On March 5, 1979, General Xu Shiyou, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front of the People's Liberation Army, and Bian Guixiang, a general of love, jointly staged a "double reed show" in preparation for the continued attack on Hanoi, Vietnam.
However, due to poor preparations, Hanoi faced the crisis of losing its country, and the whole city fell into panic. **People have packed up and scrambled to find a way out. Under these circumstances, the Le Duan clique was no longer able to control the situation in Hanoi.
Although China's ** Military Commission issued a statement on the withdrawal of troops at 10 a.m. on the 5th, the Le Duan clique lost face militarily and diplomatically, and there was a serious ** after the war.
On the eve of the self-defense war against Vietnam, China did not receive support from the American camp. During his visit to the United States in late January 1979, Carter said that he would only support China and Western countries in isolating Vietnam, and would not support China sending troops to attack Vietnam.
The other camp is firmly in favor of Vietnam and opposes China's military contributions. In this case, the actions of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were restricted, and the air and naval forces could not participate in the war, which made the squadron's combat range limited, and the possibility of attacking Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, was very small, let alone a full-scale strike on the entire territory of Vietnam.
Seeing this, Vietnam's Le Duan clique has continued to carry out armed provocations against China and refused to accept China's proposed ceasefire conditions. On March 2, although the 55th Army of the People's Liberation Army had controlled most of the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, enough to pose a threat to the city of Hanoi, the Le Duan group declared at noon that day that Lang Son was still in the hands of the Vietnamese army, and the attack of the squadron was repulsed.
On March 4, the ** Military Commission ordered General Xu Shiyou to command the 55th Army and the 43rd Army to continue to fight across the Chi Poor River, and immediately stop the offensive after taking full control of Lang Son City, Vietnam, and wait for new orders.
At this time, China is facing tremendous pressure, and if it does not handle the issue of attacking Lang Son properly, not only will it not make the Le Duan clique understand the consequences of continuing to carry out armed provocations against China, but it may expand the situation.
Therefore, China is very cautious about attacking Lang Son, the gateway city of northern Vietnam.
General Xu Shiyou knew very well that the Le Duan group would never give in because Lang Son City was taken, and they understood that the squadron's punitive actions were limited. In order to let the Li Duan clique truly experience the taste of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, General Xu Shiyou decided to take more resolute action.
On the afternoon of 4 March, after the 55th Army pulled out the last firepower point in Lang Son City and completely controlled Lang Son City, General Xu Shiyou ordered Division Commander Bian Guixiang to continue to lead his troops forward for 5 kilometers, and all arms of the army set up a position to continue to attack Hanoi, so that the Le Duan group felt real pressure.
The 163rd Division of the 55th Army led by Bian Guixiang is the main division of the 55th Army, and during the entire war against Vietnam, it has always served as an assault division to attack Lang Son City, Vietnam, and Bian Guixiang himself is the "nemesis" that the Vietnamese army fears, so this time let the 127th Division feign an attack and make a position to attack Hanoi, even if Le Duan himself is not afraid, the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians in Hanoi will be frightened.
At 8 a.m. on 5 March, Division Commander Bian Guixiang ordered the artillery unit to build a firing position along Vietnam's Highway No. 1, and ordered the reconnaissance unit to survey the terrain in an area 5 kilometers away from the southern suburbs of Lang Son City, and the infantry vanguard units to enter an area 5 kilometers away from the southern suburbs of Lang Son City one after another.
More importantly, the logistics echelon is also busy, with some squads and platoons constantly transporting various combat materials to the southern suburbs of Lang Son City, and the communications units setting up antennas along the way.
Looking at this posture, the PLA is indeed going to continue to attack, and this is part of General Xu Shiyou's plan.
If the squadron wants to reach Hanoi, it will take at least a month. However, the Vietnamese army did not set up a tight defensive line on this section of the road, and the city of Hanoi had no decent fortifications, relying only on the city of Lang Son, 130 kilometers away.
However, a large number of troops have been deployed around Lang Son City, with air bases, anti-aircraft missile bases, and anti-tank missile positions, and the air defense missile base in Lang Son City is actually a strategic base for deterring China in depth.
Despite this, the squadron was still able to take the Vietnamese air base and missile base in the vicinity of Lang Son City in just half a month.
On March 5, the squadron successfully captured 817 Soviet-made anti-tank missiles and 22 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from the Vietnamese army. Among them, the importance of 22 anti-aircraft missiles is self-evident, because this is the only strategic ** possessed by the Le Duan Group.
This means that it will be difficult for the Le Duan group to obtain these tips from its allies in the future, because the Vietnamese army does not have the ability to guarantee that these ** will not fall into the hands of the squadron.
At the same time, Vietnam's supreme ruler, Le Duan, lost confidence in the senior Vietnamese generals because they could not hold the city of Lang Son, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, although the Vietnamese army's elite 5 regular divisions, including the 308th Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, the 327th Division, the 337th Division, and the 338th Division, had about 40,000 troops, as well as several local regiments, participated in the defense.
When the 163rd Division's Bian Gui Xiang advanced 5 kilometers in the direction of Chi Leng County, Lang Son Province, Le Duan had already realized that the Vietnamese army could not hold Hanoi, and could only take countermeasures as soon as possible, including establishing a city defense system as soon as possible, evacuating diplomats and civilians from various countries, and preparing to move the capital.
Although the Le Duan clique continued to exaggerate China's threat to Vietnam, which made the whole country fear the squadron, when the Le Duan clique began to tense up, evacuate the people and establish a city defense system, not only Le Duan himself, but even the Vietnamese civilians living at the bottom of the society also had an unprecedented sense of crisis.
In order to eliminate this sense of crisis, ordinary people can only pull their legs and run away.
At around 8 a.m. on March 5, the squadron continued to advance towards Hanoi, and Le Duan suggested that the diplomatic mission and family members in Hanoi evacuate or seek refuge elsewhere. The news caused chaos, with train stations, bus stations and airports filled with evacuating crowds.
At the same time, the constant influx of routs and refugees has exacerbated panic in Hanoi. In this case, some people choose to go south, some people want to take advantage of the opportunity, and some people try to maintain order.
Over time, the whole of Hanoi has spiraled out of control. Although the Le Duan clique sent troops to calm the unease of the diplomatic corps and families, the Vietnamese army's morale was shaken and it was unable to appease the panicked Vietnamese people, leaving Hanoi in chaos.
However, China's ** Military Commission announced at around 10 a.m. on March 5 that China had achieved its goal of fighting back in self-defense against Vietnam and was now beginning to withdraw its troops.
If Vietnamese troops continue to provoke during the withdrawal, China reserves the right to defend itself. This news made every member of the Li Duan group breathe a sigh of relief, but in order to save face, they also issued a national mobilization order on the evening of March 5, putting on a posture of fighting to the death with the squadron.
However, the "double reed play" jointly performed by Xu Shiyou and Bian Guixiang had a very big psychological blow to the Li Duan Group.
The outcome of the Battle of Lang Son made the hegemonic power behind Vietnam doubt its ability to pay its debts and military strength. Despite the promise of high interest rates, its allies are reluctant to provide further assistance to Vietnam.
This is because Vietnam itself is not capable of self-reliance, and the only way to repay its debts may be through such despicable means as armed occupation and armed plunder. However, the Vietnamese army was unable to even protect its own country, let alone become a "bandit".
This made aiding Vietnam a loss-making deal, and no one wanted to take it. Soon after the war, although Vo Nguyen Gia still held the posts of commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese army and Minister of Defense of Vietnam, the military power had actually fallen into the hands of Le Duan's henchmen Van Tan Dung and Le Trung Xun.
After 1980, Wu Yuanjia was officially dismissed. Nguyen Luong Phong, then vice president of Vietnam, died at the hands of Le Duan; Hoang Van Huan, Ho Chi Minh's right-hand man, moved to China; Truong Ru-pan, a well-known former leader during the North Vietnamese period, emigrated to France.
Although Le Duan achieved a monopoly on power in Vietnam, between the beginning of 1979 and the beginning of 1980, the number of opponents grew, and the signs of internal ** became more and more obvious.
The Le Duan clique, which had nothing to do, began to kill people frantically, which caused dissatisfaction among Western countries.