BrendenF11
07-06-2012, 11:21 PM
http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/upload/thumb_link/1798_7609.jpg (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=74) Also know as the 3rd Indochina war after ,starting with the Sino-Soviet split the CCP was getting concerned over the growing Soviet power in the new "glorious revolution" in Vietnam.Basically there was a long line of events that led to China wanting to invade Vietnam in 1979...The Vietnamese had invaded Cambodia in an attempt to oust the murderous Khmer Rouge government for cross border raid into Vietnam killing innocent civilians at the border. The Chinese disapproved and invaded in 1979 as a punitive measure.A PRC force of 250,000 men surged across the frontier in human-wave attacks like those China had used in Korea nearly three decades before. They were decimated: the well-dug-in Vietnamese militia cut down the Chinese troops with machine guns, while mines and booby traps did the rest.The Vietnamese put up their own force of 100,000 militia while their main army unit was in Cambodia .The Chinese penetrated as far as 10-20 kilometers across the border into Vietnam when their human wave tactic/meat grinder theory got decimated down in Cao Bang,Lao Cai and Lang Son.In the course of 17 days, China lost over 26,000 men killed in action, say more some say less.Vietnam lost around 20,000.The PRC threw everything they had as you can see on the clip they used chemical weapons(the gas masks) and a scorched earth policy.The Vietnamese used guerilla warfare with some left over US equipments.The PRC eventually withdrew.http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube/images/play_thread.png (http://www.apacheclips.com/boards/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=74)