Gulf of Tonkin !

The slender hull of the Project 501 frigate rose and fell in the fourth-class sea conditions, cruising with difficulty in the waters on the Chinese side, and not far from it, two minesweepers were nervously busy.

The radio communication between them did not stop for a moment.

"Our ship has already determined the location, it is two trigger-type anchor mines, ready to lower the mine-sweeping equipment. ”

"Prepare for the blast!"

"He's NN, and it's two training rays!"

In the midst of the clear-eyed report, such a foul language suddenly sounded, causing the officers and men in the bridge command platform of the No. 501 frigate to look at each other.

Feng Yi, the deputy head of a certain ship detachment of the N Fleet, who was in charge of the command of the entire formation, couldn't help frowning, and immediately asked into the radio: "You have to see clearly, don't be sloppy!"

"We have already sent someone over to check, it is an empty shell, there is nothing in it, needless to say, it is another bluff trick of the monkey and Su Xiu on the other side!"

Feng Yi still trusted the commander of the minesweeper who reported to him, after all, he was an old qualification in the minesweeping field, so Feng Yi's brows furrowed deeply, because he began to doubt the judgment of Dong Yimin, chief of staff of the N fleet.

Yes, Dong Yimin had already predicted the provocations of the Soviet Union and Vietnam to sell dog meat on the head of a sheep.

That is, if the climate, sea conditions and ocean currents are suitable, they will repeat their old tactics in the Beibu Gulf with more drastic measures in order to test China's bottom line.

What is a more drastic method, Dong Yimin's explanation is that there is any feasible thing, such as ramming, high-pressure water cannons, warning shots, and even the use of live ammunition.

All in all, Dong Yimin gave Feng Yi the task of not allowing foreign warships to cross China's Line of Actual Control, no matter what the situation was.

For this reason, after Feng Yi received the order to go to Beibu Gulf, he was mentally prepared to deal with the bad situation, and even secretly wrote a suicide note and hid it in his office drawer.

Na Cheng thought that when he led the ships to the periphery of the joint mine-laying and mine-sweeping exercises between the Soviet Union and Vietnam, he found that the situation was no different from a few months ago, if it weren't for the fact that the climate in the Beibu Gulf had become humid and hot, Feng Yi would even have the illusion of traveling through the past.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Yi can guess the script of the joint exercise between the Soviet Union and Vietnam, which is nothing more than the laying of mines by Vietnamese ships, and then due to some force majeure factors, several mines drift along the ocean current to the Chinese side.

Vietnam then apologized to the Chinese side very sincerely, and then offered to send ships to recover the mines that had drifted to the Chinese side, and at the same time make up for its own mistakes.

After being rejected by the Chinese side, the Soviet ships came over and said that they were using live ammunition, and it would be bad if the Chinese side blew it up, so let them come, how advanced our Soviet technology is, and you China should get out of the way quickly, so as not to cause unnecessary harm......

is so familiar with the routines that Feng Yi thinks that the brains of the Soviet Union and Vietnam have been kicked by donkeys, and if they want to provoke, they can't be creative?

Therefore, Feng Yi immediately informed Dong Yimin, who was sitting in the rear headquarters, of the situation, and suggested that additional minesweepers be sent in order to deal with the well-known pretext of crossing the border with mines in the Soviet Union and Vietnam.

Dong Yimin's reaction was very quick, and he immediately transferred two minesweepers to the nearest minesweeper, not counting them, and also sent the No. 389 minesweeper, which had just completed sea trials.

In this regard, Feng Yi felt that the chief of staff was really making a big fuss, since the Soviet Union and Vietnam were just playing the old routine, and the two minesweepers were enough to seal their excuses to death, there was no need to transfer the No. 389 minesweepers that were farther away.

Not to mention whether it can catch up in time or not, the performance of a modified ship that has just completed sea trials is not very stable, and if there is a failure or something during the mission, not to mention the trouble of dealing with it yourself, it will be laughed at by the Soviet Union and Vietnam, and it is three points lower in momentum.

So when he confirmed that the Soviet Union and Vietnam were still the same as a few months ago, using a few training mines to intimidate themselves, Feng Yi was even more convinced that the uncreative Soviet Union and Vietnam were just like that, so he prepared to send a telegram to the command of the N fleet, hoping to cancel the mission of the No. 389 minesweeper while reporting the current situation.

However, just as the communications officer handed the drafted telegram to Feng Yi and was about to let him see it, a huge column of water suddenly rose on the ocean surface where the Soviet Union and Vietnam were exercising, followed by a loud sound of "boom~~", and the water column began to spread suddenly, turning into rolling waves, scattering and rippling on the ocean surface.

Feng Yi didn't care about the draft telegram in his hand, and quickly raised the telescope in his hand to look at the place where the explosion occurred, it didn't matter if he saw it, Feng Yi's pupils shrank sharply.

Because what caught my eye was an old ship with a mottled hull, the hull of which had been broken in two under the rippling of the water, and then sank to the bottom of the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Obviously, this is the target ship used by the Soviet Union and Vietnam during the exercise, but if this ship is an ordinary target ship, Feng Yi will not be so out of shape, the problem is that it is clearly a Soviet T-43 class minesweeper.

Its Chinese imitation version is the two Project 6610 minesweepers in the formation!

It's clear that they're killing chickens and monkeys.

Feng Yi's suspicion was soon verified, as the Soviets had just sent a euphemistically worded telegram to the Chinese fleet in the international code.

In order to increase the effect of this exercise, the frequency of the sound detector on the mine was deliberately adjusted to the same frequency as the noise of the target ship, so for the sake of unnecessary losses on the Chinese side, please allow the Soviet minesweepers to make up for their mistakes.

Feng Yi's face was difficult to see, although the Soviet telegram was mild and mixed with a large number of apology words, Feng Yi could make up the arrogance and disdainful ridicule of the Soviets from between the lines: "Don't be reckless, let us come, otherwise your minesweeper will be blown up and sunk!"

So Feng Yi grabbed the radio intercom next to him, and like a fire, he roughly recounted the contents of the Soviet telegram, and then asked: "How long will it take for you to find that acoustic mine?" Are you sure you can sweep it away?"

What answered Feng Yi was not the sonorous words of the minesweeper commander before, but the long silence, Feng Yi was anxious: "You can't do it, it's time to say something!"

"Did you see the exercise process on the other side just now?" The commander of the minesweeper did not answer Feng Yi's words, but asked a rhetorical question abruptly, Feng Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he was busy drafting the telegram and really didn't pay attention to the situation on the other side, so he hurriedly asked the staff officer on duty beside him, but when he heard this, Feng Yi's anger was also covered by thick silence!