The battle in the direction of Gulangyu Island, the Ninth Division of the 31st Army undertook the main combat mission, when Liu Hai arrived with his own artillery, the Ninth Division was already ready for a surprise attack, for the arrival of Liu Hai, the commander of the Ninth Division was very excited, and immediately arranged an artillery bombardment section for Liu Hai, hoping that Liu Hai could fully support, Liu Hai naturally said that he would go all out, and immediately chose a position with the ghost cannon and Wu Fatzi, ready to support the battle of Gulangyu!

"Division commander, we are ready, ready to fire at any time!" Ghost Cannon Report. "So are we, ready to fire at any time!" Fat Wu is also ready! "Report! The 9th Division had already started the assault half an hour ago, and now the commander of the 9th Division asked us to attack the landing section and cover the landing of the troops! "The staff officer comes here to report!" Damn it! It started half an hour ago, and now we are notified, what are you doing? The ghost cannon scolded, Wu Fatzi scolded fiercely, and hurriedly returned to the position and bombarded according to the landing area marked on the map!" Fire! "The ghost cannon ordered to open fire, and the cannon on Wu Fatzi's side also rang out, but both of them coincidentally set the artillery line far away, because the attack has already begun, and the specific attack speed and location can not be determined, if the shot is close, it can effectively hit the stacked beachhead, but it is also possible to hit the PLA troops who have broken through the enemy's front!

"Division Commander Wang, this is a battle, not a playhouse, you started attacking half an hour ago, why did you only tell me now, how do you ask me to follow the speed of the troops to shell and cover!" Bangs asked with some anger. "Hahaha, Senior Commander Zhao, don't worry, it's just such a small island, you can just shoot two shots, the main thing is the depth of the enemy, as for the front line, we will take care of it ourselves!" Master Wang said nonchalantly. "!" Bangs slammed down the phone, "Another one who doesn't know how to hurt if he doesn't get beaten!" "Division commander, is the shelling still going on?" The staff officer next to him asked. "Go on! Tell the ghost cannon and Wu Fatzi, focus on attacking the deep area of the island, don't support the attacking troops anymore, the further down the attack, the faster the attack will be, don't hit your own people! Liu Hai sighed and said helplessly.

Just when Liu Hai sighed, the attacking force had been defeated and retreated by the national army reserves in the central part of Gulangyu, and the PLA in each landing area began to attack separately after breaking through the beachhead according to the previous attack procedures! But the island war is different from the conventional land warfare, the island area is small, basically the strength of the hedgehog is gathered, once the division of troops is interspersed, it is very likely to be broken by each one, not to mention that the national army on the island also has naval artillery to support the approach, the result is that the interspersed is not the opposite of being besieged, the landing force of the two regiments was beaten back, fortunately the attack time is short, the tide has not changed, after the troops retreated, they quickly boarded the ship and began to retreat, the losses were acceptable, but the attack failed!

"Are you all stupid X?" The commander of the Ninth Division was pointing his nose and scolding the two regiment commanders, "How did this battle be fought, the two regiments couldn't even fight such a small island, are your brains full of dung?" What a shame on Lao Tzu! "Commander, we... One of the regimental commanders was going to make a case. "What are you, immediately sum up your experience and prepare to attack!" The commander of the ninth division scolded angrily. Liu Hai, who came to the division headquarters to participate in the next offensive plan study, watched the commander of the Ninth Division scold the two regiment commanders with a blank eye, and then ordered to prepare for the next attack, and only said one word to the commander of the Ninth Division of Liu Hai, asking Division Commander Zhao to give full firepower cooperation, and the attack began immediately after an hour, and then said no more! Liu Hai still wanted to remind a few words, but the commander of the Ninth Division said that he had adjusted his deployment, and this time it was after nine out of ten, so he couldn't say anything more, so he had to return to his position and start artillery preparations according to the landing area!

After the artillery fire lasted for 45 minutes, it extended to the landing site and the enemy's depth to suppress the fire, until there was a sea of fire on the west side of Gulangyu Island, most of the trees on the western slopes of the island were destroyed, the terrain and topography were also changed, and the intensity of the artillery fire exceeded everyone's expectations. Although Liu Hai's shooting could not completely suppress the firepower of the Kuomintang troops on the island, it greatly shocked the enemy and caused the Kuomintang defenders on the front line of the seashore to fall into panic for a while. The ferocity and accuracy of the shelling amazed the commander of the 9th Division!

After the shelling, when the troops launched the attack as planned, the weather changed abruptly, from sunny to cloudy, the northeast wind gradually rose, blowing stronger and stronger, overcast clouds rolled in, and the sky over the strait was suddenly gloomy. After the artillery preparation began, the 2nd Regiment of the 1st echelon of the 9th Division began to prepare to board the ship. In anticipation of enemy aircraft attacks, the ships sailed out of the hidden harbor to the embarkation dock, which took a long time, and it was already an hour after the official embarkation began. In addition, due to the lack of strict organization and command in the loading process, the loading operation was chaotic, and the weather suddenly changed from southeast wind to northeast wind, and became more and more violent, which had an impact on boarding and connecting ships, so the departure time was delayed, and the original provision of one hour to complete the loading and start sailing was delayed to two hours before starting to set sail. After setting off, the attacking troops set sail from Haicang and Shatan River beaches respectively, and sailed out from Haicang Bay and Shatan Bay in two directions to the southwest of Gulangyu Island. The attacking force consisted of four wooden flotillas of the first echelon battalion of the 31st Army, from the two main assault regiments of the 9th Division, the 2nd Regiment of the 9th Division, and the 3rd Regiment of the 9th Division. Among them, the second regiment was named "Jinan Second Regiment" because of its heroic combat and outstanding achievements in the Battle of Jinan. Due to the delay of almost two hours in the departure time, the destruction of the artillery fire begun by our troops came to naught, and the enemy re-strengthened the fortifications and waited for them.

The first battalion and three companies of the "Jinan Second Regiment" of the vanguard company approached the landing point, towed the steamboat and cut the tow rope at a distance of 2 to 300 meters from the landing point, and the small boat rowed to the enemy shore on its own. However, when the ship was only a few dozen meters from the shore, the enemy suddenly opened fire, and the vanguard company failed to cover the landing from the ship with fire in a hurry, and suffered more than half of the casualties before disembarking. In the company after the vanguard company, the steamboats were afraid of the fierce fire of the national army, so they cut the tow rope one kilometer from the shore, and the wooden boats rowed to meet the enemy, and when they were about one kilometer away from the enemy's shore, they encountered enemy artillery fire and machine gun fire, and most of the casualties were on board. Only a few ships braved the enemy's artillery fire to force their way to the enemy's shore, and a few detachments braved their lives to go ashore and were subjected to fierce fire at close range on the beachhead, and all of them died heroically! Most of the companies of the first echelon battalion were killed or wounded!! Finally, a few hours later, the companies of the two regiments began to arrive at the beach sporadically, and the commanders and fighters on the ships jumped into the water and rushed to the enemy's shore with blood dripping from them, and the enemy's forward firing points carried out cross-fire and frantic strafing, and the landing force of the first echelon suffered heavy losses on the beachhead, and only seven platoons entered the enemy's forward positions. Blood stained Gulangyu beach, blood stained Xiamen Bay!

"How the hell is this fought? The command is chaotic to the point of no return, and if it continues to fight like this, it will be useless to have five more regiments! Bangs punched the map. Yes, the landing force has no plan to deal with emergencies at all, and if the landing force is unable to form a fist and attacks a heavily fortified coastal defense section with scattered troops, it will simply be looking for death! Liu Hai's staff officer also said. It is useless to say that these are useless, tell the ghost artillery and Wu Fatzi to attack the right side of the landing lot in the southwest corner of Gulangyu, plow the enemy's depth with all their firepower, and then make adjustments according to the situation! "Bangs gave the order! The adjustment of the bangs was very favorable, there was a road on the right, which was the enemy's main transportation route, and then after plowing the depth again, it effectively prevented the assembly of reserves on Gulangyu Island, which greatly changed the situation of the battle!

Due to the improper command organization of the "Jinan Second Regiment," one walkie-talkie was in the hands of one staff officer, and one ship was carried alone, so the command of the regiment lost contact with the division, and the division lost control over the first echelon regiment, and it was not until midnight that the landing failure was known from the situation in which the ship was full of casualties floating back with the tide. The attack on Gulangyu was frustrated, but it also caused Tang Enbo's judgment to be wrong. He believes that after capturing Gulangyu, our army will attack Kinmen Island from Gulangyu Island. Therefore, he threw a regiment of the reserve into Gulangyu Island and transferred the mobile unit deployed on the waist of Kinmen Island to the south.

Because the ships were not well prepared and needed to be transported back and forth, at 11 o'clock that night, the political commissar of the "Jinan Second Regiment" led three second-echelon battalions to set off for the crossing, because there was no steamboat to tow them, the navigation was slow, or they could not get out of the estuary, or they were blown back by the wind and waves when they reached the estuary, and when some of the ships arrived near the landing site, they were destroyed by the enemy! The soldiers of a few detachments jumped into the water and swam ashore, but the national troops had already been prepared for battle and became live targets, and only two platoons broke through to the enemy position. In the end, they all died heroically, and after going ashore, they reported by telephone that the troops had reached the foot of the flag tail and asked for instructions on the next move. The commander of the 9th Division, considering that the landing had been lost, and that it was already dawn, that the enemy had blocked the sea in front of the front line with firepower, and that the plan for the 2nd echelon regiment to land with the 1st echelon regiment had been destroyed, ordered the 1st regiment to withdraw to its original position.

The next day, according to the army's battle report, the 9th Division judged that the enemy defending Gulangyu might retreat, and ordered the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Battalion to reconnoiter and attack from the northwest direction of Gulangyu by boat, and the 2nd Battalion successfully landed in the direction of the Gulangyu Glass Factory under the command of the battalion commander and expanded rapidly, captured Yanwei Mountain, captured the enemy, and captured the enemy. A company captured the enemy's division headquarters and captured alive the deputy commander of the enemy's 29th Division, who was directing the ship, took him to the battalion command post, and ordered his troops to lay down their arms and surrender.