"Zhenhua, I learned that the helicopters of the US military are only responsible for driving away pirates and are not obliged to provide medical assistance. I just called our refinery construction site in Yemen, where Cao Wenqiang is in charge. I asked him to rent a helicopter and bring a few of the best doctors with him to the scene of the accident to pick him up, not far from the city of Aden, Yemen, where the medical conditions are very good. ”

Xiang Zhe stepped forward, patted Lin Zhenhua on the shoulder, and said to him.

Xiang Zhe and Lin Zhenhua are not only good partners at work, but also very good friends in life. He is very clear about these entanglements between Lin Zhenhua and He Lan, and he also understands very well what kind of concern and pain Lin Zhenhua is in his heart at this moment. Without waiting for Lin Zhenhua to bring it up, he had already arranged the rescue of He Lan.

"Thank you." Lin Zhenhua said gratefully to Xiang Zhe.

Xiang Zhedao: "Zhenhua, think about it, do we have any other resources to use, now that the situation is urgent, it would be more appropriate to have more plans." ”

Lin Zhenhua thought for a while and said, "I'll call Chen Tian right away, their systems are related to the world, and he should be able to provide some help." ”

Chen Tian was not surprised when he received Lin Zhenhua's call. He got the news earlier than Lin Zhenhua, and it was also more detailed, and when he heard that the seriously injured person on the ship was He Lan, his first thought was Lin Zhenhua's reaction.

"Zhenhua, you don't have to worry, I will immediately arrange for someone to contact the hospital in Aden City, let them send the best doctor to wait, and the specific arrangements will be made for someone from our side to contact your people." Chen Tian replied like this after listening to Lin Zhenhua's arrangement.

"Thank you, Brother Chen." Lin Zhenhua said, "Also, Brother Chen, I would like to ask your system to help me understand the origin of these pirates. ”

Chen Tian asked vigilantly, "What." Zhenhua. Do you suspect there is some conspiracy here? ”

This is the professional reaction of doing intelligence work all year round, and the first thing Chen Tian thought of was whether Lin Zhenhua had any inside information. If this pirate attack had been deliberately planned, then the meaning would have been completely different. It's a pity that although there is indeed an inside story in this attack, neither Lin Zhenhua nor Chen Tian is aware of it.

Lin Zhenhua said: "The conspiracy is not enough, is it? I just wanted to find out where these pirates came from. ”

"Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has been rampant for a long time, and since 1999 there has been a marked increase in the number of pirates and attacks on merchant ships. In terms of sources, more than ninety percent of the pirates were coastal residents of Somalia. Chen Tian replied.

"I know that." Lin Zhenhua said. "What I need to know is which village they are from, who they are, and I need detailed locations."

Chen Tian was taken aback: "Zhenhua, what are you going to do?" ”

"Blood debt and blood payment!" Lin Zhenhua gritted his teeth and said.

Xiang Zhe, Yang Xin and others who were standing beside Lin Zhenhua also shivered, everyone was born in a peaceful environment, and this kind of blood debt repayment is very shocking. But everyone knows that Lin Zhenhua has been angry to the extreme. No one dared to persuade him at this time.

Chen Tian was silent for a moment. said: "Zhenhua, I understand your feelings, if you were me, you also have such thoughts. However, this is not appropriate, and if we go to Somalia to enforce the law, it will be an act of aggression. At best, we can ask the Somali Government to bring the perpetrators to justice, but as I understand it. The Somali Government's control over the coastal areas is so weak that some of the army soldiers and police are themselves closely associated with pirates and cannot be expected to hunt the bandits. ”…,

Lin Zhenhua said: "Brother Chen, I don't ask you to enforce the law, I only ask you to investigate for me who the pirate who launched this attack is and which village it is." As for the rest of the matter, I will naturally take care of it. And. I'm sure I'm not going to bother you. ”

"Uh......" Chen Tian was helpless, from the bottom of his heart, he was very much in agreement with Lin Zhenhua's idea, who moved his property and moved his woman, if he didn't return a tooth for a tooth and repaid blood with blood, how could he swallow this breath?

"Zhenhua, let's do it, I'll let people find out. However, I hope you must be calm and not do anything drastic. Chen Tian explained.

"Brother Chen, don't worry, I won't be too aggressive, at best, I'll just slaughter a village." Lin Zhenhua said in an eerie tone.

"Okay." Chen Tian knew that persuasion was useless, so he put down Lin Zhenhua's phone, and he made several phone calls to the personnel in the Middle East, and ordered them to arrange a hospital and investigate the source of the pirates. Subsequently, he made a phone call to Lao Dao, who was a contact person in Hanhua Company, and explained that he must keep an eye on every move of Hanhua Company, and never have a bad incident of Lin Zhenhua taking workers to Somalia to fight in groups.

"In addition to the Chen Bureau, can you also contact the navy? Maybe Dean Liu: They also have some connections in the local area. The French warships will arrive soon to see if Dean Liu will have any acquaintances on the French Navy's side. Xiang Zhe saw Lin Zhenhua put down the phone, and then gave him another idea.

"Don't beat them, don't beg them!" Lin Zhenhua said hatefully.

Xiang Zhe knew why Lin Zhenhua suddenly had an opinion about the navy, and he persuaded with a wry smile: "Zhenhua, let's fight one, the navy has done something wrong, you don't have to be angry with them." ”

"Well, okay." Lin Zhenhua said. He picked up the phone and directly dialed Liu Xianghai's home number, Qin Ying answered the phone and told Lin Zhenhua that Liu Xianghai went to the army to attend a dinner and was not at home now, but he was carrying a mobile phone.

Lin Zhenhua said a few New Year's greetings to Qin Ying, then hung up, and then dialed Liu Xianghai's mobile phone. It was Liu Xianghai who answered the phone this time, and it can be judged from the background voice on the phone that Liu Xianghai was in a very lively place at this time, and this should be the auditorium for group worship activities in the army.

Hearing that it was Lin Zhenhua's voice, Liu Xianghai was very excited and said loudly: "It's Zhenhua!" Didn't we make an appointment to talk on the phone in a few days? I know you have a lot of business relationships, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the phone calls are constant, and we can't talk happily, right? ”

"Dean Liu, I made this call today to pay New Year's greetings to your comrades in the Navy." Lin Zhenhua said in a cold tone.

Through the radio waves, Liu Xianghai did not hear the strangeness in Lin Zhenhua's tone. In normal times. Lin Zhenhua generally calls him "Old Liu", but when he jokes, he will also call him "Dean Liu", which is not surprising. Liu Xianghai smiled as usual and said, "Okay, our military and civilian family is a family." In this way, I am now at the base, the leaders of the base, the leaders of the fleet, and the chief officers of the ships, like Wang Baoxing. They are all around me, and they want to greet you for the New Year. Over the past year or so, there has been a lot of local support for our Navy, and everyone is very grateful to you. ”

"Thank you you don't have to, then I'll tell them." Lin Zhenhua said.

"Okay, okay." Liu Xianghai said, setting the mobile phone to hands-free mode, and the officers and officers of the admirals and colonels beside him heard that it was Lin Zhenhua's phone. It was all quiet. Hanhua supplied gas turbines to the Navy. There are also many shipbuilding machinery, so the relationship between the navy and Hanhua is relatively close. Many of these officers had dealt with Lin Zhenhua and knew that he was a very capable and enthusiastic entrepreneur. Also, they also know that Lin Zhenhua is still a veteran, which also makes everyone have some comrade-in-arms closeness to Lin Zhenhua. …,

Lin Zhenhua took a deep breath, and then slowly said into the microphone of the phone: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Lin Zhenhua, chairman of Hanhua Heavy Industry Group Corporation. On the occasion of the Spring Festival, on behalf of the 200,000 employees of our group, I would like to express New Year's greetings to the comrades of the Navy. ”

"Good!" The officers on the other side of the radio wave responded in unison, this is what local cadres often say when they greet the troops for the New Year, and everyone thinks it is very common.

"The Navy needs equipment, it needs funding, and we civilians have nothing to say. All will be satisfied. In the new year, we will continue to provide you with equipment to help you build good ships and big ships; We will also pay taxes in accordance with the law, so that the country has sufficient military spending, and raise the naval officers and men for nothing. Lin Zhenhua continued.

"Hahahaha!"

"This Mr. Lin is really humorous!"

"We don't want to be fat for nothing, we still have to train!"

There was the laughter of the officers over there in the headphones, and everyone felt that Lin Zhenhua was ridiculing everyone, and when he was in contact with Lin Zhenhua in the past, he liked to make some harmless jokes with everyone.

Only Liu Xianghai, the hand holding the mobile phone suddenly trembled, and he felt that Lin Zhenhua's mood was wrong, very wrong. Judging by his experience with Lin Zhenhua for several years, this is a precursor to Lin Zhenhua's outbreak.

What's wrong? Liu Xianghai was surprised in his heart. If it was another time, he would turn off the speakerphone and communicate with Lin Zhenhua first, but it was obviously not appropriate to do so at this time.

"But ......"

Sure enough, Lin Zhenhua's tone changed suddenly: "I want to ask the comrades of the navy, you spent the taxes we paid and used the weapons we provided, what did you do when we needed you?" ”

"Zhenhua!"

Xiang Zhe almost wanted to rush up and grab Lin Zhenhua's phone, but Hu Fei beside him grabbed him and whispered: "Old Xiang, let him say it, or he will be suffocated." On the Navy side, let's go back and explain. ”

"That's all there is to it." Xiang Zhe stroked his forehead with his hand, thinking about how to end the game, the people in the army are all temperamental, even if Hanhua is a big enterprise, pointing at the nose of other army officers and scolding the street, people have to be anxious.

Yang Xin stretched out his hand and grabbed Lin Zhenhua's hand, wanting to give him some comfort. She had never seen Lin Zhenhua look so impulsive, and she knew that at least half of the reason was because of He Lan. Her heart was slightly sour, but at the same time, she thought that if her man was indifferent at such a time, would he still be a man with affection and righteousness?

"Zhenhua, what's wrong?" Liu Xianghai couldn't help but interject, beside him, all the officers looked at each other, not knowing why he was lying down and being shot when he was happy.

"We have tens of thousands of nautical miles of sea transportation lines, and our ships can't see a single Chinese warship escorting us in the vast sea. When something happened to us civilians at sea, where did you able-bodied soldiers go? You sent one of our weak women to fight the enemy with a Molotov cocktail, and our crew had to beg the American Navy and the French Navy to rescue them. The warships we built for you, all of which you parked in the military port as decorations? Don't you generals, school officials, blush! ”

Lin Zhenhua almost finished saying these words with a shout, and then without waiting for the other party to react, he threw down the microphone, leaving only a group of naval officers with stunned faces to be busy.

"Drink too much, huh?"

"I must have drunk too much and felt angry. Let's be angry. ”

"He's just the CEO of a local business. Who is in a position to dictate us? ”

"And say that our warships are decorations? , if he dares to say this in front of my sailors, see if everyone doesn't beat him up! ”…,

Lin Zhenhua's group ridicule aroused public anger, and the officers shouted indignantly one by one. An officer like Wang Baoxing, who has a good relationship with Lin Zhenhua, is also secretly a little unhappy in his heart, you can't scold people if you drink high, right? Who in the local area would dare to speak to us like that?

The chief officer of the base looked at Liu Xianghai and was also confused: "Dean Liu, what's going on with this Lin Zhenhua?" What sea lines he said, and what weak women. What kind of woman? ”

"Something's wrong! Something must have happened! ”

Liu Xianghai said in an affirmative tone to the commanders of the base and fleet beside him. He knows Lin Zhenhua best, he knows that Lin Zhenhua is definitely not a person who fires guns out of thin air, and he will never talk nonsense because he is drunk. When Lin Zhenhua said this, he must have something to say.

Maritime...... A weak woman? What does this mean?

"According to the report, we have just received a report that a 60,000-ton cargo ship of Hanyuan Transportation Company was attacked by pirates in the waters of the Gulf of Aden two hours ago, and the crew fought with the pirates. At present, the pirates have been driven away by the US helicopters that have arrived. No one on board was killed, and a female cadre named He Lan was seriously injured. ”

When everyone was in a commotion. A staff officer trotted all the way into the hall of the auditorium, where the worship ceremony was held. Reported to the base and fleet commanders.

"Ahh

Everyone in the hall was stunned, and at this moment, the auditorium, which housed more than a hundred officers, was silent, so quiet that even the sound of a needle falling on the ground could be heard. Everyone felt that their faces were spicy, as if they had been slapped by someone.

"Shame! This is a disgrace to our Navy! The commander of the fleet, waving the telephone record handed to him by the staff officer, shouted loudly to all the officers.

The officers were awakened by this roar, and they began to talk to each other:

"How so?"

"That place in the Gulf of Aden has always been messy."

"yes, why can't we go and escort it? Lao Mei went. Even the French went. ”

"Our national defense strategy is a defensive strategy, and the Indian Ocean is not under our control."

"Why can't you change ......?"

"The local comrades are right."

"Shame! Shame on the real tmdb! ”

In the midst of the discussion, Wang Baoxing suddenly pushed aside the crowd and strode in front of the fleet commander. He held a large white paper in A3 format that he had found out of nowhere, and his lips moved, but he finally didn't say anything. He placed the white paper on the table and bit the middle finger of his right hand. Five words were written on the white paper: "Please!" Wang Baoxing. ”

After writing, he didn't bother to bandage his bloody middle finger, just held up the white paper, faced the commander of the fleet, and said loudly: "Comrade commander! The people have fed us, and we should protect the safety of people's lives and property! Wang Baoxing, the captain of a certain destroyer of the Navy, requested to lead a certain destroyer to escort the waters of the Gulf of Aden! ”

"Baoxing, count me in! I also ask to be escorted! Another officer also reacted, he rushed forward, also bit his middle finger, and signed his name with blood under Wang Baoxing's name.

"And me!"

"I'm going to fight too!"

As Wang Baoxing pierced this layer of window paper, everyone thought of their duties. I am a soldier, and the merchant ships of my country are attacked by pirates on the high seas, how can I sit idly by as a soldier? An officer stepped forward and did the same thing: he bit his middle finger and signed his name.

A piece of paper was quickly filled, and someone brought more paper. After a while, in front of the commander of the fleet, there were five letters of request for war signed with names, and the bright red handwriting on them looked so gorgeous, that was the blood of the ** people!

"Lao Liu, look ......"

The fleet commander looked at Liu Xianghai and asked for his opinion.

Liu Xianghai's eyes flashed with tears, and he said: "Since I first participated in the construction of naval equipment, the older generation of naval officers and soldiers and military industrial soldiers have such an ideal, we must go to the deep blue. In the past, our strength was insufficient, our equipment was only enough for coastal defense, and we were unable to go out. But now, we're strong, and it's time to go out. Our battlefield should be in the deep blue ocean. ”

After speaking, he also put his finger in his mouth, bit it, and then signed his name on the paper: Liu Xianghai.

"Okay, count me in." The commander of the fleet also solemnly signed his name in blood on the paper, and then he put away all the blood books and shouted: "Staff Officer Li, arrange the plane immediately, I will go to the capital to report to the Military Commission!" ”

On February 20, 2002, just one week after the entire crew of the Hanyuan No. 4 battled pirates, the Chinese Navy's escort fleet, composed of two destroyers with a displacement of 8,000 tons and a 20,000-ton supply ship, pulled anchor and set sail for the distant Indian Ocean to the sound of solemn military music, beginning the first time in China's history that a naval ship went abroad to escort the escort.

The Chinese Navy has finally embarked on the journey towards a blue-water navy.