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The "Panshi 168" super-large container ship, which was stacked with standard containers in the cargo hold, sailed quickly and slowly along the public route towards Baoke Bay at an economic speed of 16 knots in the night.

"Panshi 168" is a fourth-generation convertible container vessel, manufactured by Tianshi Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group, the international model is TPLC-10, which is an asset under the name of Panshi Ocean Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Panshi International Security Group, and is registered in Sidu, a port city in the west of Donglian.

TPLC-10 is almost 30% lighter than comparable vessels due to its use of high-strength marine steel. In addition, the use of TSLM-2500 advanced marine high-power diesel engine independently developed by Tianshi Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. greatly reduces fuel costs. The application of the ship's automatic navigation computer and related software has made the crew of this large sea vessel, which can carry a total of 5,600 containers, only 32.

At this time, Cheng Gang, the captain of the "Panshi 168", Zheng Haiyang, the first mate, and six other crew members stood on the lookout platform at the top of the ship, holding high-powered military binoculars, searching the sea in front of them.

One day six years ago, Cheng Gang, a deputy battalion officer who had served in the Huaxia Navy for 12 years, suddenly received a notice of retirement. On the same day, he received another secret order. Over the next five years, Cheng Gang, including the other 31 seafarers on board, a total of more than 200 retired members of the Chinese Navy, received the most rigorous special training in the Panshi Training Camp as employees of the Ocean Shipping Corporation of Panshi International Security Group.

The year before last, in May 1983, Cheng Gang was appointed captain of the "Panshi 168", and for three years, he and 31 comrades-in-arms who also had a special mission have been moving back and forth on various public routes in the Indian Ocean.

Unlike the other mercenaries of the Rock Corporation. Cheng Gang and these seafarers basically don't have to go to the battlefield to fight bloodily, they are mainly engaged in arms trading and intelligence fronts, and occasionally make a cameo appearance as pirates to have the opportunity to open meat.

Two days ago, a special secret telegram from the Rock headquarters caused the "Rock 168", which was about to depart from Colombo to Karachi, temporarily re-course and divert from Colombo to Jaffna, Sri Lanka's Northern Province.

Special tasks like this. For Cheng Gang and his companions, it has long been commonplace.

In recent years, Cheng Gang has had frequent contacts with anti-government armed groups such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, the Naxalite guerrillas in West Bengal, the Tariq Jihadist Group, the United Liberation Front of Assam, and the Japanese Red Army.

In order to ensure that these anti-government/government armed groups have sufficient weapons and ammunition to cope with the encirclement and suppression of the government/government army, the Panshi Ocean Shipping Corporation often acts as a logistics support transport team for them.

In recent years, the global business of Panshi International Security Company has become bigger and bigger, and the scope and name of security involved have also increased, which has made many countries in the world basically turn a blind eye to the semi-public armed escort smuggling organization of Panshi Ocean Shipping Corporation in the spirit of not offending or confusing it.

Although it is said that Panshi sells arms everywhere in the world, they have done a very good job, never with any political purpose, and all of them are pure commercial activities of hand-to-hand delivery and hand-to-hand delivery. It doesn't matter what country or organization you are. As long as you give money, they provide services.

It is precisely on the basis of this principle that Panshi has always pursued and adhered to that it has gradually grown into the world's largest international mercenary organization under the noses of the two world hegemons, the United States and the Soviet Union. Even the United States and the Soviet Union have entrusted Rock to help them with special tasks that they are not convenient to come forward to.

The Jaffna Peninsula has long been the stronghold of the Tamil Eelam LTTE. Therefore, Cheng Gang did not have much pressure on this mission. Even though the LTTE is now at war with the Sri Lankan government army on the Jaffna Peninsula, Cheng Gang still firmly believes that the Sri Lankan government army should not have the courage to touch the rock.

The only thing to worry about is the Indian Navy's shallow water patrol ships cruising from across the Pauk Strait.

Although Yang Weiping has long publicly dissociated himself from the Rock Mercenaries, none of the world's governments/governments will believe it.

The military confrontation that took place in the Bay of Bengal a few days ago between the ASEAN Navy and the Indian Navy was clear to Cheng Gang.

"The scalpel incident over the Bay of Bengal". In the past two days, it has long been the hottest topic in the media of all countries in the world, especially the military media.

The Indian Navy, which was continuously humiliated by the Eastern Union Navy but did not dare to fight back. Now it must be that the stomach is full of evil fire that has no place to vent. This has also led to the destruction of pond fish by merchant ships from various countries sailing off the coast of India in the past two days.

Naturally, the Indian Navy's patrol ships flying the flags of developed countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and East China did not dare to lightly order the other side to stop and inspect their ships, but the merchant ships of other countries were not so lucky.

All the way from Colombo, the route taken by the "Panshi 168" was quite smooth, and it did not encounter a single offshore patrol ship or patrol boat with the Indian Navy logo.

It's just that as the Jaffna Peninsula gets closer and closer. Cheng Gang's heart was inexplicably nervous. Otherwise, he would definitely not have taken his comrades to watch the sea view from the lookout at the top of the ship.

As time passed, Cheng Gang's heart gradually became a little anxious.

The agreed meeting time with the other party was ten o'clock in the evening, and now it seems that it is almost there, but there is not a single ship in sight on the sea. Could it be that the other party had some trouble leaving Punkudu Island?

"Wow...... Captain. Thirty nautical miles to the northeast, at two o'clock, a small fishing boat was spotted. ”

The sudden sound of a call on the walkie-talkie around his waist startled Cheng Gang.

"Speed up and lean over!" Cheng Gang pressed the call button of the walkie-talkie in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Send a signal to the other party to confirm the identity of the other party." ”

"I/, there's a boat chasing it behind that fishing boat, and it's less than ten nautical miles apart. ”

"Scan it with radar and see what the characteristics of the chasing ship are!"

"With a speed of at least twenty-five knots, it is possible that it is a cruiser of the Sri Lankan Navy. ”

"Mother, I know that something will happen tonight!" Cheng Gang couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "If it's a Sri Lankan warship, it's better, if it's Ah San's patrol ship, it will be troublesome." ”

"Captain, I got in touch with the other party, they are the same team we are going to pick up, they said that Prabakaran, the big boss of the Tigers, was with him, and when he was leaving the island, there was a little accident and he was discovered by a coastal defense patrol boat of the government/government army. ”

"Lao Cheng, it seems that our trouble is coming!" Zheng Haiyang, the first mate, reminded with a solemn face: "Prabhakaran is a serious offender in the joint communication between India and Sri Lanka, if the Sri Lankan government/government army finds out that our people are mixed with Prabhakaran, we will be very passive!"

"You can only kill that corvette!" Cheng Gang gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "We must not let Prabhakaran fall into the hands of the Sri Lankan government/government army!"

"You mean to use that big guy?" Zheng Haiyang asked with obvious surprise.

Cheng Gang nodded and said, "What else can we do but use that guy?" Do we expect a fishing boat of less than ten knots to outrun a cruiser with a speed of no less than twenty-five knots?" (To be continued......) I527