As Zhang Lingpu did not expect, less than a minute after the gunfire stopped, the excited and excited voice of the operational staff officer reached Zhang Lingpu's ears. www.biquge.info The report of the vanguard regiment said that under the cover of naval guns, the forward regiment successfully occupied the Japanese beachhead at the cost of more than 600 casualties, killing more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and capturing 87 people. Commander Li Sheng of the Forward Regiment asked whether the troops would defend on the spot in accordance with the predetermined battle plan and wait for the second batch of landing troops to go ashore...."

"Li Sheng and Li Daring, as expected, did not live up to the expectations of all of us, and ordered: The forward 611 regiment immediately held on the spot in accordance with the predetermined combat plan, blocked all possible counteroffences launched by the Japanese army, and swore to hold the beachhead to cover the landing of follow-up troops. At the same time, the 612th and 613th regiments were ordered to prepare for the landing and informed the 1st Panzer Division that after our troops had consolidated their positions on the beachhead, it would be time for them to land. Zhang Lingpu's face that had been tense finally relaxed, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and while he was excited in his heart, Zhang Lingpu, who had a serious face, gave a new combat order.

At the same time that Zhang Lingpu received the good news, Hasegawa Qing, who was located in the Taipei Governor's Palace, also learned of the bad news from the Xiangshan coastal position. Looking at the farewell telegram from Goro Muramoto in his hand, Hasegawa Kiyoshi could hardly believe his eyes. After receiving repeated affirmations from the chief of staff in front of him, Takashi Fujita, Hasegawa Kiyoshi had to believe this fact. "How so? How could the people of China know the information that the positions of the defenders of Xiangshan had changed their guards, how could this be... How could they have chosen the Xiangshan position as the landing site?." Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who had a sluggish face, clenched the telegram in his hand and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the matter has come to this point, and there is no need to pursue it any further. He thought that we should immediately launch a counteroffensive against the landing force in China, and we must not allow the people of China to gain a firm foothold on Xiangshan Beach. Otherwise, once the main force is allowed to land, what awaits us will be an overwhelming attack from the other side, please make a decision as soon as possible..... Fujita Takushi was shocked at the same time, and hurriedly persuaded him.

Being able to become the governor of Taiwan and the number one leader in Taiwan's military and politics, Hasegawa Kiyoshi naturally has his own ability, and as soon as Fujita Takushi's words fell, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, as the governor-in-chief, returned to his usual calm. After walking quickly to the map and glancing at the latest deployment of the Japanese army on the map, Hasegawa Kiyoshi came back to his senses and ordered with a murderous face.

"Fujita-kun, immediately give the latest operation of the Governor's Mansion to the Taiwan Garrison First Division stationed in Xiangshan, and order: Garrison the First Division, immediately attack, launch a decisive attack on the Chinese army occupying the beachhead, and be sure to drive all the landing Chinese troops into the sea. Tell Major General Shi of the 1st Division, I only need the result, not the process, the task will not be completed, and the military law will be engaged. ”

"Ha Yi....However, Your Excellency the Governor, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not..." According to the farewell telegram of Muramoto Goro Osa, the coastal position of Xiangshan, the Chinese army actually used naval artillery to provide artillery support for the landing force. Although the total strength of the 1st Garrison Division was nearly 10,000, most of the troops in the 1st Division were a group of recruits who had just picked up their rifles. Therefore, I am afraid that even if they succeed in recapturing the beachhead, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop the follow-up attack of the Chinese army..."

"Yo Xi, Fujita-kun, your reminder is very reasonable..... order the newly formed Xiangshan Division, which has just set off, to immediately return to the Xiangshan defense line, and with the assistance of the First Garrison Division, swear to hold the position to the death and block the attack of the Shina army. I will use the blood of the soldiers of China to force them to withdraw on their own initiative. Although Hasegawa Kiyoshi calmed down and listened to Takashi Fujita's advice, he still repeated the previous order with a serious face.

On the coastal defense line of Xiangshan, the sound of gunfire on the beachhead gradually disappeared. But. In the former Xinxiang Mountain Division, which was only less than 10 kilometers away from the beachhead, Shi Guangshui, commander of the 1st Garrison Division, was pacing back and forth in the small headquarters like ants on a hot pot. "Baga, what do the reconnaissance troops do to eat. It's been so long, and the enemy situation hasn't been detected clearly? After another group of reconnaissance troops were dispatched, the anxious stone light and water were short, and they couldn't help but curse at the staff officers in the headquarters.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on the incompetence of the reconnaissance units of the 1st Garrison Division, because the power of the temporary fleet artillery cluster firing is too great. In order to avoid the counterattack of the Japanese reinforcements in the process of the pioneer regiment rushing the beach, several rounds of saturation artillery fire were carried out on the Japanese beachhead. The Temporary Fleet aimed its guns at the only road leading from the front line to the Japanese barracks in the rear, and at the first time, an insurmountable fire barrier was created between the two places.

More than 100 Japanese scouts sent before and after the Shiguang Water Shortage, without exception, all fell under the shelling of the ship's guns. As the commander-in-chief of the Xiangshan area, Shi Guang Shuihuang had just learned from the few words of telegrams and the rumbling sound of guns that the forward beachhead was under fierce attack by the Chinese army, and he lost radio contact with Muramoto Daisa's front headquarters.

At this moment, Shi Guangshui is clear without thinking about it, the beachhead on the front line, the infantry wing deployed on the beachhead. In the face of the attack of the Chinese army, it only lasted less than half an hour before the entire army was annihilated. Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and the anxious Shi Guangshui did not wait for the information he wanted, but waited for a reprimand telegram from the Governor's Palace.

Although Shi Guangshui is only the commander of a second-line garrison division, as the commander of a major general's division, he also has his own honor and bushido spirit. In the face of the telegram's incompetent division commander......send himself to a court-martial....' and other words with great irony, Shi Guangshui's face turned red in an instant because of shame and anger. "Yaga, Zhina, cunning Zhina, I must drive you all into the sea and wash away the shame of my First Garrison Division....." Shi Guangshui Huang clenched his fists and swore secretly.

Clenched the telegram in his hand into a ball of paper, Shi Guangshui looked at the group of combat staff officers in front of him, and there was almost no hesitation. With a murderous face, he ordered: "Order, all combat and logistics units in the barracks will be assembled immediately, and all of them will participate in the battle to recapture the beachhead." The artillerymen, in accordance with the battle plan, deployed their artillery positions in accordance with the battle plan, and after receiving the order to attack, they should at all costs carry out a covering artillery strike on the Chinese army occupying the beachhead, provide artillery support to the infantry, and destroy the enemy's will to fight. ”

Shiguang Shuihuang had already been stimulated by the rebuke telegram from the Governor's Palace, and the fact that the newly built Xiangshan Division was turning back, and also forgot that the Governor's Mansion wanted his garrison division to act with the Xiangshan Division, and in order to maintain the glory of Shiguang Shuihuang, he planned to rely on his own garrison division to drive the invading Chinese army down to the sea to feed the fish. The New Fifth Army, including Zhuo Fei, did not expect the Japanese army's reaction to be so fast, on a bloody beachhead full of the smell of gunpowder, the three regiments of the vanguard of the New Fifth Army were using all available tools to reuse the Japanese bunkers that had been bombed into ruins one by one, as a cover for their lives in the next battle.

However, the Shiguang Water Shortage, which had already fallen into a state of madness, was destined not to give the New Fifth Army much time. Just as a large landing ship rushed towards the beach at full speed, several scouts under Li Sheng who had stepped forward to reconnoiter rushed back with a frightened expression. "Regiment commander, there is a situation, about 7,000 Japanese troops are rapidly approaching this side from three directions, and in five minutes at most, there will be an exchange of fire with the forward battalion."

"Little devil of dog days, it's finally time to come, order the forward battalion, ready for battle. Tell the brethren that during the battle, take care to conserve ammunition. In any case, we will hold out until the armored division completes the landing. Li Sheng ordered with a serious face. While ordering the forward battalion to prepare for battle, Li Sheng also reported the news to the headquarters of the New Fifth Army through walkie-talkie, and Zhang Lingpu, who received the news, did not dare to delay, and immediately transferred the news to the flagship command room where Zhuo Fei was.

"Seven thousand Japanese troops, it seems that the Japanese army in Taiwan did not regard Xiangshan as the focus of defense." Zhuo Fei, who received the news, stretched out his hand and rubbed the stubble that appeared on his chin, and after a slight groan, Zhuo Fei immediately ordered. "Order the helicopter gunships to immediately take to the air to provide fire support for the vanguard of the New Fifth Army, which has already completed the landing, and if necessary, the part of the armored forces that have already completed the landing can also be transferred over."

Zhuo Fei did not use carrier-based aircraft to provide large-scale cloudburst bombardment cover for the landing of the New Fifth Army, but this did not mean that Zhuo Fei would watch the vanguard of the New Fifth Army that had completed the landing being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army, and the temporary fleet that received Zhuo Fei's order immediately became busy, and more than 30 armed helicopters took off one after another to fly to the beach, and the large landing that had completed the beaching opened the bow hatch, and the armored vehicles and tanks belonging to the First Armored Division drove onto the beach one after another. And galloped in the direction of the forward battalion in accordance with the road signs set by the 611 regiment of the New Fifth Army.

In the face of a three-way siege by 7,000 Japanese troops, the forward battalion of the 611th Regiment, which had only more than 500 people, was obviously not an opponent, but if you count the addition of more than 30 armed helicopters and more than 10 armored vehicles and tanks, the forward battalion, which had already built a rudimentary position, had a hard fight. What's more, behind the forward battalion, there are two regiments 612 and 613 as backups, and Zhang Lingpu, commander of the New Fifth Army sitting in the rear, also transferred to another large landing ship to command the vanguard troops to fight after the beach.