You may have always thought that we lived in a world of peace and tranquility from birth until now, without war, aggression, hunger and threat; Since the founding of New China in 1949, there have been many other foreign forces that have always wanted to take advantage of the conflicts between neighboring countries to constantly harass our country, or some neighboring countries, after receiving strong support and help from our country, in turn, have continuously invaded some of Our country's "white-eyed wolves." In order to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, after the founding of New China, Our country has sent troops abroad to fight seven times at different times, laying a solid foundation for China's prosperous and stable social environment.
The first outbound operation: resisting the United States and aiding Korea, defending the family and defending the country
In 1950, the United Nations army headed by the US military attempted to use the Korean Peninsula as a springboard through military intervention in Korea, taking advantage of the fact that everything in the newly founded New China was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, and was preparing to carry out an all-out invasion of our country in the early stage of socialist construction and strangle New China in its cradle.
In order to defend our hard-won revolutionary achievements and to support neighboring Korea in resisting imperialist aggression, our country decided to set up the Chinese Volunteer Army, with Peng Dehuai as the commander-in-chief, to cross the Yalu River and fight against the aggressors.
After three years of arduous struggle, in the end, together with the Korean People's Army, we will repulse the "38th Line" with the United Nations army led by the United States, return to the negotiating table, and finally win a comprehensive victory in the entire war!
The second outbound operation: resisting France and aiding Vietnam
Vietnam has been a French colony before the outbreak of World War II, its colonial rule lasted for 80 years, even now many Chinese tourists to the south of Vietnam is not difficult to find, in the south of Vietnam, many cities in the south of Vietnam, still have more than a hundred years ago, many French occupation built during the French small Western-style buildings, and many older Vietnamese, although can not speak English, but can speak fluent French.
Subsequently, after France surrendered to German fascism on June 22, 1940, Japan began to invade Vietnam, and on March 9, 1945, it launched a coup d'état that disarmed the French forces stationed in Vietnam and took full control of Vietnam. This dark rule lasted until August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered to the Allies and World War II came to an end, when the Communist Party of Vietnam also took the opportunity to launch a national uprising, overthrow fascist rule, and win the victory of the "August Revolution", and on September 2 of the same year, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Declaration of Independence in Hanoi, proclaiming the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, complete disassociation from France, and abrogating a series of treaties between France and Vietnam, abolishing all French privileges in Vietnam.
France, as the victor of the Second World War, naturally will not easily give up its colonies that it has painstakingly operated for more than eighty years, and will certainly want to regain them, so in 1946 it invaded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam again, resulting in the Vietnamese government being forced to turn to the mountains to insist on guerrilla warfare, but because Vietnam was colonized by foreign enemies for too long, many Vietnamese people's government military personnel generally have a low level of education, poor military literacy in the command system, and the theory of guerrilla warfare in the mountain jungle is relatively lacking. It was difficult to resist the well-equipped French army.
In the spirit of internationalism of solidarity and mutual assistance, China immediately mobilized a large number of resources to support the Vietnamese government in resisting the French aggressors, and sent a large number of military advisers and military command instructors to assist in the training and construction of regularized troops of the Vietnamese People's Army, and trained a large number of high-quality command personnel, which played a very crucial role in the Vietnamese people's resistance to the French aggressors.
The third outbound operation: Sino-Burmese joint border survey guard operation
There were two overseas operations, and the origin of the incident began with the defeat of the Kuomintang in 1949 and the escape to Taiwan. Relying on the taiwan strait graben and the protection of the US navy, the Kuomintang army continued to maintain a residual situation in Taiwan, and relied on the secret agent intelligence network to constantly collude with the remnants of the Kuomintang that remained in various parts of China's inland areas, constantly creating social chaos in various parts of our country, and affecting the normal development and construction of new China.
Before Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated, he left such a group of people to carry out hidden sabotage in Yunnan and Burma, which had a certain purpose; from November 1953, when the US military began to send military aircraft to Taiwan to transport a large number of fugitive personnel and supplies, the remnants of the Kuomintang army originally belonged to the 278th Regiment of the 93rd Division of the Eighth Army of the Kuomintang, and fled into the "Golden Triangle" area of Burma in March 1950 under the pursuit and attack of the People's Liberation Army. Led by this remnant of scattered troops, Liu Yuanlin, former deputy commander of the Kuomintang Eighth Army, who was known as an "expert in guerrilla warfare," gathered the remnants of the Kuomintang bandits in the surrounding areas, grew to more than 3,000 people, and finally fled to Burma under the pursuit and suppression of the People's Liberation Army, which not only caused a great adverse impact on the normal life of the Burmese people, but also constantly harassed and destroyed the border survey work between China and Myanmar.
It was also during this period that Zhou Enlai, then premier of the country, and Chen Yi, the founding general of the People's Republic of China, made a proposal to the Central Military Commission after visiting Burma to learn about the actual situation and dispatch border troops to completely extinguish this remnant of the Kuomintang. Therefore, from the end of 1960 to the beginning of 1961, the Chinese Border Guard Force and the Myanmar National Defense Force twice carried out a joint operation to clear and suppress the remnants of the Kuomintang army in the "Golden Triangle" area of the China-Myanmar border. After going abroad twice in 1960 and 1961 to coordinate with the Burmese bandits, killing 2 enemy division-level commanders, capturing 1 deputy division commander alive, and annihilating 740 enemy troops, destroying the old nest where the Kuomintang bandits had been entrenched for many years, laying a foundation for long-term stability and peace for the normal establishment of diplomatic relations and border trade between China and Myanmar.
The Fourth Outbound Operation: Self-Defense counterattack on the Sino-Indian border
At that time, this battle was hated by India for more than sixty years, and it is precisely because of this that more than sixty years of continuous reminders to us that India, which seems backward but ambitious, is always eyeing our territory and national security.
This time the border self-defense counterattack dates back to September 20, 1962, when India unilaterally crossed the eastern section of the McMahon Line and launched a surprise attack on our military garrison in the Kojielang area, and on October 10, the Chinese Shakdong post in the eastern section. In the eastern section of the China-India border, more than 16,000 troops were deployed; in the western section, the Indian army deployed 1 brigade headquarters, 6 infantry battalions, 1 machine gun battalion and several subordinate detachments with a total of more than 5,600 people, and on October 20, the Indian army launched a large-scale offensive against China, which lasted for a month. However, such acts of military invasion and military attacks have directly invaded and occupied China's territory without any notice, killed many officers and men of our army's border guards, and seriously endangered China's territorial integrity and the safety of the people's lives.
Therefore, our country resolutely decided to carry out a comprehensive self-defense counterattack and divided the counterattack operation plan into two stages.
The first stage was from October 20 to 28, from October 20, in the eastern section, the Tibetan border defense forces in view of the characteristics of the Indian army deployment in the Kejielang area of "heavy front and light rear, flank exposed", adopted the tactics of flanking and rear detouring, then dividing and encircling, and finally annihilating each, first concentrating forces to attack the Indian 7th Brigade, and quickly recapturing areas such as guns, karons, Kninai, and Shabian; at this time, another part of the troops coordinated with the Shannan Military Sub-district to launch an attack on the Indian army's frontal pulling fruit cloth and Bangwangding, and some of the troops detoured from the left Nyingchi Military Sub-districts each fought with a part of their forces mainly in the direction of the front.
Soon, the various units of the Indian army were divided and surrounded, and they were defeated and retreated, and the army collapsed, and by the 28th, 37 Indian military strongholds that had invaded China had been cleared.
In the context of the victory in the battle in the Eastern Section of Kejielang, on October 24, the Chinese Government issued a statement proposing three proposals: stopping the conflict, resuming negotiations, and peacefully resolving the border issue, and ordering the counterattack combat forces on the Eastern Front to stop pursuing, hoping that the two sides could re-enter the stage of peace negotiations. At this point, part of the first phase of the operation has come to an end.
The second stage is November, at this time India did not listen to China's peace proposals at all, still less repentant, there was no intention of withdrawing troops and peace talks, and there was no idea of peacefully resolving this dispute, turned around and returned to China and immediately declared that the whole country had entered a state of war, and then re-mobilized a large number of troops to assemble at the border, and by the middle of November, more than 30,000 people were regrouped, ready to counterattack in three steps on the 11th, 14th, and 16th, respectively, and our country looked at it, India was still not dead, that line, on the battlefield to fight again. I believe that the Indian army knows what to do.
Therefore, the second stage of the battle was immediately launched in that month, although the Indian army gathered a large number of troops and weapons and equipment, but the helpless army was scattered, the combat effectiveness was low, so it was soon again in a "fiasco" state, a month later, was killed by our army, captured more than 8,700 people, and a large number of materials and equipment were captured by our army, and finally, this self-defense counterattack against India ended with our army winning a complete victory, recovering a large number of lost land, and maintaining the peaceful and stable development of the border areas between the two countries.
The Fifth Outbound Operation: Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Vietnam
In 1955, after the French troops began to withdraw from Vietnam in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Accords, the United States flagrantly violated the agreement adopted at the Geneva Conference on the restoration of peace in the Indochina countries and plotted to turn South Vietnam into a Colony and military base of the United States by providing military assistance. In May 1961, the United States launched a "special war" in South Vietnam where the United States shot, paid, and sent advisers, and south Vietnamese people, so that the Vietnamese beat the Vietnamese.
On August 5, 1964, under the pretext that its warships were attacked by the North Vietnamese Navy off the coast of The Gulf of Tonkin, the so-called "Gulf of Tonkin Incident", a large number of aircraft were sent to bomb North Vietnam.
In early March 1965, the United States sent 3,500 Marines to land in Da Nang and send its ground forces into South Vietnam to fight. U.S. military aircraft have also continued to intrude into China's Hainan Island region and over Yunnan and Guangxi, dropping bombs and firing missiles, killing and wounding Chinese sailors and PLA fighters.
In order to effectively counter the us military aggression and to safeguard the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of China and Vietnam's neighboring regions, from June 1965 to August 1973, China successively dispatched anti-aircraft artillery, engineering, railway, mine clearance, logistics and other units, totaling more than 320,000 people, the highest year reached more than 170,000 people, in northern Vietnam to carry out air defense, combat, road construction, national defense engineering, mine clearance and logistical support tasks, strong support vietnam to resist the aggressors. Defending oneself and safeguarding one's own national security and safeguarding interests is a war of self-defense and counterattack.
China's "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam" that went abroad to assist Vietnam this time is mainly divided into two major stages.
The first phase, which began in June 1965 and ended in July 1970, was the most tragic and difficult phase of the entire war. As a result of the United States' strategic deployment of "fighting south and bombing in the north", large-scale air strikes were carried out against all important targets in northern Vietnam through steel ball bombs, submunitions, incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, air wave bombs, butterfly bombs, and "Hundred Tongue Bird" missiles that were able to counter attack radar facilities at that time.
At the same time, the engineering troops carried a large number of materials, repaired the fortifications as quickly as possible, and reinforced the fortifications of important facilities such as bridges, highways, and railways.
In the second stage, from May 1972 to August 1973, the US military stopped the military invasion operation of "fighting south and north bombing", forced by the north Vietnamese guerrillas to resist, the two sides began to enter a state of "negotiation while fighting", the US military continued to use carrier-based aircraft to lay air mines, and the biggest task of our army was to clear mines in a large area and quickly repair the basic support of oil pipelines, which was also an important link in breaking the strategic blockade of the US military against North Vietnam.
In the end, with the strong support of the Chinese mine clearance task force, the Vietnamese military and civilians broke through the air raid bombardment and sea blockade of the US military, and the US military was forced by pressure from all sides to finally sign the armistice agreement.
The Sixth Outbound Operation: Resisting US Aggression and Aiding the Elderly
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States carried out large-scale military strikes against Vietnam, and at the same time there were some military intrusions against countries around Vietnam, of which Laos was a clear example, the United States instigated political turmoil in Cambodia at the same time, but also created various social chaos in Laos, provided military assistance, supported right-wing pro-US forces, etc., in order to achieve its own "military intervention" reasons.
From March 1969 to November 1973, a number of engineering units were sent into Laos to assist in infrastructure construction.
Not only that, between 1969 and 1973, the anti-aircraft artillery units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army conducted air defense operations against US aircraft invading Laos in The Muang Sai, Muang Kwa, Muang Ben, Muang Hong and other areas of Laos. The 705th Brigade and the 302nd, 303rd and 304th Brigades were dispatched successively. The detachment, including a total of 21,000 people, was responsible for air defense operations in the construction of roads for the elderly.
On March 7, 1969, the 705th Brigade entered Laos and was deployed in the areas along the construction route of the Chinese Road Construction Force. At the end of the year, the 705th Brigade fought a total of 8 battles in the Lusai and Mongkwa areas, shooting down 3 US aircraft and wounding 5.
In January 1970, the 302nd Detachment led the 707th and 710th Brigades into Laos to take over the air defense tasks of the 705th Brigade. By the end of the year, the 302nd Detachment had fought 26 times, shot down 9 US planes and damaged 12.
In January 1971, the 303rd Detachment took over the air defense mission of the 302nd Detachment. In May of the same year, the 304th Detachment entered Laos and was tasked with air defense in the area where Meng Ben and Meng Hong built roads. Detachments 303 and 304 returned to China in December 1971 and November 1973, respectively.
According to relevant information, the main tasks of assisting laos in air defense operations are the 72nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the Army; the 15th Antiaircraft Artillery Division of the Air Force and its subordinate 647th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, the 55th Air Force Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, the Independent Battalion of The Antiaircraft Artillery of the 11th Army army and the independent battalion of the antiaircraft artillery of the 32nd Division of the Army; the 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Division (304th Detachment) of the Air Force and the independent battalion of the 30th Antiaircraft Artillery Of the Army Division.
Finally, in December 1975, Laos was completely freed from the shackles of foreign forces and finally ushered in a long-lost peace.
The Seventh Outbound Operation: A Counterattack in Self-Defense against Vietnam
This is currently the closest outbound operation to us. It mainly refers to the war between China and Vietnam between February 17 and March 16, 1979.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the confrontation between Vietnam and the United States, so that the United States fell into the quagmire of war and pain, but the Vietnamese side continued to inflate itself, and then constantly invaded China's territory, causing a large number of casualties among the military and civilians in china, in order to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, china decided to officially start the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam in February 1979, just one month, our army was like a sea of mountains, so that the invincible Vietnamese army was defeated like a mountain. The war then lasted for a full decade, until the end of the 1980s, when Vietnam was forced to withdraw.
Here, because the article is limited in space, we can only briefly introduce these seven outbound operations since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and in the future, we will specifically explain these seven outbound operations in detail.
I hope that every Chinese will keep in mind that our country can develop in a peaceful and stable environment, and for the masses of the people to be able to live in peace and quiet in the years of peace and tranquility, countless Chinese soldiers, with their own lives and blood, are defending every inch of the motherland's territory and every peace! Thinking of danger in times of peace, drinking water thinking of the source, we must understand that there is a country, there is a home!
Hats off to every hero of the Republic!
Salute to the great sons and daughters of the people!
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