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251 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : দশম খন্ড and re-inforcement from Beani Bazar will send a platoon from the enemy rear and open fire first. They will stop fire just after ten minutes. Then they will withdraw and simultaneously one Battery Medium guns will open up to neutralize the enemy position. Shelling will continue for 5 minutes, then 3 companies will assault the enemy from front. Another one company will cut Shahbazpur-Baralekha road and stop enemy reinforcement. Initially indeed, everything went according to plan. A 0500 hours all of my companies reached their respective location. We had no means of inter communication in between the companies. Since I was with the assault companies, I had no contact with the other companies. The task of those other two companies was so vital that if they fail to stop the enemy re-inforcement there will be all but complete failure. Enemy position was so dug-in that shelling with the Medium guns just proved futile. Anyway, we launched the attack with full force. In 15 minutes time enemy stated withdrawing. We almost cleared a bigger portion of the Railway Station Shahbazpur at 0700 hours. We charged the BOP where we faced maximum resistance. Pakistani flag was still hoisted there. We removed it and replaced with our Bangladesh flag. In this very critical time troops were completely scattered. With all my efforts I was trying to reorganize them but in vain. At that time one man came running to me and told that enemy had penetrated through our left flank. The company which was supposed to stop the enemy reinforcement from Baralekha had failed. In the meantime enemy started shelling heavily our location. I passed back the information to Lt. Col Datta who ordered me to take action whatever situation permits. I found just impossible to resist the fresh enemy counter attack. So we retreated finally. In that great battle of Shahbazpur we achieved our mission. We captured the enemy BOP, we almost captured the whole Railway Station. We found 8 enemy dead bodies. Huge number of arms and ammunition was captured, but we could not carryall due to lack of transport. Enemy carried away a large number of their casualties. It was also confirmed later that total enemy casualty was 50. Our own casualty was 5 wounded and 6 shaheed. I lost some of my very good soldiers. Ex EPR Havildar Kutub who was one of the best eleven of EPR football team and Naik Mannan who was a best athlete of Ex EPR lost their lives in that battle. Mujahid Havildar Mohd Faiz of Fenchuganj, who became famous for inventing a medicine of cuts etc. also died in that operation. Including four tea gardens we had a total of 20 sq miles area liberated and under our possession. Enemy tried their best from various points to dislodge us but all in vain. Maximum number of our guerillas went inside during that period and did well in some places inside Sylhet. But as I said before guerillas could do much better sabotage activities if they could get local support. I was really proud to have some real brave Gono Bahini leaders under my command. All of them just did wonder. It will not be out of the way to mention the name of some like A Matin Chowdhury, Samim, Babul, Muktadir and so many others whose name I do not remember.