Chapter 18 Chapter 17 A Hundred Ships Compete for the Flow, Killing Whales across the Sea to Liberate Hainan

Mao Zedong went to Moscow, but always paid attention to Hainan Island.Xue Yue was so proud that he named the defense project he deployed on Hainan Island "Boling Line of Defense" in his own words.What if there is no boat?Chen Yi carried silver dollars in disguise and loaded them into Hong Kong and Macau.Deng Hua smiled and said: We mainly use wooden sailboats to cross the sea.Xue Yue fled to Taiwan in a panic, and the red flag was planted to the ends of the earth.Under Chiang Kai-shek's control, the Wanshan Islands are like a small sore on the edge of the entire continent. If the sore is not healed, how can the people find peace?Shino's last battle in the history of the War of Liberation ended victoriously!

After the Guangxi campaign, Lin Biao has been thinking about the battle plan for crossing the sea to capture Hainan Island.But at this moment, a huge shadow dangled in his mind. On October 24th, the Sanye 10th Corps took the lead in launching a sea-crossing operation and mobilized seven regiments to attack Dajinmen Island. However, due to the lack of experience in sea-crossing operations, the People's Liberation Army lacked thorough and detailed investigations of the enemy's situation and sea conditions. Due to the insufficient preparation of the ships, coupled with the lack of strict combat organization and command, the battle was launched hastily. As a result, there were more than 7,400 attacking troops, most of whom died heroically, and a few were captured.This was the most serious defeat during the War of Liberation.

We must learn the lesson of Sanye!Lin Biao paced back and forth in the room, then turned back to the desk in the office, picked up the advice on combating Hainan Island that the 15th Corps had just sent him, read it again, and then walked up again. "Okay, let's immediately arrange a battle plan to seize Hainan Island!" Lin Biao stopped and said to the staff standing not far away, "Immediately send power to the Military Commission and Chairman Mao!" At this time, Mao Zedong was not in Beijing.He is on a state visit to the Soviet Union. On December 18, 1949, Mao Zedong carefully read Lin Biao's plan for crossing the sea in Moscow: "We are going to adopt the method of smuggling small troops during the rest period, and first transport some troops to cooperate with the local armed forces in order to cope with the main force. During the landing operation, it is proposed that the 43rd and 40th armies each use a division as the first echelon to advance side by side, and land in the east and west directions of Haikou, so as to support each other, disperse the enemy's forces, and make the landing operation easier to succeed."

Mao Zedong nodded and took the writing brush: "I agree with your deployment." After thinking for a while, he quickly added the following paragraph: The battle across the sea is completely different from all the experience of our army in the past. In the direction of the wind, it is necessary to concentrate the entire force capable of carrying at least 40,000 to 50,000 troops of an army at a time, carry food for more than three days, land in front of the enemy, establish a solid beachhead, and then attack alone without relying on backup.Because it takes 12 hours after the tide is high, the ship carrying the first ship can return for the second ship, and the enemy can use the navy and air force to cut off our transport, so if you can't choose the time to carry an army across the sea and land, and you can attack alone, you can establish base, to obtain food, there is bound to be no support and the danger of suffering heavy losses.You have to absorb the lessons of Sanye's attack on Kinmen.

According to Mao Zedong's instructions, Lin Biao ordered the 40th and 43rd armies, with one cannon regiment and one anti-aircraft gun regiment and one engineering unit, with a total of more than 100,000 people, to assemble on the Leizhou Peninsula to form a cross-sea combat corps. Under the command of Hua and political commissar Lai Chuanzhu, he used the limited time to step up preparations for the liberation of Hainan Island, paying attention to collecting tools for crossing the sea, strengthening the water training of soldiers, finding out the laws of ocean tides, and at the same time paying attention to understanding the deployment of Hainan Island.

Facing the grim situation that the People's Liberation Army was about to land on Hainan Island, Chiang Kai-shek set up the Hainan Island Defense Command and appointed his loyal believer, Chairman of Guangdong Province Xue Yue, as the commander-in-chief to unify the command of the land, sea and air force of Hainan Island. Xue Yue was originally from Lechang, Guangdong, with the style name Boling and the nickname "Tiger Cub".He once served as the battalion commander of the Sun Yat-sen Presidential Palace Guard Corps. During the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army in 1926, he served as the commander of the 1st Division of the Guangdong Army and fought all the way to Shanghai.Later, because of dissatisfaction with Chiang Kai-shek, he participated in many anti-Chiang activities among warlords and within the Kuomintang, but he had to resign in 1932 because of repeated failures.In 1933, due to the repeated defeats of the Red Army in Jiangxi's "encirclement and suppression", Chiang Kai-shek suddenly remembered this talent, and reappointed Xue Yue as the commander of the Fifth Army to carry out the fifth "encirclement and suppression".Xue Yue immediately led his troops into battle and fought straight to Ruijin, forcing the Red Army to take the Long March, and then pursued them along the way.Mao Zedong commanded troops to cross the Chishui River four times, cross the Jinsha River skillfully, and fly over the Luding Bridge, all in order to deal with Xue Yue's siege and interception.Since then, Xue Yue has turned himself into Chiang Kai-shek's confidant.

This time, after Xue Yue landed on Hainan Island, he immediately organized and deployed about 100,000 people from the island's sea, land, and air forces.He divided the ring island into 4 defense areas and formed the 4th Route Army for defense.The 32nd Army is the main component of the 1st Route Army to defend the eastern part of the island, and the military headquarters is stationed in Jiaji; the 62nd Army, the teacher, the temporary 13th Division and the Qiongbei Fortress Column form the 2nd Route Army to defend the northern tip of Hainan Island. Facing the front of the Leizhou Peninsula, the 62nd Army was stationed in Chengmai; the 64th Army and the 4th Army formed the 3rd Route Army to defend the west of the island, the 64th Army was stationed in Calais, and the 4th Army was stationed in Nada; the 63rd Army The main force plus the Qiongnan Fortress Column and the Marine Corps formed the 4th Route Army to defend the southern tip of the island, and the 63rd Army was stationed in Yulin.In addition, more than 50 ships of various sizes from the 3rd Fleet of the Navy and 25 combat aircraft and 20 transport aircraft from the 4 Air Force brigades were respectively based in Haikou and Sanya to undertake mobile operations and form a three-dimensional defense of land, sea and air.Xue Yue was very proud of this three-dimensional deployment, and named it "Boling Defense Line" with his own words.

Xue Yue was intoxicated on the island, but he did not expect that the specific deployment of his "Boling Line of Defense" had already been reported by the Qiongya Column to the 15th Corps assembled on the Leizhou Peninsula. The Qiongya column was established in 1926 and has held high the red flag for 23 years.Under the leadership of the commander and political commissar Feng Baiju and others, they launched a large-scale counter-offensive against the Kuomintang since the beginning of 1949, annihilating more than 2,000 enemies and liberating 20 towns.The column's own strength has also grown to more than 16,000 people, and a revolutionary base area covering 2/3 of the island's area and 3/5 of the population has been established.It is particularly worth mentioning that the column also included a women's spy company of more than 200 people, which was later known throughout the country as the Red Detachment of Women.

Knowing that the Siye army was about to attack Hainan Island, Feng Baiju immediately mobilized the people of the whole island, raised more than 50,000 loads of food, collected more than 170 wooden sailboats, mobilized more than 400 boatmen, and transported them to Leizhou Peninsula in batches to support the army cross the sea. In January 1950, Fu Zhenzhong, chief of staff of the Qiongya Column, smuggled across the Strait in person, went south to Guangzhou, and participated in the Hainan Island Operation Conference. The meeting was held on February 1. After listening to the situation introduced by Fu Zhenzhong, the meeting fell into a heated debate on the issue of cross-sea tools.Some proposed to go to Hong Kong and Macao to buy landing ships, but the Hong Kong and Macao authorities at that time were leaning towards the Kuomintang politically and militarily; some proposed to convert wooden sailboats into motor sailboats. It is also not allowed, because the engine horsepower of ordinary cars is too small to be used. Only the engine of a ten-wheel truck is available, but how much of this engine can be obtained?In the end, everyone believed that it was more practical to rely on wooden sailboats to cross the sea. The number of wooden sailboats could be guaranteed, and with the help of wind power, they were safe and reliable.Therefore, the foothold of crossing the sea is placed on wooden sailboats, mainly wooden sailboats.As for refitting the motor sailboat, you can refit as much as you can. It is still very necessary to use it as a command ship and escort.

The means of crossing the sea is a key issue.Lin Biao was also considering the issue of ships. He decided to send Chen Yi, the political commissar of the logistics department, and Luo Wen, the chief of staff, to Guangzhou to support the troops to fight Hainan Island, especially to help solve the ship problem, with several million silver dollars. Before leaving, Lin Biao confessed to Chen Yi: "Don't take it lightly just because this is the last battle in the Central South region. To defeat the enemy, you have to overcome many difficulties. You are here mainly to solve logistical support, especially for crossing the sea. Ship problem."

Zhou Chunquan, the Minister of Logistics who was present at the time, interjected: "At that time, political commissar Chen may have to go to Hong Kong and Macau to see if he can buy a ship." Immediately after Chen Yi arrived in Guangzhou, he took a train with six people to Hong Kong via the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway.Chen Yi disguised himself as the boss of a certain shipping company in Shanghai, dressed in suits and leather shoes, looking chic and suave.But they stayed in Hong Kong for three days, running from one pier to another, boarding a small boat for a while, boarding a big ship for a while, but they were disappointed. There was no such thing as a landing ship in the boat market.Of course there are a few large passenger ships that can transport troops, but the targets are large and difficult to land, so it is useless to buy them.They went to Macau again by boat. When they visited Macau, they found that it was not as good as Hong Kong. Not to mention that there were no landing ships, even several large ships were under repair. Helpless, they had no choice but to return to Guangzhou empty-handed and came to the front line of the Leizhou Peninsula. When Deng Hua heard about his going to Hong Kong and Macau to buy ships, he smiled and said to him: "This trip has worked hard for you. But it doesn't matter, we have given up buying ships. I decided to use wooden sailboats as the mainstay and refit some motor sailboats. At present, the work of soliciting wooden sailboats is underway.” The four fields were busy fighting across the sea, and Mao Zedong had been thinking about it during his visit to the Soviet Union. On March 4, Mao Zedong returned to Beijing by special train. Before dawn, he dialed Lin Biao's long-distance call to inquire about the preparations for crossing the sea. Lin Biao replied confidently: "In 24 hours, our first smuggling force will board the ship and set off!" In the spring of 1950, the Qiongzhou Strait was extremely lively. The soldiers of the 40th Army and the 43rd Army launched a vigorous sea training here.On the surface of the sea, dragons leap and fish jump, heads float, and soldiers hold tripods and square frames made of bamboo tubes in groups of three or four and drift in the wind and waves. shock.On the shore, rows and companies of commanders and fighters were walking on wave bridges and playing swings, only to practice dizziness and spinning, in order to gradually overcome the difficulty of seasickness. In order to increase actual combat experience, some troops also deliberately rushed to the depths of the strait to look for opportunities to fight. On February 20, Lu Xiangyun, a platoon leader of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army, led 8 soldiers with a small sailboat, floating in the wind on the sea, and drifted into the enemy-occupied sea area.A Kuomintang warship spotted them and drove over immediately.Lu Xiangyun ordered everyone to get ready and wait for the warship to approach before firing.Relying on its own strength, the enemy ship fired at a distance of 400 meters from the small wooden sailboat. One shell landed near the side of the ship, and the other shell broke the ship's awning rope and anchor car.Lu Xiangyun asked everyone to calm down and wait for the opportunity.Seeing that the small wooden sailboat did not fight back, the enemy ship thought that they had lost their combat effectiveness, so they stopped shelling, shouted "Pay your guns and surrender" and approached the small wooden sailboat, trying to drag the small wooden sailboat back to Haikou to repay the reward.Unexpectedly, when the distance between the enemy ship and the small wooden sailboat was only 50 meters, Lu Xiangyun gave an order, and all kinds of weapons suddenly opened fire, which caught the enemy ship by surprise. At that time, several people were hit and fell into the sea.The enemy ship quickly got rid of the boat, and then rushed over at full speed.Lu Xiangyun seized the opportunity to ask everyone to unscrew the cover of the grenade and put on the explosive pack. When the enemy ship rushed over and passed the boat, the grenade and the explosive pack were thrown at the enemy ship together. Suddenly thick smoke billowed up, and he fled away in a flash. Soon, the 40th Army also made an attempt to cross the sea with wooden sailboats when they captured Weizhou Island. On March 5, a regiment of the 40th Army, under the leadership of the division chief of staff Xia Ke and others, boarded Weizhou Island in a small wooden boat in the dark. After sea and landing operations, they wiped out the enemy and captured 436 Kuomintang soldiers. The military personnel took back more than 400 wooden sailboats. After these two naval battles, the soldiers of the 15th Corps completely believed in the combat capability of the small wooden boat.Under this premise, the plan to smuggle across the strait was officially implemented. On March 5, 1950, the first smuggling troops began their operations.At 19:30 that afternoon, 299 commanders and fighters from the 118th Division of the 40th Army boarded 21 warships, unanchored and set sail, heading for Baimajing on the west side of Hainan Island. Unexpectedly, at 24 o'clock in the middle of the night, the wind suddenly stopped on the sea, and the wooden sailboat could not move.At this time, the fleet had reached the mainstream of the strait, the depth of the water was unpredictable, and there were still more than 50 kilometers away from the landing point. The soldiers used all the items that could be paddled, such as bamboo poles, wooden boards, and even gun stocks. Arriving at the scheduled location at noon, with the cooperation of the Qiongya column, they wiped out the enemies on the beach and entered the liberated area smoothly. The first batch of smuggling troops succeeded. Immediately afterwards, the smuggling troops of the 43rd Army also set off. At 13:00 on March 10th, the sea and sky were overcast with drizzle, and the northeast wind strengthened to level 7. It was a good time to cross the sea. 1,000 people from the 128th Division of the 43rd Army boarded 21 wooden boats and landed in the area from Chishui Port to Tongguling in Wenchang County, Hainan Island the next day.Together with the Qiongya Column who came to meet them, they repelled the attack of the two enemy regiments and successfully entered the Qiongshan Liberated Area. The successful smuggling of the first two pioneer battalions not only strengthened the strength of the People's Liberation Army on Hainan Island, but also further clarified the reality of the enemy's coastal defense. Since then, the 40th Army and the 43rd Army sent a reinforced regiment to Hainan Island on March 26 and March 31 respectively. After the two vanguard battalions and two reinforcement regiments of the People's Liberation Army successfully smuggled into Hainan Island, Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Hainan Defense, was shocked. The troops split to pursue the smuggling troops of the People's Liberation Army. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek sent him a telegram from Taiwan, asking him to protect Hainan Island to the death and use it as a base for counterattacking the mainland one day.Xue Yue hurriedly drove to the Hainan Administrative Office of the Kuomintang in Haikou City, met with Chen Jitang, the governor of the Hainan Special Zone, and Yu Hanmou, the deputy chief, and conveyed Chiang Kai-shek's "instructions".After discussing with several people, they decided to set up defenses everywhere along the 400-kilometer coastal defense line of Qiongbei and Qiongxi Northwest. But under such circumstances, Xue Yue could no longer prevent the People's Liberation Army from landing on the island. On the afternoon of April 16, seeing that the wind direction finally changed from southerly to northeasterly again, Deng Hua issued an order with historic significance at 19:30: board the ship and sail across Hainan! The large forces of the People's Liberation Army began the battle to storm Hainan Island. More than 18,700 athletes of the 40th Army's cross-sea troops, led by Han Xianchu, deputy commander of the 12th Corps and commander of the 40th Army, Li Boqiu, director of the Political Department of the Army, Deng Yue, commander of the 118th Division, and Xu Guofu, commander of the 119th Division, boarded more than 300 soldiers. The warship set sail from the coastline of Dengloujiao, braved the wind and waves, and went straight to the coastlines of Meixia and Changgong near Lingaojiao on Hainan Island.At the same time, 6,968 athletes of the 43rd Army, led by Deputy Commander Long Shujin and 128th Division Commander Huang Ronghai, also boarded 81 warships, set sail from Santang and Haizhu Port, and went straight to Chengcheng, Hainan Island. The coast of Yubao Port, Mai County. The sea-crossing troops marched bravely in the sea.Seeing the ferocious approach of the People's Liberation Army, the Kuomintang naval warships went out to sea to intercept them one after another. A large-scale naval battle between wooden boats and warships was launched on the Qiongzhou Strait. The fleet of the 40th Army is escorted by 20 "earth gunboats" refitted from motor sailboats on the left and right sides.At around 22 o'clock at night, the fleet sailed to the middle of the strait, and a Kuomintang warship was found firing at the fleet on the left front.Attempts to stop the fleet from advancing.Han Xianchu immediately ordered Huang Yu, the artillery director of the 40th Army, to lead the "earth gunboat team" to fight back. For a while, the sound of guns rumbling in the night sky, the fire net intertwined, and the water column on the sea soared into the sky. A KMT warship was hit and caught fire, and quickly hid aside. The team took the opportunity to speed up and rushed over.In the chaotic battle, the flagship "Taiping" of the Kuomintang 2nd Fleet was severely damaged, and the fleet commander Wang Enhua sitting in the ship was seriously injured and died shortly after returning to Haikou. At this time, the 43rd Army fleet traveling on the other road was also intercepted by three Kuomintang warships.After several fierce battles, they successfully broke through the blockade of enemy ships. In the early morning of April 17, 8 regiments of the 40th Army and the 43rd Army broke through Xue Yue's defensive position from the west of Haikou to Lingaojiao, and forcibly landed.With the cooperation of the Qiongya Column and the early sea-crossing troops, they quickly captured the commanding heights of the beachhead and controlled the 200-kilometer defense line from Chengmai to Lingao. Xue Yue's "Boling Line of Defense" was torn apart by the People's Liberation Army. Notch 2/3 of the way across the board. At this time, Xue Yue had already messed up his hands and feet, and sent the main force to intercept on April 19.In the Meiting and Huangzhu areas, the two sides fought fiercely until the 22nd, and the follow-up troops of the People's Liberation Army arrived one after another.Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Taiwan, learned that the main force of the People's Liberation Army had landed on a large scale. Knowing that the defeat was doomed, he sent a large number of warships and transport planes from Taiwan to some ports and airports in Yulin, Wuchang, and Beili on Hainan Island to pick up the remaining forces. On the afternoon of the 22nd, Xue Yue issued an order to retreat across the board, and then hurriedly boarded the plane with Chen Jitang and others, and fled Hainan Island. On April 23, the People's Liberation Army occupied Haikou. On the 24th, the cross-sea combat command issued a combat order to chase down the remnants of the enemy and liberate the whole of Hainan.From the end of the war to May 1, Hainan Island was completely liberated, and the red flag was planted to the ends of the earth. The sea-crossing operation took only 14 days from the main landing on April 17 to the end of the battle on May 1.With the close cooperation of the Qiongya Column, the cross-sea combat troops wiped out a total of more than 33,000 enemies, completely destroyed Chiang Kai-shek's stubborn attempt to occupy the island, and pulled out the KMT's strategic support point at the southern tip of mainland China. After the liberation of Hainan Island, most of the KMT's remnants fled to Taiwan in a hurry, but some troops still controlled the Wanshan Islands outside the Pearl River Estuary, using them as a naval base to continuously harass the mainland, maintain ties with mainland bandits, and even dispatch A small group of armed forces sneaked into the mainland to carry out sabotage activities. Originally, the Wanshan Islands were not very big, with only more than 40 small islands located between Hong Kong and Macau outside the Pearl River Estuary.Relying on his naval superiority, Chiang Kai-shek used the main force of the 2nd Fleet and parts of the 1st and 3rd Fleets. There were more than 1,000 marines in one battalion, 26 companies and miscellaneous armed forces. Under the unified command of the 2nd Fleet Commander Qi Hongzhang, Occupying this place, the so-called empty island warfare method is adopted, and ships are mainly used for island-by-island defense. Only Trashwei Island is defended by a part of the Marine Corps, and the main force of its navy is also anchored here, while other islands are garrisoned by miscellaneous troops. Under Chiang Kai-shek's control, the Wanshan Islands are like a small sore on the edge of the entire continent. If the sore is not healed, how can the people find peace? "We must get rid of this sore!" Lin Biao knocked on the table and said, "Order the 131st Division of the 44th Army, the South China River Defense Fleet, the Artillery Regiment of the Liangguang Column, and the Artillery Battalion of the 132nd Division to organize forces as soon as possible to take down Wanshan Islands!" The main force to carry out the task is still the subordinates of the 15th Corps. Deng Hua, commander of the 15th Corps, told his subordinates very seriously: "This is another naval battle. Although the number of enemies is small, we must not underestimate the enemy." Hong Xuezhi, deputy commander of the corps, took over and said: "A joint command for the liberation of the Wanshan Islands should be established, and Liu Yongyuan, the commander of the 131st Division, should be the commander in chief, so that they can make preparations in the next few days." "Okay!" Deng Hua nodded. The order was passed on.Liu Yongyuan immediately started to act. A few days later, Hong Xuezhi received a report from Liu Yongyuan: "We have prepared 16 large and small ships, 8 transport ships, as well as the field artillery regiment of the Liangguang Column, the 57th Battle Defense Battalion and Cannon Company of the Artillery Division, and the recoilless force of the 50th Army. The artillery company, the artillery battalion of the 132nd division, the infantry company of the 130th division, etc., can all participate in this battle." "We must take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, speed up preparations, strive to strike early, attack suddenly, fight close at night, attack island by island, and advance steadily!" Hong Xuezhi instructed Liu Yongyuan on the phone, "We can first form a fire support fleet with six gunboats. , rush to the enemy's garbage tail anchorage, sink, destroy, and disrupt the enemy ships; then use two infantry battalions to form a landing team, take the opportunity to land on the garbage tail and nearby islands, and destroy the enemies on the island; at the same time, organize another The fire support team landed on the islands of Datou and Sanjiaoshan by landing craft, supported the landing team to fight, and prepared to develop in the direction of Dongao and Wanshan. This is the first step. The islands of Sanjiaoshan, Sanjiaoshan and Dong'ao are the starting points for landing on Wanshan and Baili islands, sweeping away the miscellaneous troops on the upper reaches of the islands and consolidating them; note that at this time, the landing team must hold on to the occupied islands and break through the enemy ships. Blockade at sea, prepare to launch an island-by-island attack. After everything is ready, the main cameras will land on the Sanmen Islands, the Wailingding Islands and the Dangan Islands, and wipe out the enemy!" At 1 o'clock in the morning on May 25, 1950, all combat units set off one after another according to pre-arranged arrangements. At 4:50, the sound of gunfire came from the sea.Two boats of the People's Liberation Army broke into the temple bay at the end of the garbage.When the enemy hadn't reacted and anchored, they aimed at the enemy flagship "Taihe" with a burst of fierce bombardment, and struck across fifteen or sixteen enemy warships including the "Yongzi" and "Zhongzi". He rushed straight and fired again and again.Immediately sank an enemy gunboat, severely damaged the "Yamato", and damaged an enemy landing ship and a minesweeper.Enemy ships burst into flames and smoke, and explosions continued.Qi Hongzhang, the commander of the enemy's 2nd Fleet, woke up from his sleep and shouted all the way to let the crews of all ships fight with all their strength. He didn't want his right arm to be blown away by the artillery shells of the People's Liberation Army as soon as he got on the deck. At this time, the enemy ships didn't know how many troops from the People's Liberation Army had come, and they all panicked for a while, and hurriedly lifted anchor and fled.Not long after, the sky was bright, and the fleeing enemy ships realized at this time that the People's Liberation Army was attacking only a few small gunboats, and immediately turned their heads to fight back.In the end, the People's Liberation Army ships were outnumbered and retreated because the backup troops did not arrive. But at the same time, after the first attack by the PLA, the enemy ship suffered heavy casualties, the main fleet lost its combat effectiveness, and the commander of the 2nd Fleet, Qi Hongzhang, was seriously injured and fled all the way back to Taiwan. On the 26th, the People's Liberation Warships attacked again, occupying the islands of Niutou, Trashwei, Zhizhou, Datouzhou, and Sanjiaoshan in the afternoon of the same day, and blocked the sea with artillery fire to ensure the safety of rear transportation. After Qi Hongzhang fled back to Taiwan in a hurry, he was dismissed from his post after being scolded by Chiang Kai-shek for a while as a stupid pig and an idiot.The 2nd Fleet was replaced by Vice Admiral Ma Zhuangmou, Chief of Staff.Ma Zhuangmou immediately added 2 frigates, 2 landing ships, and 4 minesweepers to form a joint fleet, using Sanmen Island and Shanglingding as bases, to launch a massive counterattack against the PLA.Relying on the large tonnage of their American ships and the long range of their artillery, they bombarded the islands occupied by the People's Liberation Army for several days in a row. "This Ma Zhuangmou is fierce." Liu Yongyuan analyzed, "We have to give him a method of combining islands and ships." Later, Liu Yongyuan ordered the troops to place long-range artillery on the island and the ship at the same time as soon as possible, so that the ships can cover the troops on the island, and the artillery on the island can also support the ships to fight at sea. On the 29th, Ma Zhuangmou dispatched a total of seven or eight ships, including one "Taizi" and three "Yongzi", to the northwest sea near Sanjiao Mountain, rampaging, and crazily fired at the island.No, the People's Liberation Army is arranging long-range artillery, just waiting for them to come.When Ma Zhuangmou's ship entered the effective range of artillery fire three or four kilometers away from the island, the PLA's artillery returned fire at the same time.Immediately, three enemy ships were shot, and the rest of the ships were not aware of their situation and hurried away. Seeing that Ma Zhuangmou had escaped, the People's Liberation Army took the opportunity to capture Dong'ao Island, Daxiaowanshan, Baili, Guizhou, Hengzhou, Zhudao and other islands. On June 6, all the main forces of the People's Liberation Army were stationed at Garbage End, and Liu Yongyuan set up a forward command post in a temple on the island.After the troops landed on the island, they set up sheds, installed pots and stoves, first solved the problem of food and accommodation, and then welded and fixed all the artillery on the ship. After a short time, Ma Zhuangmou ran back again, because he discovered that the People's Liberation Army had long-range artillery, so he added three long-range artillery ships from the 1st Fleet, "Xinyang", "Yingkou" and "Tai'an". Gunboats to assist in combat.But they didn't dare to come to attack, they just stationed their main force on Dangan Island, and then continued to patrol the outer Lingding sea, and drove to Sanmen Island from time to time. "We must kill them! If they don't come over, we will go over and beat them!" Liu Yongyuan said. From June 10, after several days of observation, it was found that the Kuomintang army had no personnel stationed on Sanmen Island. "Okay," Liu Yongyuan sent an order, "let's go to Sanmen Island and use it as the basic position for the next attack." In the middle of the night on June 26, Liu Yongyuan sent a large landing ship and a barge to Sanmen Island under the cover of night, and entered the predetermined position covertly.At the same time, a small landing craft was used to transport 7 mountain guns to the island and put them on the mountain. This series of actions was not noticed by the enemy ship at all. At 5 o'clock in the morning on June 27, the enemy ship "Yongzi" swaggered to the Sanmen Island area as usual.Suddenly, artillery fire roared on Sanmen Island, and the "Yongzi" was the first to be shot and tilted.At this time, the enemy ships "Taizi" and "Xinyang" immediately rushed to reinforce and fired at the PLA.The long-awaited large landing ship finally spoke, and the more intense artillery fire caused the "Xinyang" to be shot again and again.All the enemy ships were injured, so they could only turn around and flee, and all the forces gathered on Dangan Island. Dangan Island became the last island occupied by the Kuomintang army in the Wanshan Islands. But the last island could not keep them occupied for long.After careful observation, Liu Yongyuan led the main force to land on the island forcibly and wiped out more than 140 defenders on the island.Seeing that there was no base in Wanshan, the Kuomintang fleet no longer dared to provoke. The battle to liberate the Wanshan Islands lasted 71 days, and finally drove the Kuomintang army out. So far, Shino's last battle in the history of the Liberation War has ended successfully!