In 1962, after the Indian Prime Minister Nehru instructed the Indian army to launch a brazen attack on me border defense forces , Chairman Mao, who had always been strategizing, also expressed his sad face and said helplessly: I really don’t understand where Nehru got the courage to beat us .
The Indian army was overestimated, and long before the self-defense counterattack against India began, the then Indian Prime Minister Nehru expressed his covetousness of Chinese territory without any concealment. In 1959, the Indian government actually proposed to our country that it would require our country to hand over the land of with an area of up to .112 million square kilometers to India.
You should know that at this time, just six years have passed since the end of Korean War , and the remnant power of the People's Volunteer Army to defeat the US military has not yet dispersed. India's self-confidence comes from somewhere and dares to make such unreasonable demands on our country. The Chinese government flatly refused.
Unexpectedly, the Indian government and army were not giving up. Between 1959 and 1962, a large number of bloodshed incidents were created on the Sino-Indian border and took the opportunity to occupy a large area of our country's territory
. In the end, it directly launched a war of invasion against our country .
India obviously overestimated its military strength. Even the People's Liberation Army did not expect that the elite troops that Indians were proud of would be so vulnerable to .
Indian soldiers not only had low combat awareness of , but also used backward weapons such as bolt-action rifles from the World War II period. When facing the suppressive firepower of the semi-automatic rifle installed by our army, the Indian army with a clear brain circuit actually accused the People's Liberation Army soldiers of " unfair ", which made people laugh and cry.
In less than a week, the Indian army collapsed under the devastating "beating" of the People's Liberation Army troops. Among them, The 7th Brigade of the Indian Army's ace troops was completely wiped out by our army's .
Both China and India fell into silence for a moment. India was silent because the direction of the war was completely beyond the expectations of its government and military leaders. Our army's silence had never fought such an easy battle. I doubt whether the Indians were "striking long lines to catch big fish
".
Attitudes of countries around the world
Before the war between China and India started, perhaps to avenge the Korean War, international public opinion at that time was extremely biased towards India. India , the former suzerain country, , the British , was the first to stand up to support the former colonies. Although the British Empire has sunset, still sent two main warships to send a large amount of military aid to India , and it is very generous.
In fact, the UK was originally the initiator of the Sino-Indian border issue . If the British had not deliberately laid the nail for the " McMahon " line in 1935, there would have been no such territorial dispute between China and India.
Seeing that the British made public statements, the remaining Commonwealth countries also appeared to waving flags and shout for India. Among them, Australia and Canada are the most active, providing India with a large amount of combat readiness supplies and weapons.
As the two poles of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union had more little things in their hearts. On the one hand, they are very clear that China, which pursues an independent foreign policy, will not really join any camp. On the other hand, as the largest country in South Asia, India, as , , both the United States and the Soviet Union are very optimistic about its potential as an ally.
Against this background, the United States and the Soviet Union began to compete. The Soviet Union not only used a complete set of Soviet weapons to turn India's main force into a Soviet-armed army, but the then Soviet leader Khrushchev
also personally took the stage to stand up for India, demanding that China give up its territory occupied by the Indian army and recognize the fait accompli of the new border between China and India.
The United States was not willing to let it go, and while manipulating international public opinion packaged India as " victim ", it drove its aircraft carrier to Indian Ocean to demonstrate its force and deter China.
Fengshui turns
After the People's Liberation Army printed the main force of the army on the front battlefield of , the countries around the world, which are highly concerned about the Sino-Indian border war, have calmed down . The weak combat effectiveness of the Indian army made all countries that sent aid to India ashamed.
MacArthur General even said bluntly: Who wants to fight with Chinese Army must be a bad brain . MacArthur, who served as the commander-in-chief of the US military in the Korean War, knows best how strong the Chinese army is.
U.S. government leaders no longer cheered for India like they did before the war. At this time, the United States had already entered the white-hot stage in the Cold War competition . Although the unresurgent new China has attracted the attention of the US government, is not enough to pose a direct threat to the US after all.
The conditions on the Sino-Indian battlefield are very difficult, and they are not ashamed of the Korean battlefield. Even if the US military comes to the war in person, it is difficult to guarantee that will not become the second "Korean War" .
Since there is no certainty of winning, seeing that failed to attack China's with India's hands, the US government has lost its intention to continue investing in India and instead focused on its main competitor, the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union's idea was similar, although at this time, China and Soviet had already had evil forces. But after all, China is still an important member of the communist camp , and the Soviet Union is unwilling and unable to completely force China into its opposite.
What's more, the Sino-Indian border war is an area where the Soviet Union could not directly interfere with its military power. Its original intention of arming India and supporting India is to curb China's reputation in the international community and maintain its status as the " Big Brother " in the Soviet and Eastern camp.
Mystery of India's Confidence
Like Comrade Mao Zedong, later scholars and analysts always raise a question when studying the Sino-Indian border war. What exactly prompted Nehru to confidently issue the order " attack " when facing the People's Liberation Army, whose military quality and weapons and equipment were significantly better than the Indian army .
is a more convincing statement. At that time, the social contradictions in India had reached the point where could not be eased. There were tensions between various religions and city-states, and it was urgent to find a point outside to transfer the increasingly intense domestic contradictions in .
Nehru then used China-India border war as a catharsis for the Indian national sentiment.
In addition to the factors that had to be done, Nehru's think tank also made serious misjudgments on China's military strength and India's own force at that time. Especially after receiving military assistance from both the United States and the Soviet Union, Nehru believed that Indian soldiers could take the initiative in the battlefield with a small amount of new equipment.
But in fact, because of its caste system and colonized history, the officers and soldiers at all could not find a shared belief that could unite themselves. On the surface, it is an army with pretty good combat power, but is actually a mess of .
Faced with the experienced and firm will of the People's Liberation Army, the Indian army was doomed to have a crushing defeat from the beginning.
