It can be said that in the modern situation, war is something that people all over the world hate, and peace is the trend of the times. Sadly, however, wars are sometimes forced to be waged in order to maintain peace.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, it experienced the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and in comparison, the counterattack against Vietnam that occurred after that took up less space in the history books, which is relatively understated, but the importance of the counterattack against Vietnam is beyond doubt.
And what is less known is that although the counterattack against Vietnam was established within a month, the victory of our army was established. But then the two-mountain round war between China and Vietnam lasted for ten years, China's rhythm has not been slow, there is no previous vigorous action, as for the reason, look at the results of the two mountain round war, you can know, Vietnam was dragged down, the Soviet Union was dried up.
Vietnam War
For many Asian countries, modern history is a humiliating history, losing their independent sovereignty and becoming a colony or semi-colony, of which Vietnam is one.
During World War II, the colonial control of Vietnam by the great powers was loosened, and Vietnam was thus able to become independent, but because of the many residual problems of colonial rule, it failed to achieve domestic unification, and after World War II, with the support of the Soviet Union, a civil war broke out in Vietnam, and the United States also intervened in this war in order to support pro-American South Vietnam.
China and the Soviet Union did not send troops to provide support, but provided supplies to Vietnam in the rear, so the United States once again returned home after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. This victory gave Vietnam greater ambition and completely threw himself into the arms of the Soviet Union.
With the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations in the later period, Vietnam's attitude toward China also changed, and it began to test our borders and undermine our territorial sovereignty, so we launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam and demonstrated our determination.
The counterattack against Vietnam can be said to be fierce, lasting a month to usher in victory, the Chinese army withdrew from Vietnam, triumphant return, but Vietnam did not stop at this.
In the Guangxi and Yunnan regions on the border of China, they mainly used Laoshan and Zheyin Mountains as their base, so the confrontation between the two armies at this time was called the Battle of the Two Mountains and lasted for ten years.
Lengthen the front
Specifically, the Battle of the Two Mountains refers to the point pulling operations conducted by our army against the Vietnamese military strongholds around Lao Shan and Nh Yin Shan since 1984. The so-called rotational warfare means that after that, we transferred a total of ten group armies from the major military regions and adopted the method of taking turns to fight.
This round of war lasted for ten years, and it seemed to be very difficult before and after, but in the counterattack against Vietnamese self-defense, our army obviously won an overwhelming victory.
Our army is not short of momentum, the counterattack war against Vietnamese self-defense wants results, so it is necessary to act vigorously and quickly end the war, and the purpose of the subsequent round war is not this, the purpose of the two-mountain round war is not the result, but the process, it can be said that our army deliberately pulled the front line so long.
One of the purposes of the first round battle was to train the soldiers. At that time, New China had experienced a long period of peace, the soldiers lacked drills, the combat ability had declined, and in the initial self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam, some disadvantages were caused by the lack of training of soldiers in peacetime, and Vietnam had just finished fighting with the US army and accumulated a large amount of actual combat experience and sophisticated equipment.
Our army, feeling the undesirable consequences caused by the lack of training of the soldiers, mobilized the group army in the battle of the two mountains, adopted the method of fighting as a substitute for training, and accumulated experience for the soldiers through tug-of-war.
Here we have to mention the importance of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, although the history textbooks do not introduce much about this war, but at that time, if China's offensive against Vietnam was ignored, the consequences would be very serious.
If China allows Vietnam to invade and take Cambodia and Burma, china will in fact fall into the encirclement network of the Soviet Union and Vietnam, and at that time, China will only survive in the cracks between the United States and the Soviet Union, and its development will be greatly restricted.
After that, if China's national strength weakens, it will even become a colony or semi-colony again, losing its hard-won independent sovereignty, resulting in a situation of internal division.
Such a situation is unimaginable and intolerable. Therefore, it is imperative to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and it is far from enough to win a victory, and it is necessary to lengthen the front line so that Vietnam will fall into the abyss of war, and it will not regroup and start another war.
Drag down both countries
In the Battle of the Two Mountains, China's superiority as a big country was reflected, and China mobilized the provincial group armies to come to Vietnam, which was not so much a war as a large-scale military training, so in the process of the battle, the impact on China was relatively small, and China's economy continued to move forward steadily.
Vietnam, on the other hand, is not very good, they can only exhaust the military force, pool the strength of the whole country to confront the strength of our province, in a national war to seek development is obviously unrealistic, Vietnam in order to cope with the war, had to sacrifice the development of other aspects, so the industry is backward, the economy has never been able to get great development, it can be said that it was dragged down by the two-mountain round war.
Vietnam was dragged down, and the Soviet Union, its supporters, were not well, and Vietnam was defeated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and the Soviet Union had to give support so that they could rest. The ten-year-long battle between the two hills was a deficit in Vietnam's finances, which could only be sustained by Soviet aid.
At that time, the Soviet Union was also in decline, could not afford to pay out such money, could not take care of itself, and finally there was an economic crisis, which can be said to be dried up.
brief summary:
Regardless of the camp in which we are in, respect for the territorial sovereignty of other countries must be regarded as the first criterion of diplomacy, and the army of the initiating country is also an unjust division in a war of aggression launched for the purpose of invading the territory of other countries.
Since the founding of New China, after experiencing the baptism of several wars, China has shown to the world with a stubborn attitude of struggle that we do not cause trouble and are not afraid of things.