Riverside police

Dongshan Island is an important military area and the absolute frontline!

As early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan and trained his troops on Dongshan Island.

During the Kangxi period, Shi Lang led the navy to regain Taiwan, also starting from Dongshan Island.

If you don’t come to Dongshan, you can’t understand the importance of Dongshan. Together with Xiamen, Kinmen and Haitan, it is known as the "Four Big Islands" along the coast of Jianfu. It covers an area of ​​194 square kilometers, slightly larger than Kinmen and Xiamen Island. It is located at the southernmost end of the western Taiwan Strait, 98 nautical miles across. Penghu, 166 nautical miles away is Kaohsiung.

In the north-south direction, Dongshan Island and its waters are located at the junction of Jianfu and Dongguang, and the East China Sea and the South China Sea. The topography of the coast is very similar to the west coast of Taiwan. The coastline is relatively straight and the beach is relatively gentle, making it very suitable for landing. Many small fishing boats washed up directly on the beach with the help of high tide, and then the fishermen dragged the boats ashore.

If it is just a routine military exercise, it is not the best time to come here in late August. It may be better to come here in June or July.

Because the Taiwan Strait in June and July coincides with the northeast monsoon, as the old boat people say, if you throw a piece of wood in Dongshan, it will float to Penghu.

If it is a warship, it can reach Penghu in three or four hours!

Not far from the beach where the amphibious tanks are parked, there is a beach surrounded by a wall, like a park. There is a sign outside the wall, which reads: The landing and retreat place of the Kuomintang troops in the Dongshan Defense War records a glorious history of Dongshan:

At dawn on July 16, 1953, the Kuomintang army mobilized more than 10,000 troops from Kinmen Island. With the cooperation of the navy and air force, they used paratroopers for the first time to attack Dongshan Island.

Although the People's Liberation Army stationed on the island was small in number, they defended tenaciously and cooperated with the reinforcements that quickly arrived. They annihilated more than 3,300 Kuomintang army officers and soldiers and shot down two aircraft - this is the famous Dongshan Defense Battle!

In short, Dongshan Island has always been the frontline of border defense against Taiwan, and there is even a "frontline war preparation material warehouse" built on the island. However, Dongshan Island has now transformed from a springboard for the Kuomintang's counterattack on the mainland to a frontier for the mainland to achieve the reunification of the motherland.

Due to the gathering of troops, the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt on the island has increased slightly.

There were so many people from the Binjiang Militia Transport Brigade, and they didn't bring many supplies before. Even if they did, it would be difficult to store them in such hot weather.

Yang Jianbo is not busy today and will accompany Li Mingsheng to the island for shopping.

The vegetable market was far away from the beach where the exercise was held. Han Yu helped them borrow three trucks from the 402nd Army. By the time they purchased the supplies and returned to the beach, Ma Jintao and Xiaoyu had already set up the installation with six power boats with the help of the crew of the Binxun. A fifty-meter-long floating bridge was built.

Military trucks loaded with supplies can drive to the end of the pontoon and load the newly purchased pork, fruits and vegetables directly onto shallow-draft fishing boats. There is no need to use power boats to transfer them left and right.

While they were busy, an army major general and an army colonel accompanied an army lieutenant general who was overlooking the beach from the stands.

"Which unit built the pontoon on the beach?"

"Maybe it's from the Navy. I'll call and ask."

"What a navy, it's obviously an army!"

The lieutenant general handed the telescope to the major general.

The major general raised the telescope, adjusted the focus, observed it carefully for a while, and couldn't help but smile: "Chief of Staff, I know which unit set it up."

"Which unit?"

"In the Linghai Reserve Battalion, the people who are replenishing supplies on the fishing boats are all pre-appointed officers and soldiers, and they are all subordinates who 'pour one cup at a time'."

Lieutenant General Han Yu was deeply impressed and couldn't help but asked with a smile: "A glass of wine is here too?"

The major general smiled and explained: "Chief of Staff, he is now a grown-up man. He was transferred to the observation team and turned into an observer."

"He has never served as a soldier, what can he observe!"

"Observe militia reservists participating in exercises."

"The superiors really know people and make good use of them. They found the right person to ask him to observe the militia reserve force."

"Yes, the construction of the reserve force is different from the construction of the active force. It must be combined with reality. He is a local cadre, knows a little about military affairs, and is more familiar with shipping. The Navy really needs comrades like him if it wants to build a good reserve force."

A good young man was poached by the Navy.

The lieutenant general couldn't help but feel a little depressed. He looked down at the beach and muttered: "The reserve forces are different from the active forces. As long as the reserve forces are formed in our defense zone, regardless of the navy or the army, they belong to our Nanjing Military Region."

…

At the same time, the head of the East China Sea Fleet also noticed a pontoon emerging from the beach.

What surprised the captain of the fleet even more was that the speed of "breaking the bridge across the river" was astonishing. Less than half an hour after three trucks of supplies were loaded on the ship, a group of "boat bridge troops" composed of navy reserve officers and army reserve officers and soldiers, used Simple tools removed the pontoon.

The six power boats were running at full power, like locomotives, dragging long and wide bridge decks from the beach to the sea, and headed straight for the anchorage of the logistics support fleet.

"Old Yu, are those bridge plates hollow?"

"It should be, otherwise it would be impossible to float on the water."

"It's interesting, but it's too short."

Deputy Commander Yu of the East China Sea Base did not expect that the "junior brother"'s subordinates would do this to save trouble, and he did not expect that the "junior brother" would actually bring the bridge-building equipment and reported with a smile: "Those bridge-building equipment It should be from the Linghai Reserve Battalion of the Jiangnan Provincial Military Region. It is not easy for a reserve battalion that specializes in flood fighting and rescue to have the equipment to erect a fifty-meter pontoon bridge."

Compared to Deputy Commander Yu, Team Leader Fang was more interested in Han Yu and Han Yu's troops.

He had done some homework in the past few days and added: "To be precise, those equipment came from the water search and rescue company of the Linghai Reserve Battalion. Setting up pontoons is just their side job, and their main business is water search and rescue. Those power boats are all from them Designed and built by myself, it is mainly used for water rescue and pontoon erection.”

"Salted fish's old army?"

"Um."

"Old Feng can do it. I can train such capable cadres when I change my job." Commander Wang thought for a while, then turned around and said, "I'll ask that salted fish later if we can build a 500-meter-long pontoon bridge on the sea. , and the pontoon must be able to pass tanks and other heavy equipment.”

"yes!"

…

Han Yu didn't know that the pontoon bridge erected by Ma Jintao and Xiaoyu was being targeted by the leaders of the Nanjing Military Region and the East China Sea Fleet. He was on a landing ship with his colleagues from the observation team, and a cargo ship in the distance was heading to the landing craft. Lifting supplies.

The landing craft is very small and can only transport a small amount of supplies at a time.

There is a crane on the freighter, but the efficiency of hoisting supplies to the landing craft is not high.

After looking at it for a while, there was really nothing to see.

Han Yu chatted again with Staff Officer Wu who was observing together.

"Staff Wu, how many combat units does the East China Sea Fleet have?"

"The base doesn't count?"

"Of course the base doesn't count."

Staff Wu touched his nose and said familiarly: "Currently there is a mixed detachment of destroyers and frigates, a frigate detachment, a submarine detachment, a landing ship detachment, and a speedboat composed of missile boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, torpedo boats, etc. Detachment.”

Han Yu asked curiously: "How is the combat effectiveness?"

"What should I say? In the past two years, we have cooperated with our fraternal forces and completed several combat plans for 'sealing', 'attacking', and 'landing' against Taiwan. In particular, we have conducted many drills for 'sealing'. The operational plan to deal with US aircraft carriers will have to wait until the Sovremenny-class guided missile destroyers and two second-generation nuclear submarines imported from Russia enter service next year. With the cooperation of the Air Force and the Soviet Union, it should be possible to enter actual combat exercises."

"You don't have fighter jets in your fleet?"

"Yes, our fleet has three aviation divisions, including a bomber division, a fighter division, and a newly established 'Flying Leopard' fighter-bomber division. In addition, there is a training group and a carrier-based helicopter group."

Staff Officer Wu was silent for a moment and sighed: "But our Hainan Airlines' main combat aircraft are the J-7, H-6, H-5 and the 'Flying Leopard' fighter-bombers that just entered active service last year. They are relatively backward, not as good as Su Liangguai. It is advanced and will not be of much use against US aircraft carriers."

Han Yu asked with a wry smile: "Don't you have anything that you can use?"

"The minesweeper brigade has a very strong combat effectiveness. After the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, it went to the Beibu Gulf to clear mines. It is equipped with the best minesweeping equipment of our navy, and its maritime minesweeping level ranks among the best in the world. Furthermore, our fleet is located on the front line of the Taiwan Strait. , has a tradition of fighting large ships with small boats, and has always attached great importance to the wartime attack capabilities and survivability of speedboats, and its training level in this area has always been at the forefront of the navy."

"Can we attack an aircraft carrier?"

Isn’t it true that you, kid, don’t open and lift certain pots?

Staff Officer Wu was stunned by the question. He was silent for a while and then whispered: "The Central Military Commission requires the Nanjing Military Region Air Force and our fleet to prepare for the defense of preventing hostile forces from intervening in Taiwan. This request obviously expands the scope of our fleet's defense zone. It can be said that we need to transform from passive defense to active offensive defense.

If a US aircraft carrier dares to approach the waters around Taiwan, with the strength of our fleet that is about to take shape, the probability of sinking the aircraft carrier protected by the Aegis system should be 50%. The other 50% can only be pinned on the Second Artillery. of short- and medium-range missiles. "

About to take shape, possibility, should, hope...

Han Yu was stunned by these keywords, and after being stunned for a while, he smiled bitterly and said: "Consultant Wu, you are the operational staff of the Fleet Headquarters, how can you say probably, maybe, maybe like me! "

"Brother, it's hard for us to make a living without rice. Don't say I'm just a 13-cent staff officer. Even if I'm the chief of staff, it's useless."

"If you decide to build an aircraft carrier, I...I..."

"What are your plans?"

"I'll donate fifty yuan!"

"What can you do with fifty yuan? You work at the customs and the customs salary is so high. You have to donate one thousand anyway."

"No, I have to pay off the mortgage. I only have fifty, so I can only donate fifty."

"..."