"Thitu Island has been taken, and the Changbai Mountain and the 66th Marine Brigade are basically bloodless. Xiyue Island and Feixin Island are in the process of being captured, but there are fewer Filipino troops on the two islands, and it is not difficult to occupy them militarily. Ding Desheng thought for a while and reported, "Now that the facilities on Thitu Island are intact and intact, and the Air Force will be able to station the radar and other command and early warning facilities as soon as they are completed, the impact on Spratly Island will not be great as far as the US Fleet's operational defense concept is concerned." ”

"Our exercise will last for a week, and the postponement of a day or two will have some impact on the whole plan, but it is not a big problem. What is more troublesome is that it is necessary to maintain high-frequency air patrol missions, and the fuel consumption of fighters is a bit large, and an extra day will affect the number of takeoffs and landings of our fighters' combat exercises. Ding Desheng said, "The US task force is right under our noses, and we must keep some fuel for the launch of fighters." At the same time, when the main fleet leaves the Spratly Islands, it will keep enough fuel for the captured islands. ”

After listening to Ding Desheng's report, Xue Chenguang also had a headache; in order to prevent the Vietnamese Air Force from interfering with the campaign to seize the island, the exercise fleet now maintains at least two flying groups of fighters patrolling and alerting over Spratly Island.

In the airspace over Thitu Island, protection is temporarily provided by the Taiping Island Naval Air Force.

However, in any case, the consumption of fuel for these military operations is very large every day, and it will take more than a day and a half to deliver supplies from the Sanya Logistics Base to the Nansha front line at the earliest, and it can be said that the supply is quite difficult; if it were not for the fact that the main large ships of the Navy, such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and landing ships, have all been nuclearized, the fuel consumption of this task force would have been even more unbearable.

The state has been slow to take action in Nansha, and this logistical support is also a very realistic factor.

"Telegraph to Duan Tianlei, we will give him 20 more hours and ask them to take Nanwei Island within 24 hours," Xue Chenguang was silent for a while before ordering, "Tell Duan Tianlei to learn to use superior firepower to control the casualties of the troops, and not to sparing the use of firepower and ammunition for the entire attack group." ”

The previous words are enough, and the words added later fully illustrate Xue Chenguang's dissatisfaction with the front-line command of Spratly Island, the battle has just begun, and he lost a helicopter gunship, two tanks and more than 40 casualties, this result Xue Chenguang is very dissatisfied psychologically, if the whole battle is over with this casualty, Xue Chenguang can still accept it, but this is only a few minutes, if this is the case next, Xue Chenguang even doubts whether the two marine battalions invested can take Spratly Island.

After receiving the telegram order from the exercise headquarters, Duan Tianlei's originally grim face became even more gloomy, and the grace time limit for the operation had already shown the command's euphemistic criticism of the progress of the front line, not to mention that Commander Xue also told him by name that Duan Tianlei had miscommanded and had ventured into troops without clearing the main obstacles, causing heavy casualties.

However, the commander said that it was not bad at all, this battle was indeed too bad on his side, and everyone's estimation of the difficulties was too optimistic.

"Give me a hard beating, not a single building on the island will be left, and all the buildings will be flattened." Duan Tianlei gritted his teeth and ordered, as a general in his early 40s, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam and the two-mountain round battle are a legend for him, Duan Tianlei does not know the insidious, treacherous and vicious of the Vietnamese army pretending to be innocent in front of him and turning his head to shoot black guns behind his back.

Spratly Island, they have only used an old-fashioned trick to show the enemy, to show weakness and lure the enemy into depth, and they have already achieved quite good results. Duan Tianlei: The idea that they originally planned to keep most of the building facilities on the island and take the island was completely unrealistic. The Vietnamese army is not an upgraded version of the Philippine army, a police force that has never fought a regular war.

But when shells rained down on Spratly Island, hitting buildings with precision, the Vietnamese commanders found that they had less and less room to maneuver. Although they excavated and built a lot of underground bunkers on the island, limited to the altitude of the island, the depth and thickness of these fortifications were not too large, and after destroying the buildings above, they directly hit the underground bunkers inside, and still could not withstand the power of the PLA's naval guns.

"Anti-submarine units are attacking on all fronts, pay attention to the perimeter vigilance, and guard against the surprise attack of Vietnamese submarines!" After the artillery order was issued, Duan Tianlei added that although the anti-submarine sonars on various ships are now monitoring every move on the seabed, this area is not familiar to the Vietnamese after all. The sonar system on the ship alone is not enough to protect the seabed security of the entire attack fleet.

The four anti-submarine helicopters and two 054A carrier-based anti-submarine helicopters on board the Changbaishan were dispatched in turn to ensure that two anti-submarine helicopters patrolled and monitored every move in the surrounding 100-kilometer sea area at any time without interruption.

Fierce fighting was raging on Spratly Island, and the construction work on Thitu Island had already begun in full swing, and the Philippine army obviously did not have the qualifications and ability to play tricks, so they honestly became prisoners of the 1st Marine Battalion. A long-awaited transport ship approached Thitu Island as soon as the 1st Marine Battalion took control of the island.

On this 3,000-ton transport ship, it is not only loaded with all kinds of construction materials, but also has an engineering brigade of more than 200 people. They are engineers in naval engineering construction, and they will urgently repair a simple command center for the take-off and landing of fighter planes of the HNA Air Force, and set up important military facilities such as radar early warning systems and coastal air defense systems.

After completing these facilities, it will be possible for HNA's J-11C fighters to rely on Thitu Island for combat. Now, from the Sanya base, already a main regiment has begun to take off, preparing to land on Thitu Island.

For J-11C fighters, there is no problem at all with landing on Thitu Island, although the airport built by the Filipino maid is somewhat simple, but the temporary parking of these 30 aircraft is not a big problem, but before the completion of the radar early warning command system, the HNA fighter temporarily needs the air early warning aircraft that takes off from Taiping Island to command the operation.

If it is in the face of the US military's F-35 stealth fighters, the island's lack of an early warning system composed of meter-wave radar and multi-base radar will make these J-11Cs suffer a lot, but in the face of the US carrier-based F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters, there is no pressure on the J-11C alone.

This is also the confidence that HNA can directly enter the newly won island without completing the construction of the radar early warning system.

What is little known is that the main HNA regiment had just installed an EJ-100 electronic jammer, a new achievement of the Duke Shenlong program, before taking off. It is claimed that the device, which weighs only a few tens of kilograms, is more powerful than the jamming performance of the electronic warfare pods in service.