Chapter 334 Naval Battle
The team members' shocked attitude also stunned the other people for a moment. It was as if a depth charge had been detonated, and the tension quickly spread.
Several people hurriedly picked up the telescope and took a look. When they saw the littoral combat ship on the sea level, it looked like a huge monster approaching at a very fast speed against the wind and waves. They were all scared out of their wits.
"Fxxk! Why are there warships coming here?!"
"Why didn't anyone remind me?!"
"It's over! It's the US military!!!"
Pessimism suddenly overwhelmed me.
The hacker in the radar room heard the noise and became confused. He looked at the radar that didn't respond and immediately walked out, cursing: "Hey! What are you bastards arguing about? Where did the warships and American troops come from in broad daylight... WTF!!"
The next second, he looked at the outline of the warship in the distance in amazement, as if he had seen a ghost.
When he came to his senses and confirmed again and again that it was indeed a littoral combat ship, he ran to the captain's room in a panic without looking back, knocked on the door frantically, and shouted: "Captain! It's bad! A warship is coming!!"
Soon, I heard cursing coming from inside through the door.
"Warship? Was it discovered on radar?"
The captain pushed open the door, held up his trousers, wiped the lipstick marks on his face, and asked calmly.
Their speedboat is small in size and was converted from a retired Mexican patrol boat. It is equipped with three diesel engines and can travel very fast on the sea with a range of several hundred kilometers. It also has advanced military radar equipment. By the time the enemy approaches, they will have already discovered it and run away!
"It wasn't discovered by radar. We discovered it with our eyes." The hacker answered honestly.
"???"
The captain looked confused.
What do you mean? Not picked up on radar?
Is that some kind of backward fishing boat? There's not even a radar on board?
The hacker replied again: "They are driving a stealth combat ship, which is less than 5 kilometers away. They are almost face to face with us and will soon be in front of us."
"…WTF!?"
The captain was horrified when he heard this.
5 kilometers? Stealth combat ship?
So what’s the difference between them and the dead now?
He quickly pushed the hacker away and ran out of the corridor. He came to the deck and took a look. When he looked through the telescope, he saw the pitch-black behemoth. The alloy steel emitted a cold light under the sunlight. The strong ship and powerful guns made their small supply ship look like an inconspicuous ant in comparison.
I couldn't help but feel my eyes go dark and I felt like the sky was falling.
As we all know, the closest strike range of the Littoral Combat Ship's Longbow Hellfire missile is 8000 meters, and the strike range of the 30mm naval gun is 2 kilometers.
caliber machine guns do not count for the time being.
And this is already its shortest muzzle. Apart from the crew's rifles and pistols, there are no other weapons shorter than this.
As for other weapons and equipment, the strike range of 57mm naval guns is about 17 kilometers, and the naval missiles are even beyond visual range of more than 200 kilometers.
It's like you haven't even seen the shadow of the ship, but a missile falls from the sky and you've already become a scum.
The chief leader still has humanitarianism in mind and gives you a chance to speak instead of choosing to blow you into ashes with one shot and send you to meet God.
"Commander, we've spotted the supply ship." The littoral combat ship on the other side had already spotted the supply ship a few minutes ago.
Zhang Ailun also landed on the watchtower and took out a telescope to take a look. He found the inverted triangle-shaped supply ship on the sea level. It looked neither like a cruise ship nor a speedboat. There was a radar-like signal dish and antenna on the top. He asked in confusion, "What kind of ship is this?"
"It should be a modified patrol boat from the Mexican Navy. This type of boat often passes through this sea area, and people also gather at sea to conduct black market maritime trade. Since this type of boat is relatively small, it is faster than ordinary cargo ships and has a good endurance. It does not need to undergo customs inspection when it enters the Mexican sea port, so it is very popular among those lawless criminals. However, this type of boat is usually rented, and the owner of the boat should have some relationship with the Mexican navy."
The well-informed Captain Spike explained: "Because of the tariffs on the West Coast and the Mexican tariffs, they usually pull the goods to the sea for small trade, and then transport them to the Mexican waters through the port of Guatemala, through the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, directly to Houston, Texas, or to Haiti, Cuba, Colombia and other regions. Trade in the Caribbean is almost unimpeded."
"Maritime trade?" The chief leader was a little surprised. He felt that he was indeed lacking in knowledge, but it should be said that there were too many talented people in this world!
What's going on between Mexico and the US? Why aren't they being attacked? Could they be the CIA's dogs outside again?
After observing for a minute, the chief was surprised to find that the ship did not move at all? It was still in the same place?
He gave the order directly, "They didn't even choose to escape? They want to fight us head-on? Who do they think I am? Drive the boat over!!"
"Yes!!"
Spike directly conveyed the order from the chief, and the littoral combat ship approached the patrol boat at an extremely fast speed. With the momentum of a dark cloud pressing down on a city, in just a few minutes, they were almost face to face with each other. Even if they wanted to run, they couldn't!
At this distance, Zhang Ailun could also clearly see the panic in the faces of those on the deck. When the soldiers on the battleships had drawn their weapons and were ready to show their swords, or even when they were already on the Black Hawk helicopters and were ready to start them, they raised their hands at the speed of light and began shouting and screaming, wanting to surrender.
The chief leader immediately took out the intercom and conveyed the message to them through the loudspeaker, "I am Juanjin from Jehovah Island. Who is the leader here? Listen, I know very well what you have done to my island and what you are planning. Now as long as you lay down your weapons and surrender obediently, I will consider not actively hurting you. Otherwise, just wait to be chopped into pieces by me!"
"Where is the captain? Who is the captain?"
The loud speaker of the broadcasting machine sounded loud and clear, resounding over the sea. The captain of the supply ship had just come out, still immersed in the fear of the intimidation of the littoral combat ship. When he heard the sound, he suddenly came to his senses, and his expression changed at the speed of light. He turned around without hesitation and ran into the cabin and ran towards the cockpit.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw the hacker arguing fiercely with the driver, and they were even fighting.
One of them shouted, "Hurry up and sail away from this damn place."
One of them would rather die than surrender, and kept shouting: "This is my boat! I decide where to go! You haven't even paid for the boat yet!"
"What are you doing!?" The captain walked forward angrily and pulled the two apart, saying angrily: "The enemy is already right in front of us, why are you still fighting! Why don't you try to leave here?" "He doesn't drive the boat! He doesn't even give me the chance to start the small ship. If I leave here now, I might still have a chance to get rid of the warship. The other party may not use or load lethal weapons!" said the hacker.
"The result is that as soon as we run out, we will be smashed to pieces by the enemy's missiles or naval guns, and then my patrol boat will also be destroyed and sink to the bottom of the sea!"
The driver was a fat man with a big beard. He accidentally suffered a loss in the scuffle and was very unconvinced because he was only ambushed in a hurry.
He said sarcastically: "Did you see what kind of ship that is? That's a warship! America's littoral combat ship! Do you think its combat capability at sea is weak? Come on! It just has poor defense capabilities and can't protect itself from anti-ship missiles, but its attack capability is not weak at all, and its speed is ridiculously fast!"
"This battleship has a 57mm long-range gun with a maximum strike range of 17 kilometers! The 30mm gun has a strike range of 2 kilometers! Not to mention the short-range anti-ship missiles. The battleship's NSM naval missile has a strike range of 200 kilometers! Run? Where can you run?"
"It's also a stealth combat ship! It has already come right up to our face and no one has noticed it. The farthest distance is less than 2 kilometers. It turns out that the radar system that this ship is so proud of has no effect on it!" The driver was very excited and talked about everything like ordinary daily life.
As someone who often sails on the sea, he must know American warships and American equipment. He knows the specific models and configurations of any warship or even a speedboat. In this sea, don’t mess with the US military! !
"If the enemy really wanted to destroy us, the missiles would have already flown over from 200 kilometers away and destroyed our ships before we even saw them!"
The hacker argued, sweat dripping down his face, "Juan Jin is on that warship! He is the new owner of Jehovah Island, a billionaire! There is no doubt that he has discovered the little tricks we played on him, and has fought back! He wants to kill all of us! And he wants to capture us alive! If we are caught by him, we will definitely be worse off than dead!"
"So what? Do you know what kind of person he is?" asked the driver.
“All I know is that he’s rich.”
The captain cursed and said, "Fuck, it's because those guys from Acr said there's a chance to get a huge fortune from the island. Prian's security team is like a decoration, they've been infiltrated like a sieve, and they've been robbed several times by people taking advantage of the chaos. He's a well-known fool with a lot of money!"
"In our circle, Jehovah Island is one of the easiest treasure islands to steal from. It is the safest and most cost-effective to steal from! We thought he would be like Priam, and the security team was just a decoration, but we didn't expect him to be serious! This is terrible."
The driver sneered: "Anyway, I'm just a boat driver. This matter has nothing to do with me! At worst, I can give him the boat in exchange for my life."
"He will just take your boat and chop me up and feed me to sharks," the hacker threatened. "Maybe he will even be so sincere to you that he will sell all your organs!"
"I have lung cancer and syphilis." The driver spread his hands indifferently.
You bastard, are you a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water?
The hacker was so angry that he said, "Give me the key!!"
"No!" the driver cursed.
The two men started to fight again, cursing at each other. Seeing this, the captain also joined the fight. The driver fought back but was outnumbered and was eventually pinned to the ground and beaten up. They successfully took away the keys to the speedboat.
"Where is the captain! I'm telling you one last time! Go find your captain and bring him here!!"
The sound of the horn outside was like a death warrant, making the two men anxious and sweating. They took the speedboat key and prepared to go to another cabin, start the spare speedboat and start running away.
The gunner on the deck who had raised his hands in surrender waited for a long time but the captain did not come out, so he tremblingly suggested: "Mr. Jin, we can go to the cabin to escort the people over. Can you let us go?"
"You are not qualified to bargain with me! My patience is limited. Now, either bring the people here, or I will attack now! Kill you!" Zhang Ailun scolded.
"Let's go now!!"
The gunmen quickly climbed up and ran into the cabin to search for people, but they could not find anyone except the pilot with a bleeding head in the cockpit.
"Commander, they seem to have escaped in a speedboat." The sergeant looked through the telescope and saw a speedboat going into the water ahead. A Latina woman tried to get on the boat, but unfortunately fell into the water during the struggle. The two people on the speedboat also drove away without looking back.
"Tsk." Zhang Ailun lost his patience when he saw this scene. Who gave them the courage to outrun the littoral combat ship on the sea?
Even if you can outrun a battleship, can you outrun a missile?
"You left your own people here to take the blame, but you, as the boss, ran away. You are such a beast."
Zhang Ailun cursed. If he had chosen to stay and face the chief leader, then the chief leader would still look up to him. Now he abandoned his own people and ran away? I despise this kind of rotten coward the most! !
He immediately gave the order, "Let go of the speedboat and bring back the person, even the body. Also rescue the woman who fell into the water."
"Understood." The sergeant immediately began to mobilize. The soldiers lowered two speedboats, mounted machine guns on the boats, started the engines, and rushed out in a flash.
They quickly reached the spot where the woman fell into the water and pulled her up. The other speedboat did not stop but rushed towards the speedboat and held on tightly.
Soon, the sound of gunfire was heard from the front. Not long after, the chief saw the soldiers driving the speedboat back.
After retrieving the speedboat and landing on the battleship, they also reported to the chief commander: "Report to the commander! We have sunk the speedboat. It is confirmed that the target has been killed and sunk to the bottom of the sea. Judging from the other party's driving trajectory, they should want to go to the location of the next supply ship to seek assistance."
"Send personnel to land and take control of this supply ship." Zhang Ailun gave the order.
Another speedboat approached the supply ship, landed it, and dragged the woman who fell into the water aboard.
Zhang Ailun passed through the bridge built by the ships of both sides and reached the deck of the supply ship unimpeded. Soldiers carrying long guns and short guns stood guard on the deck to keep alert, while the others ran into the cabin and began searching, and soon brought people to the deck.
Reporting: "Commander! All the personnel on this supply ship, 7 men and 1 woman, are here."
Zhang Ailun looked at the fat man with blood all over his face and the other gunmen, and didn't care about the Latino woman who was vomiting on the armrest.
He asked, "Which team are you from? Was the one who escaped before the leader of your organization?"
(End of this chapter)
