Through the battle in Pakistan, the US military already knew that its M1A2SEP main battle tank was no longer the opponent of the PLA's 99 series main battle tanks, so in the face of the PLA's superior armored forces, the US army did not engage in a direct ground heavy armor confrontation with the PLA, but shrank the strength of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division back and maintained a distance of about 30 kilometers from the 162nd Division of the PLA.

However, the US military did not blindly retreat, but unexpectedly chose to use ship-to-ground cruise missiles and surface-to-surface tactical missiles to carry out the first round of strikes on the 162nd Division, and the US military's ATACMS-BAT surface-to-surface tactical missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles rained down on the 162nd Division's advance formation, and the 1st Tank Battalion and the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment in front of the breakthrough were caught off guard and immediately suffered a big loss, and half of the ZTZ-99S main battle tanks were hit by these anti-tank firepower falling from the sky.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, the 162nd Division hurriedly dispersed the tank troops, and at the same time urgently let the 162nd Division's Hongqi-7F anti-aircraft missile (FM-90M) regiment rush to the forward position to carry out air defense tasks, at this time, the US 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division 3 M1A2SEP tank battalions and 30 Longbow Apache also quickly killed, and the US Army used Longbow Apache to carry out guerrilla attacks, relying on the mountainous terrain of the Korean Peninsula to deal with the PLA's Hongqi-7F anti-aircraft missiles.

The U.S. Army's M1A2SEP tanks are assembled with 10-15 units as combat units, specifically approaching the scattered PLA ZTZ-99S to face off with the main gun, while for the more distant PLA tank and armored vehicle clusters, they continue to use ATACMS-BAT surface-to-ground tactical missiles to attack, in the face of this brand-new tactic of the U.S. Army, the 162nd Division has never considered facing such a complex operation before, and it is very difficult to deal with it for a while, and it has suffered heavy losses.

Under such unfavorable circumstances, division commander Senior Colonel Zhou Chong ordered the Hongqi-7E anti-aircraft missile regiment to deal with the constantly attacking missiles of the US army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he commanded the Wuzhi-10 Army Aviation Regiment to attack to deal with the US Longbow Apache attack, and at the same time requested the military Hongqi-17C air defense missile brigade to reinforce the US Tomahawk cruise missiles and ATACMS-BAT surface-to-surface tactical missiles, which often poured dozens of salvos on the positions of the 162nd Division's armored charge. The divisional Hongqi-7E anti-aircraft missile regiment alone could not cope with it at all.

The battlefield on the Western Front on the Korean Peninsula was a fierce battle from the very beginning!

On the one hand, he urgently ordered the air defense missile brigade of the 54 th Group Army and several subordinate divisions of the air defense missile regiment to urgently reinforce it, and on the other hand, he urgently requested that new air defense missile units be added to the country.

When Senior Colonel Zhou Chong finally came to his senses and separated the armored forces in his hands in small formations of 3-5 vehicles, on the one hand, to avoid the target being too large to attract US missile attacks, and on the other hand, to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the US troops one by one because the forces were too scattered, the 162nd Division finally relieved itself and began an organized counterattack.

However, at this time, the 162nd Division's armored strength had almost lost more than half, and at the same time, the division's Wuzhi-10 Army Aviation Regiment did not take much advantage in the longbow Apache duel with the US army.

After many battles, the US military finally realized that the PLA has a unique advantage in cluster joint operations.

It is a pity that in the air battle, the US military was unable to adopt the same tactics, so while the ground decisive battle was making progress, the fighters of the US, Japan, and South Korea coalition forces in the air were still helpless in the face of the PLA Air Force, which was weak in numbers, and even the fourth-generation fighters with great superiority could only achieve a slight air superiority, but they were still a long way from mastering air supremacy.

Compared with the 162nd Division on the Western Front, the progress of the PLA on the Eastern Front was relatively smooth, and the PLA used the 3rd Armored Division as a fist to surprise the elite 2nd Division of the ROK Army (the previous article was mistaken for the 4th Division, in fact, the ROK Army did not have the number of the 4th Division due to the inauspicious superstition of 4), and it took only more than half an hour to completely break through the tank defense line of the ROK 2nd Marine Division, and almost annihilated more than 100 K2 main battle tanks of the three tank battalions of this division.

These K2 main battle tanks, which were called the world's top three by the stick army, drove out to face off with the PLA head-on, but in the face of the PLA's ZTZ-99S tank, they were simply vulnerable, and were soon cleanly solved by the 3rd Armored Division's 3 tank battalions, ruthlessly exposing the stick tank's strong and middle-class paint.

However, in the following offensive, in the face of the Tomahawk cruise missile attack reinforced by the US army and the counterattack of the Dow anti-tank missile battalion and the Javelin anti-tank missile battalion of the ROK army, the 3rd Armored Division had little choice but to disperse and stop, waiting for the follow-up 116th Mechanized Infantry Division to press up and solve these obstacles.

Therefore, for the PLA, in addition to the US-ROK ground forces in front of the PLA and the US-Japan-ROK coalition forces in the air, the two aircraft carrier battle groups cruising in the Sea of Japan have issued a powerful ship-to-ground attack force, which has also become a big mountain in front of the PLA.

Therefore, for Admiral Li Hu of the DPRK Frontline General Headquarters, in addition to strengthening the air defense capability of the frontline troops to cope with the endless missile attacks of the US military, the most important thing is how to solve or drive the US aircraft carrier battle group out of the theater of operations in the Sea of Japan.

With regard to Admiral Li Hu's operational requirements, the navy, after careful study, said that there was no way to break through the Tsushima Strait, which was tightly sealed between Japan and South Korea, and that in this area, the United States, Japan, and South Korea had laid down an extremely tight submarine monitoring network, and even the newly modified 039 diesel-electric attack submarine could not dive into the Sea of Japan to carry out this arduous combat mission using an all-electric drive mode.

The Air Force also said that it was powerless, and that now in the airspace over the Korean Peninsula, the Air Force has to face the attack of superior fighters of the United States, Japan, and South Korea, and it is good that it can barely keep the air in the air from being controlled by the enemy, and it is really unable to send forces to attack the two US aircraft carrier battle groups, because with the air defense forces of these two aircraft carrier battle groups, dispatching a small number of fighters is completely useless to attack them. Unless hundreds of destroyers are dispatched to launch a saturation attack like the original attack on the Japanese 2nd Escort Group, it is possible to tear through the US air defense network.

But in the absence of air supremacy, the destroyer drones of the PLA simply do not have this opportunity.

Therefore, General Li Hu's request was transferred to the PLA strategic forces, but on the issue of dispatching strategic missile forces or strategic bombers, the senior staff officers of the General Staff Combat Command Center insisted on their own opinions. Although the Dongfeng-21D anti-ship ballistic missile possessed by the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has the ability to strike US aircraft carriers in theory.

However, this kind of anti-ship ballistic missile, which was well known to the US military for a long time, has been studied by the US military in many countermeasures, and the US Navy can completely confuse and affect the attack accuracy of the DF-21D by increasing the control of electromagnetic wave emission or using jamming transmitters, and at the same time, the US Navy can also use electromagnetic interference to disable or paralyze China's long-range maritime surveillance and positioning system, so that the DF-21D can be confused by the decoy target when it approaches the intended target.

In addition, the US military's Standard-3 ballistic missile defense system also has a strong sea-based terminal guided interceptor missile capability, and the number of DF-21Ds that the PLA now has is also limited, and it has not yet reached the most critical time, so it is impossible to use saturation attack methods to solve the two US aircraft carrier battle groups.

After intense discussions, the General Staff finally decided to use a variety of means to expel the two US aircraft carrier battle groups: on the one hand, they used the cruise missiles in the PLA that are in service and difficult to intercept at the end to launch decoy attacks, but the real killer was to dispatch the Terminator unmanned fighter to attack simultaneously from the air by using its near-perfect stealth characteristics.

Compared with the dispatch of the air force, the Terminator drone is more unpredictable, and the air-to-ship missile that suddenly falls from the sky is more concealed than the cruise missile, leaving the US military with less reaction time.

Within 24 hours of the PLA's launch of a ground counterattack, when the PLA's cruise missiles and the air-to-ship missiles of the Terminator UAV suddenly launched an attack on the aircraft carriers of the two US aircraft carrier battle groups in the Sea of Japan, the US military, which had been on high alert, still did not completely prevent the upper and lower attacks from the PLA, and an aircraft carrier was seriously injured by the air-to-ship missiles carried by the Terminator UAV.

Although the U.S. military can still launch cruise missile attacks from a long range, its offensive firepower has been weakened a lot, and this change has brought about a subtle change in the ground war on the Korean Peninsula, and the two main forces of the People's Liberation Army have worked together to drive the U.S. and South Korean Army back to the 38th parallel.

In this way, on the Korean battlefield, the two sides fell into a stalemate again for a while.

At the same time, the Indians sadly discovered that in southern Tibet, when the two main mountain divisions of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) entered, they were able to deal with nearly 100,000 Indian troops and completely control southern Tibet.