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    "Why does this operation have to be completed by our division?" Major General Prashad, commander of the Indian 4th Division, stood up and asked Lieutenant General Umrao Singh, the acting commander of the Northern Military Region, "What if I  After executing your order, we will lose the entire southern Tibet area, and the Northeast Border Special Zone will face any action taken by China from the north. Why can't the 2nd Division of the 4th Army be deployed from Nagaland and Manipur Districts to execute it?  "What about this task?" Umrao Singh looked at Prashad, the commander of the 4th Division who did not regard himself as a dish, and said: "It is not up to you to decide who to carry out this task.  Nagaland and Manipur can no longer mobilize any troops. Now the 33rd Army is fighting with the Indian People's Liberation Army with the support of the Chinese, and these two states may be occupied by the Indian People's Liberation Army at any time. This task can only be done by you.  The division will execute it." After a moment of pause, Umrao Singh said to the commander of the 4th Division, Major General Prasad, with a dissatisfied look on his face: "Major General Prasad, you don't have to execute this order.  I am only fulfilling my obligation as the acting commander to convey the orders of the Ministry of Defense to you, and you have nothing to say to me about the rest. If you do not implement it, you can explain it to the Minister of Defense Mr. Menon and Prime Minister Nehru.¡±  ¡¾¡¿ After saying that, he ignored Prashad again.  Lieutenant General Umrao Singh was very dissatisfied that the 4th Division, as a direct descendant of Nehru and Menon, was regarded as the "standard division" of the Indian Army. Nehru and Menon were the most effective in the 6th Army.  The absolute main force of the army, the whole division inevitably has the arrogance of being superior to others.  " " Prasad, commander of the Indian 4th Division, looked at the cold face of Lieutenant General Umrao Singh and felt helpless. He turned to Lieutenant General Ma Jingniers, commander of the Eastern Military Region Air Force, and said: "  Lieutenant General Jing Niers, how much support can our division get from your air force? " "No! Not one," Jing Niels shrugged and spread his hands outward. "Unfortunately, on 18  In the Japanese air raid, all our aircraft were lost and the airport suffered serious losses. The great task of opening up Siliguri can only be left to your team during the Second World War, which fought in the Middle East and North Africa.  You are the pride of India and we all hope that it will be on the shoulders of the 4th Division.  "That's enough, shut your mouth. What I need now is the bombs of the Air Force instead of your worthless hymns, my Air Force Commander!" Major General Prashad, commander of the 4th Division, angrily shouted at Ma Jingnier.  Lieutenant General Sri Lanka shouted to Lieutenant General Umrao Singh, commander of the 33rd Army.  The reason why he insisted on letting the 4th Division of the 4th Army perform this mission was that it would take time and strength to mobilize all the eastern forces to deal with the Indian People's Liberation Army. On the other hand, he wanted the 4th Division to serve as a frontline for the 33rd Army and other troops in the Eastern Military Region.  It broke out a bloody path, so that the troops of the Eastern Military Region could follow closely and withdraw to the Indian mainland.  The first Indian Army to launch an attack on the 1st Airborne Division airborne to Siliguri was the 9th Infantry Division of the Indian Army stationed in Kolkata in the Southern Military District of India.  In April, the 9th Infantry Division took a train, under the cover of armored vehicles, from Calcutta, along the New Japeri Railway to the Teesta Valley Railway Bridge held by our First Airborne Division.  Accompanied by bursts of gunfire, Li Fuen, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division, left two platoons of the 3rd company behind to clear out the unsystematic Indian resistance in Saktiga Town.  He himself led a platoon of the 4th Company and the 3rd Company in a non-stop rush towards the New Japeri Railway Bridge over the Teesta River.  When they arrived, they saw a soldier of the 1st Airborne Division with a head injury and his head wrapped in gauze. He was bandaging the wound of an airborne sergeant who had an abdominal injury and was lying in a dilapidated bunker.  with the remains of three martyrs.  Four airborne soldiers kept jumping among the Indian army positions that were filled with thick smoke and piles of residual fire. From time to time, they shot at the remaining Indian troops guarding the bridgehead position on the east side of the railway bridge among the broken walls.  , and kept throwing handleless grenades at the remaining enemies of the Indian army.  From time to time, sporadic gunshots of British-made Lee Enfield rifles and Bren-type light machine guns were heard from these positions.  These nine soldiers deviated from the scheduled parachute area when parachuting and floated to the Indian army's railway bridgehead position. After landing, they immediately fought separately and attacked the Indian troops guarding the bridge who had not yet awakened from our air raid.  Attack fiercely, and actively gather in the direction of dense gunfire while fighting to form a fighting group as quickly as possible.  The results of this usual rigorous training were finally reflected on the battlefield. On the company-level defensive position of the Indian Army, even if 50 were lost in the bombing, there were still sixty or seventy people, but all of them were defeated by these nine  The airborne troops were defeated.  Of course, the airborne troops also paid three deaths.  2 injuries come at a heavy price.  Captain Li Funen immediately led the soldiers of the 4th company into the battle, quickly clearing the Indian army's railway bridgehead position on the east side of the Teesta River, and then led a platoon along both sides of the railway bridge to rush towards the more than 600-year-old railway bridge.  Long railway bridge.  At this time, the Indian troops guarding the west of the bridge were not killed or injured. They only regretted that their mother had given them two legs, and they had already fled without a trace.  Li FuenThe regiment leader and the others successfully occupied the bridgehead position in Hexi, the Indian platoon level.  The airborne troops of the 1st Airborne Division did not dare to slack off at all. Under the leadership of the regiment commander, they immediately dismantled the railway tracks and installed sandbags to reconstruct and strengthen the fortifications.  The Teesta River originates from the Zemu Glacier on Kanchenjunga Peak in the Himalayas, flows through Sikkim into India, and finally enters East Pakistan before joining the Jamuna River near Chilmari.  The railway bridge across the Teesta River on the New Japeri Railway Line is located in the middle and upper reaches of the river. The river bed here is about 5oo meters wide. The cold and clear river water reaches a depth of 3 meters. The water flow is rapid. The rivers on both sides are steep and will not be erected.  The bridge cannot be forded across the river, which is very beneficial to our army's defense.  The bridgehead position to the west of the railway bridge is the most outpost of our army. With the bridgehead as the radius, it is about 100 meters in front of the river west. On the left and rear sides of the bridge on the east bank of the river, a platoon-level defensive position of our army is set up, as well as on the west bank.  The bridgehead forms a triangular defensive position.  At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after a rapid whistle, an armored train of the 9th Infantry Division of the Indian Army from Calcutta finally arrived "Gudongdong, Gudongdong".  The train slowly drove towards the bridgehead of the railway bridge on the west bank of the Teesta River, which was defended by the 1st Platoon of the 4th Airborne Company.  While driving, it fired towards the front in a pretending manner.  An armored train is an armored railway vehicle used to provide fire support and combat operations to troops along the railway. It consists of a combat train and a base train.  This armored train of the Indian Army consists of an armored steam locomotive, four base armored carriages and two railway flat cars used for cover.  The armored steam locomotive is located between the armored carriages.  The tender truck faces the east of our army's defensive position. From the long antenna on the locomotive, it can be seen that the vehicle is equipped with communication equipment.  The armored train carriage is equipped with four 51mm British artillery pieces and 12 machine guns forming a powerful firepower, located on both sides of the carriage and in the rotating turret.  Each section of the vehicle is rigidly connected to facilitate passage through the light rail railway section.  At the 9th Division Tactical Headquarters, (equivalent to the frontline headquarters of our army) and transporting a reinforced battalion of more than 600 Indian officers and soldiers.  The biggest advantage of armored trains is their high speed. Even in the face of enemy ground and air attacks, armored trains can travel about 500 kilometers in one day, and ordinary light weapons and artillery shell fragments cannot penetrate its armor.  Therefore, the Indian army is confident in using this armored train to engage in close combat with Chinese airborne troops who lack heavy weapons, recapture the railway bridge across the Teesta River on the New Japeri Railway Line, and open up the Siliguri Corridor.  1,000 meters away from the bridgehead of our army, seven anti-tank missiles of the Hongjian-54 of our airborne troops flew towards the Indian armored train with long wires.  Seven missiles with a diameter of 120 mm, a length of 854 mm, and a weight of 11.3 kg, with hollow-charge single-cone warheads, accurately hit the armored train with four carriages.  With a series of loud noises of "Boom, Boom, Boom", the entire armored train was enveloped in an explosion of fire, with gray-blue smoke and yellow-white flames rushing straight to the roof of the armored train. The explosion shock wave  The broken corpses of the Indian soldiers loaded in the armored car above the train were thrown into the air. The entire armored train was flipped under the roadbed, burning with raging fire, and smoke was rising into the sky. The car walls were broken, and the armor on the car was broken.  Broken, charred human body parts, severed limbs and broken corpses were scattered everywhere.  Even the railroad tracks were blown to pieces.  Then the 3rd and 4th companies of the 1st Airborne Division fired at the wreckage of the armored train with napalm bombs from 1o7mm rocket launchers. It was really difficult for the entire train's personnel to survive such a blow.  .  The miserable wailing sound coming from the sea of ??fire made the Chinese airborne troops one kilometer away feel horrified when they heard it.  The first batch of Indian troops who came to attack with full confidence in victory were killed in a completely unexpected attack.  This kind of armored train used by the Indian army played an important role in the First and Second World Wars.  In particular, its role in the battle to defend railway hubs cannot be replaced by other weapons and equipment.  However, in the honest eyes, this kind of combat cannot leave the rails. As long as there is a little damage to the rails, this menacing-looking armored vehicle can lose its mobility.  This outdated armored train can only serve as a dead target for 4o rocket launchers, 1o7 rocket launchers and 54-type Red Arrow anti-tank missiles. Especially the red arrows used by our First Airborne Division are small in size and light in weight, and are especially suitable for individual airborne soldiers to carry.  After the Arrow 54 anti-tank missile, India inherited this armored train from the United Kingdom. Apart from increasing the number of casualties to the Indian army, the rest has no effect.  This sudden blow spared no one among the more than 730 Indian troops including Sabi Asa, the deputy commander of the 9th Division of the Indian Army.  This blow almost destroyed the fighting spirit of the Indian troops who came to attack, especially the heart-rending wails coming from the burning carriages, which put the entire Indian 9th Division officers and soldiers into extreme despair.  In panic, he was almost on the verge of psychological collapse.  Until 6 hours later, the troops from behind came up and invited several statues of eminent monks.After a decent religious prayer ceremony, an attack was organized.  This railway bridge over the Teesta River is the key to connecting East and West India.  The 3rd and 4th companies of the airborne troops guarding the railway bridge became a thorn in the side of the Indian army and a thorn in the flesh.  The Indian army was determined to capture this railway bridge position.  So another regiment and 27 Centurion tanks from a tank battalion of the Indian Third Heavy Armored Division were transferred.  The Indian Ministry of Defense dispatched Major General Romsadi, assistant to the General Staff of the Indian Army, to personally supervise the battle.  After 6 hours of preparation, there was only one reinforced platoon bridgehead in Hexi, and 3 infantry battalions were used to carry out a rolling attack under the cover of 27 tanks. From 19:00 on the next day.  In 24 hours, the Indian army organized five group charges of battalion level or above. On the 20th alone, it conducted four battalion-level group charges. Our airborne troops and the Indian army launched a fierce battle. During the fierce battle, two of our airborne troops also fought.  Reinforcements were sent from Hedong for the first time, but the Indian army was unable to capture it in the end.  Our army will attack you when you come up. If you don't come up, I will enter the anti-artillery fortifications under the approach bridge to prevent the Indian army from shelling. Only 2-4 people are left on the position to hide in the bunker and observe.  Since our army has destroyed most of the Indian army¡¯s airport facilities, no Indian aircraft have been seen in the past two days.  The Indian army's artillery fire cannot really be called fierce, and the artillery fire has no effect.  In order to save ammunition and paralyze the enemy, our army seldom fires artillery fire. Only when the Indian army comes up, the defensive positions on both sides of the strait will be attacked by a short artillery fire.  In this 24-hour battle, the Indian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties and destroyed 20 tanks, but it did not shake our army's bridgehead in Hexi.  The 3rd and 4th companies of our airborne troops also suffered more than 80 casualties.  But the Indian army was still unwilling to accept their failure. They transferred a company of more than 150 special forces from New Delhi to prepare for a night attack on our army's bridgehead.  After nightfall, the moon quietly hid behind the thick clouds as if it was afraid of seeing the bloody war scene below.  The night is surprisingly quiet, with only the Teesta river roaring tirelessly. If it weren't for the mixed gas of gunpowder smoke and blood floating in the air, people would not be able to imagine that this is a life-and-death battlefield.  Wang Weiguo, squad leader of the 3rd platoon of the 4th company, and three other comrades were hiding in the shelter of the bridgehead, constantly observing the outside through the infrared telescope. This is the Chinese airborne force on duty guarding the railway bridge over the Teesta River.  guard post.  Wang Weiguo was half-kneeling in the bunker while observing the enemy situation around him.  While thinking about the upright words of the deputy division commander before taking up the post.  "The Indian army has been attacking us for nearly two days and may use the night to sneak attack on us. Everyone must be more vigilant." "The Saktiga Railway Bridge is the main artery connecting East and West India. They will never give up like this. We must  To keep this bridgehead west of the bridge, this position must not be lost. "In order to keep this position, more than 40 of our comrades have fallen there." At this time, Wang Weiguo found through the infrared telescope that more than 100 Indian troops were taking advantage of the darkness.  Following the drainage ditches on both sides of the railway base, he quietly walked up to our army's position. He quietly poked his comrades beside him and handed him the binoculars and said: "Goddess, the Indian army has indeed come up. Take a look.  Are the directional mines set up? " "More than 10 directional mines are set up in parallel every 30 meters in the ditch on both sides, and there are more than 20 mines in total. "Squad leader, just take a look at it." That one is called  The warrior of the Goddess replied.  "We'll wait for these big bearded Indians to come up in a while. Let's give them a shower first. Damn it, these Indian soldiers really don't know how high and low they are to play night battle with us. Let's give them something fresh this time. Let's give them something fresh first.  They learned a good lesson." The warrior nicknamed Tiannu is a minelaying genius among the airborne troops. She holds an infrared telescope in her left hand.  The index finger of his right hand was pressed on the detonator button.  Wang Weiguo quietly ran out of the shelter and informed the other two comrades on duty to supervise the drainage ditch on the other side. When all Indian troops entered the directional mine explosion area, he would press the detonator.  Our army¡¯s bridgehead was as quiet as if it were undefended.  The Indian special forces groped forward cautiously, getting closer and closer to our position. Wang Weiguo seemed to be able to hear the pounding heartbeat of the Indian special forces. 50 meters, 30 meters, 20 meters, "boom, boom" suddenly more than 20 directional landmines.  A group explosion occurred almost at the same time, immediately knocking these Indian special forces who came for a sneak attack into pieces, their flesh and blood flying everywhere, and each one turned into a hornet's nest that continuously spewed blood and water outwards.  The gutters were filled with smoke.  "Da da da, da da da" Then, Wang Weiguo's four automatic rifles fired together along the drainage ditch to clean up those possible survivors.  Wang Weiguo and the others were so excited about the fight that they simply rushed out of the bunker and stood up to fight, shouting and constantly pulling the trigger.  Seeing that the special forces they sent failed, the Indian army immediately began to carry out concentrated bombing on our army's bridgehead positions to cover the retreat of their special forces.  Shells poured down like raindrops, and Wang Weiguo was knocked over by a burst of gravel and blast of air.  "It's over, I'm sure this time"It's really over," Wang Weiguo thought the moment he was blown up. What he didn't expect was that the magazine and bullet on his chest blocked an 81mm mortar shrapnel the size of a walnut. It was enough to avoid it.  Fortunately, his skin was not scratched at all. He got up and rubbed his sore butt, cursing and hurried back to the bunker.
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