Chapter 22: The Assault
The sky had begun to get darker, and Li Guang was a little disappointed, it seemed that he was waiting in vain again today. At night, unless the ships are very close, it is difficult for the freighter to see the two dinghies. The route on the sea is not a clear road on land, and the deviation of one or two nautical miles is less, and the deviation of thirty or fifty nautical miles is not unusual, and there is no GPS in these years.
Li Guang recorded a work plan: "It is necessary to set up an intelligence station in Panama as soon as possible. As Li Guang's understanding of war deepened, he found that it was indispensable to fight a war or to rob the newspaper.
Throwing down the pen in his hand, Li Guang just stretched his waist. Zheng Xuechang shouted: "The fight has started." ”
At a distance of almost twenty kilometers, it is impossible to see the situation clearly even in a telescope, but a flash in the distance will definitely not be mistaken.
The pickup truck was at full speed and headed for the battlefield as soon as possible. Half a month of sailing, three days of waiting, just for this moment.
The 2,500-horsepower diesel engine of the pickup truck is now at its maximum throttle, and the propeller pulls out a white spray at the stern. In just a few minutes, the pickup number accelerated to its maximum speed - 23 knots.
Compared with steam engines and turbines, diesel engines have the advantage of being small in size and accelerating quickly.
The current pickup number, although it is not a gallop on the ocean, at least it can be regarded as a wild run. The four main guns on the deck were already in full array. The torpedo launchers have also long been loaded with torpedoes.
Just when the pickup truck was moving at full speed, it was the most critical moment on the Sakura freighter.
It was almost evening, and three giant ships appeared in Su Qing's field of vision. The first one is afraid that it will not have a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. Even the huge silhouette of a merchant ship gave the warriors a great shock. The deck is two stories above the water, and the ship's superstructure is tens of meters high. Towering masts, huge chimneys, like beasts of prey.
With Su Qing's order, the two small boats began to row towards the giant ship in front. On the dinghy, Junjiro Koizumi hurriedly raised a rag and waved it.
The Sakura had stopped, but when it was picking up everyone on deck, an accident happened. Captain Sasaki looked at the seafarers in the dinghy, although most of them were oriental faces, and although he didn't see any flaws, he always felt a little strange.
Junjiro Koizumi accosted himself on the Sakura as he began to climb up the deck. By this time, the Sakura had already lowered several soft ladders.
Sasaki suddenly remembered why it didn't feel right. These Orientals are so unified, all bald. Although it is nothing that the crew has shaved their heads on the sea, there is absolutely no one who has shaved all the heads of the crew on this freighter. Unless it is an army, it is said that naval soldiers also have the habit of shaving their heads.
Sasaki was agitated and immediately shouted alert.
At this moment, Su Qing's head was already exposed to the deck, and he would be able to get on the deck in a second or two. Seeing a devil screaming in panic, how did he not know that it had leaked. Immediately, Su Qing waved it with one hand, and in a few seconds, threw several grenades on the deck.
As Su Qing's grenade was thrown, there was a violent explosion on the deck. As soon as the explosion stopped, Su Qing jumped onto the deck. Combat can never be idealized, and from this moment on, a sneak attack turns into a strong attack.
This time, the assault team of thirty-six people, in addition to grenades, was armed with pistols and daggers. The two German mirror boxes in Su Qing's hands were almost as effective as a machine gun on the foredeck. The continuous burst of fire quickly cleared the devils on the deck. As the follow-up fighters quickly climbed onto the deck, within a few minutes the assault team had captured the deck on the side of the giant ship.
According to the prior plan, the first step of the assault team was to occupy the bridge. But the Devil's freighter not only had a 75mm gun on the foredeck, but also a heavy machine gun. The distance was only a dozen meters, and the artillery simply could not fire at the rear, and even then, a heavy machine gun blocked the way of the assault team.
Su Qing threw three grenades in a row, but it was always difficult to blow up the heavy machine gunner. The little devil made a steel plate on the deck, which was not only difficult for grenades to blow up, but also difficult for pistols to threaten the devil's heavy machine gunners.
As a last resort, Su Qing immediately changed his tactics and ordered the assault team to immediately attack the stern deck. At this time, Juan, the pirate, saw an opportunity and climbed high from the side bulkheads with a few of his men. Although Juan is not as cunning as Junjiro Koizumi, he has not been a pirate for decades, and he has a lot of experience in how to rob.
The pirates did this very well, and in less than a minute they all climbed onto the living deck. (One level further up is the helm deck.) Immediately Juan and the others began to attack the bridge.
Junjiro Koizumi saw that he was preempted by Juan, and this Japanese slave couldn't fight, but he was good at playing tricks, so he immediately gave full play to his advantages and shouted in the language: "Resistance is meaningless, surrender, I guarantee your life safety in the name of Aunt Amaterasu, we are pirates, as long as money, don't die." ”
In the dense gunfire, Junjiro Koizumi's sharp voice penetrated quite strongly, and the devils in the cabin could hear it clearly.
In the command cabin, Sasaki was lucky enough to pick up a small life at this time. When he realized that something was wrong, he shouted and turned and fled. Sasaki was a junior officer in the Tsushima Navy, and participated in the Battle of the Tsushima Strait against the Soviet Union. In that battle, the Soviet fleet was almost completely annihilated, and extremely brilliant results were achieved.
Sasaki boasted about the results for more than thirty years, as if he had commanded the battle, not Heihachiro Togo.
Due to Sasaki's usual attention to arming merchant ships, his freighter had not only two guns, but also several heavy machine guns, and almost one rifle. In his many years of sailing, Sasaki has had many opportunities to meet pirates, and he has never suffered a loss.
But today Sasaki made a big mistake, maybe Junjiro Koizumi's expression was too deceitful, or maybe Junjiro Koizumi's crying plea moved him. In short, he got these "pirates" on board.
Regret doesn't help, Sasaki still knows this. At this time, Sasaki took out a katana and said to the crew in the cockpit: "The navigators who have not surrendered in this empire will follow me and fight the pirates to the death and drive the pirates out of the sea." Let these pirates know that we Yamato people are not to be messed with. ”
There were more than twenty devils accumulated on the pilot's deck, and Juan couldn't rush up for a while. Although the devil's marksmanship is not good, Juan's guns are only pistols, and they are less powerful. For a time the battle entered a stalemate.
Sasaki was waiting for reinforcements, and the other two freighters were no more than a nautical mile away, and by this time they had already spotted an anomaly on the Sakura. Sasaki was confident that he would hold the deck until reinforcements arrived.
After Su Qing changed the direction of the attack, it was extremely smooth, and a 75mm gun on the rear deck had already been occupied by him.
Five men were left to guard the back deck, and the rest were divided into three groups, one on each side of the ship, and another group went to the second deck, ready to clean out the devils in the engine room.
It seemed that Su Qing's commando team had occupied half of the freighter, but in fact, Su Qing's commando team was in crisis. The crew of the devil occupies the most advantageous command platform so far, and poses a great threat to the commando team from a high position. This situation is not difficult for Su Qing to solve, but it will take time. But the crisis is coming from the sea, and the other two freighters of the Sakura are already approaching the Sakura.
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