There are a lot of historical rumors on the Chinese Simplified Internet. Today, Lao Feng continues to refute rumors for everyone.
The three rumors debunked today are all related to the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam in those years.
Myth 1: During the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a female soldier of our army was captured, and the brutal Vietnamese army cut off her limbs and made her into a "seal man" with only a body and a head.
Rumor 2: During the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, our army equipped the soldiers with a special suicide grenade, called "Glory Bomb", which was used at the last moment rather than being taken prisoner rather than killed.
Rumor 3: During the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a field hospital of our army was attacked by the Vietnamese army, and all the wounded were killed.
Let's start with Myth One: Seal People
During the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the Vietnamese army captured a female soldier of our army, cut off her limbs, and made a "seal man" without limbs.
Many friends have read this story in various forums of the Chinese Simplified Internet in the past ten years, do you have an impression?
But is this true?
The answer is: false.
Why is it said to be fake?
The answer is this: during the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a total of 238 soldiers of our army were captured by the Vietnamese army, and the files are complete, and these 238 captured personnel were all returned to the mainland through the friendship pass when the two countries exchanged prisoners of war in the summer of 1979 after the end of the battle. In the "Summary of Self-Defense and Counterattack Operations against Vietnam", the record is very clear, there is no so-called "seal man", and it is not known who made up this rumor.
The rumor of "seal man" has been circulating on the Internet for at least ten years, why should it be fabricated like this? The answer may be because the Chinese Simplified Internet more than ten years ago, such as Huasheng Forum, Kaidi.com, Tianya Forum and so on, filled with a lot of low-level literary and historical netizens, they wrote a lot of exaggerated and fabricated texts for the click rate, in order to become famous, because the bloodier the Vietnamese army is depicted, the higher the click rate of the text, but the problem is that writing history is true, and once writing history is divorced from reality, the text is worthless.
In addition, there is a crooked trick in the text world: all the words related to "women" and "violence" can attract the most attention, so the female soldiers of our army were cut off by the Vietnamese army and made into "seal people", this kind of erotic and violent text can obviously attract the attention of many male netizens, but let me ask, the Internet writer who made this rumor back then, has he become famous? The answer is: no. In the world of words, there is only one way to become famous, and that is to treat readers with the most sincere heart and write the most high-quality works.
Don't get me wrong, Lao Feng, I don't have a good impression of the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese army, but if I don't like the Vietnamese, it doesn't mean that the rumors are correct. The text of rumors has no value.
In fact, the rumor of the so-called "Seal Man", except that there is no record in the war history materials of our army, it is reasonable to know that this rumor is very clumsy, and the reasons are as follows:
One reason: After being attacked by our army, Vietnam put on a pitiful appearance of a "victim" in the international community, appealed to the international community for sympathy, and cut off the limbs of the captured Chinese female soldiers and made them "seals", which is not conducive to public opinion and is completely inconsistent with Vietnam's interests.
Reason 2: Female soldiers who capture enemy soldiers are proper treasures, why? Because not only can they interrogate information, but female prisoners of war are scarce, which is a good bargaining chip.
Reason 3: Caring for a limbless "seal man" is troublesome, you think about it, you have to feed her every day, and you have to clean up her urine and urine every day...... Imagine it, isn't that so? It stinks. Why would the Vietnamese do this?
Let's talk about rumor number two: glorious bullets
Many Internet "three no words" said: During the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam, our soldiers were widely equipped with a suicide grenade, and after this kind of grenade sounded, there was no waiting time, and it exploded immediately, which was called "glorious bomb" at that time, and its purpose was to die at the last moment, rather than be taken prisoner, and die together with the Vietnamese army.
May I ask you, is this true?
Answer: Also false.
Here's the truth:
Truth 1: Our army has never produced suicide grenades or grenades that have no waiting time and can be pulled and fired.
Truth 2: Our army did not distribute "glorious bullets" to the people's soldiers, and ordered the soldiers to pull the "glorious bullets" at the last moment and die together with the Vietnamese army.
Truth 3: The grenades distributed by our army to the whole army, such as the Type 67 wooden-handled grenade, the Type 77-1 wooden-handled grenade, and the Type 82-1 oval grenade, are all conventional combat weapons, and when thrown out, they have to wait for a few seconds before they explode.
Hand grenades and grenades of our army during the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam
Therefore, the so-called "glorious bullet" has no such matter.
However, it is worth noting that during the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, our army did emerge a lot of deeds at the last moment, pulling grenades and dying together with the Vietnamese army, to give two examples:
Example 1: Martyr Qian Canxian, a native of Jingjiang, Jiangsu, on March 10, 1985, on the battlefield of Laoshan, he set off explosives and died with the Vietnamese army.
Martyr Qian Canxian
Example 2: Martyr Lu Xin, a native of Rudong, Jiangsu, on May 31, 1985, on the battlefield of Laoshan, he pulled a grenade and died with the Vietnamese army.
Martyr Lu Xin
There are many examples, and I will not list them all.
However, these deeds are all spontaneous actions of the soldiers, not military orders, nor institutional arrangements, and the explosives and grenades pulled by these martyrs are not special "glorious bombs", but ordinary grenades and explosives.
Our soldiers wore Type 82-1 oval grenades on their chests, but they were not intended for suicide, but for attacking the enemy
So, where did the "glorious bullet" statement of online text come about?
The thing turned out to be like this: In those days, some officers and men of our army were indeed mentally prepared to "rather die than be taken prisoner" before attacking, so when comrades-in-arms laughed and talked with each other, they would say that they would keep the last grenade for themselves, and call that grenade a "glorious bullet," but in fact this was just a joke among comrades-in-arms; in short, our army did not have a special "glorious bullet" that exploded instantly, nor did it order officers and men to commit suicide with a "glorious bullet." The so-called "glorious bullet" was laughed at and misspread by some officers and men.
Finally, rumor three: the field hospital was attacked
During the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a field hospital of our army was suddenly attacked by the Vietnamese army, and all the wounded and female hygienists of our army were killed.
Does this story sound familiar?
In the past ten years, this story has been circulated for a long time in various military and historical forums on the Chinese Simplified Chinese Internet.
But is this real?
The answer is: also false.
Why is this false?
Because during the entire self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, our army did not have a record of "field hospitals being attacked by Vietnamese troops".
The only similar record is that the front echelon of the hospital of the 121st Division of our army was attacked by the Vietnamese army, but this incident did not happen in the "field hospital", but in the process of interspersing the march, and when this echelon was attacked, all the soldiers were men, there were no female soldiers, and no one was skinned.
Again: don't get me wrong. Lao Feng: I don't have a good impression of the Vietnamese army. However, whether you like the Vietnamese army or not is one thing, and whether you are right or not is another thing.
The so-called "our army's field hospital was attacked by the Vietnamese army, all the wounded nurses were killed, and the nurses' skins were hung on the wall", this matter is a rumor, in the history of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, there is no such thing, this is also the third-rate writers of the Internet in the past ten years, in order to attract traffic and clicks, in order to become famous, and made up. No such thing was found.
So on the real battlefield, how did the Vietnamese army treat the 238 prisoners of war of our army?
In the summer of 1979, the Vietnamese army handed over prisoners of war to our army
Here's the answer:
There is indeed abuse
But overall it is not brutal
According to the prisoners of war who were exchanged back that year, the Vietnamese army's treatment of our prisoners was generally acceptable, and they basically had food, drink, and clothing, but the food was not good.
However, it is true that the supervisors of the Vietnamese army have beaten our prisoners of war, for example, a very small number of prisoners of war have been slapped, kicked and other corporal punishments, but that is also an individual phenomenon, and on the whole, they are generally not abused in peacetime.
Why not abuse?
Not because the Vietnamese army is kind, but because the grassroots soldiers in charge of guarding the Vietnamese army, people are just ordered to do things and deal with errands, as long as you don't mess with him, he doesn't need to beat you, because he doesn't want to cause trouble, the Vietnamese army has abused American prisoners of war before, so it has a bad reputation in the world, so after they captured our army, in order to package and maintain Vietnam's own "victim" image, they generally did not dare to seriously abuse prisoners of war.