The rain was pouring down, and the night was like ink. On the Punjab Plain, in the Amritsar area on the border between East and West Punjab, both sides of the war seem to have chosen to go on the defensive at the same time, with only occasional shells exploding on the positions of the Chinese and Indian armies around the battlefield. The Chinese army's powerful long-range heavy artillery group has stopped firing, and the "Xue Yue cluster" is now fighting without a rear, and can only rely on the ammunition carried by the army to maintain the operation, and must be used sparingly. At this time, the harassing artillery bombardment of the Indian army to interfere with their fortifications was only a number of 75mm recoilless guns and mortars. The Indians responded with 76.2mm field guns, trying to suppress the Chinese artillery to cover their infantry building fortifications. From the afternoon of October 23 to the present, the Indian army has been frantically braving the fire of the Chinese army to adjust its situation, and the army that was originally going to attack is digging trenches and building fortifications. Infantry regiments and infantry battalions spread out on the plains west of Amritsar to form three defensive fronts. The 11 artillery regiments belonging to the Guards Army also entered the positions one after another, and some of the 76.2mm field guns were engaged in artillery battles with the Chinese army.

At the same time, the order to mobilize the Indian population around Amritsar has been transmitted. Residents of the People's Republic of India who have attained the age of 14 years, both men and women, are required to report immediately to the GCD Committee of their respective districts and are also provided with their own dry rations and labour tools to support the fighting Indian People's Army. In case of disobedience, it will be punished as a counter-revolutionary crime. But the negative effects of the fall of Amritsar have already been made, and the Indian party members and cadres in the Sikh villages and towns around Amritsar have been made. At the first time, they were besieged by the Sikh masses who did not know the truth, and the majestic cadres on weekdays were very much called the meaning of the heavens and the earth at this time. Even the little basic militia in their hands could not be organized for a while. Even barely organized is useless. Because the reconnaissance units of the Chinese army have already spread out, they will not attack the Sikh villages and towns that are completely hostile, but as long as they find that the local government of India and G there has not yet fallen, they will naturally eradicate it immediately. However, with the lessons of the 30th Division, these Chinese scouts have also learned to be obedient, and they will protect the captured Indian GCD cadres as soon as possible. Then let the Sikh civilians themselves elect interim leaders and wait for their local regimes to be established. If these Indian GCDs are handed over again, of course, what will happen after that has nothing to do with Chinese...... Therefore, the order to mobilize the people was issued for more than ten hours, and not a single migrant worker arrived. Even the communications soldiers sent out to give orders have mostly become meat buns for dogs.

However, what Pavlov and others did not expect was that the people around Amritsar had actually mobilized. In the darkness of the night, on the road to Amritsar, numerous groups of spontaneously organized teams were pushing carts full of food and various tools of labour. Advance to the city under the Chinese military control. Of course, they weren't there to siege the city. Rather, they are ready to serve the aggressor, just as they did for British imperialism before! Many of them made a request to join the Chinese occupation authorities immediately after arriving in Amritsar, which is really a hardcore traitor! Such collective and spontaneous betrayal of the nation was not uncommon throughout the Battle of India, and the lesson was sobering when the rulers of a nation saw the people as slaves, as enemies, as objects to be killed and oppressed at will. When the country and regime they represent are invaded by foreign enemies, do the oppressed, enslaved and slaughtered people have the obligation to defend such a regime and state? And whose head is to blame for the "betrayal" of the people?

Similar questions require deep reflection by the future great leaders of the Indian People's Revolutionary Party (GPD). In Comrade Carya's memoir "Written Before the Second World Revolution" (aka "The Beginning of the Defeat of the World Revolution"). He made a deep reflection on this.

“…… If there are any painful lessons that we need to learn from the great War of Resistance Against China, the biggest thing is undoubtedly that we did not thoroughly suppress all kinds of reactionary forces in India before the outbreak of the War of Resistance against China! I think this was an important reason why we suffered a setback in October and November 1935. When the imperialist enemy occupied most of Bengal, the reactionary elements there jumped out to act as traitors to the country! When the imperialist troops broke into Kashmir, the counter-revolutionaries there welcomed the traitor Jinnah in the middle of the road, and even shouted the reactionary slogan of 'Long live Jinnah'! And when more than 100,000 Chinese troops invaded Afghanistan and the Punjab region, the Muslim counter-revolutionaries and Sikh counter-revolutionaries there rushed to sell themselves and even acted as executioners for the massacre of revolutionary cadres and revolutionary masses! What a madness! How can we be soft on such counter-revolutionaries? How can you not drive them all out? If we had taken the harshest repressive measures in Bengal, in Punjab, in the autonomous region of Afghanistan, not by suppressing the arrests of counter-revolutionaries according to the target of 5 to 15 per cent of the total population, but by raising this target to 20 or 30 per cent, the shape of the war in October and November 1935 would have changed completely. Therefore, in the years to come, we in India and the Indian People's Revolutionary Party will no longer be soft on the counter-revolutionaries, and for the victory of the Indian revolution and the world revolution, even if we suppress 10,000 or more counter-revolutionaries, what is the gain? Is there anything more pleasant for us GC ists than to kill a counter-revolutionary? This is also a strong guarantee that our cause can now achieve great victories! ”

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For the Chinese counter-revolutionary army in the Amritsar area, the Indian counter-revolutionaries rushed to the ground and gave them the confidence to defeat the Indian revolutionary army. I thought that after going deep into the enemy's territory, I would fall into the vast sea of people's war, but I did not expect to see the shadow of the "people" all the way from Kashmir to East Punjab, and only saw the jubilant counter-revolution. With the help of the Sikh counter-revolutionaries in Punjab, their preparations for the offensive went very smoothly. A cannon craned its long neck in the wheat fields outside Amritsar. The ammunition on the battle station was piled to the brim. More than half of them were carried by Sikh counter-revolutionaries who brought their own dry rations! The Chinese infantry of the brigade had entered the starting position less than 3,000 meters away from the forward position of the Indian army, and among them were many red-headed Ah San with a red face and beard on his head, most of whom were Sikh soldiers from the former British and Indian army who had escaped the net. Now he is a puppet army who works for the Chinese invaders. Skillfully fiddling with the Type 38 rifle (collected from the logistics unit and artillery), he looked eager to try.

The Indian army's position spread out on the plain less than 10 kilometers west of the city of Amritsar, and four infantry corps were deployed from north to south, and the position spread for more than 40 kilometers. However, due to the rush of time, they did not have time to build a strong defense system with large depths, only a few thin trenches, and they did not use wood to reinforce them. The depth is just over a meter. In front of the trenches were also not laid out barbed wire, trenches, minefields and other obstacles. However, the Indian Guards Army is the elite in the end, although it is too hasty to build strong fortifications, but the front-line firepower is still quite dense. All the officers and soldiers of the West Punjab local forces that were added to the troops in Lahore were also under the close supervision of the political cadres and security fighters.

Probably because of the rush of time, the crops, woods, and villages in the middle of the 3,000-meter-wide middle zone between the two armies' positions were not cleared. In particular, the wheat that grew in the ground and was almost completely ripe blocked in front of the Indian army's position almost endlessly, blocking the sight of the Indian officers and men. In order to clean up the wheat here. The Indian army sent a large number of infantry to press the Chinese army guard curtain entrenched in the wheat field. However, the Chinese army also sent a large force of infantry to respond to the battle. As a result, the two armies fought a series of bloody battles in the boundless wheat fields.

Before the Chinese army's offensive was launched on the morning of the 24th, the Indian army only cleared the wheat fields five or six hundred meters in front of their positions, and beyond that, there were large wheat fields under the control of the Chinese army. If their eyes could penetrate the wheat fields, they would see countless Chinese infantry crawling through the wheat fields, each with weapons and ammunition hung to the brim, and occasionally strong Chinese soldiers dragging mortars and recoilless guns crawling forward. In order to form a breakthrough in the first offensive, Xue Yue also invested enough money to invest nearly 25,000 infantry in 9 infantry regiments at one time! In the middle of the line were three regiments of the 10th Division of the 29th Infantry Corps. On the north and south flanks of the front were three regiments belonging to the 6th Mountain Division of the 2nd Mountain Army and three regiments belonging to the 26th Infantry Division of the 9th Infantry Corps. Behind them. With 13 divisional or corps artillery regiments supporting their attack, more than 700 cannons are ready to roar!

The Indian Guards Army opposite them had only 192 suppressive guns, and they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of firepower. However, since they had not captured any prisoners in the previous hand-to-hand battles, Pavlov and the others did not know how many of their opponents were, nor could they estimate how many cannons they had. So at this moment when the catastrophe was imminent, the atmosphere in Pavlov's headquarters, although tense, was not completely hopeless.

"According to the analysis of the situation in the previous hand-to-hand battles, the total strength of the enemy is about 100,000, and there should be two ordinary infantry corps. They expect to attack after dawn tomorrow at the earliest...... Comrade commander, do you have anything else to explain to the troops at the front? Sharapov, chief of staff of the Guards Army, took a stack of reports sent from below and looked at them carefully for a while, then turned to Pavlov and said.

Pavlov's face sank like water, and he just sighed: "Kashmir Valley and Sialkot have at least one of their armies, there should be only two armies here, and no matter how many Chinese there are probably no way to provide logistical support." ”

Sharapov nodded: "They are now 'no logistics operations', as long as we can hold out here for a few days, the Chinese' ammunition should run out, and then we can at least have a draw." ”

Pavlov looked at the map with heavy eyes, and his pale face was full of solemnity. No matter how you look at it, there is no way to reassure people that such a major war that is related to the life and death of the Indian People's Republic is actually unfolding under the condition that the enemy's situation is completely unknown. If he could choose again, he would rather give up East and West Punjab. Putting the troops in Delhi will be able to delay a little longer......

He walked up to Sharapov and lowered his voice: "Comrade Sharapov. Send a secret telegram to Moscow and ask for instructions on what to do in case Delhi is lost. ”

"Comrade Pavlov, what are you talking about?" Sharapov was stunned and looked at his immediate boss fixedly. "If you're not sure, why fight the enemy at Amritsar?"

Pavlov smiled bitterly: "It is no longer up to us to decide whether to fight or not, the initiative in the entire world war has fallen to the side of the counter-revolutionary camp, and we are already in a strategic passivity." And on the Indian battlefield. This passivity is even more pronounced. ”

Sharapov pondered for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Comrade commander, do you have any preparatory plans for the reference of the high command?" ”

Pavlov shook his head: "I can think of a scheme." Comrade Tukhachevsky can think of it......" He paused for a moment, and then suddenly said: "Let's report a preliminary plan, as soon as Delhi loses, the situation in India will be completely eroded." Even if the Soviet Union sent reinforcements, it would be difficult to salvage the situation. Therefore, I no longer have to think about saving the battlefield in India. Other than that. The 3 million Indian Red Army in the Middle East was a very valuable force, and they were all composed of relatively reliable turned Shudras and Dartleys, who could play an important role in the defense of the Soviet Union. I will build a high command to shrink the Middle East theater, abandon the Arabian Peninsula, and gather troops into Asia Minor and Persia, as long as it can block the southern part of the Soviet Union, it will be a victory......"

Before he could finish his words, suddenly someone shouted in his ear: "Shelling! Chinese artillery shelling! They're going on the attack! Pavlov and Sharapov were both startled, and at the same time turned their heads to look outside the headquarters. The sound of explosions suddenly exploded almost simultaneously on the entire Indian front line. The sound of the howling wind and rain was completely suppressed, and the sound of the explosion of the cannonballs was analyzed. The size of the artillery group of the Chinese army is definitely more than 500 pieces, of which the 155mm heavy field howitzer will not be less than 200 pieces! The ground trembled, and everyone in the command was so shaken by the tremors that they could barely stand. Fortunately, the Chinese army did not find this headquarters, so there were no shells falling around, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable!

However, the Indian officers and soldiers on the front line were not so lucky, and the artillery observers of the Chinese army were in the wheat field a few hundred meters away from them. Countless cannonballs dragging orange-red tails fell on their heads as if they had eyes. And the positions they were stationed in were not strong at all, except for a few shallow trenches and there was nothing left. The powerful Chinese artillery group repeatedly covered the trenches of the Indian army with firepower, and clusters of orange flames exploded one after another on the position, and each roar blew a huge gap in the Indian battle line, throwing everything within the reach of the power into the air. Fragments of steel screamed and flew wildly, reaping lives without hesitation, turning the forward positions of the Indian army into a terrifying artillery purgatory. The soldiers of the Indian Red Army, who were gathered in the first-line trenches, were suddenly killed and wounded!

At the same time as suppressing the artillery fire, mortars and recoilless guns that had quietly moved under the noses of the Indian army also began to fire, 60mm, 80mm, 120mm mortars, and 75mm recoilless guns began to roar with an extremely high rate of fire. Around the huge column of smoke stirred up by the heavy artillery, countless small fireballs and flashes suddenly appeared, and the dense shells rained down on the heads of the Indian Red Army huddled in the trenches no more than a meter deep, and they had nowhere to hide or escape, but to tremble and wait for death to come. Oh, they are atheists, so what awaits is not the reactionary Grim Reaper, but the physical destruction of the revolution!

The artillery group of the Indian army quickly reacted, and their artillery had already aimed at the middle of the battle line between the Chinese and Indian armies, and the Chinese infantry lurking in the wheat field was suddenly subjected to intensive artillery strafing, and from time to time officers and soldiers were lifted into the sky by the shock wave of the shell explosion! At this moment, the Chinese artillery fire began to extend to the rear of the Indian army, and the order to charge the infantry was conveyed through guò whistles and flares.

"Up, up, up...... Rush with me, rush up! ”

The officers of the Chinese army shouted loudly and stood up, urging their men to charge forward! The current infantry tactics of the Chinese army follow the path of surprise infiltration, and the sharp knife troops often infiltrate a few hundred meters or even closer in front of the enemy's first-line positions. As soon as their artillery fire extended, they rushed forward without hesitation, and the distance of several hundred meters was a blink of an eye under the all-out charge, and the Indian Red Army soldiers who were dazed by the heavy artillery bombardment of the Chinese army had not had time to wake up and check whether their hands and feet were complete, and the Chinese invading army with bayonets on the Type 38 rifle and MP-18 submachine gun rushed in with a shout!

The People's Republic of India has finally reached a critical moment of life and death!

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