Compared with Jiang Chen and the others, squad leader Sun who was standing next to him was not so serious, looking at the few people who had finished saluting, squad leader Sun, who looked a little playful, opened his mouth and said: "Platoon Commander Wu, dare to come by helicopter in this weather, and you are not afraid of falling into the sea?"

"Hello squad leader Sun!" Although Wu Fan is a lieutenant deputy company, leading the marines of the platoon of the escort formation, and the squad leader Sun in front of him is only a squad leader, but the military age of squad leader Sun as a second-class non-commissioned officer is there.

To put it inappropriately, when squad leader Sun joined the army, Wu Fan probably didn't know where to mix.

"Squad Leader Sun, isn't this taking advantage of the fact that the sandstorm at sea is not yet serious, and he was ordered to come over to attend the meeting!"

In the event of a sandstorm at sea, the helicopter is no longer ready to take off. However, now the sandstorm at sea has just begun, and it is precisely for this reason that Wu Fan, who was on another warship, and the military chief officer in the platoon, came here for a meeting.

"Meeting?"

Sure enough, after hearing these words, the joint operations team's expression became even more puzzled.

"Who said you don't have anything to do?" Seeing this, squad leader Sun said, "Don't talk nonsense, you also need to attend this meeting." During this time, pirate activity will be more frequent, but in such weather, helicopters are rarely ready to take off. If pirates attack, you'll have to re-plan!"

When Squad Leader Sun just finished saying this, with the opening of the hatch, a signal soldier from the formation headquarters walked out, after seeing the joint operations team standing on the deck and Wu Fan and others who had just arrived, the signal soldier with a serious expression also quickly ran to Jiang Chen and the others, and after saluting, the signal soldier spoke: "Captain Lone Wolf, make up an order, let all of you quickly gather in the conference room and participate in the military meeting!"

"Platoon Commander Wu, you too!" After saying this to Jiang Chen, the signal soldier also said to Wu Fan.

"Understood!"

After hearing this, Jiang Chen and Wu Fan, who returned a military salute, also responded in unison.

Soon, after the people on the deck said goodbye to Squad Leader Sun, everyone quickly rushed to the conference room to attend the meeting. By the time they arrived at the conference room, Zheng Mingchuan and Lin Guoze were already sitting inside.

As squad leader Tongsun said before, in the early morning, after the escort formation discovered the sandstorm at sea, it quickly organized this meeting. In order to arrange a new deployment made by the escort formation in the coming period of time, after encountering sandstorm weather.

As discussed with Zheng Mingchuan and Lin Guoze, Wu Fan of the Marine Corps needs to transfer some of his team members to some merchant ships in the formation after the meeting, and these merchant ships are the merchant ships that are most vulnerable to pirate hijacking for various reasons.

As for the joint combat team, as a mobile force, they need to be in a state of readiness at all times. If there is really a pirate hijacking incident on the side of the escort formation, in the case that the helicopter cannot take off, the joint operation team needs to drive the speedboat to the scene as quickly as possible to expel the pirates.

Because the commander made specific arrangements for the problem of sandstorms at sea as early as a week ago, and answered all the questions that the team members could think of.

Therefore, the meeting ended quickly, and after the meeting, squad leader Wu Fan took advantage of the fact that the weather was not too bad, took a helicopter, and quickly returned to the warship.

Soon, with the sound of speedboat motors, the marines on the speedboat quickly shuttled through the escort formation, escorting one team member after another to the merchant ships of various countries.

On the other side, Zheng Mingchuan and Lin Guoze, who ended the meeting, quickly sent the things that need attention in the coming period to all the ships in the formation. In particular, all merchant ships can ensure that they can contact the warship at all times, and report to the warship immediately if they find any problems.

On the first day of the appearance of the sandstorm at sea, the command of the escort formation held several meetings in a row, and almost all the heads of various departments participated in these meetings by category. In order to ensure that the escort operation can still be completed perfectly in the weather of sandstorms at sea.

In the afternoon, the domestic side, which had also received the news, also quickly sent a message, asking the escort formation to strengthen weather forecasting and observation and strictly guard against a sneak attack by pirates.

After the end of the meeting, all the departments that received the order strengthened their management in the early morning of the next day, as the telephone rang, a merchant ship at the end of the escort formation called, claiming that several unidentified ships were cruising in the waters near the merchant ships, and because of the sandstorm weather, it was impossible to tell whether it was a fishing boat or a pirate ship.

And on the radar of the formation headquarters, several unidentified targets also appeared at the same time.

As early as the afternoon of the previous day, that is, the afternoon of the day when the meeting had just ended, the weather in the sea area of the escort formation was much worse, and even thicker sandstorms disturbed the entire formation, and the strong winds brought by the sandstorms rolled up huge waves several meters high.

In such a situation, the helicopter is no longer ready to take off. And this kind of weather has lasted until now.

However, after receiving the signal from the merchant ship, the escort formation quickly made anti-piracy deployments, and as the alarm sounded, the joint operations team that received the order, under the leadership of Jiang Chen, quickly boarded the speedboat and headed towards the sea area where the incident occurred.

As they were about to reach their destination, the two Marines on the merchant ship had confirmed that the approaching unidentified ships were the pirate ships that were attempting to attack. And by the time Jiang Chen and the others arrived, several pirate ships had begun to approach the merchant ships, and the two marines on the merchant ships also began to shoot to drive away the pirates.

Soon, with the assistance of Jiang Chen and others, these pirate ships finally failed to succeed, and finally fled in disgrace and left the escort area of the escort formation.

This was only the first mission carried out by the joint combat team to drive away the pirates in the third escort operation, and just over an hour later, the escort formation, which had sailed dozens of nautical miles, once again discovered the unknown ship, and this time, it was also pirate ships piloted by pirates, and there were more of them.

Seeing this, the joint team sent more team members again, driving two speedboats, braving the big waves, to the sea area where the incident occurred, to drive away the pirates, and the final result of course also ended with the pirates being successfully driven away.

In the next few days, the days of the joint operations team will be as expected by Squad Leader Tongsun before, in the face of the sandstorm weather that will not disperse all day long, and in the face of helicopters that cannot take off, many pirate gangs want to take advantage of this opportunity to attack the escort formation and the passing merchant ships.

Later, whenever a suspicious ship was found, it was directly confirmed that it was the commander of the pirate ship, and the joint operations team set off, and according to the number of pirate ships, different team members were dispatched to drive these pirate ships away. Because in such weather, the only ones who will come out are these pirates who want to make a fortune.

Although there have been no accidents in the escort formation in the past few days, according to the information from the superiors. Then, at this opportunity, a pirate finally succeeded in holding a foreign merchant ship hostage, and when the incident occurred, the escort formation was too far away from the sea area where the incident occurred, even if it risked piloting a helicopter, it could not support it at all.

A few days later, as the sandstorm passed, all the members of the joint operations team breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the sun that had not received any shade again.

Although there are no sandstorms and pirates will also hold merchant ships hostage, at least the escort formation can take off helicopters to carry out the expulsion, which is obviously much easier than driving a speedboat.

However, just as the joint operations team was breathing a sigh of relief, a man in his thirties, wearing a flight suit and holding a flight helmet in his hand, suddenly walked into the command center.

"Report, pilot Ma Xiaotao was ordered to report!"

Ma Xiaotao, a helicopter pilot with a serious expression, just stepped into the command headquarters and spoke directly.

"Come in!"

Zheng Mingchuan, who was standing in front of the weather screen, raised his head, and after seeing Ma Xiaotao, he directly waved his hand to let him come over.

"Finger braiding!"

Ma Xiaotao, who walked to the front, shouted.

"I just received a distress signal, a merchant ship from Indonesia was surrounded by more than a dozen island speedboats in the escort area of my formation, and the merchant ship should still be fighting against pirates at this time!" Zheng Mingchuan, who saw this, said directly without the slightest hesitation.

"I'll take the special operators and set off immediately!"

Ma Xiaotao, who got the news, did not hesitate at all, and immediately spoke.

"However, according to the observation of the meteorological department, there is about to pass by a sandstorm in the middle of our escort formation and the Indonesian merchant ships, and if you set off now, the helicopter will just enter the center of the sandstorm. When the time comes, the helicopter will be directly swept into the sea, and there will not even have time to react!" Pointing to the weather screen in front of him, Zheng Mingchuan, who looked solemn, said.

Zheng Mingchuan, who raised his head, looked at Ma Xiaotao and said, "We don't have any way now, and it is imminent to save this merchant ship." And I know that in the entire escort formation, all the helicopter pilots, out of all the recorded flight records, you are the only one who has completed a similar operation. So, I'd like to know what you're up to!"

"Of course, if you don't have the confidence to complete this mission, no one blames you. The special combat team will drive the speedboat to the sea area where the incident occurred as fast as possible, and even if the merchant ship has been held hostage by pirates, we will take the merchant ship back from the hands of the pirates!" Zheng Mingchuan said.