This time, almost three tank divisions of 15 medium tanks were specially transferred from the Chengdu Military Region, and Taiwan's terrain was not suitable for the use of heavy tanks, especially Taiwan's infrastructure facilities during this period were not very good, so a 30-ton tank like the Type 15 was the most suitable for Taiwan.

Of course, it is unlikely that tanks will be used at the first stop in Penghu, after all, it is only an island.

Ahem, you can also call it an archipelago or an archipelago...

The Penghu Islands, also known as the Penghu Islands, are located in the Taiwan Strait, about 50 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan [1] in the east and 140 kilometers from the Eurasian mainland in the west, and consist of 90 large and small islands with a total area of about 128 square kilometers. In the 16th century, the Portuguese came to the East and found that the waters of Penghu were rich in fish, and there were many fishermen living on the island, so they called Penghu Fisherman's Island.

The island was occupied by the Dutch in 1622~1624, occupied by the French in 1884~1885, and ceded to Japan along with Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese War in 1894~1895.

The Penghu Islands are strategically located, separated by the Penghu Waterway in the east, opposite to Taiwan Island, with a shortest distance of about 24 nautical miles, and across the sea from Xiamen City, Fujian Province in the west, with a shortest distance of about 75 nautical miles. In the past, ships crossing the Taiwan Strait and traveling between the mainland and Taiwan Island often entered Magong Port on Penghu Island to berth. From here, you can reach the Matsu Islands, Dachen Island and Zhoushan Islands in the north, and the Dongsha Islands and Nansha Islands in the south, and the Philippines and Southeast Asian countries. The Penghu Islands are located in the center of the Taiwan Strait, choking the shipping key points in eastern Asia, and are known as the "key to the southeast."

Historically, the Penghu Islands were returned to China after Japan's surrender in 1945, and the islands choke the Taiwan Strait. It is known as the "key to the Taiwan Strait".

And now, if you want to capture Taiwan, it is impossible not to capture Penghu first...

"In any case, the president entrusted us with this task of the 13th Army, which is to trust us. We can't afford to mess up this task..."

In the headquarters in Xiamen, Wang Yaowu said loudly to the commanders of the various armies and divisions in the headquarters.

"Also, how were the pre-war preparations?"

"It's all set."

Hearing Wang Yaowu's words, the chief of staff stood up and said.

"Now we can only give orders from above, and we can directly launch an offensive against Penghu."

"Good."

Wang Yaowu nodded.

"But this time it's a different story. This is a landing battle, and it is a landing on the island at sea, so before the order is issued, the soldiers below must be used to the landing operation as soon as possible, especially the officers must take the lead..."

"Understood."

All the commanders in the audience straightened up and said.

Although today's national defense forces do not need to rely on individual commanders to buy the hearts of the army in many cases, like the Kuomintang troops in history, a capable commander like Wang Yaowu is still very authoritative in the army. Therefore, the commanders who are doing it are also more convinced.

"Now that everyone has understood, then I won't say much, I hope that everyone can try to convey the content of this meeting as much as possible after they go back, and let the people below understand that our battle this time is different from usual. It should not be taken lightly! ”

The commanders present all nodded their heads in understanding.

After the commanders had left and returned to their respective units, Wang Yaowu's face showed a hint of worry when he looked at Penghu and Taiwan on the map.

"What's wrong? Commander? ”

Looking at Wang Yaowu's appearance, the chief of staff said a little strangely.

Wang Yaowu sighed.

"There has never been a battle like this. I don't have a score in my heart..."

Hearing Wang Yaowu say this, the chief of staff said with a smile.

"What's there to worry about, haven't the Air Force and Navy already said that they will fully cooperate with us!!" ...," said so. But the landing battle is very bloody after all, especially when the opponent is ready, and to be honest, how much blood will be shed in this battle, I don't know in my own heart ...

Hearing Wang Yaowu say this, the chief of staff also fell silent.

Although the strength on the table at the moment. It is clear that the Wehrmacht has the upper hand, especially on all fronts. However, this time the Wehrmacht was the attacking side after all, and this time it was a landing battle, which was a completely unfamiliar way of fighting.

Although the Air Force and the Navy have already made it clear that they will give full support to the landing operations of the Army, especially on the Air Force, because Fujian and Taiwan are only across the sea, and the entire Taiwan is within the operational range of the Air Force, after all, it is impossible to win the battle by relying on only one branch of the army...

"Forget it, no matter what, now it can only be the soldiers who will block the water and cover the earth, no matter what, you can't let that kid of Dai Anlan see the joke..."

After staring at the Penghu Islands on the map, Wang Yaowu reinvigorated his morale.

The Dai Anlan he was talking about just now was the commander of the 17th Group Army, and like Wang Yaowu, he was also one of the commanders of the attack on Taiwan.

Of course, this is not to say that the two should fight side by side together, in fact, according to the idea of the General Staff, the two army groups were divided into two routes and two locations for landing operations, so that both were divided into one side ...

By the way, Wang Yaowu is mainly in Xiamen, while Dai Anlan is in Fuzhou, and the two will act in two directions, and it is better to separate the starting points.

Like Wang Yaowu, no, it should be said that like Wang Yaowu, Dai Anlan was also born in 1904.

Therefore, when Wang Yaowu entered the military academy to study, he was actually at the same time as Dai Anlan, and at the same time, because the two of them were equally good in the academy, they had a little bit of rivalry between them.

Ahem, it may be a little enthusiastic to say this, but when they were adults, it happened to be the time of great domestic development, at that time, because there was a Soviet Russia blocking China outside, so China was able to enter a relatively peaceful and stable development period without obvious external threats, and it was precisely for this reason that the major military academies in China at that time did not have a special sense of urgency.

How to say it. Wang Yaowu and Dai Anlan can be regarded as people who grew up in peacetime.

Of course, it is not accurate to say this, at least on the Sino-Russian border at that time, border conflicts were still relatively common, especially at the platoon and company level. It can happen at least 10 times a year, after all, China's borders are somewhat too long.

After graduation, Wang Yaowu and Dai Anlan, two strong rivals, were in the ―――――― of honing themselves, and it may be for better promotion, so they chose to serve in the troops on the Sino-Russian border and serve there. Not only did the two perform equally well, but the last two were also promoted to the commanders of the group army.

After the decision to launch a military operation against Taiwan was made, the two men were selected as the best candidates to carry out the military operation at the same time.

Of course, if you want to carry out military action against Taiwan, you must first take Penghu, so in order to select this candidate, the two of them also fought with each other. The final result was that Wang Yaowu won the victory.

As for the two equally excellent people, how did they choose―――――― cough, Wang Yaowu would not say that he was from his own family with Wang Yaowu, so he was somewhat biased when choosing...

But that's nothing. After all, Wang Yaowu and Dai Anlan are equally good, and there is no problem in choosing anyone.

――――――――――――――――――――..., Wang Yaowu's preparations in Xiamen, the Japanese are quite clear, after all, the distance between the two sides is too close, and even if it has entered a state of war, Japan still has many spies in China―――――― before the war. Due to Yan Guang's special order, the military intelligence and the military defense bureau jointly operated, so that many Japanese spies lurking in China were exposed. However, it was not done at that time, after all, China and Japan had not yet started a war at that time.

It was not until after the start of the war that the Military Intelligence Agency and the Military Defense Bureau suddenly took action, which also caused heavy losses to Japan's intelligence agencies in China.

But at the end of the day, the Japanese have always been wary of China, so in addition to these exposed. There are still a lot of spies lurking, and even the Military Defense Bureau has not been able to dig up them. After all, the Japanese have been operating in China for many years.

Of course, due to the heavy losses of the intelligence agencies in China, the intelligence capabilities of the Japanese have also been reduced a lot, but after all, the movements of the 13th Army and the 17th Group Army are too big, and the distance is so close, and Xiamen is not a small city...

In fact, Japan has been building fortifications on Taiwan for a long time―――――― probably at the same time as North Korea.

After all, at that time, Korea was bordering China, and as for Taiwan, the Japanese did not forget about Taiwan, which Japan took from China. Therefore, after China became strong, Japan has always been very worried that China will find a way to take Taiwan back from China―――――― you know, Japan has a total of two colonies in Taiwan and Korea, of course, those islands in the Pacific Ocean that originally belonged to Germany are also considered colonies, but it is estimated that there are few rare...

Although the relationship between China and Japan has made great progress in the later period, Japan has never believed in China after all, so it has never stopped building fortifications for Taiwan and Korea, and the same is true for the Penghu Islands, which are the gateway to Taiwan.

Up to now, since China and Japan have officially been in hostile relations, Japan has strengthened and strengthened the original fortifications in Taiwan...

On the other side, Wang Yaowu was also taking advantage of the fact that the order from above had not yet come down, and he tried his best to let his troops train as much as possible. After all, although the 13th Army was the main force, it had not conducted landing training in the past ...

It was in this little by little that the order from above was finally given.

Wang Yaowu, who received the order, had mixed feelings, but in the end he still commanded the troops and boarded the landing ships docked at the port of Xiamen in turn.

In the waters off Xiamen, a number of light and heavy cruisers and a certain number of destroyers were also anchored there, and they were the escort fleet for this military operation.

In this landing operation, the Nationalist Government did not use the Ocean Fleet, which was the absolute main force, especially the aircraft carrier formation in the Ocean Fleet, but only used some secondary capital ships.

As for the Japanese on the other side, they also did not think of sending out the combined fleet to loot the landing fleet of the Wehrmacht, as for the reason ...

The fact that the fighters and bombers that have been assembled at the field airfield in Xiamen or something is the reason...

Taiwan strait. It is said that it is not wide, and it is not narrow either, but it is precisely for this reason that the entire strait is within the combat radius of the Defense Air Force, and this radius even includes the shortest range of road-based fighters...

If the Japanese send out the Combined Fleet to intercept them halfway. There is no doubt that it will fall into the attack of the Defence Air Force.

Although the Combined Fleet can also be called one of the strongest fleets in this era, carrier-based aircraft have never been able to compare with the number of road-based air forces, after all, the airfield itself has many restrictions, and fighters taking off and landing on a deck that is only more than 200 meters long cannot compete with road-based fighters, and if the Combined Fleet really dares to run into the middle ......of the Taiwan Strait. If you are an obstacle, you don't need the ocean fleet to come forward, the air force in Fujian alone can sink the combined fleet to the bottom of the strait and gorge...

Of course, the Japanese did not sit back and wait for Wang Yaowu to land on the Penghu Islands, and since the Wehrmacht was escorted by the roadbed air force, it would be good if the Japanese also used the air force to come forward. After all, Japan also has Zero fighters and Type 99 bombers or something...

In fact, the Japanese do the same, and in a way, the Japanese have an advantage in this regard, well. Advantages in the range...

Although the fighters currently equipped by the Air Force do not lack this range at all...

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The Japanese are still very confident in their Zero, although the Zero is a relatively deformed fighter, but it is undeniable that the Zero still has a great advantage when dealing with the early fighters of the Americans. And it is precisely because of the superiority in the Pacific theater that the Japanese have a certain degree of blind trust in the Zero.

However, in fact, it is different from the Zero War. The Wehrmacht Air Force is clearly a little more confident in its ZD-20 fighters ...

For no other reason, just like the historical Mustang, the ZD-20, which is close to the Mustang, is already approaching the limit of a piston fighter.

P-51 fighter, nicknamed "Mustg" (Mustg, American Mustang). It was one of the most famous fighters of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and the longest-range single-engine fighter used by the U.S. Navy and Army. It was the most important aircraft for strategic bombing escort in the European and Pacific theaters, and was used until the Korean War.

The Mustang was considered to be the most outstanding comprehensive performance of the main fighter of World War II in later evaluations, which was different from the main fighter of the U.S. military at that time, whether it was liquid-cooled or air-cooled, and tended to use turbochargers to enhance high-altitude performance, the P-51 was not able to obtain the turbocharger quota in the early stage of design due to the non-US military internal model; Therefore, the North American company uses the same domestic Alison liquid-cooled engine as the P-40, which is only equipped with a first-stage supercharger, as the power source.

However, compared to the P-40, the aircraft has a more advanced air intake configuration and overall layout to greatly improve cooling and aerodynamic efficiency, and the inclusion of laminar flow wing design further enhances high-speed performance. The British Merlin engine was then modified with a two-speed supercharger, which gave it a rapid improvement in high-altitude performance, and the North American company also modified each of the problems caused by the new engine, thus achieving a rare historical evaluation.

As early as the Sichuan period, Yan Guang attached great importance to the construction of the air force, and therefore, the Fokker aircraft was introduced from Germany as the standard fighter of the air force at that time.

Since then, Yan Guang has invested heavily in the development of fighter jets, and as a result, the performance of Chinese Air Force fighters has always been at the forefront. As the latest cutting-edge monoplane piston fighter, the ZD-20 has the same powerful performance as the Mustang.

Of course, Yan Guang has not forgotten the jet that is really the main force of the aircraft, but that thing is too difficult to do, although the verification machine has been tested for a long time, but it will take a while for the real finalized mass production model to come out...

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It is precisely because the ZD-20 is as strong as the Mustang that when Wang Yaowu's 13th Group Army was intercepted by the Japanese air force during the sea-crossing operation, the ZD-20 roaring down from the sky almost killed the Japanese Zero or something.

As for the Type 97 dive bomber, Type 98 dive bomber, Type 99 dive bomber, and Type 99 twin-engine light bomber, not a single ZD-20 fighter was killed by the escort when intercepting and killing the troops crossing the sea.

In the end, the sea-crossing troops only lost a few hundred men and a few boats, and easily crossed the Taiwan Strait, which is several hundred miles wide, and the losses of the defense air force escorting the ship were also very light, and the most important thing is that after this battle, it is estimated that the defense air force will also be able to give birth to a few ace pilots.

On the contrary, it was the Japanese, although this time they sent out a sortie to intercept and kill, but the proud Zero fighter was severely damaged, of course, there are 97 fighters or something...

Ahem, I have to say that the Japanese have indeed developed many types of aircraft, such as bombers or something, such as the 97-type, 98-type and 99-type just mentioned, and there are several models in the 99-type in a row.

But it's a pity that the performance of these bombers is very scum, at least not in front of fighters and bombers like the ZD-20 or H-3, not to mention the stronger H-40 ...

On the other side, after defeating the Japanese air force that came to intercept and kill, the sea-crossing troops were about to launch an offensive on the Penghu Islands...