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Yang Deqing, commander of the 78st Battalion of the 232nd Regiment of the 76th Amphibious Mechanized Division, drove the PT-76 out of the cabin first.The amphibious tank drove forward along the springboard and slowly sank into the sea.Yang Deqing gradually felt the vibration of the tracks walking on the steel floor of the landing ship disappear. Suddenly, the tank floated sideways, and he confirmed that it was Hai Bo who was moving the tank. PT-[-] enters the state of water navigation.
Yang Deqing started the water propulsion propeller the moment he got out of the cabin. Now that the duct has been filled with seawater, the PT-76 gradually increased its speed under the propulsion of the propeller and drove towards the shore.
The captain of the second PT-76 saw through the searchlights that Yang Deqing's lead car had driven more than 50 meters away, so he ordered the driver to drive forward.Like the first tank, the second tank floated up smoothly after getting out of the tank.
The third PT-76 was a little crooked when it got out of the cabin. Halfway through the water, the side of the tank scraped against the bow door of the landing ship, making a harsh creaking sound. The crew of the landing ship yelled nervously. The commander used the walkie-talkie to scold the commander of No. 76 car.Fortunately, the tank only shifted slightly, and with a strange creaking sound, the PT-[-] unsteadily opened its first door and entered the sea.
After the No. [-] vehicle entered the sea smoothly, the first spray of enemy shells exploded near the landing ship.
"It's a mortar!" The landing commander judged. "Don't bother, continue to leave the cabin!"
Mortars of 82 mm and above can be destroyed on the spot if they directly hit the PT-76 sailing on the water.But if it hits the top of the landing ship, it will not have much effect.
The howitzers and cannons of the national army did not appear, only mortars, which shows that the national army on the shore either did not have heavy firepower, or the heavy firepower was transferred away by the feint attacking troops.
At 3:33 in the morning, the lead vehicle of PT-76 ended being shaken by the waves, and a violent vibration indicated that the tracks had re-contacted the land.Yang Deqing slammed the gas pedal, the diesel engine of the tank roared, and the tracks pulled desperately on the mud and fine sand, lifting the tank out of the water bit by bit until it was completely driving on land.
Before dawn on April 4, the first batch of landing troops-two amphibious tank battalions and a reinforced amphibious mechanized infantry battalion landed in Taixi Township, Yunlin County, and the ground battle of the Taiwan Campaign began.
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over the Taiwan Strait.
The 4 Tu-4s were divided into two teams to search for the damaged U.S. and national warships in the strait.
Although Figure-4 and Figure-2 are equipped with airborne radars, they are all search/fire control radars installed on the nose, which cannot detect the aircraft in all directions, front, rear, left, and right, and can only see a small sector in front of the nose.Therefore, although the approximate location of the enemy ship is known from the missile boat force, in order to locate it accurately, it is still necessary to adjust the distance and adjust the formation to search.
In the built-in magazine of the Tu-4 bomber, six Eagle Strike-1 anti-ship missiles are firmly hung on the pylons, and the four Tu-4s have a total of 24 missiles.
At the front of Xiamen, Commander Liu Yelou patted his chest and said confidently that these four Tu-4s will definitely solve all problems and create three new records in the history of the People's Air Force's military establishment:
The first time to sink a US Navy warship; the first to sink a warship of more than [-] tons;
The officers and soldiers of the US ship paralyzed on the sea...they have no feeling for the approaching Tu-4 special bomber now, because there is no available air search radar on the three sunk ships.
On the light cruiser "Manchester", the acting captain sent a report to the Seventh Fleet asking if the ship could be abandoned. The Seventh Fleet rejected the proposal after thinking about it, and asked them to keep the warship afloat and wait for rescue, but ready to abandon the ship at any time. The preparation of the ship.
It's also a tough choice.If you continue to stay on the warship, you may be supplemented by bombers of the Chinese Air Force or small boats of the Navy.But if they all jumped into the sea and escaped, a considerable part of the dozens of wounded on board might die.Even uninjured crew members can be lost after drifting in the sea for several hours.
The officers and men of the "Manchester" will soon no longer have to do multiple-choice questions.Those who looked at the night sky on the deck saw four bright spots in two directions approaching themselves.If there are people among them who watched the sky from the deck and bridge when they were attacked for the first time, they will find that these bright spots are exactly the same as those in the first and second attacks.
The first two attacks proved that anti-ship missiles fired from the broadside of an enemy ship can do more damage.But here comes the question, how to tell from the radar screen whether the warship's bow is facing itself or its side is facing itself?
If you can't tell the difference, then let the bomber launch anti-ship missiles from two directions at the same time, so that at least one group of missiles can hit the enemy ship's side.
Chapter 40, It's Daylight
“232团一营、二营参战62辆PT-76两栖坦克，全部安全出门。航渡途中一辆翻沉，人员安全逃生。21辆上岸时淤陷抛锚。其余40辆坦克在第一时间投入战斗。至4时40分，登陆突击队顺利突破敌滩头防线，推进至距海岸线1000米到1200米区域。PT-76坦克战斗中被击毁1辆，击伤3辆。”
Ye Hui, the commander of the 10th Corps, covered his face in embarrassment when he heard the news, "Why did 21 tanks get stuck in it? They didn't perform so badly in training in Xiamen and Penghu before."
"The geographical conditions of the coastline from Taichung to Tainan are indeed relatively poor," Zhang Zhen explained for Ye Hui. "The slope is too gentle, and the sediment on the seabed and the beach is extremely soft. Sometimes amphibious tanks and armored vehicles get stuck in the mud when they go ashore. Avoid. Fortunately, the silted tanks are not really damaged, and when the battle comes to an end, the tanks can be assisted by mutual assistance and infantry assistance to pull these tanks out.”
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In the past hour, the 1th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the 5st Army of the National Army in the Taixi Township position has gone through a process from a dangerous defense to a complete collapse.
Although the 5th regiment is a full regiment of 2000 people, it has to defend an 8-kilometer coastline. Basically, the first-line infantry has its own position in the trenches and artillery fortifications. The second-line reserve team is played by other divisions and regiments.
Before dawn, two-thirds of the 5th regiment were sleeping, and one-third were on night duty.
When the overwhelming rocket bombs hit the position, the defenders were actually just blown away, destroying some trenches, destroying some anti-aircraft guns, and destroying some mortars, and the rest of the losses were not great.After waiting for a few minutes, the soldier recovered from his dizziness and rushed to his position.It was still dark, but there were flashes of guns and guns on the coastline from time to time. There was a big flash, and after a while, a shell exploded on the ground.
However, at this time, the defenders could not see what the enemy looked like at all.The few remaining guns of the mortar company behind the front line hastily replaced with flares, and fired a wave towards the beach. Only then did the defenders see the enemy—dozens of iron monsters on the beach, some of which had already left the beach. The sand is rushing inland quickly.
"Tanks! Tanks! Communist tanks are coming!"
In the dark night, an amphibious tank turned its turret slightly, facing the heavy machine gun position with a string of tracer bullets.After this string of bullets, the infantry near the tank fired at the impact point of the tank with all the firearms and grenades. The heavy machine gun position was in a mess under the chaos of the guns. There were many casualties and two heavy machine guns were broken instantly .
"One o'clock direction, one o'clock direction!" After firing the tracer bullets indicating the firepower to guide the infantry to eliminate the machine gun position, the PT-76 aimed at a bunker 700 meters away.
Illuminated by the active infrared headlights, the bunker appeared as a well-defined outline on the gunner's display.
The driver brakes, and the PT-76 makes an emergency stop.When the tank stabilized, the gunner aimed at the bunker and fired a high-explosive round.From the active infrared night vision device, some fragments suddenly flew up, down, left, and right of the bunker. After the fragments disappeared, the main part of the bunker seemed to be still there.
"If it doesn't solve the problem once, try again!"
The PT-76 shook, and the second shell was fired.
"The bunker is still there, let's do it again!"
The beach was too big, there were too few flares, and the anti-landing ditch walls and barriers were ineffective against the tanks. The 5th Regiment found that no matter how much they fired wildly, they could not stop the advance of the amphibious tanks and infantry.What confused the defenders even more was that the communist tanks that went ashore did not fire flares themselves, but they seemed to know where the defenders' machine gun positions were, where the bunkers were, and where the anti-aircraft guns were.Anti-aircraft guns are the priority for tanks to clear. Two of the seven or eight anti-aircraft guns on the first landing site were lost when the rockets covered them.Some anti-aircraft guns and even the gunners were fed a grenade by several tanks and exploded into parts before the gunner fired the first round.
Soon the first PT-76 roared and crossed the first trench. The soldiers of the 5th Regiment of the National Army did not have the spirit of using cluster grenades or explosives to cover up jade, and chose to surrender in front of the Marine soldiers who were closely following the tanks.
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At 4:40, the sky was turning white. In the past hour, the PT-76 tanks and the infantrymen of the Marine Corps carrying the "Big Buffalo" cleared the first line of defense. The landing craft are off the shore.
On the surface of the sea, more than 50 LCI infantry landing craft divided into three groups and rushed to the beach. The blunt bow of the boat split the sea water and made white waves on both sides of the boat.
登陆艇上装着的是20军58师172团、173团、174团的步兵部队。
As the fist of the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army, the 9th Army of the 20th Corps fought fiercely at Changjin Lake in the second battle and severely damaged the First Land Division; The collapse of the Western Front.After five battles, the 20th Army fought several more times in North Korea, each time leaving an indelible mark on the US military.By 20, the 1952th Army, like the 20th, 38th, and 39th Army, was regarded as the strongest combat force of the Volunteer Army in the archives of the Intelligence Section of the United Nations General Staff.
From the ice and snow in North Korea to the sandy islands along the southeast coast, the 20th Army first fought the national army, then the U.S. army and the South Korean army, and now it is turning around to fight the national army.
Now these national troops on Taiwan Island are stronger than those on the mainland.
But the 20th Army has also become stronger, and much stronger.
"Boom—wow—"
"It's the US-made 105 grenade." On the bridge of the landing craft, the head of the 172 regiment judged the type of the shell from the sound of the shell's explosion.
"The heavy artillery of the national army has finally reacted." The commander of the first battalion said.
More than 20 seconds later, several water columns appeared between the landing craft formations.
"It may be the artillery battalion of the 2th Regiment of the 5nd Division of the National Army in person. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are only 7 guns firing." The regiment leader said, "Don't pay attention to him, just these few guns, speed through Over the coverage area!"
In the water column raised by the shell explosion one after another, dozens of landing craft docked one after another.When one of them was about to dock, the side of the ship was hit directly by a 105mm grenade.After the gunpowder smoke cleared, the shell of the 380-ton landing craft collapsed into several square meters, and the most concave steel plate was torn by shells to reveal a large hole.However, the landing craft swayed a bit and rushed ashore.After the first door was lowered, some of the uninjured officers and fighters disembarked and charged, and another dozen people took care of the wounded. The crew of the landing craft checked the water leakage to see if they could return to the voyage.
On the beach, the commanders and fighters of the 58th Division were either wading in waist-deep water, or wading in thigh-deep water, or knee-deep sea water, struggling to march towards the land.In the landing battle of the World War II model, the worst situation is that the beachhead is covered by the firepower of the defenders' preset positions. The amphibious tanks carry out the first wave of assaults at night, just to make it safer for large troops to go ashore.
"Rockets, rockets, my rockets!" A soldier stepped on a bunker, fell into the water, rebalanced his body and stood up. Three of the 40mm rockets on his back came loose.
"Don't worry about it so much, don't lose the remaining 3 rounds!" The platoon leader turned his head.