When Chiang Kai-shek's Thunder Operation began, the PLA Guangdong-Min Army, Navy and Air Force Joint Command conducted a study of the Kuomintang's unusual moves. The purpose of this is Chiang Kai-shek. Everybody knows that. It is nothing more than creating tension between the two sides of the strait and arousing the attention of the United States. Thus changing the US policy towards Taiwan. As everyone knows, the central authorities have made up their minds to seize this rare historical opportunity to settle the Taiwan issue once and for all while the United States is too busy with the tense situation in Europe to take care of Asian affairs. The Central Committee also gave clear instructions for the Kuomintang's action: hide but not reveale, be prepared, and strike preemptively.

But is there any ground action against the KMT's Thunder Action? What will be the specific objectives of the operation on the ground? The Joint Command is also conducting various research and judgments. After all, with thousands of kilometers of coastline, it is still unknown where the enemy will start. In the face of this situation, we can only be prepared first, be prepared, and send a message of instruction to 'strengthen preparations for war in case of accidents', and at the same time fly to the forward troops on the front line of various coastal defenses.

In the joint operations room of the PLA Army, Navy and Air Force Yuemin Front Command at Shantou Airport, there was a heated discussion on this.

It is believed that according to the information obtained from the TW reconnaissance, if the enemy takes a ground attack, the most likely is to dispatch mobile forces from Kinmen. As far as the current strength of Kinmen is concerned, it is necessary to attack Xiamen, there is a 31st Army there, forgive him for not daring; The rest can only invade some of the larger islands. It's hard to tell which island it is. The fundamental enemy naval and air force bombing operations, enemy attacks, Pingtan Island, Butterfly Island and Nanao Island are likely to be larger, especially Butterfly Island. Because the enemy planes did not bomb the island, but the surrounding roads and bridges were bombed more vigorously than in other places. This is a very abnormal behavior. And this anomalous behavior speaks for itself.

Commander Ye Fei of the 10th Corps, who is the commander-in-chief and secretary of the party committee of the joint command, looked at Zhu Shaoqing, commander of the 31st Army, and said: "Big beard, these points are your defense areas, can you introduce the defense situation of each island?" Most of them have drawn a battalion to participate in these jobs, and currently there are only two infantry battalions, plus an artillery company to guard them. The total number of people is no more than 13 or 400.' Zhu Shaoqing said: "If the enemy uses too strong troops, it will be difficult for the troops defending the island to hold on. If you want reinforcements, you will have to wait two or three days to arrive. Therefore, I think we should immediately telegraph to the troops defending the island that they can make a mobile defense according to the situation to avoid unnecessary losses, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack later.' Although Zhu Shaoqing, commander of the 31st Army, said something relatively complete, Wan Jun, commander of the 1st Marine Division, still heard it, and the so-called 'mobile defense according to the situation to avoid unnecessary losses.' It is to fight if you win, and run if you can't win. Now the People's Liberation Army is not a guerrilla force, and every inch of territory is fighting for national defense and security. Three days ago, according to the army W102 motorized infantry division was organized as the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Some new weapons are given priority to equipping the 1st Marine Division, so Wan Jun feels very good.

"Big beard, are you scared of Hu Lian in the battle of Kinmen, and you want to run away before you can fight" This is the commander of Wan Jun, who came to the three main forces of the four fields, although there is a joke element in it, it is also too stinging: "I see that your troops defending the island do not need to do anything to make mobile defense, depending on the situation, no matter which island the enemy lands on these islands, as long as you can hold out for ten or eight hours, our 1st Marine Division will definitely arrive. After returning from North Korea, it has been more than half a year, and I have been practicing all day, and I have been practicing amphibious landing operations for two months. Everyone is eager for a chance, and they are all screaming in a hurry. I want to show the results of the training in the past six months, and such a good opportunity for actual combat must not be missed. If you don't fight, leave it to our 1st Marine Division to fight.'' How can you' Zhu Shaoqing wanted to say something, Ye Fei's stern gaze swallowed the words in his stomach again.

'Master Wan, don't hit people in the face. We didn't fight well in the battle of Kinmen last year. But we have seriously summed up the experience and learned the lessons.' Zhou Zhijian, the commander of the 28th Army, said unhurriedly: "This time, you rest first, and let our 28th Army call you again. No one is muddy.' The 28th Army also had a division that participated in amphibious landing training. So it's also very confident to speak.

'In the absence of our mobile force, the bearded man is right.' Chang Ming, the commander of the naval landing ship detachment, interjected and said: "Commander Wan is right, no matter where the enemy goes, as long as the troops defending the island can hold out for a few hours, we can arrive in time, and there is no need to retreat. Now the island has a permanent fortification that we have built. If we want the enemy to occupy it, it will be very troublesome for us to fight hard. After the exercise at the Shajiao Fort the day before yesterday, we went to the open sea for training overnight. Now the entire landing ship detachment and the 1st Marine Division, the 28th Regiment of the 224th Army and the 225th Regiment are training in Jieshiwan. How needed. I promise to send 24,000 men and 200 tanks to Nan'ao Island in 4 hours, Butterfly Island in 5 hours, and 8 hours in Chang Detachment, don't report here, you discuss with Commander Zhou and Division Commander Wan,' Wang Kunpeng took Chang Ming's words and said, "I see that you will drive the ship to the vicinity of Shantou now. This way, no matter where the enemy moves. We were all able to arrive in the shortest possible time. For ground warfare, I am a layman . But once the enemy landed. We're going to give him a salary. Blew up their ship. Cutting off his supplies, the landing force has no follow-up force, even if it is a strong force, and in the end there is only a dead end. Our air force can guarantee that after the enemy lands, all the enemy's ships will be blown up. Cut off the enemy's escape route. And guarantee absolute air supremacy in the airspace of the theater of operations. As for how to fight on the ground, that's your forte.'' Of course it would be best if it could be like that' Commander Ye thought of his fiasco at Kinmen, wasn't it because there were no ships and the follow-up troops could not be sent, so that none of his three and a half regiments were left, and they were all annihilated by the Kuomintang on Kinmen Island. The offer appealed too much to him. He dreamed of avenging this arrow. He couldn't suppress the impulse in his heart, stood up and walked to Wang Kunpeng's side, held Wang Kunpeng's hand tightly, looked at Wang Kunpeng with a gaze that was almost longing and asked, "Mr. Wang. Does the Air Force really have the certainty of blowing up all the enemy's naval vessels?' Wang Kunpeng looked at the young general and smiled and said, "It's not a problem to blow it up. If it was just to destroy these enemies, wouldn't it be over if they would blow up and sink their ships as soon as they went out to sea? We also save the discussion here and discuss going. But now we don't have a political mandate. It is necessary to cooperate with the enemy to make the movement bigger, so that they will lose people and reason in front of the whole China and the whole world. and to destroy them all, completely, cleanly.' After speaking, he glanced at Chang Ming and said, "Heh. Scold. I'm also a little heartbroken about those ships.4 destroyers, 6 LST landing ships . And those auxiliary boats. Are you willing to do it? I still want to save some money for the navy.'' Right! Or Commander Wang is interesting enough to think about our naval construction at any time . Don't blow up to death then,' Chang Ming showed a greedy look in his eyes, as if the Kuomintang ships were now his, and said: 'Fright, scare, let them surrender and it will be over.'' Haha fight, where is it so good to grasp. Besides, you have to let them surrender. Isn't it.' Wang Kunpeng looked at Commander Ye, who was holding his hand tightly, and said, "Why don't you worry, when you need to blow up the ship, we will blow him up, and if you blow it up early, we will scare the enemy behind you away. They are not given enough time to perform, and it does not conform to the principle of hiding and not revealing the central government, and striking later. You just need to grasp this scale well.'' Mr. Wang, as long as we have your words, we will rest assured, this time they will definitely have no return' Commander Ye let go of his hand, turned around and said to Zhou Zhijian excitedly, Zhu Shaoqing: "Did you hear that?" We must have stewed Hu Lian and them this time.' The two of them also had tears of excitement in their eyes, nodded and choked up, saying, "I heard, I heard. Never let them go.' The Battle of Kinmen was an eternal pain for the Tenth Corps, and they wanted to make their waists straighten up through the First World War. After the defeat in the battle to liberate Kinmen, the supreme commander pointed out: Using three regiments to fight three armies, and not continuing to provide support, resulting in the annihilation of all of them, this is the first undeserved heavy loss in the three years of the Liberation War.

Yes, I don't blame Wan Jun for saying that just now, in the history of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, there has really been no example of three and a half regiments being completely wiped out by the enemy at one time, 8,736 commanders and fighters, and 350 former civilian workers.

After the battle, they were strict in dissecting themselves, analyzing their own mistakes and lessons in command, and digging deep into the depths of their own minds. I have written countless battles, countless reviews and reflections on my mistakes. Ask the organization to give you the most severe punishment. To have one today allows them to prove themselves. How could they not be excited about the opportunity to avenge the death of those comrades-in-arms who died in Kinmen!

Subsequently, they developed several sets of schemes. No matter where the enemy lands, a battle of revenge awaits them.

After receiving the telegram order, Butterfly Island and Nanao Island, under the organization of the local party and government organs, began to evacuate the masses urgently and continuously, and all the common people returned to the mainland to join their relatives and relatives, and those who could rely on friends to rely on friends, and those who had no relatives and friends were arranged by the county party committee and the county government axe, and first lived in primary and secondary schools and temples in the urban and rural areas of Linxian County.

The troops stationed on the island entered their positions, dug tunnels and fortifications, and were ready to destroy the invading enemy at any time.

When Hu Lian ordered in the middle of the night that the fleet he led suddenly turned southwest, the joint defense command had determined that the target of Hu Lian's operation was Butterfly Island.

Immediately ordered: A large group of landing ship detachments, carrying the rocket artillery battalion of the 1st Marine Division, and the 224th and 225th regiments of the 28th Army, quickly landed in Xipu Bay, south of Butterfly Island. Two battalions of the 272nd Regiment of the 31st Army on the same island worked together to stop the enemy on the island. For specific tasks, the 224th Regiment organized the defense of the 201st Heights and the 425th Position, and the 225th Regiment held the 410th Position. The rocket artillery battalion of the 1st Marine Division provided fire support for the attack, and the two battalions of the 272nd Regiment of the 31st Army carried out an early attack on the landing enemy, retreated to the main position, and waited for a general counterattack against the enemy's landing force.

8,253 fully armed soldiers, and 10 20-barrel rocket launchers. Quickly boarded 10 LST1 amphibious tank landing ships. Everyone looked at it in amazement, these have never seen a tightly wrapped multiple rocket launcher on a car, the soldiers of the 28th Army were curious to open it and see that they would be reprimanded by their comrades in the rocket artillery battalion, a big soldier of the 1st Marine Division standing on the pedal of the truck, loudly shouted to a soldier of the 28th Army who was peeling off the tarpaulin and looking inside: 'Hey! Ay! Ay! Say what about you! That little man, just look at it, what kind of hands and feet do you move!' The little warrior smiled enviously and said, 'Comrade, what kind of guy is this?' The envious expression on this soldier's face greatly satisfied the vanity of this soldier of the 1st Marine Division, and he proudly said: "This is the MLRS specially equipped by the Party Central Committee for our 1st Marine Division. I'm telling you it's a military secret. I saw that you were a good person, so I told you. You are not allowed to talk nonsense with others!'' With such a loud shout at you, what other military secrets are there?' The little warrior had to be cheap and smiling and saying, 'Hey. Hey. Hey. Stupid big man, just thinking about showing off and forgetting discipline.' The 10 rocket launchers equipped for the rocket artillery battalion of the 1st Marine Division were made by the base's 'ordnance group' at the Ansan Tonghe Arsenal based on the 40-tube rocket launchers in the future, and a total of 25 rocket launchers were produced. This equipment was given to the 1st Marine Division, which was an experimental product and was tested in actual combat. The chassis of the rocket launcher uses a 10-wheeled truck from the American Dodgy. The orienter of this rocket artillery is a thin-walled tube with a thickness of 3 mm, which is 1,2 mm thicker than the same type in later generations, and the number of directional tubes is also 20 less than that of later generations, and it has a spiral guide groove, and the number of directional tubes is 20, 2 rows up and down, 10 in each row. Each directional tube is equipped with a spring-type locking bomb blocking device and a conductive device at the top of the back, and the rocket launcher uses a car battery as a firing power source, and is equipped with an external launch device. And produce various types of rockets at Ansan Qingyang Machinery Factory. Tonghe Arsenal and Qingyang Machinery Factory also followed four technicians to guide the operation and maintenance. It's really a military secret at the moment.

(To be continued)