In March 1969, the Soviet army was hit by the People's Liberation Army border defense forces on zhenbao Island .
The senior leaders of the Soviet government were furious and had the idea of launching a nuclear strike against China on .
Since it is impossible to force China to be obedient with conventional force, the nuclear strike of " surgical " is imperative.
China and the Soviet Union gradually moved farther and farther
Although the Soviet government at that time had already begun to roughly interfere with the internal affairs of the allies in the Eastern Soviet camp, it was still relatively polite to China. Firstly, as the second country in the Soviet camp, , the Soviet Union must give certain respect, and secondly, it is also the reason for China's special "teacher-student" relationship with the Soviet Union.
So before 1969, although the two sides in the Zhenbao Island area had conflicts from time to time, the behavior of was still restrained and only stayed at the level of "spraying each other".
What really made China and the Soviet Union get into evil is due to the differences between the two sides on the deployment of long-wave radars in and the formation of joint fleet .
After the 1960s entered the last century, the long-range delivery capabilities of the United States and the Soviet Union have made great progress. In order to prevent possible nuclear raids, the Soviet Union hopes to build a long-wave radar base in in northeast China, and further expand the Soviet Union's nuclear warning coverage.
However, to build a radar base, it is necessary to deploy Soviet soldiers to China . The Chinese government clearly refused any foreign troops to station on Chinese territory, not to mention that the Northeast was my country's industrial key . Any potential risks were unacceptable, and the two sides parted in disagreement.
As for forming Sino-Soviet Joint Fleet , this idea was originally good, but the Soviet government was not at ease. Once China agrees to form a fleet, it is likely to become an affiliated fleet of the Soviet Navy like today, like Japan today. This is obviously unacceptable to our government, which has always dreamed of building a strong navy, so the idea of the Joint Fleet was also aborted.
my country's move to reject the Soviet Union's proposal aroused extreme disgust among the top leaders of the Soviet Union, believing that China is ignorant of the sky and the earth, so he was preparing to use the border issue of Zhenbao Island to severely attack the Chinese government and military, which led to the subsequent military conflict.
vowed to defend Zhenbao Island to the death and
Although the battle of Zhenbao Island lasted only half a month, the People's Liberation Army border defense forces achieved great results . After the Soviet border defense forces caused many border bloodshed incidents, our border defense forces had actually received an order to set up an ambush circle on Zhenbao Island, giving the arrogant Soviets a long memory.
When the Soviet border guards tried to reuse the same trick, the PLA officers and soldiers who were already prepared swept the invaders with dense firepower, and killed 31 Soviet troops on the spot. The remaining remaining troops fled back to the Soviet Union in a hurry.
After suffering a loss, the Soviet army immediately called for reinforcements, and finally officially started the Zhenbao Island Battle half a month later. The Soviet army had sufficient preparations before the war. Not only did they transfer a large number of armored troops , but they also launched large-scale artillery attacks to prevent our reinforcements from landing on the island.
PLA is not without defense. In order to deal with the Soviet army's " steel torrent ", our army has already buried a large number of anti-tank mines on our side of Zhenbao Island , and also equipped our soldiers who are conducting defense operations on the island with a large number of anti-tank bazooka .
Soviet armored troops did not expect that our army's counterattack firepower was so fierce. Not only did our army's be destroyed by our army's bazooka , but there was also a new T62 tank with the body number "545" and the track was broken by an anti-tank mine and could not move.
T62 tank was the latest main battle tank of the Soviet army at that time. It not only used 15mm smoothbore gun , but its night vision thermal imaging equipment was also very advanced. The Chinese and Soviet armies fought a lot about this tank, . In the end, the Soviet artillery attacked the ice, which made the tank sink to the bottom of the river.
In the Battle of Zhenbao Island, the Soviet army paid a huge price and failed to break through the PLA's defense line . They could only shrink their troops and return to the Soviet border side. Our army took this opportunity to salvage the tanks that sank to the bottom of the river. The Soviet army lost watermelon and sesame , so I felt so frustrated.
enemy enemy
Seeing that conventional means could not force China to submit, the top leaders of the Soviet Union took on vicious thoughts. Although China had successfully developed its own nuclear weapon at that time, lacked effective and reliable remote delivery methods , and the threat to the Soviet Union was limited.
However, the Soviet Red Army had a large number of strategic bombers and ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear bomb , and were fully capable of launching nuclear strikes against China .
After weighing the pros and cons of using nuclear weapons against China, the Soviet leadership believed that nuclear strikes on China were not a problem. The focus was on how control the scale of the war in China, rather than becoming the fuse of World War III .
In order to prevent the United States, which is in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, strategic misjudgment , the Soviet government used secret channels to pass the news that the Soviet army launched a "surgical" nuclear strike against China to the US government, indicating that they did not intend to go to war with the Western world.
After receiving this news, the US government originally planned to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight . After all, this is an internal friction in the Soviet and Eastern camp, and the United States is happy to see it. But after careful analysis, I realized that if China is eliminated by the Soviet Union, will not be in line with the interests of the United States in the long run.
First of all, although China and the United States have confronted each other on the battlefield, they have never been the main enemy of the United States. At this time, the Soviet Union's strength was unprecedentedly powerful. As the saying goes, the enemy of is friend . The existence of a major country like China that pursues the independent foreign policy of can well restrain the power of the Soviet Union.
Secondly, China is a nuclear country after all. Although the Soviets judged that the People's Liberation Army does not yet have the means to remotely send nuclear weapons in , what if? Nuclear War once it gets out of control, it will be a disaster for the United States and even all mankind.
Based on this judgment, the US government decided to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a nuclear strike against China, and also made the news public through a third-rate tabloid named " Washington Star News ". The Soviet army's nuclear strike operation suddenly lost the initiative. Not only did China immediately start the preparation process, but the US government also publicly claimed that opposes the Soviet army's nuclear strike against China .
The Soviet government never dreamed that Americans would actually stand on the side of China . For the Soviet Union, China must not turn to the Western camp, otherwise it will become a sharp knife that hits the throat of the Soviet Union.
In this case, the nuclear weapon arrowed on the string had to cancel the launch of . The Soviet government was forced to return to the right path of Sino-Soviet relations and resolve the Sino-Soviet issue by negotiating .
