On the Tibetan plateau in early spring, the wind blows strongly. The village of Wangding, nestled in the Taghera Mountains of the Himalayas, has never been so lively. More than 3,000 PLA troops came from Wangding Village to Lememba and then to Mamamampa, less than five kilometers away. This made Dongping Zhizhu happy and excited, and Dongping Zhizhu had hardly closed his eyes in the past three days since the People's Liberation Army beat the Indian soldiers fiercely on April 15. The PLA company commander Gao said that he had reported to his superiors for his merits. It made him feel even more that everything he did was worth it. In the past few days, he has been so busy that he doesn't even bother to pay attention to the Tibetan mastiff who is following him at that time. He mobilized almost all the Tibetans who could move around for dozens of miles to lead yaks and transport supplies for the PLA, and he also recruited more than a dozen Tibetans who had lived in southern Tibet to serve as guides for the PLA to liberate southern Tibet.

Seeing Dongping Zhizhu desperately helping the PLA, Gao Shouqing's heart was also full of gratitude to him; due to different historical conditions and different forms of warfare, the content and form of the people's war will constantly undergo new changes, but fully mobilizing the masses and closely relying on the masses of the people is the foundation of our army's victory over the enemy, and this point will never change. However, with the continuous development of weapons and equipment, the consumption of materials is getting bigger and bigger, and the dependence of combat operations on logistics is also increasing. In particular, it is difficult to win a war by relying solely on the support of the combat units to support themselves in the border areas of the plateau, far from the rear bases, and without the vigorous support of the masses of the people.

On 16 July, Zhang Guohua, deputy commander of the Tibet Provincial Corps and commander of the Tibet Provincial Military Region, immediately formed the front command of the eastern front of the Tibet Provincial Corps from Lhasa to Mamamenba, and the 154th Regiment, 155th Regiment, and 157th Regiment, the 306th Artillery Regiment, the 308th Regiment, the 540th Regiment, the 136th Engineer Regiment, the Military Region Guard Battalion, the 163rd, 164th, and 165th Regiments of the 55th Division, the Frontier Regiment of the Shannan Military Subdistrict, and the 16th Automobile Regiment immediately plunged into this war against aggression.

After Zhang Guohua came to Mamamenba, he first listened attentively to Gao Shouqing's report on the counterattack battle that took place on the Tagra Pass on 15 April and the situation of the Indian army in the eastern area.

Gao Shouqing said while drinking butter tea: "According to our reconnaissance and interrogation of the prisoners of the Indian army, the 7th Brigade of India is dead this time. Gao Shouqing said while comparing on the map: "The topography of the Kejielang River Valley: the mountains of Bhutan on the west side, the Tagra Ridge on the north side, and the Kejielang River suddenly made a 90-degree bend after flowing from west to east over Bridge No. 1. The whole terrain is a large triangular pocket with ravines and ravines, making even basic tactical maneuvers difficult. The 7th Brigade of the Indian Army came here to simply mark a prison for itself. ”

"What is the specific deployment of the Indian army?" Zhang Guohua asked, "The Indian 7th Brigade has a total of three battalions, spread along the line of the Kejielang River, the front is nearly 20 kilometers wide, there is no depth, there is no cover at the junction between the battalions, and there is no battle reserve. Moreover, the Kejielang River itself is a small stream that is very easy to wade in, and there is no danger to defend at all, and such a defensive posture is no different from an eggshell, which can be broken at the first stab. I don't know what these generals in India think. In addition, according to the situation of our confrontation with the Indian army yesterday and the confession of the prisoners, the Indian army's preparations for the campaign were also extremely bad, and even the most basic logistical supplies could not be put in place. Now Ah San's front-line infantry only carried three days' provisions, and once the battle was stalemate, they starved to death. The ammunition was pitiful, with only 60 rifle rounds per soldier and less than a base number of machine gun ammunition. What's even more pitiful is that these Ah San have no artillery support. A brigade of more than 6,000 people has only 12 81-mm mortars, and the shells are not even a single base, which is not as many as the guns of our machine gun company. These Ah San are purely looking for death."

"What is the morale of our fighters?" Zhang Guohua asked with concern.

"It's just one word, morale is high! It can be said that our two companies are all gearing up and high-spirited, and we all hope that this moment of battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions will come as soon as possible. Gao Shouqing replied proudly.

"Oh," Zhang Guohua smiled and asked with interest, "That's good, how did you do this?" ”

First of all, we let all the commanders and fighters understand that the just war against India was a continuation of the Chinese people's struggle against the imperialist powers against us for more than 100 years, and that India had inherited the fruits of the British imperialist aggression against our country, and that the Indian army had entered Yanjing with their master, the British imperialist eight-nation coalition army, to burn, kill, and plunder, and that they were out-and-out lackeys and accomplices of imperialism. Through these educations, the patriotic enthusiasm of the vast number of cadres and fighters and the strong indignation of the proletarian revolution in India have been greatly stimulated, and all our commanders and fighters have a deep hatred for the Indian army. ”

"Not bad, not bad! It's a good time! Whose idea was this," Zhang Guohua exclaimed.

"These are what my comrades-in-arms told me." Gao Shouqing suddenly remembered and said, "Yes! This comrade-in-arms of mine, you should be able to recognize, is the guard with Commander Deng Feng. ”

"Oh! You are Yang Guang's comrade-in-arms. Zhang Guohua asked in surprise: "So you have participated in the bloody battle of Shunchuan's pass?" ”

Gao Shouqing said proudly: "That's for sure"

"I said you fought so well. But one thing you are wrong about is that he is not just Commander Deng's guard. Zhang Guohua said.

"Another point is that our army's individual firepower has an overwhelming advantage, which is also a factor of high morale," Gao Shouqing scratched his head and added: "We are all using Type 51 automatic rifles. Do you know? The Indian three-barreled one is called a small machine gun. The Indian military used the Lee during World War II. Enfield 7.7mm bolt-action rifles and Bren light machine guns, whether in terms of firepower, accuracy or lethality, our army has an absolute advantage. The fighters were confident in the weapons in their hands. The combination of excellent weapons and solid and excellent tactics is the material basis for our high morale. ”

Zhang Guohua laughed and said, "Good job! I think you can be a political commissar! How about coming to my Tibetan Provincial Military Region? Zhang Guohua, who loves talent, dug up the trench of the 6th Group Army

Next, Gao Shouqing summarized some of his tactics and experiences, as well as his own suggestions for the next counterattack. In the end, he made a suggestion to Zhang Guohua that went beyond the scope of his report: Dongping Zhizhu should be the commander of the militia company in the Lemenba area.

Through Gao Shouqing's introduction, Zhang Guohua believes that our army lacks Tibetan cadres, especially Tibetan cadres from workers and peasants like Dongping Zhizhu. Therefore, Dongping Zhizhu was directly approved as the acting deputy director of the Armed Forces Department of Cuona County, and the formal appointment was supplemented after this battle was completed.

"Damn, I'm the deputy company commander, and I propose to raise a full-time cadre. A person's success lies in the opportunity, but also in their own grasp. There are accidental surnames and necessary surnames. Dongping Zhizhu is a simple and simple good person, who met me, Bole, so in the past few days, he has become the deputy minister of the county armed forces department from an ordinary Tibetan. Dongping Zhizhu didn't know what it would look like after he found out, ha, ha, don't tire this kid out" Gao Shouqing thought about it and laughed.

The east wants to know, and on April 18, the first rays of light will appear in the sky. Hundreds of artillery pieces of our army roared in unison, and in an instant, high-explosive bombs, high-explosive incendiary bombs, and steel ball high-explosive anti-personnel bombs with terrible screams smashed heavily on the positions set up by the Indian army in the Kejielang River Valley, and the entire Kejielang River Valley was submerged by our army's artillery fire and turned into a boiling sea of fire.

More than 3,000 rounds of 122-mm rockets landed on the positions of the Indian troops in Kejlang and Jangdo, and this shelling was more than 20 times the number of shells used in the 62nd century, and the explosion was more than 100 times more powerful. After 15 minutes of artillery preparation, as many as 75% of all exposed personnel on the Indian positions were killed or wounded, and the surface positions of the Indian troops completely lost their use value. During this period, the 12 British-made 81-mm mortars of the Indian army tried in vain to prepare for counter-artillery fire, but before they could mark the firing range and shoot Zhu Yuan, they were torn to pieces by our artillery fire, sent to the sky and fell heavily.

Then under the artillery fire of our army, Gao Shouqing and a company of soldiers rushed across the No. 1 bridge in the southern section of the Kejielang River, and the 3rd Battalion of the 154th Regiment also rushed over the adjacent No. 2 bridge. They ferociously rushed into the forward positions of the Indian troops, and because our military first carried out electromagnetic interference on the radio signals of the Indian troops in this area, all the communications of the Indian troops were cut off, and the Indian troops lost contact with each other. The 15-minute artillery preparation cost the Indian army more than half of its losses. The surviving Indian officers and soldiers had not yet woken up from their great fear, and Gao Shouqing and the others continued to shoot bullets into the bodies of the remaining Indian officers and soldiers amid a shout of killing.

The first to wake up from our artillery fire was the 3rd Company of the Indian Army, which was deployed on a small hill more than 40 meters high 500 meters behind Bridge No. 1. Major Dashras, of the 3rd Company of the 9th Punjab Battalion, struggled out of the foot-thick dirt that was pressing on him. He shook the dust off his head, feeling his head still on his neck, but he couldn't hear anything. The martial spirit of the Punjabi people from ancient times burst out in his body. With the unique perseverance and indomitable surname of the Punjabi people, and relying on his own memory of the position before the shelling, he desperately picked up a bombed machine gun bunker next to him with his hands, and his hands were blurred by sharp rubble, and he had a belief in his heart: he should not be ashamed of his proud family, and he should be right, and he should be right, and he should hang himself in the most conspicuous place in his own home

(To be continued)