Historically, the mainland and Vietnam have maintained friendly and good-neighborly relations, but in the late 1970s, the mainland launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam under the last circumstances. General Xu Shiyou, then commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, was appointed commander-in-chief of the eastern front, but just as the Central Military Commission issued the order to retreat, he said that he could hit Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in less than two hours.
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Selfless help in exchange for grace will be revenge
Instead of being grateful, Vietnam has become a complete white-eyed wolf?
In the mid-1970s, Vietnam had just ended the War to Resist the United States and officially realized national reunification. At a time when the quest for peace and development should have been continued, Vietnam's careful thinking could not be hidden, especially
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After the regime came to power, political ambitions swelled sharply, and the Viet Cong also experienced brutal struggles within the Viet Cong.
Moreover, after the reunification of Vietnam, their troops and soldiers have undergone the baptism of the previous war and have been greatly improved in combat. More importantly, As a good brother of Vietnam, China has aided a large amount of wartime materials and weapons and equipment when its country is worried about internal and external troubles, coupled with the aid equipment and captured American weapons given to them by the Soviet Union, and Vietnam has begun to float.
Second, with the strong support of the former Soviet Union, the Viet Cong's intention to invade and expand outwards has become more and more inflated, and they even feel that they have defeated the United States, which can be called the third largest military power in the world. However, as everyone knows, in the previous Vietnam War of Resistance against France, China can be said to have played a very important role, sending a team of military advisers to vietnam to direct the operation, if not, how could they return so quickly?
Vietnam War
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After the outbreak, China also launched the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Vietnam, actively participating in the action of aiding Vietnam, not only aiding a large number of manpower, material and financial resources, but also sending air defense troops and engineering troops to Vietnam. In three years, the mainland has sacrificed more than a thousand soldiers, all of whom have been buried on Vietnamese soil and shot down more than three thousand US aircraft. During this three-decade period, the mainland's aid to Vietnam was equivalent to about 20 billion US dollars, providing strong support for Vietnam's liberation struggle.
However, these selfless help from the mainland did not yield any good results, on the contrary, China and Vietnam began to embark on the road of confrontation and even began to be hostile. At that time, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, relations had begun to thaw, and the Soviet Union and the United States were not at odds, so Vietnam's ambitions with the support of the Soviet Union were constantly expanding. As early as 1969, the Soviet Union began to invade the mainland Heilongjiang Ussuri River on the side of the main channel of the Treasure Island, China's border troops were also forced to carry out self-defense counterattack, with the complete confrontation between China and the Soviet Union, Vietnam regarded China as the number one enemy, becoming a complete white-eyed wolf.
The Vietnamese side's aggressive acts soon threatened China's security, and they continued to invade the northern frontier of the mainland and invade Cambodia in the southern region, causing serious harm to the territorial security and sovereignty of the mainland. Although the mainland does not want to cause trouble, it has no reason to fight back if it is bullied to the head, not to mention that since the founding of New China, it has launched the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the first world war has become famous, which also shows that as long as it threatens the security of the mainland, no matter who the other side is, it will be cracked down.
The Central Military Commission issued an order to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam through a resolution, which is a great resolution made to protect the lives and property of Chinese people when the border areas of the mainland are seriously threatened.
The legendary Xu Shiyou
Why did the battlefield on the Eastern Front suddenly determine the commander Xu Shiyou?
But at that time, China was not peaceful, ten years of turmoil had just ended, and many places had not developed, especially the mainland's army, many of which had not fought since 1962, so the hands became unfamiliar, and the situation was still not optimistic.
On New Year's Day in 1979, Comrade Deng Xiaoping had already selected the commanders of the war against Vietnam at the meeting of the Central Military Commission in Beijing, and after much screening and careful consideration, he deliberated on the commanders of the eastern and western fronts. When choosing the commander in the direction of Yunnan on the western front, there were still many twists and turns, and many people took the initiative to ask for help in order to defend the frontier of the motherland, but for various reasons, they were rejected. Moreover, at that time, many pre-selected generals resigned from this task, first, they had been in a high state of affairs for many years and were unable to lead the troops to fight, and second, it was also to prevent some unnecessary contradictions and affect the war on the front line.
Therefore, after some twists and turns, it was determined that the commander of the Wuhan Military Region at that time, General Yang Dezhi, was in charge of the Western Front, and this decision can be said to have absolutely no objections, and he had served as a military adviser in the previous Vietnam War of Resistance against France, and no one in this regard could be more familiar with it than General Yang Dezhi. So, the commander of the Western Front is so difficult to select, and is it not the same for the Eastern Front?
But in fact, at that time, the commander of the Eastern Front guangxi direction had no objection from beginning to end, that is, General Xu Shiyou, who was selected by absolute superiority, it was not accidental, and this war can be said to be a cross-border operation of a large army, which is not small, and General Xu Shiyou is even more of a candidate.
General Xu Shiyou came out of the siege all the way from Dabie Mountain, although he was from a peasant background and did not have much culture, but he was a first-class soldier who led the army to fight, and his military talent was not buried. In a sense, it is precisely because of this that it shows his innate loyalty and fierceness.
At the end of 1973, Xu Shiyou had just become the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and he went to war with Vietnam, which was still a naval battle. Since General Xu Shiyou joined the army, he has fought countless wars of all sizes, land and sea battles, but few people know that this inconspicuous war is the Battle of the Changshan Islands. Even General Xu Shiyou's own memoirs do not mention this, he wrote that after the liberation of Jinan, he stopped writing, so people are not familiar with it.
Although the Battle of Changshan Islands was a small naval battle, the significance of this battle was not small, it was the last battle in which the whole territory of Shandong Province was liberated, and General Xu Shiyou played an important role in it. In the eyes of many people, Xu Shiyou has a fiery personality, gets rid of a fierce Zhang Fei, and fights like a martial artist, daring to fight and dare to fight. However, people familiar with Xu Shiyou know that he is as meticulous as a hair, and many times he can see the fighter plane that others can't see, which can be described as both wisdom and courage.
Battle of the Long Hills Archipelago
And although Xu Shiyou's cultural level is not high, but it is a well-known living map, with him present, everyone does not even have to look at the map carefully, because every direction and detail of it, he is imprinted in his mind, remember clearly.
Victory was imminent, but they were asked to withdraw their troops
About to attack the enemy's doorstep but helpless to retreat?
In 1979, the People's Liberation Army's border defense forces launched a counterattack operation against Vietnam, and in twenty-eight days, our army began to attack from the two directions of Guangxi and Yunnan, until our army all withdrew to China, and achieved impressive results.
At this time, General Xu Shiyou was already 74 years old, but he still commanded the battle with the best posture, and said that since Comrade Xiaoping had named him, he must not fail to live up to the trust of the motherland. If you don't make a sound, you will already be a hit, and if you don't fight, you won the war, and since you choose to go to war, you must win this battle at all costs.
With the sound of a cannon at dawn, the silence in the border area was broken, and nine armies led by General Xu Shiyou and General Yang Dezhi launched an attack on 6 provinces and 11 counties of Vietnam from the directions of Guangxi and Yunnan. In less than 3 hours, the mainland broke through the various defensive lines one after another, and the more they fought, the more frightened they were. On March 1, a large-scale fierce battle broke out in the Lang Son area of the Eastern Front, and the Vietnamese army began to think of crooked moves if it could not resist.
Self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
Since Hanoi sent the 308th Division to launch a counterattack, they also used chemical weapons against our army in a frenzy, and Xu Shiyou was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered that not a single house in the Lang Son area be left behind, and all of them were bombed for him. Subsequently, 300 artillery pieces of our army were put into battle, and in less than half an hour, the Langshan area was blown into a sea of fire.
Just after our army took Lang Son, the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, was already close at hand, and as long as an order was given, within a few days, Hanoi must be in the pocket of our army, which was a great opportunity to take advantage of the victory and pursue. Moreover, at this time, the morale within our army was also very high, and for vietnam, the white-eyed wolf, they were eager to attack it in groups. At this time, the Central Military Commission issued an order, which had achieved the desired purpose, requiring all Chinese border troops to withdraw to China's territory.
Looking at the victory in front of them, everyone's mood was greatly hit, and they expressed their incomprehension. When General Xu Shiyou received the order to retreat, he also silently looked at the military map for a long time, and he looked at the red arrow of the military map on his headquarters and fell into meditation, that red arrow represented the route of our party's attack, and in the direction pointed by the arrow was the military stronghold of Vietnam, and in front of it was a large plain, which was very powerful for our army's operations.
If Shunshi took this plain, Vietnam would no longer have the courage to fight with us, but the order to retreat was too sudden, and Xu Shiyou did not know what to do for a while. But as a soldier, he is holding such an important position, then the military orders must be obeyed, you know, the army has always been strictly disciplined, and the soldiers also take obedience to orders as their duty. This is not only the requirement of the troops, but also the innate choice of every soldier and the loyalty to the party-state.
Tit-for-tat frontier peace
General Xu Shiyou gave The Vietnamese a fatal blow when he retreated?
Therefore, no matter how good the situation in the front is, as long as the Central Committee says to retreat, then we will retreat, and since the Party Central Committee and Comrade Deng Xiaoping have issued such an order, it must have been carefully considered, everything is for the sake of the overall situation, and there is nothing to complain about.
General Xu Shiyou resolutely obeyed the order, but during the retreat, he also said three words "arch an arch", which means to arch forward a little further, to scare and frighten the Vietnamese army, to let them know the true strength of our army, so that the Vietnamese invaders no longer dare to set foot on Chinese land, and then Xu Shiyou sent troops out of the south of The Mountain for tens of kilometers.
This set of down, but the Vietnamese army frightened, urgently ordered the front command post of the First Military Region to retreat, the Hanoi area was also in chaos, ready for defensive operations. We just scare them, the other party is like this, what else can we do with us? When retreating, our army can also be said to be deploying calmly and unhurriedly, and at the same time it should also face the enemy, and it should be particularly comfortable.
At the time of the withdrawal, General Xu Shiyou also issued three special orders, that is, to plant mines along the way of retreat, which is the same as the Vietnamese army that has been planting mines on the mainland border before, and can also play a good deterrent effect, so that they dare not have any ideas about the mainland in a short period of time.
The second is to destroy the infrastructure of the north and south, Vietnam is not a developed country, but also want to invade the outside world, do your spring and autumn dreams, their power stations, railways and railway stations have been destroyed by our side, really gave them a downhill. We can also let the arrogant people in Vietnam know that the losses caused by war are inevitable, but as long as we want to, we can bring you more losses, and China is by no means a country that can be slaughtered.
The last one is to destroy all the strategic resources of Vietnam, when new China was just founded, it selflessly helped Vietnam, did not give up on him at the most difficult moment, and all kinds of strategic materials were given, but it caused the consequences of revenge, which was intolerable. General Xu Shiyou ordered the destruction of many industries in northern Vietnam and brought back a large number of supplies and weapons, which was also a lesson for them.
For the Vietnamese side, it is undoubtedly irrational for them to choose to go to this war, and their country has been greatly affected, and its national strength has been depleted and destroyed, and it has not been alleviated for a long time. Since then, the decade-long border war between China and Vietnam has made Vietnam even more exhausted and no longer dares to invade China.
Similarly, after this war, the mainland has also exposed many problems, including the PLA's long-term failure to fight, some military skills have declined a lot, and the enemy has exploited loopholes during the battle, causing irreparable losses. Many of the problems exposed in it, such as deficiencies in weapons and unfavorable leadership and command of the contingent, have pointed out the direction for the modernization of the PLA in the future and promoted its development.
And so is this battle
General Xu Shiyou
In the last battle of his military career, when the troops were triumphant, he drank a lot of wine at the celebration banquet, which can be said to be a no refusal, and the cups were not left. But even so, the more the general drank, the happier he became, and he did not lose his attitude at all. The legendary life of General Xu Shiyou is also very worthy of admiration, and his great contributions to our party and country are always worth remembering for future generations.
And we were born in the era of peace, we should be more prepared for danger in times of peace, and dedicate our own strength to the motherland. Well, our content ends here, thank you for watching, like friends can like and forward it!