"The air hoverboat fire cover, the 2nd Company of the 1st Company followed the tank squadron to seize the No. 1 position ahead! All the buildings were destroyed! The 3rd Company was ready to reinforce at any time!" The helicopter in the air encountered fierce attacks from the Vietnamese army, which made Liu Gaocai, the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Land Warfare Brigade, who was responsible for landing on the ground, was anxious. He shouted at the telephone.

Although the Vietnamese army had not yet appeared in large ground resistance troops, their intention to take the lead in destroying our air firepower exposed their preparations for stubborn resistance and dragged our army into the quagmire of offensive and defense wars on the ground.

For the Vietnamese army, whose equipment is in a state of overall backwardness, causing significant losses to our army through ground warfare is their only feasible tactical choice.

The No. 1 position is 300 meters away from the beach. There is a solid building there. Originally, our army hoped to occupy this point as a support for our army's attack formation on the island. Now it seems that the building may become a stumbling block for our army, and we must attack with all our strength and occupy it as soon as possible.

Since the Vietnamese army had already hidden in the building and entered a street fighting state, Liu Gaocai no longer considered the possibility of protecting the island's buildings intact. This thing can be rebuilt after being destroyed, while the lives of the Marines are irreversible after they are lost. It is clear at a glance which is more important.

The 63A tank opened fire while moving. Its 105mm low recoil rifled tank gun was able to penetrate 500mm of homogeneous armor at a distance of 2,000 meters and destroy 1,500mm of reinforced concrete fortifications. Now, Vietnamese buildings a few hundred meters away were smashed by paper under its artillery fire.

Seeing the target being destroyed under artillery fire from the telescope, the Vietnamese troops inside struggled to death. Liu Gaocai, who was commanding on the bison air hood boat, breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the space in front of him was open, and there were no heavy firepower points such as Vietnamese machine guns, and it was basically no problem for all three companies to rush to land on the beach.

Who knew that at this moment, the mutation regenerated. More than a dozen heads suddenly appeared on the seemingly flat beach. Just less than 300 meters away from the tank, they raised their weapons and opened fire as soon as they emerged. Two of the Vietnamese troops actually carried the RPG-32 anti-tank bazooka and aimed at the 63A tank to pull the trigger!

At this distance, the 63A tank had no room to dodge. After two loud bangs, a 63A tank was shot in the front, and its fragile armor was immediately broken, which immediately triggered the explosion of ammunition inside the tank, causing the Marines who were following behind to sacrifice a lot.

The other one was lucky enough to be hit by the track and lost its power to spin on the spot. The violent strafing of the Vietnamese infantry submachine gun suddenly appeared caused the Marines who were not covered behind the tank to be knocked down.

There was also an ambush underground! Liu Gaocai saw the soldiers falling down twenty or thirty people in an instant, and couldn't help but feel very angry. He hit the railing of the hoverboat with one hand, and his hands were almost blue. "3rd Company, follow me!" Liu Gaocai ordered loudly and rushed out to the shore. Now he was too passive, so Liu Gaocai had to use the reserve team in advance and seize the time to occupy a stronghold on the island that he could hold on.

Although the current PLA soldiers have not been tested in practice for many years, although they are still brave, their response to complex scenes on the battlefield is ultimately a little worse. They were caught off guard under the ambush of the Vietnamese army and immediately caused major casualties to the landing troops.

"Lying down!" Liang Dahai, the commander of the 1st Company, who was scratched by shrapnel and covered in blood, didn't care about dealing with his wounds at all. He shouted loudly at the top of his lungs, and the submachine guns in his hand kept ejaculating rage, and the remaining machine guns on the four tanks even took the lead in covering the Vietnamese ambush area with bullet rain.

The shooting range was then extended and the beach in front of him was fired with machine guns. If the Vietnamese army attempted to use simple shelter to disguise, they would not survive this round of attacks. Sure enough, a dozen other squirming figures appeared on the seemingly flat beach, under the machine gun strafing. Large pieces of blood began to leak out from the beach.

After re-controlling the beach situation, Liu Gaocai, who arrived at the front line, did not let the troops continue to rush forward. The white beach in front of him was buried everywhere. Liu Gaocai could not help but take off his mind to fight quickly and make plans according to the worst case.

"For engineers, check whether there are landmines on the position. The rest of them are on the defense and provide fire cover for engineers!" Liu Gaocai now has to advance step by step. The casualties just counted were shocking. There were 18 soldiers who died directly on the beach. In addition to Yu Jianhui's crew who had been shot down, the number of people sacrificed more than 20 people, and the number of people injured was more than 20. In other words, in just a few minutes, the combat power of the beach landing lost one-tenth, and there were two tanks and an armed helicopter.

And the battle has just begun.

When Colonel Duan Tianlei, the commander-in-chief of the landing operations, he looked cold when he saw the casualties reported. He had just received the battle report from Zhongye Island. The 66th Land War Brigade had entered Zhongye Island without any blood. The Philippine army launched a white flag and demanded surrender. The overall situation was basically decided.

But I kicked the steel plate and caused serious casualties. Now I must fight steadily and use my superior firepower to advance one by one. The first merit of the Battle of Nansha has been taken away by the 66th Land War Brigade. Now it is time to consider how to take Nanwei Island with the minimum casualties.

Faced with the cunning Vietnamese army, any luck must be put away. Before the fire of the naval guns destroyed all the artificial buildings in Nanwei Island, the landing and beach robbery troops held on the spot. With the bloody lessons in front, the commander Liu Gaocai, now strictly followed the worst case, while detecting mines and clearing obstacles, he advanced cautiously.

Although the grassroots commanders on the front line, including Duan Tianlei, have no real practical experience, in the war, they were not intimidated by temporary difficulties and casualties, and have begun to grow up quickly under the test of blood and fire.

Chongqing Exercise Command.

"Duan Tianlei and the others have hit the nail on the head," Xue Chenguang said to Chief of Staff Ding Desheng after reading the brief battle report. "According to the current situation, it is too hasty to take down Nanwei Island in 4 hours. Maybe it will cause too much casualties to the troops." Xue Chenguang, who has experienced a rotation battle between the two mountains, naturally knew that the Vietnamese army and the Philippine army were completely different.

"Yes, we estimate too little about difficulties." Ding Desheng said, "We have very little experience in combating together in sea, land and air like this. We must summarize it carefully after the Battle of Nanwei Island. In the future, our army will face similar to such wars. If we can learn from this war, it will be of great benefit to our future combat."

"If Duan Tianlei and his team postpone 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.
Chapter completed!