"Hovercraft fire cover, 1 company and 2 companies followed the tank squadron to seize the 1st position ahead! Destroy all the buildings! 3 companies ready for reinforcements at any time! The helicopter in the air was fiercely attacked by the Vietnamese army, which made Liu Gaocai, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Brigade who was responsible for the landing on the beach, anxious, and he ordered loudly into the intercom.

Although at this moment the Vietnamese army has not yet appeared a large force of ground resistance, the intention of trying to take the lead in destroying our army's aerial firepower reveals that they are ready to put up a stubborn resistance and drag our army into the quagmire of point-by-point offensive and defensive warfare on the ground.

For the Vietnamese army, which was in a state of overall backwardness in equipment, inflicting heavy losses on our troops through ground warfare was their only feasible tactical option.

Position No. 1 is 300 meters away from the beachhead, where there is a strong building, which our army originally hoped to occupy as a basis for our army's attack formation on the island, but now it seems that that building may become a stumbling block for our army, and it is necessary to attack with all our strength and occupy it as soon as possible.

Since the Vietnamese army had already taken refuge in the building and entered a state of street fighting, Liu Gaocai no longer considered the possibility of completely protecting the buildings on the island, which could be rebuilt after being destroyed, and the lives of the marines were irretrievably lost.

The 63A tank opened fire as it went, and its 105 mm low-recoil rifled tank gun was able to penetrate 500 mm thick homogeneous armor at a distance of 2,000 meters, destroying 1,500 mm thick reinforced concrete fortifications.

Seeing through the telescope that the target was destroyed under artillery fire, and several Vietnamese soldiers inside were dying and struggling, Liu Gaocai, who was commanding on the Bison hovercraft, breathed a sigh of relief, so that the space in front of him was an open area of several hundred meters, and without the existence of heavy firepower points such as Vietnamese machine guns, it was basically not a big problem for all three companies to rush to the beach and land.

Who knew that at this time, the mutation was reborn, and on the seemingly flat beach, more than a dozen heads suddenly appeared, and less than 300 meters away from the tank, they raised all kinds of weapons in their hands as soon as they appeared, and two of them actually carried the RPG-32 anti-tank rocket launcher and aimed at the 63A tank and pulled the trigger!

At this distance, the 63A tank had no room to dodge at all, and after two loud bangs, a 63A tank was shot head-on, and the fragile armor was immediately broken, which immediately triggered the detonation of the tank's internal ammunition, so that the marines who followed behind also sacrificed a lot.

The other was fortunate enough to be hit by the tracks and lost power and spun in place, and the sudden burst of fire from the Vietnamese infantry submachine guns knocked down the unsheltered Marines who were following behind the tank.

There are also ambushes underground! Liu Gaocai saw that the soldiers fell twenty or thirty people in an instant, and he couldn't help but feel hatred in his heart, and smashed his hand on the railing of the hovercraft with one hand, and his hand was almost smashed. "3 companies, follow me!" Liu Gaocai ordered loudly, and immediately rushed out to the shore. Now it is too passive, Liu Gaocai can only use the reserves in advance and seize the time to occupy a stronghold on the island.

Although the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are still brave and brave for many years, their response to the complicated scenes on the battlefield is ultimately poor, and they are caught off guard by the ambush of the Vietnamese army, which immediately causes heavy casualties to the landing force.

"Lie down!" Liang Dahai, the commander of the 1st Company, who was scratched in the face by shrapnel and covered in blood, did not care about treating his wounds at all, and shouted hoarsely, while the submachine gun in his hand continued to spray anger, and the machine guns on the remaining four tanks took the lead in covering the Vietnamese ambush area with a rain of bullets.

The firing range was then extended, and all the beaches in front of them were strafed with machine guns, and if the Vietnamese army tried to use rudimentary shelter to camouflage, they would not survive this round of blows. Sure enough, the seemingly flat beach landed sparsely under machine-gun fire, revealing a dozen other wriggling figures. Large patches of blood began to leak from the sand.

After regaining control of the beach situation, Liu Gaocai, who rushed to the front line, did not let the troops continue to rush forward, and the white sand in front of him was full of murderous opportunities.

"On the sappers, check the position for mines, and the rest of the people will go on the defensive, providing fire cover for the sappers!" Liu Gaocai is now only advancing step by step, and the casualties that have just been counted are shocking, and there are 18 soldiers who died directly on the beach, plus the Yu Jianhui crew that was shot down earlier, the number of casualties has exceeded 20, and the number of wounded is more than 20, that is to say, in just a few minutes, the combat strength of the beach-grabbing landing has lost one-tenth, as well as two tanks and a helicopter gunship.

And the battle has just begun.

Colonel Duan Tianlei, commander-in-chief of the landing operation, also had a grim face when he saw the reported casualties, and he had just received a battle report from Thitu Island, saying that the 66th Marine Brigade had entered Thitu Island without bloodshed, and the Philippine army had raised a white flag to demand surrender, and the overall situation had basically been decided.

And his side kicked on the steel plate and caused serious casualties, now we must fight steadily, using superior firepower to advance point by point, the first merit of the first battle of Nansha has been picked up by the 66th Marine Brigade, and now it is time to consider how to take Spratly Island with minimal casualties.

In the face of the cunning Vietnamese army, any luck must be put away, and before the naval artillery fire has not destroyed all the artificial structures on Spratly Island, the landing and beach-grabbing troops will stick to the spot, and with the bloody lessons of the front, the forward commander Liu Gaocai has now strictly followed the worst-case scenario, while probing mines to clear the obstacles, while advancing cautiously.

Although the grassroots commanders on the front line, including Duan Tianlei himself, did not have real combat experience, they were not intimidated by temporary difficulties and casualties in the war, and had begun to grow up quickly under the test of blood and fire.

General Headquarters of the Chongqing Exercise.

"Duan Tianlei, they have kicked the iron plate" Xue Chenguang said to Chief of Staff Ding Desheng after reading the brief battle report. "As things stand, four hours is too hasty to take Spratly Island. If you don't do it, you will have too many casualties among the troops. Xue Chenguang, who has experience in the battle of the two mountains, naturally knows that the Vietnamese army and the Philippine army are not the same concept at all.

"yes, we estimate the difficulties too little." Ding Desheng said, "We still have very little experience in such a coordinated operation of the sea, land and air, and we must sum up well after the first battle of Spratly Island, and our army will face similar wars in the future, if we can learn experience through this war, it will be of great benefit to us in future operations." ”

"If Duan Tianlei and them delay the completion of the combat mission by one day, what impact will it have on our entire plan?" Xue Chenguang was silent for a while after listening to Ding Desheng's analysis, and asked.