After some liaison and arrangement, the ghost artillery took its own 20 artillery pieces and 2,000 PLA troops, each took 30 boats, and quietly set out from Leizhou on a moonlit night, under the leadership of the Qiongya column personnel and old fishermen, and successfully arrived at the predetermined location on Hainan Island after more than four hours. The intended location was a small port, and it took a lot of effort for the ghost cannon and others to transport the cannon that had been dismantled into a marching state ashore. After going ashore, Feng Baiju, the chief captain of the Qiongya Column, received the ghost artillery and introduced him to the selected artillery position!

"Captain Feng, I heard about your deeds, it is very remarkable, it is really remarkable to be able to persist on such an island facing the sea for more than 20 years!" The ghost cannon gave Captain Feng Baiju a thumbs up! "Ghost Leader, you've won the prize!" Captain Feng said. "Uhhhh This one... My surname is Zhao! Ghost Cannon said a little depressedly. Oh, Captain Zhao! After Feng Baiju reacted, he was also a little embarrassed, "Are you still satisfied with the artillery position we chose?" "Not satisfied! Quite dissatisfied! Ghost Cannon said unceremoniously. Oh? Feng Baiju asked in some surprise, "What do you mean... "The position you have chosen not only cannot cover the landing force throughout the whole process and effectively counterattack the opponent's attack, but it is also very likely to be discovered by the opponent's aircraft. Ghost Cannon said. "And where do you see fit?" Feng Baiju didn't dare to offend the ghost cannon at all, because Feng Baiju himself knew how difficult it had been in the past twenty-three years, and now he finally looked forward to the end, and the ghost regiment leader in front of him was also the cannon commander, facing the cannon that he hadn't used for more than 20 years, Feng Baiju hated to give up this master. "I have already chosen, just in the woods north of Baimajing, where can not only cover the troops landing on Dapo, but also extend the artillery fire to Lingao County, and unexpectedly hit the artillery fire on the axis of the opponent's possible counterattack against the landing force!" Okay, okay, I'll immediately arrange for the troops to dig up the cover fortifications there! ”

"The ghost cannon has sent a signal, he has successfully reached the preset position, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!" Liu Hai said to Commander Deng. "To be exact, it's only the north wind!" Commander Deng said, "As long as the north wind blows, we will be able to cross a thousand sails!" "Are there enough boats?" Liu Hai couldn't help but remember that there were not enough ships at Kinmen, so that the follow-up troops could not support! "We're ready to ship, and we're going to have a lot of effort for a thousand ships!" Commander Deng introduced to Liu Hai the process of raising the 1,000 ships: "In order to be able to raise enough ships to launch the operation to seize the island, the PLA Logistics Department also took a million oceans to Hong Kong to buy ships, but the Kuomintang spies discovered and dismissed this intention, and then the PLA disassembled the captured trucks and modified 120 sailing ships with tires and engines to convert them into gunboats. In addition, through various methods such as forcibly recruiting employees, they also raided a fleet of more than 300 ships of the Kuomintang army on Weizhou Island, and gathered more than 2,000 ships. It is worth mentioning that the Qiongya Column also smuggled seventy ships for the troops. We have learned the lesson of Kinmen, and we have no intention of underestimating the enemy, and we will win this battle! ”

"As for the waves that landed on the island, even if there were more than a thousand ships, it would be impossible to transport all the 100,000 troops ashore at once!" Bangs asked. "Of course it can't be, so we divided the landing wave into three waves, the first batch to transport the assault troops ashore, the second broke it closely, transporting weapons and ammunition as well as water and food, and the third wave was the big one, transporting the main forces ashore! After repeated hydrological reconnaissance, our army decided to launch a plan for landing on the island, in which the first echelon of 25,000 men was commanded by Han Xianchu, commander of the 40th Army, and Xie Fang, deputy commander of the 40th Army, and the first echelon was divided into two route armies, consisting of the 118th Division, the 119th Division, and the 358th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army on the West Road, with a total of 18,700 men, divided into 350 wooden ships and 32 sailing ships. The second echelon of the 43rd Army, the 385th Regiment and the 386th Regiment of the 127th Division, the 380th Regiment and the 381st Regiment of the 127th Division, and the 2nd battalion of the 384th Regiment of the 128th Division. As long as the assault force can establish a beachhead, the follow-up troops will be able to quickly go ashore! Commander Deng said. As long as I go ashore, I will be able to fight Xue Yue! Bangs said

According to the arrangement, Liu Hai and Wu Fatzi followed the main force ashore, and Liu Xiaoshan originally had no task, but when he heard that the ghost cannon and Wu Fatzi were going to pass, he volunteered to take on the main assault task after the main force of the West Route Army went ashore, which means that he could cooperate with the ghost cannon to launch an attack from Dapo to Lingao County! However, Liu Hai made two arrangements before going ashore: one was that Wu Fatzi went ashore with 22 guns of his heavy artillery regiment with the landing force, and Liu Hai gathered 50 cannons on the coast of Leizhou, and prepared the landing force to provide fire support at sea along the way, to put it bluntly, to use artillery to block the Kuomintang warships from intercepting the landing force!

"I have divided the entire Leizhou Strait into twenty-two districts, you only need to notify me of the area code of the appearance of the enemy ship!" Liu Hai will serve as a cover force for the hundred boats, that is, the so-called gunboat captains a picture, this is Liu Hai thought of a way to accurately hit ships at sea after breaking his head! The 22 districts divided by Liu Hai covered the entire Leizhou Strait, and each district could be covered as a whole with 25 guns, so that according to the report of the covering fleet, the Kuomintang ships that appeared in the area could be attacked, and as long as he was in that area, he would not be able to escape and be hit by artillery fire. "That's a great idea! Rest assured, we will follow your instructions! The captains said.

After everything was ready, the north wind soon came, and under the command of Commander Deng Hua, more than 50,000 troops began to cross the Leizhou Strait!

At this time, Xue Yue, who was on Hainan Island, was indeed distressed, because The President of the Republic of China President Li Zongren knew that if Guangzhou was lost, Hainan Island was the most likely way for him to go. On the eve of Chiang Kai-shek's resumption of affairs, he hoped that the United States would openly support him as the legitimate president of the Republic of China. Acting President Li Zongren wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Acheson that the strategic value of Hainan Island absolutely does not have to be inferior to Taiwan's, and he hoped that the US political and military circles would not only pay attention to Taiwan's strategic position, but also put their resources and focus on Hainan Island. Of course, these measures are not very comfortable in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been in Taiwan for more than two months, knew in his heart that Hainan Island and Taiwan were the two most important eyes for his counterattack on the mainland, but Li Zongren's series of political moves made Chiang Kai-shek, who was only the president of the Kuomintang, more worried. Finally, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Liu Anqi's troops, totaling more than 10,000 people, to withdraw from Hainan Island, which dealt a devastating blow to the morale of the troops defending Hainan.

"Alas! It was not the Communist Party that defeated the Kuomintang, it was the Kuomintang that defeated the Kuomintang! Xue Yue said depressedly. Why do you say that? The officer next to him asked. You don't understand! Xue Yue closed his eyes and said. In fact, not only Deng Hua learned the lesson of Kinmen, but Xue Yue also learned the experience of Kinmen, and prepared to make Liu Anqi's troops, who were equipped with strong tactical ability and good weapons and equipment, launch a counterattack against the communist army on the beachhead at the first time, and strive to be able to destroy them on the beachhead, but now it is good, as soon as Liu Anqi's troops leave, they do not have strong troops to launch a counterattack at all!

When the main force crossed, one hundred and twenty gunboats were divided into two teams and covered by two wings, and it did not take long for the Kuomintang fleet to appear, also divided into two parts, left and right, to intercept the PLA crossing the strait. The gunboats on both sides immediately went into battle, firing at the enemy ships while reporting to Liuhai the enemy's area code. The largest caliber guns on these gunboats are actually five millimeter caliber, which cannot effectively damage the simplified body of the warship, and it is completely to use themselves to attract the fire of the enemy ships to cover the crossing troops! Bang Hai fired, and the large-caliber American guns posed a huge threat to the ground, hitting enemy ships from time to time, but they could not stop the enemy ships from attacking the covering troops!

The gunboats in both directions were undaunted, desperately rushing towards the Kuomintang warships, shooting at the enemy ships with their own artillery, coupled with the heavy artillery cooperation of Liu Hai, although the covering troops suffered serious casualties, they succeeded in dragging the Kuomintang warships, so that the Kuomintang warships could not attack the main force of the crossing, only the planes that took off from Hainan Island carried out a limited attack on the crossing troops, but dozens of planes were blocked by the fire network composed of various machine guns on the ship, and they could not play a decisive role at all. After all, there are more than a thousand ships in the crossing force!

After several hours of crossing, the ships of the main force finally broke through the sea and air blockade, the Western Route Army first landed on the Dapo line, and the Eastern Route Army also began to land two hours later due to the long voyage, at this time Xue Yue had already scattered the troops of five divisions on the northern front of Hainan Island, ready to block the attack of the People's Liberation Army! According to Xue Yue's arrangement, there was no strong firepower to block the beachhead, but a defensive line was arranged in the depth of the probe, and it has to be said that Xue Yue did have a level, and the distance from the defense line was really clever: first of all, the distance was far enough to leave enough space for the landing PLA to land, but the establishment of the beachhead felt that the depth was insufficient, and this distance was the range covered by its own artillery fire.

Because Liu Anqi's troops were transferred, Xue Yue only had one means of counterattack in his hands, and that was artillery! Xue Yue planned that when the PLA troops came ashore, he said that the PLA had an unstable foothold, and after using artillery to cover and shoot, he would put in superior troops to counterattack, but he never thought that the ghost cannon and his twenty heavy guns had been loaded and aimed at his own artillery group!