CHAPTER XXXVI Search and Rescue 2
Lin Jinlai did not know the detailed purpose of their flight, but heard that there might be a ship wrecked in the coordinate area, and the plane needed to conduct reconnaissance and visual confirmation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Speaking of aerial reconnaissance, Lin Jinlai has participated in more than 10 times, and the cumulative flight time has exceeded 35 hours. However, today is the first time that he has personally piloted a plane to carry out this kind of maritime reconnaissance, and he has heard the patriarch say that long-distance reconnaissance at sea is that because the color of the sea water and the sky are similar, it is easy to produce an illusion when flying in the air for a long time, resulting in the danger of not being able to distinguish the state of the aircraft, so it is necessary to keep an eye on the parameters of the instrument panel at all times.
Before taking off, he carefully looked at the chart, which was about fifty or sixty kilometers from the port of Vostochny, and there was already a frigate of the Senate that was heading towards it, and they were trying to find and locate the possible shipwrecked ships before the frigate encountered the typhoon circle, and guide the rescue operation. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing, and the navigator and co-pilot cadet in the back seat heard it and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Lieutenant, what are you laughing at?" ”
"Me?" Lin Jinlai pushed the microphone to his lips, "I remember how long it will take for the boat below to arrive." You see how fast we are now? ”
"The current airspeed is 210 kilometers per hour." The navigator said, "This speed is normal, right?" ”
"That's right! Of course it's normal, but it's impossible for a boat to reach this normal speed. Lin Jinlai said with a smile. The speed of the frigate is no more than sixteen or seventeen kilometers per hour, and our speed is many times faster than that of the ship! ”
"That's right, how many times are we as many as them?" The navigator asked curiously, and Lin Jinlai said with a disgusted face, "Why did you go there when you were studying culture?" What is two hundred and ten divided by sixteen? ”
"Two hundred and ten divided by sixteen ......" the navigator in the back seat muttered a few words, he really couldn't count. In a large group of new pilots, he is considered a "learning activist", in the early years of his family before the decline of the private school experience provided him with a lot of points, but every day only know that the person who reads is also the same as the Chinese language does not help him in the slightest in mathematics, even if he is now caught by the teacher rote memorization ninety-nine multiplication formula, but now this kind of two hundred and one divided by sixteen he still can't count.
"I'll go," Lin Jinlai, as the first batch of pilots, mixed with the patriarchs a lot, and learned a lot of spoken English, he said with an expression of a person who came over, "I didn't let you be accurate to the decimal point, you just give me an approximate value, if two hundred and one divided by sixteen can't be counted, even if you divide two hundred by twenty, how much do you calculate?" ”
"Hmm......" The navigator hesitated for a moment, finally came up with a value, and asked tentatively, "Ten times, huh?" ”
"Of course, generally speaking, you can calculate an approximate value, and when the patriarch tells you how many times these units or something, you can just report a roughly similar value, for example, what we are talking about now, you can just say that it looks like eleven or twelve times." Lynkin looked left and right at the situation, they had already left the coastline, whether left or right, front and back, it was already the sea now, it was impossible to distinguish the direction, so they could only stare at the compass on the dashboard.
"You know how to use a theodolite, right?" Lin Jinlai asked casually, and the navigator nodded, but immediately remembered that Lin Jinlai would definitely not see it, so he hurriedly replied, "Yes." ”
"Well, let's determine where we are now and make sure we don't yaw." "Okay." The navigator hurriedly raised the theodolite and began to calculate the latitude and longitude.
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Zhong Bin stood on the aft tower, holding a telescope and scanning the sea on the port side, but there was nothing on the sea, I don't know why, a feeling suddenly appeared in his heart, as if he could sense that the damaged ship was on the port side. Now there are people on both sides of the ship, including the bow, and on the top of the mast looking at the frigate on all sides, no one dares to take it lightly, knowing that the typhoon is in the south, it is estimated that it will sweep this area in the afternoon, if you can't find the wrecked ship and rescue it in the fastest time, you can only give up the search and return to port - everyone knows what it means to leave a fishing boat without sails in a typhoon.
Zhong Bin wiped his nose a little nervously, and at the moment when he raised the telescope again, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, but if he looked closely, he didn't seem to be able to see it. He couldn't help frowning, took a few more steps towards the side of the ship, and held up the telescope to take a closer look, as if there was something different on the surface of the sea at the end of the telescope.
"Captain! There is a case on the port side! The lookout on the mast shouted, and he quickly glanced at the compass on the lookout, "Direction zero three five!" ”
Hearing this, several binoculars looked in the direction of 035 at the same time, and another voice came, "It's a person!" Someone! ”
"Turn to zero three-five, full speed ahead!" Zhong Bin issued an order loudly, "Prepare to put down the boat and catch people." ”
With a target, the speed is naturally fast, and it only took them more than ten minutes to rush to the person's side, and sure enough, the person was lying on his back on the water, not knowing whether he was alive or dead, and his body was constantly shaking with the waves.
"Put the dinghy!" Soon a small lifeboat was lowered, and four sailors rowed the dinghy to the man's side, and with some effort it took him to get him up, and then he was transported to the deck of the Chunxiao as fast as he could.
The ship doctor carrying the medical kit ran over quickly, half-knelt beside this person and began to check, Zhong Bin and the officers all looked at this person a little nervously.
The skin of this person's whole body was soaked in seawater and was a little swollen, and it could be seen that the skin had been wrinkled in the sea, and it should have been soaked in the sea for a long time, and there were several logs not far from the place where the person was fished and also floated in the sea, presumably relying on these woods to avoid drowning.
Although the weather is hot and the sun is scorching, the temperature of the sea is very low, only about sixteen or seventeen degrees, and this man is cold, and no one knows whether he is dead or alive from the outside.
"Alive!" The ship's doctor suddenly shouted loudly, "And the pulse!" Hurry down and rescue! ”
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"My name is Lu Zhi, and I'm a Tanman." The man who had just been squeezed out of his stomach reluctantly said, "We came here from Xu Wen to fish. ”
"You guys?" Zhong Bin keenly grasped the word, "Who else?" How many people are there? ”
"Who are you?" Lu Zhi didn't know what these people were doing in front of him, he had heard a lot of rumors about pirates in the South China Sea, and he usually sailed with a large group of people when he went out to fish, so he hadn't seen pirates with his own eyes.
The people in front of them were full of strange feelings, and the person in front of them, who seemed to be the obvious leader of the group, wore a large white brimmed hat on his head, and a blue North Star on the wall of the hat. The man was dressed in a short blue outfit, dressed in the same way as the people around him, but with strips of cloth on either shoulder, and one more star on his strips.
"We are the officers and men of the Chinese Navy, and we have come south from Dongfang Port to rescue you, how many ships do you have?" Zhong Bin didn't talk nonsense, just told the truth.
Lu Zhi nodded, after all, his life was saved by these people, but he had two sons who were still at sea, if they didn't come to the rescue, it would really be dead. Now he hurriedly told him about his plan to go south to fish and what happened last night, and before he finished speaking, he burst into tears, "There are still two men in my Lu family who are still at sea, if you don't save them, it will definitely be dead, please ask you military masters to show mercy and save my family's bloodline, the little one ......" Lu Zhi said and paused, "The little one is willing to make cattle and horses for your military masters." As he spoke, he struggled to get up and kneel, but was immediately grabbed by Zhong Bin.
"Where was your ship when it was in a storm? Do you have an approximate location? Zhong Bin didn't have time to listen to him say this, "Now there is a typhoon coming north from the south and is about to sweep over us, and we have to find your two children now." So you have to tell us the location quickly. ”
"Location......" Lu Zhi couldn't help but look around with some embarrassment, "The little one still knew the location when he was swept off the ship, but after this toss, he didn't know the direction for a long time, and even where the villain was at this time was completely unknown." ”
"Where were you when you were in the storm?" Zhong Bin couldn't help but be a little annoyed, "Is there a reference?" ”
"What is a reference?" Lu Zhi's words almost suffocated Zhong Bin to death, but the next sentence gave him a little hope, "The little one was still half a day away from Longya Island at that time. ”
"Dragon's Tooth Island," Zhong Bin nodded and shouted as he stood up to the upper deck, "Limbei! Where is Dragon's Tooth Island? ”
"Dragon's Tooth Island is to the east of us, about six nautical miles!" Lin Bei's voice came quickly, which made Zhong Bin nod with satisfaction, and secretly said in his heart that this young man is really good, he really has to answer questions. He thought for a moment and shouted at the telegraph room, "Send a message to the naval command, find a survivor, the accident site should be within twenty nautical miles north of Longya Island, ask for aircraft reconnaissance!" ”
In order to prevent interference and command confusion, the radios of the army, navy, and air force use different bands, which means that if Chunxiao wants to contact the Mozu in the air, the Chunxiao must first send a message to the Navy Command, and the Navy Command will then contact the Air Force Command, and the Air Force Command will send a report to the Mozu Bird. However, there was no way to solve it at this time, so he had no choice but to send the news back to Command in this way.
"The news came, and they found a survivor, saying that there should be two more children on a ship without a mast, about twenty nautical miles north of Dragon's Tooth Island." Bu Zhongfu said and handed the telegram to Tang Xunliang on the side. "I'll just say he can't have defected."
"It's not necessarily, who knows if it's going to be smoke?" Tang Xunliang said and took out a "Wenqing cigarette" and lit it, and the smell of leaves suddenly emanated and filled the command room. Bu Zhongfu shook his head, "Probably not, let the plane search that area first, if not, order them to return." ”
"It's okay," Tang Xunliang said and took out a cigarette and handed it over, Bu Zhongfu took it and lit it and took a puff, "It's still the same smell of burning leaves, then let's let the plane search for it, anyway, no matter how fast the ship runs, it can't catch up with the plane, if you really don't want to return, it's a big deal to let the plane knock the ship down." But I still have that point of view, this thing is definitely not a defection, and you don't have to be suspicious, the more you look at the suspect's stealing of the axe, the more it looks like it. ”
The navigator on the hundredth patted Lin Jinlai on the shoulder, "The command is calling, let's turn to Zero Forty-Three and search for ships without masts within twenty nautical miles north of Longya Island. ”
"A ship without a mast?" Lin Jinlai couldn't help muttering, "Is it really a shipwreck?" While talking to himself, he turned the plane around and turned in the intended direction.
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Lu Yu lay motionless on the bow of the boat, looking face down at the empty plank, while Lu Dan barely supported himself on the boat, looking for anything to eat. The two of them had no strength in the sun, and now their father was gone, the oars were gone, the mast and sails were gone, and the two of them were now lambs to the slaughter on the boat, just waiting for death to come.
In vain, he scooped up some water with his hands in a corner of the cabin and put it in his mouth again, but immediately spit it out, and it was all seawater. Even fresh water has been polluted by the spray of last night's waves. The two children were rumbling in their stomachs, their eyes were full of stars, and they sat stupidly in the boat not knowing what to do.
"Goo...... "Lu Yu's stomach rang again, he turned around and looked face up, the sun was still in the sky looking at them like a joke." Brother, are we going to die this time? ”
"No, it won't!" Lu Dan didn't know what to say, he just spoke mechanically, "We won't die, Daddy will bring someone to save us, and in the future, we will buy a big boat and go back with a warehouse full of fish, we will never starve again in the future, and we will have endless fish to eat in the future." If we have money, we can still go to study, and in the future, we will be able to test for fame, become officials, and make decisions for us Tan people. My sister can marry a good family in the future......" As he spoke, his own tears fell straight down, Lu Yu didn't react on the side, just sat up, touched his stomach and said, "I'm so hungry......"
"It's okay, we're going to be saved, the boat that saved us is not far away......" Lu Dan said while looking at Lu Yu who was standing up slowly, and said weakly, "You sit down, now you are hungry and have no strength, and if you fall into the sea, you won't be able to save it......"
"No, I heard a voice...... Lu Yu said as he spoke, and suddenly his eyes straightened, and he forgot to be hungry for a moment and jumped up, "Look! Phoenix! ”
Lu Dan looked up, and sure enough, there was a buzzing bird in the air flying slowly in the air, and it was in his own direction, he also forgot about his hunger, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed to the "phoenix", "Mazu Niangniang, Phoenix Master, please save me and my brother, if the villain can go back alive, he must go to the Mazu Temple to offer incense!" ”
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