() Zheng Fazai's company, like all Taiwanese Army, is equipped with 5 Taiwan-made Great Wall 130 trucks and a "Badger" armored vehicle. In addition, the company has 12 light machine guns and 5 60mm mortars.
Artillery, as fire support for the company.
Just when the Japanese troop transport set off and the mine exploded, the sentries of Zheng Fazai's company discovered the unknown ship in the port waterway and fired a warning shot. Zheng Fazai quickly gathered his troops and followed the instructions
The content of the exercises these days included controlling the tallest building in the port and the only road leading from the port to the inland. In the bunker built, he sent a telegram to his superiors. The content of the telegram was:
"A large number of unidentified ships were discovered in Duliao Port. They attempted to enter the port at night and triggered mines. Our company is deploying in accordance with the drill and occupying the commanding heights and bunkers on both sides of the road, preparing to launch attacks on ships approaching the dock.
attack."
This telegram was reported level by level by Zheng Fazai's superior regimental headquarters, all the way to Liu Fu. At that time, Liu Fu was so complacent with the navy's ambush report that he almost asked Qingtian who was it.
My opponent in the Taiwan Navy!
When the secretary brought the telegram to him, Liu Fu only read it once and almost fell to the ground, feeling extremely depressed:
"After all calculations, I let the enemy do the trick. It seems that I am really not a general, and I don't have any generals under my command. Just such a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain has actually confused me.
I am still beautiful here, no matter how many six countries I have annihilated
As long as the other side's navy ships are allowed to land on Taiwan's land, the naval battle will be lost. Taiwan is not afraid of the other side attacking at sea. With the ships of the six countries, even if there are twice as many, they will not be seen.
You must be able to see the land of Taiwan. However, what Taiwan fears most is being
The enemy's army landed because although Taiwan's army has been established for many years, it has never fought a war, let alone a war. Even the elimination of small groups of tribes and bandits in the mountainous areas is not a battle that every regiment can take part in. Although it is said that
Equipped with the Taiwan Army, it was considered half a machine among the world's armies at that time.
The mechanized troops are a hundred times stronger than those armies of various countries that are still lining up to charge with broken rifles. However, in terms of combat experience and the quality of the troops, even if the Beiyang army comes, it is probably not necessarily worse than the Taiwan Army. After all, there is no war.
An army that has gone through battles can basically not be regarded as a regular army.
But why are you afraid? Judging from the time of this telegram, the enemy has already boarded the dock of Duliao Port at the earliest. However, our defensive force in Duliao Port only has one company. If we let a large number of
The Sixth Army rushed into the hinterland of Tainan, so it is still a question whether our army can hold it.
Liu Fu quickly summoned personnel from the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff Department, and urgently dispatched several troops to reinforce Duliao Port from both left and right directions along the Taiwan-Ring Railway. He also issued a notice and notified naval commanders at all levels, ordering
They strictly guarded their defensive areas and telegraphed the troops in the Taichung naval battle to immediately dispatch submarines and torpedoes
boats, returned to various major ports, and strengthened patrols outside the ports. After doing these things, Liu Fu had no other good solution. He could only wait for the telegram from Duliao Port, and secretly prayed that the money he had spent on the army over the years would not be
Although Bai Hua has never experienced actual combat, he undergoes multiple actual combat exercises every year, which can last for several hours at best.
Liu Fu was in a hurry in Taipei, and Duliao Port had been reduced to a mess. Most of the Japanese troop transport fleet braved mines and finally rushed in. Among them, the first three troop transport ships docked at the dock and successively unloaded nearly half of the ships.
500 officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division. Before these officers and soldiers could stand firm, and were preparing to consolidate their positions so that the ships behind could unload personnel and equipment, they were met with a heavy barrage of artillery shells.
Although the caliber of these artillery shells was not large, they landed very accurately and continuously, and there was no sound of firing. The Sixth Division, which had just boarded the dock, suffered heavy casualties from this shelling, not only leaving behind hundreds of
Bodies, and even the troop transport ship docked at the dock were blown up and set on fire.
However, the Sixth Division is Japan's standing main division after all. Although it was a little panicked when it was first bombarded, it quickly stabilized its position under the command of middle and lower-level officers. They formed several dozens of people.
The small team, crouching low, quickly rushed through the open area of the pier. They all hid behind a group of houses behind the pier, looking for the source of the shells.
Since the 60mm mortar shells are relatively small and have a low muzzle velocity, and the sound of firing is even less audible, the Japanese army scattered in the houses outside the pier listened for a long time and could only hear that the shells probably came from the northeast of the pier.
It was sent by her, but the specific location is still impossible to determine.
Unable to find an artillery position, the Japanese troops who landed had no choice but to charge to the pier with the shells. However, because the pier was not long enough, only two troop transport ships could dock at a time, so the intensive artillery shells were used by the Japanese Sixth Division.
The landing of the regiment caused great harm, caused by
The 60mm mortar shells in Taiwan are loaded with more powerful new explosives and steel balls, and the killing radius has exceeded 6 meters. Although these flying steel balls are not easy to kill people, they cannot be held in sufficient quantities and cause more damage than the fragments of the shells.
Much larger.
The Japanese landing troops in front almost stepped on the bodies of their compatriots before rushing ashore, and gradually occupied the entire building in the dock, and then began to search and advance in the general direction of the shells. At this time, Zheng Fazai
Still in the original bunker, he held up his binoculars to observe the movements of the Japanese troops in the port. When he saw that the Japanese troops were beginning to approach his position, he ordered his mortars to stop firing and withdraw to another place behind the position.
Artillery position.
Since the maximum range of the 60mm mortar is only 800 meters, and after several years of improvement, it has been increased to about 1,000 meters, so once the mortar is withdrawn to the rear position, it cannot accurately hit the Japanese base on the dock.
The army, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Sixth Division, whose pressure was greatly reduced, took advantage of
With no time for bombardment, they tried their best to climb up and board the dock of Duliao Port. Admiral Ye asked the destroyer to fire quickly to cover the Japanese army's seizure of the dock, but due to the delay in finding the Taiwanese
The artillery positions of the army and the naval guns on the destroyers and frigates can only be used in a hurry.
As the Japanese army gradually penetrated into the land outside the port and encountered artillery attacks from the Taiwanese defenders, the naval guns on the destroyer obtained the approximate location coordinates and began to bombard the Taiwanese army's positions.
After Zheng Fazai sent the telegram to his superiors, he arranged his five 60mm mortars according to the drill content in the exercise. Then the gunner adjusted the pre-calculated scale and pointed it at the Japanese Army who was disembarking on the dock.
, it’s just a fierce shooting. It’s true that these Taiwanese Army have never experienced actual combat, but there are several army-wide exercises every year. The content of the exercises is all about how to defend against enemy landings, from laying landmines to organizing blockades, from avoiding
enemy sea bombardment
, to using their own mechanized advantages to encircle and divide the enemy who have landed, anyway, those in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff Department will pull out everything they can think of and practice it several times. They really can’t think of anything new, so they just use the old ones.
Practice some more
Anyway, Liu Fu is not afraid of spending money on ammunition. Every actual combat exercise is carried out with real weapons. Cannons, machine guns, mines, and armored vehicles are all used in actual combat. Every year, just the scrapped vehicles and artillery in the exercises can be organized to organize another one.
An army of 30,000 people.
It is said that when the book is put to use, one will regret less, sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in war. This kind of drill has been deeply rooted in the bones of the Taiwan Army. Zheng Fazai later recalled that he did not feel afraid at that time, and the distance was so long anyway.
If you can't see who the opponent is, just treat it as a drill. Artillery strikes, landmines, blocking positions, armored vehicle counterattacks, etc. are all done according to the contents of the drill. It's just that
Finally, when the enemy destroyers on the sea started bombarding, the Taiwan Army realized that this was not an exercise, because they had never used such a large-caliber naval gun to bombard them during the exercise, and then they felt scared, so their guns couldn't fire accurately.
, the cannon could no longer aim, and what was even more annoying was that the deputy company commander actually led a few soldiers and retreated alone on several motorcycles in the company.
