Great Power Fighting Falcon

The J-8FR three-plane formation with the radio call sign Instructor searched north from the southern edge. Calculated based on time, if pirates have appeared, they must be sailing from south to north. Armed patrol times are not set haphazardly, but based on information on passing vessels provided by the Commercial Navigation Department.

Through the navigation information published by international navigation organizations, we can have a relatively complete grasp of the time nodes of passing merchant ships.

The purpose of pirates' appearance is to rob merchant ships. Of course, they go to merchant ships. The West Pacific pirates are very experienced pirates and are very good at taking advantage of the Internet. International navigation information is public. It is not difficult to find the sailing route or even the time node of that merchant ship, just like checking the flight status.

Based on the analysis of past robberies, Li Zhan and the others were basically certain that the West Pacific pirates had a clear purpose for every outing, rather than just robbing whatever ship they encountered like the Malacca pirates. This kind of pirates can be called professional pirates, and they rely on this to survive.

After the devastating blow, the remaining pirates in the West Pacific should only have a few 1,800-ton armed ships. Even so, they are still a maritime criminal force more powerful than most pirates in the world.

Based on the judgment obtained from all the intelligence, Li Zhan believes that they will continue to carry out targeted plundering, identify a certain merchant ship to rob, and quickly enter and exit quickly without delay. This is their current plundering style.

In the past few months, the remnants of the West Pacific pirates have robbed seven merchant ships, four of which were container ships carrying electronic products, and one was a Malaysian-registered cruise ship of more than 40,000 tons. Based on these characteristics, Li Zhan believes that the main target of the West Pacific pirates is the cruise ship.

What does a cruise ship have? There are a large number of tourists, and the tourists have a lot of belongings. The West Pacific pirates are very smart, and they have become even smarter after losing their main lair after a devastating blow. They don't bother to engage in low-level tactics such as hijacking large oil tankers and cargo ships to demand ransom. What they engage in is blitzkrieg. They rob the ship of whatever valuables are on board and then leave.

This is also the main difficulty in fighting them.

Li Zhan, Zhong Guobang, Zhu Wei, and Li Zixin discussed the military operation against the Western Pacific pirates. They talked about what kind of development trend the Western Pacific pirates would develop after that attack. One view that everyone generally agreed on was to completely eliminate the Western Pacific pirates. Piracy is extremely difficult, just as crime in the world cannot completely disappear. After the devastating blow, the West Pacific pirates will definitely become more cautious and low-key, which means it will be more difficult to attack them. This is also the basic characteristic of all criminal behavior.

Of course, fighting crime is the task of the police department. Li Zhan and the others mainly conduct patrols, deter deportations, provide escort for merchant ships, and ensure the safety of waterways.

So of course Li Zhan and the others have a clear goal, but it's just not one, but multiple. Oil tankers and cargo ships transporting high value-added commodities such as electronic products, automobiles, and mechanical parts. These two types of ships are the focus of attention. By daybreak, there will be more than a dozen ships sailing on international waterways in the mission waters.

Therefore, during the vast frontal search, Li Zhan also continuously received clear headings and movements of more than a dozen merchant ships reported from the tower, and then adjusted the scope of the search according to the specific situation.

The "Instructor" air patrol formation and the "Red Arrow" maritime patrol formation searched and patrolled north and east as planned. They had high hopes of intercepting the West Pacific pirates halfway. At least the plan was as perfect as possible.

As the saying goes, things are unpredictable, you never know what is waiting for you in the next second, and you also don’t know what others are going to do in the next second. In war battles, the most difficult thing to do is to mobilize the enemy and let the enemy move according to your ideas. Whoever can do this will definitely win.

For example, in the People's Army, throughout the history of our army, the magic weapon for invincibility is the textbook-like use of perfect tactics, and the most fundamental point here is to fully mobilize the enemy and let the enemy follow his own baton. to adjust.

Li Zhan still had too few troops. If he had still led the Falcon Brigade, the next tragedy would not have happened, because he had more troops to make a more complete deployment.

A moment of silence for the more than 4,000 passengers on board a British cruise ship traveling around the world. Most of these tourists are Japanese, and there are also some Koreans, Americans, French, British, Australians, and Singaporeans. There are one or two hundred people in total, and the remaining nearly 3,000 are Japanese tourists.

Of course, when three armed pirate ships flying skull and crossbones flags appeared in front and on the side, approaching them in a pincer-like posture, the British oil tanker called "Queen of Bertha" did not expect death to be approaching at first, just like the "Titanic" Before the "Special" hit the iceberg, the tourists on the ship should attend the cocktail party, shake in the car, draw, and complain. In short, who should be involved, including the crew? Neither realized it.

It wasn't until several shells destroyed the mast and killed the crew on the observation deck that hundreds of crew members realized they had encountered pirates, and pirates with very powerful firepower.

Here's the thing:

It was just after three o'clock in the morning. Although many tourists on the day and night cruise had already fallen asleep, the cruise's rich night activity venues were still full. Men and women listen to songs and use alcohol to stimulate their nerves, trying to find some new stimulation.

More tourists fell asleep. On the huge cruise ship with a displacement of more than 100,000 meters, which was as stable as land, waves of several meters high could not affect the smooth sailing of this behemoth. It is said that if the "Titanic" encountered an iceberg again, it would not sink. It is also said that it would take more than a dozen anti-ship missiles to sink it.

It's quite powerful.

The "Queen of Bertha" sailed south along the established route on the international waterway. Its next stop was a port city in Malaysia, where it stayed for five days and then set sail again. If nothing unexpected happens, the "Queen Berta" will arrive at the port city called Jilongpo in four days.

Kitahika Akikawa and his wife took part in a global oil tanker trip that started from Yokohama, Japan, passed through more than a dozen famous scenic spots and cities on four continents, and finally sailed back to Yokohama, Japan after the last stop in Hawaii. This newlywed family was in financial crisis due to the overall downward economic environment. Trying to temporarily forget your worries and make up for your emotions by traveling around the world for such a long time.

As a result, after getting on the boat, Kitaka Akikawa got on other women's boats, and his wife also played with several European men. In the end, each other's secret was revealed, and the two ran to the deck to quarrel and confront each other. Kitari Akikawa became angry, became murderous, and pushed his wife into the sea with all his strength.

He stuck his head out of the railing and looked at his wife who was screaming and falling into the bottomless water. He was inexplicably frightened. Then he heard a strange sharp whistling sound that overwhelmed the sound of the waves and his wife. When he followed the sound, the mast at the top suddenly exploded, and a piece of iron flew over and cut off his neck. He also fell into the sea under the huge impact.

The couple are together forever.

Several shells hit the mast and the ship's building, and one shot hit the cockpit of the ship's building, causing more than a dozen casualties. However, the cruise ship's navigation in the autopilot state was not affected. Before anyone could react, a second round of shelling came, this time with more shells, all hitting the deck. More than a dozen artillery shells were sparsely dropped on the more than 300-meter-long deck. From the perspective of attack firepower, the effect of such shelling was extremely poor.

But this is a cruise ship, a merchant ship, and there are late-night cocktail parties and other activities taking place on the deck right now! Therefore, the second round of shelling caused greater casualties. Hundreds of people were injured or killed in this round of shelling.

Only then did the crew realize that they had been shelled, and the shells came from the armed ships rushing towards them from both sides. The two armed ships were at least thousands of tons. The high-power searchlights on the masts shone in unison, and two A huge beam of light hit the deck of the even larger "Belta Queen".

Two thousand-ton armed pirate ships belonging to the remnants of the West Pacific pirates appeared. They didn't know how to sneak northward here from under the noses of Li Zhan and others, and intercepted the "Queen of Bertha" cruise ship. At this time, Li Zhan and others The "instructor" air patrol formation is still more than a hundred nautical miles away to the south.

The most terrible thing is that the first round of shelling damaged the communication antenna of the "Belta Queen"!

Although the two thousand-ton armed ships are as small as small sampans compared with the "Queen of Bertha" cruise ship, those two thousand-ton armed ships have a 76 mm caliber Otto naval gun! If they aim at the waterline of the "Belta Queen" and continuously shoot at the same point, they will be able to penetrate it!

Of course, if only the 76mm caliber Alto naval gun is used, without considering ammunition, it will take at least several hours of continuous shooting to sink the "Queen of Bertha".

The "Queen of Bertha" is too large in size and displacement. It is built according to the standard of 25 tons of displacement for each crew member. The redundancy is definitely at the forefront of all ships. Not to mention that such giant cruise ships usually have very complete and advanced damage control systems.

Obviously, no one dares to risk the lives of more than 5,000 people.

Therefore, when one of the armed pirate ships shouted an order to the "Queen of Bertha" cruise ship through the international channel to stop the ship, the captain who hurried from the captain's cabin to the messy cockpit did not hesitate to order the engine room to stop the ship.

More than a dozen corpses and injured people in the cockpit told him that more people would die if the ship did not stop. This was a pirate with very powerful firepower and extremely ferocious nature!

When he sent a distress signal according to the emergency plan, he discovered that the communication antenna was broken and he could only receive it but could not receive it. He looked down at the rapidly approaching armed pirate ship. In the telescope, the naval gun was looming. He regretted stopping the ship. With the cruise ship's huge body and high speed, he had a chance to resist. If these pirates who dare to directly fire cannons and kill people are allowed to board the ship, the situation may be even more serious.

Let them only seek wealth.

The captain finally made the right decision and sent a distress signal using a satellite phone.