At that time, the "Defense Command" of Kinmen was located in a valley called "Cuigu" in Taiwumen. Officers' offices, dormitories, restaurants, etc. Are built in the foothills on both sides of the top of the valley. These positions are located in the northeast of China People's Liberation Army, and according to the calculation of artillery experts, they belong to the shooting dead angle range. No matter how hard the PLA artillery is fired, it is impossible to hit the sector headquarters. Unless the PLA dispatched planes to carry out air strikes, and the defenders of the Kinmen Kuomintang were equipped with surface-to-air missiles provided by the United States, this possibility was almost zero. Because of this, the leader of the Kuomintang troops stationed in Kinmen felt very safe in Cuigu, just like staying in a bomb shelter.
That night, the Golden Gate Defense Command hosted a banquet to see an American consultant off. Commander Hu Lian, deputy commander Ji Xingwen, commander and deputy commander Zhang Guoying, air force deputy commander Jason, navy deputy commander Zhao Jiaxiang, chief of staff Liu Mingkui, 58th division commander Zhang Jin and other headquarters leaders attended. At this time, the China People's Liberation Army Fujian front shelling began. The first group of 3000 shells fired by artillery positions in Daleng and other places crossed the top of Wutai Mountain and landed vertically on the outside of Cuigu Hotel. When the shells fell, most people in the restaurant hid, which was very safe; Jason, Zhao Jiaxiang, Ji Xingwen and Liu Mingkui rushed out, causing three deaths and one injury.
Lieutenant General Zhang Guoying, commander and deputy commander of the artillery division, fled the restaurant immediately after the first batch of shells exploded. He didn't understand how the shells of the * * * army could hit the shooting angle of Cuigu. He said to Yu, the defense minister who came to inspect: "Minister Yu, this shooting by the communists is very strange. How can you walk into a dead end? Impossible! " Yu also became suspicious: "Is it a new weapon used by the Communist Army?" So, I sent someone to pick up a piece of shrapnel and bring it back when I returned to Taiwan by special plane that night, so that ordnance experts could test what kind of artillery was used by the Communist Party.
After repeated tests by military experts, the conclusion is that the military Soviet-made 155 howitzer shelled Cui Gu.
Yu Dawei was shocked after listening: "155 howitzer? The Russians used it when they attacked Berlin, and it has been more than ten years now. This is not a new weapon. How can it have such an effect? Organize experts to re-identify. "
However, before the appraisal results came out, the "Big Mac" was once again destroyed by the PLA.
The so-called "Big Mac" is an eight-inch howitzer made in America. It can be divided into armored self-propelled howitzers and towed howitzers. It weighs 45 tons and has a range of18km. It can fire ordinary warhead shells or special warhead shells. Even shells with ordinary warheads can completely destroy reinforced concrete artillery bunkers within range.
Taiwan Province Province begged the Big Mac from the United States for three years. This shows the important position of the eight-inch gun in Chiang Kai-shek's mind.
However, neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Yu He, who succeeded Hu Lian as the commander of the Golden Gate Defense Command, expected that this "Big Mac" that really played a role in the artillery battle would be destroyed by the artillery fire of the * * * army.
American ordnance experts paid special attention to bulletproof problems when designing the Big Mac. The whole gun is equipped with bulletproof thick steel plate, which is one of the reasons why the gun itself weighs 45 tons. In addition, it is equipped with an automatic transfer device, which can walk freely and transfer immediately after shooting. When the enemy measures
Zou Kai, commander of the Golden Gate artillery, reported that the "Big Mac" had been destroyed. Liu Anqi was terrified. He went to the scene for inspection and then sent an urgent telegram to Taipei.
To Yu's surprise, three generals of Jason were killed by shelling, and now there is a "Big Mac" incident, which makes him suspicious. He suspects that the * * * army has a new type of artillery with magical target recognition ability, and wants to find out what it is.
165438+1October 23, Yu Dawei immediately summoned Cao Zhimin, deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, who was in charge of military intelligence business in Chinese mainland and overseas, and ordered him to immediately organize an investigation into what kind of artillery was used by the army of * * * *. He must find out and report it within three months.
Cao Zhimin attached great importance to this task assigned by David, and personally presided over the formulation of this project code-named "03 Project", which means it must be completed within three months.
In order to complete the "03 Plan", Cao Zhimin selected three agents-Liu Zhanhao, Qiu Xinya and Zhang An, and ordered them to form an intelligence group to secretly go to the mainland for investigation.