In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the escort.
Since entering the Gulf of Aden, none of the escort missions carried out by the formation has failed. The success rate is 100%, which makes everyone feel like they are invincible after trying their sword for the first time.
More than a month of escort experience is of great significance to Li Zheng.
As for the Menghu Brigade where he belongs, it is not that there were no sea training subjects in the past. Every summer, the army would organize troops to go to the beach for sea training.
Most of the Army's sea training is amphibious warfare subjects, including beach landings with the Navy's landing craft brigade, airborne infiltration in cooperation with the Air Force, or using its own amphibious warfare vehicles to conduct sea formation attacks and shooting, etc.
However, in the past, there were restrictions on these subjects. Unless there were large-scale military exercises above the military region level, in most cases it would be good to be able to return to the Navy’s landing craft detachment for exercises.
There are not many opportunities to conduct joint combat exercises with the Navy's large destroyer detachments and naval aviation, and the depth of joint operations during the exercises is often the Navy follows the Navy's script, the Air Force follows the Air Force's script, and the Army itself
He is responsible for his own one-third of an acre of land. The joint operations headquarters is all improvised. The commanders at all levels within it are not well integrated. This is why in the previous confrontation exercise, the serious junior brother Long Gang
This is the reason why the red side can still win despite having a military disadvantage.
Long Gang is a complex talent, familiar with the command professions of land, sea and air. He is able to reasonably allocate coordination and cooperation between various arms. He also understands the strengths and weaknesses of the various arms of the red side, avoids the enemy's edge, and finally achieves victory.
The victory of that military exercise.
Zhuang Yan saw Long Gang's advantages, and of course the leaders also saw it, so he promoted the cross-service officer exchange program that Li Zheng and the others participated in, in order to cultivate compound command talents like Long Gang. Such talents are
Cultivated as military reserve cadres, young cadres like Li Zheng with high academic qualifications, high abilities, and high practical capabilities will be senior talents in combined combat command.
Everything went smoothly, so the members of the special operations team couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed. The pirates with backward equipment looked so vulnerable in front of the regular naval special forces.
Except for a few who dared to resist, many even turned around and ran away when they saw the navy warship approaching, giving up the idea of hijacking the ship.
In the words of Fatty Wei - it seems not as difficult as imagined!
However, Fatty Wei is always a bit weak.
Because that mouth always has its own unlucky attributes, whenever Fatty Wei laments that something is easy, everyone must be careful, otherwise trouble will soon come knocking on the door.
When Fatty Wei said this, he was practicing target on the deck. During those days, the water was still and the river was flying, and the pirates seemed to have made an appointment and disappeared.
International Channel 16 is quiet, and there is normal communication between merchant ships and warships that need to be escorted. Occasionally, everyone greets each other, and the merchant ships always say some blessings and thanks, which is heartwarming and proud.
Among them were not only merchant ships from the motherland, but also foreign ships. All of them gave a thumbs up to the professionalism of the formation escort and said that the navy was very good.
When Li Zheng heard what Fatty Wei said, he immediately wanted to step forward and cover his mouth. He had learned the super crow attribute of Fatty Wei's mouth since he was a recruit.
It's a pity that everything is too late.
That night, the tranquility was finally broken.
The busyness started at eight o'clock in the night, because the No. 2 ship suddenly received an order from the formation command center, requesting to send a 6-man team to the merchant ship to rappel and prepare to accompany the ship for escort.
This kind of thing has not been done before. It can be said that it is familiar and there is no difficulty at all.
The ship that is going to accompany the ship is called "Pengcheng". It is a large bulk carrier with a total length of 201.8 meters, a width of 32.26 meters, a depth of 19.3 meters, a structural draft of 13.3 meters, a speed of 13.5 knots, and an endurance of nautical miles.
The deadweight tonnage is approximately tons.
None of this is a problem.
But the problem is that due to the carrying needs of this kind of bulk carrier, the ship is equipped with two 75-ton single-arm cranes and a 75-ton x 2 double-arm crane, with a maximum lifting capacity of 150 tons.
These design features enable the ship to carry not only specific cargo such as pulp, but also heavy cargo and other cargo.
However, precisely because of its design, the carrier-based helicopter pilot of the No. 2 ship and six special forces members, including Li Zheng, were dumbfounded.
The most critical question everyone has to face is-how to descend?
Because when viewed from the air, there are a series of booms and booms in a straight line from bow to stern, with steel cables crisscrossing them. Unlike ordinary cargo ships, this kind of ship has no front deck and no helicopter landing pad. If
If it were an ordinary container bulk carrier, even if it was full of cargo, it would be easy to slide directly onto the container, and it would not be difficult to get off the container.
But it's different here.
Those booms and steel cables will affect the safety of helicopters and special operations personnel. Generally, the height of the rope drop is more than ten meters, and these booms are nearly ten meters high. Under the undulating waves, it is easy to collide with the helicopter. Once
In the event of a collision, the entire helicopter will be in danger.
"Team Zhang, we need to increase the altitude. Do you think it would be feasible to increase the height to more than 20 meters and rappel down?"
The driver made a suggestion.
"Okay!" Zhang Jian said, "30 meters is fine! As long as the rope is long enough, it's not good if it's too high."
Why is too high a bad thing?
Because the rope is longer, the team members will stay in the air for a longer time when descending, and the risk will increase.
What's even more deadly is that the longer the rope, the more difficult it is to control the landing point. The longer the rappel rope is like a disobedient snake in the air, floating back and forth under the sea breeze and helicopter propeller airflow. There are cranes and booms everywhere.
The steel rope is also a dead end if the abseil rope gets entangled.
At this time, the helicopter was hovering in the air in front of the bow of the ship. Why did you choose this place? Because there is a long gantry crane in the middle of the cargo ship, which almost runs through the entire hull. It is basically impossible to rappel in the middle of the ship. There is no suitable one.
Rappelling location.
There is a separate door crane at the very front of the bow, and there is about ten meters of space behind it, followed by the second door crane.
This open space is actually the roof of the cargo warehouse. There are several steel cables around the roof to fix the door crane.
There are also risks in rappelling here, but the risks are much smaller than in the middle of the deck, so the helicopter pilot Lao He chose this place as the landing site.
In the cabin, the helicopter's sergeant mechanic picked up a bundle of ziplines and asked Zhang Jian: "Try the 28-meter one first?"
"OK!"
Zhang Jian nodded.
The helicopter slowly descended to a height of about twenty-eight meters.
Lao He's driving skills are very good, and the height is neither too high nor too low. After the zipline is thrown down, there is still more than one meter of ground left.
Under the bright light, Zhang Jian looked down and saw that the rope hanging on the deck was swinging from side to side, shaking violently.
He turned to ask the mechanic: "What level of wind is it?!"
"Level 6!"
"No!" Zhang Jian saw that the rope had been blown aside by the wind and had been left on the steel rope several times.
Now, the boat keeps moving forward and the helicopter has to keep the same speed. At the same time, it is almost impossible to keep the rope stable.
The rope had moved more than three meters towards the stern of the ship due to inertia and sea wind. It hit the steel rope several times, but luckily it didn't get tangled.
"The wind is too strong!"
Zhang Jian felt that he could not take such a risk.
Fatty Wei said from the side: "Why don't you tie a tactical bag under the rope and throw it down for stability."
Because everyone is heavily armed, they all carry a lot of weapons with them as escorts, and everyone has a tactical bag.
"No, that little weight is useless!" Zhang Jian rejected Fatty Wei's suggestion: "We can only lower the height, and then I will slide down and grab the rope first."
"It's too risky. Look at this rope. You might hit the rope on the way down."
Li Zheng rejected Zhang Jian's idea.
Fatty Wei asked: "If this doesn't work, that won't work, what do you think we should do?"