In 1962, Guo Zhixian, deputy commander of the Shannan Military Subdistrict, gave a strange order: dig out the Indian troops buried a week ago and find a tall man with an eagle embroidered on his chest. However, 32 regiments

In 1962, Guo Zhixian, deputy commander of the Shannan Military Subdistrict, gave a strange order: dig out the Indian troops buried a week ago and find a tall man with an eagle embroidered on his chest. However, the soldiers of the 32nd Regiment searched the battlefield of the day and did not find this person. Suddenly, someone shouted: Found.

The crowd looked at the Indian soldier lying in the grass puzzled, still not understanding what was so special about him. Until the medical staff cut open the Indian soldier's three-layer jacket, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that this guy not only had a large eagle embroidered on the chest of the military uniform, but also had the brigadier epaulettes embedded on the shirt. When the news came, Deputy Commander Guo laughed and said, "No wonder the Indian side has fallen out of the sky." ”

In November 1962, the Battle of Xishankou-Bondira, the second phase of the self-defense counterattack against India, began, and more than 400 people under the command of Guo Zhixian, deputy commander of the Shannan Military Sub-district, had just laid an ambush circle in Yuma Dong, and the remnants of the Indian 62nd Brigade broke into it.

In the fierce battle, the Indian soldiers were beaten to pieces, ran around, and hid in the mountains. Among them, a group of Indian soldiers and horses rushed desperately in the direction of Bhutan. However, after the battle, Pan Anshou, who was ordered to search for the remnants of the enemy, and two other soldiers unexpectedly met this group of men and horses across the river, and between the electric light and flint, the gunshots on both sides sounded at the same time.

At the same time, Pan Anshou rolled sideways to a large rock by the river, and the other two fighters quickly scattered and fell down, shooting at the Indian troops in the woods on the opposite bank. When Pan Anshou killed the opposing machine gunners with the Type 56 submachine gun, the Indian army had begun to quietly disperse.

Under the cover of the dense forest, Pan Anshou originally thought that there were only 10 enemies (it turned out that there were more than 100 Indian troops in this force), so he ordered two fighters to take cover (the soldiers used Type 56 rifles) and launched a charge at the enemy himself.

With his agility, Pan Anshou crossed the canoe bridge and once again used the stone cover to open fire on the Indian army. Although there were only 3 people on our side, the Indian army was worried that there must be a large army behind the three sharp soldiers, and did not dare to rush out of the forest.

In the fierce battle, a tall Indian soldier was shot and fell, and suddenly, the Indian army was in a mess, and Pan Squad Leader did not know at this time that he had caught a big fish, but continued to punch the Indian army. At the same time, the remaining 25 sharp knife platoon soldiers of the Second Company arrived at the sound of the sound, beating the rest of the Indian troops to death and fleeing.

In this battle, our side annihilated 29 Indian troops and took 25 prisoners. Pan Anshou was also awarded the second class merit for killing four Indian troops by 1 person.

What Pan Anshou did not know, however, was that shortly after the battle, Deputy Commander Guo Zhixian was questioned by General Zhang Guohua, the commander-in-chief of the troops. It turned out that there was a quarrel in India, and the radio said that the Chinese army did not pay attention to international morality and killed their brigadier general Hoshir. Singh did not report a word.

When Deputy Commander Guo heard this news, he was also confused and could not answer what was going on. The troops who participated in the war had to be ordered to dig up the Indian army that had been buried in recent days and look for Singh. Thus appeared the opening scene of the article: the border guards once again surveyed the battlefield, looking for a tall "soldier" with an eagle embroidered on his chest.

It turns out that the indian reaction is so intense because of Hoshir. Singh is not only a brigadier general of the Indian Army's ace 62nd Brigade, but also a "combat hero" of India, who once achieved the feat of annihilating more than twenty Japanese troops in the Burmese battlefield and also rescued Allied prisoners of war in Thailand. At the same time, he was also called "Long-legged General" by Indians because of his unusual legs. However, he unfortunately encountered the Chinese army on the Sino-Indian battlefield.

In October 1962, after the victory of the first battle of the counterattack on the eastern front of the China-India border, our army resumed negotiations. However, India actually ignored the mainland's proposal to take the initiative to truce, and brazenly gathered 5 brigades and more than 10,000 subordinate troops to shell our positions at the West Pass and Bondira line.

The layout of the Indian army allowed marshal Liu Bocheng (then head of the strategic group of the Central Military Commission) who had been in the battlefield for a long time to see through its weakness: "Steel head tin tail tofu waist." As a result, our army's tactic of "beating the head, cutting the tail, cutting off the waist, and shaving the abdomen" came into being. The Indian 62nd Brigade led by Singh happened to be the waist and abdomen of the Indian defensive line.

In late November, the 419th unit of our army climbed the snowy mountains and cliffs, unexpectedly plunged straight into the West Pass, and wrapped the 62nd Brigade of the Indian Army in dumplings in one fell swoop. The blinded Singer had to retreat with the remnants of his army, but he ran to Llomadong and broke into the ambush circle of our army. At this point, Singh no longer had the heart to fight, and he desperately abandoned his troops, changed into soldiers' clothes, and tried to take a detour to flee to Bhutan.

As a result, on the way to escape, Singer was crushed and beaten by Pan Anshou and finally killed, becoming the highest-ranking officer of the Indian side killed in my counterattack. But after Singh was shot and fell behind a bush, our army did not find him when cleaning the battlefield.

Deputy Commander Guo Zhixian, who learned of the origin of the incident, not only laughed, but after ordering someone to bury Singh, changed Pan Anshou's second-class merit to first-class merit (after examination, Singh's wound was hit by submachine gun bullets) and promoted to platoon leader.

After this battle, the long-legged general in the minds of Indians has another meaning, that is, "fleeing general". And in the Indian Army, Hoshir. Brigadier General Singh has become synonymous with "disgrace."< In fact, compared with other high-ranking Indian officers who raised their hands and surrendered as soon as our army was surrounded, Brigadier Singh was still a "good man."