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[212] The 23rd Army moved south, and the North Sea Fleet blocked the strait

Since the chairman issued the order to regain Kinmen and march into the Taiwan Strait before the Korean War, the PLA navy, land, and air forces have been continuously assembling along the coast of Fujian.

The troops that went south from Zhoushan were the 4th Army of the People's Liberation Army, which was reorganized from the 23rd Column, and was subordinate to the 67th, 68th, and 69th divisions.

As the third wave of the last Zhoushan Battle to land on the island, the 23rd Army followed the 22nd Army to land on the island, but almost did not win, except for some efforts in capturing prisoners, the limelight was all stolen by the 22nd Army, and then in the battle to recover the annexed islands of Zhoushan Island, the 23rd Army was not used, and the 20th Army of the Ninth Corps surrounded these small islands.

Under the strong protest of Tao Yong, the commander of the 23rd Army, the Huaye Command decided to use the 23rd Army to go south and regain Kinmen. General Ye Fei's 10th Corps was lined up behind the 23rd Army as a backup because of the failure to regain Kinmen last time.

Tao Yong, the commander of the 23rd Army, smiled happily after listening to this order of Commander Chen Yi, after this battle of Zhoushan, he knew very well in his heart that at present, the combat effectiveness of our army's new equipment, after a division landed on Kinmen Island in that projectile land, there would be no backup troops, if the 23rd Army could not take Kinmen on its own, and it would have to rely on the help of the Tenth Corps, he Tao Yong would have lost the face of the Seventh Corps, and he Tao Yong would kill himself without waiting to see Xu Shiyou, the commander of the Seventh Corps.

In accordance with the order of the headquarters of the East China Military Region, Tao Yong led the 23rd Army to take a landing craft from the waterway to Quanzhou.

But that's it, the 23rd Army also vomited a lot along the way, and the 69th Division, the vanguard of the 67th, 68th, and 69th divisions, was seasick, and during the two days along the way, there were soldiers who vomited in the landing craft, and after they went ashore, they lay on the beach and couldn't get up.

At this moment, he was standing on the beach by the wharf in Hougang Village, Quanzhou, watching the soldiers assemble to the camp in the interior, while people kept rushing out of the team and retching on the ground, which made Tao Junchang jump to his feet in a hurry.

"What's the matter, isn't it just a 700-kilometer sea route, all the way safely, without firing a shot, and as a result, half of it was lying down when it came ashore!" It really disgraced the face of the 23rd Army. ”

Political Commissar Lu Sheng comforted: "Lao Tao, don't worry, this road is far, from Ningbo to Quanzhou this 700 kilometers, the wind and waves are very bumpy, not to mention the 067 Yunan-class, 069 Yuqing-class such small landing craft, that is, the 271 medium-sized landing craft I took, all shook my heart uncomfortable, dizzy as if I was going to float, my body sank as if a big stone was pressed on my chest, and I don't wonder the soldiers will be seasick." ”

Deputy Army Commander Mei Jiasheng frowned and watched the landing craft continue to land ashore, after the hatches were opened, the soldiers desperately trotted out and rushed to the beach as if they were drunk, he hurriedly ordered the signal soldiers: "Hurry up and ask your 69th Division to organize the soldiers who do not get seasick to go back to the boat to clean up, the sea route in the past two days, I don't know what has been done to the landing craft of the other navy, tell them, give me water to wash well, don't leave a boat smell to go back, there are still two divisions of troops waiting to go south." ”

Deputy Political Commissar Liu Wenxue was in a hurry, and at this time he was already busy asking the military department to organize people to boil some herbs to relieve seasickness, trying to get the soldiers to quickly restore the vigorous appearance before they got on the ship.

Xie Yunhui, director of the military's political department, was also very anxious, and he was busy organizing the comrades in the propaganda team who were not seasick to start singing on the beach in order to lift the spirits of the soldiers.

The propaganda team played a tambourine and kept singing: "The earth and the sky in the liberated areas are clear, and the people in the liberated areas like ...... so much."

Tan Zhigeng, the commander of the 69th Division, was pale, as the commander of the division, he had already vomited once on a 271 landing craft, and now that he was on the shore, he still felt that his feet were fluttering, and he couldn't stand steadily, and the guards around him reached out to help him, but he knocked his hand down.

"What for! Can't die! I'm not afraid of bullets and bullets, I'm also afraid of seasickness! ”

"Commander, don't hold on, hurry up and go to the meeting point in the village to rest."

"Fart! Can you rest? So many treasures have not yet been unloaded on the ship! I'm going to have to watch them unload their gear before they can go! Isn't this already ashore, and I can recover after standing for a while. But this sea route is really bumpy, and the two-day safe boat sits down, which is more damn tiring than my Huaihai Battle for three days and three nights! ”

The guards beside him hurriedly reminded: "Division commander, you have a verbal message again." ”

Tan Zhigeng told the guards that as long as they heard him speak with verbal words in the future, they would immediately point it out.

"Yes, yes, yes, you criticize well, I will correct it. Red baby, you go to the front to take a look, tell them to hurry, those who are not seasick will go up and speed up the handling, if any regiment soaks the weapons and ammunition in the sea, I will punish him! ”

Compared with the turbulence of the 23rd Army at sea, the speed of the Air Force is much faster.

Under the transfer of Commander Liu Yalou of the Air Force, two fighter groups of the Air Force's newly formed Air Force Regiment were stationed in Puhai, the former Air Force Regiment and the Air Force Regiment and the Air Force Regiment and the Air Force Division were transferred to Xiamen Airport and Fuzhou Airport respectively, and the newly established four Bomb 5 Brigades were merged to form the H-8 Division, which was under the jurisdiction of the H-1 Regiment and the H-2 Regiment, and the two bomber regiments of the H-8 Division were stationed at Xiamen Airport and Fuzhou Airport respectively.

Now that Fuzhou Airport and Xiamen Airport are packed, the 10th Corps under General Ye Fei has sent more than 20,000 people to carry out expansion projects around the two airports. Since the waterway to the south has been opened by the North Sea Fleet, all kinds of construction resources have been continuously arriving at the coastal ports of Fujian from the north by sea.

At Taiwan's Kaohsiung Zuoying Military Port and the Taiwan Navy Command, the newly established Temporary Command of the Taiwan Island Garrison Fleet is panicked.

"Commander Li! The supply fleet is too arrogant! At the moment they have been blocking the strait for a whole week! The 80,000 garrisons of Kinmen are sending telegrams asking for support every day, when can we send ships over? Taiwan's Vice Admiral Soong Chang-zhi grumbled in the conference room.

"Commander Li, the president said that he wants the navy to ensure the supply of food and fresh water for the defenders of Kinmen, but the radar of the supply army is too powerful, and as soon as our supply ships go out, they will be intercepted by the supply army immediately. Do you want to ask the president to order the defenders of Kinmen to withdraw first, just like the Hainan Island. Taiwan's Minister of Naval Training Liang Xuzhao said.

"In the past, only we sent warships to rob the mainland's ships and population, but when did the situation turn around, and the supply party began to grab the supply fleet of our Kuomintang." The officers present thought with languishing.

Li Lianfan sat there without saying a word, if he was ranked in seniority, everyone in this conference room was not inferior to him, and he was really a commander who was really angry. What's more, there is also the commander-in-chief of the navy above, and Gui Yongqing, a layman, is there to point fingers. This made Li Lianfan feel even more like a thorn in his back.

As a Fujian navy-born Li Lianzhang, under the control of the Kuomintang Navy Lightning School born in this group of old Jiang reuse, he really wanted to resign and not do anything. But if he resigned at this time, he was afraid that he would be liquidated by Lao Jiang, so Li Lianfan had no choice but to continue to sit on this hot crater.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I also want to immediately restore the supply line to Kinmen, but the strength of the party navy is too mysterious now, and before I find out the details of them, I am afraid that I will repeat the mistake of the Zhoushan naval war horse Ji Zhuang Li Yuxi. For now, it is better to see if the president can convince the Americans to help us resupply with American merchant ships. Li Lianzhang said frankly.

Wu Lun, a naval staff officer on the side, echoed: "What the commander said is reasonable, until the situation is clear, it is really not appropriate to attack rashly." The minelaying ship Yongjing that was dispatched last time did not even see the ship supplying the troops, and the 750-ton ship was broken in two by a bomb that came from nowhere. If it weren't for the Yongtai to make a quick decision and withdraw immediately, I am afraid it would be impossible to escape death. ”

Song Changzhi had a short temper and reprimanded: "What an instant decision! The frigate Yongtai didn't even care about the officers and men who fell into the water, let them drown, and fled back by itself. I think such a captain should be on the spot! ”

Since Wu Lun, a staff officer of the Kuomintang Navy, had already expressed the attitude of Li Lianzhang, commander of the garrison fleet, he naturally could not retract at this time, and continued: "If you don't escape, will you be like the three frigates Chao'an, Xin'an, and Liaohai in the previous time, and take the six large gunboats Guangzhong, Guanghua, Guangfu, Haiying, Huai'an, and Jiangfeng, and fight to destroy the whole army?" Do you want to be like the Lin'an, Gu'an, and three frigates that went out to rescue, and take the four large gunboats Haifeng, Hailun, Haicheng, and Haicheng and never return? ”

When everyone present heard Wu Lun mention the previous fiasco, they were speechless.

The fiasco of the naval battle a week ago was crushed by the Taiwan side, which did not dare to send out the news, and after seven days, even the US military advisers did not dare to inform them. It was not until today, before the Navy held a meeting at the Zuoying base in Kaohsiung, that Chiang finally decided to inform the Americans of this tragic defeat and asked the United States to send merchant ships to resupply Kinmen. Chiang was so disappointed with the Navy after this battle that he pinned all his hopes on the jets that the Air Force had just received from the United States.

To the surprise of the Taiwan Navy, there was no fanfare on the part of the supply of troops, but it was simply mentioned in the radio broadcast that 11 ships of the Taiwan Navy had been sunk and 4 were captured.

There must be something wrong with being so vague about such a naval victory. You must know that in this naval battle, Taiwan lost five frigates and ten gunboats with a total tonnage of up to 6,000 tons. Such a brilliant result is rare even in the history of Shijie naval battles.

What was the situation in that naval battle, because the two waves of warships sent by the Taiwan Navy were completely wiped out, so the top brass of the Taiwan Navy has not yet figured out what kind of opponent it encountered.

AFTER THAT NAVAL BATTLE, RUMORS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE TAIWAN NAVY, SOME OF WHICH SAID THAT THE SUPPLY ARMY HAD SECRETLY BOUGHT BATTLESHIPS FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND USED 300MM CLASS MAIN GUNS TO BEAT THE FRIGATES TO PIECES. This argument was quickly dismissed as nonsense, and the admirals with a little brain knew that China was just making money out of pants, and it was impossible for the Soviet Union to sell battleships to China, and no one had ever heard of the Soviet Union having battleships in Asia.

There are also rumors that the Soviet Pacific Fleet must have entered the war, otherwise relying on those group of mud legs and some officers who surrendered to the past, how could they be so strong in combat, even if the US Navy comes, they dare not say that they will all be wiped out in one battle, and none of them will be able to escape, right? However, according to the information given by the US Asian Command, the Soviet Pacific Fleet is currently resting in Vladivostok and has never left the port at all.

There is also a rumor that the supply of troops was to use the latest Soviet-made torpedo bombers to wipe out the Taiwan Navy, but this speculation has been recognized by many naval officials, who feel that it is more credible, so they are more and more cowardly.

You must know that in this naval battle, Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou did not even dare to send out a single fighter, saying that the propeller fighters and jet planes could not be compared, and sending them out would only increase casualties, and the US-aided jet planes were still in training and could not attack, so the navy itself was asked to use ship-based antiaircraft guns to solve the air defense problem.

Without the cover of the Air Force, where is the captain of the Taiwan Navy who dares to go to sea to approach Kinmen.