As we all know, the Battle of Lang Son was part of the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack, and on March 1, 1979, a fierce battle broke out in Lang Son, and the Vietnamese Army reinforced the elite 308th Division of the Capital Defense Force from Hanoi to counterattack On Son and use chemical weapons. The 42nd Army was forced to retreat, and the Chinese urgently pulled the rear artillery division to the front line to suppress and fight bayonets.
On March 4, the 308th Division of the Vietnamese Army was attacked by two Chinese divisions from the flank and retreated, and the People's Liberation Army captured Lang Son, it is understood that the main Chinese army attacking Lang Son was the 55th Army of the Guangzhou Military Region and the 162nd Division of the Attached 54th Army, strengthening the heavy artillery cluster, and attaching it to the main force of the 43rd Army and the 148th Division of the 50th Army to coordinate the attack from the direction of Lu Binh to the east. The total offensive strength of 7 divisions is more than 80,000 people, below, let's take stock of the 4 major armies of the Battle of Lang Son in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
The predecessor of the 55th Army was the Chen Mingren Corps of the Changsha Uprising, which was later reorganized into the 21st Corps of the People's Liberation Army, and in October 1952, with the 21st Corps as the backbone, it joined the 48th Army and the 49th Army and formed the 55th Army, and the first commander was General Chen Mingren. The backbone of the 55th Army was an insurgent force, and the main battle record before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China was the suppression of bandits, which was not conspicuous in the sequence of the People's Liberation Army. In the war against Vietnam, the 55th Army braved Tongdeng and annihilated the "Venus Division" ace 12 regiments, which began to show its style.
The predecessor of the 43rd Army was the 6th Column of Dongye, and Chen Guang, a famous Red Army general who died early, was the first chief officer, and was a famous "two-headed and sharp- troop" in Dongye, who was fierce against the enemy and against himself. The predecessor of the 6th Column 16th Division is the oldest unit in the whole army of the People's Liberation Army: the Ye Ting Independent Regiment! The 6th Column was known for its proficiency in attacking strong battles in the Eastern Wilderness, and had annihilated more than 30,000 people of Liao Yaoxiang's corps in the pursuit of Western Liaoning.
In 1949, the whole army was reorganized, the 6th column was organized into the Siye 43rd Army, Hong Xuezhi was the first commander, and the 43rd Army went south to Liangguang, pursued Bai Chongxi, liberated Hainan Island, and made great military achievements. Since the start of the war against the Vietnamese counterattack, the 43rd Army has penetrated Dongxi for a long time, and its tank unit has rushed into Dongxi alone in a tank, dispersed the Vietnamese army, and held alone for three hours, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops, laying the foundation for the encirclement and annihilation of the Vietnamese army in Gaoping.
The predecessor of the 50th Army was the 60th Army of the Uprising in the Liaoshen Campaign, in 1949 the whole army was reorganized into the Siye 50th Army, the commander of which was the rebel general Zeng Zesheng, the 50th Army was one of the first six armies to enter the DPRK, in the third campaign it annihilated the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion, in the Fourth Campaign alone on the south bank of the Han River, with great sacrifice to withstand the attack of the superior strength of the United Nations Army, stabilizing the overall front. Thus, the position of this rebel force in the whole army was laid.
The 54th Army is the trump card of the Central Military Commission, the predecessor of this unit is the 44th Army and the 45th Army of the Fourth Field Army, and the 44th Army is the former Dongye 7th Column, the famous "Deng Hua Column". When fighting Hengbao, the 45th Army with one division of Ding Sheng resisted Bai Chongxi's 5 divisions, and forced the "Little Zhuge Ge" to break his teeth. In October 1952, the main forces of the 44th Army and the 45th Army were merged to form the 54th Army, and the first commander was Ding Sheng.
In the Korean War, the 54th Army participated in the Battle of Jincheng and completed the last battle of the Korean War; in the Sino-Indian border counterattack in 1962, the troops of the 54th Army won a great victory in Wa Nong on the Eastern Front, giving the Indian army an unforgettable lesson; in this self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the 54th Army rushed to Gaoping and fought a bloody battle on Highway 4, ensuring that friendly and neighboring troops defeated the enemy as scheduled. The 54th Army participated in three large-scale foreign wars after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and can be called the "foreign warfare experts" in the People's Liberation Army.