The turmoil in Evia has nothing to do with Chen Ming and others for the time being.

The past few days when the two formations converged and escorted together could be regarded as calm. After all, pirates belong to pirates, and their purpose is to seek money and survive, not to think of dying.

There was an escort formation of six ships in total, and almost none of the unsightly pirate organizations dared to run over and pick up the tiger's whiskers. In this way, the previous group of escort members who were giving Chen Ming and others a detailed introduction to the current situation in the Gulf of Aden were quite dissatisfied.

As the saying goes, no matter how well the legal education is done, it is not as good as a one-day trip to prison. The same applies to the current situation. The situation in the sea area, no matter how much the pirate situation is introduced, it is not as good as the actual attack of these pirates and make it for the brothers who came later.

Don't all great men say that practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

However, this period has not been without good news. The day after the two formations converged, Chen Ming learned through a phone call with Ouyang that his mother-in-law and his mother had already set off for Saudi Arabia.

And his father-in-law secretly found an excuse to sneak back to China, and it is estimated that he will arrive home tomorrow. At this time, the home visit of the armed forces department, I don't need to worry about it at all.

Standing on the bridge while thinking about these things, Chen Ming, who was smoking a cigarette, couldn't help but show a smile on the corner of his mouth. With the development of communication technology, Chen Ming's range of activities is now much larger.

"Captain, the parting ceremony is about to take place."

"Inform the crew, prepare to stand on the slope. Sail cable class, go to the warehouse to get a flare gun. ”

Hearing the announcement sound from the headset, Chen Ming hurriedly stuffed the cigarette butt into the canned box he had specially prepared, turned around and walked towards the cab.

The separation ceremony is one of the traditional etiquette of the Navy, which is different from the handover ceremony created by itself. This kind of etiquette, which is slowly passed down through tacit understanding, is relatively simple.

As the front ship of the new batch of escort formations, Chen Ming commanded the 575 ships to adjust their positions in the cockpit and then stopped, waiting for the remaining two ships to line up a column behind him.

The separation ceremony includes parallel voyages and separations, and there are also opposite voyages that are now carried out by Chen Ming and others. Either way, it is a kind of farewell and gratitude to the ships in the ship formation that have completed the set task and need to go to the next mission point.

Thank them for their dedication in the previous mission, and also include blessings for their safety in the following missions.

"I declare that the parting ceremony begins!"

"Forward three, blow the whistle!"

Hearing the sound of finger weaving from the headset, Chen Ming immediately spoke. At the same time, he and Political Commissar Huang walked on the bridge. Looking at the sea not far away, the same three ships honked each other's whistles, and quietly waited for the order of the duty officer.

"Salute!"

Along with the official order, there were three muffled sounds of flare guns firing. When the two formations met on the parallel line, three brilliant fireworks from each burst on the sea in the middle of the two formations.

"Rite over!"

The speed of the three cars was not slow, and with the speed of the ships in the formation, the separation ceremony ended after only about ten minutes. After hearing the order of the duty officer, Chen Ming gave the disbandment order at the end of the station, and walked towards the war room with Political Commissar Huang.

"From now on, we are really entering the stage of escorting alone. Lao Chen, are you nervous? ”

Political Commissar Huang asked as he walked.

"What's so tense about this? The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and they will see the move. We have done all the prevention that needs to be done. How? Are you nervous? ”

Chen Ming looked at Political Commissar Huang and said with a smile.

"There's no nervousness, after all, they can't attack our ship. I'm a little excited, to be honest, who of you who was a soldier never thought of going to the battlefield with real knives and guns to fight. ”

Political Commissar Huang was unimpressed when he heard Chen Ming's ridicule, and said with a smile.

"Although this escort is not a war. But it's not a drill after all, bullets can really kill people. I've been a soldier for so many years, and it's really the first time I've experienced this, and I have no regrets when I retire from the army. ”

"Haha, I don't think so. Peace and security is the best. Although I don't sympathize with these pirates, at the end of the day, they are also poor people who have been forced to do nothing. But as long as there is something to eat, who wants to pin their head to the waistband of their trousers every day. ”

Different from Commissar Huang's thoughts, Chen Ming said with a sigh.

In his early years, he experienced war, and it was the most brutal street fighting. Chen Ming's feelings are completely different from Political Commissar Huang, and even now, Chen Ming still remembers the child who was hit in the head by an electric drill.

If the war had not broken out, the level of economic development of that country would have been ahead of the domestic level in that year. That child, with a father who is a chief, can have relatively good living conditions, a good education, and a bright future.

But it's all if. Maybe it was because he saw that Chen Ming's face was not quite right, and Political Commissar Huang didn't dwell too much on this topic.

Most of the days of the escort are boring and boring. Command and guide the merchant ship into formation and let it sail to its own position. After the fleet sets sail, follow the fleet to ensure the safety of the fleet.

In the days when there were no pirates, except for some command work inside the ship. The most common thing that Chen Ming had with the outside of the ship was to warn the rest of the fleet to slow down the restless merchant ships, maintain the formation of the formation, and not to jump around.

"Report to the captain, 15 degrees 20 nautical miles away from the left flank of the front of my escort formation, a suspected pirate speedboat was found."

"Apply to the editor before you go out!"

In the afternoon when the sun was shining, Chen Ming, who was a little drowsy in the war room, immediately woke up and ordered after hearing the correspondent's report.

"The helicopter is ready to take off, and the special operations team is boarding."

"Report to the captain of the ship, and the commander will agree to let our ship go out and identify the unknown nature of the ship. If it's a pirate, drive it away. ”

"Yang Rui, have you finished boarding over there?"

After receiving the reply from the editor, Chen Ming pressed the headset and adjusted to the second channel used by the special combat team and asked.

"It's done, it's ready to take off."

"Helicopter take-off! Stay safe. Ship identification, according to the fuzzy identification standard, to ensure their own safety as the first. ”

There is only one criterion for defining fuzzy recognition and precise identification. That is, the people on the ship, whether they are armed or not. After so many years of escorting, the pirates of today are no longer what they were back then.

Holding Ak alof, Ula Ula drove a speedboat to the merchant ship. More and more pirates nowadays don't show their weapons until they look for an opportunity. They will even deliberately make a detour of the arc, pretend to leave, and wait for an opportunity to find an opportunity, or if there is negligence on the part of the escort ship, they will suddenly show their weapons and rush up, catching the escort formation by surprise.

Correspondingly, the naval escort formations of various countries have now continued to lower the judging standards, and they no longer have to show their weapons before they can be identified as pirates for attacking.