In 1979, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, and the Soviet Union and Vietnam colluded in a vain attempt to jointly hinder China's development from both the north and the south. With the support of the big brother of the Soviet Union, Vietnam has repeatedly invaded China's borders, seriously endangering the safety of the lives and property of our country and people. After repeated "communication" by the central authorities was fruitless, the central authorities decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
On March 1, 1979, a cannon sound exploded in Lang Shan, and the Battle of Lang Son officially began. Xu Shiyou, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, ordered: "You are not allowed to leave a house in Langshan!" Suddenly, tens of thousands of shells poured into enemy positions, and the People's Liberation Army roared out.
After a battle, the smoke of gunfire filled the air, the earth was hot, the enemy's entire army was destroyed, and finally a special thing left in the battlefield was captured by our army. The capture of this item frustrates the illusions of the Vietnamese army and gives the enemy a heavy slap.
Arrogant enemies
Before the outbreak of the Sino-Vietnamese self-defense counterattack, the situation in our country was extremely grim. The first is that China is exploring reform and opening up, the future is confused, and the situation is not optimistic. The second is the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, which may not coincide with each other, and the steel torrent of the Soviet army will go south. The third is the wanton intrusion of Vietnam, which it originally supported, into Our borders.
This battle must be fought, not fighting is not enough to show determination, this battle must be won, and victory will be dragged down by the Vietnamese and Soviet unions. In such a situation, the People's Liberation Army went deep into the jungle and broke the wrists of former guerrilla warfare apprentices.
At this time, the Vietnamese army learned the law of guerrilla warfare, accumulated decades of war experience in the war with France and the United States, and cultivated a fighting atmosphere of "all the people are soldiers", while the People's Liberation Army has not fought a large-scale battle for more than a decade.
Before the war, the enemy arrogantly said: "Fight until the friendship pass to eat breakfast, fight to Nanning for the Spring Festival, and insist on passing customs for three months." The enemy is arrogant and conceited, and once our army strikes, it will "kill with one blow," deter the four directions, and completely destroy the arrogance of the enemy.
Lang Shan is a mountain range 18 kilometers away from the Border of Yunnan, and the distance from here to Hanoi is only 130 kilometers. As the saying goes, "descend on Lang Shan and the king descends", Lang Shan's special geographical location is a strategic point in the Vietnamese self-defense counterattack war, and taking Lang Son will surely endanger Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, and deter the enemy.
The key position must be guarded by a heavy army, and the enemy's troops at Lang Son at this time are the 12th Regiment of the Vietnamese Third Division.
Total Annihilation of the "Flying Tiger Regiment"
The 12th Regiment of the Third Division was known as the "Flying Tiger Regiment" and the "First Army", while the Third Division, known as the "Venus Division", was the enemy's ace unit.
In the U.S.-Vietnam War, the Third Division was the main force that fought with the main force of the US infantry many times, they were experienced in hundreds of battles, their combat literacy was extremely strong, and their guerrilla warfare in the jungle had caused the US army a great headache, and it was this unit that happened to invade the civilian population on the border of Yunnan.
Taking this unit can not only avenge the Chinese people, but also seize important strategic points, even if this force is strong, the People's Liberation Army must face the difficulties and fight it.
After the Battle of Langshan began, Xu Shiyou commanded the 55th Army to annihilate the Third Division and annihilate the 12th Regiment. The enemy had already prepared for this, and they set up many obstacles on the necessary road, and built a defensive line with mines, iron spikes, and barbed wire, which can be called the Vietnamese version of the "Maginot Line".
The "Flying Tiger Regiment" hid in the French Ghost Tun Fort, relying on its positional superiority to fight against our army, but it was difficult to support in the strong attack of our army, and the thousands of Vietnamese soldiers in the fort turned from defense to hiding, and the arrogance in their hearts turned into disappointment, and they fought while hiding in the bunker.
At the time of the strong attack, Xu Shiyou ordered the 55th Army to completely annihilate the Flying Tiger Regiment and not to give the enemy room for maneuver. Ordered, the 55th Army tried to annihilate the stronghold, but both attacks failed by misjudging the enemy's hiding location.
On the third occasion, the warriors attacked again from the north, and in the intensifying enemy fire, they found the "skylight" into the dark castle. In the spirit of humanitarianism, the fighters had a Vietnamese-speaking leader shout: "The People's Liberation Army gives preferential treatment to prisoners, and does not kill them!" ”
The soldiers of our army waited for half a day, but not a single Vietnamese soldier came out to surrender, thinking about it again and again, leaving time for the enemy army, that is, to ask for their own lives. So our army blew up the French Fort stronghold with a ton of TNT explosives, and the soldiers of the Vietnamese "Flying Tiger Regiment" were wiped out.
After the war, our army captured the military flag of the "Flying Tiger Regiment", only to see that the military flag was written with the word decisive victory and embroidered with the emblem of the Vietnamese army. This was a great shame for the Vietnamese army, and this time the Vietnamese face was swollen by a heavy slap.
The angry and corrupt Wu Yuanjia
Hearing that the flag of the "Flying Tiger Regiment" had been captured, the commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese army, Vu Yuanjia, was furious and angry: "Death must be snatched back!" "After all, this flag was issued by him and is of great significance to the entire Vietnamese army."
Wu Yuanjia is a well-known military general in Vietnam, he has been a horseman all his life, almost all of the modern war in Vietnam has his figure, can be said to be "Vietnamese Napoleon".
Before the Sino-Vietnamese confrontation, he was also an old friend of China, exiled to China in 1940, was named a major general in 1948, and then visited China many times to seek tactics against the United States, learning the essence of guerrilla warfare.
Between countries, there are only eternal interests, no eternal friends. After the Sino-Vietnamese war, Wu Yuanjia initially dismissed Xu Shiyou as commander in the Eastern Front Theater, believing that the Vietnamese army would win. But unexpectedly, the arrogant he was finally disappointed. After the Battle of Langshan, he was desperate to turn the tide, but the People's Liberation Army would not give him a chance.
After the Battle of Lang Son, our army took control of the Lang Son area, and Xu Shiyou ordered the People's Liberation Army to launch an attack along the road in the direction of the Qi Qian River, with great potential to attack the capital Hanoi. In just one day, our army pushed the front line five kilometers from Lang Son to the Qi qian river, causing Hanoi to shake.
At this critical moment, an urgent telegram came from the Xishan Command Post in Beijing, ordering all troops to withdraw from Vietnam. If it were not for this order, Vietnam would have to fight a capital defense war in Hanoi, but our army's intention was not to invade, but to retaliate against aggression, but only to give the country a warning.
brief summary:
In the war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, China has recovered its previous assistance to Vietnam, destroyed military facilities, roads, railways, mines and other industrial facilities in the northern Region, and dealt a heavy blow to the arrogant "white-eyed wolf" and plunged it into the predicament of surviving for decades.
After this battle, the People's Liberation Army defended the interests of the country and the people, reversed the diplomatic crisis of the 80s, not only gave Vietnam a heavy lesson, but also allowed the Soviet Union, which was eyeing the tiger, to relent, and it was a legitimate stop for our country from a big country to a strong country.
This time, our country once again solemnly declares to the world: Chinese people will never allow any foreign forces to bully, oppress, enslave us, and whoever wants to do so will surely run into a bloody blood in front of the Great Wall of Steel made of more than 1.4 billion Chinese civilian flesh and blood!