In 1947, with the promulgation of the Mountbatten Plan, India achieved independence. At the beginning of independence, India can be said to be at the peak of its debut, and it is full of strength.
As the most important colony of the British Empire in the past, the British people were very concerned about the construction of India during the colonial era. While they brought endless colonial suffering to India, they also sent India an advanced industrial civilization. So much so that India has just become independent, and it has already laid a strong industrial base.
In the early fifties of the last century, India was almost the most industrially powerful country in Asia. They are far ahead of other Asian countries in a series of major industrial indicators such as steel production, railway mileage, and power generation.
Especially compared with the new China at that time, the situation was simply a heaven and an underground. You must know that before the debut of New China at that time, it had experienced a hundred years of turmoil, with foreign invasions, warlords fighting inside, people's livelihood withering, and all industries declining.
All in all, China at that time was still an out-and-out agrarian country, and its industrial base could be described as poor and white. In such a comparison, India can be described as a "Tianhu start".
It is said that only when the foundation is firmly laid can we fly high. Thanks to the solid foundation laid by the British in the colonial era, India's development after independence was relatively smooth.
Internally, India followed the example of the Soviet Union in launching a "five-year plan" to vigorously develop industry. This allowed the Indian industry, which had a good foundation, to further develop, and a relatively complete industrial system was established in just over ten years. Especially in the field of advantageous industries such as steel and textiles, India could be ranked first in the world at that time.
Externally, India advocates a non-aligned foreign policy and actively develops relations with third world countries. In that bipolar era of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Non-Aligned Movement was supported by most Third World countries, and India became the representative of the Third World and had a high reputation in the international community.
In 1961, India launched and won the Goa War against Portugal, successfully recovering the Portuguese colony in India. And in the process, none of Portugal's NATO allies have really stepped up to help, despite their rhetorical condemnation of India.
This means that at this time, India has begun to be taken seriously by the world, and can no longer be ignored at will like the group of colonial mercenaries under the hands of the British, and a bright new star of great power is rising.
However, no one expected that soon a war broke out and all this came to an abrupt ......
In the late fifties of the last century, with the rise of its position of power, India's ambitions also began to swell, and they were not satisfied with just playing a second-rate role in South Asia, but wanted to enter the world stage and become a prominent power.
Driven by such ambitions, India began to assert itself as the Eastern orthodoxy of the British Empire, hoping to inherit all the British interests in South Asia during the colonial era. To this end, they built a grand blueprint for the "Federation of Greater India", vainly imagining to bring all the places that were once within the reach of the British into their sphere of influence.
India, the so-called "Federation of Greater India", has infringed on the interests of many of its neighbors, such as China in the northeast.
As we all know, Britain invaded China's ** region in the 19th century, and once seized a large area of land. And after the British left, India thought about inheriting the inheritance and incorporating ** into its own "Great Indian Federation".
In order to realize its ambition of annexation, India has been doing various things since the early 50s of the last century, repeatedly crossing the traditional Xi line to encroach on our territory. Especially after the counterinsurgency in 1959, India, which saw that the conspiracy was no longer effective, began to prepare to use force against China, and provoked military conflicts on the border many times, resulting in many Chinese officers and soldiers.
Originally, for the sake of peace, we have always exercised as much restraint as possible in response to India's provocations. But India has taken it as cowardice, and it has taken it even more. Among them, in 1962, the Indian side crossed the border line, set up a number of military bases in our country, and launched attacks on our border troops on many occasions.
At that time, China was in a difficult situation, and since then, we have been almost isolated from the whole world after the fall out with the Soviet Union.
On the northern border, the Soviet Union had millions of soldiers, clamoring to perform surgery on usOn the Korean Peninsula, the US military is eyeing each other and is bent on washing away the shame of being beaten and beaten by 16 in those yearsIn addition, there is the non-stop shouting ** on the southeast treasure island, and the increasingly fierce fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, which is threatening at all times, and can be called an enemy on all sides.
However, as the old saying goes, if people don't offend me, I don't offend people. India has already bullied the doorstep, so naturally we can't get used to it anymore, and we have to teach some lessons. I think that when the Korean War broke out, it was much more difficult for New China, which was poor and white, to cross the Yalu River with great vigor and high spirits
So on October 20, 1962, the Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack began.
It was a war that Western scholars called "hot knives cutting butter", and it was fought one-sided from the start. In just one month, we cleared all the Indian army's cross-border strongholds and completely expelled the Indian army.
According to post-war statistics, our army killed and wounded 4,885 Indian troops and captured 3,968 enemies. In the Chinese border troops, 722 people were killed and 1,697 were wounded.
I knew that the Indian army would not be strong, but I really didn't expect it to be so unbeaten. In this war, the officers and men of our border troops can be regarded as teaching the Indian army a good lesson, and all kinds of "divine drama" level operations have been continuous, telling them what is called the pinnacle of human light infantry.
For example, in the Battle of Xishankou, Pang Guoxing, a soldier of the 55th Company of the 163rd Regiment of the 9th Division, became a "lonely hero". It was the general offensive battle of the Xishankou Campaign, because the time was in the early morning, the sky was unknown, and the terrain of the Xishankou was complex, the mountains were high and dense, Pang Guoxing accidentally got lost with the large army in the process of chasing and destroying the remnants of the enemy.
However, Pang Guoxin did not stop there, but chose to continue to pursue the enemy. On the way, Pang Guoxing also met Wang Shijun, Ran Fulin and Zhou Wenxuan, who were also lost in the battle and the large army, and then formed a four-person combat team.
In the end, the combat team led by Pang Guoxing penetrated 15 miles into the hinterland of the Indian army in half a day, and encountered and fought with the Indian army many times. It has achieved a brilliant record of killing 7 enemies, capturing two artillery positions of the Indian army, and capturing 7 artillery pieces, two vehicles, maps, binoculars, and a number of guns. And in this process, none of the four members of Pang Guoxing's combat group were rebuilt.
The combat experience of Pang Guoxing's four-person combat team is undoubtedly quite legendary, and it can be said that TV series dare not shoot like this. If people who don't know that history watch it, they will probably shout "divine drama". And this just shows how badly the Indian army fought in that war, and it can definitely be called an unforgettable fiasco.
Of course, for India, this may not be as simple as a simple military defeat, but a Waterloo that can be called a turning point in the country's fortunes.
Due to the loss of the war with China, Indians have become less confident, and many people have fallen into deep self-doubt, and all kinds of doubts about ** have also followed. Various domestic contradictions that had been concealed under the ambitions of major powers took this opportunity to turn over, bringing India's already vigorous development momentum to a standstill.
In addition, India's initiative to provoke war for the sake of regional hegemony has caused India's international prestige to plummet. In particular, the good image that had been built up in the Third World by advocating the Non-Aligned Movement collapsed.
Under internal and external troubles, India, which was originally smooth sailing, fell into a long-term struggle, and no longer had the vigor it had when it first debuted.
It is worth mentioning that compared with India's struggle, China has ushered in a breakthrough. With the victory in this war, we not only successfully defended the integrity of our territorial sovereignty, but also gained the recognition of the countries of the third world, thus gradually replacing India as the leader of the third world.
Later, China's development became more and more smooth, returning to the United Nations, establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States, reform and opening up, joining the WTO, and becoming the world's top power step by step.
All in all, the war of 1962 had a great impact on the future of both China and India, and it can even be said that it reversed the trend of national fortunes in both countries. India, which had been smooth sailing, has struggled, while China, which has been in a difficult situation, has risen to the top.
There is no doubt that this war deserves to be remembered by history.