Chapter 19: Altitude Training (7)
If you want to know the combat effectiveness of the Indian army, you can actually see it from the table of India in the three Indo-Pakistani wars.
India can be said to be a big country in terms of population, land, resources, and comprehensive national strength, and in fact, India itself considers itself a big country and even a strong country.
However, in the face of Pakistan, which has a population of only one-sixth of India's population and a fraction of its land area, Pakistan (India covers an area of 2.98 million square kilometers and Pakistan has an area of 880,000 square kilometers), has suffered more defeats than victories in three Indo-Pakistani wars.
In particular, the Second Indo-Pakistani War was a "undeclared war" sneak attack on Pakistan with 755 planes against Pakistan in the air force, which not only allowed Pakistan to hold on, but also allowed the Pakistani army to take advantage of the victory to pursue the Indian territory of 6 kilometers, occupying a total of 12oo square kilometers of Indian territory.
Of course, the most recent Indo-Pakistani war, the third Indo-Pakistani war in '71, was indeed won by India. But even this battle can be said to be won by Pakistan, because it won with the full support of the Soviet Union and the blockade of the sea with aircraft carriers, so that East and West Pakistan could not reinforce each other.
Pakistan could not win this battle at all...... Open the map, you will know that East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh, is separated from West Pakistan by an India in 6 places, and Pakistan's navy can be said to be not worth mentioning at all in front of India's aircraft carriers, which makes East Pakistan isolated and has little chance of victory.
In fact, I think even India has lost this battle.
The reason is simple: East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, could have been a burden to Pakistan.
If I had been asked to fight, I would not have taken down the whole of Bangladesh at all, but would have pretended to be defeated in the middle of the battle and retreated or ceased fighting for a while, and then fought again for a while.
If that's how it goes. Pakistan is about to have a headache: to do this reinforcement or not to send reinforcements?
Reinforcements, Dongba is 108,000 miles away from him, and there is India in between. It is almost impossible to reinforce from 6 places and air, and reinforcements from the sea have to face Indian aircraft carriers. That's almost sticking your neck out and getting stabbed.
In fact, Pakistan did send warships to reinforce East Pakistan, but it failed to break through the Indian army's naval blockade at the cost of more than 20 warships...... Whether there are aircraft carriers or not, that is, reinforcements of air power, in naval operations, it is not only a quantitative but also qualitative disparity.
If you don't send reinforcements, it means that you have abandoned your own people and land, and there is no doubt that this will cause dissatisfaction among the people in the country and even cause social unrest.
But India obviously does not have such a long-term plan, it is in this war is to use the method of "attacking from the east and defending in the west", and soon took East Pakistan and gave birth to Bangladesh, so this Bangladesh, which is different from India, has become a headache for India.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" Division Commander Wu pointed to the location of the Indian outpost on the map and said, "Although the military location of this outpost is not important. It doesn't occupy a large area, but we don't think we can afford to take it lightly. Because if we don't act accordingly, we will feed the enemy's appetite, and then they will build more outposts. ”
I agree with this, because human beings are endless, and for a greedy country like India, it is a bottomless pit, so don't have any illusions that you can fill it up and one day it will automatically stop expanding.
This is also the reason why the major countries in the world are now pursuing "not giving up an inch of territory" in their territory, and the best way to encroach on other countries is to break the illusion of the other side from the beginning.
"At the same time......" Commander Wu continued: "You also know the situation in our country now. Nor do we want this issue to lead to all-out war. Therefore, the superiors thought about it and thought that the best way was to give these Indian troops who had penetrated deep into our army a deterrent, so that they would retreat in the face of difficulties and dispel the idea of intensifying contradictions with our army. ”
I couldn't help frowning when I heard this. Although this strategic purpose is expected by me, it still makes me very difficult, because it must be very well proportioned, otherwise, a bad situation will turn into us firing the first shot and allowing India to occupy the commanding heights of public opinion in the international arena.
"How?" I asked.
"Build a new outpost south of the Indian army outpost." Division Commander Wu replied: "Of course, this has to use Black Hawk helicopters, and let the Indian army see the coordinated training of our army in air-landing, rope-landing, and air-dropping materials." ”
"Hmm!" I couldn't help but nod my head.
This seemed to be the only way, and the idea of building a new outpost was to tell the Indian army that the line had been crossed. And with Black Hawk helicopters, there will be a coordination like an exercise. That is to demonstrate to the Indian army, that is, to tell the Indian side that we also have helicopters that we use on the plateau. Not only that, but it has been able to coordinate well with the infantry and form a strong combat effectiveness.
It's obvious. The Indian army will report to the Indian top level after seeing these moves of ours, so the Indian military has to think carefully, is it good for itself to continue to let it go in the direction of war in this situation?!
From this, I also know why Commander Zhang sent our synthetic battalion up, Commander Zhang just wanted the Indian army to see the su zhì of our synthetic battalion.
But here's the problem......
Our synthetic battalion is used to fight, if there is no war or even no war, then can you still see any reputation? If you can't see the fame, can you scare the Indian army?!
"But you must be careful!" Division Commander Wu continued: "You must not use a gun or a knife unless you do it, this is a matter related to the war between the two countries and even international public opinion, and this point must be made clear to the soldiers. ”
"Hmm!" I nodded with a heavy heart.
If I could, I'd rather not do this mission, because it would be the equivalent of tying myself hand and foot to battle. But as a soldier, we have no choice.
After having a direction, the training of the synthetic camp is also targeted.
But the truth is that I'd rather not be targeted, because it's too depressing.
Building a post is not a big deal, after all, we all come down from the battlefield, and ordinary fortifications such as trenches, tunnels, etc., are a piece of cake.
The problem is not to provoke conflict......
You must know when our synthetic battalion has been polite to the enemy since it entered the battlefield, and it has always been to fight as much as it wants, and kill as much as it wants, but now it has such a task.
"Battalion commander!" After I explained the task clearly in the meeting, Scar said with a look of displeasure, "This mission...... Can you let the first battalion do it?! ”
"Yes, battalion commander!" Company Commander Luo also echoed: "We're used to killing people, now let's go up with guns, and we can't do anything in the face of those bitches, isn't this intentionally torturing people?" I don't think we're up for the task. What's more, this is just to build a sentry post, and there is no need to shoot guns, and the comrades of the first battalion will do the same. ”
Company Commander Luo's words still have some truth, this is a bit like battlefield syndrome, even if those of us who have been on the battlefield for a long time return to the rear in our own country, sometimes we will mistakenly think that we are on the battlefield, let alone on the border of the battlefield.
From this point of view, we are really not well suited to this task.
"You can't say that." The instructor smoked a smoky cigarette and said, "I think the reason why our superiors taught us this task is precisely because we have been on the battlefield. ”
"How?" Company Commander Luo asked.
"Whether you have been on the battlefield or whether you have killed someone, others can tell at a glance." The instructor replied: "Therefore, the Indian devils can also see that the superiors are trying to use this to make us shock the Indian devils, and if you want to let the soldiers of the first battalion go, I am afraid that it will not have this effect." ”
As soon as the instructor said this, the cadres were silent.
The instructor is really right, if it is just one or two people, then it may not be able to see anything, but a unit, a unit tempered in the war, then there is no need to shoot at all, as long as the brush brush can make people frightened and not angry.
"What's more......" the instructor said: "Just like Commander Wu said, when we built this outpost, we were going to use helicopters to shock the Indian devils, which inevitably had to be landed, rope landing, and airdropped. ”
The cadres couldn't help but look at each other when they heard this, the first battalion did learn some tactics such as plane landing and rope landing from us during this time, but first, because of the limited time, and second, because the soldiers of the first battalion had never been on a plane before, let alone taking a plane, and few of them had even seen it. So it's very difficult to train, and if they take a helicopter to build a post, maybe it will really be like the instructor said...... Let the Indian devils see the joke.
"I won't discuss this issue in the future!" In the end, I came to the conclusion: "This is our task no matter what, whether we want it or not, no matter how difficult it is, we have to carry it out." What we're going to discuss is how to accomplish this task, do you understand it? ”
"Yes!" The warriors replied in unison.
But it should be so, I still see a little helplessness in the eyes of the soldiers.
Actually, I don't have the same psychology as the warriors, but what can I do? Who made us a synthetic battalion, who made us soldiers! (To be continued) R655
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