After listening to Deng Feng's high opinion of diplomats, Li Dawei gave Deng Feng a thumbs up and said, "What you said is so right! However, more than 2.9 million square kilometers of India's territory was torn into three pieces by you, and more than 1 million square kilometers of territory along the entire Ganges River basin at the southern foot of the Himalayas were divided into the soon-to-be-become South Asian People's Republic. ”

"Heh, heh, do you mean it" Deng Feng scratched his head with a smile and said: "Regarding the territory of more than 1 million square kilometers of the South Asian People's Republic, which is the result of the Indian people's revolution, it is a matter of course, there is nothing to say." As for the 400,000 square kilometres of territory of the seven northeastern states of India, India was forcibly incorporated into India by force and threat of force in 1952-1953. Northeast India was not part of India even when it was under British colonial rule. Deng Feng pondered for a moment and then said: "Next, I am going to hold a referendum in the seven provinces of this region. Wouldn't it be enough to decide the question of the East Indies and show the world? ”

"That's for the best, of course, but are you sure?" Li Dawei looked at Deng Feng and asked with some concern.

Deng Feng smiled very confidently and said, "Don't worry, Dawei." I have suffered so much in the past four years, for what? Isn't it just for the sake of this 400,000 square kilometers of land to belong to China, to remove the biggest hidden danger of China's western border forever, and to completely smash India, a country that has always been an enemy of China? I have talked to the main leaders of the four provinces where the revolutionary regime was established on this issue, and almost all of the comrades said that China's development is very amazing. If the northeastern region of India can belong to China, it will be the greatest happiness of the people of the entire northeast. Deng Feng said with a smile, "They once asked me: Who are the Indians?" Director Deng, are you mistaken, we are not Indians, do you see us as elephants? Our facial features are the same as those of the Chinese, look at our skin is so dark as the Indians, and our culture is very similar to China. The notion of being Indians was entirely imposed on us by the Nehru authorities. ”

"I only noticed after you said this," Li Dawei said as if he had discovered the New World, "that the appearance of the peoples of the northeastern states of India is really very similar to that of the Chinese, and their skin color is lighter, which is very different from the Indians in other regions. ”

Deng Feng said: "So people in the Northeast, up and down, have always wanted to join China. To put it bluntly, it's not that the appearance is very similar to the culture. Aren't there many Han people in China who regret being Chinese with the same blood and the same culture? They want to join China, and it is China's fast-growing economy that plays a decisive role. They believe that joining China will make their lives better and the region will prosper. If you think about it this way, you can understand why I am absolutely sure. ”

Li Dawei clapped his hands and said, "Correct!" Exactly. Then he went on to ask: "What is the opinion of India [***] (Maoist)?" ”

"Comrade Napati and other members of the Politburo have also said to me many times that China should take over the region in every aspect and transform it with a more advanced productive forces and production relations, which is a more civilized way of treating the development of human society, and India [***] (Maoism) agrees with this understanding." Deng Feng explained to Li Dawei the attitude of India [***] (Maoism) on this issue. Then he said: "So now this territory of more than 400,000 square kilometers is already Chinese. It's just a question of when the Shannan Special Economic Zone will be established, how much money the central government will invest, and how many people will be moved to build this area. ”

Li Dawei nodded, "I'll go back in two days." You also pay more attention to your body, don't be too tired" He looked at Deng Feng's dark and thin face and said with great concern: "I'll go back and talk to the chairman and the prime minister, and send some capable cadres over as soon as possible, you have paid too much over the years, you should also take a good rest, and by the way, you and Liu Ying's marriage will be done." People have been waiting for you for so many years, but they are all in their 30s. ”

"I don't know how the central government will arrange my work in the next step," Deng Feng said in a non-answering question.

"Hey, don't interrupt, get down to business! When will your marriage be done, the chairman and the prime minister will ask about it when I come this time, and they will say that I am not qualified as a political commissar," Li Dawei asked reluctantly.

"Let's wait until the South Asian People's Republic and the Shannan Special Administrative Region are established." Deng Feng said helplessly: "There are too many things to do, even if I get married, I don't have time to accompany her, it's not the same as now." ”

Li Dawei blurted out disapprerovingly: "I don't understand what this has to do with whether you get married or not." You can't be like this, and you can't be too wronged by Liu Ying. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll do it when I'm done with this period of time, and I'll go back to the base to do it." Deng Feng knew that Dawei was kind, so he had to come down first.

The Central Guard Regiment of the Indian People's Liberation Army led by Yang Guang took a "toy train" to arrive at the railway station in Siliguri County and joined the airborne troops of the 1st Airborne Division. At the entrance of Durga Village on the east side of the Shirkar Highway Bridge, Yang Guang saw Geng Zhi, deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Division, and these two comrades-in-arms, who had both gone out to the base guard company, met in the distant Indian battlefield, and felt particularly cordial. Yang Guang looked at the high and convex cheekbones, deep-set eye sockets, red eyes, long stubble on his face blackened by gunsmoke, dirty gauze oozing blood around his neck, and Geng Zhi's deputy division commander in tattered clothes, jokingly said: "Oops! Tsk, tsk, tsk, I said old company commander, you are so neat like this? ”

"! Don't say it, I haven't taken a shower for 10 fucking days, my body stinks, do you have smoke? First comfort Lao Tzu for a box. ”

Yang Guang took out half a "Chinese" cigarette from his backpack, took out a box and put it in his jacket pocket, and stuffed the rest to Geng Zhi, Geng Zhi couldn't wait to tear it open, took out a lit one, "hissed", inhaled greedily, and then held it in his lungs for a while before spitting it out, and said: "Go, I'll show you the battlefield, please be a veteran, give me some guidance, how is this battle fought?" ”

Geng Zhi took Yang Guang to the Hilkar Highway Bridge, where there was no gunfire, only the roar of the Teesta River under the bridge. It was littered with charred trees, collapsed fortifications and broken walls, which were covered with bullet holes and large black blood stains, attracting countless flies. At the edge of the entrance of Durga Village, three British-made 100-man Captain Tanks, which were charred black and covered with 40 rocket holes, were lying there crookedly, silently telling the people about their bravery and misfortune. The guardrail on the Hillkar Highway Bridge was blown up and mutilated, and the bridge deck was riddled with bullet wounds, and there were also two blown up tanks on the bridge, one of which was suspended from the bridge. Under the bridge, a tank overturned on the huge, sleek stones of the Teesta River Valley, which was piled with a thick layer of rotting and stinking corpses and wreckage of Indian troops. The other tank had its head stuck in the Teesta River, and the back half of the tank was raised to the surface of the river to be inspected by the victors, and everything on the battlefield revealed to those who came after them the extent of the fighting that had taken place here.

Geng Zhi told Yang Guang about the battles that had taken place in Siliguri in the past few days, and on the morning of the 23rd, the Indian army launched the most fierce and longest-lasting Yici offensive in the past few days, and the Indian army once broke through the Saktiga Railway Bridge and the Hilkar Highway Bridge, and launched a continuous attack on the east of the bridge through the bridge, and the 1st Airborne Division had all the Red Arrow 54 anti-tank missiles, and there were few rockets left in the 107-mm infantry single-barrel rocket launcher and 40 rocket launchers. The airborne troops of the 1st Airborne Division, with only automatic rifles, grenades and a few directional mines, fought a decisive battle with dozens of times their own Indian troops on two bridges. The battle lasted more than six hours. The 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th companies of the 1st Airborne Division guarding the bridge, reinforced by the 1st Company and 2nd Company guarding the county town of Siliguri, stubbornly resisted the continuous high-intensity attack of the Indian army. 78 Indian tanks were destroyed, more than 6,000 people of the 9th Infantry Division of the Indian Army were annihilated, and the two bridges were successfully defended. The airborne troops of the 1st Airborne Division also paid a huge price of 673 casualties, and only 55 people remained in the 5th Airborne Company holding the position west of the bridge on the Hillkar road. The commander of the 1st Airborne Regiment, Li Fuen, was seriously wounded in the head. The company commanders and instructors of 6 companies, 8 were killed or wounded, and the losses of the entire campaign personnel were as high as 68,3%.

This is also the troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and no army in the world can form an effective combat effectiveness under such high battle losses. will take the initiative to disengage from contact with the enemy and withdraw from the battle. The "Two Bridges" Blocking Battle in Siliguri was later used as a classic example by all countries in the world with airborne troops, and it was a compulsory textbook for airborne troops.

Geng pointed to the boiling water of the Teesta River under the Hilkar Highway Bridge and said: "On this bridge, there are as many as 583 corpses of Indian soldiers that we threw into the river alone. He pointed to the stinking corpses in the valley and said, "Those don't count." ”

Yang Guang, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, constantly flashed in his mind scenes of bloody and fire, life and death in the background of artillery fire.

He patted the left arm of his old company commander and said, "Let's go take a bath first, re-bandage the wound on my neck, change my clothes, and I'll tell Commander Deng Feng that you can rest here for a few days, don't follow the west." ”

The westward marching team, night and night, rushed all the way to the predetermined area, and to their surprise, there was no fierce fighting. A part of the Indian army had already fled south, and those who did not run saw the surrender of the Central [***] team and the Indian People's Liberation Army on their own initiative. The whole day's work of the troops advancing west was to surrender, march, march, and surrender. The combat units of our army on the eastern and western fronts will soon be divided in Kanpur City, completing Deng Feng's original plan for the entire campaign.

This situation is somewhat unexpected. In view of this situation, in order to maintain the strategic depth of New Delhi, Deng Feng personally flew to New Delhi and suggested that Napati immediately dispatch the 7th Division of the Indian People's Liberation Army (PLA) to New Delhi to occupy Jaipur, 200 kilometers southwest of New Delhi, and Ramgarh City, 210 kilometers to the west. Napati said with some embarrassment: "Director Deng, at this time, there is only one rotation battalion of the 7th Division of the Indian People's Liberation Army and the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 6th Group Army of the Chinese Liberation Army in the entire New Delhi area. ”

Deng Feng said to Chairman Napati very seriously: "I know that New Delhi is doing this now, but now is a great opportunity, once the Indian army eases up, it will be difficult to take these two cities." Now, even if one city sends a battalion, it has to be sent to take over both cities. This is a matter of strategic depth in New Delhi, the capital of the South Asian Republic, and the security of New Delhi in the future. Send! Troops must be sent to accept it! New Delhi now has a rotational battalion of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division, which is enough to ensure that there will be no major problems. Deng Feng was so anxious that he turned around, "Hey, there are too few soldiers." ”

He ordered the 8th Division of the Indian People's Liberation Army (PLA) stationed in Bengal province to urgently move north to New Delhi.

Napati knew that his more than 100,000 troops would not be enough to maintain such a large territory of 1 million square kilometers. He knew Deng Feng's good intentions and the importance of these two cities to New Delhi. However, more than 10,000 people can sustain a large city with a population of more than 20 million and just liberated, which is too little. But he firmly believed that Deng Feng's decision was correct, he gritted his teeth and ordered a battalion to be sent to each of these two cities to receive it.

Later, in the continuous conflict with India, he really felt how wise and correct Deng Feng's decision was at that time.

Deng Feng's troops in his hands were already stretched at this time, and if he was given two more Chinese mechanized infantry divisions, he could take down the whole of India. But he thought about it, let's forget it, what's the benefit of taking it all down for China! A great power is always a threat around it, and even a friendly power is a potential threat. There is no such thing as a friendly country that will always be friendly to a country from generation to generation, and some countries will cooperate with each other, and if there is a conflict of interests, no matter how friendly a country is, it may become an enemy country overnight, and it will become the object of mutual subversion.

After occupying a vast area of the entire Ganges River basin, in order to establish the South Asian People's Republic in the next step, Deng Feng suggested that India [***] (Maoism) should be renamed South Asia [***], and the Indian People's Liberation Army should be officially renamed the South Asian People's Liberation Army.

On 1 May, the Central Committee of the South Asia [***] held its first plenary meeting at the former presidential palace in New Delhi, India, and Deng Feng was invited to attend the meeting in the name of chairman of the South Asia [***] Alliance. At the meeting, the President of South Asia[***], Napati, made an important presentation with the surname of the programme.

In his report, Napati pointed out that the Indian army in the Ganges Valley had been basically wiped out after the Chinese People's Liberation Army Tibetan Provincial Corps completed its counterattack against the Indian authorities' aggression and achieved the integration of the eastern and western fronts. South Asia [***] and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have largely controlled more than 100 square kilometers of territory in the region. There are now only 200,000 combat troops left in the whole of India, spread across the southern part of the country. Although the whole of India is now in a state of political axe, the various departments of the Indian army are also in a state of panic. But we don't have enough strength to deal with these 200,000 Indian troops now. Therefore, we must make full use of this precious time and opportunity to consolidate the achievements we have made, and all the commanders and combatants of the Indian People's Liberation Army must not slacken their will to fight in the slightest. At present, our top priority is to rapidly develop our strength and thoroughly reorganize the surrendered Indian army into the People's Liberation Army in accordance with the system of the Indian People's Liberation Army. In this way, we should solve the problem of insufficient strength of some of our troops, but we must resolutely eliminate the reactionary political influence in these Indian troops. We must not think that these reactionary forces have subordinated to us, and they have become [***] people, and they have become the real People's Liberation Army. Their reactionary ideas and reactionary intentions would not exist. Many of them will be reformed, some of them will be eliminated, and some die-hard reactionaries will be suppressed.

After the establishment of the South Asian People's Republic, if we are to preserve the victories we have achieved and be ready to crush a possible Indian offensive against the South Asian People's Republic, we must build up a regular force of at least 300,000 to 400,000 men. Our army will always be a fighting team. At the same time, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is also a task force, and the role of the task force increases as the fighting gradually decreases. With the building of political power at all levels, we originally prepared more than 8,000 cadres and 2,000 cadres who are being trained in China before they expire, but this is far from enough for the extremely vast areas we occupy, and we must be prepared to turn all 50,000 PLA officers and soldiers into task forces and enrich them into political power at all levels. The establishment of power and the work of establishing power in the vast areas we have already occupied. Our previous focus was on the countryside, surrounding the city with the countryside, and then taking the city. The adoption of such a way of working has now come to an end. From now on, the focus of the party's work must be shifted from the countryside to the cities, and both urban and rural areas must be taken into account, and urban work must be closely linked with rural work, with workers and peasants, and with industry and agriculture. Our cadres, especially senior cadres, must work extremely hard to learn how to manage and build cities. It is necessary to learn to wage political, economic, and cultural struggles against the bourgeoisie and the big landlord class in the cities, and to learn to fight against them both openly and in the shadow. If we do not learn to fight these people, we will not be able to maintain the power we have achieved and we will fail. In the early days of the founding of New China, our great proletarian revolutionary mentor Comrade Mao Zd warned the Chinese people in this way: After the enemy with a gun is destroyed, the enemy who does not hold a gun still exists, and they will inevitably fight to the death against us, and we must never despise these enemies. If we do not ask questions and understand problems in this way now, we will make a great mistake. This wise assertion of Comrade Mao ZD is also of great historical significance and profound practical significance to our South Asian people

Napati, chairman of the Central Committee of the South Asia [***], said with blazing eyes, in an extremely excited mood, and in an impassioned tone: "Comrades, for more than 200 years, the people of South Asia have been subjected to the rule and oppression of the British colonialists, and in order to overthrow the oppression of British colonialism and the reactionary political axe of India, the people of South Asia have been constantly waging various forms of continuous struggle, and have been groping in the dark. Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the South Asian People's Liberation Army (PLA) has led the South Asian revolutionary movement onto the correct road, unified the will of the whole party and the whole army with Mao Zedong Thought, and taken MZD Thought as the guiding ideology and theoretical basis of the Party, and unswervingly followed the road of encircling the cities from the countryside and seizing power by armed force. After four years of hard work, the South Asian People's Liberation Army (PLA) led by Nanya has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, and from victory to greater victory. Today, with the selfless support of the Chinese people, we have finally overthrown the dark rule of the big bourgeoisie and the big landlord class that pressed on our heads, defeated our enemies, and are about to establish our own country, the South Asian People's Republic. We, the 113 million South Asians, have stood up since then! became the true owner of the land. In accordance with the principles of the new Mingzhuo Doctrine, we will formulate the Organic Law of the Central People's Political Axe of the South Asian People's Republic, formulate the common program of the South Asian People's Political Consultative Conference, decide that the capital of the South Asian People's Republic will be New Delhi, formulate the national flag of the South Asian People's Republic as a golden sickle, hammer, steel gun and red flag, and elect the National Committee of the South Asian People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Political Axe Committee of the South Asian People's Republic. ”

Finally, Chairman Napati stood up excitedly and said in an accentuated tone: "Comrades, the central political axe of the soon-to-be-established South Asian People's Republic. The people's dictatorship will be implemented throughout South Asia. It will lead the people of South Asia to overcome all difficulties, carry out large-scale economic and cultural construction with the help of our great Chinese comrades, thoroughly sweep away the poverty and ignorance left by the British colonizers and the reactionary political axe of India, gradually improve the material and cultural life of the people of South Asia, it will defend the interests of the people of South Asia, it will strengthen the people's army, consolidate national defense, defend territorial sovereignty and integrity, and resolutely fight back against India's conspiracy that may provoke war

(To be continued)