Chapter 649 - 649 Manipur (I)

The Indian forces stationed in Manipur were attacked by the superior Chinese artillery fire before they could engage the Chinese vanguard. After the war, it was assessed that six electromagnetic guns of an artillery company were worth the fire assistance provided by a battalion of conventional PLZ-05 52 times diameter chemical self-propelled guns.

The first battle showed that the electromagnetic cannon did not have too many failures that affected the battle as expected, and the failure rate was no different from the very mature PLZ-05 and other traditional self-propelled guns, which also strengthened the confidence of some army electromagnetic artillery factions, and promoted the army to replace electromagnetic guns on a large scale later, and even developed self-propelled electromagnetic guns more similar to PLZ-05.

The 65th Army, which entered Manipur from Burma, has been reorganized, and several units that have been reorganized into brigades have been re-upgraded to divisions, of which in addition to the artillery, air defense, and armored brigades, the 193rd, 194th, 195th, and 196th infantry brigades have been upgraded to divisions, and the 195th brigade has been turned into a blue army, and after being promoted to a division, it was transferred to the second army and joined the blue army corps.

The first to break into Manipur was the 194th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Group Army, and the entire 194th Division was the unit with the least change in this group army, because the 194th Division directly absorbed a mechanized infantry brigade and merged with the troops of the original 194 Brigade to form the current force formation, unlike several other divisions, which joined some reserves and even recruits who returned to the army.

After more than ten years of evolution, the traditional establishment of 3 mechanized infantry regiments, 1 armored regiment, 1 air defense regiment, and 1 artillery regiment has been replaced by 4 synthetic infantry regiments, 1 armored regiment, and 1 air defense regiment. Artillery, armor, and mechanized infantry have achieved a relatively good balance and unity.

Even if the PLA dispatches troops on the scale of the group army or even the size of the front army, the most basic tactical units in actual combat are still battalion-level units, and although these composite battalions do not have many soldiers and equipment, they are able to attack and defend the troops at the local brigade level with cooperation, which directly reflects the powerful combat power of the PLA Tiger Ben.

After the Indian army was severely beaten by the Chinese artillery, the Chinese 65th Group Army directly covered up the past is a synthetic infantry battalion under the 194th Division, when the Indian armored troops were thrown into chaos by the artillery bombardment, the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of this synthetic battalion directly launched a chiseling attack, directly penetrated the Indian army's phalanx from the middle, crushed the Indian army's will to resist, eliminated more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles of the Indian army, and lost only three infantry fighting vehicles, with single digits of casualties.

So far, all countries in the world, including the Indians, have fully recognized that the Chinese Army is not only the largest army in the world, but also the most powerful army. Even many US military experts do not shy away from saying that if the US Army encounters the Chinese Army, it will have very little chance of gaining benefits, and the Chinese Army has its own system in terms of equipment and tactics, and the Red Army, which was established more than half a century ago, has paid special attention to the will to fight and the spirit of sacrifice, which is difficult for the US military, which is good at fighting a favorable battle and is not very capable of fighting a tough battle.

Since its founding, the US military has rarely defeated the enemy with an indomitable will to fight in adversity, and it has rarely won more with less when it is inferior in numbers and technology to its opponents. The brilliant victories won by the US military were basically achieved when there was an overwhelming superiority in the ratio of troops and a very large generation gap in technology.

However, the Chinese Army is several times larger than the US Army, and it is not weaker than the US Army in terms of technology and weapons, and there are still obvious advantages in some places, which makes some people in the US military even more afraid of the upcoming confrontation between the Chinese and US ground forces. The U.S. military has been trying to send ground troops to India to help the Indian army resist China before the navy takes control of the sea and air in the western Indian Ocean, but many people are trying their best to oppose this proposal, believing that it is a stupid decision to send the U.S. military into the abyss of danger.

However, if the U.S. military cannot effectively support the Indian army, it will be an almost impossible task for the Indian army to resist the Chinese PLA.

A former retired lieutenant general of the US Army once said at a hearing organized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Although the Indian army is large, the actual Indian army lacks the ability to organize large-scale battles like China. The war that is now taking place in the subcontinent is a large-scale war in which China aims to destroy India, and such a war has a prominent feature, that is, it is dominated by large-scale battles. In contrast to India's lack of experience in this area, China has a lot of experience in this area. From the time the PRC had not yet been established, the Red Chinese army launched a number of large-scale battles, defeated the KMT army continuously, and finally drove it to Taiwan. In 1986 and 1991, China also launched such large-scale battles against the Soviet Union and Russia, especially in the 1991-1992 war, China dispatched millions of troops and carried out many large-scale battles involving hundreds of thousands of people, completely crushing Makashev's army. Now that China has prepared two fronts in southern Tibet and Kashmir, with hundreds of thousands of troops, we have no choice but to be infinitely pessimistic about India's future. ”

The Indian army has established the Eastern Command in the northeast, which commands the 3rd Army, the 4th Army, and the 33rd Army, a total of three armies, with a scale of hundreds of thousands. The troops that came into direct conflict with China's 65th Group Army were the 3rd Army, which was transferred to the northeastern border for defense, and it was far behind the 65th Army in terms of equipment and personnel, and naturally there was not much hope of resisting the attack of the 65th Group Army.

Moreover, the 3rd Army is not restless, its northern part of Tibet and southern Tibet have been taken by China, the PLA Airborne Corps, the 15th Army and some scattered units are eyeing the Indian army there, and the Indian army is not only worried about the Chinese 65th Army coming from the direction of Burma, but also worried about the 15th Airborne Army and other units attacking them from the flank. In this way, the battle of the Indian Army's Third Army has basically not yet begun, and it is doomed to lose.

As non-commissioned officer advisers to the army, Bai Ma Ajia and Li Ying followed the 65th Army all the way through the Indo-Burmese border and carried out a series of thunderous strikes against the Indian Army's Third Army. In the whole process of the 65th Group Army, it has always been fully assisted by the Army Aviation Division directly under the Third Front Army in South Asia; in non-war times, the PLA does not establish division-level troops of the Army Aviation, and because the trend of synthesis is becoming more and more obvious, the establishment of the Army Aviation has become smaller and smaller, and even after it has entered the composite battalion units, the Army Aviation Regiment has basically remained in the army direct units of the Group Army.

But the appearance of a weapon has changed this situation, and that is the Tengu Mecha. Each Tengu Army Aviation Division is equipped with four regiments of 108 Tengu Mechas, and they follow the ground forces at the forefront of the frontline, taking off into attack aircraft to launch air strikes when needed, and when the fuel is exhausted, they can land on the spot, and the logistics of the ground forces will replenish fuel and weapons to continue the battle. This made the entire 65th Group Army's advance always under the cover of powerful air suppressive firepower, and although the Indian army also tried to seize air supremacy to counter China's deformed mechas, more Chinese fighters took off from Yunnan and launched a fierce offensive against the Indian air force through Burma, so that from the beginning to the end of the war, the Indian ground troops did not receive decent support from their own air units.

Li Ying watched several Tengu attack planes in the sky pouring shells with their own 30mm cannons, constantly piercing and destroying the armored vehicles of the Indian army on the ground, and the Tengu attack planes directly dropped guided bombs, sending out red and black mushroom clouds, he couldn't help but sigh: "The war is already changing at a speed we can't foresee, it's only been a few years, and such things against the sky have entered our combat sequence and have been put into service in large quantities, maybe in a few years, we will be completely unfamiliar with war." ”

White Horse Ajia is very open to this: "The elimination of our old guys shows that our army is changing with each passing day, which is a good thing." Rather, I wonder how easy it would have been if there were these tengu in our time. ”

The Tengu mecha flew through the air like a plough, and then left behind the wreckage of Indian soldiers and vehicles, while the Type 99 main battle tank on the ground was like being robbed of the limelight, and could only follow behind to knock out a few Indian tanks that had not been completely cleaned up.

Some bold Tengu pilots even rushed into the formation of the Indian army, directly transformed into a mecha form at an ultra-low altitude, and fired wildly at the Indian tanks and armored vehicles that had no time to react, and even ordinary Indian soldiers. When all the enemies in this circle were destroyed by him, he suddenly pulled up from the ground and transformed into an attack plane, attacking the other Indian troops again.

Of course, the luck of these tengu is not completely good, they are flexible and fierce, but at the same time, after all, they are not as rough and thick as the main battle tank, and the Indian army also has some self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, or shoulder-fired individual anti-aircraft missiles, these things are the nemesis of the tengu, and many tengu were shot down by these anti-aircraft weapons in the case of not being able to dodge, but soon these anti-aircraft weapons will be set on fire by Chinese tanks and mechas, and they will be eliminated first.

In this day's engagement, an entire division of the 3rd Army of the Indian Army was almost completely annihilated by the 65th Army, and the Indian Army had to retreat all the way from the favorable defensive terrain of the mountainous border to the flat valley terrain. And here, the large-scale mechanized troops of the Chinese have more room to operate.