After 37 years of fighting for the Laoshan position between China and Vietnam, which country does it belong to now?
In October 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly announced on Tianmen'an Square that the People's Republic of China was founded at this moment, and the birth of New China made every Chinese people see a better life in the future and be full of hope and hope for the future. The founding of New China meant to the people of Chinese that they could live a stable life in peacetime and avoid the pain of bloodshed and death brought about by the battle.
For a long time after the founding of New China, our country did not have a major war with other countries in the world, but in order to protect the safety of the lives and property and land integrity of the Chinese people, when the sovereignty, territory, and property security of our country are violated, the people of the mainland will not hesitate to take up the most powerful weapons and fight against other countries, and will also not hesitate to defend the legitimate interests of our country.
Chinese people are no longer the small, poor and backward countries that could be slaughtered. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the Vietnam War, China showed amazing strength.
During the Vietnam War of 1955, the mainland had good diplomatic relations with north Vietnamese countries, coupled with ideological and ideological similarities, so it became the most important aid and supporter of North Vietnam.
The Chinese army actively helped the Vietnamese army and launched a war of independence against the United States.
However, after China's unconditional help, the Vietnamese army instead thought that China was a bully, and harassed China in many ways without a bottom line, resulting in China's final had to carry out a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the most famous of which was the Battle of Lao Shan in 1984.
In this war against Vietnam, China and Vietnam have been deadlocked for 9 years, competing for territorial rights in the Lao Shan area. So, after 37 years, whose territory does the Old Mountain Position belong to now?
Why did the Lao Shan position become a place where China and Vietnam competed with each other? The geographical location of the Lao Shan area is very superior, it is located in the border area between China and Vietnam and has a super high altitude, is a crossroads connecting China, Vietnam and other regions, and has a very important strategic location.
According to the Sino-French New Covenant signed in 1885, the altitude of the Lao Shan area is high, bounded by the highest point of the mountain, and the side close to China belongs to the Chinese territory, while the side close to Vietnam on the contrary belongs to the Vietnamese territory, and China and Vietnam are half each, according to the provisions of the agreement, neither side can cross the highest point of the Lao Shan area, nor can it send troops to garrison there.
The Battle of Lao Sanh was fought because the Vietnamese government violated the agreement in the Sino-French New Covenant and did not hesitate to tear up the agreement in order to invade and occupy Chinese territory, so China could not sit idly by and let others bully.
On the other hand, in the 1979 Chinese counterattack war against Vietnam, Vietnam was still grumpy, and the face-cherishing Vietnam felt that it could not hang on to its face, so there was no bottom line to provoke China, from privately crossing the riding line point, and then intensifying its occupation of more areas.
As we all know, the Battle of Lao Shan between the Chinese army and the Vietnamese army was deadlocked for 9 years.
During this long period of nearly a decade, China sent major troops to the Lao Shan area to calmly face the harassment of Vietnamese troops.
In this battle, the Vietnamese army first took advantage of the lack of defense of the Chinese army, using the fortifications that China had previously helped to establish to fire artillery shells at Chinese territory, which posed a very serious personal and property threat to the residents of the Chinese area.
More than 300 people died, thousands of acres of ripe fruit were turned into ruins, the quality of tens of thousands of acres of soil was seriously damaged, the nutrients of the soil were destroyed and lost and became uncultivable, and buildings such as houses and schools were also blown up and torn to pieces. China's manpower, material resources, economy and industry have all been affected. Faced with such a terrible situation, the Chinese army can only launch another counterattack to defend the safety of the people of its homeland.
Therefore, in April 1984, the Kunming Military Region of the mainland launched a counterattack war, and after this fierce battle, our army recaptured many highlands such as Laoshan and BaliheDongshan.
This time, our army eliminated about 1,000 Vietnamese troops and suppressed their arrogance.
Since then, the Vietnamese army has carried out a large-scale counterattack war, and the two sides have launched a long-term pull war, and the two armies have continuously sent soldiers to increase their troops, and since then this battle has also become a two-mountain round battle that people have spoken of.
The Battle of Laoshan was bloody and floating hills, and the degree of fierceness was not lost in the 1979 counterattack and defense war. The warriors in this battle united as one, broke the sand, and fought in blood and fearless life and death, which was called the "Spirit of the Old Mountain" by later generations.
In this battle, the total casualties of the continental army were about 4600 people, but the number of casualties of the Vietnamese army was far greater than that of the mainland.
According to the surviving war data, the number of casualties in the Vietnamese military is at least nearly 30,000. Therefore, judging from the final outcome of this war, the consumption of human and material resources and financial resources in Vietnam is far superior to that of China.
When the Chinese troops withdrew from the battlefield, they also took away the materials that China had used to support the Vietnamese side and destroyed the infrastructure that the mainland had helped Vietnam build.
In the long war between the two sides, the economic strength and infrastructure accumulated by the Chinese army after the reunification of Vietnam were exhausted, and the Vietnamese side was also devastated and no longer had the strength.
There are many reasons why the Laoshan War lasted so long, the most important of which was that China's founding time at that time was not very long.
Whether it is industrial development or economic strength, the comprehensive strength of all aspects does not have a good foundation, and the most important thing for China at this time is that it needs to concentrate all its forces on the current development and construction.
Therefore, China did not have any idea of attacking and occupying Vietnam, but originally wanted to deter Vietnam and warn the Vietnamese government.
In the end, in the case of the Vietnamese army being defeated and retreating in a panic, the Chinese army still chose the final withdrawal.
However, Vietnam, which had just ended the War of Independence, had accumulated rich experience in the war and was determined not to change in the face of defeat to the Chinese army. Although it did not have the strength to launch large-scale war attacks, it often saw the opportunity to harass mainland nationals in the mainland border areas, and during the Vietnamese military's war with China, the United States and the Soviet Union also engaged in a Cold War.
As a result, Vietnam eventually gained the support of the Soviet government for its successful repulsion of U.S. forces, and at this time the diplomatic relations between The United States and China gradually warmed up. Vietnam's war strategy against China is inseparable from the Soviet Union's secret assistance and encouragement behind its back.
Since then, because the Cold War between the two countries has intensified, the Soviet Union itself has internal and external troubles, and its development has also fallen into its own difficult situation.
Thus, the Vietnamese military, which has lost the support of the Soviet government, is so vulnerable to China, which is well prepared to develop rapidly.
Although for the Vietnamese government, this battle is not worth the loss, but for the Chinese government, it has a deeper significance.
Although every battle mourns the corpses of Wild Horse Leather, the Chinese army has gained experience in the Battle of Laoshan and once again proved to the people of the world that the new China at this moment is very different from before, and the people of Chinese are no longer lambs to be slaughtered, but lions who have gradually awakened from their slumber, and China's territory cannot be invaded by anyone.
As time went on, the cycle of battles turned out, and the Vietnamese army began to be overwhelmed and became more and more difficult to support. At this time, the international environment also underwent tremendous changes.
In the early 1990s, relations between the Chinese and Vietnamese armies gradually eased, and the two sides began a series of negotiations on territorial sovereignty over the Lao Shan area.
After an agreement between the two sides, a few years later, China and Vietnam finally signed a distribution treaty on the Lao Shan area. The treaty had a contentious and heated discussion of 227 square kilometers of territory, and finally decided to allocate 114 square kilometers to China and 113 square kilometers to Vietnam.
After the signing of the agreement, the relationship between China and Vietnam was further repaired. The two sides also worked together to build boundary monuments, and erected boundary monuments on the boundary line established by the two sides, a total of 2,000 pieces.
The units divided by this agreement are basically the same as the agreement signed earlier, except that the main peak of the Laoshan area is still a big controversy.
According to reports, the main peak of Laoshan carries the ancient Chinese history and culture, and its cultural heritage is very profound, representing the spirit of the times in China's historical period, and also full of patriotic feelings of generations of Chinese, which has a unique significance for Chinese.
Because both China and Vietnam are well aware that war is laborious and laborious, negotiators on both sides intend to ease relations.
In the course of the negotiations, both sides politely backed down to each other and redivided the main peak of lao shan, the original main peak of lao shan was directly divided from the top middle, this time Vietnam took the initiative to show goodwill, willing to directly give up the top of the main peak to China, so that the boundary line of the main peak was moved south to a patrol road in Vietnam.
Therefore, after 9 years of competition for the Laoshan position between China and Vietnam, after 37 years, it finally came to an end.
Since then, the main peak of Laoshan has been directly under the jurisdiction of China, making China's territorial management of the Laoshan area directly more than a football field.
As a result, the two sides have become more peaceful and respectful of each other.
Nowadays, the Laoshan area has become a patriotic education base, and on its main peak stands a white jade monument engraved with "Long live the spirit of Laoshan".
And the grass and trees on the mountain, the trees and rocks all tell the world about the historical past that cannot be buried.