In the 1979 counterattack against Vietnam, it seemed that only China and Vietnam participated in the war, but in fact, under the Cold War pattern, there were far more forces involved than on the surface, such as the Soviet Union.
Although the Soviet Union did not directly send troops from the north of our country to relieve the pressure on Vietnam, he still did a lot of things, assisted Vietnam with a lot of materials, and also sent a team of military advisers to Hanoi to guide Vietnamese officers and soldiers
Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov
When he arrived in Vietnam, he also issued wild words that he would repulse our army within ten days, and the result was to punch him in the face.
Vietnam was reunified by North Vietnam in 1975, but after this step began to gradually fall to the Soviet Union in its entirety, leaving behind all of China's contributions to his independence.
In fact, the reason why Vietnam fell to the Soviet Union was related to his dream of being the "world's third military power", and after its reunification and independence, it wanted to expand its territory and unify Laos and Cambodia, the other two colonial countries of France, and hoped that China would carry out a large amount of selfless assistance as before.
These two ideas are very incomprehensible, so they are gradually drifting away from China, in order to achieve the first goal, Vietnam is also willing to win back the sovereignty after so many years of fighting, but leased Cam Ranh Bay to the Soviet Union in exchange for Soviet support.
After the Soviet Union benefited, it began to vigorously assist Vietnam economically and militarily, and even tried to attack China.
On December 25, 1978, more than 200,000 Vietnamese troops openly invaded Cambodia, and he certainly had the confidence to do so, because the disparity in strength between the two countries was too great, and Cambodia only had more than 100,000 troops, and Vietnam because it had just been unified, more than one million combat veterans, the fight was very simple.
It turned out that Vietnam was right, Cambodia was gradually defeated in the frontal battlefield, and on January 7, 1979, Vietnam occupied Phnom Penh, and on the same day, it supported the puppet regime of Han Sam Lam.
Because Vietnam had already signed a military alliance treaty with the Soviet Union, China certainly did not dare to do anything in its heart, so while provoking China and taking China's warning as the wind in its ears, on February 16, the first Vietnamese military, The First People's Jin Yong, led many politicians to visit the newly established Han Sang Lam puppet regime.
Obviously underestimating our determination to defend its territorial security, the Vietnamese side counterattacked vietnam with nine armies on February 17, which made the Vietnamese side panic, and while hastily organizing troops, it eagerly asked the Soviet Union for help.
After much deliberation, the Soviets sent men to Vietnam— a 120-man military advisory group led by Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov.
Ivanovich served in the Soviet Union as commander of the Carpathian Military District and first deputy inspector general of the Ministry of Defense, and was a general and a man of military knowledge, and was awarded the rank of Soviet general after being selected to go to Vietnam.
A team of 120 advisers leapt 10,000 miles to Hanoi in the early morning of February 19, and soon discussed with Wen Jinyong, Li Zhongxun and others, and after learning that the Chinese army had only about 600 old tanks and no armored personnel carriers, and logistics still relied on backward manpower and animal power, they issued a bold statement:
Ten days to repulse the Chinese army
。 With his words, the Vietnamese high-level are relieved a lot.
However, Ivanovich was still quite pragmatic and proposed to go to the front line to see, so under the escort of the Vietnamese, the members of the advisory group took a train to Lang Son, and when they approached Lang Son, they were crowded by a flood of refugees and could not move, so they had to change to a jeep to finally reach it.
After arriving at the scene, he found that the Vietnamese army was even more not what he thought, in his opinion, the Chinese army's offensive method was relatively backward, but Vietnam's more backward, it was completely a "handicraft workshop", even guerrilla warfare was very chinese army style, he tried to organize the army to counterattack, but to no avail, the main Vietnamese army was quickly defeated, and the entire defense line was full of holes.
Seeing that it was irretrievable, he immediately suggested to Lê Sun to transfer back an army from Cambodia to reinforce Hanoi, to urgently form a BM-21 rocket artillery division with the weapons just shipped by the Soviet Union, and after receiving approval, he quickly requested assistance from Moscow to a communication company of 68 people, restoring information communication for the front line and the rear, and ensuring the issuance of orders.
Of course, by the time he had done all this, our army had already conquered Lang Son, and the various units had penetrated into Vietnam with depths ranging from 30 to 50 kilometers, controlled about 20 towns, and basically the army in northern Vietnam was maimed. This result has reached our initial combat objectives, so the troops withdrew and returned home. It dealt a sharp blow to the arrogance of the Vietnamese side, and also hit Ivanovic in the face!
This war has successfully defended the security of China's southern Xinjiang and given us decades of development opportunities.