At this time, don't look at the hundreds of thousands of Japanese in Taipei, but the real combat effectiveness is the tens of thousands of regular troops. Now war is not the era of broadswords and spears, and there are as many troops as there are troops that can be raised. Today's soldiers have not undergone long-term training and are simply not able to form effective combat effectiveness. Tactics are one thing, and no matter how good the tactics are, they are in vain if they are not executed by soldiers. Just like the armed expatriates in Japan today, in addition to being able to shoot at the basics, they are unable to form cooperation between teams at all, and they do not understand many tactical movements. Even if you shoot, you don't know where the head is going. Such an armed force would be better if it fought a good battle, but if it encountered a more difficult war, 1,000 people would not be able to withstand the two or three hundred regular troops.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the Southwest People's Army, which had already been assembled, was ready to attack. Taipei City is some distance from the sea, and in this battle, the naval artillery could not support it. Thanks to Keelung Port and Ro-Ro ships, some heavy artillery can be transported to Taiwan without any scruples, otherwise this battle would not be as easy to fight as it is now.

Although Taipei is a big city, it has rarely experienced wars, and the Japanese side has only slightly renovated it more than ten years ago, which looks very tall, but it is far from the fortress of Lushun. Although the naval guns were out of reach, the heavy bombs were enough to destroy the city walls and clear the way for the attacking troops.

At this time, except for a few gendarmerie troops left on the city wall of Taipei, the rest were all armed expatriates. After the death of Kawamura Takeji, the military command fell into the hands of the commander of the division stationed in Taiwan, and he was different from Kawamura Takeji, a guy from a civilian background. After analyzing the characteristics of the Southwestern Army, the regular troops on the city walls were decisively replaced, and armed expatriates were replaced under the supervision of the military police. The regular troops all withdrew into the city, trying to fight street battles with the southwestern army. As for the armed expatriates on the city walls, they bought time for the regular troops to prepare for street fighting.

Kong Wenhong's offensive method is very simple, surrounded on all sides, and attacks together regardless of priority. The fighters of the two squadrons of H-2 and one squadron that participated in the battle have also arrived in Taipei.

When the bombers dropped the first aerial bombs, the heavy artillery on the ground also began shelling.

Aerial bombs and artillery shells poured on the four walls of Taipei as if they did not need money, and the lethality of 500 kilograms of aerial bombs on the city walls was very powerful. Basically, a direct hit can blow a hole, plus heavy artillery bombardment on the ground. In just a few minutes, the four walls had been blown open by more than a dozen large openings, and the width of the gaps was enlarged from time to time under the shelling, and by the time the bombers returned from completing their mission, each of the four walls had collapsed by at least a third. The East Gate, which was the most heavily bombarded, was even more half-fallen, and the city walls that did not fall were also scarred and crumbling.

The bombers were gone, but the heavy artillery on the ground did not stop. Although the number of naval transport ships at this time was small, it was no problem to support a high-intensity operation of 30,000 or 40,000 people. If the target of the battle at this time is other islands, there is no big port like Keelung Port, and the ro-ro ship is useless. At that time, Kong Wenhong would not have used such a high-intensity artillery bombardment at all, because the logistics could not keep up at all.

This is also the same as Chen Shao did not blindly develop the military, and now he is fighting a war, and he is fighting logistics. Even if you have millions of troops on the front line, but the logistics can't keep up, and when the bullets are all gone, and the logistics bullets can't keep up with the supply, the weapons in the hands of the millions of troops are like burning sticks. The ancients said: Before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first.

Just like Chen Shao now, why not vigorously build warships, and develop what bulk carriers, container ships, and ro-ro ships. Putting aside the tank factories to produce trucks and transport planes, it's all the same thing.

Just like Taipei now, without a strong transportation force, how can those tanks get to Taiwan, how can so many artillery and shells get to Taiwan, if there are no such things. It is conceivable that in the face of a big city like Taipei, it can only be filled with human lives, which is unacceptable to Chen Shao. Only by giving full play to one's greatest advantages will the battle go smoothly.

Amid the sound of shelling, more than 200 Chinese Leopard tanks raised billowing dust and smoke and rushed to their respective city walls, each of which contained sixty or seventy tanks, mixed with many armored vehicles, and the infantry followed behind the tanks and armored vehicles, making the most of the coordination of infantry tanks.

At this time, every soldier of the army held his breath, yesterday's battle was a one-man show by the marines, although in the middle of the night, the army also participated in the battle, but it was all doing some sweeping work, for the officers and men of the army who have always rushed to the front, such a cold bench is the first time. Therefore, in today's Taipei battle, every soldier showed twelve points of skill. Determined to surpass the speed of yesterday's Marine Corps attack, let the Marines who are following behind also see that our Army is definitely stronger than the Marines on land.

Chen Shao, Cai Yi and others are happy to see this kind of good competition, and progress will be faster if there is competition, which also shows that the current soldiers of the People's Army have a sense of belonging and pride in the troops.

When the heavy artillery on the ground stopped shelling, the armed expatriates hiding in the distance under the command of the gendarmes hurried up to the city wall that had not yet collapsed. Less than half of the armed expatriates and Overseer gendarmes who had been on the walls remained. Now it is the reserve forces that run up the walls.

However, when they went up to the city wall, the attacking troops were already close at hand, and dozens of machine gun fire points were erected under the city wall, and with the fire of tanks and armored vehicles, the armed expatriates who had already gone up to the city wall saw that as soon as they stood by the city wall, it was equivalent to fighting death, and after some people died, the other armed expatriates were all lying on the side of the city wall, and they did not dare to poke their heads out. After the gendarmes shot and killed two armed expatriates who tried to escape, they took the lead and faced the bayonets of the gendarmes before they mustered up the courage and began to stand up and shoot outside the city. The rifle in their hands went off, but even they didn't know where the bullet was going.

For such a counterattack, the attacking troops did not care at all, and the tanks and armored vehicles ignored it, without even a pause, and pounced directly on the collapsed city wall, where there are now many armed expatriates guarding. Similar to the city walls, there was also a counterattack. It's just different from the city wall, where it's condescending and protected by the city wall. This place is now considered flat, although there are a lot of gravel that can be used as shelter, but the angle is flat, and it is not able to protect itself intact.

For those armed expatriates who counterattacked at the landslide, although they could not inflict too many casualties on the attacking troops, the attacking troops were not soft at all. With a gap of nearly 100 meters, the firepower of the attacking troops has been completely suppressed, coupled with the tank guns from time to time, and more and more machine gun fire points, not only the armed expatriates, but also the military police of the Overseers dare not poke out their weapons to attack at will.

The movement of the front did not weaken with the weakness of one side, and when the first tank climbed into the gap, ignoring the rubble on the ground, more and more tanks and armored vehicles also rushed into the city.

The armed expatriates who had been under pressure from the gendarmes began to raise their guns and surrender as soon as they saw that there were no gendarmes around. At this time, not surrendering is equivalent to sacrificing one's own life, and under the advance of tanks, more and more armed expatriates are surrounded by troops following behind, and sometimes it only takes a few rocket launchers to make those armed expatriates surrender voluntarily.

The armed expatriates on the city walls did not resist much, and with the help of mortars and grenades, the soldiers quickly attacked the stairs from the city walls, and the first target was the gendarmes in their uniforms, and sometimes the expatriates stood by and watched, and when the gendarmes were eliminated, they threw down their weapons. At this time, the gendarmes were more odious than anyone else to those armed expatriates, and wished they had died sooner.

It has not been long since the battle began, and the pace of the attack, which had been very smooth before, slowed down after entering Taipei Street.

At this time, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were already stationed in large and small houses and alleys in Taipei, intending to block the offensive of the Southwest People's Army.

After encountering the resistance, the attacking troops on all four sides simultaneously suspended their attacks.

In Keelung's temporary headquarters.

"This little Japanese commander has two hits! Want to fight with us in the streets. Kong Wenhong, who received the battle report from the front, looked at the city map of Taipei and said to Qian Sihai.

"Humph! Needless struggle. "Qian Sihai, who learned about the Japanese army's intentions, didn't worry about anything, he was born in the army and knew the strength of the army. He is not worried about street fighting at all, because it is one of the subjects that the army has been training since its establishment, and now the Japanese army wants to play street fighting in front of the KPA army, which is not equivalent to a dog and a cat climbing a tree, and it is completely looking for abuse.

"It can be regarded as very insightful, knowing that blindly defending can only increase casualties, and street fighting can indeed offset some of our advantages on the surface, at least our tank troops cannot play their due combat effectiveness. As for the fact that our attack is so smooth now, it is also because the other side did not hold the city wall. Kong Wenhong is a person who is very serious about everything, and the actions of the Japanese army this time really made his eyes shine. Originally, he thought that the Japanese army would defend the same as yesterday, not giving up an inch of land. Such a choice is indeed a wise choice today. If the current KPA and the Japanese army fall into a stalemate, it will not be in line with the strategic intentions of the southwest.

"It's a good idea, but we can only say that they don't understand what we're capable of. And do you think that fighting in the streets will give full play to the strengths of little Japan? After all, the Japanese army is not the material for street fighting! Qian Sihai patted the map and said.

"Hehe, the chairman said at the beginning: 'Little Japan is strategically brainless, but it is a genius in tactics.'" Now it seems that the latter paragraph is quite consistent. Kong Wenhong smiled: "Order the forward troops to use armored vehicles as a cover to carry out street battles, and today give little Japan a good lesson, how to fight street battles." ”

(To be continued)