self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in , which broke out in 1979, our army paid a considerable price, especially the most casualties of new recruits. Why did there be a large number of new recruits in the PLA's combat units that year? There are some main reasons for .
The international struggle situation was grim
At that time, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union reached its peak. Both sides regarded Asia-Pacific as the strategic core of hegemony battle . Relying on this period, the Soviet Union began to extend its tentacles to Southeast Asia . This move obviously disrupted the relatively stable surrounding situation in our country.
You should know that my country had a feud with the Soviet Union after the 1950s. The two countries also had small-scale armed conflicts around zhenbao Island . The relationship between the two countries was already very tense. Now The Soviet ambitions are becoming more and more obvious , and the Chinese government is also highly alert to the Soviet Union's every move in Asia.
After realizing that , the Soviet Union was getting farther and farther away, the United States adhered to the principle of "'s enemy is a friend ", began to contact China, and in the 1970s, restored normal diplomatic relations between the two countries. This undoubtedly made the Soviet Union, which already regarded China as a thorn in its eyes, feel a huge threat.
In order to prevent China from turning to the Western camp, the Soviet Union deployed on China's surrounding areas through , in an attempt to curb China's development. He also constantly contacted China in diplomacy, with an attitude of , one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, , hoping to force China to come to the Soviet and Eastern camp.
Against this background, my country's brotherly friendly Vietnam has undergone regime change. The newly-employed Lesun regime deviates from the development route set by Comrade Ho Chi Minh , and instead relies on its relative advantage to violate neighboring countries such as Laos , Cambodia . After reaching a military alliance with the Soviet Union, Li Duan even looked at on my country's southwestern border.
Faced with the repeated crimes committed by Vietnam on the Sino-Vietnam border , our country must send troops to punish him, and he has to fight the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. But compared with the Vietnamese army, the real threat to China's national security is still the one who has millions of troops in the north.
At that time, the Soviet Union deployed more than 50 divisions in the Far East, which made the whole of Europe scared steel torrent also poses a huge threat to our country. This means that most of our army's main combat troops with considerable strength must be arranged on the Sino-Soviet border to prevent the Soviet Union from taking advantage of our army to fight against Vietnam. stabbed the knife in the northeastern region of my country.
This makes the participating units entering Vietnam only use recruits as the main supplementary force. In addition, the temporary mobilization of on the battlefield in the later stage, our army's participation in the war was mixed with a large number of new recruits.
round-trip training plan
In addition to the majeure situation, our army has also hope that a large number of new recruits will enter the battlefield. plans to quickly improve its combat effectiveness through actual combat. The People's Liberation Army is a team with great achievements in . However, before the outbreak of the Sino-Vietnam War, China had been in peace for more than ten years, and our army's combat effectiveness inevitably declined.
Even if a veteran who participated in the Sino-Indian War in 1962 was either retired or promoted to commander at this time. There are very few veterans who still serve at the grassroots level of our army and have practical experience in . lack of actual combat has become the most troublesome problem for the PLA troops in the 1970s.
And our opponent Vietnam Army , is much richer in practical experience than our army. After , Vietnam has been in the test of war since independence from the occupying forces and colonial countries after , World War II. From the War of Resistance Against France in the 1950s to the later Vietnam War , the Vietnamese Army was an team that grew up in the war.
Especially during the War Against France and the United States, the Vietnamese army received a large number of help from the military advisory groups of China and the Soviet Union and the weapons . Regarding the mobile warfare that our army is good at, both guerrilla warfare and mechanized troops that the Soviet Union is good at. In addition, the unique natural environment makes the Vietnamese regard jungle warfare as their specialty.
html The PLA in the 070s may not be as good as the US military in the Vietnam War in terms of team firepower, individual equipment and battlefield mobility. The Vietnamese army believes that since it can defeat the US military, it can naturally defeat Chinese People's Liberation Army .
It is precisely because of the huge gap in practical experience between the two sides in and the necessity of war training for the growth of an army. Even if we will learn some lessons, our country must let the new recruits set foot on the battlefield and receive the baptism of war .
The disadvantages of the establishment of the People's Liberation Army
At that time, the field troops of the People's Liberation Army were mainly divided into two categories: A and B. . From the number, there is no difference between the two. But in fact, the key aspects of Class A troops and Class B troops in terms of training methods, weapons and equipment, personnel arrangement, etc., determine the combat effectiveness of troops .
Class A troops are commonly known as main elite troops . This type of troops generally have outstanding history and impressive results. The intensity of troops training is very high, and all kinds of state-of-the-art weapons and equipment are generally given priority to these troops. The mission of Class A troops is also very simple. Not only do they have to fight, but they also have to win .
, and Class B troops are completely different. Although they are nominally field troops , this type of troops conducts less combat-oriented training, mainly doing some construction work in . Although as a supplementary force of Class A troops, once a war breaks out, Class B troops will still go to the battlefield, but the training focus in daily life is different, and the combat effectiveness of Class B troops is destined to be reduced.
Each field army is generally composed of , one Class A division and two Class B divisions . The purpose of this mixed compilation is to minimize army expenses as much as possible on the basis of ensuring the certain combat effectiveness of the troops. But this also means that when the war breaks out, to expand the two Class B divisions to the level of Class A divisions, a large number of troops must be drawn from other troops.
Above mentioned that at that time, the main force of our army could not get away with the Soviet Union in order to defend against the Soviet Union, so we could only recruit a large number of new recruits through to supplement the troops.
Even if our army does draw some veterans into the participating units to play the role of old and bring new , these veterans generally go to artillery or armored soldiers that require more experience and technology, and infantry combat units are still the vast majority of new recruits.
