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The Prime Minister smiled, "It can be seen from the attitude of the United States at the beginning of this year that this is their only choice."

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In the Taiwan Strait, where the "Manchester" sank, there is still a large amount of oil and various discarded objects on the sea surface, and there are large and small inflatable life rafts near the oil.The powered lifeboat was fully loaded with the surviving crew members on the ship and they had already left first—the coastline of Taiwan could be reached by sailing eastward for more than 20 kilometers, and then they went ashore. The survivors were safe for the time being.

Inflatable life rafts do not have power, so they can only float on the sea surface. Some life rafts have oars, but the sailors think that manpower paddling is probably not very useful, so wait for rescue first.

The first lifeboat to appear in this sea area was an 1911-ton small cargo ship with a five-star red flag and a red cross painted on the ship's side and deck.The American sailors on the life raft saw the small freighter approaching them, but they had no ability to resist.Use the M1A[-] in your hand to hit the Chinese cargo ship?Sailors are not crazy enough.

"We are a cargo ship sent by China to salvage those who fell into the water. You have violated China's territory and sovereignty, so we attack you! After sinking you, we will provide humanitarian assistance to those who fell into the water and guarantee that you There are basic living materials and human dignity in the camp! Please cooperate with us and don’t make irrational actions!”

An hour later, the cargo ship from Keelung, which was responsible for salvaging the persons who fell into the water, also arrived at the sea area where the accident occurred.But they only rescued more than 200 officers and soldiers who fell into the water on the "Xianyang".

The "Xianyang" escaped the fastest, and the place where it was sunk was the farthest to the north. The rescue ship set off from Keelung, and they were the first to encounter the group of people who fell into the water.

Similar to the five rescue boats sent by Fuzhou, the rescue boat sent by the National Army from Keelung Harbor was also unarmed, with a big red cloth cross marked on the side of the boat.After salvaging those who fell into the water in sight, Keelung's rescue ship continued to head south. The six ships met at sea, but none of them had guns. After staring at each other for a while, they dispersed.

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In Taixi Santiao Port, the first tank landing ship finished unloading the cargo in the fishing port and began the difficult retreat operation.There is only one narrow and long channel in this fishing port where a [-]-ton landing ship can reach in—like a big bear drilling a small cave with its head in and its body still outside.

The propeller of the landing ship reversed slowly, and the hull retreated slowly, but after a short while, the sea current made the track of the landing ship deviate, and the rudder was not easy to use in the reverse state, and the differential steering of the propeller was too fast. Rough, the landing ship was about to rub against the embankment on the left.The marine division on the shore sent more than 60 fighters, more than 30 on each side, and used various tools. The people on one side pulled the cables, and the people on the other side used tools to hold the hull of the ship that was about to yaw. Reluctantly snapped the fallen landing ship back.But not long after breaking back, the landing ship veered in another direction. The 60 people immediately switched operations.

This pull was too strong, and the landing ship directly rubbed against the embankment and could no longer move.After a burst of noise, the propellers of the landing ship changed from reverse to normal, and moved forward a little to loosen the hull, and then moved back again.

"It took three to ten minutes to drive into the port, and four to ten minutes to turn the boat back into the sea," said the battalion commander, who had been on the shore for a long time as a tracker, and was so tired that he almost collapsed. "This small port is really difficult to use."

"So we can only transport a small batch of goods for emergency. If you really want to transport heavy equipment, you must let the floating tank come over."

On the beach in Taixi, the first wave of landing craft that rushed to the beach had just returned to the sea and turned around to return.As soon as the large force of landing craft left the shore waters, another six or seven landing craft came in with large steel boxes on top, pushed the large boxes as far as possible towards the shore, and then let the water sink into the sea.These large boxes are connected one by one, and after being sunk into the seabed and tied up firmly, they become the foundation of the artificial dock.

The "Mulberry" artificial port trestle built by the Allied forces during the Normandy landing stretched out hundreds of meters into the sea. The floating pontoon bridge and floating pier were all composed of huge steel-concrete prefabricated parts. In order to prevent the "Mulberry" from being damaged by wind and waves, the Allied forces simply released water Sinking 56 old cargo ships lined up in a row to act as a breakwater.

The People's Liberation Army really can't afford to build an artificial port of this size...

However, the liberation of Taiwan does not require 200 million highly mechanized heavy troops, nor does it require an artificial port like "Mulberry" that can directly dock transport ships.Just use a big iron box to extend the coastline slightly towards the sea, so that the tank landing ship can smoothly send the heavy trucks and tanks up, and drive all the way to the hard land.

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This morning, many people who just woke up were dumbfounded by the situation in the Taiwan Strait.

At the prime minister's official residence in Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, the 75-year-old Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was speechless for a long time after reading the residence newspaper.Then he called Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki.

"China used all high-power radio stations to broadcast the no-fly zone and no-fly zone announcements last night, and it should have launched the Taiwan War," Shigeru Yoshida said. "Mr. Foreign Minister, how should China predict the outcome of this war?"

Okazaki Katsuo shook his head: "I don't know anything about military affairs..."

Yoshida Shigeru was speechless.Post-war Japan was carefully demilitarized. Some of the old soldiers and politicians who planned the war were tried in Tokyo, and those who were not tried were all excluded from the top government.The current Ministry of Defense is still called the Police Reserve Headquarters, and it will be upgraded to the Defense Agency next year. The Security Agency and the Self-Defense Force are still a group of policemen.

Thirty minutes later, an ordinary car drove up to the gate of the mansion, and a man in a windbreaker, wearing a polite headband and covering his face with a mask got out of the car and walked into the mansion.

"I hope this meeting is completely secret, and none of us will disclose what happened today." Shigeru Yoshida told the visitors.

Masanobu Tsuji, the planner of the Bataan Death March, the "jackal staff officer" and one of the three major staff staff of the Showa era, took off his mask and nodded slightly to express his approval of Shigeru Yoshida's agreement.

According to Masanobu Tsuji's performance in World War II, he should have enjoyed first-class treatment, but after Japan's defeat in the war, he secretly negotiated terms with Chiang Kai-shek, changed his name and surname to become a senior member of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Defense.Since then, he has been hiding until 1950, when the Allied forces announced that the search for war criminals was over, and Tsuji Masanobu dared to show up in public. Tsuji Masanobu actually became a senator in 1952, but his history is so notorious that few people in Japanese politics now dare to deal with him.

"The Republic of China is about to perish." These were the first words Tsuji Masanobu said when he sat down.

Chapter 42, the first counterattack with a hasty end

"The demise of a regime is not the first time in Chinese history, and it is not a major event in today's world. If there is any major event, it is probably that the Anglo-Saxons realize that they are in front of the yellow race. Hitting a wall again."

Masanobu Tsuji spoke in a calm tone, but the content of his words was a bit harsh.

"The Angsa whites took advantage of the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution to rob the world for 300 years and accumulated a huge amount of wealth. They thought they were the best race on earth and could order other races to enslave the earth. The yellow race was even more so. It is regarded as an inferior nation. In fact, this is nothing more than the arrogance of those white skins. Half a century ago, our Tsushima World War I shocked the world, and the Ansa white people thought it was just a luck victory by yellow monkeys, which was not considered outstanding. Slavic peoples. We also defeated them steadily in the Pacific Ocean more than ten years ago. Unfortunately, we lost in the end.... We lost, but there is no shortage of winners in Asia.”

"Your Excellency, the question you asked me was 'how to predict the outcome of this battle', so I can answer you now. The strength of the United States in defending Taiwan is based on what the United States believed to be the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army before September 1950." Definitely. According to their cognition at that time, the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek with some weapons and US dollars, helped Chiang Kai-shek train, and then deployed a certain-sized naval fleet and air force to cruise the Taiwan Strait, and deployed two divisions in Japan just in case. I think it is enough. Everyone knows that three months later, the Americans were defeated at the Qingchuan River, and a year later they lost Seoul. They only got the civil power in Seoul with alms from China and North Korea. But the Americans may escape from reality Not willing to admit it. Anza whites are a race that is both arrogant and stubborn, and the first defeat may not bring them fully awake until the second.”

Masanobu Tsuji chattered about, and finally shook out his private goods as well.

Shigeru Yoshida caught effective information from Masanobu Tsuji's words: "On the Korean battlefield, China's strength was stronger than the high-level US officials expected, but the strategic arrangements of the US high-level officials did not follow the example of a more powerful China in a timely manner. Baseline adjustments. So the U.S. must not be able to defend Taiwan. I get it.”

"Your Excellency, at a time when the landscape of Asia is changing, we should reconsider Japan's future."

Shigeru Yoshida glanced warily at Masanobu Tsuji: "Japan will no longer be involved in great power struggles."

"We, Japan, are a big country in our own right."

"No! Fighting with big powers will only destroy Japan! The war is over, and you and I still remember the damage of the war. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still untouchable. Have you forgotten?"

Shigeru Yoshida was active in politics before the outbreak of World War II, because Zhuhe was watched several times by Japanese military police, and was arrested and imprisoned once.After the war, the United States found that there were only a few normal people in Japan. Although Shigeru Yoshida had a big beard, he was still the most suitable prime minister.

Tsuji Masanobu smiled: "Sometimes, it is not determined by Japan's will to be involved in major power struggles. If the United States orders Japan to rearm, then you have no way to refuse."

"At that point I can refuse to remain prime minister."

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At 4:12 am on April 7, the national army's first counterattack on the landing field failed.

In the middle of the night, the East China Navy's feigned bombardment attracted the attention of the national army. Chiang Kai-shek's camp was blown up, and all the staff from Chiang Kai-shek to Hu Zongnan and the staff were lost. The command system of the national army wasted a lot of time waiting for orders from Shangfeng.But when the sun rose, a battalion of medium tanks, a battalion of light tanks, and two infantry regiments were finally organized and returned to the landing field in Taixi Township.

Now the PLA has about 3 people ashore. Except for more than 50 PT-76 amphibious tanks and more than 50 "big buffalo" armored vehicles, the rest are basically infantry on foot, while there are only more than 76 PT-30 tanks on the front line. There are 20 vehicles that continue to be on the beach, with the help of wire ropes and straw bales and logs, to rescue companions stuck in the sand pit.

Foot infantry...but the infantry was very different from the infantry of 1949 or even 1950.

The tank troops of the national army entered Yuanchang Township, and then marched three kilometers further to lay down a village and town, and they were considered to be on the beach.

When the crew of the "Sherman" medium tank and the accompanying infantry saw the Red Arrow-1 anti-tank missile flying over for the first time, their first reaction was "I've never seen this thing before, it's so fresh."A small thing flew close to the ground, its tail was on fire, and the flames were divided into several strands. It was "shaking" while flying-this was the missile correcting its trajectory.

The commander of the "Sherman" tank leaned out and watched for seven or eight seconds. He didn't panic until the last second, but it was too late.The little thing with a flaming tail flew straight towards his tank, and then a bright flame erupted from the front of the tank. block.When his ears recovered, what he heard was the screams of his own gunner and loader inside the tank.

The first "Sherman" that took the lead was wiped out.The metal jet of the anti-tank missile killed the driver, ignited the gasoline tank, injured the gunner and loader in the turret, and four or five soldiers were killed by shrapnel when the anti-tank missile exploded in front of the hull.

But the most helpless thing for the tank troops of the national army is that the "anti-tank missile" mentioned by the US military instructor before flew from more than 2000 meters away, which even exceeded the effective range of the tank's main gun. Tanks can be hit, but there is no guarantee that they will be directly hit and destroyed. In the past, 3000 guns can hit two or three guns at most.

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"The amphibious tank unit is reorganized, and the first battalion is ready!"

"The amphibious tank unit has arrived at the scheduled location!"

A battalion commander called the first time on the communicator, and then called the second time, but the military commander never let them attack.

The amphibious tanks of the 78nd Regiment of the 232th Division were a little confused, and the head of the regiment temporarily reorganized the tanks of the two battalions.The fully equipped first battalion consisted of 31 tanks, the uneven second battalion stayed on the beach to drag and silt the tanks, and the first battalion was ready to meet the counterattack of the national army.

"First Battalion, you have been designated by the headquarters as the last unit to go into battle. Now please stay hidden and continue to wait." Junzhi replied, "You are responsible for launching the final blow to the national army in front of you."