“…… Our decision to choose Bangladesh as the main battlefield for a life-and-death battle against the Chinese aggressors is widely regarded as the greatest mistake in India's history, and perhaps the greatest tragedy. There are two reasons for this. First of all, it is impossible to clearly understand the intricate shapes of the Indian battlefield fans at that time. Secondly, and most importantly, when judging a military form, many first-class soldiers are rarely willing to put effort into thinking about the politics behind the military form. They seem to be fighting for war's sake, never thinking about why we are fighting a small war somewhere against some powerful enemy. In their view, a war that is not a big deal is a war that cannot be won, and a war that cannot be won should not be fought!

Of course, I don't deny that there is a certain truth to this kind of completely rational thinking because there is no emotion at all and nothing else mixed in. If we think purely from a military point of view, we should think in this way. But if we apply this thinking to the world revolution of October 1935, there is probably only one most rational conclusion. It's that we're losing, and it's hard to recover, and there's little hope of winning any battle that tries to make up for it. Because our enemies have 10 times more industrial strength and resources than we do, 2 times our population, and their weapons are far ahead in technology, and their soldiers are much higher in command and training than our Red Army commanders and fighters. If we think about the problem purely from a military point of view and put it into practice, the only thing we can do is probably to surrender like the enemy.

But we did not surrender. We chose to fight modest battles, although in those battles we made mistakes, some of them from a purely military point of view. It's simply unforgivable. For example, we have concentrated our forces around Bangladesh and neglected the defense of northwestern India, especially Kashmir – and for good reason. After all, the Chinese are launching an offensive in Central Asia and Siberia, and it is extremely unlikely that they will attack northwest India at the same time. If you think in the mindset of military science, this extremely low probability should not happen. So we were absolutely right not to deploy heavy troops in Kashmir, and as a result we suffered the greatest tragedy in the history of the Indian revolution. It can be seen that things that are not big can happen on the battlefield, and as long as we do our best to fight for them, things with low success may also occur. We later defeated Chinese imperialism. To expel them from Indian soil is to win a war with a very small chance of winning. If we had surrendered to the Chinese in October 1935, we would have lost this great victory. Now the Indian subcontinent will groan under the colonial rule of Chinese imperialism......"

The above nonsense is taken from Comrade Charia's memoirs "Written Before the Second World Revolution" (aka "The Beginning of the Failed World Revolution"). Although the clever use of dialectics was used to justify the erroneous military deployment of itself and the Indian GCD during the two months of September and October 1935. However, there is one thing that Charia does not say is that when the Indian Red Army was fully deployed for the Battle of Bengal, the balance of victory in the Second World War was clearly tilted in favor of the three imperialist powers, China, the United States and Germany. The Soviet Union was struggling under the attack of China and Germany, and the Japanese GCD was looking for a so-called way out as if it was in a hurry. And the Indian GCD is not in danger of losing the country (of course, they themselves do not know). But India's division is inevitable. The question at the moment is just how many parts will India be divided into?

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At this time, the eyes of the whole of India were drawn to the Bengal front, and the roads from the central, western, and northern parts of India to the east were crowded with large groups of Indian Red Army marching eastward, as well as various convoys driven by human or animal power. Countless troops, supplies, weapons and ammunition are flowing eastward like the water of the Ganges River, converging on the land of Bengal, and it seems that a decisive battle to determine the future and fate of the South Asian subcontinent is about to start here.

On the Northwest Front in India, however, it was a quiet scene.

From a long, long time ago. Even before the words appeared, it began. Northwest India is an important passage for various invaders and colonizers to enter the South Asian subcontinent. From the earliest Aryans, to the later Afghan Muslim warlords, to the Mughals, who later claimed to be descendants of Genghis Khan. They all came in from the northwest of India and became the masters of India, with the exception of the Western colonizers who came in from the sea later. Oh, and the Chinese imperialists, who invaded from Imphal and the Bay of Bengal, seem to be an exception.

In fact, the Afghan-Kashmir Army Group to which the Chinese Central Asian Front belonged launched an invasion in June 1935, occupying the plains of northern Afghanistan, followed by a series of attacks on the mountainous areas of central Afghanistan. However, they were all repulsed by the Indian Northwest Front under the command of General Apanashchenko. By late September 1935, when China began to resume its offensive on the Central Asian front, the battlefield in Afghanistan was largely calm. Moreover, the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army and the Indian Red Army at that time also made the same judgment, and they both believed that the previous Chinese attack on central Afghanistan was actually a feint in order to attract the attention of the Soviet Union and India in order to cover the preparations before the main forces of the Central Asian Front attacked westward. Therefore, when the Central Asian battlefield was reopened and the Indian army was preparing for the Bengal battle, the Indian Red Army units originally deployed in the northwestern Indian theater were transferred west to reinforce the Bangladesh battlefield. Even the experienced Soviet general Apanashchenko was transferred to the Northeast Front as commander and was replaced by the Indian Jasvant Front. Singh.

This man was not strictly a military strategist, but a party activist and terrorist, who had no formal military training and had not commanded any battles, but had simply signed a battle order drawn up by a Soviet military adviser.

But this Jasvante. To be honest, Comrade Singh still attaches great importance to the defense of India's northwest, in his mind. It is still believed that Afghanistan may become a secondary target of the squadron, especially after the battle in Bangladesh enters the **, and the Chinese are very likely to launch a large-scale offensive in Afghanistan to disperse the Indian army. As for the Kashmir region. It was unanimously agreed by all that it was the least likely site to be attacked on the battlefield in northwestern India. None of them, including Pavlov, Borodin, and Chalya, could have predicted that this valley, which is close to China's Tibet region, would be the most important direction of attack carefully chosen by the Chinese General Staff in this war, and a large number of troops had been secretly assembled in this direction under the cover of the resumption of the war in Central Asia. Jasvante. Singh and India's Northwest Front were about to face the most severe situation beyond the imagination of the entire Indian Red Army.

So Jasvante. After Singh took office, the defense in the Kashmir direction was significantly weakened. The Kashmir Army Group became the Kashmir Army Group, and the total strength was reduced from 15 divisions in three army groups to three divisions in one army group. Moreover, all three divisions were deployed on the front line close to the Asekechin region of China. Confrontation with the Chinese 36th Mountain Army in the Aksai Chin area. And the artillery forces within the Kashmir Army Group were almost completely exhausted. Including the artillery belonging to 3 infantry divisions, only 12 artillery batteries remained. Including the mortars and anti-aircraft guns of the team, there are only more than 100 guns in total, and on average, each artillery piece has less than 2 base ammunition, which means that the base number of shells possessed by the entire Kashmir Army Group is only about 10,000 rounds, and the fierce battle will be exhausted in half a day. As for the supply of ammunition for rifles and machine guns, the number of bullets is not much higher. The ammunition reserves of the three infantry divisions together are around 400,000 rounds. I really want to fight. At most, it will last for two or three days.

However in Jasvante. In the opinion of Singh and the top brass of India's Northwest Front, their defense in Kashmir is strong enough that there is no need or surplus force to reinforce the Kashmir Army. Really make Jasvante. Singh and others are worried about the Afghan region, not the front line of the confrontation between northern Afghanistan and the squadron, but the central and southern regions of Afghanistan! The rule of the Indian GCD in Afghanistan is in big trouble, the Pashtuns who believe in the Y Slanism here have always been brave and ruthless, only the Afghan Muslim warlords conquered India in history, when did the Indian "untouchables" conquer Afghanistan? At first, the situation was better when Blyukhel came with a mixed Soviet-Indian force. Because Blyukher was only eager to drive the Chinese-backed Allah Party out of Afghanistan, he didn't provoke the tribal forces there - in fact, he also knew that the tribes in Afghanistan were not easy to mess with. Born to be an expert in guerrilla warfare and mountain warfare, the British Empire was invincible all over the world, but it was bloodied in Afghanistan.

But it didn't take long for the Soviet Union to "give" Afghanistan to the People's Republic of India in order to attract troops to the Middle East, and it became the Pashtun Autonomous Region of Afghanistan in the People's Republic of India. This was followed by the agrarian revolution, the fight against cults, and the establishment of local government in India. Targets for repression such as "land riches against bad people" have also been issued, arresting people according to the standard of 5% of the total population of the Afghan autonomous region, and suppressing them according to the standard of 2.5% (that is, killing). In fact, there is nothing about this, it is all a normal thing, which people's democracy does not have it? A 5% indicator is also nothing.

But here in Afghanistan, we ran into trouble, when the Indian Asan-ess security fighters shouted in stiff Pashto: "You have been arrested!" What awaits them is not a shivering Afghan beard who has softened into a puddle of mud, nor a terrorist with a knife to poke someone, but ...... A litter of terrorists armed with machetes, rifles, bombs, and other weapons! Well, it's prevalent in Afghanistan here, so it's basically a tribal of men, women, and children who go into battle and turn Indian defenders into revolutionary martyrs in three strokes.

If in the early years in Japan, it was a life-threatening errand to carry out the task of suppressing counter-revolutionary samurai, then doing security work in Afghanistan was a fatal errand! Seeing that the counter-revolutionaries in Afghanistan were arrogant like this, Apanashchenko, who was then the commander of India's Northwest Front, dispatched a large number of troops to suppress it. And what the Soviet Union and India opposed, the Federation of Great China will of course support. So one side encircles and suppresses terrorists on the ground, and the other side drops weapons and ammunition, funds for terrorist activities, and Allah military instructors from planes. And the result can be imagined, the common people in Afghanistan are not good at production, science and technology, or anything. However, the spirit of rebellion is particularly strong, and the skill of fighting guerrillas is particularly superb. Historically, Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States have all suffered enough in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan, let alone India?

The situation was a little better when the Northwest Front of India was heavily armed. Most of the time, Afghan terrorists cowered in ravines and did not come out. At this time, however, half of the forces of the Northwest Front had been transferred to support the Bengal battlefield. At this moment, the power of Afghan terrorists has suddenly swelled all over the mountains. With the exception of a few important cities and strongholds on major transportation routes, the Indian GCD has lost control over much of Afghanistan. The logistics and transportation lines of India's Northwest Front have become an important target for terrorists in Afghanistan. Singh was a little overwhelmed.

"Bastard! Bastard! None of these Afghans are good, we should kill them all! See one kill one, see two kill a pair! Instead of uniting the majority, there is simply no majority to unite here. These damn guys! Damn, why can't you kill them all? Why...... Can't kill them all! "Inside the headquarters of the North-Western Front in the Kabul National Autonomous Palace, Jaswant. Singh pinched the damage report from the logistics department. His mouth was broken and scolded.

The map of Afghanistan hanging in front of him was already full of green markers symbolizing the activities of terrorists, and had even crossed the Afghan border and extended to Peshawar. Moreover, terrorist activities are becoming more and more rampant, and this morning a convoy of baggage, escorted by an entire regiment of infantry, was ambushed in the Tagab region of central Afghanistan. The number of terrorists involved in the ambush amounted to thousands. The two sides fought hard for a morning. The Indian Red Army repelled ten attacks by the terrorists one after another, but near noon, the terrorists actually called four Chinese Qiang-1 Orion attack planes, which dropped bombs, machine guns, and machine gun fire. The Indian Red Army could not lift its head when the blood and flesh were flying, and the Afghan terrorists took the opportunity to attack...... The last group of men stood out from less than a company, including Red Army soldiers and former migrant workers, a total of more than 3,000 people were lost, and hundreds of tons of weapons and ammunition were looted!

Yesterday afternoon, a barracks outside Kabul was suddenly bombarded by dozens of mortars, and the smoke and dust raised high attracted six Ju.88 planes loaded with bombs. Seven or eight tons of bombs were dropped with a crackle, and a barracks with a heavy artillery regiment was blown into ruins. All 36 brand-new Soviet-made 152mm howitzers were scrap metal, and a third of the more than 1,000 officers and men of the artillery regiment were seriously wounded or killed!

Terrorism is also rampant near the city of Peshawar in the Indian state of West Punjab, with 33 bomb explosions or mortar attacks in just one month! There were also 21 ambushes by Red Army patrols, killing and wounding more than 1,200 people, including more than 200 wounded soldiers who were treated in the rear hospital in Peshawar!

More so Jasvante. Singh feels a headache that these Afghan terrorists are all cunning and abnormal, they are no different from ordinary civilians when they do not carry out terrorist attacks, and they are covered by local tribes and people, while it is difficult for the Indian GCD and the Indian Red Army to find supporters in Afghanistan, so they have no way to carry out "precision strikes" on terrorists, and there is only one way to take the initiative to eliminate terrorists, that is, Afghan civilians are slaughtered! However, such an act was severely criticized by the Delhi side, and Comrade Lu Yi believed that the indiscriminate massacre of civilians would further intensify the ethnic and religious conflicts in Afghanistan and push more Afghans to the side of the terrorists.

So, Jasvante. Singh had to scatter his small reserves to the main transportation routes in Afghanistan and West Punjab to establish strongholds, and to increase the protection of patrols and logistics convoys as much as possible. However, the transport convoy protected by a large group of men and horses can withstand the terrorists, but it cannot stop the bombers of the Chinese army! These terrorists obviously have close contact with the Chinese army, and once the attack fails, they will call for air support, and the bombing will make the Indian Red Army soldiers run with their heads in their hands.

The more I think about it, the more angry Jaswant becomes. Singh yelled: "Someone, mobilize a division of troops for me, and I will personally lead the team to sweep away the terrorists around Kabul!" I don't believe I can't catch their tails of ignorance! ”

"Commander, Comrade Commander! The emergency telegram is the emergency telegram of the Kashmir Army Group. "Jasvante. When Singh decided to personally go out to fight the terrorists, Makarov, chief of staff of the front, suddenly rushed into the war room and shouted: "The Chinese and Chinese have attacked!" In the Zhuopu River, Pangong Lake, Siachen Glacier, Karakoram Pass and other places were shelled by the squadron! Moreover, and they also carried out airborne landings near Srinagar, about a thousand planes were put into it! ”

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