Although the pirates were eventually driven away, the joint operations team also paid a lot of costs.

What's more, the scale of the pirate assembly this time is far greater than before, the scale of hundreds of pirates, even now Zheng Mingchuan thinks about it, he feels a little frightened. Of course, beyond that, there's more anger.

The most important thing is that due to various reasons, not only the navy of Huaxia, but also the navies of all countries in the world will not kill these pirates when carrying out escort operations, and to a certain extent, it has increased the arrogance of these pirates.

"What we can do now is to train ourselves well, and when we encounter a situation, we can quickly attack, drive away the pirates in the first place, and ensure the safety of merchant ships!"

Lin Guoze didn't know the meaning of Zheng Mingchuan's words, but Lin Guoze could only say such words at this time.

"What a!"

Seeing this, Zheng Mingchuan couldn't help but complain.

"Now that the tanker is safe and the matter is over, let's focus on the future!" Looking at the angry look, Lin Guoze opened the topic and said, "According to the forecast of the meteorological department, in the next month, there will be sandstorms at sea in the sea area we escort, which will bring huge trouble to our escort operations!"

Sure enough, Zheng Mingchuan in the last second heard Lin Guoze's words in the next second, his expression suddenly became solemn, although Zheng Mingchuan was carrying out escort operations for the first time, but he was no stranger to sandstorms at sea.

Dust storms at sea do not form on their own on the surface of the sea, but are blown to the surface by strong monsoons. And some sandstorms, like air masses, move on the surface of the sea, sometimes very fast.

And in the waters of the Gulf of Somalia-Aden, this time of year is the time of year when sandstorms at sea are frequent, which has a huge impact on passing ships.

In the escort operations of the escort formations of Huaxia State in the past, they have also encountered such weather conditions many times. Once such a situation is encountered, the warship will be covered with a thick layer of yellow sand, and in order to ensure the normal operation of the warship's equipment, the personnel on the warship need to clean the warship regularly.

And, more importantly, pirates operating in this area often take advantage of sandstorms to attack merchant ships.

Because when the sandstorm passes through the sea, the carrier-based helicopter can not take off many times, if it really wants to take off, it needs the best helicopter pilot control, because in the sandstorm, not only the visibility is almost zero, and flying in the sandstorm, it is easy for the helicopter to lose control, and then be directly swept into the sea.

In such a situation, if there is an incident of pirate attacks on merchant ships, it will bring huge problems to the escort formation.

"What are your plans?"

Looking at Zheng Mingchuan, who was frowning, Lin Guoze thought for a long time before asking.

After hearing this, Zheng Mingchuan, who had just raised his head, finally spoke: "First of all, the most important thing to ensure is the overall problem of the formation. We must ensure that all the merchant ships in the formation are in contact with each other, and when problems are discovered, they can be reported in time!"

"In addition, some members of the Marine Corps will be assigned to the merchant ships in the formation, and the members of the joint operations team will be ready to support them at any time as a mobile force! If these pirates really take advantage of the sandstorm at sea to attack the merchant ships, we can only rely on high-speed speedboats to provide emergency support when the helicopters cannot provide support!" said Zheng Mingchuan, who looked solemn.

After listening to Zheng Mingchuan's words, Lin Guoze also nodded in agreement, but after thinking of something, Lin Guoze, whose expression also became solemn, said: "If the pirates attack our merchant ships, the matter is easy to solve, according to the speed of the speedboat, it will only take ten minutes to arrive at the latest, and the merchant ship can fully hold on until the arrival of the speedboat." However, if we receive a distress signal from other merchant ships in the escort area, if the rescue distance is too long, we will not be able to rescue in time!"

When Lin Guoze said the ordinary, Zheng Mingchuan's brows wrinkled again, and after thinking for a long time, Zheng Mingchuan, who raised his head, could only speak: "If such a thing really happens at that time, we can only do our best to rescue!"

"That's all there is to it!"

Listening to the helplessness in Zheng Mingchuan's tone, Lin Guoze also replied very helplessly.

While discussing these matters at the formation headquarters, the helicopter that took off from Colonel Li Kang's warship had successfully carried the seriously wounded man and arrived on the integrated supply ship, and the doctor on the comprehensive supply ship also quickly began surgery to remove the bullet from the security officer's body.

At the same time, the nurses of the three medical teams also got on the helicopter with sufficient medical equipment and prepared to go to the oil tanker dozens of nautical miles away to treat the joint combat team and other injured personnel.

On the other side, the personnel on the Li Kang warship who were cleaning up the propellers also took the members of the tanker and quickly launched the water, separating the fishing nets and various things on the propellers with sabers.

In order to completely entangle the huge propeller, these pirates spent a lot of money, and it took more than an hour to clean it up with more than a dozen people in turn.

While the tanker was regaining power, all members of the joint operations team, as well as those injured crew members, were treated in a timely manner with the help of three medical team nurses.

When it was close to evening, the oil tankers that accelerated their speed to catch up with the escort formation were escorted by warships before they caught up with the escort formation, and then officially joined the escort formation.

And after some arrangement, the escort formation of an additional oil tanker set off again, along the long-planned route, towards the destination.

More than a week later, the escort group, which officially passed through the waters of the Somalia-Gulf of Aden, successfully arrived in the predetermined sea area. During this period, although there was no sandstorm at sea as Zheng Mingchuan imagined, there were still pirates who tried to sneak attack, but in the end they did not let the pirates succeed.

The entire escort formation also added several merchant ships from all over the world, and these were also added to the escort formation along the way, and when they received the distress signal from these merchant ships, they successfully drove away the pirates who tried to hold these merchant ships hostage.

After arriving at the destination sea area, the escort formation continued to sail towards the next sea area after a day's work. Although the new batch of escort formations of Huaxia State successfully completed this escort mission, the escort formations that had already received the escort mission again needed to immediately set off for the new sea area to join up with the merchant ships assembled there and continue the escort operation.

This is also the most important thing for the escort formation in the next few months. Although each batch of escort formations in Huaxia only has a few months of escort time, in these few months, each batch of escort formations needs to escort dozens of missions, and the number of ships escorted will reach hundreds!

Soon, after arriving at the predetermined sea area, after all the ships escorted had arrived in the sea area on time, the third escort operation of the escort formation kicked off again.

Not long after the escort formation set off, early one morning, when the members of the joint operations team got up and went to the deck for daily training, they found that today's weather was different from before.

The whole sky was gray, and the decks and railings of the warships, everywhere that could be seen with the naked eye, were covered with a thick layer of sand, and the smell of sand and dust was also permeating the air.

Looking up, the sun that had just risen, because of this weather, looked more like a large egg yolk.

"What is this?"

Looking at the wall of sand and dust on the sea not far away, although the members of the joint operations team were very familiar with similar phenomena, it was the first time they had encountered them at sea.

"It's a sandstorm at sea!"

At this time, as the hatch opened, a second-class non-commissioned officer with several soldiers, carrying iron buckets, walked out of it.

"Squad Leader Sun!"

After seeing each other, the people of the joint operations team also greeted each other very warmly.

The squad leader in front of him, surnamed Sun, is the maintenance and management personnel on the warship, responsible for the daily maintenance and management of the warship, and is also responsible for the sanitation of the warship by the way.

"Well, is it the first time you've seen such a scene at sea?"

With a smile on his face, squad leader Sun walked in front of the joint operations team, pointed to the gray sky, and asked.

By the time Squad Leader Sun said this, the other soldiers had already dispersed, and they were carrying iron buckets, wringing out their towels and wiping the deck of the warship.

"Squad Leader Sun, how can there be a sandstorm on the sea?"

Yu Fei, who nodded his head, asked, he came out of the Western Military Region, and he was also very familiar with sandstorms.

Sandstorms, sandstorms, as the name suggests, are because the wind rolls up the sand and dust, forming a sandstorm. Such a phenomenon often occurs on land, especially in places with very low vegetation coverage, but in the endless sea, there is not even sand, where does the sand in this sandstorm come from?

"How could it not be!" Hearing this, squad leader Sun explained with a smile, "The so-called sandstorm at sea is actually just a name we gave it, and the sand and dust and floating dust that are now filling the air are actually blown over from the land by strong winds. This phenomenon can occur in many seas in the world!"

"During escort operations, once such weather occurs, it will cause problems such as low visibility at sea, and our equipment maintenance workload will also increase. So we need to clean the deck and maintain and maintain the equipment in a timely manner. Of course, we need to strengthen the watchkeeping and weather forecasting work to ensure the safety of navigation and the safety of escorted ships, because pirates like to take advantage of such weather to hijack passing merchant ships!"

After hearing this, these incomprehensible team members reacted, only to see a member of the sea eagle team ask again: "Squad leader Sun, when will this weather end?"

Hearing this, squad leader Sun pondered for a while, and after glancing at the surrounding weather, he said: "This season is originally the season of frequent sandstorms at sea, almost every few days, there will be sandstorms passing here, as for when it will end, it depends on the scale and speed of the sandstorm." But looking at today's posture, this sandstorm is estimated to last for a while!"

"Squad Leader Sun, let's help you, anyway, we don't have a combat mission now!"

After squad leader Sun said this, Jiang Chen spoke, and Jiang Chen, who was speaking, stepped forward, seemingly planning to take the towel and iron bucket in squad leader Sun's hand.

"Don't move, we understand the kindness, it's more appropriate for us to do this work!" Seeing this, squad leader Sun hurriedly took a step back and said.

"Squad Leader Sun, such a big warship needs to be cleaned up, and we have nothing to do anyway, so we might as well help you clean up the dust on the warship!" Lu Haiyang, who was on the side, also said.

"Each has its own duties, each has its own division of labor, your task is to drive out pirates, and our task is to maintain and maintain the entire warship, this job is not as simple as you think! Besides, who said that you have nothing to do?" said the last squad leader Sun with a hint of banter in his tone, "In the next few days, you will have to work much harder than me!"

"Squad Leader Sun, what do you mean by this?"

Looking at squad leader Sun's appearance, the cadres of the joint operations team were a little puzzled one by one.

At this time, with the roar of helicopters, the carrier-based helicopter on another destroyer quickly flew into the sky above everyone, apparently wanting to land, and everyone who saw this also hurriedly gave up the flight deck and let the helicopter land.

Soon, after the helicopter landed, as the helicopter hatch opened, four members of the team in black combat uniforms with eight big characters written on their chests of the Huaxia Marine Corps stepped down from the helicopter.

"Platoon Commander Wu?"

Looking at the Marine Corps platoon commander who walked down, he was very puzzled by his arrival and the arrival of the joint operations team.

"Captain Lone Wolf, Vice Captain of the Sea Eagle!"

After seeing the cadres of the joint operations team, Wu Fan also saluted everyone, and several squad leaders who followed Wu Fan also saluted, and Jiang Chen and the others who saw this also quickly returned the salute.