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They arrived at Changbin Township and Fengbin Township, Taitung County.After capturing the national army barracks here, the traffic in Taitung was cut off directly.There is really a national army stationed here, a whole battalion.

This is when Chiang Kai-shek formed a new national army in Taiwan, he selected the remaining remnants of mainland soldiers who had fled to Taiwan. They were generally not young, and they took away all their guns.This battalion is nominally in the national army sequence, but actually farms here. It was not until after the Spring Festival in 1953 that Chiang Kai-shek sent back the guns and bullets.

A regiment of the 60th Division directly launched an attack. This group of national troops actually resisted a little bit, but under the bombardment of 108mm rockets and mortars and the splashing of automatic and semi-automatic firearms, the national army resisted for less than an hour. The battle is resolved.

"what is this?"

When the prisoners of the national army handed over their guns and bullets and left with their hands raised, the soldiers of the 60th Division found that many prisoners secretly threw a piece of cardboard into the grass beside them while no one was paying attention.

The division commander Peng Fei took what the soldier handed over. It was a yellow cardboard with a pattern of blue sky and white sun printed on the first side, and the following line of words:

Zhan·Shi·grant·Field·by·according to

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"Well, the government of the Republic of China formulated the 'Regulations on Granting Fields to Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Soldiers' on October 1951, 10," said the political commissar of the 18th Division. "Didn't Chiang Kai-shek say that he would counterattack the mainland? If the counterattack is successful in the future, every officer and soldier of the national army who fought with him will be given a piece of land. But what if the counterattack to the mainland fails now? First, make a document. If the counterattack is successful in the future, you can use this to claim the land. Now the national army is full of service. Soldiers with more than two years or dependents have been issued land grant certificates, and land grants will be distributed after the recovery of the mainland."

After listening to the political commissar's explanation, several commanders around Peng Fei suddenly realized "Oh".

"These Kuomintang soldiers are afraid that they will be punished by us as die-hard anti-communists if they find out that he has land grant certificates."

Political commissar: "Before the battle, one-third of the National Army issued land grant certificates to officers and soldiers... Our policy does not treat prisoners differently based on whether they have land grant certificates. Why bother?"

The 60th Division annihilated two military battalions of the Reclamation Kingdom in Taitung County, cutting off traffic on the east of the island, while the 20th Army and 26th Army launched a full-line attack on Kaohsiung City.

The 20th Army and the 26th Army put the main battle at night, just like they fought the First Marine Division in Changjin Lake in the second battle.

Although there are no national army planes overhead, but fighting at night... this night vision device is easy to use.

随20军和26军南下进攻的有2个T-34-85坦克团和2个PT-76坦克营，但历次突破战斗中，PT-76都特别活跃。T-34-85遇到河流就得停下，有桥排队过桥，没桥散开隐蔽等后面的舟桥部队上来。

If there is a crawler-type bridge erecting vehicle like that of later generations, it will be fine, and the bridge will appear as soon as it is driven over.Now the pontoon and bridge troops are all large trucks loaded with bridge erecting equipment, and when they arrive at the riverside, the engineers are busy assembling the bridge.Before the bridge was assembled, the tank crews squatted near the river bank and counted ants to pass the time.

The PT-76 is different. When it encounters a river, it will go directly into the water and drive over it. There are still a few infantrymen on the tank.The only problem is that the PT-76 armor is too thin. If you encounter the Sherman tanks of the national army, they will basically destroy each other. PT-76 can penetrate Sherman, and Sherman can penetrate PT-76.

The number of PT-76s participating in the battle was not large, and there was no reserve team in the rear, so there was one less battle.The way to reduce losses is to fight at night.Of course, the Sherman of the national army does not have night vision goggles, and the battlefield is transparent on one side.

On April 1953, 4, when the sun rose, the Nationalist Army's defenses outside Kaohsiung completely collapsed.The 17rd Army of the 1st Corps here placed two divisions in defensive positions outside the urban area. After a night of fighting, these two divisions no longer existed.

The only remaining 3th Division of the 9rd Army is huddled in the urban area of ​​Kaohsiung, and the tank battalion of the 9th Division went out to fight in the city last night, and it was basically reimbursed.

"The army of the Republic of China is completely irresistible in front of the army of the Communist Party of China."

General Clark shook his head at the United Nations Command in Tokyo.The battle reports on Taiwan Island these days are getting colder and colder as he reads them.

"The only thing that hinders the speed of the Chinese army's advance is their need to rest and sleep. Barring the rest, sleep, and maybe time to build bridges, the Chinese army has been advancing without hindrance as long as it is moving forward. … This also just shows that my objection is correct. There should never be reinforcements to Taiwan."

Chapter 56, Memories of Kaohsiung

As the sun rose, the 20th and 26th armies that had smashed Kaohsiung's outer defenses in the past night retreated 6 to 8 kilometers in an orderly manner.

The sun came out and it was dawn.

If we don't retreat a bit, the Kaohsiung Fortress will have to show its power.

"Kaohsiung's large-scale construction of the fortress system began in 1937. At first, the Japanese army designated the Kaohsiung Fortress as a third-class fortress. The commander of the fortress is Major General Murata Sadao. The Japanese army under the jurisdiction of the fortress not only has a heavy artillery regiment and a transport force of 1940 people, but also has an independent mixed infantry brigade for garrison. Now the forts of the Kaohsiung Fortress are equipped with a total of 1943 artillery pieces of various calibers. door, the maximum caliber of the gun is 3000mm."

In the war situation center in Beijing, Tang Hua was actually just casually telling the historical story of the Kaohsiung Fortress. The information about the fortress had already been grasped by the front line.

Kaohsiung's defense system, Tang Hua gave a rough idea when Suyu formulated the combat plan in November last year. Since then, it has been confirmed by former enemy reconnaissance and aerial reconnaissance, and the marking of defensive firepower is relatively accurate.Not only does Xiamen Qianzhi have the most complete version of the artillery position map of the fortress, but the special teams that infiltrated and landed before the war also had maps in their hands.

"280 mm, that's a big muzzle." Nie Shuai opened his hands and compared the size of 280 mm.

"However, this 280mm gun is a short-barreled howitzer with a range of less than 8 kilometers." Tang Hua said, "The main artillery of the Kaohsiung Fortress is a 150mm Japanese-made cannon with a very long range. 150 kilometers. In addition, the Japanese army also moved the American-made 21mm cannon seized in the Philippines. A total of 155 guns were installed in the Kaohsiung Fortress. Japan deployed 4mm howitzers in the Kaohsiung Fortress because the fortress was mainly for land defense and coastal defense. The second city fortress."

When the Kaohsiung Fortress began construction in 1937, it focused on coastal defense, followed by land defense.By 1943, the Japanese army believed that the island of Taiwan was so large that land forts could not cover the entire island. It was entirely possible for the US military to land on the weakly fortified coastline, and then gather troops to besiege Kaohsiung, so they vigorously strengthened the defense capabilities of the Kaohsiung Fortress on the land.

In fact, strictly speaking, the Tainan Fort in Tainan City can be regarded as one of the peripheral forts of the Kaohsiung Fortress, but this fort with only eight 8mm and 120mm guns was taken away when Tainan was liberated the day before yesterday.Now there are more than a dozen forts in the Kaohsiung Fortress, distributed in Shoushan, Zuoying, Banpingshan, Guishan, Huanglu, Fengshan, Daliao, Donggang, and Shitouying forts.Of course, the area with the densest guns in the fortress is the fortress headquarters at the southern foot of Shoushan Mountain in Kaohsiung City.

More than 200 artillery pieces are generally difficult to deal with. From the night of April 4th to the early morning of April 16th, the Kaohsiung Fortress fired artillery. It was just a dark environment, and it could only be based on the enemy troops reported by the infantry in front. They opened fire at the attack position (infantry reports are often inaccurate), and did not cause much casualties to the 4th and 17th armies.But at dawn, the shelling of the Kaohsiung Fortress will be much more accurate.

As for the direction of the sea, although more than half of Kaohsiung's national warships have escaped, and the fortress is mainly for land defense, coastal defense is a secondary function, but his "secondary function" can also fully dissuade those small broken coastal defenses currently in Xiao Jinguang's hands. ship.

"The fortress of Kaohsiung, a major event happened in 1947." The Premier said.

Nie Shuai: "Two two eight."

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The February 1947 Incident (Uprising) was triggered on February 2, 27, when the national army arrested smugglers in Taipei, and the inspection team in front of the Tianma Tea House in Taipei City shot and killed a cigarette vendor in public. On February 2, the people went to the Taipei Chief Executive's Office (at that time Chiang Kai-shek was still in Nanjing and did not escape to Taiwan) to volunteer, and the guards shot and killed one of them, which triggered a riot across the island.

In Kaohsiung, the military police of the National Army occupied Kaohsiung Station, which seriously affected the livelihood of the citizens. Citizens and students organized death squads and the Xiongzhong Self-Defense Force.The death squad tried to recapture the train station, and the student self-defense force besieged the headquarters of the Kaohsiung Fortress. The students holding only wooden sticks and forks were not attacking the fortress, but protesting to the commander in person. On March 3, Peng Mengji, the commander of the Kaohsiung Fortress, asked the students in Japanese to disarm and surrender and exit the security area of ​​the fortress headquarters, otherwise the entire Kaohsiung City area would be bombarded.If the students didn't disarm, Peng Mengji really gave the order to fire.The fortress guns and anti-aircraft guns of the Kaohsiung Fortress suddenly bombarded the downtown area of ​​Kaohsiung and strafed the streets around Gushan near the fortress headquarters.The power of the fortress gun and the flat-firing 5mm and 80mm anti-aircraft guns is not a vegetarian. Kaohsiung citizens were killed and injured more than 120, of which as many as 3000 died. It is known as "Kaohsiung Crackdown" in history, and Peng Mengji is called "Kaohsiung Butcher".

The main cause of the February [-] incident was that the ruthless rule of the KMT aroused public resistance in Taiwan. Strictly speaking, there was no systematic appeal for Taiwan independence—the indiscriminate beatings and attacks on people from other provinces were just the result of large-scale demonstrations and out-of-control group emotions.But [-] made Taiwanese feel extremely disappointed with China (government), which was an important reason for the rise of the Taiwan Independence Movement.

On our side, the authorities will either not comment on the February [-]th anniversary. If there are comments on the February [-]th incident in the news broadcast, they are basically positive.

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Prime Minister: "Peng Mengji should be controlled by Li Zongren, right?"

"Under control, he was held in the same prison as Mao Renfeng." Tang Hua said, "Peng Mengji tried his best to curry favor with Chiang Kai-shek and his direct descendants after Chiang Kai-shek escaped from Taiwan, and became the commander-in-chief of Taiwan's security as he wished. Transferred to serve as the director of the Yangmingshan Revolutionary Practice Research Institute, Li Zongren was arrested on the first day he arrived in Taiwan."

Nie Shuai: "When the Taiwan War is over and the entire territory of Taiwan is liberated, it's time to clean up Peng Mengji and the others."

The bad things that Chiang Kai-shek did in Taiwan seem to be stepping stones for doing mass work after the liberation of Taiwan.Now Tang Hua is not worried about Taiwan's mass base in the future. Do you still have to ask, he must support our party.The biggest reactionary leader is already dead, and the few high-ranking national army officials who have nothing to do with personnel will be liquidated and tried one by one. They should be shot and shot, and most of the problems of the masses will be solved.The masses here are mainly talking about Taiwan’s industrial population—the completion rate of industrialization in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation was not lower than that in the Northeast.In the past few years when Chiang Kai-shek took over Taiwan, Taiwan's industrialization has regressed, but we are still relatively early, and it should not have regressed to the lowest level.

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Xiamen pointed forward.

"The Zuoying military port has been covered and controlled by our artillery, but there are no national army warships in Zuoying port."

Zhang Zhen pointed to the Zuoying military port on the map.Zuoying Port is six to seven kilometers north of Kaohsiung City. Now if our army wants to rush into Zuoying Port, it will be covered by the artillery group of Kaohsiung Fortress, but our howitzers can also cover Zuoying.The only Nationalist warship in Zuoying Military Port that did not defect has moved south and hid in Kaohsiung Commercial Port. It is only a US-made escort destroyer in the early thousand tons, which does not pose much threat to our army.

Su Yu: "The attack on downtown Kaohsiung will be suspended for a whole day. But before the general attack, I think it's best to detour around Kaohsiung City and attack Pingtung to the south of it."

Pingtung, which Su Yu pointed to, is in the southeast of Kaohsiung City. There are not many other things in this small county, but there are many airports. Now there are three that are being used by the national army.In contrast, Kaohsiung City has only one airport (of course, Kaohsiung Airport is relatively large).

Zhang Zhen: "A roundabout attack on Pingtung can instantly wipe out half of the air force on the southern line of the national army. However, if you want to quickly and unexpectedly attack Pingtung in a roundabout way, you need amphibious tanks and amphibious armored vehicles to form an assault unit. The assault route is to cross here first. Arrive at Qishan Old Street in the mountainous area, go south from Qishan Old Street, cross Xiadanshui River, which is the border between Kaohsiung and Pingtung, and you can rush into the small plain of Pingtung. The three airports are easy to find.”

Su Yu looked at Liu Yelou: "How many forts can the air force blow up during the day and at night?"

"It depends on the army's special squad... It seems that they have already infiltrated a squad into the Dragon Tiger Tower, then they can solve this, here, a total of two forts and 8 heavy artillery. But it still depends on the air combat over Kaohsiung today , if we can suppress the national army’s fighter jets, then the air force can use Tu-2 plus radio-guided bombs for overhead bombing, which is effective for bombing forts and bombing airports.”

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Nantou County, Taiwan.