Chapter 144: Occupation of Taichung City (Part I)
On the afternoon of 3 September, personnel stationed at the Taipei Intelligence Station rushed to Zhang Wei's camp. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Wei immediately organized the staff officers and the personnel of the provincial government to listen to the information provided by the intelligence personnel, and then based on the information, they perfected the attack plan.
The intelligence officers first accused the Japanese Governor in Taiwan, Sakuma Zomathew, of all kinds of crimes committed in Taiwan, and after arresting him, they must cut him with a thousand knives in order to relieve the Taiwan people's bitter hatred for him.
Secondly, the situation of Japan's military stationing in various parts of Taiwan was introduced. The divisional headquarters of the 16th Division and the Japanese-Taiwanese mixed brigade were stationed in Taipei; The 30th Brigade under the 16th Division is stationed in Tainan, and the 38th Wing under the 30th Brigade is stationed in Taichung, with about 2,000 people in each wing; In addition, there are between 300 and 500 armed police forces per county; Taipei has the largest number of troops, with more than 12,000 troops, but more than 4,000 of them are Chinese.
If there were not so many traitor families and traitors, the Japanese would not have occupied Taiwan so quickly, and they would not have ruled Taiwan so easily, and many uprisings of the Taiwan people were suppressed with the help of traitors, and they wantonly attacked Taiwan's resistance forces for their own interests.
Finally, the sporadic rebel army in Taiwan is introduced.
After listening to the report, Zhang Wei said: "For the traitor family and the traitor, the family property will be fully confiscated, and all the family members will be reformed through lifelong labor; where the circumstances are heinous, they are to be approved and shot; For the rebels, according to their personal wishes, they can be political, and they can be incorporated into the garrison; For the Japanese, unless sentenced to death, all men are forced to work for life, and women are sold to brothels, and they are not allowed to leave the industry for life; For the Chinese in the Japanese-Taiwan mixed brigade, together with their families, it is carried out with reference to the traitor family; All government officials who served in the Japanese government, as well as their families, were executed with reference to the traitor families. As for the battle plan, it can be divided into two steps, the first step is to occupy Taichung and Changhua, establish the Taiwan Provincial Government, and then declare war on Japan, and the Provincial Government will be located in Taichung in the future. ”
Zhao Xiaolong asked: "Your Majesty, how do you treat the people in Taiwan after occupying Taiwan?" ”
Zhang Wei thought about it for a while, Taiwan has little land, if the current land policy of the Lanfang Kingdom is completely adopted, the land will not be enough in the future, so he said: "With reference to the current population, 20 acres of land will be distributed to each person, and it shall not be barren, leased, or bought or sold, otherwise the land will be recovered and fined; Repossession after the death of a person; If the population is added to the land, the land will no longer be distributed, and the land state ownership system will be implemented; If the population wanted land, they had to migrate to other parts of the kingdom to obtain it. ”
The staff officers consulted again on the details of the military affairs.
The artillery wing directly under the regimental headquarters of the 16th Division has two artillery brigades, which have 12 Type 31 rapid-fire mountain guns and 12 Type 31 rapid-fire field guns.
Type 31 rapid-fire field gun: caliber 75 mm, speed 7 rounds per minute, maximum firing range 6200 meters, towed by three horses.
Type 31 rapid-fire mountain gun: caliber 75 mm, using split ammunition, maximum firing range of 4600 meters, five horses loaded.
Zhang Wei thought to himself, just this 75mm caliber mountain artillery is not as good as the cannon of the Lanfang Army Headquarters, 7 rounds per minute is called rapid-fire guns, then the 65mm mountain artillery equipped with his own troops can fire 20 shells per minute, which can definitely suppress the opponent's mountain artillery, and the 75mm mountain artillery battalion of the division headquarters can beat the opponent's artillery wing out of.
This time, Li Zhaoshui did not participate in the formulation of the battle plan, and Du Shihui led Wang Dajun and Xia Yu and the staff officers to be responsible for directing the troops to recover Taiwan, and the troops were deployed into the 18th, 19th, and 20th divisions.
The regular troops stationed in Taiwan are the 16th Division, and the other troops are not even as good as the militia of the Lanfang Kingdom.
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After discussing with Li Zhaoshui and others, Zhang Wei decided to immediately launch an attack on Japan.
According to Du Shihui's plan, the troops were divided into multiple routes, the first regiment of the 18th Division was responsible for occupying Changhua County, leaving one battalion to maintain local law and order after the occupation, and the regimental headquarters and the remaining troops to catch up with the division headquarters, Wang Dajun led the headquarters of the 18th Division and three regiments to the south to occupy Yunlin, Chiayi County and Tainan, set up the division headquarters in Tainan, and then sent troops to occupy Kaohsiung and Pingtung; The 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 19th Division were responsible for occupying Taichung under the command of Xia Yu, and Du Shihui himself led the headquarters of the 19th Division and the 3rd and 4th Regiments to advance northward, occupying Miaoli, Hsinchu and Taoyuan all the way, waiting for the follow-up troops to follow up in Taoyuan, and then encircling Taipei; The 20th Division will not be exposed for the time being; The militia division was renamed the Taiwan Police Division, and the division headquarters was located in Taichung, which was responsible for sending police to accept the occupied counties.
As for the occupation of Kaohsiung by Taitung, Hualien, and Yilan, the 18th Division will occupy it again with the assistance of the navy, and Zhang Wei himself will be responsible for this matter.
Zhang Wei was very satisfied with their plan after reading it, but changed the 2 regiments that occupied Taichung to 1 regiment, which had their own presence and did not need too many troops. Zhang Wei said to Du Shihui, Wang Dajun and Xia Yu: "My only request to the troops is not to take prisoners, or to secretly dispose of them immediately after being captured, I don't like the people of the 16th Division." ”
Du Shihui said: "Yes, Your Majesty, I promise that not a single living Japanese soldier will be left, and they will die from the moment they set foot on the island of Taiwan." ”
Zhang Wei first released the 1st Regiment of the 19th Division out of the system, placed it directly on the north bank of Wuxi, sent torpedo boats to send Xia Yu to the other side of the river, and asked him to command the 1st Regiment of the 19th Division to occupy Taichung City first.
Then the 18th Division was released from the system, and Wang Dajun, deputy chief of staff, and his division commander issued combat orders.
The deputy commander of the 18th Division led the 1st Regiment to the west along the Wuxi River, about 13 kilometers to Changhua County; Wang Dajun led the troops of the 18th Division to advance directly to the south, out of the mountainous area, across the Muddy Water Creek, and entered the boundary of Yunlin County; The 2nd Regiment led by the Chief of Staff was responsible for occupying Yunlin; The 3rd Regiment went to occupy Chiayi County; The division headquarters and the 4th Regiment marched south to occupy the city of Tainan, then rested in Tainan and waited for the follow-up troops to follow, and then occupied Kaohsiung and Nanping in one fell swoop.
After all the troops were deployed, Zhang Wei put all the supplies in the camp into the system, and asked the torpedo boats to send the staff officers and administrative personnel to the Wuxi River in batches, and followed the 1st Regiment of the 19th Division to Taichung.
The distance to Taichung is 15 kilometers, and it takes a long time to walk, so Zhang Wei released a batch of horses from the system and asked everyone to ride horses to catch up with the 1st regiment.
After catching up with the troops, one regiment of police officers was released to take charge of the rear of the palace.
The distance of 15 kilometers is not difficult for the troops, and there are more than 10 policemen in the towns and villages passing by, and when they saw so many troops coming, they surrendered without even firing a shot.
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, they reached Dali Town, a suburb of Taichung City, where the troops stopped advancing, rested, and the soldiers ate canned food, drank water, replenished their strength, and began to check their equipment and prepare for battle.
At this distance, the entire city of Taichung is within Zhang Wei's controllable range, and Zhang Wei marked it on the map according to the number of red dots on the map, so that Xia Yu can be used as a reference.
With the map provided by Zhang Wei, it was much more convenient for Xia Yu to command the troops, and he decisively gave the order: start attacking.
The 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion and the Regimental Artillery Battalion attacked the Japanese barracks under the leadership of the deputy commander; The regimental commander led the regimental troops and the 3rd Battalion to attack and occupy the city government, and the regimental chief of staff led the 4th Battalion to attack and occupy the police station; The Police Corps is responsible for receiving security in the occupied areas and for the custody of prisoners.
Xia Yu chose to attack the Japanese military camp with the deputy commander.
Zhang Wei released the remaining troops of the 19th Division out of the system, and under the leadership of Du Shihui, bypassed Taichung and headed north to occupy Miaoli, Hsinchu, Taoyuan and other places. (To be continued.) )