Taking advantage of his free time before the war, Geng Zhi called Li Fuen, commander of the 1st Airborne Regiment, and Liu Feng, deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Regiment, to his command car for a short meeting, focusing on the issue of the defense of the eastern side of Siliguri.

The 1st and 2nd companies of the 1st Airborne Division after destroying the Indian resistance in Siliguri County and occupying the county seat. The most important task was to establish a solid defensive position against the invading enemy from northeastern India and to secure the rear flank of the 3rd and 4th Airborne Divisions at the Saktiga Bridge and the 5th and 6th Companies at the Hilkar Highway Bridge. However, in the face of a defensive line of more than 20 kilometers, plus the more than 300 people of the Indian People's Liberation Army and less than 700 people, it is indeed impossible to defend a wide front of 20 kilometers. It can only defend key areas and block a large group of heavily equipped Indian troops, but the infiltration of a small group of Indian troops behind the four companies guarding the bridge is also very fatal. The original campaign plan was for 2,000 Bangladesh People's Liberation Union fighters to come to assist in the defense, but due to the Indian army's changes on the India-Pakistan border, the 2,000 Bangladesh People's Liberation Union fighters who were supposed to come to assist in the defense were pinned down.

The three of them studied it for a while, but did not come up with a better solution, and finally said: "In this way, Lao Li and I each took out a platoon, drove chariots to patrol, set up more mines in some undefended places, and the 1st and 2nd companies and the Indian People's Liberation Army built various fortifications in Siliguri County to increase the depth, and were ready to engage in street battles with the Indian army." I will make a detailed report to Commander Deng Feng on the situation here, and he will definitely have a way. ”

Li Fuen nodded and said, "That's the only way."

Geng Zhi looked at Liu Feng and said without any opinion: "Okay, dismiss!" ”

In the headquarters of the Tibetan Provincial Corps at Dangxiong Airport, Deng Feng always paid close attention to the changes in the situation on the battlefield in India, and he was very satisfied with the situation on the entire battlefield, and it can be said that everything was going according to plan, and the Indian army was much weaker than expected, and its reaction was also very slow. But what made him feel uneasy was the safety of the more than 1,000 officers and men of Geng Zhi's airborne division. Far from the rear to fight alone, support for them can only be carried out through East Pakistan, and the original Bangladesh People's Liberation Union sent 2,000 people and upright airborne troops to assist in the defense of Siliguri, but due to the containment of the Southern Military Region of the Indian Army, it was not in place. Preventing the forced passage of Indian troops from East Pakistan is just as important as cutting off the Siliguri corridor, which is only theoretical, and who would consider whether the border is not the border when the war is fought to the death. It took 3 or 4 days to move troops from the east to reinforce the 1st Airborne Division, and it was even more inaccurate to send reinforcements from the 6th Army from the west, with a gap of more than 600 kilometers in between, and it had to pass through three states of India, and tens of thousands of Indian troops were in the defense area, and now he felt a little regretful that he had agreed to Geng Zhi's airborne plan. I won't be able to do such a risky thing next time. That's more than 1,000 living lives, and you can't do experiments.

He pondered for a while, and then said to Lieutenant Colonel Liu Ying, an operational staff officer: "Send a telegram to Dawei."

Liu Ying glanced at Deng Feng's somewhat haggard face painfully and said nothing, and quickly picked up the pen and paper.

"Shillong, Printing Committee, Li Dawei:

Ling Yang Guang led the 1st Marine Division and the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army to occupy the Bobir area before the 21st, blocking the communication line of the 4th Army and the 33rd Army of the Eastern Indian Military Region to break through to West India. They could not afford to avoid the 1st Airborne Division's Gengzhi Division fighting on both sides of Siliguri. The Bangladesh People's Liberation Union (BPLA) was ordered to strictly guard the India-Pakistan border and prevent the Indian army from forcibly crossing the border. If the Indian army is found to have broken through in the east, it can cause the 1st Airborne Division Geng Zhi's headquarters to retreat to eastern Pakistan. Zhang Guohua's eastern front troops will launch an attack on the 2nd Division of the Indian Army in Tespur at dawn on the 22nd. The 1st Division of the Indian People's Liberation Army was ordered to complete preparations for the attack on Tesspur before the 22nd, and to encircle the 2nd Division of the Indian Army with Zhang Guohua's division in the north and south.

Deng Feng On April 19, 1956, at 22:25, Liu Ying repeatedly read a side of the record, and Deng Feng signed the record. Later, he said to Liu Ying: "Another telegram told Geng Zhi that if a large number of Indian troops are found to have broken through from the east to Siliguri, they can abandon their original mission and retreat to East Pakistan without falling into battle." ”

At 4 a.m. on April 20, Yang Guang led more than 1,000 marines of the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and more than 6,000 commanders and fighters of the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army who landed from Chittagong, East Pakistan, in 10 "destroyer" tanks. With the support of 10 "Raider" wheeled armored vehicles and 10 122-mm "Tempest" 40-tube self-propelled rocket launchers, after 10 hours of fierce fighting, they broke through the city of Guwahati, which is 100 kilometers away from Shillong City, and eliminated more than 6,500 people of the 11th Brigade of the 27th Mountain Division of the 33rd Army of the Indian Army, and then left two armored vehicles and 2,000 Indian People's Liberation Army troops in the city of Guwahati to clean up the remnants of the enemy and maintain order. Advancing north along Highway 31 without stopping, he launched a lightning offensive against Bobir, more than 20 kilometers from Guwahati. At the same time, electromagnetic interference was carried out on radio signals in the area. After 20 minutes of fighting, more than 150 people from 1 company of the Indian defenders were eliminated, the town of Bobir was occupied, and the news was blocked.

Located in the plains of the Brahmaputra River, the town of Bobir is an important transportation artery from East India to West India, where Highway 31 and Highway 51 are connected and the New Japeri Railway and these two highways meet. 10 kilometers south of the town of Bobir is the Brahmaputra River, also known as the Brahmaputra River. To the north is a hill connected to the Himalayas, and the town of Bobir was a necessary stop for Indian troops to advance westward.

At 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, Major General Prashad ordered more than 3,600 people from the 4th, 5th, and 6th Battalions of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Indian 4th Division, which was the vanguard, to take a 30-car stuffy tank train to the Siliguri corridor. At dawn on the 23rd, we must begin to attack Siliguri in order to attack the 9th Infantry Division of the Indian Army and the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Heavy Armored Division of the Central Military Region from east to west to destroy the Chinese paratroopers in Siliguri.

According to Deng Feng's deployment, our army is determined to completely annihilate the 4th Division of the Indian Army in the Bobir area. Yang Guang led his troops to Pobir immediately after the choice of positions, immediately began to repair the fortifications, time is tight, each position to use shift operations, day and night fighting, South Asia [***] organized and mobilized the local militia and civilian workers, participated in the construction of fortifications, according to the requirements of the construction of trenches, light and heavy firearms bunkers, opened command posts, observation posts, ambulance posts, but also built reserve bunkers. The main firing points are paved with steel rails and two layers of 200 mm thick trees, covered with soil of more than 1 meter. Some of the bunkers were built with bomb shelters and cat's ear holes.

The 1st Marine Division and the Indian People's Liberation Army Guard Regiment have also deployed ambush positions on Route 51 and the New Japeri Railway. After a day and night of hard work, the fortifications of the main positions began to take shape. In the north of the town of Bobier, there is a small plateau with a relative height of only 53 meters in an east-west direction, about 1 kilometer long and about 600 meters wide, which is the headquarters of the sun and the focus of the defense of the 1st Marine Division. In the plains, the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army (PLA) used more than 600 sacks to gather more than 30 firing points, each of which was connected by trenches.

The Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army is the absolute main force directly led by Yang Guang personally formed by Deng Feng, and is subordinate to the Indian Working Committee, and the equipment of the entire regiment is the same as that of the Chinese active forces, and of course the treatment is the same as that of the Chinese troops, it is a special force in the Indian People's Liberation Army, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, and it is responsible for the security and security work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the main leaders of the Central Army and the Indian Working Committee.

Major General Prashad thought that after more than 10 hours of fierce fighting between the Chinese and the Indian Liberation Army, they had just conquered the Guwahati area, and that it would take at least three days to renovate after a major battle. Although there was no radio connection with the defenders in the Bobir area, he concluded that there could be no Chinese and the Indian People's Liberation Army in the Bobir area. Even if there are troops, they will not be large, at best, they are some small units of Indian [***] guerrillas who are on alert duty, but they can't help but have a large force of their own. So after seeing off the first train, I boarded the second train myself. Brigadier General Rai Kuvasinghe, commander of the 4th Artillery Brigade, organized a baggage force of more than 1,000 people behind him to follow by car.

At 17 o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st, a long stuffy tank train with more than 3,500 people from the 4th, 5th, and 6th Battalions of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Indian 4th Division appeared in front of the ambush position of the New Japeri Railway by the 1st Marine Division and the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army. Ten 122-mm Tempest 40-barrel self-propelled rocket launchers fired in pre-set firing units, waiting only for the mines set on the railway to explode. The gun squad leaders of each car put their hands on the launcher button.

Yang Guang stared at the long train speeding on the meter-gauge railway, and when he saw that the train had passed the first mark he had set, he put the index finger of his right hand on the button of the mine detonator, and when he entered the second mark, he decisively pressed the button of the detonator as if he were sniping at the enemy with a sniper rifle.

With a loud "boom", the entire steam locomotive was lifted up with thick smoke and flames, and the 30 cars dragged behind it arched the middle of the train, and then rolled heavily to the bottom of the roadbed. At the same time, almost 10 122 mm "Tempest" 40-tube self-propelled rocket launchers of each vehicle gun squad at the same time pressed the launcher button, each car 10 rounds of which were mixed with 4 napalm bombs for a rapid salvo, 100 rockets like hail covered the entire Indian army overturned the scene, 100 rockets group explosion effect vividly embodied, like an erupting volcano, constantly spewing up smoke and fire, mixed with the broken corpses and limbs of Indian officers and soldiers and the fragments of the carriage, Thrown high into the sky with the sound of rocket shells exploding, the scene is quite spectacular.

During the Battle of Sunchon Pass in North Korea, Yang Guang personally experienced the fierce shelling of his position by more than 100 artillery pieces of the US army, and he knew very well what it was like. But the intensity was far less than this mass explosion. He stood in his bunker on the small high ground and felt the tremor of the earth strongly. He saw that the short 500-meter scene of the entire Indian army's subverted train was blown into a sea of fire, and in addition to the thick smoke and flames rolling into the sky, it was also constantly tumbling and spreading in all directions, and there was no way to see the carriages and the original railway under the roadbed. The whole was shrouded in fire.

Yang Guang smiled, spat saliva, and said to himself, "Do you still need to fight this battle?" His mind was reminded of the scene and physiological reaction of burning the American troops at the Sunchon Pass in North Korea, and his nasal cavity was filled with the disgusting smell of roasted human meat, and he kept spitting saliva in his mouth. He shook his head and thought to himself, "This is not a war, this is a massacre, these Ah San, who is extremely strong against the great powers and arrogant to China, can only become the target of slaughter." The more you kill, the more angry he will be with you. Thinking about it, he spat out again. I am afraid that the after-effects of this war will really accompany him for the rest of his life.

Braving the smoke and scorching smell of gunpowder, more than 100 soldiers of the Indian People's Liberation Army (PLA) walked towards the raging sea of fire with Type 51 automatic rifles. They weren't charging to fight, they were just going to see the effects of the bombardment and see if there were any survivors alive in the environment. No one walked out of this sea of fire

An hour later, when the 2nd stuffy tank car in which Major General Prashad, commander of the 4th Division of the Indian Army, was riding in arrived 5 kilometers from the scene of the attack on the 1st train, a lieutenant who was on the lookout from the locomotive came over from the carriage and reported: "A large amount of smoke has been found in front, do you stop?" Major General Prashad frowned and said, "Stop, send someone to reconnoiter and see what's going on?" The lieutenant turned and returned to the locomotive to deliver the order of Major General Prashad to stop.

Major General Prashad at this time seemed to have a sense of foreboding.

Major General Prashad and the stuffy tanker car full of officers and men of the 4th Division slowly stopped on the railway 1 kilometer from where the first train was attacked.

Prashad asked his entourage to grab the binoculars and hurriedly climbed onto the roof of the stuffy tank car, holding up the binoculars, he could hardly believe what he saw in the binoculars, the train was lying crookedly under the roadbed, and all that was left was the shattered keel, and in the frame of these remnants of the keel were stacked piles of irregular human charcoal that were still burning, and from these charred corpses came a thick smoke of oil, and the smoke gave an unbearable scorching smell that could be smelled from a kilometer away. He couldn't help but gasp, "Could it be that this is the more than 3,600 heroic soldiers of the 4th, 5th, and 6th battalions of my own 5th Brigade Kumaang Wing?" "Facing this hellish situation on earth. He couldn't believe it, and he couldn't believe it! However, the army led by Yang Guang quickly convinced him of this cruel fact that he had to believe and accept.

Just as the second stuffy tanker was slowly stopping, the artillery observation post set up in the highland mountain immediately determined the coordinates and orientation of the 30-car train. And report the coordinates and directions of each carriage to the respective rocket artillery vehicles.

The self-propelled rocket artillery detachment was led by Commander Gao of the Rocket Artillery Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, who was a veteran artillery company commander who had participated in the Battle of Butterfly Island and the Battle of Jiefangtai W. After receiving the target position, he immediately issued the following firing command: "Attention to each vehicle: Each vehicle is responsible for 3 carriages, starting from the No. 1 car and sequentially to the rear, each vehicle is 10 salvos, and 1/2 of each is loaded with high-explosive anti-personnel bombs and napalm, and 10 vehicles are loaded in a salvo, and each vehicle is reported after loading. ”

The squad leader of each vehicle and the aiming hand and the steering wheel hand work closely together to quickly adjust the firing direction of the datum and quickly assemble it, calibrate the gauge and divide the direction; The leaders of each artillery squad checked the loaded yuan, and the gunners quickly adjusted and loaded the shells

After receiving the report that each car is ready. Captain Gao shouted "launch" into the microphone

"Whoosh. Sou. The 122-millimeter steel ball-explosive anti-personnel bomb with a long tail flame and the napalm rocket were fired in a salvo at a punctuation point of 5 meters, and the train was bombed with absolute saturation. The density of steel balls per square meter is 18 grains, and one napalm is 10 meters.

Major General Prashad's belief or unbelief didn't mean anything to him at all. Because he, like the more than 4,000 subordinates in the same car this time, they have all become honeycomb coal in the flames. More than 7,000 officers and men of the Indian 4th Division were killed and burned in the carriages of these two 60-car tankers.

All this cannot be blamed on the cruelty of the methods used by Yang Guang, but only for their low military quality, their understanding of Chinese weapons and surnames is too little, and their understanding of war is too far and far from that of the Chinese.

"I really don't understand what India, an ancient country with a history of thousands of years, has done for thousands of years? In addition to the whole yoga and the culture of drinking urine, I haven't heard of anything that they invented. Yang Guang thought with great disdain: "If they can park a little farther away, if they can get out of the car and evacuate immediately after parking, if they don't have these virtual assumptions of "if" in the war, all the lessons must be exchanged for blood and lives, I hope these Indians can remember this lesson and make a little progress next time." ”

(To be continued)