July 20, 1953. The meeting of the Central Military Commission personally presided over by the chairman at Jurentang is under way. The three-year Korean War is about to reach an armistice, and the issue of liberating the enemy-occupied islands on the southeast coast and continuing to pursue and annihilate the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's troops, which has been shelved by the Korean War, has been put on the agenda.
The international situation is still so hazy and gray and changeable, the clouds of war are still flying over the Far East and the Pacific Ocean, and the giant ships of the US Seventh Fleet are cruising like ghosts in the Taiwan Strait and the eastern sea.
Under the protection of the US Seventh Fleet, the coastal islands occupied by the Chiang Kai-shek clique have done their utmost to blockade, sabotage, and harass the coastal areas of our mainland. In particular, The Great Exhibition Island was occupied by the Kuomintang army, cutting off the north-south waterway along the coast of New China, posing a great threat to the mouth of the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay, interfering with the economic development of Shanghai and East China, as well as the fishery production of Zhoushan Fishery.
The situation is complex and provocative. However, the side of the bed will not allow others to snore! Our military and people in East China strongly demand that the gates be cleared, the remnants of the Chiang Kai-shek clique eliminated as soon as possible, and the islands along the southeast coast completely liberated.
At this meeting, the chairman looked at the overall situation and resolutely made a strategic decision, and he instructed the responsible person of the East China Military Region: "The situation has changed, and we are ready to fight Da Chen." First solve the zhejiang coastal islands, it is estimated that the United States will not have major interference, you should prepare! ”
In accordance with the chairman's instructions and at the behest of Commander Chen Yi, Zhang Aiping, chief of staff of the East China Military Region, presided over the formulation of an operational plan for "with the direct coordination of the navy and air force, first capture Yijiangshan Island, and at the same time pretend to attack Phi Shan Island, and after winning the battle, attack Dachen Ben Island with all its might."
In the summer of 1954, the battle plan was discussed several times and approved by the Central Military Commission, which also appointed Zhang Aiping as the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces on the eastern Zhejiang front.
When determining the combat units, Zhang Aiping, after some consideration, finally set her sights on the 60th Division of the Zhejiang Eastern People's Army, which had played a mighty role in the battle to liberate the enemy-occupied islands along the coast.
The Sixty Division was subordinate to the Twentieth Army. This is a strong brigade of the New Fourth Army that grew up in Jiangnan and developed and grew up in the heart of the enemy and the pseudo-stubborn center.
Speaking of which, the birth of the Sixty Division still has a certain historical relationship with Zhang Aiping.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Zhang Aiping was personally assigned by the chairman to go from Yan'an to Shanghai, where fierce battles were raging, to serve as the secretary of the Military Commission of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Party Committees. At that time, the chairman instructed him that once the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions fell, he would organize guerrilla armed forces in the local areas and persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
Zhang Aiping had envisioned the establishment of anti-Japanese guerrilla base areas behind enemy lines on the outskirts of Shanghai and even on both sides of Hangzhou Bay, and had done a great deal of organizational preparations for this purpose. However, due to various reasons, the plan did not come to fruition. Zhang Aiping's wish was later realized by the troops of the New Fourth Army advancing eastward.
Zhang Aiping
The three divisions of the Twentieth Army were born of a mother. Her mother was the Mindong Independent Division of the Red Army founded by Ye Fei and others, which was reorganized into the Sixth Regiment of the New Fourth Army after the beginning of the War of Resistance. Later, he followed Chen Yi east into the Maoshan area of southern Jiangsu, and once advanced into the suburbs of Shanghai in the name of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and was famous for the night attack on Hushuguan and the burning of Hongqiao Airport.
Then, under the command of Chen Yi, this unit went north to Suzhong, with the Defense of Guocun and the Decisive Battle of Huangqiao in the annals of history, and the movie "Overture to the East> all described this unit with heavy pens. This is the origin of the fifty-eighth division, the eldest brother of the three divisions of the Twenty Army.
After this unit went north, the thirty-six wounded and sick who remained in the Yangcheng Lake area of southern Jiangsu, with the support and leadership of the party organizations in Shanghai and Jiangnan and under the leadership and command of Comrades Chen Yi and Tan Zhenlin, united the local people's anti-Japanese armed forces, developed and established the "Xinjiang Resistance", and persisted in fighting guerrilla warfare in Jiangnan.
In 1941, the Pudong detachment of the "Jiangkang Second Road" crossed Hangzhou Bay in the south, and in the Simingshan and Huijishan areas, it joined the scattered guerrilla forces led by the underground party to create a base area and establish the Zhejiang East Guerrilla Column of the New Fourth Army, from which the Sixty Division was born.
Perhaps because of such a relationship, Zhang Aiping had a special complex with this unit in her heart. In fact, in this unit, there are indeed the seeds of revolutionary military struggle that he sowed with his own hands.
Peng Lin, who had served as the leader of the Jinxiao detachment, was brought out of Yan'an by his nomination to the chairman. After the fall of Shanghai, the Central Committee asked Zhang Aiping to shift the focus of her work to Zhejiang and asked him to first go to Nanjing to accept the task of the CPC Central Committee delegation. Although he himself did not go to Zhejiang due to the change of tasks, Peng Lin, who he sent earlier, later took root in Zhejiang.
Chen Weida and Cai Qunfan, who held important leadership positions in this unit, were the backbone of Zhang Aiping's guerrilla training class in Shanghai. It was Cai Qunfan who first led his troops from Pudong south to Hangzhou Bay to eastern Zhejiang to open up a base area.
Cai Qunfan and his wife
In the spring and summer of 1938, when Zhang Aiping was doing military united front work in the third guerrilla detachment of the Kuomintang huang Shaohu in Jinhua, he secretly developed a number of underground armed backbones of our party, and later most of them joined the guerrilla column in eastern Zhejiang and became the backbone of this unit.
Just like the cropper han saw that the seeds he had sown had sprouted and grown, and saw the development and growth of the Sixty Division, could Zhang Aiping not feel relieved from the heart?
Of course, Zhang Aiping's attention was paid to the Sixty Division, mainly because in recent years she had fought many beautiful battles in the struggle along the eastern coast of Zhejiang, gained valuable experience in island offensive operations, and had become a powerful force of "army naval warfare" in the East China Sea!
On the night of May 29, 1953, the moon was dark and clear.
A three-star general named Qin Dongchang, whom Jiang Jun was sitting in Dachen, was proud that in the name of "Jiangsu and Zhejiang guerrilla commander-in-chief" and "pseudo-Zhejiang provincial chairman," he had been reorganizing the bandits, miscellaneous, and remnants of the islands along the eastern coast of Zhejiang for two years, and was "preparing to launch a counterattack on the mainland from Dachen," when a People's Liberation Army, which had never dealt with the sea, suddenly seized his already pitiful flanking stronghold with lightning speed and concealed his ears, liberating in one fell swoop the four islands of Da, Xiaolushan, Jiguan, and Yangyu.
This was the first battle fought by the Sixty Division on the eastern coast of Zhejiang, with a reinforced battalion of the Division's 179th Regiment as the main attack.
Eastern Zhejiang is the birthplace of the Sixty Division, and is also the hometown of most cadres and combat backbones. Half a year ago, when the train drove all the way from the border between China and North Korea to Ningbo, the commanders and fighters could not have imagined that they would go south to fight in the north, fight in the east and the west, and even go abroad to fight, and finally return to their own doorstep. Everyone secretly congratulates themselves on their "good luck"!
After more than ten years of conquest, eight cold and summer away from home, it seems that the ship that has sailed late from a long voyage has sailed into a cordial and familiar harbor, and now it is indeed time to take a good rest and go back to your hometown to visit your parents and relatives!
But before all this could be arranged, and even the smoke from the Korean battlefield had not yet been waved away, the new battle order came down: immediately go to the coastal defense front and carry out the combat mission of liberating the islands off the eastern coast of Zhejiang!
Originally, after the liberation of Zhejiang Province, the islands off the coast of eastern Zhejiang, with Dachen Island as the core, were still in the hands of the Kuomintang army. In order to strengthen the defense of the outskirts of Dachen Island, in November 1952, Qin Dongchang assigned He Zhuoquan, commander of the 42nd Column of the Zhejiang Guerrilla Force, to lead his troops to occupy four islands, including Dalu Mountain and Xiaolu Mountain, Yangyu Island and Jiguan Mountain.
These people hung up the sign of the Nationalist Army, but in normal times they engaged in the business of killing people and crossing goods, committing all kinds of evil deeds, seriously threatening the safety of fishermen and merchant ships in eastern Zhejiang.
According to the orders of the East China Military Region, the Sixty Division, which had just triumphantly passed from the Korean front, did not even get off the train, and rushed directly from Andong to Ningbo, and then marched from Ningbo to Wenzhou, where it joined forces with the Seventeenth Public Security Division and the East China Navy to jointly carry out the battle to recover the four islands of eastern Zhejiang.
The three units were under the unified command of Wang Daming, political commissar of the Sixty Division, Wang Kun, chief of staff, Liu Jinshan, deputy commander of the 17th Public Security Division, and Chen Xuejiang, director of the Wentai Patrol Area of the Navy and commander of the patrol boat brigade.
These four people can be described as having a great deal of success, the most famous of which is Liu Jinshan, deputy commander of the 17th Public Security Division, and Liu Hong, the protagonist of the railway guerrillas, and one of the prototypes is him. Wang Daming, political commissar of the Sixty Division, and Wang Kun, chief of staff, both participated in the famous Battle of Chosin Lake, and once annihilated the First Marine Division in Gutuli, forcing a 200-man detachment of the US army to surrender. Chen Xuejiang was the chief officer of the first gunboat unit of the New Chinese Navy.
The order to seize the four islands was urgent. The soldiers of the Sixty Division didn't even have time to familiarize themselves with this new battlefield! However, the commanders and fighters were not surprised. The People's Liberation Army will always be a combat team! What's more, Taiwan has not yet been liberated, and the coastal people are still suffering from the bombing and harassment of the remnants of the Kuomintang army.
The cause of the liberation of the motherland is above all else! Yang Xilin, a platoon leader of the 179th Regiment who was allowed to go home to visit his relatives and go to Hangzhou to meet his girlfriend, was urgently summoned back.
Like Yang Xilin, he was still lucky, after all, he was allowed to visit his parents and girlfriend. There are many more who have not even been so lucky, and they have no complaints. They marched with great morale to a new battlefield they had never set foot in before.
In this atmosphere, the mood of the commanders and fighters of the Sixty Division's troops to fight was like adding dry firewood to the fire, and it was unprecedentedly high. One by one, they clapped their fists and said: "I will not return home without liberating Taiwan!" Some even screamed and asked, "When are we going to fight?" ”
Of course, there are also a few who sigh bitterly, saying: "Our Sixty Division fought well in Korea, so hard, and after returning to China, we must rest and rest." How old do we fight wars? When the soldiers reached the Sixty Division, it was really bitter! ”
However, while saying this, they always added proudly: "No way, who told Chairman Mao to look up to our Sixty Division, so every battle was given to us." You see, now it's time for our soldiers! ”
The night sea is vast and the island cliffs are steep. Cloaked in the smoke and dust of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the vigor of victory on the Korean battlefield, the commanders and fighters braved hardships and dangers and fought to the death in the absence of adequate training and preparation for maritime combat skills.
After only an hour of fighting at Da and Xiaolushan, they captured the main peak and completely annihilated more than 220 people of the "42nd Column of the Zhejiang Tour of the Kuomintang Army", including 46 people below Yang Yuanjian, director of the political department of the enemy column.
However, the commander of the enemy column, Major General He Zhuoquan, was missing.
On the evening of June 9, our island guards found two "dogs" running out of the caves on the shore of the island and jumping straight into the gang house, presumably to steal food. On this island, even the shadow of a person is rare, where is the dog? Hurry up and check it out, it turned out to be two Kuomintang soldiers! They were disheveled, their eyes were green with hunger, and even if they didn't disguise themselves as dogs, they lived like two hungry wolves!
Battle hero Shen Shugen
Everyone suspected that one of them must be He Zhuoquan, but after repeated interrogation, the two refused to admit it. At this time, the battalion commander Wu Tongjiang suddenly remembered a person:
"Quickly call Shen Shugen!"
Shen Shugen, commander of the 179th Regiment's 3rd Battalion and 12th Company, and a fellow of the bandit Leader He Zhuoquan. In the Korean Huachuan Blockade Battle, he led 1 platoon, repelled 13 charges of the enemy's 2 battalions, and destroyed more than 300 US and Lee troops at the cost of only 4 casualties.
When the troops launched the Battle of Dae and Ogasan, he had just returned from Pyongyang, North Korea. In Pyongyang, the supreme leader of North Korea personally hung a third-class national flag medal on his chest.
When Shen Shugen heard that there was a battle, he impatiently ran to Wu Tongjiang, the commander of the first battalion of the main attack battalion, to ask for battle. His reasons are strong and emotional:
"The chairman invited me to his own house for dinner." He said the word "self" very heavily, and Wu Tongjiang, the son of a student, could not understand it, "I have won such a great honor in North Korea and received so much trust, I must repay it!" But what do I give in return! I think I'll only be able to do well in future battles. Now is the right time! Battalion commander, give me a chance! ”
Wu Tongjiang, the commander of the battalion, explained to him: "There are still some islands on the eastern Zhejiang front that have not been liberated, are you still afraid that there will be no fighting?" The chance of retribution is there! ”
However, the battle still made him want to get on, and his company was organized into the second echelon. When Shen Shugen landed with his company, the battle was almost over. He and his twelve companies stayed on the island for only one day before the troops withdrew. He was a little annoyed, and it seemed that he was useless.
When he was complaining about his "bad luck", Wu Tongjiang suddenly asked him to go.
Shen Shugen finally came in handy. He Zhuoquan, the "Major General Commander", finally let him recognize it.
He Zhuoquan, during the Anti-Japanese War, was a commander of the recalcitrant army in the Zhuji Paitou area, and was one of the old opponents of the Zhejiang East Column of my New Fourth Army. At that time, he specialized in traitorous cooperation with the enemy, pointed his gun at the New Fourth Army, and did all kinds of bad things. History is really too fair, and He Zhuoquan did not escape the palm of his old rival in the end!
On the night of June 24, the 179th Regiment of our 60th Division fought again on Jigushan Island, killing and capturing 96 enemy soldiers. The dry ducks, who are accustomed to land warfare, first stirred up the sea and achieved good results in successive victories. The success of the initial battle greatly encouraged the commanders and fighters to have confidence in victory in the island battle.
However, these two battles were also fought very bitterly and very hard, so that everyone had a preliminary taste of the dangers of this azure battlefield!
In the fight against the big and small deer mountains, our army paid a huge price of 96 wounded and 37 killed. Even a reporter who was rushing to the island in the second echelon was killed.
After 20 days, the enemy counterattacked against our da da, Xiaolushan, and Yangyu islands with superior troops. The main positions of yangyu and xiaolushan were once lost. The enemy was outnumbered, and one platoon after another of our defenders stubbornly resisted and repelled more than ten enemy attacks in a row.
Three companies and two platoons of one battalion and two platoons of the 179th Regiment of the Xiaolushan garrison, as well as the reinforced machine gun platoon, fought bravely with the enemy for 36 hours when our troops were divided by the enemy, the main peak was occupied by the enemy, and there was no water to drink and no food to eat.
It was in this battle that Yang Xilin, a teenager from eastern Zhejiang at that time, finally shed the last drop of blood for the complete liberation of the land that gave birth to him and raised him!
Yang Xilin fought bravely, and he led the whole platoon from the enemy's flank to the rear and fought all the way to the top of the mountain. He was shot in the lower abdomen and died because of excessive blood in his inner body.
Yang Xilin was a famous "militant", and the old regimental commander Zhang Jilun liked him very much, and because of his cleverness, he affectionately called him "Little Thief Bone". The battalion commander, Wu Tongjiang, called him "Ah Han".
Zhang Jilun
In the Korean battlefield, Yang Xilin cooperated with the fierce siege of our army and was ordered to use the "pidgin" he learned when he was a "Western Cub" in Shanghai to shout to the Yankees to surrender, and played a certain role in the victory of forcing more than 240 people of the enemy's "task force" to surrender their guns and surrender, and was awarded the second class meritorious service.
Yang Xilin never had the opportunity to associate with the Hangzhou girl again. He fought for the cause of the people's liberation for ten years, but he did not live a peaceful life after liberation.
Will he regret it? Of course not! Wu Tongjiang remembers that before the battle, Yang Xilin got some fish, eggs, and a pound of old wine, drank with him, and sent him a photo, saying: "Whether I sacrificed or not, this photo shows my determination." Now this photograph has become a posthumous photograph.
At that time, Yang Xilin also said: "We used to shed blood and sweat for the cause of national liberation, and now we can personally participate in the last battle to liberate our hometown, which I think is a great honor!" ”
Glory, this is enough for the revolutionaries who have given their whole lives free of charge to the cause of the liberation of the motherland!
On June 24, our army fought again on Jigushan Island.
The terrain of Jiguyama Island is narrow and steep, and the eastern side is all cliffs, and the cliff shore is covered with seaweed, which is difficult to slip. Regardless of whether the tide rises or falls, there is no beach to climb, and the enemy's "officers' combat regiment" is equipped with a heavy weapons team, with strong firepower, strong fortifications, and easy to defend and difficult to attack.
This time, the three battalions of the 179th Regiment took the lead in the attack. At 18:12, Shen Shugen led the twelve companies and 1 platoon to land first. Our army was immediately met with a fierce counterattack by a reinforced squadron of the defending enemy's "Officers' Fighting Regiment".
The battle was fought bitterly and the casualties were heavy. The battalion commander, instructor, and battalion chief of staff were killed one after another, and the regimental commander Wei Jiuling ordered Shen Shugen to act as the battalion commander to command the troops.
At this time, Shen Shugen had also hung up the color. His shoulder blades were broken at some point, and blood flowed, but he did not report it and insisted on commanding the battle.
The fighting is getting fiercer and the casualties are increasing. Our army had to throw in the reserves. The soldier of the Eleventh Company, Pu Kangchang, led the combat team to boldly insert the flank of the enemy position, eliminated 2 machine guns of the enemy, opened the breakthrough, and ensured the smooth entry of the assault troops into the depth of the battle.
The fierce fighting did not end until 1 a.m. the next day. Our army suffered 214 casualties.
The next day, at dawn, the tide receded, and the shore of the island revealed many caves that had not been seen before. The enemy hiding in the cave is still stubbornly resisting. The cave curves, bullets can't get in, and the enemy refuses to surrender.
"Get a pump, flush it with a faucet!" See where he's hiding! Chief of Staff Lee was on fire.
It's really merciless. The "six (sound drop) shells" in the cave (the dialect of the eastern coast of Zhejiang, referring to bandits) could no longer hold back, and one by one obediently rolled out like soup chickens.
Shen Shugen's clothes were covered with blood. The messenger stripped a set of clothes from the "six shells" and changed them for him.
It was just this set of Kuomintang uniforms that almost caused a big misunderstanding in Songmen Town.
"Six shells! Six shells! Fight! Shen Shugen walked on Songmen Street, and the people shouted and beat in unison.
"Don't mess around! He's not six-shell, he's our company commander! If it weren't for the fact that the messenger came up quickly, Shen Shugen would have been punched in the fist.
For this reason, the Songmen District Cpc Committee also brought people to review the troops.
It is no wonder that at that time, the "six-shell" people often smuggled in armed smuggling, went to the coastal area to rob, harass, and kidnap, and specialized in the activities of those sea bandits, and the coastal masses hated them thoroughly.
Although the final battle was won, Wang Daming, the first in command of the front line and the political commissar of the Sixty Division, on behalf of the command, took the initiative to submit a review to the Zhejiang Provincial Military Region, admitting that these battles were not well fought.
One is that the casualties are large, and the casualties of our army in each island grab battle are greater than those of the enemy army, of which the defense of Jigushan Island lost almost 5 platoons. The second is that there were many losses of cadres, and in The second world war alone, three battalion-level cadres of the main attack battalion were killed. It is roughly estimated that four islands were taken and seven or eight battalions or more of cadres were killed or injured.
Wang Daming summed up the reasons, the most important of which was the light enemy. As soon as the Sixty Division returned from Korea, many people "drifted" away, believing that they had beaten the old US elite First Andean Marine Division and the US Third Division in Korea, and that the rok, Britain, and France were also defeated generals.
Cadres also have no small responsibility, and when they analyzed before the war, some chief officers in the unit saw the enemy's number and felt that the problem was not big: what kind of column and brigade, which is the regular army, and it is clear that they are wandering bandits. So much so that careful reconnaissance was neglected before the war. Many people even feel that as soon as the People's Liberation Army lands on the island, the enemy will surrender.
It was not until the end of the battle that they were surprised to find that most of these Kuomintang soldiers were extremely reactionary blood debtors who had been "scavenging for sand in the waves," stubborn soldiers, and outlaws with many evil deeds!
They also found that island operations had a completely different enormity and complexity from previous battles. The Sixty Division fought guerrilla warfare in the mountains, as well as in the movement of large corps and frontal defensive warfare. The battle on kedan island is different, it is a kind of backwater battle with no way back, and the island is a dangerous place for victory or death!
It seems that it is not good to learn the tactics and techniques of island attack and defense, and even if there is a high will to fight, it is difficult to complete the mission entrusted by the motherland and the people.
Of course, these two battles were fought even harder by the enemy!
Who are you in Qin Dongchang? It turned out that his person was the famous "King of the Northwest" Hu Zongnan! This "often defeated general" lost ground on the mainland and lost all his ugliness, which deeply disappointed Chiang Kai-shek.
When he arrived in Taiwan, Hu Zongnan asked the old man to bear the burden of Jingjing and make meritorious contributions to the crime. In 1951, he sneaked to eastern Zhejiang, and on Shangdachen Island, which covers an area of only 9.5 square kilometers, he hung up a sign of "Jiangsu and Zhejiang Guerrilla General Headquarters" and set up a "Zhejiang Provincial Government" in Xiadachen, which was 2 square kilometers smaller than Shangda Chen.
Hu Zongnan reorganized and incorporated many "guerrilla commanders" in the Zhejiang Sea region, with more than 10,000 troops. Relying on Dachen, a base that occupies a major position in Tianjin, and the relative superiority of Jiang's army in the navy and air force in Zhejiang, he has done all kinds of sneak attacks, harassment, looting, blocking waterways, sabotaging maritime traffic and fishing production, and other habitual bandits on our mainland. It poses a serious threat to china's economic construction and social stability in east China.
At that time, Hu Zongnan was very angry, he thought that these "dry ducks" of the Communist Party could only croak on the yellow land, and once they left the land, they would be unable to move at all, and Chiang Kai-shek supported him on the side: "The communist army has no navy!" There are defeats in attacking Kinmen Island in the distance, there are setbacks in attacking Dengbu Island in the near future, and the Communist Party has learned from the past and will never dare to act rashly at sea.
Hu Zongnan thought that his more than 10,000 people, with the cooperation of the Jiang Army and Navy of the "Four Seas and Mighty Winds", could claim the throne in the East China Sea for a while! Unexpectedly, his dream was shattered so quickly! And defeated by a group of "dry ducks" who had never been involved in naval warfare!
On the very day after our army liberated the big and small Lushan Islands, Hu Zongnan received a special urgent telegram from Taipei, saying: "It is a shame to lose four islands in a row.
Hu Zongnan's face was like dead ash when he held the telegram, his hands were trembling, and of course he knew who had called him.
But Hu Zongnan still wanted to make a final struggle. He hurriedly sent a telegram to the old man, saying that "the defeat in this battle was caused by paralysis, and implored the president to allow the students to make meritorious atonement."
After 20 days of meticulous preparations, Hu Zongnan exhausted his strength to eat his mother's milk, gathered 17 warships, more than 20 gunboats and machine boats, more than 40 sailing ships, and personally led 3 brigades of more than 1,600 soldiers, under the cover of night, desperately counterattacked me, trying to save the defeat. Thus there was the enemy's counterattack against the Big and Little Deer Mountains.
But this time, Hu Zongnan still did not take advantage of it; although our position was once lost, as soon as our reinforcements arrived, they turned the enemy back with the brilliant achievements of annihilating more than 700 enemy troops, capturing 20 enemy ships, wounding 5 enemy ships, sinking 2 sailing ships, and more than 10 wooden boats.
Hu Zongnan stole chickens and did not eat rice, and once again he was humiliated, and it was also the last time in his life that he became a general of a defeated army, drawing an absolutely correct end to his long and shameful military career.
Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has never given this "good student" the opportunity to "make meritorious atonement for his sins," and after following him for decades, he still gave him a face, and the grand duke Chiang Ching-kuo went to Dachen at night to take this "often defeated general" back to Taipei, and finally gave him a "glorious step down."
Since then, Hu Gong has completely disappeared from the stage of history.
The following year, that is, on the night of May 15, 1954, the 180th Regiment of our Sixty Division, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Public Security, took the three islands of the Dongji Archipelago without bloodshed, and the front line of our army reached the line of Toumenshan Island and Gaodao Island, which was only one water away from Yijiangshan Island, so that the enemy of Yijiangshan was completely exposed to the range of our army's artillery, and formed a situation of troops on the enemy's front, creating favorable battlefield conditions for our subsequent attack on Yijiangshan.
Just ten days earlier, on May 6, mr. Jiang Lao in Taipei had taken a warship called "Emei", personally inspected the area, and "stationed" in Dachen for two days.
At this time, Hu Zongnan had already stepped down, and he was replaced by Liu Lianyi, the so-called "hero of the Nationalist army" who commanded the "great victory on Dengbu Island". He was a lieutenant general in the Sixty-seventh Army of the Kuomintang Army, when he returned from the United States Army Staff University gilded. Obviously, Chiang Kai-shek had high hopes for him.
Liu Lianyi took the reorganized 46th Division of American armament and vigorous ambitions into Dachen and became the commander of the Ministry of Defense, which suddenly increased the land, sea and air artillery strength of Dachen to more than 21,000 people.
Liu Lianyi remembered that ten days ago, the headmaster had admonished that only by sticking to it could the islands along the eastern coast of Zhejiang be included within the scope of the proposed Treaty of Cooperation between the United States and Chiang Kai-shek. I remembered that I had confidently said on the spot: "It is unlikely that the communist army will launch an offensive for the time being, because air supremacy is still in our hands." The headmaster, on the other hand, said disapprovingly, "Don't be careless! "It's not a taste in his heart.
However, liu Lianyi was after all smarter than Hu Zongnan, and the night he went to the island, he hurried to Taiwan and said: "A division of the communist army entered the first gate of Zhantou before me..."
He asked Chiang Kai-shek to send an additional division to counterattack the ToumenShan Islands under the direct cover of the US Seventh Fleet; he also demanded that the US army bomb our airfields of Shanghai and Ningbo.
However, Chiang Kai-shek did not agree and stopped it on the grounds that "it is not the right time." It seems that Chiang Kai-shek already had a little self-knowledge.
Over the past year, with the cooperation of our brotherly troops, our Sixty Division has successively captured a series of islands along the coast, and the psychological shock caused by the Chiang Kai-shek clique is so great that we did not expect it.
In Chiang Kai-shek's eyes, the coastlineal island chain from Zhejiang to Fujian is the umbilical cord on which he relies to maintain the mainland, and it is also a symbol of his determination to "counterattack the mainland." Once cut off, Taiwan will become a lonely boat, and he will not be able to survive under the fence.
Personally, old Jiang was not willing to give up these stone islands. Not to mention, once Shen Zhiyue, director of the political department of the Dachen "Defense Command," sent agents to infiltrate the mainland and secretly took a set of photos of Xikou and Fenghua for Lao Jiang, which made Lao Jiang so happy that he could not sleep, and felt that it was worth guarding these islands! The importance of his sense of hometown can be seen here.
Since Chiang Kai-shek did not want our army to occupy the coastal islands, in the face of our growing naval and air forces, he knew that he could not protect himself, so he had to turn to Lao-Us for help; and the United States was trying to use this to control Taiwan.
In order to persuade the United States to adopt the proposed treaty for the coastal islands of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chiang Kai-shek did everything in his power to send his "top" "diplomats" Gu Weijun and Ye Gongchao to the United States to lobby, and later asked his "Darling" Meiling to come out to the United States for help.
But whatever the political motives chiang kai-shek had, the use of external forces for the sake of civil war constituted a criminal act in itself.
Of course, this also accelerated the pace of our army's liberation of Dachen Island: if The United States and Chiang Kai-shek really included Dachen in the "common defense system," then there would be trouble in the future.
With the lesson of liberating the four islands earlier, the Sixty Division attached great importance to it this time, and the commanders of the division and regiment personally disguised themselves as fishermen, ventured to the vicinity of Yijiangshan Island to reconnoiter the terrain, and used telescopes to look at the island's defense system again and again, for fear of missing a fire point.
The Reconnaissance Section of the Sixty Division and the cadres and fighters of the reconnaissance company and regimental reconnaissance platoon to which it belonged began to train the skills of armed crossing and cross-sea reconnaissance as early as a year ago. Their goal was to be trained at sea to be able to cross the river over long distances, so that they could sneak to a river to observe and draw a map of the enemy situation and catch their tongues alive.
Their training is very hard and very effective. Three months later, many of these former land scuds have really become tide-makers at sea! They can continuously arm themselves to cross more than 10,000 meters. The highest swimming skills are Zhai Yongxiang and Deng Jiaru, who are said to be able to swim in the sea for three days and three nights continuously!
These "dragons in the waves" are even more ruthless, and even the location of every gasoline barrel on the island is clear.