Brigadier General Dalvi, the commander of the 7th Brigade of the Indian Army, who was outside the valley, learned through a telescope that the more than 800 Indian officers and soldiers who entered the valley were all wiped out. He was utterly hopeless! issued an order to these old and weak soldiers around him, and they each fled for their lives and dispersed to break through. Except for some of these people who stayed where they were and waited for the surrender to the central [***] team, the rest of them were buried in the cold and uninhabited mountains of Bhutan, and most of these Indian officers and soldiers who did not even have winter clothes, except for a few soldiers who successfully reached Bhutan after a lot of hardships, froze to death and starved to death in this reckless lofty mountains. It was these individual Indian soldiers who fled to Bhutan who were also sent to Dawang by the Bhutanese political axe after the war and handed over to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Brigadier General Dalvi led more than 100 remnants of the defeated army and wandered around the mountains and old forests for half a day and a night. In the early morning of April 19, Dalvi, who could not bear the hunger and cold, led more than 100 of his officers and men out of the mountains to the Dora Pass, where they surrendered to the 3rd Battalion of the 154th Regiment of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region, which was responsible for clearing the remnants of the enemy in the Kejielang River area.

After the counterattack force of our army on the eastern front completely annihilated the 7th Brigade of the Indian Army, the offensive continued unabated, continued to develop in depth in southern Tibet, and advanced towards the Tawang attack! In the early morning of April 19, the Fourth Division of the Indian Army stationed in Tawang secretly crossed the south of the Tawang River without firing a single shot, and our army successfully recovered Tawang, an important town in southern Tibet occupied by India in 1950.

However, the troops of our army on the Eastern Front did not stop their advance, and they will march on Tezpur in India! They will join forces with the 1st Airborne Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army parachuted into the corridor of the Siri Valley in India! Completion of the partition of India and the Special Administrative Region of the North-East Frontier of India.

In the early morning of 19 July, at Dangxiong Airport, 90 kilometers east of Lhasa City, 15 large "air train" transport planes were waiting on the auxiliary runway of the airport, and were about to go to the Siliguri Corridor, a connecting passage between India's hinterland and India's northeastern border special region, and launch "heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals" over this land passage.

The Siliguri Corridor is a narrow Indian territory sandwiched between Sikkim and East Pakistan about 20 kilometers wide, and is a transportation hub connecting the two territories of southern India, and if this slender corridor is cut off, the 400,000 square kilometers of land in northern India will be completely separated from the Indian mainland.

At 10:30 a.m., 1,300 airborne troops of the Tiger Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, under the leadership of Deputy Division Commander Geng Zhi, boarded 15 large "air train" transport planes parked on the auxiliary road of the airport and stood by for the expedition.

Geng Zhi, the deputy company commander of the former base guard company, was one of the fastest rising cadres at the base, and this was entirely due to the fact that he served as an airborne soldier for three years after graduating from the military academy in later generations.

In 1950, the Central Committee sent a telegram to all military regions and field armies, requesting that a group of combat heroes, or cadres of model squads and platoons be transferred from all army units to form air force and marine units. Soon after, it was stipulated that the number of those who were insufficient could be by-elected from among the first and second class meritorious persons. Soon, 4,763 commanders and fighters from all units across the country who had experienced a hundred battles and made great achievements gathered in the ancient city of Kaifeng Mansion, and there were people, but there were very few people who really understood what was going on with the airborne troops. For this reason, Liu Yalou found Deng Feng and asked for a few people who understood, and Deng Feng recommended Geng Zhi, who had already been a teacher at the special forces school, to Liu Yalou, and Liu Yalou transferred Geng Zhi, who had just been transferred to the special forces school, to the first airborne division. In this way, he became the deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Division, which is directly under the strategic reserve of the Central Committee and is known as the "Chitose Army" in the army.

However, he did not act in vain as a division commander; in order to train this unit into an air force that can guide operations and open up battlefields behind enemy lines, and can go straight to the heart of the enemy's army, he has indeed put a lot of effort into it, from compiling teaching materials, personally giving lectures, guiding training, to the preparation of weapons and equipment for the troops, and the manufacture of umbrellas. There is no way to work harder, who has let you know more than others about 60 years of experience and lessons.

After more than five years of study and training, China's airborne troops are fundamentally different from the paratroopers of various countries during this period, and the paratroopers of various countries are generally in the mode of "infantry plus parachuting", while China's first airborne division is a modern special force with reconnaissance, special operations, artillery, missiles and other arms with the characteristics of later generations. A real strategic mobile force that can do it, can fly at any time, can land everywhere, can fight when it surrenders, and can win in battle.

Deng Feng did not agree with the use of this strategic mobile force this time, and he did not think that there was any need for it. He believes that the current use of the Airborne Forces is only an important means of embodying the will of the state, and through the use of the Airborne Forces, we can see the determination and will of a country, and the symbolic significance is greater than the practical significance. In the end, Geng Zhi made a special trip to Tibet Province to find Deng Feng to do work, saying: "Can the airborne troops be able to do it in modern warfare? Is it useful? These have to be tested by actual combat. Even China's in later generations has not proved this through actual combat. Deng Feng felt that what Geng Zhi said also had a certain amount of truth, and in order to enrich the theory and practice of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Airborne Corps, he reluctantly agreed.

At 8:40 a.m., in the expectant eyes of his comrades-in-arms, Wang Wei, deputy commander of the First Division of the Air Force of the Tibet Provincial Corps, piloted J10 fighters and led 20 "Falcon" J1 fighters to escort the operation, and took off first.

As soon as the "air train" left the ground, the loud song of the airborne troops sounded in the cabin: "The war song is like thunder, the motor roars, the heroic airborne troops fly behind the enemy, the steel knife flashes cold light, full of anger and hatred, bravely kill the enemy for the motherland and the people, go to fight, insert the enemy's heart, cut off the devil's head, destroy the aggressor, and leave no ......."

At 9 o'clock, the paratroopers of each plane stretched out their right index fingers almost simultaneously to make a hook shape, and the commanders and fighters of the Tiger Regiment in the engine room neatly hung the parachute rope hook on the gliding steel cable.

The "Sky Train" flew over the Himalayas with a slight twist. However, Li Mingtao, the captain of KL1101, looked solemn, holding the longitudinal rod with both hands, ready to lift the automatic state of the "air train" at any time. Nearly 100 commanders and fighters of the Airborne Forces were dragged behind, and after all, this was a heavy responsibility, and the slightest carelessness would have unimaginable consequences. Li Mingtao is an old pilot. In the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, he had flown the "Hump Route" for eight months, and this time he and three former Kuomintang pilots who had flown over the Hump Route personally approached Commander Deng Feng and asked him to carry out this flight mission.

Deng Feng didn't consider the question of whether they had flown the Hump route or not, because the planes at that time were not the same as the planes of the Chinese Air Force now, mainly because their technology was really good, and they had 2,000 hours of flight practice, which also gave them a chance to nod their heads, so they also approved their request.

At 9:33 a.m., Geng Zhi, deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Division, gave the order to prepare for a parachute jump, and the captains of each plane pressed the button, and the sound of "beep, beep, beep" sounded, and the indicator light changed from red to yellow. "Level 1 Ready! Level 1 Ready! The comrades-in-arms got up at the same time as "exhaling", hunched over the stool, tucked down the seat belt, and put on an off-plane posture. The steel helmet against the comrades in front of him, like a tiger ready to attack. When the indicated yellow light turns green again, the front and rear doors of the aircraft open at the same time. The airborne troops jumped out of the plane without hesitation in three ways, and swooped into the vast air like goshawks

Large "sky train" transport planes flew over Siliguri in an overwhelming manner. Then, the spectacular scene of the Heavenly Maiden scattering flowers appeared: the Chinese airborne troops covered the sky like stars, miraculously falling from the sky, and the 1st Airborne Division's Tiger Battalion landed this time in the village of Durga, 2 kilometers northwest of Siliguri County, 2 kilometers southwest of Saktiga Town, and the triangle on the east bank of the Teesta River west of Siliguri County.

Located on the east bank of the Teesta River, Durga Village is home to Highway 31, the only road that runs from mainland India through Northeast India. On the Teesta there is a Hilkar road bridge. It is an important gateway between South India and North India.

Less than two kilometres south of the town of Saktiga is India's only metre-gauge New Japeri Railway to the Northeast Frontier Special Administrative Region.

Taking control of these two highways and railways severed the connection between North and South India, making it impossible for the Indian army to echo the north and south, causing psychological panic among the 4th Army and the 33rd Army of the Northern Military Region of the Indian Army, and disintegrating their fighting spirit, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.

The objective of the 1st Airborne Division in this campaign was to seize the Shirkar Highway Bridge and the New Japeri Railway Bridge, and if they controlled it, they would control the passage of Siliguri, and they would also control the situation in North India, that is, the Northeast Frontier Special Region of India.

Geng landed in a wooded area 500 meters north of the Hilkar road bridge, which was not a good drop-off point, but he was not scratched, and he quickly unparachuted and jumped off a fork of a tree. Holding a Type 51 automatic rifle, he kept moving quickly from tree to tree to behind, searching and guarding the airborne site. In the Airborne Forces, soldiers and officers are the most equal, and everyone has the same to face death, and the same parachute in the rear of the enemy to fight. There was nothing said about the fact that the soldiers were charging in front and the officers were waiting in the back. Therefore, the officers of the Airborne Forces can be universally respected and supported by the vast number of soldiers, because they share weal and woe, weal and woe, advance and retreat together, and depend on each other for life and death, just like ordinary soldiers.

(To be continued)