Cut off the connection between Taipei and Keelung. Wan Jun then ordered the 1st Tank Battalion to leave a tank company and an infantry battalion to hold outside the Xizhi area, while the rest marched from east to west towards Taipei. They were not afraid of fatigue and fought continuously, heading straight for the Songshan airfield in Taipei City. The Kuomintang Airborne Brigade and the Airport Guard Battalion set up blocking positions on several high ground in Lower Wan Chai and Wan Chai Hill to the east of Songshan Airport, and constantly fired artillery shells at the attacking 1st Marine Division. These highlands in Lower Wan Chai, close to the highway, are condescending, overlooking the entire Songshan District and Zhongshan District. The Kuomintang garrison units were equipped with powerful firepower on these heights, and they tightly blocked the road leading to the Songshan airfield and into the downtown area of Taipei with dense firepower, in an attempt to prevent our 1st Marine Division from entering the Songshan planes and the Songshan and Zhongshan districts in Taipei.

The battle for Hawan Chai began. The Kuomintang Airborne Brigade on the high ground moved all the anti-aircraft machine guns from the airfield to the hill and put up desperate resistance. Anti-aircraft machine gun bullets hit the ground and stirred up layers of dirt, and 12,7 mm bullets made a piercing whistling sound. The soldiers of our 1st Marine Division, supported by our army's heavy artillery fire, followed closely behind the tanks and launched a charge on the heights of Lower Wan Chai in multiple directions. A combat group led by Xu Daguang, squad leader of the 1st Company, 3rd Platoon, 1st Platoon, 4th Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment, had just rushed to a position halfway up the No. 1 Heights when it was counter-charged by a combat detachment of the Kuomintang Airborne Corps. Xu Daguang threw the Type 51 automatic rifle horizontally and shouted loudly, "Hit me!" "All three of them opened heavy fire on the enemy who jumped out of the trench. Xu Daguang used out 2 magazines of 30 rounds in one go, and knocked down 6 or 7 enemies. The few remaining paratroopers saw that the situation was not good, turned back and fled for their lives. Xu Daguang and the three of them pursued separately, followed the fleeing enemy and rushed into the enemy's circular position, killing five more enemies. At this time, the commander of the 3rd Company of our 4th Battalion led a platoon along another line of charge to rush to the summit of Heights No. 1 and engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy at the top of the hill.

After more than two hours of fighting, all these heights fell into the hands of the soldiers of our 1st Marine Division. On the roadside, on the hillside, in the trenches, there were corpses and abandoned wounded of the enemy, as well as guns, ammunition, steel helmets, and shoes discarded by the enemy.

After these heights in Lower Wan Chai were taken by our army, the enemy's defense line to the east of Taipei City, which was not in danger to defend, collapsed under the powerful offensive of our army. The commanders and fighters of the 1st Marine Division took advantage of the victory to pursue and pursue the remnants of the enemy to the west. The enemy was powerless, and they knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender. Wang Zhenwei, commander of the 6th Battalion, carried a Type 51 automatic rifle and led the soldiers of the whole battalion to chase after nine tanks, killing more than 160 fleeing enemies and chasing them to Taipei Songshan Airport in one go. An enemy armored vehicle in the airfield met up and desperately fired at our troops attacking the airfield with a 12,7-mm anti-aircraft machine gun. At this time, our tanks were in full swing, and a flying shell accurately hit the junction between the chassis and the hull of this armored car. With a loud "boom", the box on this armored car was blown away, and the anti-aircraft machine guns on it were thrown to an altitude of more than ten meters. Wang Zhenwei, commander of the 6th battalion, led the soldiers of the whole battalion, with the cooperation of our tanks, to completely annihilate the defending enemy of Songshan Airport in one fell swoop and fully occupy Songshan Airport.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the 3rd Marine Regiment, under the cover of the 1st Tank Battalion, took the lead in rushing into the Boai Police District in Taipei City, where after three days of cannibalism within the Kuomintang, there were collapsed houses and broken walls everywhere, and the dense bullet holes in the walls revealed the intensity of the fighting at that time. Liming, the commander of the first tank battalion and the first company of the company, drove the H101 tank and rushed to Jieshou Road first, he saw that the "Jieshou Pavilion" was Chiang Kai-shek's "presidential palace", and a Sherman medium tank was parked in front of it. After destroying one of the enemy's tanks, he drove the tank directly to the main entrance of Chiang Kai-shek's "presidential palace". The muzzle of the gun was aimed directly at the gate of the "Presidential Palace". Huang Zujun, commander of the 8th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment, who was riding on his tank, led several soldiers to jump out of the tank and, under the cover of the tank, rushed into the "presidential palace". They rushed into the hall of the "Presidential Palace", Huang Zujun and several soldiers rushed up from the Y-shaped staircase, while rushing upwards and strafing the stairs and corridors on the north and south sides, there were constantly Kuomintang gendarmes from the railing of the north and south corridors, after being shot, they fell to the marble floor of the hall on the first floor, when they rushed to the staircase on the south side of the third floor, suddenly rushed out of the room facing the staircase, Huang Zujun immediately pulled the Type 51 automatic rifle in his hand, and immediately knocked these gendarmes over on the staircase. He stepped on the corpse of a Kuomintang gendarme who rolled from the stairs to his feet, and rushed up to the corridor on the south side of the third floor as fast as he could, leaning against the wall of the south room, and strafing at the enemy who kept walking to the corridor on the north side, covering his comrades who had not yet rushed up behind him, and the soldiers behind also rushed up one after another under the cover of their company commanders. Searches were conducted from room to room. Huang Zujun carried a Type 51 automatic rifle to the "presidential" office in the south, and he stepped over the corpses of two Kuomintang gendarmes lying in front of the door, walked into Chiang Kai-shek's office, which was filled with the smoke of gunpowder, tore down the Kuomintang "national flag" hanging on the wall, and stomped it under his feet. I saw that Chiang Kai-shek's Taipan desk was covered with dust, and the desk calendar on it was turned to September 19, 1951, and the desk calendar was written in pencil:

"Shu Zhi", Tengteng's murderous spirit is all over the world, and his strength is not as good as that of others!

As long as I am in Shenzhou, I am responsible, and I am not in the east.

Huang Zujun's face couldn't help but show a sneer of contempt. "How can the East come to the future to seal the marquis,"! I am not satisfied with a Hou Ye, and I still have to "finish my responsibility for Shenzhou" This old Jiang really doesn't know fucking worries, he is all like this, and he still wants to recover the mainland. He thought about Lao Jiang's poems while looking at the documents scattered on the carpet. He looked around Lao Jiang's office again, and then ordered the two soldiers around him to say, "Fat man, Tie Dan, you two will keep this Lao Jiang's office for me, and you are not allowed to touch anything here, and no one is allowed to enter without my order." ”

On the Jinan Mountain in the Shilin area of the northern suburbs of Taipei City, after a day and a night of bloody fighting, there were more than 200 people left, half of whom were seriously wounded. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after repelling the last attack of the column directly under the Taipei Military Police, they gathered all their personnel into the tunnel. All the men had not eaten for a day and a night, and there was not much ammunition left. A lot of people don't even have a single bullet left. There was only one grenade left that they had just received, and they buried all the remaining more than 200 kilograms of explosives at the entrance to the tunnel, and if the gendarmes attacked again, they were ready to blow up the hole after firing all the last ammunition. The only hope that can give them now is the sound of gunfire that the PLA is getting closer and closer, otherwise they will not be able to hold out for even a minute. All the people were hoping in their hearts that the PLA would arrive one minute earlier.

In the deepest part of the tunnel, Sun Liren used the radio to shout directly to Wan Jun in this dark and damp headquarters. reported his situation, "General Wan, the personnel I can fight now, less than two platoons, more than 300 people from the column directly under the gendarmerie are assembling outside the cave, and a new attack is about to be launched. I'm afraid we won't be able to withstand this attack. Wan Jun told Sun Liren: "General Sun, don't worry, they have no chance to attack you again, please report immediately the coordinates and directions of the enemy's assembly place in front of you." I'm going to clear them out with artillery fire. and ye shall be safe. But stay in the cave and don't come out. Otherwise, the artillery fire will hurt you. Report the effect immediately after the shelling, so that you can prepare for the next strike," so Sun Liren gave the coordinates of the assembly place of the column directly under the gendarmerie. A minute later. Two 122-mm 40-barreled "Tempest" rockets of the 1st Marine Division's rocket artillery battalion fired a rapid artillery attack on more than 300 people from the column directly under the Taipei Military Police who were concentrated at the mouth of the tunnel where Sun Liren was located, less than 500 meters away, and 80 rounds of submunitions exploded in less than 30 seconds over the assembly area of the column directly under the military police. The strong shock produced by this shelling made Sun Liren, who was observing with a telescope at the mouth of the tunnel, look stupid at that time. Sun Liren is a general who has seen the world for a long time, has knowledge, culture, has gone abroad, stayed abroad, and is definitely a great intellectual in this era. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, or killed him, he would never have believed that there would be such artillery in the world, in such a short time, such a dense artillery fire, without any dead ends, like a gust of wind blowing down everyone under the cannonball, like a rainstorm to ensure that everyone in the smoke of artillery fire can be drenched with a few deadly bullets. None of the people in the tunnel could have imagined that the enemy would be destroyed so quickly. Half a minute ago, they had felt that the people outside were still so powerful, that the enemy who could kill them in a minute had all become corpses and wounded who were constantly wailing in the blink of an eye.

Sun Liren stood in front of the entrance of the cave with a blank look. Looking at the smoke not far away, he first doubted what he had learned; For the first time, he felt his own insignificance; For the first time, he lost his self-confidence; For the first time, he felt sincerely impressed by the PLA. It wasn't until a staff officer reported to him and the PLA asked him to report on the effects of the artillery bombardment that he woke up from a dream.

The people in the tunnel, forgetting their tiredness and thirst, ran out of the cave with cheers. In the pile of dead people, Meng Xianwu, whose head was blown up, was like a dew spoon. After a hurried sweep of the battlefield, carrying the wounded, and supporting each other down the mountain, their "allied" People's Liberation Army walked away.

The People's Liberation Army took them to the airport waiting hall, where they drank hot tea and hot water that they had not drunk for several days, and ate hot dishes and hot meals that they had not eaten for several days. In the waiting hall, they had the most restful sleep in a few days. They finally found their home feeling.

(To be continued)