Hounds eventually died on the mountain, generals inevitably died before the battle, and all the large-scale wars since World War I have been a cruel test for the army and soldiers. The Taiwan Strait is now full of war clouds, and it is possible to wipe out guns at any time. Tsai Ing-wen, the culprit who can stir up the two sides of the strait, is still constantly provoking and wantonly provoking war, lest the world not be chaotic. Such a move not only seriously injured cross-strait relations, but also made the military people on the island of Taiwan panic. Qiu Guo, the current head of Taiwan's defense department, is a veteran of the army for 40 years, and he once vowed that once the PLA uses force, he will go through it to the end and accompany him for as long as he wants. It sounds very confident, but now he is also panicked, bluntly saying, "The current cross-strait situation is the most severe moment in my 40 years since I joined the army." In fact, this can be seen from the history of his origins, and what the specific situation is, and it will be slowly explained in the next step.
Qiu Guozheng made a big fuss
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Qiu Was born in 1953 in Taipei, Taiwan Province, where his father was a court marshal and a staff member of the Kuomintang system. Therefore, Qiu Guozheng's childhood family life was not bad, and in 1976, Qiu Guozheng entered the armored corps section of the 45th phase of the Army Officer Academy. During his time at the school, Qiu Guozheng had excellent grades and was promoted to captain in July 1979 at the age of twenty-six. That year, there was a hijacking incident in Taiwan where veterans entered The Taoyuan Zhongzheng Airport with guns. This has triggered a major personnel adjustment in the military circles on the island, and many grass-roots posts are in urgent need of replenishment. Qiu Guozheng acted as a "firefighting captain" and went to the company involved as a company commander to deal with the aftermath. After this incident, Qiu Guozheng's military career began to smooth down.
The Sanpi general Qiu Guozheng
Qiu Guo was given the opportunity to study abroad in the 1990s. In 1992, Qiu Guozheng went to the South African Conducting College to study. Relations between South Africa and Taiwan remained close until 1998, when South Africa and the mainland formally established diplomatic relations. For a long time, there has also been a distinction between "native and foreign" in the Taiwan military, and officers with overseas study experience are easily favored by the upper echelons in the process of leading the troops, so as to make steady progress. It was precisely because of this that Qiu Guozheng became the colonel commander of the battle group under the 249th Division shortly after returning from South Africa. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between the mainland and South Africa, Taiwan's overseas offices were downgraded to economic, trade and cultural exchange offices. Qiu Guozheng was sent back to South Africa to serve as a military officer because of his experience in studying abroad. His long experience abroad also made Qiu Guozheng interested in the overseas atmosphere, and in 1999 he officially entered the US Military War College for further study. This experience is also a stepping stone for his future further development, and with Chen Shui-bian coming to power in 2000, Qiu Guo, who has studied in the United States, is rising again. In 2001, at the age of 48, Qiu Guozheng became a major general and served as brigade commander of the Army's 373rd Armored Infantry Brigade. Five years later, Qiu Guozheng was again promoted to lieutenant general by Chen Shui-bian and was the deputy commander of the Sixth Army. It can be said that Chen Shui-bian is Qiu Guozheng's "nobleman", and many traditional military promotions are stuck in the ranks of colonels and major generals, but Qiu Guozheng can pass smoothly.
U.S. War College
Although Qiu Guozheng was educated by the US military, his military management style was very different from that of the United States. Strictly speaking, Qiu Guozheng is more like a military leader in traditional dynastic society, and it is completely a coercive way to manage the army. Its focus is also very strange, Qiu Guo is leading troops in the army when he has a nickname called "Qiu Squad Leader", which means that he has to ask about everything. Especially in some small details, his requirements are almost harsh, and he is still the same after he is in a high position. He most liked to have the soldiers remove the grass, level the flower beds and lawns, and demand that the height of the grass be consistent. In addition, he also liked to pay attention to the hair and military appearance of soldiers, requiring that camouflage pants should be uniformly worn and bayonet tassel weaving should be unified. Because the focus was on scalp and turf, Qiu Guozheng was also jokingly called "General of two skins" by the people of the time. Now that people are questioning his anecdote in public, Qiu Guozheng still said with care, "It should be three skins, and I also manage the shoes." This has also aroused questioning and ridicule from the outside world, and young people in military service in Taiwan are said to be responsible for weeding, perhaps because of qiu Guozheng or grass-roots officers who deliberately do it in order to do what they like. However, young people in military service spend very little time in formal military training and the use of modern weapons, and have been questioned as "putting the cart before the horse".
The Taiwan military conducted shooting training under umbrellas
In 2012, during Ma's reign, Qiu Guozheng became the president of Taiwan's military university, rising in rank but declining in power. After Tsai Ing-wen came to power, she began to vigorously reuse Qiu Guozheng, first making him the important position of "chief of staff" and then appointing him as the head of the security department in 2019. Judging from the history of Qiu Guozheng's origins, he has repeatedly gained high promotions during the DPP's Green Camp administration, and although he has no party affiliation in name, he is still very the DPP's ruling system. Coupled with his forty years of seniority in the military, the background of studying in the United States has allowed him and Tsai Ing-wen to reach a tacit understanding of cooperation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is now the ace general under Tsai Ing-wen. More importantly, Qiu Chui has held almost all of Taiwan's important military and security positions in the past decade, and Tsai Ing-wen's security deployment and Taiwan's overall defense planning are in Qiu Guozheng's hands, and his judgment on the Taiwan Strait should be worthy of attention.
Tsai Ing-wen is constantly provocative
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The head of Taiwan's defense department will basically be asked the question of "how long taiwan can hold out once a war breaks out." Li Tianyu, head of the defense department at the end of Chen Shui-bian's administration, once said that the Taiwan military can last about two weeks. This also represents the chen shui-bian period's estimation of the military strength of the two sides of the taiwan strait, and after Tsai Ing-wen came to power, she appointed Feng Shikuan, a military tycoon with an arrogant personality, to take over the defense department and serve as the first head of the defense department in the Tsai Ing-wen era. During a questioning, the public opinion representative of Taiwan's legislature asked Feng Shikuan the same question, and Feng Shikuan confidently believed that since he came to power to reorganize the army and use force, Taiwan's combat effectiveness has greatly increased, and it is absolutely possible to persist for more than two weeks. He did not forget to add at the end: "We don't talk about how long we will fight, we will fight until the last soldier and pawn." However, Feng Shikuan was known for his thick-skinned and shameless personality, and during his tenure, there were major accidents such as the Tianjian II missile falling into the sea, the collision of naval warships, and the disappearance of two thousand aircraft of the Air Force Mirage. Feng Shikuan also said that his achievements in office could be "100 points". Therefore, his words are basically of no reference value, and his successor is basically about him.
Feng Shikuan
Feng Shikuan's successor, Yan Defa, was also a general in the military, and when asked this question, he completely avoided specific numbers. He just said, "The Taiwan army has no time problem and will absolutely persist in fighting until the last moment." This statement is more like an inspirational proclamation, but it does not mention more detailed issues. This sentence has also become an effective means to avoid such topics in the future, and it was also concocted after Qiu Guozheng took over the defense department. His initial attitude was stronger than that of Feng Shikuan and Yan Defa, and he said directly: "Don't ask how many days the Taiwan army can sustain itself and how long it can last, but ask how many days the mainland can fight, and how many days they want to fight, we will accompany them for as many days." On the one hand, such harsh words are to appease the hearts of the people on the island, and on the other hand, they are also for their own courage. However, as cross-strait relations continue to heat up, Qiu Guozheng's attitude is also constantly softening, and his posture is no longer arrogant. As soldiers, they are the executors of the war, Feng Shikuan, Yan Defa, and Qiu Guozheng are already old people in their sixties and seventies, and they naturally do not have to be on the front line to fight. But their sons and nephews may still be affected by war, and when the risk of war does not exist, they can be arrogant. However, when war may really come, the active efforts of these Taiwan troops trapped on the small island to extinguish fires and avoid war are the normal reactions of the soldiers on the island. Because they know that as soon as the war begins, the Taiwan army will be defeated, and this fact cannot be declared in their mouths, but they know it in their hearts.
Yan Defa
Tsai Ing-wen has constantly created new contradictions and points of conflict on the cross-strait issue, and it is especially insufficient to announce the new version of Tsai's "two-state theory." She even announced to the media that Taiwan has US troops stationed there. As soon as this remark came out, Qiu Guozheng immediately jumped out to extinguish the fire and clarified, declaring that the US military was only here to guide teaching, not to garrison, but to "live in Taiwan" instead of "stationed in Taiwan." Qiu Guozheng then went to Dongsha Island to inspect and comfort the officers and men stationed on the island, and encouraged the officers and men stationed on the island to "coexist and die with the island," because 'if I die, Taiwan will be born,' and we must have the confidence to stick to the end. As soon as this remark came out, the confidence naturally leaked three points, and the netizens on the island also laughed at it. Many days ago, Qiu Guozheng said that "the current cross-strait situation is the most severe moment in my 40 years since I joined the army." This statement seems to be justified. Qiu Guozheng has experienced many crises in the Taiwan Strait, and as a veteran of more than 40 years, his sense of war smell is still sensitive. He can judge where the future is headed, so he will warn. Tsai Ing-wen is now making a big gamble on more than 23 million lives on the island, hoping to complete the last mile of "Taiwan independence" in the buffer period before the Beijing Winter Olympics, and then engage in dialogue and discussions with the mainland. Such wishful thinking is the most beneficial to Tsai Ing-wen, but it puts the entire island of Taiwan in an extremely dangerous situation. In particular, the soldiers in the deep front line made sacrifices and funerary goods in vain. Unfortunately, no reason can hinder our determination and will to unify our country.
Qiu Guozheng is worried about the war between the two sides of the strait
Taiwan's army has gradually lost its soul since Lee Teng-hui came to power, especially since the DPP's Chen Shui-bian came to power, and there has been complete confusion in the thinking within the army. Not knowing what to fight for and not knowing where the end of the war is has become the biggest problem plaguing the Taiwan military. Therefore, a senior general such as Qiu Guozheng, who has received advanced military training from the United States, can play a very small role, and can only fill the emptiness of his military command career with life details such as "scalp, turf, and leather shoes." He can neither contain Tsai Ing-wen's Provocation for Taiwan independence nor resist the military might of the mainland. Generals who have lost their souls and faith can only "speak harshly before war and raise white flags in wartime." In particular, Qiu Guozheng, who is a "man who can be a king," is a man who is in cahoots with the Taiwan Independence Democratic Progressive Party. I am afraid that the sound of shells will be the first to escape. The Taiwan Strait issue is our fundamental issue, and reunification is the only future on the island of Taiwan. For Chinese, the issue of sovereignty can never be discussed, and only the methods and specific times can be discussed. How the situation in the Taiwan Strait develops in the future will be something we will see.