Chapter 33 Striking with Hot Iron

The Jiaolong members were very excited now, so Jiang Lin decided to strike while the iron was hot: "Brothers, with these things, I can guarantee that we are absolutely invincible in this sea area, so I am going to fulfill my previous promise"

Looking at the modified speedboat, looking at Jiang Lin standing on the shore, the doubts in the eyes of the Jiaolong members had already drifted out of the clouds, and for Jiang Lin, the head of the regiment, the word "service" was capitalized in their hearts.

Then Jiang Lin told the Jiaolong members of his plan in detail, and this time all the members were eager to try, and no one objected, and everyone unanimously decided to support Jiang Lin's decision.

Because there are twenty-seven modified speedboats, and each ship can only carry one machine gunner, which means that only fifty-four people are needed for the next operation, so this time the selection criteria is that the members who have served as helmsmen and machine gunners in the Blue Shark Pirate Regiment and the Tiger Pirate Regiment before are preferred, and it is no problem for the two pirate groups to make up fifty-four members with considerable experience.

With the help of all the members, all the heavy machine guns on the remaining twenty-six speedboats were put in place, and .50 caliber machine gun ammunition was also loaded onto the modified speedboats.

After that, fifty-four members, including Jiang Lin, boarded the speedboat in groups of two and galloped towards the distant sea, this time not to carry out the plan, but to test the sea.

This was a very crucial step, because the plan would be executed tomorrow, so the fifty-four members had to master the performance of the speedboat and the use of heavy machine guns as quickly as possible.

The first problem is that the position of the heavy machine gun on the speedboat has changed, the muzzle is directly aimed at the front, and the machine gunner is no longer standing to shoot, but sitting on the seat to shoot, so that the modified speedboat has undoubtedly become more demanding for the machine gunner, and because the muzzle is aimed at the front, so if you want to hit the target accurately, you need to have a tacit cooperation between the helmsman and the machine gunner, otherwise you will not be able to play the combat effectiveness of the modified speedboat.

After three rounds of joint training, the machine gun ammunition on the speedboat was also consumed, and twenty-seven speedboats gathered on the sea, and all the members were excitedly exchanging ideas at this time.

The members raised several questions, which attracted Jiang Lin's attention, the hull was undoubtedly increased in weight because of the addition of armor, before the time, the speedboat could sail one hundred and fifty nautical miles with a full tank of fuel, but now it can only sail one hundred nautical miles, that is, if you want to fight at a long distance, then the speedboat must carry additional fuel, fortunately, because of the elimination of two rows, it just provides an effective space for storing fuel.

The second problem is that because there is only one M2 heavy machine gun on the speedboat, all fire strikes can only be completed by heavy machine guns, but the rate of fire of heavy machine guns is too fast. 1,000 rounds of .50 caliber bullets only need about a minute to be consumed, so the requirements for ammunition supply for modified speedboats have also increased relatively, and the most serious problem is that if the heavy machine gun fails in a state of war, then the whole speedboat becomes meaningless, and it is impossible to retreat, because not only is there no armor behind the speedboat, but the speed is much slower than that of the speedboat that has not been modified, so the possibility of escape is not very large.

Despite these problems, this does not affect the recognition of the speedboats by the members, because they only need to crush the enemy under a wave of impact, then all these problems are no longer a problem, and theoretically, with these speedboats, the survivability of the members on the battlefield will be greatly improved, and the members will not be afraid when fighting.

Back at the base of the Blue Shark Pirate Group, Jiang Lin set out to solve the problems found during this sea trial.

He first contacted Henry and asked him to find a way to expand the fuel tanks of the speedboats in the second batch of speedboat modifications, and then contacted Blake to purchase 100,000 rounds of .50 caliber M2 heavy machine gun ammunition.

He then dismantled the heavy machine gun platform on one of the converted speedboats, whose main task was to carry ammunition and other supplies for all the speedboats.

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, when the Jiaolong members were still asleep, Jiang Lin and the fifty-three Jiaolong members had already completed the assembly on the beach, and then under Jiang Lin's order, twenty-seven speedboats rushed towards the base of the Polar Bear Pirate Group two hundred nautical miles away.

Three hours later, the twenty-seven speedboats of the Jiaolong Pirates reached the sphere of influence of the Polar Bear Pirates after refueling once on the way.

Quietly docked on the surface of the sea, after Jiang Lin announced some precautions, the twenty-sixth speedboat started and launched an attack towards the station of the Polar Bear Pirate Regiment more than ten nautical miles away.

At this time, it was eight or nine o'clock in the morning, which was the time for the Polar Bear Pirate Group to go out for a cruise, and the eight speedboats of the Polar Bear Pirate Group had just sailed three or four nautical miles away from the base when they found a group of small black spots in the distant sea.

"Commander, what should I do?"

The members of the Polar Bear Pirate Group all know in their hearts what these twenty or thirty small black dots represent, which means that this is at least a pirate group of more than one hundred and fifty people, and how many people are in the Polar Bear Pirate Group? Including the regimental commander Dick, there were only fifty-eight people.

"Prepare for battle."

Dick looked at these twenty or so small black dots with a gloomy face, in the pirate world, it is taboo to directly break into the sphere of influence of other pirate groups, even if the Tiger Pirate Group went to the base of the Blue Shark Pirate Group before, Tiger also notified Duke in advance, if notified, then it means that this is going to war.

Although wars between pirate groups often occur in the pirate world, with the changes in the international situation in recent years, everyone is quite restrained, and does not involve core interests.

Dick searched in his mind, and now there are more than 150 pirate groups in the waters near Indonesia that can be counted on one hand, and his polar bear pirate group has always operated in his own sea area of influence, and he has not offended them.

But now they have no choice, the other party has already arrived here, and there is no prior notice, and although their polar bear mercenary group is small in number, the current situation is that they have been beaten to the door, and everyone is angry, and all members of the polar bear are no exception.

The murderous aura in the eyes of the polar bear members began to slowly brew, and the assault rifles in their hands were loaded, and then the eight polar bear speedboats increased their speed and rushed towards the direction of the black dot, they were ready to fight on their backs.