Great Power Fighting Falcon

After analyzing the relevant intelligence, Li Zhan reluctantly discovered that the pirates appearing here were really related to the previous military operations against pirates in the West Pacific.

Li Zhan contacted the intelligence department and asked for more information. After sorting it out, he found that the West Pacific pirates were severely injured after the last heavy blow. Many bases in the Southwest Pacific region were destroyed, and their remaining forces fled in all directions. .

Some of them have fled to the international waterways here and continue to make trouble. They are certainly not worth mentioning when facing regular armies, but when facing civilian ships, they are quite deadly.

Somali pirates can hijack a cargo ship of tens of thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons with two broken speedboats and a few rusty AK-47s. How did they do it? They had no other choice but to risk their lives.

Crew members also work for a living. The difference is that crew members do not have to fight with their lives to keep their jobs. Pirates will starve to death if they don't fight.

The main reason why the garrison on Forgotten Reef can't do much against pirates on international shipping lanes is the distance. Often when they receive a distress signal from a civilian ship and rush over, the pirates have already disappeared. However, perhaps the previous strikes have made the West Pacific pirates fear the Chinese military. They seem to deliberately avoid Chinese civilian ships and pick out ships from countries with poor national defense capabilities. It can be seen that if a country does not have a strong national defense force as a guarantee, its people will be bullied wherever they go.

Although most of the people seeking help are foreign ships, as a responsible big country, China will never ignore death.

Even a broken foreign cargo ship cannot be bullied by pirates. Bad people are doing bad things around their own country. As a big country with a sense of global responsibility, how can the Chinese people, with their overwhelming sense of justice, sit idly by?

With such a high starting point, it turned out that the situation was not ideal when it was implemented. Of course, the higher-level leadership agencies could not tolerate it.

Li Zhan and Zhong Guobang also requested instructions from their superiors on the issue of cooperating to ensure the safety of navigation on international waterways. Zhong Guobang's request for instructions was very direct. The general idea was that a certain unit of the Air Force was stationed at Forgotten Reef for training and requested to extend their training time. Air Force fighter planes were used as a mobile force to ensure the safety of the waterway. The guarantee only needed to be maintained for at least half a month to achieve deterrence. The purpose of pirates.

The content of Li Zhan's request for instructions was similar, except that he also explained his reasons for the training of a certain unit of China Southern Airlines. The general idea was that as long as the support of the Forgotten Reef could keep up, extending the training time of the troops on the Forgotten Reef would be conducive to the modification of a certain unit of China Southern Airlines.

Their requests were quickly approved.

It should be pointed out that Li Zhan and the others are airmen of the Air Force. With the approval of the Air Force Division, and the Air Division has to communicate and coordinate with the Air Division, the Navy naturally wants them. Li Zhan's good vacation and helping out turned into a dispatch mission. This much good.

As for Zhong Guobang and the others, their superiors were from the Marine Corps, so they naturally reported to the Ship Division and then to the Marine Division.

After receiving the approval, Li Zhan immediately communicated with Jinhua who stayed at Shuilingchang Station and adjusted the original training plan. In fact, we only need to extend the time the instructor team spends at Forgotten Reef, and there are not many other changes. The pilots of the 117th Squadron are all veterans, and they are all veterans of flying J-8D. They do not need to modify it step by step. The focus is still on the use of tactics.

Just talking about tactics is not enough, the key is to practice, engage in more confrontations and more flying. The flight training plan formulated by Li Zhan is undoubtedly the most appropriate. Isn’t this how the famous Falcon Brigade was brought out?

There is nothing that a train of aviation oil cannot solve. If so, then another train will be needed.

In the next few days, Li Zhan, Zhu Wei, and Li Zixin took off continuously as planned and engaged in three days of sea and air confrontation with their colleagues in the 117th Squadron, allowing the pilots of the 117th Squadron to initially become familiar with the combat routines of the J-8FR. , learned about the combat and tactical characteristics of the J-8FR.

What surprised Li Zhan was that he had not received a distress signal from a merchant ship for five days in a row.

He carefully looked through the past records in the intelligence room and found that this was an abnormal phenomenon, so he asked Zhong Guobang, "Old Zhong, something is wrong with this situation. You see, within three days at most, there was a pirate hijacking of a merchant ship." , this time it has been more than two days.”

"It's very strange." Zhong Guobang was also puzzled and said with a frown, "The reason why superiors pay attention to it is precisely because of the high frequency of hijacking incidents. Those pirates even hijacked fishing boats, and they can be said to do all kinds of evil."

Li Zhan thought of Guntuan Fishing Company for no reason. If it was their fishing boat, there would be something good to see. I wonder if they have any fishing activities here. Maybe they can try to contact them.

He put away his distracting thoughts and shook his head slightly, "Abnormality is a monster. By the way, do pirates have aircraft?"

"Plane?" Zhong Guobang was stunned.

Li Zhan said, "They evacuated very quickly. Every time you rushed to the scene, you pursued them but failed to catch them. Is it possible that the pirates used aircraft such as helicopters to carry out hijacking activities?"

"Can't? Can pirates have helicopters? Even if they do, where they fly from is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest continent. They also need a mother ship that can carry helicopters. This is impossible!" Zhong Guobang shook his head.

Li Zhan said with a smile, "You have forgotten that most of the pirates over there are pirates from the West Pacific, and the Malacca pirates are only a small part."

"The West Pacific Pirates..." Zhong Guobang pondered. Of course he knew about the West Pacific Pirates, but he still didn't believe it. "However, wasn't the main force of the West Pacific Pirates defeated? There should be no mother ship carrying aircraft, right?"

Li Zhan shook his head slightly and said, "A ship that can carry helicopters is nothing. A ro-ro cargo ship can carry helicopters with just a few steel plates welded on it. As long as it is not a military helicopter with high support requirements, it will be easy for them to achieve their goal. .”

"It's really possible to say that, but we didn't find any large ships near the scene." Zhong Guobang said.

Li Zhan said, "It is not difficult for them to disguise themselves as large cargo ships, or they may be cargo ships at all."

Zhong Guobang was persuaded by Li Zhan and said, "What do you want to do?"

"Be proactive and cannot wait for a distress signal. There are cases where a hijacked merchant ship does not have time to send out a distress signal. If the pirates intend to hijack the ship and kill people, it is entirely possible to use a helicopter to maneuver quickly before the crew can react. Kill everyone." Li Zhan said decisively.

Zhong Guobang did not hesitate and said, "I have no objection. I am responsible for the ground support and will ensure that you have no worries."

"This is not enough." Li Zhan shook his head and said, pulling over a large-scale chart of the sea area around the Forgotten Reef, and said, "Don't you have three speedboats? Send them all out to conduct reconnaissance and search eastward."

"East?" Zhong Guobang was surprised. The channel is in the west. Isn't searching eastward upside down? Did Li Zhan say the wrong direction?

Unexpectedly, Li Zhan said with certainty, "Yes, search eastward. I suspect they may come from that direction. Each time they go directly around the Forgotten Reef to the channel to hijack merchant ships."