Okay...I'm going to finish that Indonesia story and try to ressurect this thread. Sorry that it is so long, but I kind of got on a role. I sort of outlined how I think the PLA will fight in the future through story. Remember that it is 2008-2009, so the PLA has more capabilites. Background: You can see the first post about this. Basically the Indonesian government was taken over by Taliban-like rebels with backing from many of the people and the army. Most of Indonesia is under the control of seperatists, warlords, or Malaysia and East Timor. Java is under the control of the Islamists, and they have declared it the Islamic Republic of Java.
Chinese troops landed on Java in November, just as the hot months of summer were beginning. Approxamately 50,000 PLAN Marines landed the first week, encountering resistance only around the city of Yogyakarta. In the next week two PLA infantry divisions were landed. This brought the total of Chinese troops on Java to 86,000 men. At the same time, planes from the Varyag (now called the Mao) attacked the ships of the Indonesian navy in port. They were destroyed, as they had no crews. The crews had abandoned their posts because there was no central government to pay them. The same was true of the Air Force, which the Chinese destroyed at its mostly abandoned bases. The stage was set for Chinese troops to move inland.
The forces the Chinese faced on Java were an odd assortment. The most capable component were soldiers who had been in the Indonesian Army. Whole brigades of the Army had given their support to the Islamic fundamentalists when they took control of the government, and they retained most of their equipment and organization. Many units, however, were at less than full strength because individual soldiers did not support the Islamists and had deserted. Another component of the Islamist forces on Java were foreign jihadists. They had come to Java to find an Islamic paradise, but most were now enlisted in the Islamists forces, fighting on other islands against reigional warlords and secularists. When the Chinese arrived, the Islamists had withdrawn all of their forces to Java in order to withstand the Chinese invasion. The last component was the fanatical civillian militias who had been armed to enforce Sharia rule and eliminate political enemies. They now were tasked with resisting the Chinese forces through sheer self-sacrifice. Islamist forces were under the command of General Hasan Tambali, an army general who had risen to command the Islamic mini-state that now ruled Java and several outlying islands.
As the Chinese moved inland, they encountered massive resistance around the beacheads. Indonesian forces had been massing for attacks on the beacheads, and Chinese forces stumbled into them, kicking over a hornet's nest. Chinese armoured columns were assaulted simaltaeneously by waves of suicidal militia and more professional Army soldiers with anti-tank weapons. Much of the fighting fell to the infantry, forced to clear the area around the beacheads with lots of firepower. Helicopters from the PLAN's helicopter carrier, as well as planes from the Varyag, had to make sorties day and night, and several planes were lost to crashes, as the Chinese were unaccoustmed to operating a carrier round the clock. In addition, PLAN ships provided gun fire support.
Superior Chinese firepower won the day in the week long Beachead Battles. Even though there were some mistakes, the Chinese had been training for that situation for decades because of Taiwan. Chinese forces now had room to manuver, and showed their adeptness at it. PLA Armoured cloumns made up of IFVs, Type 63 tanks and Type 99s, and supported by mobile infantry shot ahead of the main force, bypassing and surrounding enemy strongpoints, in an astonishingly American kind of strategy. With poor command and control, the Indonesians were not able to make truly effective counterattacks. However, this was not to be an Iraqi style cakewalk for the Chinese. The isolated pockets of Indonesians fought ferouciously, spurred by pure conviction. The United States had encountered the same problem in Afghanistan, but had been able to deal with is by pulverizing Taliban postions with B-52s. This was not an option for China. Thus the Chinese had to overwhelm the isolated enemy pockets. This was where the Chinese took the most casualties. Most fighting during this period of the war was done in and around villages and towns, in a urban-rural enviroment, that afforded many advantages to the defenders. However, the Chinese adapted very quickly, and inflicted massive casulties on the ill-trained militia.
As Chinese troops from the differnent beacheads linked up, General Tambali became desperate. Chinese troops began to encounter suicide bombers, on foot and in vehicles. Also, on November 25, a Chinese armoured company advancing on the city of Semerang was cut off and annihalted in the Battle of Gayamsari. In a fight reminisent of the Battle of Mogadishu, professional Indonesian soldiers cut off the unti, which was then bmbarded on all sides by suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets, RPGs, and skillfull infantry assaults. Hundreds of Chinese troops were killed, several helicopters and and an Su-30 were shot down, and rescue efforts merely added to the casualty lists. It was a dramatic lesson in how a semi-guerilla force could humble a much stronger conventional force. Freelance reporters captured sickening images of Chinese prisoners being executed en masse. The irony of the fight was that Semerang had the largest Chinese population of any city in Indonesia.
Although the Chinese suffered heavy casualties and were defeated at the Battle of Gayamsari, they eventually captured Semerang and the battle did not particularlly slow them down. Chinese troops were rapidly advancing on Jakarta, leaving massive destruction behind them. Thousands of civillians had been killed in the fighting. At the time this recieved little world attention because the Chinese had closed the island to all reporters except those from Xinhua and anyone who could make it in illegally.
The final battle of the conventional war took place over Christmas, in and around Jakarta itself. Lasting from December 23, 2008 to January 3, 2009, Jakarta fell in an orgy of violence. General Tambali, in increasing Hitler-like madness, ordered political enemies and "infidels" murdered. Thousands were killed by militamen, including reporters and the few foriegners still in the city. Chinese forces took the city using massive firepower, as well as with skilled infantry tactics, taking account of the numerous booby traps and ambushes that had been set for them. The Chinese inflicted large casulties yet again, and were only slowed by suicidal resistance. Special Forces landed in Jakarta's port on the day after Christmas, as the rest of the Army advanced from the landward side. The extent of the religious, political and ethnic (the few ethnic Chinese still in Jakarta were targeted) cleansing in Jakarta was revealed with each city block taken. The day after Jakarta was declared secure, Gen. Tambali was killed in a firefight with Chinese Special Forces. The short-lived Islamic Republic of Java was destroyed, drowned in Chinese and Indonesian blood in what had been undoubtedly the most violent and bloody conventional war of the still-young 21st century.
In Borneo, the war was over in about two weeks.The Chinese flew in the15th Airborne Corps to the few airports on the island. Prior to the invasion, Ministry of State Security agents made contact with the warlord in control of most of the island, including the airports, and allied with him. Chinese troops flew in and then attacked the Islamic Republic of Java forces holding the oil fields on the island. Without support, except from poorly trained and armed locals provided by the warlord, the 15th Airborne Corps was able to defeat 7,000 enemy troops with less than 100 Chinese soldiers killed. This remarkable feat was one of the few bright spots in this victorious but bloody war for the Chinese.
At the end of the conventional phase, the Chinese had lost about 5,400 men killed and 10,000 wounded. Indonesian military casualties stood anywhere between 50,000 and 80,000. Civillian casualties were estimated at 100,000. Based on the example of the continuing conflicts in Chechnya and Iraq, people around the world expected another inscrutiable guerilla conflict to develop.
) that wish a war with china's navy. He know that the china navy NOW can't beat japanese navy. the war will set back chinese development back 40 years. but most Japanese Officals don't even know this plan. Lt. Ma need to warn Beijing, general Yamaha's plan. then Traitor Lt. Lee showed up with 3 other Japanese agent with gun...
