In fact, the PLA Navy understands quite well that the battle against the Royal Malaysian Navy is only a matter of time, because the purpose of their battle is not simple, and the evacuation of overseas Chinese and the protection of overseas Chinese are just excuses, and they are bound to wipe out most of Malaysia's military strength and create the best victory conditions for the Chinese liberation force that has been raised in the later period.

Plus, who wouldn't want to add a few more to their merit book?

Although the degree of development of East Malaysia is relatively backward compared to West Malaysia, the naval facilities of East Malaysia are not less than that of West Malaysia, which is also related to the important geographical location of East Malaysia, the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, the west coast of the Philippine Islands, and North Borneo together enclose the South China Sea, Malaysia wants to gain more benefits in the South China Sea, and the strategic significance of North Borneo is self-evident.

Tracing back to the source, in fact, the beginning of a series of subsequent incidents was that the Royal Malaysian Navy, which planned to forcibly occupy Guangxing Reef and South China Sea Reef, in order to accomplish this "feat", the Malaysian Navy dispatched troops and assembled a main fleet at their No. 2 naval base in the sea area, Sebanggarton. Its flagship is the Kasuri, the lead ship of Malaysia's most powerful warship to date, the Kasuri-class frigate. The 1,900-ton German-made warship is a West German FS-1500 frigate, and its main armament is a 100mm naval gun, two 30mm twin anti-aircraft guns, a set of Limbo anti-submarine mortars, and four Exocet anti-ship missiles. It's just that such a capital ship lacks sufficiently effective onboard electronics, has limited radar performance, and sonar. She can't even compare with the Chinese corvette 056, which is several hundred tons lighter than her.

In addition to the Kasuri, the Sebanga naval base also has a British-built 1,600-ton frigate, the Ramat, somewhat similar in armament to the Kasuri, a 115mm (4. 5 inches) caliber main guns, two 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, a quadruple Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launcher, a set of Limbo anti-submarine mortars.

These two ships constitute the most threatening force for the PLA Navy in the Sibanga base. Of course, in addition to the two frigates, there were several small fast attack boats here, mainly gunboats and torpedo boats. As for other minesweepers and military auxiliary ships, there is no threat to speak of.

When passing through the Nansha Islands, the South China Sea Fleet also happily sent a few light frigates to swing a few times in front of the islands and reefs occupied by Vietnam and the Philippines, although this time they were not targets, but the South China Sea thing was nothing more than killing monkeys to show monkeys.

When passing through the central waters of Nansha, fleet commander Zheng Zhantu ordered the detachment to leave the squadron and continue to march southward, while the main amphibious battle group and the landing fleet drove southwest and went straight to Kuantan. Zheng Zhantu has a soldier in his hand, without the slightest fear, the strength in his hand is very surplus, and every step is quite calm.

The flagship of the detachment is a 054A frigate, plus two 056 corvettes and a 039A submarine, and to put it bluntly, the tonnage of just one 054A frigate, the Hengshui, is equal to the total tonnage of the combat ships of the Royal Malaysian Navy now located in Sibanga.

The captain of the Hengshui couldn't help but sigh: "In the Battle of Xisha in 74 years, all our ships together were not as large as the tonnage of a destroyer in South Vietnam, and today's plot is actually reversed, all of our people on the top of a ship, not to mention that our main force does not bother to entangle with them at all." ”

The political commissar echoed: "This is called feng shui rotation, and we also have a broad day." ”

"Are the AWACS aircraft of the Air Force in place?" The lieutenant commander no longer talked about anything else, but focused on the battle he was about to face.

The CIC intelligence officer immediately replied: "The Air Force's AWACS aircraft Yuntu-1-3 has begun to conduct shuttle cruises in the airspace more than a hundred kilometers from the north coast of Kalimantan, and they arrived earlier than us. ”

The captain nodded: "This is a matter of course, to conduct intelligence retrieval to Yuntu-1-3, is the enemy ship staying in the port area, or is it cruising outside the port?" ”

"There is no indication that the enemy is sailing, and it should still be at anchorage."

The captain continued to give orders: "Please get closer to the 333 boat and detect whether the other side has laid mines outside the harbor." ”

He used the word "please", because he was on the same level as the captain of the submarine, and although theoretically he led a detachment, it was not good to look too much. According to the newly established class of the Navy, the commanders and political commissars of strategic nuclear submarines and amphibious assault ships are all with the rank of colonel, the captains and political commissars of attack nuclear submarines and destroyers are generally with the rank of colonel, the captains and political commissars of frigates and conventionally powered submarines are with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and the frigates are more flexible, and the general captain is lieutenant colonel or major. As for the captain of a small boat of less than 500 tons, this is even more ambiguous, because even the minesweepers in the PLA Navy's main battle ship sequence are more than 1,000 tons, and the missile boats have been crushed and eaten by cranes.

What's more, Li Chun, the captain of the 333 boat, is a rising star of the younger generation of the Navy, who has been in the limelight in the RIMPAC exercise before, and has also become the target of the Navy's key training.

The 039A submarine is equipped with a complete underwater sonar detection system, which can help the fleet to carry out mine detection well, although the submarine or frigate is not very good at minesweeping, but at least it will not be bored and run into it all at once.

Li Chun received a request from the Hengshui and immediately approached the naval base in Xibanga with his 333 boat. To say that although Malaysia is not a big place, but the port conditions are quite good, not as large as the Celestial Empire, 18,000 kilometers of coastline, can count the natural harbors are limited. This Sibanga base is a good naval anchorage, the harbor is wide and deep, a small naturally formed harbor with scattered islands outside the home, sheltered from the wind and waves. And another good and bad feature is that there are a lot of corals and reefs growing here, that is, not all places have enough water depth, if you know hydrology and have a skilled navigator, naturally there is no problem, but if you are not familiar with the hydrological characteristics here, then eighty percent of them are unlucky.

For Li Chun, a person who touches the port, this is quite a troublesome thing, the relatively chaotic underwater situation outside the port makes him have to be cautious, for fear that he will accidentally run aground or run aground, not to mention that he will lose his adult, and he may directly scrap a submarine, or in the middle of a war, which will also have an impact on the war situation.

Fortunately, with the help of great caution and complete detection equipment, the submarine still bypassed many obstacles and obtained a rough route map, and Li Chun immediately sent this route to the Hengshui and other surface ships that were still hovering near the nine-dash line, so that they would not go wrong when they came.

"Replying to the Hengshui ship, the enemy did not lay mines outside the port, and the defense was lax, so there was an opportunity."

After the captain of the Hengshui ship got the above news, he was also excited, and it was a little hard to imagine that they were already fighting with them in West Malaysia and China, and their navy in East Malaysia was still looking like a hanger, it was really too long?

Since the enemy is all cowering in the harbor, it is not very convenient for surface ships to strike. The main anti-ship force of 054A and 056 is the YJ-83 missile, which is no problem to use in the open sea, but the hit rate of a fixed ship in the port may be sharply reduced. Even if he wanted to achieve combat exploits, when the captain knew that he was not doing it himself, he immediately passed the relevant information to Zheng Zhantu of the main fleet and asked him to show him.

After Zheng Zhantu received the news of the Hengshui ship, he smiled at Mai He and the captain and said: "It's all huddled in the harbor, and I have no desire to fight, the next wave of HNA fleet is ready, and there is no need to go to West Malaysia, go directly to Kalimantan Island to bomb Xibanga, the 333 boat is also there, if you want to escape, end it." ”

Mai He flattered: "The commander is wise! ”

Zheng Zhantu said with a smile: "If there is a mistake in such a war, my white military uniform will be worn in vain!" ”

Although the 8th Brigade of the Airborne Forces has occupied Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport, there is a shortage of aviation fuel, weapons and maintenance capabilities for fighters, and no hangar facilities with defensive capabilities.

In the past two days, the Air Force and the Navy have been in a state of high tension and fatigue, constantly flying, refueling in the air, bombing and then returning, and the battle across thousands of kilometers is quite a headache, but fortunately, the Shangri-La is about to arrive in Kuantan, and their mission in West Malaysia is almost over.

A large number of F-14CN took off after receiving the order, and the original air superiority fighter accidentally became a ground attack fighter in the hands of the HNA, and some pilots regretted that when they attacked West Malaysia in the first wave, they did not let go of a few airport facilities for nothing, and let the Malaysian Air Force fly up to compete with them, so that later their mission became monotonous and mechanical bombing.

In order to get rid of the dilemma of being used as an attack plane, Liu Huaqing asked Air Force Commander Wang Hai and finally borrowed 12 H-6K aircraft from the Air Force. The bomber unit of the Air Force now has only 36 God of War bombers, and one-third of them were brought in by Liu Huaqing at once. However, when the H-6K is borrowed, there are fewer occasions for a large number of aerial firepower bombardment on the West Malaysia side.

Even if they disliked that bombing was dirty work, Chen Feng and his comrades-in-arms were reluctant to assign these things to the bomber unit of the Air Force. The F-14CN has been modified by Shen Fei to obtain the ability to attack the ground, and the bomb load is far worse than the H-6K's 12 tons at a time due to many factors such as pylon design and fuselage design, that is, it can pull four or five tons of bombs.

Of course, fighters also have their own advantages in bombing missions, flying much faster than bombers, a large group of tomcats with some air-launched anti-ship missiles and guided bombs after taking off, it is about two hours to fly to Sibanga, and the air defense of the weak Ma Air Force is like a layer of rice paper, which can be easily torn apart in front of the eyes of the tomcats.