Deng Gong taught Vietnam a lesson, and the following year he knew that he was pitted.
**With his outstanding literary and martial arts strategy, he has made outstanding contributions to the rejuvenation of New China, and is known as one of the most admired figures of the times among the elites of modern and modern countries around the world.
In early February 1979, when China decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, after giving a detailed account of the reasons and objectives for China's dispatch of troops to teach Vietnam a lesson, a foreign reporter said on the spot: "I admire the courage of China's leaders." ”
In the war of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, he not only won the sympathy and respect of Britain, the United States, Japan and other former hostile countries, but also laid a solid foundation for the rejuvenation of New China.
In 1977, when the Vietnamese authorities frequently provoked China with armed provocations, they adhered to the principle of "good neighborliness and friendship" in the era and ordered the military and civilians in southern Xinjiang to exercise restraint and avoid the expansion of the situation as much as possible.
At the time, some people might think that *** was too weak and not tough enough, but in reality it wasn't. Only Vietnam's Le Duan clique thinks so, while the leaders of other countries do not.
At the beginning of 1978, he took the opportunity of visiting neighboring countries to reaffirm the importance of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which embodied the diplomatic mission of New China. In that year, ** ordered the expansion of the army and the launch of a plan to strengthen the army in response to the threat of regional instability created by the Vietnamese authorities through the export of refugees.
**'s firm attitude and measures have shown the world that the Chinese people will not tolerate Vietnam's arrogant behavior, especially Vietnam's attempt to sow discord between refugees and the people of the host country, as well as its aggression against Cambodia.
Against this background, the expansion of the squadron and the consolidation of friendly and cooperative relations with neighboring countries have demonstrated China's ability and determination to protect its territory and people.
For the Vietnamese authorities, they had to face a China that was already ready for war, which made them afraid to go to war with China easily. Therefore, the Vietnamese authorities sought an external support against China, and this supporter was none other than the Soviet Union.
This history tells us that China is an important force for maintaining regional peace and brooks no provocation by any country.
Before November 1, 1978, the Vietnamese authorities were very cautious in the use of foreign troops, such as using cold weapons when provoking China, and did not dare to make things public during the invasion of Cambodia.
However, when the Le Duan clique transferred the right to use the sea and air bases to the Soviet Navy in the name of the Vietnamese authorities, the Soviet Union and Vietnam signed a military alliance treaty. This led to a brazen invasion of Dinh Hao Mountain in Guangxi, China, and claimed that China had invaded Vietnam by force.
Vietnamese Defense Minister Nguyen Viy Thanh began to openly declare his intention to attack Cambodia and arrange troops to take Phnom Penh. When China could not bear it any longer, it issued a statement that it would fight back in self-defense against Vietnam.
No one, including the Vietnamese authorities, will be surprised by this statement, because the actions of the Vietnamese authorities are obvious to all. Although China taught Vietnam a lesson, China did not completely turn its face with Vietnam because of this, did not expel the diplomats of the Vietnamese Embassy in China, and began to dispatch troops, and the main forces of the Kunming Military Region and the Guangzhou Military Region continued to gather in the border areas.
Although the war was provoked by the Vietnamese authorities on their own initiative, China handled it very appropriately and handled it very well.
Although the battle has not yet begun, the world's attention is focused on the Sino-Vietnamese border, China's superiority in the first place is already very obvious, and the PLA's preparations for war are impeccable.
Strategically, China had the upper hand, and the Vietnamese army was never able to figure out the PLA's cards. In terms of the Air Force, more than 700 aircraft of various types have been stationed at airports in Guangxi and Yunnan, and have been equipped with missile and air defense units and radar units. On the naval side, there is also a ship formation into the South China Sea to prevent maritime provocations by the Soviet-Vietnamese coalition forces.
The army forces amassed more than 500,000 troops in the border areas. However, the Vietnamese authorities still have doubts about the forces available to China, which they believe can only dispatch at most1440,000 troops attacked Vietnam in two directions, namely Yunnan and Guangxi.
Therefore, they committed about 250,000 armed forces to the northern region to meet it. But if China really does what they think, then the Vietnamese army will have an advantage in terms of strength.
At the same time, the Vietnamese army deployed anti-aircraft missile units in the areas of Lang Son and Yen Bai. Before the war, the Soviet side provided a large number of information about the deployment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and related information, so that the Vietnamese army knew the information of the middle and senior generals of the PLA well.
When the Vietnamese army discovered that Zhang Wannian and Bian Guixiang, two division commanders who were familiar with the situation of the Vietnamese army and had courage and resourcefulness, were arrayed in the northern part of Lang Son in Vietnam, they focused their defense on the northern area of Lang Son City, ignoring the importance of Tang Tang City in Hoang Lien Son Province to Vietnam's economic field.
However, in fact, the main direction of the plan was the northern region of Cao Bang Province in Vietnam, where the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was the nest of the Vietnamese army. Conquering this place will not only prove to the world that the PLA has sufficient capabilities and resources to attack the entire territory of Vietnam, but also test the overall combat level of the troops.
The Vietnamese authorities have not been able to accurately ** the actions of the PLA. The Vietnamese authorities' speculations about which types of troops the PLA will deploy, how many troops there will be, the direction of the main attack, and when it will be launched, have not had an accurate answer to their speculations.
They estimate that the total strength of the PLA army and air forces will not exceed 1440,000, however, in fact, the PLA Air Force did not participate in the war, and there were about 560,000 active army units participating in the war, plus the militia and former migrant workers, the total number was about 1 million.
The Vietnamese authorities were very wrong in speculating about the direction of the PLA's main attack, and when the PLA tank units appeared in Dongxi City, they discovered that the PLA had mobilized at least 100,000 men to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Vietnamese army in Cao Binh.
As for when the PLA will launch an offensive, it is even more of a headache for the Vietnamese army. At the beginning, the Vietnamese army in northern Vietnam entered a state of first-level combat readiness and spent several days nervously, only to find that the PLA was not even ready for the first level of ammunition.
They thought that the squadron would launch an attack on the Spring Festival or every May and October, but they never waited. It was not until February 16 that the Vietnamese army lowered the first level of combat readiness to the second level.
However, at this juncture, ** ordered the participating troops to officially attack in the early morning of the 17th on the 16th.
In the early morning of the 17th, all units of the 13th Army of the Western Front Corps and its subordinate units successfully forcibly crossed the Red River, but the command of the Second Military Region of Vietnam still mistakenly believed that the PLA had only one regiment at most.
The Vietnamese army in the Cao Ping area was attacked by heavy artillery fire from the PLA, and they reported directly to the 1st Military Region of Vietnam, saying that the PLA had dispatched air force units to participate in the battle, and the fire was extremely fierce.
However, when the Vietnamese authorities "accused" China of attacking Vietnam to the United Nations on February 18, they reported the issue of the participation of the PLA Air Force units to the UN Security Council without any reason, which turned out to be a big joke.
On March 5, when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) conquered the Vietnamese city of Lang Son and broke the barrier in Hanoi, China, announced that it had withdrawn its troops. At this time, people suddenly realized that everything was just as *** said before the war, the PLA attack on Vietnam was a limited punishment war.
During the operation, the PLA destroyed a large number of Vietnam's military, economic and political facilities. However, the Vietnamese authorities did not make any effective countermeasures until the victorious squadron returned home.
What is hilarious is that the Vietnamese army thinks that it has the world's leading military equipment, and has always looked down on the People's Liberation Army, which has never fought a major war. In order to deal with the PLA tank armored vehicles, the Vietnamese army was equipped with the most advanced Soviet-made Sagar anti-tank missiles at that time, but the Vietnamese army's important defense lines such as Tanmou, Dongxi, and Shuojiang could not withstand the PLA's tank units without infantry coordination.
The artillery units of the Vietnamese army, which were equipped with Soviet "Hail" rocket artillery, were captured by the squadron before they could figure out the location of the squadron.
What is even more laughable is that the Vietnamese authorities even the anti-aircraft missiles aided by the Soviet Union were captured by the squadron.
Before the outbreak of the war, it was widely believed that Vietnam's active forces were mainly composed of veterans of the War of Resistance Against the United States, aged between 28 and 45 years old, and had a lot of experience.
The main forces of Vietnam were equipped with the new ** with Soviet assistance, so they were strong in combat and ** well equipped. By contrast, China's active forces at the time, although there were 4 million soldiers, most of them were young people between the ages of 18 and 22 who had no real combat experience.
In terms of equipment, due to years of blockade by the West and the Soviet Union, China's equipment is relatively backward. Therefore, when the Le Duan clique declared Vietnam the third military power in the world, many countries expressed concern about China.
However, his clever decision-making in terms of tactics once again showed his wisdom to various experts.