Author: Little Orange
Where there are people, there are right and wrong, there are rivers and lakes, there are all kinds of rumors, especially those topics that the public is keenly concerned about, and they have always been filled with all kinds of rumors and confusing voices; in the early years, when information was far from the currently developed period, there was the so-called "stall literature", and its consistent method was to disguise themselves as different identities of personal experiencers, scholars, experts, etc., to forge "facts" and "insiders", and to deduce some historical and social issues.
The ten-year-long Sino-Vietnamese War is a history with a profound impact on China, which not only leaves a lifelong indelible imprint on the veterans who served during this period, but also leaves a deep memory for countless Chinese people of all walks of life who have experienced this period, so that the topic of the Sino-Vietnamese War has never subsided for more than forty years, often arousing the attention and discussion of countless Chinese people, so it is inevitable that in this field, many years of long-standing "rumors" have accumulated, and they are still dregs from time to time.
【Xu Shiyou】
There are many rumors about that period of history, and today we will talk about a rumor about Xu Shiyou.
There has always been a saying that in 1988, veteran Chen Xilian once commented that Xu Shiyou was "miscommunicated" in the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. It is said that Chen Xilian's words were very harsh and even rude, and he said that the command of "Xu Crazy Man" was simply nonsense and dizzy. It was also said that "sixty percent of the Eastern Front was a mechanized march, a large and deep breakthrough, but even a complete defensive area group army of the Vietnamese Army was not surrounded, and finally a cross-fire line was carried out, and when it retreated, the Vietnamese army also fought several counterattacks, the losses were extremely great, and it was a stupid battle and a confused battle" and "The commanders could be shot directly in the line of fire!" ”
Chen Xilian and Xu Shiyou are old comrades-in-arms for many years, Xu Shiyou is 8 years older than Chen Xilian, during the Red Fourth Front, Xu Shiyou was Chen Xilian's old superior, the two people have similar combat styles, both are very brave.
Chen Xilian was once injured to cover Xu Shiyou, and Xu Shiyou once said that no matter what, Chen Xilian must be carried alive to complete the Long March, and it can be said that the two were friends for their lives.
As a high-ranking cadre, Chen Xilian, out of public conscience, has the courage to point out the faults of old leaders and old comrades-in-arms, and there is nothing wrong with that, but the frequent use of such sharp words as "dazed, stupid, and rotten battles" not only violates the cultivation of the elderly veteran General Chen Xilian (Chen Xilian is a well-known high-emotional intelligence general in our army), but it is impossible for such a pranky and street-style tone to appear in historical documents, which is a common sense.
Moreover, these words are full of common sense mistakes, and they are by no means low-level mistakes made by Chen Xilian, who has served as vice premier and commander of the Grand Military Region.
First of all, even the "post-00s" military fans know that Xu Shiyou has the nickname of "Xu Monk", but there is no nickname such as "Crazy Man".
As we all know, in the counterattack against Vietnam, our army has been abandoned and lost for ten years, the modernization process has been greatly disturbed, and basically it has remained at the level of "mule and horse", only some troops can barely count as "motorized", and the troops are only equipped with enough military trucks to achieve the primary level of World War I and World War II in Europe and the United States that "march by wheel", and there is no "troop transport fighting vehicle" that is professionally developed at all. A series of professional combat vehicles, such as self-propelled guns, are still far from the real mechanization that has emerged in the developed countries of the world.
In the Battle of Gaoping, the infantry of our army could not keep up with the tanks, and could only come up with an indigenous method to bundle themselves to the tanks, which vividly showed that the degree of mechanization of our army was far from enough.
【Vietnamese Army】
Look again at the Vietnamese army mentioned in the article that Chen Xilian said is a "complete group army." Affected by the long-term war, the vietnamese army structure is also very chaotic, basically evolved from the various guerrilla units, and there is no concept of a group army during the period of self-defense and counterattack.
Vietnam, especially North Vietnam, is full of lofty mountains, dense forests and ravines, narrow and rugged roads, which are not conducive to rapid mechanized marching at all, coupled with the Vietnamese decades of war, the military and the people are highly united, even the common people and militia also have tenacious combat effectiveness and awareness, and it is possible to set up ambushes and blockades everywhere.
This tactic has always been the most advantageous weapon to accuse Xu Shiyou, but what is less known is that this tactic was not proposed by Xu Shiyou. On the contrary, Xu Shiyou's initial idea to Beijing was to first break through the enemy's defense line, eliminate the enemy's living forces, and then continue to break through and fight steadily.
However, in view of the fact that this was a war of a quick decisive nature, Beijing revised Xu Shiyou's plan and adopted a method of warfare of dividing and encircling in a large depth, which was a clear plan of the superiors, not Xu Shiyou's fault. And no one is wrong, this is determined by the nature of war.
Therefore, under the tactics of the enemy army defending against danger, fighting for its own sake, and running away at an unfavorable point, it is very difficult to annihilate on a large scale, which was expected before the war, and it is not Xu Shiyou's command that is at a loss.
Looking at the "crossfire line", as we all know, there is crossfire and cross tactics in the military, but there is no such term as the so-called crossfire line, which is enough to expose the forgery of this article.
The author may have meant simply to say that until the end of the counterattack, parts of the Eastern Front were still in a state of confrontation between the enemy and ourselves, and the result was self-defeating, exposing the horse's feet, proving that this article could not have been written by the founding general of rongma's life. Chen Xilian has not taken up the command work for a long time because of the mistakes of the special era, and he needs to reflect on his mistakes, and it is impossible and not qualified to "overturn the case and make difficulties" after the superiors have made a full summary.
In the self-defense counterattack, Xu Shiyou cannot say that there is no deficiency at all. Just like our army has exposed many problems after a special decade, but the flaws are not hidden. Just as Commissar Deng summed up after the war, after this war, the People's Liberation Army has proved that the People's Liberation Army is still the invincible and excellent army that we are familiar with. When Xu Shiyou was mentioned, it was also concluded that there was no problem with Xu Shiyou's command.