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The Sino-Indian Border War was a war that took place between June or October and November 1962 on the southern Tibetan border between China and India. It is commonly known in China as the Sino-Indian Border Counterattack in Self-Defense.　　[edit]Background The Sino-Indian border is about 1,700 kilometers long, and is customarily divided into three sections: the eastern section is about 650 kilometers long, running from the tri-junction of China, India, and Myanmar to Dewangri, where the tri-junction of China, India, and Bhutan meets; the middle section, about 400 kilometers long, runs from the tri-junction of China, India, and Nepal in Pran County, Tibet, to the 6795 highland in Jhada County; and the western section, about 65 0 kilometers, from the 6795 plateau in Zada County to the Karakoram Pass in Xinjiang. The entire border has never been formally demarcated, but a traditional customary boundary line has been formed based on the reach of the historical administrative jurisdictions of the two sides, with the eastern section along the southern foothills of the Himalayas, the central section along the Himalayas, and the western section along the Karakoram Range. The outbreak of the Sino-Indian border war is not accidental, it has deep historical roots and complex background.　First, the British planted the bane of Sino-Indian border disputes Tibet, Xinjiang is an inalienable part of China's territory, China and India have a long history of interaction and traditional friendship, in the past, the maps of China and India are in accordance with the traditional customary line of the border, and the two peoples also abide by this traditional customary line. It was only after the British ruled India that the British Indian authorities, using India as a base, pointed the spearhead of aggression and expansion at China's southwestern and northwestern border areas, which gradually led to the divergence of the Sino-Indian border. The British and Indian governments took advantage of the fact that the Sino-Indian border had never been formally demarcated to carry out aggressive expansionist activities against China's Tibet and Xinjiang, thus sowing the seeds of contention. The counterattack was carried out in the Karakorum Mountains, known as the "Crest of the Roof of the World", and in the southern part of the Himalayan Mountains. The region was a treacherous terrain, harsh climate, sparsely populated and difficult to access. This poor natural conditions and geographical environment, the combat operations have a serious impact on the combat is rare in the arduous nature. The self-defense counterattack on the Sino-Indian border began on October 20, 1962, and was basically completed on November 21, 1962, and the operation went through two phases.　I. The first phase of the operation (October 20-28) The self-defense counterattack was carried out in the areas of the eastern and western sections of the Sino-Indian border. The Indian Army deployed one army headquarters, one division headquarters, four brigade headquarters and 21 infantry battalions, totaling about 22,000 men. The Indian Army was originally a British colonial army, participated in the Second World War, in North Africa, Southern Europe, Southeast Asia, the battlefield has fought, boasted as "fighting all over Europe, Asia's strong brigade". I fought with the Indian Fourth Division, known as the "ace unit", is "the Indian army preparation, equipment, training of the pilot unit". The 114th Brigade has long been stationed in Kashmir, trained in mountain warfare. These units are representative of the Indian Army. Its operational deployment is: the eastern sector, the Seventh Brigade four battalions deployed in the area of the Kerchalang; artillery Fourth Brigade two infantry battalions configured in the Bangkok Pass, Dhawang area; the Fourth Division Tactical Command and a battalion is located in the Jimmy Tang, the lower region; the Fifth Brigade eight battalions are distributed in the "Subansiri border zone", "Xi'an border zone The 8th Battalion of the 5th Brigade was located in the "Subansiri Sector", "Sian Sector" and "Ruhit"; the 4th Army Headquarters and the 4th Division Headquarters were located in Tisipur. In the Western Sector, the 114th Indian Brigade was dispersed throughout the border with five battalions, of which more than 1,300 were located in the 43 positions that had invaded the battlefield; the brigade headquarters and one battalion were located in Liechtenstein. India's attempts were: in the eastern sector, to continue to expand its encroachment into the interior of Tibet on the basis of its encroachment into the so-called "Mai Line" to the south and north of the Kerchalang area; and in the western sector, to continue to nibble away at my territory by relying on the 43 positions it invaded to gradually encroach upon the Aksaiqin area of Xinjiang.　The main deployment of the Chinese border defense forces was: to use more than four regiments of troops in Tibet to first crush the attack of the Indian army in the Kejerang area, and then to annihilate the enemy in the Kejerang area and those who might come to their aid from the Dawang area; to use more than one regiment of troops in Xinjiang to first crush the attack of the Indian army, and then to annihilate the invasion of the Garhwang Valley and the enemy in the Red Hilltops, and expand the results of the battle according to the situation; at the same time, to use the troops of the sub-districts of Chamdo, Linzhi, and Shannan in Tibet to counterattack the enemy in front, and cooperate with the main direction of the enemy. Meanwhile, the troops of Chamdo, Linzhi and Shannan Divisions of Tibet were used to counterattack the enemy on the front and to cooperate with the operations in the main direction.　Counter-attack in Kekjelang area. Kejerang is located in the area south of Tibet in the eastern part of the Sino-Indian border, where the peaks are more than 1,500 meters high and about 4,000 meters above sea level, densely forested, with a harsh climate and sparsely populated. In this area, the Indian army's seventh brigade, two infantry battalions of the fourth brigade of artillery, and more than 6,000 people from six battalions, deployed on the front line of Kekchirang, Bangsangkou, and Dawang, attempted to consolidate the land they had already encroached upon and continued to encroach upon the area north of the Kekchirang River in order to realize their dream of "taking the crest of the Taga-La (i.e., Lazha Mountain) as the boundary". China's Tibet Border Defense Force gathered more than 10,300 troops to counterattack the 7th Indian Brigade. According to the Indian army's front and rear light, flanks exposed, front wide, depth shallow layout characteristics, implement the principle of concentrating troops to fight a war of annihilation, with 3 to 4 times the enemy's absolute superiority of firepower, take the knife from both flanks, detour behind the flanks, encircle and divide, annihilation of the method of war, began to counter-attack in the dawn of the 20th. Implementation of the main assault on the right wing of the troops in the gun and so on, between the Karon forcibly crossed the cold and bone-chilling Kekchorang River, to the gun and so on, Karon, torn winter, velvet not to lose the invasion of the Indian army to carry out counterattacks. The commanders braved the rain of bullets, covered each other, staggered their advance, and engaged in fierce battles with the Indians. In charge of destroying the stronghold of Karon on the bank of the Severa River, Yang Ting'an, the commander of the sixth squad of my second company, went ahead without stopping, and counterattacked bravely, **** capturing 27 Indian bunkers, recovering the stronghold of Karon, and creating the conditions for the expulsion of the invading Indian Seventh Brigade from Karon. After the war, the Sixth Squad was awarded the heroic title of "Yang Tingan Squad" by the Ministry of Defense. The 2nd Platoon of the 3rd Company, which was responsible for clearing the stronghold of Tatong on the south bank of Kekchorang River, dared to fight and destroyed 14 bunkers in a row and recaptured the stronghold of Tatong. After the battle, the 2nd Platoon was honored with a first-class collective merit. On the same day, it cleared the invading Indians from the strongholds of Gun et al, Karon, Rawdon, and Jongbudu.