.Chapter 291 Post-war Summary

At dusk on March 16, the Chinese army inserted into the center of Xiamen's island, and the ** Party army on the island was completely in chaos. At this time, Jiang Guangnai knew that the general situation could not be restored, so he asked his confidants to notify the defenders of Zhangzhou to come and respond to him. He established an effective rule in Fujian by protecting the 10,000 party. There are many military command agencies: the Provincial Government's Security Department, responsible for internal security and security, and governing the local troops in the province; the garrison was led by the Military Commission of the ** Government, and directly commanded by the war zone commander or by the temporary Pacification Office and other institutions. These agencies have the responsibility of unified command of all the troops in the region.

The Military Department of the Fujian Provincial Government was established in 1928. Since the Chairman of the Provincial Government Yang Shuzhuang was expected to be appointed as Minister of the Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, the acting Chairman of the Provincial Government Fang Shengtao and Director of the Military Department were then appointed as Minister of the Military Department.

But in fact, the people in power in Quanmin were Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai. In September 1927, they led a large army into Fujian and restored the 11th Army. Jiang Guangnai was still the deputy commander and the 24th Division was organized into the 10th Division.

In January 1929, the ** Army Organization and Dispatch Committee decided that all ** teams would be reduced, and the 11th Army would be reduced to the 3rd Division and the 2nd Brigade of Fujian Organization Area. Jiang Guangnai was appointed as the commander of the 3rd Division and Cai Tingkai was appointed as the commander of the 2nd Brigade.

After the outbreak of the First Guangdong Provincial War of Hegemony, Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai failed to repel the strength of the Guihua Army, and the ** Party lost the entire territory of Guangdong. Knowing that the reorganization of the troops was completed in January this year and obtained the regular army number issued by the Nanjing Government. Jiang Guangnai's 3rd Division was changed to the 61st Division, and he was still the commander of the division, and Cai Tingkai's troops were changed to the 60th Division, with Cai as the commander.

The rule here has been nearly two years and is still stable, but it does not expect that it has become the strategic target of the Chinese army. It was caught off guard by the blitzkrieg of the Armored Division and lost the most critical Xiamen City in the entire Fujian Province.

With his direct guard camp, Jiang Guangnai also left sadly. The setting sun sets westward, and the setting sun spreads the dark yellow afterglow all over the earth, leaving only infinite sorrow, which is in line with Jiang Guangnai's mood at this time.

"Commander, our army still has strength, and sooner or later we will fight back." The battalion commander of the guard battalion was Jiang Guangnai's Dongguan fellow. He followed up to fight south and north and was also a confidant. Seeing that his commander was depressed now, he couldn't help but persuade him.

"Ah, I know my own business. Xiamen is the core of Fujian. It is not easy to take it back if I lose it." With an extremely desolate voice, Jiang Guangnai's expression was still a little drowsy, and he sighed one after another: "We don't have a navy, the coastline is so long, how can we defend? What's more, the enemy's army is sharp and we can see each other. Such a strong army is almost the iron army of the great powers. How can we win with our military strength?"

The weapon system of the Chinese army really dazzled Jiang Guangnai. He was still watching Li Jishen's joke before, but now he has experienced a sudden defeat like lightning.

The landing battle caught him off guard. The weak coastal defense was delayed due to the lack of maintenance and improvement costs. He only built shore defense fortifications in Gaoqi, and was also given high hopes of "sea fortress", but under the bombardment of the First Fleet, it was still vulnerable.

The most important thing is that, as the fourth largest island in Fujian Province, Xiamen, together with Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Ningde, formed the economic foundation for the development of the 11th Army of the ** Army. Losing Xiamen, Jiang Guangnai lost one quarter of his fiscal revenue and his strength was greatly damaged.

What's more, Xiamen Port is a natural harbor with superior conditions, with winding coastlines and a total length of 234 kilometers. The marine trade income here is very considerable and is one of the main sources of tariffs. Once the Hualian, which has a strong navy, occupy this place, it is simply an unsuccessful task to fight back under the cover of the fleet.

The islands outside the Xiamen Port Area are scattered, surrounded by mountains in the Port Area, with a wide harbor and deep water, and never frozen all year round. It is a natural harbor with superior conditions and has historically been an important port for foreign trade along the southeast coast of China.

And because the terrain is mainly water, it is impossible to attack this place without the support of the navy.

It was low at dusk and the boats were difficult to dodge. Some Chinese soldiers who were about to land on the beach stayed on the beach for more than an hour. When they were anxious, they kept calling for support to the warships.

The war had just ended, and there were still many debris floating on the messy sea surface. Some small ship wreckages of the Party were also scattered in the salty sea water. The oil stains reflected colorful light, which was the tranquility after the war.

The First Fleet Command of the Chinese Army was constantly listening to reports from various armies and counting the data of the battle. Military analysis recorders clearly heard these shouts on the phone, and commanders at all levels were also urgently ordered the troops to march towards Xiamen Port to participate in the elimination of the enemy's remaining enemies.

Now Wang Liwen personally led the 1st Armored Division of the Fourth Army as the vanguard to pursue the troops, and only cared about chasing towards Zhangzhou, but also didn't care about contacting the rear. He reported that the phone was not called.

Xu Jiangwen also had no right to command Wang Liwen, so he had to control all the harbors in Xiamen first, and arranged for all the Marine Corps units to enter Xiamen. All streets were filled with Chinese soldiers wearing uniforms, carrying assault rifles, and were full of energy.

While Jiang Guangnai retreated to Zhangzhou, Liu Ruming, a general who had no intention of defending Xiamen, hurriedly ordered his troops to go into the sea to retreat to Quanzhou according to his usual fighting style of trying his best to preserve his strength. However, due to the rapid pursuit of the Chinese army, most of his Eighth Corps troops failed to escape from Xiamen, leaving only more than 4,000 people on board, and the rest were all captured.

On the morning of March 17, the Chinese army officially entered the city of Xiamen. A small number of remnants of the ** party who were still fighting stubbornly in Gulangyu saw that Xiamen had been lost, so they hurriedly searched for a ship to flee to the Little Kinmen. A landing battalion that the Chinese army followed was better than the northern part of Gulangyu, capturing more than 400 ** party troops who had not escaped.

The Xiamen battle ended in only two days and nights, and the Chinese army wiped out the 11th Army Command of the ** Party Army, the 15th Army and the 16th Division of the Fifth Army, totaling 27,000 people, of which more than 30,000 were captured. Although Liu Ruming led the remaining 4,000 people to escape to Quanzhou with a small wooden boat during the chaos, his attempt to preserve his strength was finally failed.

He led his troops to flee from Xiamen through Xiao Kinmen. When he got ashore, he received an order from Cai Tingkai, and the troops were forced to put down their weapons. After that, senior officers were removed from their posts and the troops were dispersed and assigned to the various armies. At this point, Liu Ruming's troops, as the last unit of the Central Army, was completely marginalized in the battle sequence of the ** party army.

The victory of the Xiamen battle provided important experience for the Chinese army to conduct cross-sea operations. It proved that under the cover of the navy and air force, it was possible to absolutely complete offshore island offensive missions with a reasonable design of amphibious landing ship as the main ferry tool.

The modern military concept of foreigners is also feasible in China. With such a powerful tool in hand, the eastern coastal areas occupied by the ** army will always be shrouded in the shadow of the Chinese army.

Jiang Ruiyuan will also find it difficult to remain calm, which is a powerful force that can shake the foundation of the government's rule. This means that he no longer has a good space buffer and is strategically passive, which is also a sadness without the navy.

During this battle, the Chinese army also exposed many problems of the hasty army. The Marine Corps' combat philosophy is to learn from foreign powers. However, in terms of details, the Chinese army still has many shortcomings and must be summarized and summarized continuously in actual combat to improve it.

These require time to accumulate and are also the cornerstone of the army's achievements in military spirit. The Chinese army has military observers directly under the base camp. These top students who graduated from the Nansha Military Academy do not participate in frontal battles, but use their professional knowledge in their minds to analyze the details behind each war.

They are the key to the Chinese army learning about war in war. It is not the soldiers who take up weapons to defend the enemy. They also have the wise men who continue to fight behind warriors on the road to military formation to pursue the fundamental path of strengthening the army.

In the island offensive battle, the Chinese army's Marines were also brave and tenacious, and they overwhelmed all the enemies politically. As long as a considerable number of troops came ashore, with a spirit of advancing but not retreating, and with professional combat qualities, and bravely interspersed the enemy's formation, they could use their equipment advantages to smash any resistance from the ** party army.

The use of various armored vehicles is a nightmare for soldiers of the ** Army who lack anti-armor heavy weapons. This steel monster, which is fearless in bullets, breaks through all the front lines that dare to block the front with an unstoppable attitude.

The narrow trenches, slender barbed wire, and weak Maxim machine guns could not do anything to these giants in steel armor. They were loaded with a platoon of soldiers, and this kind of chariot could pass through any beachhead at a speed of twenty kilometers per hour.

The trench can be crossed in one step, effectively blocking the infantry's advance, but it can only make a whine under the crushing of the tracks. The harsh metal friction sound severely cuts the hearts of the soldiers of the ** army. In their imagination, these monsters cannot appear in the mortal world.

Even the brave man who dared to reunite with death at the machine gun position would tremble in his heart when he saw the metal giant that he could not understand.

Judging from the characteristics of the island offensive battle, the key to winning the cross-sea offensive this time is that it has absolute control over the sea and has enough landing ships to carry landing troops that exceed or are equivalent to the enemy forces guarding the island.

It is also necessary to use dark night conditions to ferry to avoid the serious harm caused by the enemy's naval and air force's reconnaissance and shore defense firepower to our ferry forces. The ** army also has aircraft and small ships, and Jiang Guangnai is not a mediocre general. If the actions of the First Fleet were discovered half a day in advance, there would be enough time to re-arrange the troops.

If this is true, even if the Chinese army wins this battle, they will pay five times the price they are now. After all, the threat of shore defense artillery is still a bit worrying, but there is no if, and the absolute advantage in equipment makes the opponent ignore the Chinese army's amphibious landing combat capabilities in strategic concepts.

Even though Jiang Guangnai strengthened the coastal defense in advance, it was not just a dedication, but a temporary measure. He never thought that the Chinese army could launch such a large-scale landing attack at sea. If one son was wrong, the whole game would be lost.

Technical strength is not overwhelming than wisdom, but it will indeed bring Hualian an incalculable strategic advantage.

In order to win, the landing troops need to be fully prepared in advance. The shore fire cover of the Fourth Army led by Wang Liwen is also an important factor in this battle.

The battle in Hunan made the Chinese army realize the shortcomings of infantry and armored tanks. Once they were surrounded by people and lost the cover of infantry, a small number of tanks could not survive at all.

In actual combat, tanks can only resist attacks from the front for infantry, and the actual effect is not ideal. Therefore, concentrating armored troops and carrying out large-scale lightning raids and roundabout encirclement tactics on the enemy became the only choice for the headquarters of the Chinese Army.

Wang Liwen was the first commander to use this tactic. He broke through four counties in two days and marched into the Longhai to provide artillery support to the landing troops. These are the advantages of the armored division's concentrated armored vehicles. Blitzkrieg has become a strange flower in military history, and was born ten years earlier than the original time and space.

The success of Xiamen landing was because five regiments were landed at one time, and the subsequent troops continued to follow up, ensuring the victory of the continuous attack and winning the entire island. The dark blue Canglong Banner successfully inserted into Xiamen Island, announcing the new owner of all cities in Fujian Province and even the southeast coast.

The ** Party's former frontier positions on the southeast coast also lost an important point, and severely attacked the ** Party army that attempted to force northern Guangdong to establish a frontier with Fujian. After capturing Xiamen, the Chinese army only continued to prepare to attack Zhangzhou by the Fourth Army, and the First Fleet began to leave the war zone.

Hualian's main focus turned to the city's takeover work, and subsequent second-tier troops continued to enter here to take over the defense work here. The main forces were resting and preparing for the next battle.

The huge encirclement network built by the Party is still continuing to gather, intending to curb the strategic situation of the Hualian League back to its original situation. Losing so much land is at the moment when the Party’s Northern Expedition has just completed the “unification” of China, which is a critical period for shaking the authority of the government.

The Chinese army's determination to attack Xiamen across the sea was revealed in an attitude of concentrating all its strength and annihilation of the defending enemy. Various powerful armored weapons and their own naval forces were constantly hitting the hearts of the people in power in the ** Party.

I have a new understanding of this Hualian, which has been silent. I originally thought that the other party could produce guns and artillery themselves and had a wealthy economic situation.

Now that it is not so simple. Some Japanese advisers in the ** Party even called back to the country, calling for the attention of the Japanese military. The progress of the war situation in southern China has been out of control, which will bring a very significant change to Japan's Asian strategy and must be dealt with carefully.

The Chinese army was flexible in tactics and used the method of attacking the east and the west. The Marine Corps and the First Fleet attacked Gulangyu, attracting the main force of the ** Party Army. Then the armored division of the Fourth Army carried out sneak attacks in Xiamen and prepared to land on a strong attack, and then developed in depth to occupy the entire island.

During the attack on Xiamen, a regiment of mobile troops was used to monitor the enemy in Kinmen. If you find that you increase Xiamen or withdraw, you will immediately launch an attack on Kinmen. In terms of tactical thinking, it is emphasized that cross-sea combat is only allowed to advance but not retreat, establish the determination to fight invincible to me, and in terms of actions, it is emphasized that there should be a single-ship assault.

Xiamen Island covers an area of ​​128 square kilometers, facing Kinmen from the east across the sea, surrounded by the mainland on the west, south and north, and the nearest part is less than 2 kilometers away from the mainland. It is adjacent to the island Gulang Island in the southwest, and Gulang Island is only 1 kilometer away from the mainland.

Xiamen City has always been an important gateway to China's coastal areas in modern times. After the success of the Northern Expedition, the ** Party Army built a large number of permanent fortifications of reinforced concrete on the island. After the Chinese army advanced, the ** Party Army repaired many field fortifications on the island, laid a large number of landmines and various obstacles, and combined with the original fortifications to form a multi-level solid position.

Judging from the degree of fortifications, Xiamen is indeed the best of the southeast coastal islands. However, judging from the difficulty of crossing the sea, Xiamen is surrounded by the mainland on three sides, and is relatively close to each other, so there are many convenient conditions for landing.

In particular, Hualian has a stronger naval force than the ** Party, which is more prominent in its advantages over the island terrain.

The ** Party Army that defended Xiamen was mainly under the 8th Division of Liu Ruming. Since it was not Jiang Ruiyuan's direct line, Jiang Ruiyuan decided to transfer a regiment of the 16th Division of the Fifth Army, a regiment of the 96th Army and a strengthening company to strengthen the island's garrison.

The new Fujian Provincial "Chairman" Jiang Guangnai personally took charge of Xiamen and replaced Liu Ruming's command. The military commander Li Jiansen led some spy armed forces to Xiamen and served as the commander of the security forces.

On February 7, Jiang Ruiyuan also led many important members of the ** Party, Military and Political Department to Xiamen on a ship to inspect and asked Jiang Guangnai to stay in Xiamen. At that time, Jiang Guangnai followed a Japanese consultant to give him advice, but did not disclose the person's name.

When it comes to Japanese consultants, the ** party members were very familiar with them. As early as the beginning of the establishment of the ** party, these Japanese were core members of the young fascist military group led by Nagata Tetsuyama, Okamura Yasuji, and Tojo Hideki. Many of them served as consultants for military officers stationed in various places. In the subsequent war of aggression against China, some even served as commanders of the Mongolian army and commanders of the North China Front Army, and were the top group of criminals in the war of aggression against China.

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