"Come up with a plan, and I will approve your actions if you can ensure everyone's safety," Wang Puhong's style of doing things is vigorous and resolute, and he will never waver in the matter between the two.

After Xu Yihang responded, he returned to his room and began to make plans, and Wang Puhong then informed Zhang Dada of this matter.

Zhang Dada was taken aback when he heard Wang Puhong say that he was going to take the initiative to make trouble in the pirates' port, but then he understood when he finished explaining the reason. This operation was planned to be a first move, and it was unlikely that the pirates would be able to guess that the "Snow Dragon" would immediately decide to fight back, and it would undoubtedly have a lot of advantages at such a time.

If you don't act this time, and wait for the "Snow Dragon" to cross the Bering Strait and start heading west, and the pirates will follow and entangle again, then don't expect to have a peaceful life along the way.

Xu Yihang's plan was formulated quickly, and it didn't take long for him to go to Wang Puhong with the plan, and then Wang Puhong notified the relevant personnel to gather in the conference room and announced the action plan to everyone.

"Wales has become a pirate port!" Many crew members were taken aback when they heard the news, as it was an important supply port on the polar route and in the Bering Sea, and its name was familiar to many seafarers.

"There are probably more than 50 pirates in the port, and there are a few people who are enslaved by it," Xu Yihang said, "The main purpose of this operation is to take the initiative to eliminate the living force of the pirates, so that they lose the ability to follow and harass us." ”

"The personnel involved in this operation are mainly our Changxing troops, and the comrades of the shipping safety team stayed behind to protect the safety of the 'Snow Dragon'. The Snow Eagle's helicopter and the Yellow River boat were the means of transportation for this operation, and they were caught off guard by a combination of sea and air operations. ”

"Second Lieutenant Xu," Chen Bin suddenly raised his hand.

"Please speak," Xu Yihang had just announced his plan when he saw that Chen Bin seemed to have a new proposal.

"First of all, I applied to participate in the war, because if only Changxing Island troops were dispatched in this operation, we would be at a disadvantage in numbers. Secondly, I have a little idea about this operation, although the assault operation has a first-mover advantage, but the combat location is not an area we are familiar with, and the port terrain is very complicated, although we have the initiative in the sky, but the pirates have the advantage of geography and numbers, I am worried that there will be casualties in the course of the battle, this result is not expected to be seen by everyone. ”

Hearing Chen Bin's application to join the war, Zhang Dada glanced at him, and stopped talking.

Xu Yihang nodded, "What you said makes sense, if you just let it go, if the pirates follow the 'Snow Dragon' and continue to harass it, it will be even more harmful." ”

Chen Bin smiled, knowing that Xu Yihang might have misunderstood what he meant, "Since I applied to participate in the war, I don't propose to avoid the war." The combination of air and sea is very good, but my idea is to minimize casualties. I have a way, ask Captain Wang, Second Lieutenant Xu, and all of you to help with the staff and staff, and everyone will fill in the gaps to improve the details of the whole plan. ”

"Okay," Wang Puhong and the others replied one after another.

"Our goal is not to eliminate the pirates, but to deny them the opportunity to follow and harass the Snow Dragon. While eliminating them is one way to do this, it doesn't seem to me to be the best way to do it, and as I said earlier, we might pay a lot of money to eliminate pirates, and this outcome defeats the purpose of our trip. ”

"As long as we fight, it is impossible to completely avoid the risk of sacrifice," Xu said, "We are soldiers, so we are ready to sacrifice." ”

"Most of us have never been to Spitsbergen before, so no one can predict what will happen on the rest of the trip, and there are some surprises that are simply unexpected, like the oil tanker last night. The destination is far away from our home country, and the support and help we can receive is very limited, so if there is a reduction in staff on the way, it will have a certain impact on the next scientific research activities. ”

"So do you have any better idea?" Xu Yihang asked again.

"Don't give the pirates a chance to follow and harass, in addition to destroying them, they can also destroy their ships, and without transportation, even if they all survive, they can't threaten us in the slightest."

Chen Bin's words made everyone's eyes shine, today's battle with the pirates was a big victory, which made almost everyone's thinking fixed on the head-to-head firefight, ignoring other methods. Xu Yihang immediately praised, "That's a good idea, it's much safer to destroy their ships and destroy their living forces than to destroy them." ”

Chen Bin's method provided everyone with another way of thinking, and Wang Puhong was also impressed. The captain didn't know Chen Bin before, and he didn't know anything about his deeds, only that he was an entourage of Professor Zhang Dada. Now that he heard Chen Bin's proposed revisions to the action plan, he suddenly became a little curious about the identity of this young man.

"Do we have explosives on board?" Chen Bin asked.

"Yes," Wang Puhong and Xu Yihang said in unison.

"The 'Snow Dragon' is an icebreaker, although the icebreaking work does not rely on explosives, but considering that the scientific research mission needs to be on land, and the Doomsday Seed Bank is built inside the mountain, we brought some with us before the trip."

"We also brought a lot," Xu Yihang waited for Wang Puhong to finish speaking, and then continued, "We brought military explosives, which should be more suitable for ships than the engineering explosives brought by Captain Wang." ”

"Then it's no problem," Chen Bin nodded, "How can our icebreakers break the ice without relying on explosives?" ”

"It's more appropriate for Professor Xia to explain this," Wang Puhong gestured to Xia Yunli, the only polar research expert on the ship.

"Originally, I planned to wait for the polar circle to give you science popularization at the symposium, but since Chen Bin asked just now, I will tell you about it in advance." Xia Yunli cleared his throat and continued, "There are generally two commonly used icebreaking methods, when the ice is not more than 1.5 meters thick, we will use the 'continuous' icebreaking method, mainly relying on the power of the propeller and the bow to split and break the ice; ”

"Of course, sailing in the polar waters is also very demanding and much more difficult than ordinary waters. After entering the polar range, we need to pass the test of navigating in open water, navigating in the ice floes, and navigating the continental edge ice, the most complicated of which is the navigation of the continental edge ice. Today's main discussion is to go to the pirate port to destroy the pirate's ships, so I won't too much about the ship's icebreaking knowledge. ”

Xia Yunli's words made Chen Bin realize that the topic just now was accidentally deviated because of his curiosity, so he smiled apologetically embarrassedly.

Xu Yihang didn't care, Chen Bin proposed the idea of destroying the pirate ship, and mentioned explosives, which gave everyone a sense of sudden enlightenment. He immediately adjusted the plan in response to Chen Bin's suggestion, and then many people also participated in the discussion of details.

Taking advantage of the gap in everyone's discussion, Zhang Dada pulled Chen Bin and Da Fei outside the conference room and raised his concerns about them.

"Brother, how did you offer to participate in the operation yourself?" Zhang Dada asked, "If something happens, how can I explain to Ah Cai?" ”

"Brother Zhang, don't worry, if this operation is only for the purpose of destroying the ship, the danger will be much less," Chen Bin said in a low voice, "This time I can come with you is also stained with your light, if I keep shrinking on the boat to make soy sauce, people will talk about you behind my back." Besides, there is no reason to hide in the boat and hide behind when you come out to earn military merit and qualifications. ”

"It's not as good as Dongtan," Zhang Dada advised.

"Brother Zhang, you put your heart in your stomach, Chen Bin is right, if we were afraid of this, we wouldn't have joined the army in the first place." Da Fei very much agrees with Chen Bin's point of view, he didn't have time to speak in the conference room just now, in fact, Chen Bin also had this idea when he said that he wanted to participate in the action.

"I want to act with Xu Yihang and other regular soldiers because I can learn a lot with them. Although we are both soldiers, there is still a big gap in our combat qualities, and if we do not find ways to work hard to improve our capabilities, we may be helpless in the face of bigger problems in the future. ”

"Old Wei Ta...... Hey," Zhang Dada saw that Chen Bin's thoughts were very resolute, and sighed helplessly in his heart, he had always blamed himself a little because of Wei Qiming's death, and now of course he didn't want Chen Bin and Da Fei to take risks.

"Life and death are fate," Chen Bin smiled.

"Wealth is in the sky," Da Fei turned his head to look at him, and laughed.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade the two of them, Zhang Dada had to nod and accept the reality in front of him, and he gave some advice before returning to the conference room.

Xu Yihang was already arranging the details of the battle, and he marked the information provided by the captives on the blackboard in front of him, and highlighted two locations.

"This location is just over 30 kilometres from us in Wales, and most of the houses in the town are concentrated near the coast. There are about a dozen ships on the docks, and we need to focus on the largest of them, the freighter, and the town's police station. Xu Yihang pointed to a simple map drawn on the blackboard and said, "According to the intelligence, the pirates' strongholds are divided into two places, and most of the pirates who have been assigned tasks stay on the freighters at the dock, while the others stay at the police station, and their weapons are not only from the police station, but also from the ships moored in the port." ”

"We are not going to attack the police station in this operation, the main target of the operation is to focus on these ships in the port, especially this large freighter, which is the highest priority of the ships we need to blast."