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Temporary airport, 83 Division 248 Regiment.

The national army had a company of guards at the temporary airport, which quickly disintegrated under the attack of the 248th regiment. A small half were killed and most were captured.

"Look, there's a plane here!" Several soldiers spotted a small plane in the night with the help of flashlights.

"There is only this small plane in the whole airport? But it's normal. The dirt runway of this temporary airport is only 600 meters long, and even bigger planes can't take off." It was also in the open state, and the pilot was just pulled out of the plane, unloaded his pistol, and was taken to the prisoner of war assembly area with his hands raised.

On the way to the temporary airport, Hu Lian suddenly heard a sudden burst of gunfire, mixed with several explosions.

"Not good!" Although he saw nothing in the dark night, Hu Lian could hear the gunshot coming from the direction of the airport. "Driver! Take the right fork ahead! You can't go to the airport!"

The driver turned the steering wheel quickly.Under Hu Lian's command, the jeep turned right from the main road and took a narrower and more potholed path.

This road is not easy to walk, and it is only 700 meters away from the end of the runway of the temporary airport. You can even see the control tower built of wood at the airport.The jeep drove on the bad road for a while, and there was a big ditch in front of it. The other side of the ditch was soft sand, and it was really impossible to drive forward.

"Get off the car! Get off the car!" Hu Lian called the adjutant to get off the car, turned over the big ditch, and walked in the sand again.

There was a sudden sound from the left, followed by the sound of "da da da" machine guns.

"Hurry up! Go across this open area, and you're going to Wukan!" Hu Lian quickened his pace, "We're going to the seaside!"

Hu Lian was at the front, and the adjutant was at the back, and they ran wildly across the sandy ground.About 400 meters away on their left, the troops of the 248th Regiment, which occupied the temporary airport, also spotted a figure on the beach. A "crooked handle" and two [-]-gun guns began to shoot at the figure.

The adjutant's body behind him suddenly stiffened, and then he fell straight on the sand.Hu Lian turned around and only glanced at the adjutant who had been shot, and then he didn't care about anything else. He threw away the briefcase in his hand, supported the big-brimmed hat with one hand, and swung it up vigorously with the other, and sprinted across at a speed of [-] meters. Sand, into the bushes, and then through the bushes, a motorboat is already waiting by the sea.Hu Lian hopped on one foot, and he flew into the motorboat.

"Let's sail."

"Yes." Following Hu Lian's order, the commander of the transport company who was waiting here had already warmed up the motorboat.After receiving Hu Lian, the commander of the transportation company untied the cable, stepped on the gas pedal, and the motorboat rushed out, trailing a trail of white waves, leaving Penghu and gradually heading east.

Chapter 39, Intervention in Taiwan is inevitable

On June 6, the Battle of Penghu ended and the remnants of the islands were wiped out.

On June 6, the battle ended.In this battle, all 22 enemy corps were wiped out. Only corps commander Hu Lian and more than 12 remnants on Baisha Island escaped by boat. More than 200 enemies were killed and 3700 enemy soldiers were captured or wounded.Sunk 58000 large destroyer of the Kuomintang Navy, 1 escort destroyers, 5 minesweeper, 1 landing craft, several motor ships, and captured a minesweeper.Several ships of our army pioneered to varying degrees, but none of them sank.

空军方面，我军损失图-2轰炸机3架、伊尔-10攻击机9架、拉-11战斗机13架，（确认）击落国军P-51战斗机8架。

On June 6, Tang Hua also got two news.First, Commander Su fell ill.Second, the secretary Lao Zhou fell ill.

Commander Su, who fought from the Red Army to Jianguo for more than 20 years, suffered a total of 6 injuries, including two head injuries, and three pieces of shrapnel remained in his head.During the three-year liberation war, it was normal to study operations and discuss actions at night until the next morning, when the field army headquarters was about to break out of camp and start marching. At most, Commander Su could only squint and sleep in the back of the jeep.Till now, the battle of Penghu has lasted for four days and four nights, with only two naps in the middle, and finally induced high blood pressure and Meniere's syndrome, and is preparing to transfer from Xiamen to Qingdao or Dalian for recuperation.

Lao Zhou's illness...has something to do with Tang Hua.

"Secretary Zhou is an old Red Army veteran who joined the army in Jiangxi. Boss Zhu and I know each other well," said the Premier. .It was used by you for half a year, and I was exhausted. Xiao Tang, the work intensity of your Electronics Industry Bureau is a bit high."

"Prime Minister, I... I didn't know that Lao Zhou's motion sickness was still severe." Tang Hua heard that the Prime Minister was not blaming him, so he spread his hands, "The electronics industry needs to spread system construction in several cities, R&D and production in parallel , There were a lot of business trips in the first half of the year, and Lao Zhou's body couldn't take it anymore."

Tang Hua and Lao Zhou returned to Beijing in mid-June, and Lao Zhou was hospitalized with a bad cold, and later found gastric ulcer and severe insomnia (neurasthenia).In fact, although Tang Hua had a busy schedule during his business trips, he would never let himself or his companions go hungry. Lao Zhou's stomach problem was caused by throwing up when he got in the car, and when he got off the car to eat and drive, he vomited again for several months in a row.Insomnia is also likely to be related to motion sickness.

"Look at your itinerary, since the end of April, there has been no time to stop." The Prime Minister took out the departmental report Tang Hua just handed in, Suzhou, Taihu, Xishan Island, Wujiang, Kunshan, Taicang, and six cities in one go before going to Shanghai , It’s almost the same itinerary when we arrive in Guangzhou. "I'd better transfer two more people from the Government Affairs Council to you, and also do a division of labor, one life secretary and one work secretary."

Tang Hua nodded. "After Lao Zhou recovers, I plan to let him become the director of the bureau."

The Prime Minister closed the report. "By the way, Chairman Deng arrived in Moscow on the 16th, and the donated computer has been placed in the Moscow Children's Palace."

Deng found out that he is now the chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. In addition to taking technicians to study abroad during his visit to the Soviet Union, he also had the task of displaying the T50 computer and selling it to Soviet universities, research institutions, and government departments when the time was right.This is the "chairman brings goods" suggested by Tang Hua.

"It will take a while. It will take a process for the Soviets to get familiar with this computer and know its purpose and value. Don't worry." Tang Hua has one more thing to say. "Prime Minister, I would like to know the full text of the report on Taiwan that MacArthur sent to Congress by telegram on June 6. How can we obtain it relatively quickly? Discussions about this report have spread to Japan these days, saying that this is MacArthur's 'Determination to Protect Taiwan'. I think we should find the full text to study and analyze."

MacArthur's report is actually a public document. As long as there is an embassy, ​​commercial agency or even an official non-profit organization in Washington, these public documents of the US Congress can be obtained without using the spy system.The problem is that the central government and the United States do not have any diplomatic ties, and the exchange of information between the two sides is almost completely interrupted.

"MacArthur's report, we can get it through the Soviet Union." The Prime Minister said, "Let the embassy in the Soviet Union handle this matter. After two days, you can come to the secretariat to pick it up."

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MacArthur reports. The Johnson report in early June. April's NSC6 paper.The Truman administration's East Asia policy statements, speech records, state speeches, and memorandums in the past few months.Information about the public activities of the U.S. military stationed in Japan and South Korea and the Seventh Fleet is now on Tang Hua's table.Tang Hua started the operation of "taking the standard answers to solve the problem together".

The U.S. policy toward China (Taiwan) has undergone a shift from "abandoning Taiwan" to "protecting Taiwan" in the past few months.

On January 1950 and 1, 5, Truman issued statements and public speeches announcing that Taiwan would be excluded from the US defense line in the Far East. line of defense.This is not only because of extreme disappointment with Chiang Kai-shek, but also because of the final win over New China, hoping that New China will not be an enemy of the United States.But Stalin then made bigger concessions to China, so America's long-distance wooing failed.

The U.S. military has always maintained (fan) retention (dui) opinions on Truman's policy. After the Sino-Soviet alliance was signed in February 1950, the opposition from the U.S. military became stronger.

1950年4月，美国国家安全委员会提出NSC68文件，事实上否定了杜鲁门1950年1月5日发表的声明。

The main idea of ​​the NSC68 document is "comprehensive and non-discriminatory containment". It is necessary to carry out comprehensive political, economic and military containment of any region that threatens the security interests of the United States around the world, and use this as the long-term strategy of the United States choose.Geographically, NSC68 is no longer limited to Europe, but explicitly mentions East Asia.The document even concludes that the Soviet Union is likely to take military risky actions in the so-called "soft zone" in the US-Soviet confrontation.

Next came Johnson’s report on June 6, in which he asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider “dispatching U.S. troops to prevent an attack on Taiwan,” which was a sensitive topic in U.S. political circles at the time. The MacArthur telegram on June 9 was actually an echo of Johnson's report.

Tang Hua calculated that it should be the day after tomorrow. On June 6, MacArthur wrote a more explicit statement and handed it over to Johnson and Bradley, who were visiting Tokyo, and asked them to bring it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. .However, this opinion letter can be considered as a detailed version of MacArthur's telegram 24 days ago.

So far, the U.S. policy toward Taiwan has completely shifted.After combing through these public materials, Tang Hua felt that he could deduce the direction of the US policy toward China without even going through his memory.It's just that in this era, it is really uncommon to comprehensively collect and grasp the public and semi-public information of high-level US officials and then analyze it.

Was it the outbreak of the Korean War or the MacArthur opinion that led to the return of the U.S. military to the Taiwan Strait to defend Taiwan?In fact, there are both factors.

The MacArthur report was issued on June 6, and less than 14 hours after the telegram was sent, the Battle of Penghu started.Now the US top leaders should also know the news that Chiang Kai-shek lost Penghu.Will the loss of Penghu affect US decision-making?

"Chiang Kai-shek's loss of the Penghu Islands has made it more difficult to defend Taiwan's main island, and the Chiang family's regime in Taiwan has become more unstable. However, no matter how bad Taiwan's military situation becomes and how much crisis Chiang Kai-shek's regime has, the United States must provide assistance. Chiang Kai-shek, and intervened in the Taiwan Strait to assist in the defense. If five warships were to be sent to assist in the defense before, now 5 or 10 ships will be sent, and in short, the number of troops will be increased until the United States believes that Taiwan is safe."

"We can put ourselves in the position of the United States to "help them consider" their East Asia strategy. If the idea of ​​comprehensive and non-discriminatory containment proposed in NSC68 Document is applied to East Asia, then the United States needs to build a line of defense to achieve its so-called containment. At this time, we will find that Acheson really does not understand military affairs, and his Acheson Line of Defense is a leaky line. If I were the Secretary of State of the United States, then I would draw the line of defense from the Japanese Islands in the north, through the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan Island, the Philippine Islands, and the southern tip of the chain-shaped island belt of the Greater Sunda Islands. Relying on this chain, the Soya Strait, the Tsugaru Strait, the Korean Strait, the Osumi Strait, the Bashi Channel, the Northern Philippine Strait Group, and the Southern Philippine Strait Group Only by monitoring or blockade can the United States guarantee its monopoly on the main waters of the Pacific Ocean. Without Taiwan Island, there will be a big gap in this chain-shaped island belt, which can neither be blocked nor contained, and it will be meaningless.”

"This is why the United States must assist Chiang Kai-shek and intervene in the Taiwan Strait to assist in defense."

"From our point of view, it is a tit-for-tat process. If the United States wants to contain and blockade, we will counter containment and blockade. At the same time, we are also ensuring the security of the sea and air along the southeast coast of our country. In the future, after other military issues are resolved, around Taiwan and The sea and air operations along the southeast coast may be the main focus and focus of military struggles."

After writing the intelligence analysis and writing the arguments and predictions involving subjective judgments in the last few paragraphs, Tang Hua put down his pen and rubbed his fingers.

I've already finished my work, there should be a group of people busy on the other side of the Pacific...

……

Santa Monica, California, USA.

"We have received a new order, and we need the company to organize a team to follow up. The reports on Coleboom, MiG-15 and MiG-17 are nearing completion, so this team will be formed by you. The contract amount is not high, but It is expected to be completed within three weeks." At one end of the long table in the conference room, Henry Arnold Jr. said to the participants.

Franklin Coleboom took over the copy, which was only a few pages long. "The Soviet Union's mysterious anti-sea attack weapon. It may have been used first in China? Where can we get more information?"

"It's still the Air Force. In addition, we can also go to the State Department. They can directly contact Taiwan to obtain information." Arnold said.

Coleboom nodded and continued flipping through the pages. "Oh my god, the end of this air and sea battle is that Taiwan lost the Penghu Islands, Taiwan seems to be very difficult to defend..."

"Comy, intelligence analysis and military strategy are not our business. The RAND Corporation is a think tank for technology research and planning, and because of our good relationship with the Air Force, our main research should focus on Air Force technology. Don't think about other matters So much, because it's not our job."

Chapter 40, the Korean War broke out

1950 6 Month 25 Day.

Zhengyangmen Beijing Railway Station.