's saber falls on their shoulders, they cannot afford not to grovel.
Naturally, to accomplish all this, a Red Alert base is needed. Qi Yiming directly used a heavy Kirov transport airboat to transport an MCV to southern Tibet. The Red Guard sub-base established here can continuously transport Qi Yiming's Red Guard Corps to various regions of South Asia, cooperate with the PLA to defeat the Indian army, and occupy the entire territory of India.
In his prediction, if the navy is relatively strong and can completely block the Indian Ocean and prevent the US navy from entering, then China only needs about 2 million troops to achieve complete control over South Asia. Although the PLA is now on active duty with more than 2 million people, the construction of the reserve force in recent years is very in place, and if necessary, it can also recruit and transfer another 3 million troops to join the war, not to mention the Red Guard Corps under Qi Yiming's own command, which is an astronomical number.