In late February 1916, when the weather began to warm up, the Chinese authorities decided to launch a campaign to recapture Wandao, which was commanded by Cai Guodong, commanding 160,000 troops of the two armies, plus the navy and air force, a total of nearly 180,000.

At this time, the Japanese army on the island had only one garrison, numbering about 6,400 people, and even if the military and police were included, it was only 20,000.

The Governor's Office of the Bay Island was established in 1895, and the Governor General was limited to the army and navy generals or vice admirals, with full authority over civil, military, and military orders, that is, the Japanese Governor in the Bay Island was both the highest military governor and the highest civil administrator. From Japan's full-scale occupation of Wandao to the present, Japan's basic policy has been to suppress the resistance of the people of Wandao, adopt a policy of assimilation, and infiltrate Japanese customs and legal systems into the inhabitants of Wandao; on the other hand, to make Wandao a colony of Japanese capitalism, to make it a sugar center, and to ensure the supply of rice, camphor, and timber to Japan.

In the local administration of Bay Island, the police are at the center. In addition to the general public order maintenance business, all the business of the police, such as political affairs, marriage and childbirth, household registration management, tobacco management, public health, tax collection, material distribution, land investigation, etc., are all police operations.

Now the governor of the Japanese Governor-General's Office on Wandao is Anton Sadami, Anton Sadami is a Japanese army general, he took office in May this year, at that time China had not yet declared war on Japan, until after the declaration of war, Anton Sadami had no chance to leave Wandao, not only him, but all the Japanese on Wandao did not have the opportunity to leave, and the Japanese mainland could not send additional troops to Wandao, after all, the navy was gone. The Japanese authorities did not have the courage to send troops by sea again.

Anton Sadami served as the commander of the 6th Infantry Wing and the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Bay Island Garrison. Commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade. During the Russo-Japanese War, he led the 19th Brigade to the battle, and later became the commander of the 10th Division. He was made a baron in 1907. He was the commander of the 12th Division. Commander of the Korean garrison. In January 1915, he was promoted to army general, and on May 1, he was appointed as the sixth governor of Bay Island.

The Wan Island garrison has only 6,400 people, and this garrison is also deployed in two places, the first garrison is deployed in the north of the island, and the second garrison is deployed in the south of the island, and the two garrisons have an infantry wing and a mountain artillery squadron respectively, and a fortress heavy artillery team is set up in Keelung and Magong.

After all, using 180,000 people to attack the regular Japanese army of only 6,400 people on the Bay Island has the feeling of killing chickens with knives and mosquitoes with artillery. There is also a feeling of wasting troops and military spending.

Only Xiao Zhenlei, Cai Guodong, Cai Yi, Xu Shaozhen, and other high-ranking military officials know that this is absolutely not killing chickens with knives, nor is it fighting mosquitoes with artillery; you must know that since the completion of the reorganization, the Wehrmacht has never used force against the outside world except for attacking the Liaodong Peninsula, and has always trained, trained, and retrained, and the generals all know that it is not possible to blindly train without fighting. In the future, there will be operations against Europe, and it is necessary for the army to feel the atmosphere of war in advance, so this time the troops of two armies will be dispatched, plus the cooperation of the air force and navy. It is completely fought as a big battle, and the soldiers are close to the real war scenes.

After learning the news that the Chinese army was going to land on Bay Island to fight, the Governor's Office of the Japanese Army on Bay Island immediately mobilized them. In fact, two months earlier, the Bay Island Governor's Office had mobilized. Because everyone understands that since there is a war between China and Japan. It was impossible for Hua Guo not to take military action against the Japanese troops on the Bay Island.

The governor of the Governor's Office of the Bay Island, Ando Sadami, not only made the 6,400 people of the two garrisons in the north and south of the island immediately enter a state of combat readiness, but also organized the military and police in various parts of the island and distributed guns and ammunition to them, in addition, he also ordered the Japanese veterans who stayed on the island after retiring, as well as the local people on the island who had served as soldiers and later re-enlisted, together with the two garrisons in the north and south, a total of six garrisons with a total of more than 20,000 people, of which more than 3,000 people were natives of the island island. The others were Japanese, and all the officers were Japanese.

On 1 March, the Chinese army officially launched a beach-rushing landing battle against the Japanese garrison on Wandao, and the landing battle was divided into three parts, one part of which was to carry out a beach-rushing landing from the northern part of Wandao, and the Navy fleet carried a battleship, a battlecruiser, three cruisers, several destroyers, an aircraft carrier, and hundreds of troop carriers to carry the 37th Division of the Army to the beach near Keelung in the northern part of the island.

The second part was escorted by one battleship, one battle cruiser, three cruisers, four destroyers, and one aircraft carrier, and hundreds of troop carriers carrying the 38th Division of the Army to land in Changhua.

In the third part, two battleships, four cruisers, four destroyers, and two seaplane carriers were escorted, and hundreds of troop carriers carried the 39th Division of the Army to land on the beach at Magong.

In addition, the 14th Army, composed of the 40th, 41st and 42nd Divisions, was on standby at three locations across the strait, and once the three divisions of the 13th Army landed successfully, the three divisions of the 14th Army would immediately go by ship to reinforce them.

People who understand beach-grabbing and landing warfare understand that beach-grabbing and landing warfare is different from a ground offensive, and that if the ground offensive is unfavorable, it is possible to retreat from the original route, but it is not possible to retreat from the beach-grabbing landing battle, and once the landing begins, even if the landing combat units are completely annihilated, it is impossible to retreat, and they will either rush to the enemy's position, or they will be killed in the process of landing and want to retreat? Not to mention whether the enemy will allow it, but only that there are landing ships behind them that keep coming, and if there are ships retreating, they will inevitably block the channel of the ships rushing to them, and then it will become a pot of porridge, which just gives the enemy artillery group the opportunity to shell, so the beach landing battle can only attack, not retreat, if someone dares to retreat and block the offensive channel and road, the people behind will definitely get the order, and they will be killed.

An hour before the landing battle, the escort naval fleet of the three parts began to use naval guns to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment of the Japanese coastal defense positions on the shore, especially in the two fortress ports of Keelung and Magong, the shelling was the most intense, and the strong fortresses that the Japanese army was ready to hold on were quickly collapsed under the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, and the two heavy artillery squadrons deployed by the Japanese army in Keelung and Magong shelled the Chinese naval fleet, but they did not expect that the Chinese fleet had aircraft carriers, A large number of fighters and bombers were taken off from the aircraft carrier, and the Prime Minister carried out a devastating bombing of two heavy artillery squadrons in Keelung and Magong, followed by a carpet bombing of Japanese coastal defense positions.

After the bombardment was over, the Japanese army lost about half of the troops deployed in the coastal defense position, and the position had long been bombed beyond recognition, and there was no longer the appearance of a position trench.

The 37th Division attacking Keelung occupied the port two hours after landing, and then naval ships and a large number of troop carriers docked at the port, and a large number of army heavy equipment was brought ashore, as well as mountain artillery, field artillery, large-caliber howitzers, and a tank regiment.

The 38th Division that landed in Changhua also progressed very smoothly, the Japanese army had limited strength, and there were too many places where the Chinese army could land, the Japanese army could not defend against it, the Japanese army deployed on the coast of Changhua did not even see where the Chinese army landed, and when it was discovered, the 38th Division of the Chinese Army had all landed, and the disparity in strength was too great, even if the Japanese army barely resisted, it still suffered heavy casualties, Changhua and Taichung were all captured by the Chinese army in one day, and then the 38th Division attacked Hsinchu in the north, and marched to Chiayi in the south, The other ministry remained to take over the administrative work.

In the process of rushing to land on the beach, the Chinese army, navy and air force also cooperated very well, first bombing with bombers, and then large-caliber naval artillery shelling, in the process of shelling, the 39th Division carried out the beach-grabbing landing, at this time the Japanese army had already been bombed and shelled with heavy casualties, the shelling just ended, a regiment of the 39th Division boarded the beach with more than 100 small boats, the Japanese army did not come to its senses in the bombing and artillery bombardment was washed up by the Chinese army to the shore defense position, a position contest, a small remnant of the Japanese army retreated to the city of Magong, The Chinese troops then pursued into the city, and the remnants of the Japanese army soon raised the white flag and surrendered under the leadership of the officer.

After receiving reports of successive losses and a large number of casualties in various places, Anton Zhenmei in the Governor's Mansion of Bay Island scolded in her heart, this is just a show for foreigners, how can you Chinese army die to the death? Despite the dissatisfaction and resentment in her stomach, Anton Sadami could only endure it, who let the Japanese high-level have reached a secret agreement with Hua Guo in secret?

On March 2, the Chinese army fully occupied Keelung, Taichung, Changhua, Magong and other cities, Anton Zhenmei knew that this was acting, of course he would not deploy seriously, the more serious, the greater the casualties of the Japanese army, he was not stupid, he gave an order to the Japanese commanders stationed in various parts of the bay island, if the Chinese army attacked, only barely resisted for a while and surrendered, the Japanese lower-level officers did not know the secret agreement between the two high-level officials, but the Japanese lower-level officers and soldiers still strictly obeyed the military orders, although they were extremely unconvinced, but the Japanese army was clear, After two days of fighting, the combat effectiveness of the infantry of the Chinese army was much higher than theirs.

The 37th Division rested for a day after occupying Keelung, and continued its march to the capital of Bay Island on March 4, and Anton Sarumi also knew that the Governor's Palace could not stay, so he withdrew to Taoyuan with the Governor's Office officials and guards. (To be continued......)