As a socialist country, Vietnam borders the southwest border of our country. In line with the principle of peace in international relations of friendly coexistence, China has always provided much care and assistance to Vietnam, a neighboring country that is also socialist.
Sino-Vietnamese relations were once very harmonious (pictured is the Militia of the Sino-Vietnamese People's Friendship Commune)
In this regard, China not only helped Vietnam to build infrastructure such as transportation roads, but during the most difficult period of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Vietnam, china even disregarded the dilemma of tightening its pants and belt to live, but also had to provide materials and food for Vietnam and treat it as if it were its own siblings.
But in the 1970s, the U.S.-Soviet struggle for hegemony entered a white-hot phase. Due to the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations and the exclusion of China by the Soviet Union, In order to break through the blockade, China had to use the United States as a window to break China's isolation in the world, so that Sino-US relations thawed and entered a rare honeymoon period in history.
The Sino-Soviet rupture
In order to contain China, the Soviet Union did not hesitate to induce vietnam to be hostile to China, so that Vietnam, which had just formed a feud with the United States, suddenly regarded us as enemies, disregarded China's contribution and help to Vietnam, and turned to the embrace of the Soviet Union. In order to achieve its aggressive goal against China, Vietnam did not hesitate to openly exclude Chinese, expelled overseas Chinese from Vietnam, and also separated Mao Zedong Thought from the party constitution, and even wantonly launched armed conflicts along the Sino-Vietnamese border, seriously endangering the life safety and property interests of the people on china's border.
Self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
In the face of Vietnam's harrowing white-eyed wolf behavior, China could not bear it and decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam so that Vietnam could learn a full lesson to defend its national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Under the fierce offensive of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Vietnamese army was gradually defeated, and it was suppressed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army to the point that it was difficult to turn over, and it took only twenty-eight days for china to occupy most of the cities in the north, and Vietnam finally declared defeat.
Just as the so-called point has come, seeing that the Vietnamese capital is about to be captured and the purpose of the strategic strike has been completed, our army has decided to formally withdraw its troops. It is worth noting that when our army was retreating, Xu Shiyou, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, issued three iron orders, which have since solved the security problems of the Chinese border, which have seriously injured Vietnam's vitality and made it difficult to turn over, and the means are very clever. So, what are these three commands? How clever is that?
Xu Shiyou
Let's take a look at Xu Shiyou first. In fact, in Deng Xiaoping's evaluation, we can see Xu Shiyou's special talent:
"In his 60-year career as a horseman, Xu Shiyou has made great achievements in battle and died a hundred deaths, and is a special person with a special character, special experience, and special contributions."
Like most other revolutionary fighters, Xu Shiyou was born into a poor peasant family and had a very difficult life. In order to be able to beg for food and food, he went to the Shaolin Temple at the age of eight to learn martial arts, and he practiced a perfect skill, and he was just and loved to fight injustice.
After returning to his hometown after completing his studies, Xu Shiyou often hoes the strong and the weak with a martial arts skill, and once, he actually killed the evil boy of the landlord's family in the village, for which Xu Shiyou had to run away from home, enlisted as a soldier, served under the warlord Wu Peifu, and began a long military career.
However, it did not take long for Xu Shiyou to see clearly the essence of the Kuomintang warlords, and on the eve of the split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he abandoned the dark and cast the light, joined the death squad of the Chinese Communist Party, took the lead in the charge, and was brave all the way. Soon, Xu Shiyou made great military achievements with his outstanding military talents.
Courageous and resourceful, he soon became an outstanding commander of the Communist Party, accompanied by the Communist Party from the "anti-encirclement and suppression" to the Red Army's Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, under the command and leadership of Xu Shiyou, the Chinese army repeatedly killed a bloody road and won the final victory.
Therefore, after the founding of New China, Xu Shiyou was awarded the rank of general and the August 1st Medal in recognition of his outstanding performance in the war. Until the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam many years after the founding of New China, Xu Shiyou's performance was still very outstanding, worthy of the "rank of general" of that year, and fought a very beautiful battle.
Hsu Shih-yon's performance in the Vietnam War
On February 17, 1979, the Chinese army fired thousands of cannons on the border between China and Vietnam, officially launching a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. Subsequently, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched a fierce attack on the Sino-Vietnamese border line in the three major armies of the Eastern Central and Western Roads, and Xu Shiyou was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front. At this moment, the Chinese People's Liberation Army's large army swept through the territory unstoppable, and all the way to the important town in northern Vietnam, it used high-level pincers.
Ten thousand cannons are fired
In less than thirty days, the troops led by General Hsu ShiYou crushed the northern highland defense line, which Vietnam prides itself on, and hit Lang Son, which was far from the Vietnamese capital, PingChuan. During the Battle of Lang Son, the Vietnamese army actually used chemical weapons in violation of the law, and General Xu Shiyou, who heard the news, was immediately furious and ordered the mobilization of three hundred cannons to carry out "ten thousand cannons firing at the same time", razing Lang Son to the ground and crushing the last line of defense in Vietnam.
Lang Shan under the ruins
It is worth noting that Xu Shiyou, who participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, is already more than seventy years old, but his mental logic is still very clear, which can be described as old and strong, and the hero is not late. After occupying most of vietnam's important territories, Xu Shiyou believed that the military strategic purpose had been achieved, and decided to formally withdraw after comprehensive consideration.
However, with the case of being attacked by chemical weapons before, Xu Shiyou decided that vietnam, which was oily and slippery, would not give up, and in order to contain Vietnam and ensure the security of China's border, Xu Shiyou issued three orders before retreating.
So, what exactly are the three commands?
Xu Shiyou's three orders
First, when withdrawing, a large number of mines should be planted in Vietnam as a defensive line to prevent Vietnamese tanks and large armies from trying to overwhelm the border and organize the armed pace of Vietnam's defective counterattack, thus effectively curbing Vietnam's harassment of Our border.
Vietnamese Army
Moreover, in the process of fighting the Vietnamese soldiers, Xu Shiyou observed that there were almost no large-scale battles between China and Vietnam, and all relied on ambush and interspersed tactics to compete. Therefore, it is inferred from this that Vietnam's frontal combat capabilities are almost zero, but it is extremely good at guerrilla warfare and ambushes based on its terrain advantages and its own familiarity with the terrain.
Therefore, in order to prevent the vietnamese sneak attack again on the retreat road, it is better to directly lay mines along the way, which can not only counter the sneak attack of the Vietnamese army, but also play an early warning role for our army in time with the sound of explosions, and respond to the sneak attack of the Vietnamese army in a timely manner.
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Second, all Chinese aid was withdrawn. Yes, China's aid to Vietnam at that time can be described as "pouring out". In the Vietnam-US War, in order to help Vietnam resist foreign enemies, China did not hesitate to risk war to transport grain and materials for Vietnam, including many strategic materials and weapons and equipment, which greatly improved the combat capability of the Vietnamese army. In that era of material scarcity, only China, which was also a "difficult brother and a difficult brother", was willing to spend nearly 20 billion US dollars to fund Vietnam, and even sent Chinese soldiers to the Vietnamese battlefield to help Vietnam resist the invasion of the enemy.
Supplies for Vietnam
However, Vietnam, which could have become a brother in the tribulation, chose to turn against China, aiming its sharp bayonet at China, ignoring China's assistance to him, eating China, using Chinese weapons, and finally using Chinese weapons to fight China. In this regard, General Xu Shiyou has also been very disappointed. Especially in the middle of the battlefield, when our army rushed into the Vietnamese barracks, they found many materials marked with Chinese logos, and the Vietnamese troops used the rice we assisted to make sandbags to play and play. The disappointment and resentment of raising a white-eyed wolf made General Xu Shiyou even more angry.
Therefore, the patriotic General Xu Shiyou ordered that all the materials in Vietnam that can be brought back to China should be brought back to China, and all those that could not be brought back to China should be destroyed, and the Vietnamese would never be given a slight advantage. Of course, the materials that our country originally aided vietnam could make it survive and use for another ten years, but General Xu Shiyou's move naturally caused Vietnam to be hit hard: the storage of materials and grain was suddenly reduced by more than half, how should we live? I can only go back to "before liberation" and tighten my pants and belt to live.
The Vietnamese people in dire straits
The third is to destroy all industrial infrastructure in northern Vietnam. Similar to the previous point, during the period of China's assistance to Vietnam, in order to help Vietnam develop and build rapidly, China did not hesitate to help Vietnam to carry out infrastructure and heavy industry construction, help Vietnam to build roads, build factories, and guide the development of Vietnam's industrial technology.
Vietnam War
At the same time, industry is also the lifeblood of a country's economic and scientific and technological development, representing the country's development and comprehensive national strength. Therefore, the destruction of the industrial infrastructure in northern Vietnam by our army has also enabled the development of northern Vietnam to regress for several years and seriously damage its vitality.
Not only that, at the time of the war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, Vietnam had only recently completed its reunification, and its industry and agriculture were in ruins and waiting to be revived, and it was very weak, and it was difficult to recover in a short period of time. Therefore, this move is undoubtedly a fatal blow for Vietnam, and it has been in a slump ever since. This shows the cleverness of Xu Shiyou's means.
The Vietnamese army in the midst of ruins
In the many years after the end of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the battered Vietnam finally felt at ease to engage in domestic development, no longer coveting China's territory, but learning from China's reform and opening up, trying to develop as rapidly as China. At the same time, Vietnam has also begun to try to repair relations with China, and Sino-Vietnamese relations have eased up a lot.
Relaxation of Sino-Vietnamese relations (pictured is a statue of friendship forest between China and Vietnam border troops)
However, the relationship eased and eased, and the traces of history cannot be erased. Because Vietnam once betrayed and invaded China, and because of the bitter lessons and heavy blows that China has inflicted on Vietnam, the relations between the two countries can no longer be as close and friendly as they were then, without reservation. And the tragic fate of Vietnam is also a constant wake-up call to the world: those who offend china will be punished from afar.