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The PLA 448th regiment, 150th division was not supposed to participate in the war. The Sino Vietnamese war started on 17 February, 1979 and lasted for weeks with heavy fighting in Vietnam's heavy mountainous and forested border provinces.
Several famous all female Vietnamese militia units like the Tan An girl squad (which included 17 year old schoolgirls and a kindergarten teacher) and the C3 unit (mostly 18 year old women) won numerous battles and inflicted heavy casualties of hundreds of deaths on all male Chinese units and they had quotas of 2 or 7 Chinese to leave alive to capture while extra Chinese wounded prisoners would be executed since they couldn't guard them. 37 Chinese were caught by these units and many wounded Chinese men were executed after being taken prisoner due to logistics. The Tan An girl squad killed 300 Chinese and took 2 Chinese as prisoners.
Zhao Chengyong said six wounded Chinese were executed when he was captured with them.
One Vietnamese girl sniper killed 13 Chinese. The 41st and 42nd PLA corps was among those units defeated by Vietnamese female militia with 7 captured on 25 February.
China declared the war over on 4 March and announced its total withdraw on 5 March. The 150th division was still in China and disappointed at not being able to fight and gain battle experience in the war and they begged to join the war. They were then ordered into Vietnam on 6 March to cover the withdrawal but it turned out to be a massive mistake since they had no battle experience.
Several famous all female Vietnamese militia units like the Tan An girl squad (which included 17 year old schoolgirls and a kindergarten teacher) and the C3 unit (mostly 18 year old women) won numerous battles and inflicted heavy casualties of hundreds of deaths on all male Chinese units and they had quotas of 2 or 7 Chinese to leave alive to capture while extra Chinese wounded prisoners would be executed since they couldn't guard them. 37 Chinese were caught by these units and many wounded Chinese men were executed after being taken prisoner due to logistics. The Tan An girl squad killed 300 Chinese and took 2 Chinese as prisoners.
Zhao Chengyong said six wounded Chinese were executed when he was captured with them.
One Vietnamese girl sniper killed 13 Chinese. The 41st and 42nd PLA corps was among those units defeated by Vietnamese female militia with 7 captured on 25 February.
China declared the war over on 4 March and announced its total withdraw on 5 March. The 150th division was still in China and disappointed at not being able to fight and gain battle experience in the war and they begged to join the war. They were then ordered into Vietnam on 6 March to cover the withdrawal but it turned out to be a massive mistake since they had no battle experience.
