After a full day on 28 July, the PLA's 20 LTS1 landing ships, except for two sent to the Philippine Sea to land in Hualien, the rest and hundreds of other ships repeatedly shuttled back and forth between the Penghu Islands and Budai Port in Chiayi County, the Mashagou Port in Jiangjun Township, and the Qitiao Port in Xitai Township. On the night of 28 July, the number of PLA troops who landed in Taiwan reached more than 140,000.

The 1st Marine Division quickly advanced all the way to the depths north of Taiwan, and the momentum was like a bamboo. The Kuomintang soldiers kept retreating northward as fast as they ran, and if they ran slowly, they simply stopped running, and waited in the barracks for the PLA to come and accept them. If someone with a surname is in a hurry, he simply took the initiative to look for the PLA and led the PLA to his own defensive place to receive it. The great bombing that took place at Budai Harbor a few days ago left too deep a memory in the hearts of the Kuomintang officers and men. After the air raid, almost every division and regiment of them threw themselves into the rescue of the 186 Infantry Division. Helping to carry the corpses and wounded, on the not big wharf of Budai Port, more than 5,000 people of the 186th Division were lying on top of each other, either dead or wounded. All the Kuomintang officers and soldiers who went to participate in the ambulance kept vomiting when they saw this terrible scene. Coupled with the 186th Division, the wounded were stunned by their colorful descriptions. With so many casualties in just a few minutes of air strikes, can this battle still be fought. These Kuomintang officers and men from top to bottom reached a consensus in their hearts: "Whoever is willing to fight, let him fight." It is better to provoke these communist troops less, and the farther away from the communist army, the better. I haven't seen each other for two years, and the communist army is even more fierce and powerful now than when it was on the mainland before. In North Korea, the Americans didn't lose their temper at all, and we still played with it. ”

The 1st Marine Division went north, and it could really be said that it swept through thousands of troops. There was no resistance, there were not many battles, the guns were not fired, and a lot of prisoners were collected. At the end of the day, two divisions, two regiments, and more than 30,000 people of the Kuomintang were accepted, and if there were prisoners, they had to be resettled, and those who surrendered had to be received, and they had to be taken care of by food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, drink, and Lazar. Wan Jun scolded urgently, so that the troops couldn't get up quickly. Xiao Qiang was busy all day, and he didn't even catch a meal, but now he is not in a hurry. At more than 9 o'clock in the evening, he was eating noodles with a spitting mouth, while watching the constant scolding and chirping, and said unhurriedly: "What kind of urgency are you?" As soon as we land, there is no need to rush. If the Kuomintang wants to fight, we will accompany them to fight. If we don't want to fight, we will take it slowly. Wan Jun said. What you said is easy when you go, but if you go late, I'm afraid that Taipei's Sun Liren will be finished. Xiao Qiang put down the noodle basin that he had eaten cleanly, lit a cigarette and said, "Sun Liren is finished, and he also asked for it." He now knew that he was in a hurry, and what he had done earlier. This man is cheap, light it up for him, and he will think that he is the sun. I don't want to see if I'm the material. Wan Jun took half a box of cigarettes from Xiao Qiangfang on the ammunition box, lit one, put the rest in his pocket and said: "People are just not satisfied, two days earlier, get out of the beachhead, everyone is stable, how good it is, I have to be the chief executive of Taiwan." This is good, whether the life can be saved is two words. Xiao Qiang watched Wan Jun take his cigarettes as his own so naturally, he glared at Wan Jun and said, "Why do you still take cigarettes!" He looked at Wan Jun, who was disapproving, and said, "I don't think we should be in such a hurry now." Let's stay in Changhua County tonight, we are fast enough, we will occupy Beigang Town, Huwei Town, Xiluo Town, Changhua County in one day, and we will go to Taichung City tomorrow. Let's take a break, too. The fighters also ran for a day, wait for the troops behind. Wan Jun thought about it, and the political commissar was right. I'm in a hurry. Let the Kuomintang pinch each other in Taipei first. also let Sun Liren know that not all officials can be officials.

The 28th Army was the same, waving its division south, taking it at Tainan City, Gangshan Town, and approaching Kaohsiung along the road.

On the 29th, the 1st Marine Division, together with the 20th Army, the 58th, 59th, and 60th Divisions of the 9th Corps of the People's Liberation Army that landed from Qitiao Port in Xitai Township, formed the Beishang Corps. The Kuomintang retreated along the way, and half of them chose to surrender to the PLA. In the past two days, the corps went north, without unloading their armor, without stopping, and the troops divided the road, and with the momentum of thunder and lightning, they went straight to Taipei.

In the early morning of the 30th, the 58th Division of the 20th Army occupied Taoyuan County, and the 1st Marine Division was blocked by the Kuomintang diehard Taipei Garrison Division and Chiang Kai-shek's Central Guard Regiment in Shulin Town in the southern suburbs of Taipei. In the early morning, Taipei was covered with fog and drizzle, and our tank regiment was on standby to attack. At 7 o'clock, with Wan Jun's order, our tanks and marines formed several powerful iron streams and rushed straight to the four heights below the mountain. In an instant, smoke billowed in front of the mountain, and bullets rained. Our artillery units were on call, pointing wherever they were attacking, and the artillery units coordinated very effectively. The artillery opened forward observation posts and went with the first line of tank infantry. The artillery fire gradually extended forward, and our tank infantry detachment charged forward with the point of impact. The 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment showed great might in this attack. Li Xuesong, a sniper of the special operations platoon, eliminated more than a dozen officers and enemy machine gunners in a row. Bazooka player Wang Jinguo fired ten shells in a row with injuries, all of them accurately, and the shots hit the target. Platoon commander Ma Baoshan, not long after the battle began, was seriously wounded in the head, and his comrades-in-arms wanted to carry him down, he said: "No, I want to see the demise of the Jiang dynasty with my own eyes!" Even if you carry me, you will carry me into Taipei." When attacking the No. 3 heights, the bazooka hand Wang Jinguo was suddenly shot and injured again, at this critical moment, the platoon commander Ma Baoshan picked up Wang Jinguo's bazooka, Huo Ran stood up, gritted his teeth, and shot the shell at the enemy's fire point with the last breath of his life. "Resolutely destroy the enemy and take Taipei! Avenge the platoon commander! With the angry shouts of the soldiers, the members of the Marine Corps of the 1st Marine Regiment met the rain of bullets, stepped on the thorns, and went straight up, unstoppable! Thirty-four minutes later, three green flares were fired from various heights. The commanders and fighters of the 1st Marine Regiment fought valiantly and dealt a fatal blow to the Kuomintang diehards. Severely punish the Kuomintang diehards who dare to resist! Split the last barrier to enter Taipei, occupied Shulin Town in the southern suburbs of Taipei, and approached the city of Taipei.

Wan Jun then handed over Shulin Town to the 1st Marine Regiment. He took the initiative to allocate the 2nd Tank Battalion to the 59th Division of the 20th Army, which was following from behind, and ordered it to cooperate with the 59th Division to advance to Sanchong and Luzhou City west of Taipei. He led the 1st Tank Battalion and the 2nd and 3rd Marine Regiments across the southern district of Taipei and advanced to Xizhi Town, east of Taipei, in order to cut off the connection between Taipei and Keelung City. The 60th Division of the 20th Army, which came up at the end, immediately marched into the downtown area of Taipei to Banqiao and Wanhua District in Taipei, and pointed at Zhongzheng District.

At this time, Sun Liren in Taipei was in embattlement. Since the evening of the 27th, the column directly under the Taipei Military Police launched a rebellion under the leadership of Deputy Commander Meng Xianwu, the two sides fought to the death in the street battles in Taipei, regardless of whether they were up or down, and as the 190 Infantry Division marched into the city, Sun Liren's troops had a slight upper hand, recaptured the Taiwan Radio Station, and drove the rebellious Taipei Military Police out of Taipei's Boai Police District. However, in the early morning of the 28th, Chiang Kai-shek's presidential guard-Central Guard Regiment, the 653 Infantry Regiment of the Marine Corps, and the Kuomintang Air Force Airborne Brigade at Songshan Airport joined one after another, and the Taipei Military Police directly subordinate column launched a rebellion, and the situation in Taipei was reversed. Sun Liren's cadet team of the 4th Officer Training Class and the 190th Infantry Division gradually became unable to resist, and began to retreat under the ferocious counterattack of these troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek. On the evening of 29 July, under the cover of darkness and under the protection of a team of cadets of the Fourth Officer Training Class, Sun Liren broke through the encirclement of the Ministry of National Defense, withdrew from Taipei City, and set up his headquarters in an air defense tunnel on Jinan Mountain in the Shilin area on the outskirts of Taipei City. This is also the later generation of Taiwan's Hengshan Command Post, "Hengshan Command Post", is the Taiwan authorities in the early 50s of the 20th century began to build the "highest command post in wartime", Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered to speed up the "underground" of military facilities, "Hengshan Command Post" was excavated from there, and the construction was not completed until the early 90s. But at this time, this famous Hengshan command post in later generations was just a mountain tunnel with hundreds of lengths that had just begun to be excavated. Sun Liren is in this dark and damp headquarters. Constantly shouting to the front fingers of the People's Liberation Army in Guangdong and Fujian. reported on their situation, and the situation of the riots in Taipei. Ask the PLA to speed up the march.

Sun Liren arranged the cadet team of the Fourth Officer Training Class and the last more than 1,000 instructors and cadets on the position of Jinan Mountain. Ordered to guard to the death and wait for the arrival of the People's Liberation Army. The news of the arrival of the People's Liberation Army in the southern suburbs of Taipei greatly boosted the morale of the cadets of the Fourth Officer Training Class on the positions guarding the Jinan Mountain. They seemed to see the last hope, and stubbornly resisted the insurgent army's frenzied attacks again and again. The other party kept fighting hand-to-hand, and Meng Xianwu also gritted his teeth, wanting to solve Sun Liren, who pushed the Kuomintang to a dead end, before the People's Liberation Army entered Taipei.

The 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division of the PLA and the 2,3 Marine Regiment and the Rocket Artillery Battalion. Crossing the southern district of Taipei and directly penetrating the town of Xizhi to the east of Taipei, 5 kilometers west of the town of Xizhi, a strong enemy counterattack tank fire suddenly emerged. A few seconds later, he ordered a tank company in front of the front to change from the front triangle formation to the rear triangle formation to outflank the rear, and another tank company in the back formed a front triangle formation to quickly meet the enemy tanks, a move "please enter the urn" really worked, the enemy tank counterattack fire quickly entered the encirclement, was broken by each one, the 1st tank battalion in the case of the loss of a tank, in one fell swoop to destroy the enemy's 9 M4A4 Sherman medium tanks.

Xizhi Town is an important town connecting Taipei City and Keelung City, with Taipei City to the west and Keelung City to the east, which is a strategic location in Taiwan. The 653rd Infantry Regiment of the Kuomintang Marines was stationed here, and it was from here that they reinforced the Taipei rebel gendarmerie. They are the absolute "trump card" elite main force in the hands of Chiang Kai-shek. However, when they saw the PLA approaching Taipei, they shrank the troops participating in the Taipei unrest and set up defensive positions along the mountains and jungles around Xizhi Town, in a vain attempt to put up a final resistance.

The 122-mm 40-barreled "Tempest" rocket launchers of the rocket artillery battalion were aimed directly at the positions of the 653 Infantry Regiment of the Kuomintang Marine Corps. This group of people who were willing to work hard for the Jiang dynasty and stubbornly resisted the enemy, bombed them like lost dogs, and drilled into the cave one after another. The No. 1 position in the southwest corner of Xizhi Town was originally a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers, but the Kuomintang authorities forced it to build a group of strong pillboxes. A lot of tunnels were dug, the holes were connected, the trenches were connected, and there were 23 firepower points on the left and right, and hundreds of defending enemies of the 653 infantry regiment of the Kuomintang Marine Corps were huddled here, trying to fight the trapped beasts. After the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment accepted the task of attacking position No. 1. Xu Dongliang, commander of the 5th battalion, led the company and platoon cadres to see the terrain and set an ingenious tactic. He first organized his troops and launched a feint attack on position No. 1 in turn with heavy firepower. The 653 infantry regiment has become a frightened bird, and at the slightest disturbance, it will desperately shoot outward. The strength of the enemy in position 1 was finally cleared by me. There are three fire nets here, at the foot of the mountain are mines, on the mountainside are light and heavy machine guns, and on the top of the mountain are anti-aircraft machine guns with dense firepower. Battalion Commander Xu left the 3rd Company in the front to confuse the enemy, but the 1st and 2nd Companies quickly detoured back to both sides of the No. 1 position, and the rocket artillery battalion carried out another artillery attack, and the 1st and 2nd companies descended from the sky like a divine soldier, and a brave charge occupied most of the surface position of No. 1. Under the cover of my strong firepower, the Demoman sent blasting canisters and explosive packets into bunkers and cave tunnels. In an instant, the fireworks soared into the sky, the mountains and valleys responded, and the sound of collapse was endless. The defenders in the tunnel were killed and wounded, and some were so breathless that they screamed and squeezed out of the blown hole and surrendered to our troops. In the smoke of gunfire, the Marines rushed into the tunnel that had not yet collapsed to clear the remnants of the enemy.

The 6th Company of the 3rd Marine Regiment had just rushed to the Zhangjiang Bridge leading to Keelung, when it suddenly saw two enemy tanks retreating from the No. 1 position. The two enemy tanks were at full speed and tried to flee east across the Zhangjiang Bridge. Hong Changqing, the bazooka player of the 9th class, was quick-eyed, and he picked up the bazooka and aimed it at the butt of the first tank, which hit the fuel tank. With a loud bang and a burst of fire, the M4A4 Sherman medium tank became a pile of burning scrap metal piled on the bridge. As soon as the second tank saw that the bridge was blocked, it immediately turned around and wanted to run back, but it ran into Wen Jiafu, the deputy squad leader. I only heard him shout, "Look where you're going!" He raised the bazooka and hit the tank, and the tank burst into flames. The 6th Company of the 3rd Marine Regiment quickly occupied the Zhangjiang Bridge. Thus cutting off the connection between Taipei and Keelung.

(To be continued)