Less than 10 days after the siege, the Indian army in Amritsar collapsed on all fronts.

This ending must have been unexpected.

You know, that's more than 30 brigades, nearly 200,000 officers and soldiers.

What's more, during the siege, the Pakistani army never launched an offensive, not even a fire strike, but only surrounded Amritsar.

The front-line troops have lost their fighting spirit, can this battle still be fought?

Of course, Amritsar has not yet been occupied by the Pakistani army.

Why?

The Pakistani army did not join in the fun.

After the commander fled and was captured by the Pakistani army, the Indian army in Amritsar became a headless fly, and fighting was taking place everywhere.

Fight with whom?

Kill each other.

To put it more bluntly, it is the competition for limited resources.

What the Pakistani army did was actually to stay outside the city and wait for the Indian army to come out and surrender.

Actually, this is the only way.

Why?

If the Pakistani army launches an offensive at this time, the Indian army will unite, and perhaps it will fight to the death with the Pakistani army, or it may create even more trouble.

Not to mention that there are millions of civilians in Amritsar.

Although it is very cruel, after all, it is civilians who are poisoned in the melee, but for the generals of the Pakistani army, there is no way to do it.

Let the Pakistani officers and soldiers go in and send them to death?

Obviously, that's the way to go.

Besides, the Pakistani army is not ready to attack Amritsar.

Why?

Too many Indian troops came out to surrender, so the Pakistani army had to spend more force to transport prisoners of war and provide the most basic survival guarantee for these prisoners of war.

This is obviously an extremely heavy burden on the Pakistani army, which is not already a strong logistical support.

In addition, there are impending threats to consider.

On the 75th, the day the Indian front commander was killed, the main forces of the Indian army reached Jalandar to the east.

There are 4 armored brigades, in addition to 4 mechanized infantry brigades.

Of course, strictly speaking, in fact, it is only a semi-mechanized infantry brigade, that is, these 4 brigades have not received enough heavy equipment such as infantry fighting vehicles.

8 main brigades of the Indian army, that is not to be underestimated.

Interestingly, the Indian army did not immediately go on the offensive and did not even actively launch it.

Why?

Does offense still make sense?

The defenders of Amritsar were finished, and even if there were nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers still fighting in the city, it would be no different from the total annihilation.

Attacking?

Even if the Pakistani army is repulsed, what can it do?

Send troops to deal with the rebellious army?

Or do you want to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack?

Or pick up the pieces, such as settling millions of civilians who have been ravaged by the war?

For the Indian army, these are impossible tasks and do not make much sense.

Even if Amritsar were to be recaptured, it would not be necessary to use the main forces.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Indian military top brass did not anticipate this situation.

Not to mention anything else, the General Staff of the Indian Army does not even have an emergency plan.

According to the previous plan, it should be to hold Amritsar, and then cooperate with the outside to defeat the invading Pakistani army, and take advantage of the situation to counterattack into Pakistan.

Whether it's making a plan or making adjustments, it takes a lot of time.

Of course, just by defeating the Pakistani army, it is already impossible.

Why?

The Pakistani army has 6 armored brigades!

Although the others are infantry brigades, most of them have main battle equipment, and their combat effectiveness is not below that of the Indian army's mechanized infantry brigades.

In other words, the reinforcements of the Indian army that rushed to Jalandar were still no match for the Pakistani army.

In addition, the Indian army really does not have much confidence in Russian-made tanks.

You must know that in the previous battles, the T-90S of the Indian army had not defeated the "Khalid 2", and many times even the "Khalid" could not be defeated.

On the contrary, in armored battles, the Pakistani tanks were always able to press the tanks of the Indian army.

Although these T-90s are from Russia, and they are the active equipment of the Russian army, they are definitely better than the T-90S sold to India, and better than the T-90S produced by India itself, but before delivery, the Russian army dismantled a lot of sensitive equipment, which directly led to a plummeting combat effectiveness of the tank.

In addition, Russia does not have much commendable advanced technology either.

Take the observation and sighting system as an example, the T-90 used by the Russian army is still very poor.

Interestingly, Russia did not supply matching ammunition, especially the vital armor-piercing shells!

Why?

The Russian army's armor-piercing shells have long been updated and are depleted uranium alloy cores, and Russia has followed the example of the United States and banned the export of such armor-piercing shells on the grounds that they are restricted by international treaties.

As a result, Russia no longer develops tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells.

In other words, what Russia can provide is actually very backward armor-piercing shells.

Of course, the United States, which provided assistance, also thought of a way, that is, to help India purchase a batch of armor-piercing shells from Israel, and also managed to get a batch of armor-piercing shells from Ukraine.

The advanced armor-piercing shells produced in Israel are not bad, they are just too few.

As for the armor-piercing shells from Ukraine, they are actually produced in Russia, and many of them have been stored for decades, and there is no way to guarantee their reliability.

Relying on these, how to fight the tanks of the Pakistani army?

You must know that the tanks of the Pakistani army are not only more advanced, but also sharper shells.

Not to mention that Huaxia has begun to provide third-generation tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells to Pakistan, even if the second-generation tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells from Saudi Arabia and also purchased from Huaxia, "Khalid" and "Khalid 2" can also penetrate the frontal armor of the T-90 at the full range of tank guns.

Of course, this can only show that the senior generals in the Indian army have not completely lost their minds.

Even if the superiority of the Pakistani Air Force is not taken into account, if a pure ground war is fought, the Indian army has no chance of winning and will inevitably suffer a crushing defeat.

Obviously, holding Jalandar is far more important than retaking Amritsar.

Why?

In the rear of Jalandal, there is no longer a decent line of defense.

Although the Pakistani army has no intention of marching into New Delhi, as long as the Pakistani army takes Jalandhar, it will be able to advance all the way to New Delhi.

As a result, the two sides stopped again.

As in Bertankot, the Pakistani army and the Indian army came face to face and did not take action.

Of course, this time the distance is a little farther, tens of kilometers.

It's just that the Pakistani army did not sit back and wait for the Indian army to come to the door.

After confirming that the Indian army's armored units had been killed, the Pakistani Air Force became active and began to carry out focused bombing on Jalandhar.

To put it simply, it is to destroy the main battle equipment of the Indian army as much as possible.

The Indian army still has the morale to fight, doesn't it rely on the main battle equipment that has just been obtained?

If it's gone, how can you fight?

As for Amritsar, it was forgotten by both sides.

Of course, it is only a temporary oblivion.

The fighting continued, and every day thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Indian officers and soldiers went out of the city to surrender.

It won't be long before Amritsar becomes an undefended city.