Chapter 245: Blockade of Feibei

The Sabah division and the air force have been attacking in the Philippines, especially since almost every attack has civilian targets destroyed, which has caused some anomalies in the media of Shijie countries, but fortunately, the mainstream media have not joined the debate.

Whether it is an airport, a port, a power station, or a communications building, in the event of a war, they will often be taken care of by the enemy, and this can be seen from the battlefield experience of the United States in recent decades. It doesn't make sense that if the people of the United States do it, Ji Feng can't do it.

It's just that the countries of Shijie are all surprised by the low combat effectiveness of the Philippines, the Sabah Division is a new army that has just been established for less than half a year, even if it has advanced equipment, but there is no reason for the Philippines to be so arrogant and powerless, the backward military equipment of the Philippines is known to all countries in Shijie, but everyone really did not expect that the extremely arrogant Philippine government and military that were clamoring before would be so incompetent after the real war.

Just when all the people who owned the property in the Philippines and immediately approached the Sabah government department to negotiate with them on how to protect their interests, the Philippine army showed for the first time their amazing ability to resist the war.

After successfully occupying and stabilizing the islands of Sibutu, Tawitawi, and Tapur in the south of the Sulu archipelago, and the Pangutalan archipelago in the northwest, the Sabah Division Marines finally began to land on the main island of the Sulu archipelago, Koh Lo.

But during the offensive on the island, armed supporters of the Sultan of Sulu and a large number of previously hidden Philippine Army personnel inflicted heavy casualties on the Marines.

Marines were ambushed by militants from the Sultan of Sulu while besieging a secret munitions den in the jungle in the southern interior of Jolo. Although they had already carried out metal detection before the attack, these cunning militants had used ceramic mines and had been in ambush for N days. No one would think that this dense jungle would be littered with eerie mines.

When the agile Marines went hundreds of meters deep and just surrounded this weapon manufacturing den covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, the mines in the entire area began to explode with a roar, causing heavy casualties to the Marines who were caught off guard.

Although the Marines eventually lost more than 350 soldiers as a result of the Air Force's aerial bombardment of the den, completely eliminating the island's largest clandestine weapons manufacturing den. Let Gu Hongtao, the commander of the Marine Corps battalion in charge of this command, roar and begin to launch an even more frantic slaughter on Holo Island.

It was now the third day of the battle, but the casualties of the Sabah division were almost negligible, and almost mainly in the marines. The Air Force has made a total of 427 sorties in three days, and has completely obtained air supremacy from the Philippines, and the Philippine Air Force has not been deployed in the south, except for a few planes that were shot down by the Sabah Air Force at the beginning. And the only large-scale sortie. It was still killed by the Western Front Fleet, and the Philippine Air Force has almost completely lost the possibility of regaining air supremacy.

Because of this, the Air Force has maintained a record of zero casualties until now. However, although there were no casualties, several fighters were injured by Philippine anti-aircraft artillery, but fortunately, they were only slightly injured and did not affect the flight of the fighters.

And on dozens of warships of both fleets. Again, no one was injured. When confronted with an extremely ineffective enemy warship, the two fleets destroyed it directly from the other's line of sight. In addition, in modern warfare, the Philippines does not have many shore-based ship-to-ship missiles, even if it was attacked by dozens of missiles when it conquered Puerto Princesa, it was 100% intercepted under the super calculation of the automatic interception system of the advanced Western Front fleet, so the two fleets have not suffered a single soldier casualties until now.

The casualties of the Marine Corps this time were much higher than the cumulative casualties of the previous two days, and the most important reason was that the battalion commander Gu Hongtao was eager to make merit, failed to carry out his tasks in accordance with the prescribed procedures, and did not call the air force to carry out an armed strike as soon as the secret military base was discovered.

Gao Jinxian, commander of the Natuna Islands Naval Base, and Lin Laifei, commander of the Sabah Division, were equally full of anger at this, and after reprimanding Gu Hongtao, they immediately ordered all the officers and men of the landing marines to carry out their tasks in strict accordance with the prescribed procedures, and to call in the air force to strike at any area that might be dangerous.

Ji Feng was also informed of this situation for the first time, but when it was reported to Ji Feng, the casualties of the members of the Marine Corps had exceeded 500, and after the first ceramic mine bombardment, the Marines who landed on Holo Island were attacked by countless ordinary civilians, probably hiding in the dense canopy, possibly from a slightly deeper stream, and possibly from ordinary houses, in short, Filipino warriors dressed as ordinary people and armed supporters of the Sultan of Sulu, The Marines began to attack the landing with all their might, so that they lost more than 500 fighters on the first day of landing.

Seeing this casualty figure, Ji Feng also had some blood in his heart, and his eyes were slightly red, which was stimulated by various means in the Philippines.

Although the Sabah division has about 20,000 men, excluding civilian and administrative personnel, the actual combat personnel are only about 16,000, of which the marines account for half of the quota. If it weren't for the high degree of automation of the warships that came back from the end times, even the largest frigates would need less than 150 people, otherwise it would not have been possible to organize the Western Front Fleet.

It is precisely because he does not have many people in his hands that Ji Feng's requirements for the defense forces have always been able to be solved by long-range force, so there is no need for short-range weapons, and those who can use the air force to strike first resolutely do not let the ground troops approach, just to protect the lives of officers and soldiers to the greatest extent, but I didn't expect that there were still people who ignored military orders. Disobey orders in order to seize credit.

In addition to asking Gao Jinxian and Lin Laifei to re-emphasize discipline and combat policy, Ji Feng summoned the commander of the Jeju Island Naval Base, Karl Brown. Moros.

"Boss, I strongly ask to participate in the military operation to blockade the Philippines. The Jeju Island Naval Base is now capable of striking and the neighboring countries will not be our enemies in the short term, so all the officers and men of Jeju Island hope that you will agree to our request, boss. "Carl. As soon as Moros saw Ji Feng, he applied to Ji Feng again after saluting.

From the very beginning of the declaration of war with the Philippines, Karl. Moros has made this request to Ji Feng more than once. Morros, who previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps, was known for his outstanding ability and hawkish performance. As a result, it offended many people, and during the military operation in Libya, it was guilty of a command error. led to the death of a company of soldiers from the United States, coupled with the promotion of opponents, so he was retired.

Like Carl. Like Moros, there are quite a few officers and soldiers who have retired from the United States or who have been dug directly from active duty. Almost 10 percent of all officers in the entire defense force. Especially in the Air Force, there are the most pilots from the United States, even a few more than the pilots from the Celestial Empire.

Looking at Karl with a fierce look of war in his eyes. Moros, Ji Feng said with a somewhat solemn expression: "Carl. Commander Moros, can I trust you? ”

Cal. Moros said almost without hesitation: "Yes boss, I am a Jeju citizen now, and I will only be a Jeju citizen in the future, and other countries have nothing to do with my Ho." ”

Ji Feng nodded slightly. For this time to come Carl. Moros is still in the eyes of Ji Feng on the construction and management of the Jeju Island Naval Base. In particular, the renovation of the 12 littoral combat ships that he took over one after another, after half a month of 24-hour uninterrupted patrols, proved how correct the idea he put forward at the beginning.

"Very well, Carl. Commander Moros, I ask the Jeju Island Navy to send a capable warship to the northern part of the Philippines to carry out a no-sail and no-fly mission, all ships and aircraft sailing in Philippine waters will be your targets, remember everything, is there a problem? ”

Cal. When Moros heard that Ji Feng had finally agreed to his request, his eyes were immediately filled with ecstasy: "Report to the boss, it's no problem at all, the Jeju Island Naval Base can complete this task." But I have a suggestion, and I ask my boss to approve it. ”

Ji Feng raised his head, Carl. Moros continued: "Boss, I heard that you have a wireless power relay station in your hand, or you can deploy a few, we will directly use the Littoral Combat Ship to blockade the northern part of the Philippines, so that we don't have to think about the problem of endurance at all, we can discover the characteristics of the new Littoral Combat Ship to the greatest extent, and at the same time, we can also notify this military operation to test whether our new equipment adapts to the requirements of the new battlefield." ”

Ji Feng chuckled and looked at Carl. Moros glanced at him, saw that there was not the slightest impurity in his eyes, full of anticipation, and then glanced at his consciousness uneasily, and immediately knew that he was really dedicated to himself, so he smiled and said: "Okay, although I know you are guessing, but you guessed, I do have a wireless power relay station, and I don't even need to deploy too much at all, just deploying one in the southern border waters of Jeju Island is enough to envelop Manila, and tonight you can let people drive my freighter to anchor in the southern border waters, I'll have people put the relay station on my freighter. ”

Cal. In the evening of the same day, Moros personally led 12 new-type littoral combat ships that had been refitted all the way to the south, if it weren't for the fact that they needed to apply to the Celestial Empire and Japan for the right of transit in the sea area, they would have been able to advance two hours earlier, but fortunately, the two countries did not embarrass Ji Feng, and happily approved Ji Feng's warship transit request.

Traveling with the fleet, there are several supply ships that have also been renovated and Ji Feng's 10,000-ton cargo ship, on the wide deck, there is a group of silver glittering box equipment up to more than 20 meters, although there is no noise, and even if you don't know, you think this thing is a super-large container, but the soldiers on the freighter know that this huge relay station will support the Jeju Island fleet in the northern Philippines throughout the combat mission, and there is no need to spend even a penny for this.

The facts also prove that Karl. Moros's guess was very accurate, the wireless power relay station that Ji Feng took out, although it was only small and medium-sized, had a wireless power coverage of more than 3,000 kilometers in radius. When Ji Feng's 10,000-ton cargo ship was about to sail out of the border waters, suddenly the relay station issued a warning sound, and the original green prompt light on the relay station instantly turned yellow, which proved that the relay station had left the wireless power relay range.

After retreating two nautical miles back, the yellow light changed to a green light again. Moros looked at the full power prompt on the Littoral Combat Ship, not to mention how comfortable it was, with this almost permanently powered 12 Littoral Fighters, as long as the follow-up supply can keep up, no one can escape the latest radar scan on board all the ships and aircraft in the northern Philippines, and the Jeju Fleet can't let the Sabah Division rob the battle alone. (To be continued......)