The Chinese overwhelmed the Indian troops in a series of flanking manoeuvres south of the McMahon Line and prompted their withdrawal from Namka Chu.
[59] Fearful of continued losses, Indian troops retreated into Bhutan. Chinese forces respected the border and did not pursue.[11] Chinese forces now held all of the territory that was under dispute at the time of the Thag La confrontation, but they continued to advance into the rest of NEFA.
The PLA penetrated close to the outskirts of
Tezpur, Assam, a major frontier town nearly fifty kilometres from the
Assam-
North-East Frontier Agency border.
[35] The local government ordered the evacuation of the civilians in Tezpur to the south of the Brahmaputra River, all prisons were thrown open, and government officials who stayed behind destroyed Tezpur's currency reserves in anticipation of a Chinese advance.