On the calm waters of the Gulf of Aden, a super-large oil tanker with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons was moving, and on the bow deck was the place where Gao Yang and his group of six people gathered.

Although it is still January, the temperature in the Gulf of Aden has reached 278 degrees, especially the temperature of the deck exposed to the direct sun is at least 60 or 70 degrees.

The mobile sunshade net provides a hint of shade, and the surrounding cloth can block the sea breeze, under the sunshade net, the special equipment for the sea that was found with great difficulty was thrown at the foot at this time, Gao Yang, Li Jinfang and Cui Bo were shirtless, only wearing a combat vest, and were concentrating on fighting the landlord.

As the most popular poker game in China, the landlord game attracted the attention of Frye and Grolev, while Bruce stood alone on the starboard side where pirates were most likely to appear, holding a telescope, hoping to see the pirates appear.

It has been ten days since Gao Yang arrived in the Gulf of Aden, and it has been seven days since the official start of the escort mission, and the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time and boarding the big ship for the first time has long since disappeared, and the rest is nothing but boredom or boredom.

The seasickness of the fears did not appear, because the water was too calm and the ship was too big, and the exchange of fire that was supposed to be carried out did not appear, and they did not even see a single hair of a pirate these days.

From the first day of being fully armed and always on guard against the arrival of pirates, to the boring hope of meeting the legendary pirates, the process took only five days, and after another two days, they were bored and finally couldn't bear it. So I decided to find something to do for myself.

After boarding the Panamanian-flagged tanker to be escorted this time. The first thing they did was to unload their heavy equipment. Then they started playing poker, and the reason why they still had to put the combat vest on their bodies was because they thought that Gao Yang had come with the LBT-2564A-KITBLACK combat vest, a special vest for the US Navy VBSS.

The three-level bulletproof provided by the combat vest is not important, the important thing is that the combat vest also has a buoyancy version, which will not sink even if it falls into the water with a heavy piece of equipment, and the combat vest also has a SEA-MKII emergency oxygen cylinder for breathing in case of accidental falling into the water. Gao Yang can swim, and Li Jinfang and Cui Bo can also talk about swimming, but it is in a small ditch or swimming pool, as for Grolev and Fry, they don't know at all, but whether they know a little or not at all, on the sea, they still see themselves as authentic landlubbers, so even on the super giant ship, even if the possibility of falling into the sea is very small. But Gao Yang still has to wear combat vests to be more steady.

"Double king fried, three with one. Haha, sorry, won again. ”

In Cui Bo's smug shout, Gao Yang helplessly threw a bad card in his hand on the table, and then took out two banknotes and threw them in front of Cui Bo. ”

Gao Yang said helplessly: "No way, this is called a fool with a fool's luck, have you two learned, learn to let you come and play for a while." ”

Frye took the lead, he sat in Gao Yang's position with great interest, and began to fight with Cui Bo and Li Jinfang yelling at the landlord, and Gao Yang stood behind Frye, watching if Frye didn't play right, he would point out, as for Grolev, he also wanted to participate, but he had to wait for Li Jinfang or Cui Boken to give way.

"The radar found a suspicious target, about four nautical miles away, and it was still approaching us. ”

When they were bored, Gao Yang suddenly heard the voice of the liaison officer on the ship from the waterproof walkie-talkie hanging on their shoulders, but none of them paid attention to the alarm sent by the walkie-talkie, because such an alarm Gao Yang they had experienced many times, from the beginning of Gao Yang they were nervous, to Zuihou looking forward to the arrival of pirates, but unfortunately in the end it turned out that the so-called suspicious target in this case was just a small fishing boat, because the real pirate is unlikely to have only one boat.

After confirming the location of the target found by the radar with the ship's communicator, Bruce began to search visually with a telescope, while Gao Yang and the others continued to play their poker, because there was nothing to worry about, and now the ship had reached the northeast corner of Somalia, and was about to use the waters of the Gulf of Aden, and as long as it reached the Indian Ocean, those pirates would not be a threat, because the wind and waves in the Indian Ocean were not something that those small speedboats could resist.

Somali pirates like to approach and board ships at night, and they do little in broad daylight, and there are some hijackings of merchant ships during the day, but they are rare, and now that the most dangerous areas and time periods have passed, if nothing else, they will leave the ship after dark.

The cruise ship continued to sail, Bruce continued to search in vain for the traces of pirates, the sun gradually turned west, but unfortunately or fortunately, nothing happened, time passed little by little, when I first came, I thought it was still a beautiful sunset, and then I only felt bored when I looked at it again, everything was as boring as the previous days.

The only thing that made Gao Yang feel a little excited was that Frye finally touched a good hand, and just after Cui Bo just threw out a three, Gao Yang immediately shouted excitedly: "Blow him up, blow him up now, close his door, out of your four tens, and then out of your straight, haha, break ten Your straight to nine is the biggest, Fake, Frye, your luck is too strong." ”

Fry opened the door and blew up, and then threw out a straight, at this moment, Li Jinfang also said excitedly: "Wait a while, I'll add a bomb too, four K, haha, rabbit, you won't die this time!"

Gao Yang's heart was even more happy, and Daxiao said: "Haha, Shuangwang Bomb take it, and then make a three-belt one, three bombs plus anti-shutdown, let me calculate, two bombs are four hundred, three bombs are eight hundred, plus anti-shutdown is ......"

"Pirate! Starboard!"

"Don't make any noise, busy, wait a minute, pirate?"

Gao Yang, who was calculating how much money Cui Bo should lose, came back to his senses in shock, picked up the telescope he put at his feet and turned his head and ran, and Cui Bo was also surprised, when he stood up and was about to run out, Li Jinfang grabbed Cui Bo and said loudly: "Boy, it's okay to leave if you want to, give me the money first, and finally let out a breath, want to run?"

Ignoring Cui Bo and Li Jinfang, Gao Yang ran to Bruce's side, and Bruce pointed to the sea in the distance with a serious face, and said in a deep voice: "There, a boat drags three small boats, fishing boats will never be like this, it must be a pirate ship." ”

Gao Yang quickly used his binoculars to discover the pirate ship that Bruce said, a fishing boat with a displacement of about 100 tons, dragging three speedboats, which was almost a nautical mile away from them, although the sun had mostly sunset into the water, but with the help of the afterglow, he could still see that the three speedboats were full of people.

Gao Yang shouted excitedly: "Brothers, pirates, what pirates. ”

Cui Bo finally ran out, holding his TAC-50, and said excitedly: "There, where is it, let me see, I'm looking forward to the stars and the moon, but I'm looking forward to the pirates." ”

As he spoke, Cui Bo lay on the ground and quickly found the pirate ship with the scope on his gun, and at this time, the dinghy towed behind the fishing boat had begun to break away from the mother ship, and a white waterline was drawn behind the high-speed speedboat, rushing towards the cruise ship that raised them.

The anxious voice of the correspondent began to sound from the walkie-talkie, "Pirates, this is a pirate, don't let them get close, warn the shot, let them know that there are guards on board, and they will take the initiative to leave." ”

In fact, according to Gao Yang's meaning, he planned to put the pirates closer, but just to see what the pirates looked like, he scared the scared crew half to death, which seemed too unauthentic, so Gao Yang could only sigh very regretfully: "Rabbit, scare them with a tracer warning shot, don't hit the ship, just scare away, but listen to my orders to shoot again, and the others should be ready for battle." ”

Gao Yang buckled his helmet, put his shotgun on his back, and then picked up the EBR, and after aiming the scope at a small boat, Gao Yang said loudly: "Rabbit, the speedboat in the middle, hit forward." ”

The speedboat in the middle is the front, the closest to the cruise ship, and now it is about 1,000 meters and almost half a nautical mile, which is completely within the range of the 12.7 mm caliber TAC-50 that can guarantee accuracy.

Cui Bo immediately fired a shot, and the tracer bullet that emitted a green light was very conspicuous in the already dim evening, and the bullet fell directly into the distance of about twenty or thirty meters in front of the speedboat, splashing a splash.

Gao Yang thought that a single bullet would be enough, at least let those pirates know that the ship was guarded, and the pirates usually don't go head-to-head with armed merchant ships, they will only look for targets that don't have the ability to resist, but this time the situation is very rare, those pirates didn't turn the ship and escaped.

Looking at the speedboat that continued to approach, although Gao Yang was strange, he still reacted immediately, and said, "One more shot, get closer." ”

Cui Bo fired another shot, this time the bullet landed less than two meters in front of the speedboat, showing Cui Bo's good marksmanship, but the result was still the same, the pirates still did not stop, and the three speedboats were still coming towards the oil tanker.

Gao Yang said strangely: "No, this is different from what we have heard, shouldn't these pirates run away? Rabbit, shoot again, if they don't stop, big dog, shoot in front of them, if this doesn't stop, then prepare to greet people." ”

Li Jinfang clicked and pushed the grenade into the load, and then said with a depressed face: "These bastards, don't come early, don't come late, Lao Tzu's luck just came and finally started to win, these grandsons jumped out, if they dare to get on the boat, I won't kill them, I'll let them swim all the way back." (To be continued......)