Regiment Commander Gu Yongnian sat in the slightly vibrating cabin. Due to the roar of the engines, he had to speak very loudly for the comrades next to him to hear clearly. Since this was the case, the soldiers had no desire to converse. Everyone was either checking their equipment or silently wiping their weapons, ensuring the plastic cloth wrapped around the muzzles was secure. Airborne operations were inherently complex military actions. The process of descending from the sky was dangerous, and maintaining the correct posture during landing was essential to avoid injury. At that moment, no one had the mind to worry about the position of their guns. However, once the landing was complete, if the muzzle was clogged with dirt, combat would be affected. After much trial and error, using plastic cloth to wrap the muzzle was the simplest method. Even if they had to fire immediately, the thin plastic cloth would not affect shooting.

Gu Yongnian finished checking his equipment like the other comrades, but he did not lean back against the cabin wall to rest his eyes. He took out a wallet from his bosom, inside of which was a group photo. In the photo, two young Chinese men in military uniforms and two in civilian clothes stood together. One of the uniformed youths was Gu Yongnian; this was a photo of the four Gu brothers. The other soldier was Gu Yongnian's older brother, who had already sacrificed his life in Taiwan.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had never given up its efforts to liberate Taiwan. After controlling Fujian and possessing military vessels capable of evading Japanese patrol ships, they continuously sent small detachments into Taiwan to attempt to establish anti-Japanese base areas. However, the small area of Taiwan lacked space, making mobile warfare impossible to conduct. Guerrilla warfare entering the mountainous areas of Taiwan would also face heavy encirclement and suppression by heavy Japanese forces. The Japanese Army, which suffered heavy casualties facing Chinese troops in other regions, finally saw the possibility of victory in Taiwan, and their fighting spirit was extremely high. The battles between the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the Japanese army in Taiwan were extremely bloody and cruel. After capturing wounded Chinese soldiers, the Japanese army mostly tortured them cruelly before publicly executing them. And the Chinese small detachments that went to Taiwan later also adopted a method of killing all Japanese prisoners. The combat style of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army also underwent significant changes.

According to Japanese war history records, the Chinese small detachments that landed on Taiwan after 1921 "each carried a 'Glory Grenade'. When facing capture, they would not hesitate to pull the fuse of the Glory Grenade to commit suicide. The killing attacks by Chinese soldiers on Japanese soldiers and civilians were extremely cruel... The miserable state after battles in Japanese settlement areas is difficult to describe."

The Japanese respected powerful opponents and attached great importance to the policy of "treating prisoners well" during the Russo-Japanese War. In the early stages of the engagement with Chinese small detachments in Taiwan, Japan still dared to be cruel. However, the exchange ratio made the Japanese feel unbearable. For every Chinese soldier entering Taiwan killed, Japan had to pay the lives of five to ten Japanese soldiers and civilians. The "civilians" killed by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were basically Japanese technical personnel, merchants, and officials. During the most intense period of small detachment operations, Japanese officials even tried every means to refuse to take office in Taiwan.

In 1924, when Japan was driven out of Korea by China, Chinese troops captured more than 30,000 Japanese prisoners of war and nearly 100,000 Japanese civilians. Japan privately discussed with China, requesting China to hand over these Japanese prisoners and civilians to Japan instead of transferring them to the Korean government. The Japanese knew very well what the fate of these Japanese soldiers and civilians would be once they fell into the hands of the Koreans.

The Chinese side's demand was for Japan to hand over the remains of Chinese soldiers captured and killed in Taiwan. The Japanese side was forced to agree to this request and handed over the remains of captured and killed Chinese soldiers in three batches. Among them were the remains of Gu Yongnian's older brother, Gu Yongle. The vast majority of the remains were decapitated; Japan had beheaded Chinese soldiers to intimidate the Chinese people in Taiwan.

Because the Great Kanto Earthquake caused enormous losses, Japan increased its exploitation of Taiwan, inciting fierce resistance from the Taiwanese masses. China immediately increased its troop infiltration operations. Japan mobilized 100,000 troops to Taiwan and paid the price of 6,000 deaths to suppress the uprising in Taiwan. Most of the Japanese were killed by Chinese infiltration troops. Facing such huge losses, the Japanese actually abandoned the policy of retaliatory punishment against local Taiwanese residents.

After the Taiwan uprising finally subsided, Japan had to privately ask the British to come forward and coordinate. Britain put pressure on China, and China also needed to wait for a strategic opportunity. Finally, China and Japan reached an agreement on "no killing of civilians." Chinese small detachments entering Taiwan would not target Japanese civilians. Japan would only "expel" discovered Chinese military forces and try to avoid military conflict. In other words, if the Chinese small detachment was not caught on the spot, as long as the detachment members did not carry weapons and pretended to be locals, they could openly buy boat tickets and take a ship back to the mainland. Japan pretended not to see it at all.

Although this matter was comical, Japan had no choice. China was too close to Taiwan, and Japan was too far from Taiwan. If tens of thousands of Japanese died in Taiwan every year, the Japanese could not bear it either. Especially when the vast majority of the Japanese killed were technical and bureaucratic members that Japan needed to spend a lot of energy training, as well as wealthy merchants. The Japanese side could only tighten the fence and fully guard against China's maritime infiltration. At the same time, Japan began to adopt more conciliatory policies towards Taiwan, including a certain degree of political and economic autonomy. For ten years, China had infiltrated Taiwan like a sieve, but somehow maintained a situation without war.

Gu Yongnian did not care what the Japanese on the island of Taiwan thought. His brother had died in battle in Taiwan, and the unit had received the order to attack Taiwan. Then the only thing left was to wipe out the Japanese troops in Taiwan. Not to mention the mobilization meeting before the war, which repeatedly emphasized that Taiwan was China's territory. Even if the Japanese claimed that Taiwan already belonged to Japan, it was land lost after China's defeat in the war. Since this was the case, as long as the war was won, China could naturally take Taiwan back.

Closing the wallet, Gu Yongnian looked through the plane's window towards the horizon where the morning glow had already appeared. There were some small black dots in the distance flying at the same speed as the transport plane; that should be the escorting fighter squadron. Because they were in the air, they could see the dawn much earlier than on land. The rosy clouds dyed the sea surface, which should have been blue, a golden-red color, as if it were a sheet of molten liquid metal. However, before long, the sea surface would once again present a blue color as the sun rose. Of course, by that time, Gu Yongnian would have already landed on the land of Taiwan, China, landing on the land where his brother had sacrificed his life.

At 5:15, the staff officer stood up from beside the radio. "Regiment Commander, we've arrived!"

Gu Yongnian walked to the cabin door and opened it together with two other comrades. A violent suction rushed in from the front. The three comrades were all strapped in with safety belts and were not pulled out of the cabin by this suction. Looking down, several rows of bonfires were arranged in the shape of a pentagram; that was the agreed-upon landing signal.

"Prepare to jump!" Gu Yongnian turned back and shouted to the comrades inside the cabin.

The People's Air Force fleet chose Kaohsiung as the parachute landing area. Besides being an important military base in southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung's terrain belonged to the alluvial plain region, and there were no large rivers within the territory. It was relatively easy for paratroopers to concentrate after landing. A Japanese division was stationed here. After eliminating the enemies here, the Japanese garrison in Taiwan would only have another division in Taipei and a brigade in Taichung left. With the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army simply did not put them in their eyes.

The people of Kaohsiung got up very early in June to work in the fields. Many people witnessed the world's first regiment-scale airborne operation with their own eyes. Even in their old age, they would still often talk about this operation. Those sky-filling snow-white parachutes blocked out the entire sky. And the common sigh of all those who witnessed this scene with their own eyes was one sentence: "They just jumped down from the sky!"

Not only did paratroopers descend from the air, but gliders loaded with light artillery also landed on the reasonably flat ground. These gliders all had their own power systems; although they couldn't take off on their own, their range wasn't too bad. Not to mention that this airborne operation was originally a one-way flight.

After landing with bumps and jumps in the farmland or other ground, the troops immediately opened the cabin doors and dragged out various artillery pieces from inside. Paratroopers who landed nearby rushed up to help carry artillery shells out. There were already more than 200 commando comrades on the ground guiding them. Added to other personnel who had been in Taiwan for a long time, as well as the underground resistance organizations developed in Taiwan, a team of more than 4,000 people was quickly assembled.

Kaohsiung had coastal defense positions, but these positions were all designed to resist attacks from the sea. It was not a 360-degree defense system without dead angles. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not just bring airborne troops. After the bomber units waited for the airborne troops to land, they began to drop dense bombs on the Japanese defense positions. Japanese fortresses and barracks were instantly bombed into soaring flames and filled with smoke. After one wave of bombing passed, the Japanese troops with weak air defense capabilities suffered heavy losses. Many Japanese soldiers were even blown into the sky while standing foolishly on the uncovered drill ground, overwhelmed and at a loss.

As soon as the air force's bombing ended, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, who had long studied Kaohsiung's defense system in detail, launched a fierce attack toward the enemy according to the pre-planned attack routes. They quickly broke through the outer Japanese defense lines and pressed straight towards the command center. The battle could not even be described as intense; the Japanese troops fell into chaos under this fierce blow. Several exchanges of fire were encounter battles triggered after airborne troops accidentally met Japanese troops rushing around like headless flies.

Before the Japanese troops could raise their guns to shoot, they saw the troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army rushing at the front raise the thick and short firearms in their hands and pull the triggers without aiming at all. Fierce flames sprayed from the muzzles. In a moment, the Japanese troops were all beaten to the ground. Just like this, relying on fierce close-combat firepower and vigorous charging and fighting, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army captured one Japanese strongpoint after another. A unit even occupied the Japanese artillery position, completely destroying the Japanese plan to use artillery fire to deal with this force descending from the sky.

Just as the Japanese troops had recovered slightly from the confusion of being caught off guard, began to mobilize troops for defense, and prepared to send troops to launch a counterattack, another piece of bad news arrived. The figure of the People's Navy Special Task Force appeared on the sea surface. The Special Task Force began to use naval guns to fire fiercely at the coastal defense system near Kaohsiung.

Cold sweat ran straight down the Japanese commander's forehead and back. He had long heard that the battles of the Chinese army were dominated by various stratagems and could always attack the enemy unprepared. He had done his best when making defense preparations, but launching an attack from the sky was no longer a stratagem; it exceeded the Japanese imagination.

Just at this time, an urgent call came into the headquarters. The observer reported another terrible piece of news: a new wave of airborne landings had begun. The Japanese commander's legs went soft, and he slumped back into his chair. The sky had become the Chinese people's passage; they launched attacks from the sky and also transported troops through the sky.

The 104th Airborne Division landed in four waves. The last wave air-dropped a large amount of weapons and ammunition. Although the Type 31 submachine gun had great power, its consumption was also great. After having this wave of ammunition supply, the troops maintained the ability for continuous combat.

The Japanese military camp did not have permanent fortifications, and Japanese strongpoints were still dominated by heavy machine guns. The officers knew that if the military camp fell, the Japanese troops would either have to flee or "retreat" to the coastal defense positions that were being fiercely shelled by the Chinese navy. Heaven knew how many Chinese troops would descend from the sky; the Japanese soldiers already felt that the Chinese could transport as many troops as they wanted from the sky.

Officers supervised the battle personally, ordering machine gunners to fire fiercely. This shooting did indeed play some role; the dense bullets checked the momentum of the Chinese army's attack. Seeing the Chinese troops all using the terrain to lie there and avoid bullets, the Japanese captain commanding the strongpoint breathed a sigh of relief. People could land from the sky, but surely even cannons couldn't land, right? And it would take some time for cannons to be transported here. Holding out for a while is a while!

However, this captain suddenly saw a person among the suppressed Chinese soldiers in front stand up abruptly during a gap in the machine gun fire. This soldier was not holding a gun in his hand but carried a strange tube on his shoulder. That Chinese soldier knelt on one knee, his upper body perfectly straight, holding that tube in a strange posture. The Japanese captain was just about to order the machine gunner to open fire on this soldier when he saw the tube on the Chinese soldier's shoulder suddenly spray out a streak of fire, and then something flew straight towards the heavy machine gun position at a speed that the eye could still follow. A moment later, this thing smashed ruthlessly into the sandbags on the periphery of the machine gun position, and the huge air wave set off by the explosion overturned the Japanese captain.

A sharp ringing sound rang in the captain's ears. It was not a heard sound, but tinnitus appearing in the captain's eardrums under the huge shock. Not long after, the captain suddenly felt his head hit by something, and then he knew nothing.

After destroying the Japanese strongpoint, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army soldiers who had been lying on the ground leapt up and rushed into the dilapidated Japanese strongpoint at top speed. They didn't care to distinguish whether the enemies were dead or alive; after adding a burst of bullets to each enemy's head, the troops pounced fiercely towards the Japanese positions behind.

On the afternoon of June 6, 1933, the 104th Airborne Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, in coordination with the Navy, resolved the Japanese defenders in Kaohsiung within one day and liberated Kaohsiung City. On the same day, after the People's Navy marched into the Penghu Islands and eliminated the Japanese navy there, the transport fleet arrived at the port of Kaohsiung on the morning of June 7, transporting an army division onto the island of Taiwan.

After Commander Mi Feng received the telegram, he determined that this battle could not fail.