In 1983, a document was presented to Deng. After reading the documents, Deng Xiaoping frowned: Vietnam already had nuclear reactors with the assistance of the Soviet Union and had acquired the technology to further purify enriched uranium, and weapons-grade enriched uranium was within reach.
In this regard, Deng Xiaoping gave instructions: Take the initiative! So how did Vietnam acquire nuclear reactors and purification technology step by step? And how did the mainland attack?
The conspiracy of the Americans
After the end of World War II, the Vietnam Independence League declared Vietnam's independence, established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and implemented the socialist system. However, France, which had colonized Vietnam, was unwilling to lose its colony and united with Western countries to refuse to recognize Vietnamese sovereignty.
In 1949, the Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai Emperor Nguyen Phuc Hoang, who had twice ascended the throne and was overthrown twice, returned to southern Vietnam with the support of the French and established the state of Vietnam, with the capital Saigon.
Named Fuhrer, the Great was actually a puppet of the French. In order to continue to occupy Vietnam, France frequently launched attacks on North Vietnam, and Vietnam fell into a bitter battle to resist France and save the country.
When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, seeing the successful establishment of countries that were also in the socialist camp, North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, turned to the mainland for help! Out of affection for the fraternal socialist countries, the mainland began to vigorously aid North Vietnam!
Later, with the all-round support of China's material, economic and human resources, the North Vietnamese army was able to develop and grow, gradually turning the tide of the war. A few years later, the North Vietnamese army, under the guidance of the Chinese Advisory Group, achieved a great victory in Dien Bien Phu.
The French, seeing that the regime of Emperor Bảo was in danger, had to sit at the negotiating table and signed the Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference and many armistice agreements with the North Vietnamese regime.
Since then, the 17th parallel has divided Vietnam into two different regimes, and a situation of confrontation between the north and the south has formed. Seeing that the regime of France and Paul the Great was so weak, the United States had the idea of replacing it and profiting from it.
So they found Diệm Diệm, who was Catholic and fiercely anti-communist, in their country. In 1955, with the support of the United States, Diệm overthrew the regime of Bao Đồng Đồng T�
However, compared to North Vietnam, which fought more and more courageously in the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese regime was losing ground on the battlefield. Seeing that the puppet it supported was about to fall, in order not to waste its hard work, in 1961 the United States personally ended up with the help of the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" and brazenly launched the Vietnam War.
At a time when its neighbors were in crisis, China once again provided selfless assistance, not only providing material and economic assistance, sending military advisers to guide the North Vietnamese army, but also directly sending combat troops to participate in the war.
During the 10-year war, the mainland's air defense forces shot down more than 2,000 US planes, and the mainland also directly issued a solemn warning to the US government that as long as the US ground forces crossed the 17th parallel, China would certainly not sit idly by.
China's warnings made the U.S. government fearful, but the U.S. government did not easily abandon its plans against Vietnam. In order to better support the South Vietnamese regime, the United States reached an agreement with the South Vietnamese regime as early as the late 50s.
General Atomics of the United States supplied small nuclear reactors to South Vietnam to build nuclear power plants. In 1961, the two sides established the Nuclear Power Research Institute in Dalat City, Lam Thong Province, 250 kilometers northeast of Saigon.
In 1963, the Dalat nuclear reactor was officially put into operation. With a capacity of 15 megawatts, the reactor effectively supported South Vietnam's industrial system, thereby increasing the military's combat effectiveness, and for the North Vietnamese and Chinese forces, the nuclear power plant was no less than a killer.
In addition to this, the Americans have done enough on the fuel of the reactor. In general, the energy produced in nuclear reactors comes from the nuclear fission of uranium-235, and enriched uranium with an enrichment of 3%-5% can be used as fuel for nuclear power plants.
The Dalat nuclear power plant uses TRIGH Mark II uranium hydrogen zirconium reactor, of which the mass of uranium-235 accounts for 8.5wt, and the enrichment degree reaches more than 20%, which has long exceeded the demand for normal power generation nuclear reactors.
Although weapons-grade enriched uranium is required to be more than 90 percent, South Vietnam has actually bypassed the biggest technical obstacle to the development of nuclear weapons.
In other words, if Diệm or his successors were beaten to the point of losing their minds, it would not be long before they quietly built an atomic bomb!
But this did not happen, and the United States gradually lost confidence in South Vietnam due to the crotch pulling of the South Vietnamese regime and the rising anti-war sentiment in the United States.
Later in the Vietnam War, in order to ensure that the nuclear reactor was not captured by the North Vietnamese government, the Americans dismantled the core components of the reactor, transported enriched uranium back to the United States, and destroyed a large number of nuclear energy-related literature.
At the end of April 1975, the North Vietnamese army attacked Saigon, South Vietnam was destroyed, and North and South Vietnam were finally reunified. The mainland thought that it had made a close friend with selfless assistance, but it did not expect that tens of billions of dollars in aid would be exchanged for an ungrateful "poisonous snake"!
The story of the farmer and the snake
In 1969, Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh died! After some competition within the party, Li Duan gradually grasped the real power!
After coming to power, Le Duan secretly opposed China while accepting China's help. After the reunification of the North and the South, they even tore off their pretense and openly implemented a tough anti-China policy.
Under these circumstances, Huang Wenhuan was forced to move to Beijing, and Wu Yuanjia and other moderates against China were erected. At home, Le Duan persecuted the Chinese diaspora, and a large number of Chinese were overthrown by the government they supported.
On the Sino-Vietnamese border, Vietnamese border guards continued to provoke incidents, and the bloody clashes at Pu Nian Ling and Dinh Ho Son were shocking, and by 1978, there were more than 4,000 clashes on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
In order to fulfill the so-called Ho Chi Minh last wish, Vietnam forgot its scars and pains, and acted arbitrarily on the Indochina Peninsula, openly invading Cambodia and Laos, and provoking border wars with Thailand and other countries.
The actions of the Vietnamese government have made the Chinese people heartbroken, and war between China and Vietnam is inevitable.
In order to instigate Vietnam to continue to confront China, the Soviet Union signed the Soviet-Vietnamese Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Vietnam. Based on this empty letter, Le Duan naively thought that once China sent troops, the Soviet Union would pay to help Vietnam, so his provocations against China intensified.
During Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States in January 1979, the trend of Sino-Vietnamese relations became the focus of journalists' attention. In response to reporters' questions, Deng Xiaoping said many times
"There is no need for Vietnam to learn lessons, and I am afraid that any other approach will not be effective." , "Children are disobedient and want to spank!" ”
U.S. President Jimmy Carter was wary of the crushing defeat of the U.S. forces in the Vietnam War and cautiously reminded Deng Xiaoping, who responded domineeringly: "It depends on which unit!"
In February 1979, our troops crossed the border in two ways and swept through Vietnam with a thunderous force. After a series of military operations such as the Battle of Gaoping, the Battle of Lang Son and the Battle of Lao Cai.
Most of the main forces of the Vietnamese army were annihilated, 57,000 Vietnamese troops were captured, wounded, and killed, and the gateway to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, was opened and became a piece of meat in the mouth of the PLA!
Although our army later took the initiative to retreat, after this battle, Vietnam's economy was paralyzed, people's hearts were shaken, and its national strength plummeted.
But Le Duan and his ilk are not dead, and in addition to continuing to stir up disputes at the border, they have even started the idea of nuclear energy. Although the United States used all advanced weapons on Vietnamese soil, it never mentioned nuclear weapons, and the reason was that China and the Soviet Union both possessed nuclear weapons, and once a nuclear war was provoked, the United States could not take advantage of the slightest.
But in Li Sun's view, if he can have nuclear forces at this time, he will not be able to compete with China! And although the US military took nuclear fuel and burned the data when they withdrew, the building shell of the Dalat nuclear power plant is still there, which can still come in handy.
And in order to make its delusions a reality, the Vietnamese government once again shamelessly turned to the Soviet Union. Although the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty had been signed at the time, nuclear-armed states were not allowed to supply nuclear weapons to non-nuclear-weapon states.
But Vietnam finally caught the soft underbelly of the USSR! While exaggerating China's threat to the Soviet Union, they used treaties of friendship and cooperation, and at the same time promised the Soviet Union gold and even promised to send Vietnamese to Siberia as laborers.
Seeing that Vietnam would not give up if it did not get nuclear, coupled with the favorable conditions and Vietnam's use value to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union agreed to secretly assist Vietnam in building a nuclear power plant and providing enriched uranium.
So from 1983, the restart of the Dalat nuclear power plant began. However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Vietnam's plan was still learned by Huang Wenhuan, who was squeezed out of China by the Le Duan Group, through his own intelligence channels!
Through intelligence networks throughout Vietnam, Hoang Van Huan learned that the Dalat nuclear power plant has resumed operation, twice the size of the American reactor, and that the fuel concentration is still much higher than that of a normal nuclear power plant.
More seriously, Vietnam has mastered the technology to extract uranium-235, and has the ability to further purify nuclear fuel, and Huang Van Huan, who knows the grim situation, did not hesitate and quickly informed China of all the information he had. Soon, the report reached Deng Xiaoping.
Seeing that the Vietnamese thief's heart was not dead, Deng Xiaoping thought for a long time, and it was not the mainland's intention to make the Vietnamese people unhappy, so the self-defense against Vietnam and counterattacking our army did not go further!
But now Vietnam's behavior is playing with fire, and once Vietnam loses its mind, then not only China, but the whole of Southeast Asia will be affected.
In view of this, Deng Xiaoping made up his mind, and he immediately picked up a pen and wrote the words "take the initiative" on the report he submitted!
The two mountains fought in turn, cutting off their ambitions
After receiving instructions, our army gathered more and more troops in the Sino-Vietnamese border area, the People's Liberation Army with three divisions each in Yunnan and Guangxi was ready to fight at any time, and follow-up troops also came in a steady stream, and the Central Military Commission determined the operational plan codenamed "Project 14."
The Le Duan clique also felt threatened, and in early 1984 he proposed a-for-tat "offensive as defensive" strategy at a military conference.
However, Western countries, which had been accustomed to judging socialist countries, were noncommittal about the big moves of China and Vietnam, and even the Soviet Union, which had always sheltered Vietnam, was silent in amusement.
On April 2, the "14 Project" began to be implemented, and 1,300 kilometers of border line, 10,000 guns were fired. To cope with a long artillery battle, each gun of our army had three spare strikers.
In the first few hours, the Vietnamese still had the courage to return fire on our artillery positions, and even the phenomenon of artillery shells colliding in the air between the two armies occurred repeatedly. But not long after, the Vietnamese artillery was completely wiped out by our army, and any resistance of the Vietnamese army became a meaningless death throes.
In the later stages of the artillery battle, our infantry and armored troops were dispatched, and the 11th Army and 14th Army launched an attack on the defenders in the area of Laoshan and Jiyin Mountain.
On April 28, two divisions of the 14th Army launched a general attack on Laoshan, and after a fierce battle, successfully occupied the heights of Laoshan, pulled out the enemy's strongholds, and further advanced to the Balihe Dongshan.
In the early morning of the 30th, the 11th Army began to attack Yin Mountain. Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy sent a regiment of troops to reinforce, but before the reinforcements could get off the vehicle, they were annihilated by our artillery fire. Five hours later, Jiyin Mountain was recaptured by our army.
After this battle, Vietnam is not dead. In the early morning of June 12, the Vietnamese army attacked our position in the direction of Nala, and the 2nd company of our army guarding the position fought bloodily, and in the end, almost all of them were killed.
The sacrifices of their comrades infuriated the artillery units, and under the heavy blows of the artillery, the Vietnamese army quickly collapsed.
A week later, the Vietnamese army again gathered the strength of two regiments and launched a surprise attack in the direction of our army Songmao Ridge. This time, our army learned the lessons, did not give the enemy any chance, and successfully repelled the enemy army.
Soon after, Vietnam developed an action plan known as the Northern Quang Plan, which amassed 18,000 troops in the direction of Songmaoling to retake the area.
But what the Vietnamese did not know was that the Northern Quang plan was intercepted by our army, and although the specific number of participants did not know, our army still strengthened the artillery units in this direction.
In the early morning of July 12, our army, anticipating that the Vietnamese army would launch an attack that day, carried out a three-hour continuous shelling of the area where the Vietnamese army might be hidden.
After another two hours, the Vietnamese army touched the front of our position and suddenly launched an attack. Only then did our army learn that as many as six regiments of the Vietnamese army participated in this attack, while our defensive forces had only one regiment strength.
At this time, the two armies were already engaged in close combat, and in order to avoid accidentally wounding our soldiers, the artillery unit adjusted its targets to the enemy's rear and fiercely attacked the enemy's follow-up units.
The infantry regiments on the position also bravely killed the enemy and repelled several enemy attacks. At noon, our artillery fired more than 10,000 shells, and the shelling was stopped for a while.
Fortunately, the artillery leadership had the foresight to send 470 trucks to the rear in the morning to pull the shells, and after a short adjustment, the shells exploded again above the enemy's heads.
The Vietnamese army killed the red eye and launched an unprecedented battalion and regimental charge, but under the artillery fire, all the charges became cannon fodder! The next day, our army cleared several strongholds occupied by the enemy, and the "712 artillery battle" that shocked the world ended in a complete victory for our army.
By December of that year, our army had killed and wounded 6,633 Vietnamese troops at the cost of 766 killed, and on July 12 alone, the Vietnamese army had lost more than 3,000 troops.
From the end of that year to the beginning of 1990, various military regions of our army successively went to the Liangshan area to fight in rotation, continuously depleting Vietnamese troops. In the battle of the Two Hills, our army lost a total of 1,589 people and suffered 3,014 wounded, while the Vietnamese suffered as many as 30,000 casualties and were captured.
On the National Day of 1984, the mainland held a grand military parade, which set a record high degree of mechanization, and the eyes of the soldiers paraded were fierce, and they are still praised.
In the endless battle, the Vietnamese economy completely collapsed, and the people's life deteriorated year by year. And Vietnam's backer, the Soviet Union, was also in the midst of many contradictions.
Vietnam used to have abundant food reserves, and after the border war, the annual food shortage reached two to three million tons. The food rations of the northern residents have dropped from 15 kilograms to 9 kilograms per month, and eating enough has become a major problem for the Vietnamese.
In contrast, Vietnam's military expenditure has remained above 30% of fiscal expenditure for many years, reaching 40% at one point. Sweden's Daily News reported: "Years after seizing Saigon, Vietnam is on the verge of bankruptcy."
We must know that the most important thing in the development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons is financial investment and power support. In Vietnam in the 80s, the economy was in shambles, electricity was in short supply, and the nuclear weapons program naturally fell through.
In 1986, Li Duan died of illness. And the newly appointed leader "Long March" is a pro-China faction. After he took office, he changed Le Duan's anti-China policy, got rid of Soviet control over Vietnam, and supported the pro-China Nguyen Van Linh and Vu Chi Gong.
However, due to the advanced age of the Long March, it was unable to fundamentally solve the Sino-Vietnamese problem after only half a year in office, and our army still maintained a long-term rotational battle in the Liangshan region.
In 1987, Nguyen Van Linh and Vu Chi Kong became the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the president of Vietnam, respectively, and Vu Nguyen Giap, who had been expelled from the center of power, also returned to power, and Sino-Vietnamese relations took a turn.
In 1989, the Vietnamese army withdrew from Cambodia, completely abandoning Le Duan's idea of dominating Southeast Asia, and the deepest gap between China and Vietnam was removed.
On September 3, 1990, Nguyen Van Linh had a secret meeting with Chinese leaders in Chengdu. During his visit to China, Ruan Van Linh quoted an ancient Chinese poem: "The brothers who have crossed the calamity are here, and they smile when they meet each other."
Soon after, at the Beijing Asian Games, Wu Yuanjia was invited to attend. During the meeting, Wu Yuanjia and Huang Wenhuan, two old revolutionary comrades-in-arms, hugged and wept.
Unfortunately, it was only then that people remembered that the death sentence against Huang Wenhuan by the Li Duan Group was still in effect, so Huang Wenhuan could not return to his hometown, which had been separated for a long time.
In February 1990, as relations between the two countries improved, the Chengdu Military Region, the last to enter the Liangshan region, handed over border command to the Yunnan Military Subdistrict.
On February 10, 1993, the central authorities formally approved the dismissal of combat tasks in the Laoshan area, the abolition of the Yunnan front-line command, and the transfer of border troops to normal garrisons.
After entering the 21st century, Vietnam's power shortage has become increasingly serious, and Vietnam's leaders have once again set their sights on nuclear power. With the assistance of the United States, Russia.
After enriched uranium from Vietnam's Dalat nuclear reactor was replaced with low-enriched uranium, Vietnam announced that it would build more peaceful nuclear facilities.
No country opposes this initiative to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.