At about 9 o'clock the next morning, the 1st Marine Division reported that Mindoro Island was almost undefended, that they had successfully landed in San Jose, a deep-water harbor on Mindoro Island, and that the troops were advancing at full speed in the direction of the airfield, and that they were expected to be able to take full control of the airfield by noon.

The island army may not be unaware of the importance of Mindoro Island, but the isolated island is easy to attack and difficult to defend, the supply line is long, and the investment of large forces is undoubtedly to provide cannon fodder for the guns and bombers of the national army, so they can only give up and concentrate their forces in the critical defensive zone.

The entire island army on Mindoro Island is less than 1,000 men, and the area is vast, and the Marine Corps chooses one target for each division, and of course it is unimpeded.

By noon, there was good news again from the front, and the 1st Division had taken full control of the San Jose airfield.

Because of its high location, Internoro is an outpost in the South China Sea, and there are four field airfields on the island, and San Jose Airport is only one of the larger ones.

The island army had no key defenses, and of course there were no planes at the airport, and several reconnaissance planes and fighters had already escaped before the national army landed, and the airport facilities were of course completely destroyed by the island army.

The only consolation is that the damage to the airport's concrete runway is not very serious.

After all, this is the time when jet fighters are in full control of the air, and airports in various countries are improving the quality of runways, and the island army is no exception.

It is almost impossible for the cement runway to be completely destroyed in a short period of time, and the island army does not have so many * to consume on it, which makes the national army fulfilled.

By laying steel plates on the damaged lot, the runway can be restored in a short time, and jet fighters can land here.

The range of the Fighting Tiger jet fighter is short, only 1,050 kilometers, which can be regarded as the closest flight range to a forward airfield on the Indochina Peninsula, let alone a return flight, and even a suicide attack is difficult.

But with this airfield, all problems can be easily solved, and as long as the Fighting Tiger jet fighter enters the San Jose airport, it can take care of the entire territory of the Philippines, which is definitely a nightmare for the island air force.

It was estimated that it would take three days to restore the airfield, so the large-scale offensive of the national army was also chosen after three days.

But the naval battle part has already begun.

The First Fleet of the Nationalist Army had already crossed Scarborough Shoal and stood at the forefront of the war, setting up an attack formation in the face of Luzon.

This initiative immediately stimulated the Southern Fleet of the Island Army, and even though they knew that the fleet strength and land aviation forces were obviously inferior, they had to be forced to face it.

The island army has a total of 12 aircraft carriers in the Southern Fleet, and the Miao-Australian coalition forces have raided the Mariana Islands, four aircraft carriers have gone to support, and two aircraft carriers are in the Sulu Sea and the Sulawesi Sea, ensuring the safety of the Philippine southwest defense line at the same time, but also escorting the rear line and material passage of the Dutch East Indies.

There are only six aircraft carriers in front of the South China Sea, and in terms of the number of aircraft carriers alone, the national army has 20 aircraft carriers, and the island army is simply not enough.

But at the same time, the island army also knew that once they lost the Philippines, even if the fleet survived, the sea lane between the north and the south would be completely cut off, and the Dutch East Indies would be lost as a fuel supply area, and the fleet would not be able to get fuel supply at all.

The Chinese navy is characterized by light firepower and heavy air combat, and there are no battleships with strong firepower, while the island army has a clear advantage in firepower, with battleships and heavy cruisers, so Ozawa Jizaburo hopes to use this as a breakthrough to defeat the Chinese navy in one fell swoop.

After discovering the Chinese Navy, Ozawa Jizaburo immediately mobilized the Yamato (I'm sorry, the Musashi had sunk in the previous Battle of Midway, I remember that it was the Yamato sinking, here is corrected, sorry for the inconvenience caused to everyone's reading), four battleships, Nagato, Kongo and Haruna, plus fifteen heavy cruisers, twelve light cruisers and sixteen destroyers, to form a powerful assault fleet, six carrier-based aircraft to escort it, and more than 300 army aviation fighters on the Philippine mainland. The bombers formed a powerful air formation and swooped down on the Chinese Navy.

An attempt was made to quickly break through the air defense line of the Chinese Navy, shorten the combat distance, and engage in a naval artillery duel with the Chinese Navy.

The commander of the Chinese Pacific Fleet is none other than Admiral Chen Shaokuan, who has long been paying close attention to the movements of the Southern Fleet of the Island Army.

Chen Shaokuan immediately lined up heavy cruisers, destroyers, and frigates in front of the enemy, and all the carrier-based planes on the seven aircraft carriers took off to meet the enemy.

Although jet fighters cannot reach the battlefield due to range problems, the current main fighter, the Mustang fighter, can easily reach without carrying a drop fuel tank, and other B25 medium bombers, B24, B29 heavy bombers are not a problem, and if necessary, even bombers from the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Chittagong can be transferred over.

At present, there are more than 50 airfields on the Indochina Peninsula, and the number of planes of various types has reached more than 2,000, and once the war machine is activated, it will be about to go to the battlefield in an endless stream.

In the part of the air battle, carrier-based planes and ground aviation planes were intercepted in the airspace 30 or 40 nautical miles away from the Chinese fleet, and the strength of the Chinese Air Force doomed the island forces to have no good fruit to eat, and they were not capable of breaking through the defensive line, but instead attracted the Chinese Air Force to attack intensively and stormy.

In the part of the naval battle, when the island assault fleet advanced to a distance of only a dozen nautical miles from the Chinese naval fleet, the land-based air force of the national army was killed.

The dense fleet of fighters was overwhelming, and the convoy of carrier-based aircraft on the island was broken up in less than 15 minutes.

Immediately afterwards, the black-pressed bombers and planes covered the sky and the sun, and the heavy aerial bombs, the whaling forks, anti-ship guides, and missiles were smashed down like rain, and the scene was so huge that it was impossible to do it, and everywhere there were thick smoke, fires, and columns of water.

The Chinese Air Force specially dispatched more than a dozen dive bombers, divided into two groups, and simultaneously cut in and dropped bombs from the bow and stern directions of the Yamato, and heavy aerial bombs and whaling fork anti-ship missiles fell in dense numbers.

Because the Yamato's anti-aircraft firepower was so powerful, the bombers did not dare to dive and bomb too low, and the hit rate of the aerial bombs was not high, and they basically fell around the hull, only causing terrifying water columns.