[157] Luck and misfortune

Rulin's 130mm barrel has been adjusted according to the preset parameters, and with Bu Zhenghong's order, the shelling of Dinghai began.

Hu Lian rushed to his headquarters, and the first thing he asked was whether the People's Liberation Army had begun to land.

The command told him that he had finally contacted a part of the Zhoujiayuan garrison, and the other party said that he had not seen the landing force yet.

Hu Lian calmed down a little, he was now waiting for the PLA to land. As long as the People's Liberation Army lands, he will be able to draw a scoop on the gourd and repeat the Battle of Kinmen.

Hu Lian squinted, thinking of his armored car cluster rushing into the beach, the M5A1 tank indestructibly cleaning up the sandbag bunkers for the bandits, and the armored vehicles and machine guns harvesting the lives of the bandits...... He couldn't help but laugh excitedly and contemptuously. But when he thought of the dark Kinmen that the People's Liberation Army had fought stubbornly, his smile stiffened again.

"Don't be like last time, be escaped by a remnant of the bandits, and have to fight on the island for a week."

As soon as Hu Lian thought of the army that would not surrender and would drill into a cave to fight Zuihou, his vest was cold......

A Soviet general engaged in strategic research once said: "...... Generals always want to fight a war of the past, because everything is familiar, and the characteristic of modern warfare is that every war is different......"

"What's that sound?" An adjutant in the command post said suddenly.

Everyone heard it now, and the dense howling was getting louder and louder.

Another lieutenant reacted and yelled: "Cannonballs! ”

Dinghai finally rained shells, Hu Lian's armored corps was the first target of the shelling, 50 kilograms of 130mm caliber high-explosive incendiary cannon shells swarmed in unison, illuminating the darkness before dawn red, in the firelight, the ridiculous iron armored vehicles modified by the Kuomintang with trucks were lifted off and exploded and caught fire, and this strange armored vehicle close to the heart of the explosion was blown to pieces on the spot, leaving only the chassis skeleton soaked in the flames and burned. The shelling was so intense and intense that even two American-made M5A1 tanks were not spared, being ignited by shells at close range, and white phosphorus burned on the steel plates.

Since the target of the first phase of the shelling against Dinghai was not a beachhead fortification, but an armored cluster, Hu Lian's 67th Army armored vehicle parking lot gathered the fury of all 144 130mm cannons. Cannonballs fell like drumsticks on the ground as war drums, making an earth-shattering rumble and thunder, the earth trembled, the houses shook, and the mud and sand on the roofs fell with a pop. Hu Lian's troops were caught off guard by the sudden large-scale cluster shelling, and all the officers and men were looking for shelters to hide, and the troops that were not shelled ran far out of the shelled area.

Hu Lian shouted anxiously in the command headquarters: "Give me an order, the armored vehicles and tanks will be launched immediately and dispersed to the field!" Who dares to run around in the army to avoid the war, military law is engaged! ”

Under the supervision of the military justice team, the 67th Army was also honest, and the armored soldiers kept rushing into the dense artillery fire with their heads in their heads, hoping to drive out the armored vehicles and tanks that were not blown up alive. But there were still many soldiers who were squatting on the ground and peeing their pants and shivering, while praying to Nam Mu Amitabha.

Under the dense rain of shells, the effect of suicide rescue was limited, but in general it was somewhat effective. Because the sky was not bright, the cannon cluster could not be accurately calibrated to the Bombardment Five, resulting in the shelling coverage being somewhat off the center of the target. So Hu Lian saved almost half of the iron armored trucks and basically finished 18 tanks.

The horn in the landing craft suddenly sounded: "Attention all commanders and fighters, there are still 1,500 meters from the beach, please prepare for landing." ”

The various loudspeakers in the landing craft kept sounding such similar prompts. Hearing the radio prompts, some fighters began to get nervous, and more fighters began to adjust their state, some were taking deep breaths, some were tightening their belts and equipment, some were excited, and some were more calm.

The dense landing craft on the sea surface have changed from the previous unevenness to the current one, and they have begun to deliberately adjust their speed to keep pace with the boats on the side.

Finally, under the voice prompts again and again, the landing craft got closer and closer to the coast, and the remaining enemy fire on the shore began to resist, and the sparse machine gun sound began to sound.

Kim Debiao was the Kuomintang platoon commander who managed a beachhead machine-gun emplacement, and his machine-gun emplacement survived the artillery bombardment. Without the order of his superiors, Jin Debiao did not dare to retreat, and if he retreated, he would be shot by military law.

But ten minutes later, Jin Debiao was glad that the artillery fire extended to the north after three rounds of coverage, and it happened to blow up the retreating people and the temporary military camp in the rear, Zuihou even suffered from the mountains, the sky was red from the raging mountain fires, and the smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of blood and burnt meat wafted from behind his position one by one. The soldiers behind the sandbag bunkers of the heavy machine guns were ready to vomit.

When Jin Debiao saw the landing craft constantly appearing in the drizzle on the sea, he couldn't believe his own eyes at all, at the end of last year and 1949, the army was still 30 people squeezing a small wooden boat to attack the island! When will it be replaced by a big wheel! No, it's not a big wheel! It's a fucking landing craft!

Kim recognized the flat-headed features of the landing craft, and as soon as the thing was put down, the people inside would run out in a hurry. These landing craft are all big, I'm afraid there are hundreds of them in one boat, right?

Jin Debiao was nervous, and immediately ordered: "Fire!" ”

However, he did not observe carefully, and these landing craft also had artillery on them. The Yunan-class and Yuqing-class are equipped with two ferocious Type 69 14.5mm double-barreled naval cannons, with a rate of fire of 300 rounds per minute, and a warhead that is more than long, which is enough to break the armor of a tank in this year. And the 271 landing ship is equipped with four such killers.

Having spotted the firing point on the beachhead, the landing craft did not hesitate to immediately return fire.

It should be said that Kim Debiao and his men were lucky that they survived the hellish artillery fire. However, Kim Debiao was again unlucky, as the first machine-gun emplacement, and only sandbags as cover, which ...... In Xiaoqiang's words, it's simply a cloth armor monster and group ridicule......

Almost at the same time, more than 300 meters away, on about 15 or 6 landing craft rushing towards the beachhead guarded by Jin Debiao, 60 or 70 gun tubes of more than 30 Type 69 14.5mm double-barreled machine guns began to roar and breathe fire at the same time.

And the lucky and unfortunate Kim Deok-pyo disappeared, as did the machine-gun bunkers made of sandbags. Six or seven hundred rounds of 14.5mm machine guns were fired from more than a dozen landing craft from multiple angles, hitting the sandbag bunkers as if they had been bombarded by large-caliber artillery.

Seeing the encounter with Jin Debiao's heavy machine gun position in front, in the few bunkers behind, suddenly one of them erupted like a crazy "Ah! Yes! A Kuomintang soldier ran out from behind the bunker with his hands in a hurry, throwing away his steel helmet as he ran, apparently really frightened.

The scene was so powerful that the few surviving heavy machine gun bunkers were running backwards, and some of them were empty. The rest of the soldiers did not want to run, but they were afraid that they would become a living target if they ran out.

The remaining soldiers did not dare to shoot the jaw-dropping crowd like Kim Debiao, nor did they dare to run away to attract firepower, so they had to crouch behind the sandbags with their heads bowed and shiver, and some even began to cry.

With the constant whine of steel scraping the ground from the bottom of the ship, all the commanders and fighters in the boat were thrown on the people in front, and three seconds after the landing craft stopped, the soldiers had just finished adjusting when they heard "Box!" The landing deck in front of the boat was suddenly lowered, and a cold air that emitted the salty smell of sea water and a faint smoke of gunpowder suddenly came to the surface, and there was more natural light in the boat except for the lights, and the eyes suddenly brightened.

At this time, some of the soldiers who fainted all the way also came to the spirit at once, and the soldiers at the door sprinted out first, and the hundreds of commanders and fighters in the boat behind were brave and brave like the tigers of the mountains, and the hula beans were like surging out of the boat, and everyone shouted: "Kill!" ~~~~~~~~~ "The whole Zhoujiayuan beach suddenly changed from a short and strange tranquility to a noisy sand field!

The officers and men of the 65 th Division who landed were in accordance with the arrangements of their respective commanders, and those who flew the red flag were to fight the red flag, those who were charging were to be charged, the machine guns were carrying machine guns, and the 107mm parts were carrying parts. Among the seven 271 medium landing ships, twelve Type 54 152mm howitzers were even pulled out by more than a dozen soldiers with ropes, and the other landing craft also kept spitting out Type 54 122mm howitzers as if they were magic weapons.

The vanguard of the 65th Division continued to advance and expand the area of the landing ground, and landing ships continued to rush to the beach behind, and in less than 20 minutes, the entire two-kilometer-long beach was now full of personnel and materials.

Strangely, however, apart from the sporadic gunfire in the distance, the expected frenzied enemy fire did not appear. After Chen Shifa, commander of the 65th Division, rushed down the beach with the division headquarters from the 271 landing ship, he observed the island with a telescope on the edge of a large rocky reef.

Chen Shifa looked at it and suddenly laughed: "Haha! The artillery fought well! He muttered to himself.

"Guards." He immediately ordered.

"Here!"

"Order all the vanguard troops, in accordance with the established jihua, to speed up the attack, occupy the favorable terrain and actively attack, and strive to take the entire Zhoujiayuan area and hold it before the reinforcements arrive."

"Yes!"

According to the landing Jihua, the 1st Battalion of Li Sijiu's 193rd Regiment was responsible for holding the upper, middle and lower three passages to Dinghai in the east of the Zhoujiayuan area until the follow-up troops arrived.

It was only 4 kilometers from the beach to Ya'ao Ridge, and the first battalion's attack went smoothly, and there was basically no resistance from a large group of enemies along the way. More than thirty captives have been captured. After constantly breaking through the sparsely blown bunkers, the commander of the 1st Battalion, Katsumura Fuku, ordered the troops to begin to separate, and the three companies each rushed to different junctions.

Ge Murafu led a company and the battalion headquarters to attack the Yaao Ridge, the passage in the middle.