But Lieutenant General Latif knew that Colonel Zhao Zezhong was by no means untargeted, and he was waiting for an explanation.

Sure enough, when Colonel Zhao Zezhong explained his plan and discarded it, Lieutenant General Latif nodded frequently, and finally adopted Colonel Zhao Zezhong's suggestion, and soon, the forward battalion of the armored unit attacking on the left flank of the Pakistani army suddenly turned around and began to retreat back to the west bank of the Indas River when it was about 20 kilometers away from the American army.

Although this tactical move of the Pakistani army is quite strange, the US military has not followed the Pakistani army to make any new moves, they still adhere to the established tactical plan, and do not keep the ground tanks and the longbow Apache in the air advancing in unison, and do not let the longbow Apache, which has strong mobility and anti-tank ability, attack alone because this looks like a rare fighter.

Not only that, in order to ensure the safety of the Longbow Apache, before the ground armored forces launched an attack, the US Longbow Apache maintained an altitude of more than 2,500 meters, and at this distance, the ground anti-aircraft firepower currently known by the Pakistani armored forces is basically not enough.

In the eyes of Major General Hawke of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and Major General Smith of the 10th Mountain Division, the US army now has M1A2SEP main battle tanks on the ground, Longbow Apache in the air, and then the Avengers anti-aircraft missile battalion and mechanized infantry fighting vehicle team to keep up with the protection.

According to intelligence, the Pakistani army, which has always been financially constrained, has limited investment in ground air defense missile systems, and they lack the same sufficient medium- and low-altitude anti-aircraft firepower as the US military; otherwise, if the Pakistani army equips its armored forces with the PLA's anti-aircraft missile battalion similar to the "Avenger" and the Flying Midge-90 air defense missile system, which is quite capable of maneuvering and anti-aircraft firepower, the US military's attack lineup will be full of flaws.

This is bullying the Pakistani army, which is far inferior to the US military in terms of weapons and equipment, and cannot afford helicopter gunships, planes, ground air defense missile systems, and even such things as the PLA's Type 99 series main battle tanks, the Pakistani army is also equipped with one division, one brigade, and one This is still a long-term loan provided by the Chinese side, and it needs to rely on the sales of the new Thunder and J-10P fighters to repay the debt.

Therefore, whether the Pakistani army attacked or retreated, the two commanders of the US front line were unmoved, and just proceeded as planned.

In the midst of the dust stirred up by the retreat of the large tank force of the Pakistani army, no one noticed that a few small troops from the east bank of the Indas River who were riding jeeps upstream, quietly dispersed into the bare hills on both sides of the Pakistani army's retreat road, most of these small brown hills are 2 or 300 meters high, not far from the N5 highway, about 2 or 3 kilometers.

Although the US military's unmanned reconnaissance planes found some figures moving in the hills, because the number was too scarce, in the face of the US military's all-mechanized armored team, these fighters were just like the armed men of the Pakistani army in front of them, and they were killed by themselves.

Once they started firing, the U.S. M2 Bradley would meet them with a burst of 25mm chain guns or 7.62mm machine guns, and they would soon be able to wipe them out in the mountains.

Soon, the tank units of the Pakistani army retreated to the vicinity of the Indas River bridge, and the distance between the forward tanks of the two sides was also shortened from 20 kilometers to less than 10 kilometers, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

As a company commander of the anti-tank missile battalion of the elite 5th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Pakistani army, Sajjad has six Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile squads under his command, and he was ordered to ambush all of them in several nearby valleys today.

"Attention! Nos. 1, 2, and 3 aim at the Humvee in the front row from left to right, respectively, and Nos. 4, 5, and 6 aim at the Humvee in the back row from left to right, and wait for my order to shoot at the same time! Immediately after the first strike, it was necessary to shift positions and wait until the first round of fire by the US forces to re-aim at the remaining Humvees. Sajjad swallowed dryly and whispered in Urdu, and soon his orders spread to the six Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile squads lurking in the nearby valley.

The 16 Humvees of the U.S. Army lined up in 4 rows to follow the tank battalion, in front of and behind them were 2 M2 Bradley Tanks, the machine guns and machine guns on them were all facing the direction of the valley, ready to shoot at any time, all the way from Peshawar, the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army was harassed by small units of the Pakistani Army, but under the blow of the M2 Bradley Tank, the harassment of the Pakistani Army usually ended in a dismal end, even if the Pakistani Army used weapons such as rocket launchers to attack, it was of little use to the M2 Bradley TankThe rain of bullets from the machine guns and machine guns that poured down over the past was often able to beat the attacking Pakistani army into a sieve towards the area where the smoke of gunpowder was not exhausted after the rocket was launched.

As for the valley 2 or 3 kilometers away from the highway, the US military believes that at this distance, the RPG series of bazookas common to the Pakistani army will not play any role at all.

As the group reported and aimed, Captain Sajad finally gave the order to shoot, and the six Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missiles sounded a terrible howl, as if with the greeting of death, directly pounced on the Avenger Humvee that was traveling about 30 kilometers, and when the smoke of the anti-tank missile launcher was not exhausted, the Pakistani attack team was busy shifting positions.

The driver of the U.S. Humvee military vehicle, which was advancing at a constant speed, heard a terrible sound, and turned his head slightly to see one after another fire-breathing things emerging from the hills next to him, and he couldn't help but turn blue with fright, and subconsciously stepped on the accelerator to the extreme, and the Humvee instantly roared forward and accelerated, but it was too late at this time, and the whistling Red Arrow-8M missile seemed to have eyes, accurately hitting five Humvee military vehicles one after the other, and only one came out of the bar and hit the highway railing next to it.

The Humvee car, which had almost no armor defense, quickly split into countless flying parts in the violent explosion, and the violent shock wave emitted by the Stinger anti-aircraft missile that exploded knocked a Humvee military vehicle that was not hit next to it to the ground, and in a blink of an eye, the U.S. military lost 8 Humvee military vehicles equipped with the Avenger air defense missile system!

It's just that the U.S. M2 Bradley combat vehicle, which has been on high alert, is not slow to react, and it only took more than ten seconds to complete the process of observation, aiming and firing after hearing the howling, and the four "big viper" chain guns roared angrily towards the four smoking places, and the two groups of Pakistani Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile groups that are in the process of emergency transfer are slightly farther away from the next hidden ambush site due to the poor terrain chosen for ambush shooting. As a result, the Pakistani soldiers carrying the launcher were quickly torn to pieces by the US machine guns!

The surviving Pakistani soldiers on the side did not care about the casualties of their comrades-in-arms, and desperately stepped forward to snatch the launcher of the Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile, but after revealing their figures, they became the target of the US army, and they were soon crushed by the "big viper" machine gun, and in just a few tens of seconds, the two Pakistani Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile groups that launched the attack were completely wiped out.

Braving the fierce artillery fire of the US army, Captain Sajjad endured the severe pain of the casualties of his comrades, and calmly commanded the remaining 4 groups to look for new shooting opportunities, but unfortunately in the process of aiming, another group was accidentally exposed to US fire and was destroyed again, and when Sajjad gave the order to shoot for the second time, only 3 of his men had launched anti-tank missiles, this time their luck was not good, the US Humvee military vehicles after the attack just now, all of them sped up, not to mention, and began to walk in the S-shape, As a result, only one of the three anti-tank missiles of the Pakistani army hit.

By the time there was no echo from Sajjad's headphones, there were only four Humvees left in one of the Avenger anti-aircraft missile battalions of the US Army's forward. Sajjad endured his grief and quickly sent the results back to Atak's command.

Lieutenant General Latif, who was anxiously waiting for the results of the battle on the front line, heard the information about the results transmitted by Sajjad, and immediately ordered all the Destroyer drones hovering over Ataq to press towards the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army! 40 Destroyer drones instantly accelerated to supersonic speed, and in less than a minute, they pounced on the Longbow Apache group of the 10th Mountain Division.

The Destroyer drone, which has an absolute advantage in mobility, swooped down from the sky, and one after another Red Arrow-10 anti-tank missiles fell from the sky, opening the longbow Apache of the US army into the air! After completing the destruction of the U.S. Longbow Apache fleet, the Destroyer drone, which had not yet run out of ammunition, then pounced on the U.S. Army's M1A2SEP tank battalion on the ground, and launched an attack from the top, so that the invincible M1A2SEP tanks were lifted one after another.

After the destruction of 40 Destroyer unmanned attack aircraft, a Longbow Apache cluster of more than 30 aircraft of the 10th Mountain Division and nearly 30 vehicles of M1A2SEP the Forward Battalion were completely destroyed.

At this moment, less than 5 minutes before the Sajjad Red Arrow-8M anti-tank missile battalion launched the attack, Major General Smith of the 10th Mountain Division, commanded in the center, had no time to react at all, and his 10th Mountain Division was severely damaged.