Chapter Forty-Nine: Mistakes and Mistakes
Towel contact is secret, although it is not public. [Full text reading] is not a secret. After urgent consultations between the two sides, Beijing time in February, the Republican ** team first ceased fire in areas outside the traditional customary line, and the Indian army ceased military operations in the disputed areas.
Although both sides conceded a step, the ear gave way even more.
The cessation of military operations is just another way of saying that the Indian troops stationed in southern Tibet have laid down their arms and stopped resisting. Because the Republican ** did not cease fire in the disputed area, that is, did not stop military operations, after the Indian army stopped military operations, it was tantamount to surrendering to the Republican **.
For the vast majority of the Republic's soldiers who participated in the war, this was definitely a good thing.
The cessation of military operations by the Indian army means that the republicans will not have to charge in the rain of bullets and bullets, and will complete the combat mission in a manner similar to a military takeover.
For Li Dongshi, this is not a good thing.
By the time the order was received, the 3rd Battalion of Airborne Thugs had already arrived in Tawang and was engaged in battle with the Indian army. In order to defeat the Indian army as soon as possible, Li Dongshi not only called in air support and artillery support, but also called in airdrop support. After dawn, two tanks were too far away from the west at 6 o'clock and fell down the hillside and broke the walking gear and some electronic equipment, but the other hoe airborne vehicles were unharmed. To deal with the Indian army entrenched in Tawang, hoeing airborne combat vehicles is enough.
Tawang is not a big place, and many maps don't show this town with a permanent population of a few thousand, but Tawang is famous for Sino-Indian relations. This is not only the main battlefield of the border conflict in the era of the power century, but also the birthplace of the ** group leader VI ** who lived in exile in India.
Geographically, Tawang is closer to Bhutan.
For decades, India has worked hard in Tawang, not only spending a lot of manpower and material resources to build a road from Langa Panamur Gun Seleg to the town on the Ali Burdural railway line to Tawang through Bomdila and Derang Dzong, providing basic conditions for the construction of military facilities near Tawang, but also trying to move tens of thousands of Indians into Tawang because the natural conditions are too harsh, so there are not many immigrants who really stay, intending to achieve the goal of permanent control of Tawang by changing the population structure.
The recovery of Tawang can be regarded as the most important military operation, otherwise it would not have allowed the airborne thug trade battalion to fight the main force.
Li Dongshi did not immediately issue an order for a cease-fire, because there was no cease-fire by the Indian army.
Here a question arises, in the combat order issued by the brigade headquarters of the Airborne Prisoner Brigade there is no clear mention of whether there should be a ceasefire in the Indian army and take the initiative to ceasefire. In accordance with the Code of Conduct of the Republic's 6th Army, even if a ceasefire order has been issued by the superiors, the front-line commander may carry out the order only after ascertaining that the troops are not threatened, and it is the responsibility of the front-line commander to take action to ensure the safety of officers and soldiers, if conditions do not permit. The question is in this "action", is it to take the initiative to attack, or to temporarily evade? Different choices have different results. Under normal circumstances, Li Dongshi should have asked his troops to retreat outside the range of the Indian army's fire after receiving the order, and wait for the Indian army to cease fire. Instead of doing this, Lee Dong-seok took another approach, which was to "force" the Indian army to cease fire through fighting.
This decision put Li Dongshi on a military court and almost put him in prison.
In the next few hours, more than 4 officers and men of the airborne thug's nephew battalion surrounded and annihilated the Indian army entrenched in Tawang, and annihilated the enemy and persuaded the rest of the people. After eliminating the last Indian army and letting Zhang Zhiqi plant the national flag on the top of the highest building in Dawang, Li Dongshi ordered a ceasefire.
Although during the several hours of fighting, only the officers and men of the battalion were wounded, and all of them were slightly wounded, Li Dongshi clearly went against the wishes of his superiors and did not immediately cease fire as ordered.
In the evening of the same day, Li Dongshi was dismissed from his post on the spot, and Zhang Zhiqi was appointed as the acting battalion commander.
In the middle of the night, "Jia Shi picked up Li Dongshi. The officers and men of the battalion knew that the battalion commander was in serious trouble.
Lee Dong-seok doesn't regret it, because he knows he didn't do anything wrong.
When the case was heard, the "prosecutor" of the military court turned out Li Dongshi's old background, believing that because Li Dongshi had a grudge against the Indian army because his brother was killed in the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, he would continue to command the troops to attack after receiving a ceasefire order from his superiors, resulting in the wounding of seven republicans and the death of many Indian soldiers. If this inference is true, Li Dongshi will not only lose his military position, but also face at least a few years in prison.
For this matter, the Airborne Thug Trade Brigade found a lot of relations with the superiors of the Airborne Old Army.
Because Li Dongshi was awarded 2 special merits, 3 first-class merits, and 7 third-class merits during the Laos War, the Peninsula War, and the Japanese War, and was also commended by the chief of the general staff of Yuan and He, and even appeared on television, he was very famous, and the military trials against him also attracted much attention. More importantly, Li Dongshi was the "pacesetter" of the airborne occupation army, and from brigade commander to army commander, commanders at all levels valued him very much.
The army commander came forward to intercede for Li Dongshi, which aroused great attention from Pei Chengyi and Xiang Linghui.
Later, the competition attracted the attention of Peng Xiqing. Because Wang Xiqing remembered the "combat heroes" who led a platoon to withstand dozens of attacks by the US army in the second and second blocking battles.
After Wang Yuanqing made his statement, Li Dongshi's case was reopened, and the General Staff Department specially arranged for a military lawyer.
During the self-presentation stage, Li Dongshi used the digital map provided by the General Staff to make a comprehensive advance analysis of the battle situation at that time in front of dozens of people, proving that he did not stop the attack because of hatred, but because the local geographical environment made it impossible for him to issue a ceasefire order.
In order to prove that there was no problem with Li Dongshi's command, Pei Chengyi also personally presided over the war game deduction.
In the end, it turned out that there was no mistake in Li Dongshi's command. The 33rd Airborne Battalion will attack from the southeast, and if Li Dongshi gives the order for a cease-fire, the most they can do is to retreat to Junmi, and many officers and men of the battalion will be exposed to the range of the Indian army's heavy machine guns and mortars, and the safety of the officers and men will not be ensured.
More importantly, the captured Indian army officers who testified in court confirmed that the Indian army had not received a ceasefire order at that time.
The testimony of the Indian army officers was corroborated by the Air Force Command, because the Air Force's electronic warfare planes had been carrying out suppressive electronic jamming of the Indian army in the Tawang area, and the cable communication line between Tawang and Derangzong had been blown up, so it was normal for the Indian army not to receive the armistice order.
With so much favorable evidence and testimony, Lee Dong-seok was finally acquitted.
Not guilty is not the same as not having fault.
Subjectively speaking, no one can be sure whether Lee Dong-seok was affected by the revenge mentality.
After returning to the army, Li Dongshi was given one major demerit and suspended for two years because of his "command fault." For Li Dongshi, this is not necessarily a bad thing, at least he can complete the wedding that has been postponed for a few pounds during this period, and he can also seize the time to further his studies in military science and lay the foundation for future exhibitions. This arrangement of the airborne occupation army was more or less to make up for the losses suffered by Li Dongshi due to his "injustice." For a professional soldier, who wouldn't want to get the chance to take a long vacation?
When he left the battlefield, Li Dongshi didn't know that his Xiuji was written into history.
Originally, a ceasefire was supposed to be achieved at the point of point, because the impact of the ceasefire was not great when the airborne fighters were borne, but for some countries it had a completely different meaning.
As early as the old morning, an abnormal situation appeared in the United States.
With advanced military reconnaissance means, it is not difficult for the United States to understand the war situation.
After the outbreak of the war, the United States adjusted the flight orbits of several military satellites, intensified its reconnaissance of southern Tibet, the southwestern part of the Republic, and eastern India, and focused on monitoring the movements of the Republic and Indian troops outside the battlefield. The lack of focused monitoring of the situation of the belligerent troops is not because reconnaissance capabilities are impossible, but because the combat units are in a state of movement most of the time, and it is difficult to judge the troop strength of both sides from the actions of the combat units. Only by monitoring the movements of other forces on both sides can the forces invested by both sides be determined, and thus the war intentions of the two sides can be determined. It is also much easier for reconnaissance satellites to monitor large military bases far from the battlefield than to monitor combat units.
In addition to using reconnaissance satellites, the United States has also used other reconnaissance forces.
The Fighter strategic reconnaissance aircraft that took off from Singapore's Changi Air Base played a key role.
The US military's early warning planes only need to patrol over the high seas of the Bay of Bengal to monitor all the situations in eastern India and southern Tibet, and even the large transport planes of the Republic that have not yet entered India's airspace can grasp the scale of the air transport of the Republic's Air Force, and thus grasp the number of ground troops and the combat situation of the Republic.
In fact, a strategic reconnaissance plane is a large electronic reconnaissance plane, which is mainly used to dial the signal of the electric shock. Through the strength and density of the electromagnetic signals produced by the Republican ** team, as well as the electromagnetic activities of the Indian army, it is enough to determine the frequency and basic engagement of the front-line troops of the two sides, so as to determine the basic situation of the battlefield.
With the ceasefire agreement reached between China and India, the Republic Air Force took the lead in reducing the intensity of strikes.
As the intensity of the strike decreases, the sortie rate of the troops naturally decreases, and the intensity of electromagnetic activity also decreases.
The US intelligence agencies and US military reconnaissance units quickly grasped the situation and made a judgment that China and India were about to cease fire.
It's just that the fighting in Tawang has made it impossible for the United States to find its head, and it is impossible to judge whether it is a comprehensive ceasefire or whether the republic is preparing for the next large-scale offensive. Because before a new offensive, the Air Force of the Republic will definitely have to adjust the combat missions of the various units, which will lead to a decrease in the intensity of sorties of the troops.
A delay of a few hours is not necessarily a trivial matter.
Because these few hours are enough for the republic's participating troops to lock in the final battle and control all Indian military facilities in southern Tibet, so that India cannot turn back. So when the United States understands what is going on, even if it takes immediate action, it will not be able to change the fait accompli!