Countless shells with long tails of flames tore through the air and made a "whining" sound, flying over the landing fleet, and there was a rumbling explosion on Penghu Island, and thousands of shells gathered on the 10-kilometer beachhead like a storm. One shot followed another, a violent explosion, shrapnel flew everywhere, deafening, the sky cracked, and in the blink of an eye, the beachhead of the Kuomintang defenders south of Penghu Island became a place of terror and death. The entire Kuomintang defender's position was like a boiling pot, with broken barbed wire, bricks and tiles mixed with the mutilated limbs of the human body, and broken weapons, with the sound of explosions, flying up and falling for a while. At first, the Kuomintang artillery on the island also carried out sporadic return fire, but it seemed that the victory was so weak and weak, and soon even the sporadic return fire was covered by the powerful artillery fire of our army, and the artillery fire of the support ships continued for ten minutes and then began to extend in depth, firing 4,000 rounds of 122 mm rockets and artillery shells at 420 targets, most of the 420 targets were destroyed, and 2,170 enemy troops were annihilated. 76 artillery pieces, 122 light and heavy machine guns, 33 command and observation posts, 178 fortifications, and 11 storage points for detonating ammunition were destroyed. The beachhead was filled with smoke, mutilated corpses lying on the ground, and broken weapons and equipment were scattered everywhere. Destroyed by artillery fire, the crippled fortifications were emitting smoke and flames.

"Open the gate and spread the drawbridge!" At 16:22, Wan Jun issued a new order. Gate pinning, unlocking, starting! The fighters of the sail and cable squad of the naval landing ship detachment worked closely together and proceeded in an orderly manner in accordance with the procedures for opening the hatch. With a "bang", the rear warehouse door of the "Liberation No. 1" LTS1 tank landing ship slowly opened. Not far away, the 10 landing ships of our army also opened their hatches one after another, and the drawbridge slowly fell. The drawbridge flattened, and the sea water instantly poured into the cabin more than half a foot deep. Tank H101 was the first to rumble out of the tank cabin, rushed out of the rear compartment gate, and began to charge towards the shore, followed by H102 and H103、...... H111 rushed out. The first wave of tanks of our army rushed to the beach. Immediately after, armored vehicles, command vehicles, and jeeps also rushed to the beach one by one. The Marines are all like dragons entering the sea, wading into the water to land on the beach, and they are like tigers coming out of the cage; Closely behind the tank, through the smoke of gunpowder across the piles of blazing fire, like an arrow from the string to seize the beach. According to Wan Jun's order, the landing force quickly assaulted the enemy's key points while advancing, retracting, and ...... man, and Wan Jun boarded the armored command vehicle No. 001 of the 1st Marine Division from the landing ship "Jiefang 1" and rushed to the shore beach with the 1st Tank Battalion. Wan Jun gave an order to the voice of the walkie-talkie: "Full speed ahead, quickly seize the beachhead!" ”

The landing force of the 1st Marine Division, under the cover of tanks, launched a group charge towards the established enemy positions while advancing, retracting, and at the same time! The soldiers of the Marine Corps rushed into the enemy's beachhead, as if they were in a no-man's land, and found that there was nothing to fight at all, and the Kuomintang defenders were dead, wounded, not dead, and uninjured squatting in the dilapidated fortifications in a stunned place. Stunned by the bombing, like headless flies running around from east to west, the Marines had no choice but to rush them together like chickens and hand them over to the containment troops who came up later, and the impregnable beachhead defense line of Penghu Island, which had been blown to the ground by the Kuomintang in Taiwan, collapsed in an instant.

During the attack on Longmen Village, the Kuomintang defenders sent 10 American-made M4A4 "Sherman" medium tanks of the 73rd Tank Group to launch a counterattack against the landing 1st Marine Division in an attempt to recapture Liangwen Port, and our Air Force immediately responded, 4 MiG-15 fighters destroyed 5 enemy tanks from the air attack, and our army also had a MiG-15 modified to be wounded by 12,7 anti-aircraft machine guns on enemy tanks. Then the M26 Pershing tanks of the 1st Marine Division arrived and launched an attack on the enemy tanks, eliminating the remaining 5 tanks of the Kuomintang 73rd Tank Group and a reinforced battalion of the Kuomintang 83rd Infantry Division following behind the tanks. Captured Longmen Village and firmly held Liangwen Port in the hands of our army.

At 17:25, Wan Jun, commander of the 1st Marine Division, followed the 1st Battalion of the Tank Regiment of the Landing Force to capture Xingrenli, where he encountered desperate resistance from 10 enemy tanks and a regiment of the 83rd Division of the Kuomintang. It is the most important strategic place of Penghu Island and the east gate of Magong City. After the battle began, Kuomintang Defense Minister Yu Dawei, unable to contact the Penghu Defense Command, personally ordered the 83rd Division and the 73rd Tank Group Regiment and Battalion Headquarters to hold Xingrenli, and the elite troops of the 73rd Tank 10 American-made Sherman tanks and the main force of the 83rd Division were to move along the hills and jungles outside Xingrenli in a vain attempt to prevent our landing troops from advancing by victory. The commander of the first battalion of the tank regiment drove straight into sweeping away all the enemies who dared to resist and began to advance towards Heungin-ri. It is close to the 31st highland northwest of Xingrenli. The Kuomintang built dozens of open and hidden forts here. At 18:20, the fire support ship launched a five-minute artillery attack, and in an instant, the rockets turned the enemy's position into a sea of fire, completed the breakthrough of obstacles, and opened the offensive route. With Wan Jun's order, the 20 Pershing tanks of our landing force rushed towards the enemy's positions in a torrent of steel, covering the marines to rush towards the enemy's positions, and the infantry and tanks worked closely together. 31 Enemy fire on the heights was effectively suppressed. The Marines, stepping on the rough road, rushed to the 31st Heights. 31 Smoke billowed in front of the high ground, and bullets rained down. Liming, the commander of the 1st Tank Battalion and 1st Company, drove the H101 tank and after destroying one of the enemy's tanks, he went straight into the enemy position. He sees a target and fires a shell. Immediately lifted one of the enemy's pillboxes into the sky. The soldiers of the Marine Division, who were following his tank, immediately opened heavy fire on the enemy in the trenches, and the soldiers of the Marine Division hit wherever the tank rushed, and they cooperated very tacitly. The Kuomintang was equipped with very strong firepower here, and they huddled in the bunkers, and light and heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, rocket launchers, and 60 guns all opened fire on our tanks. However, the opponent they encountered was the 1st Marine Division, the best No. 1 main division of the PLA. The fierce battle lasted for more than an hour, and only one firing point remained on the northeast side of the 31st Heights on the high ground. The point of fire was cowering under a protruding rock cliff, and neither the shells nor the could be used against it. The Marines attacked, being pressed to the front of the position by dense enemy fire. This annoyed the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division, Wang Cheng, the leader of the 3rd Company and 1st Squad. found the platoon commander and said, "How can our 1st Marine Division suffer this!" I'm going to kill it! With that, he lifted the blaster canister and led the assault group, like an arrow from the string, and rushed out from behind the tank. In the rain of enemy bullets, he and the assault group alternated cover, and in an instant, he detoured back to the flank of the enemy's fire point and pounced on the enemy's bunker. The enemy noticed that there was someone next to the fort and was about to throw out a grenade, only to see Wang Cheng jump up and suddenly stuff the blaster into the enemy fort. With a loud bang, thick smoke filled the air, rocks flew everywhere, and finally the nail household was completely removed. After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Kuomintang defenders in the Xingrenli area were completely annihilated. So far, the connection between the south of Penghu Island and the entire Penghu Island has been completely severed.

I landed in the 1st Marine Division, and after three hours of fierce fighting, we occupied the port of Suogangli and the port of Suogangli respectively...... Aimen Village, Longmen Village, has established a stable beachhead. Subsequently, Wan Jun received an order from the front of the "Unification" that the 1st Marine Division, except for the tank regiment to cooperate with the 28th Army to continue the offensive, the rest rested in place to consolidate the beachhead.

At 17:30, under the personal leadership of army commander Zhu Shaoqing, the 28th Regiment of the 82nd Division, the 224th Regiment, the 225th Regiment, the 226th Regiment, and the 227th Regiment of the 83rd Division. After a short period of rest, the Rocket Artillery Regiment took over from the 1st Marine Division, the 224th Regiment, and the 225th Regiment quickly occupied Magong Airport under the cover of the 3rd Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division. Then they carried out a thorough sweep of the entire Huxi Township. The 82nd Regiment of the 226th Division, under the cover of the 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division, set out from Heungren-ri and advanced towards Magong City. The 83rd Regiment of the 227th Marine Division and the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division were stationed in Heungin-ri as a reserve for the attack on Magong City. At 22 o'clock, the 1st Marine Division and the 28th Army occupied and cleared the entire remnants of the enemy in Huxi Township. The 226th Regiment of the 82nd Division also captured the ports south of Siliwen and Magong Port in the eastern suburbs of Magong City in the 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division.

The Kuomintang troops have been in a state of imminent battle since 15 August, but they never expected that the communist army would give up the near and far and first launch an attack on Penghu Island. Kinmen, Matsu, and Dachen Island are the first-line military strategic points. In particular, Kinmen has the largest number of garrisons, is the closest to Chinese mainland, and has the most dangerous geographical location, and is indeed an important "frontier" town in Taiwan. If there is any negligence in Kinmen, Taiwan will inevitably be shaken. However, [***] did not play his cards according to common sense at all, and chose Penghu Island, which is far away from the mainland, as the first landing point to liberate Taiwan.

When Penghu started, the Kuomintang General Staff began to mobilize the 59th Division in Kaohsiung and the 186th Division in Taichung to support. At 22:30, 4 J10 fighters, 8 MiG-15 and 4 JH7 Flying Leopard fighters carried out a large-scale air raid on the Kuomintang 59th Division, more than 10,000 people, which were completing the assembly and preparing to board the ship in Kaohsiung Port, and they repelled the interception of 20 Kuomintang fighters, and then 2 JH7 Flying Leopard fighters chased to Kaohsiung Airport, carried out a large-scale bombing of Kaohsiung Airport, and completely paralyzed Kaohsiung Airport.

(To be continued)