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"According to our observations since 1951, the surface ships of the US military patrolling the Taiwan Strait have been relatively stable. The normal cruise fleet is composed of 4 fleet destroyers plus a light cruiser. The destroyers are Fletcher-class or Keeling. Most of the light cruisers are the Cleveland class, and the Atlanta class may also be the main light cruiser. The home port of the cruise fleet is in Yokosuka. During the cruise mission, it sailed about 1800 kilometers from Yokosuka to northern Taiwan. Low-speed cruising in between. After every 3 weeks of cruising, stop at Keelung Port in northern Taiwan for a 3-day rest, and then continue to conduct low-speed cruising west of the island; after completing three 3-week cruising cycles, return to Yokosuka. Rush to Taiwan to take over."

"The U.S. Navy's surface warships, including heavy cruisers, patrolled around the island of Taiwan. This happened twice in 1951 and once in 1952. In addition, there were several cases where the U.S. Navy's heavy cruisers passed through the Taiwan Strait when they were mobilized, but they did not act. Normal statistics. The cruise formation that US heavy cruisers participate in is 1 heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser, and 4 destroyers, that is, except for the addition of a heavy cruiser, the formation of the rest of the surface ships is the same as the normal patrol fleet.”

"Because the U.S. Navy needs to deploy heavy cruisers and even battleships on the east and west coasts of North Korea as a force to control the sea and deter ports on the shore, it is impossible for the heavy cruisers of the Seventh Fleet to cruise around Taiwan on a regular basis. Add 3 to 4 more heavy cruisers to the fleet."

"We still need to consider the special situation of US Navy surface ships, that is, there are 2 surface patrol units near Taiwan, with a total of 8 destroyers and 2 light cruisers. If the US military is vigilant about the situation in the Taiwan Strait and realizes that we have There is no sign of troop mobilization, and the most likely way to increase the number of troops is to increase the patrol unit of surface ships."

"As far as Chiang Kai-shek's navy is concerned, according to the current statistics, the original old-style Japanese landing ships of the navy have been basically abandoned, and the current surface ships are almost all American-made ships. Its main force is 6 Fletcher-class, 1 Keeling-class and 1 One of the Sumner-class ships, of which one Fletcher-class ship was stranded and damaged when it returned to the ship in mid-1. Some repair work was carried out in Keelung Port, but it may not be completely repaired. In addition to the 1952 fleet destroyers, the Chiang Kai-shek Navy There were also a larger number of escort destroyers, 8 of which were listed by early 1953."

"The home port of the Chiang Kai-shek Navy's fleet destroyers is all in Keelung. There are 12 escort destroyers in Kaohsiung and 2 in Keelung. The distance between Kaohsiung Port and Penghu is closer, so although the maximum speed of the escort destroyers is only 21 knots, after the battle started, these escort destroyers Destroyers may be the first reinforcements to arrive at the landing area."

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"If you consider that the U.S. military has two patrol units near Taiwan, plus Chiang Kai-shek's U.S.-made warships, the pressure on this number is very high." Su Yu said, "To ensure the smooth passage of landing sea transportation, the navy and the air force must cooperate with each other. .”

"The navy's original construction plan was completed relatively late. When we launched the Taiwan War in 1953, we were 'unachieved'. It was only two years away." Commander Xiao of the Navy said, "However, if the missile speedboat detachment and surface frigates can be hidden Moving to Penghu can provide a safe passage for the landing fleet."

"The maintenance of the landing channel still depends mainly on the Penghu airport." Liu Yelou said, "The Penghu airport can accommodate 80 to 90 aircraft now. Reconnaissance aircraft. 15 fighter jets can hold up protective umbrellas in the strait of tens of kilometers anyway, and if the aircraft at the front-line airports are damaged in battle, they can take off from the airports of Xiamen and Fuzhou to replenish them. Figure-72 of attacking the sea And Tu-2, they mainly take off from airports in Zhejiang and Fujian."

Zhang Zhen interjected: "The unexpected situation we have to consider is the safety of Penghu Airport. The focus is not on the bombing of US or Chiang's planes, but the possibility of warships approaching Penghu to launch shelling. The coast batteries of our army on the Penghu Islands can drive away destroyers and light cruisers. , but if the U.S. and Jiang forces concentrate their main ships to counterattack, or even have heavy cruisers join the battle, our coastal defense forces may be relatively passive. At that time, naval missile boat units may be required to participate in coastal defense.”

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Taiwan, Keelung Port.

In a poorly located secondary pier in the port, a large warship more than 100 meters long is moored here. This is the first-class main destroyer "Danyang" of the National Army and Navy three years ago.

Three years ago, it was the main destroyer, and three years later, it is... the king of the pier, a warship that only exists in the ship list. Whether it is training at sea or patrolling the strait, no one has ever seen the "Danyang" .In fact, from the thick marine plants at the waterline, the rusty hull, and the dirty decks and cannons, it can also be seen that the "Danyang" is now in a semi-abandoned state.

"Sometimes they talk about counterattacking the mainland, and another time they talk about building Taiwan into a golden city. Well, it's up to you, but no matter whether you counterattack or stick to it, such a large warship has been lying here for more than two years. Is President Chang's navy so wasted? "

The dock workers in Keelung got off work and walked out of the port area in groups. One of the department workers looked back at the "Danyang" in the twilight.

"This ship is called Danyang Ship, it's amazing." The old worker in the port area said, "This ship is full of bad luck. No matter who it is, as long as it goes to sea with it, it will definitely be bad luck. Dare to drive it out."

"So miraculous?"

"In the Battle of Penghu in the 39th year of the Republic of China, the navy didn't know how powerful the Danyang ship was at that time, so it sent it out to sea to meet the enemy. Good guy, there are 5 warships including it. If any one of the warships is taken out alone, it will liberate-liberate- The army and the navy were unable to defeat them. As a result, before they got close to Penghu, the five warships were bombed by planes. The bombs fell one after another, and four of the five warships sank with a bang. Even Commander Gui Yongqing died for his country. But the Danyang ship came back unscathed. Even a bomb that hit the Danyang ship was a dud, and it fell into the sea after rubbing the bow."

"That's not all. The Danyang ship used to be called the Snow Wind in the Japanese Navy. At that time, it was recognized as an unlucky ship by the Japanese Navy. Yamato, you know? Japan's largest battleship was bombed and sunk by American planes as soon as it was launched. , Among the destroyers escorting Yamato, there is Yukikaze."

"Yes, yes, Xuefeng was able to kill many Japanese warships back then. It's not that he believed in superstition. Sometimes luck is a mysterious thing."

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Tainan.

The newly formed 1st Army and 3rd Army of the National Army held a joint anti-landing exercise in Taiwan.

"The first battalion of tanks is in place!" "The second battalion of tanks is in place!"

The commander of the 3th Division of the 7rd Army loudly ordered through the walkie-talkie: "Shoot!"

More than 50 "Sherman" medium tanks lined up neatly on the beach, with more than 50 barrels pointing directly at the sea.The tank commander heard the division commander's order and fired into the sea together, and the beach was filled with gunpowder immediately.About 500 meters away from the shore in the sea, two floating targets have long been set up, one red and one orange.The tanks of the two tank battalions fought separately, the first battalion hit red targets, and the second battalion hit blue targets.

All the officers of the exercise headquarters located by the sea are looking at the targets in the sea with binoculars.The first round of tank gun fire, dozens of shells set off a water column around the target, as if the target was buried in the forest.The accuracy of this direct-point shooting was really good. Each target was hit by three or four shells. The scrapped fishing boat used as a target was blown up and gradually fell apart with flames and thick smoke.

Hu Lian, commander of the Tainan Defense Group Army, stared at the shattered targets in the sea and remained silent.

"Commander, our 3rd Army is guarding Tainan. It has conducted anti-landing drills for half a year. The current soldiers have excellent training results, are skilled in techniques and tactics, and have the support of the Air Force and Navy. On occasion!"

"Who taught you to put the tank on the beach?" Hu Lian asked.

Although the US military's advisory group is mainly concentrated in the air force and navy, there are also more than 100 army officers serving as military advisors, responsible for training the six armies that Chiang Kai-shek has successively formed.Hu Lian didn't remember that in the tactical manual issued by the US military's advisory group, there were regulations on driving tanks to the beach and firing cannons at the sea.In fact, Hu Lian was taught by American instructors when he was still leading troops in the mainland, and the US military at that time would not teach like this.On the contrary, the US military instructors might scold Hu Lian until he sees this scene.This is to expose the armored forces to all the enemy's firepower. When the bombers, attack aircraft, warship main guns, and machine guns greet you, your tanks will all kneel on the beach before they have time to fire. on.

"This...is the personal training of the president. In July 41, the president inspected our troops' combat drills and personally pointed out that the anti-landing must wipe out the enemy in the sea and win the battle on the beach. He brought the tanks to the shore and carried forward Taking aim at the advantage of firepower, we can wipe out most of the bandit army's landing ships before they dock, preventing the bandit army from having a chance to go ashore."

Hu Lian took a deep breath, held back all the words he wanted to say, and continued to silently watch the exercise site through the binoculars.

Chapter 23, I have a meeting, I have to show my face

Return to Beijing on March 3. On March 1, the fourth plenary meeting of the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

The third plenary meeting was in September 1951, a year and a half ago.Throughout 9, the CPPCC did not hold a plenary session.At this moment, the CPPCC has not fixed the meeting time, unlike the later two sessions which are fixed a little after the Spring Festival, but meet according to the circumstances.I felt that many important events had happened, and it was necessary to hold a general meeting, so I called everyone to hold a meeting.

I remember that what Tang Hua did in the third plenary meeting was to install an electronic voting and counting system for the venue. Although it was just a work for fresh graduates to practice, it also made the literati and Confucians in the CPPCC deeply doubt their worldview.Some were afraid to touch the button, and some were secretly playing with the button throughout the meeting.Some looked at the buttons in front of them and the big screen on the rostrum and lost their minds, while some hopeless people ignored it as a trick.

It is also impossible to make all the literati committee members fall into thinking. If some people can rethink from a different perspective, then the result will be good.

"Dear members of the Standing Committee, members, hello, I'm Tang Hua. I haven't seen you for a year and a half. I miss you so much!"

The committee members present responded with a "hahaha", anyway, everyone is familiar with it.In this era of simple information exchange, many ordinary people may not know Tang Hua's face. The committee members must be familiar with Tang Hua's face, and how many people here have met Tang Hua face to face?There must be seven or 80 people.

"After a year and a half, we returned to the familiar venue and saw the familiar screen and the logo of the CPPCC meeting. However, the electronic voting and counting system at the venue today has some changes from the first version in 1951. So it's up to me to explain these functions. First of all, you can see that the buttons on the table have changed from 3 to 4. Among them, the three buttons on the right hand side are the same as before, for and against abstention, and three voting buttons The white button on the left hand, um, is to call the staff of the political association. Every button on the table will have a unique number at the staff's duty desk after you press it, so if you need it, such as tea It's over, as long as you press the call button, the staff will rush over to help."

"Another difference, we noticed some changes on the screen, that is... the font has changed, it should look better, right? This is the first small-scale trial of the dot matrix font produced by the Huawei Beijing Research Institute of the Electronic Information Industry Bureau. Now The dot-matrix fonts of 6300 simplified Chinese characters have basically been produced. If all goes well, they will be used in the computer systems developed and produced in my country in the near future. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Mr. Dong Lao, Qi Gong, Sha Menghai, and Mr. Shen Yinmo for their support Dot matrix fonts and future vector font design and production have made great contributions, and I would also like to thank the chairman for providing a lot of materials and suggestions for calligraphy font production.”

With the unremitting efforts of Huawei's Beijing Research Institute—the official name is the Institute of Chinese Character Informatization—the 6300X16 and 16X24 dot matrix sub-models with 24 Chinese characters have basically been produced.However, the first version of simplified Chinese characters is still being discussed and solicited opinions across the country. Two rounds of opinion solicitation have been carried out, and there will be a final round according to the process.After the third round of opinion collection and sorting, the simplified Chinese characters will be officially finalized.However, it is estimated that there are not many characters that need to be revised in the third round of opinion solicitation and discussion. Twenty or thirty Chinese characters have been exhausted. At that time, the fonts of these twenty or thirty Chinese characters can be changed.Dot matrix fonts with thousands of Chinese characters sound scary, but actually the workload is not bad. The three input methods—telegram code input, Wubi input, and new Chinese pinyin input are the most difficult projects that the Beijing Institute is currently working on.

"In the past year and six months, the Bureau of Electronics and Information Industry not only provided the electronic voting and counting system for the CPPCC meeting, but also presented a set of such system to the Soviet Union, which was installed in the venue of the Supreme Soviet of the whole Soviet Union as a The symbol of friendship between the two countries. In addition, the better news is that the six Soviet republics of Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan purchased electronic voting counting systems from China and installed them in the Supreme Soviet venues of these republics. In addition to computers and voting counting systems, the products exported by the Electronic Information Industry Bureau also include many other scientific and technological products. The export of these products has not only made an important contribution to the improvement of the productivity and scientific strength of the socialist camp, but also contributed to the development of China's industry. Development and solid industrial foundation provide valuable foreign exchange. The future of China lies in industry and technology. It is the dream and goal of our generation to occupy the forefront of science and technology and realize the industrialization of the country as soon as possible. Now we are moving towards this goal .”

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"Tang Hua, do you want to skip the meeting again?"

During the lunch break, Tang Hua turned his head, and the Prime Minister was staring at him.

this……

In the first, second, and third meetings of the CPPCC, except for the first meeting of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 49, Tang Hua sat down honestly from beginning to end, and escaped from the second and third meetings.

During the second plenary meeting in June 1950, Tang Hua gave Wang Zheng a walkie-talkie on the first day of the meeting, and then the two happily drove a jeep out to test the DJ-6.After the test, go directly to the Electronics Bureau to discuss the mass production and capacity adjustment of DJ-1.

The third meeting in September 1951 Tang Hua prepared for the skipped meeting from the beginning. Before the meeting, the teaching committee members used the voting and counting system. Delay business.

Today's fourth meeting, on the first day, took the opportunity to explain the new functions of the voting and counting system, and also talked about the blabla of the Ministry of Heavy Industry and the Electronic Information Industry Bureau.

"The War Situation Center, my office in the Intelligence Department of the General Staff..." Tang Hua returned to the Prime Minister.

"There is no one in the combat situation center. So is the general staff. The chairman is here, Mr. Zhu and I are also here, and Chief of Staff Su is also here and he will appear from beginning to end. Even Secretary Deng has flown back from Fujian. Make a high-profile appearance."

"Understood," Tang Hua said, "Cross the sea with the truth."

The transfer of hundreds of thousands of troops must be concealed, the transportation of food, ammunition, fuel oil and weapons used in the Taiwan campaign must also be concealed, and the location of the commanders must of course be strategically deceived.That is to show a false appearance in front of everyone: Su Yu continues to serve as a rear staff member for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in the General Staff; Secretary Deng is busy with government affairs.

"So you stay here too. This meeting does not have the deliberation and evaluation of the delegates. The total duration of the meeting is only four days, and it will not be too long."

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