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The 58rd and 173th regiments of the 174th Division now feel that the battle is going smoothly. If there is any difficulty, it is that too few anti-tank missiles have been brought ashore, and the second is that there is no time to build trenches.

An anti-tank missile launcher requires three people to carry the disassembled parts, plus those who carry the bombs, exactly one squad. In the early morning of April 4, not many anti-tank missiles were brought ashore, and there were only 12 sets in total on the front of the battle.

However, these 7 sets of Red Arrow-1 still put the tanks and infantry of the national army in a situation where they were at a loss.They found that they would be targeted and destroyed by anti-tank missiles at a long distance, so they chose to attack immediately across Yuanchang Township in coordination with infantry and tanks.The tank is getting closer and closer to the PLA position in front of it. When the anti-tank missile launch position is less than 1500 meters away, the "Sherman" tank can already hit a relatively accurate hit with short-stop shooting, but the anti-tank missile stops. shot.

"Do you want to continue to attack? The communist army should be equipped with a lot of anti-tank rocket launchers!"

By this time, only about half of the "Sherman" and M24 "Jiafei" light tanks of the national army were left. The commander of the tank battalion was already distressed and asked the division commander if he really wanted to fight to the end.

"We must continue to attack, attack! This is an order! Let the infantry be in front of the tanks, and always pay attention to the anti-tank rocket launchers!"

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over the Taiwan Strait.

40多架米格-15和米格-15比斯、60多架伊尔-10和十多架图-2组成的混合机群浩浩荡荡掠过海峡，飞入台湾上空。

From 5:7 am to [-]:[-] am, the national army radar station in Changhua was destroyed.The Dajiaxi radar station in Taichung was destroyed.The Tainan radar station was destroyed.

Unless the national army still has a radar that is well hidden and has not been used so far and suddenly turns on, the information support conditions of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and the National Army-US Air Force have been leveled over the island of Taiwan.

In this era without early warning aircraft, the ground radar is the eyes of the air battle, and the ground command is the brain of the air battle.

The radar can scan the airspace 360 ​​degrees and mark out the aircraft of both the enemy and the enemy in the theater.By looking at the radar screen, the commander can coordinate and plan the air battle from the overall height, knowing where to concentrate superior forces to fight and annihilate, where to set up an ambush in advance, and where to climb to avoid.This information is difficult for fighter pilots to obtain by looking left and right from the cockpit.

In an air battle between the two sides, the side with ground/sea radar support has at least a [-]% higher chance of winning.Destroying the radar is to destroy the convenience of the defender's home battle, let everyone lower to the same level of information acquisition, and then let the fighter pilots use their rich experience to defeat you.

Rich experience - the First Air Division and the Second Air Division that participated in the war have fought against the US military in North Korea for more than a year.

In terms of aircraft performance, the MiG-15 Bis is generally better than the F-86, especially when the pilot can make good use of the vertical maneuverability of the MiG-15 Bis.

However, the most important thing is the number of aircraft.Since Ching Chuan Kong Airport is temporarily unable to dispatch aircraft, the national army has only two air bases for fighter jets in Hsinchu and Taipei, and the number of aircraft that can be dispatched is reduced by one-third.If the estimate is correct, the number of fighter jets that the national army can take off at the first time is about 40 or so.

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In front of Xiamen, Air Force Commander Liu Yelou pointed out that he remotely monitored the situation of fighter jets taking off from Penghu Airport. He did not feel relieved until the Tu-2 and Il-10 fleets and the MiG-15 Biss fleets accurately converged.

"During the Battle of Penghu, our air force was still at a slight disadvantage if we fought one-on-one," Su Yuke remembered the Battle of Penghu more than two years ago, "This time a big air battle, you have to fight a turnaround."

"Chiang Kai-shek's air force is said to have received hands-on training from the Americans, but our fighter jets are not vegetarian." Liu Yelou said confidently, "After the Korean round, several divisions of the air force will fight. The so-called The U.S. Air Force, the number one in the world, is nothing more than that!"

"In 1950, we used propeller fighter jets, and the other side also used propeller fighter jets," Zhang Zhen said. "Now both sides are using jet fighter jets. In 50 years, we flew 100 kilometers from Xiamen to fight over Penghu. They flew from Taichung Flying [-] kilometers to the sky above Penghu, we suffer from the distance, and now everyone is more than [-] kilometers, at least the distance is evened out."

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In Yuanchang Township, the 173rd and 174th regiments took 20 minutes to test out the quality of the opposing national army, and then launched a counterattack.

Chiang Kai-shek and the U.S. military advisory group have been trained for two years, equipped with all-American equipment, and vowed to counterattack the national army that restored the legal system of the Republic of China...

9 Corps: Oh, that's it?

Although this is the National Army of the United States, it is still far from the authentic U.S. Army...

The 20st Marine Division of the [-]th Army has fought, the [-]st U.S. Cavalry Division has also fought, and the [-]st Division of the South Korean Army and the trained South Korean Army. If you evaluate the strength of the [-]st Army of the National Army on the opposite side... It is about the South Korean Army after training.

4月12日上午7时30分，国军掉头逃跑，173、174团追击。

At 7:45, the amphibious tank battalion hastily inserted from the rear row into the pursuit and annihilation battle.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the landing troops chased from Yunlin County to the border between Yunlin and Chiayi County. The two regiments and two tank battalions of the national army were completely defeated.The roads and rice fields were full of soldiers of the national army who surrendered Garland with their hands high. According to visual statistics, at least more than 1000 people were captured. In the previous battle of more than an hour, about 1000 people were killed and injured by the national army.As for the two tank battalions of the national army that participated in the war, except for five or six light tanks that returned to Chiayi County, the rest were donated to anti-tank missiles and 40mm rocket launchers as combat achievements.

Chapter 43, Chiang Ching-kuo is not the next president

In the underground bunker of the Presidential Palace in Taipei, Guo Jiqiao, Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China, and William Childs, head of the US military advisory group, hid in the 7th floor of the underground—the bottom of the entire air defense bunker.

"General Charles, don't Chinese bombs drop straight from the sky?" Even though he was hiding 20 meters underground, Guo Jiqiao still had lingering fears and couldn't calm down to do business. He always worried about his health from time to time. safety.

William Childs waved his hand to drive away the smog in front of his nose, "Impossible....It should be impossible. To penetrate the 7-storey basement, the bomb must weigh more than 10 tons, and the bomber needs to be dropped at a height of 9000 meters. I I don’t think China has such a heavy bomber yet.”

The seventh floor of the underground bunker is very narrow, the key is that the power of the exhaust fan is not enough.Guo Jiqiao smoked when he got nervous, and he had already smoked half a pack of camels after going down to the 7th floor of the basement for an hour.William Childs was really suffocated by the second-hand smoke, but he had to stay in the same room with Guo Jiqiao—because of the Chinese bomb or missile, the senior national army and the leadership of the US military advisory group dare not stay on the ground.

At 4:12 on April 0, Chiang Kai-shek's camp was bombed.For several hours after that, the top military and political leaders of the national army in Taichung, Tainan, and Taipei have been trying to figure out what happened.Even the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei just wondered why the radio and cable telegrams of the Taichung camp were silent for so long.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, a unit from Taichung rushed to Hemei Town and used a confidential radio station to contact Taipei's Ministry of National Defense. Only then did Guo Jiqiao know that something had happened to the president, the commander-in-chief, and the two commanders.

"According to the witnesses of the battalion security forces, at around zero o'clock, a bright spot with a tail of fire appeared on the western skyline, which should be a missile of the Communist Army. The missile approached quickly, and when it was several hundred meters away from the manor, it made a sound of thunder and whistling, and then hit the presidential camp. 10 to 15 seconds after the first missile struck, the second missile struck, traveling on the same route as the first one. A total of 4 missiles struck and the four-story manor building was completely destroyed. The guards were shocked and immediately Rescue was carried out, but the site was full of rubble, flames were raging, the wounded fled everywhere, and the security forces had no rescue equipment in hand, so the rescue progress was extremely slow, and the remains of the president and chief executive have not been found so far..."

"Around zero o'clock, the President, Chief Zhou Zhirou, Commander-in-Chief Hu Zongnan of the Army, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force Wang Shuming, and Commander Hu Lian of the First Corps were discussing the war in the conference hall on the third floor of the camp. Their lives and deaths were unknown."

Guo Jiqiao thought that the unknown of life and death was just a professional vocabulary in the field of forensic medicine. Four large missiles pierced the manor and turned the manor into a pile of broken bricks. The four people were basically killed on the spot.

Before he had time to be shocked, Guo Jiqiao had to consider another question: the Communist Army eliminated President Chiang Kai-shek in one blow, so would they follow up with me, the Minister of Defense, in a second wave?After all, I also have the authority to command the entire national army. After the president dies, I will be the supreme commander of the armed forces!

Guo Jiqiao immediately started to move. The first thing he thought of was the underground air defense bunker of the Ministry of National Defense, but the basement under this building of the Ministry of Defense has only two floors, and he felt that it was not safe enough.

Presidential Palace - The original Taiwan Governor's Palace has an extremely deep underground bunker, and it should be much safer to hide there.

On the way to the presidential palace, Guo Jiqiao encountered a convoy of the US military advisory group. Several jeeps carried William Childs, the head of the advisory group, and seven or eight officers.The two groups broke into the presidential palace together and directly took over the underground bunker.

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"General William, what should we do now?" Guo Jiqiao asked.

"Waiting for reinforcements, or preparing to evacuate," replied William Childs curtly.

This answer, though brief, exhaustively exhausts all available options.Guo Jiqiao did not get any effective information after listening.

"How many reinforcements will there be, and where will we evacuate?"

"Reinforcement... takes time. Frankly speaking, since the Korean armistice agreement was signed less than 48 hours ago, the US military in the Far East is not ready to reinforce Taiwan. Whether it is troops, sea ships or ammunition supplies, we don't have it now. Even the troops stationed in Japan are scattered, and the shipping ships are either in Busan or in Hawaii. The ammunition and supplies are all prepared for the war on the Korean peninsula. It will take time to reorganize. General Guo, if you really want to hold Taiwan , then you will need to use your own troops to defend half of Taiwan for 10 days. Whether or not American reinforcements will come after 10 days will depend on the situation on Taiwan Island at that time. If your remaining troops at that time add 1 to 2 If one US division can control a large area and maintain the stability of the front line for a long time, then we will reinforce two divisions to Taiwan, and after that, more US troops will continue to land on Taiwan Island.”

"10 days?"

Hearing what William Childs said, Guo Jiqiao felt a little cold.

"But this is only about the ground forces. The reinforcements of the navy and air force have already set off. An hour ago, 1 F-40 fighter jets took off from Okinawa, and the destination of the transition is Taipei." William Childs said, " Valley Forge will arrive east of Taiwan in 86 hours and Princeton will arrive in Balingtang Strait on April 36th. Well, I know the air force will have a hard time breaking through the Chinese military's missiles right now. However, the air force can prevent Chinese aircraft from carrying out deep attacks on you bombing."

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Over the central part of Taiwan, the joint fleet of the First Air Division and the Second Air Division is engaged in a large-scale air battle with the National Army Air Force.

The result of this air battle is likely to be related to the direction of the battle on the first day of landing.

The army of the national army was rotten during the three-year liberation war. The so-called Imperial Forest Army reorganized the 74th Division. After being wiped out, Hua Ye discovered that this was still a battle of "double positive gains": the ammunition captured was greater than the ammunition consumed in the annihilation war; The Liberation fighters replenished in the war were greater than the losses in the battle.However, in stark contrast to the army, the national army's air force has good combat capabilities no matter during the liberation war or after the mainland is basically liberated.

Some people say that this is because the Air Force integrates large industries and cutting-edge technologies, and equipment occupies a higher proportion of the Air Force's combat capabilities.Others said it was another reason: the pilots went out with the plane, and they couldn’t raise their hands to surrender if they didn’t want to fight.This makes it less important for the air force, especially fighter pilots, to have high morale.

This is probably the case with the current Air Force of the National Army. Before the morale barrier was broken down, more than 30 F-86s and 10 F-84s took off from the airports in Taoyuan and Taipei in one wave. The teacher played well.