In the 1979 counterattack against Vietnam, Xu Shiyou made great contributions, but Deng Gong said that he was too ruthless, because the post-war report submitted by Xu Shiyou has been the result of the greatest convergence, in fact, his original battle plan is much more ruthless than now, if it is successfully implemented, I am afraid that the main force of the Vietnamese army has already disappeared, and even the other party may be destroyed!
So, what did Xu Shiyou do in the war, which was evaluated as too ruthless? And what did this battle bring him?
In 1905,Xu ShiyouBorn in a peasant family in Macheng, Hubei Province, he lived in extreme poverty during his childhood, and his family relied on a pitiful little arable land to make a living, and was often exploited and beaten by the landlord.
When he grew up a little, Xu Shiyou went to a nearby town to earn a living, earning a pitiful salary by doing odd jobs for martial arts masters.
Soon, he went to Shaolin Temple to learn art, and a few years later, the life in the temple was too hard to live, Xu Shiyou decided to go down the mountain to join the army and took refuge in the big warlord.
But Xu Shiyou, who was born righteous and awe-inspiring, soon felt uncomfortable with the strange atmosphere in the warlord army, and there were few people who could really fight, all of them were soldiers who could only bully the common people.
Xu Shiyou hated these people so much that he immediately quit the warlord army.
In 1928, Xu Shiyou was 23 years old, drifting for more than 20 years, his identity changed one after another, but he never really had the feeling of taking root.
At this time, he was confused, he saw the propaganda of the Red Army, looked at the people's soldiers who fought for the country and the people, and recalled the tragic experience of his childhood.
After coming to the Red Army, Xu Shiyou felt the warmth of home for the first time, because he had studied under the Shaolin Temple and practiced kung fu, and everyone affectionately called him"Monk Xu".
It was from this time that Xu Shiyou's military talent began to gradually manifest itself, this general who was known for daring to think and dare to do, and his style of marching and fighting was Deng Gong's evaluation of him, "ruthless"!
During the Long March in 1935, when our army was crossing the grassland, it was surrounded and intercepted by the famous general Hu Zongnan, and at the critical moment, General Xu Shiyou personally took a small number of elite soldiers into battle, and fought fiercely with the enemy army several times his own for two days and two nights, and forcibly tore a hole in the encirclement network, so that the large army could pass safely.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Xu Shiyou personally led his troops to the battlefield behind enemy lines in southern Hebei, where he wanted to establish a base for our army.
This is one of the most dangerous battlefields in the country, the Japanese invaders are extremely frequent, and there are many eyeliners, but in such a dangerous environment, Xu Shiyou insisted on fighting guerrilla warfare for several years, not only was he never caught, but also brought great losses to the local enemy.
During the War of Liberation, General Xu Shiyou led his troops to participate in the famous Battle of Menglianggu, annihilating all the 74th Division, the ace of the first step, and killing Lao Jiang's henchman, the famous general Zhang Lingfu.
This "monk general", the biggest style characteristic of marching and fighting, is "ruthless", ruthless to the enemy, and even more ruthless to himself, often personally carrying a gun into battle to charge, leading the troops to fight fiercely with the enemy.
Later, after repeated persuasion from others, General Xu Shiyou gradually reined in, but he still went to the front line in person, advancing and retreating with his troops, and was a "tumbler" in the eyes of the soldiers.
From the early revolution to the Long March period, to the later War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and then to the later War of Liberation, Xu Shiyou made great achievements and made great contributions to the establishment of the Republic.
In 1955, Xu Shiyou was awarded the rank of general and became a famous general of our army, which was praised by many people in the domestic army.
Although there is peace in the country and there is no war, General Xu Shiyou, who has been fighting all his life, is not idle, and there is no war, so he will train the army!
He began to spend all day and night in the training grounds, training recruits, directing combat readiness, and sometimes even developing training programs on his own.
At the same time, because he stayed in the army all the year round, his keen thinking during the war, his willpower to kill decisively, and the "ruthless" energy in his body never disappeared with time.
And this is also the main reason why after the end of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Deng Gong said that he "fought too hard".
In 1979, the Vietnamese side, which had received a large amount of aid from our country, sent troops to provoke an incidentIn the end, our country decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam!
Xu Shiyou immediately recommended himself, this general was a jealous and hateful person, and he had already been extremely annoyed by the arrogant and unreasonable Vietnamese side, not to mention that he had stayed in the army for so many years, just to set foot on the battlefield again one day.
In fact, Deng Gong had planned to hand over the Eastern Front battlefield against Vietnam to Xu Shiyou, which was a punitive war, and it was only fitting to entrust him!
On February 17, 1979, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam officially began, Xu Shiyou combined with the actual situation of the battlefield on the Eastern Front, divided 120,000 horsemen into 14 routes, and advanced from Yunnan to Vietnam.
The originally arrogant and domineering Vietnamese army was defeated by our army in an instant, and our side was like a bamboo, marching forward all the way, without encountering any practical obstacles, and advanced all the way to Cao Ping, an important military town of Vietnam.
The 346th Division of the Vietnamese Army, which was responsible for blocking our army at Gao Ping, was the enemy's ace division that participated in the War of Resistance Against France and the Vietnam War.
General Xu Shiyou immediately made a decision and sent the 42nd Division of our army to meet the enemy, the 42nd Division had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and confronted the 1st Division of the US Army in the Changjin Lake area.
In order to avoid the impact of terrain and equipment differences on the speed of advancement, General Xu Shiyou, after looking at the overall situation, once again ordered the 41st Army to send two divisions to attack the north and south of Gaoping respectively to cooperate with the frontal attack of the 42nd Division!
But even so, our army was still strongly hindered in the process of advancing, Gaoping was originally an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, plus the enemy army had built a large number of fortifications here, and also sent the ace 346 Division to guard here, all kinds of unfavorable factors caused a lot of ** to our army.
After more than 20 days of attacking fortified positions, our army finally succeeded in taking Cao Binh and annihilated the 346th Division, which the Vietnamese side was proud of.
But General Xu Shiyou looked at the ** number of our army on the battle report, and remembered the clamor and provocation of the Vietnamese army before, and he was simply furious!
Looking at Lang Son, an important military town on the Vietnamese side that has been completely exposed to our army's field of vision on the combat map, General Xu Shiyou made up his mind to give the Vietnamese army a hard blow, so that they can really suffer pain and always remember this lesson!
What General Xu Shiyou did in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was evaluated by Deng Gong"Hit too hard"?
In fact, if it weren't for the high-level timely stopping, in Xu Shiyou's original plan, the main forces of the Vietnamese army would no longer exist, and even the Vietnamese side might be wiped out!
After the Battle of Gaoping, although our army successfully annihilated the 346th Division of the Vietnamese Army and conquered Gaoping, it also paid a lot of price.
Lang Son is also an important military town of Vietnam, and there are countless military facilities in the city, and the defense strength is better than that of Cao Ping.
Admiral Xu Shiyou immediately ordered to gather all the artillery forces that could be mobilized to bombard Lang Son, and after this battle, not a single house in Lang Son should be left!
On March 1, 1979, our army mobilized 19 artillery battalions from various positions on the Eastern Front, with a total of more than 300 heavy artillery pieces aimed at Lang Son, and an epic artillery battle was about to break out!
At 9 o'clock in the evening, with the order of the front-line commander, outside Lang Son City, the artillery fire of our army's position roared! Countless cannonballs flew towards Lang Son City with dazzling tail flames, rolling up smoke and dust in the sky, and for a while, the whole battlefield was as bright as day!
With such a large number of artillery firing at the same time, it was as if the earth was trembling, countless flames rose into the sky in Lang Son City, and the buildings turned into rubble and splashed in an instant, and many Vietnamese troops squatting in the fortifications were wiped out before they could react!
The ferocious massive artillery bombardment lasted nearly an hour, and after the artillery battle, it was difficult to find even an intact building in the distance towards Lang Son, and only a few remnants of the Vietnamese army were left, shivering behind the dilapidated bunkers.
Admiral Xu Shiyou immediately ordered the whole army to divide into three routes and launch a general attack on Lang Son Castle to completely destroy the remnants of the enemy!
Under the fierce bombardment, the Vietnamese defenders had no fighting spirit, and many people crawled out of the fortifications with trembling legs, surrendered to our troops, and our side quickly occupied Lang Son with the speed of the wind and clouds, and won a complete victory.
On March 5, the remnants of the Vietnamese army who were responsible for garrisoning Lang Son fled, and our army completely controlled Lang Son and the surrounding area, and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, was completely exposed to our army's field of vision.
This battle directly shocked the whole country, and even Western countries were greatly shaken, and many military experts believed that the combat mode of our army under the command of General Xu Shiyou was really a bit too ruthless.
Even Deng Gong, who was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, was quite shocked after getting the battle report, shook his head helplessly, and said:"This Xu Shiyou, he fought too hard! ”
However, Admiral Xu Shiyou did not care about these comments, and instead of indulging in the joy of conquering Lang Mountain, he planned his next move.
In his imagination, at this time, our army should take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle, he decided to immediately send the 42nd Army and the 55th Army to launch a surprise attack directly in the direction of Hanoi, completely tear apart the so-called "buffer zone" of the Vietnamese side, and completely annihilate the Vietnamese troops who had retreated to Hanoi!
At the same time of attacking Hanoi, the troops of General Yang Dezhi on the Western Front were united to encircle the east and west in a move, directly encircling and annihilating the 300,000 Vietnamese army, so that the Vietnamese side completely lost its military combat capability!
If this plan is successfully implemented, the remnants of the Vietnamese army stranded in the north will have nowhere to retreat, and the main force of the Vietnamese army stationed in Hanoi will also be completely annihilated by our army, Hanoi will be occupied by our army, and the Vietnamese side will face annihilation!
When General Xu Shiyou was about to order his army to raid Hanoi, Deng Gong urgently halted his actions and ordered him to immediately lead his troops to retreat.
Although General Xu Shiyou was puzzled, the military order was like a mountain, and he still gave up this plan that was enough to destroy the Vietnamese side and ordered the whole army to retreat.
The reason why China wants to withdraw its troops at this critical juncture is that the entire strategic purpose of the war against Vietnam has been achieved.
This is a punitive war, not a war of aggression, and its purpose is to deter the Vietnamese high-level leaders who dare to covet our country, and to show the world our strength and determination to resist foreign enemies.
Through this war, the Vietnamese side has learned enough lessons, most of the economic and military facilities in the north of Vietnam have been destroyed by our army, and a large number of materials that have been aided by our country have also been recovered.