When it comes to the relationship between Vietnam and China, friends familiar with history know that as early as the time of Qin Shi Huang, Vietnam was a county in China. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was still a vassal state of China and has always paid tribute to China. It was not until after the Sino-French War that it became a French colony, and then ruled by France, Japan and the United States, until 1976, when it was completed. After that, Vietnam quickly inflated itself, claimed to be the world's third military power, and constantly provoked our country, frequently provoking incidents on the border, and it was in this context that the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam broke out. So why did Vietnam dare to claim to be the world's third military power? The main reasons are as follows.
First of all, Vietnam defeated France and the United States in the process of reunification, and its self-confidence was greatly improved. Although France was in decline at that time, it was still a European power, and the United States was the world's largest military power at that time. However, the two countries were lost in the jungles of Vietnam and eventually retreated in ashes. Even the United States could not do anything about itself, and Vietnam immediately rose up, and its self-confidence was extremely inflated, believing that no one except the United States and the Soviet Union could be its opponent, so it dared to call itself the third military power in the world.
Second, Vietnam had a large army and sophisticated armaments at that time. After the reunification of Vietnam, the total strength of the country was as high as one million, and most of these people were veterans who had been baptized by the anti-French struggle and the anti-US struggle, and they were not only rich in combat experience, but also very strong in combat effectiveness. In addition to Soviet military assistance, many of the finest weapons left in South Vietnam by the United States during the war were also taken over by the unified Vietnamese authorities. With sufficient military resources and excellent equipment, Vietnam has the courage to claim to be the world's third military power.
In the end, Vietnam received strong support from the Soviet Union at that time, so it had no fear. Soon after Vietnam's reunification, with the support of the Soviet Union, troops invaded Laos and Cambodia, and stationed troops in both countries, at that time there were more than 50,000 Vietnamese troops in Laos and more than 150,000 Vietnamese troops in Cambodia. In terms of the number of troops stationed abroad, Vietnam at that time was second only to the United States and the Soviet Union. With consecutive victories and the Soviet Union as a backer, Vietnam's ambitions are extremely inflated, eager to become the third in the world, and constantly provoking our country.
But Vietnam's self-confidence was too much, and he forgot whose help he had won the anti-French and anti-American struggles, and who he had learned his guerrilla tactics from. After the outbreak of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, our army took less than a month to capture many important towns in Vietnam and the troops rushed to Hanoi. Li Sun finally woke up from the dream of the world's third place, and while ordering the national mobilization, he prepared to move the capital. Seeing that the goals set before the war had been achieved, our army took the initiative to withdraw its troops, and Li Sun avoided greater embarrassment. It can be seen that strength is king, if there is no strength, no matter how big the soap bubble blows, it will eventually be broken.