Chapter 102: The Inside Story of the South China Sea Shooting
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"Uncle Ning, has the conversation collapsed?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.
Long before leaving the country, Liang Yuan knew that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China had been actively contacting the Vietnamese government and intended to negotiate a settlement of the Nansha Islands issue, after all, the Republic's military strength in the Nansha Islands was still too weak.
8.O9 Nansha Air Battle Ning Lei piloted one enemy six, does not mean that the F14 fighter has the ability to fight one enemy six at any time in the Nansha airspace, Ning Lei's luck in this battle is too big.
To put it simply, the four MiG-23 fighters responsible for the ambush did not rush up, but dragged them one by one in batches, which was enough for Ning Lei's headache, and the fuel volume problem alone was enough to make all the technical advantages of the F14 fighter come to naught.
Looking at all the news media of the republic, without mentioning the two so-called volunteer Soviet pilots who were captured, one can see the sincerity of the republic's intention to settle the problem through negotiations.
"The conversation fell apart. Ning Lei said in a deep voice.
"Uncle Ning, is the price we asking for too high?" Liang Yuan was very curious about the negotiation process.
Ning Lei did not hide it, and said: "At present, the dispute over the Nansha Islands has been included in the framework of the armistice agreement of the two-mountain round war, and we propose that the Nansha waters are temporarily bounded by Fiery Cross Reef, and the islands and reefs north of Fiery Cross Reef are under the jurisdiction of the Republic, and the Vietnamese side will withdraw from Nanzi Island, which was illegally occupied in 1975, and Nairo Reef, which was illegally occupied at the beginning of this year. ”
Nanzi Island is located on the western edge of the Twin Reefs at the northern tip of the Spratly Islands, just 1.6 nautical miles away from Beizi Island, another island of the Twin Islands. It is 2.6 nautical miles from Nairo Reef, which is also part of the Twin Reefs.
Nanzi Island is only more than 6oo kilometers away from the Xisha Islands under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, and is the gateway for the Republic of China Navy to enter the Nansha Islands. Nanzi Island is oblong in shape, 3.9 meters above sea level, the whole island is northeast to southwest trend, the island is 6oo meters long, more than 27o meters wide, with an area of about o.13 square kilometers, it is the sixth largest island of Nansha Islands.
In the blink of an eye, Liang Yuan's mind crossed the specific geographical number of the Twin Reefs that he was familiar with in his previous life.
"In the waters south of Fiery Cross Reef, the two sides have put the dispute on hold for the time being. In the spirit of mutual development, neither side will continue to occupy the remaining islands and reefs, stop military operations to seize the reefs, and settle their disputes through peaceful negotiations. ”
Liang Yuan almost laughed when he heard Ning Lei say it, the republic is really the same as the future generations, and the place that is beyond its power is to put aside disputes, open together, and be within the scope of the republic's ability. Even since ancient times, they have not continued to occupy islands and reefs, and they will continue to fart, unless they go to the territory that the Vietnamese have already controlled.
Nanzi Island, which was forcibly occupied by the Vietnamese military in 1975, is north of Fiery Cross Reef, only 9oo kilometers away from Lingshui Airport in Hainan, and is properly within the range of F14 fighter jets.
The 286 in power at this time is both prestige and means. The military is simply obedient, and the older generation is rolled out of the rain of bullets, so how can they not take advantage of the fire to rob with sharp weapons in hand.
"Uncle Ning, the fishing boat reported in the news broadcast a few days ago was injured, could it be a trick played by the troops?" Liang Yuan asked.
Liang Yuan, who heard the news from the news broadcast at that time, didn't think much about it. He also angrily kicked a foot of sand, making a big piece of his toe blue. But after calming down, the more Liang Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, when did the fishing boats of the Republic of China be so strong, and they were not caught up by the Vietnamese warships after running for more than two hours, whether this is a fishing boat or a speedboat.
Hearing Liang Yuan mention this, Ning Lei's voice suddenly relaxed, and he said with a smile: "I know that those straight guys in the navy can't hide Xiaoyuan." ”
At this time, under the impetus of General Geng Qinghua, the Navy of the Republic was preparing to build an advance airfield on Woody Island in the Paracel Islands, intending to solve the problem of the short flight range of the Republic's combat aircraft.
However, the construction of the forward airport on Woody Island is also a matter of helplessness for the Republic, the big island in the South China Sea has been carved up by neighboring countries as early as the 70s, and even Woody Island was stabilized after a war with Vietnam in the Paracels in the 70s.
Woody Island is 34o kilometers away from the Navy's Lingshui Airport in Hainan and more than 6oo kilometers away from the Twin Reefs in the Nansha Islands, which are closest to the motherland's big 6.
The construction of an airport on Woody Island only pushed the military strength of the Republic of China into the South China Sea by more than 3oo kilometers, which can only be quite good compared to the South China Sea with a depth of more than 2ooo kilometers, but if the airport is built on Nanzi Island, it is completely different.
The geographical location of Nanzi Island is very superior, about 9oo kilometers away from Hainan Island of the Republic in the north, about 6ooo kilometers away from the mainland of the Philippines in the east, about 6oo kilometers away from the mainland of Vietnam in the west, and nearly 1ooo kilometers away from the southernmost territory of the Republic of China.
If the Nanzidao airfield is completed, it can be used as the core support base of the Republic in the South China Sea, and Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other countries will include all the J-8-2 fighters that have been replaced by the Republic of China into the strike radius.
The air power of the republic was able to prop up the skeleton of the air umbrella of the entire South China Sea before the aircraft carrier was commissioned, and it is impossible for the top level of the republic to turn a blind eye to this extremely huge strategic significance.
What makes the navy even more excited is that the twin reefs are actually the same circular atoll on a large reef, the whole large reef is about 16 nautical miles long from northeast to southwest, 8.5 nautical miles wide, the northwest has Beizi Island and Nanzi Island, the northeast end is exposed at low tide, the southwest is exposed Nairo Reef, the atoll is covered with lagoons of different depths, the water depth is 3-5o meters, and the periphery of the atoll is a deep sea with a water depth of 1ooo-15oo meters.
This means that the entire Twin Reefs, with their large lagoons, could be expanded into a series of docks for different purposes, providing excellent supply points and safe havens for warships, fishing boats, and passing vessels.
Therefore, on the first day of the F14 fighters' entry into service in the naval aviation, some people submitted the plan to seize Nanzi Island to the Navy General Staff, and when the Ninglei 8.O9 air battle became famous, the call for seizing Nanzi Island in the twin reefs to replace Woody Island as an advance base in the South China Sea became louder and louder.
The so-called incident of the Vietnamese military shooting of fishermen in Nansha was purely a makeover of the Navy of the Republic of China, which went to the vicinity of Nanzi Island to conduct reconnaissance on the 6th National Liberation Army, but did not turn over the yellow calendar before going out, and unluckily encountered a Vietnamese Navy warship that sent supplies to Nanzi Island, and then was chased by people for more than two hours.
What's even more important is that ordinary fishing boats will bring so much hemostatic gauze when they go to sea, which can wrap five people like zongzi.
Ning Lei roughly told Liang Yuan about the ins and outs of the shooting.
"Uncle Ning, from the TV, those five people were injured quite scary, is there anything wrong?" Liang Yuan asked with concern.
"It's nothing, the strictest one with the belt was knocked off half of his nails, and the rest were bruised by the rebounding stray bullets, and four of the five people have already returned to the team, but because they went overboard after returning to Hong Kong and going ashore, the commander who led the team is writing an inspection at the base. Ning Lei said with a smile.
"That guy deserves to write an inspection, and Jiajia almost cried when he watched the news. Liang Yuan gloated.
"Xiaoyuan, remember to make it clear to Qi Lianshan, as long as the Mk82 and Mk84 are two ordinary low-drag free-fall bombs, don't buy guided bombs, F14 fighters can't throw them. Ning Lei added.
"Uncle Ning, we don't even have aerial bombs, right?" Liang Yuan asked suspiciously.
Although since the establishment of the People's Republic of China's navy and air force, most of them have mainly engaged in interception missions, and there have been very few bombing missions to carry out ground support, but they are not even ordinary aerial bombs.
"We are different from the suspension interface of US aerial bombs, if we forcibly modify the interface, it is easy to cause bomb failure, and we will run thousands of miles to the combat target, and then the ammunition will not be able to be thrown down, and it will be troublesome. Ning Lei said.
Only then did Liang Yuan suddenly remember that the Republic of China had a lot of previous convictions, and that the atomic bomb test explosion of that year had a failure that could not be thrown away, and in the end, the Qiang-5 attack plane responsible for dropping the bomb took a very high risk with the bomb 6, and the F14 fighter would be called bad if it also encountered this situation over Nanzi Island.
"Well, I'll inform Qi Lianshan in a moment that a batch of precision equipment for the F14 fighter overhaul line is about to be shipped from the United States, I'll ask if I can take a ride, and Uncle Ning will call me in an hour." Liang Yuan said.
The F14 fighter overhaul equipment airlifted this time are some industrial endoscopes, eddy current flaw detectors and other precision instruments, similar to one-arm cranes, pneumatic tire scrapers, electric tractors and other large F14 fighter special maintenance equipment are all used by sea, and they are still floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Putting down Ning Lei's phone, Liang Yuan dialed Qi Lianshan and told him about the purchase of MK82 and MK84 aerial bombs.
This thing is purely rotten in the United States, the cost is only a few hundred dollars a piece, for an arms company like Grumman to get some aerial bombs is probably easier than drinking water, Qi Lianshan promised to mention this matter to the personnel of Grumman tomorrow.
"Xiaoyuan, how many aerial bombs are we going to buy?" Qi Lianshan finally asked.
Liang Yuan also forgot to ask Ning Lei about the number of aerial bombs he needed, and thought about the power of the MK84 bomb It seems that it is about 33o square meters, and the area of Nanzi Island is about 13 square kilometers, so he did a simple mental calculation and said: "Lao Qi, let's take 2oo pieces of each type first." ”
Lao Tzu bought so many bombs, he could blow up the entire Nanzi Island in the sky at one time, Liang Yuan thought happily, but someone forgot that the F14 fighter was not a B-52, how could he throw so many bombs on the heads of the Vietnamese at one time.