() When the sea battle just started, a large fleet escorted by 2 destroyers and 4 armed merchant ships also approached Taiwan's southern port Duliao from the southwest. This fleet carried Lieutenant General No.
Since most of the generals of the Taiwan Navy were slowly promoted from the grassroots level, they have rich practical experience, but their strategic vision is not very far. They focused most of their attention on the naval battle in Taichung, in order to be able to
xing dealt a devastating blow to the navies of the Six Nations. They deployed the most
Submarines and torpedo boats rushed to the waters off Taichung to participate in the war, and the maritime defense near Tainan was reduced to the lowest point. The few submarines and torpedo boats were unable to patrol the long coastline from Taichung to Tainan in detail, resulting in this not-so-small force.
The troop transport fleet passed through the blockade with ease and appeared swaggering outside Duliao Port.
Duliao Port used to be a small fishing port in southern Tainan. In recent years, Taiwan has vigorously developed light industry and camphor and sugar processing industries. Since Duliao Port is relatively close to the Philippines, it has gradually developed into a place where Taiwan imports and exports materials to the Philippines.
It is a small trading port. The local government used fiscal revenue and loans to expand the port here five years ago, so that it can berth some medium-sized cargo ships of less than 5,000 tons.
This time due to the Taiwan government
Fu issued a war mobilization order, and most ports were closed. The Taiwan Navy also laid mines on the waterways in and out of the ports. Therefore, the entry and exit of ships in Duliao Port has basically stopped, and the number of patrol ships is seriously insufficient, making this force
Transporting the Japanese Sixth Division
The fleet has sailed all the way to Duliao Port and has not been discovered by the Taiwanese defenders. Lieutenant General No, this is an army general who participated in the Russo-Japanese War. This time he plans to use a troop transport ship to sneak attack Taiwan's landing plan. This is
A Japanese lieutenant general with a name like Taozi was the main planner.
In the Japanese military, the Army and the Navy are natural enemies. Not only do they compete with each other for budgets, but they also compete for various honors. The previous plans to land in Taiwan were all based on the Navy and the Army.
As an auxiliary, none of the previous plans were successful, not only destroying countless ships of the Japanese Navy, but also sacrificing many soldiers and generals of the Japanese Army in vain, which made the Japanese Army distrustful of the Japanese Navy.
accumulated to the highest level.
This time, the six countries jointly implemented a landing plan on Taiwan. From the beginning, Lieutenant General Okubo did not believe that the navies of various countries could easily break through Taiwan's maritime power. Therefore, after careful research, he and the Japanese military came up with this idea.
A very risky and very novel landing plan, which is carried out by the army itself using troop transport ships to break through the blockade of the Taiwan Navy
Landing operations. Although this tactic is very risky. Once the troop transport fleet is discovered by the Taiwan Navy in advance, the fate waiting for the Sixth Division is the annihilation of the entire army. However, the Japanese have no naval power to rely on. If they wait for the Six Nations
If the combined fleet breaks through Taiwan's maritime defense line, then Taiwan's new government will finally be defeated.
Fu, Japan itself won't get much benefit from Taiwan. Those countries will carve up every last bit of Taiwan and leave it to Japan's government. In order to avoid this kind of situation where Taiwan can't benefit from its efforts.
happened, Okubo and the Japanese military decided to complete this landing plan at all costs.
Outside Duliao Port in the early morning, the sea was still pitch black. The Japanese troop transport fleet was lined up in two columns outside the harbor, and all were under light control. In the darkness before dawn, they quietly entered Duliao.
The waterways of Liogang.
"Boom...boom..." Two huge explosions suddenly came from the closely arranged troop transport fleet. The two troop transport ships at the front of the team were thrown out of the sea by huge waves, and then
He turned his body sideways and plunged directly into the sea water. After a while, the bottom of the ship was exposed covered with seashells and oysters. Because the formation of the troop transport fleet was very dense, not only the two ships that hit the mine were blown up directly,
The two troop carriers next to it were almost overturned by the large waves and shock waves. Many soldiers were thrown out of the ship and fell into the sea water. Many of the land and mountain artillery and other equipment carried by the army were also broken by the powerful force.
He fixed the rope, cut a bloody path through the crowd, and fell off the boat.
"Haga... is a Taiwanese mine... Your Excellency, Commander, there are mines in this waterway." Standing in the destroyer control tower on the sea surface, Chief of Staff Samejima Shigeo of the Sixth Division saw his troop transport ship.
After being sunk by a mine, his own soldiers cried and struggled in the water, shouting to Okubo with great heartache.
"Don't panic, Samejima-kun, order the ships in front to turn on their lights and speed up to the dock. A few mines can't stop the elite army of the Japanese Empire. We can't stop. Only by landing on land will we be invincible.
Imperial Samurai!" Lieutenant General Okubo looked at the somewhat chaotic landing fleet in front of him and gave the order loudly, reminding his deputy not to be frightened by a few mines.
Facts have proved that Lieutenant General Okubo's judgment was correct. Since the port is not very big and the pier cannot accommodate many ships, the Taiwan Navy in charge here did not lay too many mines, but only symbolic ones in the waterways entering and exiting the port.
Some magnetic mines were laid on it.
As the Japanese troop transport turned on its lights and accelerated towards the dock, although the mines on the waterway caused great damage to the Japanese troop transport, due to insufficient numbers, more than half of the Japanese ships broke through the mine defense line and entered.
into the port.
Stationed at Duliao Port is the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the Taiwan Army. The company commander is named Zheng Fazai. This platoon leader is a native of Taiwan. His hometown is in Yilan County. He was one of the first batch to give up.
He got the land and went to Keelung to participate in factory construction. However, because his educational level was too poor, not too poor, but not at all. Zheng Fazai was illiterate and spoke a very difficult to understand Taiwanese accent in Fujian. Except for his fellow countrymen, basically everyone
No one could understand what he was saying. Due to his illiteracy and obscure accent, he was not on the list of several batches of people who entered cram schools to learn basic knowledge and then changed their jobs to become workers. Looking at the many people who came with him,
All of his friends entered classes taught by foreign professors and became workers, but he was still working as a coolie on the construction site digging holes with rocks. Zheng Fazai was very distressed.
Just when he quit his job and went home to continue farming, Keelung began to recruit factory protection teams. Zheng Fazai signed up with the mentality of giving it a try, planning to pack up his bedroll and go home if he could no longer be a soldier. Who?
I know that God has opened my eyes. Among the people who recruited the factory protection team at the Keelung construction site that day, there was a person whose hometown is also Yilan. When he heard the familiar accent of Zheng Fazai, he was very kind and even personally tested his physical fitness and asked
After knowing his life experience and passing everything, Zheng Fazai was recruited into the factory protection team. From then on, Zheng Fazai followed this fellow countryman who was the squad leader in the factory protection team and joined the Taiwan New Army. Later, he was recruited into the Taiwan New Army.
He was promoted to platoon leader and company commander. During this war mobilization, Zheng Fazai followed his troops from Taitung to Tainan. His company was stationed in Duliao Port and was responsible for the security of Duliao Port.
