Small quotation: In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when Sai Jinhua was a famous prostitute in his later years, many reporters came to interview, and Sai Jinhua spoke without scruples, and any obscene words could be believed. A reporter dared to ask her: "Sai Erye (Sai Jinhua's nickname), you have had ** relationships with so many men in your life, which one impressed you the most?" Sai Jinhua said straight to the point: "Yu Zhuang is a good person, not only powerful, but also handsome; There is also a prostitute surnamed Shang, who is also very powerful, but his appearance is not good. These two are the most impressive guests for me. (Excerpt from "Modern Chinese Character Talk")

The first target plane, Yanhuang Treasure Island.

Yanhuang Baodao is also known as Taiwan, and the sea area between it and the mainland is called the Taiwan Strait, which belongs to the East China Sea sea area, which is about 370 kilometers long, and narrow in the north and wide in the south. The north entrance is about 200 kilometers wide, the south mouth is about 410 kilometers wide, and the narrowest point is between Baisha Cape on Taiwan Island and Haitan Island in Fujian, about 130 kilometers, with a total area of about 80,000 square kilometers.

Most of the water depth of the Taiwan Strait is less than 80 meters, the average water depth is about 60 meters, the northwest of the entire Taiwan Strait is relatively flat, the southeast slope is larger, and there are islands and shoals in the middle to form an arc-shaped descending zone: like the Taiwan shoal in the south of the strait, which is composed of more than 900 underwater sand dunes, there are rapids on the beach, and the hydrological situation is complex; Taichung, in the southerly direction, there is the Penghu Islands Reef Area, which is composed of islands, reefs and many underwater reefs, which are also relatively dangerous.

On July 6, 1944, shortly after the Okinawa landing campaign, a military discussion was underway in the Zhoushan Base Headquarters about where to land from Taiwan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the time is ripe for our army to launch a campaign to land on Taiwan, and the General Staff has drafted a total of three landing plans, that is, there are three alternative landing sites." Xiao Jinguang, commander-in-chief of the Yanhuang Navy, pointed to a large-scale map of Taiwan's main island and the surrounding waters with a wooden pole, and introduced it to Zhu De, Mr. Peng and others who came from afar: "First, take the northern route: Fuzhou Mawei - Taipei Tamsui estuary direction. The advantage of this route is that the landing force has the shortest crossing distance, the shortest crossing time, and can get long-range fire cover in the continental direction to the greatest extent; The second is the midline; In the Quanzhou-Taichung direction, the advantage is that there is no island barrier garrisoned by enemy troops on the route; The last one is the southern line: Xiamen (Shantou) - Penghu - Tainan (Kaohsiung) direction, which has the advantage of having the Penghu Islands as a foothold on the way, which can be used to establish supply transfer stations and artillery positions for landing support, in addition, due to the central mountain range, it will be difficult for the enemy forces in Tainan and Taipei to support each other. ”

"Ahem, Commander Xiao, your staff officers' analysis and combat preparations are going very well, but Comrade Tang Wei (Wang Fan's disguise) has the latest enemy military situation there." Commander-in-Chief Zhu De interjected.

After everyone in the room heard this, they immediately looked at Wang Fan collectively.

"That's right, I learned from the high-level spy personnel lurking inside the foreign pirates," Wang Fan said in the voice of a middle-aged man "processed" by a plane ring, "The total military strength deployed by the pirates on the entire Yanhuang Treasure Island does not exceed 55,000 people, including about 1,000 people each on the Penghu Islands and Kinmen Islands, equipped with a small number of heavy artillery. The remaining Japanese troops were concentrated in the two big cities of Taipei and Tainan, and they were preparing to use the original facilities of the cities to build a large-scale and large-depth bunker group, intending to fight positional warfare, street warfare, and a war of attrition with our army. ”

"So the little devil has definitely given up on the beachhead. In the past, the beachhead was unmanned and without facilities, and it was not a smoke bomb, but a corresponding strategy adopted by the devils due to insufficient troops. Liu Yalou, commander-in-chief of the Yanhuang Air Force, analyzed.

"That's right, and like the devils on the Kinmen and Penghu Islands, they are ready to break all the jade, and they are more of a delay, so that the main forces in Taipei and Tainan can give early warning. In addition, Kaohsiung, a big port devil, also intends to give up because of the lack of troops, but because it is afraid that we will use this place to quickly transport troops, it has already carried out underwater minelaying and sabotage of facilities such as port docks. And the devils in these two cities are all ready to break jade. Finally, I can also say responsibly that after the landing campaign on the island of Taiwan begins, neither the combined fleet nor the army headquarters of the Japanese will send a single ship or soldier to rescue them. ”

"Why? Sit and watch your allies fall? Xiao Jinguang was a little puzzled.

"Because of the plan of the Japanese base camp, after we launched the Taiwan landing campaign, we used the jade crushing troops of the Taiwan army to contain our military strength and center of gravity, and then they immediately launched the Indian landing campaign at the same time." Wang Fan explained.

"The Indian landing campaign? They are so ambitious, even if they are defeated, will they be able to hold it? Xiao Jinguang glanced at the map of the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which were also hanging on the wall, and was a little hard to believe.

"The devil has always had a great appetite. Didn't he threaten to destroy Yanhuang in 3 months?"

"According to the information sent by our spy officers, the bottom line of the little devil is to keep Pearl Harbor, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, the Strait of Malacca and India, which means that most of the treasure islands, Hainan Island, and even Southeast Asia can be basically abandoned, so as to free up enough troops to strengthen the defense of other regions." Wang Fan added.

"Don't want a place as big as Brazil?"

"Brazil is adjacent to the Stars and Stripes, far away from Asia, and the little devils attack there, more to contain the strength and attention of the Stars and Stripes, and to cover for the landing in India."

"In this case, we are somewhat similar to Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in recovering Taiwan." Zhu de took a puff of cigarette and continued: "It's all the disparity in strength between the two sides, it's all lions fighting rabbits!" I remember that Zheng Chenggong's total strength was more than 30,000 and hundreds of warships, while the Dutch at that time had only 2,800 troops and more than a dozen ships. Of course, they are all big ships, and they have a comparative advantage in terms of artillery. ”

However, in terms of defensive time alone, the Dutch still achieved their original goal, and they finally held on to Taiwan City for more than eight months. It was only later that the reinforcement fleet was defeated and lost, and it signed the surrender. Through Yadea, Wang Fan, who also knew the details of Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, added.

"Yes, at that time, the Dutch reinforcements were about 700 people, more than 10 warships, and Taiwan was reinforced by Batavia, but they were defeated by hundreds of small warships led by Zheng Chenggong, which determined the final fate of the Dutch Taiwanese defenders." Zhu De sighed, "We are much better than Zheng Chenggong at that time." The first Japanese defenders of Taiwan had no reinforcements; Second, Zheng Chenggong was forced to counterattack Taiwan because the Qing Dynasty had already decided to unify the Yanhuang Continent and could not resist it (launched on April 21, 1661, corresponding to March 23, 18th year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty), and we had the support of the entire mainland. ”

"In this case, it will not be a problem for us to have the ancestral islands in the northern line that we were worried about in the course of the route, because there is no enemy on it, and the danger of being easily attacked by the combined enemy forces from the north and the south after landing on the central line has also disappeared, because the enemy's strength and tactics determine that they can basically only hold on." Xiao Jinguang continued to analyze.

"On the contrary, the southern front, which itself is the farthest away, and there are the Penghu Islands, plus after all, it is relatively close to the Philippines, in case the commander of a certain detachment of the Japanese Kou has a convulsive head and decides to come to support the naval battle, it will be a little troublesome. Therefore, it was a relatively prudent decision to launch a landing campaign from the north to the south. Wang Fan expressed his opinion.

"In addition, we can send some destroyers to guard and reconnaiter in the waters south of Taiwan, so that nothing goes wrong." Deputy Commander of the Navy Luo Shunchu added.

"Then do we tell the British that the Japanese are going to land in India? It seems that India is one of the logistics bases and important sources of troops to support them in maintaining the war in Europe. ”

"Not at all." Zhu De shook his head, "If the Japanese don't attack, we don't have a good excuse to occupy India, let the little devils and the British fight first, and then we will eat ready-made." ”

"The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind!"

"Great idea!"

Taipei City, the treasure island, is the location of the headquarters of the Japanese Army.

Because the Japanese occupied Taiwan very early, by 1944, it had already gone through several decades. Therefore, whether it is the enslavement and assimilation of the original islanders, or the transportation, city defense and other facilities on the island, they are relatively complete and average. All along, the life of the Japanese army has been very pleasant.

Since General Akashi Motojiro of the Japanese Army assumed the post of commander of the Taiwan Army, there have been 18 personnel changes, and the person who served as the 19th commander of the Japanese Army at this time was Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando.

"Your Excellency, how is the defense construction in Tainan going?" Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando asked the chief of staff of his unit, Lieutenant General Haruki Koyama.

"Hi Your Excellency Ando, Tainan's defense construction is currently progressing well. Taking advantage of the surrounding hills, we dug through the hills of several hills and built a solid artillery support muzzle. It is believed that when the Yanhuanghong landing force attacks the city, it can inflict a lot of casualties on it. Chief of Staff Haruki Koyama replied.

"Good, hard work!"

"Hey!"

"Since we have lost ground aviation support (the army withdrew all of Taiwan's army aviation fighters to meet the Indian campaign, and only sent a certain number of anti-aircraft guns to the Taiwanese army as compensation), the Yanhuanghong fighters will be a huge threat to us." Commander Toshiyoshi Ando said.

"Please rest assured, we have built a large number of above-ground and underground conjoined fortifications in the cities of Taipei and Tainan, and the key points are even poured with reinforced concrete, which will be difficult to easily destroy unless the Red Party uses heavy artillery or is directly hit by 500 kg aerial bombs. I am confident that if everything goes according to plan, I may be able to reach the maximum goal of six months. ”

"The railway from Taipei to Tainan will blow up key bridges if necessary, and we can't let Yan Huang use our railroad to transport troops."

"Hey!"

"In addition, the logistics commander was told that the daily food standard will be increased in the past two days."

"Hey?"

Commander Toshiyoshi Ando suddenly talked about logistics supplies, which made the chief of staff Haruki Suyama a little unconnected.

"I have a hunch that after Yan Huang occupies Okinawa Island, the day of landing on Taiwan Island is very close, and we must improve our morale and maintain the highest combat effectiveness."

"Hey!"