In 1949, after Su Yu commanded and led the Third Field Army in East China to cross the Yangtze River and quickly attacked Nanjing, the political center of the enemy's reactionary government, and Shanghai, an important economic town, he immediately reported it to the head of the Beijing headquarters and Chairman Mao, and planned and organized preparations for attacking The treasure island of Taiwan at the right time.
By the spring and summer of 1950, Su Yu ordered all the members of the Third Field Army to join the battle, and with the addition of four main troops transferred from the northeast Siye, the 650,000 troops of our army were assembled on the southeast coast. Bearing in mind the bitter lessons of the defeat at the Battle of Kinmen, as well as the victorious experience and general trend of liberating Hainan Island, we are ready to cross the Qiongzhou Strait to attack Taiwan directly, but why was Taiwan not successfully liberated in the end?
Su Yu
At the end of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek lost ground and was forced to retreat to Taiwan, but instead of recognizing the situation, he stationed the last 300,000 main army under his command on Hainan Island, Taiwan and Zhoushan Islands to remotely contain the coastlines of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were already under the control of our army, and to find opportunities to prepare for a counterattack at any time.
As for Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement, Su Yu, who was accustomed to fighting the great war of annihilation in the War of Liberation, was very happy, because the more the enemy army was divided into troops, the easier it would be for our army to break through each one.
During the Liberation War, Chiang Kai-shek's mechanized superiority heavy regiment was all defeated by our army in the north of the river, and after the Battle of crossing the river, after successive losses in Nanjing, Shanghai, Fujian, Yunchuankang, and other places, the enemy army swarmed insurgents such as the carp across the river, so Chiang Kai-shek's strength in sending a military deployment to defend the treasure island of Taiwan was not strong, and the strength of 140,000 troops in 7 armies was basically parachuted by our army, and the composition of the members was very chaotic and complicated.
Therefore, after realizing the problem of Taiwan's weak defense, Su Yu initially only urgently dispatched 8 armies of Sanye, totaling more than 200,000 troops, and began a preparatory training plan for simulating landings along the coastline and liberating Baodao in Jiaodong Coast, the Mouth of the Yangtze River, and Tianmu Mountain.
Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the head of the regiment, Sun Liren was appointed as the deputy head of the regiment, and his son Chiang Ching-kuo was asked to carry out the campaign of streamlining the army and streamlining the administration and land reform in various localities, stopping factional party struggle, and dissolving the disputes and contradictions of the working people at the bottom, and soon the combat effectiveness of the enemy's reactionary government was greatly increased.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is very strong, 1 person can reach 3 nationalist soldiers, which has been fully confirmed during the 8-year War of Resistance Against Japan, so in order to ensure that Taiwan is taken at one time, Su Yu has re-evaluated the enemy on the island more comprehensively.
In the end, it was found that Chiang Kai-shek had captured a large number of young zhuang ding from the southeast coastal cities and continuously exported them to Taiwan, coupled with the comprehensive combat strength of Japanese soldiers, the Taiwanese defenders had actually exceeded 200,000 people.
Chiang Kai-shek
In 1950, Han Xianchu clearly grasped the vicissitudes of the international situation, so he urgently called his superiors and launched a campaign to liberate Hainan in advance under the command of Deng Hua, completely annihilating more than 30,000 enemy troops in 56 days.
In the Battle of zhoushan islands, Chiang Kai-shek took into account that Hainan Island had been lost, Zhoushan's isolated island was helpless, and it was difficult to win, so he withdrew all 120,000 troops on the island, so that the army stationed in Taiwan had reached a scale of 400,000 people.
Therefore, in this case, Su Yu had to issue an order to all the three fields in East China to fight, and transferred 4 armies from the Northeast Fourth Field Army as reserves, and the size of 16 main forces reached 650,000 people, all of which were deployed on the southeast coast.
In order to cooperate with Su Yu to complete the liberation of Taiwan as soon as possible, by June 1950, Air Force General Liu Yalou had prepared two fighter regiments, a strong strike aircraft regiment, and a bomber regiment, including miG-15, La-11 fighters, Il-10 strong strike aircraft, and Tu-2 bombers, a total of 80 fighters on standby.
Admiral Xiao Jinguang prepared 92 ships, 309 guns, a total of 35,000 troops, ready to carry out cross-sea landing operations.
At the same time, at the suggestion of Su Yu, the East China Military Region also set up a special airborne troop unit to regard the liberation of the treasure island of Taiwan as the most important task in the country; moreover, Chairman Mao also specially approved 6 billion kilograms of grain from the whole country as military food, and personally visited the Soviet Union, borrowed 300 million US dollars, and purchased a large number of advanced naval ships and air force fighters.
Unfortunately, however, it was easy to increase troops and too difficult to increase ships, so Su Yu came to a conclusion through calculations: If the campaign to liberate Taiwan is to be ensured smoothly, then within five hours, 150,000 people must complete the cross-sea landing, and a sufficient number of ships transporting the second echelon need to be connected to reinforcements, otherwise they will repeat the bitter results of the original Kinmen Campaign.
Therefore, the demand for ships has increased to 2282, but our army has only prepared 1192 at this time, which is simply not enough to meet the needs of 500,000 troops for cross-sea landing operations.
Therefore, Su Yu thought twice and could only send a telegram to Chairman Mao: "The battle to seize Taiwan is of great importance, and at this time the fighters are not yet mature, they are not absolutely sure, and they cannot attack easily. ”
However, unexpectedly, the Korean War suddenly broke out, the US military forcefully drove the Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait, and when Su Yu's old wounds recurred, he was bedridden for a while, racking his brains to extremely change and perfect the plan for attacking Taiwan, and finally he could only put it on the shelf, failed to take Taiwan, and became one of Su Yu's most regrettable heart diseases in his later years.