In the 1870s, Vietnam finally defeated the United States with the help of Chinese troops. In the years that followed, Vietnam decided to offer its overtures to the Soviet Union at a time when Sino-Soviet relations were deteriorating. The Soviet Union also had its own ambitions, supporting Vietnam according to the situation at that time, and wanted Vietnam to become a pawn of its own and develop into this part of Southeast Asia.
Vietnam, with Soviet support, arrogantly called itself "the world's third military power," seemingly forgetting which country had supported his weapons and ammunition during his war with the United States.
These treacherous acts of Vietnam have infuriated our country. When the United States invaded and occupied Vietnam, Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh secretly visited China and asked for assistance. Chairman Mao ordered comprehensive and selfless assistance to Vietnam, not only supporting guns, ammunition, and food, but also providing military advisory groups to help train troops.
In the face of such an ungrateful Vietnam, my country has also decided to teach them a bitter lesson. After receiving the order issued by the Central Military Commission to fight back against Vietnam, Chinese the people's liberation army immediately reorganized its troops, planned a strategy for offensive operations, and vowed to give him a chance to get rid of it.
Why support Vietnam
After the outbreak of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a total of five countries supported Vietnam, one of which was our former good brother, the big brother of the Soviet Union. The remaining four are Laos, Afghanistan, Mongolia and India
。 First, let's look at why these four countries support Vietnam, and then we will analyze the reasons why the Soviet Union supported Vietnam.
Among these four countries, Laos is the typical wall grass, seeing the Soviet Union, the world power directly supporting Vietnam, he believes that the Chinese army in this war has a high probability of defeat, if not defeat, it will be very anxious. But he never imagined that the Chinese army would end the war in just one month.
Both Afghanistan and Mongolia were under Soviet control, so the Soviets said whatever they wanted and did not dare to disobey.
As for India, it can almost be said that it is an "old enemy", and China's attitude towards India is still very friendly, but India always wants to take advantage of China.
On the Sino-Indian border, India has repeatedly sent troops to harass our country and wants to expand its territory by forcibly occupying our borders. However, every time they were fiercely counterattacked by our border guards, knowing that they could not fight, they were unwilling to take advantage.
The transformation of Relations between China and the Soviet Union
In the early days of the founding of New China, the relations between the Soviet Union and China were still very close. At that time, although the country had been established, the whole country was still in a state of post-war waste, and all industries needed to be developed, but our country was poor and white at that time.
At this time, the Soviet Union came, and they brought many relevant technical experts to China to help and guide our industrial development. The Soviet Union has also provided us with all-round support in some aspects of infrastructure construction, industrial and agricultural construction, and equipment introduction. Without the help of the Soviet Union, we would never have developed at the speed we have today, and all this was built on a solid foundation at that time.
If this situation continues, the pace of development of our country will become faster and faster, and the friendship between the two countries will last forever. But the relations between the Soviet Union and our country suddenly fell apart, from the original intimacy directly to the freezing point. Not only have all the experts been withdrawn, but there is also frequent friction between the two countries on the border.
On March 2, 1969, Soviet border guards invaded Zhenbao Island and attacked our border patrol personnel, killing and wounding 6 people. In desperation, our border troops were forced to counterattack in self-defense, and after withstanding the fierce artillery attack of the Soviet Union, our army also returned to color.
In the end, not only did the Soviet border guards repel, but also one of the most advanced tanks in the world at that time. Since then, the relations between our country and the Soviet Union have completely broken down, which is equivalent to directly tearing the skin off.
However, it is precisely because of this that our country has begun to move towards independence and autonomy. Without the help of the Soviet Union, we ourselves developed the atomic bomb, which undoubtedly gave the people at home great self-confidence, even without the help of others, and we would not be afraid of any country under any circumstances.
Sino-US reconciliation
During the Vietnam War, the United States was at a stalemate in the Vietnam battlefield due to the support of China and the Soviet Union for Vietnam. The essence of starting a war is to make its own country profitable, and now the United States is trapped in the swamp of the Vietnam battlefield and has no way to go any further for a while, if it continues to drag on, the increasingly heavy defense expenditure of the United States will affect the entire country's economy, and if it does not withdraw, it will not be worth the loss.
In this case, the United States had to sign an agreement to withdraw its troops from Vietnam. The United States has spent a lot of energy this time and has not eaten a few pieces of meat from Vietnam, which is equivalent to a serious injury, and the Soviet Side will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity to exert pressure on the United States for a strategic offensive during this period, and at the same time exert pressure on our country.
As a result, Sino-US relations gradually thawed, and the United States wanted to use China to achieve the effect of curbing the development of the Soviet Union. Of course, this is not a small benefit to our country.
After the completion of Vietnam's reunification, it invaded Cambodia with the support of the Soviet Union. Later, with the support of the Soviet Union, there was a war with our country. During this war the Soviet Union provided only weapons support, because at that time the United States specifically called the Soviet Union through the line between the United States and the Soviet Union to warn the Soviet Union that it would not allow any action that could lead to the deterioration of the current situation. This is tantamount to limiting the war to a certain extent.
War and Reflection
The Vietnam War was the first war fought by our army several decades after the large-scale operation of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Because the soldiers who retired from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were either discharged or promoted, this led to the fact that almost all of the grass-roots commanders of our army were new recruits who had never been on the battlefield. Although the theoretical knowledge is rich, but the war has not actually been experienced on paper.
When on the battlefield, there is no such momentum of killing decisiveness, and the experience of command is also very poor, and what tactics are taught in schools, they will be rigid on the battlefield and will not be combined with reality to make changes. In the face of strong fortifications, only the tactics of the sea of people will be used. This is all a method without conditions, and now that we have everything we should have, can't we use it flexibly? A qualified commander is not like this.
However, if we want to blame all these problems on people, it is also biased, after all, at that time, the ten years of turmoil had just ended, and the study of what tactical training and tactics had just begun, and because the problems caused by this could not all be pushed to people, this was the problem of the entire army, and it should be fundamentally solved.
brief summary:
There are no eternal enemies in this world, and there are no eternal friends. The vast majority of state-to-state exchanges are self-interested, and the two sides will not completely sever ties just because of a war or two, because countries must cooperate if they want to develop.
The reason for the outbreak of war is, in the final analysis, insufficient resources, and we are now in an era of economic globalization, and the economy developed by peace and cooperation is far more efficient than the economy from war, so war is getting farther and farther away from us.
But we still can't relax on this, because "if you enter, you can't be at home, and if you go out, you can't be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will always die"!