July 12, 1984, was the most tragic day in the Lao Son Theater between China and Vietnam, and it was also a nightmare for the Vietnamese army.
2 regiments of the 356th Division and 4 regiments of the 316th Division of the Vietnamese Army, with the intention of carrying out a major counterattack on this day and recapturing the Laoshan position of our army. But just as they approached our position, our army's artillery fire poured down, and the entire Laoshan battlefield shook in an instant.
After this battle, more than 3,000 Vietnamese soldiers died, and the corpses covered the position, and since then there has been no courage to counterattack our positions on a large scale.
Why did China and Vietnam break out in such a war in the Lao Son area? What impact did the victory in the July 12 artillery battle have on this war?
In 1979 China achievedSelf-defense counterattack war against Vietnamof victory. However, Vietnam, unwilling to accept defeat, began to take advantage of the emptiness of China's border forces to occupy various mountainous areas on the Sino-Vietnamese border one after another and frequently intruded on China's border after the failure of its plan to attack China on a large scale.
In the five years that followed, our army and the Vietnamese invaders fought large and small border defense battles in Luojiaping Mountain, Faka Mountain, Kuolin Mountain, Lao Mountain, Yinshan Mountain and other places.
Of these battles, the largest, the longest, and the most impactful are the ones that are the largest, the longest, and the most impactfulBattle of Laoshan
Old MountainIt is one of the important commanding heights on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and it faces each other across the riverBali River East MountainIt's like forming a gateIt firmly controls the only transportation artery from Van Son Prefecture into VietnamWhoever controls Lao Son between China and Vietnam will be able to achieve a depth of 20 kilometers into each other's territory.
On April 28, 1984, the 118th Regiment and the 119th Regiment of the 40th Division of the 14th Army of the Kunming Military Region, under the orders of their superiors, started the Laoshan Pullout Battle with the help of our artillery fire, and began to recover the major mountainous areas occupied by Vietnam.
Long before the attack of the 118th Regiment, it was stationed in Yanshan CountyThe 4th Artillery Division is the same as the 40th DivisionBeginning on April 2, the artillery of the Vietnamese army has carried out 26 days of shelling of 1,600 important targets in the Vietnamese army's positions.
Our troops were completely annihilated in successive artillery battles313 Artillery Regiment of the 457 Infantry Division of the Vietnamese ArmyA formed artillery battalion destroyed more than 400 targets of the Vietnamese army. This greatly reduced the difficulty of our army in seizing positions, and also greatly boosted the morale of our army.
When our army was covering the enemy's Vietnamese positions with artillery fire, April 26,Nearly 16,000 troops of the 118th and 119th regiments of the 40th Division secretly infiltrated the Laoshan area and completed the original strategic deployment, intending to carry out interspersed raids on the enemy.
At 5:56 a.m. on April 28, the four battalions of the army artillery regiment fired more than 1,300 shells, firing the first shot of the Laoshan Pullout Battle. At 6:30, the artillery attack of our army ended, and the three battalions of the 118th Regiment immediately launched a nearly seven-hour battle for the main peak of the old mountain.
In this battle, our soldiers fought extremely bravely in order to achieve the goal of a quick victory.
In the 118th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment was responsible for the offensive task of the right flank of Laoshan,Han Yuekui, the squad leader of the 5th Company and 9th squadIn the face of the minefield laid by the Vietnamese army in the steep and densely forested mountains, and when the mine-sweeping ** could not play a role at all, in order not to delay the fighters, he actually rolled into the minefield with his body alone, and let the soldiers continue to advance in the area he explored with his body. Han Yuekui himself died heroically because of this.
Under the three consecutive charges of the 118th Regiment, except for the 1st Battalion, which had a large force when interspersed with tasks, failed to complete the original mission objectives, the rest of the units completed the tasks excellently. The 2nd Battalion was also awarded by the ** Military Commission for the important role it played in this battle"Old Mountain Heroes Battalion".honorary titles.
At the same time that the 118th Regiment completed the battle of the main peak of Laoshan, the 119th Regiment also successfully occupied the Songmaoling Heights in the Laoshan area an hour after the battle.
Songmaoling is the base camp of the Vietnamese army in the Laoshan area, as long as Songmaoling is taken, you can directly smash the Huanglong of the Vietnamese army and win the complete victory of the Laoshan Pullout Battle.
For this decisive battle, our army specially sent the 122nd Regiment of the 41st Division to attack the Vietnamese troops in various positions in Songmaoling on April 29, and the 119th Regiment, which had just finished the Songmaoling Highland Battle, launched an attack on the Nala area on the hill east of Songmaoling on the 30th.
On the afternoon of the 30th, the 112th and 119th regiments successfully completed the combat mission in the Songmaoling areaNot only did they destroy the front headquarters of the Vietnamese army, but they also seized a large amount of materials and equipment and a large number of paper materials about the Vietnamese army.
Since then,Our army successively recovered Yinshan and Balihe Dongshan in addition to Laoshan. On May 15, our army regained the east mountain of the Bali River, and thus all the land border territories occupied by the Vietnamese army in our country were recovered, and our army entered the strategic defense stage.
Since the Lao Son area was returned to the hands of our army, the Vietnamese army was very unwilling to accept its defeatThe Second Military Region of the Vietnamese Army held three consecutive meetings in Bei Quang district in northern Vietnam in an attempt to reoccupy the Lao Son area.
However, at 1 o'clock on the 12th, our army's radio intercepted the Vietnamese army's intelligence, which said that the Vietnamese army's artillery brigade was about to enter the position.
On June 11, the Vietnamese army for the first time"Beiguang Conference".After the failure of the deployment plan, the Vietnamese army, with the participation of Soviet advisers, convened a second "Beiguang Conference" and formulated a "Beiguang Plan".
According to the plan of the Vietnamese army,The Vietnamese army will continue to attack Lao Son, Song Mao Ling, and Bali River Dong Shan with the strength of one division, and the focus of the attack will still be on the Lao Son and Song Mao Ling areas.
For this offensive, the Vietnamese army is paying special attention, in view of the failure of previous offsets, this timeDeputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Le Ngoc HianI personally went to Ha Giang Province on the border with VietnamCommander of the 2nd Military Region of Vietnam, Vu LiFight together.
It was Vu Li, commander of Vietnam's Second Military Region, who drew up the plan for the attack. Wu Li was in our country in the 50sGuilin Infantry School and Nanjing Military Academyfurther study, so he knows the combat style and methods of our army well, and this time his opponent was in chargeHuang Demao, deputy commander of the Kunming Military Region and commander-in-chief of the Laoshan frontand Wu Li himself are even classmates.
In Wu Li's plan, the Vietnamese army planAdopt a frontal breakthrough, two flanks containment, and centripetal attack, first sneak attack to seize the Nala area of Songmaoling, and then rely on the position, gradually seize the rest of the positions point by point and defend them.
On July 11, the Vietnamese army learned from the experience of our army in the battle of Lao Son and assembled overnightThe 368 Artillery Brigade, the 168 Artillery Brigade and four artillery regiments of the division, plus five infantry regiments and one ** regiment, infiltrated the front of the Laoshan position overnight in an attempt to attack our army from many directions.
However, at 1 o'clock on the 12th, our army's radio intercepted the Vietnamese army's intelligence, which said that the Vietnamese army's artillery brigade was about to enter the position.
Front command of the 14th ArmyIt is speculated that the Vietnamese army has already begun military operations in the Lao Son area, and immediately ordered all units to strengthen their alert.
As expected, on the way of the Vietnamese army secretly to Song Mao Ling, someone touched a mine. The 40th Division, which was closer to the position, immediately reported to its superiors when it heard the thunder.
The front command of the 14th Army immediately approved the artillery of the 40th Division to prepare for the first time, and immediately deployed the areas where the Vietnamese army might attack.
With regard to the deployment of artillery, our army strictly follows the interception method in which one artillery company is responsible for one section, and strives to kill and wound the enemy to the greatest extent possible to ensure the subsequent attack of our infantry. In addition to this,The logistics of the 40th Division also arranged for more than 200 military vehicles to organize a large number of militiamen to carry out the transportation of artillery shells, so as to ensure that our army was able to carry out a long-term and intensive fire blockade of the enemy's offensive.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, our troops were speculating that the Vietnamese army might be thereThe area north of the Qingshui RiverImmediately afterward, the target was covered with fire. But just after the shells were fired, the target position did not react. Our army felt a little unbelievable for a while, and suspected that it was empty.
The artillery regiment, which thought it was a false alarm, immediately relaxed its vigilance and went back to sleep.
According to the confessions of the Vietnamese prisoners afterwards, the shelling actually caused great damage to the enemy, and the two battalion commanders of the enemy were also killed, but the Vietnamese army kept a state of concealment and silence with a high degree of discipline, so our troops did not notice it at all.
Until 5 o'clock in the morning, the Vietnamese army had already lurked in the forward position of our army, and the soldiers stationed in the position of our army had exchanged fire with the Vietnamese army one after another.
For this situation of short-handed combat, the commander of the 40th Division proposed"The enemy attacks our position, and I fight the enemy's front line."The method of ordering the artillery units to carry out the second ** scale artillery bombardment of the enemy, blocking the enemy of the subsequent attack with firepower.
Our artillery fire continued until 12 noon, and many mortars had red barrels, and even more than twice as many shells were fired than in the tutorial.
Especially after the enemy occupied the 142 heights, our infantry withdrew from their positions. It was not until 1 o'clock in the afternoon, after the shells brought to the front line were in place, that our troops immediately covered the 142 heights with fire, and the shells poured down like ploughs, instantly beating only 6 people from one of the enemy's battalions.
Despite the strong artillery superiority of our army, the Vietnamese army, which did not give up until it reached its goal, fought very tenaciously and charged our positions one after another.
On this day, our army fired more than 3,400 tons of artillery shells, and the enemy also had more than 3,000 people, 80 percent of which were artillery, and the corpses covered the hillsideMarshalI couldn't help but sigh after seeing the ** and reports of the battlefield:"I haven't seen so many corpses since the Huaihai War. ”
On the night of 12 July, the Vietnamese army's nearly one-day offensive finally collapsed under the powerful firepower of our army, and the Vietnamese army, which had lost its fighting spirit, could only return in vain.
In the face of the mountains of corpses and the smell of all kinds of decay, our army, in the spirit of humanitarianism, asked the Vietnamese army to immediately come naked and without ** to collect the corpses of the Vietnamese army.
The Battle of July 12 finally ended with our army successfully holding the Laoshan position.
And this day also became another turning point in the entire Laoshan Campaign.
The Battle of July 12 was a hands-off counterattack by the Vietnamese army, but under the strong combat power of our army, the Vietnamese army realized that it was no longer capable of carrying out a large-scale attack on the Lao Son area. Therefore, the slightly unwilling Vietnamese army was reformulated after the third "Northern Quang Conference"."Guerrilla raids and harassment consume the vital strength of our army."of the battle plan.
Based on the changes in the situation on the Sino-Vietnamese border, the Military Commission also adjusted the deployment of our army, and decided to start from August 1984 to carry out long-term defense with Lao Son as the main battlefield, and while containing the Vietnamese army and protecting the frontier, it also organized the whole army to take turns to fight in Lao Son, so as to temper the troops in actual combat.
In the five years that followed, after the exhaustion of the Kunming Military Region was withdrawn, troops from the Nanjing Military Region, the Jinan Military Region, the Guangzhou Military Region, the Lanzhou Military Region, the Beijing Military Region, the Shenyang Military Region, and the Chengdu Military Region, as well as the seven major military regions of the country, came to the Laoshan Theater for combat training.
In October 1989, in the context of the easing of Sino-Vietnamese relationsGeneral Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation ArmyThe deployment of troops in the Lao Son Theater was adjusted, and it was announced that only defensive combat missions would be carried out against Vietnam in the future.
The following year,Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Van Linhand thenGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of ChinaAt the meeting in Chengdu, relations between the two countries returned to normal. In 1993, the Military Commission ordered the lifting of defensive combat missions in the Lao Son area, the normal guarding of border troops, and the suspension of rotational combat missions of the air force and ground-to-air missile units on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
At this point, the military conflict in the Laoshan area came to an end completely.
The Battle of Lao Son was a border battle in which China waged a protracted struggle against the Vietnamese aggressors under the command of Soviet hegemonism in order to defend the security of the national border.
In this battle, China did not lose too much manpower and material resources because of its flexible use of artillery power and excellent military deployment, but on the contrary, Vietnam was greatly damaged by this, not only dispelling its ambition to dominate the Indochina Peninsula, but also falling into a situation where the international community did not encourage it.
Since then, Vietnam has clearly realized the huge gap between itself and China in the north, and Vietnam's "pro-China faction" has gradually come to power, and has even learned from China to carry out "reform and opening up," so that Vietnam has gradually extricated itself from the predicament of reckless militarism.
And for China,The Battle of Lao Son gave full play to the thinking of "killing chickens with a knife" against Vietnam, and at the same time maintained the best of the world, it also used the whetstone of Vietnam to test the People's Liberation Army of China's major military regions, and established its national prestige for China, which had just implemented reform and opening up, and also created a sharp sword of the republic.
The trial has not only established the national prestige of China, which has just implemented reform and opening up, but also created a sharp sword of the republic.