Vietnam suffered a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War
In the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam, Vietnam was once arrogant, although there was military equipment left by the US military, and finally the war failed, it is inevitable that the following three reasons did not expect:
- Vietnam did not measure itself and started the war by mistake
- Lose a strong backer behind you
- When our troops retreated, they destroyed all Vietnamese infrastructure
One of the most important reasons why Vietnam lost the counterattack war against Vietnam was that it did not measure up and launched the wrong war under the wrong circumstances. Vietnam had been engaged in a 20-year war with the United States before the war of self-defense against Vietnam, and the first thing to constrain a country's development was war.
Vietnam's land area is not large, the population is also small, do not want to after the end of the war, step up the development of their own country, but began to rely on the weapons and equipment left by the US military, brazenly provoke the surrounding neighbors, you must know that at that time, after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the mainland turned to help Vietnam resist the US military, the mainland is still in a state of ruins, but in order to help Vietnam, the people of the whole country tightened their belts to deliver materials to the Vietnamese region.
Vietnam War
In addition, it also specially sent people in Vietnam to carry out infrastructure construction, and even directly sent consultants to train military talents for them, and finally helped Vietnam drive away the American invaders, but unexpectedly, Vietnam made a surprising act next, Vietnam at that time, with the support of the Soviet Union, once wanted to become the world's third largest military power, wantonly provoked neighboring countries not to mention, but also crossed the river to tear down bridges, and abandoned the deep revolutionary friendship established with the mainland.
Since modern times, Vietnam has had wars with France, Japan, the United States, Laos, Cambodia and other neighboring countries, which is clearly a full-fledged war machine, and does not look at how capable it is, and actually wants to rely on its own strength to counter the powerful firepower from neighboring countries, such a way of fighting even the United States, which was the strongest military strength at that time, was tired of coping, but Vietnam did not know the height of the sky and dared to make such a crazy move.
Counterattack war against Vietnam
Of course, Vietnam's approach also made them lose face in the international community, many countries were ashamed of Vietnam's treacherous approach, and when Vietnam provoked at that time, many countries began to isolate Vietnam, and at the same time, many countries in Southeast Asia hated and resisted.
Originally, Vietnam's own strength was relatively weak, in such a situation of confrontation on all sides, fighting alone, and I don't know where the strength came from, supporting them to do this kind of thing, the mainland has always adhered to the principle of friendship and peace, if it were to change to other countries, Vietnam's final outcome may not be so good.
Our army counterattacked Vietnam
In the entire Sino-Vietnamese War, Vietnam has always been in a very vague state of our army's military strength, they do not know the deployment of our army's troops, they have not implemented a perfect and effective combat plan, they dare to wantonly start a war, and they still think that with only two divisions of troops, they want to win the war.
But what they don't know is that in order to deal a heavy blow to Vietnam, our army directly mobilized 9 armies with a total of 160,000 troops, distributed on the battlefields on the eastern and western fronts, compared with the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, hard interspersed with detours and light weapons and equipment, our army's firepower equipment, every dozen meters will put a large-caliber artillery piece, whether it is the number of people or weapons and equipment, it is an absolute overwhelming advantage for the Vietnamese army.
Our artillery shelling
Moreover, the Vietnamese army fought with our army, that is, the egg touched the stone, they did not want to think about it, the original set of combat methods against the US army, or learned from the mainland, it turned out that how the master and disciple shot a gun, now let the master disciple how to fight! Vietnam does not even have its own complete military personnel training system, and the only people who go to the battlefield must be one less fighting, and our army has also adopted the method of quick victory in tactics, and it only took 28 days to defeat the Vietnamese army.
Backers fell, and aid was lost
The second point is that Vietnam lost the only strong backer behind it during the war, the Soviet Union, in fact, Vietnam is very clear, our army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea defeated the US army, a small Vietnam, naturally not the opponent of the PLA, but Vietnam feels that they have the support of the Soviet Big Brother behind them, since the backers agree with them to do this, then even if they will be attacked, Big Brother will help in time.
Senior general of the Soviet army
But what Vietnam did not expect was that the Soviet Union at that time was already a muddy bodhisattva crossing the river, its own difficult to protect, there was no extra energy, to care about whether his younger brother was alive or dead, but there was no turning back from the bow, Vietnam had already provoked the war, and the Soviet Union symbolically sent a military commander to Vietnam in order to allow Vietnam to continue the war.
When the Soviet commander at that time saw the war between China and Vietnam, he put forward three suggestions, after all, the combat strength of the PLA is obvious to all, and the Soviet adviser proposed that Vietnam will arrange the elite troops in Cambodia to withdraw to Vietnam to support the war, and the elite troops of the US army, which have not tasted defeat for 100 years, have been defeated by our army, and Vietnam's so-called ace troops are not to mention.
War against Vietnam
Then, the Soviet adviser proposed to establish an emergency communication channel between Vietnam and the Soviet Union, as for such a contact channel, I don't know if it was built in the end, but with the mainland in the middle, this channel is simply impossible to achieve, although the Soviet Union sent advisers to support Vietnam, but the Vietnamese army's crotch pulling performance in the war, presumably this Soviet adviser also saw it, and finally even directly proposed to hand over all communications in Vietnam to the Soviet Union, and at the same time, airlifted a lot of combat weapons and equipment to Vietnam, I wanted to help Vietnam in the war as much as possible.
Even the Soviet Union was conducting military exercises on the border as a threat, but our army was not afraid in the face of such despicable and shameless behavior of the Soviet Union and Vietnam.
Soldiers of our army
But the international situation at that time was that except for the Soviet Union, there was no other country to support, Vietnam made such a move, the United States was even more ruthless to Vietnam, fought in Vietnam for 20 years, and finally did not win, the fire was not to mention how uncomfortable, can see our army counterattack Vietnam, the United States is naturally very happy, but also warned the Soviet Union on the side, do not act rashly.
And the USSR was then engaged in the war in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union at that time had no ability or energy to participate in the war between China and Vietnam, and later, the Afghan war dragged down the Soviet economy. In desperation, the Soviet Union stopped all aid to the Allies, and Vietnam did not know how long it could hold out in the storm without the assistance of Big Brother.
Vietnam-American War
As the saying goes, the Taoist helps the lost, the Taoist helps little, and the mainland took advantage of the time and place in the counterattack war against Vietnam, and quickly resolved the battle, after all, at that time, except for Vietnam, no country wanted to drag down its own country because of the war.
Vietnam suffers its own consequences
And what Vietnam did not expect is that our army not only won the war, but also blew up all the infrastructure construction that aided Vietnam during the retreat, for the self-defense counterattack war, but our army just remembered the role of deterrence, let Vietnam clear, do not provoke at will to start a war, after achieving the goal, our army began to take the initiative to withdraw from Vietnam, and when the war was underway, our army also found a lot of materials that had assisted Vietnam, as well as buildings that helped Vietnam to build, how can such a scene not be cold?
Vietnam's approach is indeed too hateful, and what is even more unexpected is that the Vietnamese army saw that it could not resist and despicably used chemical weapons, when our troops retreated, the commander directly ordered to destroy all the infrastructure construction that had previously assisted Vietnam, and even set up a special demolition team, for some aid facilities, can be demolished, can not be demolished directly blown up, and even some industrial facilities were blown up by metal.
If Vietnam did not follow the provocation, they had the time and energy to vigorously develop their country's industry and achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, but their wrong choice made their country miss the best development opportunity, not to mention that economic development could not rise, and even the entire country went back decades. Ambition swells, blindly waging war, the end result can only be self-inflicted consequences.