Admiral Xu Shiyou made great achievements in battle in his life and made great contributions to the mainland, but in the 1979 counterattack against Vietnam, he made one of the most painful mistakes in his military career, resulting in the total annihilation of a regiment's troops, and afterwards he was very remorseful and demanded that the central authorities demote him, why did the organization reject his request, what exactly did Xu Shiyou say in this war, and why did he issue a wrong order? After the officials have nodded their attention, listen to the brother of the detective to give you a detailed explanation.
Xu Shiyou was born in 1905 in Macheng County, Hubei Province, because his family was poor, he entered the Shaolin Temple at the age of 8 to learn kung fu, and later gave full play to his own strengths, resolutely threw himself into the ranks of defending his family and defending the country, followed the Red Army across the meadow to participate in the anti-encirclement and suppression war, and the heroic figure never absented from resisting Japanese aggression and countering the tyranny of the Kuomintang. After the founding of New China in 1949, Xu Shiyou successively served as the commander of the Shandong Military Region and the Nanjing Military Region, originally thinking that the life of war and chaos would eventually usher in stability, who knew that Vietnam was frantically excluding Chinese with the support of the Soviet Union, provoking armed conflict on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and constantly harassing overseas Chinese on the mainland. After Vietnam's independence in 1975, they embarked on the road of expansion, with advanced equipment from the United States and the Soviet Union, and even boldly called themselves "the world's third military power.".
Internationally, Vietnam is also inseparable from the Soviet Union, the United States, China, at first the United States directly joined the Soviet war, but because the North Vietnamese government obtained the support of China and the Soviet Union, the war continued to enter a stalemate, as defense spending became more and more serious, economic conditions no longer allowed the United States to fight, in 1973 all U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam. The defeat in the Vietnam battlefield left the United States in a quagmire and unable to extricate itself, at which time the Soviet Union began a policy of suppression against the United States, at this juncture, Nixon was forced to choose a pro-China policy, and Sino-US relations also ushered in an ice-breaking journey. After the Treasure Island incident, Sino-Soviet relations had become at odds, and sino-US contacts made Vietnam waver between pro-China and pro-Soviet, but in the end it decided to move closer to the Soviet Union and exclude China from policies and treaties. As soon as they finished the War to Resist US Aggression, they regarded China as the new "number one enemy," injured the people on the border, and knocked down boundary monuments, and constantly launched armed attacks, seriously undermining China's security.
If there is a war, it will be recalled, and General Xu Shiyou's ability has not passed with the years, on the contrary, he is the one who is most suitable for becoming the commander. Xu Shiyou was the commander-in-chief of the Guangxi Border Defense Force on the Eastern Front, and in coordination with General Yang Dezhi, commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Border Defense Force on the Western Front, the armored troops, artillery units, and engineering units were all on the battlefield, and the Air Force even dispatched 774 aircraft, 13 divisions, and 10 brigades to serve as air defense patrols. On February 14, 1979, the Central Committee officially issued a notice of self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and all the troops entered a state of first-level readiness.
On February 17, 1979, the eastern front troops led by General Xu Shiyou fired all their cannons and soon captured important strategic towns in Vietnam, although they were frantically blocked by the Vietnamese army, our soldiers formed a penetrating unit and drove tanks to quickly attack and successfully conquer the strategic point of Dongxi, the northwest of Dongxi can directly lead to Gaoping, and the southwest can directly lead to Lang Shan and reach the destination of our army's attack. Lang Son is very important to Vietnam and the mainland, becoming a natural north-south dividing line between China and Vietnam, the south is the plain and open area there is no defense to speak of, so as long as our army has fought Lang Son, it can drive straight into and occupy Vietnam, and our army's operational order for this war is to conquer Lang Son and withdraw its troops from Gao Binh, just to give Vietnam a way out of the horse, let them know what is to hit the stone with a pebble, and did not want to invade the city like the imperialist countries. Just two weeks later, xu Shiyou Ande Yang Dezhi and two generals successfully took Gaoping and Langshan, completed the operational objectives set by his leadership, and planned to withdraw their troops in an all-round way on March 5, and the most regrettable decision of General Xu Shiyou's military career was made on the way to withdraw troops.
At that time, when our army formed the unit, it did not pay attention to Vietnam at all, and recruited many soldiers who had not been on the battlefield to let them feel the cruelty of the war, but the Nai warriors attacked too fast, and in just two weeks they had already destroyed the city and attacked the wall in Vietnam, resulting in some people not being able to integrate into the battlefield at all. Seeing that the troops were about to withdraw, the commander of the 105th Division was very anxious, and he did not want his soldiers to come to the battlefield for a long time and lose the great opportunity to feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, so he took the expectations of the soldiers to find General Xu Shiyou. After learning of the 105th Division's intentions, Xu Shiyou refused on the spot, believing that if there were any more deaths and injuries in the future, it would be a completely futile act. Who knew that Xu Shiyou's refusal could not persuade the 105th Division at all, after all, the war was about to settle, even if the troops were allowed to go to the battlefield for a walk, there would be no major incident, and later they could not stand the soft and hard bubble of the 105th Division, general Xu Shiyou finally agreed to let the 105th Division take the task of covering the retreat of our army.
When withdrawing the troops, because there was no ceasefire between the two sides, Vietnam may counterattack at any time, although the 105th Division assumed a cover mission, it must not be taken lightly, and even the Vietnamese commander arrogantly ridiculed our army, retreating because it did not dare to fight and wanted to run, in the face of such a situation, the 105th Division must not shame the Platon Army. Who would have thought that at noon on March 11, the 448th Regiment of the 105th Division was surrounded by the Vietnamese military and civilian regiments near the city of Gao Binh, in order to cover the withdrawal of large troops, but also in order to do a good job in the finishing work of the Vietnamese battlefield, the soldiers of the 448th Regiment fought bravely to kill the enemy, but the Vietnamese army on the opposite side was extremely familiar with the terrain and was good at using jungle combat, and most of our army was not only new soldiers, but also had no combat experience, and there were casualties at the beginning of the engagement. The house leaked in the overnight rain, and the 448th Regiment also made a command error in the panic, so that the trapped troops lost contact with the division headquarters and completely fell into the clutches of the Vietnamese army, and finally the regimental headquarters decided to disperse the breakthrough to ensure that some people had a chance to live. Eventually, the 448th Regiment was captured 202 men and suffered heavy casualties, until the last of the troops withdrew to the country on the night of March 15. The soldiers of the 448th Regiment, who were tortured by the Vietnamese army, crawled for nine days and eight nights before returning to the embrace of the motherland. After the war, when the prisoners of war were exchanged, the Vietnamese army captured more than 240 people in our army, and the damage was far beyond Xu Shiyou's imagination.
If the 105th Division had not agreed to cover the retreat, the 448th Regiment would not have suffered such serious losses, and this wrong decision made General Xu Shiyou often blame himself, believing that it was his own reasons that our army lost one fresh life after another, so that the soldiers of the 448th Regiment were humiliated by the Vietnamese army, and such a military order became the most regrettable order of General Xu Shiyou. In 1985, when he died at the age of 80, he did not forgive himself for his irresponsible behavior and could only leave this world in regret and regret. What cannot be denied is that although the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam has trained a number of command personnel and tempered the combat capability of the troops, it has also exposed many potential problems, such as some officers' military skills are not strong, combat command is unfavorable, tank use skills are not skilled enough, lack of jungle combat capabilities and improvisation, and these problems exposed in the war have pointed out the way for the modernization and development of the PLA.
A mistake cannot sum up a person's life, General Xu Shiyou dedicated his life to the revolutionary cause, he has flesh and blood and outstanding achievements, although the mistakes are regrettable, but also worthy of the people's trust and high expectations. At the end of the video, I wonder what opinions and opinions you have? Welcome to discuss and share with Tango in the comment area!