For Admiral Joseph, this late autumn was too bad, and all kinds of strange things happened to him. In the face of the Persian Air Force, which could not bear the ravages of its own land by the US military, it came out of its head when the US army attacked Islamabad, and it was obviously still pouring out, I really don't know what medicine they took wrong to be so crazy.

"Damn the Persians, are they crazy?" Admiral Joseph looked at the latest air intelligence reported by the intelligence staff officer like an enraged lion. Colonel Keating looked at Admiral Joseph, his heart was full of worry, of course he knew the reason, but he had no way to explain it, because the fiasco of the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army on the front line was a boulder on everyone's chest for all the officers of the US Army Command in Afghanistan.

This time, in order to solve the main force of the Pakistani army in the Attaq area, Admiral Joseph has done his utmost to mobilize the vast majority of the available air forces under the command of the two garrisons in the Gulf region and Afghanistan.

Although it was only about an hour, it was enough for the main armored forces of the Pakistani ground forces to be solved.

Who knew that the Persians, who could not even protect themselves, actually sent the remnants of their air force out to wade into this troubled water, this situation not only Colonel Keating did not expect, even the most whimsical people do not have such a rich imagination, the air force combat in modern warfare is not comparable to the ground troops, not face to face bayonet red, but outside the line of sight to complete the desperate fight.

In this over-the-horizon combat mode, it is necessary to have a complete set of complex system support, in addition to the land-based and air-based radar early warning and command systems, there is also a complex identification of friend and foe, and the fighters of the two countries are by no means simply fused together to work together, and Colonel Keating can be sure that although the relationship between Persia and Pakistan is close beforehand, it is by no means a military alliance.

According to the practice of the US military, even in the face of fighters of traditional military allies such as Japan and South Korea, there is no special application setting for the US military, and it is not easy to access the US military's early warning combat command system, let alone a temporary alliance partner.

Therefore, the participation of the Persian Air Force in the war not only has a complex political relationship problem, but also a huge technical problem, Colonel Keating really can't imagine how the PLA can solve this problem in such a short period of time, of course, he can't imagine that the theater joint combat tactical system developed under Duke's auspices can completely carry out highly intelligent command of all the firepower attached to it, and the built-in interface of the Persian Air Force's Thunder Dragon fighter system can be completely commanded by the airborne early warning aircraft after being connected to the Pakistani army's air early warning aircraft.

Similarly, the PLA's J-20 flight regiment is also directly under the command of the command system of the airborne early warning aircraft after it is connected, turning fighters from different countries into a unified air attack force.

In the face of the two squadrons of the Indian Army F-16C / D, the PLA J-20 flight regiment divided 10 J-20 fighters to meet the battle, although the A-3 Air Force has advanced by leaps and bounds under the transformation of the U.S. military, but compared with the U.S. military, there is still a big gap, their air early warning aircraft and F-16C \ / D combined, even if the 5:1 numerical advantage is not easy to deal with the PLA's 4th generation fighters, not to mention that the PLA's J-20 flight group is aimed at dragging the two squadrons of the A-3 Air Force, In terms of tactics, it can be more flexible.

Therefore, when the US F/A-18 Super Hornet and F/A-15E/F aircraft groups arrived in the Ataq area, the Persian Thunder Dragon group and the PLA J-20 arrived almost at the same time, under the command of the Pakistani Air Police-2000 early warning aircraft, the Chinese and Polish fighters, which were inferior in numbers, did not fall behind at all, and the US Air Force was too busy to take care of itself and did not care about effective air support on the ground, which not only made one of the F/A-15E\, which was half carrying ground attack weapons. Squadron F felt uncomfortable, and it was even more of an unspeakable torture for the 10th Mountain Division, which was hungry for air support on the ground.

After converging with the Hunter Air Defense Missile Battalion, the 1st Independent Armored Brigade turned around again and killed another horse gun, for the Pakistani army, this is the best opportunity to annihilate the 10th Mountain Division, and it will be difficult to obtain such fighters in the future, since there is already a Hunter Air Defense Missile Battalion in the air defense, the Longbow Apache helicopter in the face of the US army will also have the power to fight back.

Hearing the bad news that the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army went and returned, this made Major General Smith, who was originally relieved, raise his heart to his throat again, because in the face of the powerful attack power of the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army, the US Army could not resist either M1A2SEP main battle tank or M2 Bradley fighting vehicle, and now Major General Smith still has 2 main M1A2SEP tank battalions and 3 M2 Bradley Tank Battalions in his hands, but due to terrain restrictions, Major General Smith could not press all the forces at hand at once, and used the numerical advantage to offset the strong attack power of the Pakistani tanks, and kept up to two battalions into the engagement area at a time.

However, Major General Smith finally received a few good news, the Longbow Apache attack helicopters of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, which had been ordered to reinforce, had arrived, and now in front of the tank battalion of the 10th Mountain Division, an air-ground integrated defensive formation had been formed, and these 20 or so planes had also arrived, and the roar of fighters seemed to be heard in the air.

At an altitude of 1,500 meters, Lieutenant Colonel Sam, who led the longbow Apache to help, looked at the faint shadow of the Pakistani tanks that appeared in the airborne radar, and the blood began to heat up little by little, although there was a river valley below, the field of vision was not wide, and the undulating hills of several hundred meters high often formed a natural shield for the airborne longbow radar, and often only a part of it could be detected, but for Lieutenant Colonel Sam, this was enough, and a few dozen tanks of the Pakistani army were killed at a time, which was just right for his fleet.

Seeing that there was still some distance from the tanks of the Pakistani army, Lieutenant Colonel Sam decided to lead the helicopter group to attack forward, although the Hellfire anti-tank missile carried by the longbow Apache could reach 7 or 8 kilometers in theory, but it not only required an open area, but also had a low hit rate, so it was usually launched at a distance of 3 or 4 kilometers, and this distance was not only completely powerless for the opponent's tank, but also very effective in improving the hit rate of the Hellfire anti-tank missile.

However, before Lieutenant Colonel Sam went forward, he still called Major General Smith, the commander of the 10th Mountain Division on the ground, and obtained the consent of this temporary superior, Major General Smith also let his two M1A2SEP tank battalions under his command go forward to counterattack together, for Major General Smith, the only chance to redeem now is to completely annihilate the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army in front of him, otherwise with such heavy losses of the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army, it is really unlikely that he wants to stay in the position of division commander after this battle.

In order to prevent the Pakistani army from ambushing on the hill and sneaking up on the Longbow Apache with MANPADS, Major General Smith sent a large group of M2 Bradley vehicles and infantry to search the hills on both sides of the N5 highway to clear the potential threat of Lieutenant Colonel Sam's Longbow Apache, this is the only chance for Major General Smith, he must be firmly in his own hands.

However, Major General Smith was destined to have a bad year this year, when Lieutenant Colonel Sam vigorously counterattacked with the M1A2SEP tank battalion, and just before the sortie destroyed several tanks of the Pakistani army, the Hunter Air Defense Combat Command System, which was mixed with the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army, guided the "Flying Crossbow-6" anti-aircraft missile to give the longbow Apache who was fighting at a low altitude a head-on attack.

And Lieutenant Colonel Sam, who rushed to the front, at the moment when the Pakistani army launched an attack, drove his longbow Apache in the rapid radar warning sound in the plane while rapidly reducing the altitude, while heading towards the hill next to him, with a flexible response, Lieutenant Colonel Sam escaped the first round of "Flying Ballist-6" anti-aircraft missile attack of the Pakistani army, in the face of these sudden anti-aircraft missiles, Lieutenant Colonel Sam's first reaction was to order his attack helicopter group to retreat, away from this death zone, but in this way, The last two tank battalions of the 10th Mountain Division, which had moved forward at full speed to cooperate with Lieutenant Colonel Sam's operations, had just come within range of the attack, but could not retreat.

Because in the previous engagement, the US tankmen already knew that in terms of speed M1A2SEP compared to the opponent's ZTZ-99S gap is very large, and now they can not escape when they turn around, but become the target of the opponent, so they called for air support, but accelerated forward, preparing to close the distance and use the main gun for a duel, the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army saw the US Longbow Apache leaving, and in the face of the defeat of the US tank battalion, the morale of the US army was immediately greatly increased, Completely got rid of the shadow that had just been completely suppressed by the US military helicopter gunships.

The Pakistani Hunter Air Defense Missile Battalion is not afraid of casualties, and is closely following the 1st Independent Armored Brigade, so when the US Army's Longbow Apache once again appeared on the radar screen of the Hunter Air Defense Combat Command System, the Pakistani Army's "Flying Crossbow-6" air defense missile took off again, although this time because the US Army had already prepared, it was basically a sortie close to the hills, so that the Pakistani Army's new round of strikes did not gain much, but in the same way, because we should pay attention to the air defense force on the ground, we must aim at the Pakistani tanks. The U.S. longbow Apache also had very limited success.

The two tank battalions of the 10th Mountain Division were rapidly reduced by the all-out fighting of the 1st Independent Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army, and they were completely wiped out again in less than half an hour.

Faced with such a result and the situation that the air battle was still inextricably linked, Admiral Joseph finally lost confidence and began to order the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the remaining 10th Mountain Division to retreat, because if it was delayed any longer, the 10th Mountain Division, which was extremely thin on the right flank of the US army, was even in danger of being annihilated under the blows of the 1st Independent Armored Brigade and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Pakistani Army!