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Before the small-scale conflicts on the western front, the Chinese side strongly reprimanded India’s behavior in the newspapers every time. After October, there were more and more such reports, and the Chinese reports would also appear in the international news section of the newspapers in Moscow.
Now three Indian artillery battalions shelled the Chinese army station, and infantry and light tanks also climbed up the mountain. It goes without saying who provoked it first: In Moscow in July 1959, the mediation between the Prime Minister and Nehru in Khrushchev The two sides jointly issued a communiqué, agreeing to a six-month truce between the two sides, and the time has not yet passed.
Wang Ruofei and Wu Xiuquan, who were visiting the Soviet Union, solemnly told Suslov about the matter on the 17th. On the 18th, the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union finally made a decision after considering various situations: Officially condemned India for defecting to the United States and launching border attacks against the socialist camp. war.
"We used to think that India was the progressive and socialist-oriented category of emerging nation-states, and we had high hopes for India, thinking that this South Asian country could join the socialist camp in striving for the liberation of all mankind. Perhaps this idea Too much wishful thinking. India has shown its ugly side of a bourgeois autocratic government that is keen on expansion and aggression.”
Pravda spoke first, and the rest was much easier:
East Germany's Neue Deutsche Zeitung: "A nation-state that has just been liberated from the slavery of colonialism, because of the inexplicable ambition of the ruling class to go the way of the Nazis and launch aggression and encroachment on neighboring countries, is really distressing."
"Free Romania": "India's act of tearing up the peace statement is regrettable, and the road to war and expansion is not wise"
Vietnam's "People's Daily": "Eisenhower's secret deal with India is extremely dirty"
Czechoslovakia "Red Power": "India's enthusiasm for territorial expansion is a self-destructive act against the trend of history"
North Korea's "Rodong Sinmun": "U.S. imperialist mad dogs like Nehru should be beaten to death with sticks as soon as possible"
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Washington, Pentagon.
"Alan, the latest battle between India and China depends entirely on you and your subordinates," Eisenhower said, "The CIA is the closest American organization to the Sino-Indian war zone."
"For the past 48 hours, Chinese forces have been retreating in an orderly manner," said Allen Dulles, who had just received a long report from the CIA's base in Dhaka. There were skirmishes, but the information we got was not necessarily accurate, and many details were in doubt."
"Although the Indian news trumpeted that they had recovered Bundila from the Chinese army, based on all kinds of information, the Chinese army seems to have voluntarily abandoned this stronghold, and retreated to Derangzong while conducting harassment battles and blocking. In Pasir In the direction of the card, the Chinese army is also actively abandoning its strongholds, and retreating even more."
"This is very reasonable. They have no roads in this direction as a backup so far, and the deployed troops are only a quarter of those in the direction of Bundila. But in Alang near Pasika, on December 12, the Indian army in Madras Colonel Rahman, commander of the wing, was killed, according to Indian reports, he was shot by Chinese snipers."
After Allen Dulles finished talking about the situation in India, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Nathan Twining asked a question:
"So what is the purpose of the Chinese campaign? If they are just retreating, retreating, why did they enter in February and March this year?"
"China may intend to slightly shrink their defense line and shorten the length of the logistics supply line," Army Chief of Staff Liman Remnitzer said of his opinion, "This is particularly obvious in the direction of Bundila and Dejan Zong. In my case It seems that the Chinese army in Bundila will definitely give up, and in Derangzong, it may fight a war of attrition with huge casualties."
"In the war of attrition in Derangzong, the Chinese will let India shed enough blood, and even the 4th Division of the Indian Army will lose its combat capability in front of the tunnel in Derangzong. When the Indian Army sends a new infantry division to replace the 4th Division to continue When attacking, the Chinese retreated to Tawang-Sishan Pass. The Chinese built tunnels and underground bunkers at both places, didn’t they?”
Allen Dulles: "That's right. The photos we sent the plane to take in November already show that the Chinese have built tunnels and bunkers in the mountains on the west side of Dejan Zong."
Remnitzer: "On the battlefield of Tawang-Xishankou, China's logistics transportation line is shorter, and the fortifications should be stronger. The Chinese will make this an insurmountable wall for the Indian army. In the direction of Pasika, China People may be more restrained. After all, more than 1000 people wandering in the mountains can restrain 2.2 Indian troops. This is very cost-effective. After the task of restraining is completed, these more than 1000 people retreated to Medog And Linka, Nayu."
Remnitzer marked on the map his expected final battle front between China and India.
Eisenhower: "Will the Indians be satisfied if both sides cease to draw this front? Will the Chinese be satisfied?"
Allen Dulles: "Neither China nor India will be satisfied. This front is just a line where the two sides have to stop at the end of this battle. Judging from the territorial claims of the two countries, it is impossible for China and India to If this battle cannot be fought for the time being, military hostilities will cease.”
Eisenhower: "That's enough. The battle on the southern side of the Himalayas, the United States only needs this result. On the topic of China and India, let's stop here for today. Now let's talk about the navy. The concept of an all-nuclear fleet , Congress has a very negative view on this, so the Navy needs to adjust..."
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On the winding road between Bandila-Dejangzong, the 4th Brigade of the 7th Division of the Indian Army has been repeating this process in a cycle until December 12:
Drive in, encounter the damaged road, stop and wait for the engineers to plug in and repair it.
The 154st Battalion of the 1th Regiment used 108 rockets to bombard the repair site, and if the terrain was suitable, they also used sniper rifles and heavy machine guns to interfere with the repair.
The 7th Brigade dispatched one or two battalions to attack by swearing underground roads to climb the mountain. Our army usually blocked by a company at most on the mountain, and retreated to the next blocking location after a little fighting.
The Indian army repaired the road and moved on until they encountered the next road that was bombed.
At 12 pm on December 19th, an hour before dark, the Indian army stopped in front of the fourth bombed road, and the infantry of the 3th Brigade of the Indian army had to climb the mountain again.Probably because the terrain in this narrow and long area is relatively flat, the 7th Brigade actually brought up 7 tanks from behind, and the engines were emitting black smoke, approaching the hill that the 3st Battalion was blocking.
"Company commander, is this worth fighting? I checked, it's a heavy tank."
The company commander of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company, Chang Gui'an, also took a look with his own binoculars. It was indeed an M47 "Patton" type. "Okay then, take out the Red Arrow 1 armor."
Because there were relatively few anti-tank missiles sent up, the 154th regiment specifically explained that under normal circumstances, trucks, jeeps, light tanks, and light tanks can use 40mm rocket launchers, while Patton and Pershing only use anti-tank missiles.
Three missiles were fired in the first round.Three revolving sparks flew out, wobbled to about 3000 meters away, two missiles directly pecked at the tank, and the third missile flew, passing by the turret of the Patton tank, and exploded. The dirt behind it.
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The "Vampire" Squadron of the 11th Wing of the Indian Air Force finally received a combat order on December 12. From the evening of the 18th to the 18th, the squadron's "Vampire" fighter-bomber pilots have been familiarizing themselves with the map and grasping the current positions of the troops on both sides. At noon on the 19th, the first batch of 19 planes finally took off and headed to the mountainous area between Bundila-Dejangzon to support the advancing battle of the ground forces.
On the 16th and 17th, it is said that Nehru had some concerns about investing in air power, so he did not send out the air force.However, the 4th Division, without air support, made extremely slow progress. On the third day after taking Bundila, it still failed to launch an attack on Derangzong. On the evening of the 18th, under extreme disappointment, Marshal Mukherjee, chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, issued an order to dispatch the air force.
The de Havilland "Vampire" fighter-bomber looks like a propeller plane, but it is actually a jet plane.There is a reason why the appearance of the vampire is so earthy. Its first test flight was in 1943, and it is considered the same generation as the Me-262.
The first two vampires were the first to find the battlefield of the 7th Brigade of the Indian Army. Under the coordination of the ground radio, the pilots roughly identified the situation of the enemy and the enemy in the theater with the naked eye. A large white arrow more than ten meters long pointed directly at the position of the 7st Battalion.
When the pilot saw the big arrow, he swooped down. Each fighter fired 8 rockets, then dropped 2 small bombs on the mountain, turned around and flew away.
After the vampire flew away, the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company crawled out of the depressions and self-dug foxholes. This plane is really good, and all bombs and rockets are neatly placed 200 meters behind.
"Anyway, the first wave of Indian planes has come, and the second wave will come soon, and he may be able to bomb the second wave," Chang Guian said, "We have blocked enough time to clear up the air." Pack up and prepare to leave."
Ten minutes later, the second batch of two vampires arrived and bombed the hill with rockets and bombs.
The two vampires in the third batch veered a little bit. Due to the similar ground terrain, the two vampires did not find a blocking position, but plunged headlong into the sky above Derangzong.When the vampire pilot realized that he was going the wrong way and turned around to leave, the air defense troops on the 154th regiment fired 6 Hongqi-5 shoulder-fired air defense missiles at the Indian aircraft company. One of the vampire company hit 2 missiles, and finally I didn't make it through, and fell 1 km southeast of Derangzong.
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Lanzhou, December 12.
The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway was originally planned to be completed in 1962.Due to the twice-accelerated development of the atomic bomb, the construction of the Lop Nur Base in Xinjiang and the atomic bomb test were also started ahead of schedule. The Ministry of Railways was forced to build roads frantically. Several railway divisions fought for a year and a half. , the railway reached Urumqi.
The special train carrying the nuclear bomb refueled and refueled in Lanzhou, and continued westward.In the passenger compartment of the special train, Nie Shuai, Qian Sanqiang, Wang Ganchang, and Cheng Kaijia sat together, everyone looked excited and nervous.After the train left the platform of Lanzhou Station, the four pairs of eyes looked at each other for a long time, and they didn't say a word for a few minutes.
"Nie, Director Nie," Cheng Kaijia said, "This is our first time, but this test was so quiet, it was too low-key."
Nie Shuai: "Before shaking the earth, there is always a quiet prelude. As long as the mushroom cloud on the Gobi Desert rises, the world will not be quiet."
"It's just that there are still a few people missing," Qian Sanqiang stretched out his hand and broke his fingers, "Minister Tang didn't come, and Jiaxian didn't come. These two have gone to the nuclear plant. Heng Wubing just followed those two into the factory as supervisors. Wu Ziliang Well, he is in Lanzhou, and he refuses to move."
Wang Ganchang: "Ziliang wants to keep an eye on the treasure in his hand, and it will be enough for 180 days soon."
Qian Sanqiang: "It's a pity that Minister Tang couldn't watch the 'Qongqi' explosion with us. He brought our homework to the Soviet Union..."
"What's after 'hundun'?" Nie Shuai asked.
"Beast No. 2, 梼杌."
"That's right, 梼杌 is what Tang Hua wants."
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