1958, the People's Liberation Army launched 10,000 artillery fires, violently bombarding Kinmen Island under the control of the Kuomintang army. During this period, the US military continued to cover the Kuomintang army.
Before this, our army issued a solemn statement: All foreign aircraft and military ships are not allowed to enter China's territorial waters and above without the permission of the Chinese government.
Nowadays, the US military ignores our country's statement, and the People's Liberation Army is indignant. General Ye Fei, who was in charge of the Kinmen artillery, immediately asked the Central Committee for instructions. Chairman Mao replied with four domineering words: Just beat him!
1955 Banlong Conference , the central government gradually established the policy of striving for the peaceful liberation of Taiwan, but this effort was obstructed by the US government. Since the United States saw Taiwan's important strategic position, it soon sent the Seventh Fleet to enter Taiwan Strait , and naturally he did not want to see Taiwan liberate.
In order to obstruct Taiwan's liberation, the US government has also continuously instigated Chiang Kai-shek's group to harass and destroy the coastal areas of the mainland. By May 1958, the United States established the "US Joint Defense Military Aid Command" in Taiwan. Since Chiang Kai-shek has supported the US government, it has increased its harassment of our coastal areas.
Not only that, it also continues to increase troops to islands such as Kinmen and Matsu. Kinmen Islands are located east of Xiamen in southern Fujian, about 5.5 nautical miles from the mainland. They are divided into two islands: Da Kinmen and Xiao Kinmen . By the summer of 1958, the troops in Jin and Malaysia had as many as 10. The situation in the Taiwan Strait is becoming increasingly tense.
On July 14, 1958, the people of Iraq launched a revolutionary war. American imperialism directly sent troops to Lebanon to interfere in the Iraqi revolution. The situation in the Middle East suddenly became tense and became the focus of world contradictions.
Chiang Kai-shek Group took this opportunity to expand the situation and declare the troops on a "special alert state". At the same time, the National Army began military exercises and strengthened the Air Force's reconnaissance activities on the mainland.
The central government naturally cannot let it go against the various provocative actions of the US government and Chiang Kai-shek group.
As early as July 1954, Chairman Mao sent a telegram to Premier Zhou and wrote: "It is inappropriate for us to not propose the task of 'liberation of Taiwan' in time after the North Korean armistice. If we do not carry out this work now, we will make serious political mistakes."
Immediately afterwards, " People's Daily " also published an editorial, emphasizing that the task of the People's Liberation Army is to oppose imperialist aggression, eliminate Chiang Kai-shek's participation in the group, and liberate Taiwan.
It can be said that in order to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, Chairman Mao did not hesitate to use force, and the people of also did not allow Chiang Kai-shek to occupy Taiwan for a long time, and they could not tolerate the United States separating Taiwan from China.
The so-called "it is tolerant," as the enemy becomes increasingly arrogant, Chairman Mao and other central leaders made the decision to shell Kinmen. This decision was both a warning to Chiang Kai-shek and a contest with the United States.
According to Chairman Mao's idea, artillery attacks are mainly artillery strikes, and they are preparing to fight for two or three months. Then, the two Air Force divisions will turn south at the same time or later, and enter Shantou and Liancheng respectively to prepare for the next step of combat.
On the evening of July 18, 1958, the Central Committee held a meeting to make further arrangements for Kinmen Artillery Battle . Not long after, General Ye Fei, who was setting up a rush to collect work in the suburbs, received a call from Beijing.
On the other end of the phone, General Staff Operations Minister Wang Shangrong said to Ye Fei: "Comrade Ye Fei, the Central Committee decided to shell Kinmen, and you were the commander of the order."
According to the principle, such a battle should be commanded by the commander of the military region. Ye Fei was the first secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee at that time, so after hearing this instruction, he felt very strange and asked: "Is it the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao who decided to let me command?" Wang Shangrong replied yes.
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ye Fei although he was not sure why Chairman Mao asked him to command, there must be profound meaning in it, so he agreed: "Since that is the case, I firmly accept the orders of the Central Committee."
Soon, the front-line command post led by Ye Fei was established. In addition, Nie Fengzhi, commander of the Air Force of the Fuzhou Military Region Air Force, and Peng Deqing, deputy commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and the front-line command post of the fleet were established.
From this time on, the People's Liberation Army seized the time to prepare for war. At this time, the front-line of Fujian was heavy rain for several days, accompanied by typhoon , but even so, the preparations for shelling Kinmen were still in an orderly manner.
Just when the Kinmen battle was about to begin, the Soviet ambassador to China suddenly visited and proposed to Chairman Mao to establish a Sino-Soviet "joint" "The Fleet" request. In response, Chairman Mao certainly expressed his flattery to refuse.
Because of this sudden "income" by the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao had to spread his energy from the shelling of Kinmen. On July 27, Chairman Mao wrote to General Peng and Huang Kecheng, postponing the launch of the battle.
This is also the reason why the shelling of Kinmen, which was originally planned to be launched at the end of July, did not start until August 23. On August 6, Chiang Kai-shek announced that Taiwan, Penghu, Kim and Horse and other regions immediately entered an emergency combat readiness state. On the same day, the US government also received intelligence: Mainland China was preparing to shell Kinmen.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait suddenly became tense.
On August 20, 1958, Chiang Kai-shek went to Kinmen and boarded the artillery position of Northern Taiwushan for inspection, and motivated the Kuomintang army.
On the same day Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Kinmen, Chairman Mao convened a meeting in Beidaihe. At the meeting, Chairman Mao pointed out that the purpose of shelling Kinmen was to support the anti-US struggle of the people in the Middle East, to combat Chiang Kai-shek's arrogance, and to touch the trump card of the US policy to Taiwan.
Immediately afterwards, Chairman Mao determined that the purpose of shelling Kinmen was to support the anti-US struggle of the people in the Middle East, to combat Chiang Kai-shek's arrogance, and to touch the trump card of the US policy to Taiwan.
Immediately afterwards, Chairman Mao determined The time to shell Kinmen - 17:30 on August 23. This time was decided by Chairman Mao after careful consideration. On August 23, it happened to be Saturday, and 17:30 was the summer dinner time of the defenders of Kinmen Island. At this time, the attack was just right to attack them.
In addition, the sunset was setting, and the sunset shone on the large and small Kinmen Islands, which was conducive to the aim of our frontier artillery, and the defenders on the island were against the light, which was not conducive to counterattack.
On August 21, Ye Fei reported the preparations to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao listened to Ye Fei's report while looking at the map, and his energy was very concentrated. When Ye Fei finished reporting, Chairman Mao asked, "Will you kill the Americans with so many cannons? "
At that time, American consultants were always equipped to the national military camp level, so they would definitely hit. Ye Fei answered truthfully. Chairman Mao thought for a while and asked again: "Can we avoid not hitting the Americans? "Ye Fei replied very simply: "Chairman, that is inevitable. "
After hearing this, Chairman Mao did not ask any other questions, but announced a break directly. According to Chairman Mao's habit, this is what he wants to consider further. In fact, the reason why Chairman Mao asked these questions is that mainly wants to see if the United States dares to intervene when playing against the Chiang army. The Chairman wants to see how effective the US joint defense treaty is. In fact, this is to test the trump card of the United States.
Chairman Mao thought for a long time and finally made up his mind that no matter what the US has, it will be carried out according to the deployment of our army. So at the meeting the next day, Chairman Mao said to Ye Fei: "Just play according to your plan. "Ye Fei instantly understood what Chairman Mao meant.
On August 23, 1958, in Xiamen, opposite Kinmen, nearly 500 cannons from the People's Liberation Army artillery positions were "ready" and waiting for the arrival of the firing time.
Kinmen artillery battle
17:25, with the "preparation" command, all the cannons raised their guns at the same time; at 17:30, the commander gave the order, all the cannons fired together, and clusters of white smoke and orange-red fires appeared on each cannon position immediately. In less than an hour, nearly 20,000 shells were fired, and the entire Kinmen was immediately submerged in the smoke.
Korean Party was unable to resist, and even wired phone was beaten, and could only use wireless calls to intimidate. Some of the national army, who were still calm, knew to communicate in code words, and those who were scared to death did not even use code words, shouting: "The artillery fire of the Communist Army is too powerful, we are beaten to no avail!"
These 20,000 shells were shot, and the attention of the whole world was shifted from the Middle East to the island. Chiang Kai-shek scratched his ears and heads, and US President Eisenhower couldn't sleep. He couldn't figure out the intention of our army to shell Kinmen on such a large scale, and began to order the half of the US Sixth Fleet of the Mediterranean to be transferred to the Taiwan Strait.
Eisenhower
Eisenhower's move eased the situation in the Middle East, and Chairman Mao's first goal was achieved. With successive defeats, Chiang Kai-shek stopped maritime transportation on the one hand and began to request US aid on the other hand. Eisenhower discussed with Dulles and others in , White House , believing that the United States must keep Taiwan.
Therefore, the US government ordered the Seventh Fleet to be in a state of emergency. By early September, dozens of ships had been assembled. On September 7, the Kuomintang transport team entered Kinmen under the cover of the US military. When the People's Liberation Army saw the US military trying to undermine our sovereignty and the national army that never repent, they demanded artillery.
In response to this, Chairman Mao replied: "It will be fine!" Yes, as long as you dare to destroy our country's national sovereignty and attempt to divide our country's territory, you cannot retreat no matter what.
Just as Chairman Mao said at a meeting after the shelling of Kinmen on the 23rd: "This is the land of our motherland, it is not controlled by others. We must continue to fight, and we are not afraid of any threat!"
After Chairman Mao's reply, Ye Fei asked Chairman Mao if he wanted to fight with the US ship. Chairman Mao thought about it and said that he would only fight the Chiang ship, not the US ship, and this was also to test the bottom line of the United States.
After receiving Chairman Mao’s instructions, our army immediately fired, and when the US military saw our army open fire, it immediately turned around and drove towards the outer sea. The officers and soldiers on the Chiang ship were so angry that they cursed. These unencrypted curses were uploaded from the People's Liberation Army's phone, , which made everyone laugh.
Now, Chairman Mao also found out the American trump card and smiled knowingly. Since then, Chairman Mao has flexibly used his struggle strategies, fighting and stopping, half and half stopping, fighting and stopping, and stopping if he wants to fight. often makes Chiang Kai-shek and the US military confused, and at the same time is also worried. After all, "Lingchi" is always even more uncomfortable. "Architecture Battle" like
continued from the autumn and winter of 1958 to early 1979, and fought for 20 years. This is really a wonder, rare in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.
In the Kinmen artillery battle, Chairman Mao has always held the initiative in the war, led everyone to fight, and made the US empire swing. The final result is also gratifying. On the one hand, it hit Chiang’s arrogance, and on the other hand, it thwarted the US conspiracy to interfere in our internal affairs and defended national sovereignty.
Now, the smoke of Kinmen has long dissipated, and the whole world has undergone tremendous changes, but we will surely inherit the legacy of our predecessors. The trend of unity of the Chinese nation cannot be stopped by anyone!
