Xiamen, the gateway to the southeast coast of China, is tied with Kinmen, defending the southern Fujian continent and choking the sea communication, and has always been a battleground for soldiers. There is also a record in the Xiamen Chronicles that Xiamen is at the intersection of Spring and Zhang, which is the key point of Taiwan and is the southeast gateway. The guarantee of Fujian is also the key area of the sea frontier. This time we captured Xiamen Island, which can be regarded as an outpost battle to liberate Taiwan, although it is a small island, but we cannot fight an unprepared battle, can your artillery cover the whole process? "Yes..." Liu Hai looked at the map and thought for a while, "You can cover the whole process, but I want to ask, are we ready in such a short time?" ”

"Hahaha! What else do you need to prepare for such a few small islands, our People's Liberation Army is now the master of the world, and Chiang Kai-shek is afraid that he will not be able to make any waves on these small islands! Commander Ye waved his hand and said. But we are good at land warfare, and we are really lacking in water warfare... Before Liu Hai finished speaking, Commander Ye waved his hand. Division Commander Zhao, you are good at artillery battles, and you are not as good as us in land warfare, so you can be responsible for artillery cover! Ye Fei said. But... The bangs are interrupted again. Don't worry, can you listen to our plan first? Commander Ye pointed outside, "The corpsion-level commanders are here, you listen to everyone's opinions first!" ”

Liu Hai thought about it, returned to the seat below first, sat with the commanders, and prepared to listen to Commander Ye's plan first! Songyu is located on the west bank of Xiamen Island, is a small peninsula on the north bank of the mouth of the Jiulong River, about four thousand meters long from east to west, two thousand meters wide from north to south, the Jingkou Rock lies across it, forming undulating hills, the peninsula is bordered by the Jiulong River in the south, the north and east sides are bordered by Xiamen Xigang Bay, and the north is about five thousand meters away from the stone rock peak of Cai Jianwei Mountain, far away from each other; Echoing Gulangyu Island across the strait in the east, the Nationalist Army is garrisoned by the 87th Regiment of the 29th Division of the 55th Army, and has naval artillery as fire support from the flank and rear, as the bridgehead to the west of Xiamen, the enemy's fortification focuses on the bottleneck of the peninsula and the land, which is a recess between the two hills, and the highway leading to Zhangzhou and Jiaowei passes through here, and the enemy relies on the hills in the northwest of Jingkou Yanshan to build reinforced concrete forts and civil engineering bunkers, forming a walled preset fort position, and digging trenches across the bottleneck to cut off the connection with the land. It also cut the northern slope of the fortified hill into a steep wall, and covered it with deep trenches, barbed wire, deer firewood, etc., in front of the wall, which is the last key point of the outer defense of Xiamen Island, and is an important barrier for the security of the flank and sea passage of the national army. The strategic position is extremely important! Commander Ye introduced the situation in Songyu in one go.

"It seems that Commander Ye is indeed careful to reconnoitre, and he knows the situation in Songyu in great detail, as the saying goes, knowing oneself knows one hundred battles, such a detailed report on the enemy's situation, this battle has nine points!" A commander said. "That's it, there are so many troops in total, not enough for a charge, if you want me to say, drink the celebration wine before leaving!" Another commander also said. "Water warfare and land warfare are different, there are many undecidable factors, even if the sky is occupied, you must be careful to deal with it!" Bangs said next to him. "Brother, let's make a big fuss, no matter how much island warfare is there, that's it, he Chiang Kai-shek can rely on two small islands to turn the sky upside down, hehe!" "But..." Bangs said. "Okay brother, don't worry! Our PLA is invincible! The commander patted Bangs on the shoulder!

"Our plan is that the 272nd Regiment is equipped with one company of 82 mortars and one company of 92 infantry guns, and attacks and advances in the direction of Longmen and Gulou between Wenpu Mountain and Cai Jianwei Mountain east of Jiaomei, and then continues to attack eastward towards Jingkou Yanshan, annihilating the enemy and occupying the Songyu Peninsula, and at the same time ordering the 1st Division of the 273rd Regiment to bypass Maluan Bay and go east to capture the Taipingshan and Paijian areas to ensure the safety of the left flank of the division. Strive to take Songyu in one go! Create good conditions for the capture of Xiamen Island! Ye Fei said excitedly. Take Songyu! The commanders below shouted in unison!

"Blindly optimistic, unrealistic, and without even a solid grasp of the most basic tidal laws, but only formulated a plan according to the habits of land warfare, I think this battle is going to be missed!" Bangs said as he looked at his artillery position. "Division commander, you are too worried, this army fights two regiments, it should be won no matter how it fights, and besides, if there is still artillery cover like ours, even if it encounters a little difficulty, it will not affect the overall situation!" The ghost cannon said with a cigarette in his mouth. "Yes, now is the time for Yum, no one will listen to what I say now, maybe it's good to suffer a loss!" Liu Hai glanced at the position helplessly, "The artillery of the whole army is ready to cover the attacking troops throughout the process!" ”

The battle of Songyu began under the command of the commander of the 91st Division of the 29th Army, and a day later, the attack failed, and the staff officer who returned from the staff headquarters informed Liu Hai of the entire battle process: the 272nd Regiment set out from Shuitou, the 3rd Battalion occupied Longmen, the regiment led the direct team and the 1st and 2nd Battalions to advance to Longmen, and at the same time, the 3rd Battalion occupied Beishan in front of the courtyard with a company and continued to search and advance in front of the courtyard. Entering the area around Gulou, they immediately made arrangements for attacking Songyu: the second battalion seized Shizhongtou along the north of the Zhangxia road, and then attacked Huojiao Mountain, and the third battalion was on the left flank of the second battalion, passing through Houshanwei and Shicang, and attacking Jingkou Yanshan along the coast. The first battalion was at Yangqi, the regimental command post and logistics were at the end of the rear mountain, and one company of the 81st and 82nd mortars and one company of the 92nd infantry artillery were responsible for bombarding the enemy in the burning mountain and covering the infantry attack at the southeast ridge of the rear.

The 272nd Regiment attacked and advanced eastward from the front of the courtyard through the southeast mountain of Houshanwei and the north of the corner road, with the burning mountain as the target of the attack; With the 3rd Battalion on the left side of the 2nd Battalion, the attack advanced in the direction of Ningkeng and Shicang. The 2nd Battalion occupied the 123rd Heights of Huangkeng. One of the enemy platoon sentries spotted the battalion's vanguard and quickly fled back. The second battalion immediately pursued and captured two of the enemy, and learned from the prisoners that there was indeed an enemy battalion guarding Shizhongtou, so they immediately deployed an attack and successfully occupied Shizhongtou with swift and resolute action. On the same day, the 3rd Battalion searched and advanced with the 9th Company, seized the southeast ridge of Houshanwei, covered the artillery into the position, and the main force followed the artillery to Houshanwei, and reached the high ground north of Shicang through Malong and Ningkeng. After asking the local people, I learned that to get to the Kyoguchi Rock, you had to go through the stone warehouse. Therefore, the 9th Company was ordered to search and advance towards the village and occupy it.

The 2nd Battalion, together with the 3rd Battalion, launched an attack on the Burning Mountain. Due to the unclear situation of the fortification of the enemy's forward positions and the lack of thorough support firepower, the troops attacked the fortified positions in accordance with the field offensive movements, so that they were intercepted by organized fire in front of the enemy's positions. The 3rd Battalion launched an attack with the 7th Company as the right flank and the 8th Company as the left flank, but was also intercepted by the enemy's organized fire because of the enemy's lack of ideology, poor organization, and unclear terrain, and by dawn only captured one enemy pillbox and was forced to stop the attack. The division decided to withdraw to the Gulou area, leaving one battalion and one company in Huangkeng to monitor the enemy.

However, what I never expected was that the second attack still failed, and the 91st Division organized cadres to re-conduct battlefield reconnaissance and re-make the attack deployment according to the situation learned from the first attack: the 272nd Regiment was still the main attack along the highway and the west side, first capturing the inner pit on the west side of the highway and then capturing Aotou on the riverside, and then capturing Zhen'an and Songyu along the southern edge of the peninsula to the east; The 273rd Regiment was transferred to join the attack from the left flank, attacking from the edge of the coastal bay of Chishi and Ningkeng to the high ground northeast of Shicang, capturing the mountain behind the mountain and Huojiao Mountain, and then attacking Zhen'an in the south with the main force, and attacking Songyu from the east from behind the rock mountain in Jingkou with a part, and encircling and annihilating the enemy in Songyu with the 272nd Regiment. In addition, the division raised four small sailing boats to carry 18 witty and brave soldiers to land and outwit Songyu. The divisional artillery and its field artillery battalions were assigned to Chishi, Chumei and Houjing respectively, forming three artillery groups to support infantry fighting and attacking Kuomintang warships. The command post of the division was located on the east hill of Shangyao, so as to facilitate the identification and communication with the infantry artillery at night, and in addition to wired communication, the hand-thrown* captured in the Fuzhou Battle was distributed to the first echelon battalion company as a signal to mark the arrival position!

After two days of preparation, another attack was launched, artillery preparations began, and the first echelon battalion went on the offensive. After the attack began, the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 272nd Regiment was blocked by enemy fire when it was attacking the enemy diagonally through the hills, suffering heavy casualties, disrupting its formation, and losing equipment for attacking the fortified positions, resulting in a chaotic battle organization when destroying the enemy's forward obstacles, and there was no follow-up action after the first barbed wire was blasted, the impact time had been delayed, the fighting mood was affected, and the breakthrough battle had reached a stalemate. The assault company of the 3rd Battalion of the 272nd Regiment also lost its way and strayed into Shijiatou Village. When the first platoon of the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Company of the 273rd Regiment advanced to the enemy's front line, because the main force of the company was disoriented and did not keep up, it stopped in front of the enemy, and was killed and wounded by the enemy's fire, and the impact was weak.

"The organization is chaotic, the terrain is unknown, the attack command is improper, I don't think there is a group army that can't be defeated with this kind of fighting, I want to go to see the commander of the 91st Division!" Bangs angrily slapped the cannon! "It's not appropriate for the division commander to go at this time! As soon as the attack fails, you run over and make people say you're self-righteous! "Ghost cannon suggested." It is better to be self-righteous than to waste shells and human lives in vain! After Liu Hai finished speaking, he immediately ran to the headquarters of the 91st Division.