On February 17, 1979, a self-defense counterattack war broke out between China and Vietnam. Before the war against Vietnam began, the leader had met a special person in Beijing, who was neither Vietnamese nor Chinese, and who was Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia. Upon his return in 1975, Prince Sihanouk was placed under house arrest. Until January 7, 1979, Vietnam sent troops to Vietnam, the capital of Cambodia, and occupied Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, that China sent a special plane to bring Prince Sihanouk's family to Beijing.
Prince Sihanouk was the leader of Cambodia, and before the war against Vietnam began, the first country vietnam invaded was Cambodia. The Cambodia-Vietnam War occurred in 1975, just after the war with the United States, Vietnam launched an invasion of Cambodia with the support of the Soviet Union, not only that, at the same time that Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, the Vietnamese military and police had repeatedly crossed the Sino-Vietnamese border to harass and invade China's border people. It was not until February 17, 1979, that the Chinese side began a just war against Vietnam when it could not bear it.
What were the Vietnamese people doing on the day of the war against Vietnam? In fact, many people can't imagine that on this day, the Vietnamese newspapers were not shrouded in the smoke of war, but a joyful atmosphere. We have already mentioned that Vietnam occupied Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on January 7, 1979, and then Vietnam supported a puppet regime, when a vietnamese leader, Han Sam Lam, established the People's Republic of Cambodia with vietnamese support and issued a letter to the people.
Under this puppet regime, Vietnamese troops were stationed in Cambodia, but this puppet regime was recognized by the Soviet Union and other countries, and began a 14-year rule. But when Prince Sihanouk announced in Pyongyang, North Korea, that he would fight back to the end with the Vietnamese invaders, on the first day of the war against Vietnam, that is, on February 17, 1979, the people in Vietnam, especially in Hanoi and South Vietnam, were infected by the joyful atmosphere in the newspapers and did not feel the breath of war taking place.
This is because on this day, the whole country of Vietnam saw in the newspaper how Cambodia's "friend" received Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Tong in Phnom Penh. At that time, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Thom was leading a delegation to visit the Cambodian regime that he supported, and Vietnamese newspapers were basically full of praise for the so-called "Cambodia-Vietnam relations", which could be said to be full of joy.
It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening that Vietnamese officials reported on the war for the first time. But compared to the joy in the Vietnamese newspapers, on the battlefield of the North Vietnamese front, it was not so joyful. After the outbreak of the War against Vietnam, the People's Liberation Army conducted a multi-service joint operation, armored troops, engineers, infantry and artillery marched to Vietnam at the same time, and completed the Battle of DongXi on the first day, followed by the Battle of Lao Shan and the Battle of Gao Binh.
The war against Vietnam was not only a huge blow to Vietnam, but it was also the best support for Cambodia. In the case of the tight domestic war, Vietnam had to transfer troops back to China from the Cambodian battlefield to fight, to a certain extent, reducing the pressure in Cambodia, I don't know how everyone thinks about this matter, you can leave a message below to discuss it together!