Chapter 1418 – The Fall of Dhaka

Things have come to this point, anyone who understands that the war situation in East Pakistan has entered the countdown, and the term East Pakistan is about to become history.

The whole of Dhaka has been besieged, this East Pakistan capital of the Pakistani garrison, in unprecedented confusion, about the Indian army to put nearly a year of suppression of the Bengalis all the soldiers on trial the news spread, although this kind of news is not confirmed, but has already produced an impact in the garrison.

Alan Wilson thousands of miles apart released a fake news, it caused such a result, he naturally did not anticipate, release of false news is not to expect a certain effect, the fundamental reason is still done Pakistan to take him there is no way, then why not do it?

How many people died in Pakistan and India has nothing to do with the UK, a little more death is also for Mother Earth to reduce the burden a little bit, macroscopically he did this is also for the sake of environmental protection.

“It’s too early to say the war is over if Dhaka resists to the end.” The Ministry of Defense, British Chief of Defense Staff Field Marshal Charles talked to Alan Wilson, who had come as a guest, about his own perception of this war.

Dhaka was the capital of East Pakistan, and likewise the largest city, and it would not be easy for India to take it down once it was deadlocked.

Allen Wilson nodded, but did not agree with this argument and spoke, “Marshal, from November 21 to now, a month has passed in the blink of an eye. In fact, from the trend, the Indian army’s attack is getting smoother and smoother, in the border battle at first was not smooth, especially the main attack direction of the western front. But with the passage of time, the Indian army captured the cities defended by the defenders more and more quickly, half a month, according to the war report published by India, almost every publication is accompanied by a city changed hands.”

Perhaps at first, in the defense side of the Pakistani garrison, because the first ambassador to China’s meet and greet, from a major country to learn the news that India is going to launch a full-front attack, not by the Indian army’s sudden attack caught off guard, this stage of the combat Indian army nothing to fight, and even can be described as boring.

But after successive breakthroughs on the northern and eastern fronts, with the Pakistani defenses on the western front being torn apart, the Indian army’s offensive all of a sudden smoothed out a lot, and with more and more cities occupied, these days India all of a sudden found the feeling of being the third in the world, attacking as if it were mercury, such as the autumn wind sweeping down the leaves and generally taking down towns and cities around Dhaka.

“Perhaps the Pakistani army has reached a tipping point, and the possibility of a dead heat certainly exists, though the greater likelihood is that it is on the verge of collapse. It’s not like this hasn’t happened before on land; in the Soviet-German theater, the Soviet Red Army had entered 1944 with an offensive force that had outmaneuvered the Germans, and not only won a battle, but suffered fewer battle losses than the defending Germans. The Germans often couldn’t hold out for more than a few days in even very fortified cities.”

Field Marshal Charles nodded, “Good, that’s true, and by nineteen forty-four, the German army suddenly couldn’t beat the Soviets.”

“Germany’s elite soldiers had been decimated, and the newly conscripted soldiers were no match for the Soviets. As powerless as a drowning horned horse against a crocodile. Though the war never stops for a moment, and theoretically the newly entered recruits can be trained in the war.”

Alan Wilson shrugged, “So obviously the war has been going on and the German command structure is there, but suddenly the German army is no match at all for the Soviet Red Army.”

The German army was already one of the few strong armies in the world, and still not immune to that, and the German army still had the support of the home front, unlike the Pakistani army which had already finished offending the Bengalis.

As for what Germany didn’t have a general mobilization and the late transition to a wartime regime that was all an excuse.

In fact, the reason why the First World War was mobilized was not to fight the war, but to demonstrate to the opponents through the mobilization, and as a result, the mobilization of each other triggered a chain reaction, you mobilize and I also mobilize to go to war.

The first world war is a war that countries are not psychologically prepared, but the second world war is not, as early as before the outbreak of the second world war, involved in the European countries have realized the war is approaching, less than 30 million people in Poland, there are already millions of troops in the war preparations.

Long before the war began, countries were already prepared for a world war and there was no need for a general mobilization.

All the countries involved in the war were well aware of their own strengths, only that they did not know the strengths of their opponents, and it was a war opened with a clear card.

And for Pakistan now, if the Dhaka defenders still have the fear that surrender is also death to the false news released by Allen Wilson, that’s okay.

It is afraid that with East Pakistan almost alone, the morale of the Dhaka garrison has collapsed, and then God forbid, the Azov battalion once also said that they would resist to the end.

It can only be said that both possibilities are there, in the British point of view, the supplies have been prepared long since the Bengalis started to make a fuss about independence.

It could be said that Britain was not at all later than India in its preparations, and could rush to the battlefield without any preparations as soon as orders were given to the Far East Combined Operations Command.

What exactly will be the result, Allen Wilson, although far away from 10,000 miles, but his good big son is not just in Sikkim staring at it, thought of this, Allen Wilson relaxed a lot.

Jammalpur is one of the gateways to Dhaka, and is now the only place left that is still under the control of the Pakistani garrison, a little earlier, the Indian army, after a bitter battle, was never able to capture Kamalpur – Kamalpur post on the axis of Jammalpur, this post is only defended by a company of the Balochistan Battalion, but for days to repel the attack of the Indian army, which was several times larger than their own, a reinforced brigade. A reinforced brigade of Indians attacked, earning the respect of the enemy and forcing the Indians to only besiege it.

After a heavy artillery plowing, the Indians took Kamalpur, the 95th Indian Brigade group split into three and closed in on Jamalpur. The next day the Indians launched an attack, which they began with a tentative attack with two battalions.

After the preparation of the air force and artillery fire, the big attack began, at the same time the Indians transferred another brigade reinforcement, the strength of the overwhelming advantage.

The defenders held the Jamalpur fort for two days and two nights at an absolute disadvantage in strength. The PA command, believing that the strategic objective had been achieved, ordered the defenders to withdraw. The remnants of the army took advantage of the night to secretly transfer to the direction of Dhaka. But at this time, Jammalpur has been surrounded by the Indian army, it is difficult not to be found to withdraw from the encirclement.

Sure enough, the Indian 1st Light Infantry Battalion discovered the retreating Pakistani army and blocked the way. The Pakistani army took advantage of the main force of the Indian army has not yet arrived, concentrated firepower desperately kill a bloody road, breaking through the Indian army three lines of defense in succession, after a grueling battle finally killed out of the encirclement.

So far the last gateway to Dhaka has fallen, the whole Dhaka has been in the middle of a heavy siege, soon in the spirit of objectivity and neutrality of the British journalists informed this matter to London, a little later in Sikkim, David also confirmed the news to inform the Whitehall, is a verification of the situation in Dhaka.

After the siege of Dhaka, the Indian side began to send people to persuade the Dhaka garrison to surrender, the fact has been very obvious, a city can still be overturned?

The western battlefield of the Indo-Pakistani War, Pakistan’s hold-up operation as failed, India not only successfully defended the attack launched by Pakistan on the western front, but also occupied Pakistani land.

“Christmas Day, December 24th.” Alan Wilson stared at the calendar and suddenly remembered a famous quote from the Five Star Emperor, it seemed that it would be difficult to maintain this war until 1972, what a pity.

On this day, the Pakistani garrison in Dhaka conducted a cleansing of the prisoners held in Dhaka, erasing the traces of these people’s existence was the sole purpose, because if these people were released from prison, they might become the ones to designate the crimes they committed in the course of the suppression of Bengal, and getting rid of them once and for all was the purpose of this operation.

National Liberation Army (NLA), Bengal Rifles, Bengal Liberation Force (BLF), National People’s Party (NPP) and other paramilitary organizations and militias.

Students, workers, peasants, nationalists, left-wingers, radicals, soldiers and policemen who turned on the resistance, as well as intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, writers, etc., were among those executed.

Pakistani soldiers in tanks with heavy weapons were ordered to enter Dhaka University. Students and faculty members were awakened from their sleep by the sound of gunfire and cries from the campus. In an effort to control the campus as quickly as possible, the military entered the dormitories and began a “indiscriminate” massacre to silence the students forever.

The first target of this purge was the intelligentsia. Narrowly defined as opponents of Sipah, but broadly defined as all intellectuals and elites of the Bengali community.

The University of Dhaka, a university established during the British period and renowned throughout the world, and Calcutta, once the heartland of British rule before World War I, were subjected to blood and fire on this day.

After all was done, Nyachchi, the commander of the East Pakistani garrison, sent out of the city to negotiate with the commander of India’s newest brigade, the Ninety-fifth Brigade, and the two sides negotiated, agreeing to a cease-fire and accepting the Indian demand for unconditional surrender. Representatives of both armies signed the surrender, and Niachy then ordered the Pakistani troops in East Pakistan to lay down their arms and surrender to the Indians.

The news of the capture of all of East Pakistan spread like a storm throughout India, and the radio, newspapers, and even word of mouth were filled with praise for Indira Gandhi.

The Indian People’s League, the predecessor of Modi’s political party, also published public speeches by its leaders, recognizing Indira Gandhi as India’s Goddess of the Ganges, with unshakeable and absolute authority over the whole of India, and the Indian People’s League firmly supported all of Indira Gandhi’s decisions.

Meanwhile, the whole of Pakistan was dead silent as newspapers carried large, black-framed headlines, East Pakistan, I weep for you.

Our Great British journalists, in the name of reporting on the valor of the Indian army, also proudly puffed out their chests and followed the Indian army into Dhaka, the capital of East Pakistan, which may not be long before its prefix becomes the capital of Bangladesh.