Chapter 248: Encounter with a warship
By the time Xu Guoqiang and Yan Tao left, the bride-to-be seemed to have been fished out of the water when she came out from under the table. Zhou Qingfeng withdrew from her body and brought out a stream of white pulp.
"You, you ......." The bride-to-be is cool and soft, to the point of incoherence. It took her a long time to regain some strength and staggered out of the office.
And Zhou Qingfeng stayed in the real world in 2016 for almost a month this time, and he found an opportunity to return to the 'Aurora' in the wasteland with a large number of low-value anti-inflammatory drugs.
Due to the freezing of time and space, the 'Aurora' is still leaving New York at a turtle speed for two or three days, and is heading for South America. Zhou Qingfeng secretly threw the medical supplies he brought into the warehouse and returned to the deck.
The long sea journey is very leisurely, but it is also extremely boring. After the initial excitement, everyone started to get dull. The fleet uses a variety of fishing tools to catch a lot of seafood from the sea, but fresh fruits and vegetables are consumed quickly. And because of the uncertainty of the future, the morale of the crew dropped quickly.
The Aurora and Bird of Paradise were not the only ones on the sea, there were plenty of other clever people who got the ship floating on the sea. Alan has been promoted to captain. Derek radioed to the ships around him every day. Fox's management team is tasked with checking out the useful parts of the rumored information.
"The entire East Coast of the United States is in shambles, but some small cities have instead returned to calm." In the captain's quarters of the Aurora, large map projections are hung on the walls, and cities on the entire East Coast of the United States are represented in red and green. The dangerous is red, the safe is green, and the hellish place in New York is still crimson.
"South America is no better, according to the information we have received, many countries in South America have directly disintegrated, many warlords have begun to divide their territory, and there are fierce exchanges of fire." Lena herself served as a docent, reporting to the top of the fleet on the current perimeter form.
"So where can we go?" The butcher was bored on the boat, "I want to go ashore now, but I don't want to stay on this boat for the rest of my life." ”
The butcher's complaint caused everyone to chuckle, and Minsk, who had recovered for the most part, punched the old bastard hard. Everyone turned their attention to Zhou Qingfeng, although he was the youngest, his prestige was shot with a knife.
"The nearest big southern island to us now is the Bahamas, and Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, has good port facilities, where we should be able to replenish some fresh supplies and live for a while." Zhou Qingfeng said, he also added a sentence in his heart: It doesn't matter if the place is remote, just avoid the upcoming nuclear bomb attack as much as possible.
Everyone had no opinion on this, so they drove over!
Due to the drag of the 'Bird of Paradise', the fleet traveled for more than 20 days before reaching the waters off the coast of the Bahamas. Just when everyone felt that they could reach land and rest for a while, someone called loudly over the radio on the international maritime rescue channel.
"Urgent, urgent, I'm the captain of the Cedarin, and we encountered pirates in the *******, ******** area. For God's sake, who can come and save us, there are a large number of innocent women and children on board, please come and save us. ”
After receiving the report, Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly rushed to the bridge. Captain Derek pointed to the charts and said, "This ship is about forty nautical miles away from us, and the radar can already see it." It seems to have lost power and stopped at sea, and we don't know for the moment what pirates are attacking them? ”
The drone flew over quickly. And just over ten minutes later, Captain Derek sounded the alarm: "The radar shows that a ship is coming towards us, and the speed is very fast, more than twenty-four knots." Their radar should have spotted us as well. ”
"Speedboat?"
"No, the radar reflection shows that the ship is about a thousand tons, which feels like a warship."
Hearing this judgment, the top of the fleet was like a ghost. Now that it's been almost three months since the cataclysm, there are still people who can consume precious fuel at this high rate? You must know that the oil tank of the 'Bird of Paradise' is obviously full of fuel, but in order to reduce consumption, it is dragged away by the 'Aurora'.
"Untied the cable, the 'Aurora' accelerated to attract the attention of the other party, and the 'Bird of Paradise' started its engine and fled temporarily." At the critical moment, Zhou Qingfeng had to give the order.
The two nuclear reactors of the 'Aurora' showed a strong advantage at this time, and they could easily output surging power, accelerating the 30,000-ton ship to a maximum of 24 knots to cover the 'Bird of Paradise' to dodge.
After a few more minutes, the drone finally found the rapidly approaching vessel. An extremely old warship appeared on the reconnaissance screen, which seemed to have been in service for at least half a century, and was the color of the seventies and eighties of the last century.
"What kind of warship is this?" Zhou Qingfeng asked everyone.
The butcher looked at it for a long time, and said uncertainly: "This seems to be a 'Kony' class frigate designed and built in the former Soviet era, this thing is really the same as the batch of Spam cans we gave, and it can be my grandfather." ”
Lena asked, puzzled; "The army is gone, how can anyone still drive a warship now?"
"This old warship is so easy to pilot, you can get it moving with a few sailors. On the contrary, modern warships are more professional, which requires professional soldiers to control them well. ”
But even a grandfather-level warship is a warship, when the two sides approached fifteen nautical miles, Zhou Qingfeng ordered to turn, and the old warship on the opposite side accelerated to twenty-seven knots of high-speed approaching.
"That bastard, he's eyeing us." Captain Allen. Derek said, looking at the radar screen. And at this distance, the drone captured the image of the opposing ship's guns firing.
"Watch out for collisions." Zhou Qingfeng had to shout, personal bravery on the sea is useless, it depends on whose ship is strong. And no matter how good the 'Aurora' is, it is just a research ship.
The opponent's artillery is about 70 mm caliber, and the maximum firing range is about 15,000 to 17,000 kilometers. The Aurora was just in the range of the enemy's fire, and when it drew an arcing wake in the sea, shells fell from the sky and smashed into the side of the ship.
The shells landed hundreds of meters away, and the violent explosion made people feel shocked. And Minsk, who was on the bridge, said in a hoarse voice after a little judgment: "There should be a problem with the other party's fire control radar, otherwise it wouldn't have hit so far away, and it wouldn't even be able to wash the deck for us." ”
"I'd rather it hit the wrong side." Zhou Qingfeng encountered such a thing as a naval battle for the first time, and he couldn't do anything, he could only watch the other party's shells fall. "If I had known this, I should have gotten a warship, even if it was a torpedo boat! It's not my style to just get beaten and not fight back. ”
But now apart from desperately escaping, the people on the 'Aurora' couldn't do anything, and the other party's warship chased them for hundreds of nautical miles. In the end, it was estimated that the opponent's engine was old and could not sail at high speed for a long time, so he finally gave up their big fish.
After escaping and ascending to heaven, the whole ship looked at each other, which was different from the good life they envisioned. An old frigate actually drove them away.
Zhou Qingfeng scolded hatefully: "Who is this blocking Lao Tzu's road, I'm not done with them!" (To be continued.) )