Chapter 806: Turnaround
The People's Liberation Army regained southern Tibet and gained a foothold, and solved nearly 100,000 Indian defenders in the local area with great ease. All this seemed to be repeated more than 60 years ago, which scared the top leaders of India. Although the southern Tibet region is far from India's heartland and more than 2,000 kilometers away from its capital, New Delhi, this time the People's Liberation Army has the support of local people, and after entering, it is completely planned to take root.
All this shows that China is no longer just teaching the Indian army a lesson, but is actually managing southern Tibet, becoming a bed-ridden problem in the northeast of the Indian army. This makes it acceptable to the senior leaders of Ah San. Therefore, although the US military repeatedly demands not to withdraw, Ah San's military still ordered the elite American mechanized divisions entering Pakistan to retreat.
Among these four elite American equipment divisions, the Indian army, in addition to leaving one mechanized infantry division to guard New Delhi, and together with the main force of the Northern Military Region, guarded against the two mountain divisions of the Srinagar People's Liberation Army in the east;
On the other hand, it is preparing to send the new 1st Armored Division and two other mechanized infantry divisions to the southern Tibet region, becoming the main force of the Indian army's counterattack into the Southern Tibet PLA.
From the previous battle in southern Tibet, the traditional domestic army divisions of the San's domestic army had no chance of winning under the integrated attack of the People's Liberation Army's mountain division. The original elite main force in the Arsenal Army's armored forces was Russia's T-90 main battle tanks, but in the last round of the Pakistani army's Kashmir War with the Pakistani army, most of the elite forces of the Arsenal tanks were hundreds of M1A2SEPs equipped by several American mechanized divisions, and the remaining armored forces were mostly old antique T-72 tanks decades ago, as well as the Arsenal, who was not domestically produced.
In the battle in southern Tibet, the Indian army dispatched three mountain divisions, one mechanized infantry division and one independent armored brigade's main force, a total of more than 200 T-72M and more than 100 BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles. However, facing more than 200 tanks of two 96G modern modified tank regiments of the PLA's two mountain divisions and the air-ground coordinated attacks from the destroyers of two special battalions, the main force of the four Indian army's divisions was completely wiped out without any counterattack.
From the perspective of actual battlefield combat, it is a completely one-sided situation. The People's Liberation Army's Destroyer UAVs were dispatched in turn to solve the heavy firepower such as Indian armor and artillery. However, the Indian Mountain Division or Mechanized Infantry Division, which lacks effective air defense methods, can only passively be beaten when facing the attack of the Destroyer UAVs. Therefore, most of the heavy firepower is destroyed by the Destroyer UAVs.
The grounds of the 37th Division and the 38th Division of the People's Liberation Army were fists with two 96G modern modified tank regiments and the all-terrain mechanics and invasion regiments as auxiliary. It was like attacking the Indian mountain divisions in the southern Tibet region as if they had entered a no-man. They fought three battles and won three victories in southern Tibet, and eliminated and defeated the 100,000 Indian defenders, completely controlling the situation in southern Tibet.
If the military pressure has made the senior leaders of the San, the political secret actions of the People's Liberation Army made the senior leaders of the San, feel like they fell into an ice cellar, because in several states in the northeast of India, hundreds of armed groups have been active. When the People's Liberation Army entered India to control southern Tibet, on the one hand, it was busy consolidating the defense of southern Tibet, and on the other hand, it began to select and support agents in the part of the Northeast of India's distancing organizations.
For the PLA, a falling apart India is the best neighbor. Among these many separatist armed groups, the PLA focused on selecting the famous separatist organization "Assam Joint Liberation Front" to support it. Although the "Assam Joint Liberation Front" has been severely attacked by the Indian army, the organization's armed forces use the complex terrain of Northeast India and have always insisted on using guerrilla warfare methods. In addition, the organization's military operations are mainly aimed at Indian military units, which has a good foundation among the local people.
Therefore, after receiving secret military assistance from the People's Liberation Army, the Assam National Liberation Army under the "Assam Joint Liberation Front" quickly annexed large-scale separation armed groups such as the "Podo National Democratic Front" and the "Katapur Liberation Organization". With the newly recruited armed personnel, its armed forces have expanded to a scale of tens of thousands of brigades, and its backbone has obtained the opportunity to enter the newly controlled southern Tibet region of the People's Liberation Army for military training.
Politically, the "Assam United Liberation Front" publicly put forward the demand for establishing the Assam State, and this time it is no longer the only area of Assam that was previously sought, but instead proposes to realize a large Assam State in the five new states split from the original Assam State, including Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland.
When the senior boss of the A-San received this news, he was even more shocked than losing the southern Tibet region. Because in this way, all the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in the northeast will be lost, although this area has always been one of the poorest areas in India, and tens of millions of people have been struggling on the line of food and clothing.
However, from a strategic perspective, this area is even better than Kashmir. It is a bridgehead for the Indian army to defend the right wing of the People's Liberation Army and threaten China's hinterland. This area must not be lost.
Therefore, the top Indian army would rather offend the US side and lose support than put the main force in Pakistan to fight hard with the Pakistani army. Now, for the Indian army, the most important thing is to quickly solve the People's Liberation Army entering southern Tibet. Even if the People's Liberation Army cannot be solved, it will kill the attempt to establish the country by the "Assam Joint Liberation Front".
The Indian army moved its main force eastward, greatly alleviating the pressure faced by the Pakistani army. After eliminating the dilemma of attacking on both sides, the Pakistani army can now consider concentrating its main force to expel the US army from the territory.
However, for the two mountain divisions of the People's Liberation Army entering southern Tibet, the eastward migration of the main force of the Indian army will bring huge challenges. Due to geographical factors, the logistics supply provided by traveling from Linzhi area to southern Tibet is limited. It is already difficult to support the two mountain divisions through the rugged and tortuous mountain roads on the plateau. It is unlikely that the People's Liberation Army will reinforce more troops.
Especially now it is winter, and logistics supply through road transportation is becoming more and more difficult. The conditions in the field airports in southern Tibet are very poor. It is currently very difficult to take off and land large transport aircraft such as the Il-76 or the Y-20. Although we are speeding up the repair of a runway that can take off and land large transport aircraft, air transportation has to rely on old transport aircraft such as the Y-7 for a while, each flight capacity is quite limited and cannot meet the huge ammunition demand on the front line.
However, under the huge pressure from the US military, even if the field airport is repaired and can take off and land the Y-20 large transport aircraft, the PLA's strategic air transport capacity is limited and the support it can provide to southern Tibet is relatively limited. It is impossible to launch more large-scale attacks and has to be on the defensive.
It is precisely based on the innate disadvantages of the PLA in logistics supply that the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff of the PLA has formulated a plan to support separatists in India. By supporting a large number of light weapons, they can arm these separatist organizations and allow them to carry out guerrilla wars at the Indian army's base, which can greatly consume and delay the actions of the Indian army's main force and reduce the pressure on insufficient investment of the PLA.
With two successful experiences in Africa and the Indian-controlled Southern Tibet region, the General Staff Intelligence Agency is now skillful in this regard. After taking on the main factions of the Assam Separatist Organization, it transported 10,000 from the Type 56 and Type 81 rifles sealed by the troops to the southern Tibet region. Soon, the "Assam Joint Liberation Front" of the Assam Separatist Organization armed several brigades to unify the main factions of the region and initially formed combat effectiveness.
Under the guidance of the People's Liberation Army, more than 10,000 armed personnel from Assam Separatist Organization used companies and platoons as active units to organize guerrilla warfare in various states in northeastern India, which greatly restrained the attention of regular troops in northeastern India. These separated armed personnel had the armed and economic support of the People's Liberation Army. Not only did they basically no longer harass the local people, but they also began to provide relief to the needy people, so they began to continuously gain support from the local people.
Faced with the endless Assam National Liberation Army guerrillas, northeastern India is basically no longer controlled by the government at the village level, and its proximity to southern Tibet has allowed Assam National Liberation Army to occupy many small and medium-sized cities and begin to form some fixed bases.
The extremely harsh situation in the northeast made the Indian army determined to solve the problem in southern Tibet first. For this reason, they not only recalled several elite mechanized infantry divisions that invaded Pakistan to prepare to be outside the Eastern Front battlefield, but also mobilized the main reserve teams that can be mobilized at hand. They drew 2 divisions and 2 independent brigades from the Central Command to form an Eastern Front overpass force of 5 divisions and 2 brigades, preparing to retake the southern Tibet with the six remaining mountain divisions of the Eastern Command.
However, facing the increasingly cold weather in winter, it not only caused great difficulties in the transportation of the People's Liberation Army, but also was very inconvenient for the large-scale mobility of the Indian army. Because of the years of investment in the purchase of military equipment and military maintenance, the Indian side has not made any major improvement in transportation infrastructure for decades.
In the northeast and Indian-controlled southern Tibet, it was even worse. With such a harsh transportation environment and the threat of guerrilla forces by the Assam Separation Organization, the Indian army's eastern front offensive was quite unsmooth from the beginning. After its main force marched into the Siliguri Corridor area, it was trapped by a blizzard. The snow of one foot of snow completely blocked the road, forcing the Indian army to stop.
Chapter completed!