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"Yongxiang" is an old ship in the late Qing Dynasty. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was first used to self-sink to block the waterway in Jiangyin. The Japanese army picked it up and assigned it to the Wang Puppet Navy.It is already a miracle that this living fossil ship can still start.

3:40 am.

Hu Lian, who suddenly woke up, rushed directly to the headquarters, "Did the GONG Army send planes to attack?"

The two staff officers on duty at the headquarters looked at each other. "Commander, there were no explosions, we were not under air strikes."

"But when I was sleeping, I clearly heard the sound of the plane's engine!" Hu Lian fastened the last button of his military uniform, and put on his regular military cap. "Call the three regiment headquarters on the front line one by one to check the post, and said to test the communication line!"

After finishing speaking, Hu Lian added another sentence: "Is the landing craft scheduled to return to Taiwan at 6:[-] in the morning? Tell them not to leave."

4:40 am.

Tainan.

The sky was slightly bright, and the sun had not yet shone on the airport, but looking down from the position of the bombardier in Figure-2, the visibility was not bad, and the long straight runway could already be seen.

The airport was busy for a while, and it seemed that several fighter jets had already taken off, but it would take some time for the propeller fighter jets to climb from sea level to 4000 meters.

Six Tu-6 bombers lined up and swept straight over the airport at an altitude of 2 meters.The aiming hand aligns the center of the cross with the runway. When the distance is right, the bombardier presses the bombing knob, and the 4000kg radio-guided bomb leaves the cabin and flies to the airport runway...

Chapter 34, Penghu Naval and Air Battle ([-])

At 4:40 in the morning, Captain Liu Zhiqiang of the National Army Air Force was running towards his fighter jet. When he paused on the tarmac, he saw the whole process of the airport being bombed.

The first bomb dropped by an unknown bomber in the sky fell on the edge of the runway, and a quarter of the bomb crater gnawed into the runway, but this basically did not affect the plane's continued take-off. Just clean it up.

The second bomb landed in the soil next to the runway, deflected by about 40 meters, and not much of the floating soil from the explosion fell on the runway.

The third bomb landed in the middle of the runway, and the crater firmly divided the runway into two parts, one was 2/5 the length and the other was 3/5 the length.

The fourth bomb still went off track and landed more than 40 meters away from the runway.

第五枚、第六枚炸弹又炸中了跑道，现在机场跑道被分为三段：2/5、1/5和2/5。看到最后一枚炸弹落下，刘志强的脚步慢了下来，大概今天自己是不用升空了。

Five or six anti-aircraft guns at the airport fired ping-pong-pong, but there were only five or six bombers flying high. It took about 4000 seconds for the shells to fly to a height of 10 meters. Unless it was intercepting a large fleet, the hit rate was very low when hitting a single target. .After dropping 6 bombs, the bombers in the sky turned their heads and dropped another round of bombs in the sparse fire net of the antiaircraft guns.After three rounds of 18 bombs were dropped, they walked away. Two minutes later, more than 2 bombers flew from the sky, still at an altitude of 20 to 3000 meters, and carried out a coverage bombing of the airport.But in fact, the airport was bombed out of operation by 4000 bombs during the first wave of bombing. This time, the coverage bombing did not cause much damage. The bombs were scattered in a large area of ​​18X300 meters, and a few bombs fell into the core area of ​​the airport. Two planes were destroyed, one anti-aircraft gun was destroyed, and one bomber was shot down by ground anti-aircraft gun fire.

The 6 fighter jets taken off by the national army climbed to the height of interception, bit the tail of the second wave of bombers with a large fleet, and shot down a Tu-2 in the dense fire net of the bombers' self-defense machine guns. After that, the two sides broke off contact. The 6 fighters could only return and land at other airports.

在图-2轰炸机返航的时候，福建的两个机场，大批的伊尔-10和拉-11已起飞升空。粟司令员将其中6架伊尔-10和10架拉-11呈扇面放出去，在整个台湾海峡进行目视侦察，余下的伊尔-10则先派了20多架，和拉-11一起编队直扑澎湖。

On the morning of June 6, at 16:6.

"Our East China Air Force special bomber arrived in Tainan at 4:40 and carried out precise bombing on the national army airport. A total of 18 bombs were dropped, completely destroying the airport runway. Then 21 bombers carried out coverage bombing on the airport, destroying one enemy plane and destroying the airport. There are several buildings and fortifications. Also, at 5 a.m., the 28nd Division of the 82th Army and the 26nd Regiment of the 78th Division of the 232th Army reported that they had successfully landed on Xiyu Island in Penghu.”

"At 4:50 in the morning, the two ships of our formation arrived in the waters of Penghu, and were not blocked by the large ships of the national army. It is planned to start the battle and bombard Xiyu Island in 10 minutes." This is the 31st and 32nd ships successfully arrived in the waters of Penghu, breaking the radio silence And put into battle the signal.

In the headquarters in Beijing, when the battle report was transmitted to Beijing from Sanye Qianzhi and the 3132 ship formation, Xu Shuai, the most unsmiling in the headquarters, was also relieved.

The airport was destroyed, and within two or three days, the number of fighter jets available to the National Army was reduced by half, and the pressure on the air over Penghu was greatly reduced. The 28th Army is on the shore of Xiyu Island, and there are Air Force aircraft and naval warships for fire support, so it should be able to stand firm.

Penghu, 6:10.

"Zhou Zhirou, you bastard..." Hu Lian looked at the Il-10 flying over Penghu County above him, "I am ashamed to send a telegram saying that Tainan Airport was bombed by more than 200 GONG aircraft, and the loss was heavy. ? Two hundred planes from the GONG army are going to bomb you, and then more than 50 planes can be sent to bomb me? Don’t blow it!”

West Island.

The basic shape of the Penghu Islands is a Penghu Bay surrounded by three large islands and several small islands. The main island of Penghu is located in the southeast, the large island in the northeast is Baisha Island, and the large island in the west is Xiyu Island.

Now there is no cross-sea bridge in Penghu, so these islands are isolated from each other.What matters is that these large islands are within range of commonly used field artillery.As long as one of the islands is completely lost, and the attacker has a steady stream of follow-up troops, Penghu will be lost.

On Xiyu Island is the 12th Division of the 67th Army of the 56th Corps of the National Army. It is almost the most capable division in Hu Lian's hands.

Parking tanks on the beach to shoot at the attacker's amphibious tanks seems like a good tactic, assuming the attacker has no air support.After 5 o'clock in the morning, the sky was bright, and the 11 tanks of the chariot battalion saw the landing ship on the sea line from a distance.Under the yelling of the chief, the tank soldiers got up and got into the tank one after another. However, before the landing ship released the amphibious tank, the roar of Il-10 came from the sky.A dozen Il-10s passed by at low altitude, covering the beachhead with 23mm cannons, aviation rockets, and 100kg bombs. (Because the pilot is still new) In fact, only 2 tanks of the national army were destroyed, but this scene really scared the tank company enough.Several tanks were already reversing, planning to leave the open area and find a hidden place to hide.

The tank landing ship continued to move forward until it stopped nearly 200 meters from the coast and opened the first door.

This is a large tank landing ship with a displacement of nearly 4000 tons. The draft is too deep, and it can only directly land on the shore unless it encounters a particularly ideal steep seabed with a sharply sloping seabed.Under normal circumstances, a large tank landing ship has to stop at a distance from the coastline, and then disembark the amphibious tank or amphibious armored vehicle and swim ashore by itself.Or the engineering troops who went ashore in the early stage build a simple dock to let the landing ship dock to unload.

The "big buffaloes" drove out from the front door of the landing ship one by one. The five landing ships each brought 5 big buffaloes. The first five were amphibious tanks, and the last 20 were amphibious armored vehicles.

When the second big buffalo drove out of the first gate, the tanks of the national army fired over, and the 37mm armor-piercing projectile exploded a small spray more than ten meters to the left of the landing ship.Then, the 40mm cannon installed on the bow of the landing ship also roared.Regardless of the artillery battle between the two sides, the amphibious tank continued to rush to the shore despite the occasional rounds of national army tank guns.At the same time, the infantry landing craft with a displacement of more than 300 tons is also approaching the coast at full speed, and the infantry can be put down immediately.

Penghu Bay.

The two minesweepers of the national army also started to avoid the bombing of Il-2.Hu Lian's original plan was to use the two minesweepers as mobile forts to operate in Penghu Bay. If any island was attacked, they would move over and use the 10mm main guns to provide fire support.

American-made minesweepers are also steel-hulled warships, equipped with 76mm main guns and 40mm Bofors cannons. They should be very handy to deal with the wooden ships that our army crossed the sea in the past.

Xiamen, Sanye front finger.

"Order ships 31 and 32 to enter Penghu Bay and entangle the two national warships!" The front line reported that two national minesweepers were bombarding me with their main guns on the beach, and Commander Su immediately gave the order.

Ships 31 and 32 are of the same type, the "Flower" class frigates built by Britain in World War II.This class of frigate stands out for its simplicity, which is to install sonar depth bombs on the hull of the whaling ship, and then install the main gun casually, and then pull it out to anti-submarine in the Atlantic Ocean.After the war, hundreds of "Hua" class ships were decommissioned, many of them were converted into whaling ships, and some appeared as scrap ships in old ship markets around the world.China Resources acquired two "Hua" class ships in 1948 and 1949. They didn't spend a lot of money, but the main guns took a lot of effort to find, and they were reassembled in Shantou.

Ships 31 and 32 rushed into Penghu Bay and started an artillery battle with two minesweepers.The minesweeper is 800 tons, and the 31st and 32nd ships are 990 tons. The minesweepers are equipped with a single 1mm main gun, one of the 76st and 31nd ships is equipped with a 32mm single main gun, and the other is equipped with a 102mm single main gun.The four ships were at the mouth of Penghu Bay, and started a battle of chicken and chicken hammering each other. Half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and neither side's main guns hit the opposing warship.However, this also diverted the firepower of the two minesweepers away from the beachhead.

West Island.

The big buffalo suffered some losses when crossing the sea and the beach. One tank was destroyed in the water, another tank and three armored vehicles were destroyed on the beach. The loss was not too great for the entire landing force.After the two minesweepers stopped shooting at the beach, the landed tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry left the beach in one charge, and attacked the first-line defense positions deployed by the national army on the coast.

On the national army's side, it's all flying around.During the Il-10 attack, the headquarters was hit by a 100kg bomb, the division commander Shen Zhuangyu was killed, and the deputy division commander Nomad tried his best to control the troops. Under the cover of 7 tanks, the two regiments of the 56th Division moved to the front line , ready to launch a counterattack.

Taiwan Strait, 9:30 a.m.

“发现国军军舰编队，共有5艘舰，方位117，航速18节。”在海峡巡逻的一架拉-11发回了电报。3分钟后，继续在编队上头转圈的拉-11发出了更详细的一封电报：“国军军舰判断为2艘驱逐舰、3艘护航驱逐舰或护卫舰。”

This news made Sanye Maezhi suddenly nervous.The entire morning's battle was proceeding smoothly as planned, and now, the reinforcements from the national army and navy have finally arrived.

Chief of Staff Sanye quickly determined the approximate location of La-11 on the map, and after drawing a circle, he began to calculate according to the speed and course of the enemy fleet.

……

A formation of 5 ships of the National Army Navy sailed southward from the Taiwan Strait at high speed.

The destroyer "Fenyang" was in the lead. On the bridge, Commander Gui Yongqing held the binoculars in his hand and looked at the sea with a serious expression. "Why didn't you see air force support?" Gui Yongqing asked.

"The main force of the air force is supporting the Penghu Islands."

"Forget it, I also know they can't come." Gui Yongqing said.Although there is no air support, it is hard to say how many battles a fleet of five large ships can achieve, and I don't have to worry about losses.

The destroyer "Fenyang" was originally the Japanese "Akizuki" class "Xiaoyue", which was compensated to the government after the war.With a tonnage of 3700 tons, it was one of the largest destroyers in the world at that time. The "Akizuki" class is not a traditional Japanese Thunderbolt destroyer, but an air defense destroyer, equipped with four dual-mounted 4mm dual-purpose guns, which are very strong in both air defense and sea artillery. In 100, due to the tightness of the strait, the government urgently re-armed the idle "Fenyang". Without Japanese turrets, four American-made single-barreled 1950mm guns were installed.Although the firepower is not as strong as the original Qiuyue, with a volume of 4 tons, it is no problem to serve as the flagship of the formation.Therefore, Gui Yongqing, the commander of the navy, dared to take this ship to sea because there were basically no ships on the opposite side that could sink the "Fenyang".There is not even a ship that dares to make three tricks with the "Fenyang".

Following the "Fenyang" ship is the "Xinyang" ship, which is also a Japanese ship that was compensated to the government after the war-the "Song" destroyer, formerly known as the "Hatsumei", 1600 tons.

The third and fourth in the formation are two US-made escort destroyers "Taihu" and "Taizhao", 1250 tons, equipped with three 3mm main guns.

The last ship in the formation is the "Danyang" destroyer, the former Japanese Navy's "Kagero" class "Yukikaze", with a capacity of 2540 tons.Originally installed 3 double-mounted 127mm guns, the government did not find a Japanese turret, and installed 3 American-made single-tube 127mm guns; the original 2 quadruple-mounted 610mm heavy torpedo tubes, there are no torpedoes now.