Hualien is located in a narrow strip of land on the east coast of Treasure Island, bordering the vast Pacific Ocean in the east and towering central mountains in the west.

First of all, Hualien is not a strategic place that can be protected from bombing by the national air force, and secondly, Hualien is adjacent to Kaohsiung and Nantou, both of which are their imaginary landing sites of the national army, close to the battlefield, on the one hand, it can boost morale, and on the other hand, it can also keep abreast of the most intuitive battle situation.

Of course, the most important thing is the proximity to the Pacific Ocean, and the command retreated quite quickly, although Tanaka Kuichi had always known that the base camp had no intention of expecting them to return home alive, and the promotion to general was to give him the honor of death after his death, but in the face of the desire to survive, everyone hoped that they could survive, especially a high-powered general like Tanaka Kubo, who had not had enough good days, where was he willing to die.

The battle of Baodao is related to the life and death of millions of locust soldiers in central China, and to the security and defense of the island country.

As early as a week ago, Tanaka Kuichi issued a circular on the entire army and the whole island, including Xiamen, Quanzhou, Putian, Fuzhou, and other places, "7 million pieces of jade," which included all the people in the occupied areas around Baodao and Fujian.

Regardless of the army and the people, regardless of men, women and children, when the empire is alive and dead, they are all soldiers, and they must take up arms to fight a decisive battle to the end.

Of course, in addition to the threat of orders, they also strengthened their political offensive, and after all kinds of brutal killings by the national army, Jiang Haoran's army was all murderous demons, especially the commander of this battle was Su Peng, who had the nickname of "Skinning Butcher", once he fell, he would face death, and all of them would die very miserably, and they would never be spared.

In the eyes of the people of Fujian, this may be regarded as alarmist, and not too many people believe it, after all, the island army has only occupied Fujian for a few years, and it is impossible for slavery education to win the hearts of the people.

The key is that in last year's Guangxi Campaign, at least five Baodao divisions were completely annihilated, and these soldiers were not relatives of the people on the island, and the inevitable hatred was only one aspect.

What's even more terrifying is that they all think in their bones that this kind of hatred cannot be resolved, and the day of the fall of Treasure Island is the time when their military families are guillotined.

Therefore, they ignored the propaganda leaflets of persuasion dropped by the national army countless times a day, picked up hoes, flat poles, firewood knives, and kitchen knives, and threw themselves into the anti-landing campaign deployed by the island army without hesitation.

It is precisely because of their active resistance attitude that the strength and confidence of the southern front of the island army have also been greatly increased.

The Southern Front Army originally had six divisions, three on the coast of Fujian and three on Baodao.

However, in just a few days, the strength of Baodao suddenly increased to the regular establishment of ten divisions and regiments, most of which were composed of veterans or reserve soldiers, and the worst were young men of appropriate age, with a certain degree of battlefield experience and combat effectiveness.

In addition, there were five irregular advance teams, each of which numbered from 5,000 to 8,000 men, and the soldiers ranged in age from 15 to 60 years old, and their weapons were even more uneven, including hoes and kitchen knives.

There are even four women's combat teams, ranging from two to three thousand people each.

The remaining civilians were also systematically armed and became logistics troops, ambulance units, and, when necessary, cannon fodder units.

In short, under the painstaking management of Kuichi Tanaka, the entire treasure island has realized that all the people are soldiers.

The front-line artillery rumbled, the headquarters was also busy, the telephone and radio were ringing non-stop, and the staff officers and generals were hurriedly shuttling among them.

Tanaka Kuichi fidgeted in front of the rostrum, pacing back and forth, although he was quite well prepared, he knew too well what kind of enemy he was facing, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"According to the report, a large number of landing ships have been found in the waters of Kaohsiung and Tainan, and the number of them is at least more than 200, and it can be determined that the army has begun to launch a large-scale landing war." A junior officer appeared at the door and reported loudly.

Kuichi Tanaka looked stunned, stopped pacing, and exclaimed, "Nani, so fast? Have they already cleared the water, mines, and underwater obstacles that we have laid? ”

"Ugh." A sigh came, and Vice Admiral Kato Ryohei, chief of staff on the right side of Kuichi Tanaka, said: "The Japanese Navy began to clear the obstacles yesterday, they have submarines and helicopters, and in terms of the water mines we have laid, it is really difficult to pose much threat to them. ”

There was a loud "snap", Tanaka Kuichi's fist slammed on the table, his face was hideous, and he said in a hideous voice: "Order, put the landing ship closer, and after entering the firing range, all the hidden batteries will open fire on all fronts, destroying all the landing ships in one fell swoop." ”

"Wait. Tanaka-kun. Chief of Staff Kato Lingping hurriedly said: "Could this be the feint attack of that person, exposing all the batteries to their field of vision, we will not have any room for maneuver, the air force and naval guns of that person are not vegetarians, and they have always been cruel, whether they will use napalm, gasoline and ammunition is unknown?" ”

The Kaohsiung, Tainan-Nantou line is a key defense area of the island army, and there are a number of hidden batteries built on this line, with five 180 mm field grenades and shells, ten 210 mm mortars, three 240 mm heavy howitzers and shells, and six 280 mm howitzers and shells.

The guns were arranged in three batteries, each covered by special camouflage nets and metal fake trees and shrubs, making it difficult to find targets from the air.

Each battery had four powerful 75mm anti-aircraft gun groups, selected for the most experienced and best gunners, who could effectively protect the airspace adjacent to the battery.

But this is not absolute, for the national army, this is a solid, gasoline, and bomb, and the tactics of the island army in the early stage are the same, where they can't fight, they will use biochemical weapons to deal with them, and now the national army has just changed its tricks.

The little devil finally realized the aggrieved and angry mood of the national army at the beginning.

Therefore, no matter how the national aviation and naval guns bombed indiscriminately, their batteries were not revealed, and they were waiting for the landing ships of the national army to appear.

If we can destroy all the landing troops, it will take some time for them to transfer troops and ships over, and the treasure island can wait for even a few days of temporary peace.