The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam is China's last foreign war so far, but its real target is actually not Vietnam ! Looking back 40 years later, we have to admire Deng Gong's majestic talent and strategy!
The background of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
Why is it said that the real target of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam is not Vietnam? Judging from the background of the times, the significance of this war was not a literal counterattack, but deterrence and shock . The external military pressure faced by China at that time was so great that people today can hardly imagine it.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country adhered to a "one-sided" foreign policy, fully moved towards the socialist camp of the Soviet Union, and became at odds with the West. At the beginning, the Soviet Union also showed goodwill towards China and once sent experts to support the construction of more than 120 industrial projects in China. But after the death of Stalin the conflicts between China and the Soviet Union began to gradually deepen.
Khrushchev completely negated the policies of the Stalin era and led the Soviet Union to the path of a great power chauvinism . He tried to become the de facto leader of the international communist movement and let other socialist countries follow the Soviet Union. The commanding stick. This conflicted with China's policy of independence. Therefore, in the 1960s, Sino-Soviet hostilities became the main theme of the two countries' diplomacy.
It was at this time that Vietnam began to do multiple-choice questions. Originally, it had a narrow historical friendship with China, and received strong support from China in the anti-French and anti-American wars. However, after anti-China faction Le Duan took control of Vietnam's political situation, Vietnam fell into the arms of the Soviet Union and became alienated. China has helped itself selflessly.
Not only that, with the support of the Soviet Union, after Vietnam was unified in 1975, it turned its guns and regarded China as an imaginary enemy that the Soviet Union and Vietnam would jointly deal with. In other words, at that time, China was facing an attack from both sides, the Soviet Union in the north and Vietnam in the south, and its national defense situation was extremely bad.
Deng Xiaoping's decisiveness
Since 1976, the Vietnamese authorities' readiness to act has become more and more obvious. The Vietnamese army has repeatedly crossed the border without any reason, harassed residents in China, and even caused a number of bloody incidents. Among them, the bloodshed in Tinghao Mountain in Guangxi in 1978 resulted in eight deaths and more than 30 injuries, which shocked the country.
is tolerable, but is intolerable! Vietnam's treachery and abandonment of China-Vietnam friendship have pushed China to the brink of war, and domestic calls for punishment of Vietnam are becoming louder and louder.
But Deng Xiaoping, the leader at the time, clearly saw that to solve the Vietnam problem in the southwest, it was essentially necessary to solve the Soviet strategic oppression. Only when the Soviet Union and Vietnam signed a military alliance could the Vietnamese government dare to openly provoke a big country as a small country.
How to crack the Soviet Union's North-South pincer attack strategy? Deng Xiaoping thought hard and came up with , a strategy to break the situation with . He mobilized troops in two directions domestically. On the one hand, he added 300,000 troops to the Sino-Vietnamese border to prepare to teach Vietnam a profound lesson; on the other hand, he added 1 million troops to the Sino-Soviet border to always be on guard against the Soviet army's steel attacks. The torrent flows south.
More importantly, Deng Xiaoping chose to visit the United States before teaching Vietnam a lesson. In January 1979, Deng Xiaoping personally arrived in the United States by plane, becoming the first Chinese leader to visit the United States. When faced with questions from American reporters about Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping took a puff of his cigarette in his signature gesture and said categorically: This kid from Vietnam needs to be taught a lesson!
On February 5, Deng Xiaoping ended his visit to the United States and returned to China. On February 17, the 200,000-strong People's Liberation Army, which had already been prepared, began to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam as planned. At this time, the severely beaten Vietnamese authorities hurriedly found the Soviet ambassador and tried to get the Soviet Union to send troops to China in accordance with the predetermined military alliance agreement.
Deng Xiaoping's foresight
However, the Soviet Union had many doubts about sending troops to China.On the one hand, China has already been prepared, with millions of People's Liberation Army troops standing by, ready to respond to the Soviet offensive on the northern border. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union, the materials and troops transferred from Moscow to the Far East are far away and the logistics are under great pressure.
On the other hand, when the Soviet Union saw that Deng Xiaoping had launched a counterattack against Vietnam just after his visit to the United States, it concluded that this was some kind of "underground agreement" between China and the United States. The Soviet Union was unwilling to directly fight with China and the United States for Vietnam. A big country is in trouble with .
Therefore, the Soviet Union finally rejected Vietnam's request to send troops, and only stated that it would launch "no spare weapons support." But these weapons did not have time to be effective, because Vietnam was defeated too quickly. In just one month, Vietnam's Lang Son defense line was breached, and the capital, Hanoi, was in a dilemma that could be breached at any time.
However, China controlled the scale of the war well, ended the war on March 15, and withdrew into the country. On the contrary, this made the heavy troops assembled by Vietnam for the second time and the weapons aided by the Soviet Union come to nothing. Unwilling to admit defeat, Le Duan continued to wield the war stick and waged a ten-year-long war with the People's Liberation Army in the Laoshan area.
Deng Xiaoping believed that Vietnam was only a small country, and their war threat could only affect China's borders in one direction at best, and could also provide actual combat experience to the People's Liberation Army. Therefore, Laoshan is fighting , and China can definitely accompany Vietnam in the fight. Go down. More importantly, the war that lasts for many years can be used to continuously bleed Vietnam's blood and prevent Vietnam's rise in Southeast Asia.
Looking back 40 years later, Deng Xiaoping’s judgment has become a reality. Vietnam lost its development time in the 1980s and 1990s, widening the development gap with China. From now on, it no longer has the opportunity to threaten China's southwest border.
Moreover, during the years of war, the Soviet Union was forced to continuously provide blood transfusions to Vietnam, which caused the Soviet Union's financial pressure to increase, and eventually embarked on the path of collapse and disintegration. People today have to admire Deng Xiaoping's majestic strategy. He led China out of that dangerous external environment.
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