More than half an hour later, a speedboat approached from a distance, and looking into the distance, three huge warships could be vaguely seen parked in the distance.

"What's the situation?"

As soon as the speedboat approached the fishing boat, Zheng Mingchuan, who had a serious face, walked to the fishing boat.

"Chief!"

Jiang Chen, who didn't expect the commander of the formation to come over in person, hurriedly saluted Zheng Mingchuan with a military salute.

"After a clear investigation of the situation, it was determined that it was a pirate, and we found a lot of bullet holes left by bullets in the hull of the fishing boat, and we also found more than a dozen 7.62 caliber bullet casings on the fishing boat. However, no blood was found at the scene, and it is not sure if there were any fishermen who were injured!" After saluting, Jiang Chen, who was speaking, handed the tactical terminal in his hand to Zheng Mingchuan, "We found that several cameras were installed on this fishing boat, this is a video captured on several cameras, although the identity of the pirates cannot be determined, but the number of pirates is about a dozen!"

Hearing this, Zheng Mingchuan took over the tactical terminal from Jiang Chen's hand, and after roughly browsing the surveillance video above, Zheng Mingchuan, who turned around, immediately handed over the tactical terminal to a soldier behind.

"Send the video to the formation headquarters immediately and see if you can find any news!"

"Understood!"

Hearing this, the fighter nodded, and the soldier who took the tactical terminal immediately transmitted the above video to the command headquarters.

"What are your plans?"

Zheng Mingchuan, who turned his head, asked Jiang Chen, obviously testing Jiang Chen's ability.

"From the incident to the present, less than an hour, the pirates are taking a speedboat to carry out a hijacking operation, we only need to estimate the speed of the speedboat's action, and then take the incident area as the center to search for targets within a radius of dozens of kilometers. You can also focus on a few nearby islands, where pirates may also be hiding!"

Seeing this, Jiang Chen replied.

"Not bad!"

Zheng Mingchuan, who heard this, nodded with satisfaction, and then replied, "When you set off, I had already turned on the ship-based radar to search for suspicious ships nearby, and called military reconnaissance satellites to search the nearby waters, but I didn't find any suspicious ships!"

"So, after the pirates have taken these fishermen hostage, it is very likely that they will hide on a nearby island and then look for an opportunity to leave here. Now the formation headquarters is seizing the time to reconnoiter the situation of several islands in the nearby seas, and as soon as there is a situation, it will be reported immediately!" Zheng Mingchuan said.

"Chief, what about our mission?"

Seeing this, Jiang Chen asked.

"Go back and stand by, once you find the pirate trail, immediately attack and rescue our fishermen!" said Zheng Mingchuan, who looked solemn.

"Yes!"

Jiang Chen and the others, who heard this, responded in unison.

Subsequently, after leaving two soldiers brought by Zheng Mingchuan and waiting for the coast guard to receive the fishing boat, Zheng Mingchuan immediately took Jiang Chen and others to board the speedboat, and then sailed towards the formation warship.

"Lao Zheng, there's news!"

When Zheng Mingchuan had just boarded the warship and had not had time to catch his breath, Lin Guoze, who had been waiting not far away, hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"Lone wolf, you take everyone to the conference room immediately and stand by, I'll come over immediately!"

Zheng Mingchuan, who heard this, followed Lin Guoze back to the formation headquarters after saying this to Jiang Chen.

After Jiang Chen in the back got the order, after bringing the other team members who were on standby before, more than a dozen people hurried towards the conference room.

"What's the situation?"

In the formation headquarters, Zheng Mingchuan, who stepped into it, asked.

"According to the video that has been transmitted, we have identified this group of pirates, this is the pirate who just wandered here a few months ago, and the pirate leader is named Efuya. In the past, they had been robbing merchant ships and fishing vessels of some countries in Southeast Asia and demanding ransom in the area. However, a month earlier, Efuya had led his gang of pirates to rob a merchant ship in the Philippines. But at the time of the incident, there happened to be a Philippine warship near the area where the incident occurred, and before Efuya could control the entire merchant ship, the Philippine warship arrived. After losing some men, Efuya escaped from the Philippine navy and was never seen again!"

"We have contacted our superiors and asked them to contact the relevant departments in the Philippines to see if we can have more information about Efuya!" Lin Guoze replied.

"Damn, you dare to provoke us!" Zheng Mingchuan, who heard all the news, opened his mouth and scolded. Zheng Mingchuan didn't need to think about it to know that after a month of recuperation, Efuya planned to make a comeback, and then he found the fishing boat of the ocean company, and then hijacked the thirteen fishermen on the fishing boat, intending to demand ransom from Huaxiaguo.

"What's going on around the sea area where the incident occurred?" Zheng Mingchuan, who thought of this, asked again.

"Through the detection of shipborne radar and satellites, we did not find any suspicious ships in the nearby waters. Therefore, while we continue to expand the scope of our search, we will focus on the islands in the nearby waters to see if we have found anything!" replied Lin Guoze.

"Several drones have also taken off and have begun to cooperate with satellites to reconnoiter the small islands in the surrounding seas!"

Lin Guoze, who thought of this, added.

"Be fast, and be sure to spot pirates before it gets dark. Otherwise, after dark, it will be much more difficult to detect, and pirates will most likely take the opportunity to escape from this area. When the time comes, it will be difficult to find them again!" Zheng Mingchuan, whose face had been twisted into a Sichuan character, said.

"Understood!"

Seeing this, Lin Guoze nodded and replied, his face was also very solemn.

"Report, there's a new discovery!"

At this moment, with a crisp voice, a female soldier with eyes fixed on the computer screen spoke.

Seeing this, Zheng Mingchuan and Lin Guoze quickly walked behind the female soldier, and then asked, "What did you find?"

The female soldier who heard this did not speak, but in a crackling sound, a map on the computer screen began to slowly zoom in, and Zheng Mingchuan and Lin Guoze finally saw an island with an area of about one square kilometer.

As the map continued to zoom in, Zheng Mingchuan and the others also began to see that on the beach somewhere on the island, there were many traces left by the activities of unknown creatures.

"Are these footprints?"

Pointing to the traces on the screen, Zheng Mingchuan, who was a little short of breath, asked.

"I can't rule it out!"

For this high-definition picture taken by the drone, the female soldier who found out about the situation now does not dare to pack a ticket.

"How far is this island from the sea area where the incident occurred?"

Zheng Mingchuan, who thought of something, continued to ask.

"Almost ten nautical miles!" replied the soldier.

One nautical mile is about 1.8 kilometers, and 10 nautical miles is about 18 or 9 kilometers, and according to the speed of the speedboat, it probably takes less than half an hour to reach here.

"Increase the investigation of this island, and if there is any situation, report it to me immediately!" said Zheng Mingchuan, who saw this.

There are many islands near the area where the incident occurred, but Zheng Mingchuan only had one chance. If you make a mistake and send special forces to any of the islands, if you don't find any pirates or fishermen on the island, you will probably miss the chance to rescue the pirates and give them a chance to escape.

"Understood!"

Hearing this, the female soldier nodded, and the comrade sitting next to the female soldier, after hearing the order, began to control the drone and hover over the island.

At this time, there were not only one drone hovering over this area, and after the incident, all the drones in the escort formation took off as soon as possible to conduct a carpet search of the entire sea area. With the high-definition camera installed on the drone, you can clearly see everything below.

"Keep the special forces on standby!"

After thinking of Jiang Chen and the others, Zheng Mingchuan, who turned his head, opened his mouth and ordered.

"Understood!"

After hearing this, a soldier standing not far away quickly ran out of the command room and passed the order to Jiang Chen and the others, who were still in the conference room, and asked them to continue to standby...

At this time, on the island where Zheng Mingchuan had discovered the abnormality, in the dense tropical jungle, more than a dozen pirates with AK rifles on their backs were hiding in the jungle.

Not far away, thirteen fishermen, tied up tightly and stuffed with cloth in their mouths, were being guarded by several pirates.

"Boss, how long are we going to hide?"

A black pirate with a scarf on his head walked up to a tall black pirate and asked, with a hint of impatience in his tone.

"When it gets dark, we'll take them out of here, and when we're in a safe place, we'll contact the Huaxia government and ask them to pay the ransom!" The stout pirate with a long scar on his face was none other than Efuya, the leader of this pirate gang.

"Why don't you leave here now, but hide until dark!" the pirate didn't understand his boss's arrangement.

"Do you think that the navy of Huaxia is a-eater, it is still in the control area of the navy of Huaxia, once they find us, all of us will have to die at their hands! If my guess is correct, the navy of Huaxia has now begun to search for our traces, once we are found by them on the sea, you just wait to see God!" Hearing this, Efuya yelled at his men.

When thinking of the Huaxia Navy, Efuya couldn't help but think of the Philippine Navy that easily abused them to scum a month ago.

That time, Efuya's luck was extremely bad, and he finally boarded the merchant ship, and before he had time to appreciate his spoils, the Philippine warship appeared in front of him.

Then, amid the roar of heavy machine guns and naval guns, he was the only one of the dozen or so men that Efuya brought out that time to escape alive, and the rest were fed to the sharks.

Compared with the navy of Huaxia, the naval strength of the Philippines is not at the same level at all, once their traces are discovered by the navy of Huaxia, there will soon be countless warships surrounding here, and then they are waiting to be wiped out by the navy of Huaxia.

And the reason why Efuya is flowing here is actually because of the escort fleet of the Huaxia Navy. Half a year ago, Efuya was a small leader under a pirate leader in the waters of Somalia, with more than 100 pirates under his command.

However, in an operation to rob a merchant ship, it was just in time for the rescue of the Huaxia escort fleet.

In the end, under the blow of the Huaxia escort fleet, Efuya lost a lot of manpower, and in the end, Efuya could only take the remaining pirates and wandered here.

After successfully taking hostage some long-distance fishing boats and fishermen in Southeast Asia, he would demand a large amount of ransom from his family and government in Southeast Asia, and usually try to rob passing merchant ships and rob them of supplies and resources.

Although there are only a few dozen people left in Efuya's manpower, Efuya still has a mother ship of nearly 1,000 tons in his hands. It was only by relying on this mother ship that Efuya was able to bring dozens of mother ships to this place.

During the operation, the mother ship will carry Efuya and others, disguised as a large fishing boat, and search for targets in the nearby waters. Once a target is spotted, the speedboat is lowered from the mother ship, and then the pirates are carried on board to rob and hold the target hostage.

Then, Efuya would take the hostages with him, and when he arrived at a safe place, he would contact the hostages' families or the national government and demand ransom from them.

In such a situation, some of the hostages' families will obediently pay enough ransom, and most governments will do the same, and then Efuya will follow the rules and release the hostages.

After doing this, Efuya would return to her mothership with her loot and recuperate and digest the spoils before considering the next action.

The reason why these governments in Southeast Asia did not choose to find the location of the pirates and sent naval forces to fight the pirates. A large part of this is due to the fact that the sea is so big that it can cost much more than the ransom to find the location of the pirates, and sometimes even thankless.

What's more, Efua's pirate gang doesn't have a fixed nest, their nest is the giant fishing boat.

Moreover, Efuya has also spent a lot of money to turn this fishing boat into a fishing boat of a voyage company in Southeast Asia.

In other words, the fishing vessel is in Southeast Asian waters, and even if it is checked, relevant information can be found.

Even Efuya can sail the fishing boat into the country's territorial waters and trade goods with the locals.

If others don't say it, they don't know that this fishing boat is a pirate ship, and this is where the real horror of pirates lies. That's why pirates have been so rampant all these years.