In 1975, Vietnam, which had completed its reunification, became increasingly rampant on our border. China immediately launched a counterattack with practical actions, awakening Vietnam's dream, and through long-term military operations, it made Vietnam miserable and never recover

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In 1975, Vietnam, which had completed its reunification, became increasingly rampant on our border. China immediately launched a counterattack with practical actions, awakening Vietnam's dream, and through long-term military operations, it made Vietnam miserable and never recovered.

And Vietnam is still clamoring to move China's border back 100 kilometers.

So, why does Vietnam, a small country, dare to provoke the powerful China, and is so shameless even in defeat? What lessons has China taught the arrogant Vietnam?

In 1973, after 12 years of hard work, the Vietnamese people finally defeated the United States, and then completed the unification of Vietnam in 1975.

Such fruitful achievements made the Vietnam Communist Party no longer able to control its expansion ambitions. They not only sent troops to invade Cambodia, but also forgot about my country's assistance.

illegally invaded our border areas many times, killing and injuring our border soldiers and civilians.

Just when Vietnam's provocative behavior intensified and went further, China has made a decision to give Vietnam a powerful counterattack.

On December 7, 1978, at the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, the decision to launch a self-defense counterattack operation against Vietnam was adopted, and it was pointed out that the operation was mainly of a punitive nature, with limited time, limited depth, and quick decision to deter Vietnam's aggressive ambitions.

html On December 8, Deng Xiaoping announced an order for the strategic deployment of the Sino-Vietnamese frontline troops, and 270,000 troops gathered on the Sino-Vietnamese border.

At the same time, General Xu Shiyou was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, and General Yang Dezhi was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front. They planned to attack Vietnam from Guangxi and Yunnan respectively.

At the same time, due to the hostility between China and the Soviet Union at that time, in order to prevent the Soviet Union from retaliating against Vietnam, the Central Military Commission also ordered the troops in the four military regions of Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, and Xinjiang to enter a state of first-level combat readiness.

On January 1, 1979, when Deng Xiaoping visited the United States, he revealed that China would conduct punitive operations against Vietnam. However, the then US President Carter expressed his concerns about China's military actions.

After all, the US military had suffered a lot in the mountains and jungles of Vietnam. After paying the price of 350,000 casualties, it had to accept the fact of defeat.

Faced with the concerns of the United States, Deng Xiaoping just smiled and said very confidently: "The Chinese people mean what they say."

On February 17, 1979, our country decided to start a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.

Soon after, our army's east-west front troops advanced into Vietnam at the same time and launched simultaneous attacks on 6 provinces and 11 counties in northern Vietnam. The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam that shocked the world broke out.

The first target of our troops on the eastern front was the 12th Regiment of the enemy's 3rd Division. This regiment was stationed in Tongdeng and was known as the Heroic Regiment. Before the war broke out, it had arbitrarily shot and killed Chinese residents at Friendship Pass and arrogantly announced that it would fight to Nanning to celebrate the Spring Festival.

However, the powerful People's Liberation Army completely annihilated this so-called heroic group in just one day, and occupied and .

On February 25, our army, through bold interspersion, captured the provincial capital city of Gaoping, while our troops on the western front successively captured the provincial capital city of Lao Cai and the industrial center of Gantang, successfully completing all the tasks of the first phase of the war against Vietnam.

The most exciting battle against Vietnam, and the most frightening to Vietnam, was the Lang Son Battle.

Lang Son is only 130 kilometers away from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The importance of guarding Lang Son to Vietnam is self-evident. To this end, Vietnam mobilized the 3rd Division, known as the Southern Venus. This division was once the main force in Vietnam's Anti-American War and severely damaged the US military many times.

At the same time, the Vietnamese army also took advantage of Lang Son's terrain and established a dense firepower network relying on the hills.

The Chinese troops that mainly attacked Lang Son were the 55th Army and the 54th Army. The 54th Army was the ace of the Central Military Commission. Its predecessor was the 44th Army and the 45th Army in Dongye. In the Battle of Hengbao, it used one division to block the mad attack of Bai Chongxi's five divisions.

In the early morning of February 27, 1979, in the drizzle, our army launched an attack on Lang Son. Relying on tanks and heavy firepower, our army quickly cleared the Vietnamese army's peripheral fire points.

occupied the surrounding highlands of Lang Son such as Kouma Mountain and Ba Wai Son, and then launched a general attack on Lang Son.

Under the heroic charge of our army, the Vietnamese army suffered heavy casualties. The frustrated Vietnamese army actually openly violated international law and deployed chemical weapons to release our army's positions, causing serious casualties to our army.

Faced with the shameless behavior of the Vietnamese army, General Xu Shiyou, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, was furious. He mobilized all division artillery units and ordered that after the bombardment, not a single house in Lang Son could be left.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning on March 1, 1979, the war began. After the bombardment, Lang Son was a sea of ​​fire. When our army launched the charge, except for sporadic gunfire, no large-scale counterattack by the Vietnamese army could be seen.

htmlOn March 4, our army completely occupied Lang Son City . Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, was in panic. People fled one after another, and foreign embassies in Vietnam also began to evacuate southward.

However, just after our army conquered Lang Son, completed all tasks of the war against Vietnam, and withdrew its troops back home, Vietnam, which was unrepentant, launched a new round of provocations.

In 1979, Vietnam's repeated provocations finally made our country intolerable and decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam to punish the Vietnamese aggressors. So, how will China respond to Vietnam's new round of provocations?

In less than a month, the powerful People's Liberation Army successively captured important towns in northern Vietnam such as Caoping, Dong Dang, Lao Cai, and Kantang, and captured Lang Son, which is only 130 kilometers away from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

But when our army completed all set strategic tasks and withdrew its troops back to China, Vietnam did not repent, shamelessly continued to invade our border areas, and made unreasonable demands to withdraw 100 kilometers of the Chinese border to the north.

On March 5, 1979, the day after our army captured Lang Son, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the People's Liberation Army that entered Vietnam began to gradually withdraw. By March 16, all our troops had withdrawn into the country.

However, just when China thought that its purpose of punishing Vietnam had been achieved and that Vietnam should repent and re-face its relations with China, Vietnam's shameless behavior made our leaders furious.

The day after our army withdrew from Lang Son, the Viet Cong issued a nationwide mobilization order and formed countless militia armed forces to harass and attack our army during its retreat. Because the large-scale war had ended by this time, our army did not expand the war except for necessary counterattacks.

However, the Viet Cong became more and more arrogant. After all our troops were withdrawn into the country, the Vietnamese army began to build fortifications at the riding points on the China-Vietnam border. The Viet Cong leaders shamelessly demanded that the Chinese border be withdrawn 100 kilometers north.

In January 1980, the Vietnamese army sent troops to occupy the border area in Ningming County, my country, and harassed the Chinese people.

As of April 1981, the Vietnamese army had carried out 39 border sabotage activities. At that time, Vietnam's shamelessness had made our country extremely angry from top to bottom, and they vowed to retaliate with tooth for tooth and blood for blood.

In May 1981, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of a certain unit of the Guangxi Border Defense Military Region drank Zhuangxing wine and wrote more than a thousand suicide notes swearing to live and die with the position. They secretly went to the Faka Mountain forward position to prepare for the battle to regain Faka Mountain.

htmlIn the early morning of May 5, the battle of Faka Mountain officially started. Despite the crazy firing of the enemy's machine guns , our army only took nine minutes to clear the minefields laid by the Vietnamese army on the way forward, and then launched a charge towards the Vietnamese army's position.Zhou Kun, the platoon leader of the 1st Platoon of the 02 Battalion of

From May 10th to June 7th, under the cover of fierce artillery fire, the Vietnamese army launched nine counterattacks on our army's position in Faka Mountain.

During the counterattack, our soldiers performed many heroic deeds. Even though his legs were blown off, squad leader Liu Taiqiu still insisted on commanding the soldiers to fight back against the Vietnamese army.

Xiao Jiacai, a newly recruited soldier, loaded more than fifty mortar shells by himself, blowing the enemy into bloody pieces, and was awarded the second-class personal merit. Chen Jianguo, the platoon leader of the machine gun company, persisted in fighting despite being burned all over his body, and was also awarded the second-class personal merit.

Thanks to the heroic fighting of our army, the Vietnamese army's nine counterattacks were repelled by our army. In the end, their vitality was severely damaged and they were no longer able to organize a large-scale attack.

The People's Liberation Army's toughness has made Vietnam aware of it. If it had known this before, why bother with the original reasoning.

In the 1970s, with the victory of the Anti-American War, Vietnam began to forget about itself, forget about the friendship it had fought with China against aggression, and forget about China's generous aid. Why do they provoke our country?

Vietnam’s ingratitude and blatant aggression finally made the Chinese government unable to bear it anymore and decided to teach Vietnam a lesson and launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.

Faced with Vietnam's ingratitude and unprovoked provocation, my country decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in 1979. The powerful People's Liberation Army was unstoppable and captured Lang Son, only 130 kilometers away from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in less than a month.

After entering modern times, the Vietnamese people suffered the same fate as the Chinese people, suffering oppression and humiliation from colonial powers.

After the mid-19th century, French colonists began to invade Vietnam from Cambodia, Laos and other places.

In 1885, the Qing Dynasty , as the sovereign state, sent troops into Vietnam. Under the leadership of Feng Zicai, the Chinese and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians bravely resisted the French invaders and achieved a great victory at Zhennanguan.

However, the corrupt Qing government actually signed the "Sino-French Treaty" that was humiliating and humiliating to the country after victory, gave up its status as a suzerain, and watched Vietnam fall into the hands of the colonial rulers.

In the subsequent World War II , Vietnam was ruled by Japanese fascists, and they shared the same fate as the Chinese people.

In 1945, Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh announced the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, also known as North Vietnam, which had just driven away the Japanese invaders. France also supported the restoration of Emperor Bao Dai in southern Vietnam and established the Vietnamese Empire.

After nine years of anti-French war, the Vietnamese people repelled the French invaders.

In 1961, the US military officially invaded Vietnam. The Vietnamese people struggled with the US military in the mountains and jungles for 12 years before they finally forced the US to sign an armistice treaty and withdraw from Vietnam.

Subsequently, the North Vietnamese government troops went south, destroying the South Vietnamese regime in one fell swoop and completing the reunification of North and South Vietnam.

It can be said that in the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and anti-aggression struggles in modern times, the Vietnamese people were the invaders like us, and through their own bloody struggle, they finally achieved national independence and precious freedom.

Moreover, whether it was the 9-year Anti-French War or the 12-year Anti-American War, although China's own situation at that time was not optimistic, it still provided financial, technical, and weapons support to Vietnam, and even sent General Chen Geng to guide their military struggle.

Just when the Chinese people were still wishfully looking forward to the bright future of Sino-Vietnamese friendship, the Vietnamese Communist Party successively made actions that chilled China.

After defeating the US military in Vietnam and completing the reunification, its army has been tempered by years of war and has Soviet-style, American-style and Chinese-style equipment in its hands. This has made its leaders extremely confident in its military proficiency. What followed was a revived ambition to establish the Indo-Chinese Federation.

Therefore, taking advantage of the domestic turmoil in Cambodia, in 1978, under the banner of helping the Cambodian people, Vietnam invaded and occupied the entire territory of Cambodia.

In addition to invading China's southern neighbor, Vietnam also launched an anti-Chinese campaign in the country, smashed Chinese shops, and shot Chinese in Vietnam wantonly, forcing many Chinese in Vietnam to abandon their hard-earned family property, flee back to the country, or live in exile overseas.

The most chilling thing is that due to the hostility between China and the Soviet Union at that time, in order to gain support from the Soviet Union, the Viet Cong actually openly issued a statement stating that curbing China's development was related to Vietnam's vital interests. This was almost equivalent to declaring that China was Vietnam's enemy.

When Vietnam's statement reached the country, China's leadership was shocked. They could not understand why their comrades who had shared hardships had changed their faces. However, adhering to the principle of harmonious coexistence, China still chose to tolerate this.

However, Vietnam did not appreciate China's generosity. Instead, it believed that this was China's weakness. It began to carry out armed harassment in my country's border areas, shooting and killing Chinese border guards and civilians. At the same time, it also claimed that it was the world's third military power and wanted to capture China's Guangdong and Guangxi regions.

Vietnam’s arrogant behavior finally made China unbearable and decided to teach this former little brother a lesson.

From then until 1989, our army launched counterattacks in the Laoshan and Zheyin Mountain areas, regained a large area of ​​land, and dealt a heavy blow to the Vietnamese invaders.

In the counterattack against Vietnam, most of the soldiers who died were young people between the ages of 18 and early 20s. As sung in the song "Blood-stained Style", their blood-stained style can be seen on the flag of the Republic.

In 2009, at the Ningming Martyrs Cemetery in Guangxi, the resting place of the martyrs who died in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, a Vietnam War veteran said in an interview: "The iron bones of the Chinese nation can never be defeated! "

The veteran's speech was deafening. It is the countless revolutionary ancestors and martyrs who have forged the iron bones of the Chinese nation, dyed the bright red flag of the Republic, and created today's prosperous China.

As their descendants, we should also pass on this spirit and contribute our due strength to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!