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【154】The landing fleet departs

Shi Jue and Ma Jizhuang had already received a telegram from the Second Fleet before the death of the four ships, including Taikang and Baoying, and the Hong Ze said clearly: "The torpedo bombers of the bandit air force have been completely annihilated!" ”

When Li Lianzhang, commander of the Second Fleet, heard the news, he was so frightened that he almost ordered to withdraw to Taiwan. The ghost place of Zhoushan is so close to Puhai, if the enemy's torpedo planes attack on a large scale, these warships will not be able to stop such a group attack.

After being dissuaded by the adjutant, Li Lianfan immediately sent a report to Lao Chiang, bitterly stating the disadvantages of the two fleets stationed in Zhoushan, hoping to make Lao Chiang change his mind. "You can't defend the land of death!" Li Lianfan added this sentence at the end of the telegram.

Lao Jiang almost fainted after receiving the telegram, the six escort destroyers of the United States "Tai" were blown up last time a Bostwick-class Taicang, and now an Evarts-class "Taikang" has also sunk, this is the strongest six warships in his hands at this stage, and now he has gone to two, didn't the Yankees say that the air defense capability of this warship is very good? What a bird!

Lao Jiang was angry in his heart, but he was in the way of face. Can't you just add troops here for a few days, and just withdraw the whole class, right? Isn't this a neurosis?

Not leaving a handle on people is the most important thing, so Lao Chiang decided to hold a meeting, which was called the "Supreme Combat Conference". When the time comes, I will just follow the advice, anyway, everyone asked for the withdrawal of troops, I just give everyone face, this is not a shame.

When Lao Chiang's plan had been decided, he immediately informed the secretary in a hurry, demanding that all senior generals must attend this "supreme combat meeting," and that Shi Jue, Ma Jizhuang, Li Lianfan, and others who were far away in Zhoushan must also arrive by plane.

After Jihua was well, Lao Jiang threw aside the extremely annoying telegrams sent by Zhou Shan and went sad alone.

The loading of supplies to the landing craft began at noon on the day of the arrival of the fleet, and by the evening it was over, and the scheduled time for the launch of the general attack was five o'clock in the morning, at dawn. This is when the Kuomintang troops on the island began to boil pots for breakfast. At that time, the 130mm cannon will begin to scrub the floor.

According to the general attack, the 22nd Division of the 65th Army will board the landing craft after cooking at 3 o'clock in the morning and eating at 4 o'clock, and march towards the landing site Zhoujiayuan at 5 o'clock when the 130mm cannon cluster begins to roar, and according to the speed of the landing craft at 20 kilometers per hour, it will take an hour to cross the Jintang waterway. That is, at about six o'clock, the 65th Division will be the first to land on the beachhead of the Zhoujiayuan area on the big island of Zhoushan.

After an hour of non-stop washing of 144 130mm cannons by 18 cannon batteries, how many enemy troops were left alive on the beachhead? How many of them are still able to stand without shaking?

38 067 Yunan-class small landing craft, each with a carrying capacity of 46 tons. In modern warfare, it is generally necessary to transport one main battle tank and 30 infantrymen, or two trucks full of supplies, and 300 people can be squeezed into it alone.

Then there are 38 069 Yuqing-class, which can carry 150 heavily armed infantrymen. The load capacity of the Yuqing class is indeed average, and the load of 30 tons is considered to be the top.

The seven Type 271 landing ships are the treasures of the navy, each with a load of nearly 300 tons, which can carry a large amount of oil and fresh water, as well as a large amount of supplies. If it weren't for the fact that there was no place on the ship, our army would have been able to cram 800 infantry infantry.

However, Noji had already made detailed plans and did not allow people to be stuffed indiscriminately, so the landing ship formation with a total capacity that could transport nearly 40,000 armed men did not become the carrier of crowd tactics, but made a careful plan. Each ship was kept intact, and the soldiers of the province could not find their troops after disembarking, and the officers could not find the soldiers under them.

And each landing ship was stocked with plenty of fresh water and food, as well as plenty of provisions, stretchers, carts and even sacks that served as sandbags. The vanguard of the 11,000-strong 65th Division of the 22nd Army was in Sun Jixian's words: "This time it was really armed to the teeth by the Noji. ”

After the grenade brought back by Xiaoqiang this time arrived at the East China Bureau, Deputy Commander Su Yu personally tried it, and after trying it, he said yes, saying that this thing is powerful! The troops are required to be fully equipped with new grenades, with priority given to landing combat units. Therefore, this time, the seven and nine corps brought all the wooden handle grenades that were transported from the northern capital overnight by the train, and the soldiers were almost all startled during the trial, this explosion, good guys, the sound and movement are different, the soil raised after 50 meters is thrown out can still fall back on the body, and it will be troublesome to accidentally throw out the 30-meter failing score, and the muck and stones that jump up can hit the face painfully.

There are boxes of grenades in every landing ship, no way, our army has loved grenades these years, and this obsessive love is estimated to be impossible to change for a while and a half, anyway, the chief said, in addition to the standard amount of ammunition, grenades are given as much as they want according to their personal ability.

Since the chief is willing to give, we dare to bring it hard. Sun Jixian, the commander of the 22nd Army, thinks that there is nothing to hesitate about? The entire 22nd Army, instigated by the commander, went crazy, and almost carried more than eight of them. With the individual soldier equipment imitated by the military uniform factory according to the style given by Xiaoqiang, basically all of them tied their upper bodies full. Magazines, magazines, and grenade equipment are not pulled, and they are stuffed with bulging bags, and at first glance they all look fat.

Sun Jixian was not afraid that the soldiers would not be able to walk, in his words: "That Zhoushan Island is a ball, and the east and west are only more than 30 kilometers long, and there is no problem of not being able to run, only the problem of too much enemy and not enough ammunition!" ”

According to Jihua, after the successful landing of the 65th Division, when the landing field is extended to the two wings, the landing ships will return and take the 64th and 66th Divisions to land. According to this estimate, it will take about four hours from the landing of the 65th Division to the completion of the landing of all the follow-up forces of the 22nd Army, which is about 10 o'clock in the morning.

Chen Shifa, commander of the 65th Division, barely closed his eyes all night, and when it was time to eat breakfast at three o'clock in the morning, he finally felt tired, and while the whole army was eating, he lay on the square table in the temporary command post in the port and glared.

The whole army of the 65th Division began to rest as soon as it was dark last night, and after getting up in the morning, they squatted in the light rain and had a hot breakfast at the temporary assembly ground of their respective units by the harbor. The cooking class didn't sleep all night, and made a large number of freshly hatched steamed buns and pickles, everyone had enough, they ate as much as they wanted, and they tried to drink as much as they liked to cook thin rice porridge. After the soldiers had finished eating, it was almost half past three, and all the officers began to say the same thing.

The commander of the first battalion and the first company, Gu Tian Sheng, said to the officers and men of the whole company who were concentrated in this open space:

"The big guy remembered where he was standing, and now hurry up to the toilet, and pull all the big and small ones for me. If anyone turns back and gets on the boat and wants to pee and diarrhea, there is no place to squat. ”

After listening to the words of the company commander, the soldiers rushed to the temporary toilet of the first battalion on the edge of the port, and at this time the simple toilet was already crowded with officers and soldiers of the other companies of the first battalion.

At four o'clock, the troops had completed all the preparations before departure, and after Chen Shifa, who had been squinting for a while, woke up and received an order: "Go." ”

As the orders were issued layer by layer, the entire wharf was in an uproar, and the troops who were black and overwhelming were lined up in a neat line, and under the leadership of the leaders of their respective troops, they strode towards the ships belonging to their own companies. Some of the landing craft did not have a dock berth to board people, so they stopped directly on the beach, and the fighters waded up the water and crowded into the cabins that had been stacked with supplies yesterday.

At five o'clock, all the troops finished boarding the ship, and with the order of the military headquarters, the landing fleet slowly left the shore in turn, and a small number of landing craft that rushed to the beach began to fill the pressurized water tank with water and taxied out of the beach with strong horsepower and gravity.