Regiment Commander Gu Yongnian sat in the slightly vibrating cabin, and because of the roar of the engine, the voice had to be loud to be heard clearly by the comrades next to him. In this case, the soldiers did not have the heart to talk. Everyone either inspected the equipment, or silently wiped the weapon to make sure that the plastic sheet wrapped around the muzzle of the gun could be wrapped properly. Airborne landing itself is a very complex military operation, and the process of falling from the sky is very dangerous, so it is necessary to ensure accurate posture when landing so as not to be injured. At that time, who had the heart to care about the location of the guns anymore. But after the landing is complete, once the muzzle of the gun is blocked by mud, the battle will be affected. After a long period of experimentation, it was easiest to wrap the muzzle of the gun with plastic sheeting, and even if the gun was fired immediately, the thin plastic sheeting would not affect the shooting.

Gu Yongnian, like other comrades-in-arms, finished checking the equipment, but did not lean against the bulkhead and close his eyes to recuperate. He pulled out his wallet from his bosom, and there was a group photo inside. In the group photo, two people in military uniforms stand with two young Chinese people in civilian clothes. One of the young men in military uniforms is Gu Yongnian, which is a group photo of the four brothers of the Gu family. Another soldier is Gu Yongnian's elder brother, who has died in Taiwan.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army never gave up its efforts to liberate Taiwan, and after taking control of Fujian and having military vessels capable of avoiding Japanese patrol ships, it constantly sent small detachments into Taiwan in an attempt to establish an anti-Japanese base area. However, Taiwan, which is small in size, lacks space and cannot fight a movement war at all, and guerrilla warfare that enters the mountainous areas of Taiwan will also be encircled and suppressed by Japan's heavy troops. The Japanese Army faced heavy casualties in other areas of the Chinese army, and finally saw the possibility of victory when it was in Taiwan, and its will to fight was extremely high. The battle between the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the Japanese army in Taiwan was extremely bloody and brutal, and most of the wounded Chinese soldiers were brutally tortured and publicly executed after the Japanese captured them. The small detachment behind the Chinese army that went to Taiwan also killed all the Japanese prisoners. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's mode of combat has also undergone great changes.

According to the Japanese war history, the Chinese detachment that landed in Taiwan 21 years later "carried a glorious bullet, and when they were captured, they never hesitated to kill themselves by pulling the glorious bullet." The killing and attacking of Japanese soldiers and civilians by Chinese soldiers was extremely cruel and ......, and it is difficult to describe the miserable situation after the end of the fighting in the Japanese-inhabited areas. ”

The Japanese had great respect for their powerful opponents, and during the Russo-Japanese War, they attached great importance to the policy of "preferential treatment of prisoners". In the early stage of the war between Taiwan and the Chinese squad, Japan dared to be cruel. However, the ratio of engagement was unbearable even for the Japanese, and for every Chinese soldier who entered Taiwan was killed, Japan had to pay for the lives of five to ten Japanese soldiers and civilians. The "civilians" killed by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were basically Japanese scientific and technological personnel, businessmen, and officials. During the period when the combat of the detachment was at its most intense, Japanese officials even tried every means to refuse to take up their posts in Taiwan.

When Japan was driven out of Korea by China in 1924, Chinese troops captured more than 30,000 Japanese prisoners of war and nearly 100,000 Japanese civilians. Japan privately consulted with China and asked China to hand over these Japanese prisoners of war and civilians to Japan, rather than to the Korean government. The Japanese know very well what will happen to these Japanese soldiers and civilians once they fall into the hands of the Koreans.

The Chinese side demanded that Japan hand over the bones of Chinese soldiers who had been captured in the war in Taiwan and who had died in battle. The Japanese side was forced to accede to this request, and handed over the bones of the captured Chinese soldiers and the soldiers who died in the war in three batches. Among them are the bones of Gu Yongnian's elder brother Gu Yongle. Most of the bones were decapitated, and Japan cut off the heads of Chinese soldiers to intimidate Chinese in Taiwan.

Because of the great damage caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan intensified its exploitation of Taiwan, which inspired the fierce resistance of the Taiwanese masses. China then stepped up its infiltration operations, and Japan mobilized 100,000 troops to Taiwan, paying the price of 6,000 dead in battle to suppress the uprising in Taiwan. Most of these Japanese were killed by Chinese infiltrators. In the face of such huge losses, the Japanese went so far as to abandon the policy of retaliating and punishing the local residents of Taiwan.

After the uprising in Taiwan finally subsided, Japan had to privately ask the British to intervene and mediate. Britain put pressure on China, and China also needed to wait for a strategic moment, and finally China and Japan reached an agreement of "no killing of civilians". When the Chinese detachment entered Taiwan, it did not target Japanese people. Japan also only "expelled" the discovered Chinese military forces and tried to avoid military conflicts. In other words, if the Chinese detachment is not caught immediately, as long as the members of the detachment do not carry weapons and pretend to be Taiwan natives, they can openly buy tickets and take the boat back to the mainland. Japan completely pretended not to see it.

It's funny, but there's nothing Japan can do about it. China is too close to Taiwan, and Japan is too far from Taiwan. If tens of thousands of Japanese die in Taiwan every year, the Japanese will not be able to bear it. In particular, most of the Japanese who were killed were members of the technology and bureaucracy that Japan had to spend a lot of effort to cultivate, as well as wealthy businessmen. The Japanese side can only hold a tight fence and go all out to guard against China's maritime infiltration. At the same time, Japan began to adopt more soft policies towards Taiwan, including a certain degree of political and economic autonomy. Over the past 10 years, China has infiltrated Taiwan like a sieve, but it has managed to maintain a situation without war.

Gu Yongnian didn't care what the Japanese on the island of Taiwan thought, his brother was killed in Taiwan, and the troops received an order to attack Taiwan. Then all that remains is the total annihilation of the Japanese army in Taiwan. Not to mention the pre-war mobilization meeting, which repeatedly emphasized that Taiwan is China's national territory. Even if the Japanese claim that Taiwan has belonged to Japan, it is the land that China lost after its defeat. In this case, as long as the war is won, China can of course take Taiwan back.

Closing the wallet, Gu Yongnian looked through the window of the plane towards the horizon that had revealed the morning glow, and there were some small black dots flying at the same speed as the transport plane in the distance, which should be the escort fighter group. Because in the air, the dawn can be seen much earlier on the plane than on land. The glow of the glow turned the surface of the sea that was supposed to be blue a golden red, as if it were a molten metal liquid. However, it will not be long before the sea will take on a blue color again as the sun rises. Of course, at that time, Gu Yongnian had already landed on the land of Taiwan, China, on the land where his brother had sacrificed.

At 5:15, the staff officer stood up from the side of the radio, "Regiment commander, it's here!" ”

Gu Yongnian walked to the cabin door and opened the cabin door with the other two comrades, and a violent suction force came from the front, and the three comrades were all wearing seat belts and were not dragged out of the cabin by this suction. Looking down, several rows of bonfires were arranged in the shape of a pentagonal shape, which was the agreed landing signal.

"Get ready to skydive!" Gu Yongnian turned around and shouted to his comrades in the cabin.

The aircraft group of the People's Air Force chose Kaohsiung as the parachute landing area, and in addition to being an important military base in Tainan, Kaohsiung's terrain belongs to the alluvial plain area, and there are no large rivers in the territory. It was relatively easy for parachute troops to concentrate after landing. A division of the Japanese army was stationed here, and after killing the enemy here, the Japanese garrison in Taiwan was left with only another division in Taipei and a brigade in Taichung. With the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not take them seriously at all.

Ordinary people in Kaohsiung got up early in June to go to work, and many of them witnessed the world's first regiment-scale airborne operation. Even in their old age, they still talk about the battle a lot. The snow-white parachute obscured the entire sky. And the common exclamation of all those who witnessed this scene was one sentence: "They jumped from the sky!" ”

Not only paratroopers landed from the sky, but also gliders loaded with light artillery landed on fairly flat ground. These gliders all have their own power systems, and in addition to not being able to take off on their own, the endurance is constantly too poor. Not to mention that this airborne operation was originally a one-way flight.

After a bumpy landing on farmland or other ground, the troops immediately opened the hatch and pulled out all kinds of artillery from inside. Paratroopers who landed nearby rushed up to help carry the shells. There were already more than 200 commando comrades on the ground to guide them. Plus other personnel who have long been in Taiwan, as well as underground resistance groups that have developed in Taiwan. Soon a team of more than 4,000 people was assembled.

Kaohsiung has coastal defense positions, but these positions are to defend against attacks from the sea. It's not a 360-degree defense system. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army not only came to the airborne troops, but also bomber units and other airborne troops began to drop dense bombs on the Japanese defensive positions after they landed. The fortress of the Japanese army, the barracks were bombed in a moment, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled with fire. After a wave of bombardment, the Japanese army, which had weak air defense, suffered heavy losses. There were even quite a few Japanese soldiers who were blown up into the sky when they were stunned and at a loss on the unsheltered playground.

As soon as the bombing by the Air Force ended, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which had already studied the defense system of Kaohsiung in detail, attacked fiercely in the direction of the enemy in accordance with the pre-planned attack route. Soon broke through the outer defensive line of the Japanese army and approached the critical area of the command. The battle was not even fierce, and the Japanese army was thrown into chaos under this heavy blow. Several of the firefights were sparked by chance encounters between the Airborne Forces and the Japanese troops who were scurrying around like flies.

Before the Japanese could shoot their guns, they saw the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's troops rushing in front of them raise their stubby guns and pull the trigger without aiming at all. Fierce flames erupted from the muzzle. In a moment, all the Japanese troops were knocked to the ground. In this way, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, relying on fierce melee firepower and fierce attacks, took one Japanese point after another. There was even a unit that occupied the Japanese artillery position, completely destroying the Japanese army's plan to use artillery fire against this unit that fell from the sky.

Just as the Japanese had just recovered from the unprepared chaos and began to mobilize forces for defense and were preparing to send troops to counterattack, another piece of bad news came. The figure of the People's Navy task force appeared on the sea, and the task force began to fire fiercely at the coastal defense system near Kaohsiung with naval guns.

The Japanese commander ran down his forehead and back in a cold sweat, he had long heard that the Chinese army was mainly fighting with all kinds of tricks, and it was always unprepared to attack the enemy. When preparing for defense, they did their best, but it was no longer a trick to launch an attack from the sky, but it was beyond the imagination of the Japanese.

It was at this time that an urgent call came to the command, and the observers reported another terrible news, and a new wave of airborne landing began. The Japanese commander fell back into his chair with his legs limp. The sky has become a passage for the Chinese, who attack from the sky and also transport troops through the sky.

The 104 Airborne Division landed in four waves, and the last wave dropped a large amount of weapons and ammunition. The Type 31 submachine gun, despite its great power, was also very expensive. With this supply of ammunition, the troops maintained the ability to fight continuously.

There were no permanent fortifications in the Japanese barracks, and the Japanese firepower points were still dominated by heavy machine guns. The officers knew that if the barracks were lost, the Japanese would either have to flee or "retreat" to the coastal defensive positions that were being heavily shelled by the Chinese Navy. God knows exactly how many Chinese troops will fall from the sky, and the Japanese soldiers already feel that the Chinese can transport as many troops as they want from the sky.

The officer personally supervised the formation and ordered the machine gunners to fire fiercely. The shots did have some effect, and the dense bullets stopped the momentum of the Chinese army's offensive. Seeing that the Chinese troops were lying there with the help of the terrain to avoid bullets, the Japanese captain who commanded the fire point breathed a sigh of relief. If people can fall from the sky, they can't even land cannons. And it will take a while for the cannons to be transported here. Resist for a while!

However, the captain suddenly saw that one of the Chinese soldiers in front of him, who was suppressed by the fire, took advantage of the gap between machine gun fires and stood up sharply. The soldier did not have a gun in his hand, but carried a strange barrel on his shoulder. The Chinese soldier knelt on one knee, his upper body straight, and his arm held the barrel in a strange position. The Japanese captain was about to order the machine gunner to fire at the soldier, but he saw a burst of fire from the barrel on the Chinese soldier's shoulder, and then flew straight towards the heavy machine gun position with a speed that his eyes could still keep up with. Moments later, the thing slammed into the sandbags on the perimeter of the machine-gun emplacement, and the Japanese captain was knocked to the ground in a huge blast of air.

There was a sharp sound in the captain's ears, and it was not what he heard, but the ringing in the ears of the captain's ear drums under the huge impact. It wasn't long before the captain suddenly felt something hit on his head, and then he didn't know anything.

After destroying the Japanese firepower points, the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, who were lying on the ground, jumped up and rushed into the broken firepower points of the Japanese army as fast as they could.

On the afternoon of June 6, 1933, the 104th Airborne Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army cooperated with the Navy to solve the Japanese defenders in Kaohsiung and liberate Kaohsiung City in one day. On the same day, the People's Navy marched into the Penghu Islands and eliminated the Japanese navy that had settled the Penghu Islands. The convoy arrived at the port of Kaohsiung on the morning of 7 June and transported a division of the Army to the island of Taiwan.

Upon receiving the telegram, Commander Mifon was sure that the battle could not be lost.