The Supreme Governor's Office of the Japanese Army in Taipei, which is located in Taipei, began to spread rapidly in the city with one rumor after another. A large number www.biquge.info of Japanese expatriates began to gather in groups, shouting slogans outside the Governor's Palace, waiting for a concrete response from the Governor's Palace. The whole of Taipei, including the entire northern part of Taiwan, has been completely thrown into chaos.

"Baga, the cunning Zhina, the cunning Zhina, actually used such a despicable means, Bageya Road...."In the face of the large group of angry expatriates outside the Governor's Palace, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who was the governor of Taiwan at the time, was able to vent the anger in his heart on the subordinates in front of him. Why didn't our radars deployed along the coast detect the opposing planes? Why didn't the air defense forces outside the city open fire when the opposing planes lowered their altitude? Why didn't our aviation take to the skies to fight? ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, please calm your anger..."Facing the enraged Hasegawa Kiyoshi, in order to avoid angering the subordinates, he could only reply resignedly. The planes of the opposing side must have lowered their altitude before flying over the coastline, so our coastal radar could not detect them, and the process of lowering the altitude of the planes of the opposing plane to drop leaflets was too sudden, and the air defense units outside the city did not have time to react at all, and the same was true for the aviation units. ”

"Baga, stop the anger, can the anger solve the current dilemma we are facing? Shut up for me..... Fujita-kun, you are the chief of the general staff of our Taiwan garrison, what can you do about the bad situation that the Taiwan region is currently facing? To a group of incompetent staff subordinates, the angry Hasegawa Kiyoshi scolded angrily. Then, he set his sights on his only old partner he could rely on.

"Your Excellency, in the words of the people of China, paper will never contain fire. Since the people of China have made these things public through airplane leaflets, we can only inform the expatriates outside of the facts. However, while informing the people, the political propaganda of the Shina people has also pointed us to a solution to the current situation and to turn disadvantages into advantages..."After a short period of contemplation, the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Takushi Fujita, replied affirmatively.

"Well, it's a sure thing to make it public. Otherwise, we will not be able to quell the anger of the nearly one million expatriates in the entire Taiwan region, and more importantly, more importantly. It will also affect the morale of our troops stationed in Taiwan. "Hasegawa Kiyoshi can't think of a better countermeasure at the moment, and he can only agree with Fujita Takushi's answer." As for the solution you just mentioned, what is? ”

"Propaganda, with the help of this incident, announced to all the troops stationed in the Taiwan region and the overseas Chinese that once the Chinese army occupies Taiwan, all the overseas Chinese and troops in the entire Taiwan region will be bloodily slaughtered by the Chinese army. I believe that as long as this order is issued, the entire Taiwan region. These hundreds of thousands of imperial expatriates will be of one heart and one mind with our army to fight the enemy together..."

"Yo Sai, Fujita Jun, this is indeed a good idea. Sure enough, it's a good way....Fujita-kun, since you came up with this solution, then I'll leave it to you. Remember, we must resolve the current predicament in the Taiwan region in the shortest possible time, and we must let the army's low morale recover once again. ”

"In addition, if the Chinese army launches an attack on our Taiwan with all its might. With the strength of the empire stationed in Taiwan alone, it may not be possible to stop their offensive at all. However, after decades of development, the empire has hoarded a large number of weapons and ammunition in Taiwan. Even if another 200,000 troops are equipped, it will definitely not be a problem. So. You must take the opportunity to expand the army among the overseas Chinese, and you must make sure that the total strength of our Taiwan garrison reaches 400,000 and replace the local Taiwan troops stationed in various places..."

"Hayi, I understand my humble duties...."Fujita Takashi also showed a look of confidence, but there was a trace of uneasiness in his eyes. Unlike the other officers present, he was an old associate of Governor Hasegawa Kiyoshi and one of the few Japanese soldiers in Taiwan who knew about the situation on the ground. Fujita Takashi understands that his old friend Hasegawa Kiyoshi is the governor of Taiwan, and he must make a confident posture in front of others, but in fact, Hasegawa Kiyoshi may be the same as himself, and he has no confidence in his heart.

With the expectations of Governor Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Fujita Takushi, who was the chief of staff of the Japanese army in Taiwan, walked out of the governor's palace to comfort the Japanese expatriates gathered around, and in accordance with the steps agreed in advance, while announcing that the Chinese army was about to attack Taiwan, he hyped up the viciousness of the Chinese army, so that a number of attacks on Chinese civilians broke out in Taipei City within a day. The Japanese expatriates gathered outside the Governor's Palace slowly dispersed, and before Hasegawa Kiyoshi and his officers could recover their breath, they received news that planes were dropping leaflets in other parts of Taiwan.

In a short period of two days, the temporary fleet cruising the sea took off and landed fighter planes on many occasions, not only carrying out propaganda warfare against Taiwan by dropping leaflets, but also bombing many Japanese airfields and air defense positions in Taiwan in accordance with the coordinates provided by the intelligence personnel of the military command. As the situation seemed to deteriorate, Hasegawa once again summoned his cronies to discuss countermeasures, which they were now on their own until they received new orders from their homeland.

"Fujita-kun, how's the recruitment going? I'm going to deploy two-thirds of our current forces to the coast to prevent the Chinese army from landing, so the original defense zone will have to rely on the expatriate troops you have recruited. It's only been one night, and the originally high-spirited Hasegawa Kiyoshi seems to have suddenly aged a few years, and even when he speaks, he even looks a little weak.

"Your Excellency the Governor, in accordance with the steps agreed in advance, we have so far distributed more than 300,000 weapons and a large number of ammunition to the Imperial expatriates in Taiwan, and successfully recruited more than 150,000 expatriates. If I had given a little more time, I think we would have been able to recruit more than 300,000 people from the diaspora. When Fujita Takushi said these words, there was a bitter taste in his mouth, in fact, among the expatriates he recruited, only young and middle-aged accounted for less than two-thirds, and the rest were minors or old people over 50 years old, and if the number of recruits was expanded, only strong women might be recruited.

"Yoshi, Fujita-kun, you're doing a good job. In any case, I am the Governor of Taiwan, and when the war is over, I will explain everything to His Majesty the Emperor and the Cabinet in my capacity as Governor General of Taiwan. "As the governor-general, how could Hasegawa Kiyoshi not know what was going on here, but now is not the time to think about these things, in order to keep Taiwan, that is, to pull all the imperial expatriates in Taiwan into the battlefield, Hasegawa Kiyoshi is also willing.

Looking up at Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Takashi Fujita coughed lightly twice and continued, "At present, our propaganda work and the recruitment of reservists are going very smoothly, but there are still some deficiencies in the deployment of troops and the allocation of heavy firepower weapons in the coastal defense line. In addition, the Chinese army has been bombing us continuously for the past two days, and the airfields used by the air force have been greatly damaged, and I am afraid that the fighters of the air force will not be able to take off smoothly to participate in the battle. ”

"Then abandon the airfield we are using now, concentrate our forces and materials to rebuild the secret airfield, and if we don't have the cooperation of the aviation unit, we will not be able to resist the air attack of the Chinese army." Hasegawa Kiyoshi was also simply relieved, and before Takashi Fujita could finish speaking, he had already made the decision to build a new airfield, and his decision made the commander of the aviation unit very happy. Hasegawa Kiyoshi is now planning to bet everything, and in his subconscious, he will never allow the Chinese army to set foot in Taiwan, even if he bets everything he has.

In the following time, Hasegawa Kiyoshi and others discussed many ways to deal with it, but they did not know that it was when they were discussing countermeasures in an attempt to change the current bad situation in the Taiwan region and turn their disadvantages into advantages. On the sea less than 150 nautical miles from the Keelung Military Port, the Japanese naval base in the Taiwan region, the East China Sea Fleet, which has just been formed by the Nationalist Government for less than half a year, has already been mixed with the Umbrella Temporary Fleet.

The decision to send the newly built East China Sea Fleet to the war was made after discussions among the top officials of the coalition government, and compared with the temporary fleet under umbrella, the East China Sea Fleet, which had been formed for less than half a year, was obviously not of great use. Even though the East China Sea Fleet was only observing operations this time, and the East China Sea Fleet was only tasked with peripheral defense, the thousands of officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet were still full of confidence and were ready to play their role in the upcoming battle.

On the sea dozens of nautical miles behind the mixed fleet, closely followed by a fleet of more than 100 search and transport ships, on which the New Fifth Army, which was tasked with landing for the first attack, was on board. More than 40,000 troops of the New Fifth Army and the Qionghai detachment that cooperated with the operation were scattered on these more than 100 search transport ships, and in addition to these more than 40,000 troops, the fleet also carried a large number of weapons and ammunition, including the First Armored Division drawn from the New First Army by Dai Anlan.

Dai Anlan did not resist Zhuo Fei naming him to go south to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of the operation against Taiwan, but the only condition was to draw the First Armored Division from the New First Army to follow him south, if it were not for waiting for the First Armored Division, Lin Biao's department, which rushed to Taizhou first, would not have to wait for many days with nothing to do. In this way, counting the First Armored Division and Lin Biao's 143rd Division of the Eighth Route Army, the number of troops that Zhuo Fei can command has exceeded 60,000.