Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

A month later, after a series of negotiations and warnings, the top management did everything they should do.

The front-line commander Li Yunlong also completed the deployment of the 16th Army on both the eastern and western fronts.

"Da Biao, your mission this time is very important." Li Yunlong said to the deputy commander Zhang Da Biao who was preparing to go to the battle, "This time we not only have to defeat the enemy, but more importantly, we have to persist for a long time under the enemy's nose."

"There, we have no front or back, and we may have to rely on ourselves for everything and start from scratch."

Before Li Yunlong came here, he had of course communicated with Ren Zhong, and he had a clear idea of ​​the causes and consequences of this mission as well as the situations he would face in the future.

"Old commander, Da Biao understands." Zhang Da Biao nodded. He is no longer the battalion commander of the past. After years of fighting and military academy training, Zhang Da Biao has completed the transformation from a guerrilla force to a modern regular army. The experiments of the combined brigade were the first to become a reality in Zhang Da Biao's hands, and they shined in the last battle on the peninsula.

Zhang Dabiao was further promoted to the deputy commander of the 16th Army. However, if the 16th Army had not been the army's hardcore experimental force, generals with outstanding military achievements such as Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao would have been promoted to higher positions long ago.

There was no way. Every time there was something new, Ren Zhong trusted Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong didn't care much about promotion anyway. Now in military meetings, his status as an army commander did not prevent him from participating in meetings at the military region level.

For important battles like the one now underway, Li Yunlong was appointed to command.

Pulled the ace 16th Army to the plateau.

"Fighting is only our first step. What's more important next is to complete the construction task. Da Biao, what we did in Taihang Mountains, we are going to do again this time in the south of the roof of the world." Li Yunlong had nothing to worry about the battle. He didn't believe that the Indian next door could be tougher than Rogue Eagle.

Unlike others who looked up to Asan, Li Yunlong learned from Ren Zhong what Asan's so-called World War II elite were.

The complexity lies in how to open up the situation locally.

"Old chief, don't worry. Mr. Ren has told me that the first group to follow our team will be a group of great lamas who are sincere in serving the people. They have long been brooding over the loss of this holy land. When they heard that we are going to take it back, they were all very enthusiastic and insisted on following us back there as soon as possible." Zhang Dabiao said confidently.

In that place, it may be useless to talk about any doctrine, but it will definitely be helpful if a great lama goes there.

"Since you are ready, that's good. I will be conducting a punitive surgical operation in the west. In addition to driving Ah San back to a place he shouldn't be occupying, the biggest purpose is to attract their main force and divert the tiger away from the mountain to facilitate your actions."

"But we should not imagine a rosy ending. If our actions fail to achieve the desired goal, you will also have to initiate actions. As your situation improves, a construction engineering corps of 10,000 people will be airlifted there from the country after you have completed the construction of the simple combat-ready airport."

This time, the main force of the 16th Army was divided into two and launched a counterattack from the east and west fronts.

配合他们作战的，不但有2个空军师的P51D野马战斗机和1个空军师J-5A战斗机作为空中掩护，获得空优，另外还有将近一百架C-47和C-54运输机配合后勤供应和人员的运输。

In places that Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao could not see, the factory equipment and production lines for building local infrastructure had already been transported to Chuncheng, a transit point, and a team of professional workers had also assembled and were on standby.

Three days later, the battle began.

On the western front, Li Yunlong took action with a thunderous force and recovered the lost territory within a few days. Even though heavy weapons such as tanks could not reach the plateau, the 16th Army was an absolutely strong army that would fight whatever conditions allowed and would not forget how to fight simply because of the lack of heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles.

What's more, the weapons they have now are no worse than those of the Indians. They have a full range of mortars, rocket launchers and mountain cannons that have been airlifted to the rooftop plateau of the world.

With these artillery resources, plus the help of the anti-artillery radar system, the fierce firepower of the Indians was quickly knocked out. After losing the artillery support, relying on weapons such as Enfield rifles and machine guns, the so-called elite Indians of World War II were as vulnerable as paper under the mortar bombardment and were quickly wiped out on the plateau.

Li Yunlong marched along the plateau and rushed towards the capital of India. He rushed 50 miles in one day and night, which made the top leaders of India panic. They had already started planning to move the capital. They dispatched troops from all over to plug the leak!
The elite troops that were originally scheduled to be sent to the eastern front had to withdraw two divisions to support the capital.

At the same time, the Pakistani side finally saw the opportunity and sent out elite troops to attack the places they had lost, making it even more difficult for the Indian side to take care of both ends.

Most of the country's military forces began to be mobilized towards the northwest.

Aerial reconnaissance and telecommunications decryption intelligence confirmed Ah San's troop movement three days after their main force moved.

Eastern Front.

Zhang Dabiao began to act.

After a series of forward reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance.

The main purpose of the vanguard 343rd Regiment's first battle was to attack and occupy the Indian army's high ground at Xishankou.

Judging from reconnaissance intelligence, the Indians have built a solid military fortress defense system on the high ground. In the absence of tanks and armored vehicles for cover, these fortresses are very strong in defense against pure infantry combat.

The angles of these fortresses built on the mountains are also very tricky, making it inconvenient to attack them with rocket launchers or bazookas.

Looks like a hard bone.

At the same time, there are two particularly important howitzer heavy firepower positions on the high ground. If the gunners on this position launch an artillery attack with a 75mm howitzer, it can just cover the hillside of the charge, which will be a fatal blow to the vanguard of the offensive charge. The Indians who built this defensive position were not stupid. They made it into a high ground point with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

In terms of hardware, this is already a stronghold that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the one guarding the stronghold is also a tough nut to crack.

These were the 343st and nd Sikh Battalions of the th Infantry Division of the Indian Army. These two battalions were known for their ferocity and combat prowess, so the battle to retake the Xishankou area looked extremely dangerous. In the early hours of the morning, Zhang Dabiao, the commander-in-chief of the eastern front, came directly to the front of the rd Regiment's headquarters.

"Is the air commando ready?" Zhang Dabiao asked Yu Zhongwu, the commander of the 343rd Regiment beside him.

"Report to the commander, everything is ready. Two airborne three-wheeled assault teams will raid the howitzer positions of the Indians. After taking down the howitzer positions, they will bombard the Indians' defensive positions to cover our main force's attack!"

Since the special airborne three-wheeled assault team has been hidden on the peninsula, almost no one knows that our army has such a magical force that can descend from the sky.

"According to the plan!" Zhang Dabiao nodded and looked carefully at another hill about seven or eight hundred meters away through the telescope. Because it was dark and there were no stars tonight, the opposite position was pitch black and nothing could be seen. Of course, for our position, the opponent could not see the soldiers of the ninth company as the vanguard. Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, they advanced along the winding mountain road, and followed the low-lying ravine as a cover. After approaching the front line for 400 meters, they crawled in front of the enemy position and waited for orders.

In the air, 10 three-wheeled motorcycles made a low buzzing sound, breaking the tranquility of the night sky. However, the Indians had already thought of the possibility of an aerial attack, so although some people were puzzled by the sound, they had no idea what it was.

So I quickly gave up the search.

The air commandos successfully entered the air above the two howitzer positions. When the airborne three-wheeled vehicles approached the howitzer positions about ten meters away, facing the increasingly loud noises, the Indian artillery looked up in confusion, as if they saw something flying over their heads, but they had no time to react at all, and were quickly shot in the face by the commandos who dropped from the sky with five or six bullets at close range!

The dozens of Indian artillerymen at the positions of the four 4mm howitzers had only Enfield rifles for self-defense. Faced with such a sudden attack, they were wiped out by the commandos before they even had time to load their rifles!

After hearing the gunshots, there was a panic on the Asan position.

Major Singh, the Indian battalion commander who was defending the position, was even more panicked!
In his opinion, the dense gunfire coming from the howitzer position was simply impossible. There was no way the enemy could pass through his position and get to the back silently!

So as soon as he heard the gunshots, Major Singh sent out two signalmen to inquire about the information from the rear.

The commandos who had seized the Indian howitzers were now adjusting the firing range of these cannons.

According to the relative positions of the enemy's defensive positions and artillery positions drawn by reconnaissance, the calculation of the artillery parameters was completed before the assault. At this moment, the commandos took out sheets of artillery parameter tables and began to nervously adjust the new artillery parameters of these howitzers.

Soon, both howitzer positions fired the first shell towards Asan's position.

At this time, the artillery scout lurking in the front-line position carefully observed the landing points of the two shells in front through the infrared telescope, and immediately fed back to the commando team through the walkie-talkie in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third shots sounded one after another, and the shells whizzed down onto the enemy's position.

As the artillery scouts continued to revise the parameters for guiding the artillery fire, even the least effective shells now landed roughly on the Indian positions.

The soldiers guarding the position were stunned! How could this happen? They were supposed to use the howitzers to assist in shelling the attacking enemy, but now they had landed directly on the top of the mountain and blew their own men to pieces!

While the enemy was still in a panic, we took advantage of a surprise attack to capture the enemy's howitzer position and used the captured howitzer to fire the first shot of the war.

At this moment, 8 cannons were continuously firing shells at the Asan position, making the so-called elite troops on the Asan position scream in pain!
But at this moment, they didn't even know where the enemy was.

While the enemy was being bombarded, Pang Xingguo, deputy squad leader of the 4th squad of the 9th company, and Wang Jun and Ran Fulin of the 6th squad jumped up and rushed towards the small hill. After completing a round of bombardment, the special commando team stopped firing and waited for instructions.

Pang Xingguo's team provided cross-coverage all the way and charged all the way to the high ground!

The remaining Asan soldiers began to react and put up a desperate resistance. At this time, the deputy company commander Wang Yuanxing, who led the spearhead platoon to charge, commanded the soldiers to follow and charge!
Machine guns, rocket launchers and other heavy firepower took turns to break the stalemate of the war. The originally endless Indian machine guns were knocked down one after another by rocket launchers. After these heavy firepower were knocked down, relying on old weapons such as the Enfield rifle, the Indian Sikh elite also collapsed, and they began to flee desperately towards the rear!
Wang Yuanxing commanded the spearhead platoon to clear the enemy's positions. In order to pursue the first batch of fleeing Indian troops, Pang Xingguo and his team gave a fierce chase but lost contact with the large force behind them.

However, the three were not afraid. Facing the fleeing Indian army, they showed the courage of a newborn calf that is not afraid of a tiger and went straight into the enemy camp!
The three of them crossed to provide cover as they attacked in all directions and shot and killed the fleeing Indian soldiers from time to time!
The three men fired their submachine guns crosswise to attract the enemy's firepower. During the fierce exchange of fire between the two sides, with the help of the flickering light from the firing, Pang Xingguo happened to see an enemy soldier who was directing the battle. Seeing that this man was fighting back with a pistol, he guessed that the other party might be an officer in the position.

Now, Pang Xingguo, who was known as a "sharpshooter" in the army, was greatly encouraged.

He crawled on the ground with his gun raised, watching the flashes of fire coming out of the muzzle of the other party's gun from time to time, aimed at the officer who was fighting back with a pistol, fired calmly, and shot the officer dead in one fell swoop!
The remaining enemy troops who had been organized in the Indian counterattack suddenly lost their morale and began to flee in panic. Pang Xingguo took advantage of this opportunity and fired at the fleeing enemy troops from behind. More than a dozen Indian soldiers fell to the ground twitching and died!

In this way, the three of them took advantage of the geographical advantage, hid in the dark and continued to pursue the fleeing enemy troops. If they encountered a lone Indian soldier, the three of them would shoot and kill him directly. If a small force attacked, the three of them would hide in the jungle and use guerrilla warfare to annihilate them!

After chasing and killing all the way, the subsequent large force finally dealt a fatal blow to the two battalions of Asan's defensive forces, and they began to collapse across the board!

There was no way. Not only had the artillery position been taken, but now the three main companies of the 343rd Regiment had also rushed up. The geographical advantage that the Indians originally had had had completely disappeared after the howitzer position had been taken by the air commandos.

Therefore, under the powerful breakthrough of the main vanguard troops of the 343rd Regiment, the entire position collapsed.

Pang Xingguo and his two companions rushed the fastest. During the pursuit, they discovered a team of about 200 people. Relying on the opponent's counterattack weapons, Pang Xingguo eliminated the enemy officers with pistols one shot after another, and soon shot all the enemy officers to death!

The frequent deaths of this commander completely crushed the fighting spirit of the remaining Indian soldiers. These soldiers were suppressed in a small valley. With the arrival of large forces, all the remaining Indian troops were captured!

It was precisely because of this miraculous battle process that Pang Xingguo wrote the shocking quote "The enemy not only refused to surrender, but also dared to fight back against me!" when reviewing the battle!

Zhang Dabiao commanded the first battle on the eastern front, and defeated two battalions and two artillery companies of the Indian Army! (End of this chapter)