Bloodstained Golden Gate (3)
"It's over, it's over!" Liu Hai looked at Kinmen from afar, gave the order to stop shooting, and the Battle of Kinmen ended. In the last day of fighting, only more than 1,300 people remained in the three entire regiments of the People's Liberation Army landing on the island, and they were trapped on the beach under the cliff north of Guningtou. Early in the morning, the Kuomintang troops stormed. Although the People's Liberation Army (PLA) resisted stubbornly, it was still completely annihilated, either sacrificed or captured. The Battle of Guningtou officially ended. At 3 o'clock in the morning, about 30 people from the 3rd Company of the 259th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army arrived on the north coast of Guningtou by motorboat, and after landing, they were all captured by the Kuomintang troops.
In the Battle of Kinmen, the People's Liberation Army landed in three batches, the first of which were the 244th Regiment, the 251st Regiment, the 253rd Regiment, and the 246th Regiment, with a total of 10 formed battalions; The second group consisted of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 246th Regiment and two machine gun platoons, as well as more than 30 combat backbones drawn from the whole regiment and more than 200 combat backbones from the 3rd Battalion of the 259th Regiment; The third group is more than 30 people from the first battalion and two companies of the 259th Regiment, totaling 9,086 people, including about 350 shipwrights and civilians. Such a heavy loss of the whole system is extremely rare in the history of the Chinese People's Liberation Army!
At the end of the Battle of Kinmen, Commander Ye Fei gathered all the commanders for a meeting, and there was a solemn meeting in the venue, no one spoke, and it was so quiet that even a needle could be heard. "Comrades, our army lost nearly 10,000 people in the Battle of Kinmen, which is regarded as the biggest defeat, but you don't have to be nervous, as the commander of the corps, I have improper command, and I will shoulder all the responsibilities, what you have to do is to sum up the lessons and prepare to attack Kinmen again, I want to focus on commending our artillery commander Zhao Guoliang!" As soon as the words fell, Liu Hai was quite shocked, what did he have to boast about! "Division Commander Zhao's artillery greatly delayed the offensive edge of the Kuomintang, especially dealt a heavy blow to the opponent's gunboats and gunboats, why did they buy a lot of time, but unfortunately they were not well prepared and wasted these time and opportunities!" After Ye Fei finished speaking, no one spoke, only Xiao Feng, deputy commander of the 28th Army, and Li Mancun, director of the Political Department, came to Commander Ye Fei of the Corps with pale faces and wept bitterly, and Commander Ye Fei said to them miserably: "What are you crying about, crying can't solve the problem, now you should encourage morale and prepare to attack Kinmen again." As the commander of the corps, I am responsible for this defeat, so you can go back. “
Soon, Ye Fei received criticism from the Third Field Army: "This loss is the largest since the Liberation War, and the main reason for this is that it is caused by underestimating the enemy and being impatient." At the same time, the 10th Corps was asked to "deeply review the lessons learned from this time." On the same day, the 10th Corps reported to Sanye: "We have reviewed the reasons for the painful losses in the Kinmen Operation, mainly because we were carried away by impatience and victory, and blindly optimistic and underestimated the enemy. Until it was discovered that Hu Lian's corps had begun to ship reinforcements from Shantou to Kinmen, it still demanded that it should be attacked before all the reinforcements arrived, and when there were not enough ships, it was not resolutely determined to stop the attack, which was the most serious crime.
Zhang Dingcheng, first secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Ye Fei, commander of the Corps, Wei Guoqing, political commissar of the Corps, Hu Bingyun, commander of the 29th Army, Huang Mars, political commissar of the 29th Army, Xiao Feng, deputy commander of the 28th Army, and Li Mancun, director of the Political Department, attended an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee of the 10 Corps in Laohushan, Xiamen. This defeat was a great mistake I made to the people of Fujian, and I asked the Party Committee of the 10 Corps and the Sanye Front Committee to give me the punishment I deserved. Ye Fei quickly took over his words and said: "The main responsibility for the defeat in the battle of Kinmen lies with me, I am the commander of the Corps and the first secretary of the Party Committee of the Corps, and I can't push it to Xiao Feng, he has a different opinion, I can't listen to the enemy because of the lightness, when I was about to leave the ship, I still insisted on the phone that as long as I go up to the two battalions, Xiao Feng has mastered the second echelon, and there is hope for victory in the battle." It was I who caused the loss. The former CPC Central Committee and the CPC Central Committee are requested to give severe punishments. After the meeting, Ye Fei really drafted a telegram to Commander Chen Yi and reported it to the Central Committee, asking for punishment, and Chairman Ye said at the time, "The defeat of Kinmen is not a matter of punishment, but a matter of accepting a lesson." * The chairman also said: "Fighting the enemy's three armies with three regiments, but without support, all of them were annihilated by the enemy, and this is the first undeserved loss in the more than three years of the War of Liberation."
The defeat in the Battle of Kinmen was a nightmare for Ye Fei for a lifetime, but for Chiang Kai-shek, it was a life-saving injection, after the victory in the Battle of Kinmen, Chiang Kai-shek was in tears, he needed a victory too much. He knew all too well the significance of the Battle of Kinmen. He said: "We have won this battle, and Taiwan is safe." The reason why Chiang Kai-shek wanted to say this was because the strategic position of Kinmen was too important. It is located on the edge of the continent, bordering Matsu to the north, constituting an amphibious marginal zone. It is the bridgehead of Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek said: "Without Jinmen, there would be no Taiwan and Peng." Historically, Zheng Chenggong and Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, and they all took Jin and Xiamen as their starting points. Kinmen is in the hands of the enemy, and if you advance, you can blockade the interior, and if you retreat, you can block Taiwan. If Kinmen is in our hands, the communication bars in the Taiwan Strait will face a great threat. Taiwan suddenly lost the front screen. The army crossed the sea, and the morning and evening came. Therefore, the victory of this battle is simply a reinvention for Chiang Kai-shek, and everyone will say that Hu Lian has a life-saving grace for the party-state!
"The division commander has a meeting!" The ghost cannon added a net bed between the two cannons, and he lay on it to bask in the sun when he was fine, and the orderly who ran over hit him, and was kicked by the ghost cannon and you look for death! As a result, the orderly told him that the field commander notified the meeting, and the ghost cannon shouted at Liu Hai's dormitory! Liu Hai had actually received the call, and was startled by the screams of the ghost cannon, so after he came out, he kicked the ghost cannon off the bed. "What are you doing, Commander?" Ghost Cannon said unhappily. "It's a meeting, and the division commanders have to go!" Bangs kicked the ghost cannon lying on the ground again. "Alas, there are meetings every day, isn't it okay for your division commander to come back and convey it?" Ghost Cannon muttered. "I said I lost the battle, and you were so calm?" Bangs glanced white. "Division Commander, the brothers are playing with their lives, and if you can't win, you can't rely on us!" Ghost Cannon said. "Don't complain, you may have to discuss attacking Kinmen again today, cheer up!" Bangs said.
Liu Hai was right, although Ye Fei was punished, but the defeat of Kinmen was a shame for the Tenth Corps, Commander Ye Fei made up his mind to be ashamed, not only to raise weapons, ammunition and war materials, but also to collect and manufacture ships, and to make up his mind to attack Kinmen again! This time, Liu Hai was called over to discuss the feasibility of transporting the artillery up and providing fire support to the landing force nearby, especially against the tanks of the Kuomintang army! In fact, for this matter, Liu Hai considered it after the defeat of Kinmen, and the basis for consideration was the survivors of the Kinmen landing force, these survivors were recruited in the coastal areas, because they had grown up by the sea for a long time, they were very good at swimming, and because of the tide, they were very lucky to float back, and it was through these people that Liu Hai grasped the actual situation of Kinmen Island in more detail!
At the meeting held by Ye Fei, these survivors recounted in detail the final tragic situation of the landing troops, and the regiment commander Sun Yunxiu, when there was no hope of breaking through, used the last few bullets to defeat the enemy, and the remaining one fired a shot at his temple, and after drinking the bullet, the corpse stood still. Liu Tianxiang, the commander of the Assist Regiment, commanded the troops to fight bloody and hard, and when he was unable to return to the sky, the last words he left for the front-line command were: "Dear chief, my life is gone." For the sake of the revolution, I wish the chief well. Long live New China! Long live the Communist Party! Long live Chairman Mao! With a violent explosion, the hero's soul flew into the sky.
When the battle on Kinmen Island was basically over, there was a sailboat floating on the sea, and there were more than a dozen blood-stained PLA soldiers lying on the deck, they were seriously wounded, they were unable to stand up, silently wiping the guns without bullets, the enemy ordered them to surrender, the soldiers ignored them, and continued to wipe the guns, the enemy swept wildly with machine guns, and the blood stained the sea red, and the soldiers still held the guns in their hands tightly.
Ten days after the Battle of Kinmen, a PLA soldier knelt on the edge of the ridge of the land, "with his head sticking out of the ridge, holding a rifle and aiming at it." The enemy lay down and shouted, and for a long time, the warrior did not move. The enemy cautiously passed, only to find that the PLA soldier had been dead for a long time, but the fighting posture did not fall, and the corpse already smelled!
These accounts aroused the righteous indignation of officers and soldiers at all levels of the People's Liberation Army, and under the leadership of Ye Fei at the meeting, they all swore that they must take Kinmen Island and avenge their comrades-in-arms who died tragically on the island! Ye Fei once again announced that in order to attack Kinmen at one time, thousands of ships and corresponding combat materials have been prepared and collected, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Ye Fei also announced Liu Hai's plan to enhance the firepower of the landing force, that is, to disassemble and disassemble the 60 artillery guns, as the first batch of heavy fire support firearms of the landing force, the most important role is to guard against the tanks of the national army, after the landing force establishes a beachhead, the second batch of troops must quickly land on the island, as for the cover firepower, Liu Hai said that he can do it, The key lies in the issue of heavy firepower in close combat. This time, in order to avenge the shame, Commander Ye personally formulated a landing plan, which can be said to be exhaustive, and he was fully prepared and planned in all aspects! Another attack on Kinmen is imminent!
However, when the old Ye Fei was about to wipe out the shame of the snow, the central government issued an emergency telegram that Ye Fei's ten corps were resting and recuperating and were not allowed to attack Kinmen, so all the combat arrangements were stopped and stood by! Looking at the words on the telegram, Ye Fei was instantly stunned!