Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"What do you mean 'stop here'? Keep going. We won't stop until Modi announces his resignation. In 12 hours, we'll be having supper outside New Delhi."

……

At the southernmost tip of India lies a coastline that resembles a semi-circular sword tip plunging into the sea.

However, the remaining ridges of the Deccan Plateau, which rise in the middle, divide the climate into two distinct regions.

To the southwest lies Kerala, where mountain ranges intercept rainwater, resulting in a warm climate and lush green vegetation; to the southeast lies Tamil, a high-altitude and hilly region inhabited by the brave and spirited Tamil people, where rainfall is relatively scarce.

The joint fleet, which had set out from the Strait of Malacca, bypassed Sri Lanka and gradually approached this area.

India does not have airborne military satellites capable of conducting military surveillance.

Although India has proposed military plans to deploy up to 52 military satellites globally in 2021, 2024, 2025, and 2027, for India, plans are plans; whether to implement them, and whether they succeed, are separate matters.

Although there were no satellites, the news of the Combined Fleet's presence on the coast was still noticed by shore-based radar stations.

Therefore, the fleet quickly began to react:

“出现了，6架米格27！6架苏30MKI！是印度南方空军司令部的地222空军飞行中队，呼号虎鲨。”

The early warning radar showed 12 fighter jets flying at low altitude.

Indian pilots, as elite air combatants in South Asia, performed well in counterattack missions, knowing to fly close to the ground at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. However, the problem lay in the fact that the radars and early warning aircraft used by the coalition fleet were far removed from the operational scenarios taught in the tactical training provided by France.

Although they were flying close to the ground, they had already been detected by early warning aircraft.

Even their radio communications were intercepted.

A message came from the high-frequency radio channel:

"Cheer up, brothers, this isn't 1962!"

"We are flying the Su-30MKI, India's most advanced fighter jet."

However, even though everyone was encouraging each other, it was really difficult for these pilots who dared to take off to attack a group of third-generation fighter jets in a situation where they were few in number, lacked early warning aircraft to guide them, and had no idea of ​​the enemy situation.

On the turbulent Indian Ocean, the aircraft carrier Shinano activated its catapults, launching six F-35CN fighters and one KJ-500 early warning aircraft.

After takeoff, the pilots circled overhead and gave the Indians a message they couldn't understand:

"Go tell my Thunderbolt 15!"

In the blink of an eye, the PL-15 air-to-air missile flew into the distance, and without knowing that they were being locked on, the fighter squadron composed of Su-27s and Su-30MKIs was instantly plunged into a fiery inferno.

A series of explosions ignited in the air as Su-27s and Su-30MKIs, sent to their doom by air-to-air missiles, suddenly exploded one after another. The pilots didn't even have time to parachute before turning into fireflies in the sky, gradually disintegrating amidst flashing flames and explosions, landing in the city of Madurai, a major metropolis in the south, shocking the minds of the locals.

Landing ships detached from the combined fleet transported the South Indian Rifles ashore, enabling them to occupy Madurai.

In less than a day, hundreds of kilometers of India’s southeastern coastline had fallen.

Meanwhile, still unclear about what was happening in the south, in the streets of New Delhi, the Indian capital, which was experiencing a nationwide internet outage, the opposition alliance led by the Congress Party finally awoke from its slumber and organized an offline City Walk:

"Modi must step down!"

The city's parade, amidst the Holi paint sprayed everywhere, treading over sewage ponds, garbage, and cow dung, slowly advanced through the yellow smog where PM2.5 levels exceeded 500 measured peaks.

The citizens, hired at great expense, were pale and listless, waving their arms weakly and pointing at the BJP government, which, despite more than a decade in power, still leaves India in a state of high pollution and low income.

People's eyes were filled with ignorance and confusion, fanaticism and anger, and they had a pure innocence that was completely unaware of what was happening in the world.

Chapter 929: Large-scale infiltration and encirclement, 12 trillion to 24 trillion (5600 words)

In the night sky over the Indian subcontinent, a lingering glow of sunset remained, for the evening sun had already set.

In Hyderabad, the South Indian Rifles were patrolling and maintaining order on the streets, carrying the Indian flag. Indians who had lived in Singapore were indeed more civilized than the locals, and their traffic police duties were quite competent. They wouldn't openly rob or extort, so most citizens weren't even aware of what was happening.

Meanwhile, at the northwestern corner of Hyderabad, an armored convoy had just finished dinner and was preparing to head northwest.

A heated debate was taking place in the command center.

The forward command, which had thoroughly studied the size, location, and strategic arrangement of Indian troops before the war, possessed a map showing the actual distribution of Indian forces. Centered on New Delhi, with the southwest along the Indo-Pakistani border and the east along the Sino-Indian border, India was like spreading its arms to block the enemy, placing the vast majority of its heavy troops on its northern flanks.

The areas with the highest concentration of troops are Kashmir and Ladakh.

Therefore, the General Staff approved the plan to penetrate deep into the heart of India from the soft, undefended southern region.

But there are still many problems.

The deputy commander of the 1st Armored Division raised a question:

“Other vehicles cannot keep up with our speed. The maximum speed of the Hongqi field air defense system cannot keep up, and the chassis of the K9 self-propelled howitzer cannot withstand long-term, high-speed travel over a large area. As a result, we will lose air defense and artillery fire.”

He Yang rejected all vehicles that wasted marching speed:

"Have all vehicles except the Type 16 wheeled assault vehicle move forward slowly, while the wheeled assault vehicle and I move forward at full speed. We only need to carry the most basic vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft missiles."

Another staff member raised a question:

"But in front of us is an interception network composed of the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army..."

He Yang, still clenching his fist with unwavering resolve, stated:

"Don't be afraid. The Indian army can't catch up with us. We need to infiltrate their territory as quickly as possible! Like Sun Wukong jumping into Princess Iron Fan's belly. I don't believe the Indian army can react that fast. I also don't believe the Indian army dares to bombard its own territory. I even less believe the Indian army can find my location and drop nuclear bombs on me!"

Speed, time, and India pulling the plug on its own internet – these three factors combined made He Yang doubt that the Indian military could quickly pinpoint his army's location, let alone organize a layered mobile defense in the weakest area using their cumbersome, less mobile troops, which excelled at holding positions. If they truly possessed this capability, they would have already crushed Pakistan.

Even if they dared to drop nuclear bombs on a major Indian city, they would first need to locate the advance force's position before they could drop them.

The air defense department asked:

"What about air force reconnaissance?"

He Yang then countered with a question:

"You mean the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force can cooperate so closely that the Indian Air Force can not only find us, but also quickly and accurately relay information to the Indian Army headquarters, and the Indian Army headquarters can immediately command their cumbersome troops stationed along the line to chase after us? Don't judge others by your own standards, think more about the problems between them."

Impossible. Given the vast disparities between the three branches of the Indian armed forces and the independent and unrelated command levels, even if the Indian Air Force could locate the 1st Armored Division, how to notify the Indian Army and how the Indian Army would react would be a huge obstacle that severely tests inter-service coordination.

Staff officers familiar with World War II history recalled that during the Battle of Savo Island, Mikawa Gunichi's fleet had already been discovered by MacArthur's Australian theater, but when the intelligence was sent to the nearby Guadalcanal base, it took most of the day for the intelligence to circulate, causing the US-Australian forces to suffer heavy losses.

The Indian army is the same. When the air force is engaged in combat, the army has no response, and when the army is engaged in combat, the air force has little support.

The staff officers even felt a sense of weightlessness and confusion:

"Damn it, it feels like we're fighting a war of liberation, and the enemy is all clumsy, slow-moving Kuomintang troops who can't even tell what's going on outside the city?"

"Don't insult the Kuomintang army; they are much stronger than the Indian army."

Back then, during the Central Plains Breakthrough, the Battle of Central Jiangsu and Eastern Henan, and the bloody battles of Huaihai, the Kuomintang army was not as slow and chaotic as the Indian army.

At the very least, the Kuomintang army could achieve mutual language communication, religious unity, and ethnic similarity within the military.

The Indian Army has yet to resolve its peculiar organizational structure, failing to achieve reconciliation within the military across four or five divisions: nation, religion, ethnicity, language, and caste. Soldiers in different battalions often differ in language, religion, and caste. Indeed, even nationhood is an issue, as the Indian Army inherited its military tradition from the British colonial army, and its ranks contain a large Gurkhay population, often from Nepal.

Some staff officers did try to salvage the Indian army's reputation:

"Of course, it's also because India's elite troops are located in Kashmir and the Himalayas."

The Indian army certainly has elite troops.

Unfortunately, it's not in the south.

Within the integrated frontline combat system provided by the Joint Operations Headquarters, He Yang drew a route that sped along major cities and highways.

From their location in Hyderabad, they could advance northwest toward Nandade, where there were no Indian troops stationed. This would allow them to cross the two major cities of Pune and Nagpur, bypassing the Indian Southern Command and the 41st Artillery Division.

After arriving in Nandeid, they headed north, successively capturing the undefended cities of Indore and Ujain in Madhya Pradesh, bypassing Bhopal, where the 21st Corps headquarters was located, as well as the 31st Armored Division and the 36th Rapid Reaction Division stationed in Jhansi and Sagar.

Then, without stopping, they advanced diagonally northeast along Highway 46, bypassing the 18th Rapid Reaction Division in Kota, and then sped towards Delhi along the NE4 highway, which skirts the eastern border of Rajasthan and borders Uttar Pradesh. This would allow them to evade the 50th Parachute Brigade and the First Corps headquarters stationed in Agra, Mathura, and other locations.

The entire route passes through major Indian cities, and all routes utilize legitimate Indian highways, ensuring that the route avoids the cumbersome Indian troops by more than 50 kilometers, thus preventing the location from being detected.

He Yang gave the order:

"Follow this final route. Once we encounter obstacles on NE4, immediately advance westward to Jaipur, where the headquarters of the Southwest Command and the 42nd Artillery Division are located. Then bypass Amber Fort and penetrate the heart of India from southwest of New Delhi!"

After briefly stating the mission objective, He Yang personally boarded the assault vehicle:

"set off!"

A rapidly advancing armored convoy began maneuvering and advancing across Indian soil.

The atmosphere inside the wheeled assault vehicle was somber. The soldiers tried to drink as little water as possible before setting off, but there were still many plastic bottles on the vehicle so they could relieve themselves.

Fortunately, there were no battles along the way.

Nizhamabad, Nandade, Aurangabad, Pusavor – a few hours of high-speed driving on the highway allowed the 1st Armored Division to cross the Vindhya Range, the dividing line between northern and southern India, without encountering any resistance, and enter Madhya Pradesh.

Most of the Indian civilians and drivers along the way were still in shock, looking at this bizarre group with Indian flags hanging on the outside of their armored vehicles. Most of them thought it was the mighty and powerful Indian army.

Some of the more elite Indian troops realized that a large, unidentified army was moving across Indian territory, but they lacked the ability to quickly maneuver and pursue it. Leaving aside whether the trucks could catch up, how to pursue them, and where to pursue them, everything was shrouded in mystery. Even their very existence was a mystery.

Some of the more foolish Indian soldiers were still confused about what to eat that day and when the internet would be restored, completely oblivious to the reactions outside. Even when local Indians came to tell them they had seen large-scale troop movements, they didn't react. And their primary concern during the internet outage was preventing their own soldiers from deserting and from stealing and reselling military supplies.

……

Seoul.

On the same night, Lao Wang and Li Xinghe sat in the Longshan base drinking tea.

"What a reckless general," Old Wang shook his head repeatedly at He Yang's aggressive tactics.

Li Xinghe, however, said with more confidence:

"I wouldn't call it that, they're just good at surprise attacks. Their advance plan has already been sent to me, and I've given them permission to advance along a route with only the 42nd Artillery Division and the Southwest Military District headquarters as the enemy. The entire route is 1300 kilometers, and the opportunity to infiltrate will take less than a night. I don't believe that Modi can stay in power after fighting like this."

If Modi doesn't step down, then the only option left is to breach New Delhi, support the Congress Party, and conduct a massive crackdown on Modi and BJP members.

Li Xinghe picked up the pointer and pointed to the map of Asia next to him:

"Targeting India, besides forcing them to repay their debts, is too petty. Our focus should also be on the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and especially Diego Garcia!"

The Maldives and Sri Lanka are important ports on the trade route from China to West Asia and Europe, and it is imperative to find ways to connect and cooperate with them.

Diego Garcia is a huge atoll located south of the Maldives.

It belonged to Britain and was a British Indian Ocean Territory. However, as a colony, it faced an international anti-colonial lawsuit from Mauritius, which demanded the return of sovereignty.

It doesn't matter who owns the sovereignty, but its strategic position is extremely important.

The United States has long used strategic bomber formations targeting Afghanistan, Iran, and China's Tibet, Qinghai, and Xinjiang regions, launching from this area to provide constant deterrence. This deterrence, especially towards China, has prompted China to make numerous defensive preparations.

In any case, the military base in Diego Garcia must be concealed, and every move on the island must be kept under surveillance.

Therefore, Li Xinghe said:

"I hope that our space-based satellites and land-based radars on the plateau can help me detect the movements of Indian strategic bombers. I believe that it will not be difficult to locate their few Mirage 2000H and Puma bombers. In addition, we hope that air defense and high-altitude early warning drones can cover their infiltration operations inside India."

Old Wang would laugh if he heard that:

"What you're asking for is practically a request to play as a wing-back... but it shouldn't be a big problem."

This is certainly possible. The young officers on the Qinghai-Tibet border are already eager to make another small but rapid advance, pushing the Sino-Indian border line under their actual control further. Pangong Lake has already been brought under their actual control from half to half; the next step should be to advance further into the Karakoram Mountains, until they can overlook Leh from a high vantage point and win over the Ladakh people, who have close ties with the Tibetans, to their side.

In fact, while He Yang was leading the First Armored Division in the charge, from southern Tibet to Ladakh, and from Ladakh to Jammu and Kashmir, the Chinese and Pakistani armies, through internal communication, had already taken action on all sides, expanding their controlled areas and containing a large number of India's main elite troops.

Therefore, the Indian army either has to withdraw its elite troops, losing South Tibet and Kashmir and losing face nationwide, or it has to hold the border and watch New Delhi be attacked.

But Old Wang asked more seriously:

"That being said, how do you plan to end this?"

Special military operations must be executed flawlessly; we can't afford to make the same mistake Russia made, which faltered halfway through. The beginning is difficult, but the end is even more so.

Li Xinghe counted on his fingers and smiled:

"Talks are already underway. S. Jaishankar has been visiting Tokyo for two days."

……

Tokyo.

A low-profile Lexus pulled up in front of the Cabinet building, and secretaries and security personnel rushed forward.

"My Lord!"

The car door opened, and Gao Tiaowu carefully jumped out of the car, her toes touching the ground. She was wearing a serious women's suit that didn't quite suit her temperament. She shook her pretty little face and gave a faint response to the people around her.

Walking forward from the cabinet, everyone knows the name of Takajo Satsuki.

The secretaries along the way were all obedient and presented their busy work summaries. When the vice ministers of each department met Takajo Satsuki, they had to answer carefully to avoid being retaliated against by Takajo's secretary.

(Of course, this is mainly because Takajo Satsuki is relatively short, so the secretaries have to bend over.)

Upon entering the Cabinet Office, a plaque on the desk reads 'Chief Secretary of the Secretariat, Takajo Satsuki'.