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[242] Mechanized Panzer Army of soil and slag

Fuzhou Tiger Cave Headquarters.

In this wet cave, two dim kerosene lamps hang from the ceiling of the cave, and the light shines on the rocks on the four walls of the cave, reflecting a soft and moist luster.

Commander Su Yu, dressed in a single coat, was in the Fuzhou headquarters explaining his campaign deployment with General Ye Fei, commander of the 10th Corps, General Wang Jian'an, commander of the Seventh Corps, and General Song Shilun, commander of the Ninth Corps.

Commander Su explained attentively, and in his opinion, the key to this battle was whether the troops participating in the battle could understand his strategic intentions and fight a blitzkrieg:

"I decided that after the Eighth Division carried out four waves of bombardment of the enemy 96th Army defending Penghu for two consecutive days, I would skip Penghu and set off directly from the Changle area of Fuzhou, with the 79th, 80th, and 81st Divisions of the 27th Army of the Ninth Corps as the vanguard landing troops, and take the 101st and 102nd Tank Regiments, a total of 100 Type 59 tanks, to land in Guanyin Township, southwest of Taipei.

After the landing of the 27th Army of the Ninth Corps, first of all, the 81st Division should consolidate and expand the beachhead and make every effort to take Zhongli City, 15 kilometers southeast of Guanyin Township. After that, the 81st Division was responsible for ensuring that the landing ground of Guanyin Township and Zhongli City were defended, and at the same time it divided its forces to attack and take Hsinchu City to the south, cut off the longitudinal railway from southern Taiwan to the north, and blocked the enemy's northbound reinforcements from southern Taiwan at Hsinchu, 28 kilometers away from Guanyin Township, at all costs.

The 101st and 102nd Tank Regiments coordinated with the 79th and 80th Infantry Divisions to advance at full speed to the northeast of Taipei, the 80th Division must immediately take Taoyuan City, which is located 23 kilometers east of the landing ground in Guanyin Township, and the 79th Division must capture and hold the longitudinal railway line at all costs and cut off the southward passage of the Taipei garrison.

After that, the 80th Division served as a reserve, waiting for an opportunity to reinforce the 81st Division in the south and the 79th Division in the north. The 79th Division, along with the 101st and 102nd Tank Regiments, had to go north along the longitudinal railway without stopping, and after breaking through the narrow valley area of 10 kilometers long and two kilometers wide, it would directly attack Taipei. ”

After saying the battle deployment, Commander Su Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, carefully looked at the three corps commanders, and asked, "Do you have any suggestions, you can put them forward." ”

Song Shilun, commander of the Ninth Corps, said solemnly: "This way from Changle in Fuzhou, although we use ironclad landing ships, it will take 10 hours at sea, if the wind and waves are strong that day, I am afraid it will take 12 hours, and it will take at least one day for the landing fleet to transport the second wave of reinforcements to the island back and forth." Then, whether or not the 27th Army, as the first Podeng Island unit, can hold the landing ground is the most important thing in this battle. According to the information we have so far, Lao Chiang currently has 300,000 troops, of which there are as many as 150,000 troops deployed in Zhongli City, Taoyuan City, Hsinchu City, and Taipei City alone. The landing force of more than 40,000 people had to directly face 150,000 people. I wonder if you should guard it first? Before the reinforcements arrived, they did not touch Taipei, but only held the valley where the longitudinal railway line southbound from Taipei was located, and then attacked north after the second wave of reinforcements arrived. ”

Commander Su Yu's voice was not loud, but he said unusually firmly:

"No! This battle must be fought quickly! Fight for all the time, not afraid of sacrifice, and fight as fast as possible!

According to the analysis of the central authorities, it is very likely that the United States will send troops to intervene, and once the United States sends troops, the enemy's morale will immediately rise, and at that time, the war situation will become more and more difficult to fight! In the event of a defeat in the naval battle, it is even possible that our army will be cut off from the strait by the enemy! Then our more than 40,000 troops may be trapped on the island of Taiwan!

So this battle must be in full swing! No stopping! This is also the reason why I chose the 27th Army of your Ninth Corps, we all know that the three divisions of your 27th Army are all experts in tackling tough problems, I hope you will show the momentum of five battles and five victories in the Huaihai Campaign, dare to fight, skillfully fight, and fight hard, and before the arrival of the second wave of landing troops, you will spread the stall for me no matter what! ”

Commander Su Yu continued to cheer up Commander Song Shilun and said: "We now have 38 067 Yunan-class landing craft, 38 069 Yuqing-class landing craft, and 100 271 landing craft, which can carry up to 14,500 tons at a time, and if it is overloaded, 17,000 tons will be no problem!" Even if it is not overloaded, according to the carrying capacity of 14,500 tons, according to the weight of 120 kilograms of armed individual soldiers, I will have no problem sending 120,000 people to the island. But I don't want you to fill this battle with your life, I want you to use advanced weapons to fight a blitzkrieg! This is also the purpose of the central government's decision to use the 27th Army of your Ninth Corps, which is the first pilot unit of the mechanized group army, to land!

So, just a hundred tanks allocated to you account for 4000 tons of carrying capacity! Together with the 300 Golden Deer four-wheel drive off-road tractor trucks hauling artillery and supplies, it is another 750 tons of carrying capacity.

There are also a total of 24 152mm howitzers, 24 122mm howitzers, 24 130mm cannons, 24 107mm rocket launchers, and all 72 guns are 400 tons for you, plus artillery and shells, it is 1500 tons.

There were also ten fuel trucks, plus enough compressed biscuits to feed 20 days, and an automatic rifle ammunition of 1,100 rounds per soldier in a box, all added up, which was exactly 14,500 tons of transport. ”

When Commander Song Shilun thought that he was going to command the 27th Army, which is known as the "first mechanized group army of the Republic," to carry out combat missions, he suddenly looked heroic, raised his head and said:

"The 102nd Tank Regiment has trained two infantry coordinated exercises with the 27th Army before, and the 101st Tank Regiment also has experience in attacking Kinmen, with these 100 Type 59 tanks accompanying the 79th Division to attack Taipei, I will definitely complete the task assigned by the central government! I demanded that the headquarters of the Ninth Corps and the military headquarters of the 27th Army be merged to form a group army headquarters and land on Taiwan together. ”

Commander Su Yu nodded and said, "Yes." ”

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In Washington, the United States, it is clear that it is already in April when the spring flowers are blooming, and the lawn of the White House is also full of green vitality, but in the Oval Office of the White House, US President Truman's face is frosty.

At present, the US intelligence department has discovered that Qian Xuesen, who is in possession of important military secrets, has unexpectedly left the United States with his family and appeared in Chinese newspapers. What's even more odious is that the CIA and the FBI did not launch an investigation until they found Qian Xuesen's photos and news from the Chinese newspaper, and when they arrived at Qian's home, they found that Qian Xuesen's family did not even have a single piece of paper left, and all the books and materials were actually packed and taken away.

The CIA and the FBI tracked it down for more than a week before discovering on April 22 that the cargo had been shipped to Hong Kong on the USS President Cleveland. In desperation, the CIA hurriedly sent a telegram asking agents from the CIA's Hong Kong branch to track it down, but it was exactly a day late. CIA agents arrived at the Hong Kong cargo terminal to find that the shipment had been picked up by someone under an untraceable pseudonym for a pick-up fee, and its whereabouts were unknown. According to the judgment of the Hong Kong agents, this batch of goods should have been transferred to the mainland with the rampant smuggling operations between Hong Kong and the mainland.

What's worse is that after discovering that China is vigorously recalling its own scientists, the CIA and FBI immediately conducted a joint investigation and found that more than 2,700 scientists and students returned to China from the United States or Canada during this period, accounting for 77% of the total number of more than 3,500 Chinese scientists and students in the United States! Half of the more than 1,200 scientists and international students in Japan have returned to the mainland, and 417 of the 443 international students in the UK have run away, which is the most ferocious!

For Truman, this is not the most infuriating, after all, these people are Chinese and not Americans, and the US government has no legitimate reason to interfere with their return to China except for luring them with high salaries, and McCarthy, the bastard, is now also advocating all the Chinese out of the United States, in McCarthy's mouth, all Chinese are spies of the supply party.

After the Qian Xuesen incident was exposed by the newspapers, McCarthy began to make a lot of nonsense in the newspapers, saying that Qian Xuesen had stolen a large amount of military intelligence from the United States, and that Qian Xuesen was a spy of the Supplying Party. The anti-supply and anti-China wave in the United States began to rise, and some people even openly called in the newspapers for all Chinese to be expelled from the United States after confiscating all their property. The military and universities have also stopped the work of a number of scientists involved in military research, forbade them to continue their scientific research, and even forbade them to enter laboratories, and interrogated and interrogated them. This has been further promoted by the super medium and long-wave radio stations currently set up by the Chinese, claiming that the Chinese have suffered humanitarian disasters in the United States and received political and human rights persecution, and such radio propaganda has further intensified the enthusiasm of Chinese scientists and students to return to China. And then there's China's prime minister, who recently called on scientists on the radio almost once a month to return to China and participate in the construction of their homeland. Yesterday was the third time in a row that it was called on the radio.

In the past two days, as if he had taken an aphrodisiac, he began to impassionedly and publicly condemn Truman for his inaction, and sat back and ignored the danger of Taiwan, the "bridgehead of democracy and freedom," and demanded that Truman forcibly send troops to Taiwan for direct military asylum!

For Truman, that's the most infuriating! It was the first time that Truman had been pointed at by an opportunistic politician like McCarthy and accused him of pursuing a policy of appeasement in the Republic.

In Truman's view, Chang Kaishen can't hold up the wall at all, and the previous battle report simply made the whole Shijie laugh off his big teeth, Zhoushan Island, where hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed, was lost in one day, and Kinmen Matsu added up to a total of 100,000 defenders, and they surrendered one after another, such a sluggish morale made Truman suspect that even if the American army sent troops, it would be useless, and he did not want to exchange the lives of American soldiers for the survival of Lao Chiang.

But Truman was still worried, would it be okay to let himself go unchecked?