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In 1979, when our troops retreated from Vietnam, even the railroad tracks were dismantled and transported back home.
China's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was a vigorous one, but it is hard to believe that the story behind it is also moving, not only did we dismantle Vietnam's hydropower facilities during the retreat, but even the railroad tracks were dismantled and shipped back to China.
After the war, why did the mainland dismantle its infrastructure, and was it true that even the railroad tracks had to be shipped back to China?
Click to pay attention and walk into the story of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
China and Vietnam
In fact, China was also forced to be helpless about this war, and we used to have a good relationship with Vietnam, and China helped them when Vietnam fought with France and the United States.
Vietnam and China are both socialist countries, two countries are adjacent to each other, and they have also found their way out after years of turmoil, and President Ho Chi Minh had good relations with the mainland, so we also helped them a lot when Vietnam was in trouble.
Compared with the modern situation of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, Vietnam was completely reduced to an imperialist colony, and later with the spread of Marxism throughout the world, the decline of colonialism and the rise of national independence movements all over the world, Vietnam's anti-colonial movement was in full swing.
Vietnamese independence led by Ho Chi Minh fought against the colonizers, but the French colonists were not willing to give up the big fat of Vietnam, so they launched a war against Vietnam. In the face of the French invasion, the Vietnamese army raised the banner of resistance.
Unfortunately, the Vietnamese army was not strong, and it was powerless to fight back under the heavy artillery fire of the French army, and Ho Chi Minh had no choice but to ask for help from China. In fact, when Ho Chi Minh asked our party for help, we faced many difficulties, but we thought that everyone was a staunch to socialism, and besides, we have also experienced foreign invaders and understand the pain of the country being occupied by invaders.
Out of the principle of friendship and mutual assistance, we still decided to help Vietnam, in addition to giving some supplies, we also sent Chinese military experts to Vietnam to guide us. General Chen Geng was one of the people who helped Vietnam fight the war that year, and General Chen Geng has a deep memory about Vietnam's army.
There was once an interesting story, the Vietnamese army designed to ambush the French army, and the departure time had been set, and it stands to reason that there would be no problem, but there was an accident on the day of the dispatch, because the weather was not beautiful, and when it came to the specified departure time, the Vietnamese army found that it was raining outside, so it directly postponed the dispatch time.
When General Chen Geng heard the news, he was so angry that he scolded angrily, he had never seen an army that had postponed its march because of the rain, and the soldiers had to avoid even the rain, so what kind of battle could they fight? Not to mention that the People's Liberation Army would not have such a situation, and even the Kuomintang would not be so undisciplined.
Fortunately, the tropical rain came and went quickly, the rain stopped after half an hour, the Vietnamese army continued to march according to the original plan, I thought that the mission could not be completed after delaying for half an hour, but I did not expect the Vietnamese army to play a beautiful ambush battle of the French army, General Chen Geng also expressed his incomprehension, after the war, he found out that the original French army also postponed the march because of the rain, so it seemed to delay the time, but in fact there was no delay at all, both sides postponed the march because of the rain.
Regarding the war between the Vietnamese and French armies, Chen Geng wrote in his diary: "The Vietnamese army and the French army are really a wonderful pair of opponents. Presumably, the word "wonderful" was also come up by General Chen Geng racking his brains.
From this point of view, the primitive Vietnamese army was nothing more than an army with underground combat effectiveness, and during this period, we not only helped them win the victory against the French army, but also continuously strengthened the construction of the army, which built the Vietnamese army into a barely visible army.
After France was defeated and Vietnam was liberated, everyone including Ho Chi Minh thought that Vietnam would usher in a peaceful life and that Vietnam's socialist development would be unprecedentedly strong, but they always underestimated the imperialist ambitions, sending away a France and a United States.
This region of Vietnam is very important to the strategic layout of imperialism in the world, and North Vietnam is obviously the camp of the Soviet Union, which is not good for the United States, so the United States sent troops to Vietnam under the guise of "military assistance" while North Vietnam had not yet unified Vietnam.
Compared with the previous French army, the US military is obviously much stronger in terms of weapons and equipment and military literacy. Although the North Vietnamese army has grown with the help of our army and in the years of war, it is still powerless in the face of the too strong American army.
Vietnam turned against each other
In 1966, the United States increased its investment in the Vietnam War, with the aim of eliminating the North Vietnamese regime, as the boss of the world's socialist regime, of course, the Soviet Union could not watch North Vietnam be attacked by the United States in this way, plus China had the experience of helping Vietnam before, so this time China and the Soviet Union decided to help Vietnam.
At that time, the Soviet Union had grown into a great power, and they gave Vietnam a large number of Soviet-style weapons, and China continued to provide assistance to Vietnam in various ways. With outside assistance, the North Vietnamese army was able to continue to fight the United States.
In the 70s of the last century, there was an economic crisis in the United States, and the domestic economy was in turmoil, because the United States invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the Vietnam battlefield, but did not achieve the expected results, but was mired in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, so the voice of opposition to the war in the United States became higher and higher.
After several years of being consumed by Vietnam, the United States could not bear the huge expenses of the war and decided to withdraw its troops from Vietnam, and without the interference of the Americans, the North Vietnamese army could finally continue the cause of reunifying Vietnam.
In May 1975, North Vietnam occupied Saigon in South Vietnam, marking the successful defeat of South Vietnam by North Vietnam and the final reunification of Vietnam. During this period, China gave a lot of aid to Vietnam, although China's economy was not developed at that time, but we have experienced socialist transformation, and the domestic industrial base is not bad.
As a result, during Vietnam's confrontation with the United States and the reunification of South Vietnam, hundreds of industrial projects were aided to Vietnam alone, and China also gave Vietnam a large amount of military supplies, with more than 5 million tons of grain alone. At that time, Vietnam was in the midst of war, and the whole country was bombed to the ground, and even the grain we supported did not have a systematic transportation route to reach the front line. In response to this situation, we even sent Chinese railway soldiers to build hundreds of kilometers of railway network in Vietnam, which is our kindness to Vietnam.
As for Vietnam's perfidy, it is necessary to start with a leader of trust, Le Duan became Vietnam's supreme leader in 1976, and compared to the previous policy of friendship with China, Le Duan showed his ambitions as soon as he came to power. At that time, the Soviet Union was the only two strongest countries in the world, and it was completely divided into two different camps from the United States, and Vietnam stood in the Soviet camp with a clear banner.
It just so happened that at that time, we had already torn our faces with the Soviet Union, and although Vietnam received help from the mainland in many ways, Le Duan was not grateful to China, but turned his back on the Soviet Union and wanted to "find things" for China.
Of course, Le Duan's "expansion" is not only aimed at China, but also extremely arrogant in the face of other countries. At that time, Vietnam had finally ended many years of war, and it was supposed that it should recuperate and slowly develop its domestic economy, but instead of considering the suffering caused by the war to the country and its people, he turned his guns on other countries.
Vietnam, led by Le Duan, also embarked on the path of aggression against other countries, and next to him Laos and Cambodia were invaded by Vietnam, which once boasted of being the "third military power in the world" after the United States and the Soviet Union, so it launched attacks on Laos and Cambodia in an attempt to include the territory of these two countries into its own territory.
In fact, there are traces of Vietnam's expansion at that time, first of all, they "won" France and the United States, and they always thought that it was their own merit, and completely forgot the help of other countries. Secondly, when Vietnam was fighting against the United States, the Soviet Union gave them a large number of Soviet-style advanced weapons, and the US military threw away a large number of American-style weapons after retreating.
For a time, Vietnam had a large number of American and Soviet-style weapons, both of which were the most advanced weapons in the world, and indeed greatly increased Vietnam's military strength in a short period of time.
This external help fueled Vietnam's ambitions, but this must not be the reason for their aggression against other countries. Since 1975, Le Duan has repeatedly openly opposed China, repeatedly provoked the mainland border, and wanted to occupy Chinese territory.
We have protested against this many times, but China, which advocates peace, does not want to start with Vietnam, but as Vietnam's provocations become more and more arrogant, war is on the verge of breaking out.
In fact, there have always been people in China about China's dispatch of troops to Vietnam, not that they are afraid of Vietnam, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has experienced thousands of tempers, how can they be afraid of the Vietnamese army, mainly worried that the Soviet Union behind Vietnam will make some moves.
In this regard, Deng Gong believed that sending troops to Vietnam was the only way to defuse the crisis, and only by letting Vietnam see our strength could they be afraid. As for the issue of the Soviet Union, Deng Gong analyzed it and believed that the possibility of the Soviet Union sending troops was very small, and it was a critical period for the United States and the Soviet Union to compete for hegemony, and there was no need for them to get into trouble for the sake of Vietnam.
Vietnam did not expect China to send troops, and Vietnam's military strength was indeed inferior to China's, and it was quickly beaten back, and they had no choice but to ask the Soviet Union for help, but the Soviet Union did not say anything about it.
Tear down the rails
We call this war "self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam", in fact, it can be seen from the name that we have no intention of invading other countries, although the PLA is constantly advancing on the battlefield, our purpose is not to occupy the territory of Vietnam, but to teach them a lesson.
There is no suspense in this battlefield is the victory of the PLA, seeing that the PLA continues to advance, it has already approached Hanoi, thinking that the goal of teaching Vietnam has been achieved, and there is no need for us to continue to stay in Vietnam, and the fact that the Soviet Union has not sent troops at present does not mean that they will not send troops all the time, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and we are not afraid of 10,000 in case, we have also decided to withdraw our troops.
As far as China is concerned, that era was an era of all-out development of the country's economy, not a foreign war, and we had to fight this war.
However, during the retreat, the Ministry of Railways also received a special task, which was to dismantle Vietnam's infrastructure.
At that time, we helped Vietnam with a lot of materials and various facilities, which played an important role in the war and development of Vietnam, especially on the battlefield, and when we saw that those materials were still serving the enemy, I guess the Chinese felt uncomfortable.
Since Vietnam is so ruthless, there is no need for us to be polite and bring back all the aid we have given to Vietnam.
Some materials are nothing, the key is Vietnam's infrastructure, these things are related to the future development of a country, for those infrastructure that can't be taken away, what bridges, hydropower stations and the like, our policy is to dismantle and bring these things back to China.
When encountering those that cannot be dismantled, they will be blown up directly with bombs, and they will never be left to the Vietnamese government anyway, and in these dismantled projects, there is one thing that is very special, and it is stipulated that it must be dismantled, that is, the railroad tracks.
The railway network we have built in Vietnam alone is hundreds of kilometers, and the terrain in Vietnam is complex, which is actually no less difficult for the railroad soldiers than the war, but we have to do it anyway.
The smooth flow of roads is not only related to the economic development of a region, but also a fast channel for Vietnam to harass the mainland and transport backup, so it is imperative to dismantle the railroad tracks.
The railroad soldiers first cut off all the sleepers of the railway, so that the railway lost the ability to run, and then began to dismantle the rails, and most of the steel removed was brought back to China by us, and it was really impossible to bring it, so we found a way to destroy it on the spot.
The war was already a big blow to Vietnam, and the dismantling of infrastructure made it even more difficult for Vietnam to turn over, which is also the price they need to pay for their treachery.
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