Chapter 43: Propaganda Warfare

The New Fifth Army is the first batch of units in the National Army to receive protective umbrella training, and the entire New Fifth Army has more than 40,000 troops, all of which are equipped with new weapons and equipment produced by the Ruili Ordnance Base. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn order to attack Taiwan this time, Zhuo Fei also mobilized a large number of landing ships from the Kuala Lumpur shipyard to equip the New Fifth Army, and when the Second Transport Fleet in Jiaodong was heading south, the New Fifth Army was also urgently rushing south to Taizhou, which is across the sea from Taiwan.

"Boss, when we were arresting Japanese spies in Taizhou City, we found several intelligence officers who had just been dispatched by the Japanese Army Headquarters in Taiwan. After our interrogation, according to their confessions, the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan seem to have sensed that we are about to launch a campaign to attack Taiwan, and the entire Taiwan region, especially the top level of the Japanese garrison, has fallen into a panic. However, this news has not yet spread among the grassroots of the army and among civilians. Otherwise, the whole of Taiwan will surely fall into turmoil before we attack. ”

Zhuo Fei's military plane had just landed at Taizhou Airport and had arrived in Taizhou a few days in advance. "Wait, you just said that after the high-level Japanese military in Taiwan learned the news that we were about to attack Taiwan, they had fallen into chaos, but because the news had not yet spread, the grassroots troops of the Japanese army in Taiwan and the Japanese expatriates had not yet reacted?" Zhuo Fei, who stopped, immediately realized the point of Vivian's words just now, and immediately opened his mouth in conviction.

"That's right, boss, I don't know if this news will be useful for this campaign to attack Taiwan, but this is the intelligence detected by the intelligence officers lurking in Taiwan today." Vivien replied.

"It's useful, it's so useful, although the whole campaign to attack Taiwan hasn't really started yet. However, this message does work for us, and maybe it can be of great use. Zhuo Fei's face showed a hint of excitement, and his eyes were even more expectant, but Vivian didn't understand Zhuo Fei's words very well.

"In this way, you should immediately organize manpower and print a large number of leaflets in the shortest possible time, and the content of the leaflets is the news that we are preparing to attack Taiwan. Don't worry about the cost, I just need to see a lot of leaflets, and for other things, I'll arrange for Professor Roma to come to you at that time. Zhuo Fei, who had already gotten into the car, whispered a mysterious order to Vivian.

"Boss, what do you want...?" Vivien asked with a puzzled expression.

Zhuo Fei, who lit a cigarette, smiled first, and then explained to Vivian, "You also said just now, Taiwan already knows the news that we are going to attack Taiwan, since the Japanese grassroots army and ordinary overseas Chinese in Taiwan still don't know that we are about to launch a campaign to attack Taiwan, then we will add a fire to the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan, so that this news can spread throughout the Taiwan region." Then, we will force the entire Taiwan region to completely mess up before we launch a real attack. ”

"Boss, you plan to fight a propaganda war with the enemy first, first completely let the Taiwanese Japanese army and the diaspora riot, and then affect the defense deployment of the Taiwanese Japanese army, and then I understand, please rest assured, boss, I promise to complete the task...."Vivian, who looked thoughtful, pondered for a while, and then suddenly realized that Xiang Zhuo Fei was very confident and assured.

When the umbrella power attacked Kyushu Island, the Japanese army in Taiwan did not feel anything, and then organized troops to prepare to rush to Kyushu Island to rescue and aid the war, but they did not want to be blocked by the umbrella fleet in the waters of Okinawa. What happened next began to deviate from the expectations of the Taiwan garrison, and the protective umbrella not only successfully pressed Kyushu Island, but also the US-Australian coalition forces that were originally besieging the Philippines suddenly divided their forces to launch an attack on Okinawa, so that Taiwan became a lone child far from the mainland.

The development of the war was so changeable, and the attitude of the local people was so strange that the Japanese army in Taiwan was very frightened. Later, the telegram from the mainland became the source of complete panic among the Japanese troops in Taiwan, who did not know whether the umbrella and the Chinese army would be aimed at Taiwan once the US-Australian coalition forces took Okinawa. Although the news that the Umbrella and the Chinese army were about to attack Taiwan was not conclusively confirmed, the Japanese Army Command stationed in Taiwan nevertheless immediately issued a readiness for the Japanese forces in Taiwan to enter a combat state. As soon as the order was given, both the battle-hardened Japanese troops and the well-trained local newly-built units in Taiwan were all distributed with live ammunition as soon as possible, and they were ready to fight at any time.

Taipei, one of the few major cities in Taiwan, has been placed under military martial law. However, the commercial city has not been deserted by the order of martial law, and is still as usual enveloped in the ubiquitous noise. On the third day after Zhuo Fei arrived in Taizhou, the roar of a huge engine appeared in the sky from far and near, across the strait, over Taipei, and in the clear blue sky, more than a dozen looming black dots vaguely appeared.

Regarding the appearance of the plane, the military and civilians in Taipei City did not show any panic. After all, for decades, since Taiwan was completely occupied by the Japanese army, it seems that no aircraft from other countries other than the Japanese air force will appear in the skies over Taiwan. The bustling crowd, facing the planes whose controls were becoming clearer and clearer, was still what to do or what to do, without any panic.

However, the next scene made the people in Taipei City can't help but stop in place. "Look, there's something thrown in the plane....." The dozen or so planes that lowered their noses in mid-air did not make the people on the ground wait too long, and as the pilots pulled the noses up again, large bags of leaflets fell from the belly of the plane, and after a few seconds, these leaflets that fell from the belly of the plane were scattered in the sky like scattered flowers. The sky over the entire Taipei was almost shrouded in snow-white leaflets, and from a distance, it looked like the sky was as spectacular as snow.

"What is this. This is a leaflet, a leaflet dropped by the plane, the Nationalist Government is ready to send troops to recover Taiwan, and Taiwan will return to the embrace of the motherland.... Haha, the government has not forgotten us in Taiwan after all. Little devil, the end of the little devil is coming for decades, and I have finally waited for this day."

"More than a million little devils in the Central Plains have been wiped out, and it is only a matter of time before these tens of thousands of little devils in Taiwan are wiped out. We are finally saved, we are finally saved..."The Chinese people in the city who picked up the leaflets, after seeing the contents of the leaflets, all rushed to tell each other with joy and excitement, and even more so they were already in tears, shouting that they would go home first to pay tribute to their ancestors.

"Order the army to put martial law on the whole city, search and immediately destroy all leaflets dropped by the planes, and then keep the news tightly sealed and prevent it from spreading to the outside world." The Japanese command in Taipei, who learned the news, immediately reacted, and a large number of troops were transferred into the city to search for the leaflets dropped by the planes, but they did not have the means to conduct a detailed search of the whole city, and in the end many leaflets were secretly hidden.

Contrary to the decision of the military leadership, many junior officers or ordinary soldiers in the Japanese army also came into contact with these leaflets at the first time, and when they were in the whole city, they were not among the people who were being searched. "The people of China are preparing to counterattack Taiwan, is it true that the imperial army was wiped out by the army of China? No, we must immediately go to our superiors to ask for clarification, and we must confirm the authenticity of the leaflets..." After reading the contents of the leaflets, the junior officers who had been tightly sealed by the Japanese military command in Taiwan were puzzled, and some people immediately asked to go to their superiors to ask about it, because after all, more or less all of them have relatives who served in the troops in the Chinese theater.

A few hours later, more than a dozen carrier-based planes of the temporary fleet cruising the seas off Taiwan took off and flew in the direction of Taiwan.

The Chinese who picked up the leaflets did not dare to do anything, and as for the ubiquitous Japanese expatriates in the Taiwan region, they were much more direct after picking up the leaflets. These Japanese expatriates simply took the leaflets they had secretly hidden, and surrounded the Japanese barracks in groups, bent on getting a positive answer from the garrison. In a word, Zhuo Fei's propaganda offensive has achieved its due results.

After receiving the latest information sent back from Taiwan by the military intelligence officer, and learning that the whole of Taiwan had been stirred up by his own propaganda war, Zhuo Fei felt proud. "See, this is the effect of propaganda warfare, and wars don't all need to be fought face-to-face. We should continue to intensify our propaganda efforts, and we want to let everyone in the Taiwan region know the news that we are about to attack Taiwan, and we can also appropriately expand the scale of our troops in leaflets. A chaotic Taiwan is far more beneficial to our actions than a calm Taiwan, and as long as the Japanese army first causes chaos on its own, it will save us more time and energy at that time. ”

Zhuo Fei has no interest in paying attention to the similarly chaotic Japanese expatriates on the island of Taiwan, and from the day they settle in Taiwan and exploit the local Chinese, they should be prepared for sanctions and punishments in the future. Before the war really began, Zhuo Fei directly used propaganda warfare to catch the Japanese army in Taiwan by surprise, but this confirmed the news that the Nationalist Government and the umbrella were about to attack Taiwan, and the panicked Japanese army in Taiwan immediately sent the news to the mainland, expecting help from the mainland.