Chapter 797: Ground Battle

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Since President Imer Khan insisted on staying in Islamabad, and because this is the Pakistani army's aviation manufacturing base, and there are production lines of Thunder and J-10P fighters that have been established for decades, the Pakistani army and the PLA General Staff have worked out an operational plan to defend Islamabad, and the defense of Kashmir's eastern front can be handed over to the PLA under the premise that the 52nd and 53rd mountain divisions of the PLA are close to Srinagar.

In this way, the elite forces of the Pakistani army remaining in Kashmir, the 1st Independent Armored Brigade and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, rushed to the aid of Islamabad at night, and prepared to work with the 6th Armored Division, the 11th Independent Armored Brigade, the 17th Infantry Division, and the 3rd Independent Armored Division of the 1st Army of the Pakistani Army, with the strength of 4 divisions and 2 brigades, to concentrate more than 1,100 main battle tanks of various types to jointly resist the fierce attack of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army near Islamabad.

On the Eastern Front, following the defeat of the Pakistani 4th Army in Lahore, Punjab Province, the elite 14th Mechanized Infantry Division (one of the four elite mechanized infantry divisions of the Pakistani Army) and the 1st Armored Division, together with the 8th and 15th Infantry Divisions of the 30th Pakistani Army and the 5th Independent Armored Brigade, and the 35th Infantry Division of the 1st Army, gathered the strength of 5 divisions and 1 brigade to form a new eastern defense line in the area from Lahore to Gujranwala. Attempted to block the four main American equipment divisions of the Indian army that broke into Pakistan.

In the air, in the first round of air strikes, the radar system and the ground-to-air missile defense forces near Islamabad suffered serious losses, and the large fixed radar system lost almost more than half, and the ground-to-air missile defense system was completely damaged. In addition, it has always been a training base for pilots of the Persian and Pakistani armies, and weapons and ammunition are also readily available, so that these fighters can be used urgently on the blade, and finally withstood the first round of attacks by the US military, waiting for the support of Kashmir and the PLA Air Force.

However, in the first round of two air battles with the US and Indian armies, the Pakistani air force lost more than 150 fighters of various types, and its vitality was greatly damaged for a while, and it only had the strength to defend, plus the loss of more than 30 fighters by the PLA, China and Pakistan lost nearly 190 fighters in the first round of air battles; However, at such a heavy price, the Chinese and Pakistani sides did not gain nothing, destroying more than 20 US F-35 fighters and more than 30 F-15E/F fighters over Islamabad on the Western Front, and destroying more than 40 Indian F-16C/D fighters and more than 30 F-35 fighters on the Eastern Front, so that the Indian Air Force was once again severely damaged and temporarily lost the ability to fight again.

Due to the heavy damage to the main force of the air force near Islamabad, there are only more than 50 squadrons left, and the Pakistani army urgently mobilized 2 squadrons of J-10B from Kashmir to Islamabad to maintain the combat readiness level of nearly 100 squadrons of 4 squadrons, plus the remaining 3 squadrons in Kashmir, the Pakistani army can also assemble 180 fighters for defense over Islamabad, while at the same time, the PLA urgently transferred 2 J-10C flight regiments and 1 J-20 flight regiment from the interior to Srinagar, As a result, the number of Chinese and Pakistani air forces in Islamabad has increased to more than 300.

And the two J-10C flight regiments, which were originally stationed at Ali Air Base, were also replenished in time and could be reinforced at any time.

With such a strong air force to protect the safe passage of Kashmir to the country, Y-20 large transport planes began to continuously transport all kinds of combat readiness materials to Srinagar, from weapons and ammunition to radar systems, the PLA's material resources are continuous, and for the ground-to-air missile defense system urgently needed by Islamabad, the PLA Y-20 took the risk of urgently transporting the equipment of two Hongqi-16A missile battalions to Islamabad airport under the escort of two J-16C flight regiments.

The U.S. military has gathered more than 100 F-35 and more than 100 F-15E/F fighters in Afghanistan and the Gulf region, plus two F/A-18 Super Hornet wings of two aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as three F-16C/D fighters and one remaining squadron F-35 and one SU-30MKI deployed by the Indian army on the front of the Pakistani Eastern Front. They only agreed to support the operations of their ground forces and refused to commit their air force to attack near Islamabad.

As far as the three Argentine military are concerned, they now have to pay attention not only to the battlefield on the western front, but also to the east, where the Indian army occupies the southern Tibetan region of China, which is already full of gunsmoke and has the potential to burn the prairie fire.

At the beginning, the Chinese side planted the chess pieces in Indian-controlled southern Tibet, but now with the support of the PLA's secret weapons, it has successfully occupied the Yinglun and Yingkun regions in the eastern part of Indian-controlled southern Tibet, and then the two mountain regiments of the PLA Southwest Military Region have landed in two places respectively, and together with the local rebel forces, they have established a solid forward position, and firmly guarded several local field airfields, and received two special battalions of destroyer unmanned fighters of the People's Liberation Army to station.

In the face of the first counterattack of the Indian army, with the cooperation of the PLA Air Force and UAVs, the two mountain regiments of the PLA cleanly defeated the first round of attacks of the two brigades of the Indian army, and if nothing else, the main forces of the 13th Group Army of the Southwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army, the 37th and 38th Divisions, which had already entered the Nyingchi area, will soon enter Indian-occupied southern Tibet.

As the four mountain divisions focused on building by the Southwest Military Region, the 37th and 38th Divisions are as mobile and powerful as the 52nd and 53rd divisions in the Ali area, and have 1 T-96G tank regiment, 3 all-terrain machine infantry regiments, 1 light artillery regiment (2 105 mountain howitzer battalions and 1 wheeled self-propelled mortar howitzer battalion), 1 air defense regiment (under the jurisdiction of 2 midge-90 short-range anti-aircraft missile battalions and 1 anti-aircraft artillery battalion) and a destroyer unmanned fighter special battalion and other main combat units.

Under the premise of air supremacy, the mountain division of the Southwest Military Region has fierce firepower, which is better than the mountain division and even the infantry division of the US army, after all, there are 30 destroyer UAVs, each destroyer UAV can carry 16 Red Arrow-10 heavy anti-tank missiles at a time through 4 specially modified composite pylons, plus a rocket launch nest carrying 16 rockets, a destroyer UAV has an amazing strike power on targets such as tanks and heavy artillery, if there is not enough anti-aircraft fire protection, Each sortie of 30 Destroyers is enough to destroy an armored brigade.

Although the elite troops of the Indian army that invaded Pakistan had been attacked by the Pakistani destroyer drones, because the Indian army's American mechanics were equipped with a large number of Avenger air defense missiles, and the Pakistani army lacked enough unmanned reconnaissance aircraft such as Pterodactyl to assess the threat, the Pakistani destroyer drones that were rashly dispatched were destroyed one after another before they had time to exert their power.

Therefore, in the reinforcement of the Indian army in the east, the Indian army mobilized nearly half of the Akash anti-aircraft missile battalion in the country to go together to strengthen the air defense of the reinforced Indian army. This movement of the Indian army was quickly transmitted back to the General Headquarters of the Southwest Theater by the Shadow Unmanned Reconnaissance Plane, and then to Major General Li Quan, chief of staff of the 13th Group Army, who was leading the troops to advance rapidly and commander-in-chief of the Southern Tibet Front Command.

The rapid response of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has increased the pressure on the US front-line commanders, and in order to avoid long nights and dreams, the US military has decided to launch a ground attack without waiting for the air battle to be decided.

In the first battle M1A2SEP of Peshawar, more than 150 main battle tanks of an elite Khalid armored brigade of the Pakistani army were completely wiped out by the armored brigade and aviation brigade of the 4th mechanized infantry division of the US army in less than an hour, and the US army lost only more than 10 tanks, and even did not face the desperate counterattack of the individual anti-tank fire of the Pakistani infantry division in the next battle.

It can be said that the First Battle of Peshawar greatly increased the confidence of the US military command and figured out the strength of the Pakistani army. According to the information obtained by the US military in advance, in the active equipment of the Pakistani army, the Khalid main battle tank is the elite main force of the Pakistani armored forces, and the Pakistani army is equipped with a total of more than 1,200 vehicles in 2 Khalid armored divisions and 4 independent Khalid armored brigades, and the Pakistani army also has more than 1,000 Azra tanks modernized from the PLA T-59D and more than 500 PLA ZTZ-99 series main battle tanks.

Compared with the Khalid main battle tank, the Azra tank is obviously more vulnerable, so in the eyes of the US commander, only the 1st Armored Brigade of the Pakistani Army equipped with the PLA ZTZ-99S and the 3rd Armored Division of the Pakistani Army ZTZ-99A2 are the strong enemies of the US Army, but the Pakistani Army is equipped with more than 500 new tanks comparable to the M1A2SEP of the US Army, and the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division of the US Army is equipped with 320 M1A2 main battle tanks and more than 30 Longbow Apaches, Even if the 10th Mountain Division had a weak armored force, it had strengthened a cluster of more than 240 M1A2SEP tanks at the time of departure, plus more than 30 Longbow Apaches, and this attack force was only stronger than the troops in front of the Pakistani army.

Therefore, the US military has formulated a bold plan for a quick victory, preparing to quickly destroy the main force of the Pakistani ground forces, so as to advance into Islamabad.