1575 Oil tankers and submarines
In the operation of hijacking ships at sea, Yu Feng divided the eight destroyers into four groups, each group had two warships, because in naval operations, there are very few cases of single-ship action, because one warship can not deal with more emergencies than two warships, so it is prone to danger.
These four groups hijacked all kinds of merchant ships on the route from Japan to Korea, and then brought them to the port of Qingjin, there were many merchant ships on the usual route, but since Japan agreed to take the Japanese public **, the merchant ships have disappeared, Yu Feng wondered in his heart: "Where did these merchant ships go?" ”
At this moment, suddenly the radar operator reported: "Report to the captain, in the direction of the port side of our ship, twenty kilometers away, a large cargo ship was spotted, sailing at a speed of eight knots and heading twenty degrees west-north. ”
Yu Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said to the staff officer: "Quickly adjust the course and let our warships catch up." ”
The speed of the large cargo ship was only eight knots, so the Fire Phoenix Ship and the Qilin Ship quickly chased after it, following the tail of the large cargo ship, Yu Feng raised the binoculars, and as soon as he saw the cargo ship, he thought in his heart: "Good guy, this ship is really big!" Looking at its wide hull, it can fit three Divine Beast-class destroyers, the full load displacement of the Divine Beast-class destroyer is only more than 8,000 tons, and the displacement of this large cargo ship in front of me is probably 50,000 tons! ”
At this time, the staff officer said on the side: "Captain, why is this ship so big?" ”
Yu Feng said: "It could be a ship transporting oil. ”
The staff officer asked, "Can the ship that transports oil be very large?" ”
Yu Feng said: "Of course, the ship transporting oil does not need to be close to the dock to unload, it only needs to stop at the offshore sea and use the pipeline to send the oil on the ship to the land, so the draft of this kind of ship can be made very deep, and the displacement is naturally very large. ”
The staff officer said, "But isn't there no oil in Japan?" How can there still be oil tankers going to North Korea? ”
Yu Feng said: "It may be from the United States, now the United States is the second largest exporter of petroleum products in the world after China, but most of their exports are low-tech crude oil, high-performance military diesel and gasoline are very few, our country still buys their crude oil, and then sells it to them after buying and processing." Well, without talking about this, notify the observation service and find out the name and nationality of that ship. ”
After a while, the observation department sent a message: "We have seen clearly, the name of this ship is 'Chief Gali', and the flag flying is the French flag. ”
Yu Feng smiled and said, "French flag? That's our little ally! But I've seen a lot of this kind of trick, and ships of various countries now like to fly the French flag into the range of our warships! Go and check the list of large merchant ships that the French have given us, and see if there is this Chieftain of Gali. ”
The staff officer agreed, and the name "Chief of Gali" was typed into the computer, and after a few seconds, the screen was displayed: No query entries were found, please check and re-enter. Yu Feng glanced at the words on the screen and said, "Okay, it seems that this ship is really a Li ghost pretending to be Li Kui, prepare the communication equipment, I want to talk to that ship." ”
After a short time, the staff officer finished preparing the communicator, Yu Feng took the communicator and said: "Chief Gali, please report your true nationality, we are the Huofeng ship of the Chinese Navy, and now we suspect that there are pirates on your ship, please drop anchor and stop the ship immediately!" Get checked. ”
"Suspicion of pirates on your ship" has become a common excuse for Chinese warships to force foreign ships to stop, and a message soon came from the Chief Gali: "I am Captain Stevenson, we are indeed French merchant ships, my dear Chinese friend, if you don't believe it, I will give you the French language." ”
Yu Feng then heard the language he didn't understand coming from the communicator, and Yu Feng immediately said: "Don't play tricks with me, hurry up and stop the boat for me and accept the inspection, otherwise don't blame me for being polite." ”
The captain of the Chief Gary then said, "Alright then, we'll stop the ship." ”
Yu Feng saw that the captain of this ship was very obedient, and couldn't help but say to the staff officers around him: "This is really strange, why did they agree to stop the ship so happily?" ”
The staff officer smiled: "They know that even if they resist, it will be useless, so they won't resist." ”
Yu Feng said: "Since they are so obedient, then we don't need to send someone on the ship, just let them drive the ship to Qingjin Port, what do you think?" ”
The staff officer smiled: "That's great, such a big ship, maybe it can carry tens of thousands of people at a time, then our transfer work will be much faster." ”
Yu Feng then said in the communicator: "Now order your ship to sail in the direction of ten degrees west-north!" ”
Stevenson, captain of the Chief Galley, said, "No, we must not reverse course. ”
Yu Feng sneered: "Don't force us to bother, if you are disobedient, our ship will launch an attack on your ship." But there was no response in the communicator, and Yu Feng smiled disdainfully: "Okay, this captain turned off the communicator, they are really looking for death!" ”
Yu Feng immediately ordered: "The Kirin ship is approaching the starboard side of the enemy ship and is equipped to board the ship." ”
The captain of the Kirin, Su Lin, replied: "We understand! The Kirin then sailed towards the starboard side of the Chief Gali, and at this moment, the staff officer suddenly said to Yu Feng: "Captain, do you think this ship is a little unusual?" ”
Yu Feng asked, "Unusual?" What's unusual? ”
The staff officer said: "The first unusual place is its speed, I just checked the name of the oil tanker in the world, and found this Chief of Gali in it, the information records: The cruising speed of this ship is twelve knots, the cruising speed is the most fuel-efficient speed, this ship is a merchant ship, and a merchant ship has no reason to go to Lang to pay for fuel. ”
Yu Feng nodded silently and said, "This is indeed an unusual place, is there anything else?" ”
The staff officer continued: "Yes! That's the captain's sentence: We must not reverse course, this sentence emphasizes the course, what is this for? ”
Yu Feng said suddenly: "Lin Shuai told me today that the Japanese army may be equipped with submarines, now think about it, will this large oil tanker have anything to do with submarines?" ”
The staff officer said, "What will it matter?" ”
Yu Feng said: "If there is a submarine hiding under a large oil tanker, then these two unusual things are easy to explain, the first is the speed, the speed of the submarine in this era will not be very fast, the underwater speed can have seven or eight knots, and the second is the course, because the submarine is underwater, the lack of effective means of communication, so the communication with the ship above is not smooth, if the ship above changes the course, then the submarine does not know where the ship on the road goes!" That's why the ships above didn't dare to change course. ”
The staff officer asked, "But why did they put the submarine under the merchant ship?" ”
Yu Feng said: "Let's not talk about this for now, I have to quickly inform the Kirin ship and let them prepare for a submarine attack!" ”