Chapter 618: Pirate Harbor
The "Snow Eagle" helicopter was purchased from Jeeplos Helicopter in 08, it is equipped with two TB3-117BMA gas turbine engines, with a cruising power of 1700 horsepower, a speed of more than 230 km/h, and strong wind resistance.
The captain Wang Puhong informed the new plan, and the helicopter crew immediately took place and pulled the "Snow Eagle" out of the hangar, and several soldiers also followed the plane.
The fleeing speedboats looked at the Yellow River Boat and the "Snow Dragon" far behind, and the pirates on board seemed to feel that the threat had been lifted, and they stood on the speedboat and cheered, and one of them even taunted the pursuers behind them with exaggerated body language.
"Fuck," Da Fei saw all this through the binoculars, his lungs almost exploded, and he turned to look at the rotors on the tarmac that were spinning faster and faster, pinning his hopes on this "Snow Eagle".
"Be sure to pay attention to safety during the pursuit," Wang Puhong told the crew and soldiers of the "Snow Eagle" through a wireless contact.
The "Snow Eagle" rose into the air, its height was as high as the command room on the top floor of the "Snow Dragon" bridge building, and several gun-wielding soldiers gathered at the door in the engine room gave a thumbs up to Wang Puhong, the captain of the command room.
Then the "Snow Eagle" adjusted its direction and aimed directly at the speedboat in the distance.
The pirates saw the red helicopter take off and circle the flank of the big ship's bridge, and some of them pointed to the side and didn't know what they were talking about. After a brief commotion, the men raised the speed of the ship that had just been deliberately slowed down.
"The Yellow River boat followed the 'Snow Eagle' and caught up, ready to board the ship and arrest people." Wang Puhong gave an order to Xu Yihang and others on the Yellow River boat.
The "Snow Eagle" was very fast, and in a short time it caught up with and overtook the Yellow River boat. In addition to the two crew members of the helicopter, there were four soldiers with guns scattered around the hatches on either side.
"Haha, our air support is here," Xu Yihang smiled excitedly as he looked at the helicopter flying quickly overhead. He had been scrubbed and mocked by the speedboat in front of him because of the speed of the boat, and he was holding back the fire in his heart, wishing that he was on the helicopter at the moment.
The fleeing pirates picked up speed, and the other two ships that had split off seemed to be notified, and instead of anchoring the back of the Snow Dragon, they circled to support their companions, who were threatened by helicopters and Yellow River boats.
When the "Snow Eagle" chased less than 300 meters away from the speedboat in front, the people on board suddenly started shooting at the helicopter in unison. The pilot of the "Snow Eagle" carefully made evasive maneuvers and straightened the fuselage to the flanks of the speedboat.
The soldiers on board the helicopter used the iron wall of the engine room as a barrier, waiting for an opportunity to return fire in the direction of the speedboat.
The crew of the helicopter and the soldiers on it are not very good at this way of fighting in the air, especially the soldiers by the hatch, shooting on the plane is very different from shooting on land, so many of their bullets are empty, but there are a few more bullet holes in the bulkhead of the cabin.
"Steady, pull the plane higher," a soldier shouted to the crew piloting the helicopter by the hatch.
The "Snow Eagle" crossed the sky above the speedboat and came to the front of it, and continued to move forward at about the same speed as the speedboat, and the soldiers on the plane took the opportunity to increase the firepower, and in an instant suppressed the speed of the speedboat.
The pirates found it difficult to keep moving forward in the face of helicopter fire, and they had to start adjusting their direction and making turns. The Yellow River boat, which was in hot pursuit, immediately understood the intention of the "Snow Eagle" and knew that it was trying to limit the speed of the pirates, so that they could catch up and "make dumplings" together.
There were only four soldiers with guns on the "Snow Eagle", and due to the influence of their own conditions, only two people next to the one-sided door could fire at the same time, and their firepower was far less than that of the pirates. Although the fighters were better trained than those pirates, they were good at land combat, and it was the first time they shot in a helicopter, so the shooting effect was not ideal.
The "Snow Eagle" chose to use its maneuverability advantage to attack the speedboat head-on, forcing it to not move at full speed, slowing them down, and waiting for the Yellow River boat to come and encircle them. There were more than a dozen fighters on the Yellow River boat, and as long as they arrived, everyone would have an absolute advantage in firepower.
The pirate speedboat, which was entangled with the Snow Eagle, was forced to change the direction of its escape, and its companions on the other two ships were approaching at full speed. Behind the "Snow Eagle", the Yellow River boat is also racing against time to advance, Xu Yihang and others must be the first to enter the battlefield before the support of the pirates arrives, and cooperate with the "Snow Eagle" to fight more and less, and destroy the enemy in the trap in the shortest time.
"Looks like it hit their diesel engine!" On the helicopter, a soldier shouted excitedly, he noticed that black smoke rose from the tail of the speedboat, which had begun to turn around and flee during the attack of the "Snow Eagle", and the speed of the boat became faster and faster, and after a while, it stopped.
"Well, well done!" Xu Yihang, who was on the Yellow River boat, waved his fist excitedly when he saw this scene, he picked up the communicator and said to the people on the "Snow Eagle", "Don't worry about the paralyzed boat, there are still two speedboats here that are approaching you, let's get rid of them first." ”
"Roger, Roger." The "Snow Eagle" immediately gave up its intention to continue firing at the speedboat, and together with the Yellow River boat, flanked the nearest other speedboat.
The other two speedboats saw that the opportunity was not good, and almost immediately turned their bows and fled in a northeasterly direction. The "Snow Eagle" and the Yellow River Boat did the same, and after chasing for more than ten kilometers, they routed one of the pirate speedboats, and the last one took advantage of the chaos to escape from the battlefield.
The "Snow Eagle" has to chase again, but the remaining speedboat has already fled away, and if the speed of the Yellow River boat and the "Snow Dragon" cannot keep up, it will be very dangerous for a single helicopter to chase it out.
There were a total of six people on the speedboat that did not escape, four of whom were killed, and the other two were pressed onto the Yellow River boat by Xu Yihang. On the way back from the Yellow River Boat and the "Snow Eagle", the "Snow Dragon" had already captured the speedboat that was paralyzed on the sea because the engine was broken, and the pirates on board were also captured.
Only one of the fighters on the Yellow River boat was slightly injured in this battle, and he was taken to the infirmary for treatment after the ship returned to the "Snow Dragon". Two of the three speedboats attacking the "Snow Dragon" were destroyed, only one escaped, and the pirates killed a total of eight and captured five.
"That's right," Wang Puhong patted Xu Yihang's arm when he came back to report the results, encouraging him and his people, and at the same time commending the members of the shipping team and the maintenance team.
Next, Wang Puhong asked Xu Yihang to interrogate the five captives separately, and finally figured out their origins. It turned out that some of these people were sailors, and their ships were anchored in Wales to resupply when the disaster struck, and some were survivors of the area near the port, and the supplies stored in the port have kept them alive until now. These men survived the disaster in a group, and in the early days occasionally attacked ships that had fled by them.
This time, they discovered the skyrocketing fire near St. Lawrence Island while they were on their way to Nome, which was also a supply port, then found some traces near Gamber, and finally found traces of the "Snow Dragon" in the waters near the island of Diomet.
After more than half a year of consumption, the supplies in the port of Wales have become very scarce, and these pirates will naturally not let go of the "Snow Dragon", and the purpose of their attack on the ship is to capture the crew of the ship and force them to join the gang. Among the pirates, there are crew members and civilians, and everyone is not bad by nature, but in the apocalyptic disaster of the collapse of order, human nature has gradually begun to degenerate, and many people who first resisted joining the gang have changed their mentality, and later they are even proud of joining the pirates, and they are comfortable making a living.
After learning about the situation, Wang Puhong was a little troubled, he left Xu Yihang behind, and the two discussed what to do next in this matter.
"After the Bering Strait, let's go west, will these pirates we caught be shot on the spot or released?"
"Captain, I don't think we can go west right away," Xu Yihang thought for a while, "I ran away from a speedboat today and didn't do my best." As the captives have just said, they are not only these people, but they are entrenched in Wales. ”
"What do you mean?" Wang Puhong is not a soldier, his concept is more forgiving and forgiving, and when he used to run merchant ships, he was used to more than less, listening to Xu Yihang's meaning, it seems that he intends to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.
"If the speedboat doesn't escape, we'll be fine with our next heading west to Spitsbergen. It's just that now that a ship has escaped, I'm worried that our situation will be brought back by it, and there may be a lot of trouble on the way forward. ”
"What's the trouble?" Wang Puhong asked.
"They may retaliate, or continue to covet our ship," Xu Yihang knows more about the psychology of these villains than Wang Puhong, "If the evil thoughts in people's hearts are not effectively controlled in the disaster, they will only break through their bottom line more and more." And there are a lot of ships in the port, and they only came three speedboats today probably because they despise us, but once their situation is grasped by them, they will not be careless when they continue to shoot. ”
"If they keep pestering behind, it will indeed be very detrimental to our actions, it is easy to be a thief in a thousand days, and it is difficult to prevent thieves in a thousand days," Wang Puhong nodded, already understanding Xu Yihang's thoughts, "If we take the initiative to attack, we are almost sure." ”
"Seventy percent, our location is only more than thirty kilometers from the port of Wales, as long as we move fast enough, it should not be a problem to take advantage of the favorable conditions at night."