The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam is the closest war since the founding of New China, and it seems to be a contest between us and Vietnam, but it is actually a contest between us and vietnam's supporters, the very powerful Soviet Union at that time. There are no eternal friends in this world, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. So when the Soviet Union, which had been helping us in the early days of the country, developed until the 1970s, it helped Vietnam, which constantly provoked us.
The world was in the midst of the "Cold War", the bipolar world. The two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, dominated the world, and the period of Vietnam's self-defense counterattack was also a period of intense competition between the two countries. At that time, the European Union had not yet been established, and the Asian Tigers, led by Japan, had not yet truly reached their peak. Our country has just reformed and opened up, and the country has also developed to a certain extent in all aspects. At that time, the countries of the world had basically walked out of the pain of World War II and began to devote themselves to their own economic development. This is especially true in our country, ushering in the spring of reform and opening up, especially in our jiangnan coastal area, taking the lead in implementing the policy of attracting investment and investment, and countless people have gone to the sea to do business.
In vietnam, this place is the opposite, and when others are vigorously developing their own strength and realizing that strength is king, they are still constantly provoking our Guangxi-Yunnan border. Especially after riding the Soviet Union, the gold lord, he was even more blind, lawless, and arrogant. And since ancient times, Vietnam has been a country that does not know the height of the sky, and the famous idiom "Night Lang is arrogant" refers to them. With the support of the Soviet Union, Vietnam claimed to be "the world's third largest military power." Historically, Vietnam has always belonged to our vassal states. That is to say, due to the various encounters of our country in modern times and the lack of attention to their land, Vietnam seized the opportunity to become an independent country. In the 1970s, Vietnam also came out of the colonial wounds of World War II. However, there was no complete awakening, and like other countries, they began to resume production and develop their economies. Moreover, in the face of China, which has already implemented reform and opening up, and gradually established diplomatic relations with other countries in the world, and even more to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, Nixon also began to visit China. It can be said that the new China, which has experienced a hundred years of humiliation, has finally gained the spring of development after standing up.
It is against this backdrop that Vietnam continues to harass by force the borders of Yunnan and Guangxi, which border them. Because of the support of the Soviet Union, Vietnam even claimed to be the "spokesperson" of the Soviet Union in Asia, knowing that they had fought a war with the United States before provoking us. It is true that Vietnam did not let the United States gain much benefit, which gave Vietnam great self-confidence and felt that the strength of its country was unmatched. So it is not enough to hit our country with greedy eyes. In the face of Vietnam's non-provocations, we really did not pay attention to them at the beginning, after all, it was a small country that had just been established, and our main energy at that time was on the development of the economy, and we really would not easily launch a war until we had to.
But not everyone will complain with virtue, and so will the state and the country. We didn't take Vietnam seriously, but they thought we were afraid of them. So we had to send troops to fight back. So we sent troops to Vietnam on February 17, 1979, and it was even more imposing and mighty. Because the confidence that Vietnam and the United States have gained before makes them feel that the war with us is also inevitable, and it does not consume much combat power. But what they did not expect was that it took only one month for our People's Liberation Army to return to the motherland from the time of its expulsion to the great victory, and it withdrew to the motherland on March 16, 1979. It can be described as a quick battle, lightning speed. In this month's time, not only did Vietnam collapse and defeat the war, but many cities' roads and supplies were also pocketed by our army. But we are not robbing their food and materials, after all, we have reformed and opened up, we are not at all bad at all, but the things we have brought back are all kinds of materials that we helped them when we had good relations with Vietnam before. Vietnam's fiasco, the previous arrogance no longer exists, but also convincing us.
Although our People's Liberation Army was unstoppable and heroic in the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack. But there was also a shameful thing - we had a soldier who had become a prisoner of Vietnam. It is rare to know that such a thing is rare in the military history from the establishment of our Nanchang uprising to the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack. At that time, an entire company of our People's Liberation Army was captured by Vietnam. This incident can be said to be a very humiliating thing in the history of our People's Liberation Army, and it can even be said to be a shameful history in the history of the People's Liberation Army.
The war, which had been very rapid, had come to an end, and victory or defeat was a foregone conclusion. There is no doubt that our People's Liberation Army has won a great victory, so only a small number of soldiers need to be left to clean up the battlefield, and most of the troops are already withdrawing. The 50th Army was Du Ze's retreating force, and on the way back at that time, the People's Liberation Army encountered the elite Vietnamese troops. This elite unit caught our Self-Defense Forces even more off guard, and they were much larger than our Self-Defense Forces. This was not a good thing for our 50th Army at that time, but we would definitely send troops to rescue the 50th Army. At that time, they were responsible for rescuing the two companies of the 1st Company and the 8th Company of the 150th Division. But after all, the opponents we encountered were the elite Vietnamese troops, so our two support armies were also ambushed by the Vietnamese troops, and our self-defense forces were surrounded. The 1st Company at that time quickly adjusted its strategy in the face of the enemy's ambush, and the company commander also lived and died with his own soldiers, fighting until the last moment. However, the 8th Company, which was also a reinforcement, chose to surrender, and did not even have the courage to fight. At that time, the company commander of the 8th Company was named Feng Zengmin, who also gave him the order to surrender, and in order to preserve his strength, he chose to lose without a fight, which became an indelible stroke on the pillar of shame of our People's Liberation Army.
Faced with the situation at that time, a company was not at all the opponent of the elite Vietnamese troops, and the commander of the 8th Company, Feng Zengmin, chose to surrender, which may be the most normal choice for ordinary people, but they were the People's Liberation Army, the last line of defense of our country, and in doing so they were the sinners of the country.
The entire 8th Company became prisoners of the Vietnamese army, but after all, it was our People's Liberation Army, and the country would not ignore them. After this war, both China and Vietnam had to deal with wartime affairs, and the exchange of prisoners was one of them. It was also at this time that the entire 8th Company was sent back to the motherland. But this unit has indeed lost the company and momentum of our People's Liberation Army. Feng Zengmin, the company commander of the 8th Company, was also sent to a military court for trial, but even so, it could not make up for their lost momentum and the integrity of the People's Liberation Army. War must be sacrificed, and the state's forces are the last line of defense of this country, if even they retreat, then the whole country still has integrity and future? Although there is an age-old proverb that "those who know the times are handsome", this sentence should be about the individual, not mixed with the state and responsibility, only about the individual.
Therefore, no matter what the intention, Feng Zengmin's approach is definitely not the work of the iron-boned soldiers. You must know that since the establishment of the Nanchang Uprising in 1927, our People's Liberation Army has never been defeated in a major battle. Whether it is the 25,000-mile Long March during the Red Army period, or the War of Resistance Against Japan, which lasted the longest and paid the greatest price. Then there was the War of Liberation after the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and what we call Vietnam's self-defense counterattack today. No matter how much the soldiers and people of our country have paid, how long they have been tug-of-war, and how severe the situation, we have never flinched.
This is the integrity and character that our country's thousands of years of history have endowed us, especially our soldiers, and fighting until the last moment is the credo that our country's soldiers scrupulously abide by to the death. Therefore, the 8th Company lost the most precious thing of the soldiers, and choosing to surrender is the biggest taboo of the soldiers, and the moment they chose to surrender, they gave the three words of the People's Liberation Army ash.
The Vietnamese self-defense counterattack is also the closest war to us, only a few decades away. When our People's Liberation Army withdrew, it also destroyed the infrastructure and roads of many of their important cities, and even took back the grain we had previously provided to them in their warehouses. Even if this battle had a small accident like Feng Zengmin, the result was still a big victory for us. More importantly, this battle also solved the strife between China and Vietnam, shocked Vietnam, a country that did not know the height of the sky, under the desperate struggle of our People's Liberation Army, and also preserved the decades-long peace of our provinces bordering China and Vietnam, such as Guangxi and Yunnan. In the country where we are strong today, we have more strength to protect our land and people. The various weapons displayed in the military parades and the heroic and mighty People's Liberation Army have given us great self-confidence and security. Our country has developed into a strong era, not only economically and militarily, but also in other soft power aspects, we have gradually improved, and the Civil Code that we are about to implement is a demonstration of our country's progress.
This is our country, a country that is getting better and stronger. Our nation has the power to protect every inch of our land and every people. Looking at the world, in this battle against COVID-19 without smoke, our practices, measures and results are unparalleled in the world. And our country is also recognized as one of the safest countries in the world, it is a very common thing for us to go out in the middle of the night, in this country every Chinese within the scope of the law we can do whatever we want, go anywhere we want, which is inseparable from the efforts of every military and police soldier.