The news that the PLA completely annihilated the main force of the Indian Army's Eastern Navy Fleet once again shocked the Indian High Command and the Navy Command, leading to the resignation of the Chief of Staff of the Navy and the dismissal of a large number of senior generals who supported the attack of the Eastern Navy Command, triggering a major earthquake in the Indian Navy. Avoid clashes with the terrifying task force of the People's Liberation Army.

The Indian Navy, which has always boasted of being the master of the Indian Ocean, was hit hard by this attack, only to suddenly discover that there is a huge gap between reality and fantasy, and the Indian Navy, which had always been very confident in accusing the army and air force of being ineffective in the war against Pakistan and against China, was peeled off by the PLA, and the Indian Asans realized that the big navy that they were proud of and dominated the Indian Ocean was just a dream, and they just had not yet encountered the PLA.

In this naval battle, the Indian army devoted almost half of its main naval force to confronting a task force of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which not only completely dispelled the will of the Indian navy to resist, but also dealt another major blow to the top echelons of the Indian army.

Not to mention the first battle between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, the first battle in southern Tibet just past, 100,000 Indian army troops and dozens of fighter planes were still defeated in the face of the attack of more than 30,000 people of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) at ease, and the huge gap between the two sides in terms of combat strength can be seen from this, although some people at the top of the Indian army insist that the 100,000 Indian troops are not the main elite troops, and there is a big gap between them and the PLA in terms of equipment, and if a few American-style mechanized divisions are transferred over, the outcome of the war will be completely different, but the top military leaders of the three Arab armies have forgotten intentionally or unintentionally. The cruel fact that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) fighting from southern Tibet is only two elite mountain divisions of the Southwest Military Region, less than half of the strength of the 13th Group Army, and perhaps they still have not woken up from the dream of being the third in the world in terms of military strength, so they will continue to deploy troops to contend with the PLA, hoping to get back what they have lost, instead of considering reaching a new agreement on peaceful coexistence with the Chinese side through negotiations.

This gambler's mentality can only make Ah San lose even worse in the future, so that they will not only lose the illegally occupied southern Tibet, but also lose the vital Greater Assam region.

The Sino-Indian Battle of the Andaman Sea not only completely changed the combat posture of the Indian Navy, but also caused an uproar at the top of the US military. Vice Admiral W. Nicholson immediately summoned high-ranking generals, including the commanders of the USS Eisenhower and USS Truman, to convene an emergency operational meeting at the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

"Gentlemen, you must have received a dismal message," Vice Admiral Nicholson said straight to the point, "half of the Hindu's naval strength has been annihilated by the PLA task force, and although the Hindu navy is nothing compared to ours, but to be honest, if we were to replace our Fifth Fleet and fight against the two major aircraft carrier battle groups of the USS Eisenhower and the USS Truman, we would not necessarily do a better job than the PLA." You must know that the PLA side almost only suffered a little wound, and in just a few hours, it completely annihilated the Eastern Navy fleet of the Indians. ”

Vice Admiral Nicholson briefly commented on the latest battle incident, and then changed his words, "In view of this, the original combat mission of our fleet against the PLA task force was rejected by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the generals of the Supreme Command believe that judging from the current combat strength of the Fifth Fleet in the Gulf region, it does not have the strength to annihilate the PLA task force, and now the main forces of our US Navy are concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region, and combat preparations are underway against the main forces of the PLA Navy and Air Force. Under these circumstances, the Supreme Command believes that the United States cannot now afford the serious consequences of the destruction of the main forces of our Fifth Fleet and the PLA task force. ”

Although Vice Admiral Nicholson did not explicitly state this serious consequence, the senior US Navy commanders present here all knew that once the two major aircraft carrier battle groups "Eisenhower" and "Truman" made a mistake, the US military would be unable to sustain its control over the Gulf region and even the entire northern African region, and the US military would no longer be able to tightly control the Gulf, the world's largest oil-producing region, by relying only on US air bases in overseas regions and the army forces stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the case of a serious shortage of the US Navy, both the Persians and the Pakistanis may send their navies to pose a serious threat to oil tankers entering and leaving the Strait of Helmuz, which will greatly affect the stability of the supply of oil from the Gulf to the Western world.

With the narrow waters of the Strait of Helmuz, even if the Persians or Pakistani navies are weak, they have air forces and shore-based anti-ship missiles that would make the tankers entering and leaving the bay completely unsafe.

"Therefore, the High Command asked us to find another way to inflict heavy damage on the PLA task force at the minimum cost, especially their four large amphibious landing ships and the two 100,000-ton Ro-Ro freighters loaded with munitions. Do the gentlemen have any good ideas for the latest order of the High Command? Vice Admiral Nicholson finished speaking, looking at these senior admirals of the Fifth Fleet with hope.

Now that it is four or five days before the PLA task force arrives in Pakistan, the US military high command has canceled the original battle plan and has to reformulate and implement a completely new battle plan, which is undoubtedly an arduous task for Vice Admiral Nicholson, especially since the goal of this battle plan is to inflict heavy damage on the PLA task force while preserving the main force of the Fifth Fleet.

This extremely contradictory causal relationship was the most important reason why Vice Admiral Nicholson had brought everyone together to discuss it, because in his opinion it was simply an impossible task. At the beginning, the main force of the Fifth Fleet was used as a precondition, and it was necessary to use half of the air force and the Indian Navy in the Gulf region as auxiliaries, and the results of large-scale computer simulations showed that in the worst-case scenario, it was necessary to sacrifice nearly half of the strength of the Fifth Fleet to completely annihilate the PLA task force.

Of course, the premise of this computer simulation is to use the estimate of the strength of the PLA's active capital ships and air force fighters provided by the CIA, but in an air battle in the Andaman Sea, the combat power displayed by the PLA, whether it is carrier-based aircraft, main destroyers, and frigates, greatly exceeds the intelligence data provided by the CIA.

According to the Navy's reassessment of combat strength based on the results of the Andaman Naval Battle, in the worst-case scenario, the main force of the US Fifth Fleet and the PLA will lose both. Especially against the naval fleet in eastern India, the PLA has not yet dispatched its submarine forces and the killer features of the Donghai-10 series of cruise missiles.

"Impossible, General, are the generals of the High Command crazy?" Not surprisingly, as soon as Vice Admiral Nicholson's voice fell, there was an uproar among the generals below, they had all participated in the formulation of the last battle plan, and they had already understood the strength of the PLA task force, and now after this task force created a new result, these generals estimated that the strength of the PLA task force would only increase, so everyone was a little broken when they heard this extremely outrageous combat requirement. Commander of Task Force 56 Turner. Major General Brosnan spoke bluntly about everyone's thoughts.

As an amphibious assault force of the Fifth Fleet, the 56th Task Force did not have any combat missions in the previous battle plan, and in any future naval and air war, it will not be the turn of the amphibious combat force to do anything.

In the face of the general doubts of these generals under his command, Vice Admiral Nicholson had no choice but to throw out a new operational draft drawn up by his staff team. "Okay, gentlemen, since you can't come up with any good plan for a while, why don't you take a look at the following plan?"

Vice Admiral Nicholson opened the new operational draft and asked Chief of Staff Mark Nicholson. Rear Admiral Fitzgerald explained that this is a new plan based on submarine warfare, which is inspired by the PLA's asymmetric combat tactics against the US aircraft carrier formation, that is, to let the US nuclear submarines ambush the PLA task force on the road that must pass, and suddenly launch a sneak attack when the main force of the PLA task force passes by to attack the most important large transport ships in this fleet.

After reading the latest operational concept of the fleet command, the generals under the banner of the Fifth Fleet finally closed their mouths and began to think about the possibility of this new plan.

It has to be said that, judging from theoretical deduction, there is a lot of room for realization of this operational concept of the command, because the admirals present here will not forget that at the beginning, the PLA Navy, with its conventional submarines several generations behind the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines, could approach the US aircraft carriers within 20 nautical miles of the US aircraft carrier through this tactic in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and even almost appeared in front of the US aircraft carrier on one occasion.

Therefore, if the good tactical performance of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine is used, and if the route of the PLA task force can be determined, then this tactic is indeed very feasible.