During the "August 23rd Artillery Bombardment" which followed nine years later in 1958, Kinmen was hit by a total of more than 470,000 artillery shells in the space of 44 days, a world record.
之後的「八二三砲戰」，在四十四天內，金門總共捱了四十七萬多發砲彈，創下世界紀錄。