On the morning of May 22, 1984, on the front line of Laoshan, where the fierce battle was fierce, the officers and men of the entire battalion of the Laoshan Main Attack Battalion, who had just experienced a brutal battle, under the leadership of Zang Lei, commander of the third battalion of the 118th Regiment of the 40th Division of the 14th Army, dressed in brand-new uniforms, wearing bright steel helmets, carrying submachine guns on their shoulders, wearing white gloves, and the queues were neat and majestic, and one by one the young soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who had undergone the baptism of fire and smoke of the war looked particularly majestic and heroic.
The 118th Regiment of the Iron Patrol was paraded by the detachment, and these soldiers had just participated in the battle to retake Laoshan
At 12:20, accompanied by Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front campaign of the Sino-Vietnamese War, Commander-in-Chief Of the Western Front, Commander-in-Chief of the Thai Armed Forces and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Army General Ah Tie Gan Lang Yi inspected all the officers and men of the Lao Shan Main Offensive Battalion. In the face of the mighty and majestic soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army standing in front of him like a pine, Admiral Ah Tie expressed his heartfelt admiration:"
You fought to defend the motherland and struck the enemy hard, and I want to learn from you! Hats off to you guys!
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Admiral Ah Tie Gan Lang Yi (left) presents books to Zang Lei (right), commander of the Third Battalion of the 118th Regiment
There are special reasons why the commander-in-chief of Thailand's three armed forces, who risked his life, personally visited Chinese soldiers on the front line of Lao Shan, which was lined with bullets and bullets.
In 1983, Vietnam, known as the "third power in the world", not only invaded China, but also tried to incorporate Cambodia and Thailand into Vietnam's territory at the same time, and the Thai army led by General Ah Tie suffered repeated setbacks and was beaten to the ground in the course of the engagement with the Vietnamese army, and just when he and General Yang Dezhi were talking in Beijing, Thailand experienced another defeat.
On the Cambodia-Thai border, the Thai Border Guard is training to prevent Vietnamese troops from crossing the border
In the face of Chinese the People's Liberation Army in the process of fighting back against Vietnam, the Vietnamese army lost its armor and was embarrassed, and Admiral Ah Tie was full of curiosity. He told commander Zhang Haoxiu, who accompanied him in the parade, and Liu Yongxin, commander of the 118th Regiment of the unit under parade, that he had participated in the Korean War, and that in the Korean War, he had served as a commando commander, a commander of a weapons company of the Royal Forest Army, a staff officer for combat training, a chief of a technical training section, and a battalion commander of an infantry battalion; after the war, he became a regimental commander, a division commander, a military commander, and even a commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. Why has american armament and American training been unable to win the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, which is difficult to even guarantee food, drink and clothing? What are you relying on?
On the front line of Laoshan Mountain, the officers and men of the people's liberation army Chinese vigorously
For these sentimental words on the Iron Army, Commander Zhang Chengxiu and Commander Liu Yongxin out of courtesy, did not give any evaluation, the Korean War has been more than 30 years in the past, although admiral Ah Tie is grumpy about the performance of the Thai army on the Korean battlefield, but in the history of Chinese warfare, the performance of the Thai army is basically not worth mentioning, even in the military history of the 47th Army that has fought with the Thai army, there is only one sentence about Thailand:"
On November 15, 1951, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 423rd Regiment of the 141st Division counterattacked to the 190.8 heights, and after 3 hours of fighting, completely annihilated 1 reinforced company of the 21st Thai Regiment, totaling 143 people.
The 47th Army on the Korean battlefield fought with the enemy hundreds of times in the defensive battle of the Linjin River position, with brilliant results and heroes everywhere, and for this kind of battalion-company-scale battle with the Thai army, it was too much to pay attention to at all, but for the Thai army, this annihilation war was an eternal scar, a terrible nightmare, and it was not only Ah Tie who left a psychological shadow.
In October 1951, the Thai government, which had declared war on the United States and Britain as a Japanese accomplice, because the United States, out of its own interests, had not been completely liquidated after the war, and in order to repay the United States for sparing its own "great kindness", the Thai government appointed major general Pihem Di Shifen Di Shi Guen to send troops to Korea, Colonel Pauli Ben Chula Zari as the commander of the regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Goraj Leon Goanan as the commander of the 1st battalion, and dispatched 1 infantry battalion of the 21st Regiment and two small frigates and 1 support ship. An air transport squadron of 1,057 people, following the ass of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the United Nations Army, participated in the Korean War, becoming the only Asian country to invade Korea except the Philippines, and the 25-year-old Ah Tie, as a grassroots officer of the 21st Regiment, the main force of the Thai army, also came to the Korean Peninsula.
Thai troops participating in the "United Nations Army"
The Battle of Hill 190.8, west of North Korea's Chekwon in November 1951, was the most soul-crushing engagement for the Thai army.
In late October 1951, the soldiers of the 47th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army, using the 190.8 heights as bait to lure the US 33rd Division, adopted flexible tactical principles, and constantly depleted the enemy's living forces, each time fighting, the enemy had to leave one hundred and eighty corpses, and the 190.8 heights became a grave filled by American soldiers.
Thai troops in the Korean War
When the American soldiers are gone, the Thai army has become a substitute ghost. At that time, the Thai army was not easy to become the main force, so as soon as it took over the American position, it wanted to show in front of the Americans, their morale was high, they repaired fortifications, organized fire nets to prevent the volunteer army from attacking, and at the same time sent troops to the front of the volunteer army, trying to seize the Zhishan Cave position occupied by the volunteer army. Unexpectedly, the volunteer army did not give the Thais any opportunity to "make merit" and "perform", and all the regiments were destroyed, leaving no living mouth.
On the night of November 13, in a thunderous killing sound and a roar like a landslide, the volunteer infantry fighters quickly rushed from all directions to the 190.8 heights, and the 2nd platoon of the 3rd Company of tanks fired fierce artillery and machine guns at the Thai fire points of the 190.8 and 198.2 highlands, suppressing and destroying them, and quickly rushing through the undulating mountains to block the retreat of the Thai army. A shell hit the fleeing Thai army to a dazzle, dizzy, to the volunteer infantry reconnaissance unit to search the Thai position, found that the enemy's 9 tanks were no longer there, 4 of which had been damaged by us, it took only 25 minutes, a Thai reinforcement company was all reimbursed.
Since then, in some smaller confrontations with the volunteer army, the Thai army has also been repeatedly defeated and has never won, and on July 27, 1953, the Korean armistice, the Thai army was killed, wounded, missing, and captured a total of 1,273 people, more than 1,057 people when they entered the DPRK, such a huge casualty ratio can only be described as unbearable, no wonder General A tie is still difficult to let go.
Enemy tanks destroyed by volunteers
At the end of General Ah Tie's trip to the old mountain, which could not be looked back, he said excitedly:
Now, we are also fighting the Vietnamese on the Thai-Cambodian border, and in that sense we are comrades-in-arms. Frankly speaking, we are on par with you in terms of weapons and equipment, we are even bigger than you in terms of troop input, we are higher than you in terms of living conditions, and we are better than you in terms of combat conditions, but every time we fight with the Vietnamese army, we always feel powerless, it is difficult to grasp victory or defeat, even if there are occasional small victories, the results of the battle are not optimistic. In the past few days, I have suddenly understood where the gap between us and you is, that is, morale, that kind of high and overriding fighting spirit.
During general A Tie Gan Langyi's visit to Laoshan, he met with Liu Yongxin ,commander of the 118th Regiment(second from right); and political commissar Zhou Zhongshi (first from right).
Shortly after the end of the trip to Lao Shan, General Ah Tie returned to China, in a battle in which the Vietnamese army invaded Thailand, it took only 7 days to defeat Vietnam, with the military strength of Thailand at that time, so easily defeated the invincible "world's third power" Vietnamese army, it was really a slap in the face; in 1984, Vietnam launched a war against Thailand, in the face of Vietnam's brutality, Thailand's military strength once again made Vietnam stunned, not only resisted the invasion, but also drove Vietnam out.
China and the United States issued statements condemning Vietnam's actions, and then made military aid to Thailand, selling Thai equipment at extremely low special prices, and the United States also aided Thailand.
In 1988, Vietnam was under pressure from the international community and severely sanctioned, withdrawing its troops from Cambodia, and the war between Vietnam and Thailand was declared over.