The years have passed, the tide has ebbed and flowed, and the sound of Kinmen Matsu is still the same.
Kinmen County in Fujian Province, although it is a small place, but it records the historical changes of the two sides of the strait, and it is also one of the best barometers.
The closest distance between Little Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island in Fujian Province is less than 6 kilometers.
The closest distance between Dajinmen Island and Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport (located on Dadeng Island, under construction) is less than 4 kilometers.
Kinmen County is part of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, but is currently under the de facto control of the Taiwan authorities.
After 1949, because the defeated Kuomintang regime in Taiwan was still stubbornly resisting, repeatedly harassing the coastal areas of the mainland by military means, Kinmen became the most dangerous area.
In that year, there was a shelling of Kinmen (also known as the 823 Artillery Battle) that shocked the world.
As the smoke of gunpowder cleared, as the mainland focused on economic and people's livelihood development, Kinmen, once the most dangerous battlefield, became the place that best embodied "one family on both sides of the strait."
These historical sites have become "tourism projects", and we have also used Kinmen as a window to show goodwill to the people on the island.
However, the Taiwan authorities still regard Kinmen as the front line against the mainland.
It is not that they do not want to harass the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang by military means, but they do not dare, but the malice and hostility of the Taiwan authorities have not diminished by a bit.
The tragedy that occurred on the fifth day of the first lunar month could have been completely avoided if the Taiwan authorities had had the slightest goodwill.
But facts have proved once again that they are so stubborn, taking the goodwill of the other side as the capital of their evil.
The Taiwan authorities are even commemorating the "August 23 Campaign" (every 10 years) and threatening to turn Kinmen into an eternal military fortress.
It seems that the Taiwan authorities want to taste the bitterness of the shelling of Kinmen again, and anyway, it was the Kinmen people who were the first to be bombed.
The shelling of Kinmen in 1958 was a major strategic deployment made in accordance with the changes in the international situation and the actual situation in the Taiwan Strait.
International context. On May 9, 1958, the United States created chaos in Lebanon, and on July 15, the United States sent U.S. Marines to land near Beirut under the pretext of maintaining peace in the Middle East.
The situation in the Middle East has escalated abruptly, and a major scuffle is on the verge of breaking out, and the United States continues to send more troops to the Mediterranean.
Chiang Kai-shek believed that the United States had sent a "** signal and was also preparing to send troops to attack the coast of the mainland."
On July 18, a meeting of the Military Commission was convened and it was decided to shell Kinmen. First, it is necessary to deter Chiang's army; The second is to smash the "** conspiracy" made by the United States; The third is to contain the US military and support the Arab people's anti-imperialist struggle.
Immediately the Minister of Defense, Marshal ***, conveyed *** instructions and deployed operational matters.
In addition, at that time, Khrushchev was pursuing a "peace line" in an attempt to achieve the goal of the United States and the Soviet Union jointly ruling the world, and the shelling of Kinmen widened the distance between the Soviet Union and the United States.
*** at the time
From October 10 to 23, 1957, the Eighth National Congress of the Kuomintang was held in Taipei, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an opening speech, Chen Cheng made a "Political Report", Zhang Lisheng made a "Party Affairs Report", Wang Shuming made a "Military Report", and Yu Youren and others made a "Policy Address" on behalf of the Fifth Yuan
The Eighth National Congress of the Kuomintang established the "** policy, wanting to change the passive defense to the active attack."
The Kuomintang navy took advantage of its military superiority at sea to extend the "patrol line" to the coasts of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, which was in fact a military blockade.
On November 11, 1957, the U.S. Seventh Fleet held a large-scale military exercise in the waters south of Taiwan in order to cheer up Chiang.
Kinmen and Matsu are so close to Fujian, if they can gather heavy troops in Jinmen and Matsu to attack Fujian, and then go all the way into the interior, then wouldn't the "great cause" soon come true?
Chiang Kai-shek also secretly visited Kinmen many times to boost morale.
On August 20, 1958, Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by Chiang Ching-kuo and others, arrived in Kinmen by plane again to inspect the preparations and look at Xiamen.
If the PLA shelling had been three days earlier, history would have been interesting.
At 18:30 on August 23, it was the time when the Kinmen defenders had dinner (Kinmen troops 950,000 people, 40,000 Matsu), the People's Liberation Army launched an artillery bombardment on Kinmen with 340 artillery pieces with a semicircular encirclement from Xiamen, Dadeng, Xiaodeng, Shenjiang, Lianhe, Weitou and other places.
Within two hours, more than 57,400 rounds of ammunition were fired, and Ji Xingwen, Zhao Jiaxiang, and Zhang Jie, deputy commanders of the army, navy, and air force of the Kuomintang army stationed in Kinmen, were killed on the spot, and even "Defense Minister" Yu Dawei, who came to inspect the inspection, was also wounded in the head.
Ji Xingwen and other generals can't be said to be bad people, they just follow the wrong people.
Now they still have to be consumed by the "** forces", using their blood to make up the "** who want to resist unification by force."
The next morning, our troops again shelled Kinmen.
On the 25th, two of the five supply ships sent by Taiwan were sunk by our torpedo boats, and the rest fled, and the supply line to Kinmen was cut off.
The United States dispatched the sixth ship from the Mediterranean to the Taiwan Strait to rebuild supply lines for the Kuomintang army.
On September 7, under the escort of the US ** ship, Chiang's supply ship headed for Kinmen. Our troops opened fire on Chiang's ship, and the US ship immediately fled to a safe area, watching as 5 Kuomintang ** ships were sunk. Then, the United States demanded that Chiang Kai-shek abandon the "** plan."
After some quarrels, on November 23, the United States and Chiang issued a "joint communiqué":
1. Confirm that Kinmen, Matsu, Penghu and Taiwan have close defense ties (to prevent the contradictions between the United States and Chiang Kai-shek from becoming public).
2. The method of unification of China is non-military (to give Chiang Kai-shek a step).
Our side also adjusted its strategy to attack Kinmen without taking it, making it a position that the Kuomintang could not discard, and a link between Taiwan and the mainland (they also called Fujian Province here).
Later, the shelling of Kinmen was changed to "singles and doubles" until the beginning of 1979, and it was not officially ended until the beginning of 1979, and it has been 45 years since Kinmen heard the sound of artillery again.
After the rapid development of the mainland's economy, what we sent to Kinmen was not cannonballs, but tap water.
Fresh water resources are the biggest problem of Kinmen people, and Taiwan Province cannot solve it at all.
As long as people with a clear conscience can feel the goodwill of the motherland, otherwise how different is it from beasts?
However, the Taiwan authorities are talking about having "common values" with the United States and the West, and avoid talking about the mainland's favors to Kinmen, as if they can drink water by relying on "values."
Could it be that the United States protected the Chiang Kai-shek clique because of some "common values" between the two sides? Is it because Americans "love Taiwan"? Then why don't you let the Americans send running water to Kinmen?
In addition to tap water, Kinmen people have also made a lot of money by relying on preferential policies on the other side of the strait over the years.
You must know that in the eyes of the Taiwan authorities, this is a military fortress, and all activities to go to sea fall within the scope of military control, and the so-called economy in the county is subject to starvation; The so-called people's livelihood is based on the number of people who can live in the air-raid shelter.
If there is no opportunity for "one family on both sides of the strait," Kinmen will be a place where ghosts will not be able to stay still.
But what is the Taiwan authorities' "puppet Coast Guard" doing in Kinmen? Chase and beat the mainland fishermen, and even have to be ruthless during the New Year, is this tap water drinking into the brain?
Only Kinmen owes Fujian, and no Fujian owes Kinmen; Only Taiwan owes the mainland, and there is no mainland that owes Taiwan.
There is a saying in Hokkien dialect:"The pet is not filial, and the pet pig turns over the stove".
If you don't give it some color, if you don't beat it in the ass, it will dare to turn over the stove.
Can't the water pipes be overhauled? Can't we, the coast guard, accidentally overturn the broken ship of the "pseudo coast guard"? ......
There is nothing wrong with being a family on both sides of the strait! I fully support it!
But whether to kiss or not is determined by a two-way attitude, unilateral pro, not only can not dispel the other party's malice, but will make the other party worse, next time dare to be.
If history repeats itself, no one will be able to save Kinmen.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, thousands of homes were lit up, but the two unfortunate fishermen could no longer see themMay the departed rest in peace!
We must not allow such a tragedy to happen again, it is all China's territory and territorial waters, so why let the "puppet Coast Guard" bully the people here.
That so-called "Golden Gate Restricted Water Boundary" must disappear!
Because how can there be boundaries in a family? When there is no boundary between the two sides of the strait, then it is called a real family! Isn't it?