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"That's not the only car or locomotive that got blown up, look, this one up ahead too." Kevin pointed to a train ahead.
Two carriages of the train were blown up.Ahead of it, another train...
Josena: "The supplies and baggage of an Indian division are trapped here."
Kevin: "Boss, stop looking to the right, look to the left."
On the right is the railway, on the left is the road.This section of the nearly 1-kilometer road was full of scorched wreckage.
The first thing I saw was an overturned 105mm howitzer. The towing truck was thrown to the side of the road, so the howitzer also overturned.Going forward, there is also a howitzer lying on the road. The truck did not fly, but was burned on the spot. The tires burst and collapsed under the high temperature. The burned truck emitted a stench of burning rubber and chemicals. .
As we continued to move forward, the sight of the wreckage became more and more shocking.
A troop transport truck was burnt to a steel frame, and in the cab were the charred and blackened bodies of two soldiers.
Going forward, a troop carrier truck was probably full of soldiers when it was destroyed, and now the soldiers' bodies are still on the truck, roasted by the fire to produce the so-called human oil, ticking from the gap in the back of the truck. flow down.
Some trucks did not catch fire or the fire was quickly extinguished, and there were scattered limbs and broken legs on the road and near the trucks.
"Damn, aren't the Indians going to pick up the bodies and push the wrecks away?" Kevin said.
"I saw it just now. They plan to use an alternate route, which is to let the traffic flow turn into a nearby country road, then cross the river from the pontoon bridge, and then merge into the main road in front." Jonathan calmly took pictures one by one with the camera The scene in front of him was like shooting a bonsai at a horticultural expo. After a roll of more than 30 shots was taken, he would rewind the roll, pull out the film and put in a new roll.
Kevin: "Is this what the colonel ordered us to do?"
"No, I'm using these photos for the New York Times."
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Among the scrapped vehicles, Jonathan and Kevin took pictures while surveying the scene.Pat clapping, Jonathan stopped.
"Kevin, do you see anything wrong?"
Kevin looked around, "There is a long distance between this pile of wreckage and the next pile of wreckage..."
"There was a truck parked here between the two piles of debris," Jonathan said, walking to the halfway point between the two piles of debris, "and then it drove off the road and out of the field. This is the rut."
Kevin understood: "It survived the air raid."
Jonathan: "Let's think more broadly."
"It survived, it drove away, it didn't get hit by a Chinese missile..."
"The Chinese missiles are there!" Qiao Senna jumped off the road and ran towards the fields in Luxi. When he discovered the wreckage just now, he also noticed that there were unusual traces in this field.Sure enough, after running for more than 100 meters, in a newly turned earth pit, the two saw a KL-2 missile lying quietly in the mud pit.
The front rudder and tail of the missile broke two or three pieces during the impact, and the projectile body was also bent, and the position behind the middle looked like it was about to be disconnected.
"While it lost its target, the self-destruct fuze didn't work. It's a rare thing!" Chosenna panted heavily, and walked around the missile, but didn't dare to touch the missile. "Kevin, go to the Indian engineers over there, pay each of them $100, and find a few who have experience in EOD."
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Kevin found four Indian engineers and walked to the missile pit with their respective tool boxes.
"Guys, I need you to de-fuze the missile, remove the explosives, and cut the missile into two or three pieces," Jonathan said.
The Indian engineers understood Jonathan's words, but did not act.The leading engineer lieutenant spread his hands: "This is a very dangerous job. We don't have protective equipment. This is risking our lives."
Jonathan: "There's no time to go back and get the protective gear, I need to get it right away, get it shipped right away."
The engineer lieutenant smiled and said nothing.
Jonathan gritted his teeth, took out his wallet, and took out four 4-dollar bills, one for each person, and photographed them in the hands of four Indian engineers.
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Derangzong.
After two days of firepower preparations, the Fourth Division of the Indian Army is finally about to attack the defense system of our army in Derangzong.
The establishment of the Fourth Division is very different from that of our army and the US military. It has two infantry brigades and four infantry regiments (regiments), as well as an artillery brigade and two independent heavy tank battalions. An atypical block style division.
From the afternoon of the 20th, the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 4th Division shelled the tunnel fortifications of our army. At first, 5 artillery battalions fired at the same time, then increased to 12, and on December 21 reduced to 4.
The situation on December 12 was that our army's 21mm cannon found an opportunity to counter artillery, and 85 12mm cannons fired rapidly, blowing up a howitzer battalion of the Indian army.The Fourth Division of the Indian Army was so frightened that it stopped shelling quickly and moved the remaining artillery to a safe area covered by hills and peaks.
The 85 plus range can overwhelm the 105mm and 155mm howitzers, but this is not good. The trajectory is too straight, and the artillery on the opposite side of the mountain battlefield will be subject to many restrictions.
However, there is no other way due to the limitations. Given the road conditions from Dawang Township to Derangzong in Cuona County, only 85mm cannons can be transported here. No matter how big the artillery is, it will not work.
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"Qi Jinwu, how is the situation over there?" Zhang Guohua picked up the phone and asked about the situation on the front line.
"There are four artillery battalions in the front of the Indian army shelling, but the firing frequency is not high, and the accuracy of the artillery group is not high," said Qie Jinwu, head of the 4th regiment, "about half of our surface positions were destroyed, but the tunnels were intact. Looking at the movement of the Indian army now, their infantry may be about to attack."
"Liu Guangtong and the others have already started to move. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions are moving forward tonight. The 32nd Regiment is also moving forward. You stick to your positions, pay attention to reducing artillery casualties when blocking, pay attention to the night attack of the Indian army at night, and wait for follow-up notice for the rest. "
There are only 4 artillery battalions. On the Korean battlefield 8 years ago, the Volunteers were bombarded by Van Fleet with 22 artillery battalions. At that time, the Volunteer Army’s fortifications were not a large network of tunnels.
Although our army's fortifications in Derangzong are not large-scale underground arterial roads constructed with shield machines, the potholes dug out of the mountain by hundreds of thousands of detonators and countless explosives cannot be easily destroyed by shelling.
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The infantry of the 108th Division of the Indian Army at the foot of the mountain entered the starting position scatteredly. The reason why they were scattered was that they had been bombed many times by [-]mm rockets.
第四师居然还排出了几辆M47“巴顿”坦克，天知道这种40多快50吨的坦克是怎么爬到3000米海拔的德让宗的。巴顿式坦克在我军阵地前5公里就停下不走了，这是因为前几天被154团的反坦克导弹炸过好几次，后来摸清楚了中国反坦克导弹的最大射程是4000米，于是就在5公里外缩着当固定炮台。
After the infantry of the fourth division was assembled, the two battalions began to climb the mountain, one from the south and the other from the north. The Patton tanks supported them with direct fire from a distance. On December 1959, 12, the first frontal battle between the Chinese and Indian armies began in the form of positional warfare.
Half an hour later, the first frontal battle ended with the two battalions of the Indian Army being knocked down the mountain.The Indian troops attacking in two directions dropped more than 100 corpses each, and climbed down the mountain in a formation of collapsed morale. The 154th Regiment did not pursue either. After all, there were thousands of Indian troops at the foot of the mountain, and the 154nd and 2rd Battalions of the 3th Regiment, plus the 154st Battalion of the 1th Regiment of the reserve team, were guarding the Derang Zong mountain position. A division attack.
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Pasika direction.
The Yarlung Zangbo River turned a corner in the Grand Canyon, entered southern Tibet, and then flowed out of the traditional sphere of influence between China and India at Pasika, and flowed into India.The water volume of the Yarlung Zangbo River has increased by 300 times in less than 2.5 kilometers from flowing into southern Tibet to flowing out of Pasika. The rainfall in southern Tibet is really terrible.
Pasika is on the west bank of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and the path and area occupied by our army into southern Tibet are also west of the Yarlung Zangbo River.
In the past 6 days, the 389th regiment that entered Pasika fought and retreated, gradually sucking half of the troops of the 2nd Division of the Indian Army to the Himalayas.The 8th Gurkha United Team is at the forefront, distributed in the Mechuka-Dadong area, and the Jammu Kashmir United Team is behind it, in Pasika, Alang, Kebang and other places.
The Gurkha infantry of the Indian Army is known for being fierce and fearless and good at mountain warfare.
It is good at mountain combat, which probably refers to its special prowess compared with the British army. The 389 regiment played with the Gurkha United team for a few days. On December 12, it decided not to "oil" and show its true strength.In the valley near Dadong, the 21st and 389nd Battalions of the 1th Regiment assembled and launched a surprise attack on the 2rd Infantry Battalion of the Gurkha Regiment, which was camping.
After 40 minutes of fighting, the 3rd Gurkha Infantry Battalion killed 210 people and captured nearly 300 people including its battalion commander. Except for a few soldiers with good legs and feet who escaped from the encirclement, the battalion was basically wiped out.
At Tespur, 4th Corps commander Kaur was annoyed when he heard of the results of the battle at Dadong.The staff suggested that the 2nd Division should transfer the Sikh unit under their command from the plains to the direction of Pasika, and join the battle to chase the Chinese army.