The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1051 Night Battle
The Indus Plain, located between India and Pakistan, is mostly the vast Thar Desert. Irrigation agriculture is well developed along the Indus River, and it is one of the main population centers in Pakistan. The Indus Plain is flat and vast, with an alluvial layer of 300 meters. The coastal plain is the birthplace of Indian civilization, with well-developed agriculture, dense population, and cities everywhere. The estuary delta covers an area of ​​about 5.7 square kilometers, with dense river networks and fertile soil. It is an economically developed area in Pakistan.

The two plains are connected together with a very small slope and the watershed in the middle is only 250 meters.

The entire Indus Plain covers an area of ​​26.6 square kilometers and is one of the largest alluvial plains in the world. It stretches from the foothills of the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, 1 kilometers long from north to south and 280-320 kilometers wide from east to west.

The 29° north latitude line is usually used to divide the upper and lower Indus plains. The former is the Punjab plain, which belongs to Khalistan, and the latter is the Sindh plain and delta area. India wants to seize the lower Indus plain. India's strategy is to at least seize the plains on the east bank of the Indus River, with the Indus River as the boundary with Pakistan.

However, the Indus Plain is the economic and cultural center of Pakistan, with a population of about four-fifths of the country. Cities with a population of over 50 include Karachi, Lahore, Lyallpur, Hyderabad, Multan, etc. It is densely covered with railways and highways and has developed transportation. It is simply impossible for Pakistan to give up this rich, fertile and ancient land.

Pakistan has been managing the India-Pakistan border for many years, and its defense line is quite solid.

Since the outbreak of the war, the Indian army has never been able to break through the Pakistani defense line and enter the Indus Plain.

After all, the Indian army has to cross the natural barrier of the Thar Desert, and the attack itself is disadvantageous to the Indian army.

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, covers an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers and is located in Rajasthan, western India. The moist air currents of the summer monsoon pass not far to the east of it, but not a drop of rain falls on the desert, forming a large desert here.

The Thar Desert, also known as the smallest desert in the world, is located in western India and southeastern Pakistan. It is bounded by the Indus River and the Satluj River in the west and the eastern side of the Malwa Plateau in India in the east. It is an extension of the Great Indian Desert.

The entire Thar Desert is composed of sand dunes, sandy plains and steep barren hills, with an undulating terrain.

In the evening, several Su-25 attack aircraft began to attack the Pakistani army's border outposts.

The resistance at these outposts was very fierce. They were on the front line of the battlefield and had been prepared for a long time.

The Pakistani army has deployed elite troops on the defense line between India and Pakistan.

The anti-aircraft machine gun kept spitting out tongues of fire from the outpost. Two Pakistani soldiers were guarding the outpost tightly. The ammunition belts were rattling and bullets were fired forward.

As for the planes in the air, leave them to your own air force or air defense forces.

What they have to face is the Indian army's offensive forces.

Since Indian aircraft have come to support, it means that the Indian ground forces are also launching an attack.

The entire defense line became a meat grinder for both sides, one side wanted to break through the defense line, and the other side wanted to defend the defense line.

The pilot of the Su-25 attack aircraft in the sky pointed the nose of the aircraft downward, and then a laser-guided bomb began to make final preparations for dropping.

The pilot held the crosshairs firmly over the firing point and pressed the button.

The laser-guided bomb fell from the sky, wobbling along the laser beam and flying towards the firing point.

"Da da da~~Da da da~~" In the anti-aircraft position, the anti-aircraft machine guns were firing frantically.

The laser-guided bomb suddenly exploded in the sky.

"Boom!" Fire flashed and shrapnel flew.

The pilot of the Su-25 attack aircraft frowned. He didn't expect that the opponent would hit the flying bomb with an anti-aircraft machine gun. He was really lucky!

One more!
The pilot controlled the plane and quickly launched again.

A laser-guided bomb was mounted under the wing, and the seeker received the laser beam.

As the pilot pressed the launch button, the laser-guided bomb swayed and fell along the laser beam.

"Boom!" A 500-kilogram bomb fell and completely flattened the outpost.

Two Pakistani soldiers in the outpost were killed directly. Then, the pilot of the Su-25 attack aircraft blew up another outpost.

Just as the pilot was maneuvering the plane to fly to the other side, on the ground, a Pakistani soldier, with hatred in his eyes, aimed a "Vanguard" air defense missile at the Su-25 attack aircraft, and then launched the missile.

The pilot of the Su-25 attack aircraft was horrified and quickly controlled the release of metal foil to lure the missile.

However, the missile was not lured and hit the Su-25 attack aircraft. The Su-25 attack aircraft was burning with thick smoke, and the pilot did not parachute immediately, but flew to his own territory.

If you parachute here, you will easily be captured by the Pakistani army.

Once captured, life was not easy for prisoners, and it was not uncommon for both sides to abuse prisoners.

The night battle was extremely fierce.

The Pakistani army fired flares, making the Indian ground forces clearly visible.

"Da da da~~~"

The Pakistani army’s bunker was being strafed by machine guns.

Some Indian soldiers were shot by machine guns and turned into a hornet's nest.

In the sky, after three planes were shot down, Indian planes also left.

But the war on the ground continues.

The Pakistani army can quickly get supplies from the rear, but the Indian army's supply line is much longer and has to pass through the desert.

If the Indian army had not been making preparations before, the problem of material supply alone would have made it impossible for the Indian army to continue fighting.

However, the Indian army must also break through the defense line as soon as possible, otherwise the longer the war drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for the Indian army.

With the military assistance from the United States, the Indian army has acquired a lot of advanced weapons and equipment.

But this was not enough to change the situation on the battlefield.

As the defense line on the northwest front was torn apart, the Indian army was also mobilizing its reserves and sending them to the battlefield to fight.

The northern front also had to be on high alert to avoid giving the Nepalese army another chance to take advantage. Although there were no major battles on the eastern and southern fronts, the Indian army did not dare not send troops to garrison.

After fighting for more than a month, the Indian army suffered heavy losses on the western front, with more than 40,000 killed and more than 100,000 injured.

Although the Indian army announced that it had lost more than 3,000 soldiers and destroyed more than 50,000 Pakistani soldiers, this was only for a propaganda war and to better obtain assistance from the West.

Moreover, India is also trying to obtain donations from Indians working overseas. After all, Indians who can make it in Europe and the United States tend to do well.

Besides, as long as they are willing to remit money back to India, India will make a lot of money according to the exchange rate.

India cannot support this war relying solely on its foreign exchange reserves.

As a country with a long-term trade deficit, India has heavy foreign debts and has long been insolvent, so it does not have much foreign exchange.

The gold that is mined is often used to purchase weapons and equipment.

(End of this chapter)