The armored complex terrain crossing ability is fully reflected when passing through the ridge line of Pilbenjar Ridge with an average altitude of 3,900 meters.

On the southern border of the Kashmir Valley, even those peaks of 4,500 meters cannot stop the attack on the mecha.

The average altitude of the Kashmir Valley is above 1,500 meters, and the height of the area can even reach 1,800 meters. This is a very amazing geographical data.

The entire valley is 155 kilometers long and 56 kilometers wide, with an area of ​​about 15,000 square kilometers. The Jahram River, a tributary of the Indus River, flows through it. It is the most populous and most developed agricultural area in Kashmir.

The western section of the Himalayas runs diagonally into the central part of the district, high and upright, with 13 peaks exceeding 6,000 meters, Nanjia Peak as high as 8,126 meters, and modern glaciers.

There are gravel terraces on both sides of the valley in the upper reaches of the Indus River. The outer edge of the alluvial fan caused by each tributary extends into the main valley. Leh is located on the alluvial fan at an altitude of about 3,800 meters.

The average altitude of Kakron Mountain on the northeastern border is more than 6,000 meters, and there are four peaks exceeding 8,000 meters. Among them, the Qiaogoli Peak located on the border between China and Kashmir is as high as 8,611 meters, making it the second highest peak in the world.

Here, a convoy was driving along a simple road built around the mountains. Generally speaking, armored troops would not choose such a terrain to advance.

You can only pass through one tank at a time. If the intersection is blocked by a huge rock, the ambush can launch a condescending attack. There is no place to hide.

But the mecha troops are not very worried. The so-called steep slope of the obstacle, the storm of the mecha with hands and feet, can be completely used to climb over with flexible movements, unlike tanks, who are helpless once the road ahead is blocked.

An armored container truck specially designed to load attack mechas, swaying on the bumpy mountain road, occasionally touching larger stones or mounds, and shaking without warning.

The passengers in the car were obviously complaining.

"Damn. Who built this broken road?" Wang Ruizhi kept complaining about it because he had always been accustomed to the smooth road conditions in China.

He and Zhang Qiuyuan are in the same mecha combat squad, each with 12 people. One squad leader is responsible for commanding operations, two deputy squad leader is responsible for driving mechas, and two other two are reserve drivers and also act as guards.

The remaining people are basically engineers, and their main job is to take care of the mecha and maintain the land.

Each combat squad is equipped with two attack mechas and an armored transport vehicle. The attack mechas are lying obliquely on the metal bed frame. In order to save space, they are also closely connected with each other.

"Hey, Ayuan." While eating chocolate to supplement physical energy, Wang Ruizhi sat on the metal rack on the roof of the car and said to Zhang Qiuyuan beside him: "Why don't you just use a heavy transport plane to airdrop us behind enemy lines? Such a mountain road is simply a pain."

Just because of this, Wang Ruizhi still has a lot of resentment towards the top leaders.

Zhang Qiuyuan thought, "I think it's better for security and suddenness. The premise of using the strategic air force is to have air supremacy. On the Western Front, we obviously do not have the corresponding ability."

"There is another point. I mainly want to test the combat capabilities of our mecha troops on complex terrain. (It's time to read the novel.) As for our life or death, do you think the above really care about it?"

When Wang Ruizhi thought of his father, he was deeply convinced by Zhang Qiuyuan's words. He patted himself and felt a little dizzy: "This is a damn plan."

"Bastard, I can't stand this road anymore!"

The loud roar echoed in the valley, making everyone in the entire convoy deeply agree.

But the superior's order is absolute. Although it is harder, at least this order is not something that makes people die.

On the other hand, in India, given the very rugged mountainous terrain in Kashmir, their layout on the Western Front was also quite cautious, rather than blooming in many aspects like the Eastern Front.

After all, on the Western Front, the strategic positioning is mainly based on defense. Even if an attack is launched, it will only affect the situation better.

Therefore, India's first attack cluster on the Western Front was divided into two fronts, among which the Western Front included the four mixed infantry divisions equipped with advanced weapons, including the 37th, 88th, 32th, 17th, and 74th.

In order to better enhance its assault capabilities, the 2nd and 7th** Armored Brigades were specially drawn from the large forces of the second attack cluster. These two armored brigades were all equipped with m60 main battle tanks from the United States, and their penetration capabilities were amazing.

This front army equipped with a large number of mechanized weapons was all gathered in the foothills and hilly areas in the northern part of the Jammu Plain. The terrain here is relatively flat and suitable for the development of mechanized army armored forces.

As for the target of attack, there is no doubt that it is the Bernighal Pass controlled by Pakistan.

This is the pass of Bilbenjar Ridge, located in the Pakistan-controlled area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir. "Bernihar" is Kashmir, meaning "snowstorm".

The pass is extremely high at a height and is the main gateway between the Kashmir Valley and the Indian Plain. In the past, cargo transportation had to be carried by people and took one day.

However, with the help of the Chinese Federation, Pakistan built a highway here to pass through it through the tunnel, which is generally accessible all year round and is only occasionally blocked by heavy snow in winter.

It is summer now, and the ice and snow have melted, and relying on this highway, it launches a surprise attack on the Pakistani troops stationed there.

As the main force of the assault, the Eastern Front Army included three mixed infantry divisions, the 37th, 88th, and 17th, as well as the 5th and 7th Armored Divisions.

The troops were deployed very concentratedly, all gathered in the eastern Kashmir Valley. The main target was to climb the East Pass, which was Pakistan's weak defense link on the Western Front, which was just the breakthrough point.

There is a prominent corner west of the Himalayas, which is the only natural barrier on Pakistan on the Western Front, and Bernighal and Dingdong are both gateways to get out of the mountains. If you want to break through Pakistan’s defense on the Western Front, these two channels are a must-pass place.

The Indian army now has a powerful armored force, so we can consider using strong attacks to break through these two places head-on.

Once the Indian army controls these two crucial passes, their armored troops can rely on the road system built by Pakistan and drive straight into the core hinterland of Pakistan. [*you]

Only by breaking through these two passes can the Western Front Army move from west to east, and then surround the upper valley of the Indus River from the flanks, attack Pakistan's Western Front defenders on both sides, causing them to be attacked from both sides.

The main purpose of the Eastern Front Army was to go up the Indus River, penetrate directly from the side and launch an offensive with the Western Front Army, which was the main force, and attacked the Pakistani army in the middle.

The ultimate goal is self-evident. The two fronts of India want to cut off the ground connection between Pakistan and the Chinese Federation in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir area to prevent troops from entering here.

You should know that in order to more effectively assist Pakistan's military and economic development, and to expand the actual image of the United Nations Government in this region, there is a highway from the country that connects Pakistan through the Karakoram Pass.

India hopes to gain strategic initiative by occupying this place. The Indus Valley is the most developed and most populous area in Kashmir.

However, because it has always bordered the Pakistan-controlled area, the Indian government and the people are reluctant to develop this area, which has led to the fact that the economic advantages here have not been established, and a good place has been wasted.

Therefore, India hopes to establish a safer environment by controlling more peripheral areas to promote the economic development of the Indus Valley.

What's more, controlling this area is equivalent to controlling the entire territory of Kashmir. In this way, you can enter the Karakoram Pass through Leh at any time to strategically deter China's ** hinterland.

Large-scale cluster armor tactics are unusable for attacks on these two valley entrances, because the terrain attack surface is narrow and there is no room for detour. The assault advantages of tanks and armored vehicles cannot be reflected at all.

Although these two places are lower at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters in the entire mountain range, including 13 peaks above 6,000 meters, but still have an altitude of about 3,000 meters, which belongs to the plateau area.

In such a climate, it is simply unrealistic to expect the main battle tank to play its advantages and attack areas where the enemy is heavily defending.

At best, tanks can only be regarded as self-propelled artillery. In the first stage of the battle, smooth-bore tank guns were used to blast the Pakistani military positions on the top of the mountain for a few seconds.

However, considering the linear strike method of tank guns and the accuracy of long-range attacks of smoothbore guns, this is really meaningless. Unless there are a large number of god gunners in the Indian army's armored division.

Therefore, here, the main force of the attack is still various mountain artillery and infantry. When necessary, we must rely on the charge of the infantry to seize the enemy positions on the mountain pass, so that the armored troops can enter the highway and pass through the tunnel without any threat.

On June 27, at 4 a.m., it was still dark, but the rumbling of tanks had begun to break the tranquility of the earth, and the Indian army was coming in full force.

Immediately, a fierce raid was launched on the mountain pass defended by these two Pakistani troops.

The first stage was artillery fire suppression, and a fierce artillery bombardment was carried out on the Pakistani positions that were passively defending on the high ground with more than two thousand cannons of various calibers.

In order to completely suppress the Pakistani army in the position, the Indian army also dispatched 50 "Java" attack aircraft and carried out carpet bombing of the Pakistani army's positions under the air escort of 40 Phantom iii fighters.

This is the first time such fierce artillery fire since the end of World War II.

Compared with the modern regular army fighting between India and Pakistan, the past conflicts between Pakistan and Israel are like fighting between children, and the scale of artillery fire used alone is completely different.

The fierce aerial bombardment and artillery attack lasted for half an hour. It was not until 4:30 that India ended its firepower suppression and instead sent ground troops.

This tactic is also a classic infringement coordination, although for Indian soldiers, the word "synergy" is a bit far-fetched.

Regarding the two valleys and highlands stationed by the Pakistani army, the Indian army invested two medium-sized infantry regiments respectively. With a frontal frontier of 2 kilometers, it launched a fierce attack on the Pakistani positions on both sides of the mountain pass without hesitation.

According to the Indian Army's marching regulations, the attack front of an infantry division should be within a range of 12 to 18 kilometers. Based on this calculation, the attack front of two infantry regiments should be about 9 kilometers.

However, now, the Indian army has compressed the attack front of the two infantry regiments put on the battlefield to two kilometers. In addition to the reason why the complex mountain environment is not conducive to the development of ground troops, there is another more important tactical factor.

Since the armored troops were unable to invest in this assault operation, in view of this situation, we should concentrate our superior forces and adopt large-scale cluster charges in an established manner. Only by taking down the Pakistani position on the high ground as quickly as possible.

If the Indian army's marching regulations are implemented and the conventional offensive density is adopted, it will mean that the Indian army cannot invest more than one battalion at the entrances of these two valleys.

This is equivalent to giving up the advantage to Pakistan, which is the defender. There is no doubt that the opponent's defender not only relies on solid fortifications, but also has more people than one battalion of yours.

This is a tactic of adding fuel to the oil. When the Pakistani army comes to help, all opportunities will be lost.

In the first two India-Pakistan wars, India's "pig strait" tactics learned from Japan were successful, and it once broke through the Pilbenjar Ridge, which was heavily guarded by the Pakistani army.

With such successful precedents and combat experience, the Indian army is now re-producing the old tune, and it can be considered easy to use when it is used.

Two Indian light infantry regiments rushed towards the Pakistani positions on both sides of the Bernhar Pass without any armored vehicles, and people rushed to the tide of attack.

What surprised the commander of the Indian Infantry Regiment was that his troops were less than one kilometer away from the Pakistani army's position and had not yet been subjected to the opponent's counterattack.

"Isn't it possible to use cannons to kill everyone on the other side?" This question arose in the minds of the Indian officers.

According to the usual examples, even if the Pakistani army suffered heavy damage during artillery attacks, there would be more or less artillery counterattacks. An Indian brigadier general who was commanding the attack now really couldn't understand it.

He was very suspicious of Pakistan's conspiracy, so he immediately issued an order to stop the ground infantry troops responsible for the assault.

After talking to his immediate boss, Nohar, the commander of the 88th Infantry Division, the Brigadier General dictated the abnormal situation on the front line and asked for instructions on the next action.

After listening to the report from his subordinates, Nohar was very angry at his subordinates' practice of changing orders without authorization. In his opinion, no matter what Pakistan does, it is absolutely impossible to stop the infantry troops from advancing.

For this reason, Nohar grabbed the phone and scolded the "cowardly" brigade general.

"Do you have candles on your head? You have to stop without being blocked by the enemy. Do you think this is logical? I really don't know how you, a brigade general, got your rank!"

In addition to cursing, Nohar was also secretly cursing the senior leaders of the Indian Congress who promoted officers to be nepotist.

Although this so-called brigade general had studied in the army school before, he went to the battlefield and was completely committed to the battle.

It seems that it was because my uncle was the general staff officer of the Indian Ministry of Defense that he was able to hold his current position.

In Nohar's eyes, such an officer who relies on nepotism to "make a living" would be arranged under his command, and Nohar naturally complained about this.

The young brigade general was so mean to Nohar, and he didn't dare to take it back on the surface, but he secretly wrote it down in his heart and began to think about how to say bad things about Nohar after he went back.

Of course, the orders from superiors were absolute, and Comrade General still had to obey Nohar's orders and let his troops continue to rush towards Berniehal.

For the Indian soldiers in the first storm tier deep, this attack was really the easiest and smoothest ever. They rushed to the Pakistani army's position without any counterattack.

This suddenly, in the heart of the brigade general, he was so happy that he made a contribution that he could definitely get an opportunity to improve with his relationship in the army.

Even if it is possible to replace Nohar, the annoying guy, and become the commander of the 88th Infantry Division of the Indian Army, Comrade General has begun to fantasize about his bright future.

Of course, we must inform the division headquarters behind us as soon as possible, and clearly stated that we had led our team to occupy the valley position of the Pakistani army and completely controlled the entire Bernhard.

He even added fuel to the fire and said that the Ba army had been scared by the infantry's decisive charge and fled in a hurry along the mountain road.

As for why there were no enemies on the position, he was too lazy to think about it.

In fact, if a weak country carefully analyzes, it is impossible for the enemy to withdraw from its defensive position without any casualties. Once this happens, an excellent commander will always consider whether the enemy has consciously given up the position.

But it is obvious that Nohar's evaluation of this comrade general is very accurate, and he is indeed worthy of the title of "Listen Bucket".

At 6:14 in the morning, after receiving the war notice from the front line, Nohar, who had not slept all night, received a surprise attack on the Pakistani army, he still reported the war situation to the General Command of the West Route Front Army.

Singer, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army, immediately ordered another infantry regiment to be sent up to strengthen the fortifications there based on the steep mountains and the enemy's original trenches.

At the same time, Nohar was also asked to send his armored troops out and advance along the mountain road, striving to pass through the mountain pass as soon as possible.

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