readx;?“ Very good, order Xue Yue to prepare for the attack immediately, without further ado, on the premise of not being sure whether Britain and the United States and other Western powers will enter the war, we must end this campaign as soon as possible. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Zhang Xinghan said.

As they spoke, the two of them had already taken the lead and walked inside.

Jiang Baili followed behind Zhang Xinghan and said: "According to the latest intelligence detected by the Secret Bureau, the Americans' Pacific Fleet has not yet shown signs of advancing eastward, and the British have no signs of advancing westward to participate in the war.

There should be no problem. ”

"Hopefully, if Britain and the United States enter the war, then this war may escalate into a full-scale war with Britain, the United States, Japan, and other countries.

*Pig * Pig * Island *Small* said

In that case, the situation would be extremely unfavorable for us. Zhang Xinghan sighed, of course Zhang Xinghan was not afraid of all-out war, relying on China's vast land and vast strategic depth.

There will be a day when we will win.

However, once such a protracted war is fought in China itself, it will inevitably bring incalculable disasters and losses to countless Chinese compatriots.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, we cannot start the war lightly.

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In late October of the 25th year of the Republic of China, Bai Chongxi, who supervised the war on behalf of the Military Commission, arrived in Xiamen and joined Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

After receiving Zhang Xinghan's telegram instructions, Xue Yue and Bai Chongxi had some careful discussions, and decided to launch a campaign to attack Taiwan before the arrival of the cold air of the November winter.

At this moment, the total number of Japanese troops and puppet troops on the island of Taiwan is about 100,000, and the naval and air forces are almost negligible.

The National Revolutionary Army had absolute superiority in all respects.

In order to give full play to the superiority of one's navy and air force, it is wisest to launch an attack before winter.

At this time, the total number of army, navy, and air force assembled by the Chinese army was close to 300,000.

They were 100,000 Fujian border guards and 100,000 Central Army transferred from the Jiangnan and Central Plains front armies.

50,000 troops were dispatched to Japan, more than 30,000 navy and marines, and more than 3,000 air force personnel.

If we count the large number of logistics personnel and the people in Fujian and other places who organized themselves to assist the troops in combat.

Then the size of the Chinese army's mobilization has exceeded 500,000 troops.

The nearly 300,000 people in front of them are all real front-line combat units.

In addition to the 50,000 Army and a number of marines stationed in Japan temporarily stationed in the Ryukyu Islands.

The 100,000 Fujian border guards and the 100,000 Central Army have already left for the Penghu Islands in batches, preparing to use them as a base for advancing to launch an attack on the Taiwan island.

As for the air force, the distance between Fujian's front and Taiwan's major coastal ports and cities is completely within the effective strike range of Chinese fighters.

Therefore, the trouble of building military airfields on the Penghu Islands and other islands was eliminated.

According to the established battle plan of Xue Yue, Bai Chongxi and others. In this attack on Taiwan, the Fujian border guards and the Central Army, which are relatively close to Taiwan, will take the lead in launching the attack.

Attracting the strength and attention of the Japanese troops in the western and southern parts of the island, the Japanese troops stationed in Japan, which were far away, set out from the Ryukyu Islands and landed from the northern and eastern parts of Taiwan while the two sides were engaged in a fierce war.

The Japanese were short of troops, unable to take care of each other, and were bound to be defeated.

After the battle plan was reported to Zhang Xinghan, it was quickly approved.

On October 29, the 25th year of the Republic of China, the weather along the coast of Fujian was relatively mild, and the sun had just risen from the sea level in the east.

on the military airport in Xiamen. A large number of Chinese fighters and bombers began to roar into the air one after another.

Immediately began to fly towards the direction of central and southern Taiwan on the other side of the strait.

At the same time, a large number of fighter planes and bombers also took to the air one after another at the Fuzhou airfield and flew toward northern Taiwan.

In the ports of the Penghu archipelago and the Ryukyu archipelago, a large number of Chinese warships roared and moved, and loaded with heavily armed Chinese soldiers sailed in the direction of Taiwan.

After flying into the airspace near the Penghu Islands, the group of planes that took off from Xiamen Airport began to disperse into two teams from the air, heading for Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Taichung respectively.

Taipei, Taichung, Tainan. Important cities and ports such as Chiayi, Kaohsiung and Keelung were all under air raids by the Chinese Air Force.

Of course, the Chinese Air Force's air strikes could not have been aimed at those urban entities. Rather, it was the various military installations of the Japanese near the city, arsenals and other military-industrial installations.

During this expedition to Taiwan, Zhang Xinghan equipped Xue Yue with a total of 300 long-range Zero fighters and more than 200 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers.

With the addition of dozens of reconnaissance planes, the number of warplanes available for this large-scale air attack has exceeded 600.

It was enough to carry out simultaneous air strikes on military facilities in the ports and cities mentioned above.

Keelung Port in Taipei. Since the Governor's Office ordered all Japanese garrisons in Taiwan to enter the first level of combat readiness.

The Japanese troops in the harbor were all in a state of war and ready to meet them at any time.

When about twenty or so B-17 Flying Bastion bombers, escorted by thirty Zero fighters, flew into the airspace near the Keelung military port.

In vain, a shrill siren sounded in the military port.

Countless devils ran out of the barracks and headed straight for their respective defensive positions.

There is no air supremacy and no sea supremacy. The Japanese invading forces on the island of Taiwan were equipped with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns as much as possible to strengthen their air defense capabilities.

The Keelung Military Port is a strategic location that guards an important gateway to northern Taiwan.

In addition, many large and small air defense positions have been built, forming a dense air defense fire network.

Hundreds of devil air defense troops have just entered their respective air defense positions in a nervous and orderly manner.

The Chinese fighter group roared in, the nervous devil soldiers opened fire one after another, and the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns erupted in a deafening roar in vain.

"Dada...... Tom tom ......" The sound of rapid and intensive firing resounded throughout Keelung Harbor.

Dense anti-aircraft machine gun shells chased the Chinese fighters that were flying at high speed like chains of fire.

The explosion of the anti-aircraft shells was like fireworks in the sky, dazzling and dazzling, and the sound shook the sky like thunder.

"The bomber group immediately carried out high-altitude intensive bomb dropping, covering the Zero fighter group to clear the enemy's anti-aircraft fire at low altitude." In a Zero fighter, a major of the Chinese Air Force calmly gave the combat order over the radio.

More than 20 Flying Fortress bombers opened their bomb magazines one after another, and one after another heavy bombs fell from the sky in a free-fall manner towards Keelung Harbor with a sharp and piercing whistling sound.

The long and sharp whistling sound of "...... of " resounded in the sky, and in less than a minute, a large explosion shook the earth in Keelung Harbor on the ground.

Clouds of smoke and flames burst into the sky with the explosion, drowning almost the entire Keelung Harbor in it.

In the flames of the explosion, many Japanese air defense positions were killed by the violent blast wave of the explosion.

Anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons were blown into ruins, and the devil soldiers who operated these weapons were dismembered into countless pieces on the spot.

The next moment, more than thirty Zero fighters, led by the Air Force major, swooped down like falcons.

Intensive strafing and bombardment of small aerial bombs landed accurately on the surviving anti-aircraft positions of the devils.

The anti-aircraft fire network that the devils had destroyed was completely destroyed and paralyzed this time.

After the Air Force Major led his men to dive back and forth and strafe the bombing side, the bomber group that was hovering high in the air finally began to reduce its flight altitude.

A devastating precision bombing was carried out on important military targets in the Keelung military port.

Half an hour later, the entire Keelung military port had been turned into a sea of fire and ruins.

…………

Taipei, the Governor-General's Office of the Japanese Invading Army.

Commander Aya Koizumi and Governor Takuzo Kobayashi sat around the map, anxiously waiting for news of the battle.

A Japanese communications soldier hurriedly ran in with a telegram in his hand.

Saluting the former, he said breathlessly: "Your Excellency, the Keelung Military Port has almost been razed to the ground by the air force of the Chinese people, and our garrison, especially the air defense force, has been completely lost.

In addition, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung were also bombed by fierce air raids by mixed aircraft groups of the Chinese Air Force.

All suffered heavy losses, and the air defense forces were almost completely lost. ”

Koizumi Cai's face became extremely solemn when he heard this, and Kobayashi Jizao's face on the side was not good-looking, and he said worriedly: "How powerful the people of China are, it is not difficult to judge from the loss of air and sea supremacy in the empire.

Our air defense is already insufficient, and the situation is even worse. ”

Aya Koizumi was silent for a while, then gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "The air defense force is weak, and I can't resist the air attack of the Shina people, which I expected for a long time.

We still have an army of 100,000 strong, and we will have to pay a heavy price in casualties for the people of China no matter what, so I have decided, Governor Kobayashi, that you and I will give a decisive order to the people of the Great Japanese Empire on the whole island to resist to the death.

In this way, we will not only have 100,000 people fighting, but 500,000, or even more. ”

Long before the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Japanese had emigrated to Taiwan, and after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, in order to facilitate the assimilation of Taiwan, Japan assimilated the Taiwanese into the Japanese as soon as possible.

It has even immigrated to Taiwan on a large scale, and has even introduced many policies to encourage Japanese to immigrate to Taiwan.

As a result, in the past 100 years, the number of Japanese immigrants to Taiwan has increased dramatically, and in addition to military family members, many people have moved to Taiwan with their families.

Some have even entered into various forms of marriage with the locals of Taiwan at the behest of the military.

Therefore, if all the Japanese in Taiwan were to engage in the Jade Crushing Campaign, the resistance that the Chinese army would face would increase several times in an instant.

Of course, Kobayashi also knew what this meant, and once he gave this order, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Japanese people would be caught in the vortex of immeasurable disaster. (To be continued......)