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"Pakistan Special Response Force attacked Kandahar? Is there no response from AFghan?"

Bob asked doubtfully in the corner office.

The assistant shook his head slightly and replied:

"It cannot be said that there was no response. It should be said that they fully supported Pakistan's actions and even provided them with equipment and supply facilities as much as possible."

"After all, we all know who is behind Pakistan. AFghan has been seeking to integrate into the Arab Commonwealth order. Now that they have such an opportunity to show their loyalty, how can they let it go."

Hearing the assistant's words, Bob nodded helplessly.

In fact, deep down in his heart, he knew this very well, but secretly, he was still looking forward to AFghan being able to toughen up and bravely reject Pakistan and China's demands in order to preserve his "territorial rights."

After all, that is sending troops directly into one's own territory. Would a normal country allow such a thing to happen? ——

Oh, we did that before.

A bitter smile appeared on Bob's face, and then he continued to ask:

"How long is this combat operation planned to last? What are the tactics?"

"Not sure."

The assistant shook his head and replied:

"We only know that this operation is codenamed 'fall wind', and the purpose is to wipe out the TLB forces in the southern mountainous area of ​​AFghan to the greatest extent possible."

"We also know that this operation will use a large amount of advanced equipment obtained from China. What is currently known includes a large number of mechanical exoskeletons, a large number of portable howitzers and mortars, a large number of rocket launchers and other electronic equipment."

"But apart from this information, we know nothing about the objectives, signposts and plans."

"After all, our intelligence system there has almost completely failed. It is really difficult to get the core information."

"clear."

Bob did not continue to ask, but instead asked about the status of the new equipment.

"You said that China will use mechanical exoskeletons on a large scale in this operation. Is this news accurate?"

"Absolutely accurate - in fact, the Pakistani soldiers at the border base have already begun adaptive training."

"How's the flexibility? Don't tell me that you haven't even gotten this kind of almost public information."

"Of course not."

The assistant answered quickly.

He then turned on the screen behind him and projected a video from his own computer screen onto the screen.

In the video, Pakistani soldiers wearing mechanical exoskeletons are organizing obstacle course training. Their movements are extremely agile, and it can be seen that the response of the mechanical exoskeletons is extremely fast.

Especially when they marched to the arranged ruins, the scene of a soldier lifting a car with one hand really surprised Bob.

Such power cannot be achieved by ordinary labor-saving structures, but must rely on extremely advanced hydraulic systems.

Electrically driven hydraulic system.

Can the energy source of the exoskeleton be tolerated?

Bob was skeptical, but soon the assistant on the side gave him the answer.

"This exoskeleton uses the latest energy storage batteries. The specific technology is not yet known, but according to frontline intelligence, the exoskeleton can be used continuously for more than 30 hours in a low-intensity environment."

"This data is very exaggerated."

"Moreover, the exoskeleton itself is equipped with a solar charging system, which is said to extend the use time by 30% in a sunny environment."

"In other words, after wearing the exoskeleton, these soldiers can operate effectively for more than 40 hours."

"Within these 40 hours, the soldiers' physical exertion can be maintained at a very low level, and the infantry's combat capabilities will be greatly improved."

"Of course, what's more important is that the payload of individual soldiers has been greatly increased, and they can even really do one man and one gun."

Hearing this, Bob frowned solemnly.

It seems that this old opponent of ours has not been able to cure their phobia of insufficient firepower.

"Does it mean a lot?"

Bob asked, holding on to his last bit of luck.

".big."

"Especially in sporadic field battles, this set of equipment is of great use."

"It can ensure that every individual soldier has sufficient firepower and protection. It should be said that soldiers wearing exoskeletons are like medieval knights wearing heavy armor. In front of them, those who don't even have a pitiful body armor Without armed personnel, it is almost impossible to have the ability to resist.”

"Perhaps the only uncertainty in this war is 'time'."

"After all, TLB is a relatively flexible organization. Even we can't catch them all - of course, special reasons are not included."

"But they seem to be planning to organize a large-scale decisive battle this time."

Bob interrupted.

"Even in the so-called decisive battle, the two sides are not arranging formations and lining up to kill. According to the informant's information, TLB will launch attacks on several key cities and annex them one by one by occupying peripheral towns."

"Such a strategy will seriously affect Pakistan's military strength, and a quick victory is basically impossible."

Really unlikely.

Bob thought silently.

The total number of Pakistani special response forces is only 12,000, and among them, only about 4,000 are elites who have inherited China's advanced equipment.

This number of people is really too small compared to the sea of ​​people in the TLB organization.

Defeat wars are easy to fight, but annihilation wars?

Don't be kidding, even if it's a pig, you can't catch that many.

Bob felt relieved.

It is clear that he can accept his own failure but has difficulty accepting his opponent's success.

The reason is very simple. Once the opponent does something that he has not done, he will look particularly stupid.

"So China may still be stuck in the quagmire of security wars."

He continued thoughtfully:

"Perhaps, we should find a way to give TLB more strength."

"Let them hold back the Chinese and their Middle East coalition strategy as much as possible."

"This will buy us a lot of time. Can our road in the Middle East still be feasible?"

The assistant thought for a moment and replied:

"It's difficult. Although the Middle East is not monolithic now, generally speaking, all parties are relatively united."

"If we make a big move, it may lead to leakage of information, and it may even be caught by China. That is not very optimistic."

"really."

Bob nodded slightly.

"Then provide them with some public support. Of course, it is definitely not support for KBZY."

"It is important that we question the rationality of cross-border strikes and that China's actions are an infringement of sovereignty."

"Understood, I'll make arrangements."

The assistant answered immediately.

In fact, this is the only strategy he can agree with.

However, the development of things was far beyond Bob's expectation and beyond the expectation of the whole world.

Security war?

nonexistent.

Operation Autumn Wind, Day 0.

The special response force officially crossed the border. After completing the handover with AFghan, under the central command of Karim, they began to enter predetermined combat locations in Kandahar Province.

Twenty thousand people divided the entire mountainous area of ​​Kandahar Province into fifty grids, and each grid was responsible for a team of 400 people.

In this grid, the 400-man team continued to divide the combat area according to the combat difficulty determined in the early reconnaissance. 20 teams dealt with the main strongholds in the grid respectively.

No one knows where this information comes from. According to common sense, even with the use of high-precision satellites and real-time monitoring by reconnaissance aircraft, it is impossible to obtain such detailed information.

Needless to say, speculations about "quantum computing", "spy networks" and "RSA decoding technology" are rampant, but in fact, only the participants in the operation know that the source of these intelligences is actually an unpretentious one.

With the efforts of the Chinese support personnel led by Duan Jie, they spent two weeks and with the help of Zhan Lu, based on the terrain and surrounding cultural environment, they deduced the areas within the grid where armed personnel were most likely to be hiding. , and then carried out focused reconnaissance of these areas with the help of the Rainbow-9 drone.

Facts have proven that the information accuracy can reach more than 60%.

Is this number low?

High enough.

With more than half of the intelligence accuracy on the battlefield, winning a big victory is almost a snap.

What's more, the equipment of Pakistan's special response force this time is extremely luxurious. The short-range portable reconnaissance drones are equipped with two units per group.

The firepower of the squad level is even more direct, one person, one shot? That’s not all.

Class rifle grenades + special drilling equipment have become standard equipment. Not only the 4,000 elites, but theoretically, every one of the 20,000 people is a big bomb.

The expected logistical support issues were also quickly resolved, and no difficulties were encountered in the establishment of the transmission lines. The reason was not "defense upgrades" but "infrastructure upgrades" and "monitoring upgrades."

Want to blow up the convoy? There is a rainbow-9 cruising in the sky staring at you.

Want to bomb traffic routes? It takes you two hours to deploy the bomb, but it only takes ten minutes for me to build it.

So, under such a cost-stretched combat plan, a vigorous cleaning operation began.

And the progress is enough to shock everyone.

Within two hours, a large force originally assembled in the southeastern mountainous area for a massed attack was discovered and located.

Two hours and 10 minutes later, the Pakistani "H-6" skimmed over and launched a strategic bombing that was rare in this era.

A sea of ​​fire covered the ground, and all living forces were shattered by the shock wave.

Two hours and 30 minutes later, the bombing ended, and the fleeing militants were called out one by one by the export version of the Wuzhi-10.

Three hours later, Mansour's deputy Sediqi was confirmed to have been killed, and more than a dozen senior leaders were also "going to heaven."

Four hours later, the 15 grids where TLB's strength was relatively weak were cleared, and the troops in the grid began to drive participating forces to adjacent grids in a hand-holding formation.

During this process, Bob's statement that "there are so many pigs can't be caught" was confirmed, but he obviously forgot one thing:

Pigs don't have much fear, but people do.

The scope of the grid is huge, and it is impossible to search them one by one manually, but the sound of cannons does not lie.

When the iconic dull explosion of the QLZ-87 automatic howitzer sounded, the militants within a radius of one kilometer began to flee in panic.

One person surrounding a team is no longer a joke, it is an ironclad fact.

Some militants even chose to surrender when they saw the soldiers of the special response force who had left the team because of the wrong route. Even if there were only three of them, the militants holding dozens of AKs still chose to surrender.

Because all three are wearing exoskeletons.

The individual rocket launchers and up to 6 rockets mounted on the hardpoints behind them are no joke.

Day 0, 8 hours later, all militants in the grid realized the seriousness of the problem.

As most observers expected, they began to give up resistance and hid in the mountains or among civilians.

This should have caused big trouble for the settlement, but during the entire settlement process, the Pakistani special response force sent the same signal to all local residents:

We are serious about it. Wherever there are rats, there are us.

The radio station they left behind was activated several times, and after the residents called the police, the Army Aviation team used a high-profile and almost exaggerated gesture, using firepower that far exceeded the amount of economical ammunition to clean up the suspected armed personnel's hiding place. The rapid reaction troops were airborne directly, sweeping away the residential areas like the Empire's Astartes.

Even if the crazy militants did cause some civilian casualties in the process, the special response forces didn't care at all.

They made no secret of their "don't care."

And the deterrence created by this "not caring" once again drove the militants back to the mountains.

Sixteen hours later, Mansour showed up and asked for negotiations.

All his layouts and carefully designed tactics were crushed to death like an insect before he could use them.

Mansour is unwilling

He has studied the exercise organized by China in Saudi Arabia and has some understanding of the Chinese army's combat methods.

He also thought that this time the clearance would still be based on armored units and infantry as a supplement.

But in fact, the flexible combat method of the class supported by the mechanical exoskeleton directly confused him.

Can the human sea tactic still work like this?

It is indeed the pinnacle of light infantry. No, they are no longer light infantry, they are heavy infantry!

However, Pakistan did not accept his application for negotiations.

He had just spoken through the radio and the Internet, and the Rainbow-9D, which had been waiting at high altitude for a long time, locked his position.

Subsequently, a precision-guided ground-penetrating thermobaric bomb blasted his underground fortress with bloodbath. By the time the ground troops arrived, the only thing left on the scene was the burnt fat humanoid figure on the wall.

At this point, the first wave of offensive in Operation Autumn Wind is basically over.

Karim gave a speech and announced the results of the first phase.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

Military commentators are keenly aware that this is definitely the most costly and technologically advanced battle that mankind has fought since the 21st century.

The full-channel electromagnetic interference cut off the command system of the militants. Various unmanned equipment and high-precision reconnaissance equipment opened the map to the centimeter level. Individual soldiers armed to the teeth and powerful firepower were based on the battle command system AI. Micro-operation level scheduling with an accuracy of over 90%, and second-level air support speed

Everything has been done to the extreme.

Is this a war?

No, this is just "cleaning" step by step.

At this time, Bob's order on the public opinion war had just been transmitted to the major American media.

The war was over before they could even pick up a pen.