In 1979, in accordance with the orders of the Central Military Commission, the Chinese border guards conducted self-defense counterattack operations against Vietnamese troops that violated Chinese territory.
This war vividly shows that "those who offend our Chinese will be punished from afar!" "This determination. This was also the first "pacifying" war waged by our country on the soil of others.
In the war of self-defense against Vietnam, our army dispatched Xu Shiyou, a legendary figure who had frightened the enemy in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The general served as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front in the counterattack against Vietnam. General Xu Shiyou has been fighting on the battlefield all his life, and for this appointment, he also showed the spirit of seeing death as a homecoming, and he said to his son: "Prepare a coffin for me, and if I die in battle, I will wrap my body in Ma Ge!" ”
The commander of the Vietnamese army at that time was our "old friend" Wu Yuanjia, he
After hearing that the commander-in-chief of our army was General Xu Shiyou and our army's determination to win the battle, he only faintly said two words to the soldiers around him.
What is his attitude towards this?
The Sino-Vietnamese war was on the verge of breaking out
Since winning victories in the War to Resist the United States and France, the Vietnamese side has considered itself to be the third military power in the world, and then Vietnam has been dissatisfied with the status quo
Wanting to further expand its territory through aggression, Vietnam also embarked on the non-humanitarian path of aggression and expansion.
In 1978, with the support of the soviet union, the military power at that time, Vietnam launched an attack on neighboring Cambodia, and with the military support of the Soviet Union, Vietnam, which was strong and strong, quickly achieved its goal, and Cambodia fell in a very short period of time.
Then Vietnam stopped hiding its ambitions and, like India, began to harass our borders on a continuous basis.
Not only is there constant harassment on land, but it is also constantly encroaching on China's Nansha Qundao and nearby seas.
Vietnam's vengeance against China was also due to the fact that after the end of Vietnam's civil war, China's relations with the Soviet Union also deteriorated further.
In this situation, if Vietnam wants to continue to receive material and technical support from the Soviet side, it must take sides in the Soviet Union and completely draw a clear line with China.
At this time
The "pro-China faction" of the Vietnamese government has begun to lose real power, and the dominant one is the "pro-Soviet faction".
In order to curry favor with the "big brother", Vietnam began to expel the overseas Chinese in Vietnam, not only openly confiscating the property belongings of the overseas Chinese in Vietnam, but even cruelly driving them into the sea. The contradictions between China and Vietnam deepened, and relations further deteriorated.
In this way, in order to gain more support from the Soviet Union, the Vietnamese side finally did not even care about international public opinion and openly declared war on China
It is not easy to provoke the great power of China. In the face of vietnam's white-eyed wolf, when there is no need to endure any longer, China will inevitably strike hard!
General of Shaolin, Gu Rare expedition
At the beginning of 1974, the South Vietnamese Navy launched an offensive to invade china's Vinh Lok Islands, when the Central Committee of our Party issued an order to General Xu Shiyou to prepare for a counterattack, and after receiving the order, General Xu Shiyou sent an infantry battalion ready to attack at any time.
After the real battle course,
It took our army only four hours to recover the coral, gold and silver, and the three islands of Ganquan, directly dealing a blow to the arrogance of the enemy
。 The self-defense counterattack commanded by General Xu Shiyou was the first self-defense counterattack in the history of the Chinese Navy to win a foreign war.
Vietnamese hegemonism has not ended there, and continues to harass the southwest border of our country, in this troublesome situation, in order to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country and safeguard the interests of the motherland and the people,
Under the instructions of the central authorities, General Xu Shiyou commanded the border guards to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
General Xu Shiyou, who was ordered to go out on the expedition, was already in his prime at this time, so why did the Central Committee choose such a veteran general to lead the counterattack against Vietnam's self-defense?
After 28 years of arduous and outstanding struggle, the Communist Party of China has finally achieved the great goal of letting the people be the masters of their own affairs.
In these revolutionary wars, the Communist Party of China has produced many brave and good war leaders, each of whom has made great contributions to the victory of the war.
General Xu Shiyou, on the other hand, was a rare tiger general in our army, and he made great contributions in both the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
He was a true founding general and a well-known senior general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, who had made outstanding military achievements and was well-known, and had made tremendous contributions to the construction and development of New China.
So
In terms of commanding large corps operations, General Xu Shiyou is very experienced, has fought many beautiful victories, and his ability is very worthy of recognition.
Therefore, despite his advanced age, Xu Shiyou still wore a robe.
Fighting back in self-defense is of great significance
In December 1978, the central government ordered General Xu Shiyou to be responsible for the deployment of the counter-offensive against Vietnam, and the process required strict confidentiality.
After receiving the secret order, General Xu Shiyou immediately began to arrange relevant matters.
One day in January of the following year, on Jinji Mountain, next to the Friendship Pass on the Sino-Vietnamese border, General Xu Shiyou, 74, stood with his soldiers overlooking Vietnam. When he saw the Vietnamese army invading our territory, he immediately angrily scolded:
"The disciple has beaten up the master, and he will take revenge!"
The reason why Xu Shiyou scolded "disciples beat masters" is not unreasonable, because several Vietnamese generals have studied in China's military academies or have been trained by China's military advisory groups.
In the previous anti-imperialist wars, China and Vietnam had a very deep affection, and they were often called brothers in the international community, and the military and civilians on the border of the two countries drank a piece of water and shared a tree of firewood.
At a time when their own food and clothing had not yet been resolved, the Chinese people mobilized their national strength to aid Vietnam's war against the United States and the French, not only delivering them a large amount of materials and weapons, but also thousands of Chinese sons and daughters who died heroically on the battlefield of aiding Vietnam and resisting the United States.
This is the Chinese way of hospitality.
Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh once told Chairman Mao that the Vietnamese people will never forget Chinese.
But did not expect that after ho Chi Minh's death, Vietnam's new leader Le Son came to power, and the forces close to the Soviet Union within Vietnam took the upper hand, and in the blink of an eye, they would take revenge and make moves that were difficult for the Chinese people to understand.
Frequent harassment and sneak attacks against Chinese border troops, attacks as large as battalions and above, and sneak attacks above squads and platoons, are almost every day.
In order to prevent sneak attacks by both sides, the two sides planted mines and fortifications in the preface of both sides, and over time, they formed a minefield that was difficult to identify and crisscrossed. This is Vietnam's revenge.
After the rift in Sino-Soviet relations appeared, the Soviet Union set up layers of heavy military guards on China's northern border, and at that time the Soviet Union had the world's first strength to expand its territory, and it was the world's largest country and the world's military power, and China's northern region was thus facing a great threat.
In 1975, after the reunification of the north and south of Vietnam, following the Expansion Strategy of the Soviet Union, Vietnam began to invade Cambodia, Laos and other countries, and even hit china with a wishful thinking, and began to create a bloody conflict on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
Vietnam's purpose is to use the help of the Soviet Union to suppress our country, block the pace of our country's development, and further realize its own foreign expansion.
They mistakenly believe that China has lost the assistance of the Soviet Union, the level of industry will plummet, and the Chinese army, which has not been trained in actual combat for a long time, must be inferior to itself, which has the help of the Soviet Union militarily.
If the victory over China, coupled with the previous victories in the war against France and the United States, there will be no more countries in the entire Southeast Asian region that dare to fight against them, and their military strength will be the third strongest in the world.
It can only be said that they not only fail to recognize themselves but also our country.
My country had hoped to resolve the border issue with Viet Nam through peaceful negotiations. But vietnam has said it is unwilling to negotiate.
Since friendship is meaningless, China has no choice but to take tough measures.
Since 1979, the Vietnamese military has regarded China as its most direct and dangerous enemy, and the Viet Cong has even put forward the slogan "Everything to defeat China". Therefore, Comrade Deng Xiaoping mentioned Vietnam in his meeting with the US leader and said:
"Children don't obey, they should spank!".
Sooner or later, this war between China and Vietnam will be fought.
First of all
China will not tolerate Vietnam's implementation of the "Indochina Federation" in Asia, which is Vietnam's strategic plan for foreign expansion
This plan includes not only Cambodia, Laos, Thailand but also China's Guangxi and Yunnan, which is why the Vietnamese army shouted "fight the friendship pass, go to Nanning for the Spring Festival"
This expansion plan has seriously threatened China in the eyes of Chinese who know that their lips are cold, and even if the Sino-Vietnamese War does not break out at this time, as long as the expansion plan does not stop, China will sooner or later take certain measures to defend the territorial security of the motherland.
Second, Vietnam's Le Son government touched on the bottom line that he should not have touched:
Countless Chinese and overseas Chinese were killed!
Because of the friendship between China and Vietnam during the Ho Chi Minh period, many Chinese did business in Vietnam, some even married and had children there, and finally settled in Vietnam, and these Chinese active in Vietnam made a certain contribution to Vietnam's economic development.
but
As soon as the Sino-Vietnamese War broke out, these Overseas Chinese living in Vietnam were treated ruthlessly, and they were driven into the sea and lost their lives in the land they thought were friendly neighbors.
Chinese people who experienced the fierce War of Resistance Against Japan were well aware of the tragic situation in which their compatriots were killed, which also aroused the anger of the Chinese people.
Finally, the far-reaching significance of the war of counterattack against Vietnam is that it has created a safe external environment for China's long-term development, so that China's subsequent reform and opening up can be smoothly implemented in a stable and tranquil environment.
Therefore, General Xu Shiyou, who had been a soldier all his life, was ordered to go out at the age of 75.
The Vietnamese general, speaking wildly
At that time, the commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese army against the Chinese army was The Vietnamese "god of war" Wu Yuanjia. Wu Yuanjia was not only well known in Vietnam at that time, but also one of the most familiar Vietnamese generals in Chinese.
Yes, the cause
This Wu Yuanjia followed Ho Chi Minh to China many times to learn revolutionary experience, and it can be said that he had close contacts with China, and the Vietnamese revolutionary army was also imitated and established after learning from China's advanced experience.
He was succeeded by Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, who was a fanatical anti-China activist who, after coming to power, Vietnam embarked on a full-scale anti-China path
。 Wu Yuanjia also criticized Li Sun's erroneous policies in public many times, mercilessly calling him "overbearing", after which Li Sun removed his real power and entered the "cold palace".
However, when the Sino-Vietnamese War began, Li Sung's confidant General Wen Jinyong was busy attacking Cambodia, and Li Sun had to send Wu Yuanjia, who had always been unpopular with him.
At this time, Wu Yuanjia was also nearly ancient, because it was not reused, and gradually faded in the sight of the Chinese people. At this time, when he regained military power, he was extremely eager to fight a victorious battle to re-establish his image of prestige in the minds of the people.
Regain the prestige in the hearts of the chinese people. And cannibalism, loyalty, as a soldier he must carry out orders.
When Wu Yuanjia heard that the commander of the Sino-Vietnamese battle was General Xu Shiyou, he smiled lightly and said:
Win
!
Wu Yuanjia was also bottomless in his heart, and he was well aware of Xu Shiyou's performance in the War of Resistance Against Japan. It is nothing more than bluffing and boosting morale.
And Wu Yuanjia had great illusions about the alliance between Vietnam and the Soviet Union,
Because after the two sides signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation, the Soviet Union made an unconditional military assistance to Vietnam when there was a war in Vietnam.
In order to boost morale, Wu Yuanjia also vowed at the mobilization meeting before the war: "China will undoubtedly lose this war, because according to the content of the Soviet-Vietnamese agreement, once Vietnam is attacked, the Soviet side will send troops to China within half an hour!" ”
Wu Yuanjia also had a good time in Vietnam, and he was also a general known to the Vietnamese people, and he made great achievements in the Vietnamese War of Resistance against France and the United States, and the Western military circles also gave him nicknames such as "Tiger of Dien Bien Phu" and "Red Napoleon".
Therefore, as soon as Wu Yuanjia said this, it greatly encouraged the soldiers of the Vietnamese army, who believed that the victory of the war was no longer suspenseful.
However, from this statement, it can also be seen that Wu Yuanjia understands in his heart that the gap between the Vietnamese side and the Chinese side is huge, and he is not really confident of winning this battle, but rather
They wanted to rely on the strength of the Soviet side to let the Soviet Union send troops to China, tightly oppress China, and force China to come to peace talks with Vietnam.
This can also be seen from The deployment of Wu Yuanjia's troops, he did not intend to strictly defend the northern border, but only sent a group of militia here, and the main army was all strategically defended in the hinterland of Langshan and Gaoping.
What he did not expect was that the main force of the Chinese army had been strictly guarding the northern frontier, and the Soviet army could not send troops to China, but could only keep moving
Vietnam's fragile defensive line was no match for the heavy Chinese artillery and mechanized infantry, and the Chinese army directly crushed the northern border of Vietnam.
And the eastern front troops commanded by Xu Shiyou also used their strength to tell the Vietnamese military and people what to call you master or your master.
In just 28 days, the Vietnamese army was defeated.
The battles on the Eastern Front commanded by Xu Shiyou were still his consistent fighting style. As fierce as a storm,
According to the customized battle plan, the established attack targets were conquered one by one, and the "Trinity" armed forces boasted before the war in northern Vietnam were completely smashed, destroying a large number of high-military value targets such as power plants, bases, and ammunition depots in Vietnam.
During the attack on Lang Son, due to the despicable behavior of the Vietnamese army, General Xu Shiyou knew about it and ordered the shelling of Lang Shan, and finally took only two days to capture Lang Shan, a heavy-guarded confidant of Wu Yuanjia.
Lang Son is the barrier of the vietnamese capital, and if we continue to fight, it is possible to capture the whole of Vietnam, but our army took the initiative to retreat after taking Lang Son.
And the Vietnamese "god of war" General Wu Yuanjia was also dismissed from the military post by Le Sung after the defeat.
It is worth mentioning that when the Chinese People's Liberation Army broke through the Vietnamese warehouse, it found that all the things inside were made in China, and some of the old famous brands that were no longer produced in China were found.
When our young SOLDIER soldiers saw these familiar things, they were indignant and could not help but sigh that Vietnam was really an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!
The food is Chinese, the use is Chinese, the clothes on the body are also Chinese, including those guns and ammunition that penetrate the heart of the Chinese People's Liberation Army are also Chinese!
This self-defensive offensive war, which was unilaterally provoked by Vietnam and forced to fight back by our army, has been more than 40 years ago.
Our country has long since shaken off the situation of being poor and white, has made leaps and bounds in economic and military development, and has steadily ranked among the world's great powers.
The resumption of Sino-Vietnamese relations came after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Vietnam's "big brother" is gone, the Viet Cong is completely helpless militarily, and if the Vietnamese side is still hostile to China as a neighboring country at this time, it will undoubtedly kill itself.
In September 1990, Comrade Jiang Zemin, then the supreme leader of the Communist Party of China, and Nguyen Van Ling, the supreme leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam, held a secret meeting in Chengdu, China.
The following year, China and Vietnam issued a joint communiqué, and relations between the two countries, which had been interrupted for 13 years, began to move toward a full recovery.
General Wu Yuanjia was very happy to learn that Sino-Vietnamese relations had returned to friendship, and even immediately introduced himself as an emissary of China and Vietnam.
Since then, China and Vietnam have maintained friendly contacts, and bilateral relations have developed in depth to seek mutual benefit and win-win results.
At the end of the twentieth century, the general secretaries of the two parties defined the framework of sino-Vietnamese relations in the new century as: long-term stability, future-oriented, good-neighborliness and friendship, and comprehensive cooperation.
In 2000, specific plans were made for the development of bilateral friendly and cooperative relations between China and Vietnam.
On January 15, 2020, the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam. The Chinese ambassador to Vietnam said that he is currently standing at a new starting point for Sino-Vietnamese relations.
In the past half a century, China and Vietnam have gone through ups and downs, and they also have good and grudges. There have been life and death together, but also once turned against each other, and then today's re-cultivation. History swirls like a river, but it also embodies the scale of China's pursuit of proletarian internationalism in the desolate bends of history. This is the courage cultivated by the great rivers and rivers of China, and the arrogance nurtured by five thousand years of civilization! Enough to impress the world.