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Taichung, Xianglin Manor.
"Today, you all accompanied me to inspect the troops. It's been hard work. But the country is in danger, and we really don't have time for leisure and entertainment. After dinner, everyone can take a break. We will continue to meet at 9 p.m. to discuss preparations for war."
Chiang Kai-shek was at one end of the long dining table, and Zhou Zhirou, Li Yuxi, Hu Zongnan, Wang Shuming, Hu Lian and other generals sat on both sides.
Hu Lian, the commander of the First Corps of the National Army (after reorganization in Taiwan), had a very unpleasant meal.
When Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taichung at noon, he immediately took Hu Zongnan and Zhou Zhirou to inspect Taichung's First Corps Headquarters, the directly subordinate unit, and the Second Army, and then took Wang Shuming to inspect Taichung Airport.After watching the P2 and F-51 fighter jets on the airport, Chiang Kai-shek continued to go south to Chiayi to inspect the 84st Army here.If it wasn't too late, Chiang Kai-shek might still want to inspect the 1rd Army in Tainan.
Slightly different from previous inspections, this time Chiang Kai-shek did not on-site guide the deployment and training tactics of the troops.Every time he went to a division, Chiang Kai-shek would find a company or even a platoon, watch their training, and then walk around the defensive position of this unit.But after walking around for a while, when he came back, Chiang Kai-shek still smirked and said polite words, such as "Well, I am very energetic", "We must maintain the will to fight against the enemy", "Always remember the suffering and sufferings of our compatriots in the mainland", and so on.
According to Hu Lian's experience in the past ten years, Chiang Kai-shek is not changing his nature, but waiting for an opportunity to completely write down the First Corps from top to bottom, from Corps deployment to squad platoon tactics.
This is why Hu Lian's food is not delicious.The meeting at 9 o'clock tonight is probably very tortured.
"President," Hu Zongnan mentioned at the dinner table, "The First Lady has been in the United States for three months. I wonder if Washington plans to change the current policy towards my country..."
Hu Zongnan didn't mention it, but Chiang Kai-shek's face was very unhappy when he mentioned it.
Chang Song Meiling was elected president under Eisenhower, but before taking office, she went to the United States to prepare for the lobbying work of the new government.In the past few months, I have indeed met many officials of the new administration, including Eisenhower once.Of course, every meeting and meeting is also a repeater, generally asking for the support of the United States and requesting to increase its support.The results cannot be said to be non-existent-some officials in key positions said that yes, we are ready to increase support, but the premise is that the Korean War is over.Some officials said that increasing support would arouse China's hatred. Of course, the United States is not afraid of China's hatred, but if Taiwan's status can be redefined through the United Nations, then the United States may have less concerns.
This was not the thing that upset Chiang Kai-shek the most.The reason for his displeasure is that in the last month, Chang Song Meiling began to tactfully persuade Chiang Kai-shek in a telegram, "Why don't we just let Taiwan become independent."
UN hosting of Taiwan is of course a transition.The United States believes that after a few years, when China accepts the fact that Taiwan is already a United Nations trusteeship, it will propose a proposal for the UN General Assembly to make another resolution. The United Nations has decided not to trust Taiwan. Residents in Taiwan voted in a referendum, and then became an independent country of Taiwan, of course this is how it will be done.So both Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Song Meiling knew very well that UN trusteeship = Taiwan independence.
"The first lady's lobbying in the United States is effective," Chiang Kai-shek said, "but more efforts are needed to change the attitude of the Americans..."
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Beijing, the war center.
It's probably the "calm before the storm" right now.
Tang Hua sat on the chair in front of the computer, and stopped looking at the Xiamen server and the data sent over, just sitting and thinking about things.
"The chairman, the commander-in-chief, the prime minister, and Li Kenong will all be here soon," Secretary Deng said.
Tang Hua moved, "Hmm. The arrangement of the Prime Minister and Minister Li is really too big...and they kept it from me until last week."
"What's the matter? Commander Su and I only found out about it on April 4st."
"Oh?" Tang Hua was a little surprised, "Sign an armistice agreement with the United States first, and then launch the Taiwan War within 48 hours...The Prime Minister also told you both on April 4?"
Chapter 34, the first explosion of the Taiwan campaign
Taiwan, North Bank of Wuxi River.
"Comrades, the mission has changed now. We have to transfer a team to the opposite bank of Meizhen to complete an irradiation mission."
Li Fuqiang, captain of the fourth team, spoke to the remaining nine players.
Here are the fourth team, the fifth team and two special teams with a total of 10 people.After successfully infiltrating ashore, the pre-assigned task of the two teams was to lead the destruction of Taichung Airport - today's Ching Chuan Kang International Airport, and destroy the bridge of Wuxi.
Li Fuqiang took out the map, "Hemei Town's irradiation target is here, east longitude 120.516, north latitude 24.132. Target appearance characteristics: located in the farmland just south of Fenglipo, about 300 meters south of Wuxi River, the main building is a four-story ocean building About 4 meters to the east of Yanglou, there are four rows of slave labor houses, and about 100 meters north of the slave labor houses, there are two rows of cattle stables. We sent a team to stand by at this location. According to the order of the superior, this irradiation task is not allowed Therefore, we have to adopt double insurance, the team consists of 50 people, and the irradiators are backed up by each other."
"We have stepped on Fengli Slope before," said a team member, "it is only 1200 meters away from the station."
Li Fuqiang: "It's 8:01 p.m., only 4 hours before the irradiation time. The pineapple slope is lush with grass, and the team members have no problem hiding. This team is led by me and will leave in a while. In addition, the other two tasks of our team , Dagang, you go to stare at the Wuxi Bridge, Lao Liang, you take 3 team members to approach the airport."
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After it was completely dark, the first action was the landing fleet moored in Jinmen-Xiamen.
It is difficult for the Penghu Islands to hide all the landing ships and landing craft needed for landing operations, and some of the participating ships still need to depart from Xiamen.Moreover, there are more large landing ships departing from Xiamen, because it is not safe for large ships to hide in Penghu Bay, in case a national army plane hits the Universiade and sees it.
Twelve tank landing ships left Kinmen and embarked on a 12-kilometer voyage, and the barracks in Penghu also moved.From 200:2 p.m. to 6:78 p.m., the commanders and fighters of the 1th Amphibious Mechanized Division, the 2st Marine Division, and the 6nd Marine Division were forced to lie down on the bed to rest. After getting up at [-] o'clock and eating a meal, all the commanders and fighters boarded the ship one after another carrying light weapons and ammunition with them.As for the heavy weapons, they were moved to the landing ship just like ants moved a few days ago.
3月份悄悄转移到澎湖的9兵团20军，他们还是按正常作息。作为台湾战役的第二波登陆部队，20军要等78师、陆战1师和陆战2师运送到岸、登陆舰和登陆艇返航之后才上船。
The landing site is 55-60 kilometers away from Penghu, and the landing ship will arrive in more than two hours one way. However, the most time-consuming thing is how to reverse the landing ship and return to the sea after unloading on the beach, and how to load a new batch of troops in the shortest time after returning. . More than 100 landing ships and landing craft were divided into 6 tank landing ship formations and 17 landing craft formations. This is probably the largest and most complicated maritime logistics operation in the history of the PLA.
"Report, information ahead, tonight, Chiang Kai-shek, Chief of Staff of the National Army Zhou Zhirou, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Wang Shuming, Commander-in-Chief of the Army Hu Zongnan, and Commander of the First Corps Hu Lian are all in the target area." There are a lot of big fish all at once."
Su Yu smiled slightly: "Among these big fish, what I care most about is not Chiang Kai-shek, nor the chief or that chief, but Hu Lian. I really want to capture Hu Lian alive.... Forget it, let's kill him on the battlefield."
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"First Air Division, act."
Pointing forward in Xiamen, Liu Yelou looked at the watch time pointing to 9:8 p.m. and issued an order to the First Air Division.After receiving the call, the 15 MiG-12 Biss of the First Air Division will take off in four formations. When they arrive over Kinmen, the landing fleet is just [-] nautical miles away from Kinmen.
The MiG-15bis does not yet have the real night combat capability, but with the cooperation of ground radar, it can catch the reconnaissance aircraft intruded by the Taiwan army at ultra-low altitude.Tonight, Kinmen and Xiamen cannot achieve complete blackout at night. There must be lights for troop mobilization preparations, and lights must be turned on for a large number of ships sailing in the bay, otherwise there will be a large bumper ship scene... If there is a national aircraft at this time If the army's reconnaissance plane skips nearby, they will all be seen.
Liu Yelou gave an order on the phone and continued to look at his watch.It was not yet time for the next node, and he wanted to look at the map, but he didn't want to put down the phone receiver, so he clamped the phone under his arm with his arm, and walked around the headquarters like a tethered donkey, dragging the wires.
The hands of the watch point to 9:20.
"Empty 9th Division, act."
9:30.
"Heavy bombardment group, move."
The cruising speed of Tu-4 is faster than that of Tu-2, so even though the airport of Tu-4 is further back, the take-off time is still later than that of Tu-2, so that it can arrive at the position at the same time at zero.
Liu Yelou shook the phone handle again, "Is the radio department? Is the positioning and direction finding group working normally? Are all the direction finding stations turned on?"
Navy Commander Xiao Jinguang was much calmer than Liu Yelou, sitting silently at the command post with Su Yu.When the time pointed to 10 o'clock, Xiao Jinguang picked up the phone in front of him.
"Penghu Base?" Xiao Jinguang asked, only to realize that he had sat without speaking for two hours, and his throat was a little dry.
"The first and fourth squadrons of speedboats are ready to sail. The fourth squadron is heading north, and the first squadron is heading south. From the north direction, there may be a fleet from midnight to early morning today. It is a formation of 1 Cleveland, 2 Fletchers, and 2 Keelings. From the north Sailing south to Kaohsiung. Temporarily invincible south.”
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Beijing, the war center.
When the chairman, commander-in-chief, and prime minister walked into the center, the first thing they saw was the map of the Taiwan Strait on the wall. The red dots marked by the staff had left their original positions one after another. They were either sailing by sea or flying in the air. Flights are also distinguished by different line shapes.
"A mixed fleet of US and Chinese troops left Keelung this afternoon and has now circled the northernmost tip of Taiwan Island. Its course has been changed to south-west with a speed of 14 knots. It is expected to maintain a constant speed and pass through Penghu on the morning of April 4. East Strait, sailing destination is Kaohsiung."
"The first group of landing ships, the second group, and the mixed fleet of landing craft 9, 10, and 11 have set sail from Xiamen and Jinmen, and will arrive at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning."
"The 31st and 32nd ships are maneuvering in the waters of Penghu, and the two speedboat squadrons have left Penghu Bay."
"The bomber took off half an hour ago and will arrive at the bombing area as scheduled."
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