The Vietnam War was a historical event that affected the world during the Cold War, and after World War II, the powerful US military fell into the quagmire of the Vietnam War for nearly two decades, and finally retreated in ashes. At the end of the Vietnam War in 1972, General Wu Yuanjia of North Vietnam launched a large-scale southward offensive to completely expel the United States, which is known as the "Easter Offensive". During the Vietnam War, this was almost the largest north Vietnamese counterattack, with an army of 150,000 men.
However, the results of this "Easter Offensive" show that this is the most serious mistake made by Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
In the face of the sudden attack of north Vietnam, the US troops, who had already planned to retreat, were furious, and immediately used their powerful sea and air power to cover a wide range of firepower, using "swords and mountains and seas of fire" to fight against the "sea of people". The outcome of the campaign can be imagined, half of the 150,000 troops were killed directly in the fire, and many NATO cities were almost erased from the map. The total number of soldier casualties was at least 100,000.
Why would Wu Yuanjia, who had always been cautious and patient, suddenly command the team to launch such an aggressive action? Soon Wu Yuanjia was relieved of his duties and became the back cooker of this failed attack. However, in fact, Wu Yuanjia resolutely opposed this attack, and it was really the upper echelons that insisted on attacking, and Wu Yuanjia led his troops into battle.
Who gave north vietnam so much courage?
In the Vietnam War, the firepower of the US military made the North Vietnamese suffer a lot, so all along, the North Vietnamese were mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare and the US army. But in 1972, the situation had changed a lot. The first is that the anti-war sentiment in the United States is very high, and in 72 years or the year of the ELECTION in the United States, the North Vietnamese judged that under such a situation, the US military could not launch a large-scale military operation. And the U.S. combat troops in Vietnam are only 6,000 people. On the contrary, the North Vietnamese had just won the Blue Mountain Battle of 719 and their morale was high. The Soviet Union again gave a lot of weapons support at this time. This has given NATO the illusion that it can drive U.S. troops out of Vietnam once and for all.
However, the outcome was not as north-vietnamese had expected. When Nixon learned of the frontal battle in the North, he quickly realized that this was the experience of a group of people who had come to the door, so he ended the battle directly with firepower coverage. The victory even boosted Nixon's approval ratings, helping him win re-election in 1972.