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The large headquarters building, the two-story masonry building that had been in good condition before he left Taichung to meet Chiang Kai-shek, had been blown up.
Hu Lian searched the vicinity, only found a few surviving staff members, and then went to the Corps Guard Battalion to ask, and only then did he find out what happened.This morning, the headquarters of the 1st Corps received news that Chiang Kai-shek's camp had been destroyed, and the president was probably killed.At this time, three bombs flew from the sky. The bombs with wings flew over the two floors of the headquarters as soon as they saw them in the sky, and then the headquarters disappeared.
Hu Lian thought, it's really dangerous. If I hadn't been summoned by Chiang Kai-shek, but stayed at the headquarters of the 1st Corps, I would have been martyred by now.If I hadn't jumped into the pool downstairs when I was summoned by Chiang Kai-shek, I would have died for my country by now.
"We must immediately restore contact with the 1st Army and the 3rd Army! Also, we must contact Taipei!" Hu Lian said.
"Sir, the telegraph and cipher machines are buried under there. It's very difficult to dig out. If they are dug up, they may have been blown up long ago."
"Division 6, let's go to Division 6."
In the 6th Division responsible for coastline defense, Hu Lian contacted the 1st Army headquarters in Tainan and the 3rd Army headquarters in Kaohsiung.But I still can't get in touch with Taipei.
"Is the Security Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense still there?" Hu Lian asked.
The Secret Service of the Ministry of National Defense was formerly known as the military command, and it has a secret message directly in touch with the presidential palace.
"Report! A secret telegram from the Taichung Station of the Secrecy Bureau, but the sender of the secret telegram is Commander Hu of the 1st Corps."
Guo Jiqiao took the secret telegram and read it from beginning to end, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, "Hu Lian, the commander of the 1st Corps, survived. He has returned to the headquarters in Taichung from President Chang's camp. However, the headquarters in Taichung was destroyed this morning. The Chinese-Communist-army blew up, and the staff suffered heavy casualties."
William Childs: "Very well."
"General Charles, shall we adopt Plan A or Plan B next?"
"Although we had a discussion just now, I can't answer this question for you right now." William Childs' tone suddenly changed, "We need time to wait for the White House to make a decision."
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At the Taixi landing site, three artificial piers were put into use one after another from 03:30 to 45:[-].The signal flare hit the sky, and the tank landing ship waiting in the open sea immediately moved towards the coast.
A tank landing ship of more than 1.5 tons looks like a big blunt head with a door at the bow, but under normal circumstances, when it rushes to the bow and wipes the bottom of the sea, it opens the first door, and the vehicle or infantry is 2 to [-] meters deep. sea water...
Unless there is such a super-ideal coast, the bottom of the sea is particularly steep, and the landing ship can touch the land by opening the door and extending a few meters of trestle; and the land cannot be steep, but becomes extremely flat, and the ground is still very hard. It is possible for trucks or tanks to drive directly onto the land from the 5-ton landing ship.This "ideal" coast accounts for less than [-]% of all coastlines in the world.
As for the west coast of Taiwan, especially the coastline from Taichung to Kaohsiung City in the south, hydrological surveys have given the answer: 0%.There is no such ideal coast.
After the artificial pier is set up, the landing ship anchors and repeatedly calibrates left and right to allow itself to accurately land on the artificial pier.Of the three landing ships, the Hongqi-1/2 anti-aircraft missile system was launched in the first ship, and the 122mm howitzers towed by heavy trucks and 108mm rocket launchers towed by medium trucks were installed in the stomachs of the second and third landing ships.The precious equipment of these Soviet-made heavy-duty truck chassis was carefully pulled out from the belly of the landing ship, and drove across the sea trestle bridge that was more than 100 meters long and made up of tall and short iron boxes.After getting on the land, they are still driving on the hard road paved with textured steel plates... This piece of land is full of mud and sand, let alone trucks, and tanks may sink into it when driving on it.A 300-meter-long steel road must be paved on the beach so that vehicles can go to a safe place.
On the south side of the three artificial piers is the landing site for landing craft.The landing craft collected by the navy are various, mainly made in the United States and the Soviet Union, and there are also a small number of Japanese-made and self-made ones, with a minimum displacement of 150 tons and a maximum displacement of 380 tons.Landing craft rushing onto the beach, or foot soldiers carrying their own weapons and ammunition ashore, or logistics troops manually carrying boxes of ammunition-manpower unloading efficiency is naturally very low, but it is better than nothing, just as the three artificial docks Add it.
At 5:76 p.m., on the south side of the landing site, the temporary dividing line between the enemy and us - Beigang Creek was broken through by PT-[-] amphibious tanks and big buffaloes.
The "big buffalo" is stupid and slow, but it can be loaded, and the PLA's establishment can be stuffed into two infantry squads.In addition, 76 additional infantrymen were "hanging" outside each PT-8 tank.A total of dozens of PT-76s and big buffaloes brought together two infantry battalions.
The PT-76 rushed into the Beigang Creek, which was more than 20 meters wide and two or three meters deep, at high speed. The propellers were hardly used to start the machine. The tank rushed through half of the waterway due to the inertia when it entered the water. The soldiers of the 59th Regiment of the 175th Division firmly grasped the protrusions on the PT-76 that could stabilize their bodies—of course, the best thing to grasp was the iron railings welded on the tank turret. To be on the safe side, recruits usually grasped the iron railings with both hands. The veterans were more unrestrained. The squad leader and the deputy squad leader grabbed the iron railing with their left hands and raised their submachine guns with their right hands, ready to fire around.
"One battalion has crossed the river, one battalion has crossed the river, and no organized resistance has been encountered!"
The headquarters of the 20th Army, which accompanied the landing force to the coast, replied: "The infantry will not get out of the vehicle, but continue to advance, and attack Taibao Town from two directions!"
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Washington, Senate.
"Taipei's broadcast announced that 40 fighter jets of the U.S. Air Force are flying from Okinawa to Taipei. Who told you to send troops into the war zone without the approval of the Senate and the President?" a lawmaker asked.
"No, this information is incorrect. So far, the U.S. Air Force has not diverted any combat aircraft to Taiwan, and the pilots of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group have not participated in air combat in the past 12 hours." Bradley gave a very positive answer.
There was another noisy chatter in the seats of parliamentarians.
"So, the top brass in Taipei concocted a piece of fake news to boost morale?"
Bradley: "No... this false news is the rhetoric used by the Military Assistance Advisory Group under the authority of General Clark to appease Taipei."
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Before Eisenhower arrived at the Senate venue, the senators, officials, and military officers who participated in the hearing could not discuss any resolutions, and the venue tended to become a large chat group.The hawks and the doves bickered with each other. The hawks asked Dulles why he did not sign the U.S.-China mutual defense agreement as soon as possible, and did not realize the UN trusteeship of Taiwan as soon as possible; the doves asked why the military sent troops when there was no mutual defense agreement with Taiwan. Intervene in Strait Defense.When military arguments were needed to support the debate, the senator turned to Bradley and several of his chiefs of staff and ministers.
"Gentlemen of Congress."
The appearance of Eisenhower made the meeting quiet.
“Frankly speaking, the root cause of the deterioration of the Western Pacific situation caused by China’s attack on Taiwan can be traced back to June 1950…”
"The Truman administration intervened in the war on the Korean peninsula, and the most fatal point was that he intervened too deeply in the war on the Korean peninsula. In 1951 and 1952, the United States failed to make up its mind to sacrifice some insignificant interests. Reach an armistice or a peace agreement. This has plunged the U.S. military power deep into the quagmire of North Korea. Because North Korea has too much U.S. military power tied down, we have only symbolic fleet cruises in the Taiwan Strait, and have not signed a mutual agreement with the Republic of China Defensive treaty — with 40 percent of our army on the Korean peninsula, we certainly can’t spare ground troops to help defend Taiwan.”
Eisenhower first dumped a few pots for Truman.But it seems that it is reasonable for Truman to carry the blame...
"Mr. George Kennan emphasized to me ten times the importance of Taiwan to the strategic posture of the entire Western Pacific, and Secretary of State Dulles also held the same view. Indeed, Taiwan is an extremely important bridgehead to contain the expansion of Red China, but Today, April 1953, 4, if we are based on realistic considerations, then we should face up to this question: Taiwan is indeed important, but how can the United States maintain the survival of the Republic of China?"
"If we have the opportunity to trade with Red China on the Taiwan issue at the same negotiating table, we propose 'You take away the regime and the army of the Republic of China, and you can even put them in prison, and leave the island of Taiwan to the UN trusteeship', China will certainly not agree. Mao and Zhou will not even have this bit of strategic mind.”
"We have to predict what is going to happen as two possibilities and formulate two parallel plans. A, let the Republic of China continue to exist in Taiwan; B, let the Republic of China continue to exist."
"Plan A I have ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to arrange the implementation details. Plan B is under the responsibility of Mr. Walter Smith and his CIA."
"Plan B is called the Republic of Wanderers."
Chapter 46, Everyone Wants a Contemporary President
Although Hu Lian, who returned to Taichung, could no longer find his Corps Staff Headquarters, he managed to regain contact with Taipei and his own ministries through the radio stations of the 6th Division and the Military Command.
The situation of the First Corps is very bad now. Throughout the morning and noon, the First Corps, regardless of the garrison or the mobile unit, stood still—Chiang Kai-shek was killed, and his own Corps headquarters was also bombed. Combat command troops can only stand by on the spot, and at most resist twice when encountering an attack.
By the afternoon of April 4, the biggest loss of the First Corps was the 12st Army.As a mobile force, the 1st Division of the 1st Army failed to counterattack but was defeated. 1 of the 3 infantry regiments were lost, and the two tank battalions basically disappeared.The two divisions guarding the coastline, one regiment and two battalions of the 2nd Division on the front of the People's Liberation Army's amphibious assault were wiped out, and the remaining troops could not rashly leave the beachhead fortifications to move.
As the People's Liberation Army took advantage of the several hours when the national army stayed in place, it frantically attacked and expanded the control area. Now the 2nd Army and the 3rd Army of the First Corps have been separated. The 2nd Army is in Taichung, and the 3rd Army is in Taichung. Army in Tainan-Kaohsiung.The two places are not connected to each other - unless the national army has the ability to fly back and forth in the central mountain range.
不过相对来说，第一兵团的第2军和第3军倒是挺完整的。第2军在台中被几十架伊尔-10轰炸了一轮，伤亡2000人左右；第3军连空袭都没怎么遭遇到。
"I am Chief of Defense Guo Jiqiao! Now the Communist Army has broken through the front line of the beach. When the battle situation is at its most critical, a large-scale tactical counterattack must be launched immediately. I order you to immediately mobilize the 2th and 4th Divisions of the 5nd Army in Taichung, and the 3th and 7th Divisions of the Tainan Army." The [-]th Division of the [-]rd Army, the north and the south jointly attacked the landing field of the Communist Army! Whether Taiwan can hold it depends on this battle!"
Hu Lian: "Mr. Guo! This is a time of crisis, so we must be more cautious! If the counterattack fails, we must have a backup. I can't take out two divisions for the troops in Taichung! Moreover, our Corps Department The 2nd Army and the 2nd Army have been attacked by air, the [-]nd Army has suffered heavy losses, and one-third of the heavy artillery has been lost. In this case, the offensive capability will be greatly weakened!"
Guo Jiqiao: "Life and death are at stake, we can only fight with all our strength!"
Hu Lian: "Mr. Guo! In this situation, we have to be more stable and not lose our minds! The land where the communist army landed this time is a gentle and soft beach. Even if artificial docks are built, the transport capacity is very limited. The first step must be to seize the ready-made port to allow the heavy troops to go ashore. My suggestion is that the remnants of the 1st Army retreat to Tainan and Kaohsiung, and together with the 3rd Army form a deep defense circle against the land in Kaohsiung; The 4nd Army jointly defends Taichung to prevent the Communist Army from advancing northward. As long as we stick to these two places and the Communist Army’s heavy troops cannot go ashore, we can hold on for a long time. If the US aircraft carrier is willing to send aircraft to support it, Tainan and Kaohsiung will not be able to hold on for two weeks. question!"
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While the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China and the 1st Corps were fighting over the telephone line, the 59th Division and a howitzer regiment of the 7th Artillery Division that landed in the afternoon launched a general attack on Chiayi City.
Chiayi City is the capital of Chiayi County, located at the northern end of the Chianan Plain, with a population of 10.As one of the five prefectures and three halls during the Japanese occupation period, Chiayi’s traffic was relatively developed, with a network of roads, and the western longitudinal line of the Taiwan Railway also passed through here. Of course, roads and railways are indispensable for bridges across rivers.During the Battle of Taiwan, the first round of strikes by our air force was to interrupt the bridges where the enemy might pass through in accordance with the planned campaign plan, and Chiayi County is an area that our army will seize at the beginning of the campaign plan. Don't blow up.
The 7mm howitzers of the 122th Artillery Division landed from Taixi and drove 20 kilometers along the road. The artillery officers and fighters passed 4 bridges. Fortunately, these bridges are still there, otherwise the pontoon equipment of the Engineer Corps would not be enough.
"Pour! Pour! Pour! Into the pit!—Stop!"