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Chapter 32: The Disaster on the Horizon

Chapter 32: The Disaster on the Horizon

On a moonless night in January 1966, an old landing craft with a displacement of 50 tons was sailing slowly along the mainland in the Matsu sea area of Fujian. This is a transport ship full of supplies. The dark sea is very quiet, except for the faint sound of the chug of the motor... The soldier Wu Liansheng leaned on the guardrail of the rear deck holding a Type 56 submachine gun. His face was livid, and his facial muscles were convulsed from excessive tension. He stared at Li Cunzhi, the platoon leader who stood on the front deck and observed the sea, and gritted his teeth. These days, Wu Liansheng hated his platoon leader. In his consciousness, platoon leader Li Cunzhi was his evil star. Since he joined the army, the platoon leader has been picking on him all the time, and he doesn't like him anyway. Last year, his father proposed a marriage for him in his hometown. The woman's conditions were good. According to the matchmaker, the woman thought that Wu Liansheng's family conditions were not very good. The reason why she agreed was because Wu Liansheng was in the army. There are still. Wu Liansheng is still very satisfied with this marriage. This military uniform has indeed increased his social status, otherwise it would be hard to say whether he would be able to marry a wife in this life based on his conditions. Wu Liansheng himself was quite ambitious. He worked hard in the army and tried to wear a cadre uniform with four pockets. There were not many officers in Shiliba Village in his hometown. He decided to go home and take a look, and borrowed a four-pocket cadre uniform to wear, claiming that he was a platoon-level cadre, and that he would marry his wife first. He had a good idea, and he borrowed the cadre uniforms. He didn't expect to run into a wall when he asked for leave. The platoon leader said that the manpower in the platoon was tight, and he would not grant leave.

Wu Liansheng became angry when he heard this, and quarreled with the platoon leader without saying a few words. He grabbed a bench and threw it at the platoon leader. If he hadn't been hugged by others, he might have killed the platoon leader at that time. The army will not tolerate violence and beatings, let alone a soldier beating a cadre. The company has decided to record a serious demerit and punish him, but it has not been announced yet. However, his fellow villagers A Zeng and Zhang Chunhai had already disclosed the news to him in private. These three young people grew up rubbing mud together bare buttocks, and the three of them even secretly exchanged posts to worship others, so the relationship is naturally extraordinary. The political process of enlisting in the army is very strict. The enlistment of these three young people shows that they are of good roots. They are all three generations of poor peasants. They have only attended elementary school for two years. Although they can read a few words, their way of thinking is illiterate. . The grievances and grievances of the political and military struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for decades seem too esoteric to them, and it is impossible for them to care about them. Foolish people tend to be narrow-minded and prone to extremes. Wu Liansheng believed that Li Cunzhi, the platoon leader, was undoubtedly his enemy. What should he do with his enemy?

Of course he should be killed. Ah Zeng and Zhang Chunhai's thoughts were even simpler. Since they had married Ziyi to Jinlan, the eldest brother's enemy was of course everyone's enemy. The three of them quickly reached a consensus to find an opportunity to kill the platoon leader. When killing the platoon leader, if someone was present, he would have to count him as unlucky. What's next? Although these three peasant soldiers are ignorant, they also know how to kills consequence. Wu Liansheng said, do you even need to think about it? Of course, he went to the opposite island. There is a very powerful broadcasting station over there. There are more than a dozen speakers with the thickness of the mouth of the washbasin alone. How many taels of gold, how many taels of torpedo boats, as small as Type 56 submachine guns and Type 54 pistols have prices. They remembered this price list clearly. At this time, Wu Liansheng was estimating how much this old landing craft was worth, and how much these submachine guns and pistols were worth. And he firmly believes that he already has so many taels of gold, and even the gold has been put to good use. The giant searchlight column on Matsu Island swept back and forth across the sea, and the position of this landing craft was less than eight kilometers away from the enemy-occupied island. In the darkness, an order from the platoon leader Li Cunzhi came from the front deck: the whole platoon is ready to fight, pay attention to the blackout... Wu Liansheng lightly released the safety of the submachine gun, stood up suddenly and pulled the trigger fiercely, Dadada... ...The flames from the guns swept towards the platoon leader standing on the front deck. Li Cunzhi, the platoon leader, was almost cut off by the dense bullets while being overwhelmed. The deafening gunshots suddenly pierced the night sky... At the same time, The other two submachine guns on the front deck also fired. The muzzle flames flickered in the darkness, and the scorching shell casings splashed on the deck. After tens of seconds, the gunfire fell silent. The comrades-in-arms that Shao had been with day and night were lying quietly in a pool of blood. The searchlights on Matsu Island also suddenly stopped sweeping across the sea, covering the landing craft tightly with their beams of light. Wu Liansheng raised the white flag that had been prepared, and the landing craft turned a 90-degree turn and sailed towards Matsu Island... When the news of this major murder and defection came, Li Yunlong was having a meeting in the military region. When he knew that the defection happened in his own army, he was so enraged that his eyes burst into flames. On the table, with a loud bang, the five-millimeter-thick glass plate on the table was shattered. Phone calls from the Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and the General Staff came in one after another, and leaders at all levels were full of criticism and reprimands. Among them, the most important one was the instruction of Defense Minister Lin Biao: What we are most worried about is that our own people will beat our own people. The intelligence department is also deeply aware of the heavy responsibility, making an exception and activating the most secret intelligence system, and various highly confidential information is continuously coming in, and is quickly summarized: the defenders of islands such as Jinmen, Matsu, and Daerdan have all entered the first level War preparations, all kinds of long-range artillery have been rolled out, and the fortifications are ready to enter the battle state... A task force cruises in the Taiwan Strait, and a large formation of military aircraft appears in the sky above the strait. Internal intelligence, Taiwan has decided toA meeting was held at the airport to welcome the anti-communist righteous Wu Liansheng and others who abandoned the dark and turned to the open. The plane in charge of the pick-up has arrived at Matsu... In the conference room of the Operation Department of the military region, Commander Pi Dingjun sat at the east end of the conference table, and Li Yunlong sat at the end of the conference table. west end. There was a long conference table between the two of them, and they were quietly looking at each other's faces. These two outstanding professional soldiers and experienced generals all sat on the chairs in the same posture. The aura cultivated by years of military career is vividly reflected in their demeanor and demeanor. Both of them are wearing straight yellow woolen military uniforms, but the golden general star is no longer on the shoulders, and they wear bright red collar badges and red five-star cap badges. The army has abolished the military rank system more than a year ago. From the perspective of the style of military uniforms, except for the difference in the pockets, the military uniforms of generals and soldiers are the same. The commander threw a Zhonghua brand cigarette, and the two lit up the cigarette and smoked silently. The bluish-white smoke lingered between them, making the meeting room smoky. Hello! Lao Li. The commander opened his mouth. The past two days have been very lively. There are inspections, inspections, and rectifications. When such a big event happens, you and I are a little bit in the dark, and cadres at all levels are busy. What are you doing? I think you don't seem to mean to criticize. Li Yunlong talked about him from left to right, and he took a sharp puff from the smoke and said, "It's better to be in Greater China, do you still have stock?" Bring me one in a while. Don't fucking talk nonsense, something like this happened to your army, and you still want to smoke, I am thinking about what punishment to give you. The commander looked at him and said. The matter has already come out, what's the point of reviewing? It's better to do something practical. There is an idiom called "Linyuan envy fish, it is better to retreat and form a net". Cough, when did your kid become full of literacy and pretend to be an intellectual, don't I hear you wrong, is this really what you said? The commander looked at Li Yunlong in disbelief. These are the words of my old buddy Zhao Gang. He is a serious college student. He hung out with me for eight years during the Anti-Japanese War. Get better day by day, when the Anti-Japanese War is won, well, we will graduate from college. Li Yunlong boasted proudly. I said, you kid, stop fucking around in circles, I can see that you already have an idea, let me hear it. Commander Pi, don't test me. In fact, you already have a plan in your stomach. The matter is obvious. These three bastards killed seven of us and exchanged the blood of their comrades in arms for the enemy's bounty. If we let this kind of traitor They left Matsu alive, you, the commander, and I, the army commander, don't do it, go home and coax the children and forget it, mother, murder for life, debt repayment, this principle can't change at any time. commanderSo, are you ready? Li Yunlong stood up and said in a deep voice: Report to the commander, the special forces are in place, the internal and external intelligence systems of the intelligence department are all activated, and the air and sea passages of Kinmen and Matsu are all under my surveillance. Don’t even think about a bird. Fly off the island. Pi Dingjun's eyes were shining brightly, and he said in a low voice: "Okay, come here without indecent assault, and kill these traitors... In winter, the Taiwan Strait is very windy and the waves are high, and large lead gray clouds are galloping over the sea. , without sunlight, the color of the sea is blue-black, and the biting cold wind rushes the icy sea to the shore. Snow-white foam was formed, setting a dazzling white dividing line at the junction of land and sea. A low-pitched, metal-friction roar came from the huge reefs and rocky cliffs along the coast of the mainland, and heavy electric iron doors disguised like rocks were slowly opening. The black muzzle of the artillery protruded from the fortifications, and slowly raised the muzzle. Land-based anti-ship missiles with bodies as thick as cigars slowly extended out of the fortification along the track. On all the commanding heights along the coast, huge mesh and parabolic radar antennas are rotating 360 degrees, capturing information from the sky and the sea. In the listening radio stations of the military intelligence department, a large number of noisy and complicated radio waves in the past miraculously disappeared without a trace, and the two armies facing each other across the sea both entered radio silence. On the take-off line of a certain field airport on the mainland side, four silver J-6 fighter jets are parked quietly. Air-to-air missiles are very eye-catching. Through the airtight plexiglass hatch, one can see the pilot in orange anti-G suit and sky blue flight helmet. This is the first attack wave composed of four ace pilots. They sat quietly in the cockpit, their eyes fixed on the front of the runway. On the tarmac behind them were neatly lined up nearly a hundred silver fighter planes that were ready for battle. This is the second echelon. On the command tower not far from the tarmac, Pi Dingjun and Li Yunlong were concentrating on playing military chess. The Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Military Region acts as the referee. This operation involved different departments and arms, and was personally commanded by the commander of the military region. Air Force fighter planes were responsible for the main attack, and all relevant departments cooperated to form a temporary headquarters. The staff officers in the tower are all busy working, the phone rings one after another, the intelligence officers are summarizing the enemy’s dynamics that are constantly coming in, and the combat staff officers are leaning over their desks and using a scale to measure various data on the map... JiaoyuAnd Shatou Airport enemy planes took off and landed frequently. Within two hours, more than 20 sorties of various types of aircraft took off and landed, and the frequency of takeoffs and landings was five times that of usual... Two large transport ships, escorted by frigates, entered the south side of Jinmen. At Luowan port, the forward gun pointed to a call to ask for instructions to fire...

At 10:00 a.m., two HU-16 ambulance planes flew from Taiwan and landed at Matsu Airport. One hour later, one of them returned... Li Yunlong’s guard, Xiao Wu, brought a thermos bottle to the airport. The generals playing chess refilled their teacups, and he was quite puzzled. There were planes and ships over there, coming and going non-stop. Those traitors might have arrived in Taiwan early by now, but these chiefs were still there. Playing chess without haste. Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the commander flip the chessboard over with a bang, and shouted angrily: "I can't play anymore, you all f*cking cheating together, Zhang, what kind of fucking referee are you?" It was clearly a spy sent by Li Yunlong. You cheated to win the game of chess just now... Li Yunlong is good at using bombs to assassinate in the game of military chess. In the first game, he wanted to use two bombs to kill the commander and commander of the opponent. He was very experienced in using troops, and the senior generals hid in the camp, and used two platoon leaders as scapegoats, and reimbursed Li Yunlong for two bombs. So he colluded with Deputy Commander Zhang, who was the referee, to cheat and use landmines as bombs to kill the opposing commander. According to the rules of military chess, landmines cannot be moved unless the opponent actively steps on them. But Li Yunlong also has his own explanation, I used it as a grenade. Pi Ding didn't notice it in the first game, and lost in a daze. Li Yunlong and Deputy Commander Zhang were secretly happy in their stomachs. The two played their old tricks again in the second game, who is Pi Dingjun? He snatched the chess piece from the referee's hand, and when he saw that the man chasing his commander was a landmine, he couldn't help being furious. Li Yunlong quibbled: Who stipulated that landmines can only be buried in the ground? I use it as a grenade, what's wrong? Pi Dingjun said angrily: "Damn it, I didn't play landmines during the Anti-Japanese War. It was as heavy as an iron watermelon. Didn't you kid use it as a grenade?" Okay, I'll give you one, if you throw it ten meters away, I will... the voice fades away, and there is a short knocking sound from a high-power walkie-talkie next to it. It's someone tapping the microphone with a finger The signal sent out is repeated in groups of three. The three generals stood up abruptly, the expressions of laughing and cursing just now were gone, and their faces were full of determination and cruelty. The commander's palm was like a sharp machete, and he slashed downward, ordering: "First attack wave, Attack: The four fighter planes on the take-off line roared at the same time, with powerful airflow from their tails , and quickly entered the runway. Bah! A red signal flare was raised in front of the runway, and the four fighter planes were divided into two groups. They jumped lightly at the end of the runway and entered the clouds... It was the day, released by Xinhua News AgencyNews: Today, our Air Force shot down a US-made Chiang Kai-shek plane that entered our coast to harass and sabotage over East China. The news is very short, only 32 characters. The situation of this air battle was classified as highly classified by the Ministry of National Defense, and few people knew about it. But that night, the three generals who participated in the command drank a bottle of Moutai. After drinking for three rounds, the commander patted Li Yunlong on the shoulder and said: Your special unit is pretty good. How about giving it to me? Li Yunlong, who hadn't closed his eyes for three days, couldn't find the southeast and northwest after three glasses of wine, but he was not confused. He replied inarticulately: "No... definitely not, you don't want to come to this... wine table Don't talk about business...don't try to take advantage of me drinking too much...

Taking advantage of the fire to rob, I understand better than anyone else, a joke, I want to rob my Liangshan team, you... you might as well snatch my wife... away. Deputy Commander Zhang also drank too much. He muttered: Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent...Landmines can be used as grenades...The intelligence department sent a top-secret information: Now find out, shot down the US HU-16 marine ambulance When the plane crashed, Wu Liansheng and others, as well as the director of political work in Taiwan who were in charge of transport, were all killed.