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Under the command of the instructor, the truck drove and then turned, reversed, and pushed a 122mm howitzer into the firing position. The launch pit for the 122mm howitzer was dug by the 59th Division 20 minutes in advance, just waiting for the heavy artillery unit to arrive.

When the howitzer was in place, the soldiers of the artillery squad went up and shouted the chant and worked hard together, opened the gun mount, pulled out the muzzle cap, and calibrated the aiming baseline.Boxes of shells behind the howitzer were unloaded from the truck and opened. For the convenience of loading, the warheads and cartridges were simply taken out of the wooden box, and seven or eight rounds were placed in one breath.

"The whole regiment shoots in salvo, and the 1st Battalion calculates the parameters!"

The 7th Regiment of the 19th Artillery Division has three artillery battalions, and each artillery battalion is equipped with a field artillery computer. The three battalions can actually shoot three targets separately.But the task now is very simple: the whole regiment needs to quickly cover and shoot the national army's fire support point in the west of Chiayi City, and destroy the national army's mortar positions, railway station and platform buildings there. It only needs to calculate one parameter. .

The battalion headquarters of the Artillery 1 Battalion has piled up 6 empty ammunition boxes to make a simple table, and two soldiers lifted the field artillery computer onto the simple table and opened it.The walkie-talkie is on, the battalion commander is watching, and the battalion staff is operating. The battalion commander also checks whether the operation of the battalion staff is correct.

According to the position reported by the walkie-talkie from the front line of the 59th Division, the battalion staff quickly calibrated on the map, obtained parameters, and entered calculations.Three seconds later, the battalion staff officer picked up the walkie-talkie and called the three battalions and nine artillery companies of the whole regiment at the same time.

The slanting sun cast long shadows on the howitzer in the afternoon, but no one was paying attention to the scenery on this late spring evening.The shelling started suddenly, and dozens of howitzers blasted out a cloud of fireworks fiercely. Although it fell into silence again, there was only the sound of rolling thunder echoing in the plain, and wisps of gunpowder smoke after the howitzers fired.

……

At the railway station in the west of Chiayi City, the reconnaissance battalion of the 59th Division had already been lurking nearby.A few minutes after the soldiers in the 7th platoon of the reconnaissance battalion reported their parameters, they heard the artillery battalion commander's loud voice "fire!" on the artillery-reconnaissance unit shared channel of the walkie-talkie. More than 20 seconds later, the train station in front of the reconnaissance platoon was engulfed by explosions one after another.

The tallest clock tower of the railway station was hit in the middle by a shell, and it was immediately cut into two pieces. The big clock at the top rolled to the ground, and broken bricks flew around.The locomotive that was stopped for maintenance at a fork in the station happened to be hit by a shell, and then the locomotive moved by itself, moving back several meters before slowly stopping.

"Please report the bullet from the front!"

"...the point of impact is absolutely accurate! Accurate coverage!"

The second round of shelling covered the target as in the first round, and this time the national army's 120mm mortar positions began to suffer.After the smoke cleared, the reconnaissance platoon clearly saw the mortars staggering.

"The railway station was shelled by the communist army! Call for support!"

The head of the 1rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3st Army was at the train station at this time, reporting the battle situation to the division headquarters in Chiayi City with a hoarse voice. "The shelling is very violent, and it is at least a heavy artillery with more than 10 raw lands!"

The regiment commander needed to report the loss of his regiment's mortars. In order to see clearly, he leaned out and looked out the window, but before he could count how many mortars were available, he froze. , The handset of the phone was dropped, and the whole person fell into the headquarters, with a big blood hole in his chest where he was hit by a bullet.

After 20 minutes of firepower preparations for the Chiayi City Railway Station, the 7th Artillery Division immediately shifted its firepower, and the national army positions near the Timber Factory in Chiayi City were covered again.The lumber factory was covered, which meant that the reinforcements of the 1st Division of the National Army had no way to quickly support through the lumber factory area, and the 59th Regiment of the 177th Division immediately launched an attack on the train station.

The 177th Regiment attacked from the West District of Chiayi City, and the 176th Regiment attacked from the East District of Chiayi City.Cooperating with the 176th regiment's eastern attack was the 20mm rocket artillery battalion under the jurisdiction of the 108th army. With the support of the rocket artillery, the progress of the 176th regiment was a little faster than that of the 177th regiment. At 7 o'clock in the afternoon, the two regiments joined forces in Chiayi City. The 1st Division of the 1st Corps of the 1st Corps—it seems to be the oldest and strongest division in the new national army in Taiwan, which collapsed across the board.Three infantry regiments, a medium tank battalion, and a light tank battalion no longer exist. Some of the 105mm howitzers were destroyed, and some were discarded directly. Only the division headquarters and a few remnants fled south.

……

Xiamen pointed forward.

"Now I have a new expansion of the control area of ​​​​the landing force."

Zhang Zhen regularly updated the map on the wall every hour, and the number of places with red flags on Taiwan Island gradually increased.

"At 7:59 p.m., the 176th and 177th regiments of our 7th Division met in the center of Chiayi, and the 30th Division cleared out the remaining enemies in the city in 58 minutes. At the same time, part of the 8th Division and the 8st Marine Division attacked and advanced on the southern front until 10:[-] p.m. , Our army has crossed the entire Beigang River on the southern line, and also crossed the Nangang River to reach the north bank of the Bazhang River. That is to say, it has advanced... [-] to [-] kilometers."

After Zhang Zhen remarked, Su Yu, Xiao Jinguang, and Liu Yelou all came over to look at the map.

The task of the first stage of landing is very simple, stabilize the landing field, and then go south, south, south.

The daytime battle on the first day was over, and they successfully reached the north bank of Bazhang River.

Across Bazhang Creek, Jiangjun Creek is in front.

Across Jiangjun Creek, in front of it is Hailiao Creek.

Across Hailiao Creek, Zeng Wenxi is in front.

Across Zeng Wenxi, the front - the front is Tainan City.Tainan City is divided into two by the Saltwater Creek, with one-third in the north of the stream and two-thirds in the south of the stream.

"It's getting dark now. For the sake of safety, the artificial dock has temporarily stopped the docking and transshipment operations of landing ships." Zhang Zhen said, "Tonight, a certain scale of landing craft will be kept shuttling, transporting personnel and small supplies. The Air Force continues to stand by and prepare to attack Tainan. The 1st Army Headquarters."

"Ah, yes, last night the special forces directed our bomber to a fake headquarters!" Liu Yelou said, "Don't look for the wrong place today!"

……

Taipei.

The landing front line was a little calmer that night, but the high-level command organizations behind the two warring parties were not idle.

In the National Assembly Hall of the Republic of China, at 9:9 p.m., the "National Congress representatives" finally gathered a majority capable of forming a resolution, and an emergency meeting was held immediately.However, this meeting was endless once it started, from 0:3 pm to early morning, and from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am.

"In the case of the death of the president of the Republic of China, the vice president should take over the duties. Now that the vice president is not returning to the United States, he should have been removed from his post! Even if the removal resolution is not passed, he cannot come back to lead the Republic of China."

Chen Cheng, President of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, delivered a speech.

"Because the vice president cannot perform the duties of acting president, so now I should act as the president of the Republic of China, the President of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China."

"No. The highest authority of the Republic of China is the National Assembly, and the secretary-general of the National Assembly is the de facto head of the National Assembly and represents the National Assembly to the outside world. Taking the example of the United States, the president is killed and the vice president cannot take office. The successor to the president should be the speaker, that is, the deputy secretary-general of the National Assembly." The speaker was Hong Lanyou, secretary-general of the National Assembly.

Chen Cheng: "The secretary-general of the National University of China is not equivalent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States! There is no equivalent position in the United States for the post of Premier. Have you ever heard that the United States has a prime minister?"

"President Chiang Kai-shek was killed. Shouldn't you invite Chiang Ching-kuo to attend the special meeting of the National Assembly at this time? Hmm? What are you thinking about?" It was He Yingqin who spoke.

"Jiang Jingguo didn't show up all day today. Did any of you see him? Did he fly to the mainland to vote for the Communist Party because he saw something bad going on?"

"Why didn't Yu Youren come today?"

"That old guy? He flew to Hong Kong on the night of April 4th!"

"..."

"Even if Chiang Ching-kuo is here, what does it matter? When did the president of the Republic of China get a Taiwan Provincial Party Director? You people, if Chiang Ching-kuo can't be found, do you want to find Jiang Weiguo to be president? ? Oh no, it's Dai Weiguo, Dai Weiguo." It was Sun Ke who spoke.

……

The secretary-general knocked on the table with a hammer, and the veterans and representatives of the National Congress hammered the table with their hands. The farce in the National Assembly Hall was about to break out until dawn.

"Bang—bang!"

"The President is here!"

"The President is here!—"

There were two gunshots outside the meeting hall, and then someone shouted a few words with a loudspeaker.

Gradually, the National Assembly Hall fell silent.Some people have noticed that the atmosphere is a bit unusual.

"Boom, boom, boom."

Outside the door of the meeting hall, the sound of military boots stomping heavily on the ground was getting closer and clearer.

The NUS representatives who reacted quickly rushed to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Outside the windows, the streets of Taipei, which were raining at night, were already densely packed with soldiers with live ammunition.

In a place that these National Congress representatives could not see, at Taipei Airport, American transport planes landed at the airport in groups two hours ago, transporting troops with the aircraft density and operational efficiency of the Berlin Airlift a few years ago.After the previous plane unloaded its troops on the runway, it immediately flew back into the sky to make room for the next transport plane.

In the few hours since the emergency meeting of the National Assembly, the US military has quietly completed the first reinforcements to Taiwan.

"Boom, boom, boom."