Let's start with the tragic battle of 1949.
1949101On October 25th, nine thousand soldiers from three regiments boarded the ship in turn. The first act ends in Xiamen, the second in Kinmen and the last in Taiwan Province Province.
The mobilization slogan is: Fight the last two battles for the liberation of China!
Everyone knows that this will be a tough battle, and some people can't come back. But no one would have thought that everyone would not come back.
In the past three years, the two sides have fought more than 10 million times, including dangerous wars, fierce wars, defeated wars, unlucky wars, wars with rivers of blood and mountains of bones. However, the People's Liberation Army has never had a record that all the organizational units above the regiment level were eaten by the "national army".
Kinmen, how can you eliminate three regiments at once without making people stunned!
Guningtou, Jinmen, has a seven-mile long embankment, sweeping one-third of Jinmen in three hours.
The defenders were in chaos, shouting that they were going to abandon the island and board the ship. At the most tense moment for both sides, Hu Lian arrived. The 12 Army and the 22nd Army have been arranged for redeployment. One hasn't left yet, and one has arrived. The defenders suddenly increased their strength by 20 thousand and began to fight back fiercely.
The attacker's attack was frustrated and he thought of the boat.
At this time, the enemy tanks take advantage of it, and the flat beach is the best battlefield for tanks; Heavy machine guns and tank guns opened fire on the stranded sailboat beach.
Reinforcements are on the other side, and 12 thousand people from four groups are ready to go. However, there is not a boat.
Three days later, the gunfire on Kinmen Island was silent. Occasionally there will be one or two sporadic gunshots, that is, soldiers who refuse to surrender are still fighting.
The smoke dispersed and a blue sky and white flag fluttered.
Here, thousands of troops wailed at the same time, and a gunshot shocked the world. Pay tribute to nine thousand souls.
Thus, Jin and Xia began a long confrontation.
The Kuomintang boasted of "Gu Ning's total victory" for forty years.
Time is up 1958. It's Mao Zedong's turn and Chiang Kai-shek's turn to play.
On August 23rd, 1958, the front line of Fujian was bombarded by artillery, which shocked the whole world. The Kinmen Island occupied by Kuomintang troops was immediately shrouded in flames and smoke.
In just 64 days, Mao Zedong threw 450,000 shells from Xiamen to Jinmen, while Chiang Kai-shek gritted his teeth and fired 654.38+02,000 shells from Jinmen to Xiamen.
The shelling of Kinmen is an important decision of the Central Committee of China in handling foreign relations around the issue of Taiwan Province Province, and it is also a struggle to safeguard the reunification of the motherland.
The form of struggle is "directly against Chiang Kai-shek and indirectly against the United States."
The result of the struggle not only supported the people's national liberation struggle in the Middle East, but also had a far-reaching impact on winning over the authorities of Taiwan Province Province and developing cross-strait relations.
The shelling of Kinmen contains extremely complicated historical reasons and practical problems.
Historically, the Korean War broke out in 1950, and the United States invaded Taiwan Province Province by force, which seriously complicated China's internal affairs.
1954, after the Geneva Conference peacefully resolved the North Korean issue and the Indian zhina issue, the China administration promptly brought the issue of Taiwan Province Province to the people all over the world and demanded that the United States withdraw its troops from Taiwan Province Province.
Under the efforts of China and the pressure of peace-loving people all over the world, the United States had to agree to solve the problem of Taiwan Province Province through negotiations in August 1955. However, due to the lack of sincerity of the United States, the negotiations were interrupted at the end of 1957.
Therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong have been looking for opportunities to bring the issue of Taiwan Province Province back to domestic and international attention, with a view to solving this problem.
In reality, the Middle East incident in 1958 is an important trigger for this struggle.
Here, let's briefly talk about the Middle East incident.
1On May 8, 958, gunfire broke out in Lebanon and a massive armed uprising shocked President Chamonix.
/kloc-in the early morning of July, a group of young Iraqi officers rushed into the palace in Baghdad, seized King Faisal, Prime Minister Said and Crown Prince Ira, briefly announced their crimes of betraying national interests, and then killed them.
One of the officers was a lieutenant with a typical Islamic moustache, that is, Saddam Hussein. Subsequently, it announced the establishment of Iraq and withdrew from the Baghdad Treaty.
There is a gap in the strategic defense line of the United States in the Persian Gulf. The pro-Western Chamonix government is crumbling, and the Hashemite dynasty has perished.
Nationalists in Arab countries are greatly encouraged, and military coups or civilian riots may break out at any time.
Almost as soon as Eisenhower got the news, he made a decision to intervene in the Middle East immediately, followed by Britain.
The reasons are: "protecting Lebanese sovereignty, protecting American and British nationals" and "preventing subversion of capitalism at the request of Lebanese and Jordanian governments."
On this planet, probably only the US military can drive anywhere at any time, and there will always be a hundred reasons.
On July 15, 1500 US Marines landed in Lebanon.
A few days later, with the support of 72 ships and more than 200 carrier-based aircraft of the US Navy's Sixth Fleet, this force expanded.
By 15,000 people, they easily suppressed the resistance of the uprising armed forces and took control of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, the international airport, the railway station and the seaport area.
The British army moved a little late. /kloc-on 0/7, three battalions and a paratrooper brigade were parachuted in Jordan, and another battalion was added in Bahrain Island in the southeast of Iraq. In addition, the task force consisting of an aircraft carrier fortress, three destroyers and several submarines carried an infantry brigade and a battalion to the Gulf of Aden, and completed the preparations for attacking Iraq from the north.
With the help of the United States and Britain, pro-Western Lebanese President and King Hussein of Jordan saved the day and gained a foothold. The loose western defense line in the Middle East has been strengthened.
The Central Committee and Mao Zedong decided to take this opportunity to raise the issue of Taiwan Province Province again.
The advantage of this is that the issue of Taiwan Province Province can be closely combined with the international strategic intention of supporting the anti-American struggle of the people in the Middle East, so that the struggles in the two regions can support each other, cooperate with each other and be backed by each other.
/kloc-in August of 0/7, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting in Beidaihe and made the final decision to shell Kinmen.
18, wrote to Peng and personally deployed the action of shelling Jinmen. The letter wrote: "I want to fight against Kinmen, directly against Chiang Kai-shek and indirectly against the United States."
Mao Zedong's letter contains the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's extremely important strategic thought of fighting Kinmen instead of Taiwan Province Province, which embodies the correct policy of the CPC Production Party in dealing with the triangular relationship between China and the United States and Chiang Kai-shek.
1949 After Chiang Kai-shek fled the mainland, Taiwan Province Province occupied two parts, one was the coastal islands such as Jinmen and Mazu, and the other was the island of Taiwan Province Province and the Penghu Islands.
1956, Eisenhower and Chiang Kai-shek signed the "* * * Defence Treaty", which legalized the military presence of the United States in the straits of Taiwan Province Province and Taiwan Province Province.
At that time, American troops were stationed in Taiwan Province Province, which was protected by the U.S.-Chiang Defence Treaty. If Taiwan Province Province is attacked, it will provide an excuse for the United States to participate in the war, and it will also cause anxiety and misunderstanding among some neutral countries.
The coastal islands such as Jinmen and Mazu are different. There are no American troops stationed there, and they are not restricted by the "defense treaty" between the United States and Chiang Kai-shek. The shelling of Kinmen cannot directly confront the Americans. If the United States intervenes, it will only expose its aggressive posture in front of the whole world and put it into a passive political situation.
Because of its decision to shell Kinmen, China has always been in an active position in the struggle with the United States over the issue of Taiwan Province Province.
On August 22nd, the emergency meeting of the United Nations discussed and adopted the proposal of Arab countries demanding that the United States withdraw its troops from the Middle East.
The next day, August 23rd, Mao Zedong ordered a large-scale shelling of Kinmen.
The timing is just right, because the situation in the Middle East will be eased and the focus of international attention will be shifted to Taiwan Province Province after the adoption of the proposal demanding that the United States withdraw its troops from the Middle East, which will help the struggle of the people of China.
During the nearly two weeks from August 23rd to September 4th, the frontline troops carried out the central government's decision to shell Jinmen, and achieved the expected results.
After the firing of the Golden Gate, the U.S. government showed great panic, and immediately sent fleets and planes from the Mediterranean, San Francisco, Japan, the Philippines and other places to assemble in the Taiwan Province Strait, ready to help defend Kinmen and Matsu.
On the fourth day of firing at Kinmen, US President Eisenhower made a speech, reiterating that the United States would not give up its "responsibility" to prevent the liberation of Taiwan Province Province by force, and authorized Secretary of State Dulles to issue a statement on September 4, publicly threatening to expand the scope of US aggression in the Taiwan Province Strait to coastal islands such as Kinmen and Matsu.
This period was different from the Korean War. Except for the Li Chengwan Group, almost all people in the world disapproved of the American practice. Anti-war sentiment in the United States is also growing.
Although the Soviet Union disapproved of China's tough stance on the issue of Taiwan Province Province, after receiving a promise from China not to drag the Soviet Union into the water, it publicly stated that the US aggression against China was an aggression against the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would not be "indifferent" or "stand by". The attitude of the Soviet Union also restricted the actions of the United States.
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