April 1, 1970, was April Fool's Day in the West, and the Indian military began to transfer its troops, choosing to help East Pakistan's rebels to block the relationship between Bangladesh and Islamabad.

Five days have passed since March 26th, and the rebellion in East Pakistan has been basically suppressed by local garrisons, and other resistances continue in addition to some remnants.

But everyone knows that this is just the beginning.

A special meeting is being held in the headquarters building of the Ministry of Defense in Nanjing.

In addition to the two supreme commanders of the North China Military Region and the Southwest Military Region, there were also a group of people from the General Staff Headquarters and several security advisers from the cabinet.

At the meeting, everyone's expressions were not good, especially Ye Yiwei.

"It was my mistake in this matter!" He stood up and bowed to his colleagues to apologize, because his miscalculation of the situation now put the country in a dilemma. He could not refuse to blame this point.

On the contrary, Wang Liwen, the commander of the North China Military Region, mentioned the matter in one fell swoop and persuaded him: "Yiwei, although you are responsible for this matter, now you should talk about what solutions are there and what to do. Let's talk about the matter of investigation later."

"It's too late to change the plan now." Ye Yiwei said regretfully: "Due to geographical constraints, we cannot transfer the large corps like the Indians. However, considering India's railway and road transportation systems, it will take at least two months to deploy troops."

Ye Yiwei stretched out his two fingers and emphasized: "These two months are the preparation time for us."

"What are you going to do?" Lin Xiang asked coldly. He had always been a little worried about Ye Yiwei's background. But at least, he would not deliberately make things difficult for the other party, and he still had such aura.

"We do not change the original military deployment, but we need to change our strategic goals." Ye Yiwei regained his confident confidence and calmness. "The military operation arrangements are the same as before, but the goal is to occupy Kashmir and then build Bangladesh!"

"What! Build Bangladesh!" One of the heads of state, Zhang Jinglin, was shocked after hearing this, "Don't forget. We are now in alliance with Pakistan. If such a thing spreads, how can we deal with people internationally in the future?"

This is not pedantic or moral cleanliness, but political reasons.

India has always appeared on the stage of the international community as a capricious villain. It seems to be a good match, but it is actually despised. No country is willing to deal with such a nation that is untrustworthy.

As a great country, you must be responsible, do what you do and do not. This is the right way to convince the public and become stronger.

Ye Yiwei also knew this truth, so he explained: "This support means to let Indians support them, not us."

"First of all, considering the reality, India cannot establish a pro-India Bangladesh in any case, which is determined by the nature of religion."

The conflict between Hindus and Islam has been through countless years on this land, and is a hatred that is immersed in the bone marrow and cannot be resolved by the Indian government in a short time.

"And, everyone must know the relationship between East and West Pakistan. Do you want us to help Pakistan suppress the Bangladesh region?" Ye Yiwei regarded Bangladesh as a bomb. Instead of worrying about this bird place every day, it is better to just let it go out of Pakistan and then win it over to the camp of the Chinese Federation.

As Ye Yiwei mentioned, Pakistan has always had serious problems in its governance in Bangladesh. From a moral point of view, the rebellion in Dongba is understandable. The king does not love his ministers. The ministers can naturally rebel.

Now, the Chinese Federal Army helped Pakistan break through the Indian blockade on the Western Front and occupy the entire Kashmir area, which is enough to explain.

As for the Bangladesh issue, it can be regarded as a kind of "helplessness". The Chinese Federal Army can expel India's invading troops on behalf of others, but the internal affairs of the Bangladesh region are left to their own choice.

From beginning to end, China did not intervene here and helped drive away the Indians, which was morally tenable. Moreover, Bangladesh is an Islamic country, and after its success, it will definitely maintain close cooperative relations with Pakistan. In this regard, this ended in the original time and space.

Therefore, Pakistan will not have any resentment for this. Even if there is one, the target is India, not China.

At that time, support for Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively, and attacking India from both sides of the east and west is much more ideal than the current situation.

Pakistan can concentrate all its strength in the west without having to worry about Bangladesh, which is far away in the sky, and its troops do not need to be dispersed. This is more practical from a strategic point of view.

Of course, no country is willing to lose its territory, and such a thing feels very uncomfortable.

With Ye Yiwei's insistence, the tone of this combat mission was determined, with Kashmir as the target, and Bangladesh was regarded as the bait to attract the main force of the enemy.

When the Kashmir region is a foregone conclusion, India can be forced to hand over Bangladesh. At that time, negotiations can be made to agree to India "reluctantly" and let Bangladesh be established.

After all, from India's standpoint, a split Pakistan is the most beneficial to India, making it the only major power in South Asia.

In fact, the situation that happened in East Pakistan has long been related to information and information.

In August 1969, the Indian cabinet, parliament and Congress met separately and passed a resolution to support East Pakistan in establishing "Bangladesh", and at the same time assembling troops on the India-Pakistan border to conduct military exercises.

In September, India formulated another war plan to "liberate Bangladesh".

At the same time, India actively engages in major power diplomacy, seeks support from the United States, and is fully prepared to start a war at any time.

But China, both the intelligence department and the General Staff Headquarters, believe that this is another smokescreen released by India.

In the first two wars, India also used the same trick, which was to "speak to the west and attack the east."

Because in fact, the main residents of East Pakistan are Muslims. Even if India conquered it, it will be difficult to govern this area due to ethnic and religious issues.

Even if we support the puppet regime that was pro-India, it has little practical significance. Instead, it wastes military spending and combat power in vain. In fact, in the original time and space, Bangladesh had a feud with India after the Third India-Pakistan War. (It's time to read the novel.)

At least, Lin Xiang and others from the General Staff Headquarters do not think that Indians would be so stupid.

Compared with Bangladesh, the Kashmir region is the crucial strategic core. It is precisely based on this understanding that everyone recognizes Ye Yiwei's strategic arrangements.

However, the military rebellion in Dongba suddenly occurred, and India had already prepared for war. Although it was also very surprised by the large-scale rebellion in Dongba, India was still very happy to turn the gun head and transfer the gathered troops to the eastern front for combat.

In 1960, India signed a military alliance treaty with the United States and other NATO countries. The signing of these series of treaties not only shows that the war was actively cooperated by Western countries, but also restricted the intervention of Eastern countries such as the Chinese Federation.

At the same time, Indian Prime Minister British Gandhi set out on October 23, 1969 to start a three-week visit to Western countries such as the United States, France, Britain, West Germany, Belgium, Australia, etc., to further obtain help and support from Western countries led by the United States.

And China and India have conducted a detailed analysis.

During this period, China is still at a critical moment in economic development and has to compete fiercely with the United States in North Africa and the Middle East, so the possibility of sending troops directly to Pakistan is extremely small.

In this way, it is equivalent to roughly eliminating external interference. If we fight alone with the respective military and economic forces of India and Pakistan, India will undoubtedly have greater hope of winning. And it is much greater.

However, at the beginning, India's judgment on the situation was indeed the same as Ye Yiwei and the Chinese Federal Army General Staff Headquarters expected, with the goal of Kashmir.

After India secretly declared an emergency in the army, Sam Manekshaw, the chief of staff of the Indian Army, had keen insight and excellent command skills, and realized in advance that there was a big battle between India and Pakistan to fight.

To this end, he carried out a large amount of military supplies reserves for India to win this war; secretly held a crash course for recruits, recruited reserve personnel from the land, sea and air forces to serve in active service; and formulated many specific and special care policies for combat casualties, which greatly boosted the morale of the troops.

In addition, we also imitated the military systems of major powers such as China and the United States, established joint arms organizations and joint intelligence committees, providing a good solution to the problem of joint combat between the three armies.

And in order to correspond to Prime Minister Madam Ying Gandhi's declaration of war, Sam Manekshaw personally issued a mobilization order for the "state of emergency".

The first is to cancel the leave of all military personnel and return to work immediately.

The subsequent requisition of civilian vehicles to urgently transport ammunition and various military supplies, as well as the relocation of border residents on India and West Brazil, and also ordered the strengthening of urban residents' defense measures.

Manekshaw's decisive approach greatly increased the morale and combat effectiveness of the Indian army in a short period of time.

Fourth, he and the Indian officers and staff formulated a careful combat plan, and he personally led and formulated a combat plan. According to the original combat plan, the best time to launch an attack is in winter.

Because at that time, we could maximize the use of the right time and place, let heavy snow block the Himalayas pass and prevent the Chinese Federal Army from attacking India from the ground.

However, the sudden Dongba rebellion disrupted everyone's strategic deployment.

Sam had to change his plan and change his strategic goal to the second priority, which was to make Bangladesh **. In the previous plan, this was just a supporting plan, as a preparation for the unfavorable war on the Western Front.

But now, this plan has become the first pick, and Indian senior officials also believe that dismembering Dongba and Xiba first is a better choice.

Although Sam thought the idea was stupid, he followed Mrs. Ying Gandhi's orders and formulated a military plan with Bangladesh as the strategic focus.

The Indian army planned to launch the battle on the east and west fronts at the same time. In the direction of Siba, the Indian army invested mainly to restrain the Pakistani army and use its superior air force to attack military targets in the Xiba hinterland and Kashmir.

In the direction of Dongba, the Indian army concentrated its absolute superior forces and planned to quickly capture Dongba within three weeks.

With the support of the Air Force and Navy with absolute advantage, the Indian army plans to encircle East Pakistan from four directions, namely west, northwest, north and east, to seize important transportation hubs to cut off the internal ties between East Pakistan.

Finally, he used centripetal assault to dismember and annihilate it, and captured Dhaka, the capital of Dongba.

Pakistan's geographical location seems to have clamped India at both ends, but from another perspective, the Indian army, which is in the "circle", is more convenient for mobilizing troops and surrounding the points to attack and aid.

Just like now, the Indian army has flexibly changed its offensive and defensive mode, turning off attack to defense on the western front, and turning on defense to offense on the eastern front is completely done in one go.

On the contrary, due to geographical reasons, Pakistan's military forces distributed in East and West Pakistan are fixed and difficult to mobilize at will.

Unless there is a naval fleet of the Chinese Federal Army escorted, there is no way to mobilize troops to Bangladesh. In the past, Pakistan either entered Bangladesh from land via roads and railways in southwest China, or relied on sea transportation.

Now, the Indian Navy has controlled half of the Indian Ocean, and the coastal areas have been tightly blocked. It is difficult for Pakistan to mobilize troops into East Pakistan.

In fact, in the face of Pakistan's nationalized regular army stationed in Bangladesh, the "Bangladesh Liberation Army" was unable to resist at all. Most rebels fled to India after their failure, and a large number of Hindu Dongpa people also fled to India for refuge.

Since ancient times, internal strife will inevitably cause external troubles.

The deterioration of the situation in Dongba has provided an excellent opportunity to start a war for India, which has been planning for a long time and has always wanted to dismember Dongba.

In June, India, which had gathered superior forces on the Eastern Front, began to sharpen its swords.

On the East Pakistan front, the Indian army's strength is definitely better than that of the Pakistani army.

The Pakistani army only deployed 4 infantry divisions, and the armored forces mainly included a "coyote" tank regiment, a top "coyote" tank battalion and a "coyote" and a "grizzly" tank mixed special squadron.

There are also two air force squadrons, which are under the jurisdiction of 17 Falcon jet fighters, a small number of helicopters used for communications, and a small number of naval gunboats. These weapons are basically derived from China's first-generation products.

On the other hand, the Indian army specially transferred many main forces from the Western Front, including three army troops, seven divisions and three armored regiments.

One regiment is equipped with m60 tanks, one regiment is equipped with pt-76 tanks, one regiment is equipped with amx-13 tanks and "ferret" armored reconnaissance vehicle.

And India's most famous strategic airborne force, the 50th** Paratrooper Brigade.

The Air Force's 14 aircraft squadrons, including 4 missile squadrons, has a total of 200 fighter jets.

There are 26 naval ships, including one of which is an aircraft carrier purchased from the UK and 33 carrier-based aircraft. The total Indian army has a total force of about 170,000 people.

On the other hand, the Indian army frequently held large-scale joint land-air exercises with the attack on Dongba as the background.

Since June 7, the Indian army's vanguard suddenly launched an attack and captured the Pakistani army's frontier outpost in northwestern Bangladesh. After the outpost was removed, India can calmly cover the adjustment and dispatch of its troops, making it impossible for Pakistan's defenders to obtain reliable information.

As of mid-June, the main forces of the Indian army participating in the war had basically been in place. That's it, the war crossbows were quietly opened, and a big battle was about to break out.

On June 22, the Indian army launched a full-scale attack on Dongba.

Faced with the Indian army's "undeclared war", Pakistani President Yehaiya Khan announced his full efforts to fight the Indian army and authorized the Pakistani army to take preemptive offensive actions in Siba.

For Pakistan, which is a weak national primary school, this is undoubtedly a rational choice.
To be continued...