Chapter 255 A Crane Descended from the Sky!
Chapter 255 A Crane Descended from the Sky!
Xindu Merchant Ship, Container Area, Third Floor.
Cheng Yanfei, who thought he was about to be rescued, watched the helicopter emitting black smoke and slowly falling down, and he was completely stunned.
Because he had been staring for too long without blinking, his eyeballs had begun to swell, and his expression became even more terrified.
No one expected that this group of pirates would be so cruel that they dared to shoot down all the helicopters of the navy directly! Aren’t they afraid of being retaliated in the future? !
After a full five or six seconds of stagnation, Cheng Yanfei gritted his teeth and rushed out without saying a word, and began to climb up along the ladder.
And the pirates on the deck below also began to rush to the place where the helicopter fell, and soon found the helicopter stuck in the air.
At the same time, Cheng Yanfei, who was moving, was quickly discovered by a pirate, who pointed at him and shouted: “There is a hidden crew member there!”
So the pirates immediately shouted at Cheng Yanfei frantically, and seeing that he did not stop moving, they began to climb up while shooting randomly.
At this moment, Cheng Yanfei, with the crazy secretion of adrenaline, once again became a state of relying on instinct. At this moment, he had only one goal: to save the surviving soldiers! Under the burning of the fire, the helicopter could explode at any time, and at that time, the soldiers on the helicopter would have no possibility of survival.
Da Da Da——
In this hail of bullets, relying on his familiarity with the fixed steel frame of Xindu, Cheng Yanfei quickly climbed to the fifth container and found the sniper Wu Haitao who was thrown out of the cabin when the plane rolled just now.
“Hey! Wake up! Hey!”
Cheng Yanfei quickly squatted down and patted his cheek, while checking his body wounds. He quickly determined that his main wound was a long propeller fragment that penetrated his calf, and bright red blood was gushing out.
Cheng Yanfei put Wu Haitao’s legs on his knees without saying anything, and relieved the blood flow by reducing the pressure on his legs. Then he took off his coat and white vest, and prepared to tie the wound with the vest to further slow down the blood flow.
In fact, at this time, the most important thing to do should be to go to the helicopter to rescue people, but Cheng Yanfei encountered this situation for the first time. He instinctively rescued people and didn’t think so much.
When he finished the simple bandage, the pirates below finally caught up. After seeing Cheng Yanfei and Wu Haitao, they immediately shouted at them with guns.
Bang——
Accompanied by a gunshot, a hole suddenly appeared on the pirate’s head, and the words in his mouth stopped abruptly, and then his body fell straight down.
The pirates behind him were frightened and retreated quickly, and then used their most common shooting method: raising the gun above their heads and starting a blind shooting.
Da Da Da——
While lying down to avoid it, Cheng Yanfei also took a look at the direction of the shooting just now. Sure enough, he saw a Chinese soldier holding a gun and aiming at the direction of the pirates’ pursuit, and quickly pulled the trigger.
Da Da Da——
Accompanied by a burst of gunshots, the hand holding the assault rifle suddenly exploded, and the pirates screamed.
Their usual shooting method suddenly didn’t work! After the Chinese soldier finished firing, he immediately trotted over: “Are you Captain Cheng?”
“Yes! It’s me!”
“I’m Yu Yong, help me!”
“Oh, okay!”
After Yu Yong joined, the two of them quickly lifted Wu Haitao and retreated behind the container. During this time, the pirates seemed to be frightened by Yu Yong’s two waves. Not to mention his head, he didn’t even dare to show his hands.
After putting Wu Haitao down, Yu Yong prepared to give him first aid while saying to Cheng Yanfei: “I’ll stay here, please go over and help save people!”
“Okay!”
“Thank you…”—— Yanjing, emergency command room.
This place, like the Zhoushan ship command room, fell into a dead silence after learning that the helicopter was shot down, and then it was as noisy as a busy city.
“This is impossible. How can pirates have anti-aircraft guided weapons!?”
”These are definitely not ordinary pirates!”
”Isn’t this obvious? There must be someone behind them!”
”Do you remember the leak of the Tongyong Power Company’s blueprints last time? I think it has come true this time.incident! And this is only the first time, it is likely to develop into a normal situation in the future!”
”These can be discussed after this incident. It is nothing more than that the helicopters on the escort formation must be equipped with anti-missile weapons such as decoy bombs in the future… But the most urgent task now is what should we do? Should the Silver Crane formation be put into rescue immediately?”
”But the pirates have stingers, and the current Silver Cranes are not equipped with anti-missile weapons. They were also very dangerous in the past!”
”Should we just give up the Xunlong Commando?”
”Hey… The problem is that they are now in danger of life and death. What if… What if they are no longer worth rescuing and instead have to take the Panlong Commando with them?”
”…”
Listening to the heated debate in the command room, Chief Shen couldn’t help but fall into a dilemma.
”I have a way. ”
A voice suddenly sounded, interrupting their argument.
Everyone immediately raised their heads and looked at the designer of the Silver Crane who had been connected remotely on the big screen.
As if he had found a life-saving straw, Chief Shen hurriedly asked Kang Chi: “Doctor Kang have any ideas? !”
”It’s actually very simple.”
Kang Chi explained in a deep voice: “The main reason why the pirates were able to prepare for the Swift Dragon Commando in advance is that the sound of the helicopter is too loud. They knew that the helicopter was coming from several kilometers away.”
”But the Silver Crane is an electric motor, and the sound can be much smaller. If we directly let the Silver Crane slow down, fly to one thousand meters above the Xindu, and then land quickly, even if they have anti-aircraft guided weapons, it will be difficult for them to react in the first time and find the launch angle. ”
”In order to complete the landing as quickly as possible and reduce the time they need to find the Silver Crane, I can compile an emergency landing program. The logic of this emergency landing program is to first turn off the main motor of the Silver Crane and let it perform free fall. Only the four auxiliary motors will operate in a limited manner to maintain the horizontal posture of the fuselage. This will also keep the Silver Crane in a very quiet state. When it is about to land on the ship, it will be fully powered and braked. ”
After hearing Kang Chi’s bold plan, everyone in the command room was stunned.
Directly let the Silver Crane turn off the engine and perform free fall?
”What if the brake fails?”
”It is indeed possible. After all, nothing is absolute.” Kang Chi also nodded frankly, “But the Silver Crane’s motor responds very quickly, and there are ranging radars at eight angles of the fuselage, so I can guarantee that the probability of an accident will never be higher than 0.001%. If I am not so sure, I dare not risk the lives of soldiers… Whether to do this or not is up to you. ”
”Write the program first!” Chief Shen nodded immediately, “Let’s discuss the feasibility of the plan.”
Kang Chi nodded. In fact, he had already started writing when he started talking. After all, if the program is written first, there will be no loss even if it is not used.
At this juncture, time is everything! ”That’s right!”
Kang Chi reminded while writing the code, “Since everyone knows that at this moment, many eyes are paying attention to the Xindu.”
”So this trick has only one chance to work. When they know that we have this means, they will definitely take countermeasures in advance, so we must use this precious opportunity with caution. In my opinion, this incident may not be so simple…”
Chief Shen’s eyes narrowed slightly.
In fact, he always felt that something was wrong, but the person in charge was confused and the bystander was clear. He never found out what the problem was until Kang Chi’s words at this moment suddenly reminded him…
”Enlarge the sea chart immediately! “Chief Shen said quickly.
Just when he set his eyes on the sea chart, Yu Yong’s voice suddenly came from the communicator: “Call the headquarters, call the headquarters! I am Gray Wolf, I am Gray Wolf!”
Everyone was immediately excited when they heard Yu Yong’s voice.
Chief Shen didn’t bother to look at the sea chart, and said quickly: “This is the emergency headquarters, Gray Wolf, how are you?”
”Report to the headquarters, the plane successfully landed, but many team members were injured, and it has been confirmed that one crew member has died… Vulture, Black Panther and Captain Cheng are carrying out emergency rescue of the soldiers. I am exchanging fire with the pirates to buy time for the rescue, but there are too many pirates, and I can only hold one side alone… Request support! Request support!”
”Received! Please try to hold on!”
The call endedAfter that, everyone was speechless. Even the staff officer who had just questioned Kang Chi’s plan couldn’t help but say with red eyes: “Let the Silver Crane on the Red Eagle take off!”
”Wait!”
Chief Shen, who originally supported the Silver Crane’s dispatch, suddenly refuted with a firm attitude. After a moment of silence, he said: “Immediately install all the spare batteries on the No. 01 Silver Crane, and then take the 16 Panlong team members to rush to the Zhoushan Ship at the fastest speed, close to the sea surface and low altitude. The No. 02 and No. 03 Silver Cranes will continue to recharge on the Red Eagle!”
Rush to the Zhoushan Ship? Many people were stunned…—— Currently, the reconnaissance satellites on the earth generally operate in an orbit of 600-1000 kilometers, and the satellites in this orbit have been orbiting the earth continuously. Therefore, the number of coverage of the same place per day can only be 2-3 times at most. If the orbit is temporarily changed, the number of times can be increased slightly. Doing so will consume a lot of power materials of the satellite and shorten the life cycle of the satellite.
Therefore, even though Old M had deployed three reconnaissance satellites in advance over the Gulf of Aden, the destroyer Remiji still took more than ten minutes to receive the second satellite image.
Through the analysis of the image, they quickly concluded that the Chinese helicopter crashed on the Xindu! Although they were a little disappointed that it did not crash directly into the sea, the variables brought to the plan by the forced landing on the ship were very small.
So they immediately issued an order: Start entering the second phase of the plan! —— Near the waters of Xidaib Island, the Zhoushan ship was still running at full speed and was heading towards the Xindu quickly. The officers in the command room looked a little anxious, and they were sweating for the Xunlong Commando on the Xindu.
”Report! The Lotus tanker sent a distress signal!”
”What!?”
Captain Hu’s face suddenly changed after hearing this, and he quickly looked at the sea chart and quickly found the location of the Lotus tanker.
At this moment, the Lotus was passing through the middle section of the Gulf of Aden, 556 kilometers northwest of the Zhoushan ship, and the Jiaxing ship on duty in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait was also about 580 kilometers away!
This means that neither the Zhoushan ship nor the Jiaxing ship can rush to the rescue quickly…
At the moment when the enemy’s dagger was revealed, Hu Zhicai finally realized that they had fallen into a trap!
The attack on the Xindu was a complete trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain! If the Xindu had not been attacked, with the original duty area of the Zhoushan ship, it could have reached the Lotus tanker within two hours and prevented the tanker from docking to the south.
But because of the Xindu incident, a large escort vacuum appeared in the Gulf of Aden at this moment…
Once the pirates successfully controlled the Lotus, they could basically drive the ship to the coast of Somalia without much interference.
This is the real purpose of the pirates! No, this group of scattered pirates could not have made such a meticulous plan!
Whether it is to be formulated or executed, this plan first requires a lot of intelligence support, and it is also a huge test for the pirates’ hijacking ability.
And this is also the first doubt that Kang Chi had after hearing that the pirates had Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
Since the pirates have obvious support behind them, what is the point of them doing this? After all, with the location of the Xindu, even if the pirates repelled the first wave of helicopter rescue, it would be sooner or later that they would be intercepted by the Zhoushan ship halfway. Although the whole incident seems dangerous, the ending must be that the pirates are trapped in the Xindu. If they have hostages, they may have to deal with them. If not, they will definitely be greeted by a storm! In addition, it has been more than three hours since the Xindu was hijacked, but the other party has not contacted the Tongda Shipping Group to extort ransom.
Although there is a reason why the pirates did not find the hostages, if Kang Chi is a pirate and is only after money, he can just find a subordinate to scream a few times and try to coax a small amount of money.
For example, promise to stop the ship after receiving one million, and then slowly increase the extortion efforts, and hand over the chips step by step in exchange for the ransom.
This doesn’t take much effort.
What if Tongda Group directly pays the money? So, the other party definitely has a bigger conspiracy! Fortunately, under his reminder, Chief Shen kept his composure and did not immediately let Silver Crane rescue Xindu, let alone expose the trump card of emergency landing.
At the same time, in order to avoid being discovered by the other party’s radar, let Silver Crane No. 01 fly at low altitude over the sea, unless the other party is for this planplan, and even dispatched airborne early warning aircraft, otherwise they would not be able to find the movement of Yinhe.
This brings infinite possibilities to the action! ”Report to the headquarters, report to the headquarters, I am Gray Wolf! The pirates on the Xindu suddenly began to retreat, requesting instructions!”
”The headquarters received it, you don’t care about the pirates for now, stay on the Xindu and continue the rescue work!”
”But…” Yu Yong gritted his teeth and choked, “I… I’m not willing!”
”Don’t worry, no pirate can escape!”
”Received!”
After the communication ended, everyone in the command room finally determined the purpose of the order just given by Chief Shen.
While sweating, they couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
“It seems that the Xindu is safe for the time being.”
”It is true that those who are involved are confused, but those who are not involved are clear. Fortunately, Dr. Kang reminded us, otherwise we would have lost everything.”
”It is also thanks to Chief Shen’s calmness in the face of danger.”
”…”
Everyone whispered to each other in fear.
The main reason is that the enemy this time is so cunning and vicious that they, who were eager to save people just now, were also blinded by this smoke bomb.
”Don’t be too happy too soon, the matter is not really over yet, and the sacrifice of a Xunlong commando is already a fact… Cheer up and stay alert at all times!”
”Received!”
Time passed by minute by minute, and the No. 01 Silver Crane, which was originally planned to rush to the Zhoushan ship, also slightly changed its course and began to fly directly towards the Lotus tanker. The crew of the Lotus tanker also hid in the lower deck under the command of the Zhoushan ship, just like the crew of the Xindu.
The pirate leader Waiybach was in charge of landing the Lotus. When he boarded the giant tanker of 150,000 tons, he felt like he was stepping on cotton.
This giant tanker, loaded with crude oil, is worth nearly 10 million US dollars, not to mention the tanker itself and the crew on it.
A five million US dollar ransom, isn’t that generous?
Thinking of this, Waiybach felt his blood boiling and hurriedly called his men, “Quick, go down and find the crew!”
”Ah? Don’t we need to leave someone to watch the Chinese Navy?”
”Stop talking nonsense. Are you the boss or am I the boss?” Waiybach slapped the questioning man and shouted, “The two Chinese warships are hundreds of kilometers away from us. One of the helicopters was shot down. I don’t think they dare to send another helicopter. Let’s do our best to find the hostages first. Damn it, if it weren’t for those rubbish of Franli, we would have been very lucky. If we find the hostages, I can make millions more dollars!”
Several mercenaries who were accompanying him were a little angry when they heard Vayebach bluntly calling their boss a waste, but in the end they just snorted coldly and walked directly to the tanker’s cabin…
On the Remiji, Commander Leandre and Deputy Captain Pereira did not notice that a Silver Crane that landed on the Red Eagle had quietly left the Red Eagle an hour ago, and was only more than 400 kilometers away from the Lotus. At most, they would launch a rescue operation on the Lotus in 40 minutes.
The distance between the No. 01 Silver Crane and them is now more than a thousand kilometers, which is far beyond their radar range. At this time, the battlefield monitoring task has been handed over to the Sumant destroyer in the Gulf of Aden.
However, the radar of the Sumant destroyer has a minimum detection distance of more than 20 meters, and it also did not find the Silver Crane flying close to the sea surface.
Their aircraft carrier formation was still in the Baixiangyang, and they did not send the airborne early warning aircraft to the Gulf of Aden. They thought that monitoring was a sure thing.
As time went on, No. 02 and No. 03 Silver Cranes also used the power system on the Red Eagle merchant ship to complete 80% of the rapid charging and flew away from the Red Eagle one after another.
Among them, No. 02 was a heavily armed Silver Crane carrying heavy weapons and medium- and long-range missiles, responsible for chasing pirates. No. 03 was in an empty state after unloading the battery. At this time, it was responsible for transporting the remaining 8 Panlong commandos to join the rescue and aftermath work of the Xindu.
On the destroyer Sumant, the radar soldier suddenly shouted in disbelief: “Report to the commander, an unknown signal source suddenly appeared near the Lotus tanker, and the target is climbing at high speed!”
Everyone immediately responded and looked at the radar screen, only to see that the trajectory of this unknown signal was like a vertically launched missile, drawing a huge arc with a radius of one kilometer in the air with the Lotus as the center, and climbing.After it reached the top of the Lotus, it suddenly stopped.
”What is this!?”
This strange scene immediately shocked everyone in the command room.
This speed is too fast for a helicopter, and too slow for a missile.
And how could a missile suddenly stop in the air? Similarly, it is even less likely to be a fighter.
”Is it an alien UFO?!”
”Fuck the alien UFO, this must be China’s secret weapon! Quickly notify the hungry wolf and let them prepare to intercept immediately!”
”Received!”
On the Lotus, Vayebach was lying leisurely on the captain’s chair in the tanker’s cab, imagining how to spend the huge ransom after receiving it.
A quick phone ring suddenly interrupted his sweet dream.
“What? There might be a helicopter hundreds of meters above us? How is that possible! That thing can be heard from several kilometers away! Do you think I’m a fool?!”
Wayebach curled his lips nonchalantly.
Although he had not received professional military training, his years of pirate career made him very confident in his actual combat experience. He knew how far the helicopter was from them as soon as he heard the sound.
”Idiot! Hurry up and act, it will be too late! 400 meters, 300 meters… The speed is so fast! It’s over!”
Hearing the anxious voice on the other end of the phone, Wayebach finally realized the seriousness of the problem. However, when he stood up and ran outside to look up at the sky, it was too late.
Beep, beep, beep——
The other end of the phone had hung up.
Wayebach held the phone blankly, staring at the divine object that fell from the sky with wide eyes, and his mouth was so surprised that an egg could be stuffed in it!
What the hell is this? ! The huge aircraft with a sci-fi look fell straight towards the deck of the Lotus like a meteorite. When it was only 50 meters away from the deck, the three propellers started to spin wildly. The harsh sound of cutting the air almost pierced Vayebach’s eardrums! When Vayebach reacted, the entire aircraft had quickly completed the emergency brake and slowed down, and gently stopped on the deck. Then a team of fully armed soldiers quickly poured out of it.
Bang——
Accompanied by a gunshot, Vayebach, who was still standing outside the cab in a daze, was shot in the head because of his conspicuous position! ”Quick! Quick! Quick! Act in groups according to the plan!”
The Panlong commandos who rushed out of the plane immediately began to act separately and began to annihilate the pirates on the oil tanker.
At the same time, a hundred miles south of Xidaib Island, several speedboats drew a long wave on the sea and evacuated frantically towards Iskur.
The pirates on the speedboats basically relaxed their vigilance at this moment.
After all, China’s helicopters were gone, and the warships could not catch up with the speedboats.
Therefore, they all thought that there was nothing that could threaten them in this sea area.
And without early warning aircraft to provide positioning, even missiles might not be able to find them.
What’s more, when the navies of various countries fight pirates, they usually don’t use weapons such as missiles, which is a bit like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
So there is no panic at all! However,
This time they underestimated China’s determination to fight pirates.
Besides, they are not just pirates.
“Pirate speedboat spotted!”
“Lock on the target, prepare to fire, 321, fire!”
Swoosh–
Accompanied by a flame, the two small missiles mounted on both sides of the Silver Crane began to accelerate towards the pirate speedboat. When Franli saw the fiery red flash and the white mist from afar, he was stunned.
”There are missiles! Prepare the stinger!”
However, how could their reaction speed keep up with the missiles that had been launched? In a hurry, they couldn’t even lift the gun barrels, and a violent explosion occurred at the stern!
The two speedboats were overturned on the sea and rolled over like stones on the water. More than a dozen pirates on them had been thrown away for a long time.
The remaining three speedboats saw this and didn’t care about saving people at all. They just increased the horsepower to the maximum and tried to avoid the missiles by taking an S-bend, but this kind of evasive action was useless.
Two more explosions sounded, and the two speedboats rolled over.
It must be said that these armored speedboats are quite strong.Although they were hit by missiles, none of them disintegrated directly, but all of them lost control and rolled over.
But even so, the remaining ship was scared enough, and the pirates on it directly turned off the engine and began to wave their hands frantically to surrender…
(End of this chapter)