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The island and reef that Tang Feng was going to was really a very small piece of reef outcropping, and it could not be called an island at all, but as early as 30 years ago, Huaxia began to station at Fiery Cross Reef and announced the sovereignty of Nansha to the world with facts.

In order to be able to stay on this reef for a long time, the Chinese construction workers at that time risked their lives to blow up the roadway below the sea surface, and piled up a small island with an area of 8,080 square meters from the blasted coral residue.

This small island was the predecessor of what is now Fiery Cross Island.

At that time, Fiery Cross Island was a boxy artificial island, and the surrounding area was made of reinforced concrete, making the island a small island that could be permanently settled.

Later, in the new century, to be precise, in 2014, Huaxia began to carry out large-scale artificial reclamation of Fiery Cross Island, and in just over two years, the original artificial island of only more than 8,000 square meters has become a permanent artificial island with a land area of 2.8 square kilometers.

Such a large area of artificial islands has made Fiery Cross Island surpass Taiping Island and Thitu Island in size, becoming the largest island in the Nansha Islands. And because of its strategic location, Fiery Cross Island is affectionately known as the "navel of the South China Sea".

Today, the artificial island has two airports with more than 3,000 kilometers of runways, a 4,000-ton wharf, and numerous buildings.

When Tang Feng came to the vicinity of Fiery Cross Island, he saw a large number of transport ships and engineering ships coming and going here, and now other brother islands and reefs in the South China Sea, such as Chigua Island, Huayang Island, Nanxun Island, and Dongmen Island, are all throwing off their arms and working at full speed to reclaim land and reclaim the land, and Fiery Cross Island. It is the transit base camp of these brother islands and reefs during land reclamation.

At present, Fiery Cross Island is garrisoned by Chinese soldiers, and it is not open to tourists for the time being, so ordinary tourists cannot land on Fiery Cross Island. However, Tang Feng's current identity is relatively special, and there is Old Man Kang who greeted him in advance in the back, so Tang Feng can sail the yacht directly into the military dock on Fiery Cross Island.

This pier is the former pier of Old Fiery Cross Island, and is directly connected to the Old Fiery Cross Island Marine Survey Station. In fact, the old Fiery Cross Marine Survey Station used to be a military camp. The largest building inside is a vegetable shed of more than 500 square meters, in addition to a helicopter take-off and landing platform, radar, oil depot, barracks and other buildings.

After boarding the old Fiery Cross Island Marine Survey Station, the most eye-catching thing is naturally the sovereignty monument that is more than two meters high. This sovereign monument is composed of three parts: the base, the body of the monument and the top of the monument.

The pedestal is three-layered, the dark purple-red pedestal is 1.988 meters high white stele body, the front center of the stele body is carved with three red characters of "Fiery Cross Reef", the right side is engraved with the red words of "China Nansha Islands", and the left side is engraved with the red words of "China Navy May 2000"; As for the top of the stele, it is a big red "heart" shaped pattern, and a map of China is engraved in the "heart" shape. In particular, the red five-star marks the points of Yanjing and Nansha Fiery Cross Reef, which means that "the motherland is in my heart" and "the officers and soldiers guarding the reef in Nansha will always care about Yanjing".

Tang Feng bowed respectfully in front of this sovereignty monument, this monument is not only a stone monument, but more importantly, its existence is to announce to the world that the sovereignty of Nansha belongs to China, and, in order to protect this place, for more than 30 years. Generation after generation of soldiers braved the scorching heat and hot flashes. Here they guard the land of the motherland, and use their hard work and steel guns in their hands to defend the safety of the motherland's borders.

You must know that in order to build this small artificial island, the Chinese soldiers once broke out the famous 3.14 naval battle with the navy of Annam, that is, the "Battle of Chigua Reef". Our men use their steel spears. It dealt a heavy blow to the Annan devils who dared to provoke and defended the security of the southern Xinjiang of the motherland.

Therefore, this monument deserves anyone to bow to it! It's qualified!

Tang Feng was received by a captain company commander stationed in the barracks of the observation station, and bowed to Tang Feng. The company commander, named Li Baoguo, smiled on his face tanned by the scorching sun of the South China Sea.

After Tang Feng finished bowing, Li Baoguo said to Tang Feng with a smile: "Mr. Tang, please go this way, the military camp is here." Please understand that the conditions are limited. ”

Tang Feng said: "Brother Li, don't call Mr. Tang this way, you call me that, I feel uncomfortable listening to it." In front of you and your brother, I can't afford to be sir. You should call me Xiao Tang or Tang Feng, it sounds comfortable that way. ”

Li Baoguo is not a hypocritical person, he has the unique boldness of the Chinese soldiers, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will call you Xiao Tang in the future." Come, Don, come with me, and I'll take you to your resting room. The superior leader has called me, I want to treat you well, you are a distinguished guest in our company. ”

On the other side of Fiery Cross Reef is the huge fully enclosed vegetable shed, which can be said to be the top priority of the entire barracks, and the vegetable supply on the entire island is all supplied by the output of this vegetable shed.

In the past, the living conditions of the old Fiery Cross Island Marine Survey Station were extremely difficult, because there was no fresh water here, so almost all the materials here were transported by ship from the distant Sansha or even Tianya.

Even now, the conditions here are brutal. But our soldiers have been holding on for decades year after year in this extremely cruel environment.

Thinking of this, Tang Feng said to Li Baoguo: "Brother Li, there are still a lot of fresh fruits, vegetables and all kinds of meat on my ship, I know that there is no shortage of seafood here, but there should be a shortage of fruits, vegetables and meat, right?" I said Brother Li, you arrange a few people to unload all those things on the ship, I can't use those things alone, if it takes a long time, won't it be wasted if it breaks? ”

Hearing Tang Feng say this, Li Baoguo's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and said, "Xiao Tang, I know your good intentions, but our army has rules, and we can't violate them." ”

Tang Feng said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't worry, before I came, Minister Kang once told me that I have the right to decide the ownership of all the materials on my ship, so I will give these things to my brothers now, as if I was treating our soldiers on behalf of the superior leaders." Brother Li, if you don't believe me, do you want to call Minister Kang now? ”

Li Baoguo hesitated for a moment, and finally readily agreed. (To be continued.) )