Episode 195 Hijacking the San Juan

At noon on 9 March, a destroyer patrolling the South China Sea, the Imu Qian, immediately reported to the Nanyang Fleet base. On the one hand, the fleet base ordered the Jingmu Qian to continue cruising according to the original route and not to alarm the other party, and on the other hand, it quickly reported to Nanjing.

The General Staff of the Nanjing Maritime Department immediately marked the location of the target on the chart.

When the Dominican freighter was spotted, it was between the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, heading southwest at a speed of 10 knots. This position is right in the middle of the search range of the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, which is a blind spot. The discovery of it by the Inoki was purely accidental.

In this way, Guangwu chose the Indian Ocean route. He had to go to Europe to find a bank to save the wealth he had brought with him before he went to Dominica. This arrangement is also more in line with Guangwu's character. Bold, but also cautious. People are in one place, money is in another. In this way, in front of the Dominican dictator, he can ensure his safety to the greatest extent.

The General Staff ordered the Nanyang Fleet to raise its alert, spread its net near the entrance to Malacca, and wait for the freighter to come in. At the same time, just in case, the aircraft carrier detachment of the East China Sea Fleet was ordered not to return for the time being, and to conduct a search in the western Pacific Ocean as originally planned until the South Sea Fleet succeeded in Malacca.

All units have their eyes on the South Sea Fleet. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that Xiuxiu's American "relatives" were useless. However, since posing as pirates in Malacca is a covert operation, the main force is still the People's Guard.

Now the position of this freighter is about 1,200 nautical miles to the entrance to the Straits of Malacca. At the current speed, it will take about 100 hours to sail. During this period, the People's Guard and the Nanyang Fleet could be fully prepared.

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Of course, Xiang Xiaoqiang also seized the opportunity and did a few things of his own.

The first is the box of bonds that I left behind. At present, personnel are shuttling back and forth between Nanjing and Beijing, and the Beijing Military Management Commission often needs to send people back to Nanjing to do business. This is a good opportunity to send this bond back to Nanjing without notice.

So, Xiang Xiaoqiang sent Xiuxiu to fly back to Nanjing with the box and handed it over to Fourteen Gege for safekeeping. If you enter the fourteen-grid vault, it will be considered absolutely safe.

After Xiuxiu flew back to Beijing, Xiang Xiaoqiang instructed her to be in charge of Ha Yukun's trial, and asked her to arrange evidence and fabricate charges for Ha Yukun, and she must let Ha Yukun carry the black pot to the end.

At that time, after Xiang Xiaoqiang returned to the temporary headquarters with the box, he called Hu Jiong and instructed him to do so. Hu Jiong was not ambiguous, and strangled Mu Hu to death with a wire. Then, a box was made to transport the body to the train station and secretly buried under the coal pile.

In this way, Ha Yukun is completely indescribable. Nashun was indeed strangled by him, with wire. And Mu Hu was also strangled to death, and he was also used with wire. And it was buried under the coal pile at the train station. The modus operandi is the same, the location of the crime is the same, and the murder weapon is the same. No matter how Ha Yukun said that he didn't kill Mu Hu, no one would believe him if he was killed.

Not to mention that Beijing, which is still under the "dictatorship" of the Military Control Commission, even if the case is taken to Nanjing, Britain and the United States on the other side of the ocean, the jury will have to convict him. And Xiang Xiaoqiang hinted that the Second Division of the Eight Banners would enter Beijing, but he didn't tell Nanjing about it at all. Now I don't admit it. As a result, Ha Yukun was guilty of murder and the arson ransacked Beijing, and he couldn't survive no matter how he said it.

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Four days later, at noon on March 13, the freighter was spotted by a Ming destroyer on routine patrol in the waters near the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. The destroyer, as had been arranged in advance, continued to patrol unhurriedly and did not take special care of the ship.

Only at the same time, two submarines, which had long been lying in ambush nearby, were brought into combat readiness and were ready to track. And the other three submarines ambushed in the Strait of Malacca are also ready.

An hour later, the Dominican freighter sailed to the southern tip of Singapore and slowed down to enter the Strait of Malacca. Two submarines dived, approaching covertly with only periscopes exposed. When the cargo ship passed in front of the submarine, the distance was only about 800 meters.

This is the closest Ming ship and plane have come to since the discovery of this freighter. Through the periscope, the ship's bow name - the San Juan was clearly visible.

As soon as the San Juan drove past the submarine's ambush and the distance was 5 nautical miles, the two submarines immediately came out of the water and followed at a distance of 10 knots with diesel engines. Their task is to keep up with the ship and report its position at all times.

In the evening, the sky is getting darker and darker, and the visibility of the sponge is getting worse and worse. The two submarines gradually narrowed the distance, but not too closely, and always maintained a suitable distance: the tall freighter could not see the low submarine, but the low submarine could barely see the tall freighter.

By the time it was completely dark, the submarine was within two thousand meters and tracked entirely by sonar.

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At two o'clock in the middle of the night, the San Juan sailed to a quarter of the Straits of Malacca. It is still a narrow section of the strait, and there are many bays and estuaries on both sides, which is the most dangerous place.

The freighter's heavy boiler gasped, propelling its massive body slowly. Suddenly, a cable rose from the sea in front of the bow, and the bow of the ship was pushed over at once, and the two small boats at each end of the rope were dragged on either side of the freighter, silently leaning on both sides.

Several cable anchor claws flew up the ship's side, and then several strings of black shadows flew up like apes.

After a few moments, there were screams and menacing roars from the cabin. The Spanish voice of the crew, the Malay voice of "pirate" mixed together. The "pirates" not only shouted and threatened the crew, but also ping-pong and shot into the sky, as if they were demonstrating, but more like signaling.

In the face of the ferocious pirates, the Dominican sailors were so frightened that they huddled in the corners, their faces as white as paper, trembling, and begging God not to let themselves die at the hands of these barbarians.

Within ten minutes, the whole ship was under the control of the "pirates".

The leading "pirate leader" cursed in Malay, and from time to time he uttered a sentence of Dutch. He led people to search the whole ship, but he couldn't find Guangwu.

I only found Guangwu's younger brother Prince Shun Yuyi, as well as a large number of boxes in Yuyi's cabin.

However, he was strictly ordered to guard it and not to open it without permission.

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At this moment, a bright light shone in from outside the porthole, and then the shouting of a megaphone floated over the sea. Immediately afterward, the sound of a high-speed diesel motor came from the left and right directions.

The "pirate leader" cursed, spat into the ground, and scolded in Malay:

"! Go and see how many of them there are! ”

The crew in the corner had just been sparkled with hope, and now they were nervous again.

Outside there were constant shouts in Malay, Dutch, Chinese, English, and Spanish, and they all came to the same meaning:

"We are the navy of the Ming Empire, you have been surrounded, I order you to stop your ships and surrender immediately!"

The "pirates" all stared at their leader and asked:

"Boss, what should I do?"

The pirate leader stamped his foot and said:

"Forget it, the brothers can't die in vain, surrender!"

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So, not a single shot was fired, and a few minutes later, dozens of loaded Ming marines boarded the cargo ship and took control of the whole ship.

"Ahh The Marine Corps platoon commander shone a flashlight on a person's face and shouted in surprise, "Isn't this Guangwu's younger brother?" This guy is playing poker! Come on, take it! ”

The two marines immediately pounced, handcuffed Yu Yan, who had been scared into a puddle of mud, and dragged him away.

Under normal circumstances, it is simply inconceivable for a team to board another country's ship on the high seas to inspect and arrest people. Even if the other side is a weak country like Dominica, it is enough to cause an uproar in the world.

But now the situation is that the Ming Navy has just rescued the Dominican crew from the murderous pirates. It's too late for people to be grateful, so how can they care about the Ming army arresting people and sealing the boxes "by the way......