At this time, Vietnam began to move closer to the Soviet Union and regarded China as a thorn in the side. As a weak country in Southeast Asia, Cambodia invaded by Vietnam frequently turned to China for help. From 65438 to 0977, large-scale anti-Chinese riots broke out in Vietnam, and Vietnam began to occupy China villages and slaughter China citizens. It also took the opportunity to occupy nearly 96% of the islands and reefs of Nansha Islands, which belonged to China. The people of China can't stand it any longer. 1979, they decided to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.
After the self-defense counterattack against China, Vietnamese troops withdrew from Vietnam one after another. I thought the Vietnamese would learn a lesson, but I didn't expect Vietnam to take the opportunity to occupy many hills on the Sino-Vietnamese border and occasionally invade our residents. We also fought back, and the longest one was the Battle of Laoshan.
1. Natural conditions
Laoshan Mountain is located in the low-latitude plateau, with a tropical monsoon climate, often rainy and foggy, with high mountains and steep slopes, high peaks and deep valleys.
Natural conditions are particularly harsh, but they are suitable for covert operations.
2. Strategic position
Laoshan Mountain is centered on the main peak and has three ridges, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack. The west is high and the east is low, and the south is slow and the north is steep. In particular, the Bali River forms two gates across the Dongshan River, and we can see the border between the two countries for more than 20 kilometers. In other words, whoever occupies Laoshan Mountain in China and Vietnam will control the important passage to Vietnam, and its strategic position is very important.
Chinese side:
At the end of 1983, 10, there were more than 4.23 million active servicemen in China People's Liberation Army.
In fact, it didn't take us long to win Laoshan, but strategically, our consideration didn't end the battle of Laoshan (see below). With such a large military force, we can't win the battle of Laoshan in five years. In fact, we are using the strategy of killing the chicken with a knife. In order to make most of the troops gain practical experience, the PLA used 29 divisions and beat six enemy divisions, with more than three times the strength of the enemy.
Vietnam:
In the early 1980s, Vietnam had 28 combat divisions, 23 production divisions, 2 coach pilots and 3 air force divisions, with a total strength of about 6.5438+0.2 million. Vietnam has deployed about 200,000 troops in northern Vietnam and Hanoi, and deployed 6 combat divisions and more than 20 independent regiments on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
On April 28th, 1984, the 40th Division of Kunming Military Region14th Army1KLOC-0/8th Regiment, under the cover of artillery fire, fired the first shot of the pull-out operation. After three charges, the main peak won the battle. From 28th to 30th, 1 19 regiment charged Songmaoling. On 30th, 165438 army 3 1 division began to attack Yinshan, 1000 more than Vietnamese army was wiped out, with casualties 100.
In just a few days, our army completed the point-pulling operation and successfully recovered important positions such as Laoshan, Shading Mountain and Songmaoling. But the real defense of the Vietnamese army is the most tragic.
6. 1 1 counterattack
After our army recovered the occupied area, it immediately turned to the strategic defense stage, and our army immediately set up a forward position. On June 1 1, the Vietnamese army attacked Laoshan and the East Mountain of Balihe with two regiments, but they were both repelled by our army.
1 19 Regiment captured Songmaoling, and after more than 60 counterattacks by the Vietnamese army, they were all repelled. Among them, a reinforced battalion of the Vietnamese army was repelled on May 9, killing more than 80 people, and the reinforced regiment of the Vietnamese army was repelled on June 1 1 day, killing more than 200 people.
7. 12 World War II
The Vietnamese army failed to counterattack many times. Later, the Soviet army sent a consultant to guide the Vietnamese army. The consultant's suggestion made the Vietnamese army continue to attack Laoshan, Songmaoling and Balihe Dongshan with one division.
After more than a month of full preparation, the preparation scale of the Vietnamese army has exceeded the preparation level of an army, but despite this, they still have not won. Under the resolute counterattack of our defense forces, the Vietnamese army was killed and wounded by gunfire before the charge.
It is worth mentioning that 1 19 regiment Songmaoling defended the war, and under the brave resistance of 1 19 regiment soldiers, it repeatedly defeated the Vietnamese army's attacks. They fired 30,000 shells on a day in July 12, and the Vietnamese army suffered heavy losses, and the bodies of the enemy were all over the hillside. Later, in the spirit of humanitarianism,
With the changes in the situation in Southeast Asia and the border between China and Vietnam, we decided to take Laoshan as the main battlefield from August 1984 and stick to the defense-oriented style for a long time. In order to contain the Vietnamese army, support Cambodia, defend the border and train troops, we organized the whole army to fight in Laoshan in turn.
Over the past five years, the participating troops in major military regions have smashed countless enemy counterattacks, achieved the record of wiping out tens of thousands of enemies, and always firmly grasped the initiative in the war.
From 1987, the relationship between Vietnam and China began to change, and Vietnam * * * repeatedly showed kindness to China and actively improved Sino-Vietnamese relations. During the period of 1990, the two countries met in Chengdu and their relations were normalized. 1993, China officially lifted the combat mission in Laoshan area.
According to incomplete statistics, during the five years of the Battle of Laoshan, our army wiped out more than 4 1 1,000 enemies (more than 24,000 people were killed and 1 1,700 people were injured).
The Battle of Laoshan is a border battle against Su Yue's hegemonism and maintaining stability and peace in the border areas of China. This war is just. China did not cause excessive losses and casualties in this war. On the contrary, to a certain extent, it curbed the Vietnamese plan to dominate Indochina Peninsula, and defended the territorial integrity and border stability of China.
The unexpected harvest of this campaign is that the actual combat capability of the military region has been tempered in the course of five years of hot war and four years of defensive war, and various problems existing in our army have also been exposed in this rotation operation, which has also provided a basis for future military reform, and this war has also deepened the feelings between the military and the people.
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