Chapter 1045 Street fighting?

Karnar.

Frontline Command.

Menon is holding a military meeting to deploy the next defense line and troop deployment.

Menon is the commander of the Indian Army Reorganized Division originally stationed in Karnar. He served as the brigade commander 13 years ago and was appointed as the commander of the reorganized division five years ago. He is also a battle-hardened general.

As the Northwest Front General Command sent the Armored Division and the New Division to support Karnar, in order to unify the command of the front-line operations, a front-line command was established, and Menon, who was most familiar with the surrounding areas of Karnar, was naturally appointed as the commander of the front-line command.

Also attending the meeting were the commanders of the Armored Division, Kumar, and the commander of the New Division, Harinder!

In addition, there were also brigade commanders of various brigades.

The atmosphere in the command seemed depressed, the retreat was cut off, and the positions outside the city had been lost. In the battles of the past few days, they had suffered heavy losses.

The Armored Division lost more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 2,000 people were killed, more than 4,000 people were injured, and more than one-third of the casualties.

The newly formed division had more than 1,000 killed and more than 3,000 wounded, with nearly half of the casualties.

The reorganized division has lost 3,000 killed and more than 6,000 wounded since the start of the war. Although it has previously supplemented its forces and recruited soldiers in Karnar, and currently maintains a staff of 15,000, it is an indisputable fact that its combat effectiveness has declined.

In Karnar, more than 6,000 people were killed and more than 13,000 were injured, and the hospital was already overcrowded.

No one knows how many wounded soldiers can survive.

During the war, the cure rate and survival rate of the wounded were significantly lower than usual.

Moreover, Karnar's power supply system was blown up, and the communication base station was destroyed. There was no ability to repair it in a short time, and diesel engines had to be used for temporary power generation.

Now that the retreat has been cut off, it means that Karnar's supplies, medicines, fuel, etc. cannot be supplied from the outside.

Although the Indian army has built Karnar into a military fortress and even built a large number of underground fortifications, storing a large amount of supplies and weapons and ammunition, it can only meet one year.

If they survive for more than a year, they will starve to death.

Moreover, in high-intensity combat, the consumption of weapons and ammunition is very large. It is already amazing to be able to last for three to five months.

Medicines will be exhausted in a short time.

The situation is very critical. They can only get air support and no other support at present. They are fighting alone.

It is impossible to say that there is no pressure.

Menon pointed to the map of Karnar. This is a military stronghold with very complete fortifications, not only ground fortifications, but also underground fortifications.

This is a solid fortress!

Menon is going to fight street battles with the Kazakh and Nepalese armies in Karnar.

Street fighting is generally referred to as "urban fighting" because street fighting is a battle between streets and houses, and the place where it takes place is usually in cities or large villages.

The salient features of street fighting are that the enemy and us are in close combat and close combat, which is cruel; the second is that the enemy and us are mixed and intertwined, which is very dangerous.

Urban street fighting is a style that has gradually formed with the development of cities and the expansion of the scale of war. Narrow streets, complex environments, invisible enemies, and invisible gunfire make street fighting in the modern context full of strange and unpredictable complex factors.

Close combat, fierce competition for solid buildings, main streets, and commanding heights, military actions are restricted, and many local independent battles are often formed.

Street fighting is also regarded as the most brutal war in modern warfare, which is a headache for military theorists and military commanders in various countries.

The most effective street fighting is to bombard the city directly like the US military, regardless of military facilities, civilian facilities, military personnel, and ordinary civilians.

However, with the development of the media in modern times, everyone has some rules for war, such as limiting war to military facilities and soldiers, keeping war away from civilians, and not bombing schools and hospitals.

Whoever does this will often be unpopular and criticized.

It's just that during the Gulf War, the US military bombed Iraq indiscriminately, destroying all Iraqi schools, hospitals, nursing homes, welfare homes, etc., and in 1999, NATO launched an air strike code-named "Allied Forces" against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, bombing all schools, hospitals, nursing homes, welfare homes, shopping malls and other civilian facilities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The bombing lasted for several months, causing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to suffer huge losses. These are all brutal trampling on the norms of modern international relations. Many previous international norms have been trampled on and no longer exist.

No one can say whether the Kazakh army and the Nepalese army will bomb Karnar indiscriminately.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the Indian army has not lost air superiority, and the air forces of both sides are still fighting for air superiority, otherwise the situation in Karnar will be even worse.

But in any case, the Indian army must defend Karnar.

As long as Karnar has not been taken, the Kazakh and Nepalese armies here cannot attack other places. If they besiege Karnar, the Nepalese and Kazakh armies must at least maintain at least 50,000 elite troops here, or even maintain 100,000 troops, otherwise they have to worry about whether the Indian army in Karnar will launch an attack.

After all, Karnar is a military stronghold with an important geographical location. It is unacceptable for the Kazakh and Nepalese armies to be stuck in a key position without taking Karnar.

At this time, Menon was deploying their respective defense lines.

As for the armored divisions retreating into Karnar, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are used as mobile forces to support or raid the Kazakh and Nepalese armies at any time.

The radar is turned on. Once the opponent's air raid is detected, the air defense alarm will be sounded. The entire Karnar has a complete air-raid shelter.

Karnar is preparing for street fighting. The Kazakh and Nepalese armies outside the city have already joined forces. Both sides are clearing the Indian positions outside and collecting supplies at the same time.

The bridges along the river were blown up. Although a temporary steel bridge has been built now, the transportation capacity is limited and it is impossible to get supplies from the rear continuously. The temporary steel bridge can only be used to transport weapons and ammunition. Other materials must be collected from here to reduce logistics pressure.

Food, water, etc. all need to be collected.

In addition, although Karnar is a military town, it is also mainly agricultural, so it is relatively easy to collect food.

Some wealthy families naturally suffered at this time, and all the valuable things in their homes were lost.

This is war!

When war starts, civilians will also suffer.

Whether it is the rich or the ordinary people, they will suffer huge losses in the war. Unless the rich can escape in time, or even flee abroad, the losses will not be small.

And even if the war stops, there will be a lot of things here in the next ten years, such as whether there will be landmines, stepping on landmines and being killed or injured, or bombs dropped that did not explode, but suddenly exploded