Vietnam belongs to one of our neighbors, when Vietnam and France fought, our country gave a lot of help, sent military advisers to guide it, and also helped the Vietnamese army to carry out military training, trained a lot of officers and soldiers, it can be said that vietnam was able to win the war of resistance against France is indispensable to the help of our army.
After that, the United States invaded Vietnam on a large scale, and this time China still did not choose to stand idly by, providing them with strong help without compensation, and in the whole process, China also sent nearly 300,000 officers and soldiers to help them resist the aggression of the US army.
It was not until 1975 that the war situation in Vietnam was basically stable and the US military gradually withdrew, and then China gradually reduced its help and support for it. What we did not expect was that Vietnam quickly defected as soon as it completed its reunification, completely forgetting our previous help to him and constantly invading our border areas.
In 1979, our army felt that it was intolerable, and finally rose up to fight back, starting a counterattack in Vietnam's self-defense. The battle went very smoothly, and it took only one month to repel them all. Although the overall advantage occurred, an incredible thing happened in the final retreat stage, a company commander led more than two hundred of his men to surrender, which made Xu Shiyou angry.
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As planned, the team was unexpectedly dispersed
During the operation, our army successfully took Langshan according to the original plan, and according to the previous deployment, it should immediately retreat and prepare to return to China, but in the process of retreating, an unexpected thing happened. At that time, the Vietnamese thieves who were repelled were not dead, still waiting for an opportunity to sneak behind our army, when our army was keenly aware of their small movements, so it planned to send a regiment to cover and ensure the successful withdrawal of large troops.
At that time, the 448th Regiment did not have the opportunity to fight, so it took the initiative to ask Mi to take on this task. General Xu Shiyou considered that the soldiers of their regiment had not yet had a chance to fight in actual combat, and thought of letting them exercise, so he agreed. I thought that the cover mission should be very smooth, but I did not expect that the 2nd Battalion of the 448th Regiment had encountered an unexpected situation, they were ambushed by the Vietnamese army, and because of the loss in numbers, the first and eighth companies of this battalion were scattered. The situation of their two companies was critical at the time.
After a fierce battle, the 8th Company was almost exhausted, and the last number of the entire company was only 200 people. Company commander Feng Zengmin was very anxious to see such a situation, if the hard battle continued, the whole army would eventually be destroyed, and after some entanglement, he decided to surrender, so the company commander and more than two hundred soldiers of the whole company became prisoners of war. However, the 1st Company, which was also in a desperate situation, made a different choice, and their company commander ordered a sworn resistance to the death, and the final result could be imagined. Only two warriors survived in the end, and both were seriously injured, and Xu Shiyou was very angry when he heard the news.
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The company commander was court-martialed, and the result was controversial
After learning that our soldiers had been captured, our country sent troops to provide assistance many times, but Vietnam refused to let go easily, and after much coordination, the two sides decided to exchange prisoners of war peacefully. In this way, the company commander Feng Zengmin and the rest of the soldiers were rescued, but after he returned to China, he was sent to a military court. Because many people at that time thought that his surrender was very inappropriate, since the 1st Company could resist, then the 8th Company could also do the same, but Feng Zengmin chose to surrender, so many people felt that he had lost his military demeanor. In the end, Feng Zengmin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for surrender, and after he was released from prison, he also had the titles of coward, apostasy, etc., he not only had to bear the torment of his heart, but also had to endure the accusations of others, and life was not good.
When interviewed why he had made the decision to surrender, he said that after a bitter battle, they had almost no chance of winning, and if they persisted, the remaining two hundred soldiers in the company were likely to die. It was two hundred living beings, and they also had their own relatives and families, so he really did not want to see them separated from their relatives, so he decided to surrender.
Some people understand Feng Zengmin's explanation, but some people still think that he surrendered because he was timid and afraid of death, and all these explanations were his excuses, nothing more than trying to excuse himself. After all, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, our army was much behind the Japanese army in terms of weapons and equipment, and there were not a few battles in which he won more with less, so people thought that his decision to surrender was too hasty and unacceptable.
brief summary
This incident was very controversial, and the defeat of this campaign was largely due to the mistake of command, so Feng Zengmin had an unshirkable responsibility. Although he had deficiencies in the combat command at that time, his concerns were also understandable, after all, more than two hundred soldiers were also ordinary people, and once all of them were killed in battle, more than two hundred innocent families would be hit. War is cruel, and we know that today's peace is not easy to come by, so we must cherish it even more.