The Pakistani army marched south from Bertankod, which was tantamount to marching towards Jalandar.

At this point, the situation has become extremely unfavorable for the Indian army.

Why?

If Jalandar falls, then the main forces of the Indian army concentrated near Amritsar will be cut off from the back route, and thus surrounded and annihilated by the Pakistani army.

At that time, India was in a mess.

You know, there are about 300,000 Indian troops in Amritsar, including at least 10 brigades of the main force, as well as millions of civilians.

What's more, Amrri is on the front line against Lahore.

Not to mention the attack on Lahore, but from the point of view of the stability of this front, the Indian army must hold Amritsar, and there must be no mistakes.

How to keep?

The key to guarding Amritsar is actually Jalandhar.

How do you say that?

Amrri is the front, while Jalandhar is the rear.

Next, no matter how it fights, the Indian army will have to use Jalandar as a base, so it will have to deploy combat troops and combat materials in Jalandar.

It can be seen that Jalandhar's importance is still above Amritsar.

The Pakistani army moved south from Bertankot, and the Indian army had no choice.

It's just that how should this battle be fought?

The Indian army began to mobilize forces in preparation for a decisive battle with the Pakistani army north of Jalandal.

Because the main forces are in Amritsar, the Indian army does not dare to hold Jalandar, otherwise the railway and road from Jalandar to Amritsar will be cut off by the Pakistani army, and they must fight north of Jalandar and do their best to block the Pakistani army near Bertankot.

It's just that two days later, there was no movement of the Indian army.

Why?

It was simply impossible for the Pakistani army to march into Jalandar or even complete the encirclement of Bertankod.

Subsequently, this judgment of the Indian army was proven.

In fact, it is not the judgment of the Indian army at all.

According to information disclosed after the war, it was the US intelligence agencies that helped the Indian army a lot.

When the Indian army was adjusting its troop deployment, the US intelligence agencies used the photographs taken by reconnaissance satellites to analyze the Pakistani army's troop deployment, or to be precise, its logistical support capability, and came to the conclusion that the Pakistani army's logistical support was ineffective and could not march to Jalandhar.

Subsequently, the U.S. military also concluded that the Pakistani army would shrink its front at the right time and end the attack on Bertankod.

Why?

While the forward force of the Pakistani army was moving south from Bertangate, at least three brigades were withdrawn, and all of them were main forces.

The key, in fact, is logistics support.

Because the difficulty of logistics support is too great, the Pakistani army can only barely maintain a few brigades to fight on the front line at most, so it is impossible to attack Jalandar from the south of Bertankot, and even unable to complete the occupation of Bertankot, which will add 2 million mouths to eat.

The Pakistani army marched south, in fact, to seek a decisive battle for the Indian army.

Why?

Through a decisive battle, the main force of the Indian army can be defeated in order to preserve the fruits of the victory that have just been obtained, and then let the troops retreat from Bertangate.

To put it simply, it is to stabilize the battlefield situation on this side through a decisive battle, so that the Indian army will give up the idea of counterattacking.

Of course, if the main force of the Indian army can be annihilated in a decisive battle, the Indian army will not be able to launch a counterattack.

And then what?

The Pakistani army will be able to retreat to Kashmir and allocate troops to control the entire border line to achieve the goal of fully occupying and controlling Kashmir.

Actually, that's the key.

Why?

While the Pakistani army was moving south, the battle in the north was still going on, that is, another unit of the Pakistani army was encircling and annihilating the Indian army south of Jammu.

Clearly, Pakistan's aim remains to occupy and control Kashmir.

If the Indian army fights a decisive battle with the Pakistani army at this time, it will inevitably suffer extremely heavy losses.

At that time, even if Jalandar can be held, don't think about going north to counterattack Kashmir, let alone retake Kashmir from Pakistan.

Of course, even if the Indian army does not fight the Pakistani army, it may not be able to recapture Kashmir.

It's just that, in any case, when the Indian army goes to a decisive battle at this time, it will fall into the hands of the Pakistani army, and it will inevitably suffer extremely heavy losses.

After some tossing, the Indian army has missed the opportunity.

Judging from the situation at that time, if the Indian army could make an accurate judgment, that is, if it knew that the Pakistani army was gathering heavy troops in the direction of Lahore, it should preemptively launch an operation in that direction, even if it was not aimed at capturing Lahore, it should delay the deployment of the Pakistani army through tactical offensives.

If it can drag on for ten days and half a month, the situation will be greatly improved.

It is a pity that the Indian army did not take the initiative to act.

Three days later, the Pakistani army ended its assault on the south side of Bertankot.

Subsequently, the Pakistani assault force began to retreat.

At this time, the Indian army reacted.

At that time, the Indian army even planned to launch a counterattack and take the opportunity to take back Bertanot.

However, after the US intelligence agencies raised the alarm, the Indian army gave up this idea of almost sending it to death, that is, the Pakistani army was just retreating.

If the Indian army launches a counterattack, it will inevitably have a decisive battle with the Pakistani army near Bertankot.

The point is that the Pakistani army has eliminated the last Indian army south of Jammu, occupied the entire Kashmir region, and is deploying a new defensive line.

In other words, the Pakistani army has enough troops.

Counterattack by infantry?

Even if the Pakistani army did not intend to occupy Bertanokot and took the initiative to retreat, it would be able to deal with the counterattacking Indian army with the defensive line built in the rear.

Besides, how much assault power does an infantry unit have?

The Pakistani army can no longer fight, and it is supported by armored forces.

As judged by American intelligence, after completing the deployment of defenses in the border area, the Pakistani army began to retreat from Bertankot.

That is, the Pakistani army did not occupy Bertankot.

Interestingly, at least 500,000 civilians left India with the Pakistani army when the Pakistani army retreated, and it was mainly ***.

At this time, what can the Indian army do?

Can't do anything!

On the 30th day of the war, the Pakistani army began to retreat from Bertankot and withdrew completely two days later, on the 32nd.

The result?

However, the Indian army never went north to recover Bertangate, and it was not until the 35th day that a vanguard of the Indian army reached the outskirts of Bertangel.

Interestingly, the Indian army did not enter the city.

Why?

A few thousand Indian troops could not control Bertangot, and in that completely out of control city, there were more than 1 million hungry civilians.

It dragged on for several more days, and it was not until the 40th day that the Indian army entered Bertangate.

Subsequently, it took about half a month for the Indian army to restore order.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced and tens of thousands starved in Bertankot over a period of about a month, according to unofficial statistics.

In this regard, the Indian authorities claimed that Pakistan was responsible for the humanitarian disaster in Bertanokot.

Of course, the Pakistani authorities will certainly not admit it, because the Pakistani army did not attack Bertankod.