Chapter 620: 620 Intervention
The AK-47 in the hands of the Indian soldiers fired at a distance of only a few hundred meters, and they fired at those students in southern Tibet from a long distance, so naturally they would not hit anyone, but the Reaper mecha of the Chinese border guards had a range of 30mm cannons with a range of several kilometers.
At a distance of hundreds of meters, the Indian army lacked weapons that could effectively threaten the Reaper mecha, even if they carried a few grenades with them, they could not throw them a hundred meters away, and the grenade throwing record was still held by the Chinese.
Unlike the American young master soldiers who dare to use hellfire to beat three terrorists, the Chinese border guards still know how to be diligent and thrifty, and the guided rockets they carry will not be wasted on these Indian Ah San, mainly using machine guns and machine guns to look good on these brown-skinned guys who smell of curry.
This group of Indian soldiers had no choice in the face of the tough reapers, and after being wiped out, they left dozens of corpses behind and retreated in a hurry. The mecha piloted by the border guards did not rush to pursue this group of Indian troops, and the commander quickly reported what happened to the command of the border troops and the command of the PLA Tibet Military Region through a communication device.
Two Reaper mechs retreated from the border buffer zone with the students of southern Tibet until they reached a border guard post in Medog County. Here, the students from southern Tibet had their first hot meal in a few days, wrapped in thick military coats, and some of them were so tired that they fell asleep on the soldiers' beds.
The young man, who could speak Menba, wept and held an enamel jar with barley porridge in his hand, and said: "We are Indians, but we are driven and slaughtered like cattle by the Indian army, and China has always been an evil enemy country in our education, but our people are willing to take us in, protect us, give us food, and give us clothes to wear." β
The little warrior of the Menba tribe patted the little fellow and said, "This is because you are not Indians at all!" Indians say that you are Indians, but they only covet the land and resources under our feet, but they don't care about your life and rights at all. Since ancient times, southern Tibet has been our Chinese land, but India has been stealing this place for too long, which has given you the illusion that you are Indians. β
The Menba boy nodded and said, "After this incident, I'd rather be a Chinese than an Indian!" β
Another young man of the Adi tribe pulled a soldier and asked: "You have guns and cannons, and iron men who can climb mountains, why don't you recover your land, we don't want to suffer this anymore, and it should be better to follow China than to follow India." β
The Adi are mainly in southern Tibet, and belong to the traditional animistic minority, which is almost non-existent in China's areas under actual control, so the language he speaks is only understood by border guards after being translated by others.
The border guards did not know how to answer him, because they themselves did not particularly understand this truth. It is clear that southern Tibet belongs to China, why has it been controlled by India for decades.
At this time, a middle-aged man wearing a PLA officer's uniform walked in outside the door, and he said: "Because we didn't have this condition back then, China couldn't afford to fight a full-scale war with India on the far western border, and the international environment didn't allow us to do so." But now it's different, China is very strong, we have built the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to Metuo, we have hundreds of transport planes that can cross the roof of the world, as long as China wants to do it, we can do it! β
When a leader of the border defense saw the middle-aged man, he hurriedly saluted: "Political Commissar Sun." β
A few students from southern Tibet didn't care how big this official was with Commissar Sun, but asked him eagerly: "Can you send troops to help us drive the Indians away?" β
Political Commissar Sun smiled slightly and said: "In the past, we wanted to take back southern Tibet, but this time it is different, the voice of the masses in southern Tibet has been heard by the country, which shows that although we have been separated from the motherland for a long time, the hearts of our people in southern Tibet are still oriented towards the motherland." The people of the motherland and the people's army will absolutely not disappoint anyone who has their hearts set on the motherland! India has provoked our army on the border and violently suppressed and slaughtered the people in southern Tibet, and the party Central Committee and the Central Military Committee have issued instructions to protect the masses in southern Tibet from infringement at all costs and to recover China's sovereignty and administrative power over southern Tibet. β
Although Political Commissar Sun said a lot of official words and clichΓ©s, these students still understood, which meant that China was going to intervene in the situation in southern Tibet, and they would not consider what kind of changes would occur after the return of southern Tibet to Chinese management, they only knew that the Indians had brought more destruction to southern Tibet, and they could not bear the discrimination from the Indian Ah San. At least they have become Chinese, they are similar in appearance to Han and Tibetan, and it seems that the Chinese are also friendly to them.
Political Commissar Sun added: "The troops of our Tibet Military Region have entered a state of emergency combat, and the Military Region has already sent reinforcements to this side by rail and air. Our predecessors beat them in 62 years, and now our material conditions are not a little bit better than the predecessors and martyrs, there is no reason to fight worse than them! Relax these students, your hometown is about to be restored! At this time, we need to be recognized by righteous people all over the world, and I need you to come forward and tell journalists from all over the world about your experience, how the Indians discriminate against you, oppress you, suppress you......"
This is the main reason why this political commissar Sun rushed to the frontier post non-stop, and China needs these students in southern Tibet to speak out to endorse and bless their military operations. The students then arrived in Lhasa, the capital of the autonomous region, in several helicopters for a Chinese and foreign press conference to explain what was happening in southern Tibet, and then to Beijing on a special plane to participate in similar activities. Along the way, these students saw the fruits of China's development and prosperity, even Lhasa, which is relatively economically backward, is thriving and affluent, with a large number of tourists and a very high standard of living. When they enter Beijing and see this world-famous international capital, they will be able to appreciate how much India is different from China.
Moreover, Political Commissar Sun was about to send these southern Tibetan students away, and the mecha squad leader who had commanded the rescue of the southern Tibetan students said to him with regret: "Are you going to fight the Indians?" Alas, it's a pity that we can only watch you charge into battle, and we can only cheer for you. β
Political Commissar Sun patted the squad leader on the shoulder and said: "We are all soldiers, and the work we do is sacred, there is no distinction between high and low, and doing our own work well is to fulfill the great trust entrusted to us by the party, the state and the people." β
As soon as his words fell, an alarm suddenly sounded in the outpost, and a small soldier ran over to salute and reported: "We have received urgent information that the first section of the Indian army is approaching our line of actual control, and it is judged that it is intended to invade our actual control area, the scale is about the battalion level, and there are certain heavy weapons!" β
Political Commissar Sun immediately said: "Our army has not yet completed the transfer, the Indian army is menacing and unkind, now is the time to rely on our border guards, no matter what, we must drag the Indian army and wait for our PLA reinforcements to arrive!" β
The squad leader saluted and said, "Guarantee to complete the task!" β
This outpost, together with several nearby border defense facilities, can make up more than 100 border garrisons, roughly the size of a company, and they are all equipped with Reaper mechas, with a total of eight units. Although their numbers are small, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.
The border guards quickly assembled and followed the Reaper mecha to the Line of Actual Control buffer. The Indian army obviously knew that even the Chinese border defense was very strong, and they quickly seized the favorable terrain and established a position on the commanding height of a mountain peak on the edge of the river valley, and they were not in a hurry to attack the Chinese army, with the aim of seizing a more favorable combat environment in the subsequent conflict.
Seeing this, the border guards could actually stop for the time being, according to what they were told, after all, they were mainly dragging the Indian army and giving time for the PLA troops to arrive later. India did not yet know that China was about to retake southern Tibet without warning, but instinctively strengthened its control over the region after seeing clashes on the border in order to confront Chinese forces, as it has done in the past. Moreover, after a period of confrontation, the Chinese will basically return to the other side of the Line of Actual Control and will not expand the situation.
However, this time they were wrong, and the Chinese side had already made up its mind to take advantage of the chaos in southern Tibet to completely recapture southern Tibet. Since the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, China has had a strong ability to transport war equipment and materials to the plateau region. Although equipment such as the Type 99 tank in southern Tibet is almost useless, China is also equipped with a large number of mechs such as the Scythe, Reaper and even the Centurion, which are capable of fighting in the highlands and mountainous areas, while the Indian army's mountain troops lack such heavy equipment.
In recent years, the Indian military has also asked the United States to buy M5 infantry mechas, but the United States has refused to export M5 mechs to India under the pretext of a ban on the export of such military products. In real mountain warfare, it is unlikely that the tanks and tanks that India equips the mountain troops with will enter the southern Tibetan theater with complex terrain, and even howitzers and the like will have to be towed by livestock, and it is difficult to compete with the Chinese mountain troops in the face of walking mechas, and even the Chinese border guards equipped with walking mechas.