[Chapter 29]
One starless night, the Liangshan detachment was ordered to attack. The location of the sortie was Jiaoyu Island, which is located in the northeast direction of Dajinmen Island and is only more than 2,000 meters away from Kinmen in a straight line, which is the closest island to Dajinmen under our control.
Li Yunlong and some officers of the operational, intelligence, and reconnaissance departments rushed to Jiaoyu Island by boat, and he wanted to bid farewell to his beloved special detachment. He knew in his heart that these brave and fearless warriors would die for life. The officers and commandos who saw them off all looked solemn, and there was an atmosphere of easy water and sad songs.
The Yangsan detachment was armed with several speedboats equipped with sound-absorbing devices. The commandos are equipped with diving devices and small walkie-talkies, and the weapons are the newly manufactured Type 56-2 ***, which is an imitation of the Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifle, which is shorter and lighter than the general standard Type 56***, and is specially developed by the military industry department for special forces, and even the well-informed staff officers from the military district headquarters are unfamiliar with this gun. Li Yunlong found that these brand-new guns with uniform specifications became strange in the hands of the commandos, and some of the team members actually sawed off the already short guns, leaving only the handle and trigger. In the ordinary army, such sabotage of weapons is subject to court-martial, but in the Yangsan detachment it is considered normal. Duan Peng thinks that his weapon can be changed as easy as it is easy, and he also made a vulgar analogy: This is like his wife, she can sleep as much as she wants, and others can't control it. The team members have mufflers installed on their pistols and pistols, and the way the pistols and daggers are worn is also very messy, some are hung under the armpits, some are tied to the calves, some are hung on the waist, and some simply hang the leather gun holster around the neck. The training method of this small unit is very individualistic.
Detachment leader Duan Peng was wearing a black tight-fitting diving suit, wearing water goggles on his head, and his two pedals were on his shoulders, and he was holding a cigarette with a relaxed expression, as if he was not going to perform a dangerous mission, but to go to the sea to catch pearl oysters on vacation. He said to Li Yunlong: "Commander, we are leaving, do you have anything else to say?" ”
Li Yunlong felt that his throat was blocked, he seemed to have a lot to say to his soldiers, but he didn't know what to say for a while, he just waved his hand and said, "Bring the wine." ”
The staff officers hurriedly poured Moutai into rows of large bowls. Li Yunlong held the bowl with both hands and said: "I see you off today, I just want to say that there is no one in our Liangshan detachment, all of them are men who stand up to the sky, I believe that you will be loyal to your duties and fulfill your duties." Nine years ago, more than 8,000 of our brothers landed on that island, and they fought several fierce battles, annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, and finally spilled their blood on the battlefield, worthy of the title of soldiers. Over the years, how many times have I dreamed that I led my troops to land on that island, but I didn't have a chance, my old man, I probably won't have this chance in the future. Now, your chance has come, and to be honest, I envy your luck and can't wait to exchange the position of military commander with you. But as soldiers, we have to obey orders as our duty, and we all bear different responsibilities, so we can only perform our own duties. Today, I will see you off with wine, and I have only one request for you, that is, I want you to return safely for a lot, and I will give you a wine at the headquarters to celebrate your achievements. ”
Li Yunlong drank the wine and smashed the bowl on the reef. The commandos drank dry and smashed their bowls.
Duan Pengli saluted: "Commander, all the members of the Liangshan detachment bid you farewell. ”
Li Yunlong tried his best to restrain his feelings and said, "What else do you have to do at home?" Just say. This is a sentence that the death squad must ask before they die, and it seems to have become a rule.
Duan Peng smiled: "It's okay, if you really have something, wait for us to come back and do it ourselves." He stood and saluted one last time, then boarded the speedboat.
Several muffled speedboats let out a slight engine sound and faded into the darkness...... Li Yunlong stood on the reef on the shore, staring at the place where the team members disappeared, refusing to leave for a long time, and seemed to merge with the reef.
At 17:30 on August 23, 1958, the PLA Fujian Front Command issued an order for artillery bombardment, with the rise of a string of red signal flares, the sound of artillery suddenly tore through the quiet air, the first round of hundreds of shells fell from different directions on the Kuomintang army position in the North Taiwu Mountain on Kinmen Island, and the metal projectiles with the breath of death pierced the air and made a terrifying roar, forming a dense orange-red trajectory like a spider web over the strait, and Kinmen Island immediately fell into a sea of smoke and fire. In order to achieve the suddenness of the firing, all artillery groups did not conduct pre-test firing, but used a precise method to determine the firing elements, and made every effort to ensure that the first batch of artillery shells from the army artillery group at Xiamen and Lianhe and the naval shore artillery group at Weitou reached their respective targets at the same time.
On Saturday, 23 August, at 5 p.m., the Kuomintang Army's Kinmen Defense Command summoned officers and men for a dinner party and a lecture by General Yu Dawei, Minister of National Defense. General Yu did not say much, but he affirmed that he was on the orders of President Chiang to express his condolences to the officers and men of the Kuomintang army guarding the islands of Kinmen, Matsu, and Daerdan. Over the past few years, condolence groups from all walks of life in Taiwan have come to Kinmen to offer condolences, and the officers and men have long been accustomed to it; they are all realists, and they are not concerned about empty language, but about the various condolences brought by the condolence group and the dinner party set up to welcome the condolence group. Although there have been frequent artillery battles between Kinmen and the mainland in the past nine years, the artillery fire from the direction of the mainland was not fierce in the past, and the troops were aware of it in advance, and the troops entered the tunnel early. However, in this sudden shelling, the Kuomintang military did not smell the slightest rumor. At 17:30, the banquet in the pavilion in the heart of the Cuigu Lake at the foot of Taiwu Mountain in the north of Kinmen was dispersed. General Hu Lian, commander of the Kinmen Defense Command, and Lieutenant General Chu Yunfei, newly transferred deputy commander, accompanied Defense Minister Yu Dawei along the Zhanghu Highway and walked back to the headquarters. The deputy commanders, General Zhao Jiaxiang and General Zhang Jie, and General Ji Xingwen, deputy commander of the Penghu Defense Department, were standing on the stone bridge connecting Cuigu Lake and the lakeshore with toothpicks and chatting. At this time, the three generals standing on the stone bridge were not idle. Zhao Jiaxiang served as the chief of staff of the Kuomintang Army's Northeast Suppression General for a long time on the Northeast Battlefield. Lin Biao, commander of the Northeast Field Army, and Liu Yalou, chief of staff, as well as the commanders of various columns under their command, such as Ding Wei and Kong Jie, were all too familiar with this chief of general staff.
Since they led their troops out of the customs in 1945, they have become mortal enemies with this Zhao Jiaxiang, and the two sides have fought between the white mountains and black waters for nearly three years. Before the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, Zhao Jiaxiang fled by plane from Shenyang, and it is said that Liu Yalou, the chief of staff of Dongye, had been haunting him, and he hoped to catch this old colleague and old opponent. General Zhang Jie is a well-known figure in the Kuomintang Air Force, he graduated from the Central Military Academy and the Central Aviation Academy, is a veteran of the Air Force, served as the deputy chief of staff of the Kuomintang Air Force, and at this time served as the deputy commander of the Kinmen Air Force Liaison. Among these three people, General Ji Xingwen is the most famous, he was born in the Northwest Army, "77 Incident", Lugou Bridge and Wanping City are the defense area of Ji Xingwen's regiment, when the Japanese army tried to enter Wanping City under the pretext of looking for missing soldiers, after being sternly rejected by Ji Xingwen, the Japanese commandos who had been planning for a long time began to climb the city wall to prepare for a sneak attack on the Chinese defenders. Ji Xingwen decisively ordered to fire, even he didn't expect that the moment he pulled the trigger, he had already gone down in history as a celebrity, and he became famous all over the country for a while and became an anti-Japanese hero. But his glory was very short-lived, and he was unknown in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because he was not a descendant of Chiang, until the Kuomintang army withdrew from the mainland in 1949, Ji Xingwen was just a broken and miscellaneous division commander of the 37th Division, and after arriving in Taiwan, it was the time to employ people, Chiang Kai-shek remembered his previous reputation and gave him a position of deputy commander of the Penghu Defense Department in name only.
At this time, none of the three generals expected that the Grim Reaper had spread its black wings...... Ji Xingwen was addicted to smoking, and before the Anti-Japanese War, he liked to smoke the front door and the three forts. In the later stages of the Anti-Japanese War, with the transportation of large quantities of Lend-Lease materials from the United States to China, he began to have a soft spot for American Camel brand cigarettes, and since then he has not been able to change his mouth. At this time, Ji Xingwen, who was burping, had just taken out a camel brand cigarette and handed one to Zhao Jiaxiang and Zhang Jie, and was lighting a cigarette with a lighter. Suddenly, a strange whistling sound was heard in the air, and the sound swept over the North Taiwu Mountain, and from far to near, the faces of the three battle-hardened generals suddenly turned pale. As professional soldiers, they certainly know better than others that this sound is the sound of a high-speed projectile cutting through the air. Ji Xingwen's hands trembled, and the delicate lighter fell into Cuigu Lake, and he shouted: "Not good! ”
He was about to lie down on the spot, but it was too late, and the first batch of shells had already fallen on Cuigu Lake, and in the explosion that shook the ground, the entire Cuigu Lake was filled with gunsmoke and shrapnel...... A Soviet-made 152-mm shell from the Lianhe artillery group on the mainland was falling on the stone bridge, turning the three generals into a pink mist, and when the smoke cleared, the three generals and the stone bridge were gone. Yu Dawei, Hu Lian, and Chu Yunfei, who were walking on the Zhanghu Highway at the foot of North Taiwu Mountain, were pressed down by the guards under the rocks on the side of the road when the first batch of shells landed. Hu Lian and Chu Yunfei, nicknamed "The Butcher", were both battle-hardened generals, and the two of them jumped up from the ground almost at the same time and rushed into the headquarters in the dense artillery fire. Commander Hu Lian's first move was to grab the phone and ask the artillery commander, ready to order a comprehensive counterattack by the Kinmen artillery. But he immediately threw the microphone in a rage, because the island's cable communications network had been completely destroyed in the first round of shelling.
Hundreds of shells from the naval shore artillery group set up at the head of the mainland swept over Shuanglu Mountain and landed on the Liuluowan wharf on the south side of Kinmen Island, and the Kuomintang transport ship Taisheng was immediately hit and caught fire. After the destruction of the wired communication network, the Kuomintang army was forced to use radio communications, and commanders at all levels no longer bothered to use secret language, and simply called in plain language.
The listening radio and walkie-talkies of the Lianhe Command Headquarters on the mainland side were all turned on, and a hoarse, noisy and messy call came from inside. Li Yunlong sat in a chair and smoked a cigarette quietly, while some artillery staff officers and intelligence officers around him were waiting intently for news from the Liangshan detachment.
At 18 o'clock, the long-awaited call finally appeared: "...... 101, 23 and 104 south, 14......"
The artillery staff officers each used the telephone to report a series of data that others could not understand to their respective artillery groups. Li Yunlong didn't care about smoking, he listened intently, letting the cigarette burn between his fingers, and didn't throw it away until he burned his hands. He knew that the members of the Liangshan detachment had taken their places and were instructing the artillery groups to adjust their firing in secret words, with 101 and 104 representing each artillery group, and 23 south and 14 east referring to the density of each artillery group that needed to be adjusted. The Kuomintang artillery position on the island only woke up from the panic 20 minutes after being bombarded by a large number of people, and some secret gun positions hidden under the cliffs and rocks were activated, and the heavy iron gates disguised as rocks were slowly opened, and a 155-millimeter gun of the American system slid along the track towards the mouth of the tunnel, the barrel stretched out of the mouth of the tunnel, and the cannon ejected with a dazzling white light, making a loud noise like thunder. The Kuomintang artillery began a full-scale counterattack, and the great duel of the Kuomintang and Communist artillery began.
Lieutenant General Chu Yunfei, deputy commander of the Kinmen Defense Department, was in charge of artillery command. He braved artillery fire to climb the artillery observation post set up on the top of Shuangru Mountain, and used the artillery mirror to look in the direction of the mainland; he had already learned from intelligence that the commander of the enemy defense area on the opposite side was his old acquaintance Li Yunlong. Chu Yunfei was hit by two bullets in the chest, and when his life was dying, he was desperately carried off the battlefield by the adjutant and the guard, and was recuperated in the army hospital in Taipei for a year. After recovering from his wounds, he never had a chance to return to the mainland, and the Kuomintang army was already defeated. Now, I haven't seen Li Yunlong for ten years, and I can't imagine that two old friends are greeting each other with heavy artillery fire across the 10-kilometer-wide strait. Chu Yunfei looked in the direction of the mainland with a complicated mood, and did not say a word for a long time. A few sharp strange whines came, Chu Yunfei quickly dodged open the observation window, and with a few loud noises, a shock wave carried choking gunpowder smoke and sharp shrapnel through the observation window, and the artillery mirror was shattered by shrapnel, and the shrapnel hit the stone wall and bounced back, emitting a sharp metal trill. Four or five of Chu Yunfei's officers and guards were killed on the spot, and the observation post became a slaughterhouse, splashed with blood everywhere. A thought flashed in Chu Yunfei's mind, the PLA artillery found this observation post, the shells just now were test firing, and the shooting will be adjusted immediately, if the second round of shells arrives, he will not be so lucky, he shouted: "All evacuate!" Then he quickly jumped out of the artillery observation post...... When he and his men had barely run 100 meters, the observation post had been directly hit by a 152-mm shell and flew into the air......
Chu Yunfei, who returned to the command headquarters, was still breathing, and received a series of reports, the commanders of the artillery positions all reported that the PLA shells seemed to have eyes, and the landing points were extremely accurate, and some of the shells actually flew straight into the artillery positions, blowing up the Kuomintang army with artillery to pieces, and in less than half an hour, the Kuomintang army actually lost more than a dozen guns, and the other artillery positions were completely suppressed by the PLA artillery. It was often the Kuomintang army that fired a single cannonball, which immediately attracted more than a dozen artillery shells from the People's Liberation Army. Chu Yunfei was not a fool, he immediately understood, there was only one conclusion, the scouts of the People's Liberation Army were lurking nearby. At the same time, Commander Hu Lian also received a report from the reconnaissance department that a large number of mysterious calls of unknown origin appeared on the radio intercom. Hu Lian gasped when he heard this, and cold sweat flowed down his spine into the groove of his buttocks. This news is not trivial, and he has repeatedly patted his chest in front of President Chiang and Taiwan's news media and assured that Kinmen's defense is impregnable. Unexpectedly, the reconnaissance detachment of the People's Liberation Army sneaked into the island heavily defended by his troops, and there were quite a few of them. What the hell! In a fit of rage, he ordered the entire infantry detachment to search the island, and announced the amount of the bounty for the capture of the PLA scouts.
On this day, a large-scale artillery battle lasted 85 minutes, more than 30,000 shells fell on Kinmen Island, and the Kuomintang army suffered six or seven hundred casualties. At night, each artillery group of the People's Liberation Army set up a number of artillery pieces on duty, which were commanded by the Liangshan detachment. As soon as the data was reported, the artillery on duty immediately fired rapidly according to the pre-measured firing Zhuyuan, and when the infantry detachment of the Kuomintang army rushed out of the tunnel, it was immediately covered with fire, and the infantry of one company had just drilled into the fortifications when they were dealt a devastating blow, and more than 100 people did not survive. The Yangsan detachment and the 80,000-strong defenders entered a state of standoff. Li Yunlong and the staff officers at the Lianhe Command heard from the walkie-talkie that the young men of the Liangshan detachment simply scolded the street in plain language: "...... Mother worm, send some cigarettes to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu's cigarettes have stopped...... "Little whirlwind, are you asleep?" Why the fuck isn't moving......" "Leopard head, what the fuck are you arguing about?" Lao Tzu is at the door of Hu Lian's old thing's headquarters, wondering if to throw the ** bag in......" Li Yunlong and the officers all laughed, and these bold guys scolded wherever they went. At midnight, the Kuomintang infantry detachment broke out of the fortifications and searched the whole island, despite the obstruction of artillery fire. According to a report from a PLA observation post on Jiaoyu Island, heavy gunfire was heard in many parts of the island, and large fires broke out in several places. There was no sound on the walkie-talkie, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, which showed that the Liangshan detachment was safe and sound.
In the early morning of the 24th, the artillery battle began again, and soon a one-sided state was formed again, and the artillery of the Kuomintang army was suppressed. The Liangshan detachment reported that half of the 17 ships anchored at the Liaoluo Bay wharf on the south side of Kinmen Island had been shot and were fleeing to the open sea with increased horsepower. Six ** boats of the PLA Navy were ordered to attack under the cover of land artillery fire, and a naval battle broke out in the waters of Kinmen. The large transport ship Zhonghai was seriously wounded, and the transport ship Taisheng with a displacement of 4,000 tons sank. A ** boat of the People's Liberation Army Navy was shot and sank. On this day, the front fingers of the People's Liberation Army cheered more and lost less. On the 25th, the two sides continued artillery battles, and eight enemy F-86 fighters flew to the waters east of Kinmen, and the MiG-17 fighters of a group of our air force took off to meet them, and the air battle was fought from the waters east of Kinmen to the sky over the mainland, from an altitude of 10,000 meters to a low altitude of 1,800 meters, and the ratio of the loss of fighters between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was 2:1. The result of this day is still to earn more and lose less. In the headquarters of the Kinmen Defense Department, Hu Lian and Chu Yunfei were convening a meeting of commanders at all levels. Major General Huang Zhixiong, commander of the infantry guarding the island, believes that in the past few days, the encirclement and suppression of the PLA reconnaissance detachments that have infiltrated the island have yielded no results; they are all wearing the uniforms of the Kuomintang army and are very familiar with the internal situation of the defenders on the island. The defenders of the island numbered 80,000 people, and the number of branches and arms was complicated, and the PLA scouts were very easy to fish in troubled waters, causing the Kuomintang soldiers to shoot at each other several times, and they got into trouble with their own people, and accidentally injured many brothers.
An intelligence officer gathered the intelligence of the infantry units participating in the encirclement and suppression, and the true face of this small PLA unit began to be revealed:
1. Trained in precision shooting, judging from the corpses of the Kuomintang soldiers killed in the crossfire, almost all of the parts that were shot were at the center of the eyebrows of the head, and they were killed by one bullet. According to the Kuomintang soldiers who participated in the battle, these PLA soldiers were extremely experienced in combat, and they only responded with a single shot. This style of play has at least two advantages, the first is to avoid exposing the muzzle of the gun during continuous firing, so as to achieve the purpose of concealing oneself. The second is a significant reduction in the consumption of ammunition. Based on this speculation, if a PLA soldier carries 200 rounds of ammunition, 200 Kuomintang soldiers will fall under his guns, and if there are 100 PLA scouts, each of whom is so skillful, the consequences will be terrible.
2. Judging from the scene where some sentries and small groups of personnel were killed, these PLA soldiers were all killers who were good at using cold weapons, and the forensic doctor believed that the wounds of the corpses were caused by throwing knives at a certain distance, and the knife entry parts were extremely accurate, some were pierced into the heart from between the two ribs of the left chest, and some were pierced into the heart from the soft tissue under the left shoulder blade behind the back. It seems that these killers are extremely professionally trained.
3. They all have received professional climbing and cross-country training and wilderness survival training, but they don't seem to plan to use their wilderness survival skills, but constantly sneak up on the Kuomintang army's houses and logistics departments, and get a lot of food.
4. All are proficient in artillery operations and are very professional in directing and correcting artillery fire.
Chu Yunfei listened to the report, and suddenly his heart moved, it was a long-sealed memory, although the years passed, the deceased was like this, but the special forces of Yamamoto Kazuki suddenly appeared in his mind, and the fog in his heart miraculously dissipated, and he shouted in a lost voice: "This is not an ordinary reconnaissance detachment, but an authentic special forces." Damn, after so many years, Li Yunlong hasn't forgotten ......"
Hu Lian was furious, he thought that the intelligence departments were all rice buckets, and the special forces of the People's Liberation Army had not only been quietly formed, but also easily landed on the heavily defended islands. Now the question is how to deal with these special forces who are slippery like loaches, they seem to be a little unscrupulous with strong artillery support behind them, the large forces of the Kuomintang army are blocked in the tunnels, and they will be killed and injured by intensive artillery fire as soon as they show their heads, and Ren Hulian has 80,000 elite soldiers under him, and he can't help this PLA special forces for a while.
Hu Lian looked at the generals and officers who were gathered around him, and said helplessly: "Is there nothing we can do with this small group of enemy troops?" ”
Chu Yunfei smiled coldly: "How can there be no way? I'll leave this to me......"
Hu Lian interrupted him: "Slow, let's talk inside......"
Li Yunlong's combat diary:
September 2, 1958
According to intelligence, in the area beyond the sight of the mainland on the south side of the North Taiwu Mountain and Shuangru Mountain on Kinmen Island, two concrete runway airports have been built, both of which are more than 1,500 meters long, which can take off and land large transport aircraft and jet fighters: one is the West Village Airport, built in 1954; The other is Shatou Airport, which was built in 1955. In this area, because our artillery is unable to observe visually, the enemy's airborne planes generally choose to take off and land at dawn, dusk, or at night when the weather is poor and visibility is poor, so it is difficult to grasp the time of shelling at them. After the landing of our Liangshan detachment, it set up anti-air observation posts at Shuanglu Mountain and North Taiwu Mountain, and assisted the artillery in determining the firing Zhuyuan, and when the enemy plane appeared, it would not shoot at all. When it entered the runway and was about to land, our artillery group immediately launched a surprise attack on the runway according to the pre-prepared firing elements. From 25 August to 2 September, four enemy transport planes were destroyed by us while trying to land. According to a report by the Liangshan detachment, the runways at the Xicun and Shatou airports were no longer usable because of too many bombs, and the transport planes flying from Taiwan were no longer able to land in Kinmen, and the airborne transport was forced to be suspended. In this battle, the Liangshan detachment made great contributions.
September 6, 1958
It was becoming increasingly difficult to supply the enemy forces in Kinmen, and when sea and airborne transportation were blocked, airdrops were used as the main means of supply, but it was not easy to drop supplies to Kinmen from the air. Little Kinmen is only 10 square kilometers and the drop field is extremely small. Although the area of Kinmen is relatively large, it is in the shape of a dumbbell, and the width in the middle is less than 4,000 meters; because our army's antiaircraft artillery formed a blocking fire network over Kinmen, the enemy planes did not dare to fly low, and some of the materials thrown at high altitude fell into the sea and were thrown onto the island, and most of them were destroyed by our artillery fire under the dispatch of our Liangshan detachment. According to the intelligence department's calculations, the daily airdrop of supplies to Kinmen was only 5.5 percent of the supply under normal conditions in the past, and the enemy could only hide in the tunnels and rely on reserves to survive. According to the report of the Liangshan detachment, the enemy commander regarded our Liangshan detachment as a thorn in his side, and he wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible; every day after nightfall, a small group of enemy infantry broke through the artillery fire and fought fiercely with our Liangshan detachment, and there was not a single casualty among our troops so far.
September 14, 1958 was cloudy
Our artillery units participating in the battle have carried out all-round activities of firing zero artillery, and only when important targets are discovered are concentrated on large-scale artillery bombardment, but in peacetime they have switched to sporadic artillery bombardment, 24 hours a day, day and night. In particular, within 3 nautical miles of the Liuluo Bay wharf, the enemy will be panicked day and night, so as to enhance the effect of a complete blockade. It has been reported that ground activities on the enemy islands have basically come to a standstill. In the early morning of the 13th, the enemy used the US-branded transport ship to smuggle the goods, and when it was approaching the Liuluowan wharf, it was discovered by our observation post on the North Taiwu Mountain, and mobilized artillery fire to carry out mobile barrage fire and immovable barrage fire fire.
September 18, 1958 was sunny
On the 16th, the enemy launched a large transport ship with a large transport ship loaded with cargo from the ship with a US-made LVT tracked amphibious transport vehicle, and directly rushed ashore to unload. Under the dispatch of the observation post of our Liangshan detachment, our artillery group formed a covering fire network and fired at the area of Liaoluo Bay and within 3 nautical miles, hitting nine vehicles at once, and the rest fled back beyond the range of artillery fire. It has been reported that the Leuk Lo Wan pier and its facilities were heavily damaged by bullets.
"Hey! Lao Li, I'm Ding Wei, you're fighting a lot over there, you're really fucking hungry for me, our old Ding's life is not good, and good things will never be on my head. I'm so idle here, except for training and learning. Hello to my sister-in-law, and ...... How is your father-in-law? This old gentleman is not simple, don't look at him as a scholar, he has a very strategic vision, he dials this point, I feel a little enlightened. What the? Has the old gentleman become a rightist? Playing the piano randomly, how the fuck are rightists everywhere? I don't read much of the newspapers, and I got out of the army when the rectification was at its busiest last year, and I don't know much about local affairs, how can this be? I don't believe that so many rightists and counter-revolutionaries popped up all at once. Forget it, forget it, don't talk about it, I'm upset, I have to think about it, I'm hanging......"
Li Yunlong hung up the phone and sat quietly for a while, he was also upset, there was no good thing in the mess at home recently. The wife seems to have made up her mind to separate from her for a long time, and she usually doesn't have a superfluous word except for the necessary words. Li Yunlong knew that Tian Yu's life was not easy, and since her parents were classified as ultra-rightists, the political work department of her unit had talked to her several times, and it was nothing more than asking her to take a correct approach to the anti-rightist movement, draw a clear line with her parents, and preferably write a statement and other written materials to make her stand clear and sever ties with her parents. Tian Yu was noncommittal, but Li Yunlong became angry when he heard about it: "What the hell is drawing a line?" How to row? If you don't recognize them as mom and dad, where are you from? Did it come out of the rock? From the bottom of his heart, he resented these political workers who had gone too far to the left.
When the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area killed the AB regiment, he watched many of his old superiors and old comrades-in-arms being executed inexplicably. At that time, the special commissioners sent by the Security Bureau to various units to supervise the suppression of the rebellion were simply too emperors, wielding the power of life and death, and they could put people to death with a single sentence, and Li Yunlong hated these people. In a battle, Li Yunlong organized a death squad and appointed a special commissioner of the Security Bureau as the captain, at that time, the commissioner who had never fought before was so frightened that his face turned white, Li Yunlong did not say a word, pulled out his pistol and pointed it at him, and told the commissioner that he would either lead the death squad to charge, or count him as cowering and carry out battlefield discipline and shoot him. "Aren't you revolutionary-minded? Okay, you have to prove it to the soldiers, now I don't have time to listen to your nonsense, rush me! The commissioner gritted his teeth and led the death squad to rush forward, and strangely enough, he was the first to be shot and killed. This move had greatly annoyed the person in charge of the Security Bureau, and if it had not been for the central government's correction of the spread trend due to the expansion of the anti-rebellion, Li Yunlong's head would probably have been cut off. "Ignore them, tell them to watch it, if it doesn't work, resign and go home, I, Li Yunlong, can afford to support my wife and children." Li Yunlong said this to Tian Yu. Intimidated by Li Yunlong's post, the political workers of the Military Region's Intelligence Department did not embarrass Tian Yu too much.
In view of the fact that the complete blockade of Kinmen Island had been completed, Li Yunlong had issued an order to the Liangshan detachment to retreat in code. After the order was given, he refused to leave in the war room, tonight is a crucial one, and if the Liangshan detachment can be successfully withdrawn, it will be completed. At 1 a.m., the observation post set up on Jiaoyu Island reported that fierce battles had suddenly broken out in several places on the island, including Taiwu Mountain in the north, Shuanglu Mountain and northeast of the island, and the dense gunfire was mixed with the sound of explosions. At the same time, the sound of gunfire and scolding from the walkie-talkie, which was still silent just now in the war room of the headquarters, was heard, and one or two faint muffled sounds could be heard from time to time, which was the sound of the members of the Liangshan detachment using *** with mufflers to shoot back with a single shot. Li Yunlong was woken up by the staff officer on duty, he jumped up, threw himself in front of the microphone, grabbed the microphone and asked loudly: "Timely rain, timely rain, has the gate been opened?" How much water flows? ”
Duan Peng's voice was intermittent, as if he was running or rolling: "No. 1, No. 1, the gate has been opened, and the water flow is 54...... 12And he was entangled in serpents, and 42 went to put out the fire, and there was a deep ditch in front of him...... No. 4 sand table, rain, rain......"
Li Yunlong's heart sank, what he was most worried about still happened, Duan Peng's code words were: "Commander, the order to retreat has been issued, 54 people have been safely evacuated, 12 people are surrounded by the enemy, 42 of us will go to the rescue, but there are too many enemies to rely on, please shell the No. 4 area." ”
"Boom!" "Boom!" The artillery group began to fire intensively, and the dark night sky was suddenly covered with dark red cannonball trails.
Li Yunlong wiped a cold sweat and called Duan Peng's code name, his voice was full of coldness: "01, 01, 42 flowing water, 42 flowing water, no firefighting, no firefighting......"
Duan Peng didn't make any answer, there were only gunshots and explosions on the walkie-talkie, but there was no answer. Li Yunlong threw away the microphone angrily, he knew too well in his heart that the enemy's encirclement and suppression had been planned for a long time, and Duan Peng didn't want to rescue those 12 people with more than 40 people, the consequence was undoubtedly to throw himself into the net, in this case, he could only give up the 12 people who were besieged, and withdraw one more to count one. But now Duan Peng didn't answer, obviously refusing to carry out the order, he wanted to open a gap regardless of life and death to rescue the besieged comrades. As the commander of a special forces, he is obviously acting rashly, which is really taboo.
Crouching under a large rock, the little whirlwind division called into the receiver while stopping the enemy's skirmish lines with a single shot and leaping forward alternately under cover. The enemy's machine guns and *** fire swept over like a whirlwind, splashing a slippery spark on the rock, and a few **** shots fell on the rock with a sharp whistling sound, and exploded with a bang, and the gravel fell like raindrops, almost burying the small whirlwind. The soldiers of the Liangshan detachment were surrounded by the soldiers, each relying on the favorable terrain, and unhurriedly responded to the enemy with single shots, and the fighters of the special forces did make extraordinary shots, and their sparse single shots could not form a fire net at all, but the enemy soldiers of a reinforced battalion were nailed to the ground and behind the rocks by this sparse firepower, and anyone who showed his head would eat a bullet in his head. The enemy commander was very annoyed, because less than half an hour after the fire was received, the Kuomintang had already lost 50 or 60 people, and the PLA commandos were hiding in extremely tricky positions.
The little whirlwind kept calling out the artillery fire: "14 further south, I am at the corner of the sand table 4A, shooting around me...... Build a wall of fire for him to be a dog......"
Dozens of 152-millimeter howitzer shells flying from the direction of the mainland exploded into a wall of fire around the small high ground held by the little whirlwind, and a reinforced battalion of the Kuomintang army was blown to the ground, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown more than 10 meters high.
Si Lu laughed loudly in the midst of the artillery fire: "Good fight, happy ...... One more round...... You might as well get closer, and extend twenty meters further in......"
The flower monk Luo Yuchun dragged a broken leg and crawled over to report to Si Lu: "Hey! Official, we don't have much ammunition, I counted it, and it's less than 20 rounds per person. In addition, there are only four of the unwounded, including you, and the brothers discussed it and decided to let the four of you who were not injured break through first, and we will each draw 10 bullets for you, and we will not be able to leave anyway, so cover ...... for you."
Si Lu was furious: "Fart, you have discussed the use of fart?" Now here's where I have the final say! What's wrong? What are you squinting at me? Tell you, I'm the person in charge of this combat group, and it's your turn to discuss? ”
Luo Yuchun was scolded by splitting his head and covering his face, he didn't buy it, and scolded back unceremoniously: "Knowing that you are the person in charge, no one fights with you for power, aren't you just a major?" It's not a major general, why is your tone so big? Look at what you can! Okay, aren't you able to? The four of you who are not injured carry the eight of us who are injured to break through, let you carry two of them alone, and the old men will not fight, just watch the Western scenery on your back. ”
Si Lu sneered: "Lao Tzu doesn't have the ability to break through with you, but Lao Tzu has the ability to stay with you, our group of 12 people, we want to live together, we want to die together......"
Tong Ming, nicknamed the Jade Arm Craftsman, raised his gun, and there were two muffled pops, and two enemy soldiers 50 meters away fell on their backs.
Tong Ming pulled out the last ** with difficulty and loaded it, pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, he was hit by a bullet in the abdomen, blood kept oozing through the bandage, and his voice weakly challenged the authority of Si Lu: "Some people are the leader of the broken team...... Just, just ...... I don't know what the fuck is, I don't like others to accompany me...... Aren't you...... A little whirlwind? Boring...... If you are accompanied by a young man...... It's pretty much the same, isn't it, a flower monk? ”
The flower monk said: "That is, if you are a girl, you can go, you ...... go."
Si Lu was about to reply, when a voice amplified by a megaphone came: "Communist commandos, communist commandos, I am Chu Yunfei, deputy commander of the defense department of the island, please stop shooting, Chu has something to say." First of all, the contemptible people would like to express their sincere admiration for their heroic and tenacious fighting spirit and superb individual combat qualities. Contemptible admitted, your special operations have resulted in heavy casualties among the defenders of the island, and as far as military operations are concerned, your commandos have indeed achieved great success. Now I want to say that, as soldiers, you have done your job with great success, you have done your duty, and now it is time to consider laying down your arms and exiting the battle with dignity, you are running out of ammunition, most of you have been wounded, you are powerless to break out of the encirclement, and besides, there is no point in resisting like this. Brothers, we are all Chinese soldiers, and this is not a battlefield to resist foreign invaders, so laying down our arms will not affect the integrity of the soldiers. Although we have different ideological views, Chu does not want to force you to change your views, I just want to say, please cherish your lives, both Chinese soldiers, descendants of Yan and Huang, Chu beg you to lay down your arms and turn war into friendship, Chu in the name of the deputy commander of the Lieutenant General of the Defense Department of the island, assured you that as long as you stop resisting, you will be treated fairly and decently, and your dignity will not be violated in any way......" Si Lu visually measured the distance in the direction of the shout, and called for artillery fire into the microphone: "28 to the east." , 28 to the east, corner 4B of the sand table, come a little rain, come rain...... "Dozens of large-caliber shells from the Lianhe artillery group made a piercing whistling sound and exploded around the shelter where Chu Yunfei was hiding, and the shelter of reinforced concrete withstood a few direct hits, but several horns set up outside were blown to pieces.
Chu Yunfei threw away the microphone, sighed and said, "It seems that they are in ruins, and they don't even bother to reply, so they just answer with cannonballs and attack immediately." "The enemy's light and heavy machine guns and mortars began to fire intensively again, and the soldiers hiding behind the rocks alternately jumped forward under cover......
Li Yunlong's intercom suddenly heard a clear call from the little whirlwind silu: "01, 01, leave us alone, don't get close to us, the enemy is waiting with the net open." Withdraw, withdraw. No. 1, No. 1, I'm Little Whirlwind, I'm Little Whirlwind, and I'm going to report back to you about us. Through the interrogation of the prisoners, we learned that the Kinmen Defense Department recently transferred a new deputy commander named Chu Yunfei, who planned this operation. The specific method of implementation was to take advantage of the interval between our artillery bombardments to break up the infantry detachments and leave the tunnels in batches and then enter the latent positions. However, we did not cheap the enemy either, and now the corpses of the enemy are in a circle around us. No. 1, now that we have run out of ammunition, it's time to say goodbye, on behalf of my comrades-in-arms, I bid farewell to the chiefs and comrades, ask the artillery to fire at the area No. 4, please cover the area No. 4, hurry, fire, fire......"
The enemy commander heard Si Lu's clear call from the walkie-talkie, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, it seems that this small group of communist troops is really exhausted, and if they rush up, they may be able to catch a few alive. Enemy soldiers straightened up from behind the rocks and swarmed up shouting. Silu removed the muffler from the muzzle and checked the **, and there were eight rounds of ammunition. He took out the last miniature ** and said, "Brothers, remove the muffler, and finally dry him with continuous hair, and make a lot of trouble before leaving." "When the enemy's skirmish line approached the position, it was subjected to heavy strafing, and 12 *** teams each fired long point shots. It was an unprecedented display of shooting, with each gun delivering the few bullets at a high level, and the enemy soldiers were swept away, almost all of them in the face.
Si Lu laughed loudly: "I played well, I am at the level of a shooting instructor, come, the brothers are moving closer to me, we should go on the road." Chu Yunfei saw with a telescope in the shelter department that a dazzling fire flashed on the small high ground held by the PLA commandos, and then there was a muffled explosion like thunder, and then everything fell silent......
At Li Yunlong's headquarters, Li Yunlong sat down weakly, waved his hand heavily to the artillery staff officer in charge of liaison and said, "Order the artillery to fire at Area No. 4." ”
The Lianhe artillery group let out a roar that shook the ground and the mountains, and the No. 4 area was instantly submerged in a sea of fire......
The Liangshan detachment made great contributions in this operation, and the Central Military Commission also issued a commendation order. Duan Peng and Lin Han each recorded a first-class meritorious service, and at the same time, they each recorded a major demerit. The reason is that after they fell into a heavy encirclement of 12 people such as Xiao Whirlwind, they refused the order to retreat and insisted on opening a gap in the encirclement, and when the rescue operation failed, the detachment leader Duan Peng and the political commissar Lin Han decided to retaliate without authorization, and they raided a regimental headquarters of the Kuomintang army, and all the officers of the regimental headquarters were killed. During this raid, three more members of the Liangshan detachment were killed.
At the battle summary meeting, Duan Peng and Lin Han both made a review, and both admitted that they had made mistakes in command and acted rashly. First, when the enemy came out of the tunnel in batches, they were unaware of it, so they fell into an ambush, causing the loss of 12 comrades. Second, he refused to carry out the order and carried out a surprise attack without authorization in retaliation, resulting in the death of three comrades. Both men believe that the punishment was unjust.
Li Yunlong behaved very irritable at the meeting, he slapped the table and scolded angrily: "You two eat dry rice? The damage has been done, and now you guys are reviewing the fucking shit? The soldiers of the Liangshan detachment are all one in a million, they are all treasures, and they don't change the division commander, you two bastards lost 15 people at once. Damn, you compensate me. Li Yunlong said and spoke, his eyes were red, and he trembled with distress when he thought of the 15 team members who had died.
In January 1959, the four-month artillery battle ended, but the symbolic artillery battle continued, with shells from both sides reaching no man's land, and radio stations on both sides warning each other before opening fire, so that the other side could hide themselves to avoid unnecessary casualties. Since then, this peculiar and symbolic artillery battle has lasted for more than twenty years.