After analyzing the relevant information, Li Zhan reluctantly found that the pirates that appeared here were really related to the previous military operations against the pirates in the Western Pacific.

Li Zhan contacted the intelligence department to ask for more information, and after combing, it was found that the Western Pacific pirates had suffered a lot of damage after the last heavy loss, and many bases in the southwest Pacific region had been destroyed, and their remnants were fleeing in all directions.

Some of them have flowed to the international waterway here, and continue to make waves. They are certainly not worth mentioning in the face of a regular army, but they are quite deadly in the face of civilian ships.

Somali pirates can hijack a freighter of tens of thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons with two broken speedboats and a few rusty AK-47s, how did they do it?

The crew is also for life, the difference is that the crew does not have to fight for their lives to keep their jobs, and pirates will starve to death if they don't fight.

The main reason why the garrison on this side of the reef has nothing to do against pirates on the international shipping lanes is because of the distance. Often they receive a distress signal from a civilian ship and rush over, and the pirates have disappeared. However, it may be that the previous crackdown has made the Western Pacific pirates fearful of the Chinese military, and they seem to have deliberately avoided Chinese civilian ships and targeted those ships of countries with poor defense capabilities. It can be seen that if a country does not have a strong national defense force as a guarantee, the people will be bullied wherever they go.

Although most of the people who ask for help are foreign ships, as a responsible major country, China will never die without help.

Even a foreign freighter cannot be bullied by pirates. Bad people do bad things on their own side, as a big country with a sense of responsibility in the world, how can the Chinese people with a strong sense of justice sit idly by?

With such a high starting point, when it came time to implement it, it was found that the situation was not ideal, and of course the higher-level leading organs could not bear it.

At the same time, Li Zhan and Zhong Guobang consulted their superiors on the issue of coordinating to ensure the safety of navigation in international waterways. Zhong Guobang's request was very direct, to the effect that a certain unit of the Air Force was stationed at the Forget Self Reef for training, and requested that the training time be extended, and that the Air Force fighters should be used as a mobile force to ensure the safety of the shipping lanes, and that they only need to maintain support for at least half a month to achieve the goal of deterring pirates.

The content of Li Zhan's instructions was much the same, except that it also expounded his reasons for the training of a certain unit of China Southern Airlines, to the effect that as long as the support of the reef could keep up, extending the training time of the troops stationed at the reef would be conducive to the modification of a certain unit of the China Southern Airlines.

Their requests were quickly approved.

It should be pointed out that Li Zhan is an air force aviation unit, and with the approval of the air division, and the air division wants to communicate and coordinate with the sea division, the navy naturally can't ask for it, and Li Zhan's good vacation has turned into a dispatch mission, how good is this.

And Zhong Guobang's superiors are marines, so naturally they are also reported to the ship division and then to the sea division.

After receiving the approval, Li Zhan immediately communicated with Jinhua, who stayed at the Shuilingchang Station, and adjusted the original training plan. In fact, it is only necessary to extend the time of the instructor team on the Forgotten Reef, and there are not many other changes. The pilots of the 117 Squadron are all veterans, all veterans of flying J-8D, they don't need to be modified step by step, the focus is still on that sentence, in the use of tactics.

The use of tactics is not enough to say, the key is still to practice, engage in more confrontation and fly more. The flight training plan formulated by Li Zhan is undoubtedly the most suitable. Isn't this how the famous Falcon Brigade was brought out?

There's nothing that can't be solved by a train of jet fuel, and if there is, another train.

In the next few days, Li Zhan, Zhu Wei, and Li Zixin took off continuously according to the plan and engaged in a three-day naval and air confrontation with their counterparts in the 117 Squadron, so that the pilots of the 117 Squadron were initially familiar with the combat routines of the J-8FR and understood the operational and tactical characteristics of the J-8FR.

What made Li Zhan feel strange was that he had not received a distress signal from the merchant ship for five days.

He carefully looked through the past records in the intelligence room and found that this was an abnormal phenomenon, so he asked Zhong Guobang, "Old Zhong, this situation is not right." You see, there has been a hijacking of a merchant ship by pirates in no more than three days, and this time it has been more than two days. ”

"It's weird." Zhong Guobang was also puzzled, frowned and said, "The reason why the superiors attach importance to it is precisely because of the high frequency of hijackings. Those pirates even hijacked fishing boats, which can be described as a kind of evil. ”

Li Zhan remembered the Gun Regiment Fishing Company for no reason, if it was their fishing boat, it would be a good show, I don't know if they have fishing activities here, maybe you can try to contact it.

He retracted his distracting thoughts and shook his head slightly, "Abnormality is a demon. By the way, did the pirates have flying machines? ”

"Airplanes?" Zhong Guobang was stunned.

Li Zhan said, "Their evacuation was very fast, and every time you rushed to the scene, you pursued but did not catch up, is it possible that there were hijacking activities carried out by pirates using helicopters and other aircraft?" ”

"Can't you? Can pirates have helicopters? Even if there were, they would be hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest continent, and they would have to have a mother ship capable of carrying helicopters. It's impossible! Zhong Guobang shook his head and said.

Li Zhan smiled and said, "You forget, a large part of the pirates over there are Western Pacific pirates who have wandered over, and the pirates of Malacca are only a small part. ”

"Western Pacific Pirates......" Zhong Guobang muttered, of course he knew about the Western Pacific Pirates, but he still didn't believe it, "However, hasn't the main force of the Western Pacific Pirates been defeated?" There shouldn't be a mothership with aircraft, right? ”

Li Zhan shook his head slightly and said, "What is a ship that can carry helicopters, a ro-ro freighter can be loaded with a few steel plates casually." As long as it is not a military helicopter with high requirements for support, it is still easy for them to achieve their goal. ”

"It's possible, but we didn't find any large ships near the site." Zhong Guobang said.

Li Zhan said, "It's not difficult for them to disguise themselves as large cargo ships, or they are simply cargo ships. ”

Zhong Guobang was persuaded by Li Zhan and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Take the initiative to attack, you can't sit back and wait for a distress signal, there are also examples of hijacked merchant ships that have not had time to send a distress signal, if the pirates have the intention of hijacking the ship and killing people, it is completely possible to kill everyone before the crew reacts through the rapid maneuver of the helicopter." Li Zhan said decisively.

Zhong Guobang did not hesitate and said, "I have no opinion, I am responsible for the ground support and will definitely ensure that you have no worries." ”

"That's not enough." Li Zhan shook his head and said, dragged over a large-scale chart of the waters around the Forgetful Reef, and said, "Don't you have three speedboats, all of them sent out to the east for reconnaissance and search." ”

"East?" Zhong Guobang was surprised, the channel was in the west, isn't it upside down to search to the east, Li Zhan is saying the wrong direction, right?

Who knows, Li Zhan said with certainty, "Yes, search east." I suspect they may have come from that direction, and each time they went straight around the reef to the channel to hijack merchant ships. ”