What is the cause, process and result of the counterattack against Vietnam?

1976 After Vietnam defeated the United States, with the support of the Soviet Union, it launched the so-called Indo-zhina Federation Plan in Indo-China Peninsula in an attempt to dominate Indo-China Peninsula and constantly provoke and occupy China's territory. After repeated warnings failed, China was forced to counterattack in self-defense.

Second, after:

1979 February 17, China launched an all-round attack on Vietnam from the 772-mile-long border with China. Despite heavy casualties, the Vietnamese army advanced more than 40 kilometers from the border with Vietnam.

As long as necessary, China can occupy Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. However, lang son, the last barrier to occupy Hanoi, announced its withdrawal on March 5 and completely withdrew to China on March 16.

Third, the result:

China broke the encirclement of the Soviet Union and taught Vietnam a painful lesson. In the whole self-defense counterattack against China, China's major military regions took turns to send troops to participate in the war, and the Sino-Vietnamese border became a training ground, which not only tempered the actual combat capability of the Vietnamese army, but also indirectly brought down the Soviet Union.

Impact on Vietnam

For Vietnam, the damage of war is lasting. In the process of retreating back to China, China's army recovered a large number of Vietnamese public and private sector materials, and recovered a large number of materials that had previously assisted Vietnam, and completely and systematically destroyed villages, roads and railways in Vietnam, forcing Vietnam to maintain a fairly large army (* * * 1.2 million), which caused a drag on Vietnam's domestic economy.

The losses recorded in Vietnam include 428 hospitals, 735 schools, 80,000 hectares of farmland destroyed and 400,000 cattle robbed or killed. According to the exaggerated description in the chronicle of the Vietnam War, "Vietnam even ran away from Niu Encounter 163 Division." Thousands of civilians were killed. The cause of serious casualties.

According to the records of the veterans of that year, when China's army retreated, countless Vietnamese men and women disguised as unarmed Vietnamese attacked the People's Liberation Army continuously, which caused China's army to be confused between ordinary people and fighting back against the Vietnamese army, causing a large number of accidental injuries, which in turn led to Vietnamese people's hatred of China people.

This war intensified the discrimination against Chinese in Vietnam, and many people were forced to emigrate. Many of them were forced to become refugees, some fled to Hong Kong and eventually moved to other Chinese communities in Australia, Europe or Chinese mainland, and most of the rest returned to settle in Hong Kong. About 80,000 Han and Miao people were forcibly deported from northern Vietnam to southern Vietnam.

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