"Although Chinese is a little poor, he is never afraid of death in war!"
preface
As the last battle of General Xu Shiyou, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was won, but after returning to China, General Xu Shiyou was full of anger, so frightened that no one dared to go to pick up the plane.
The reason why General Xu Shiyou is full of anger, in addition to being so ungrateful and angry with Vietnam, has a very big relationship with the serious decline in the overall combat effectiveness of the PLA.
After this war, General Xu Shiyou found that after the PLA entered the era of peace, there were various problems in terms of mentality, combat capability, and logistics units.
1. Vietnam is ungrateful
In early 1979, when China and the United States only established diplomatic relations, Deng Gong went to the United States for the second time, during which he left a famous saying that the world remembered: "If a child disobeys, it is time to spank." ”
Although we all sound like it now, we know in our hearts who we are talking about, but at that time, this sentence instantly stunned everyone.
As soon as this remark comes out, it is tantamount to telling people around the world who are concerned about the situation in Asia that China will teach a lesson to the domineering little bully in Southeast Asia.
With the end of the trip to the United States, within a few days, the world was directly shaken.
In December 1978, Xu Shiyou had just returned to Guangzhou, and before he could rest, he saw the fiery secretary running over with documents.
Seeing the four big characters of the Central Military Commission printed on it, Xu Shiyou knew in his heart that something was going to happen again. So he took out the document and looked at it carefully.
He even used a special pen to mark the key points on it, and then unfolded the map of the Sino-Vietnamese border to take a closer look. This look was a whole day and night, and Xu Shiyou did not come out of the office until the next night.
"Order the leaders of all units of the unit to meet in the war room of the military district at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning on time."
After studying the relevant orders for a day and a night of self-defense against Vietnam, General Xu Shiyou asked his secretary to convey the above order, and when he returned to his room to close his eyes, he kept recalling various strategic intentions in his mind.
By eight o'clock the next morning, Xu Shiyou opened the door of the war room on time and walked into the war room full of participants like a wind. "Today's meeting is an operational meeting, and the chief of staff Zhou Deli will convey the written order of the Central Military Commission to everyone!"
"Chief of Staff, pay attention to the places I specially marked when conveying, and keep them confidential for the time being."
Hearing Xu Shiyou's order, Zhou Deli solemnly took the document handed by Xu Shiyou and conveyed the written order issued by the Central Military Commission to the participants word by word.
After the generals listened to the written orders conveyed, they went back to begin the various preparatory work. In February 1979, China sent 60,000 troops to attack in two ways.
Second, China sent troops to fight
On the border between China and Vietnam, which stretched for thousands of miles, Xu Shiyou and Yang Dezhi led their troops towards Jikou, located on the Yunnan border in Guangxi.
The front line at dawn was quiet, but the atmosphere of war in the air was extremely strong, and the oppressive air made the little animals dare not make a sound and fled, as if they knew that a fierce battle was going to take place here.
In the tunnels of the front-line command post, the war room was brightly lit, and the people in the room were waiting for the moment when the battle would start.
"When the time comes, start fighting back!"
With an order, the roar of cannons awakened the long-dormant land, and countless shells flew towards the enemy camp, but in an instant, the flames burst into the sky to light up the pre-dawn darkness.
As soon as 30 minutes passed, the sappers, who had long been ready to go, were dispatched one after another, constantly advancing on the minefields set up by the enemy, opening a path for the rear of our army.
However, because the mines laid by the enemy army are not only concealed, but also very closely arranged, after the demining tools such as blasters in the hands of the sappers are exhausted, there are still at least five meters of minefields that have not been investigated.
Seeing that the large army was about to be dispatched, the squad leader of one of the demining squads was very anxious, and seeing that the time was approaching, he made a decision to use his flesh and blood to go to demining!
With a cry of "Long live the Chinese People's Liberation Army!" With a sound, the squad leader rolled towards the enemy's minefield at great speed, opening up the last few meters of road, but this was what he bought with his life.
After his efforts, the PLA rushed to the enemy position, and it was from this that the prelude to the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam officially began.
Third, a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye
However, within ten days, our army broke through more than 20 towns in northern Vietnam one after another, and directly advanced to the gateway to Hanoi, Vietnam, that is, Lang Son City.
If our army takes this Lang Son in one fell swoop, the Vietnamese side will be in a more disadvantageous position, after all, as long as this Lang Son is taken, the road after that will be directly to Hanoi.
Seeing that the PLA was about to rush to their homes, the Vietnamese were instantly anxious. First, the main forces sent to invade Cambodia and Laos were transferred back, and even feared that they would not be defeated by the People's Liberation Army, and a general mobilization was carried out.
As a result, the mobilization on the Vietnamese side was over, and the PLA side had already broken through Lang Son . After successfully conquering Lang Shan, China's goal has also been achieved.
In this regard, Xinhua News Agency also issued a special statement: "The purpose of the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam has been achieved, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army will gradually withdraw in an orderly manner." ”
In the face of this military order, General Xu Shiyou, who was on the front line and bravely killed the enemy, was very dissatisfied, and in order to maintain this hard-won peace, General Xu Shiyou wanted to "arch again" more than once.
However, the state-owned French army had a military order, and General Xu Shiyou also knew the importance in the face of the military order, so after receiving the military order, he still chose to retreat in an orderly manner.
In the month-long battle of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the mainland recovered the areas occupied by Vietnam, and also conquered three provincial capitals of Vietnam, killing a total of more than 40,000 enemies and capturing a lot of booty.
And why didn't the overwhelming PLA continue to "arch an arch" in the first place? If you can win a bigger victory, why stop moving?
You must know that on the battlefield between countries, war is not just a war, but a continuation of politics. At that time, in Deng Gong's view, Vietnam was not enough evidence, and the reason why Vietnam was so arrogant at the beginning was inseparable from the support and provocation of the Soviet Union.
Vietnam is just a pawn used by the Soviet Union to curb the development of China, it is enough to play this pawn, and this "fight" is also to let the Soviet Union see the power of China!
At the same time, the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam also left Vietnam with very heavy "sequelae". This led to the fact that if the Soviet Union wanted to continue to use Vietnam as a pawn to contain China, it had to increase its assistance to Vietnam.
Although the Soviet Union was a powerful country at that time, there were many internal and external troubles, coupled with increased assistance to Vietnam, which gradually dragged the Soviet Union down.
epilogue
To deal with such a despicable country as Vietnam, what we must do is to "repay grievances with virtue", but to return a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye. It was the strength of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam that directly interrupted Vietnam's dream and laid a peaceful environment for China's reform and opening up.
As the last battle of General Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou also felt a lot about this self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, he has not fought for nearly 30 years, the training of the troops is a lot lax, and various circumstances have led to a great price for this battle, and some of these casualties could have been avoided, and it is no wonder that General Xu Shiyou is so angry.
Now that more than ten years have passed since the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, the treachery of the Vietnamese government will always be remembered by history!