Yang Guang stood on a small high ground and watched the thousands of people of the Indian 4th Division disappear in two fires like this, although these were all planned by him, he still felt that this victory seemed too easy and too simple.

He pulled a crumpled box of crumpled cigarettes from his jacket pocket, pulled one out, straightened it with his fingers, and lit it and took a deep inhale to banish the nasty smell from his nostrils. He fanned the smoke coming out of his nose with his hand, "No! All this is not easy to come by, nor is it simple. All the weapons used by China today are the essence of weapons design and research in later decades, and each one has a high scientific and technological content. It embodies the wisdom of the engineering and technical personnel of the base and countless experts in this era of China, as well as the sweat of Chinese workers, including the efforts of hundreds of thousands of industrial workers; Of course, the more than 1,000 comrades of the Indian Working Committee led by Commander Deng Feng have been running between Tibet Province and India for four years for the sake of today's situation. Isn't this instantaneous ease and simplicity the total explosion of years of accumulation? ”

He smiled, smiled very sweetly, "Damn, when did you become a philosopher unconsciously," Yang Guang laughed at himself in his heart, "Ha, ha, it seems that I haven't been in vain in the Printing Industry Committee in the past few years, if my father in later generations hears it, he will definitely have to laugh off his chin." ”

At 3 o'clock in the morning on the 22nd, the deputy head of the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army, Pong Bo Di Singh, who was on duty at night, hurriedly woke up Yang Guang, who was sleeping on the marching bed of the headquarters, "Head Yang, Li Dawei, political commissar of the Working Committee, called," Seeing the sleepy-eyed Yang Guang, Po Bo Di Singh handed over a cup of hot tea and said: "Political Commissar Li Dawei called, according to drone reconnaissance, more than 2,000 people of the Indian army took 156 cars from Tezpur and were moving in the direction of Bobir Town along Highway 52, and it is expected to arrive in the town in 2 hours, Please prepare your troops to meet the enemy. ”

Yang Guangteng sat up from the bed, took the tea handed by Peng Bo Di Singh and rinsed his mouth, took the telegram and read it again, then walked to the map and looked at it, and said to the deputy regiment commander on duty, Peng Bo Di Singh: "Inform the battalion commanders and instructors to come to the headquarters for a meeting."

In the dim headquarters, only two incandescent lamps hung above the map, Yang Guang stood on the map and pointed to the map on the wall, explaining the battle plan and assigning the combat missions of each department.

"The 1st Battalion of the Guard Regiment and the 5th Company and 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Guard Regiment, you enter the preset ambush position on Route 52, and you must pay attention to concealment. Each company has 1 tank and 1 armored vehicle to cooperate with your actions, and you must pay attention to cooperation" He looked at the battalion commanders and instructors of the 1st and 2nd battalions and said, "Do you hear clearly? ”

The four men stood up and replied in Chinese, "Clear! Then he repeated Yang Guang's order in Hindi English.

Yang Guang nodded with satisfaction and continued: "I took 2 battalions, 4 companies, 3 tanks, and 2 armored vehicles to set up an ambush here, and after the battle started, we rushed out and cut off the rear road of the Indian army."

Then he said to Ge Hongliang, commander of the 1st Marine Battalion: "1st Battalion, 1 company, 2 tanks, and 2 armored vehicles are blocking the Indian army in front. The 1st Company and 3rd Company of the 3rd Marine Battalion were used as reserves. After the battle began, we

After Yang Guang finished arranging the task, he led more than 200 soldiers from the 2nd Battalion and 4th Company of the Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army to ride 10 trucks, 3 tanks, and 2 armored vehicles along Highway 52 to the east, and drove the car into the woods on both sides of the road along a small river 10 kilometers away from the town of Bobir.

After sending off Major General Prashad, Brigadier General Rai Kuwasinghe, commander of the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 4th Division, went to the tactical command of the 4th Army to request that another special column be sent to the 4th Division. The 4th division originally had 80 vehicles of 2,5 tons. In order to open up the Siliguri corridor, the Eastern Military Region allocated 40 vehicles to the 4th Division, which was supposedly enough, but except for one battalion of combat troops, the 4th Division was left behind as logistics troops. In addition, some family members of the army were also clamoring to follow, Rai Kuwasinghe had no choice but to order the troops to requisition civilian cars, and he himself begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to find a car. Busy until midnight, in the end, the 2nd Division borrowed 20 cars from the same army, and of course Rai Kuwasinghe gave some materials that could not be taken away to the commander of the 2nd Division and the quartermaster, and these materials could only be reported to the superiors for "battle damage". Soldiers also "requisitioned" 10 buses in the city of Tezpur. In any case, the remaining 1,900 officers and soldiers plus more than 100 family members of the army were finally loaded into the car.

However, what made him feel strange and uneasy was that since the division commander left, he has not been able to contact the division commander by radio, and when he asked the military headquarters, the military department said that he could not be contacted. He hesitated to go or not, and what finally made him decide to "go" was the increasingly intense gunfire from north and south of Tezpur.

After hitting the road, he ordered the cars to keep between them. At a distance of 30 meters, more than 150 vehicles towed a full 6,7 kilometers long.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the first car of the Indian army drove over the bridge of the small river set up by Yang Guang, and the machine guns were mounted on the cabs of each car. More than 10 minutes later, the staff officer who was observing from the edge of the woods reported to Yang Guang, who was sitting in an armored car, that a total of 156 vehicles of the Indian army had passed through the small bridge, including 15 jeeps and 10 buses.

Yang Guang turned on the vehicle-mounted radio station on the "Raider" wheeled armored vehicle to inform the companies: "All combat units pay attention, all the fish have entered the net and are ready to collect the net." Then he ordered Li Bo, company commander of the 1st Tank Company of the 1st Marine Division, and the commander of the 4th Company of the Guard Regiment: "Leave 1 tank and 1 squad of soldiers of the Guard Regiment here to guard here." The rest got on board and prepared for battle.

"Boom, boom, boom" 10 122-mm 40-barrel self-propelled rocket launchers carried out a round of bombardment along the highway at a firing point of 15 meters, and in more than 20 seconds, 400 high-explosive anti-personnel shells with a radius of 30 meters each exploded over the 6-kilometer-long convoy. Suddenly, the Indian army's convoy was shrouded in a rain of fire and steel, and many Indian officers and men were still asleep in the bed of the truck. The soldiers of the Guard Regiment, who were lying in ambush in the woods beside the road, immediately launched a swift and courageous charge against the convoy. Handleless grenades were thrown into the compartment and under the car, striking again at the remaining enemy who had not been killed, and strafing the Indian troops who tried to resist. The 10 "Destroyer" tanks that rushed up from all sides were like no one, knocked over one Indian truck after another under the roadbed, and mercilessly ran over the Indian army hiding under the carriage. The wide tracks of the "Destroyer" tank became a huge meat grinder, stained with blood and bloody musculature and broken bones.

This quick and ferocious blow caused the Indian army to die without any reaction, and even the very few remaining Indian officers and soldiers who reacted completely lost the will to resist under this ferocious and extremely bloody blow. This kind of one-sided slaughter without suspense did not stimulate Yang Guang's interest in the slightest. He rode around the road strewn through the wreckage of the car in an armored car and returned to the command post. On the way, he just stopped in front of the jeep in which Brigadier General Rai Kuwasinghe, commander of the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 4th Division of the Indian Army, was riding, and watched the body of the Indian Brigadier General sitting crookedly in the back seat of the right side of the jeep, with his head tilted back, bleeding from his jaw and open mouth and brain tissue all over his body, and his eyes full of terror. The death was horrific, and the cause of his immediate death was a top-down steel ball that passed through the back of his head and out of his jaw. Yang Guang took off the gun engraved with his name from his holster and threw it into the armored car, which can be regarded as a memorial for this battle. He returned to the headquarters and handed over the command of the battlefield to the deputy regimental commander, Pondi Singh. He went back to the camp bed, put on his coat, and went to sleep with him.

Jin Ge Iron Horse, our Chinese People's Liberation Army Dizang Provincial Corps swallowed thousands of miles of momentum and swept away thousands of troops. At noon on the 22nd, the Eastern Front of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region and the 1st Division of the Indian People's Liberation Army launched a general attack on Tezpur, and the battle took only 6 hours to sweep through the Indian troops stationed in Tezpur with a devastating momentum, completely annihilating the headquarters of the 4th Army of the Indian Army and more than 20,000 people of the 2nd Division occupied Tezpur, so that the Tibetan Provincial Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Indian People's Liberation Army basically controlled the eastern part of India.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the entire Eastern Military Region and the 33rd Army headquarters of India were in chaos, and the people were panicked...... At the headquarters of the 33rd Army in the city of Dimapur in the northeastern state of Nagaland, Umlao. Lieutenant General Singh is like an ant on a hot pot, at a loss, and in a mess. The chief of staff, Lieutenant General Khao Lapur, also held his head in his hands and had nothing to do.

The head of the communications chief of the Eastern Military Region hurriedly walked in, "Report, we have received a clear telegram from the South Asia [***] Military Commission.

Umrao. Singh turned around and took two hurried steps, snatching the telegram from the head of the communications office.

Commander of the Eastern Military Region of the Indian Army, Umrao. Lieutenant General Singh and the commanders of Indian divisions and brigades:

You have reached the point where you have reached the point of exhaustion, and the 2 divisions of your 4th Army have been completely annihilated by us, and the 33rd Mountain Division of your 27th Army has also been completely annihilated by us. The 33rd Brigade of the 30th Division of the 21st Army was also dealt with by us just an hour earlier in the Cosima area. The remaining 2 brigades of the 31st Division and the 30th Division also suffered heavy losses, with more than 1/3 casualties. In the entire eastern part of the country, there are more than 70,000 people in five divisions, and now there are only 1 division, 2 brigades and one army headquarters with less than 30,000 people. For several days, under the fierce attacks of the powerful Chinese People's Liberation Army Tibetan Provincial Border Force and our powerful South Asian People's Liberation Army, your defensive area has become smaller and smaller, and now only parts of Nagaland and Assam remain.

Do you want to break out to the west? That's completely possible, all the main roads to the west have been occupied by our army, you have fallen into the layers of our hundreds of thousands of troops, you have less ammunition now, your supplies cannot be maintained for even a week, your wounded have no treatment and can only wait for death in agony, your officers and soldiers are even more miserable every day when they don't have enough to eat, as soldiers they have done everything they have to do for the Nehru regime, you commanders must be considerate of your subordinates and cherish their lives, Don't let them make any more unnecessary sacrifices.

Now there are only two ways for you: lay down your arms and stop resisting. Surrender to our army will guarantee the lives of your remaining Indian officers and soldiers. This is the only way out for you.

Do you still want to fight? Then fight again, but waiting for you will be a dead end.

Think about where to go, there's not much time left.

Chairman of the South Asian Military Committee: On April 23, 1956, Napati held this telegram drafted by Li Dawei in the name of the chairman of the South Asian Military Committee, Umrao. Lieutenant General Singh stood there for a long time. The telegram fell from his hand to the ground.

The Chief of Staff of the Eastern Military District, Lieutenant General Khao Lapur, walked over and checked the telegram on the ground, read it twice, and then asked softly: "Mr. Commander, what should we do?" Lieutenant General Singh stood there dumbfounded for a long time, unresponsive. He asked again, "Commander, what should we do?" ”

Umrao. Lieutenant General Singh woke up from his state of obsession, turned his face, and replied helplessly with an answer that was not an answer. "What are we going to do? What else can we do! Then he repeatedly said to himself: "We really shouldn't provoke the Chinese, we really shouldn't provoke the Chinese."

Lieutenant General Khao Lapur silently returned to his desk, pondered for a while, and then fell down on his desk to personally draft the order to surrender to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Tibetan Provincial Corps and the South Asian People's Liberation Army.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon of April 23, 1956, the commander of the Eastern Military Region of the Indian Army, Umraou. Lieutenant General Singh signed the order for all armed forces under the Eastern Military Region of India to cease resistance and surrender to the Tibetan Provincial Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the South Asian People's Liberation Army.

At this point, the seven-day campaign on the Eastern Front came to an end. In this battle, 2 corps, 5 divisions, and more than 70,000 Indian troops of the Eastern Military Region of the Indian Army were completely annihilated. In this battle, the blood of 683 of the best sons and daughters of the Chinese nation was melted into the white snow of the Himalayas, and their precious lives became part of the towering Himalayas. The majestic Himalayas have become their eternal monument!

(To be continued)