This night in the southern seas was spent in the midst of battle!
The taking of Island No. 1 was to be expected.
Don’t look at the fact that the Vietcong had been operating on Island No. 1 and the nearby island group for so many years and had built so many fortifications, but in reality, the Chinese military had already known clearly about the deployment of troops on it, as well as the situation on the island.
It was not that they didn’t dare to move him, but they had to consider the timing and the relationship between various aspects.
Now that they have moved, it is only natural that they will be able to capture him by hand.
But taking down Island No. 1 did not mean the end, on the contrary, it was just the beginning.
When the news of the capture of Island No. 1 was sent back, the entire Southern Sea Fleet was like a precision instrument, telling it to run.
The first thing to consider was to prevent the Vietcong from sending out warships or directly bombarding Island No. 1 with missiles.
Therefore, the fleet, which had already prepared for this, immediately deployed several warships that were positioned in the southern waters to confront the Vietcong warships, and strengthened the air defence force around Island No. 1.
At the same time, in the border area with Vietnam, the Chinese army was deployed, with Ji Zhenping as the pre-war commander-in-chief, commanding the army to quickly cut through and round, using the fastest speed to encircle the Vietnamese soldiers confronting China.
According to Ji Zhenping’s words, the Vietcong troops must be dumpling, to let the Vietcong know that these troops on the front line are like meat at the mouth of China, they can eat it whenever they want!
The strength of China’s land forces had already been proven in various battles, and even when facing the Vietcong army, which was secretly supported by weapons from countries like Rice and Kepong, there was not the slightest fear.
When news of Island No. 1 being taken down spread, the world’s attention was drawn to it.
The Philippines was the first to jump out and accuse China of arbitrary use of force, which was aggression.
However, China produced evidence that Island No. 1 belonged to Chinese waters, and at this point, China’s insistence on not giving up its sovereignty over the occupied islands came to the fore.
And most importantly, the response from China was maddening.
–According to the response, Island No. 1 was taken down because the Vietcong had angered the Chinese people by repeatedly and unprovokedly attacking Chinese fishermen and refusing to admit their wrongdoing, hence the organisation of the battle to reclaim it.
To put it bluntly, it means that the Vietcong have gone too far, provoking China time and again and bullying its fishermen, and as a result, the people of China are extremely angry, so they have organised this battle.
And the key to this is that China does not recognise that this is an official war, but that it was organised by the people themselves!
The one who started it was the Tengfei Group!
The Chinese army did not take action and remained extremely restrained, even advising the Vietnamese army to retreat immediately!
This response really made the Vietnamese angry and left the Philippines and other countries speechless.
A civilian-initiated war?
Without official support, even if there were people with ten guts, how would they dare to start a war against the regular army? And against another country’s regular army?
Besides, hadn’t China always banned private ownership of weapons and guns? Since it was organised by the people, where did they get the weapons?
Everyone knows that this claim is simply a front!
This made the outside world, especially some of the major Western countries, start to take it seriously.
Some foreign media analysed that this could well be the ancient nation of the East, which has awakened, beginning to show his power to the world, also because external pressure has been mounting in recent years, and that China is going to show off its muscles on this issue!
However, according to the information gathered from various sources and the intelligence gathered, it is clear that China does not intend to fight a large-scale war, which is why the excuse that it is a war organised by the people was given.
But whoever really thought that China was not going to participate in the war and just let the people go to war would really be a fool.
The Vietcong, however, did not care about this at this time, and it was absolutely intolerable that Island No. 1 was taken down.
It was almost immeasurable how much good there was in capturing an island, and the most important thing was that Island No. 1 was close to China and was so large that capturing it could strike the Chinese mainland at any time, and that was what was most important strategically.
Therefore, after Island No. 1 was knocked down, the Vietcong was greatly annoyed and the fleet placed in the southern waters immediately pressed up as a whole, and while fighting a war of words with China in the diplomatic field, the fleet immediately began to launch an attack on Island No. 1.
It was clear that the Vietcong was determined to take back Island No. 1.
Although they had been prepared for this, as the Vietnamese fleet started to counterattack, using air force and missiles, and even submarines, Ji Feng and the others on Island No. 1 immediately had a hard time.
Despite the interception by the Chinese fleet, any missile interception system is definitely not 100% successful, so as the Vietnamese army launched a frantic attack, Island No. 1 endured a fierce bombardment.
Without having been in battle, one would never be able to appreciate how powerful the missiles really were, the feeling of the ground shaking as if a tsunami had occurred in the sea.
The whole island was in flames!
However, Ji Feng and the others were extraordinarily fortunate that the Vietcong had really taken Island No. 1 as theirs, so during the decades of occupying Island No. 1, they had built a large number of military fortifications, including underground air raid shelters and even deep underground caves to prevent nuclear strikes!
As for the weapons and equipment on the island that was even more complete, these were all the ones that the Vietcong soldiers did not have time to destroy when they took down Island No. 1.
This gave Ji Feng and the others a chance to breathe, at least, the conventional missiles bombarding the island outside did not pose much threat to them.
However, the days of hiding in the underground fortifications and not daring to venture out were not very pleasant, even if they were deep underground, they could still feel the vibration of the missile bombardment outside.
However, what Ji Feng and the others were more concerned about was the situation outside.
“The Vietcong are obviously frantic! It seems that the situation will soon be clear, whether to fight or talk should be seen in just these few days!”
Xiang Yongzhan said with a blade of gra*s in his mouth, half lying on a seat.
The fight outside was fierce, but here they were instead idle, except for the time when someone outside was at the control centre, monitoring the situation all over the island, they were hiding here, it was not a matter of being brave or not, the advantage of individual bravery in modern warfare was already minimal, unless it was a short fight between land forces.
But now that the Vietcong were bombarding Island No. 1 non-stop, there was naturally no need for them to go out, in case a missile hit them, they would only be getting killed for nothing.
Tan Yong said in a deep voice, “It’s fine for the Vietnamese to bombard Island No. 1. The island is so big anyway, it can’t be sunk. I just don’t know how the two sides’ fleets are fighting with each other!”
Xiang Yongzhan said, “I just received news from the command this morning, the fleets of both sides are not actually in a short state, and the two sides are not officially at war, the Vietcong are firing missiles and our fleet is intercepting them.”
Tan Yong asked, “So the Navy is just watching us being pa*sive and beaten?”
“Of course not!”
Xiang Yongzhan said, “Our fleet is returning the favor and is bombarding the islands to the west, and the Vietcong can only get tired of dealing with it.”
Ji Feng laughed, “So, the southwest side is fighting well! Otherwise the Vietcong wouldn’t be firing missiles so constantly like crazy!”
“That’s right!”
Tan Yong and Xiang Yongzhan both couldn’t help but nod their heads.
After this small-scale battle had started, they, as the vanguard troops, had been in close contact with the command, so they were very clear about the whole battle situation.
The Army went out to the southwest, and at the same time as they did it on their side, they used fully mechanised troops to quickly cut through and round up the entire northern army on the Vietnamese border, while a large amount of supplies that had been prepared long ago were continuously transported to the front, so it could be said that the entire southwest army was strong and ready to eat up the Vietnamese northern army at any time.
And at the same time as the Vietcong began bombarding Island No. 1, the Southwest Army of the Chinese Army began its attack.
At sea, both sides were trying to exercise as much restraint as possible, not to have a large-scale naval battle, otherwise it could really turn into an all-out war between the two countries. So the two navies were evenly matched, with the Vietcong bombarding Island One and the Chinese fleet bombarding the other islands still occupied by the Vietcong, and each side intercepting the other’s missiles.
On land, the Chinese Army, with its great mobility and combat power, especially equipped with the new weapon, the laser gun, even if not all of them were equipped, was already in a completely overwhelming advantage over the Viet Minh’s Southwestern Army just by the firepower of a single sharp company.
It was a choice between the Northern Army and No.1 Island!
This was a choice that China gave to the Vietcong, but the answer was undoubtedly painful!
Vietnam’s land forces are not weak, but, in order to put pressure on China, Vietnam has sent out almost half of its entire Northern Army.
If the Northern Army is now eaten up, then Vietnam’s northern defence force is simply as pathetic as a piece of window paper that will break at the flick of a bucket.
Then next, the Chinese Army could definitely recreate the glory of that counter-attack war decades ago – and go straight to the capital of Vietnam!
And, it could definitely sweep all the way across!
So this choice was a tough one.
Ji Feng and the others could tell from the madness of the Vietcong’s missile firing that the battle between the two sides’ land forces was about to come to a head at this point, I’m afraid.
Obviously, the Vietnamese army was in danger of becoming a piece of meat on the chopping block of the Chinese army, which could be sliced and diced any way it wanted!
So, I am afraid that the Vietcong will have to find a way to recover their position on Island No. 1 and then talk about it.
But I’m afraid the Vietcong can’t imagine in any case that their previous decades of operation on Island No. 1 have been cheapened by Ji Feng and others, and although it’s not easy to be bombarded by missiles, it’s not enough to kill them.
For the Vietcong to take down Island No. 1, they would still have to send in a landing party, but then, it wouldn’t be such a game!
