Because according to the Indian posters here, now the Indian soldiers would just use their firearms and kill the Chinese soldiers pushing them back. As if they think there will be no consequences at all
. I think this is a ready admission by Indian posters that they cannot defeat the Chinese in hand to hand combat so they must resort to firearms, which unbeknownst to them the Chinese have a much larger advantage is. The greater the escalation, the greater the Chinese advantage, all the way up to nuclear weapons.