Chapter 1138 The second line of defense
Under our feet are lush weeds. It is June, and the bright sunshine is shining on the earth.
Not far away, there was a battlefield filled with smoke from gunpowder. Destroyed Indian tanks were lying there quietly. Many of them were still burning with flames and bursts of smoke.
As a prisoner, Singh was not handcuffed and kept in prison in prison camp like other ordinary Indian soldiers, but was taken to Wade Ahmed and treated with courtesy.
He was entertained with a cup of black tea, which was served with silver tea sets, slightly dissipated with heat, and even pastries made of good cream, which tasted rich and sweet.
India and Pakistan were once colonized by Britain and were more or less infected with the noble leftists of Western Europe. Between the upper classes, they were not hostile to each other like the people, but had a certain respect.
In previous India-Pakistan wars, unless they die on the battlefield, senior officers with noble status will be respected and treated well by the hostile camp after being captured.
Until now, it has become a habit.
"General Ahmed, what are those new army weapons?" Singh pointed to the raid mecha that was leaving the battlefield not far away. His body, which was nearly nine meters long, stepped on the grass, kicking and slashing like thunder.
Singer was deeply afraid of such a heavy army unit, and what he was worried about was not his own safety, but whether the Pakistani army had also invested in such an armed force on several other fronts.
Moreover, Singh also vaguely realized that the Chinese had already intervened in the war between India and Pakistan, and dug a trap, waiting for India to dive into it.
Wade Ahmed could only smile bitterly when asked about Singh's question: "I just learned about this weapon."
For the Indian Major General who invaded his country, Wade Ahmed actually had no hatred, ethnic and religious disputes, and struggles between nobles, in the eyes of the senior officials, it was just a relatively dangerous game.
As an upper class noble, his safety is guaranteed. Even if he is captured, as long as he is willing to pay the ransom and does not intentionally cause trouble, the other party will not do anything to you.
This is a kind of balance and compromise, and the people below fight and kill, and it does not hinder this "friendly" exchange between the upper class.
Although this defensive operation was successful, after successfully using the tactic of luring the enemy, the two aggressive armored brigades of the Indian army were annihilated, and the troops on both wings also began to follow up and shrink their pockets, accepting the two infantry divisions and a motorized infantry brigade that the Indian army then rushed to.
But overall, Pakistan has realized that their military power is completely different from India. If it weren't for the secret help of the Chinese Federation, India would have probably entered Islamabad after this war.
If it weren't for the attack on the mecha troops and put them on the battlefield in time, Pakistan's heavy infantry would have been unable to withstand the attacks of the two mechanized armored brigades of the Indian Army.
Due to training and soldiers' discipline issues, the Pakistani army still retains the color of the old era, rather than a nationalized military system, and is more like a regional warlord.
Therefore, many tactics are similar to dangerous tasks such as using anti-tank rockets to approach and shoot enemy tanks. It is difficult for Pakistani soldiers to perform. The technical gap can also be made up through training. However, the morale of the military is related to the soldiers' own qualities.
Most of the soldiers from Ba Army who are peasants are not able to leave their home countries, nor can they master and apply many complex tactical techniques.
Fortunately, Major General Wade Ahmed, the commander of the Ba Army, listened to Zhu Hongzi's advice in time and issued an order immediately. The artillery troops invested in the first line of defense quickly retreated to the tunnel area of the second line of defense, avoiding the fate of being surrounded.
However, in the entire Siba defense zone, except Wade Ahmed, the other defense zones have not had very good results.
Especially in the battle in the plains. Even though the tunnel defense system suggested by the China National Affairs Consultant was adopted, the Pakistani army still paid a very tragic price.
Once again, it proved that it would be a nightmare for infantry to encounter mechanized armored units that are superior to the plains. Even if anti-tank trenches can be built, they cannot cover such a vast area. What's more, infantry lacks effective counterattack ability when facing tanks.
Wade Ahmed was completely powerless to do anything about the infantry divisions that had been surrounded on the other fronts, and could only ask the rest of the units to organize on the spot and hide in the complex tunnel system to defend. The task was to preserve their own strength and give up the deadly defense of the defense line.
But the problem is that under the fierce artillery fire of the Indian army, the front-line troops of the Pakistani army suffered heavy casualties. As far as we know, more than half of the Pakistani army divisions were completely disrupted, and even a group of troops entering the tunnel had lost their unified superior command.
Even though the Chinese Federal Army's strong attack on the mecha reversed the situation on the last line of defense, the Pakistani army suffered huge losses on the entire Siba battlefield.
Now, many troops can only fight on their own. News from the General Staff said that on the Western Front, there are currently 4 army divisions who have lost 20% of their combat effectiveness in the early stages of the battle.
On the first line of defense designed by the Chinese affairs consultant, the front-line troops lasted for less than 4 hours before the Indian army's armored troops were broken through.
The remaining nearly 70,000 infantry forces have been divided into dozens of parts of varying number of people. Only by entering the underground tunnel and continuing to hold their positions, the surface positions fell into the control of the Indian army. After the two mechanized armored brigades of the Indian army encircled the Pakistani army on the first line of defense, the three subsequent infantry divisions of the Indian army quickly broke into the Pakistani army's position and began a battle to clear out the remaining enemies.
Although the Pakistani army has not received systematic tunnel defense combat training, their practical experience is seriously insufficient, and it can even be seen during the excavation that the entrances of many underground tunnels are exposed to the Indian army.
It is precisely because of this unprofessionality that it has brought a lot of losses to the Pakistani army's defense plan.
The only thing that is thankful is that the old rival of the Pakistani army, the Indians, have not received systematic tactical response training and do not know how to deal with enemies in the tunnel.
As a result, both sides fell into a state of confrontation, which should be considered favorable to the Pakistani army, at least delaying the Indian army's actions.
But from the overall perspective, the Indian army introduced war into Pakistan on the Western Front battlefield and also restrained a large amount of its military power. Then it could not correspond to the East Pakistan troops.
Therefore, the Indian army's strategic goal of restraining the West-Pakistan front has also been achieved, and now it is Pakistan that cannot be delayed.
On the Western Front battlefield, the Indian army was powerless to deal with the Pakistani infantry hiding in the tunnels, so they had to use firepower coverage and use dense artillery to bombard and block the exposed tunnel entrances in various places in order to prevent the Pakistani army from making a comeback.
On the other hand, the Pakistani army was also unable to break through the Indian army's fire blockade, so it was even more impossible to carry out any counterattack. Fortunately, in the tunnel, the Pakistani army prepared a large amount of supplies and was rich in supplies.
Even if you lose contact with the outside world like now, you can still hold on for a month. This is not a problem. After receiving the military report from the Siba Front, the General Staff of the Pakistan Army quickly determined that the first line of defense of the Pakistani army should have nearly 70,000 troops on the position to resist stubbornly.
It is also obvious that the three infantry divisions that we have invested are not enough to complete the annihilation of Indian offensive forces. Therefore, officers on the front line called the General Staff to request the General Staff, hoping that reinforcements could be sent from the rear.
There were frequent reports of stalemates on several battlefields on the Xiba defense line, and only Wade Ahmed sent his smooth report to the General Staff of the Pakistani Army. He hoped to invest greater military forces and pursue and annihilate the remaining Indian army's western fronts.
Anyway, the enemy's commander of the Western Route Army had been captured by himself, and there was also a special mecha battalion from China. Wade Ahmed is now very confident.
In view of this exciting news, the Pakistan Army General Staff Headquarters also decided to draw the Strategic Reserve and Kashmir Guards to reinforce Wade Ahmed's Eastern Route Army.
Comrade Major General was also promoted in the war, becoming a lieutenant general, and obtained temporary command of the upgraded Eastern Route Army. A powerful ground force with 10 elite infantry divisions and 3 ** mechanized armored brigades.
The Pakistani top leaders not only hope to resist the Indian army's offensive, but also hope to echo the compatriots in East Pakistan and jointly resist India's invasion by invading the Indian-controlled areas in Kashmir.
When returning to the main battlefield of the Western Front, except for the defense zone run by Wade Ahmed, the Indian army gradually gained the upper hand in other places. When the quality of the soldiers was almost the same, the quantity and quality of the weapons determined the outcome of the war.
The main force of the Indian Army's eastern route, three mechanized armored brigades followed the two heavy mechanized armored divisions, and four armored troops followed behind the infantry division, and the rest of the combat forces were all involved in the operation of clearing the remaining Pakistani army. Under the carpet encirclement of 9 elite army divisions in India, due to the lack of skillful tunnel combat experience, the Pakistani army did not persist as the military experts sent by the Chinese Federal Army thought.
On the contrary, Pakistan's front-line defenders were facing increasingly difficult situations, with more and more tunnels and trenches being forcibly destroyed and landfilled by the Indian army.
Many Pakistani soldiers who had lost the protection of tunnels and trenches had to raise simple weapons and rush out of the ground. However, when facing the heavy weapons and armored units of the Indian army, they were basically wiped out without any suspense by the Indian army, which had an absolute advantage.
The morale that declined due to failure finally led to the beginning of the collapse. Many Pakistani soldiers had to raise the white flag and surrender to the Indian army in desperation.
On July 4, on the battlefield of Siba, the remaining Pakistani troops had retained about 10,000 troops on some high grounds over kilometers, and the soldiers who could hold on were not even enough to have a reorganized Army Infantry Division.
As for the remaining troops, about 40% of them were annihilated by the Indian army, and many were captured by the Indian army's infantry regiments and contained in several simple wooden camps.
There were only a small number of lucky Ba Army soldiers. Because the tunnel they were located was built in a relatively hidden way, they had not been discovered by the Indian army's search team so far, and they persisted in the early stages of the difficult battle.
However, no matter what, in this area, the Indian army's clearance of the remaining Pakistani ground troops was basically completed. Even if there were still sporadic fish that missed the net, it would not affect the overall situation.
It can be said that this battle on the battlefield of Siba was concluded with the Israeli-Pakistan army's defeat. After a fierce resistance, the Pakistani army lost three reorganized main divisions of the army, and another armored brigade to which the division headquarters was affiliated.
Including the number of captured and casualties, the total number is more than 60,000, which is two levels of the total force, which can be said to be severely injured. After the arrival of subsequent reinforcements from the country, the two armored divisions and three elite armored brigades in front of the Indian army also gathered on the position again and began to march towards the second line of defense of the Pakistani army on July 5.
At this time, because of the interference of communication, the Indians did not know that the Western Route Army on the West Bahru battlefield had been tragically killed, but instead cheered because of the Eastern Route Army's sing and progress.
The Indians had extremely confident. They easily broke through the first line of defense of the Pakistani army and wiped out nearly 80,000 enemy troops.
There are still 20,000 people still surrounded by large Indian troops, so the Indians believe that the destruction of these hard-working elements is only a matter of time before they can be recorded in the meritorious book.
The Indian Army's Eastern General was also full of confidence in such a record. He believed that Pakistan's army was just like this, and its combat capability was too poor to be compared with the great Indians.
Since you can take over the first line of defense guarded by Pakistan so easily, then the second line of defense is naturally no problem. You can completely regard it as the Indian army's possession.
According to the current Indian advance speed, it will be able to break through to the east in three days and annihilate all Pakistani garrisons who are still guarding the Eastern Front. Leh has become an Indian army's on-the-board food.
As long as the transportation in Leh is blocked, India can truly realize its dream of dominating South Asia, and can even change India's unfavorable strategic situation when facing China by controlling the entire Kashmir region.
At that time, India can develop its economy safely until one day surpasses China and the whole world and becomes the new global hegemon.
The Indian general who was fantasizing about establishing a great success in his generation had no idea that the second line of defense arranged by the Pakistani army on the battlefield in the West Pakistan, and it was also a "slaughterhouse" specially prepared for the Indian army.
After the Indian Eastern Route Army quickly broke through the first tunnel defense line established by the Pakistani army in the east, it quickly dispatched two mechanized armored divisions and three armored brigades equipped with m60 and Arjun tanks, and even sent four mechanized infantry divisions to cooperate in combat.
Chapter completed!