Let me talk about China's account of the gallewan incident. If Indian PDFmembers have objections, they are welcome to question and provide different answers.
On June 15, 2020, Colonel Santosh Babu, the staff officer of the 16th regiment of Bihar, privately organized the snow leopard operation without the order of the superior (this information came from the Indian negotiators), and led more than 600 troops of two battalions across the China India actual control line.
Because of the urgency of time, Chinese head Qi Fabao and two battalion commanders led a total of 10 officers and guards of the regiment headquarters to the gallewan Valley to block.
Because of the great disparity in troops (10:600), four people, including commander Qi Fabao and battalion commander Chen Hongjun, came forward to negotiate, and another battalion commander led the remaining six people to maintain the front.
The 4 PLA who went to negotiate were head Qi Fabao, battalion commander Chen Hongjun, guard Chen Xiangrong and cameraman Xiao Siyuan.
During the negotiations, an officer of the Chinese Army led 20 soldiers to the gallewan Valley to reinforcement. The arrival of 20 Chinese soldiers made the Indian commander think Qi Fabao was delaying negotiations and waiting for reinforcements. So the Indians attacked the negotiators first. Qi Fabao was seriously injured and the other three died.
The battle broke out. Because of the great disparity in troops (26:600), another battalion commander of the Chinese army could only lead 26 Chinese soldiers to maintain the front with shields. Later, about 100 reinforcements from the Chinese army arrived in calawan. With the support of these reinforcements, the Chinese army killed Colonel Babu, the commander of the Indian army.
Finally, more than 100 Chinese soldiers appeared behind the Indian army and captured all senior Indian officers. The Indian army collapsed and almost all Indian soldiers began to escape. But because of the lack of command, more than 300 Indian soldiers fell into the river.
The victorious Chinese Army rescued and captured dozens of Indian soldiers from the river. Soldier Wang zhuoran fell into the river and died while chasing the escaped Indian. Due to the lack of sufficient manpower and materials, China was unable to rescue all Indian soldiers who fell into the river. About 250-300 people remained in the river (China initially predicted that 150-200 people might die of hypothermia, but the Indian army only froze to death 17 people. Maybe Indians are not afraid of cold).
