Author: Forget about the jianghu
On February 17, 1979, the friction of the cannons in southern Xinjiang rumbled.
On the more than 2,300-kilometer border line between Guangxi and Yunnan provinces and Vietnam, the People's Liberation Army launched a thunderous strike against Vietnam, which is known as the "world's third military power.". More than a month ago, the Vietnamese army, which was still clamoring to "fight until friendship pass for breakfast and fight to Nanning for the Spring Festival", was in a hurry for a while, and only the merit of fighting was not able to fight back.
Despite China's many blows, the entire world, including the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, was stunned. When the Soviet army had not yet eased up, our army recovered all the lost land and advanced tens of kilometers in less than a month, annihilating more than 60,000 enemy troops and occupying more than 20 cities.
At this moment, the Platon Army, which had won a great victory, stopped its offensive and turned to the full withdrawal of troops. Don't say that Xu Shiyou is quite puzzled, even the whole world is once again stunned. On March 16, Beijing announced that the Plaster had all withdrawn its forces to Vietnam.
From "Comrades and Brothers" to "Farmers and Snakes"
During the Qin and Han dynasties, north-central Vietnam was also China's "Elephant County".
From the establishment of the Ding Dynasty in 968 to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Vietnam has been a vassal state of China, and the name "Vietnam" was also crowned by the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The signing of the Sino-French New Covenant in 1885 completely changed this vassalage, and Vietnam became a French colony.
During World War II, China and Vietnam moved toward similar paths of national liberation and national independence.
By the 1950s, Sino-Vietnamese relations entered a honeymoon period of "comrades and brothers", which lasted for more than 20 years.
During this period, China first aided Vietnam to resist France and helped Vietnam win the War of Resistance against France that lasted for 9 years; then aided Vietnam to resist the United States, spending more than 20 billion US dollars in materials and countless manpower, once again helping North Vietnam win the war against the United States, and then realizing the reunification of the North and the South.
When the stalemate between Vietnam and the United States was infested, in addition to selflessly assisting more than 1.7 million guns and more than 30,000 artillery pieces, China also sent a military advisory group to teach the "students" all the tactics and tactics of the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army, but the "students" betrayed the "teacher" in the blink of an eye.
There are three reasons for transforming the "comrade and brother" intimacy into a "farmer and a snake":
First, in the late 1960s, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, and Vietnam had to choose its place; second, the death of Ho Chi Minh and the improvement of Sino-US relations made Vietnam feel unhappy; third, Vietnam's ambitions were inflated and it felt good, signing the "Soviet-Vietnamese Treaty of Friendship" with the Soviet Union and joining the "Economic Mutual Association".
Ho Chi Minh and Chen Geng
Second, if Heaven wants its demise, it must first make it crazy
After the improvement of Sino-US relations, the Lê Sun clique defected to the Soviet Union, but there was still no refusal to come to China's aid.
In July 1976, Vietnam declared the reunification of the North and the South, and there was discord in Sino-Vietnamese relations, and Vietnam repeatedly provoked and created armed conflicts against China's land border and the South China Sea Zhudao. As the ambitions of the Lêtō clique swelled, the plot to dominate the Indochina Peninsula with the support of the Soviet Union was exposed.
In July 1978, Vietnam saw the Soviet Union as a "reliable backing," the United States as a "long-term enemy," and Beijing and Cambodia as "direct targets." This was followed by a full-scale invasion of Cambodia at the end of the year, openly challenging China.
Lai Son inspects the Vietnamese army
On January 8, 1979, the Vietnamese army demanded to strengthen combat readiness and found that the "enemy" could immediately open fire. On January 19, Lê Duần publicly stated in the document that Vietnam had a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and that China's weapons were worse than those of the Vietnamese army, and that there were more troops but not too many people fighting deeper into Vietnam. The implication is that there is no fear to cheer up the army.
Since China's self-defense counterattack on Zhenbao Island in September 1969, the Soviet army has been looking at millions of soldiers on the border. Strategically, China, which has just experienced a special decade, is under the two-sided attack of the Soviet Union and Vietnam, its security is seriously threatened, and the atmosphere is very tense.
Xu Shiyou received representatives of the heroic models participating in the war
Third, the general's decisive battle, victory or defeat will not stop at the battlefield?
However, Vietnam, as a "student", will never understand the "teacher's" war strategy.
Since ancient times, the victory or defeat of war has been a comprehensive project. There is a cloud in sun tzu's art of war: "The upper soldiers cut the plot, the second cut the friendship, the second cut the soldiers, and the lower attacks the city." The object of China's "conspiracy" is to isolate one superpower to the greatest extent possible and stabilize another superpower.
In January 1979, after Vietnam invaded Cambodia, the United States accepted the "Three Principles" and established diplomatic relations with China.
Nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Palmerston famously said: "Between countries, there is no eternal friend, only eternal interests." "Once upon a time, China and the United States fought in the dark on the 38th parallel, and for a time they were in the same situation.
But the world is easy to change, and only change is always the same. During the meeting, Deng Gong also humorously hinted to Carter that China would not hesitate to "spank" some "disobedient children."
All this was seen by moscow and the soviet military leadership, and China and the United States seemed to move from confrontation to cooperation.
Fourth, killing chickens and frightening monkeys, knocking on mountains and shocking tigers, Deng Gong "one arrow and three eagles"
Less than 2 weeks after the end of Deng Gong's foreign visit, our army launched a self-defense counterattack on the border between Guangxi and Yunnan.
Of course, the reason why Deng Gong "shines his sword" is also that he is confident: the Soviet army is known as a "million army," but at best it is only more than 600,000; although the terrain in our northern border is flat and difficult to defend and easy to attack, the military regions of Lanzhou, Beijing, and Shenyang in our three northern regions have left a hand, and many powerful brigades such as the absolute ace 38th Army and the 27th Army have not gone to southern Xinjiang to participate in the war.
In addition to Deng Gong in Beijing, there are Xu Xiangqian, Su Yu, Yang Dezhi and other battle-hardened founding generals sitting in the seat. In addition, the PLA's "playing board" came and went quickly, and before the Soviet army could make actual moves, our army's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was already victoriously over.
In the duel with the Soviet army and the Vietnamese army, our army not only relieved the siege of Cambodia with a "blitzkrieg", but also gave the "white-eyed wolf" who could not feed 20 billion US dollars a "board", and also effectively shocked the superpower, which can be described as "three eagles with one stone".
Our army conquered the important town of Lang Son in northern Vietnam
V. "Advancing for Retreat" and "Retreating for Advancing"
As a tiger general from the Red Fourth Front, Xu Shiyou's ability to tackle tough battles is obvious to all.
In the direction of Xu Shiyou's eastern front, the "5 and a half" army of the People's Liberation Army was concentrated, while Yang Dezhi (Zhang Haoxiu) also had a "3 and a half" army on the western front.
As one of the world's superpowers, why didn't Chen Bing respond?
In fact, on the third day of our counterattack operation, on February 19, 1979, Soviet General Obaturov led more than 20 advisers to Hanoi, and then urgently transported more than 20 fighters, more than 400 tanks, as well as artillery, "hail" rockets and other sophisticated weapons. More than 250,000 Soviet divisions, 2,600 tanks, and 900 aircraft also conducted large-scale military exercises in Mongolia.
The People's Liberation Army returned triumphantly
Weighing the reactions of all sides, Deng Gong decided to "accept what is good", but Xu Shiyou did three things during his retreat: blowing up military facilities in northern Vietnam and the schools, hospitals, factories, mines, and houses they aided; transporting all the weapons and materials of the aid; and laying mines along the way.
The beginning of the war was "to advance is to retreat", and the end of the war is "to retreat to advance". After the war, China embarked on the road to great power, while Vietnam's economy regressed at least 20 years. As for the "militaristic" Soviet Union, the fate of the decade later has been seen by everyone.
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