Chapter 333 I don't have a smaller warship than this
Zhang Ailun was riding a speedboat at sea, some distance away from the center of the explosion. He felt the violent explosion underwater, which suddenly created a whirlpool. The boat was also swaying from side to side, and oxygen bubbles were spraying on the sea surface.
When everything calmed down, the mercenaries used the underwater radar to monitor the band again, and the originally conspicuous source of the opposite sex signal disappeared. This meant that the enemy had been successfully eliminated!
White Wolf breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help cursing: "These damn guys are so omnipresent that they even thought of using submarines to monitor the island."
Zhang Ailun didn't say much, but just instructed: "Have someone put on a diving suit and go down to confirm it."
White Wolf immediately asked two mercenaries who were good at swimming to put on frogman diving suits and oxygen tanks. After they were ready, they dived into the water.
After more than ten minutes, two people swam up from the bottom of the water, holding a piece of iron sheet and a curved turbofan with some words on it.
After climbing onto the yacht, dripping wet, he said, "We found a small civilian submarine made by Scubapro down there. The two pilots are confirmed dead. These are some damaged submarine parts we found."
Zhang Ailun took it and took a look. It was indeed a brand company that provided diving designs specifically for the US Navy. It also had a lot of civilian submarine equipment, but the price of the submarines was generally high, costing several million dollars.
After nodding and confirming that the enemy had been eliminated by the depth charge, he immediately gave the order to return home.
The mercenaries drove two speedboats out of the nearby shallow waters and returned to the southern port.
After landing on the island, Zhang Ailun also asked the mercenaries to strengthen the monitoring of the coastline, and called the captain and the sergeant major of the battleship, asking him to gather people to prepare a series of preparations before the littoral combat ship sailed. Then he drove back to the villa area and asked Gwen to notify the chef John to prepare lunch.
After lunch and a cup of hot tea, at noon, Boktu arrived at Jehovah Island in a Black Hawk helicopter and landed at the airport, bringing mines, spy balloons, and some clay explosives to the chief.
When Zhang Ailun learned of his arrival, he also left the mountaintop villa by car and headed for the airport for pick-up. After getting off the car, he saw the mines and spy balloons that had been unloaded by the Beggar Gang disciples.
The mine looks like a hedgehog and is the size of a human head. It is equipped with a radar signal receiver, fuse and trigger pin, and is filled with TNT explosives. It will explode as long as a collision occurs, and the explosion can also be manually controlled.
Although the power is not great, the number is too dense. They are densely packed underwater. Even if a real submarine Big Black Fish comes by, it will be blown to pieces if it accidentally triggers the mine trap.
The chief leader immediately handed the equipment to Bai Lang, who led the men to place mines in the shallow waters of the nearby bay. He stayed here and directed the Beggars' Sect disciples to launch spy balloons and fill them with hydrogen.
Spy balloons are usually made of lightweight and durable materials such as nylon or polyester. They are divided into two parts, the upper part can be filled with hydrogen for launch, and the lower basket is equipped with reconnaissance equipment and communication systems, including clay explosives for self-destruction.
The equipment includes high-resolution cameras, infrared scanners, radars, etc., which are used to collect images, videos and other intelligence information of the target area.
As well as the turbofan motor remote control equipment and automatic navigation system, it can control a certain moving trajectory and emergency landing, and can reach a maximum altitude of 8000-4 meters.
After arriving at an island highland suitable for launching balloons, Zhang Ailun took out a high-powered astronomical telescope and pointed at the small black dots in the sky. "Do you see those balloons? Blow them all up!"
Boktu nodded, took a look through the telescope at the spy balloon ten thousand meters in the sky, and immediately began to manually operate with the Beggar Gang disciples to fill the spy balloon, connect the signal device, and wait until it expanded to its maximum size before cutting the ropes and letting it fly high into the sky.
Dozens of spy balloons quickly took off and soon became out of reach. The Beggars' Sect disciples also took out their computers, connected their communications equipment, and the cameras also sent back the footage, allowing them to monitor the ground.
The 4k camera's image overlooked the island's ground, and soon the entire outline appeared, and then the graphics became smaller and smaller. Soon the spy balloon's camera flew to altitudes of 5000 meters, 6000 meters, 8000 meters, and meters!
More than a dozen spy balloons also appeared on the screen.
The other party's camera was still swaying left and right, conducting high-altitude surveillance of the island. When it discovered the spy balloon in the same position as itself, it immediately took pictures and transmitted the images back.
"Boss, the opponent's spy balloon has basically nothing installed on it except surveillance cameras. Its purpose is just to implement surveillance." The Beggar Gang disciple replied.
"Don't worry about it, just control our balloon and crash it into it and blow it up!!"
Zhang Ailun took a look at the images sent back by the camera. The enemy spy balloon saw our spy balloon, but not only did it not choose to escape, it was actually floating slowly and taking pictures vigorously. How could we tolerate this?
Crush it for me!!
The Beggar Gang disciples immediately activated the control system, and the spy balloon changed its floating direction and headed straight towards the other party, crashing into it from far to near.
The other party seemed to have sensed the ill intentions of the visitor and turned around and ran away, but perhaps due to a problem with the equipment, the movement speed was too slow and he didn't have time to dodge.
The two collided in the sky, and the clay explosive detonator installed under the spy balloon exploded immediately, and the image transmitted back went black instantly.
Gazing through the telescope, flames were seen high above the head. The enemy's spy balloon was successfully blown up by clay explosives. Tiny fragments fell from the sky and then fell into the sea with the wind.
Zhang Ailun saw that this method was indeed useful and nodded with satisfaction.
This is also the most cost-effective way to attack enemy spy balloons. Otherwise, air-to-air missiles would have to be used to destroy these things, which would cost at least several million dollars.
In the following time, the Beggar Gang disciples used the same trick again and blew up the spy balloons one by one. The camera images on the computer screens went black one by one. Explosions occurred from time to time in the sky, like fireworks. The small black dots disappeared one by one accompanied by flames and fell down. In the end, the only one left in the sky was the spy balloon of the chief.
"How long can these spy balloons stay up there at most?" Zhang Ailun also asked Boktu for relevant information.
"Boss, although these spy balloons are disposable, they are made of nylon cloth. If they are not controlled, they can fly as far as half the world. If they are suspended in a fixed point for a long time, they can last up to four months." Boktu replied.
Then he asked, "Do we need to start the self-destruct procedure?"
"No need. Just let them stay up there. They can also monitor the situation in the nearby sea area and transmit information back in real time." Zhang Ailun immediately handed over the important task of operating the spy balloons to the Beggar Gang disciples.
Although this task can also be accomplished using private satellites, the spy balloons have already been purchased, and there will still be some left after eliminating the enemy's spy balloons. By staying on them, we can monitor the situation in the nearby waters and take pictures of all the ships sailing near the waters of Jehovah Island to be prepared for any eventuality.
He took out the walkie-talkie and called Spike, asking if they were ready to go out to sea.
Spike stood on the littoral combat ship and immediately replied: "Boss, we are ready to sail and can set off at any time."
"Go park the Black Hawk helicopter on the platform as well. We're going to go and destroy some enemy supply ships," Zhang Ailun ordered.
Those flies were flying around the island all day long. If they were not taught a lesson, they would really think that the chief leader was easy to mess with. He turned around and got on the pickup truck, and asked the Beggars' Sect disciples to drive to the southern port.
They soon arrived at the southern port. After getting off the car, they saw that the driver had parked the Black Hawk helicopter on the platform of the littoral combat ship. Zhang Ailun also led his men to approach the combat ship in a small boat and landed on it.
"Boss, Captain Spike leads all the members to report to you! We will follow your command!" Spike ran over and saluted.
"Don't be so serious. Our operation this time will not stray too far from the island waters, and we need to achieve a quick victory. Are the weapons of the combat ships and the various equipment of the ships in good condition?" Zhang Ailun said.
"Boss, the ship's weapon system, communication equipment, navigation system, and power system are all functioning normally," Captain Spike replied formally.
"Set sail, set off." Zhang Ailun gave the order, and asked the mercenaries and the Beggars' Sect disciples who stayed on the island to continue to do their jobs well.
Captain Spike also immediately gave orders, and dozens of people on the battleship began to mobilize, started the engine in the cockpit, and turned around and left the port area with a buzzing sound.
"Boss, are we going to conduct an exercise this time, or carry out a strike mission? Who is the target enemy?" Spike came back with the sergeant major and asked.
"They are some international illegal organizations. They have been harassing the safety of my island. I just cooperated with the people in the team to shoot down one of their civilian submarines and the spy balloon overhead."
Zhang Allen took out his phone and shared the coordinates with them. "This is the approximate location of their supply ship at sea, and also where the hackers and gunmen are operating the spy balloon. There are dozens of people in total, but they are not together and their locations are relatively scattered."
Spike was surprised and said, "When we were patrolling yesterday, the radar showed that there were some ships in the nearby waters, but we found the pirates' speedboats at the time and drove them away. We didn't have time to deal with them. We thought they were just some merchant ships passing by. We didn't expect that they had bad intentions."
"We didn't notice the submarines because they seemed to have only been deployed nearby last night. We haven't been out to sea for patrols today."
This is because the number of available warships is too small to allow for regular military deployment and patrols.
If the patrol time is three shifts, the enemy will definitely not have any time to sneak in.
But if there are really so many warships, who is the chief helmsman guarding against? Is he really treating his island as a private country?
It is also very simple to solve this problem.
"After we go back, have White Wolf make a patrol report and have people drive speedboats to patrol the nearby waters at irregular intervals, day and night."
Zhang Ailun said: "Once we use the littoral combat ships to destroy these supply ships, those guys will definitely have no idea about monitoring the island in a short period of time."
If we don't strike hard and teach them a lesson, those people will really think that the battleship of the chief leader is a model toy. We have to use a butcher knife to kill a chicken! Because the chief leader really doesn't have a warship smaller than this.
Having too many warships is also very expensive, and the cost-effectiveness is not as good as that of sea speedboats. A combat ship goes out for a trip and does nothing, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars just to come back for a ride.
There are also maintenance fees, food expenses, and wages. You really can't afford this thing if you don't have money.
"Understood." Spike nodded in agreement.
Driving the littoral combat ship, braving the wind and waves on the sea, he soon arrived at the designated sea area.
The sergeant discovered the source of the opposite sex signal through the radar signal and reported, "Report to the captain! Report to the boss! There is a situation."
"Call me Commander," said Zhang Ailun.
"Report to the commander! We have detected multiple radar signals in the nearby waters. Should we launch a long-range attack on them?" asked the sergeant major.
"No need, Sergeant. Do you know how much an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile costs?" Zhang Ailun asked.
The sergeant was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the chief asked this, but he answered honestly: "Reporting to the commander, the price of a Longbow Hellfire missile is about 68000 US dollars."
"That's right, 68000 US dollars. This missile is enough to open a box for the King of Land Warfare! You want me to shoot down a few supply ships? They are not even worth one of my missiles." Zhang Ailun said unhappily.
He reminded again: "There is no need to turn on the fire control radar, just go over and use your size to intimidate them!! If necessary, you can start the Black Hawk helicopter, drive the sea speedboat to surround them, and pass the message to them! If they don't understand human language, then use an RPG rocket to shave their heads with a machine gun!"
At least RPGs are cheap. The cheapest RPG-7 only costs $100 per rocket.
The more expensive stinger costs $2, and the export price is generally $5.
"Understood!" the sergeant immediately gave the order.
The behemoth Littoral Combat Ship approached menacingly.
At this time, a civilian supply ship was still leisurely parked on the sea level.
The captain in the captain's room, Robinson, the leader of an internationally notorious theft team, was having an in-depth conversation with a Latin American female team member. The Spanish theme song of a pay-per-view program was also heard from the captain's room, and the table was shaking violently and crackling.
The hacker team member sat in the radar room of the cabin, monitoring the graphics on the radar, and found no response, so he yawned out of boredom.
Several people on the deck were playing cards and drinking, each holding an AK hanging around their necks. One of them had a good hand and won the game, so he couldn't help but burst into laughter, "I won! Twenty times the prize! Give me the money!!"
"You're lucky this time!" The person next to him muttered, unconvinced, "Come again!!"
"Come on... wait, what is that?" The team members rolled up their sleeves and were ready to get to work, when they looked up and suddenly saw a small black shadow appearing on the sea level.
He rubbed his eyes, took out a telescope and took a closer look. He couldn't help but be shocked, "There's a warship!!"
(End of this chapter)
