In early 1969, the treasure island in northern China was covered in snow. Seemingly quiet, in fact, the undercurrent surged in the face of the Soviet Union's unscrupulous provocations, the Chinese border defense forces did not show weakness, interspersed with the pure fire of the roundabout ambush use, and saved a force to beat the Soviet revisions with a rolling belt to climb.
The Soviet Union was one of the two levels of the world at that time, looking for something to do on Zhenbao Island on the border between China and the Soviet Union, trying to take advantage of food, but the result was that the cheap was not taken, and the beaten gray face was ashamed and angry.
The former soviet big brother gathered a large number of mechanized troops on the Sino-Soviet border, and his vassal country Mongolia is said to have stationed tens of thousands of armored vehicles and tanks, planning to hit Beijing directly with this torrent of steel, and then occupy Shenyang through Harbin in the north, attack Urumqi in Xinjiang, and then engage in mobile increases in airborne troops. Even the Soviet defense minister said that nuclear weapons would be used to solve the China problem once and for all.
The Soviet Union's war plans were ready and the troops were in place, but it never dared to move south. Why? This big brother cleaned up Czechoslovakia and launched a war in Afghanistan, but he did not hesitate to fight it, but in the face of China, although he was ashamed and angry, he finally hesitated, because it was not like an eagle catching a chicken, and the Soviet Union did not have enough certainty.
First of all, China already had nuclear weapons at that time, and although there were no advanced strategic bombers to drop, there was still a way to throw atomic bombs into the territory of the Soviet Union. Secondly, at that time, the Soviet Union was confronting Western capitalism led by the United States, and its main energy was still on the west, and it sent a million troops to fight China in the east. Third, the long Trans-Siberian Railway supply line, and it is this railway line, in the face of millions of troops eating and drinking Lasa, the rear supply is also a dozen problems, in case it is broken, the consequences are unimaginable. Fourth, China also made strategic preparations, and the construction of the third line in that year was to cope with the soviet steel torrent and prepare for a protracted war.
If the Soviet Union is an eagle, he will not hesitate to face the chicken, but China is not. Later, Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze publicly stated that the confrontation with China was a major mistake made by the Soviet Union's diplomatic strategy, because it made the Soviet Union carry two fronts to fight, which greatly increased the political and economic burden, and also indirectly led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
In fact, if the Soviet Union really did it at that time, although we would also face great pressure, the consequences would not necessarily be as the Soviet Union wanted. At that time, China's missile forces were ready to attack the Trans-Siberian Railway as soon as the war began, first interrupting his supply line. Fighter death squads were also prepared to carry out nuclear strikes on Soviet territory. In the international situation at that time, the Soviet Union was the big brother of socialism, and the United States must have tried every means to destroy the Soviet Union, and millions of troops flocked to China, which was a golden opportunity for the United States. Once the United States attacked the Soviet Union from the Western Front, the Soviet troops in China were opposed to the People's Liberation Army, which was good at fighting people's wars, that is, the turtle in the urn.
The trapped torrent of Soviet steel is a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and once the Chinese People's Liberation Army survives its sharp edge and carries out a strategic counteroffensive, it is really possible to recover the northern territory taken by the Soviet Union. Such consequences would have accelerated the demise of the Soviet Union.