In terms of international relations, we often hear the phrase "there is no absolute friend between the two countries, no absolute enemy, only interests." This sentence can be said to be very straightforward in expressing a consensus on exchanges between countries.
In the counterattack against Vietnam, the deputy division commander of our army was assassinated, and the identity of the murderer after being arrested was surprising
When New China was first established, we were resisted and blockaded by almost all Western countries, and the first country willing to establish diplomatic relations with us was the Soviet Union in northern China. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union gave us great help in terms of economy and science and technology, and it can be said that New China was able to make such rapid progress at the beginning, and there was a lot of relationship with the Soviet Union's assistance, so at that time we affectionately called the Soviet Union "Big Brother". But why was the Soviet Union willing to aid China? Naturally, it is impossible for him to feel that as a major country with international influence, he has a responsibility to support those countries in need. The reason lies in the international environment at that time: after the end of World War II, the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union divided the world, during those decades, there were only two choices for any country in the world with a sense of existence, the Soviet Union or the United States, and there was no option of centrism.
The United States, as for its part, also wanted to take China for its own use, but from the very beginning it took the wrong position; the Kuomintang faction that he wanted to support in China could only shrink to the island of Taiwan, and now it is obviously impossible for the new China established by the Communist Party to follow him. At the same time, the Soviet Union is also out of this consideration, China can not keep up with the United States, then it can only be in the Soviet camp, to help China become strong, is to strengthen itself.
Gradually, however, on the one hand, the Soviet Union felt pressure on China's rise, and on the other hand, we could not accept that the independent new China we had struggled so hard to achieve had become a vassal of the Soviet Union. So since 1956, when we openly expressed our dissatisfaction with the chauvinism of the Soviet powers, Sino-Soviet relations have been deteriorating, and the conflict of interests between the two sides has cut off our "friendship."
Later, in the late 1970s, Vietnam in southern China, instigated by the Soviet Union, engaged in armed hostility against China and provoked China on the Sino-Vietnamese border. In order to safeguard China's independent and autonomous position in the international arena and ensure the sanctity and inviolability of our country's sovereignty, the CPC Central Committee attached great importance to the provocative invasion of the Vietnamese army, and we immediately sent troops to counterattack, capturing more than 20 important cities in Vietnam in a short period of time.
But our country adheres to principles, we have no intention of provoking war to invade the territory of other countries, we fight back in order to protect the sovereignty of our own country, so our army chose to withdraw from Vietnam after 1 month, but this behavior was distorted by the Vietnamese army into their war victory. In the decade that followed, there were constant conflicts on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and many of the Republic's fighting heroes were killed here.
In the counterattack against the Vietnamese self-defense, we sacrificed Zhao Lianyu, then deputy commander of the 126th Division of the 42nd Army, who was the highest-ranking Republican general who died in this war. The ancients said that "I have five out of ten and aspire to learn", Zhao Lianyu chose to join the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the age of fifteen and became a soldier serving the country, and since then he has also been responsible for the duties of a soldier, fighting on the battlefield and making many military achievements. In this counterattack against Vietnam, Zhao Lianyu also led his soldiers to achieve impressive results, and he sacrificed himself on the way back to China after completing the war mission, and the sudden change surprised everyone.
At that time, Vietnam was a soldier for all, and it was difficult to discern which one was the enemy that needed to be guarded against. So no one would have thought that an ordinary Vietnamese old man would be a Vietnamese agent, and his unsuspecting task in Zhao Lianyu was to shoot this battle-hardened division commander with one shot, and only a few seconds from the middle shot to death, the 49-year-old division commander left, and there was no time to make any reaction.