152. Capture ships
Cape Verde is close to the equator, and the summer nights are still hot. Ten o'clock, this is the time of sortie chosen by the Naval Resistance Army.
One hundred and fifty fighters, in the darkness of night, had quietly approached the shipyard.
All large ship repair yards have one characteristic, the site is large enough. The shipyard is full of grass and has gates, but there are no walls.
The commander of this battle to seize the ship was not Huang Zhonghua, nor Ren Tianyang, but Ji Keliang.
This kind of arrangement is also a helpless move. Although the pickup truck sailed to Europe, it was a new ship after all, and the personnel in various positions on the ship were not very skilled. Although the pickup number does not directly attack, it serves as a support mission.
Ren Tianyang originally wanted to fight for the position of commander, but Ji Keliang's words made sense: "Have you ever fought a land war?" Have you ever killed someone on a land battlefield? ”
Ji Keliang actually didn't participate in battles on land, but he once slaughtered a few little devils in Shanghai with Li Guang, and he barely participated in land battles.
In this way, Tikrian became the captain of the commando team.
During the day, the beautiful Lajili once went to the shipyard to find out the reason for the price in order to repair the merchant ship, and found out a lot of news. Since the evening, Rajili and several women have been walking along the coast near the shipyard.
The Navy, which was all Chinese, was too conspicuous on this French island, and it was most appropriate for Ragili to be a Jewish woman to take on the reconnaissance mission. In this regard, Rajili and the girls are of great help.
The number of Chilean battleships captured by the Naval Resistance was 1,170 men, and the number of French disembarkers during the day was not very large, but in the evening the seamen on the French battleships began to bustle into the city's bars and dance halls. It can be seen that the French Navy is very familiar with this place, and it is certainly not the first time to visit this seaport.
Ragilli counted very carefully, and the number of people who got on and off the French battleships was not bad. From day to night, Rajili and several other supernumerary investigators got the figure of nine hundred and fifty.
For some time, the French Navy stopped disembarking.
Estimating that there were at most 200 French troops on board, Tikrian decided not to wait any longer and to start immediately. He was worried that it would be too late to start, and that the return of the French to the battleship would make it more difficult to seize the ship.
The shipyard is not small, but it is far inferior to the Oolong shipyard. Repairs here, very different from the Oolong shipyard, battleships with a full load displacement of more than 35 thousand tons could not enter the dock at all. The berths of warships are still three or four hundred meters away from the shipyard pier. Personnel came and went mainly by small boats on battleships and a repair ship at the shipyard.
The first step of Operation Tikryan was the quiet seizure of repair ships and dinghies. The Navy's resistance forces had one small boat, but they could only transport twenty people. To control the battleship, twenty people are clearly insufficient.
This seems to be a simple first step, and from the moment he started to act, Ji Keliang began to beat the drum in his heart. Don't look at the fact that Ji Kelian can lead the submarine and the enemy to fight on the line of life and death, but this kind of action is completely different from the feeling on the submarine after all.
It was not easy for more than a hundred people to get close to the dock quietly, but fortunately, these soldiers had gone through three months of recruit training, and finally reached the vicinity of the dock after crawling for dozens of minutes.
The sky above the dock was empty, which was a little different from the situation judged by Ji Kelian and the others, when Ji Keliang was thinking about the reason.
Observer Yan Lihao whispered: "The repair boat and the dinghy are coming." ”
The night was dark, and with Tikerian's eyesight, the water was blurry, and he could only see the lights on the French battleships.
Ji Keliang is known as the first ear of the Maritime Resistance Army, and his advantage is that his ear power is outstanding, and he listened carefully and calmly, confirming that there were indeed two boats rowing towards the pier.
Greeting brethren to lurk carefully and to be quiet. After a while, the two small boats could be seen clearly in everyone's field of vision, and even the noise of the chattering on the boats could be heard.
As the two ships got closer and closer, all the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army who participated in the assault team fell to the ground and waited for the two ships to dock.
Ji Kelian felt that this kind of moment was more nervous than when he led a submarine to attack the enemy warship. It was the first time for the fighters around him to participate in this kind of operation, and it was inevitable that they would be nervous.
"Stay for a while, listen to my orders, and remember not to shoot." Ji Kelian quietly gave the order.
As the minutes passed, it could be seen that the French soldiers and maintenance personnel on the two ships were in a hurry, some wanted to go home as soon as possible, and some wanted to rush to the bright lights as soon as possible.
Everything went well, the French personnel on both ships moved quickly, and in less than five minutes the dock was empty.
With Ji Kelian's order, more than 100 people quickly attacked.
Ji Kelian knew one thing, what he wanted at this time was to be fast, and not to be discovered by the enemy. However, if this goal can be achieved, the battle plan drawn up by several naval officers will be somewhat unsatisfactory.
More than a hundred people quickly overwhelmed the two small boats like a black and oppressive dark cloud. This is clearly not a sneak attack, but a charge. If the brothers in the army saw it, they would definitely laugh their big teeth off.
But there was a mistake, and several French sailors on board were stunned by the overwhelming crowd. They simply didn't expect this to happen.
Cape Verde is not just an ordinary African seaport, it is also an important French colony. There are police, there are garrisons. No one could have imagined that such an act would happen, and in the eyes of the French army it was simply the same as the kidnapping of the president in Paris.
In a panic, the French soldiers forgot about the alarm for drawing their guns, and when they came back to their senses, they found that the muzzle of the black hole had reached their heads.
A French soldier was about to open his mouth to shout, but Ji Kelian was quick and had already inserted the pistol into the mouth of the French soldier. At this time, Yan Lihao reminded Ji Keliang: "Someone is looking this way. ”
Yan Lihao is right, it is true that the French Navy turned its head to look at it at night. The movement of Ji Kelian and his party just now was really big enough that even the French troops who had already walked a few hundred meters were aware of it. More than 100 people were attached to the ground and did not dare to move, and it took a long time for the French army in the distance to go.
Finally out of danger, Ji Keliang said secretly: "It's dangerous." Then he found a rag and gagged the captives.
The French dinghy could only carry a dozen people, but the repair ship was a sixty-foot sailing ship. More than 100 people can still make do with it.
With a few frog chirps, a small boat owned by the Maritime Resistance Army rowed over. The navy has the advantages of the navy, and boating is quite proficient in each. Quietly, the three ships began to swim towards the French battleship.
As the commander, Ji Keliang, the sweat on his forehead had just fallen, and he was nervous and sweating again. The distance of three or four hundred meters, even if it is rowing, it is only ten minutes. These ten minutes felt like a few years had passed in Tikerian's feelings. Ji Keliang even heard the fighters around him have teeth fighting, and forced to endure the tension in his heart, Ji Keliang gently patted the soldier's shoulder.
This is very different from the feeling of submarine combat, Ji Kelian on the submarine is calm, at least he knows what is the most dangerous situation. But in such an operation, he felt that there was danger everywhere, and every link was a risk.
The French army is a wonderful flower among the armies of the world. After defeat, the morale of the army and navy was quite low. When the morale of other armies is low, perhaps the generals will engage in some patriotic ideological education to improve morale. But the French army was very strange, the country was about to surrender, but the soldiers did not realize it at all, and they should have fun. It's as if indulging in alcohol is the only way to forget the shame of failure. Or do they simply not know about shame?
Three ships of the Naval Resistance Army approached the battleship "Slatsburg" in the darkness of the night. When the three ships were in the distance, the French could not see them, but within a few tens of meters, under the bright lights, it was easy to see the naval resistance fighters on board.
Due to the small size of the ship, the fighters could not hide all of them in the cabin, but could only crowd on the deck. A casual French probe looks at the sea, and the more than 100 brothers of the naval resistance army will have nothing to hide.
These were the most critical minutes, and Ji Keliang's heart had already risen to his throat. But everything was not dangerous, and the French were walking on the deck, but none of them even looked at the sea.
Approaching the gangway, Ji Kelian took the lead and rushed to the deck. The lesson that Ji Kelian had learned from the operation on the dock just now, whether it was correct or not, was his only option. It's about moving fast.
The gangway of the battleship was only about a meter wide, and there were about twenty-five steps in total. At this moment, Ji Keliang took the lead, followed by a black dragon-like warrior.
The ramps of the battleship were all steel structures, and the hurried footsteps of more than a dozen people were like rumbling drums. There were two French soldiers on the deck near the gangway, and when they heard the rumbling footsteps, they had just turned to observe when they were once again stunned by the scene in front of them.
Holding two pistols, he plunged them into the French sailor's gaping mouth. The French soldier seemed to have been trained for a long time, and it was natural for them to raise their hands. The way it all went was incredible. As long as he can board the ship smoothly, Ji Kelian believes that his more than 100 people should be able to control the battleship.
In less than a minute, more than 150 anti-sea fighters had completely boarded the ship. According to the prior plan, the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army divided into more than a dozen groups and quickly entered the interior of the battleship.
Controlling this huge warship was undoubtedly the most difficult part of the entire operation. But something even more miraculous happened, and half an hour later, more than 150 naval resistance fighters captured more than 500 French soldiers with just shouting "silky" (French surrender). And in the whole process, the naval resistance army did not fire a single shot, but wounded three people. And these three people were not injured in the fight, but only because of their unfamiliarity with the battleship.
Tikerian wiped his sweat profusely, and the number of French troops was too unexpected. Later, Ji Kelian learned that the full strength of this battleship was 1,430 people. And not more than one thousand and one hundred people.
Just one French word - surrender. It was also temporarily taught by Rajili to the Naval Resistance Army.
Li Guang finally raised his eyebrows, patted Ji Keliang's shoulder fiercely, and happily boarded the deck.
It was also a little too smooth, and the imaginary fierce battle didn't happen at all. At this time, Tikrian was still a little incredible. Li Guang saw with his own eyes that some of the soldiers of the Naval Resistance Army did not even open the safety of their submachine guns. The fact that such a rookie unit can achieve such brilliant results is simply a shame for Yang Weiwu's special squad.