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On the same day, three days after the Siliguri Corridor was blocked by bombing bridges and missiles swept across the road, troops from the 5th Division of the Indian Army finally crossed the corridor and arrived in Alipur.Kaul, the commander of the Fourth Army, immediately came to Alipur by helicopter to discuss combat matters with Lawton, the commander of the Fifth Division.

"On the Siliguri road, the 34th Punjab Infantry Regiment lost 750 men," said Lawton, "330 were killed and 420 were wounded. The most fatal problem was the death of the regiment commander. Now the 34th Regiment cannot fight."

Kaur: "Can the other three regiments move to Baruch immediately and join the Fourth Division's attack?"

"Because the railway bridge has not been restored, the logistics materials of the Fifth Division have not yet been transported through the corridor. We are now transferring some of the materials carried by trains to cars and transported by road, but this is very slow. If the Fifth Division is required to join the battle immediately , that may require Baruchpan and Tespur to supply our logistics."

"This is a problem that can be solved," Kaur said, "then I have decided that you will arrive at Baruch on the 27th and deploy your troops on the 29th."

Lawton: "It is impossible for us to reach Baruch on the 27th."

"why?"

"In order to prevent air strikes, we can only walk for 3 hours a day. At this speed, we can only arrive on the 29th at the earliest."

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Late at night on the 24th.

The 155nd and 2rd Battalions of the 3th Regiment marched in the dark.

The battle in southern Tibet, in Su Yu's words, is a bit like "the first and second battles in which our army has air supremacy."

The plateau and mountains above 3000 meters have rugged roads. Most of the motorized equipment is useless and can only walk on two legs. The weapons carried by the troops seem to have returned to the first and second battles. 40mm rocket launchers, The two sharp weapons of the 108mm rocket launcher are the most useful equipment carried by battalion-level troops.

The slightly better thing is that each squad now has 1 or 2 Type 55 automatic rifles. This gun has more firepower than a submachine gun, and its range is as far as that of the 50 and a half. It also uses the same bullets as the 50 and a half and 50 light machine guns. There are fewer supply issues.

"Wow wada?"

The 155nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment, which was rushing through the two wings of the 2th Division ahead, suddenly heard a curry-flavored English in the darkness ahead.The company commander of the 1nd Battalion and [-]st Company walking in the forefront immediately bowed vigilantly. With the dim light of the night, he saw a single black figure ahead, Indian soldiers?

The location of this Indian depot is very bad. It is probably not a sentinel, but a soldier who got lost or came out to pee.If it is lost, it proves that there is a distance from here in the Indian army; if it came out to pee, then the Indian army's barracks is nearby?

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In the early morning of December 12, the three headquarters in Cuona, Chengdu, and Beijing were brightly lit.Zhang Guohua and Suyu connected and exchanged opinions on the next phase of the battle on the Eastern Front to determine whether the follow-up battle plan needs to be adjusted.

Zhang Guohua unified and commanded the combat deployment in the four directions on the eastern front, and was the decisive player in the battle.

Tawang-Dejanjong-Bundila is one direction.Medog-Baxika is one direction.

Where are the other two directions?

At the Sikkim section of the border where China and India are confronting each other, the border guards of the Tibet Military Region are standing by.The troops deployed here are not enough to launch a self-defense counterattack station. They are performing elastic defense operations. If the Indian army launches an attack from here, the border guards must be fully sure to beat the Indian army back, and they will no longer be able to organize a new attack. .

The easternmost section of the disputed Sino-Indian border area does not belong to "Southern Tibet" geographically. However, due to the legacy of the McMahon Line, there are still big differences between India and China on the demarcation of the border here.

The core point here is Walong Town, located in the southeast of Zayu County.Warong was occupied by the Indian army a few years ago. In September 1959, more than 9 Indian troops continued to advance here with weapons. Waza, north of Warong, clashed with two platoons of our border guards stationed here. .In order to avoid bloodshed, our border guards retreated 9 meters from September to October.

However, what the Indian Army did not know was that in November 1959, the Qamdo Military Division established a sub-district front in Zayu County, and dispatched a reinforcement regiment and two frontier defense battalions to the front line in Zayu County.But from December 11th to December 12th, both sides in the Warong-Chayu direction were quiet. Our army has a reinforced regiment and two border defense battalions with more than 16 people, and they are here to attack without anyone noticing.

Wallong is the fourth direction that Zhang Guohua is in charge of directing.

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Derangzong.

In the middle of the night, the 155nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment found an Indian straggler in front of them. It was startled, and immediately rushed to capture the Indian soldier, and then caught another one more than ten meters away from the Indian soldier.The interrogation learned that the two soldiers had fallen behind and were looking for where their troops would camp tonight.

The 2nd Battalion searched the nearby valley carefully, and it didn't take long to find a nest of enemies.

Wu Lingmeng, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, took out the infrared night vision device from his backpack, installed it on his Type 55 automatic rifle, and tightened the fixing screws hard.

During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, many night vision devices on the U.S. military’s M1 carbine were seized. At first, our army thought that it was simply a waste of money.However, after the infantry and tanks with night vision goggles conducted several coordinated exercises at night, the Army changed its mind, thinking that a small amount of night vision goggles for guns is actually very good as a night reconnaissance and target designation device.

Wu Lingmeng observed the Indian army garrison in the valley through the observation window of the night vision device.

It can be seen that the accommodation conditions of this group of Indian troops tonight are not very good.Hundreds of people huddled in the valley. Although it was in the leeward direction, the temperature of minus 8 degrees was not comfortable anyway, and not all soldiers of these Indian troops were in tents—about half of the soldiers did not have tents, that is. Spread blankets, bedding, and sleeping bags on the spot and squint.

Wu Lingmeng discussed with the commanders of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies for a few minutes and formulated a combat plan.Under the eyes of the Indian sentry, the 3rd and 2nd companies approached the camp quietly, and then fired a few flares over the camp.While the sky was illuminated, several guns fired together, and the three Indian soldiers standing on the night guard fell to the side of the road and stones.

In another valley in Derangzong, the 155rd Battalion of the 3th Regiment moved faster than the 2nd Battalion. At 12 o'clock in the morning on December 25th, the commander of the 2rd Battalion saw a town built on the flat land between the mountains. He opened the map and confirmed that they had reached the mountain east of Mandalapton.

The 3rd Battalion made a big interspersion, and actually inserted back to the vicinity of Bandila, where our army voluntarily withdrew.

"Occupy Mandalapton, destroy the road in the southern section of the town, and cut off the Fourth Division's retreat!" Zhang Guohua directly contacted the 155nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment via radio. One of the roads goes south through Mandalapton; the other goes back to Bundila along the road from Derangzong. Both of our roads will be blocked by it."

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Tespur.

Since December 12, when the Chinese Air Force defeated the planes dispatched by the Tespur Air Force Base and blew up the airport, the Indian Fourth Army Command in Tespur never dared to openly set up , On the same day, I moved to the business building of a small private bank, which also has two basements, of which the basement two are vaults.

After five days of cats in the musty basement, on the morning of December 12, Commander Kaul, who was still sleeping, was suddenly awakened by a huge explosion.

Not only was he awakened by the shock, but he was also dizzy from the shock.

Kaul pushed open his bedroom door to get out, but the bedroom door collapsed forward with a bang as soon as he pushed it.Out of the corridor, the lights on the second basement floor flickered. Five meters away, the ceiling of the corridor collapsed and hit the floor. The smell of dust and gunpowder smoke was choking, and the roars and wails of the headquarters staff were everywhere. .

Over Tezpur, two Tu-4 bombers confirmed that the six one-ton bombs they dropped had covered the target, and turned back.

One of the 1-ton guided bombs hit the roof of the private bank. The huge kinetic energy directly smashed through the roof, and then penetrated the floors of the 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st floors, and exploded on the basement floor.If the bomb fell directly above Kaul, or if the bomb had a higher explosive charge, Kaul would have been buried by this time.

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Kunming.

"Tu-4 reports that the bombing covers the target area!" "The radio station of the enemy headquarters is silent!"

The battle report was first sent back to the headquarters in Kunming, and then automatically forwarded to Chengdu and Beijing. Finally, Chengdu contacted Cuona County. Zhang Guohua got the news three minutes later.

On the morning of December 12, among the parties involved, Nehru was probably the latest to get the news that the Fourth Army headquarters was in trouble.

He gave a long speech in the Indian Parliament again, and the meeting was not adjourned until noon.

Kaur seems to have a mysterious confidence in his location. In fact, our army has located the approximate location of the Fourth Army headquarters five days ago. The aerial reconnaissance on December 12 further confirmed which building it is .When to remove the headquarters of the Fourth Army depends entirely on the needs of the campaign.

The headquarters of the Fourth Army in Tespur is basically a ruined building. Half of the buildings on the ground have collapsed, and the remaining half is also seriously tilted, making it uninhabitable.

Kaul sat dejectedly on a small horse, 300 meters away from the headquarters building.His face was dusty, except for the eye sockets which were clean—Cauer was taking off his glasses and rubbing the grime off them vigorously.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, is the Chief of Staff."

Brigadier General Kar Singh, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army, lay on a stretcher, escorted by three doctors and nurses, and was carried by two soldiers past Kaur.Kaur looked over and saw that Singer's forehead was bleeding, and there might be other wounds on his body, and he was moaning and screaming in pain.

"Is the Chief of Staff's life in danger?" Kaul asked.

"It's not clear, but since I'm still awake, I don't think the situation is too bad." The doctor replied.

As soon as the doctor finished speaking, Brigadier General Singer, the chief of staff, stopped moaning, tilted his head and stopped breathing, and his right hand limply drooped from the edge of the stretcher.