250 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : দশম খন্ড All fur of my Sepoys came back and reported that there was none present in the BOP. But to be more sure this time I sent one Havildar and two more Sepoys to go right near the bunker and throw grenades inside and come back. Accordingly, they went near the bunkers and one sepoy hardly could throw a grenade enemy woke up and opened fire with all sorts of arms. All the three of my soldiers got bullet injuries but they managed to come back alive. However, within 20 minutes time approx 500 shells hit the BOP. As soon as the artillery fire stopped we charged the BOP. We made such a big sound of ‘Joy Bangla' that enemy completely got confused and before we could reach them they started fleeing towards the nearby jungles. In their running position most of them got killed. Surprisingly enough we found a women also running out of the camp half-clothed. The poor girl could not escape from the rifle bullet. We smashed the BOP completely and secured lot of arms and ammunitions. We caught one sepoy and one Havildar of 22 Baluch alive. Our casualty was only four wounded. Indeed Pak army never went that side again during the whole liberation war. Month of June, July and August were the pick season for us. We had our maximum score during these period. In that period a good number of Freedom Fighters were sent inside with small missions. Cooperation we received from inside Sylhet was not very encouraging, to speak the truth. Many of my inductees were caught with arms. Inductees could not do well due to the sheer lack of co-operations. Some corrupt ulemas were active inside. There were people who helped us and at least tried to help us. During the last part of war when we were deep inside, we got tremendous help from locals. They came out with their everything. Strength of my Sub-Sector at that period exceeded thousand of Niomito Bahini excluding few hundred guerrillas who were working deep inside. The period of hit and fun operations were over at that time. It was the second phase to attack the enemy and inflict maximum casualty on them. SHABAZPUR (LATU) RAILWAY STATION BATTLE (10 August 1971) For quite sometime I was thinking seriously to launch a full-fledged attack on Shahbazpur Railway Station. In the first week of August, I put up the master plan to Sector Commander Lt. Col. Chitta Ranjan Datta for approval. Brigadier Wodkey, Commander Echo Sector agreed to give me all possible help. He also promised me to give necessary artillery support. The terrain of Shahbazpur Railway Station was hilly. The area was well defended by a company of 31 Punjab plus a platoon of scouts and armed Razakers. There was no convenient approach to the enemy defence. Achieving surprise was out of question. Still, we remained determined to launch an offensive. I, however, fixed 10 August '71 the ‘D’ day (the day of attack). I had about 5 companies to put on the attack. After thorough reccee I found no alternative but to launch a frontal attack but in an unconventional way. I did like this plan. The company which was given the task of cutting enemy withdrawal
