Pre-war pre-selected reserve teams are reserved as troop seeds. This has never happened in the history of the Taiwan Army. The number of places is limited. The units of the Taiwan Army that can enter the Ryukyu Islands Battle order must either have superior combat capabilities or be the main force. The officers are thick-skinned. Generally speaking, looking at the whole army, there is no good person in the Taiwan Army units who can stay on the Dongshan Fleet Transport Squadron. Everyone has seen the battle during the day, so they have no regard for Jiang Dahe's words. Objection, it is not that the Taiwan Army has never fought this kind of fortress attack battle, so it also has a certain understanding of the Japanese prairie dog tactics. Even so, they still have to admit that the current Kurane Regiment on Ishigaki Island is indeed a The powerful enemy, the Taiwan Army Group, has been positioned as a mountain infantry for various reasons since the time of the Taiwan Army Corps. Looking at the entire cadet army, the mechanization level of this unit is the weakest. During the Taiwan War, because the opponent's mechanization level was also very weak, so They never thought there was anything wrong with this. Now, when the Canggen Regiment adopted the not-so-novel tactic of mobile artillery bombardment, they realized the benefits of mechanization. It was too late to change it. The degree of mechanization of the Taiwan Army They are already weak. Now that the war is raging, the war situation does not allow them to go back and move the few tanks and self-propelled artillery. Then they can only count on the Army Aviation. The Air Force of the Xuebing Army has always been the pride of the Xuebing Army. No. It would be an exaggeration to say that the key to the Xuebing Army's ability to gain a firm foothold in South China and develop rapidly lies in the strength of the air force. However, when Jiang Dahe thought that all the veterans in his Army Aviation Corps had been transferred to the expeditionary force and the domestic battlefield. On the front line, there are now only some Home Alones who have just graduated from aviation school. He is becoming more and more anxious about tomorrow's battle.
A new day is coming. Chen Shaokuan is ordering reconnaissance helicopters to strengthen reconnaissance and organizing naval guns to bombard the Japanese fortifications on Ishigaki Island. Chen Shichang sent a good news. The Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet launched the Tokunoshima attack at nine o'clock yesterday morning. , it took 19 hours, and at 4 o'clock this morning, the defenders of Tokushima had been completely wiped out. After the victory report, Chen Shichang kindly asked about the battle situation on Ishigaki Island and whether they needed their support: "...We will launch an attack today. In the attack on Anmei Oshima, the Japanese aviation force has been defeated by me. If your department needs it, we can provide a large group of fighter planes for support..." Although the Dongshan Fleet controlled the situation in yesterday's battle, it had to end with a retreat. Chen Shaokuan didn't care about this at first, but the arrival of this good news made his face heat up, and he could no longer calm down, "We must take Ishigaki Island today, otherwise the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet will take it." Shimonami Oshima and Okinawa are no longer ours. If we can't capture Okinawa, then what's the point of our war?" He immediately called Jiang Dahe and said this on the phone,
The Battle of the Ryukyu Islands was fought by the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet and the Dongshan fleet. The Supreme Command did not intervene in the specific tactics. The Dongshan fleet moved from west to east, and the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet moved from east to west. This was the result of private discussions between Chen Shichang and Chen Shaokuan. , the ultimate honor of the military, after the general strategic direction is set, a competition begins tacitly. In this competition, Okinawa will be the prize. Who can first solve the other islands in the direction of the Dongshan Fleet or the Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet? , you can attack Okinawa first, and as long as you capture Okinawa, you can get the name of Okinawa back to the original Ryukyu. After the last call between the two Chens, they said "see you in Okinawa" in unison, which actually means this.
Because of this tacit competition, Chen Shaokuan was anxious, Chen Shaokuan was anxious, and Jiang Dahe was also anxious. The Huangdi aircraft carrier fleet was also equipped with an army, which was a more professional Marine Corps than the Taiwan Army. This Marine Corps There is only one brigade in size, which is only one-third the size of the Taiwan Army Group that is participating in this battle. This makes Jiang Dahe more and more unable to afford to lose. Therefore, there is no need for Chen Shaokuan to put pressure on Jiang Dahe. Jiang Dahe is already preparing to go all out.
The offensive side seemed a little eager for various reasons, and the defensive side, Kurane Noo, was also under great pressure. Yesterday's battle, it is true that they won the victory, but once you think about this victory, they sacrificed a brigade and the strongest forward position and At the cost of using his last trump card, not only was he not happy, but he was worried about the coming battle. When the Higashiyama Fleet was bombarding again, Kurageno received reports from his subordinates from time to time, and learned that the secret exit of a certain number was destroyed, and a certain number was destroyed. When a certain passage collapsed, his mood became even worse. This was not a battle he was good at. Now, some of the defensive methods he relied on were destroyed and penetrated. When he thought that he would have to rely on the continuous consumption of troops to fight, To block the Chinese army's attack, he felt that there was no way out.
The shelling that lasted for half an hour caused the collapse and explosion of many places on Ishigaki Island. After reviewing the effects of the shelling, Jiang Dahe took the initiative to propose to Chen Shaokuan, "Don't wait for the aviation force, attack directly." Chen Shaokuan calmed down at this time and became cautious. Asked if he was sure, it was recommended to follow the strategy discussed last night. Jiang Dahe insisted, and Chen Shaokuan had no choice but to agree. To be on the safe side, he ordered all helicopters to be released to provide them with limited fire support. At the same time, He called the reconnaissance helicopter team and asked them to keep an eye on possible locations to prevent the Japanese army from conducting "sudden shelling" again.
One hour and twenty minutes later, Xie Changan's 1101 Brigade rushed to the Japanese forward position previously occupied by the Ryukyu Army. Behind them, other units of the Taiwan Army were still landing continuously.
Why do the officers of the Taiwan Army attach so much importance to this battle and even compete for combat opportunities in every possible way? It’s because they had no combat missions some time ago, which caused them to be far behind in promotions by their former comrades in the expeditionary force and the domestic battlefield. For example, Xie Chang'an, for example, was the commander of the Taiwan Army when it was still the Taiwan Corps. As a result, he has only been promoted two levels to brigade commander. As for his classmates, he went to Guangzhou to participate in short-term training in 1941. Among the students I met in the training class, apart from those who were injured and retired from active service or died, the most junior ones are now division-level chiefs of staff. The most exaggerated one among them is Wang Changlong. He was only a deputy commander at the time, but now he has become Now that he is the commander of the army, "people are more irritating than others." After Xie Changan learned that Wang Changlong had been promoted to army commander, he began to habitually say this sentence, so in his eyes, this Ryukyu Islands battle became an extremely valuable opportunity,