Through the battle in Pakistan, the US military already knew that its M1A2SEP main battle tank was no longer the opponent of the PLA's 99 series main battle tanks. Therefore, facing the PLA's superior armored forces, the US military did not engage in direct ground heavy armor confrontation with the PLA, but instead retracted the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division and maintained a distance of about 30 kilometers with the PLA's 162nd Division.

However, the US military did not simply retreat, but unexpectedly chose to use ship-to-ground cruise missiles and ground-to-ground tactical missiles to carry out the first round of strikes on the 162nd Division. The US military's ATACMS-BAT ground-to-ground tactical missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles fell on the 162nd Division's rushing formation like raindrops. The 1st Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment and the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment before the outbreak was caught off guard and suffered a big loss immediately. Half of the ZTZ-99S main battle tanks were hit by these anti-tank firepower falling from the sky.

Seeing that the momentum was wrong, the 162nd Division quickly dispersed the tank troops, and at the same time urgently asked the 162nd Division's Hongqi-7F Air Defense Missile (FM-90M) regiment to the frontline positions to carry out air defense missions. At this time, three M1A2SEP tank battalions and 30 longbow Apaches of the US military's 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division also arrived quickly. The US military used the longbow Apache to conduct guerrillas and relied on the mountainous terrain of the Korean Peninsula to deal with the People's Liberation Army's Hongqi-7F air defense missiles.

The US military's M1A2SEP tanks gathered with 10-15 combat units to specifically approach the scattered PLA ZTZ-99S with main artillery battle. For the distant PLA tanks and armored vehicles clusters, they continued to use ATACMS-BAT ground-based tactical missiles to attack. Faced with this new tactic of the US military, the 162nd Division had never considered facing such a complex battle before. It was very difficult to deal with it for a while and suffered heavy losses.

Under such unfavorable circumstances, the division commander Zhou Chong ordered the Hongqi-7E air defense missile regiment to deal with the missiles that were constantly attacking by the US military, and on the other hand, commanded the Marx-10 Continental Apache regiment to attack the US longbow. At the same time, he requested the military's Red Flag-17C air defense missile brigade to reinforce the US Tomahawk cruise missile and ATACMS-BAT surface-to-ground tactical missiles were like money, often pouring dozens of volleys onto the armored charge positions of the 162nd Division. The division's Red Flag-7E air defense missile regiment could not handle it at all.

The battlefield on the Western Front of the Korean Peninsula was a fierce battle at the beginning!

The unexpected battle situation on the Western Front battlefield shocked General Li Hu, the commander-in-chief of the Korean battlefield. On the one hand, he urgently ordered the air defense missile brigade of the 54th Army and several divisions of the air defense missile regiments to provide emergency reinforcements, and on the other hand, he urgently requested the addition of new air defense missile troops to the domestic market. Since the US military intends to use its strong missile accumulation to fight a war of attrition with the People's Liberation Army, General Li Hu has to prepare for more considerations.

When Colonel Zhou Chong finally woke up and separated the armored forces in his hand into small formations with 3-5 vehicles. On the one hand, he avoided the target from attacking missiles from the US military through the big moves, and on the other hand, he also avoided being surrounded and annihilated by the US military because the power was too dispersed. Only then did the 162nd Division finally recovered and began an organized counterattack.

However, at this time, the 162nd Division's armored power had almost been lost. At the same time, the division's Martial Arts-10 Continental Regiment did not gain much advantage in the longbow Apache showdown with the US military. The US military adopted the tactic of decentralized combat and successfully reduced the PLA's combat cluster, thus offsetting its joint combat advantage.

After many battles, the US military finally realized that the People's Liberation Army has unique advantages in cluster joint combat.

Unfortunately, in air combat, the US military cannot adopt the same tactics. Therefore, while the ground decisive battle has made progress, the fighter jets of the US, Japan and South Korea in the air are still helpless against the weak PLA Air Force. Even the fourth-generation fighter jets with great advantages can only gain a weak air superiority now, but they are still a long way from mastering air supremacy.

Compared with the tragic 162nd Division on the Western Front, the progress of the PLA on the Eastern Front was relatively smooth. The PLA used the 3rd Armored Division as the fist to attack the elite Korean Army 2nd Division in front of him (the previous article was mistakenly called the 4th Division. In fact, the South Korean army had no 4th Division number because it was superstitious that the number 4 was unlucky). It took only more than half an hour to completely break through the tank defense line of the 2nd Division of the South Korean Army, and almost annihilated more than 100 K2 main battle tanks from the three tank battalions of this division.

These K2 main battle tanks, known as the top three in the world by the Band Scout Army, drove out to the world and faced the PLA head-on. The ZTZ-99S tanks in the face of the PLA were simply vulnerable and were quickly solved by the three tank battalions of the 3rd Armored Division, ruthlessly exposing the painted skin of the Band Scout tank being strong on the outside and the inside.

However, in the subsequent attack, facing the US reinforced Tomahawk cruise missile attack and the counterattack of the Dow Anti-tank Missile Battalion and Javelin Anti-tank Missile Battalion, the 3rd Armored Division had few solutions and could only stop in dispersion and wait for the subsequent 116th Mechanized Infantry Division to press forward to solve these roadblocks.

Therefore, for the PLA, in addition to the US-South Korea ground forces in front of us and the US-Japan-South Korea coalition forces in the air, the two aircraft carrier battle groups in the Sea of ​​Japan emit powerful ship-to-ground attack power, which has also become a mountain in front of the PLA. The tomahawk cruise missiles continuously issued by the US military are a fatal obstacle to the attack rhythm of the PLA because it greatly restricts the cluster attack method on which the PLA relies on to form an advantage.

Therefore, for General Lee Ho of the North Korean Front Command, in addition to strengthening the air defense capabilities of the front-line troops to cope with the endless missile attacks of the US military, the most important thing is how to solve or drive the US aircraft carrier battle group in the Sea of ​​Japan out of the war zone.

After careful study of General Li Hu's combat requirements, the Navy stated that it was impossible to break through the tightly blocked Tsushima Strait between Japan and South Korea. In this area, the United States, Japan and South Korea have already laid an extremely strict submarine monitoring network. Even the latest transformation of the 039 diesel-electric offensive submarine, it is impossible to penetrate the Sea of ​​Japan to perform this arduous combat mission using all-electric drive.

The Air Force also said that it was powerless. Now on the Korean Peninsula, the Air Force had to face the attacks of the superior fighter jets of the United States, Japan and South Korea. It was good that it could barely keep the air out of control by the enemy. It was really impossible to send out forces to attack the two aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military, because with the air defense forces of these two aircraft carrier battle groups, dispatching a few fighter jets to attack their attacks at all. Unless it was to dispatch hundreds of destroyers to launch saturated attacks like the Japanese Second Guard Group, it was possible to tear open the US military's air defense network.

However, in the absence of air supremacy, the PLA's Destroyer drone did not have this opportunity at all.

Therefore, General Li Hu's request was transferred to the PLA strategic forces, but when it comes to dispatching strategic missile forces or strategic bombers, the senior staff of the General Staff Combat Command Center have their own opinions. The Dongfeng-21D anti-ship ballistic missile owned by the PLA Second Artillery Force has theoretically the ability to strike US aircraft carriers.

However, this anti-ship ballistic missile, which has been well known to the US military, has studied many countermeasures. The US Navy can completely confuse and influence the attack accuracy of Dongfeng-21D by increasing the control of electromagnetic wave emission or using jamming launchers. At the same time, the US Navy can also use electromagnetic interference to make China's long-range maritime surveillance positioning system fail or paralyze, thus making Dongfeng-21D be confused by the bait target when it approaches the predetermined target.

In addition, the US military's standard-3 ballistic missile defense system also has strong sea-based terminal guided intercepting missile capabilities. The People's Liberation Army now has a limited number of Dongfeng-21Ds, and it is not the most critical time yet, so it is impossible to use saturated attack methods to solve these two aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military.

After fierce discussion, the General Staff finally decided to use a variety of means to expel these two aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military. On the one hand, it used cruise missiles that were difficult to intercept ends in the People's Liberation Army to launch a bait-type attack, while the real killer was to dispatch the Terminator unmanned fighter jets and use their nearly perfect stealth characteristics to attack from the air at the same time.

Compared with dispatching the air force, the Terminator drone is more unpredictable, while the air-to-ship missiles that suddenly fall from the sky are more concealed than cruise missiles, leaving the US military with a shorter reaction time.

24 hours after the PLA launched a ground counterattack, when the PLA cruise missile and Terminator drone air-to-ship missiles suddenly launched an attack on the aircraft carriers of two aircraft carrier battle groups in the Sea of ​​Japan, the US military, which had been in a highly defensive state, still did not completely defend against the upper and lower attacks from the PLA. An aircraft carrier was hit by the air-to-ship missile carried by Terminator drone, causing serious injuries. This heavy consequence forced the US aircraft carrier battle group to retreat to the air defense system of the Japanese naval base.

Although the US military can still launch cruise missile attacks through long-range, its attack firepower has been greatly weakened. This change has caused subtle changes in ground wars on the Korean Peninsula. The two main forces of the People's Liberation Army worked together to drive the US and South Korea back to the 38th parallel.

In this way, on the Korean battlefield, the two sides were once again in a stalemate.
Chapter completed!