On 20 September 1962, the Indian army crossed the "McMahon Line" and launched an attack on the Chinese border guards in the Kejielang area.
In the face of the rampant aggression and provocations of the Indian army, China's first and the Central Military Commission decided to carry out self-defense and counterattack operations. Since then, the Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack war broke out (known as the Battle of Warong on the Indian side).
The cause of the incident was a series of territorial disputes arising from the border between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Indian territory after the entry of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and after the breakdown of talks between the two sides, China and India began to fight. After a few months of war, the squadron captured a large number of Indian troops and won the final victory.
But after the victory, the Chinese People's Liberation Army suddenly withdrew
This is really incomprehensible, in fact, there is also a trace of helplessness in this.
At that time, after more than a month of fighting, the soldiers of the ** team had reached the limit of both combat strength and physical strength, and although some were still optimistic, most of them were very tired. After all, under the condition that all combat materials were transported by personnel, it had been a month since we crossed the thousand-meter-high mountains and fought all the way south. Although most of the enemy was defeated, the Indian army was in flat, vast plains, armed with tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft. The number of people is many times larger than that of the squadron, and a wrong decision at this time will put our army in the dangerous place of the "100 Families Helping Plan" and bring great losses.
At that time, although China had a million-strong army, the number of people who could be assembled to fight on the issue of land disputes at that time was only about 50,000, and it was impossible to fight a long-term war, and logistics support was the decisive factor in China's withdrawal.
In fact, those who have read the materials related to that war can roughly see the hardships of logistical support: sending ammunition and supplies to the front line depends on manpower and animal power;In order to protect the front line, even teenage children have to carry four cylinders and eight pounds of canned food to support the front line!This kind of logistical support, which is maintained by yaks and the shoulders of ordinary people, cannot be used for a long time, and it is only suitable for a short time on the front line.
At that time, the main materials of the war ** were transported by car from the Chinese mainland, thousands of kilometers away, to transport a car of oil to Lhasa, that had to burn half a car, moreover, at that time China was still an "oil-poor" country, and there were not enough cars to transport, and in contrast, India, relying on the advantages of the Indian Great Plains, could easily use cars and trains for transportation.
In this case, although China prepared supplies for three months, under these unfavorable background factors, it still fought for only one month and resolutely withdrew its troops.
Because more unfavorable factors are coming, after October, the highlands have entered the winter, the coldest time, the heavy snow is about to close the rugged mountain road to India, at this time, the road to the interior to the ** will also be closed by snow, because the front-line supply capacity has been extremely overdrawn.
As a matter of fact, everyone understands that in the reality that modern warfare is a logistical war, China's only correct choice is to withdraw its troops.
Although, at that time, the initiative to withdraw troops was only temporary, but with the strength of the PLA, India has already been beaten honestly anyway, and it is already a pinch!
On the Indian side, if only we had a good talk.
If you don't talk about it well, when the spring flowers bloom, you can start fighting at any time, and you can easily handle it!