On October 6, 1958, China's Ministry of National Defense issued a "Letter to the Military and Civilian Compatriots of Jin, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Penghuo," hoping to achieve the goal of a cross-strait ceasefire through peaceful negotiations.
The appeal was mainly aimed at compatriots in Taiwan Province, Kinmen, Mazu, and the Penghu Islands, and soon reached Chiang Kai-shek's office. After reading the appeal three times, Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he slammed it on the table and scolded: "These Americans are so stupid and bad!"
This will make it much more difficult for us to work together in the future! "Why, then, was Chiang Kai-shek so angry after seeing this compatriot book calling for peace? And why did he point the finger at the Americans, whom he had always regarded as his "last resort"?
Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945 marked the end of World War II, and China's years of resistance against Japanese aggression were also victorious. People hoped to live in peace after the war, however, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang reactionaries continued to adhere to the idea of **, suppressed revolutionaries and progressives, and tore up the Double Tenth Agreement, which represented peace.
They sent troops to attack the liberated areas, causing the broad masses of the people to once again fall into the whirlpool of war. Thus, the War of Liberation broke out, which lasted more than three years.
In the early days of the Liberation War, our army did not have an advantage in terms of troops, so it was ostensibly in a weak position. However, the PLA represents the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people, and therefore has won the firm support of the people.
Coupled with the most accurate strategic decision-making, our army has repeatedly won more with less on the battlefield and developed rapidly. After the end of the three major battles, the situation quickly reversed, the main forces of the Kuomintang north of the Yangtze River were routed by our army, and the remaining remnants were no longer to be feared, and it was only a matter of time before the whole of China was liberated.
On January 26, 1949, Soviet envoy Mikoyan and his entourage of four took a plane, passed through Lushun and Shijiazhuang, and came to the Xibaipo base in Hebei Province, where the first place is located, to discuss the next strategic affairs with the first and others.
Even more surprising is that Mikoyan also brought an extremely confidential message.
Chiang Kai-shek, the one who had already announced his dismissal, planned to transfer troops and property to Taiwan Province in an attempt to use the Taiwan Strait as a natural defensive position to deter the PLA offensive.
What is even more worrying is that the United States is preparing to send troops to help the remnants of the Kuomintang hold out in Taiwan Province. After learning this news, the leaders fell into deep thought, because at that time the main battlefield of our army was still on the mainland, and the naval formation had not yet been established, so it was very difficult to stop Chiang Kai-shek's actions.
Probably because it was known that our navy had not yet been established, the USSR was pessimistic about the liberation of Taiwan, and Mikoyan even suggested ** abandoning this action. However, ** was very angry about this and resolutely said: "Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times, and if our strategy is to liberate all of China, then Taiwan should naturally be included, and we will never give it up!" ”
Under the leadership of ***, the determination and confidence of the Chinese people have become more and more firm. On 15 March, the Xinhua News Agency newspaper and periodicals splashed ink and wrote an editorial entitled "The Chinese People Must Liberate Taiwan."
In this article, ** for the first time put forward the concept of "liberate Taiwan Province, liberate the whole of China!" slogan. Soon after, the battle to cross the Yangtze River was in full swing, and the PLA soldiers fought valiantly, all the way south, successfully clearing the remnants of the Kuomintang south of the Yangtze River.
On October 1, 1949, when the founding of New China was announced on the tower of Tiananmen Gate, the Chinese people stood up from then on, and the Chinese nation also ushered in a new chapter in history.
** What I am concerned about is always the issue that the compatriots in Taiwan, Kinmen and other places have not yet been liberated. In order to solve this problem, ** first issued a peace proposal to the reactionary forces of the Kuomintang entrenched in Taiwan Province, but after Chiang Kai-shek refused, he immediately organized the People's Liberation Army to attack.
However, due to the lack of equipment to cross the sea and attack fortified positions, changes in the international situation, and US intervention, the first operation to liberate Taiwan by force could not be completed. After the Battle of Kinmen, considering that New China had just been established, many aspects were still in ruins, and there was a lack of naval structure, it was decided to change the strategy of short-term liberation of Taiwan to a long-term task, and the liberation of Taiwan gradually evolved into a protracted "tug-of-war".
After the Battle of Kinmen in 1950, it was decided to vigorously develop the navy and seek assistance from the Soviet Union to form a strong navy. However, at this time, the Korean Peninsula Movement to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea took place, which led to the temporary shelving of the original plan to attack Kinmen and Taiwan.
However, the United States took advantage of this opportunity to transfer the Seventh Fleet, which was already in the western Pacific region, to the ports of Kaohsiung and Keelung, providing Chiang Kai-shek with important military protection.
The reappearance of the American fleet hindered ** plans to liberate the province of Taiwan by force. Among the high-ranking politicians in the United States, there is no one more hostile to our country than Eisenhower, who was successfully elected in 1952, and John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the United States.
After the new ** came to power, they jointly planned a series of events that posed a serious threat to the communist camp, including the instigation of the Armas invasion from Honduras and the establishment of the ** Treaty Organization in Baghdad.
Among them, Dulles, a politician who rose to power with the help of American conglomerates and capital, was deeply hostile to communist ideas.
At the UN conference, Dulles resolutely preached the horrors of communism and put forward the absurd thesis that "these revolutionary forces will turn the world upside down." He also instigated Western countries to refuse to recognize New China and China's legitimate seat in the United Nations, and even co-opted the military in the US Congress to send more ** to blockade and embargo our country.
These actions seriously hampered the liberation of Taiwan Province and exchanges with other countries, and played a role in the Korean War and the Seventh Fleet's sailing to Taiwan Province. Due to Dulles's extreme thinking, his appearance often brought war and turmoil, so he was given the title of "ominous bird".
In April 1954, after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, representatives of China and the United States convened a conference in Geneva to resolve the Korean issue and restore peace in Indochina.
Before the meeting began, Dulles made up his mind not to allow the US representative to shake hands with anyone from our side. This kind of behavior is both too childish and ridiculous.
As a result of this "hatred" towards us, Dulles also began to try to "get closer" to the remnants of the Kuomintang. Even in 1958, he went to Taiwan Province and met with Chiang Kai-shek.
However, it was this act of thinking that he was "close" that made Chiang Kai-shek furious and scolded Dulles for being stupid and bad.
In 1955, at the Bandung Conference, Prime Minister ** put forward the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence", emphasizing that Taiwan is China's internal affair and other countries have no right to interfere. This proposal won the unanimous support of Asian and African countries, but the United States turned a deaf ear and continued to interfere in Taiwan, unilaterally terminated peace talks with China, reinforced Chiang Kai-shek, and advocated remarks unfavorable to the reunification of the motherland in the international community.
In December 1954, the United States and Chiang Kai-shek signed the "Mutual Defense Treaty" in an attempt to prevent our army from liberating Taiwan Province. In the face of provocations by the United States, ** believes that they must be taught a lesson in order to dispel the misunderstanding that others have given us up on Taiwan.
So, in April 1958, ** ordered Han Xianchu, Ye Fei and other artillery units of the Fuzhou Military Region to go to the coastal areas of Quanzhou and Xiamen to prepare for artillery bombardment.
On August 23, the United States was too busy with the war in Lebanon to take care of the Taiwan Strait, and ordered the shelling of Kinmen. More than 30,000 shells shot into the sky and hit the Kuomintang troops fiercely.
The artillery bombardment of Kinmen was so loud that Chiang Kai-shek thought that the People's Liberation Army would launch a full-scale attack on Taiwan Province, and hurriedly contacted the US military for help. However, when the American ** team arrived, they found that our army did not retreat because they were afraid of their sea strength, and ** ordered"Hit Chiang's ship directly, not the American ship"The artillery unit aimed at the Kuomintang fleet in the strait violently **.
Seeing the Kuomintang ships around them sinking one after another, the US military began to be afraid. They wanted to take advantage of the imperfect weakness of our navy to show off their force in the strait and deter us.
However, the PLA's firm will was beyond their expectations. Fearing that they would be affected, the U.S. military had no choice but to flee.
After the shelling of Kinmen subsided, the US high-level officials held an emergency meeting, they were not sure whether China would really take action against the US boat, but they firmly believed that their own ** was not willing to completely break with China.
After careful consideration, the US side believes that it would be more beneficial for Chiang Kai-shek to abandon the islands of Kinmen and Mazu, which are closer to the mainland, to protect Taiwan. Dulles made this suggestion and publicly appealed to Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang to adopt what he considered to be a very cost-effective strategic decision.
However, this proposal made Chiang Kai-shek furious.
After the proposal was made, Kinmen's fate was announced on 6 October. The proclamation clearly revealed that Dulles's proposal was an attempt to use Taiwan to contain all of China, and that Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang were only pawns of the United States.
After seeing this announcement, Chiang Kai-shek angrily denounced Dulles in his office, calling him a hypocritical politician, a proposal that was both stupid and nasty, and disturbed the morale of the front-line soldiers.
However, the contradictions with Chiang Kai-shek may make other political opponents think that he is "leaning on our side", which does not do him any good in his political career.
On October 21, 1958, Dulles made an urgent visit to Taiwan, expressed his firm position to Chiang Kai-shek, and promised to stand on the same front with Chiang Kai-shek.
These words calmed Chiang Kai-shek's anger a little, because he clearly realized that a stalemate with the United States would make him completely unreliable. After temporarily pacifying Chiang Kai-shek, Dulles breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the United States.
The United States had tried to stop the PLA shelling by aiding Kinmen, but Dulles and the United States had nothing to do about it. Upon his return, Dulles failed to continue to exert his influence in the political arena and was soon diagnosed with cancer.
In April 1959, he resigned as secretary of state and died a month later at home. The U.S. conspiracy to use Taiwan Province to contain China failed to materialize. In 1971, China returned to the permanent seat of the United Nations Security Council, and its international influence increased greatly, coupled with the success of the first atomic bomb and the implementation of the reform and opening up policy, China's national strength increased significantly.
** The chairman's wise decision made the United States realize that China's rise is unstoppable. As a result, they chose to withdraw their troops stationed in Taiwan Province, tore up the "Mutual Defense Treaty" between the two sides, and established diplomatic relations with China.
From that moment on, Taiwan's return to the embrace of the motherland has become a foregone conclusion.