Fighting on the outskirts of Lahore, which lasted 3 days.

On the evening of the 16th, when the battle began, the Indian army completely gave up after launching the last large-scale offensive and being ruthlessly crushed by the Pakistani army.

In fact, after the defeat of the first day's breakout battle, the Indian army basically gave up the idea of breaking out.

According to rough statistics made later, in the first day alone, the Indian army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and thousands more surrendered on the front line.

After three days of fighting, the total number of casualties of the Indian army exceeded 50,000.

On the third night, the Pakistani army also lost patience.

However, the Pakistani army did not launch a ground offensive, but used all kinds of artillery and began to urge the Indian army to surrender, or to force the Indian army to surrender.

By midnight of the same day, the Indian front-line commander had made the decision to surrender.

There is no hope of breaking through, what else is there to hope for?

Actually, according to the information that was later revealed.

Before deciding to surrender, the Indian army front commander contacted the General Staff and asked about the receiving troops again, and the reply given by the Indian Army General Staff was to let the front line troops hold out for a few more days, saying that the receiving troops were already on their way and would be able to arrive in a few days.

So, where is the receiving force of the Indian army?

Just left the Greater New Delhi area, about 300 kilometers from the front line.

Of course, that's still a straight line.

After receiving an answer from the General Staff, the Indian front commander gave the order to surrender.

Like the defenders of Srinagar, the Indian frontline commanders, after deciding to surrender, also proposed to the Pakistani army that when they were repatriated after the war, they should let the surrendered officers and soldiers choose whether to accept the repatriation or not, and if they were unwilling to accept the repatriation, Pakistan would have to settle the surrendered officers and soldiers.

This demand shows from one side that the officers and men on the front line of the Indian army are extremely dissatisfied with the top level of the Indian army and even the top level of India.

After the war, an Indian army colonel who surrendered in Lahore wrote a memoir detailing what happened before and after the surrender.

According to the colonel, in fact, the Indian army had a great deal of confidence in taking Lahore.

Why?

Because the Indian army has a sufficient obvious advantage in troops, what it lacks is only correct tactics, and the front-line commanders have made correct judgments many times, but they have been vetoed by senior generals in the rear, so that the Indian army has missed the opportunity to win again and again, and finally suffered a heavy defeat.

In addition, even at the last moment, the Indian army still has hope of breaking through.

That is, when the Pakistani army launched a counterattack, the Indian army chose to break through, so the vast majority of the 180,000 Indian officers and soldiers were able to break out of the encirclement.

The key point is that the front-line commander of the Indian army still made the correct judgment and put forward the idea of breaking out, but it was once again vetoed by the top level of the Indian army, and even the Indian prime minister refused to allow the troops to break through, resulting in 180,000 Indian soldiers and soldiers falling into a desperate situation.

According to the colonel's words, it was not that the Indian army was not heroic enough, but that the commander of the Indian army was too stupid.

It is undeniable that some of the views of the colonels of the Indian army are rather biased.

For example, he believes that the Indian army has the ability to take Lahore, but ignores a crucial factor, that is, the Pakistani army is also capable of increasing the investment of troops in the Lahore area, so even if the Indian army did not make mistakes in the early stage, it will definitely not be able to take Lahore as planned.

Judging by the situation at the time, the outcome would have been even worse if the Indian army had been bogged down in urban warfare in Lahore.

It's just that the colonel of the Indian army is not wrong on the whole.

The real problem lies in the rear, that is, the top level of the Indian army under remote command does not know the situation on the front line at all, but they must act according to their command, and as a result, too many opportunities are missed.

The most important thing is actually the timing of the breakthrough.

If the siege had been broken out a few days earlier, a large part of the 180,000 Indian troops would have been killed, not that the 180,000 Indian troops would have been completely annihilated.

The surrender of the Indian army besieged in Lahore is definitely not a trivial matter.

You know, that's more than 100,000 officers and soldiers.

The first to be affected is not the senior generals of the Indian army, but the Prime Minister of India.

Why?

That same night, India's prime minister came under fire from many opposition parties.

It's not that this war shouldn't be waged, but the Indian prime minister doesn't seem to have the ability to command the army, and therefore the whole of India.

What is unbelievable is that the Indian Prime Minister, in order to calm the anger at home, publicly announced the treason of the commander-in-chief of the Indian army at the front in Lahore the next day.

Subsequently, the Indian authorities drew up a list of all the senior officers of the front-line troops.

These people are all regarded as traitors.

The funny thing is that some of the officers on this list have actually died for their country in previous battles and died on the battlefield of the breakthrough!

In fact, it can also be seen from this incident why so many Indian officers and soldiers who surrendered were unwilling to be repatriated after the war.

They have done their best on the battlefield, and they should not be held accountable for their failures, let alone scapegoated by the Indian authorities in shirking their responsibilities.

In fact, it is the Indian Prime Minister who started the war who should be held responsible.

In addition, there are also high-ranking Indian army leaders who command indiscriminately.

Interestingly, these people, instead of taking responsibility, have become national heroes and leaders worshiped by more than a billion Indians.

Of course, Pakistan will not stop fighting because of this.

On the 17th day of the war, the Pakistani army launched a general offensive in Jammu.

This time, it was not a hasty attack.

In fact, according to the Pakistani army's battle plan, regardless of whether the Indian army on the Lahore side surrendered or not, it would launch an attack on Jammu that morning.

Of course, Jammu is also the last major city to be captured in the Pakistani army's battle plan.

According to the strategic plan of the Pakistani army, after the defeat of Jammu, it can consider holding ceasefire negotiations with India.

If India still refuses to negotiate, then make adjustments to its troop deployment, starting from Jammu and Lahore, and attacking India proper.

To put it simply, the previous battles were all about achieving strategic goals.

The next step is to promote peace through war.

It's just that Jammu is not Lahore, and even less Srinagar.

Although the Indian army guarding Jammu was less than 100,000 and did not have much heavy equipment, the difficulty of attacking Jammu was far greater than that of Srinagar.

Why?

Jammu is right next to India proper.

This battle was fought very hard from the beginning.

It took a day for the Pakistani army to tear through the Indian army's defensive line on the outskirts and advance into the city.

After moving on to the urban warfare phase, the offensive becomes more difficult.

Of course, for the Pakistani army, what is needed is only time.

As for the Indian army guarding Jammu, there is nothing to rely on except morale and fighting spirit, so it is not wrong to say that they are stubbornly resisting.