Twenty-Five atoll defense

  The heavy equipment of the entire brigade has begun to be loaded onto the ship, and new recruits were organized with female soldiers to board the high amphibious assault ship.

  The amphibious assault ship was loaded with the entire brigade's light infantry troops.

  The bigger the ship, the more stable it is when sitting up. A 20,000-ton amphibious assault ship braves the wind and waves, but it's not very bumpy.

  "Combat mission has been issued, let's proceed with the battle briefing!" Lei Bao said after gathering the new recruits.

  The new recruits immediately focused their attention. Fighting is not a joke, at least they need to figure out why they are fighting and with whom.

  "According to satellite reconnaissance intelligence, a group of R-country pirates have occupied one of our country's islands. This group of pirates has been lurking in the border areas between our country and R-country for a long time, illegally robbing our fishing boats and killing our fishermen. This time, they are attempting to split our country's territory by establishing a state on the island. Following orders from higher authorities, our troops cooperated with the naval fleet to launch a decisive and rapid landing operation on the island, eliminating these pirates within our territorial waters, retaking our territory, and foiling the conspiracy of those backing the pirates."

  The combat alert in the cabin suddenly sounded.

  "Female soldiers, please assemble at the dock immediately. Female soldiers, please assemble at the dock immediately."

  The radio suddenly came on.

  "Come this way!" Wu Xiaohong beckoned to her people and quickly walked towards the stairs, heading for the dock.

  "They set off." Lei Bao's words heavily pounded in the hearts of the new recruits.

  The female soldiers have set off, which means they will also be going into battle soon.

  "Report." A trembling voice came out from behind.

  "Speak!"

  I want paper and pen.

  Leopard looked at the soldier, didn't say a word, but silently pulled out a soft notebook from the miscellaneous bag hanging on his back, tore off the cover, ripped it open in the middle, and handed one to each person.

  "Write something down, maybe it will calm you guys down a bit."

  The leopard said in a muffled tone, its voice much softer than usual.

  Leopard didn't dare to say the two words "last letter", and tried to choose a more gentle tone to avoid it, so as not to scare these new recruits who hadn't even finished their basic training in the Marine Corps to the point of wetting their pants.

  But most of the new recruits understood what Leopard meant.

  "How to write it?" Shí Nán Fēng held the paper and scratched his head.

  "You just write, who owes you money." Yang Bo said with a sly tone.

  "I don't owe anyone money, I neither gamble nor visit prostitutes."

  "Then you write down your bank card password and I'll keep it for you for free."

  Shi Nanfeng then wrote "123456" on a piece of paper and handed it over to Yang Bo.

  "My bank cards all use this password."

  Yang Bo looked at Shi Nanfeng's sincere face and was so amused that he almost choked.

  "Are you okay?"

  Li Jia Ye and Huang Jun Chen each gave Yang Bo a knock on the head.

  "What are you writing?" Zhang Guanlin said to Ye Ren.

  "I didn't write it." Ye Ren folded up the paper and put it into his breast pocket.

  "Why don't you write?"

  Zhang Guanlin actually didn't write anything because he didn't know what to write and didn't want to write at all.

  "Let me dedicate every drop of hot blood to my motherland."

  Ye Ren said this and thought of his own father.

  ……

  On the flight deck, the reconnaissance team had boarded the helicopter and was preparing to launch a vertical assault on the pirates on the island under the support of armed helicopters.

  The combat bomber of the Road Base Naval Aviation has also flown over the fleet, ready to strike the enemy on the island with firepower.

  The female soldiers gathered in the dock and boarded a "European Bison" heavy air-cushion landing craft that was berthed there.

  This amphibious assault ship carried four such heavy hovercraft. The other three had already been loaded with armored assault forces and a large number of Marine Corps soldiers, preparing to land on the beachhead after the female squad rode the hovercraft through the enemy's coastal defense line, entering deep into enemy territory, supporting airborne troops, attracting enemy attention, seizing the beachhead, opening up a landing area, and welcoming follow-up landing forces ashore.

  ……

  Does it take a battalion of marines or an entire army with heavy equipment to fight pirates?

  It should be noted that the firepower configuration and equipment composition of a Marine Corps brigade-level combat team are organized according to the needs of a regular war under the support of sea and air firepower to carry out a medium-sized landing operation.

  What combat power do pirates have? A group of untrained, equipped with outdated light weapons, plus a few rocket launchers that were bought at half price, and if they're lucky, they might have a few fast ships.

  This time, it was the pirates of R country who were beaten. The overall economic strength of R country is only slightly better than ours when we were just liberated decades ago. It wasn't that backward to begin with, and it's only about 20-30 years behind us. Who would have thought that a country smaller than one of our provinces would claim our territory as their own? So we stopped importing bananas from R country, refused its labor exports, and the masses of people also stopped traveling there. As a result, they fell even further behind.

  How can pirates from a country that's so weak it got defeated by a single banana (and honestly, if they were defeated by a cucumber, at least cucumbers are harder than bananas) be any good? Dammit, their navy is basically just a bunch of coastal defense forces.

  The Chinese People's Liberation Army Marine Corps is as strong as a sturdy ship and sharp cannon, while the other side is like an insignificant bug.

  It's just that, to take over the mountain and become the king, it's necessary to mobilize a brigade of marines and an "almost aircraft carrier" amphibious assault ship, several landing ships, and many destroyers and escort vessels to eliminate them? Not to mention the aviation brothers in the sky, even the brothers at sea can drown all these pirates with just one mouthful of saliva.

  "The Bayonet Hero's Journey" The real goal of this war is to recover the islands that have been illegally occupied by R Country once and for all.

  Ten minutes after the female soldiers departed, the heavy troops began their assault.

  At this time, the new recruits were still waiting in the hold of the ship. They did not know that the entire brigade had already set out and was rushing towards other targets under the cover of a destroyer.

  The brigade commander and fleet commander in charge of this operation looked at the sea chart in the command center, feeling extremely tense.

  "The early warning aircraft has been deployed in place and no abnormal situation has been found."

  In this sea area, the nearest naval base to R country is only less than two hours' voyage away. There are five islands and reefs under R country's illegal control. R country has set up sentry posts, supply centers, ports, artillery emplacements, and even a small airport on one of the larger islands.

  The naval aviation fighter-bomber's aerial bombs broke the tranquility of the vast ocean under the clear sky.

  The pirates in their sleep were awakened by a sudden bombing, they scrambled around in panic, some didn't even have time to grab their guns.

  Fighter-bombers that had dropped several heavy bombs did not leave, but instead circled around and repeatedly strafed the pirate base on the ground with aircraft cannons.

  The pirates on the beach, who were on high alert, rushed into formation, but saw a strange object with two large fans roaring out of the sea, crushing the beach and rushing straight towards the formation.

  These generations of fishermen-turned-pirates had never seen such a big guy, they were terrified, making strange cries and scrambling out of the trenches to run into the forest.

  It's inappropriate to describe these R-country clowns as "one-hit collapse", it should be "fleeing at the sight of wind".

  Machine guns on the hovercraft fired wildly at the pirates' trenches and fleeing pirates, many of whom were slow to run were killed, and those who were hit by multiple bullets were left with nothing but a puddle of flesh.

  The hovercraft stopped in front of the trench, and the female soldiers were the first to rush out of the cabin, unfolding a pursuit.

  Fighting on several other reefs and islets also erupted at almost the same time, with good sea conditions greatly improving the accuracy of the 100mm guns on the destroyers.

  The R-country's sentry post on the islet was quickly set on fire by the warship's cannon, and thick smoke billowed out. The walls collapsed and the houses fell down, burying many of the R-country soldiers who were still sleeping inside under a pile of rubble.

  The lucky soldiers who escaped quickly entered the position and prepared to counterattack with large-caliber machine guns installed in fixed positions.

  The warship's position was far beyond the range of the large-caliber machine guns, and R-country soldiers could only use machine guns to fire back aimlessly.

  The bombardment did not stop, and the naval guns' shells fell on the small island reef, exploding one after another, sending large rocks flying into the air, causing even greater casualties to the R-country soldiers on the reef.

  A low rumbling sound came from the surface of the sea, and the soldiers of R country hid from the cannon fire, vigilantly watching the sea.

  Little did they know what appeared before them were numerous amphibious tanks and armored cars navigating on the surface of the sea.

  The tank's muzzle was firing angry shells at them.

  Amphibious assault vehicles rushed to the reef, marines got off and started charging forward, machine gunners lay down behind rocks, set up machine guns and fired fiercely at R-country troops on the high ground of the reef.

  While the battle was in progress, several high-speed approaching targets suddenly appeared on the radar of the amphibious assault ship fleet stationed at sea.

  Battle stations sounded immediately, with the two escort ships and one destroyer protecting the amphibious assault ship splitting off into two groups of escorts turning to face the enemy.

  The target is approaching at a very high speed and appears extremely small on radar screens, so the fleet remains highly tense.

  The precedent of the USS Cole is there.

  Apart from the two escort ships accelerating to meet the enemy, four warships including destroyers and amphibious assault ships opened their fire control radars to illuminate the final target, preparing to launch anti-ship missiles to destroy it once locked on.

  At the same time, all automatic close-in weapons systems were activated, with those on the side facing the enemy already pointing their muzzles out to sea, ready to open fire.

  Several speedboats approached at high speed on the surface of the sea.

  "Target identification cannot be confirmed, IFF signal is not responding!"

  "General quarters, warn them!"

  By radio, the destroyer sent out a warning in plain language, hailing the rapidly approaching targets and ordering them to stop or turn back immediately.

  "Otherwise, my ship will attack you."

  But he called three times in succession without getting an answer.