"Report to the general that the Chinese have attacked the beach, and the two Taiwanese brigades guarding the beach have all been destroyed. Just now the garrison came to report that the Chinese airborne troops have occupied the Daling Railway Bridge, and now they are rushing towards Taoyuan.
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In the Governor's Mansion in Taipei, a Japanese military officer sweating profusely reported the latest war situation to Taiwan Governor Kiyoshi Hasegawa.
"I got it." Hasegawa Kiyoshi waved his hand to signal the officer to step back and then leaned weakly on the sofa behind him, feeling confused. Although he had expected that the Chinese would go all out to attack Taiwan this time before the war started, but
What he didn't expect was that the beach defense line that could withstand one or two days ended in just over an hour, and even the deep Daling Railway Bridge was lost. The loss of the Daling Railway Bridge meant that
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was very clear about this, which meant that the heavy equipment of the Chinese people could come in a steady stream. Can Taoyuan withstand the overwhelming attack of the Chinese people? Thinking of this, Hasegawa Kiyoshi couldn't help but shudder.
"Judging from the reports from the front line, the Chinese attack was very powerful. I don't know if the 20th Division that was originally guarding Taoyuan could withstand it. It seems that we have to increase their strength. But this strength will be very high."
From where should we mobilize?" Hasegawa Kiyoshi thought about it for a long time, but found that he really couldn't mobilize a decent force on hand.
"Do we need to transfer the police force in Taipei?" Hasegawa Kiyoshi thought for a long time, but still rejected the idea. Not to mention how powerful this unit composed of retired soldiers was, he said that if the police force was also transferred, then
Kiyoko Hasegawa has truly become a polished commander.
In the end, Hasegawa Kiyoshi could only order the weapons to be distributed to Japanese civilians in Taiwan and form a reserve team of more than 3,000 people. After doing all this, Hasegawa Kiyoshi looked at the already dark sky and felt sad.
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Zhou Mingsheng stood by the road in front of his house, staring blankly at the military vehicles and tanks wrapped in thick armor that kept passing in front of him. Waves of surprises filled his heart. Is this the mainland's army? Is this the mainland's army?
Is it the same army that defeated little Japan?
At this time, a group of tanks drove up from the side. These tanks were also filled with soldiers wearing navy blue clothes. The speed of these tanks was not fast, and the soldiers on the tanks would smile and greet people on the roadside.
It aroused cheers and chases from the urchins on the roadside.
Zhou Mingsheng, who was standing blankly on the roadside, didn't know where he got the courage. He ran to the middle of the road and stretched out his hands.
"Squeak!" There was a screeching sound of brakes, and a tank stopped in front of him.
"Young man, what's the matter with you?" The driver poked his head out of the car, but there was no anger in his expression, but a look of curiosity. After all, whether in mainland China or Taiwan, the person in front of him was like this.
It is rare to find someone who dares to stop an army vehicle.
"Master, do you need a guide?" Zhou Mingsheng summoned up the courage to ask loudly.
"Oh, can you be the guide?" asked a soldier who looked like an officer sitting on the tank.
"Yes, Sir, I am very familiar with this area. I have no problem being a guide. Sir, please let me lead you." Zhou Mingsheng patted his chest and said to the officer in front of him.
"Oh, how do you know that I am their commander? If you can tell the truth, I will take you with me." The officer said with a smile.
Zhou Mingsheng was a little mute now. He stopped his hand and scratched his head and said hesitantly: "Well, I don't know this either, but that's how I feel. You are their commander."
The reason why Zhou Mingsheng thought that the man in front of him who was wearing the same uniform as the soldiers around him was an officer was because the soldiers around him did not dare to say a word when he was speaking, and they looked at this officer in the same way they looked at their other companions.
The look in his eyes was different. Zhou Mingsheng had seen this look in the Japanese army before. Zhou Mingsheng called this look obedience, which is a common characteristic of all armies in the world.
"Hahaha." As soon as Zhou Mingsheng's words came out, all the soldiers on the tank laughed. Everyone laughed. The officer did not speak but smiled and stretched out his hand.
Zhou Mingsheng was so happy that he quickly grabbed the big hand and climbed onto the tank using the metal tracks. After getting on the tank, he stood next to the officer. After he sat down, the tank started to rumble again.
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Just now, Zhou Mingsheng was watching the soldiers sitting on the tank on the roadside, all of them looked majestic, but when he sat on it, he realized that the energy of just sitting outside the tank was enough to drive him crazy.
Seeing Zhou Mingsheng looking a little restless, the officer sitting next to him smiled slightly and said: "How about it, your butt feels uncomfortable."
"Yes, riding on this thing is not as comfortable as riding on my old scalper." Zhou Mingsheng answered honestly.
"Hehehe"
Zhou Mingsheng's words caused another burst of laughter from the officer and the surrounding soldiers. The officer took out a handful of candy from his pocket and stuffed it into Zhou Mingsheng's hand.
"Eat it, little one. This is a candy produced by the Chinese people. It is definitely sweeter than the candy in Japan."
The candies handed to Zhou Mingsheng by this officer can be said to be a benefit for the soldiers of the National Defense Forces. This is also a free policy issued by Chief Su to the soldiers of the National Defense Forces after he came to power. These candies can not only satisfy the soldiers' craving for food in peacetime, but also can satisfy the soldiers' hunger when they enter enemy-occupied areas.
Or it can also be a way to bring people closer when they are in an unfamiliar area.
Zhou Mingsheng took the candy and gently peeled off the bright golden candy wrapper. He put the white candy into his mouth and tasted it slowly. He felt a cloyingly sweet aroma and sweetness spread into his heart.
.The big tears slowly fell down and landed on the candy wrapper in my hand.
"Hey, little guy, why are you crying? Doesn't this candy taste good?" A soldier asked with some confusion upon seeing this.
Zhou Mingsheng shook his head with red eyes: "No, I was thinking that when my grandfather was dying, he wanted to eat a piece of candy from our hometown in Shandong, but he didn't eat the candy from his hometown until he died."
After finishing speaking, Zhou Mingsheng finally cried "Wow".
When Zhou Mingsheng cried like this, the surrounding soldiers fell silent. Although they could not fully understand Zhou Mingsheng's mood, they could fully understand the desire of a wanderer who had been away from his homeland for forty-eight years to return to his roots. The root cause of all this tragedy was
The Japanese occupied Taiwan for nearly half a century.
Sighing slightly, the officer beside him patted Zhou Mingsheng on the shoulder, stretched out his hand and said, "Come on, little guy, let's get to know each other formally. My name is Wang Xiaoguo, captain and company commander of the Second Marine Division of the Chinese National Defense Force."
Zhou Mingsheng quickly wiped his tears and stretched out his hand: "Master Jun, my name is Zhou Mingsheng, and I am from Dawang Village."
"Okay, this is a good name. Your name has the meaning that if you don't sing, you will be a hit. From now on, Taiwan will be governed by people like you." Wang Xiaoguo said with a smile. At this time, Wang Xiaoguo
He didn't realize that his words would miraculously come true twenty years later, and this shy young man sitting with him on a tank that could shake a person's skeleton apart.
Twenty years later, he successfully ran for office and became the third governor of Taiwan Province of China.
The motorcade traveling along the road saw countless Taiwanese people crowding on both sides of the road. Many of them had traveled from far away after hearing the news. At this moment, they were all crowded on the roadside looking excitedly.
At this historical moment, the roadside was crowded with men, women, old and children, and it was extremely lively and joyful.
Although the weather was not too cold at this time, many people were still sweating from the crowd. Children cried and adults laughed in the crowd. The smell of sweat and body temperature were intertwined. People stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks to look around.
Looking around. Parents let their children sit on their shoulders, eager and nervous, but more excited and proud. Whenever fighter planes fly over the sky, the crowd always bursts into cheers.
"Taiwan is liberated."
"The army of the motherland is coming"
The excited people didn't know how to vent their joy, so they could only use plain and simple words to express their excitement. People also spontaneously placed tea, pastries and meats that can only be eaten during the New Year on the roadside.
The brave ones got a bunch of firecrackers from somewhere and set them off on the roadside to make it really lively.
In the face of such enthusiastic Taiwanese people, although the passing convoy did not get out of the car to taste these delicacies, it was not polite to come and go. The officers and soldiers also threw handfuls of candies from the car and said loudly with a smile: "Compatriots,
Come and taste the sweets of the motherland."
Some people followed the convoy until they were more than ten kilometers away from Taoyuan before being persuaded to come back by the soldiers, because this was where the 20th Division of the Japanese Army was entrenched. According to intelligence, the 20th Division of the Japanese Army was
The Japanese permanent division had begun building fortifications and bunkers in Taoyuan a month ago, assuming a stance of refusing to retreat.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
A dull sound like the gasping of a train passing by suddenly rang out. It flew over everyone's heads and flew into the distance. Although the huge sound exploded nearly a thousand meters away, it still shocked the navy and army in the distance.
The soldiers in the battle team were so shocked that their hearts beat faster. The officers and soldiers all knew that the 460 mm caliber main gun on the "Zhenyuan" battleship had begun to fire again.
Amidst the earth-shattering explosions, the barbed wire fences, bunkers, and trenches in front of the defensive positions set up by the 20th Division were shattered into powder amidst bursts of loud noises. Broken limbs and gray smoke were flying into the air.
It's several hundred meters high.
After the naval gun fired three rounds and delivered dozens of giant shells to the Taoyuan defensive position, another group of black aircraft flew in the sky. They were "Stuka" dives that took off from the coastal airport in Fujian.
bomber.
The leading bombers did not carry out the vertical ninety-degree dive bombing that they were good at as usual. Instead, they flew levelly at an altitude of one thousand meters, uncharacteristically, and then dropped a huge black bomb. These bombs
It quickly fell to the ground and reached a height of 100 meters, then opened a white umbrella flower, and slowly fell to the Japanese army's position. When the bomb was ten meters above the ground, it made a loud noise.
It turns out that this is a 2,500-kilogram air-burst bomb dropped by the Chinese Air Force. The shell of this air-burst bomb is very thin, but it contains more than 2,000 kilograms of explosives. When two thousand kilograms of explosives are dropped at a distance of ten meters,
When it explodes in the sky, the sound waves generated will kill the internal organs of all people or animals within a radius of 300 meters. In the words of Chief Su, it is a necessary tool for killing people and setting fires when traveling at home.
Half an hour later, the bombardment from naval guns, air-burst bombs and howitzers stopped. When the Marines stepped onto the first two lines of defense of the Japanese army, they saw many people who were not injured at all but had no injuries at all.
The corpses of Japanese soldiers bleeding from their orifices were all beaten to death by naval guns and giant air-burst bombs.
The Marines crossed the first two lines of defense of the Japanese army and rushed to the third line of defense without stopping.
Since the Japanese army's third line of return was already very close to Taoyuan City, the National Defense Force did not use naval guns or giant air burst bombs to destroy the Japanese army's positions. Instead, they transferred the fourth heavy artillery division that had just landed ashore.
Under the bombardment of more than three hundred 100-caliber artillery, the Japanese army's position was in constant distress. Such intensive artillery fire destroyed nearly half of the fortifications and bunkers they built. Many unlucky soldiers were trapped in the dense
It was blown into a ball of blood mist in the artillery fire.
The Japanese soldiers lying in the trenches or lying on the ground looked in horror at the bombs flying from the sky, experiencing bombing and artillery shelling that they had never experienced before. Although the Chinese Air Force had carried out military operations in Taiwan in the past month,
They kept flying over the sky, but most of what they dropped were propaganda leaflets. This also gave the Japanese soldiers a feeling that the Chinese army was nothing more than this. But when the Chinese air force and artillery really dropped bombs on their heads.
, these soldiers were surprised to find that the Chinese were so sharp after replacing the leaflets with bombs. Less than an hour ago, the two lines of defense were breached, and now the third line of defense was also under attack from the Chinese heavy artillery.
"Oshima, Oshima, hold on, I will send you to the field hospital immediately." Miura Nara pressed hard on the abdomen of his friend from the same hometown, trying hard to prevent the intestines and blood inside from being exposed, while cheering for his friend.
"These damn medics, medics, come quickly!" Miura Nara braved the artillery fire and used his body to protect Oshima's body while shouting at the top of his lungs. At this time, there were Chinese aircraft swooping and strafing all around them.
The sound of gunfire, the explosion of bombs, the heart-rending screams and moans of the wounded, and the thick smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke spread above the position.
"Miura, Miura" At this moment, Miura Nara heard the weak voice coming from Oshima beneath him, and he quickly lowered his head and put his ear to his mouth to hear what he had to say.
"Please help me with my wife." Miura didn't understand Oshima's words very clearly, but he understood that Oshima meant that he wanted him to take care of his family after returning to his homeland.
"Oshima, don't worry, I will take good care of them." Miura Nara just agreed with red eyes, when he felt a chill on his back, and then he saw blood flowing out of his chest, his throat
There was also a smell of blood coming from inside.
"It's really unlucky. It turns out that I was also shot." Miura Nara's consciousness became weaker and weaker, and then he fell on Oshima's body.
The area around the position of the 20th Division has turned into a hellish scene. The wounded soldiers who were beaten to pieces by shell fragments lay in a pool of blood and howled. The blood had dyed the khaki ground bright red, and occasionally a few clusters burned.
After the bullet fell, the wounded soldier who was struggling on the ground immediately fell into the sea of fire and turned into a burning man. The wounded soldier who was on fire tried to stand up with his last strength and tried to escape from the sea of fire, but he could only struggle in the sea of fire powerlessly, howling and finally burned.
It is a charcoal-black, burnt-like object.
"Moxi Moxi, is this the 39th Regiment? I am the division headquarters, how is the situation there?" The headquarters of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army established in Taoyuan City was in a panic. The staff continued to report the frontline losses.
The news was reported to the frowning division commander Lieutenant General Tanaka Nobuyoshi.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Chinese artillery fire is very fierce now. They have successively broken through two lines of defense of our army. Now even the third line of defense is in danger. If the third line of defense is lost, our division headquarters will be exposed to China."
We are under human fire. For your comfort, I suggest that we move the division headquarters as soon as possible." Major General Bunbu Masami, chief of staff of the 20th Division, put forward his own suggestion.
"Where are we going to be transferred? Is it to the Governor's Mansion in Taipei? Are you still not a soldier of the empire?" Tanaka Nobuyoshi became angry. He stood up and was given a scolding.
"But if we don't move, the Chinese will attack here soon." Bunbu Zhengnan did not shut up because of the scolding, but still persuaded him earnestly, "We are far away from the 21st Division."
It's not far away. As long as we move our troops closer to the 21st Division, we can hold on for a while. It's too close to the coast. The Chinese naval guns may fall on our heads at any time. This is no longer a matter of relying on
It's something that can be dealt with with the loyalty and bravery of soldiers."
"Alas" Tanaka Nobuyoshi sighed bitterly and slowly said with a wry smile, "Munbu-kun, the Governor's Palace is behind us, and we cannot retreat without authorization without receiving an order from the Governor.
And can’t the Chinese see such a big target of the 21st Division? You see, the Chinese will soon divide their forces to attack Miaosu County. What if we retreat and are chased all the way by Chinese planes?