Chapter 214: The Recovery of Taiwan (1)
As the name suggests, the Jinsui Army is the army stationed in Shanxi and Suiyuan. Now that Suiyuan is taken out of Yan Xishan's hand, it is the conditions for the central government to rescue Yan Xishan at that time. Although everyone still calls Yan Xishan's troops the Jinsui Army in the future, it is actually the Jin army.
The devils and Tsarist Russian invaders in the north temporarily retreated into the depths of the Mongolian grasslands, and the central government of Nanjing also seized the time to arrange plans to regain Taiwan.
Since ancient times, Kinmen and Xiamen have been the gateway to Taiwan. Now Kinmen and Xiamen are under the control of Nanjing. The Japanese Navy cannot even come out of the Sea of Japan, let alone patrol Taiwan. The regaining of Taiwan has been halfway done.
It is precisely this that the landing troops are the top priority. After the discussion, the final plan was also surprising: based on the reorganized 89th Division, it was mixed with Tang Enbo's troops in the Second General Regiment of the Tax Police to form the reorganized 13th Army as the first landing echelon - Tang Enbo was the commander, while Zhang Fakui's reorganized 4th Army as the second landing echelon, and Chen Cheng's reorganized 18th Army as the third landing echelon.
This plan also meets the principal's wishes. The first, second and third echelons are indeed the backbone of the Central Army. However, even if the first echelon of the landing field is lost, it will only be a loss for a reorganized division, and Nanjing still suffers losses. As for the second and third echelons - the first echelon, if the first echelon is not successfully opened, there will be no second and third echelons.
In order to cooperate with the landing plan, the Nanjing government bought 500 small landing crafts, 200 medium landing crafts and 50 large landing crafts from Jin Batian with the advance payment of agricultural tax. Among them, the large landing crafts were prepared for the landing of tanks and artillery units.
A small landing craft can carry a displacement of 20 tons for a row of personnel and materials, with a maximum range of 100 nautical miles, a medium landing craft can carry a company of personnel and materials, with a maximum range of 200 nautical miles. A large landing craft can carry a displacement of 500 tons for about 10 light tanks or an equivalent number of armored vehicles and related materials, with a maximum range of 1,000 nautical miles.
Before this, the Navy sent ships - mainly cruisers and destroyers to carry out island-circling artillery shelling on shore defense positions from Taipei to Kaohsiung, trying to find or open defense gaps. The Nanjing Central Air Force sent a team to Fujian, and take off twice a day to bomb shore defense positions in various parts of Taiwan.
It was mid-October when the typhoon season in Fujian, Taiwan and other places was over. If the troops landed in a few months in the morning, the biggest enemy might be nature. There is no satellite weather forecast in this era, and the deduction of the weather depends entirely on some air pressure and humidity indicators and experience.
The former reorganized 89th Division was also uneasy and was happy. The former deputy squad leader was promoted to squad leader, and the squad leader was promoted to platoon leader and company commander. Everyone was promoted one to two levels before the war, and even ordinary soldiers were promoted to sergeant corporals one after another. Everyone also understood that this was the treatment that they could only be given before the war.
Before the war, the personal weapons were replaced with the 20-shot box cannons of nine companies. In short, it was just a sentence - armed to the teeth. After being added to the Second General Tax Police Regiment, the 13th Army's aggregation was also raised. The three reorganized brigades were changed to the 89th Division, the 200th Division and the 201st Division. There was no shortage of armored regiments of the military artillery brigade, but Tang Enbo didn't know whether these heavy equipment should be transported in the first batch or the last batch.
That's right, although Nanjing bought hundreds of large, medium and small landing ships, it can only send more than 40,000 troops at a time, so it's too late. If the number of artillery tanks and tanks transported is larger, it will only transport 20,000 to 30,000 people at a time - a medium-sized landing craft can also send two tanks or armored vehicles.
According to the existing amphibious landing craft transportation volume, Tang Enbo calculated that it would take three times to send all the personnel. As for heavy equipment and supplies, it would have to transport three more times. The speed of the amphibious landing craft was only 20 kilometers per hour, and the shortest distance of the Taiwan Strait was about 100 kilometers.
It takes at least 12 hours to load people and unload people once. It takes 72 hours to reorganize the 13th Army to land all on the island - but this is almost impossible. Seventy-two hours are three days and three nights. No matter how neglected the Japanese on the island, they will find out.
The efficiency of opening a landing field while fighting seems to be much lower. In the end, Tang Enbo made a plan to land the entire army on the island in seven days, but there is another condition that the Navy and Air Force's firepower support cannot be stopped within these seven days - even in emergency moments, bombers must be used to airdrop supplies to the landing troops.
This is the first island landing battle under the Nanjing government. It is true that the preparations are detailed. A group of generals of the National Government have long called out the bold words of regaining the three eastern provinces on landing on Benzhou Island. However, it is still a bit difficult to regain the three eastern provinces. Not counting the Tsarist Russian troops, the Japanese alone have arranged two million Kwantung troops in the three eastern provinces.
There are only a lot of the Central Army now, and the direct line and vassals are less than 2 million. Of course, the equipment of the direct line Central Army is now higher than the Japanese, and the equipment level of the side Central Army is also higher than the Japanese, or can be even, and can fight with less and more. But you can't send all the Central Army out to recover the three northeastern provinces at once. If you are really anxious, there are still one million Russians behind the Japanese. Heilongjiang is now under the control of the Three Kingdoms, and only two provinces are recovered, that's what's the point of regaining them.
As long as the Japanese and Russian provinces were told that they could share the interests of the three eastern provinces of Japan and Russia, the greedy Russians would immediately dare to send troops from the Far East. More than three million Japanese and Russian coalition forces were enough to enter the pass.
On October 11, 1935, the reorganized 89th Division, who had eaten Mid-Autumn Mooncakes for a few days, took seasickness medicine collectively and boarded the landing ship in the early morning of that day.
After nearly six hours of bumpy sea breezes, the first batch of landing craft rushed to the beach between Hsinchu and Taipei City and put down the fore deck on the shore. The soldiers of the 89th Division were not the normal beach, but the burnt black after a fire.
The officers knew in advance what was going on here, kicking the soldiers' butts with horse boots and saying, "Go ashore quickly, this is something that the brothers of the Air Force bombs were bombed yesterday, and it is temporarily safe."
The Japanese are indeed known as cockroach life, but no matter how good or hidden the shore defense fortifications are, they cannot withstand the heat and hypoxia caused by the large number of incendiary bombs burning out the oxygen.
The officers and soldiers of the 89th Division jumped into the water with their guns and shouted, "Long live the Air Force brothers." They ran to the shore and even deeper to establish a landing position.
Tang Enbo's plan was that before the Japanese reacted, they should transport soldiers and light weapons and supplies to the beach to open a landing ground. After the Japanese reacted, they would have to put heavy weapons and equipment on the stage.
Before the landing craft troops returned to Fujian, the Japanese in Hsinchu and Taipei had already received news. Taiwan's current Japanese troops were only equivalent to one Class B division, with less than 20,000 people. However, with the police troops, there were more than 50,000 real Japanese troops. Recently, in order to strengthen the defense of Taiwan Island, the Japanese in Taiwan expanded the police forces into five Class B divisions, and a large number of local Japanese in Taiwan who have been educated since childhood and immigration reserves from the National Japanese invaders. Once they were told, 100,000 people were still quite intimidating.
However, the troops formed in a hurry were in great difficulty and had not received support from the island for a long time. These 100,000 Japanese and Japanese were not equipped with standard rifles with 38 large-scale covers, not to mention strategic materials such as artillery.
Therefore, not only did the newly formed five divisions have no artillery system, but even two or three rifles were used in turn. This trick was learned when they were in the war with Tsarist Russia. At that time, Tsarist Russian troops expanded their troops and many soldiers in one squad took turns using one or two rifles.
Here I have to say that during the First World War, the Tsarist Russian troops on the Western Front were really playing soy sauce. It was obviously the era of machine guns and artillery, but the German and Austrian coalition forces even made dumplings. Of course, this is not entirely the Tsarist Russian soldiers. You can only eat hard bread mixed with one-third of sawdust in the trenches every day (it is definitely harder than stones in winter, and there is a record of killing people). After eating for a few months or even longer, people with combat effectiveness as Bruce Lee have to kneel down.
These days, since the Central Army was preparing to land in Taiwan, there were rabbits running on the shore defense positions. As long as there were warships from the Central Army Navy nearby, they all had artillery pieces. In the past two days, the Air Force used incendiary bombs to attack the beachhead positions on a large scale. Even the Japanese, who had the toughest life, were burned or suffocated to death in the fortifications.
The Japanese waited until the 89th Division initially established a landing field of several kilometers in depth before they realized that this was a real landing.
Whether it is the real Japanese or the second Japanese, the poison of imperial education is extremely profound. They believe that under the invincible emperor's inspiration, they have been engraved in their bones - this is also related to the lack of smooth news here, local newspapers reporting good news or not reporting bad news. They do not know that the Japanese have already eaten several defeats and swallowed the territory that they have been swallowed up again.
The Japanese in Taipei and Hsinchu quickly assembled troops to fight toward the landing ground.
Seeing the Japanese wearing only a crotch cloth with menstruation straps on their heads and preparing to charge, Dai Anlan (actually I am very cute Chu Yunfei) shouted in the walkie-talkie: "Please ask for fire support from the naval guns and hit me hard."
"Boom boom boom..." The six heavy cruisers had 48 203mm naval guns, and the sound of fire cannons was heard one after another. The heavy artillery shells exploded the gathered Japanese devils into pieces and flew to the world and fell. Even if they were slightly far away, they were not directly hit by shrapnel and explosives, and were shocked to make their internal organs bleeding from their seven orifices.
Dai Anlan said to the following: "Tell the officers and soldiers below that we must at least hold on to the evening before we can wait for supplies and save some time for me."
Well, this time I really have to save some fire. Most soldiers only brought 500 rifles and 100 pistol bullets - this number is about two bases. One thousand light machine guns, and only five thousand bullets are carried by heavy machine guns. Each 60 mortar carries two boxes of 50 shells in total. The good news is that one of the heavier guns does not bring all light-fitted landings this time. If you really splash bullets like Zhang Zhizhong like water, you will have to fight a bayonet before you can use them.
Chapter completed!