Li Yuxi waved the telegram in his hand angrily and said, "Is this the tone of discussion? It's pure fucking shit. Who inflicted heavy losses on the party-state? Hum! The task of our navy was to escort the landing force, and there was no task of providing them with offensive fire support. Just kidding, I'm not the commander of his artillery regiment, why did I order me. Just now we carried out artillery support for the sake of the interests of the party and the state, but now I will go forward and shoot again, so that the communist artillery will blow up the ship, and none of us will be able to go back." He turned to his lieutenant and said, "Tell the landing ship to move away as well, so as not to bleed." ”

"The commander is wise. The communist rocket artillery on the island just now was also terrible. Zeng Haiqiang, deputy commander of the fleet, said: "We cannot put ourselves in danger. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. But, Commander, how do you think we can reply to Chief Hu?"

Li Yuxi handed the telegram to Zeng Haiqiang and said, 'Let's find an excuse to prevaricate him first.'" What kind of excuse?" Zeng Haiqiang took the telegram, scratched his head and said: "Commander, you can see that we are in the process of replenishing ammunition, and we will go to support as soon as we complete the replenishment."

You can say whatever you want, the principle is not to go. There must also be a reason to be able to do it

'Boom.' interrupted their conversation.

Xi Yang, chief of staff of the 2nd J-H Division, piloted the JH7 Flying Leopard fighter at an altitude of 3,000 meters, aimed at the largest Kuomintang destroyer 'Tai'an' parked on the sea, and began to carry out dive bombing. During the dive, the weapons crews in the rear used helmet-mounted sights to suppress the two possible anti-aircraft guns on the enemy ship at close range with their 23-mm cannons. When he was 600 meters away from the Kuomintang destroyer "Tai'an," he opened the sub-munition box and instantly dropped three 200-kilogram submunitions, each of which flew in a zigzag formation toward the enemy ship. Use these small particles to bombard the upper deck, bridge, and gun emplacements to kill and injure the enemy on the deck of the ship, destroy the ship's weapons and equipment, and disarm the enemy ship. The enemy destroyer "Tai'an" was denied the ability to resist. This is the way to cause the least damage to the ship. After Xi Yang completed this dive bombing, he drew a very beautiful arc in the air and gently pulled it up. "Boom, boom, boom," there were three loud bangs, and each sub-bomb split into 50 bullets into one piece, and hundreds of steel balls the size of soybeans were split in each bullet. At the command platform of the destroyer "Tai'an," all gun positions and decks were suddenly covered with corpses and devastation. The escort destroyer "Tai'an" of the Kuomintang Navy. It was the flagship of this fleet, built by the United States in World War II and handed over to the Kuomintang in 1946, as one of the large warships of the Kuomintang Navy. It has a displacement of 1,430 tons, 4 76 and 40 mm guns and 10 20 mm machine guns, and 180 officers and men on board. The bombing essentially disarmed the warship.

This bombardment launched by Xi Yang. Vice Admiral Li Yuxi, the captain of the fleet commander 'Tai'an', was killed on the spot, and a steel ball ruthlessly shattered the fragile skull of his right temple, passing through his brain tissue, and the deputy commander Zeng Haiqiang's right shoulder bone was also firmly embedded with a steel ball of sub-munitions, causing the right shoulder bone to be shattered and fractured. He threw himself on the floor of the command module, enduring the piercing pain coming from his right shoulder. He raised his head and saw that Li Yuxi, the commander of the ship, was lying in front of him, his head was not a foot away from him, his mouth was wide open in pain, blood and brain tissue and cerebral effusion were constantly flowing outward from the broken braincase, he felt nausea that he had never felt before, the stomach muscles twitched violently, and there were bursts of strong spasms. He struggled to get up and stay away from here, but the intense and irrepressible nausea, the strong stomach pressure, vomited all the lunch he had just eaten on his chief's face, mixed with the blood and brain tissue that flowed out. It's even more unbearable to see. Zeng Haiqiang forcibly held back the nausea in his heart, and said with a sincere face: "Commander, I didn't mean to desecrate your old man. You're just disgusting. I only didn't control it for a moment before I spit my undigested lunch in your face, and you don't remember the villain. When I come back to TW, I will definitely thicken up your funeral. By the way, I also have to take care of your two beautiful daughters. After saying that, he endured the great pain in his back and crawled to the side. He saw the ship's chief engineer half-lying on the ground, hiding under the bridge with his head in his hands. He ordered the stupid chief engineer: "Get up quickly, get out of here!"

'Vice, Vice, Deputy Commander, the rudder is out of order, and the ship, the ship is out of order. The chief engineer stammered.

"Quick, change the human rudder!" Zeng Haiqiang gritted his teeth and ordered loudly. He watched as the chief engineer stood up tremblingly. Back in front of the steering wheel.

He stood up with difficulty holding on to the bridge. Look out of the podium. The warship was in a mess, and the sailors who were still alive rushed out of each cabin, running and wearing life jackets on their bodies, some were grabbing the lifebuoys on the ship, some were calling for brothers and brothers to jump into the sea, and some were crying out in despair...... At this moment he saw the chief of communications and ran out of the telecommunications room. He immediately pulled out his pistol and ordered: 'Stop. You'll be right back for me! The commander is dead. Now it's up to me to wield. You immediately send a telegram to Hu Lian, telling him that our warship is attacking and telling him to withdraw quickly. It's late, and we won't wait for him. And I'm hurt. Get me Dr. Wang right away. He looked at the communicator standing there with a glazed gaze and yelled, "What the fuck are you doing here?" Don't go yet!"

When Dr. Wang came, he quickly helped him bandage his wounds. And gave him a shot of horse morphine. He felt that the pain was much lessened, and he stood on the command platform and looked into the distance, where smoke and fire were rising from the bridge of the Taikang.

The "Taikang" is a minesweeper with a displacement of 890 tons and a full load of 1,250 tons, which is the second largest ship of the four warships on this expedition, smaller than the "Tai'an" and larger than the other two. They were also hit by the J-7 . When the ship saw that the "Tai'an" was under attack, it immediately sounded the battle alarm and fled to the open sea at a speed of 18 knots per hour, while using the ship's four doors 12. The 7mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun fired into the air, which angered the JH7 pilots who carried out the attack, and while carrying out dive bombing, they fired rockets at him and set the bridge on fire, and at the same time made several holes in the waterline. The captain of the Taikang saw that the situation was not good, and the warship not only entered the water, but also caught fire. He knew he wouldn't be able to run away today. He hurriedly turned the bow of the ship and rushed to the nearest shoal...... Zeng Haiqiang turned his head and looked at the "Luojiang" on the right side of the "Tai'an", a 500-ton hunting submarine. It was motionless and resting there intact. Curiously, there was no attack at all. This is the cleverness of the captain of the "Luojiang". During the bombing of the "Tai'an" and "Taikang," the captain of the "Luojiang" was on the deck of the ship, and he clearly saw the bombing of the two "Tai" ships. The flagship of the fleet was beaten without much resistance, and it could not even parry the attack." The "Taikang" was able to resist, but as a result, a dive of the enemy plane was almost suspended and sunk. What else can you do with this little boat? Leave it to fate. He ordered all crew members to put on life-saving equipment and prepare to abandon ship. However, to his very strange effect, the communist planes did not seem to be interested in his small boat. Not to mention dive bombing, it just ignored it. When he saw the fate of the "Nu River", which was in a series with him, it proved even more that he was wise in his decision not to move. The "Nujiang" was also a hunting submarine with a displacement of only 450 tons, and in the first wave of the attack, like the "Luojiang", it ignored it. But while it was shooting in the air, it was trying to run at full speed.

There are many frames in this operation led by Xi Yang. The boat should be kept as much as possible and not too ruthlessly destroyed. Don't blow up the ship. They can't be allowed to escape yet. This scale is difficult to grasp, and seeing this ship is too small to arouse much interest. So he temporarily decided to bomb only two large ones, and the two smaller ones first. If they don't resist, they don't care if they don't run away, but if they resist and want to escape, that's a different story. That's why there was a phenomenon that puzzled the captain of the "Luojiang". But for the "Nu River", this not very interesting warship is different, and the two prerequisites that hit him are occupied by him, one is to resist, and the other is to escape. That's not to say. Xi Yang saw every move of the "Nu River" in the air, so he dived down to it and fired eight 90-millimeter rockets at the waterline of the ship on the right. Now I'm honest, and I don't want to run away. I can't run even if I want to. A 200-kilogram submunition was then dropped on him.

The captain of the "Luojiang" saw that the "Nujiang" had tilted to the right. He sighed, what is the pain? He thought to himself: 'It's a shame that this is a new ship, it's only been used for less than two years.'" He saw the sailors of the "Nu River" jumping into the sea one after another, and he wanted to order to go to the rescue, but after thinking about it, it was better to wait for a while, otherwise the communist troops in the sky would misunderstand me and want to run, and it would be a big trouble.

After the 6 landing ships parked on the seashore completed their delivery tasks, there was not much to do. With the exception of one landing ship, which was receiving the wounded that were constantly being brought from the island, the rest were chatting or talking about the war on the island on deck. There was no threat at all. When I saw the warship in the open sea being bombed, I was at a loss for what to do, where to run? What if the communist army comes back to bomb itself? But they instinctively retracted the aft hatch and left the shore.

Immediately ask the fleet commander to take the next step if he acts. They were told: the commander of the fleet, Li Yuxi, was killed in battle, and now he was under the acting command of the deputy commander Zeng Haiqiang. Deputy Commander Zeng instructed 'to evacuate the shore and offshore to stand by.' Zeng Haiqiang, deputy commander of the enemy's fleet, also had a hard time deciding what to do at this time. He felt that nothing was right. Let's go. Let's not talk about it, I can't go. It's the 20,000 people who can walk and throw down the island, and what the result is when you go back is that you can think of it on your heels. If you don't go, it will be a dead end for the communist army to bomb again. He sat on the command platform where the "Tai'an" was bombed and was riddled with holes, and said to a staff officer: "Send a report to Commander-in-Chief Gui Yongqing: 'Our fleet was attacked by the communist air force in the waters off Butterfly Island, the 'Tai'an' was seriously wounded, the 'Taikang' was wounded and rushed to the beach, and the 'Nujiang' sank." While he was dictating the telegram, the staff officer pointed behind him and said: "Look, deputy commander."

Zeng Haiqiang turned his head to look. In the blue waves in the distance, a small speedboat of only about 30 tons, with its bow high like a giant plow, lifted two white and high hydrofoils on the calm sea, and rushed towards the "Tai'an".

This is a 28-ton patrol gunboat just built by the Guangzhou Shipyard. Of course, it was also designed by the base in combination with the industrial level and material conditions at that time, and the advantages of some small patrol boats in later generations. Codename "Seawolf". The boat was armed with 2 twin 25mm guns. Two 12.7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns, and two 250 mm torpedo tubes. The bomb load is larger. The maximum speed is 25 knots.

The small patrol gunboat slowly slowed down, circled around the "Tai'an," and then stopped at Zuo Xuan, which was 15 meters away from the "Tai'an," and a communist soldier held a microphone surrounded by iron sheets and shouted loudly: "We are the Guangdong Jiangfang Brigade of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy." I am ordered by the Fujian Front Command of the People's Liberation Army to ask the highest commander of your fleet to come out and be obedient!' Zeng Haiqiang looked at the weapon system of this small gunboat was wrapped in a tarp, and there was no danger, so Gu Zuo calmly walked out of the command cabin of the "Tai'an". Standing on the side of the ship, he said: "I am Zeng Haiqiang, the deputy commander of this fleet, and now I am the supreme commander of this fleet. Say whatever you want."

The warrior looked him up and down and said, 'Okay, listen. On behalf of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Fujian Front Command, I now announce to you: 'It is impossible for you to retreat now. Our planes can blow you up and sink in minutes, and you all saw the fate of the 'Nu River' just now. But consider that you are both old and young. I will leave you a way to live. I advise you not to work for the Kuomintang authorities. Hu Lian on the island is also about to be finished. Now you are the only one who orders your men to lay down their weapons and not to try to escape, and this is the only way for you to survive. Give you fifteen minutes to think about it, and think about it. Raise the white flag and move your ship to the waters of Dacheng Bay on Xunzhou Island. I'm done talking," the warrior pulled out his pocket watch, looked at it, and said, "Now the timer begins." After saying that, the small patrol gunboat left as it came.

Zeng Haiqiang looked up at a few small gray-white bright spots in the distance of the sky. He had no choice.

(To be continued)