The Chinese people are jubilantly preparing for the upcoming Year of the Tiger, and there is an endless stream of people on the streets and shopping malls buying New Year's goods and decorating New Year's scenes, but the atmosphere of the Zhongnanhai General Office and the Navy Command in the South China Sea is extremely solemn. South Vietnam's Saigon** has been frequently harassing China's Paracel Islands, and now the South Vietnamese fleet has been ready to move in the waters.
There are still five days before the New Year, the intelligence department of the South China Sea Command intercepted a top-secret telegram from the Xisha enemy Taiwan, and the command immediately sent it to *** under the instructions of ***, ** convened an emergency combat meeting, the self-defense war of the Xisha Islands after many years of planning is also a battle of the new Chinese Navy, and the Xisha Islands have been peaceful and war-free.
Paracel Islands. Since the Qin Dynasty, Nanhai Zhudao has been under the territorial management of China, and there are detailed knowledge and records of Nanhai Zhudao in the Eastern Han Dynasty and later works. After the end of the Indochina Campaign, France withdrew its troops from the coral islands it occupied, and under the repeated statements of China, all countries in the world reached a consensus that the South China Sea Zhudao belonged to China, but South Vietnam jumped out and occupied the coral islands as the heir of France.
After South Vietnam invaded and occupied Coral Islands, it ignored China's repeated warnings and continued to encroach on the surrounding islands, harassing Chinese fishing boats in an attempt to occupy more islands in the South China Sea Islands. South Vietnam's Saigon has intensified its efforts and publicly declared that some islands of the Nansha Islands belong to the Republic of Vietnam, which China strongly condemned and reaffirmed China's sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea.
Coral Island. He has been paying close attention to the situation in the Paracel Islands, and in the face of South Vietnam's jumping up and down on the surrounding islands, he has given detailed instructions on the planning and construction of the Paracel Islands. ** Accordingly, a two-step construction plan for the transition from barracks and dock works to naval patrol areas was formulated.
Because the national defense strength of the new China Navy is really weak, the South China Sea Fleet is in disrepair, and the only light ships that can be used are minesweepers and submarine hunters, and the patrol area of the South China Sea Fleet has never been successfully established.
Since Nixon's visit to China, Sino-US relations have been developing rapidly. The United States withdrew its troops from South Vietnam in accordance with the Paris Peace Treaty and no longer participated in the war between North and South Vietnam, and the confrontation between China and the United States in Vietnam was resolved.
Before leaving, the United States left more than 10 ships and a lot of equipment to South Vietnam, and South Vietnam, which was poor and rich, instantly became arrogant and began to plan a strategy of aggression against China. After illegally declaring sovereignty over more than 10 islands in the South China Sea, including Taiping and Nanwei, South Vietnam repeatedly sent troops to invade the central islands of China's Xisha Islands, and used advanced warships left behind by the US military to bombard the Chinese militia on the islands.
As the relationship between China and the United States becomes closer, the United States will not oppose China in order to maintain the Vietnamese regime, and according to the opinions of the Military Commission and others, a war in the South China Sea is inevitable. After receiving the highest decision-making instructions from ***, the border troops of the Xisha Islands immediately entered a state of combat readiness, and the Chinese Navy participated in the war of counterattack aggression and self-defense for the first time.
The South Vietnamese destroyers "Li Changjie" and "Tran Binh Chong" sailed into the vicinity of Xisha Ganquan Island and fired more than 10 shells at the fishing bases on the island, targeting China's national flag. The South Vietnamese armed forces again dispatched the destroyer "Tran Thanh Ngo" to send soldiers to Ganquan Island and Treasure Island in an attempt to occupy these two islands.
At the same time, the South China Sea Naval Command and the Guangzhou Military Region instructed to resolutely safeguard China's territorial sovereignty, and under the instructions of Commander-in-Chief Zhang Yuanpei, two submarine hunters from the Yulin base went to the Xisha waters to carry out their tasks and arrived at the waters of Yongle Island in the Xisha Islands for cruise.
Our troops opened fire on the Vietnamese troops.
In the afternoon of the same day, when the South Vietnamese destroyers provoked the fishing boats that were operating in our country, our military formation arrived in time to warn them, and the South Vietnamese turned around and left. However, as soon as our cruiser left, South Vietnam** returned again to ram the fishing boatAnd hook the iron railing on the bridge of the fishing boat with an iron anchor.
Four South Vietnamese cruisers formed a wedge-shaped formation and approached the anchorage of the 271 submarine hunter, and the Navy Command sent two additional submarine hunters and two minesweepers from the Shantou Police District to support near the waters of Vinh Le Island. The South Vietnamese fleet slipped back behind the coral islands of the base under the full speed of our troops.
The South China Sea Fleet Intelligence Service Regiment intercepted an important piece of information from the enemy radio station, which was an order issued by South Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thieu to South Vietnamese Tran Binh Chong. According to the original text of the telegram, the translation reads as follows: "Order you to "recover the Vietnamese territory of Tran Hang Island"! Policy: "Take a moderate line", "If the CCP **, immediately return fire and destroy them", "No. 10 and No. 16 are responsible for tracking the CCP's Soviet-style frigates, and No. 4 and No. 5 support the landing of BH detachments to eliminate fishing boats and small boats".
At the same time that the leaders of the South China Sea Fleet urgently deployed the combat plan, this telegram was also transmitted to the *** place in the West Flower Hall of Zhongnanhai. After the consent of ***, *** and others were convened overnight for a combat meeting and formulated"Every inch of land must be fought for, the war will not be expanded, and we should take the initiative politically and strike at the rear."The decision-making, ** and *** as the general in charge with *** general and others commanded the operation.
Commander-in-Chief Zhang Yuanpei went to the duty room to inspect the movements of the Paracel Islands, fearing that the intercepted message would be a fake code disguised by Vietnam. Towards 6 o'clock, the communications room reported that the South Vietnamese destroyers "Tran Thanh Ngoh" and "Tran Binh Chong" had been found in the open sea south of Antelope Reef, and that the escort ships "Li Changjie" and "Nu Tao" also appeared on the sea north of Quang Kim Island, and their targets were none other than Chenhang Island and Quang Kim Island in China.
Yongle Islands. The purpose of the four South Vietnamese ships was to take advantage of our army's unpreparedness to attack and occupy these two islands. It's a pity that Nguyen Van Thieu's intelligence has been intercepted by the soldiers of the service regiment, and the Military Commission and the South China Sea Command have also deployed the battle plan in advance.
Commander Zhang looked at the Xisha territory in the war room and said:"It seems that the time has come for the new Chinese People's Navy to fight abroad for the first time."。Two minesweepers were immediately dispatched to intercept the South Vietnamese ** off Quang Kim Island, while the 271 and 274 submarine hunters monitored the movements of the Vietnamese ships in the south.
The "Chen Pingzhong" and "Chen Qingyu"** stopped at a distance of 500 meters from Chenhang Island, and then more than 40 Vietnamese soldiers wearing diving goggles and loaded guns rowed in rubber boats in the direction of Chenhang Island and Quang Kim Island. Our army had already laid an ambush on the island, and the soldiers and civilians waited for the Vietnamese army to shoot first, and then immediately fought back, forcing the landing South Vietnamese soldiers to retreat.
The soldiers failed to land, and the angry South Vietnamese attacked our minesweepers with their own ships and guns. The three destroyers left by the U.S. military to South Vietnam weighed 1,770 tons and were equipped with 50 127 mm guns, and the smallest escort ship was 650 tons. The submarine hunters and minesweepers of our army are only 570 tons at most, which is very "self-sufficient" in the face of the huge ** of South Vietnam.
The "Li Changjie" took the lead and rushed towards one of our minesweepers, and the war room showed that the routes of the ships of the enemy and us had been connected and that a collision was about to occur. Commander Zhang ordered all Chinese officers and men to insist on a preemptive strike and not to fire the first shot, and the 396 minesweepers launched a return fire when the command pillar, minesweeper and port railing were damaged.
In the face of the four behemoths of South Vietnam, our ** formation gave full play to its advantage in close combat, biting the Vietnamese ships to the death, making their long-range artillery fire useless, and using small-caliber artillery with an extremely fast rate of fire to bombard them violentlyLi Ruyi, the shell loader of the 274 ship, had his hands worn out, and he loaded 180 shells in one breath and successfully repelled the Vietnamese ship.
At the same time, the ships that came to reinforce also came rapidly from the direction of Woody Island, and our ** team made concerted efforts to sink the South Vietnamese escort ship "Angry Waves". The fighters rushed out of the cabin and fired wildly at the enemy ship that was close at a late pace, grenades and bullets fell on the deck of the opponent together, the "Tran Thanh Yu" destroyer was damaged by the reinforcement platform, the communication was cut off, the Vietnamese flag was also shot down, and the other two ** ships fled in the desert.
Vietnamese troops were sunk **.
Commander Zhang, who was watching the battle in the war room, crossed his hands on his hips and excitedly asked people to mark the site of the sinking of the "Angry Waves" on the map forever, and in the future, he would declare to the world China's sacred sovereignty over territory, territorial waters, and airspace.
Then Zhang Yuanpei issued an order to pursue the fugitive South Vietnamese**, but Xu Shiyou, commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, conveyed the order of the Central Military Commission to "withdraw the pursuit" at this time, prohibiting the possibility of expanding the war. Zhang Yuanpei clenched his fists and slammed the table, gritted his teeth and said the word "withdraw".
The Military Commission did not expect that the Vietnamese army with American-style equipment would be defeated by our army so easily, and ** seized the opportunity to issue an order to the South China Sea Command to recover the three islands, and Commander Zhang transported 3 companies, 1 reconnaissance team and part of the militia from the Yulin fortress to Coral Island, Ganquan Island and Treasure Island, and more than 500 people cooperated with the fleet that had fought before to meet the Vietnamese ** and launched a landing battle on the three islands.
In just ten minutes, the Vietnamese defenders who had lost the support of Ganquan Island gave up resistance and surrendered. The Vietnamese troops on the other two islands also resisted passively and were vulnerable to the PLA, some raised their hands to surrender, and some took advantage of the chaos to flee. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) regained the islands occupied by the Vietnamese army within four hours, and the bright five-star red flag was planted on the coral islands occupied by other countries after World War II.
The Vietnamese troops on Ganquan Island raised their hands and surrendered.
A total of 8 ships were involved in this naval battle, which is nothing compared to the scale of many battles in the world. But this time the Battle of the Paracels made itThe navy of the new China fought back for the first timeCUHK has shown its strength, and the situation in the Paracel Islands has stabilized.
After the end of the Battle of the Paracels, the South Vietnamese authorities were very unwilling, and once put on a posture of retaliation, sending six ** from Da Nang to maneuver in the direction of the Paracel Islands, and then two more destroyers were dispatched, and Vietnam's navy, land and air forces also responded to the opportunity, and the US Seventh Fleet also received a telegram from the South Vietnamese ** requesting support.
After receiving the report, the Central Military Commission immediately dispatched three missile frigates of the East China Sea Fleet to the South China Sea to provide support. Due to the urgency of the war, the East China Sea Fleet used to need to make a detour to the Pacific Ocean, and ** was issued"Direct passage through the Taiwan Strait".The three frigates sailed through the Taiwan Strait from the waters east of Kinmen without danger that night and successfully arrived at the target combat position in the Xisha Islands.
The wise decision of ** changed the balance of forces between the enemy and us, and the East China Sea Fleet, which arrived on schedule, greatly strengthened the naval strength of our army. The South Vietnamese authorities judged the situation and put forward the instruction that "we should avoid fighting China in the next step."The Battle of the Xisha Sea ended with a complete victory for China, and China's naval team successfully defended the sovereignty and dignity of the Xisha Islands.
Propaganda poster of the Battle of the Paracels.
This last battle in the first commanding career is inseparable from the firm belief of the whole army in safeguarding the territorial integrity of the motherland, and it is also inseparable from the advanced strategic vision of far-sightedness and arranging barracks and radar patrols in the Xisha Islands decades in advance.
The First World War of the Paracel Islands, a classic battle of "small ships fighting big ships," accumulated experience in anti-aggression maritime operations for the People's Navy, and also showed the world China's determination to defend sovereignty and the strength of the Chinese Navy. After this war, there has been no war in the Paracel Islands for nearly 40 years.