Chapter 658 658 Over Madagascar
Whatever India intends to confront China, they need to step up because India's enemies are growing. As a country that is not very polite and likes to play tricks on small countries, India has suffered its own bitter fruit at this time. In a short period of time, China succeeded in convincing Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan to send troops at the same time to join the war with the help of China's weapons.
Naturally, Qi Yiming will not provide many good things for these three small countries, and most of the profits are light weapons and a small number of military vehicles equipped with the militia before, and there are not even many serious infantry fighting vehicles, even armored vehicles are at best police level.
The PLA does not need the armies of the three small countries in South Asia to rush to the front, but only needs them to perform more tasks such as prisoner guarding, guarding the second-line strongholds, and maintaining order in the occupied areas as a servant army. However, even so, almost all countries in South Asia except India have pointed the finger at India, which has plunged India into a huge panic and made the United States and other NATO countries scratch their heads.
It took only about a week for the Chinese and Pakistani forces to occupy the entire state of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchar Pradesh, which is the land promised to Pakistan. However, the combat mission of the Combined Army on the Western Front has not yet ended, and it is only a short rest to digest and sort out the occupied areas, and a new round of larger-scale campaigns for western India is brewing.
Bangladesh, with the support of China, also sent troops to attack India's West Bengal, but the Bengal army was met with strong resistance from the Indian army as soon as the war began, and there were considerable losses. This situation shows that the armies of these small South Asian countries are really not trustworthy, and if they are allowed to take on heavier tasks, they are likely to ruin their own arrangements.
According to the arrangement of the Chinese army, the Punjab, Himachal and North Anchar allocated to Pakistan and West Bengal, which is allocated to Bangladesh, will be garrisoned by the armies of these two countries, while China's South Asian Front will continue to enter other parts of India and occupy more land.
Qi Yiming is the initiator of the handling of India, and the Strategy Bureau has always been the most important think tank organization in the country in terms of layout, providing most of the layout and strategy. Qi Yiming knew that India was a country with a rather complex ********, but most of the ethnic groups were Hindu, and although the language barrier and the racial differences were also a little different, they were still able to knead together. However, Qi Yiming firmly believes that this kind of integration and unification is easy to destroy, and it only needs to be implanted with some elements of national selfishness, which is enough to make some relatively small ethnic groups in India turn their backs on India as a unified country for their own interests.
In addition to the part of Pakistan and Bangladesh, Sikkim, which was annexed by India, will later regain its independence, and Goa, which was also annexed by Indian aggression in the early days, will also regain its independence after the PLA captures. Originally a Portuguese colony that was seized by force after independence, Goa is the wealthiest state in India, with a thriving tourism and the largest percentage of Christians.
In addition, there are 8 countries in Qi Yiming's list that urgently need to be "independent", including Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Malayalam, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Orissa. The above eight regions have their own main ethnic groups, accounting for more than 80% of the region's population, although most of them believe in Hinduism, but without exception have their own languages and relatively different cultures, if heterogeneity is enhanced, this process of "being independent" should be very smooth.
If Qi Yiming's plan can be carried out, then India will only have six states of land left, and its access to the sea will be completely blocked by the eight newly independent states mentioned above, making it a completely landlocked country on the South Asian subcontinent. Although it still enjoys the largest population and the largest land area, India will no longer be eligible to join the race for a world-class power.
In addition, regarding the issue of the Northeast State, there is still a certain amount of controversy in the country. Some people believe that the northeastern state should be incorporated into China, given the strong similarity between the local and the Chinese in terms of kinship; There are also people who are worried about the problem of eating and thinking that swallowing this place will bring more negative effects.
But there is no doubt that there are already places to be annexed: the Andaman Islands and the Lakshadweep Islands. The two archipelagos, which are sandwiched between the entire South Asian subcontinent to the east and the west, have a strategic position in the entire Indian Ocean region, and the Navy is quite interested in establishing naval bases on these two islands to enhance its maritime dominance in the Indian Ocean.
Even before the Battle of Madagascar officially began, the Navy had already sent marines to land on the two islands, planting the Chinese red flag on the islands. India's navy has not yet had the guts to go out of port to fight the Chinese navy on the oceans, and there are few decent defenders on the islands, so India has no way to deal with China's occupation of the two archipelagos.
Feeling the struggle of India's national fortunes, US President George W. Bush gave death orders to the US and NATO allied soldiers on the front line, promising to give Vajpayee 2-3 weeks, while George W. Bush demanded that the US military completely control the island of Madagascar within 10 days and send soldiers to the South Asian subcontinent within a month.
U.S. theater commander John Abizaid and fleet commander Cornell were speechless about map decision-makers like George W. Bush, but the president was, after all, the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, and the orders he issued by the U.S. military had no room for question.
In fact, the terrain of Madagascar is mainly mountainous, with relatively high ramparts in the middle and narrow lowland plains in the west and east, which also creates a problem, that is, it is very difficult for both the US military and the PLA mechanized troops to deploy in such terrain. Moreover, there are almost no decent roads in backward Madagascar, which has also caused relatively big problems for the mobility of troops, and it is not a good choice to seek a quick solution in such an environment.
However, after the US military had an urge behind the buttocks, it was obviously more bold to take out various weapons and start a strong attack on the PLA. After the two sides tacitly agreed not to use fighter planes for many days, the US air force deployed in South Africa, the air force dispatched by other NATO countries, and the carrier-based air force of the US Navy launched a large-scale air attack on the Chinese ground forces on the island of Madagascar, providing cover and countermeasures for the subsequent attacks of the US ground forces.
Obviously, China's air forces are also unwilling to allow the United States to strike at its ground forces so easily and inflict heavy losses, and the main force of the Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet has also taken off a large number of fighter jets to participate in this large-scale air battle over Madagascar. What is different this time is that after the US aircraft carrier Johnstennis was completely scrapped, the Chinese nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Sichuan, which was originally guarding her, joined the main force of the Indian Ocean Fleet with its own escort formation, which greatly increased the number of fighters that China could dispatch.
In addition, with the participation of the US Air Force, the Chinese Air Force will absolutely not see the Chinese Navy fighting Madagascar alone, and the Air Force has dispatched a large number of fighters from the East Africa Command to Madagascar to intercept and counterattack the US military on the spot. The Air Force Command has also redeployed two fighter aviation divisions to Somalia and Sudan as a second line of force, ready to support the Madagascar battlefield.
With both sides wanting to win, and achieving a decisive victory, the two sides continued to increase their stakes, and finally formed a large-scale air battle in which both sides participated in a total of more than 1,000 fighters. Like the last air battle in the Mozambique Channel, this time the air battle with a larger number of warplanes broke out in such a narrow airspace, making the tactics of war like a return to the days of World War II. The equipment performance of a single fighter and the pilot's personal skills have been greatly reduced, and the cooperation between formations has begun to be re-emphasized by both sides.
In such a chaotic and tight air battle, even with an advanced new generation of air-to-air missiles, even if the fighters are like dumplings, or more accurately like a swarm of mosquitoes flying around, even if these missiles can identify friend or foe through the guò friend or foe identifier, no one knows who they will encounter during the flight, so the battle is more concentrated in the dogfight stage.
At a time when the number of fighters was not inferior to that of the Americans and their followers, and the quality of the fighters was even superior to theirs, this air battle was fought far better than the previous one. Chinese pilots use various tactics to eliminate their enemies in the air, and HNA dispatched a large number of J-31 Falcon fighters this time, these fifth-generation fighters have nothing to say on the battlefield, but in terms of battlefield situational awareness and super-maneuverability, they can still kill ordinary fourth-generation fighters in seconds. The F-14, F-15, F-16, and F-18 fighters of the US military, and the Mirage 2000, Rafale, Tornado, and Gripen fighters of Europe, faced with the advantage of generation difference, although they were not completely without the power to resist, but they fought extremely hard.
In the first large-scale air battle, China basically maintained a 1:3 advantage in the ratio of battle losses, although it was not extraordinarily huge, but it also caused NATO to lose more than 40 fighters on the first day. It also cast a shadow over the tactical attempts of the Americans hoping to resolve the battle of Madagascar within 10 days.