At 11:10 on September 5, 1958, three days after our army stopped shelling Kinmen, a US aircraft P-5M type invaded our airspace.
This is an unusual military provocation. The US authorities openly refuse to recognize our country's territorial waters of 12 nautical miles, only 3 nautical miles!
The commander of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, Lieutenant General Bickley, arrived at Keelung Port, Taiwan on the flagship "Helena", and summoned Lieutenant General Lie Yuxi, the commander of the Kuomintang Navy, and planned the Taiwan Strait escort transportation plan.
Add a breakdown. The process of Li Yuxi's success is very dramatic. He himself graduated from the first phase of the Navy Lightning and Thunder School, known as the Navy Huangpu, and was promoted from the captain of the speedboat to the captain of the Kuomintang's main warship - the captain of the Taihe ship.
On April 25, 1949, 33 days after the People's Liberation Army launched the Crossing the River Battle, Chiang Kai-shek left his hometown in Ningbo and took a boat to Shanghai. The ship was the Taihe ship.
Li Yuxi
When Lao Jiang met the naval officer on the ship, he learned that the captain was Li Yuxi, and he couldn't help but say sadly: "The great mountains and rivers have fallen, what's the use of having Jade Seal ?"
At this time, Li Yuxi took over the conversation: "President, if there is jade seal, there is a reputation, and ZTE will have hope!"
Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed when he heard this. From then on, the Taihe ship became the royal ship for Lao Jiang for a long time. Li Yuxi was also promoted from captain to the head of the Chiang Navy and "Chiang General Staff Chief of Staff".
Back to the topic, in the past half month, the Lieutenant General Bickley has visited Taiwan for three consecutive times, conspiring to plan the so-called "assisting defense of Taiwan" military provocation.
18:20, our army's radar discovered
From 5:00 to 18:00 on September 6, the US Navy aircraft carriers "Hancock", " "Midway" , "Princeton" and "H "Lexington" html, under the escort of the cruiser and destroyer , moved east of Keelung and the Taiwan Strait.
Midway Island aircraft carrier
These behemoths with full load displacement of about 40,000 to 60,000 tons are 272 meters to 298 meters long and 30 to 36 meters wide. Each carrier-based aircraft has more than 370 speeds and about 33 knots. This is the aircraft carrier special-mix fleet of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet.
The US military's move is intended to show our army the power of its "effective strike" and conduct demonstration exercises.
At 19:00 on the same day, Lieutenant General Wang Shangrong of the General Staff Department "808" told Lieutenant General Zhang Yixiang, deputy commander of the Fujian Military Region, said:
"Don't fire artillery tomorrow (7th), wait for another day to take a look. There will be telegram instructions for the next action. Don't fight before Military Commission is ordered."
September 7, sunny, is rarely cloudy to cloudy. Our Navy Weitou and Zhenhai Radar Station continuously searched the Taiwan Strait, and there were 11 developments on the radar screen - 8 cruisers, destroyers, landing ships, , and submarine hunting ships.
Tianjie Temple Naval Command Post entered the deployment of " First-level Combat Readiness ". Naval Colonel Gao Lizhong and Operations Director Bo Guangzhu Naval Lieutenant Colonel , and Intelligence Director Zhang Hong, Navy Navy, sat at the chart table in the combat room, staring at the Navy Captain Zhao Hongru.
Ziyunyan pointed to the battle room of the cover department. Lieutenant General Zhang Yixiang, Colonel Shi Yichen, Colonel Wang Jianxing, Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Fan and others sat on both sides of the long table, staring at the map of Captain Wang Yan, the naval staff officer.
Everyone's expressions are nervous and serious. This is an unprecedented mixed escort formation of the US and Chiang Kai-shek Navy, which appeared in the Kinmen Waters. At around 9 o'clock, the US Navy's heavy cruiser "Helena" (flagship) led four destroyers slowly into the Kinmen waters.
Following them were the destroyers "Xinyang" (flagship) led by the Kuomintang Navy Commander Lie Yuxi, two destroyers "Weiyuan Small and Jiangzi". The formation escorted the "Meizi" landing ship to unload the shore of the Liaoluo Bay.
At the same time, dozens of American aircraft and Kuomintang Air Force aircraft were covering the air.
9 from 10:00 to 10:50, located 20 nautical miles south of Kinmen Island, the U.S. Navy destroyer fleet serves as patrol guards and forms a warning curtain.
9 from 23 to 9:45, located 14 to 19 nautical miles south of Kinmen Island, the Kuomintang naval escort formation approached Liuluo Bay. At 11:25, two "Mei Font" landing ships entered and were uninstalled.
Naval radar station reports the ship's position every 10 minutes, marking the location of the US ship from the nautical chart, and it openly invaded our territorial waters.
When the Helena was moving 4 nautical miles south of Weitou Kok, it happened to enter the most effective range of my coastal cannon .
The so-called "sea fortress" with a "deterrence force" of 20,000 tons, a total length of 218 meters, equipped with 9 203mm triple main guns, 12 127mm dual secondary guns, 24 76mm anti-aircraft guns, and 60 20mm anti-aircraft guns (double-mounted) stands on the sea.
Stars and Stripes fluttered in the wind, the radar antenna on the main mast was rotating, and the sailors walked around the deck, vividly remembering.
At this time, Rear Admiral Peng Deqing was inspecting the Weitou coastal artillery position. He went to the Guantong radar station to observe Liuluo Bay with a large-scale telescope and looked at the hull of the "Helena".
He once boarded the USSR's flagship cruiser "Dmitry Pozziers" and the Indian Navy's flagship cruiser "Mysore".
Now the American cruiser Helena came uninvited. Looking at each other from afar, its 203mm naval gun raised its gun body and its muzzle faced the mainland.
Such a blatant invasion of my sacred territorial waters and demonstrations to my frontline troops is extremely infuriating!
Political Commissar Ye Fei, Deputy Commander Zhang Yixiang, Deputy Political Commissar Liu Peishan, and Deputy Chief of Staff Shi Yichen boarded the Genting Rock Observation Center and looked at the "Helena" special mixed formation.
They repeatedly ordered the commanders of Xiamen , Lianhe Cannon Group and Coastal Cannon Group: "No shooting is allowed!"
18 from 02 to 18:45, the US and Jiang Te escort formations left the Kinmen Sea one after another.
cruiser "Helena"
Sunset shone on the cruiser "Helena". Zhenhai radar station and coastal artillery battalion saw the most clearly. The US Navy sailors danced " swing dance " on the deck and threw beer bottles into the sea at times.
18 from 50 to 20:22, the cruiser Helena and four destroyers were located at 100 degrees in the Zhenhai Radar Station and 27 nautical miles away gradually disappeared into the vast sea.
The chart of the Ziyunyan Command Post marks the 11 warships, including the Helena and Xinyang, are marked with the tracks of , and accurately reported the ship position of the US ship invading our territorial waters as the basis for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to raise serious protests.
On this day, General Ye Fei, Lieutenant General Zhang Yixiang, Lieutenant General Nie Fengzhi, and Major General Peng Deqing spent the day nervously.
The US Navy was openly involved in this conflict, and it was too much to be tolerated! Do you want to fight? what to do? Fang Yi's artillery fires or accidentally strikes a US ship, which is a major responsibility.
23:30, Chief of Staff Huang Kecheng called to Political Commissar Ye Fei and said: Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou have studied the public intervention of the US Navy today and gave two instructions.
First, in order to punish the artillery attacks of the Kinmen defenders of the Kinmen Army, we are ready to fight back and shell out military targets of the Da, Xiao, Kinmen, Erdan Island , including command posts, communication hubs, infantry, and artillery positions.
Second, the scale of the artillery is larger than that on August 23. We are preparing to hit 30,000 rounds. Let's see if your artillery troops are ready?
If you can prepare tomorrow, you will shell the shelling from around 5:00 to 6:00 tomorrow. If you don’t have time, you will shoot the day after tomorrow. Because some of your artillery have retreated, please study it and report the results of the research to the Military Commission.
Third, we are preparing to use coastal cannons and torpedo boats to strike transport ships. Today, the Chiang ship directly covers the Kinmen waters in the US Navy. Our Foreign Ministry will issue a serious protest warning tomorrow.
If you come again the second time, you will use torpedo boats and shore cannons to attack the transport ships of the Kuomintang army.However, it is difficult to fight between US and Chiang Kai-shek warships, so they don’t fight. The main purpose of fighting Chiang Kai-shek warships is to fight ships leaning against the dock.
Late at night, Ziyunyan Front Command held a combat meeting, and General Ye Fei conveyed a series of instructions from the Central Military Commission, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
He said that the reserves of Kinmen defenders were reduced one day by day, which was very difficult. Chiang Kai-shek asked the United States for help, attempting to drag the Americans into the water and directly participate in the escort. Imada and the United States and Chiang Kai-shek jointly provoked and demonstrated to me, showing the determination and strength of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek to "jointly defend".
is of great importance. American imperialism is a vicious real tiger, with its tits and claws, but it also has a weak side. We need to expose its true face of the paper tiger with more violent large-scale artillery bombardment and touch its trump card of "assisting defense".
Chairman Mao clearly instructed to only attack Chiang ship and not US ships, even if the US ships were shelling us, and there was no order from the Central Military Commission, the commanders present should issue military orders!
He knocked on the table with his fingers and said seriously: "Only hitting the Chiang ship, not the American ship is a dead order, and we must implement it resolutely."
"It's not that we are afraid of the United States. We have fought on the Korean battlefield, so we should be polite and then soldiers! It's not impossible to retreat."
"At present, our main target of combat is the Chiang Kai-shek Group in Taiwan, and we must achieve reasonable, favorable and concise fighting strategies. The situation is still developing, and everything must be subject to the orders of the Central Military Commission."
Ziyunyan Front-point
Front-point combat meeting ended at 2 a.m. After the commanders of each department returned, they must continue to convey and implement it level by level.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait is becoming increasingly serious, AP Telecommunications revealed that a senior official of the Eisenhower administration said that if an air base on mainland China is used as a base for launching an air attack on Kinmen, it will be bombed almost immediately.
The authoritative person said that when necessary, American fighters and bombers will also join the war.
This is the hysterical intimidation and blackmail by the US authorities.
Not only that, The U.S. State Department spokesperson said on the same day: "The United States has never recognized any requirement for 12 nautical miles of territorial waters. Our attitude towards territorial waters has always been in the range of 3 nautical miles."
At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense military spokesperson also brutally declared: "The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet does not recognize the decision on the width of the territorial waters."
The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet Battle Group
The implication is that the special mixed formation of the U.S. Navy's Helena cruiser invaded the Kinmen waters is a "legal" action.
Official struggles at home and abroad have also appeared on the diplomatic stage. The Seventh Fleet of the US Navy intervened in the escort of Kinmen waters, shocking countries around the world, and the military situation in the Taiwan Strait has escalated.
On September 4, after meeting with President Eisenhower, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles made a threatening speech at Newport, Rhode Island under the authorization of Eisenhower, saying nonsense:
"Taiwan and Kinmen and Mazu Islands have never been under the jurisdiction of the CCP."
He also said shamelessly: "The United States has a treaty obligation to help defend Taiwan from armed attacks."
He also said: "The United States has made military deployments so that once the president makes a decision, he will take timely and effective actions."
Dules
It can be seen that the US Navy's special mixed fleet directly escorted Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek Group in the Taiwan Strait and Kinmen waters, and carried out "military deployments" as early as early September. Dulles did not hide the US's aggression.
On September 6, Premier Zhou Enlai issued a solemn statement on the situation in the Taiwan Strait region:
"The Chinese people's determination to liberate their own territory Taiwan and Penghu Islands is unshakable. The Chinese people have the full right to take all appropriate methods and at the right time to liberate their territory, and do not allow any foreign interference..."
Premier Zhou's solemn statement spread throughout the world, inspiring the righteous indignation of the peace-loving people in China and the world;
On September 7, 3 million people in the capital of Beijing held a large demonstration, firmly supporting Premier Zhou's solemn statement, opposing the aggression of the US government and Dulles' reactionary clamor.
At the same time, the Freedom Daily in Detroit, USA published an editorial saying: "We are very doubtful that one of the 1 million Americans is willing to fight for Taiwan?"
It condemned the US government for "not facing reality, should not deceive itself, and fantasize that as long as the United States ignores China, China will be eliminated.
September 8th, the weather was clear. This day was the most exciting and spectacular day since our army shelled Kinmen Island. The United States, Chiang Kai-shek and us performed a show. An unprecedentedly intense and subtle live drama. Everything is unpredictable.
The sun rises on the east sea. The Zhenhai Cape Navy radar stands at a distance of 60 nautical miles and discovers the special mixed formation of the US Navy heavy cruiser "Helena". The development of 7 warships appears on the fluorescent screen:
6 destroyers form a warning formation, guarding the huge "Helena" flagship, and under the command of the major general of the Brackburn Army, they "come" the Kinmen waters again.
This destroyer with the 72nd special mixed formation, It is the US Navy's "Killing" class and "Sheerman" class.
"Killing" class destroyer
full load displacement 3480 tons to 3800 tons, with a total length of 119 meters to 125 meters. It is equipped with 3 127mm main guns, 2 76mm secondary guns, and a 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft gun 7 and 6-connected torpedo tubes, with a speed of up to 33 knots.
In addition to the "Helena" special mixed formation, the Zhenhaijiao Navy radar also discovered Li Yuxi, the commander of the Kuomintang Navy at about 9 o'clock. The "Rizi", "Taizi" and "Yongzi" led each, and two "Jizi" and "Meizi" were 20 nautical miles from the waters east of Dongting Island under the cover of the 72nd special mixed formation of the US Navy, and headed towards the Kinmen Island.
Tianjie Temple Naval Command Post ordered all shore artillery battalions to carry out second-level combat readiness, and shooting was strictly prohibited without the orders of the military region's front-line command. At
11:35, the intelligence department determined that the two medium-sized landing ships of the Kuomintang Navy were "Meila" and "Meizhen" No. .
Its full load displacement is 1095 tons, loaded with gasoline, ammunition and military supplies, and unloaded on the shore beaches near Double Tak Street and Shatou respectively. It is in a state of anchorage, which is a favorable opportunity for our coastal artillery shooting.
At this time, the US and Jiang Haijun in the Kinmen Sea formed a two-layer patrol cordon, and the US warship invaded our territorial waters.
Genting Rock Navy Coast Artillery Command Post, unveiled the shooting plan panel in the tunnel, Geng Pei Lun Naval Colonel , Navy Major Zhang Jiming and Navy Captain Zhang Quanfu are responsible for commanding the shooting here.
They conduct test firing according to the "measurement deviation method" taught by Soviet experts. Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang Quanfu, who studied back from the Soviet Union, performed tactical calculations to correct the blasting point deviation.
shooting distance is 190,000 to 220,000 meters, that is, 105 Gabes to 116 Gabes (equivalent to 1853 meters per Gabe). It is difficult to hit the enemy ship in Liaoluo Bay at such a long distance.
Zhang Quanfu Navy Captain Zhang Quanfu fights immediately The telephone number was Captain Li Keshun, Chief of Staff of the 38th Battalion of Weitoujiao, and Captain Ren Qitao, Navy, and the commander of the 44th Battalion, to calibrate and fire the various units and standby to prepare for shooting.
Today is the third large-scale artillery battle since the shelling of Kinmen. The ground artillery soldiers participating in the artillery battle were 42 battalions and 6 other coastal artillery companies, with a total of 489 cannons.
, the 28th Regiment of the 2nd Artillery Division and the 7th Regiment of the 6th Artillery Division, which had just been transferred from North China, participated in the first battle. They were all elite cannon regiments, well-trained and well-equipped, and had participated in the ht many times. ml2 Tiananmen Square review.
Genting Rock tunnel command post, General Ye Fei sat behind the 40x telescope, staring at the northern Taiwu Mountain and Liaoluo Bay of Da Kinmen Island. He said enthusiastically: "They are both very good today. Will Hu Lian come out to bask in the sun? Will he dare to walk out of the tunnel?"
Today is the first time that political commissar Ye Fei is in charge of the artillery battle. He seems to be very excited. As the highest commander on the front line, it is more complicated than the previous two commands of the artillery bombardment of Kinmen Island. He faces the challenge of the US Navy's special mixed formation, and his responsibility is heavy and extraordinary.
Deputy Commander Zhang Yixiang As the deputy political commissar of Ye Fei, his pressure was greatly reduced. He said:
"I think Hu Lian dares to come out to bask in the sun easily. Our army suspends artillery for three days, and the soldiers are never tired of deceiving. He cannot figure out the intentions of our army and will not come out to take risks easily. If we postpone the artillery attack to 17:35 on August 23, then Hu Lian had walked out and walked in the tunnel, perhaps he had already made him see God."
Deputy Political Commissar Liu Peishan said to Ye Fei with a smile: "Our 10th Corps and Hu Lian's 12th Corps later confronted Kinmen Defense Department for 9 years. It should be a ferocious. This shelling of Kinmen will bring him a lot of defeat!"
At this time, the guard brought egg fried rice and tomato and pickled vegetables soup to provide everyone with their first Chinese food. Ye Fei said while eating, "I won the battle today. I invite you to the Nanputuo Damiao Temple Temple to eat famous vegetarian dishes."
Zhang Yixiang smiled and said, "I won't go to eat monk's food. I want to eat dog meat and drink Maotai liquor ."
After lunch, the Major General Peng Deqing came to the Gentingyan Observatory and reported to the Political Commissar Ye Fei: "We are ready and are sure to fight this battle!" "
Ye Fei said to Peng Deqing: "Today we will strive to sink the US enemy ship, but we are absolutely not allowed to fire guns at the US ship. I have issued a military order to Chairman Mao, and that the US ships are shooting at us, and we are not allowed to fight back!"
Then Ye Fei instructed Zhang Yixiang to call the Jinjiang Air Force Command Post and ordered Commander Nie Fengzhi to pay attention to air cover and ensure the air safety of the war zone.
The Chinese cruisers, destroyers and the Kuomintang Navy's ship on the sunny afternoon were cruising and wandering in the waters south of Liaoluo Bay, with radar antennas constantly traveling.
12:43, our coastal artillery began to fire, and the muzzle emitted an orange-red flame, and the shells flew towards the enemy landing ships Yimeile and Meizhen.
This is the 149th Company of Lianhe. Four 130mm shore artillery fired volleys. Its 13-ton artillery and 336 kilograms showed its power.
12:50, the Genting Rock Shore Artillery Command Post ordered the suspension of fire. , observe the corrected bounce point, then start shooting from the 150th Company of the Fence, and bullet posts rose from the sea. In less than 10 minutes, three shells of the "Mela" were hit.
So, the two shore artillery companies fired alternately, correcting the bounce point while shooting, and finding the precise shooting elements, so that the shooting width quickly narrowed to 1 Gabe or 1/2 Gabe. Then at 13:34, 5 shells of the "Mela" landing ship were hit.
to 13:40, the ship caught fire, and A violent explosion sounded like a mountain collapse and cracked the ground. It began to sink in less than 4 minutes.
The ammunition of the ship exploded and the fuel caught fire, and it exploded into two pieces in an instant. The stern of the ship sank into the sea. The wings of the ship wings came out of the water. The thick smoke and fire rose into the sky. A thick black smoke rushed into the sky!
At the same time, I shot at the 151st company in the 151st company in the 12:45th time, and the 108th company in the Zhenhaijiao went to the old city of Dakinenmen, Gukeng, Queshan, 115th The artillery position on the left side of the high ground carried out suppression shooting.
The shelled Kinmen Airport
Xiamen Shicuotou 107th Company fired at the enemy's No. 304 artillery position at 13:12.
Deputy Commander Zhang Yixiang reported to Lieutenant General Wang Shangrong, Chief of Staff of Beijing, in time to report the battle situation of sinking the enemy ship "Mele".
At this time, General Ye Fei issued a shooting order "Preparation - let go! "More than 400 cannons opened fire.
He kept looking at the explosion of the "Melau" landing ship from the telescope and sank. At the same time, he watched the dynamics of the "Helena" special mixed formation.
Six destroyers of the US Navy, according to the flag flying on the main mast of the flagship, quickly turned 180 degrees, increased their speed and turned the head of the ship, and fled 12 nautical miles south of the Lieluo Bay.
It did not fire a single shot, leaving the Kuomintang's "ally" warships ignored it, wandering in a safe waters to watch the battle.
The bombed "Mele" landing ship
Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Bukraben commanded the powerful 72nd Special Mixed Team. Regardless of their safety, he gave up his "obligation" to cover and support, fled to the outside seas, and cursed angrily:
"The United States will not save him when he dies. It is really not a thing. What is this joint defense?"
Admiral Ye Fei understood very well in his heart. He finally saw the so-called "assistant defense" attitude and limitations of the United States in the 50-minute artillery battle, and found out the trump card of the US authorities. It fled at the critical moment, left its "allies" and ran away.
It turns out that what we are most worried about is that the American cruiser's 9 203mm naval guns are shooting at me.
When I observed that the US ship was violently bombarding the Lieluo Bay and hitting the "Mela" explosion, it accelerated to turn the head of the ship and fled, and it immediately exposed the original form of the "Paper Tiger".
It allows us to deeply see the attitude of the US Navy to avoid direct conflicts with us for its own safety. This is just a shot and a run away.
On the surface, the US side sent a special mixed team to directly escort the Kuomintang Navy, and Chiang also "put on the power of the fox and tigers" to forcibly land and unload supplies in Liaoluo Bay with the help of the Wuwei of the US cruiser.
However, at a critical moment of conflict of interests, the US first considers its own interests and will never be dragged into the water by Chiang Kai-shek, which shows that a "joint defense" treaty is a limited and reserved "fulfilment of obligations."
We strive to "only attack Chiang ships, not US ships" to avoid direct war with the US side. The US side tacitly agreed and adopted a single shot to deal with this dramatic "direct escort".
13:52, Commander Peng Deqing ordered the 107th Company, the 149th Company and the 150th Company to concentrate their firepower and shoot at the landing ship of the "Meizhen" and to shoot until the maximum range.
forced the enemy ship to flee into the waters south of Liuluo Bay, approaching the "Yangzi" and "Taizi" ships for protection.
14:53, the commander of the Kuomintang Navy, Li Yuxi, ordered the captain of the "Meizhen" to return to the landing and unloading of the Liaoluo Bay. So the "Meizhen" turned around and drove into Luowan regardless of his life and death, and was immediately shot by our shore artillery.
Soon after, the "Meizhen" was injured by me and escaped from Liuluo Bay and approached the US Navy destroyer. Our coastal artillery stopped shooting at 17:35.
When our army shelled Kinmen Island for 10 minutes, the artillery positions in Kinmen Island began to shell, shooting more than 4,500 shots at the Huzai Mountain, Qianpu, Lianhe, Dasao Island, Weitoujiao and other artillery positions in Xiamen Island, causing 15 casualties and 2 artillery pieces to be damaged.
Our army consumed more than 21,700 shells, including 1,378 coastal artillery fired, sinking and injuring one enemy landing ship, and one small landing craft and one motorboat. The artillery battle ended from 0 to 18, and it hit three enemy warehouses and caught fire, with 2 observation centers, 2 radio stations, and 4 bunkers.
The afterglow of the sunset shines on the big, Little Kinmen Island . The US Navy's special mixed formation and the Kuomintang Navy escort formation returned together. They could not helplessly dare to stay in the Kinmen waters for a long time, for fear of being attacked by our torpedo boat team at night.
On September 9, many American reporters asked Dulles:
"In yesterday's military operation in the Straits, a Kuomintang ammunition ship was blown up, and the US escort ship did not fire. Can you tell us why not fire? If a Chinese Communist shell hits a US ship, what will happen?!"
's question was wonderful.
Dulles replied sly: "I can't tell you what the result will be. This depends largely on the specific situation. Is this a chance hit? Or intentional hit. If it is judged that this is an accidental event, it is another matter."
He also answered reporters: "If the CCP intentionally attacks the US Navy ships on the international high seas, the US Navy will strike back in some way."
The "international high seas" mentioned by Dulles refer to the sea areas outside the 3 nautical miles of territorial sea line, while the territorial sea line announced by my country is 12 nautical miles, which is an inviolable territorial sea right.
The Central Military Commission sent a telegram to the Fuzhou Military Region Front Command on September 9, saying: "On September 8, our artillery troops fought fiercely. In order to gain political, military and diplomatic initiative."
"Today, the artillery bombardment of Kinmen will be suspended, and the enemy's dynamics and reactions will be taken, and then the next step will be determined."
"According to the above attempts, if the enemy artillery fires at me, I can fight back appropriately, and stop at the right time, and I will not fire when the enemy artillery does not hit me. The airport can be properly blocked, and the Chiang Kai-shek aircraft will not hit American aircraft."
" When the Chiang Kai-shek transportation fleet is parked at the Liaoluo Bay, in favorable circumstances, our shore artillery can be fired, but it is not suitable to fire more. The torpedo boat team will not be dispatched at night."
So our frontier artillery troops stepped up the construction of positions and replenished ammunition, and prepared to carry out large-scale artillery battles.
Starting from 8:20 on the same day, in order to retaliate, the old city of Da Kinmen, Little Kinmen and the two-dan cannon positions shot 141 shells at my Gentingyan Zengcuoan, Xitou, and Da Kinmen Island, , Da Kinmen Island, and 1 dead gunner.
My Lianhe and Xiamen artillery groups carried out suppression shooting at 9:25, firing 2,647 shells, the enemy artillery positions stopped firing at 11:50, and I stopped firing at 18:20 minutes.
At 8:30 on September 11, Taiwan's Kuomintang Navy escort fleet ships were 10 ships. Under the direct cover of four US Navy destroyers, three "Meizi" landing ships were sailed into the beaches on both sides of Shatou on Luowan at around 13:00.
This area is not conducive to my observation and is a shore cover. The Kuomintang Navy Commander Li Yuxi chose this landing area, which can be said to have tried his best. This transportation supply was also called the "Lightning Project", which carried a large number of soldiers and materials.
However, since this day, the flagship cruiser "Helena" led by its "ally" Rear Admiral Brackburn has not "performed an escort mission" anymore, and the destroyers have also been reduced by two. Li Yuxi understands in his heart that the US Navy has reduced its forces to intervene in direct escort. It is undoubtedly "looking at the plum blossoms to quench thirst."
77 warships of the mixed fleet of the US and Chiang Navy are located 6 to 10 nautical miles south of the Lieluo Bay, forming two patrol cordons. The Taiwan Air Force dispatched 20 interceptors to fly over the Kinmen waters, so the "Lightning Plan" began to be implemented.
10:19, four U.S. Navy destroyers invaded our territorial waters one after another. My previous finger immediately reported to the Beijing General Staff.
Before noon, Lieutenant General Wang Shangrong of the Operations Department of the General Staff conveyed the order of Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai to Deputy Commander Zhang Yixiang:
Lieutenant General Wang Shangrong
"The US Navy destroyers continue to directly escort the Kuomintang naval transport ships, and openly invaded our territorial waters many times. Based on this situation, we resolutely bombarded the Kuomintang landing ships at Luowan, Kinmen Island, but it is not allowed to attack the US ships."
General Ye Fei immediately drove to the Genting Rock Command Post and ordered the artillery groups to prepare for shooting at 12:30.
12:50, the mixed formation of US and Chiang Kai-shek warships can be seen from the telescope, which increases the complexity and difficulty of artillery attacks.
So, General Ye Fei called Admiral Peng Deqing and said, "Only the landing ships unloaded on the dock in Luowan will not be fired." At
14:57, General Ye Fei issued an artillery order, with 40 ground artillery battalions and 6 coastal artillery companies, a total of 488 artillery pieces, and fired for 10 minutes.
In a flash, artillery fire was endless, and gunpowder covered the Kinmen Islands, and violent explosions were everywhere. After a while, the enemy artillery positions on Kinmen Island also began to counterattack.
The shelled Kinmen Beach
Genting Rock Bank Artillery Command Post, Rear Admiral Peng Deqing was fully focused. He ordered the four coastal artillery companies to launch fierce area shootings at 14:59 with the support of Zhenhai artillery radar.
At this time, the enemy ship cast a smoke screen to cover up its fleeing in panic. The thick black and gray smoke screen filled the Liaoluo Bay.
Admiral Ye Feishang was in the 40x telescope and continuously observed the battlefield. The three landing ships in the Liaoluo Bay were obscured by smoke screens.
Four US Navy destroyers on the sea fled to the outer sea at a speed of 30 knots, abandoned the escort formation led by Li Yuxi, and hovered in the Kinmen waters.
Lieutenant General Zhang Yixiang came to Xiamen's enemy radio station in person and said loudly:
"The Americans told lies again and deceived you. What should we do to help each other? It's just a written agreement. Whenever there is any disturbance, the United States will abandon you. Brothers of Chiang Army, don't have any fantasies about the Americans!"
Coastal Cannon Company 108 and 151st Company resolutely suppressed the enemy's large-caliber range artillery, and fired 448 shells in succession from 15:35 to 16:45.
Lianhe and Huamen artillery groups were ordered to stop the artillery shooting from 18 o'clock, firing a total of 25,294 shells, destroying 4 enemy observation centers, 3 artillery positions, 1 radar station, and 2 warehouses, and injuring 1 transport aircraft.
The enemy artillery position counterattacked me 3308 times, causing 35 casualties and 6 artillery pieces to be damaged.
It is worth noting that the enemy artillery shelled Xiamen Railway Station for the first time, attempting to cause transportation chaos in our country. A total of more than 110 train stations were shot, one employee dormitory and warehouse were destroyed, and two railway workers and 17 passengers were injured (2 dead inside).
In the fierce artillery battle, the enemy concentrated the sixth and seven artillery positions to attack the 4th Company of the 17th Regiment of our 3rd Artillery Division. A incendiary bomb fell into the ammunition room of the second squad of the company and exploded. The cartridge caught fire and spread to the artillery bed.
2 The squad leader made a quick decision and ordered the gunners to quickly evacuate the gun position and conceal it. At this time, the loader Hu Bian'an had just sent a shell into the barrel. If it was not fired immediately, the chamber would explode.
In this critical situation, Hood placed his life and death in the distance, rushed into the artillery position in a fierce fire, fired the shell alone, and ordered a cannon, and his whole body was severely burned to 70%.
This steel warrior lived forever in the fire and was named a first-class hero after the war.
htmlOn the morning of September 12, Political Commissar Ye Fei presided over a combat meeting of the commanders of the three armies in front of Ziyunyan. Everyone gathered together to express the joy of victory.Colonel Wang Jianxing, Director of the Military Region Intelligence Department, reported the enemy situation. He said:
"When the three landing ships of the Kuomintang Navy, the US military ships were still evacuated from the Kinmen waters at high speed as they did on September 8. It obviously avoided directly intervening in artillery war operations.
Wang Jianxing
" Since the two weeks from August 23 to September 6, the Kinmen defenders have received an average of 71 tons of supplies per day, a decrease of 91% compared with before the artillery war. "
Finally, Political Commissar Ye Fei said: "The current situation is very beneficial to me. The Kuomintang army is in a dilemma on Kinmen Island. Chiang Kai-shek must stick to it, and the United States also said it cannot be withdrawn. "
" Dulles said in a statement to answer the US Parliament that if someone thinks that Kinmen and Mazu are a local problem, it is dangerous! This sentence is also for us to hear. "
" Our air force entered Fujian, the artillery bombarded Kinmen, and the navy attacked Liaoluo Bay, causing the Kuomintang to fall into trouble. "
" The situation in Taiwan is already very clear. Chiang Kai-shek tried every means to drag the Americans into the water, while we strive to avoid direct conflict with the US Navy, and the Americans also try their best to avoid direct conflict with me. This is the very subtle tripartite situation in the Taiwan Strait. "
" In general, the United States is passive and has been dragged by us. So far, there are only two people - Chiang Kai-shek and Li Cheng-chung Group scold us, and the others scold Americans. Its actions in the Far East are very isolated and risky. ”
That night, the Xiamen Artillery Group shelled the Da and Xiao Kinmen Islands, Da and Erdan Islands three times at 18:05, 23:30, and 5:55 am, and fired 1,255 shells.
Lianhe Artillery Group fired 498 shells on Da and 730 shells on the airport.
At 1:34 am on September 13, Taiwan's Kuomintang Navy Commander Li Yuxi personally led the "Xinyang" and "Taizi" and the "Weiyuan" to form the 62nd task force, with the flagship Taizhao Tada.
The task of the task force is to cover the landing ships "Meihua", "Meixiang", "Meizhen", "Mei Peng", and "Meipeng", and two towed boats to transport supplies to Kinmen.
Xinyang
The formation has a total of 15 ships, located 16 nautical miles southeast of Kinmen Island. It was covered by night and drove into the Luowan anchorage at 3:45 am.
"Mei Font" Four landing ships landed and unloaded on the shore between Xiguo Mountain and Houhu at 4:05. Their combat ships patrol and alert in the waters south of Liuluo Bay.
This is Li Yuxi who was intimidated by our army's artillery attack and was forced to change the daytime landing and unloading to the nighttime landing and unloading. He attempted to complete the unloading before dawn.
2 US Navy destroyers invaded our territorial waters and were located 8 nautical miles south of Dongding Island at 3:05 to conduct patrol and alert activities.
At this time, Genting Rock Above the sky, stars were flashing, and the sea was vast. Kinmen Island and enemy ships on the sea implemented "light control" and there was no light visible.
Genting Rock
At 3:53 am, the East China Sea Front Command ordered the Zhenhai gun navigation radar to provide shooting elements to the coastal artillery companies, and began to shell the "Meizi" landing ship on the Liuluowanan Beach at 3:55.
Lianhe artillery group targeted the Da Kinmen artillery position at 4:12 am Fire to support coastal artillery operations.
130mm coastal artillery 16, 155mm howitzers, 36 152mm cannons, 40 122mm howitzers, and 24 122mm cannons, firing countless fires.
A series of "lightning"-like ballistics, clusters of explosion flashes, extremely spectacular!
After dawn, the US ship was far away from the Kinmen waters, and it could observe our army's shelling of Kinmen Island at night The dense artillery fire in Liaoluo Bay. It seems to be farther away than the previous artillery battles. At
6:20, all our artillery positions stopped shooting. After observation, a "Meizi" landing ship hit 10 shells and was forced to anchor and sail to the outside seas.
10:07, the enemy switched to landing craft to barge materials, attempting to reduce the shooting hit rate of our coastal artillery with small targets. This was Li Yuxi's advance The transport tools prepared are unfortunately only 20 tons of materials can be transported at one time for each landing craft.
Our Genting Rock Shore Iron Command Post uses four coastal artillery companies to conduct fixed barrage or mobile barrage for blocking and shooting. From 12:00 to 14:00, the target was bombarded 8 times, but due to the small target and long range, the results were not achieved.
rows of water columns appeared densely on the sea surface, and the shells exploded around the landing craft, front and back. They never hit the target.
16 At around 16:16, an enemy landing ship "Mei" landing ship was launched on the Beidawushan and Shatou Airport in Da Kinmen Island. When he was ignorant of the smoke screen, he quickly drove into Luowan and attempted to log in and unload.
Unfortunately, he was shot by two companies of our coastal artillery at 16:16, and hit a shell at 16:38. He fled to the outside seas in a hurry. This time, the unloading of the Bilu with smoke screen failed again.
At this time, the shooting started at 3:55 am , consumed 3,623 artillery shells, and stopped shooting at 16:40. The enemy shelled 116 at us, and our army was not injured or killed.
At dusk, Taiwan flew five transport planes and dropped a large number of sacks and cans on Da Kinmen Island, and were disturbed by our artillery.
On this day, the "American friends" were as unreliable as ever. Then, the Chiang army of Kinmen and the Chiang ship in Liaoluo Bay all rushed to Taiwan.
Taiwan asked: "Where are American friends and American warships? "
" What kind of bird friends are all bastards, they have already run away. "The commander of the "Meizi" landing ship was angry and cursed, "Twist all the supplies into the sea, and feed them all the sharks! "
At the Kinmen Port Pier, a group of Chiang soldiers who came to rob the supplies were risked by artillery. Seeing that the Chiang ship was returning, they shouted loudly and cursed.
Several angry soldiers picked up submachine guns, "Dadada..." swept towards the butt of the American warship that was moving away.
There was a curse from the enemy's report phone, "Americans are not friends enough, American bastard..."
Hearing these conversations, the people in our army's command post couldn't help laughing. Li Yuxi's so-called "lightning plan" was miscarried under the betrayal of the Americans.
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