On one day in August 1978, the former deputy director of the State Tourism Administration, who had already retreated to the second line for a long time due to personal health problems, was suddenly summoned by Vice Premier Li Xiannian and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Han Nianlong. During the meeting, Vice Premier Li Xiannian directly appointed Yang Gongsu as Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam .
Before Yang Gongsu could say the reason why he was not suitable for this position, Li Xiannian said in an orderly tone: The mission of the diplomatic envoy to Vietnam is to build the embassy into a clairvoyance and a smooth ear to the party and the country. Immediately afterwards, Han Nianlong added: diplomatic envoy to Vietnam should be prepared to deal with extraordinary situations and must guard the national gates of southern Xinjiang.
Yang Gongsuyuan thought that this meeting was just an ideological work conference before the appointment and removal of major national personnel. Unexpectedly, Li Xiannian, who has always been approachable, came directly to "catch the strong men". There was no room for negotiation at all.
result, everything was as expected by Li Xiannian. Yang Gongsu lived up to expectations and provided important information for the PLA to win the victory of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, becoming the number one hero of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
Extraordinary, extraordinary actions, and extraordinary responsibilities
In early 1975, in order to force China to agree to Vietnam to dominate Southeast Asia, the Le Duan Group openly denied the former North Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh government's border survey agreement in 1958, and constantly instructed Vietnamese militants to invade Chinese territory.
For the sake of maintaining regional peace, the Chinese leader gave the Le Duan Group enough opportunities and even made huge concessions. He actively invited Vietnam to conduct friendly negotiations on the land border issues between the two countries. The formal negotiations officially began in October 1977.
The Li Duan Group's intention is not to drink. The fundamental purpose of unilaterally provoking a border dispute between the two countries is to force China to support Vietnam in establishing the "Indo-Shanghai Federation" and continue to provide military assistance to Vietnam. Therefore, the first Sino-Vietnam land border negotiations began in October 1977 until August 1978, and eventually ended in an unhappy manner.
During the negotiations, the Li Duan Group always spoke loudly and insisted that the Chinese historical figure Zhao Tuo established by the South Vietnamese country is the homeland of Vietnam and refused to accept the reasonable suggestions put forward by China. Whenever there are major differences of opinion, the Li Duan Group immediately sends troops to cross the border to carry out armed provocation.
The first time the Chinese delegation asked Vietnam's chief representative sample essay and why they went back on their word and did not recognize the relevant statements issued in 1958, the left-behind Le Duan immediately instructed the Vietnamese Navy to invade six islands and reefs in China's Nansha Islands. Then, when the negotiations were about to break down in late August 1978, the Vietnamese army created the "Friendship Pass Blood Case" and the "Pu Nianling Blood Case" at the China Friendship Pass on August 25.
Every armed provocation launched by the Le Duan Group during the negotiation process has a characteristic, that is, the Vietnamese media are collectively silent, and even the Vietnamese people are rarely informed. However, at every day of negotiation meeting, unrealistic reasons are raised every time, and the Vietnamese representative always acts like he is unwilling to negotiate.
At this time, the Chinese leaders with Deng Xiaoping as the core knew that the Li Duan Group was no longer in the process. If this continues, a large-scale war between China and Vietnam will inevitably break out. War is a complex and big project, and it cannot be fought just by fighting. At present, China needs a person with a civil and military strategy to fight the front station, otherwise China will fall into a passive situation everywhere.
After the breakdown of the first Sino-Vietnam land border negotiations, he served as the head of our party’s intelligence station in the 93rd Army of the Kuomintang and the secretary of the Taihang Mountain Eighth Route Army headquarters during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Yang Gongsu, who has been engaged in diplomatic work since the founding of the People's Republic of China, became the best candidate for the Battle Front Station.
Yang Gongsu had a very high cultural foundation. On the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he graduated from Soviet University and Yanjing University . He has rich experience in fighting behind enemy lines and is also a professional soldier. He can be said to be a literary and military strategy.
Yang Gongsu has been in charge of the work of the southwestern plateau area of my country in the 1960s and served as China's ambassador to Nepal. Yang Gongsu has worked in the plateau area with very harsh natural environment for more than ten years, and his health has been deteriorating. Since then, the Party and the country have had to arrange for him to return to Beijing and be transferred to the position of deputy director of the State Tourism Administration.
At this time, if Yang Gongsu gives his opinions, he will be 100% unwilling to take on national affairs again, because his physical condition does not allow it and he may go to see Marx at any time.
However, Li Xiannian, who was in charge of national diplomatic affairs and national economy at that time, pointed out Yang Gongsu's general. To put it bluntly, he entrusts the security of the country's southern region to him. Yang Gongsu, who was proficient in modern Chinese history, could only grit his teeth and shoulder this important task.
veterans took the lead, one topped two
In August 1978, after Yang Gongsu was called by Li Xian, due to the obstruction of Vietnam's Li Duan Group, he had no chance to rush to Vietnam to carry out work.
It was not until the Vietnamese army caused the "Tinghao Mountain Bloodshed Incident". In early December 1978, after the official break between China and Vietnam, the Le Duan Group was able to rush to Hanoi, Vietnam to carry out work in order to delay time and pretend to ease relations between the two countries.
At this time, the Li Duan Group had already installed elite troops of up to 200,000 people in the Sino-Vietnam border area. Vietnamese civilians within 50 kilometers of the Chinese border area were basically expelled, and replaced by the "Youth Charge" and "Death Camp" pretended by the elite Vietnamese troops, or the public security forces and special agent forces transformed from elite army units.
Li Duan Group aims to send large-scale troops to attack Guangxi and Yunnan, China, but in order to avoid the conspiracy being exposed, before the special envoy Yang Gongsu arrived in Vietnam, he strictly monitored all foreigners living in Vietnam to prevent them from learning about Vietnam's secrets, and even strictly restricted diplomats from various countries to regional activities within a radius of 10 kilometers in the Hanoi Embassy District.
This means that it is difficult for all staff of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Vietnam represented by Yang Gongsu to have the opportunity to understand what the Li Duan Group wants to do.
In order to delay time, after Yang Gongsu arrived in Hanoi, according to international practice, the new ambassador first had to submit a diplomatic letter to the host country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then the host country held a diplomatic reception ceremony. However, Vietnam postponed the diplomatic reception between China and Vietnam on the grounds that President Sun Desheng, who is in charge of Vietnam's diplomatic affairs, was in poor health.
Yang Gongsu took advantage of the opportunity of the Li Duan Group's intentional disagreement and took time to visit diplomats from other countries in Hanoi, Vietnam. He roughly grasped the main trends of the Vietnamese army from diplomats from various countries, and learned about the important news about the situation on the Sino-Vietnam border from Vietnamese people who opposed the Li Duan Group's reversal.
Li Duan saw that Yang Gongsu often watched movies, sports, and dinner with diplomats from some countries, and became suspicious. However, the Vietnamese government did not dare to obstruct these normal diplomatic activities and was not qualified to obstruct them. So he created a "Hongmen Banquet" drama, with the purpose of surveillance of all staff of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam in disguise.
In mid-December, the Li Duan Group instructed Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Youshou to host the reception of the Chinese diplomatic mission. After the reception banquet and presentation ceremony, Li Duan arranged for the Vietnamese Prime Minister to meet with the Chinese diplomatic mission. After meeting with Fan Wentong, the Vietnamese Congress Chairman Long March to host the reception, and then the heads of various departments of the Vietnamese government and the military, Wu Yuanjia , Wen Jinyong and others.
This diplomatic reception was a shift . After eating this and that, the Chinese diplomatic missions met with Vietnamese representatives, they had a cold expression and said some polite words and perfunctory words. What’s strange is that Vietnam prohibits interviews from media reporters outside China and Vietnam, and Vietnamese media did not report on each meeting.
Throughout mid-December, the Chinese diplomatic mission went back and forth between the Chinese Embassy and the offices of various departments of the Vietnamese government every day. However, the keen Yang Gongsu has seen from various signs of Hanoi residents that the Li Duan Group lacks confidence. Although the Vietnamese army spent several years preparing to attack China, there were many irreconcilable contradictions in Vietnam's economic and technological aspects.
In early January 1979, Yang Gongsu, who had just taken office for one month, returned to China to report his work under the order of the Central Committee. After the three leaders Deng Xiaoping, Hua Guofeng and Li Xiannian met Yang Gongsu, the Guangzhou Military Region and the Kunming Military Region began to assemble troops to the border areas. At the same time, the Central Military Commission began to issue orders for expansion.
The first hero of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
Thanks to the first-hand news brought back from the enemy, on February 17, 1979, hundreds of thousands of Chinese People's Liberation Army troops participated in the war, defeating the 250,000 elite Vietnamese troops in the border area step by step.
Due to repeated mistakes in reconnaissance work, backward logistics system, and backward command system, the Vietnamese army went from the original "active offensive" to "a great defeat on the whole line". In order to protect Vietnam's international appearance, the Li Duan Group repeatedly boasted about how the Vietnamese army defeated the Chinese army and what kind of results it achieved during the war, but it has always disagreed with foreign journalists rushing to the theater for interviews.
In order to expand the results of the war, China did not disclose the losses of both sides during the war, nor did it disclose the results of the People's Liberation Army.
Le Duan saw that the 250,000 elite Vietnamese troops deployed in northern Vietnam were about to be lost. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, Vietnam would be over. He could only send people to United Nations headquarters to make the trick of a villain complaining first, hoping that countries around the world would sanction China.
At that time, the leaders of more than 30 countries with diplomatic relations with Vietnam were very clear that the diplomats in these countries had seen through the little calculations in the hearts of the Li Duan Group during their contact with the special Yang Gongsu in Vietnam. In the public eye, the Li Duan Group's various tricks were futile.
In the post-war public opinion confrontation, Yang Gongsu, who was transferred to the position of deputy head of the Chinese government delegation, exposed the true face of the Li Duan Group's destruction of regional peace in front of the international community, putting Vietnam into a situation of condemnation by thousands of people and making new contributions.
After China won a great victory in the self-defense fight against Vietnam, Yang Gongsu, the hard-working and contributing special envoy to Vietnam, was transferred to China's ambassador to Greece . Greece is a world-renowned "sanitation paradise". Here, Yang Gongsu made great achievements in the field of history.
Perhaps, Li Xiannian at that time did not expect that he would have captured the first hero of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam for the first time.
