At 11 o'clock, Wang Shaohui, commander of the 68th Division, and his party of five people, together with the deputy chief of staff, carried the defense maps of Xiyu Island, Baisha Island and the surrounding islands, as well as the roster of officers at and above the company level, and took a patrol boat to the main island of Penghu, our Penghu front-line headquarters.

The political commissar of the 1st Marine Division received Wang Shaohui and his entourage.

The two sides met in a very friendly atmosphere in the conference room in Magong City. The action steps of the uprising of the 68th Division of the Kuomintang were determined: First, those who opposed the uprising in the 68th Division must be resolutely suppressed. Second, he telegraphed his statement to break away from Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary clique, stand on the side of the people, and resolutely support the central people's political axe. Third, after our army took over the defense, the 68th Division withdrew to the main island of Penghu to accept reorganization. Fourth, the 68th Division will abide by the three major disciplines of the People's Liberation Army from now on, and pay attention to eight points.

In order to deter the Kuomintang diehards and support Wang Shaohui, two fire support ships sailed into the waters of Penghu Bay.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of 4 September, the entire army of the 28th Army and the 1st Division of the 7th Artillery Division, taking 20 landing ships that had returned, respectively landed on the main island of Penghu, Baisha Island, Xiyu Island, and the surrounding islands, and took over the defensive positions of the 68th Division of the Kuomintang in an all-round way. At this time, our army in the Penghu Islands had reached more than 60,000 people.

The 68th Division of the Kuomintang and our army received troops after handing over the positions in the defense area, barracks and various equipment and materials amicably. Evacuated to the main island of Penghu in batches one by one. Some old, weak, sick, disabled, and unfit personnel who are not fit to stay in the PLA will be transferred to other jobs. Those whose homes are in the mainland are willing to return to their hometowns will be sent back to their hometowns. Those who do not want to return to their hometowns are sent to the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps. The remaining more than 7,000 people were reorganized into the First Penghu Garrison Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Wang Shaohui, commander of the 68th Division, was appointed commander of the First Penghu Garrison Division and deputy chief of staff of the Penghu Front Command of the People's Liberation Army.

The fall of the Penghu Islands has plunged Taiwan into a state of panic.

On September 4, Chiang Kai-shek went against the norm and came to the presidential palace in a five-star general's uniform to convene an emergency meeting of the Ministry of National Defense. In the conference room of the Presidential Palace, Defense Minister Yu Dawei, Army Commander-in-Chief Sun Liren, Chief of Staff and Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou, Navy Commander-in-Chief Gui Yongqing, Air Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wang Shuming, Joint Logistics Commander-in-Chief Huang Zhenqiu, and Defense Minister and Political Department Director Chiang Ching-kuo were already waiting here. Seeing Chiang Kai-shek walk in, everyone stood up one after another to salute Chiang Kai-shek and say hello. Chiang Kai-shek gently pressed his hands down and motioned for everyone to sit down.

Yu Dawei saw that everyone had arrived to announce the meeting, and he first introduced the process of the loss of Penghu to the high-ranking officials of the Kuomintang military circles who attended the meeting. It explains the current situation facing Taiwan. In the end, he said: "On how to prevent the communist army from landing in Taiwan, I would like to ask you to express your high views. ”

Gui Yongqing, commander-in-chief of the Navy, hurriedly spoke: "At present, communist planes are very rampant, and the power of bombs is huge, especially the kind of steel ball bullets. As long as one or two can kill most of the people on the deck of a destroyer, in order to prevent the communist attack on Taiwan, the air force must first be contained. Without air supremacy, the ships of our Navy are only targets for the [***] Air Force, and there are not enough for them to bomb. In addition, in order to prevent the landing of communist troops, it was necessary to lay mines on the sea surface and on the beaches in large densities and at multiple levels. ”

Huang Zhenqiu, commander-in-chief of the joint logistics department, interjected: "With hundreds of kilometers of coastline, how can you let me put on so many mines and mines?" ”

Defense Minister Yu Dawei said: "If there are not enough mines, can we protect the key points?" In key areas, mines are laid in key sea areas. ”

"That's what I said, but where are the key areas, the key sea areas?" Zhou Zhirou, chief of staff and commander of the Air Force, said: "The landing of the communist army in Penghu this time was a great surprise to us, and the actions of the communist army are often not considered by normal people's thinking, and they do not play their cards according to common sense. ”

After that, the "ministers" made an analysis and judgment on the main sea-crossing directions and areas of the communist army.

Sun Liren, commander-in-chief of the army, raised the issue of insufficient troops, especially mobile troops. He said: "Although we have more than 300,000 troops on the island of Taiwan and more than 400,000 in the navy and air force, although the island is not large, it is still not enough to fortify it. In the case that it is impossible to predict the direction of the opponent's attack and know the opponent's landing point, the most effective way is to have a strong mobile force with rapid reaction in hand and throw it to the place where it is needed at any time. Therefore, I propose that such a force be established immediately, and I propose that our forces deployed in Kinmen and along the coast of the mainland be withdrawn to Taiwan. ”

Everyone shook their heads and said: "That is our first-line line of defense, if we don't retreat without a fight, it will cause the rout of the entire front." ”

Sun Liren thought: "There is still a line of defense." Now I am afraid that it is doubtful whether they can withdraw if they want to withdraw and come back. But he really didn't want to argue with these uneducated people.

Wang Shuming, deputy commander-in-chief of the Air Force and commander of air defense, pointed out that the air defense artillery on the ground is insufficient and cannot effectively defend key targets, and called for the import of air defense artillery, especially large-caliber antiaircraft artillery, as soon as possible.

Zhou Zhirou, chief of staff and commander of the Air Force, escaped death and personally felt the capabilities of the planes, and in light of the uneven flight level of the communist air force, he put forward an operational plan for the air force to rely on Taiwan itself, to become entangled with the communist planes, and to ensure the safety of Taiwan's airspace by fighting more and less.

These Taiwanese military giants have asked a lot of questions, and Gao Zhi has also published a lot. The reason is also sufficient, but there is no unanimous opinion, and in the end it is equivalent to not saying it.

More than three hours passed, and Chiang Kai-shek did not say a word. He felt that there were many problems, some of which could not be solved in a moment.

He thought that Sun Liren's proposal was right, and now that Penghu Island was occupied by the communist army, those islands deployed along the coast of the mainland had lost their due defensive role. The most urgent task at the moment is to withdraw the troops that are hanging overseas outside and strengthen the defense of the island of Taiwan, otherwise the supply to the islands will be a problem at present.

After midnight, Sun Liren was still unable to sleep while lying on the bed, since the start of the war in Penghu, he has been thinking about his own way out, and many ideas make it difficult for him to choose for a while. He put on his pajamas and went to the study and turned on the radio casually. A baritone voice came out of the radio: "General Wang Shaohui led more than 12,000 people of the 68th Division to resolutely oppose the dark rule of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary clique, and resolutely staged an uprising on Penghu Island. He made great contributions to the liberation of the Penghu Islands, and his righteous deeds were warmly welcomed by the people of the whole country. General Wang Shaohui appealed to the vast number of Kuomintang officers and men who are still in Taiwan to have a clear understanding of the situation, stop working for the Chiang dynasty, abandon darkness and turn to the light, strike a blow against the enemy, resolutely stand on the side of the broad masses of the people, and resolutely support the central people's political axe. Under the leadership of China's great [****], we will work together with the Chinese people to build our country well, and this is the only bright road for the vast number of Kuomintang officers and men. ”

Although the voice from Yanjing traveled thousands of miles, it was still clear, and he turned off the radio. He lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, leaned his head on the back of the sofa, closed his eyes and thought about the first half of his life, although his career was relatively smooth, but in the process of promotion, he also suffered from jealousy. Most of the senior Kuomintang generals of his generation were "protégés of the Son of Heaven" in the first five phases of the Whampoa Military Academy, and although they claimed to have graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy, what was actually Huangpu, and Greenpool's short-term military training was only a few months, which was nothing compared with his graduation from the preparatory department of the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Purdue University in the United States, and his bachelor's degree from the Virginia Military Academy. And these people do not think of themselves, and they are always deliberately hostile to themselves. And he is arrogant and arrogant, unwilling to be in the company of these people, and makes interpersonal relationships very stiff. Whenever he put forward any suggestions or requirements, he was often boycotted by Zhou Zhirou, Gui Yongqing, and Wang Shuming. There are many contradictions with these people, and they can't get the trust of the Jiang family's father and son. Although he served as Chiang Kai-shek's deputy chief of guard and repeatedly made military exploits for the party and the state, he did oppose Chiang Kai-shek's methods of managing the army, opposed Chiang Ching-kuo's establishment of a "political work system" in the army, and even opposed the rule of spies; Chiang Kai-shek's statement that he was "attacking the mainland" was also disagreeable. These led to an increase in the contradictions between him and Jiang's father and son. And he knew better that his position in the "Army General Headquarters" was a great obstacle to Chiang Ching-kuo's expansion of military power. In addition, he is not a member of the Kuomintang, and he is not a member of the Huangpu department. It is only a matter of time before they are pushed out of the upper echelons of the military. "Hey," he thought to himself, sighing to himself, "what future can I have with these two guys?" Thinking of the future, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, what kind of future are we talking about now that the soldiers are coming to the city. He thought of the broadcast just now, "Abandoning darkness and turning to light, under the leadership of China [***], and working together with the broad masses of Chinese people to build our country well, this is the only bright road for the vast number of Kuomintang officers and men." He shook his head, he was ranked 38th among the 43 war criminals listed by [***], could he let himself go? [***] and the people's political axe can really not be blamed in the past? At this time, he thought of Zhou Enlai's ten-point policy for the peaceful settlement of the Taiwan issue: 'Patriotism is in no particular order, and it is everyone's responsibility to reunify the motherland. Even the number one war criminal, Chiang Kai-shek, can serve in the Central Committee, I count why, why can't I serve in the Central Committee; Even Chiang Ching-kuo can be Taiwan's chief executive, so why can't I? He learned from Li Hong that [***] is still quite trustworthy. Otherwise, Li Hong and the others can't be put back. And let them come to Taiwan. It's a pity that I believed in Chiang Kai-shek too much and pitted these good brothers. Let them be summoned to Taiwan, but they were inexplicably imprisoned and trapped in a prison cell. He felt deeply sorry for some people.

In accordance with the agreement signed between the two sides at the beginning, and according to his own will, more than 40 senior generals of the New Seventh Army of the Kuomintang, including Li Hong, commander of the New Seventh Army, were sent back to their hometowns one after another. Before leaving, Li Hong and others had already made up their minds to return to the Kuomintang army, and obtained the documents issued by the Northeast People's Liberation Army to return to Hunan and the passage expenses. It was Chiang Kai-shek who personally asked Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek said very well at the time: "You can let them come to Taiwan and take up military posts again." "But when these old subordinates and some iron buddies of Sun Liren were recruited to Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek did order the arrest of Li Hong and his wife Ma Zhenyi and put them in prison. Then, 17 people, including Chen Mingren, Peng Keli, and Zeng Changyun, who had come to Taiwan at the rank of general and colonel-level officers of the New Seventh Army, were arrested and imprisoned one after another. He immediately promoted Chiang Kai-shek, pleaded for the old department, and was willing to take his whole family name to protect Li Hong and others, but Chiang Kai-shek ruthlessly refused.

Now Taiwan is coming to the city. The communist army took Penghu Island in just a dozen hours. By the way, the 59th Division and the 186th Division of Penghu, which were preparing to be reinforced at Kaohsiung and Chiayi Budai Port, were also bombed and disabled.

Sun Liren knew that without the support of the Americans, Taiwan would not be able to sustain itself for a day. Now the land, sea and air are all available, and you can fight as much as you want. You can fight whenever you want. As long as the communist army's feet touch the ground, even the Americans can't do anything. The United States was not defeated by [***] in North Korea. Only Chiang Kai-shek lacked self-knowledge, and he still clamored for a "counterattack on the mainland" and did not know what "Thunder Action" was carried out within his means.

He thought about it, and he must no longer tie the Jiang family's chariot. Make a difference in this moment. Can we arrest the Chiang family father and son first like Zhang Xueliang, and then negotiate with [***] to accept Zhou Enlai's ten principles for a peaceful settlement of Taiwan. So he began to calculate his own family background. Taiwan does not have its own troops, and the 201st Division has been trained by itself, but now it is in Kinmen. Today, at the National Defense Conference, he proposed to transfer troops from outside the island back, but he was unanimously opposed by those people, and Lao Chiang did not express his position. Only a few hundred of his cadres who had been transferred from the New First Army in the Fourth Officer Training Course were left during his time in the Tax Police Corps and during his war in Burma. This little force is obviously not enough to fight against the Chiang family father and son, and the only way to catch the Chiang family and his son and eradicate the important officials of the Kuomintang is to contact [***]. But how do you get in touch with [***]? What can I do from it? He was planning this earth-shattering event repeatedly in his heart.

The next day, Sun Liren summoned his subordinate Guo Tianliang, who had followed him for many years, and Sun Liren rarely summoned his original subordinates in order to avoid suspicion, so Guo Tianliang immediately drove over, and as soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Boss, did something happen?"

Sun Liren pointed to the sofa opposite, motioned for him to sit down, and said, "It's okay, I'm looking for you, just chatting casually." ”

Guo Tianliang glanced at Sun Liren very puzzled, and sat down slowly.

Sun Liren didn't open his mouth for a long time, and at this time it was a very tricky topic, and he said whether people were willing to do it with him. If you don't want to, isn't it difficult for a strong man?

"I'm here to hear from you today to hear your views on the current situation." Sun Liren still decided to say it, "Now that [***] has troops in the city, it is impossible to hold Taiwan with Taiwan's strength alone, and it will be a matter of time before Taiwan falls." I have repeatedly thought that there are only two paths in front of us, one is to continue to work for the Jiang family father and son, and the result will inevitably be a dead end; And the other is the anti-Chiang uprising, which is our only way to survive, and this is exactly what we have to discuss with you."

(To be continued)