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Chapter 254 Sending troops to Phnom Penh(2/2)

The two divisions and four regiments of the first route first launched a raid along Cambodia Highway 19 to the Northeast region where the Cambodian People's Army was weakly defended, and on January 3, 1979, it invaded Shangding City and Gone City of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia.

Subsequently, with the cooperation of tanks, the two divisions and two regiments of the Second Route quickly broke through the defensive position of the Cambodian People's Army Snu City, and then attacked north along Cambodia Highway 13, and invaded Jujing City, the Democratic Republic of Cambodia on December 30, 1978.

Four teachers from the third route followed Cambodia Highway 7 and invaded the city of Libe, the Mekong River ferry crossing and crossed the river to siege Kampang Cham Province, the Democratic Republic of Cambodia.

The four divisions of the Fourth Route were the main attacking forces. Some of them occupied Swift Rim Province, the Democratic Republic of Cambodia along Cambodia Highway 1, and the other part was invaded along the Mekong Hebei to Nailiang City, the Democratic Republic of Cambodia, and then approached Phnom Penh, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia.

With the support of the Air Force, the 6 divisions and other five regiments of the Fifth Route occupied Gongju City, Chajiao City and other places along Cambodia's No. 2 and No. 3 along Cambodia's Democratic Republic, and then invaded the southwest of Phnom Penh, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia, and cut off Cambodia's Highway 4.

So far, the Vietnamese People's Army basically occupied the territory of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia east of the Mekong River in just 9 days.

From January 5, 1979, the Vietnamese People's Army besieged Phnom Penh, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia from east, west and south.

At noon on January 7, 1979, the government of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia voluntarily evacuated Phnom Penh, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia, and retreated to the Cambodia-Thai border in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia. According to Vietnam at that time, the Democratic Republic of Cambodia established by Cambodia was declared destroyed.

The Vietnamese People's Army supported Han Sanglin, who had served as the post of the Cambodian People's Army, the provincial party secretary, and other positions, established a puppet regime controlled by Vietnam. By January 12, 1979, the Vietnamese People's Army had basically occupied the major cities and major transportation routes of the Democratic Republic of Cambodia.

During this period, the Vietnamese People's Army wiped out more than 60,000 people from the Cambodian People's Army, seized more than 50,000 guns, 359 artillery pieces, 190 tanks, 40 aircraft, and 60 ships...

It seems that the Vietnamese army achieved a major victory, and when it captured some places, it even received warm welcome from the Cambodians, most of whom were victims during the Khmer Rouge rule.

But what about the actual situation?

Before the war at that time, the total strength of the Cambodian army was 100,000 to 120,000, and it was organized into 24 divisions with dissatisfaction (2,000-4,000 people per division), with more than 100 tanks, armored vehicles and more than 50 aircraft. The Cambodian military used 19 divisions to serve as guards on the Cambodia-Vietnam border, and basically formed a front-line configuration.

Compared with the Vietnamese army's more than 200,000 veterans who fought against the United States and the North-South Vietnam War, it is obvious that the Vietnamese army's invasion of Cambodia was an unfair battle in history where the strong bully the weak, but the final result was really disappointing.

The Li Duan Group could not believe in the pro-China war-going generals Wu Yuanjia, Zhu Wenjin, Huang Wentai and others, and could only believe in his hardcore Wen Jinyong himself, but in fact, Wen Jinyong was not fully prepared in this war.

When Li Duan and Wen Jinyong thought that as long as Cambodia was occupied, Cambodia would inevitably surrender to them in the end, but the result was shocking. They might only see Pol Pot slaughtering the people in order to achieve his heart, but forgot that he was still a firm worshipper of Maoism.

Since the Vietnamese troops led by Wen Jinyong were only concerned about seizing territory and neglecting the attack on the Cambodian army, this battle that seemed to have occupied Vietnam in lightning. Although Vietnam seemed to have occupied about 80% of Cambodian territory in less than three months, in fact, they annihilated enemies in the entire battle only accounted for 14% of the total strength of the Cambodian army.

Wen Jinyong did not realize that Pol Pot, who was also seizing power, took two completely different routes from the Vietnamese. At that time, Pol Pot was able to overthrow the Longno military government and force Prince Sihanouk to retreat. He almost strictly implemented the strategy of a great man from China that year's "surrounding the city in the countryside". So although Pol Pot seemed to have killed many people in the city, it also caused a lot of suffering to the Cambodian people.

But in fact, the army led by Pol Pot still has considerable supporters in the rural and mountainous areas of Cambodia. As long as their army is still there and they can still fight, once these soldiers return to the jungle, it is definitely a nightmare for the Vietnamese.

It is completely conceivable that although Pol Pot lost the capital of Phnom Penh, it seemed that he had no power, once he returned to the countryside, after he re-concentrated Cambodian soldiers who were organized and strategic retreat, he immediately dragged Vietnam into a protracted and long-term war that consumed a lot.

So at the critical moment of the Sino-Vietnam War, in Wenfeng's opinion, it was not that the Vietnamese army did not want to send Vietnam's elite troops to the frontline of the Sino-Vietnam War, and they had no way to do this, because they were also facing tremendous pressure on the battlefield in Cambodia. Once they relaxed, the army led by Pol Pot would never mind being hit by them.

Due to the emergence of literary style, the butterfly's wings were magnificent, and many things changed dramatically.

The first change was fundamental. During the Sino-Vietnam War, due to the complete failure of the Vietnamese side and their leader was killed by Wen Feng and others, which caused the entire political and military strategy of the Vietnamese army to undergo earth-shaking changes.

Politically, the Li Duan Group was completely destroyed, and the pro-China Vietnamese leaders returned to their jobs.

And what about military affairs? Although General Wu Yuanjia, who used to command wars, was the Minister of Defense of Vietnam at that time.

But in fact, the position of General Wu Yuanjia is very embarrassing, because he, as the Minister of Defense, actually has no real power, and the person who commands the war is Li Dun's hard-hard Wen Jinyong.

Wen Jinyong also had a good time. During the transfer of political and military rights in Vietnam, all the Li Duan Group was obviously lost. At the meeting, a news that made him useless was announced, that is, all of his current positions were replaced by Zhu Wenjin.

It is completely conceivable that after this change, the changes that China and Vietnam lasted for ten years must have disappeared, and the war between Vietnam and Cambodia will inevitably have new changes.

It’s not that the leader had no objection to what Pol Pot did, it was a helpless choice made by Vietnam in the case of infinite attacks between the Soviet Union and China. Although he knew that what Pol Pot did was too much and too cruel, China had to hold on with his eyes closed just to curb Le Duan’s ambitions.

The success of the Sino-Vietnam peace negotiations is actually an opportunity to finally get rid of Pol Pot, a hateful madman.

So there was a very strange situation in the Sino-Vietnam peace negotiations, that is, when the Chinese and Vietnam were in negotiations, they seemed to have jointly made selective forgetting, as if they didn't know that there was a war between Vietnam and Cambodia. The purpose of this was basically to prove that Pol Pot was no longer in China's future development plan. Perhaps China was completely happy to see that the Vietnamese troops could remove this stinger.

However, in this process, the changes in things made China and Vietnam unexpected.

When the literary style entered Cam Ranh Bay and vigorously began to help Vietnam develop its economy and at the same time extended Cam Ranh Bay's commercial tentacles to the entire Southeast Asia, Vietnam made a typical big mistake.

The Vietnamese regime was still very rapid. By April 1979, the dust had basically settled, but there were problems in the transfer of Cambodia's army, and the variable of the problem lies in Wen Jinyong.

Who was Wen Jinyong at that time? He was a powerful military figure with more than 200,000 troops in his hand. This guy was quite cunning. When Long March and Huang Wenhuan held the Vietnam Congress, they knew that even if Wen Jinyong was notified, this guy would definitely not come, so they simply did not notify him and sent Zhu Wenjin out quietly.

In fact, on March 15, 1979, almost as soon as the regime was replaced, Huang Yuanjia, the Minister of Defense, rushed to the battlefield between Vietnam and Cambodia, and wanted to deprive Wen Jinyong of his power before he could react.

However, what they never expected was that Wen Jinyong had actually been on guard. When Huang Yuanjia and Zhu Wenjin rushed to the Vietnamese command center in Cambodia, they were shocked to find that Wen Jinyong was no longer here ten days ago, but ran to the 320th Division of the Vietnamese army's ace division, claiming to be commanding the battle.

Commanding the battle? That's just a mess. The 320th Division is not without its own division commander. Why do you want Wen Jinyong to go to the battlefield to worry about?

Faced with this situation, when Huang Yuanjia and Zhu Wenjin learned that the 320th Division was encircling and annihilated Pol Pot's troops in the depths of Cambodia, they knew that the situation was not good, so they immediately announced the removal of Wen Jinyong from the Vietnamese command post. All Vietnamese troops in Cambodia were handed over to Zhu Wenjin for command, and at the same time, the power was generated to the 320th Division to convey the order.

The result was extremely dissatisfied, and the thing that Huang Yuanjia and Zhu Wenjin were most worried about happened. Since the 320th Division was originally led by Wen Jinyong, the 320th Division was almost Wen Jinyong's direct troops. He had absolute authority in this division. Although Wu Yuanjia issued an order to the 320th Division as the Minister of National Defense, the 320th Division had no reward at all in the face of this new order, as if the division had disappeared.

Zhu Wenjin knew that the situation was not good, so he immediately took measures and ordered the Vietnamese army to move closer to the 320th Division on the front line, while constantly reporting to the 320th Division.

The situation was very unoptimistic. Although the three divisions of the Vietnamese army approached the 320th Division, what they never expected was that after they arrived in the depths of Cambodia, the first division did not encounter the 320th Division, but they hit Pol Pot's troops head-on and were ambushed by them at that time. The three divisions of the Vietnamese army reacted very quickly and immediately launched a counterattack.

While the two armies were fighting happily, the 320th Division suddenly appeared from the side of the three divisions of the Vietnamese army and knocked down their baggage troops with one blow. At this time, Wen Jinyong's voice appeared, and instead recruited the three divisions of the Vietnamese army, calling on the three divisions to join him, then joined forces with Pol Pot's troops, and finally fought back to Vietnam.

There was such a situation on the battlefield. Unexpectedly, the 320th Division would join forces with Pol Pot's troops and launched an attack on the Vietnamese army. In this battle, the Vietnamese army suffered heavy losses. Most of the division was surrendered by Wen Jin, while the other two divisions had no fighting spirit. They were finally forced to break out and returned to the Vietnamese front after almost losing one-third of the losses.

The alliance between Wen Jinyong and Pol Pot's troops immediately brought about new changes in the battlefield in Cambodia. The 320th Division and a newly recruited Vietnamese and Pol Pot's troops immediately rose. Wen Jinyong immediately contacted the Soviet Union and expressed their intention to surrender and asked the Soviet Union to provide emergency assistance to them.

Brezhnev of the Soviet Union was overjoyed after hearing the news. Although he could not directly send troops to help Vietnam and was trapped in the Afghanistan incident, he would never mind causing more trouble for China and Vietnam on their honeymoon. There is no way to transport on land, but the Soviet Union's air and sea transportation were temporarily unable to stop. Wen Jinyong called Brezhnev and immediately sent the supplies to Cambodia.

After receiving Brezhnev's assistance, Wen Jinyong and Pol Pot immediately rose sharply. Instead of their previous guerrilla style, they began to counterattack the invading Vietnamese army. With the support of Brezhnev's equipment in the Soviet Union, Pol Pot's troops suddenly seemed to have increased several times as if they had eaten Viagra.

On the other hand, the Vietnamese army, because the troops in Cambodia were all commanded by Wen Jinyong, had close ties with Wen Jinyong, and sent three divisions to fight the 320th Division. Not to mention that they did not take down, one of them was summoned by Wen Jinyong on the spot. Of course, the Vietnamese army is unstable now. Zhu Wenjin and Wu Yuanjia knew that if they didn't rectify these troops, they would have a big mess.

Therefore, in the face of Pol Pot's aggressive offensive, the Vietnamese army did not advance but retreated. When adjusting the existing troops, they had to retreat step by step, and finally stopped. The Vietnamese army had to rotate some troops, and it was not until it was almost Phnom Penh that it reversed the decline. However, at this time, Pol Pot and Wen Jinyong also gained a firm foothold in Cambodia.

With the help of Wen Jinyong, the Vietnamese army's fighting style and tactics were greatly restricted. Although Zhu Wenjin led his army to launch several offensives against Pol Pot and Master Wen Jinyong's troops, the effect was not obvious. He could no longer fight when he arrived at the Mekong River in Angkor. Instead, he suffered a great loss in several battles.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, Vietnam is trying to vigorously develop its economy at this time. If the war is allowed to be dragged on, it will undoubtedly be extremely unfavorable. Under this circumstance, China and Vietnam have actually reached a certain strategic cooperation. Under the suggestion of Wen Feng, Huang Wenhuan made a request for help to the Beijing side. After all, now Pol Pot of Cambodia has also surrendered to the Soviet Union under the instigation of Wen Jinyong. At this time, Cambodia has become a huge threat to Southeast Asia.

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