The sea breeze is blowing in the Southeast Asia at the end of May. Now is the eve of the annual typhoon season, and the operating ships on the sea west of the Philippines have become extra cautious.
Gu Kun stood on the bow of the "Nightingale", facing the undulations of the sea breeze as if he were walking on flat ground. He missed this feeling very much.
Gu Kun was born in Lanfang. There are no typhoons in his hometown, including neighboring Malay and Indonesia, which are not very affected by typhoons.
Historically, typhoons have only hit the northwest Pacific coast, mainly the three major components of the first island chain: Japan, the Gulf and the Philippines, which are the first line of typhoons. After crossing this island chain, they will attack the Chinese coast.
Every year, if there are typhoons that hit the Guangdong and Guangxi regions of China, most of them will pass through the Philippines. Similarly, the typhoons that hit Hu Jian and Donghai Province will pass through the Gulf, Jiangnan, and Shandong, and the typhoons may pass through Japan.
"Looking at the weather conditions this year, if the operation cannot be completed before the end of June, it may have to be postponed until after the typhoon season - Boss, you know that such a large-scale and precise salvage operation requires at least one or two
The weather and sea conditions have been stable for months. If it is frequently interrupted by typhoon warnings, it will be half the result with half the effort."
Next to Gu Kun, Du Guowei, the captain of the "Nightingale" wrapped tightly in his windbreaker, timidly reported the difficulties to his boss tactfully.
Although Du Guowei has been at sea for several years, he is a scholar after all. He majored in ocean engineering exploration at Jiaotong University and has a serious technical geek. After all, he cannot face all the changes in the sea as freely as Gu Kun.
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He felt that it was too funny for a big boss who was already worth billions of dollars to go to the bow of the ship to enjoy the sea breeze instead of sitting in the captain's cabin and watching the storm.
Do you think it's an ukiyo-e painting of Togo Heihachiro? In order to show the so-called "valor", the admiral in the picture has to step on the side of the boat with one leg, and also extends the katana out of the side of the ship in the direction of the Lucian warship and waves it?
Gu Kun was quite considerate of his subordinates and immediately expressed his stance: "I didn't ask you to get the boat up immediately. First make the precise positioning and construction plan, complete the preparations, and it won't be too late to fish it out after the typhoon season. This time
, the key is to thwart that old thief Mitchell Hatcher.”
Hearing what Gu Kun said, Du Guowei breathed a sigh of relief: "But if it is to cause trouble for Hatcher, what should we do? We can't use force directly."
"I have my own way to do this - as long as Mitchell Hatcher does not abide by the provisions related to navigation safety in the field of international law and the law of the sea, I have many ways to make him suffer for himself and die unjustly." Gu Kun did not want to say more for the time being.
"Okay, then I hope our first step will go smoothly. We will find the specific coordinates of 'Nanyang No. 1' first." Du Guowei did not dare to ask any more questions.
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Just a few days later, Gu Kun's fleet quickly sailed to the Chinese waters about 200 nautical miles west and north of Manila.
For most of Mitchell Hatcher's colleagues, the most difficult point in sniping him is to confirm the true location of "Nanyang-1".
After all, in order to spread smoke bombs, Mitchell Hatcher deliberately applied for more than a dozen survey points, and the scope was as vague as possible, so others had no idea where his actual main search locations were.
It's a pity that all this is the least of problems for Gu Kun. Who let him see the relevant data in his previous life? Especially since the ship is the number one treasure in Nanyang, the records have become more detailed and impressive.
This day is June 6th, Manzhong, a weekend.
At dawn on the ocean 110 nautical miles due west of Cape Agno.
The USS Fokker, a scientific research vessel registered in Panama, saw on radar a bright spot approaching 40 nautical miles northwest of the ship.
"The speed of the incoming ship is 30 knots! It is suspected to be a high-speed warship, definitely not an ordinary merchant ship!"
The radar warning officer on the "Fokker" immediately reported to the captain Sir Harris.
Harris is Mitchell Hatcher's old partner. Originally, when Hatcher was not on the flagship, Harris would play the role of captain.
This time, in order to spread suspicion, the cunning Hatcher even tried to escape from the shell, leaving Harris in full charge of the Fokker.
Because the "Fokker" is so famous, this "research ship" built in the Southampton Shipyard in the late 1980s has followed the treasure thief Mitchell Hatcher across the seven seas for the past ten years.
I recognize this boat.
Although Hatcher applied for many confusing temporary exploration areas, if he directly let his flagship squat at one of the points, it would easily expose the coordinates of the main target.
Therefore, Hatcher deliberately used a less famous boat, combined with some other secret equipment, to make preliminary preparations near the real target point, and then asked Harris to take the "Fokker" for a grand "dog walk".
Just like when playing Identity V, the main force who really cracks the cipher machine is very low-key. The rugby player who walks around with the Predator is basically a cover.
"Ginger is still hot. Boss, with this trick, he really deceived those stupid yellow people! The one coming must be the 'Nightingale'. When the time comes, we must strictly abide by the law of the sea and fight with them sternly.
Confrontation, delaying time, it is best to create opportunities and excuses for the Filipinos to intervene in law enforcement!
Don’t be afraid, everyone, Gu Kun has fallen into the trap, and we will definitely win! Although we did not personally lift the boat, the boss will not treat us badly when distributing the benefits!"
After Sir Harris confirmed the situation on the radar, he immediately explained the situation to all his subordinates on the ship and gave some words of encouragement.
According to the intelligence, according to the speed shown on the radar, as long as it is not a foreign high-speed ship above a destroyer, it can only be Gu Kun's "Nightingale".
"Get rid of those yellow people! We Bretons are a sea people!" In any country, the national attention of poor people is stronger, so the white sailors at the bottom of Brittany soon developed a rare sense of superiority.
, as if he was eager to try and was taken advantage of.
There is no way, these snow-skinned dolphins are nothing at all in China. They have been treated as comparison objects and have been oppressed for a long time. Now that they finally have the opportunity to discriminate against foreigners and regain their psychological balance, how can they not take the opportunity to vent?
Just like the poorest part of Koreans, they are also the most active in discriminating against Ah San when he regains his sense of superiority. This is the same reason.
Everyone on the ship immediately prepared for the attack.
Unfortunately, the situation did not go as Sir Harris expected.
"Eh? Captain, the direction of the incoming ship doesn't seem to be heading towards us. Judging from this trajectory, they are likely to pass by 15 nautical miles north of us."
After observing the radar for several minutes and plotting the trajectory of the incoming ship, the radar operator immediately discovered the problem.
Sir Harris was stunned: "Huh? They are not coming for us? Our smoke bombs did not work? This is impossible! They probably want to put on a show and are too embarrassed to come directly to disrupt the situation."
After all, the person who copied the answer had to pretend that he had done the homework first. How could he copy the answer directly without having to solve the problem directly?
Harris felt that he was right, so he missed another opportunity to inform and respond in advance.
It wasn't until about an hour later that he was completely convinced that he was wrong.
"Captain! They didn't seem to be fooled! They just left without even looking at us. Their navigation track should be heading in the direction of San Felipe!" the radar operator reported again.
Harris calculated the trajectory and was surprised: "No way? How could Gu Kun guess so accurately? He immediately went straight to the coordinates where the boss was personally in charge? Could it be that he really did it on his own in the past few years in Nanhua Xiahai?
Have you discovered so much precise information?"
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Gu Kun was like a badass chicken-eating contestant who had used the smoke-piercing device. The smoke bombs thrown by the opponent did not exist at all in his eyes.
So he headed straight for the real target point with murderous intent.
Even when he was still dozens of nautical miles away from the target sea area, he changed ships in advance and transferred from the "Nightingale" to a Kilo-class conventional submarine just named "Seagull".
Gu Kun spent hundreds of millions of yuan to buy this ship, but as we all know, the country of origin is not China, but the Lucian people built it in the Khabarovsk region of the Far East (the one north of Haishengwei belongs to the Lucian Far East region
, there are also ports and shipyards there. After the disintegration of Lucia, Asian countries asked the Lucians to buy Kilo-class, and they basically bought them from here because of the proximity)
Gu Kun uses Huaxia's business relationship to purchase things for no other reason than to get a slight discount and carry out safe and harmless modifications - Lucia people like to watch people sell things and trick customers the most. If the customer's own technical strength is poor,
If the inspection level is low, then I will sell you a high-priced and low-quality product.
For example, Asanguo often asks Lucians to buy submarines, but the products they get often have many hidden dangers and are prone to funny incidents like the "Sindulakshak".
(Note: The "Sindurakshak" incident happened in Mumbai in 2013. Aging quality and insufficient fool-proof design are partly to blame, but they are absolutely secondary responsibilities. The main responsibility is Ah San's own misoperation.
Do it.
The launch fuse circuit of a Kilo-class anti-ship missile that was being overhauled in the dock was short-circuited. Combined with other misoperations, two missiles were fired without opening the launch hatch. As a result, the first one hit the launch hatch.
, sunk itself. The second one was finally fired from the launch hatch, but it was of no use because it was parked in the dock of the Bombay Shipyard at the time, and the dock was also blown up)
Gu Kun asked an agent with Huaxia's inspection capabilities to purchase it on his behalf. Not only would he not be easily cheated, but it would also be cheaper.
Ah San came forward to buy a Kilo-class for two to three hundred million U.S. dollars, but Gu Kun's second-hand product didn't even cost 1 billion yuan, which was half the price of Ah San.
Of course, the peace-loving Lanfang people dismantled all the missile launchers before getting the goods. Lanfang does not need missiles. This ship is nominally for anti-smuggling, and it will attack those who drive submarines to Lanfang.
Used by bad guys who take away things.
If Gu Kun wants to crush those tomb robbers, even relying on the Kiro class to crush them to death is enough.
"Captain, the sonar has captured the other party's signal. The distance is 17 nautical miles. It should be a medium-sized scientific research submarine."
"They have never applied for the right of passage to the territorial sea country. According to international law, any submarine should come up and pass. We pretended not to hear and went over to crush it."
It's dark under the sea, so it makes sense that the sonar is malfunctioning and you can't hear anything.
Who told Hatcher to violate the law of the sea in the first place, right?