On June 16, 1960, US President Eisenhower openly said: will visit Taiwan on behalf of the United States.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately aroused strong opposition from our country. We repeatedly warned the US side to give up the behavior, otherwise countermeasures would be taken.
But Eisenhower disdained and thought China was just talking. However, just as the US warship sailed to Taiwan, Chairman Mao personally ordered hundreds of cannons to directly bombard the US visiting fleet, which scared the US military and quickly ended the trip!
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, liberating Taiwan has become a major event in our country. As early as the beginning of the founding of New China, the United States had assured us that Taiwan belongs to our country and that they would not intervene.
kAfter the outbreak of the Korean War, the US side completely forgot the promise it made.
During this period, they were also ready to move on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and sent several fleets into the strait in an attempt to interfere in my country's internal affairs.
Even though the Korean War ended later and the two sides signed an armistice agreement, the US fleet still did not withdraw from my country's southeastern waters and was stationed around Taiwan, and never gave up the use of force to interfere in the strait matters.
In this regard, our country has decided to fight back against these illegal acts to demonstrate our determination to defend our country!
In July 1958, Chairman Mao ordered the strengthening of coastal defense construction in the southeast coastal areas and ordered the troops to start military exercises to express our attitude and shock Chiang Kai-shek and the United States.
8, more than 400 artillery guns were deployed in the coastal areas of Fujian, my country, pointing directly to the east of Kinmen Island . At the afternoon of the 23rd, with Chairman Mao’s order, the Kinmen artillery battle officially broke out. Our army received the order from superiors and opened fire with full firepower. In less than 3 hours, several carpet bombings were launched.
This fierce and unexpected artillery battle caught the National Army stationed on Kinmen Island off guard. The island was full of huge bullet craters and smoke rolled.
Not only that, most of the communication facilities on Kinmen Island were also completely destroyed. Their contact with the headquarters was directly broken, and the garrison troops were in chaos, and there was no dispute over whether to counterattack or retreat.
This artillery battle is of great significance to our country, and has even had an extremely far-reaching impact on the world, changing the inherent maritime pattern.
In August 1958, after the first round of Kinmen artillery war ended, my country announced an important message to the outside world.
Starting from this day, the territorial waters of my country and coastal islands have connected the mainland and coastal foreign aid islands. The straight line between each basis point is the benchmark and extends outward for 12 nautical miles. It is recognized as my country's territorial waters. Any foreign ship is prohibited from entering without permission.
This notice immediately caused an uproar around the world after an interview. You should know that in the international community, the standard for territorial sea division was 3 nautical miles outside the baseline, and the 12 nautical miles standard proposed by my country is the first time.
The reason why we set such a standard is mainly based on two reasons.
First, the previous 3-nautical miles standard was set by Britain, France, the United States and other countries, and did not obtain the consent of most countries. It is just a conventional rule.
And most of these countries that have finalized the rules of 3 nautical miles are maritime powers with extremely strong naval strength. Not to mention 3 nautical miles, even if it is set to 1 nautical miles, no country can get close to its territorial waters.
On the contrary, the narrow territorial waters of 3 nautical miles also facilitates these countries to use their navies to plunder the legitimate interests of other countries, and their hearts are punished.
In the face of objections from Western countries, Chairman Mao directly decided that our country's territorial waters standard would be divided into 12 nautical miles, because this was the maximum range of my country's shore defense artillery at that time, and it would not be easy for anyone to oppose it!
This distance not only greatly increases the reaction time and response ability of our country when facing enemies from the sea, but also effectively deters those who are ill-behaved.
As for the second point, it is naturally telling the United States that our attention to territorial waters and Taiwan is warned to give up interfering in cross-strait affairs as soon as possible. After the rule of
12 was established, the United States was furious and immediately issued a statement not to recognize the territorial waters set by our country.
They knew very well that once our country's division standards were recognized, it would be an extremely heavy blow to its maritime hegemony.
Therefore, on September 8, 1958, the US fleet advanced to Kinmen to transport supplies to the national troops on the island.
This is a naked provocation. The United States does not believe it at all. Our country really has the courage to fire at them.
But when the national army and the American ships drove into our territorial waters in a swagger, a scene that shocked the whole world happened: The artillery fire at our shore defense positions was fired together, and countless shells were fired towards these warships!
Amid the violent explosion and huge splashes, several national warships were immediately shot, and one of them sank on the spot due to excessive injuries.
The US warship was frightened by the sudden artillery fire, and immediately changed the route and drove at full speed, leaving the territorial waters of our country regardless of everything, for fear of being hit by our artillery shells.
This artillery battle completely laid the foundation for our 12 nautical miles of territorial waters. With our army's strong response, the arrogant Americans had to admit it.
After that, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait entered a period of "calmness". During this period, our army did not launch a large-scale artillery bombardment at Kinmen again.
just symbolically hit a few times the next day, and they simply don’t hit it on holidays.
There are two reasons for this: , one is that shells are relatively expensive. At that time, our country was vigorously developing the economy, and the remaining money was used as infrastructure.
The second is that during this period, the United States became much more honest and did not frequently interfere with my country's waters again, so the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have spent a period of peace.
But soon, US President Eisenhower couldn't sit still. He couldn't swallow this breath in his heart. His fleet was blown up by our army, which made him feel humiliated.
Finally, he made a shocking decision: personally boarded the US military warship and openly visited Taiwan!
1960, US President Eisenhower openly provoked our country and decided to board the warship in person and visit Taiwan!
This decision surprised all countries around the world. After all, in the Kinmen artillery battle less than two years ago, our country launched a protracted large-scale artillery battle, and even directly fired guns at the mixed fleet of the US and the National Army, which fully demonstrated our attitude.
And Eisenhower also visited Taiwan again, undoubtedly taking risks. At that time, some Western scholars even claimed that even if he died in the middle of the strait, it would not be surprising.
But Eisenhower ignored the wave of opposition at home and abroad, and despite the severe warnings from our country, he insisted on the original plan, just to go all the way to the dark!
At the same time, there are constant quarrels within our country, and everyone has different opinions on how to deal with the visit of the US president.
Some people think that by directly using cannon fire to sink, otherwise you will not be able to swallow this breath! Some people also believe that endurance is calm for a while and that at this stage, we should not break up with the United States.
Everyone was arguing and couldn't argue about a plan that everyone agreed upon.
At this time, the great man stood up and expressed his own point of view: restart the large-scale Kinmen artillery battle and use shells to "collect and drop off" Eisenhower!
The great man decided to launch a large-scale shelling demonstration against Kinmen during the US president's visit to express our strong opposition to the illegal actions of the US!
0 On the afternoon of June 17, as the US warships Eisenhower was riding gradually approaching Baodao, artillery fire broke out in the coastal positions of Fujian in our country, and the deafening explosions soared into the sky. Countless bombs landed on Kinmen Island, rolling up smoke and dust.
, Eisenhower, who witnessed everything, was very uneasy and ordered the warship to speed up and leave the sea area where the shells might hit as soon as possible.
On the evening, Eisenhower officially arrived in Taiwan, and our army launched a shelling at Kinmen again, which made the United States and Chiang Kai-shek authorities very afraid, fearing that our army would cross the strait in the next moment and directly unify the two sides of the strait.
For this reason, White House expressed strong protest against our army's shelling operations, which was directly ignored by us. Because no casualties were caused, the US could only protest and could not take counter-action.
The explosions from Kinmen made Eisenhower very uneasy. He had to forcefully reduce his original plan and stayed in Taiwan for only one day before leaving.
htmlOn the morning of June 19, when the US military ship left, our army fired again to "send" and fired tens of thousands of shells at Kinmen again. The deafening sound of artillery fire made the US military crew feel deeply uneasy.
Faced with this scene, Eisenhower no longer had the majesty of the past, but repeatedly urged his subordinates to get full force and leave as soon as possible.
Since this visit to Taiwan, Eisenhower has never been able to muster up the courage to set foot on our country's territory for the second time.
During these three days of artillery attacks, our army fired more than 70,000 shells , proving to the world that our country's internal affairs will never allow any other country to intervene or challenge!
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