What impact did the self-defense counterattack have on Vietnam?

Vietnam, known as the third military power in the world, brazenly invaded Cambodia in 1977 with the strong support of the Soviet Union. Facing the fragile Cambodians, Vietnamese proudly declared that their aggression was the most successful blitzkrieg after World War II.

However, the victory was carried away by the Vietnamese people, and the Vietnamese government began to choose to provoke a military conflict on the Sino-Vietnamese border in an attempt to advance on the border and realize the dream of establishing an India-zhina Federation at an early date. In the face of China's repeated warnings, Vietnam turned a deaf ear.

1979, the People's Liberation Army launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam on the Sino-Vietnamese border. This world-famous battle doomed Vietnam's defeat from the beginning. Facing the former "suzerain", Viet Nam recalled its fear of being dominated by China's mysterious means.

In this land of Southeast Asia, it was only after the smoke cleared that Vietnamese people discovered that launching this battlefield brought immeasurable losses to themselves. Today, this war still has a far-reaching impact on Vietnam. Both militarily and economically, the Vietnamese people are paying the price for their ignorance.

Although Vietnam has always claimed that China's troops voluntarily withdrew because of fear of Vietnam's general mobilization order, Du?n's "stubborn" can't hide his defeat on the battlefield.

After the People's Liberation Army occupied Liangshan in March, 1979, the road to Hanoi was Ma Pingchuan. After the mechanized troops were assembled, Hanoi was easily captured. Ha noi was in a panic, and the Vietnamese government had no choice but to announce a national mobilization order. The purpose of deterrence was achieved, and China troops subsequently withdrew from the Vietnamese battlefield.

Judging from the whole campaign, the Vietnamese completely copied the experience and combat methods taught by the China army during the Vietnam War. This is a war in which students beat their teachers.

There is a scene in the movie "Fanghua", in which a group of Vietnamese soldiers were suddenly attacked by China on their way to the front line. Aside from the content of the film, this paragraph is still in place for the deletion of the combat link of the Vietnam self-defense counterattack. The sudden attack in Vietnam is entirely due to the interspersed tactics in the PLA's mobile warfare.

This tactic made Americans suffer in the Korean battlefield and made the US military stumble in the Vietnam battlefield. During China's aid to Vietnam to fight against the US military, China military aid personnel unconditionally taught this tactic to the Vietnamese army, but the Vietnamese army used this tactic to "give back" China.

However, a teacher is a teacher after all. Faced with the cunning of the students, the PLA came up with more housekeeping skills to defeat the Vietnamese army. Compared with the indiscriminate bombing of the US military, the PLA's fixed-point and purposeful firepower coverage made it impossible for the Vietnamese army to effectively advance in many battles.

On the contrary, due to the excellent firepower coverage tactics, in the process of the People's Liberation Army's advance to Liangshan, the Vietnamese troops stationed at the key points can be smoothly interspersed and surrounded, and under the coordinated operation of infantry and tanks, many divisions of the Vietnamese army can be annihilated.

The military defeat reflects the backwardness of the Vietnamese army's tactical thinking and strategic awareness. Compared with the vast China, the Vietnamese army lacks the thinking of a large corps. As far as personal combat effectiveness is concerned, the Vietnamese army can use the terrain to disguise itself, so as to attack the enemy by surprise, but when it comes to sports operations and campaign planning of large legions, the Vietnamese army obviously does not have this kind of thinking.

After the counterattack of self-defense against Vietnam, the Vietnamese increased their research on all the battles of this war, and at the same time stepped up the pace of learning from China. They kept stealing military establishment, weapons and equipment and operational concepts from China. Obviously, this is also a sequela of the war-the more afraid they are, the more they have to study. I am afraid this is also a disease that the Vietnamese government can't cure.

After the Vietnamese army withdrew from Vietnam, the Vietnamese army took advantage of the situation to occupy some strategic highlands on the Sino-Vietnamese border and built strong fortifications. The purpose of the Vietnamese army is obviously to suppress China's border control by occupying strategic highlands, so as to further expand the border to China.

However, this abacus was discovered by China long ago. Starting from 1984, China's army launched a "two-mountain round war" to attack the strategic points occupied by the Vietnamese army.

The turbulent decade in the 1970s had a very painful impact on the army and hindered its modernization. When the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam started, the People's Liberation Army had realized the shortcomings of army building.

The backward combat consciousness, weapons and equipment and low tactical level of the troops are exposed to commanders and combatants at all levels without exception. "Two mountains take turns" just provides a training ground for the PLA. After the village-pulling operation began, the whole army transferred its main force to the Sino-Vietnamese border for actual combat training, and even the battlefield of the round battle became a testing ground for China's new weapons.

Although the Vietnamese army won the support of the Soviet side in the Sino-Soviet confrontation, to the surprise of the Vietnamese army, the main battlefield that it worked so hard to build has become an experience package for the upgrading of the PLA. When the China army withdrew from the battlefield in March 1979, it consciously dealt a devastating blow to the fortifications, logistics supply bases and a large number of materials built by the Vietnamese army, and the Vietnamese army was increasingly stretched in logistics supply.

The overly optimistic Vietnamese suffered a protracted war. The battle between these two mountains is very difficult for Vietnam. Looking back, I once plunged the American army into a quagmire on the battlefield in Vietnam, but now I have fallen into the pit I dug, making the Vietnamese miserable.

1989, China successfully recovered Laoshan and Faka Mountain on the border. The recovery of Laoshan means that the important commanding heights of the Sino-Vietnamese border are controlled by China. Since then, China has controlled the main traffic routes from Libo to Vietnam's Qingshui and Hejiang, and then you can directly see the area from Vietnam's Qingshui to Hejiang, which is 27 kilometers deep.

Losing such a commanding height forced the Vietnamese army to spend more energy to defend this traffic artery, which effectively dealt a blow to the Vietnamese army's further attempts. The focus of Vietnam's military defense is to prevent mountains, and the garrison attacks the other side's effective forces. But after the war between the two mountains, the Vietnamese army was liberated and treated people in its own way, which was really unacceptable to the Vietnamese army.

After the defeat of 1979, the Vietnamese army felt more and more frustrated in the land war, and a strong sense of inferiority made the Vietnamese army always want to deal a heavy blow to the Chinese side through this battle. This also made the Vietnamese army suddenly change its strategic thinking. The failure of the land campaign made the Vietnamese think of opening a new channel from the sea, and invading the South China Sea in China became their new way out.

Before the end of the land war, the Vietnamese army began to invade the Xisha Islands while China was too busy to take care of the maritime defense line, in an attempt to set up barriers on the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, draw a maritime sphere of influence for itself, and further save the lost momentum in the Sino-Vietnamese war. But what the Vietnamese army never expected was that China had made arrangements for the actions of the Vietnamese army in advance.

1On March 4th, 988, the "Battle of Chigua Reef" started. At the expense of only 1 person being slightly injured, China sank two Vietnamese ships, causing heavy damage to 1. Accordingly, China recovered six important islands and reefs in World War I, which changed the situation in the South China Sea and had a far-reaching impact on the future pattern of the South China Sea.

Accustomed to the sneak attack, the Vietnamese army once again ate the bitter fruit of its own picking. After this war, Vietnam lost its initiative in the South China Sea, and the wishful thinking of setting the South China Sea as the "home" of Vietnamese troops at sea once again failed.

Today, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" established by the People's Liberation Army at sea, represented by Yongshu Reef, has shocked Vietnam again and again. Vietnam only dares to vent its dissatisfaction through small fights, and it cannot form a big climate. The new attempt of the Vietnamese army became a proposition, and the Vietnamese side completely lost the opportunity for the salted fish to turn over.

After the counterattack in self-defense, the Vietnamese government encountered unprecedented difficulties due to the devastating attack of the People's Liberation Army on the materials in the former Vietnam. It is worth noting that most of the materials destroyed by China are those originally provided by China to Vietnam. From this, we can see that the Vietnamese side has the courage to provoke us, largely relying on the materials provided by China as the logistical support for the campaign.

This shows that Vietnam's military mobilization ability and strategic material reserve ability are extremely low, and its domestic production level and economic level are also very backward. It can be said that Vietnam chose to take the lead in launching the war when it could not make full use of its economic support, and people had to laugh at its inflated self-confidence.

Observing the driving force behind it, it is not difficult to see the behind-the-scenes hand of the Soviet Union, but Vietnam, which chose to stand on the side of the Soviet Union, obviously failed to accurately predict the international situation. During the ten years when the Sino-Vietnamese War broke out (this decade should have ended from 1979 to 1989), the Soviet Union had a heavy burden and Vietnam was dragged down.

The war dealt a great blow to Vietnam's economy. Vietnam's economic development has been stagnant for decades after the war. Even though Vietnam's version of "reform and opening up" has been put forward in recent years, Vietnam's economic aggregate is hard to surpass that of neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Some time ago, it was touted that the Vietnamese government canceled the household registration system, but it was actually just a compromise made by the Vietnamese government in order to obtain more demographic dividends and expand GDP. Judging from today's market, Vietnam, which occupies a long coastline, has always been unable to get rid of its position as a processing factory and aquaculture farm in the world.

The counterattack against Vietnam killed Vietnam's fledgling economy in the cradle, and Vietnam bought a bill for its military expansion. Vietnam, once known as the third military power in the world, did not clearly see the impact of China on Vietnam's economy. The cessation of military operations after the war does not mean the cessation of economic attacks.

At an important port on the Sino-Vietnamese border, we can see some clues. Dongxing Port, located on the border of Guangxi, has a very lively port market. Every day the port is open, and groups of Vietnamese residents rush to China with Vietnamese specialties.

For local Vietnamese, selling special products at a good price is the first prize. Next to the market is the mahogany furniture market, where most of the mahogany comes from Vietnam. China businessmen buy mahogany at a very low price, and then sell it to buyers in China and around the world at a high price.

Thus, the Vietnamese can only get lower income from this transaction, and the products processed in China become high-priced commodities. Since the 1990s, many businessmen who make mahogany furniture have made a lot of money, but the situation of Vietnamese has not changed for many years.

The unequal trade pattern also reflects the gap between the two countries in economic system and commercial system, and the strength of Vietnam as a whole is not as large as that of China and Guangxi. At the beginning of Vietnam's economic development, it took a detour. If it is advanced, it will abandon its weapons.

Looking back at history, we can find that the economic impact on Vietnam's self-defense counterattack is far-reaching, long-term and even longer.

The Vietnamese government launched the war with a clear purpose, that is, to divide its sphere of influence in Southeast Asia and establish the so-called India-zhina Federation, so as to further dominate the whole Southeast Asia. This idea from the French colonists was perfectly inherited by the entire colonial people.

In the face of Vietnamese ambitions, the China administration has never been soft. The counterattack in self-defense has dealt a heavy blow to the Vietnamese government at the political level, which has drastically reduced Vietnam's influence in Southeast Asia. What makes the Vietnamese government even more angry is that China has given great assistance to Cambodia, which has gradually made Vietnam lose control of its neighboring countries.

The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam indirectly led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but it directly dealt an all-round blow to the Vietnamese government. In the late 1990s, China took the initiative to contact the economic partners of ASEAN. In 2003, at the initiative of China, the China-ASEAN Expo was held, which built a bridge between China and ASEAN countries.

Since then, China has strengthened its contacts and communication with ASEAN countries, established a trans-regional free trade zone, and further strengthened China's influence in the whole ASEAN region. Today, the circulation of RMB is still one of the major currencies in Southeast Asia, and enterprises in China have very close trade relations with enterprises in this region.

On the other hand, Vietnam's post-war development, due to the economic downturn, is not closely linked with ASEAN countries, and its influence is not as good as before. In recent years, Vietnam has played the American card in the international arena against the tense Sino-US relations, and has been ambiguous with the United States on the South China Sea issue. These are the faces of the Vietnamese government.

We have always stressed that war is not an end, but a means to achieve it. Through a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Vietnam can no longer invade the border of China. The aftermath of the war has also dealt an unprecedented blow to Vietnam's economic and political development and prevented its rise for a long time.

For China, this war is of great significance and worth fighting, while for Viet Nam, it is terrible and not worth the loss.