Located in the southeast coastal region of our country, Taiwan is the largest island in china and its geographical location is very important. Taiwan has existed since ancient times
The fence of the nine southeastern provinces, the lock key of the southeast
The title directly shields the richest region of our country and is also the southeast coastal area of our country's taxation center.
Taiwan's strategic position
Whether from the military or from the political, economic and historical point of view, Taiwan is very important to our country. From a military point of view, Taiwan can connect the Zhoushan Islands and the East China Sea, and the lower can echo Hainan Island and the South China Sea, and the east can directly face the vast Pacific Ocean. China's northern and southern coastal areas are facing blockades on land, and only the eastern part of Taiwan can directly enter and exit the vast Pacific Ocean, and without recovering Taiwan, our navy will never be truly strong.
From an economic point of view, the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, and Shanghai opposite Taiwan are the richest areas in China and the main source of taxes in our country.
From a historical point of view, Taiwan has been China's territory since ancient times, since the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Wang Sun Quan sent the general Wei Temperate people to the island to carry out production, and all subsequent dynasties have not given up their administration of Taiwan. The people on the island of Taiwan have all fled from the mainland because of wars, famines, and other reasons in successive dynasties, and they are all descendants of The same language and the same species as the mainland of the motherland, the same ancestors, and the same lineage.
However, due to the importance of its strategic position, Taiwan was separated from the motherland many times, especially after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the decadent and incompetent Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan, so that Taiwan was colonized by Japan for half a century, but even during the Japanese occupation period, the people of Taiwan did not give up their resistance to the Japanese invaders.
Before the Japanese colonial invasion of Taiwan, all the military and political leaders of the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan refused to withdraw to the mainland, and the Taiwanese military and people played a game."
I'd rather everyone die in battle and lose Taiwan than give up to Taiwan."
slogan. In the more than half century that Japan colonized and invaded Taiwan, more than 600,000 Taiwanese were killed by the Japanese army for resisting the invasion.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Taiwan returned to the motherland, but within a few years, the Kuomintang army headed by Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island of Taiwan, making the two sides of the strait isolated again. After the founding of New China, at that time, the Third Field Army was shouldering the heavy responsibility of liberating East China and had unshirkable responsibilities and obligations in the campaign to attack Taiwan, and Su Yu, as the head of the Third Field Army in charge of operations, naturally became the best candidate for liberating Taiwan.
Su Yu prepared to attack Taiwan
In the summer of 1949, because many parts of East China had not yet been liberated, and there were still divisions of troops to suppress bandits, Su Yu decided to first dispatch a corps to prepare for the attack on Taiwan. In mid-July, the Third Field Army ordered the Ninth Corps to be relieved of its ninth regiment's songhu garrison mission and to carry out exercises to cross Hayden Island, and in order to strengthen the strength of the Ninth Corps of the Song Dynasty, Su Yu assigned the 23rd Army to the Ninth Corps, so that the combat strength of the Ninth Corps reached four corps.
In the autumn of 1949, Su Yu formulated a battle plan for the liberation of Taiwan with eight armies, and four corps of the Ninth Corps as the first echelon of the attack on Taiwan. The reason why only eight armies were used was because at that time the Kuomintang army had just retreated to Taiwan, and according to the information provided by underground party members such as Lieutenant General Wu Shi, vice minister of national defense of the Kuomintang, at this time there were only a hundred thousand kuomintang troops in Taiwan, most of whom were remnants of defeated generals who had just fled from the mainland, and the Kuomintang army had not yet had time to reorganize and train these troops.
Chiang Kai-shek also quickly recognized the defensive defects in Taiwan's deployment, and immediately spent a lot of money to recruit 20,000 Japanese mercenaries from Japan, and in April 1950, when Han Xianchu launched a campaign to liberate Hainan Island, Xue Yue led the 70,000 Kuomintang troops and navy and air force stationed on Hainan Island to retreat to Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek withdrew 120,000 Kuomintang troops from the Zhoushan Islands to Taiwan. In addition, Chiang Kai-shek also stepped up his efforts to replenish his troops in the southeast coastal areas, and also fooled young people on the island of Taiwan into joining the army.
With chiang kai-shek's series of measures, the strength of the army on the island of Taiwan increased to 400,000 people, and Su Yu had to readjust the battle plan and urge the navy and air force to step up their formation to cooperate with their preparations for the campaign to attack Taiwan. The commander of the navy, Xiao Jinguang, remained in East China to cooperate with Su Yu's preparations.
By May 1950, Su Yu ordered the Remaining 12 main armies of the Third Field Army to participate in the battle, except for the troops serving as bandits and city guards, and also asked the Central Military Commission to transfer four armies from other field armies to increase the number of troops attacking Taiwan to 500,000 people. By March 1950, the Navy had raised 1,292 ships for operations to cross Hayden Island.
However, on June 25, 1950, the outbreak of the Korean War interrupted Su Yu's deployment. After the outbreak of the Korean War, although the Korean People's Army was victorious at the beginning, it was only a matter of time before it was defeated as the intervention of the US military deepened. After the U.S. landing at Inchon, the Korean People's Army suffered heavy losses and was almost completely annihilated.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, US bombers and warplanes frequently crossed the Sino-DPRK border to bomb and strafe China's border cities, causing great military and civilian casualties to China. Northeast China was the largest base of heavy industry at that time, and Japan's steps in invading China in those years were also to first invade the Korean Peninsula, then invade Northeast China, and finally launch an all-out war of aggression against China.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Ninth Corps of the Song Dynasty, which was the main force in attacking Taiwan, was drawn from the south to the Korean Peninsula, and the newly formed air force units had to be fully thrown into the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Su Yu's plan to liberate Taiwan had to be shelved.
On June 27, 1950, the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet entered the port of Keelung in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and cruised through the Taiwan Strait to prevent the Liberation Army from liberating Taiwan. Until the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Seventh Fleet did not withdraw from Taiwan, and due to the weakness of China's naval and air forces at that time, after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, we had to continue to shelve our military preparations for the liberation of Taiwan, which also became a regret in General Su Yu's life.
Later, many people thought that the commander-in-chief of the attack on Taiwan, that is, General Su Yu, had nothing to do with the campaign to attack Taiwan, but it was not until an incident that occurred in 1970 that the world knew that although the general was old, his heart to attack Taiwan was still not dead.
The general's heart to attack The platform is not dead
In early July 1970, su Yu, who was already 63 years old, led a Chinese military delegation to visit a friendly african country and made a short stay in France. This was Su Yu's first visit to France, and the first time to Paris, which is known as the fashion capital, and Comrade Zeng Tao, who was the ambassador to France at that time, went to visit the old general.
Steeped in history and known as the capital of fashion, Paris is full of places of interest and goods, attracting a large number of tourists to Paris every year. However, Su Yu did not choose to go to the city to play, but instead named to go to Normandy, the place where the Allied troops landed in World War II, and the next day, accompanied by the embassy military attaché and other staff, the group drove for 4 hours and finally arrived at the Normandy landing site in the town of Arromanche.
In June 1944, the Allies invested 2.8 million troops, mobilized tens of thousands of aircraft, more than 9,000 ships, and 170,000 tanks, which lasted for 49 days, and finally completed the largest amphibious landing operation in the history of World War II and the largest amphibious landing in human history. The significance of this landing operation opened up a European battlefield for the Allies and profoundly changed the situation of World War II.
Major General Han Kaihe, who was then the deputy military attaché of the Embassy in France, served as the narrator of Su Yu's visit to Normandy, and although he accompanied many people on the tour, the deputy military attaché Of Han was facing a well-known general this time, and his heart was very nervous. Later, when he got along with Su Yu, Su Yu seemed very amiable, not arrogant at all, and a "deputy military attaché of Han" called Major General Han Kaihe very awkwardly, and hurriedly said to Su Yu: "You are a senior, please call me Xiao Han." Su Yu changed his mouth.
However, after arriving in Normandy, Su Yu's series of questions made Han Kai sweat straight, and after arriving in Normandy, Su Yu asked one after another: What landing tools were used by the Allied landings in the first place? What happened to the man-made port built by the Allies in the Gulf of Seine in the first few days of the campaign? Why do they float? How do you keep them fixed? What are the volume parameters of those cement piers? Are they all the same?
Su Yu's series of questions, Han Kaihe and other accompanying generals did not know what to say, Su Yu also deliberately went deep into the beachhead, only to find the remains of the cement pier of the artificial port at the beachhead, after some measurement, finally solved the problems that plagued Su Yu.
Su Yu carefully explained to the people next to him while inspecting that the reason why the Allies chose the early morning of June 6, 1944, was that after various factors measured, they thought that this was the best time to land. One is that the visibility is the best at this time, and the other is that the tide is the largest, which is convenient for landing ships to dock and clear obstacles. Due to the different times of high tide in different regions, the landing time is also different, that is, from 6:30 on the west side to 7:45 on the east side, a difference of 1 hour and 15 minutes.
General Su Yu's meticulous explanation shocked the people around them, and they knew that although the campaign to liberate Taiwan had been shelved, the commander-in-chief of the attack on Taiwan was still silently preparing, the general's heart to attack Taiwan was still not dead, and his belief in reunifying the motherland had always been very firm.
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