In ancient warfare, we often used arrows raining down to describe dense and terrifying fire suppression.
So what a spectacular and desperate picture of artillery shells smashing into the ground like meteors in modern warfare?
As the largest branch of the People's Liberation Army Army, our artillery once used 3,400 tons of artillery shells to cover the enemy's positions and crush the opponent with strength, which became a nightmare for the Vietnamese army.
This battle in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam not only established the majestic image of our army's artillery, but also ensured the stability of China's Sino-Vietnamese border to this day.
In fact, the relationship between Vietnam and our country has not always been tense, and it can even be said that we can be regarded as their mentors to this day.
In ancient times, Vietnam has always been one of the vassal states of our country, and for a long time, the northern part of Vietnam was Chinese territory.
For example, Wang Bo, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, passed by and wrote the famous "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" on his way to Jiaozhi to visit his degraded father.
And this Cochin is the Red River Basin in present-day northern Vietnam.
It was not until the end of the 19th century that the Great Powers began colonial expansion, and Vietnam became a French colony.
In fact, seeing that Vietnam was invaded, the Qing Dynasty, as the suzerain, also sent troops to help, but it was difficult to protect itself, but it was powerless to return to the sky.
By the time of the Xinhai Revolution, our revolutionary ideas once again influenced Vietnam.
In 1930, the Communist Party of Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, was founded and began a long struggle for independence.
Until the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh was a pioneer of the Vietnamese liberation movement and a link in Sino-Vietnamese relations.
Ho Chi Minh himself went to Guangzhou, Shanghai, southwestern provinces and other places to actively learn from the experience Xi of the Communist Party of China, and our party firmly united the united front and united the anti-Japanese forces of China and Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh are deeply influenced and helped by our country, and Ho Chi Minh, the founding father of Vietnam, is also known as "the closest friend of the Chinese people".
Ho Chi Minh. In 1945, at the end of World War II, China and Vietnam helped each other and worked hand in hand, Ho Chi Minh led the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Vietnam ushered in independence.
Unexpectedly, the French colonists were still unwilling to give up and invaded Vietnam again, and Ho Chi Minh led the people to resist with all their might.
Until October 1, 1949, Ho Chi Minh learned on the radio that our country ushered in the founding of New China, and he was very excited to admire the leaders of our party even more, in the face of internal and external troubles, Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam firmly supported the new China, at that time our country was in ruins, and North Vietnam soon established diplomatic relations with our country.
At that time, Ho Chi Minh was leading the people of North Vietnam in a long and arduous struggle against the French in South Vietnam.
Looking back at the history of China and Vietnam, Vietnam has been profoundly influenced by our country culturally and politically, and in terms of national destiny, the two countries can be said to share the same hatred.
In the face of such a firm and precious friend, our country will not sit idly by.
At that time, China was in a difficult stage of exploration, and faced with the impact of the war on the Korean Peninsula, it still did not hesitate to assist Vietnam with 20 billion yuan in funds and a large amount of materials.
Ho Chi Minh. In the past 10 years, China has not only provided a large amount of funds, materials, and military equipment, but General Chen Geng has personally gone to Vietnam to assist in the war of resistance and guide the Vietnamese army in combat.
Between 1961 and 1975, the United States invaded Vietnam, beginning the 14-year Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, China provided a large amount of aid to Vietnam. Our aid and equipment are enough to arm the Vietnamese army of 2 million people.
In addition to uninterrupted assistance, China has fulfilled its promise that "when the US military crosses the middle line of Vietnam, we will send troops", sending 320,000 troops and shooting down 1,707 enemy warplanes.
After this tragic battle, many officers and men of our army died in foreign lands, and it can be said that our country has done its best to help Vietnam, and it is even more unreserved.
In 1969, due to the influence of long-term displacement, Comrade Ho Chi Minh died of illness, and in his later years, Ho Chi Minh also went to our country many times to recuperate and treat his illness.
Le Duan. Succeeding Ho Chi Minh in leading the Vietnamese people to fight was Le Duan, who had been entrusted by Hu many times to come to China to ask for help.
Finally, with the war in Vietnam and the selfless help of our country, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established in July 1976, and Vietnam completed the reunification of the North and the South.
However, during the Vietnam War, the pattern of the Cold War in the world underwent a subtle change.
In the year of Comrade Ho Chi Minh's death, Sino-Soviet relations changed.
As the saying goes, how deep the love is, how ruthless the wound is.
After the end of the war, Vietnam also underwent a change in its position. Vietnam's new leader, Le Duan, is different from Ho Chi Minh's firm friendship with our country and has completely deviated from Comrade Ho Chi Minh's line.
He was a deep-seated anti-Chinese activist, and as early as 1952, after visiting China for help, he ungratefully claimed that "the Vietnamese are very brave, and the Chinese are not brave at all."
And after the Chinese helped Vietnam become independent, he was even more conceited that everything was the credit of the Vietnamese themselves.
In terms of diplomatic attitude, Le Duan hated the United States and hoped that Vietnam would hold the Soviet Union's thigh. China was at odds with the Soviet Union, and in order to curry favor with the Soviet Union, Vietnam began to drift away from China.
Le Duan, who pursues strong anti-American, hateful China, nationalist and even expansionist, has ignored the long-term friendly past between China and Vietnam, and even ignored China's kindness to Vietnam, and chose to harm the Chinese people again and again.
As a student of our country's politics, culture and military, Vietnam did not dare to touch our country directly at first, but carried out provocations through a series of means.
Soon after Le Duan ascended to the throne, anti-Chinese activities broke out in Vietnam many times, and Le Duan connived at and abused Chinese activities, wantonly plundered overseas Chinese property, and caused a large number of Chinese to return to take refuge.
Perhaps it was the aid of the Soviet Union that gave him self-confidence, and Le Duan promoted his "Indochinese Federation" plan and started his dream of becoming a great power.
Vietnam has forgotten whose aid it is relying on today, and wants to rule the region in a state of obscurity.
As of 1978, Le Duan still shamelessly demanded a large amount of aid from our country, and with the support of the Soviet Union, sent troops to Laos to force it to sign the so-called "Treaty of Friendship and Peace".
At that time, Cambodia was in the Khmer Rouge period, and the Vietnamese army took advantage of the situation to gain control of Cambodia.
Perhaps carried away by the victory, the fluttering Le Duan, who is holding our country's aid and strategy with our friendly neighbors, is even more openly anti-China in the international community.
After that, Vietnam even more advanced inch by inch, tearing up the treaty and occupying more than 96% of China's Nansha islands.
It can be described as tolerable and unbearable, Deng Gong once quipped: "'Little friend' is disobedient, it's time to spank." In the end, the decision to go to war against Vietnam was made.
On February 17, 1979, China officially launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in a limited time, space and scale.
As soon as the battle began, the Vietnamese were dumbfounded. Without Japan's selfless assistance, Vietnam's economy and armaments were quickly imprisoned when war broke out.
Although the Soviet Union, which was relied on by the Vietnamese, put a lot of pressure on our army, the Cold War pattern, which was troubled by internal and external troubles and had selfish intentions, would not have selflessly helped Vietnam as our country did in the past.
Soon, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was overwhelmed, and through all-round crushing tactics, armaments, and support, the Vietnamese army was defeated and retreated, and the morale of the army was weakened.
In less than a month, our army has conquered all the important towns in northern Vietnam, and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is bound to win.
However, our country is neither imperialist nor hegemonic, our war is a war of self-defense and counterattack, and now that the goal of "spanking children" has been achieved, our army announced the withdrawal of its troops on March 5, 1979, and withdrew all of them to our territory in 10 days.
Seeing the retreat of our army, Le Duan and other Vietnamese leaders not only did not learn a lesson, but were unwilling, and followed the battle line to the Sino-Vietnamese border, built fortifications on a large scale, seized the high and low hills, and vowed to start long-term attrition and friction with our army.
Vietnam's behavior can be said to be "cheap and good", ignoring the shrinking domestic social economy, and carrying out long-term consumption with a big country like China is really a class axe.
In the face of Vietnam's outrageous behavior, our country will accompany it to the end. Thus, in the decade from 1979 to 1989, a long-term border military conflict began between our country and Vietnam.
For a small country like Vietnam, ten years of attrition is a deadly chronic death.
For us, the past ten years have been a valuable opportunity for our army to take turns in training, first-class experiments and tactical summaries, and our army has transferred the main forces to the front line to conduct military training through combat, and the ten years of border conflicts have played an important role in promoting the modernization and subsequent development of our army.
Having said that, Vietnam's long-term harassment of our borders has also caused great distress to the stability and livelihood of the border people.
Since 1984, the Sino-Vietnamese border began the decade-long Lao Son Campaign, in which the Vietnamese army frequently invaded and harassed China's border in the Lao Son area, while China carried out long-term defense through multiple troop rotations.
In the early morning of July 12, 1984, the Vietnamese army gathered about 18,000 troops in an attempt to plot against the Lao Son area in southern China, in a vain attempt to start a decisive battle with our army in Lao Son.
Our army, which occupies the superiority in terrain, armament and numbers, bombarded with a large number of shells, making the PLA artillery forever a nightmare in the hearts of the Vietnamese.
You must know that since the founding of our army, our army has been accustomed to fighting protracted wars, guerrilla warfare, and bitter battles in which fewer victories are more. In the face of Vietnam, which was crushed by the strength of our army, the battle of Lao Son was a rare battle of joy and prosperity.
In the face of the enemy's large build-up of troops, in order to completely dispel the arrogance of the Vietnamese, our army has assembled a large amount of firepower and equipment, and it is bound to hold the Lao Son area, which is of great significance to our country.
At 5:40 a.m. on the same day, our troops conducted a test firing of artillery fire, and how did we know that the shells were falling on the heads of the Vietnamese enemy. It turned out that this army wanted to take advantage of the fog to quietly approach the positions of our troops, but they did not want to be hit by our army's test-fired shells.
Our artillery shells inflicted heavy damage on this unit, and the unit launched a charge with random wails, and our troops also launched artillery bombardment, and launched the offensive originally scheduled for 6 o'clock in advance.
In this battle, our artillery shells were fired in unison, and beams of light pierced the sky, sweeping across the sky like meteors, and the sky was illuminated by shells as if it was noon.
In the face of the powerful offensive of our army, the cunning Vietnamese army tried to find and hide in the dead corner of the artillery bombardment, but our army did not give the enemy a chance to breathe, and divided the artillery fire into four levels, from far to near, covering the area in front of our army's position in the artillery bombardment.
For a time, the Laoshan area was like a typhoon, the shaking of the earth and the heat wave of artillery shells swept the enemy, and the enemy's artillery was-for-tat with our army, but it was quickly wiped out by the powerful offensive of our army.
Our army has about 500 support vehicles for transporting artillery shells, and on average, one cannon fires about 500 shells a day, and 3,400 tons of shells pour out in one day, firing the most dense artillery bombardment in the history of our army.
After more than 10 hours of all-round and uninterrupted artillery bombardment, the Vietnamese troops were miserable, and looking at the sea of fire in front of them, the enemy troops scattered and fled, leaving thousands of Vietnamese corpses behind and retreating in a hurry.
By 20 o'clock on the evening of July 12, the artillery fire in the Lao Son area gradually dissipated, leaving behind the tragic wreckage of the Vietnamese army and the ground scorched by the flames.
Since then, our artillery has become famous and fought the most fierce battle of the PLA.
After the July 12 Campaign, the Vietnamese army's vigor was greatly reduced, and in the subsequent Sino-Vietnamese border frictions, they no longer dared to assemble troops on a large scale, let alone fight with the PLA artillery, and this day became the last major battle in the Sino-Vietnamese War.
The decade-long border friction between China and Vietnam has had a major impact on the security of China's border territory and people's lives, and under the long-term attrition, it is even more miserable for Vietnamese society.
On January 21, 1989, the Sino-Vietnamese War officially ceased fire, and the overwhelmed Vietnam finally woke up from that dream and withdrew its troops from the Sino-Vietnamese border.
At the end of 1991, at the invitation of the Party and the state of China, Vietnam began to visit China, and Sino-Vietnamese relations returned to normal.
Looking back at the historical development of China and Vietnam, the two countries had a period of vassal states where they were both teachers and friends, and learned Xi progress. the revolutionary years of friendly exchanges and common hatred; There is also saber-rattling, ingratitudinal war friction.
No matter what happened in the past, Vietnam has been an important neighbor of our country, and our social and economic policies are still the main Xi objects of Vietnam, and Vietnam has not been able to get rid of its identity as a "Chinese student".
For the people of the two countries, long-term peace, stability and friendly development are the most valuable assets, and as China's important partners, the friendly relations between China and Vietnam are conducive to the happiness of the people.
The bombardment of 3,400 tons of artillery shells has exploded the peace on China's borders and the stability of Sino-Vietnamese relations.
Our country is getting stronger and stronger, and has always adhered to the principle of "if people don't offend me, I won't offend others, and if people offend me, I will offend others", which is also the best sense of security for our people, and it is also an important guarantee for peaceful life.