On Zhongye Island, the Philippine Army guards were already in panic. The PLA Navy's huge fleet gathered not far from the island, and could be seen with the naked eye. Although it was not triggered, the Philippine Army officers and soldiers still felt as if they were pressed down on Mount Tai.

"Lt. Raphael, they are here." Corporal John Gonzalez, who was in charge of looking at the movement of the PLA ships, ran over in panic and reported, "The PLA has begun to launch an attack."

Without Gonzalez's report, Lieutenant Raphael, the island's highest commander, had seen from the telescope four PLA helicopters flying towards Nakaye Island. In this case, of course, they would not be here to look for relatives and friends.

"Preparation of machine gun positions! Preparation of bazooka!" Lieutenant Raphael ordered that in addition to the preset machine gun fortifications, the most powerful heavy firearm of the island guarding troops was four bazooka. This firepower was inconsistent with the four armed helicopters of the PLA and eel-class air hovercraft, not to mention that there were two frigates with powerful firepower behind the PLA.

However, Lieutenant Raphael had no choice. The Philippine army had more than 100,000 people, but the annual military expenditure was only more than 2 billion US dollars. Once the head expenses for maintaining military officers and soldiers eating, drinking, defecation and urination, most of the military expenditure was gone. The remaining military expenditure had to be spent on maintaining old weapons systems and various daily training oil and ammunition, and the funds spent on new equipment were pitifully small.

In recent years, I have finally sold the goods and got a squadron's second-hand F-16C/D from the US military, and I have no extra money to invest in this island. In the past 40 years, I have built a 3,000-ton simple dock and a 1,500-meter concrete plane runway. This is a major project, which is to facilitate the temporary use of the "Del Bilar" patrol ship and the landing C-130 transport aircraft.

The top leaders of the Philippine army also knew that it would be enough to do this here. No matter how much money the others were spent, it would be useless if the PLA wanted to attack. No matter whether it was naval, army, air and air, the Philippine army could not compete with the PLA head-on. All they had to do on the island was to maintain occupation and then take the initiative in diplomatic negotiations. That's all.

To put it bluntly, Lieutenant Raphael's island protection team is just a decoration to show existence, not a force used to fight against it.

"Boss, do you want to destroy the fortifications of the Philippine Army's machine gun positions?" Ning Hongwei, the sergeant in charge of observation on the PLA armed helicopter, watched the Philippine Army's continuous movement on the closer and closer Zhongye Island, and several machine guns exposed from the fortress suspected to be concrete fortifications were clearly displayed on the telescope.

"Strike it immediately!" Tu Gao, the squadron leader who led the team, said without hesitation. Although the Philippine army is vulnerable, machine guns are too lethal to infantry, and it is really a disaster to keep them.

Soon, the rockets launched by the Wuzhi 19 dragged a long tongue of flames to attack several prominent machine gun fortifications of the Philippine Army. Tu Gao and others were familiar with this fixed target strike, and soon overturned the Philippine Army's machine gun fortifications.

Seeing this scene, Lieutenant Raphael's dark face almost lost its blood color, and he sacrificed several machine gunners to not talk about it. The problem is that the opponent takes action without saying a word and does not leave any room for diplomatic negotiations at all. Such a decisive approach shows that the PLA is here today to seize the island.

Although Lieutenant Raphael was already mentally prepared when he saw the opponent's ship appearing around Zhongye Island and reported reinforcements from senior Philippine troops, the senior Philippine troops asked him to stick to it, but he did not mention any reinforcements. In fact, everyone knows that in the face of such a powerful maritime force of the People's Liberation Army, any reinforcements are meaningless. The strongest ship of the Philippine Navy is to purchase the "Hamilton"-class patrol ship "Del Bilar" retired from the US Coast Patrol. However, this patrol ship is only equipped with a 76mm rapid-fire gun and a limited number of small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and does not have any missile equipment. Compared with the 054A ship of the Chinese Navy, it is equivalent to a target.

The Philippine army can only protect the island by relying on the intervention of the US aircraft carrier formation, but the actions of the US military cannot be controlled by the top leaders of the Philippines, so the Philippine army only requires Lieutenant Raphael to stick to it. There is a Philippine army on Zhongye Island, and US ships have excuses to take action when the People's Liberation Army attacks. This is the high-level Philippine army's plan. As for how long Lieutenant Raphael can support and whether he can survive, that is not something they need to consider. One thing they have to consider is the life or death of a lieutenant who was sent to this deserted island like Raphael, who would care about it?

However, Lieutenant Raphael had to care. His face was gloomy and hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind.

Under the protection of four Wuzhi 19s hovering in the sky, the air hoverboat successfully shored on the mudflat on the north side of Zhongye Island. "Hurry! The chariots are dispatched first, and the 1st platoon and 1st squad built a temporary position on the beach with the chariots! The rest of the team members attacked one by one, don't be confused!" Ma Weishi shouted loudly. Although the Philippine army had no reaction at this moment, in the landing battle at the beach, it was the most dangerous moment. If the Philippine army launched an attack, even if it used the light firearm in its hands, the unstable Marine Corps officers and soldiers would be very dangerous.

The wheeled armored combat vehicle rushed out of the hoverboat with a bang. This light armored vehicle that can effectively defend against 12.7mm machine gun bullets is very suitable for the Philippine army's island guarding troops, which mainly focus on light firearms. With it covering the front and providing small-caliber artillery support, it can be very useful when encountering the stubborn resistance of the Philippine army.

After Ma Weishi nervously commanded all the troops to board the shore, the chariots had advanced 200 meters forward, but strangely, the gunshots of the Philippine army were still not heard.

"Battleman Ma, the Philippine army surrendered!" Ma Weishi, who was strange, suddenly heard a call from the air helicopter from his headphones. "The Philippine army has fired a white flag. Be careful to send a few people to surrender first."

Hearing this unexpected result, Ma Weishi was stunned for a moment, "Long Rank!" But in a flash, Ma Weishi reacted and shouted loudly, "Come!" The leader of the roster, Lieutenant Su Changhe, responded loudly.

"Take a few brothers over and take a look. The brothers in the air said that the Philippine army had fired a white flag. The long river, take the chariots over, be careful. If you encounter resistance, kill them on the spot!" Ma Weishi reminded. There are many things in history about surrender. Who knows if the Philippine army wants to play such a boring game? However, in the face of absolute strength, Ma Weishi is not afraid that the Philippine army will play flowers.
Chapter completed!