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Chapter 42 Heartbreak (1)

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    The artillery battle on September 3rd lasted from the afternoon to the evening. At eight o'clock, there were still sporadic explosions, and I didn't know where they came from. In less than half a day, a total of explosions were fired from the other side.  There were more than 5,000 rounds of artillery shells, and the continuous firing lasted for more than two hours.

    The artillery bombardment for the day was over, but the artillery battle between the two sides had just begun.

    For the defenders of Kinmen, they were suddenly attacked by the People's Liberation Army on the other side and suffered heavy losses. Six positions, two docks and many fortifications, bunkers and bunkers on the Greater Kinmen Island were blown up. In addition, a navy  A small gunboat was sunk, a destroyer and a tugboat were damaged, the command post and civilian houses were damaged to varying degrees, and the casualties were also heavy. More than a hundred people were killed on the spot.

    Although the attack on the other side was a sudden attack, it was also a very embarrassing thing for the Kinmen Defense Command. Especially after the opponent launched an artillery bombardment, they had almost no counterattack, and the advanced American artillery could only  It can be used as a decoration, which can't help but make people feel angry.  Therefore, for the Kinmen Defense Command, it is necessary to fight back in order to regain face.

    Since it would take time for the new artillery to be transferred from the island, the Chinese Air Force was the first to take retaliatory action. The next day, it was dispatched to bomb Xiamen, Fuzhou and other places. Of course, the mainland did not let them attack, and also sent  The air forces of both sides launched a small-scale air battle over the waters near Kinmen. In the end, the mainland's MiG fighters were slightly inferior to the American fighters and were defeated.  Two days later, the Chinese army finally launched a decent counterattack and responded with powerful artillery fire to its opponents on the other side. This was because the Americans helped them transport more than a dozen 155 cannons.  In the past few days, in order to block Taiwan's supplies to Kinmen, the mainland also used shore-based artillery and cruising gunboats to attempt to block the two water docks in Kinmen. However, the effect was not achieved, and instead several small boats were lost.  boat.

    The artillery battle between the two sides continued until September 22nd, when it stopped slightly.

    After the artillery battle, Kinmen Island was in a mess everywhere, and even more than half of the houses were destroyed. Fortunately, after the first day of bombing, the soldiers and civilians on the island learned to avoid the artillery fire, so it took such a long time.  As time went by, the casualties were not too many, that is to say, the casualties in the first few days were relatively heavy.

    The Ministry of National Defense sent an investigation team, headed by a commissioner named Wang, to inspect the artillery battle in Kinmen. The first was to check the damage, and the second and most important thing was to summarize lessons and experiences to discuss countermeasures on the other side.  Methods of bombardment; thirdly, necessary battle plans must be made so that when similar situations occur in the future, we cannot be so passive.

    ¡°In fact, the commissioners from the Ministry of National Defense arrived here a few days ago and have already understood the results on the ground.  The seminar was held in the Kinmen Defense Headquarters. In order to avoid being bombed, the current Kinmen Defense Headquarters also moved from its original location to a bomb shelter on the edge of Taiwu Mountain. According to future plans, preparations will be made at the  A large underground air-raid shelter has been excavated here, making it the safest place on Kinmen Island. The design of this air-raid shelter is already in progress. It is said that when completed, it will not only be able to effectively avoid shelling by the Communist forces on the other side, but also be able to withstand nuclear weapons attacks.

    As the deputy commander of the Eighteenth Army, Zhang Xian and Commander Liu Dingtian participated in this meeting. Compared with other units in the Kinmen Defense Command, the Eighteenth Army's casualties and losses were the least, even though  In this way, they also lost three artillery positions, two command posts above the division level, and hundreds of casualties.  However, at the summary meeting, faced with a bunch of bleak data, everyone remained silent.  Indeed, Kinmen itself is a front line, and this front line, faced with the enemy's bombardment, was not even able to fight back at the beginning, let alone such huge losses. This shows that everyone's war awareness is not  It was not raised to a very alert level; this time it was an artillery battle. If the enemy really concentrated a large number of troops for landing operations, the results could be imagined.

    The dull atmosphere made all the attendees feel unprecedented pressure. In order to break the atmosphere, Commander Liu Zhang coughed, smiled at the commissioner and said: "We actually have a plan for improvement a long time ago.  That was already formulated when the American advisory team came to inspect last time, but we didn¡¯t expect that the enemy would suddenly launch an attack!¡±

    "Yes!" Commander Liu Dingtian also said quickly: "If we can implement these plans as soon as possible, our losses today may be much smaller!"

    Lieutenant General Wang gave them a cold look, snorted, and said leisurely:Yes, birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together. Commander Liu Dingtian is indeed an upright person like him.  But now, he could only admire this military commander even more.

    In the 93 artillery battle launched by the People's Liberation Army in the Kinmen area, it was obvious that the political intention was greater than the military intention. Although it made the Kuomintang regime really nervous, the battle in the end only stopped at the level of shelling, and there was no army's  follow up.

    This time the artillery battle did achieve certain political results. It was precisely because the People's Liberation Army was so aggressive that it would not hesitate to fight. In the end, the Americans tried to bring the Chiang Kai-shek regime into Manila and the Southeast Asian Conference went bankrupt. The Southeast Asian Conference headed by the British  The participating countries are unanimously opposed to the participation of the Kuomintang government. The reason is very simple. They are all afraid that once the alliance treaty is signed, they will be dragged into a war with the Chinese Communist regime by the Kuomintang government. That means the possibility of a third party.  The actual outbreak of World War II.

    Although they were rejected by the Southeast Asian Conference, it was precisely because of this that it further strengthened the determination of the Americans to help the Kuomintang regime, because they clearly knew that after the end of World War II, the conflict with the Communist Soviet Union  The Cold War will inevitably occur, and among the regimes in Asia that can become allies of the Americans, the Kuomintang regime has the most powerful military. If they are allowed to be eliminated by the CCP regime, they will also lose their foothold in East Asia.  .  Since they can use a small Taiwan to contain the newly established Communist Party, the second largest communist regime after the Soviet Union, why wouldn't they do it?

    After the 1993 Artillery War, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles subsequently visited Taiwan and began to formally discuss signing a mutual defense treaty with the Kuomintang government. After more than two months of negotiations, this treaty was eagerly anticipated by many.  The signing was finally successful at the end of the year, which may have been unexpected by the Communist Party.  Without the September 3rd Artillery Battle, perhaps the Americans would not be willing to reach a mutual defense agreement with the Kuomintang government at all.

    However, who would have expected that such a short treaty with only ten articles would be a double-edged sword. After enabling the Kuomintang government to obtain the necessary security guarantees in Taiwan, it also restricted what they wanted to do.  What about a counterattack on the mainland?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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