The J-8FR three-plane formation with the radio call sign Instructor searched north from the southern edge. Calculated based on the time, if pirates have appeared, they will definitely be sailing from south to north. The armed patrol time is not random.
It is formulated based on passing ship information 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 is to rob merchant ships. Of course they go for merchant ships. West Pacific pirates are very experienced pirates and are very good at taking advantage of the Internet. International navigation information is public, and you need to find out the voyage of that merchant ship.
It is not difficult to find the route or even the time node, just like checking the flight status.
Based on the analysis of past robbery cases, Li Zhan and others basically determined that every time the West Pacific pirates set out, they had a clear purpose, rather than just robbing any ship they encountered like the Malacca pirates. This kind of pirates can be called professional
Pirates, that's how they survive.
After the devastating blow, the remaining force of the West Pacific pirates should only be a few armed ships of 1,800 tons. Even so, they are still a more powerful maritime criminal force 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 cruise ship of more than 40,000 tons. Judging from these characteristics, Li Zhan believed that the West Pacific pirates
The main target is to put it on the cruise ship.
There are a lot of tourists on cruise ships, and the tourists have a lot of property. 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 play such low-level tricks as hijacking large oil tankers and demanding ransoms from cargo ships.
Well, what they were doing was a blitzkrieg. They would rob whatever valuables there were on the ship and then leave after they had robbed them.
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.
It is extremely difficult for Pacific pirates, just as criminal activities in the world cannot disappear completely. After the devastating blow, Western Pacific pirates will definitely be more cautious and low-key, which means that it will be more difficult to crack down on them. This is also true for all criminal activities.
basic characteristics.
Of course, Li Zhan and the others have a clear target, but not one, but multiple. Oil tankers, freighters transporting high value-added commodities such as electronic products, automobiles, and mechanical parts. These two types of ships are the key targets. Until dawn
There will probably be more than a dozen ships sailing on the international waterways in the mission waters.
Therefore, during the extensive 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 a war, the most difficult thing to do is to mobilize the enemy and let him
The enemy moves 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 a British cruise ship that traveled around the world. Most of these passengers were Japanese, but also some Koreans, Americans, French, British, Australians, Singaporeans,
There were between one and two hundred people, and the remaining nearly three thousand people were 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?
Didn't even realize 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 fallen asleep, the cruise's rich night activity venues were still full. Men and women listened to songs and drank alcohol to stimulate their nerves, trying to find
Get some new excitement.
More tourists fell asleep. On the huge cruise ship with a displacement of more than 100,000 people, which was as stable as land, even the wave height of several meters could not affect the smooth sailing of this behemoth. It is said that if it encounters the "Titanic" again
It would not have sunk even if it encountered an iceberg. It is also said that it would take more than a dozen anti-ship missiles to sink it.
It's just 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 happened, the "Queen of Bertha"
The ship will arrive at the port city called Jilongpo in four days.
The Kitahira Akikawa couple took part in a global oil tanker trip that sailed from Yokohama, Japan, 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 along with several European men. In the end, their secret was revealed, and the two ran to the deck to quarrel and confront each other. Kitakawa
Riqiuchuan 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, the ship's building, and the cockpit of the ship's building were hit by one, causing more than a dozen casualties. However, the cruise ship's navigation in the autopilot state was not affected. After everyone reacted,
Previously, the second round of shelling came over. This time there were more shells, and they all hit the deck. More than a dozen shells were sparsely dropped on the more than 300-meter-long deck. From the perspective of attack firepower, such a shelling
The effect is 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 at the moment! Therefore, the second round of shelling caused greater casualties, and hundreds of people were injured or killed in this round of shelling.
It was only then that the crew discovered that they had been shelled, and the shells came from the armed ships rushing towards them from both sides in front. The two armed ships were at least thousands of tons. The high-power searchlights on the masts shone in unison, and two beams
A huge beam of light hit the deck of the even larger "Queen of Bertha".
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 you only use the 76 mm caliber Alto naval gun, without considering ammunition, it will take at least several hours of continuous shooting to sink the "Queen of Bertha".
The size and displacement of the "Queen of Bertha" are really too large. 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. Let alone such a giant ship.
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, ordered the engine room to stop the ship without the slightest hesitation.
More than a dozen corpses and injured people in the cockpit told him that more people would die if the ship was not stopped. This was a pirate with extremely powerful firepower and an extremely ferocious nature!
When he sent a distress signal according to the emergency plan, he discovered that the communication antenna was broken and could only receive no response. 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 huge body of the cruise ship and
At a higher speed, there is 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 more serious.
Let them only seek wealth.
The captain finally made the right decision and sent a distress signal using a satellite phone.