Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

The battle went smoothly beyond imagination. At about [-] o'clock the next morning, the First Division of the Marine Corps received a good news. Mindoro Island was almost undefended. They had successfully landed from San Jose, the deep-water port of Mindoro Island. The troops are advancing towards the airport at full speed, and it is expected to fully control the airport by noon.

The island army may not be unaware of the importance of Mindoro Island, but the isolated island is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the supply line is long. The investment of large troops is undoubtedly to provide cannon fodder for the national army's naval guns and bombers, so they can only reluctantly give up. , Concentrate forces on critical defensive areas.

The entire island of Mindoro has less than a thousand soldiers and the territory is vast. A division of the Marine Corps can choose a target to drive up, and of course it is unimpeded.

By noon, good news came again from the front, and the First Division had fully controlled the San Jose Airport.

Mindoro Island is an outpost in the South China Sea because of its location in the front. There are four field airports on the island, and San Jose Airport is just one of the larger airports.

The island army had no key defenses, and of course there were no planes in the airport. Several reconnaissance planes and fighter jets had fled before the national army landed. Of course, the airport facilities were completely destroyed by the island army.

The only consolation is that the airport's concrete runway was not seriously damaged.

After all, now is the era when jet fighters are in full control of the air. Airports in various countries are improving the quality of their runways, and the island army is no exception.

It is almost impossible to completely destroy the concrete runway in a short time, and the island army does not have so much money to spend on it, which makes the national army complete.

Laying steel plates on the damaged section can restore the function of the runway in a short time, and jet fighters can land here.

The range of the Zhanhu jet fighter is short, only [-] kilometers, which is the closest range to the frontier airport on the Indochina Peninsula. Let alone the return flight, even a suicide attack is difficult.

But with this airport, all problems are solved. As long as the Zhanhu jet fighters enter the San Jose Airport, they can take care of the entire territory of the Philippines. This is definitely a nightmare for the island army air force.

It is estimated that it will take three days to restore the airport, so the national army's large-scale attack is also chosen three days later.

But the naval battle part has already begun.

The First Fleet of the National Army has crossed Huangyan Island, stood at the forefront of the war, and set up an attack formation facing Luzon Island.

This initiative immediately stimulated the Southern Fleet of the Island Army. Even knowing that both the fleet strength and the army aviation strength were clearly at a disadvantage, they had to be forced to fight.

The Southern Fleet of the Island Army has a total of [-] aircraft carriers. The Mi-Australian coalition forces raided the Mariana Islands. Four aircraft carriers have gone to support. Two aircraft carriers are in the Sulu Sea and Sulawesi Sea to ensure the security of the defense line in the southwest of the Philippines. At the same time, it also escorted the defense line and material passages of the Dutch East Indies.

There are only six aircraft carriers facing the South China Sea. In terms of the number of aircraft carriers alone, the national army has twenty, which is not enough for the island army.

But the island army also knows that once they lose the Philippines, even if the fleet survives, the sea lane between the north and the south will be completely cut off, and the fuel supply place of the Dutch East Indies will be lost, and the fleet will not be able to get fuel supplies at all. It's nothing more than a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron floating on the sea, so they can only put all their eggs in one basket, knowing that they can't do it.

The Chinese navy is characterized by light firepower and heavy air combat. There are no battleships with powerful firepower, while the island army has a clear advantage in firepower, with battleships and heavy cruisers. Therefore, Ozawa Jisaburo hopes to use this as a breakthrough to defeat the Chinese navy in one fell swoop.

After discovering the Chinese navy, Ozawa Jisaburo immediately mobilized the Yamato (sorry, the Musashi sank in the previous Battle of Midway Island, I remembered that the Yamato sank, corrected here, sorry for the inconvenience caused to everyone’s reading) Four battleships, Nagato, Kongo, and Haruna, plus fifteen heavy cruisers, twelve light cruisers, and sixteen destroyers, form a powerful assault fleet, and the carrier-based aircraft on six aircraft carriers escort it Escort, and mobilized more than [-] army aviation fighters and bombers on the Philippine mainland to form a powerful air formation, and swooped towards the Chinese navy.

In an attempt to quickly break through the air defense line of the Chinese navy, shorten the combat distance, and launch a naval gun showdown with the Chinese navy.

The commander of China's Pacific Fleet is none other than Admiral Chen Shaokuan, a veteran navy admiral. He has long been paying close attention to the movements of the island army's southern fleet. He immediately saw through this little trick of Ozawa Jisaburo.

Chen Shaokuan immediately lined up heavy cruisers, destroyers, and frigates facing the enemy at the front, and all the carrier-based aircraft on the seven aircraft carriers took off to meet the enemy.

Although jet fighters cannot reach the battlefield due to range issues, the current main fighter, the Mustang fighter, can easily reach it without carrying auxiliary fuel tanks. Other b25 medium bombers, b24, and b29 heavy bombers are not a problem. If necessary, even bombers from the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Chittagong can be transferred.

There are currently more than fifty airports on the Indochina Peninsula, and the number of aircraft of various types has reached more than [-]. Once the war machine is activated, it will continue to go to the battlefield. How can the island army be able to hold a candle to it? Jisaburo Ozawa really poked a hornet's nest this time.

In the air combat part, the carrier-based aircraft and land aircraft were intercepted in the airspace [-] to [-] nautical miles away from the Chinese fleet. The strength of the Chinese Air Force doomed the island army to have no good fruit to eat. They were unable to break through the line of defense. type of attack.

In the naval battle, when the island army's assault fleet advanced to only a dozen nautical miles away from the Chinese navy fleet, the national army's land-based air force arrived.

The dense fighter jet fleet was overwhelming, and the island army's carrier-based aircraft convoy was broken up in less than 15 minutes, and it was completely defeated.

Immediately afterwards, a mass of bombers and bombers came covering the sky, and heavy aerial bombs, bombs, and harpoon anti-ship missiles rained down like rain. The flames are soaring into the sky, and the water columns are everywhere.

The first to bear the brunt was the battleship Yamato of the island army. The Chinese Air Force specially mobilized more than a dozen dive bombers and divided them into two groups. The bullets fell densely.

Because the Yamato's anti-aircraft firepower is really strong, the bombers did not dare to dive and bomb too low, and the hit rate of the aerial bombs was not high, and basically fell around the hull, only causing terrifying water columns.