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On the waters of the Gulf of Aden, 130 kilometers north of Berbera, an important port city in the Gulf of Aden, the guided missile destroyer of the Huaxia escort fleet 'Shenzhen' has just completed the replenishment of supplies on board the supply ship and is slowly heading towards the mouth of the Red Sea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The calm waters of the Gulf of Aden are not so calm, with more than 2,000 ships passing through here every day, in addition to being filled with 'escort ships' sent by many countries around the world. Therefore, Colonel Jiang Tianxing, the captain of the destroyer 'Shenzhen', would keep the officers and men on the warship vigilant at all times every day. This is not only for the so-called pirates, but also for the international honor of the Chinese Navy.

When the destroyer 'Shenzhen' was carrying out escort missions, it also trained and sometimes observed the navies of other countries, and learned everything that was beneficial to the Chinese navy.

The Gulf of Aden is not only a place for countries to demonstrate their naval armed presence, but also a stage for silent competition and confrontation.

On this day, I thought that I would embark on the same 'boring' voyage as the previous two times, but suddenly, Jiang Tianxing discovered something unusual.

That is, in the public channel, someone called for help. Because of the special geographical location of the Gulf of Aden and the presence of Somali pirates, every ship that needs to pass by here will be notified to use a certain public channel to keep the communication open at any time, so that once it encounters a pirate attack, the news can be transmitted to the sea surface of the Gulf of Aden within a radius of hundreds of kilometers through this channel, which can not only alert other civilian ships to attention, but also be captured by the nearby escort fleet to support nearby.

But this time in the public channel, there was an unusual period of confidence, the distress of an American freighter. Although this distress signal was sent to the U.S. Navy, nearby civilian ships and warships of other countries received this signal at the same time.

American freighter intercepted by the Somali Navy? This is a very serious and interesting thing. In the Gulf of Aden, there has not been an incident of anyone intercepting an American freighter for the time being, and not only the crew members of many civilian freighters were surprised, but even Jiang Tianxing paid attention.

A few days ago, he received an order from the command of the escort fleet to strengthen the vigilance and remain vigilant at all times. Although the superiors did not say anything about flight XX123 clearly, here, Jiang Tianxing could receive countless civilian signal broadcasts every day, and naturally he knew very well what caused the superiors to do so.

But what Jiang Tianxing did not expect was that when his motherland was still engaged in a war of words with the United States, the "small" Somali navy began to take action, one was to intercept American freighters on the high seas to board and inspect them.

Jiang Tianxing reported the matter to the command while thinking about what he should do? But in the end, he found that he could not do anything in this matter, and it was impossible for him to take the 'Shenzhen' to support the Somali Navy and the US Navy without the order of his superiors.

After getting the coordinates of the incident, Jiang Tianxing ordered to speed up, but he was not ready to go directly to the location of the incident, and planned to approach the location of the incident and wait for domestic orders.

"Captain, there's a situation!" Just then, a radarman issued a warning.

Jiang Tian walked to the radar soldier and saw that on the radar display, there were dense points of light representing the aircraft.

"Height 3000...... Speed: 480...... The captain of the ship, which should be a Somali Seagull attack aircraft, a total of 12 units. "The radar soldier captured the radar information and entered it into the database, and quickly got the information he wanted.

"Is their direction xx/xxx?" Jiang Tianxing was shocked and immediately asked.

"Yes, Captain, if nothing else, they will pass over us in three minutes." The radar soldier then reported.

Jiang Tianxing came to the cockpit glass, looked at the southern sky with a telescope, and two minutes later, a group of black dots appeared in the telescope, and then these black dots became clearer and clearer, and under the high-powered telescope, it was almost the same as in front of him.

Seeing the C-801 anti-ship missile that he was very familiar with mounted under the Seagull attack plane, Jiang Tianxing knew that something was serious. Somalia has even sent planes, is it preparing for a war with the US Navy in the Gulf of Aden?

"Captain, one more thing, our radar found that over northern Somalia, there were just a number of planes taking off and landing, according to statistics, at least more than 40 aircraft, some of which were Somali Air Force Su-27SS fighters." The radar crew once again reported that the air alert radar on the destroyer can search for air targets 350 kilometers away, and the destroyer is now more than 100 kilometers away from northern Somalia, and can almost completely detect and record the flight data of aircraft over the Somali mainland.

Is there really going to be a war? Is Somalia really going to compete with the United States in the Gulf of Aden?

Many of them thought the same as Jiang Tianxing, many of them were ships that received the distress signal of the 'Jewel', and some of them were concerned by the surrounding countries equipped with long-range warning radars after discovering abnormal air force movements in northern Somalia.

…… In the Office of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Mogadishu's Ministry of Defence, Li Mo was listening to a briefing by Intelligence Minister Wang Ning.

"The Navy has taken control of the captain and 16 crew members of the Jewel, and on board the cargo ship, the Navy has searched for a batch of smuggled chemicals, and in addition, we have discovered a secret, on board the American cargo ship, a container containing munitions."

"Arms? You mean that the American ship smuggled arms? Li Mo asked excitedly. He asked the Navy to intercept the American freighter, completely in retaliation for the downing of flight XX123 by the US Navy a few days ago, for the ruler of a country, it is too simple to calculate an unprepared civilian freighter, and on an ocean-going freighter, it is normal for some smuggled goods and even contraband to appear frequently.

As long as you check carefully, you can always find some problems. What's more, Li Mo also prepared pirates as a weapon of mass destruction, and in the 'Light of Peace' exercise conducted by the multinational special forces, they smashed the pirate group secretly controlled by the United States in one fell swoop, and in that operation, Somalia also captured a group of pirates. Li Mo planned to link the freighter with pirates and commit the previous charge of colluding with pirates.

Most of these pirates are Somalis, and they themselves face trial by the Somali political axe, but if they behave well, their sentences can be commuted and their families will not be harmed. Therefore, under the hint of 'Lone Wolf', the leader of the pirate group 'Gulf of Aden Hunters' secretly controlled by Li Mo, these pirates immediately expressed their willingness to point out the informant who provided them with clues and information.

This is how the blame came, Li Moke doesn't care whether it is humane or inhumane, he just wants to take revenge on the United States.

If you shoot down a civilian airliner and kill more than a dozen Somalis, I will arrest more than a dozen Americans and try them on charges of 'colluding with pirates.'" Not only do you want to put these Americans in jail, but you also want to make a name for yourself internationally.

As for the occurrence of conflicts or even local wars, Li Mo does not care, unless the Americans are coming to a war in Iraq, Somalia is not afraid of small-scale conflicts.

Somalia is not Iraq, nor is it Afghanistan. Under Li Mo's rule, the army is monolithic, and there is an alliance called the Third OECD, and when the time comes, Li Mo will have to let the other member states fulfill their responsibilities. Moreover, Somalia still has nuclear weapons, and it is a nuclear state, and even if it loses a conventional war, it will not suffer the same outcome as Iraq and Afghanistan.

If he doesn't die, there will be no one to prop up a puppet regime in Somalia.

"Now that the munitions have been found, the charge of colluding with the pirates and providing the pirates with information on cargo ships and arms can be determined. Qingqing, let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hold a press conference to announce this incident to the outside world, telling them that they should make public the details of the matter in a truth-seeking manner, and that they should vigorously condemn the act of colluding with pirates by the US cargo ship and its crew in this matter. Li Mo lit a cigarette and instructed the female secretary on the side with a smile.

Half an hour later, the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned more than 20 domestic and foreign media to reveal the matter to the outside world in the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the statement of the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was specifically pointed out that the relevant Somali departments received information from the internal sources of the pirate group before they made the act of intercepting the 'Jewel' freighter, and in the subsequent boarding and inspection process, a large amount of smuggled goods and chemicals used to make lethal weapons were found on the freighter, in addition to as many as three tons of munitions.

In his statement, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeatedly hinted that this exterminated pirate group was related to a certain country and that it was a pirate organization secretly supported by a certain country to achieve certain political goals.

After listening to the spokesman's speech, the reporters of the more than 20 media outlets were stunned. When they received the notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they felt that there was big news, but they didn't expect it to be such 'big' news. The Somali Navy intercepted a United States freighter and boarded it for inspection, revealing a large quantity of chemicals and munitions used to make 'lethal weapons'. Is this American freighter linked to a Somali pirate group?

These news topics are extremely eye-catching to readers, and once published, they can definitely increase the sales of the newspaper.

"Where are the Jewels and its crew now? Were there any casualties at the time of your inspection? A media reporter from France asked. In his words, it can be heard that this person is extremely concerned about the quality of the Somali Navy, which will open fire on the crews of civilian cargo ships.

After all, there have been two incidents of this kind this month, one in the North Pacific, where a Chinese cargo ship was sunk by the Russian Navy, and the other was an air crash that happened a few days ago and is still making a lot of noise in the international arena, which was shot down by a US ship. It is difficult to guarantee whether the Somali Navy will retaliate by firing on American freighters.

(To be continued)