Chapter 21 Chapter 20 Golden Gate Defeat

After the Tenth Corps won the battle in Xiamen, it immediately launched the Battle of Jinmen.What this battle left for Ye Fei was an unforgettable painful lesson. As the saying goes, good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.Now, the flames of the War of Liberation have long been extinguished, and the Battle of Jinmen, like countless battles fought by the PLA, has become a distant history.However, people have forgotten many battles, but the battle of Kinmen is still brooding and hard to forget.So far, in many newspapers and magazines, experts who study military history and war history still discuss the reasons for the defeat of Jinmen from time to time.

The reason for its failure must start with the planning of the Zhangxiajin Battle.At that time, Fuzhou and Xiamen were still in the hands of the enemy, and only the fifth and twenty-fifth armies of the enemy's 22nd Corps (one regiment left in Xiamen) and the 201st Division transferred from Taiwan (less than one regiment) guarded Kinmen. ), with a total force of less than 20,000—some say as little as 120,000.At that time, Ye Fei made a plan and decided to attack Kinmen with the 28th Army and part of the 29th Army.After the capture of Zhangzhou, it was originally intended to capture Xiamen and Jinmen at the same time, but due to the lack of ships to cross the sea, it was decided to adopt the plan of Xiamen first and Jinmen, and the task of the 28th Army to capture Jinmen remained unchanged.On the eve of capturing Xiamen, Ye Fei ordered the 251st Regiment of the 28th Army and the 259th Regiment of the 29th Army to first attack Dadeng Island opposite Kinmen in preparation for the attack on Kinmen.After the 28th Army was ordered to capture Dadeng Island, the troops were stationed in Lianhe, Dadeng Island, Xiaodeng Island, and Shijing on standby, and entered a state of preparation for capturing Kinmen.

Zhu Shaoqing, commander of the 28th Army, and Chen Meizao, political commissar, were in Fuzhou for medical treatment. The burden fell entirely on the shoulders of Xiao Feng, the deputy commander and chief of staff, and the leadership was obviously weak.Xiao Feng was suddenly pushed from the deputy to the position of the coach, so he had no choice but to rush the duck to the shelf.He went to the divisions to check the preparations and held combat meetings.The leaders of the various divisions reported to him that although the troops were in high spirits for war, there were not enough ships. According to the plan, the battle of Jinmen will be carried out as soon as the battle of Xiamen is over.At that time, the victory of the Xiamen battle was just around the corner, and it only took two or three days to end. Xiao Feng felt a lot of pressure.At that time, the command post of the Corps had been moved from Quanzhou to Tong'an. On October 13, Xiao Feng and Li Mancun, director of the Military Political Department, rushed to Tong'an and reported to Ye Fei the preparations for the Kinmen battle.Ye Fei instructed: "The enemy of Kinmen should not be underestimated. If we want to launch a battle to attack Kinmen, we must ensure that there are ships to transport the six regiments. After the first echelon lands, they will have an absolute advantage." He frowned, He said to Xiao Feng, "The key problem now is that there are not enough ships. Therefore, you must raise enough ships in a relatively short period of time."

Xiao Feng said anxiously: "The troops assigned to us by the Corps - three regiments from the 82nd Division, one regiment from the 84th Division, and two regiments from the 29th Army - have to deal with the more than 10,000 enemies currently in Kinmen. Logically speaking, it is not a problem. But what I am worried about is that if the enemy reinforces Kinmen, the prospect will be unpredictable once the enemy’s strength increases. Therefore, we implore the Corps to further find out how many enemies there are on Kinmen Island—we cannot blindly attack." Ye Fei nodded in agreement, and said: "Don't worry about this, I have taken care of the Seventh Section (Monitoring Section) and asked them to keep you informed of the enemy's situation. But you must hurry up and prepare your boat, and try to launch a war without increasing the number of troops in Jinmen." Fight." Ye Fei suggested that the battle in Jinmen should be sooner rather than later.If it is late, the enemy's strength in Jinmen will definitely increase, which will inevitably bring great difficulties to the troops landing on the island.

On October 17, Xiamen was liberated, and Ye Fei appointed Liang Lingguang as the mayor of Xiamen. On the 18th, the Corps command post entered Xiamen City and worked in Gulangyu Island.Ye Fei served as the director of the Xiamen Military Control Commission.On the day the Corps left Tong'an, Ye Fei called Xiao Feng and Li Mancun to Tong'an again, reiterated to them the mission of attacking gold, and made three decisions: (1) The 253rd Regiment of the 85th Division of the 29th Army and the 253rd Regiment of the 85th Division of the 29th Army The 259th Regiment of the 87th Division, led by Zhu Yunqian, commander and political commissar of the 85th Division, was under the command of the 28th Army and participated in the battle to attack gold. (2) The 92nd Division of the 31st Army serves as the gold reserve team. (3) On October 20, the battle to attack gold was launched.

After Ye Fei announced the three decisions, he introduced to Xiao and Li in detail the situation of the Xiamen landing operation, as well as the experience and lessons of liberating Xiamen, and reminded them to pay attention to preventing enemy planes from bombing ships.Ye Fei told them that the key to victory in the landing operation is to first land and capture the beachhead, then quickly build fortifications, prepare to defeat the enemy's counterattack, and consolidate the beachhead.Ye Fei said: "We must make full preparations, defeat the enemy's counterattack several times, and capture Jinmen. Our army can only land in one direction, and cannot land in other directions, so as to contain and mobilize the enemy and consolidate the beachhead. The second echelon will land later. Only after gathering can we develop in depth.”

Xiao Feng asked: "Has the enemy in Jinmen increased their troops?" Ye Fei replied: "According to the intelligence analysis intercepted a few days ago, Hu Lian's 12th Corps stationed in Chaoshan has left Chaoshan, and his whereabouts are unknown. I asked the intelligence department again just now, and their answer was that Hu Lian is still at sea. Wandering around, but has not yet reached Kinmen. According to my analysis, there are two movements of Hu Lian, one is to Kinmen, the other is to Taiwan. If Chiang Kai-shek intends to guard Kinmen, then Hu Lian must go to Kinmen. As far as I know, Hu Lian is not I am willing to go to Kinmen, and I have sent a telegram to ask Chiang Kai-shek for instructions." Ye Fei slammed his fist on the table and said decisively, "You must launch a landing before Hu Lian arrives at Kinmen, and take Kinmen in one fell swoop."

Xiamen, which had just been liberated, was like all large and medium-sized cities that had just been liberated in the country. It was very chaotic, people's hearts were unstable, social order was not good, bandits and hidden secret agents were rampant, and disruptive and sabotage activities continued to occur.In the past, the Kuomintang army carried out violent expropriation in Xiamen, and the common people lacked food and firewood.At that time, 200,000 citizens of Xiamen were in a severe food shortage period.The newly established Xiamen Municipal Government is limited to Xiamen Island, and cannot allocate supplies from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places.For this reason, the Xiamen Municipal Government requested the Tenth Corps to be stationed in Xiamen, and specially invited Ye Fei, the top leader, to sit in Xiamen and preside over the work.They pinned all their hopes on Ye Fei.They believed that as soon as Ye Fei arrived, all problems could be solved.

Ye Fei had no choice but to hand over the work of the army to Liu Peishan, deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and Chen Tiejun was in charge of the Corps command post. On October 18, they decided to launch a battle on the 20th two days later, but by this day, the 28th Army had only raised more than 100 ships, which was far from the ships needed to transport the troops of 6 regiments.Therefore, Xiao Feng asked the Corps for instructions, and Liu Peishan agreed to postpone the date to the 23rd. At noon on the 22nd, Xiao Feng asked the head of the corps again, reporting that only 120 ships had been raised so far, and the battle on the 23rd might be difficult to launch.After consideration, Liu Peishan decided to transfer the ships of the 31st Army to liberate Xiamen to the 28th Army and postpone the battle for one day, that is, to launch the battle on the night of the 24th.

On the morning of the 24th, the front finger of the 28th Army held another combat meeting in Hanjiang. Three division commanders and six regiment commanders of the 28th Army and 29th Army who participated in the battle spoke at the meeting. Both the leaders of the 82nd Division and the 92nd Division said that the troops were highly motivated to fight and were willing to contribute to the liberation of Kinmen. The chief of the reconnaissance section of the military department said that two armies of Hu Lian's corps had arrived in the waters of Jinmen, and another army was sailing to the waters of Jinmen.

Military Logistics Minister Zhang Lanhou said that the original 5,000 stretchers were not ready. Commander Zhu Yunqian of the 85th Division said that the 253rd Regiment still lacked a battalion of ships. Master Zhong Xianwen of the 82nd Division said that there were many small boats and few big boats in the conscripted ships, and the sailors came from inland rivers in other places, who were not familiar with sea navigation and had not been trained.Some boatmen are unreliable. If the gun is fired, there may be a problem of escape. Liu Tianxiang, head of the 251st Regiment, said that one-third of the sails of their regiment were not repaired, and they could not participate in the battle tonight. Some comrades pointed out that most of the new soldiers in the army were captives recruited after the battles in Fuzhou and Pingtan. A serious problem is reflected from everyone's speech: the conditions for attacking gold are not yet mature! However, Xiao Feng, who had the right to make the decision, after listening to everyone's speeches, considered the Corps' request to attack Kinmen sooner rather than later, and said: "Comrades, it is entirely possible to launch a battle tonight. This time It is estimated that there will be three possibilities in the battle. First, we will continue to fight according to our plan and strive to liberate Kinmen on the 26th. Second, pay attention to the changes in the enemy's situation. If the enemy's situation does not match what we have mastered, then this battle will be difficult. Thirdly, the worst case scenario is that when we land, Hu Lian’s Corps also lands. The enemy will use the convenience of warships for transportation and the cover of the air force, and they will launch a fierce attack on me. We must prepare for four or five thousand casualties mental preparation." He looked at everyone, and then said, "If we can win the Golden Gate, annihilate the Tang Enbo Group, and create conditions and lay the foundation for the liberation of Taiwan, I think the price is worth it. We have no experience in crossing the sea. Subjective and objective conditions It is very reluctant. However, we must fight this battle with a brave and tenacious spirit, win this battle, and report good news to the Corps, the Sanye, the Party Central Committee, and Chairman Mao!" Xiao Feng was very determined. After the meeting, Xiao Feng called Liu Peishan to report the meeting.He said that the preparations for the battle have been completed, and he decided to launch a battle to attack gold tonight. After Liu Peishan listened to Xiao Feng's report, he replied on behalf of the head of the corps: "Approve your combat order. As long as the first echelon can go up to two regiments, the ship will go back and forth twice, and then go up to the second echelon, you can take Kinmen County. .I'll look for some more small ships in Xiamen." Xiao Feng hesitated for a moment, then asked on the phone: "Has the defense of the Golden Gate increased? This is the question everyone is most concerned about." Liu Peishan replied: "According to internal radio reports, the enemy's situation in Kinmen has not changed. Hu Lian's corps is still at sea. As for whether to go to Kinmen or Taiwan, they are still undecided. We must rush to win Kinmen before Hu Lian's corps!" Under the repeated urging of the Ten Corps, coupled with the repeated delays in the attack time, Xiao Feng was under a lot of pressure.Therefore, when the conditions were not yet ripe, he issued a combat order. Liu Peishan joined the Red Army in 1929 and died on May 8, 1968. During his 40 years of military career, he has been engaged in political work.During the Red Army period, he served as the political commissar of the battalion, the section chief of the divisional organization, and the director of the Political Department of the Guerrilla Command.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the political commissar of units equivalent to regiments and brigades in the New Fourth Army.In the early days of the War of Liberation, he served as the deputy political commissar of the Tenth Column of the East China Field Army. In February 1949, when the East China Field Army was reorganized into the Third Field Army, Liu Peishan first served as the director of the political department of the Tenth Corps, and concurrently served as the deputy political commissar of the Corps before attacking Fuzhou.Liu Peishan has never worked as a military chief, let alone commanded operations independently. After Xiao Feng joined the Red Army in 1928, he served as regimental commander and political commissar.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as a political commissar of the regiment for 5 years and a regiment leader for 3 years.During the War of Liberation, he served as the commander of the seventh division of the Shandong Military Region and the commander of the eleventh division of Huaye. In February 1949, he served as the deputy commander of the 28th Army. After the chief of staff Wu Xiao was transferred, he also served as the chief of staff.Xiao Feng also had no experience in commanding major battles independently. The Battle of Kinmen was a major defeat of the People's Liberation Army, which aroused the deep attention of people at home and abroad. Especially in recent years, the Battle of Kinmen has become a hot topic for military history researchers and military history enthusiasts.But when it comes to the reasons for the failure, there are different opinions, and a thousand people have a thousand opinions.But because there is no first-hand original data, they are all echoing what others say. According to the "History of the Ten Corps Battle" reviewed by Ye Fei: "The battle started on the evening of October 24, and the three regiments of the first echelon boarded the ship at dusk. Therefore, the sailing was postponed until 24:00, and at 2:00 on the 25th, it successively sailed in the section from Lancuo to Longkou (244th Regiment), both sides of Huwei Township (251st Regiment), Guningtou and the area east of it (25th Regiment). The 3rd Regiment) broke through and landed. Except for the 244th Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties when approaching the enemy, the rest of the troops landed relatively smoothly, and captured the front lines of Guningtou, Lincuo, Qingtou, and Shuangrushan, and wiped out part of the enemy. Due to the chaotic formation during the voyage and the failure of communication, after landing, the troops were scattered and fought separately. Without consolidating the beachhead and opening up the connection, they rushed in deep. Therefore, under the continuous counterattack of the enemy's superior forces and tanks, they were defeated The enemy was defeated one by one. The 244th Regiment was the first to lose. The 251st Regiment and the 253rd Regiment fought hard for two days and nights, with more than half of their casualties, and finally retreated to the Guningtou area. Damaged by enemy artillery fire, none of them returned to the north bank, making it impossible for the second echelon to reinforce. The Corps urgently mobilized ships in the Xiamen area, but there were very few ships. On the evening of the 25th, the head of the 246th regiment led 6 platoons for reinforcements. Landed in the area north of Lincuo and defeated an enemy battalion, but in the end it was useless due to too few troops. On the evening of the 26th, the 259th Regiment sent another platoon to the Guningtou area for reconnaissance and contact, but also suffered losses. So far, the battle It was over, and I lost 3 regiments and 2 battalions, a total of more than 8,000 people. After the war, the enemy reported that it had nearly 10,000 casualties." "History of Ten Corps War" also pointed out: The defeat in the battle of Jinmen was the result of mistakes in both strategic and tactical command.The first is that the leadership thought that buildings are more important than gold, and they were dazzled by the victory of the battle in Xiamen, and they did not understand the enemy's strategic attempt to defend Jinmen at a heavy price and cover Taiwan's fortification.At the same time, the role of the enemy's superiority in numbers was ignored, and the comparison of the strength of the enemy and ourselves was one-sided and wrongly estimated. Until the enemy's 12th Corps reinforced Kinmen, they still did not take it seriously. , Attacking an enemy seven times as large as ours completely violates the principles of "despise the enemy strategically, and attach importance to the enemy tactically" and "concentrate superior forces". The impatient underestimation of the enemy is also reflected in the lack of adequate preparation, especially the lack of preparation of the ships, and the risk of attacking.Although there were three regiments of ships at that time, in fact, each regiment had one or two companies that could not be loaded due to insufficient ships.The second echelon regiment completely relied on returning ships, and treated the most critical ship problem in cross-sea operations with a fluke attitude, resulting in irreparable consequences. Impatience and underestimation of the enemy are also manifested in one-sided attacks in combat deployment.At that time, there were six divisions defending Dajinmen.Our army only assaulted in a narrow area in the northern part of the western peninsula. The enemy only had one division to fight us, and the rest could concentrate at least four divisions to maneuver. Therefore, the enemy's entire defense system was always stable.In addition, our army has no follow-up troops to go to the island, which further enhances the enemy's confidence in defense.Of course, the deployment of this single-sided attack is determined by the inferior force, because it is impossible for the assault forces of the three regiments to carry out a multi-faceted attack on Jinmen. Impatience and underestimation of the enemy are also reflected in the officers and soldiers' thinking that "landing is equal to success", ignoring the importance of first consolidating and expanding the breakthrough and establishing a beachhead.After the troops landed, their foothold was not stable and the organizational system was messy, so they split up and pushed deep. As a result, except for the Guningtou area, all other breakthroughs were occupied and blocked by the enemy.After the troops penetrated into the depths, they did not attack concentrically as they fought closer and closer, but as they attacked more and more scattered centrifugally, resulting in being divided by the enemy and being defeated individually.Before the war, the Corps had instructed the three regiments of the first echelon of the 28th Army to move side by side after landing, establish a solid beachhead, and launch an attack after the follow-up troops arrived.If the landing force is implemented in this way, it will not lose prematurely-of course, without strong follow-up force reinforcements, it will be difficult to fundamentally change the crisis situation. The reason why the mentality of being impatient and underestimating the enemy was not prevented and corrected in time was mainly because after the Xiamen battle, there was no timely summary, inspection of shortcomings, and lessons learned—especially the serious setback of Gulangyu Island.In fact, the setback at Gulangyu Island has already warned us. If we had faced this point squarely at the time, we might have avoided making mistakes in the Kinmen battle. Inseparable from impatience and underestimation of the enemy is that there are problems at work.After the Battle of Xiamen, the Corps focused on taking over the city, relaxed the responsibility of the campaign command, and easily entrusted the arduous combat task of the Kinmen Battle to the command of Deputy Commander Xiao Feng of the 28th Army, and then lacked preparations for the troops participating in the battle. In-depth and specific inspections, the lack of ships, problems in tactical thinking, lack of confidence among cadres below the division level, and some serious right-leaning sentiments (when the battle started, individual division cadres of the 82nd Division did not cross the sea to command as ordered) do not understand.Although it has been reminded that the first echelon regiment should move side by side after landing, establish a solid beachhead, and seek development after the follow-up troops arrive.However, the combat deployment of the 28th Army has not been carefully examined and studied, and the combat deployment of the Army is precisely in violation of this principle.In short, if you make a wrong judgment of the enemy's situation, you don't "know the enemy", and if you don't understand our situation, you don't "know yourself". In addition, after the battle in Xiamen, the Corps made repeated orders to request all armies to hand over all combat transport ships to the 28th Army for the purpose of attacking gold, but most of them did not resolutely implement it.After the investigation, if all the ships can be concentrated, they can carry about five regiments of troops.If I can invest in five regiments at a time, the loss of Jinmen can be avoided. While checking for mistakes, we must point out that the troops who crossed the sea to participate in the Battle of Kinmen were very brave and tenacious. They fought bitterly for three days and nights against an enemy seven times their size without support, forcing the enemy to pay a huge price of nearly 10,000 casualties. In the end, there were only a few comrades left, who persisted in secret for many days in North Taiwu Mountain of Kinmen, which highlighted the noble qualities of Communist Party members.The warriors who died gloriously in the battle of the Golden Gate are immortal! The "History of the Ten Corps War" was reviewed and revised by Ye Fei, and the opinions of the commanders who participated in the battle were extensively solicited. Therefore, this battle history is not only completely true to the narration of the Kinmen battle and the reasons for its failure, but also the most comprehensive, correct and accurate. Authoritative and most persuasive. According to some documents and telegrams at that time, the head of the Corps knew on October 22 that Hu Lian’s Corps led the 18th Army and the 118th Division to Kinmen Island, and also detected that the 19th Army of Hu Lian’s Corps would arrive at Kinmen on October 24. Island, but did not take contingency measures, and hastily approved the plan of the 28th Army to attack on the evening of the 24th.At that time, the head of the Corps wishfully thought that my first echelon sailed through 3 regiments, and after returning, I could sail at least 2 regiments from the second echelon. A total of 5 regiments landed on the island. Golden Gate is not a big problem.Unexpectedly, the changes in the enemy's situation in Kinmen suddenly increased 10 divisions and nearly 50,000 enemies in Kinmen, a tiny place.More than 8,000 of our army fought against 50,000 people, which became a typical example of an egg hitting a rock and an egg hitting a rock. In the middle of the night on the 24th, Hu Lian heard gunshots in his sleep and panicked for a while, not sure how many people from the People's Liberation Army had come.Until dawn, he found through the binoculars that the number of the People's Liberation Army was relatively small, and the fighting was chaotic, and they did not seize and consolidate their positions.His uneasy heart finally settled down.He quickly organized his troops, charged and strafed the beach with tanks in groups, and ordered the navy to shoot at the beach.Gao Kuiyuan commanded the three divisions of the 18th Army, using regiments as units, to encircle the landing PLA troops one by one. At the same time, he organized death squads and blew up all the ships transporting the PLA.At that time, after the first echelon went ashore, no one commanded the empty ship to return.After the sea tide ebbed, all the ships ran aground and were blown up by Gao Kuiyuan. The second echelon was unable to send reinforcements to Jinmen. In the early morning of the 25th, Chiang Kai-shek, who didn't know the details, learned that the People's Liberation Army had boarded Jinmen, and he was as anxious as ants on a hot pot.He didn't even finish his breakfast, so he went to the office and called Gu Zhutong, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Zhou Zhirou, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, and Gui Yongqing, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and held an emergency combat meeting to discuss how to reinforce Jinmen.The meeting decided that the Air Force would send 20 planes to continuously bomb Xiamen, Jinmen, Maolin, and Wotou to prevent reinforcements from the People's Liberation Army; the Navy would send 15 warships to Jinmen to assist in the battle; Speed ​​up the sailing; order Tang Enbo to take the crime and make meritorious service, and fully assist Hu Lian and Gao Kuiyuan to organize a counterattack.After a series of orders were issued, Lao Jiang was still worried, and wanted to go to Jinmen to supervise the battle in person, but Jiang Jingguo tried his best to stop him.Jiang Jingguo volunteered to go to Jinmen to supervise the battle for his father. The 201st Division stationed in Kinmen is a youth army prepared by Chiang Ching-kuo.As soon as Jiang Jingguo arrived in Kinmen, accompanied by Tang Enbo, he went to the 201st Division to supervise the battle.The Eighteenth Army of the Kuomintang was wiped out by me in the Battle of Huaihai, and it was rebuilt before our army crossed the river.Army Commander Gao Kuiyuan suffered repeated defeats in less than a year after he took office, and was ridiculed by his colleagues as a frequently defeated general.This time, he saw that the number of people landing on the island was very small, and it was a good opportunity to vent his anger and revenge. He personally drove the tanks to the front and directed hundreds of tanks to Guningtou Beach, rolling them back and forth.Hundreds of tanks are like heavy stone rollers, rolling back and forth on the PLA's body. How can the flesh and blood PLA resist it? Regarding the Kinmen defeat, Ye Fei wrote in his memoirs: "After the Kinmen defeat, although the Central Military Commission and the East China Military Region did not punish me, I was heavily burdened in thinking, so I had to actively prepare to attack Kinmen again and make meritorious atonements." He also wrote Dao said, "We can't just accept the lesson from the micro level, but also realize the greater significance of this lesson from the macro level—that is, under the conditions of modern warfare, without sea and air control, large-scale sea-crossing and landing operations must be carried out. , is very difficult. In the early 1950s, when our sea and air force were still at a disadvantage, if we only relied on sailboats to cross the Taiwan Strait and liberate Taiwan, it seems that we will suffer a greater loss than the gold attack. Suffering. After the Kinmen defeat, we learned the lesson and cleared our minds. Perhaps the real significance of accepting the experience and lessons of the Kinmen defeat lies in this.” The troops participating in the Kinmen battle fought tenaciously for three days and three nights when they were outnumbered. Their touching deeds will be recorded in the annals of history forever. Jiang Conghua, director of the radio station of the 28th Army, Zhuo Fengming, a military history researcher, and Hong Xiaoxia, an associate professor who participated in the Kinmen battle, introduced to the author the deeds of the eleven regiment martyrs who participated in the Kinmen battle.They are Liu Hanbin, Wang Xueyuan, Hao Yuesan, Sun Yunxiu, Liu Tianxiang, Xu Bo and others. Liu Hanbin, deputy head and chief of staff of the 246th Regiment, was the first regiment-level cadre to die on the island.At that time, he led the third battalion of the 246th Regiment, assigned to the 244th Regiment, and participated in the first echelon battle on the evening of October 24.Together with the 244th Regiment, the battalion landed in the northwest area of ​​Qionglin in the central part of Kinmen Island.Due to the scattered landing of the ships, it was chaotic at first. Later, the main forces of the Eighth Company and the Ninth Company joined forces, and under the command of Liu Hanbin and Kou Yongde, the instructor of the Third Battalion, they captured Longkou Village on the east side of the Kinmen combat area.Liu Hanbin set up a temporary command post on a small slope outside the west of the village. At this time, the enemy was even more confused, because the enemy did not know how many troops the PLA had landed.Hu Lian had already hid on the warship to watch the battle, and if he couldn't win, he could run away.Tang Enbo thought that the three armies of the People's Liberation Army were coming, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly took the headquarters to retreat to the direction of Liuluo Bay, trying to escape on a warship, and Tang Enbo had already arrived on the warship.After dawn, Tang Enbo knew the truth and hurriedly commanded the troops to fight back. At around 8 a.m. on the 25th, other positions of the 2nd, 4th and 4th regiments fell successively.The Kuomintang heavily attacked Longkou Village. Liu Hanbin commanded the main force of the 3rd Battalion of the 24th and 6th Regiment and carried out an arduous defensive battle at the mouth of the hill.In the case of being outnumbered, they stood firm for about an hour, entering three times and exiting three times.However, Longkou Village finally fell, and the third battalion suffered almost all casualties, including Liu Hanbin himself.The enemy surrounded Xiaotupo, west of the village, and when they learned that there were eight or nine people left in Liu Hanbin's command post, they sent letters to persuade them to surrender, but Liu flatly refused.In the end, Liu Hanbin ordered to break out to the west, but he was shot and died.At about 9:00 am on the 25th. Wang Xueyuan fought to the death like a soldier.After the defeat of the 244th Regiment on the morning of the 25th, the main force of the 251st Regiment stood guard at the embankment north of Anqi Village until 2 pm. The regiment command post decided to break out in the direction of the 252nd Regiment in the northwest.Ma Shaotang, the deputy head of the regiment, commanded the Second Battalion to open a passage. Liu Tianxiang, the head of the regiment, Tian Zhichun, the political commissar, and Hao Yuesan, the chief of staff, led the regiment commanders and some commanders and fighters to escape. Wang Xueyuan, the director of the political department, still stuck to the original position. At this time, there were only a few scattered troops on the position.Wang Xueyuan organized the communications squad, reconnaissance squad, and regiment health squad that were still fully established, and handed them over to Wu Dekui, the deputy instructor of the Second Battalion and Sixth Company, to fight back against the enemy.After a while, more than half of the three squads suffered casualties, so they had to retreat.As soon as Wang Xueyuan looked anxious, he grabbed two grenades and shouted: "Communist members come with me!" He stood up and rushed up.As soon as he was out of the trench, he was shot in the head, followed by a shell that exploded behind him.Before Wang Xueyuan could say a word, he fell to the ground.It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the 25th. Hao Yuesan was shot and died during the breakout.It was the afternoon of the 26th. After Lincuo fell, the cadres of the 246th, 251st, and 253rd regiments organized a joint command post in the only remaining Beishan Village, Guningtou.At dusk, the Kuomintang army had broken into the eastern part of Beishan Mountain, and the situation was very critical.In the evening, the cadres of the 246th, 251st, and 253rd regiments held their last joint meeting at the west end of Beishanzhuang.The meeting was presided over by Tian Zhichun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Temporary United Regiment, and decided to fight for the ship to return to the mainland, otherwise, go to Mount Taiwu to fight guerrillas, and persist until our army fights again in Kinmen. That night, they broke through to the southeast in the dark, walked all night, reached the east of the 132 Highland, and found a deep grass ditch to hide.The chief of staff of the regiment, Hao Yuesan, led ten people including Zhang Qingquan, the commander of the third company of the first battalion of the regiment, and went to the beach again to find a boat, while the rest waited in place.Chief of Staff Hao led the team to take down several enemy bunkers, touched the seashore, but did not find the ship.When they returned to Caogou, they did not see the group leaders (probably went to the wrong place), and had to hide by themselves as it was getting dawn. On the morning of the 28th, they were searched and found by the enemy, and Hao Yuesan was shot and died while breaking out. Sun Yunxiu committed suicide after being wounded.Knowing the hardships and dangers of the landing troops, the Corps decided to transfer six steamers from Xiamen, which can transport two regiments at a time, and transport them back and forth several times, so that a strong backup force can be added.But these steamships were merchant ships, and the crew ran away in fright when they heard about the war.The escort of the ship did not understand the machine or the route, so the ship broke down halfway.Finally, some wooden sailboats were gathered, and Xiao Feng ordered Sun Yunxiu, the head of the regiment, to bring a battalion for reinforcements. On the night of the 25th, Sun Yunxiu led the main force of the First Battalion of the 246th Regiment to the island for reinforcements. During the day on the 26th, they replaced the 253rd Regiment and stood firm in Lincuo Village.In the afternoon, Lincuo Village fell, and the troops retreated to Beishan Village, Guningtou.Beishan Village is a small village in Guningtou, and the enemy often comes to patrol, so they can't stay for long.In the evening, Sun Yunxiu moved with the group leaders. On the night of the 27th, Sun Yunxiu, Liu Tianxiang and the others waited until 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, but Hao Yuesan and the others still did not come back. Seeing that the east was about to dawn, it was impossible to evacuate Kinmen Island that night.To prevent accidents, they had to ignore Chief of Staff Hao and move to a deep ditch south of Anqi to disperse and hide. Commander Sun Yunxiu and more than ten people, armed with a light machine gun and more than a dozen long and short guns, hid in the north-south ditch on the west. At around 1:00 pm on the 28th, the Kuomintang troops cleaning the battlefield discovered this group of concealers, and a fierce hand-to-hand battle immediately broke out between the two sides.Sun Yunxiu directed the comrades around him to fight back.It's a pity that we were outnumbered. Under the enemy's condescending machine guns, rifles, and grenades, our personnel suffered casualties in an instant and lost their combat effectiveness.Sun Yunxiu was seriously injured. He gritted his teeth, raised the pistol, pressed the muzzle to his temple, and pulled the trigger... Liu Tianxiang, head of the 251st Regiment, was seriously injured and unyielding. On the afternoon of October 28, during the breakout process, his leg was broken and he was seriously injured.After arriving in Taipei, he was sent to the Kuomintang Army General Hospital for treatment. In late December, Liu Tianxiang was transferred to Sanxia Town Hospital. In February 1950, he was sent to Neihu Concentration Camp.In the hospital, Liu was the key target of the Kuomintang's struggle.The enemy organized several "conscience associations" to fight against him, but found nothing. Xu Bo is the person who has persisted in fighting for the longest time on Kinmen Island. On the afternoon of October 28, comrades at the command post of the joint regiment were discovered by the enemy in the grass ditch in Anjinan.Xu Bo and another comrade, Chen Lihua, broke out from the north first, and they hid in the homes of ordinary people in Kinmen.Chen Lihua is from Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He can speak Hakka. He hid in the mountains for a month or two and was safe.Both of them have very good swimming skills. After discussing, they decided to move to the seaside, find a boat or swim back to the mainland.When they moved from the village where they were hiding to another village, they were discovered by the enemy.The enemy opened fire, Chen Lihua was hit and fell down, and Xu Bo rushed out alone. The enemy dispatched a division of troops to surround Mount Taiwu, search intensively, and finally found Xu Bo in a cave.It was already February of 1950, and Xu Bo had been on the mountain for nearly four months, "with long hair and beard, like a savage". After Xu Bo was sent to Neihu, he was kept alone in a small house, and he only used the opportunity to go to the toilet to secretly speak a word or two with his comrades.The Kuomintang was afraid that his perseverance and tenacious spirit would "infect" other people, and quickly killed him secretly. Compared with the bloody battles and heroic sacrifices of the vast number of officers and soldiers, the sacrifices of the commanders and fighters are after all a minority.All the officers and soldiers who took part in the Battle of Kinmen, in order to liberate and unify the motherland, fought bloody battles with one as ten, and fought bravely to the last moment.They are indomitable heroes on the battlefield, and they are also resounding tough guys in the concentration camp.They are the elite of the Chinese nation!Their spirit will always inspire future generations to work hard for the prosperity of the motherland!