The blue sea is sparkling, the sun shines softly on the Persian Gulf, and white clouds float in the sky. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The fog has cleared in the early morning, and the sea is endless, which is a good weather for sailing!

More than 20 cargo ships from various wharves along the Persian Gulf coast gathered in the predetermined assembly area, ready to leave the Persian Gulf again under the escort of the defense forces of the peninsula, most of them were oil tankers of more than 10,000 tons.

Although Iran has been clamoring for attacks on the ships of the Arab countries that have supported Iraq in the past, they have been safe and sound in the past few days, but the Iranians have been beaten badly, and even if the Iranians come, they are not afraid, because there are already several Iraqis with weapons on their cargo ships to protect them.

The energetic Iraqi Marines were on the side of the ship, vigilantly watching the sea, and if the Iranians still had small boats to move by, they would use their machine guns to snipe from a long distance.

All the crew are very confident that they are safe.

In a long line, at the forefront, there was a Saudi Navy's Siddiq-class missile boat and frigate Abuha, and the commander of the formation, Rear Admiral Talal, was in good spirits.

With the smooth progress of the escort operation, the name of Major General Talal also resounded throughout the Persian Gulf, and in the mouths of all the crews, Major General Talal became their protector, which made Major General Talal a little complacent, and there was already news that he would soon be promoted to lieutenant general.

Major General Talal is somewhat grateful to the Iranians, and if it weren't for the Iranians' efforts, he would have had to stay up for at least three or five years, or even ten or eight years, before he could be promoted. And now, if you make a few more feats, or even be promoted, it is very possible.

The Abuha's radar antenna is rotating, and the air-to-sea alert radar is ready to detect the Iranian speedboat attacking again at any time, although the radar signature of the speedboat is small, but a large number of speedboats are coming to attack, this radar can still be detected.

The entire formation, like a giant dragon, slowly approached the Strait of Hormuz.

The Abuha was followed by the 400,000-ton Kuwaiti tanker Bridgeton.

"Report, my formation has entered the Strait of Hormuz." On the bridge, the first mate reported to Talal.

"Be vigilant and guard against the Iranians' dinghy attacks." Talal said.

"Yes."

On the calm sea, at some point, several Iranian speedboats will suddenly appear. In the blink of an eye, it will be a storm.

All the personnel of the formation were vigilantly watching the sea around them.

Standing in the bridge, Talal looked at the sea around him with a telescope.

Suddenly, Talal was attracted to a floating object on the surface of the sea in the distance, which was like a huge ball, floating with the waves.

What is that?

Talal carefully adjusted the telescope, and finally, the object was getting clearer and clearer, a black ball with a few tentacles on it.

Talal's heart suddenly tensed, every soldier in the navy should be familiar with it, this kind of thing is an anchor mine!

Damn the Iranians, how dare they lay minefields here!

"The formation immediately stopped advancing, two cars at full speed, three backwards!" Talal ordered urgently.

It was an anchor mine that had been lengthened during the minelaying operation last night, and after falling into the sea, the mine seat sank to the bottom of the water, but the mine body floated to the surface.

However, this is definitely not the first one.

Being able to enter a minefield and get out of it all depends on luck, although on the vast sea, the distance between two mines is tens of meters or even one or two hundred meters long, but the probability of the hull encountering a mine is also quite large. Because the line of defense of mines is not one.

So, instead of ordering the warship to turn, Talal retreated at full speed.

The speed at this time was eighteen knots.

Immediately after receiving the order, the personnel in the engine room operated the machine, the propellers began to reverse, and the engines worked at full speed.

If you want to stop a warship of thousands of tons, the propeller can only slowly slow down the speed of the warship's advance, and the huge body of the warship is still advancing.

And in the process, whether you can hit the mines in front of you, it depends on Allah's blessing.

The Abuha was slowing down, slowing down, and under the surface of the water, no one could see, an M08 anchor mine, on the path of the Abuha.

The distance between the Abuha and the anchor mine is getting closer and closer, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters, ten meters ... If it was a magnetic mine or a sound mine, it would have been fired and exploded.

And this is an old-fashioned anchor mine, which needs to be put on direct contact in order to explode.

Just a meter away from the anchor mine, the huge Abuha stopped, and then, slowly, began to retreat.

No one on the warship noticed that they were only one meter away from death just now.

Even a flutter of the ocean currents on the bottom of the sea can blow that anchor thunder to the sonar cover at the bottom of the bow of the Abuha, which is a heaven-shattering roar.

However, the "Bridgerton", which followed the Abuha, did not have such good luck.

Bridgerton is a forty-ton tanker, and it takes a long time to accelerate this behemoth to eighteen knots, and it takes longer and longer distances to stop.

It's not so easy to braking hard at sea.

Hearing the order from the front, the formation immediately stopped advancing, and Bridgerton's captain couldn't help but want to curse.

The two huge propellers reversed at full speed, but the fatter hull of the ship continued to rush forward.

In order to avoid colliding with the ship in front of him, the captain had to manipulate the steering gear in his hand and let the ship change direction.

Bridgerton's hull soon overtook the Abuha, and its speed was slowly decreasing.

On the Abuha, which had already stopped, Talal looked at the steamer that had glided past him, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

Why didn't that steamer stop? That's very dangerous!

"Bridgerton, stop now!" Talal shouted over the radio.

"I'm stopping!" The captain of the Bridgerton said angrily.

The speed of the 400,000-ton Bridgerton gradually slowed down, but Talal has not been reassured, I don't know how dense the mines laid by the Iranians are in front?

If the density is not large, there is a good chance that the Bridgerton will be unharmed, but if it is unlucky, even if the 400,000-ton guy triggers a mine, it is likely to cause the ship to sink. (To be continued.) )