The Horn Merchant Marine is a 5,000-ton ocean-going ro-ro merchant ship of Nanyang Trading Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nanyang Trading Co., Ltd., whose main route is from the Lion City to the Magic City and the Island City.

Since the Allies took control of the situation at sea, the Horn merchant ships have been carrying cargo back and forth almost at full capacity. A month is a round trip, transporting ore, rubber or other raw materials to the magic capital or island city for unloading, and then transporting back various industrial products from the base area.

From the Red Star generation of agricultural vehicles, fertilizers, hoes, kitchen knives, soap, and various textiles and other industrial products in the base area, back and forth are fully loaded, so the Horn merchant ship is a cash cow for the MRT company.

Captain Ye Xinlai is a third-generation member of the family, already in his forties, he started running boats at the age of 18, and has been training for 20 years before becoming a captain, and only last year he transferred to the MRT to become the new captain of the Horn merchant ship.

According to his qualifications, after two more years, he can accumulate qualifications and become the deputy general manager of the MRT company, and get off the ship.

In September, when Ye Xinlai loaded raw materials and sent them to the island city, the family telegram asked him to return to the Lion City with about 150 tons of unknown items from the cargo.

And it is required to avoid all boarding search checks along the way.

In fact, they are required to start from the point of departure and never stop at the shore to rest. The food and water supply of the ship's crew was replenished at one time.

Although Ye Xinlai didn't know what these unknown items he was going to transport were, he could guess that these were not things that could be entered and exited in the bright light.

But in any case, these things must be very important to the family, so he is required to transport them back at all costs.

Of course, Ye Xinlai would not refuse the family's request, he cleared out some warehouse space, prepared quite enough food and vegetables for the crew's long voyage, and waited until the time of departure to tell the crew that this time he would not stop to replenish in the middle.

Most of the crew on the Horn are also veteran ships, so they naturally understand these requirements of the owner, anyway, they calculate their salaries according to the number of voyages. If you don't stop in the middle, you can stop it, and the speed is a little faster, and you can rest if you go back earlier.

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So the way south is relatively smooth.

Seeing that Natuna Island was in front of him, and when he was still hundreds of kilometers away from his destination, Ye Xinlai suddenly received information from his family that there were already British warships in Malacca that had begun to blockade and inspect all the merchant ships heading south!

The Horn had to bypass Malacca and find another port to unload the cargo.

Ye Xin looked at the chart, and could only order the rudder to turn in the direction of due south, in the direction of the Karimata Strait.

To the south, he also has the option of docking in Palembang to unload his cargo directly.

In order to keep it secret, Ye Xinlai didn't dare to call back, their code encryption was not strong enough, and it was okay to send it out to deceive ordinary people, but in the face of a skinny camel like Daiying, it was impossible to designate.

This kind of thing can only rely on Ye Xinlai's own efforts.

Looking at the vast sea ahead, Ye Xinlai could only cheer himself up secretly.

"Captain, why are we going south? Aren't we almost there?" First mate Chen Qianfu was already very familiar with the old sea route, and when he saw the direction that Ye Xinlai commanded, it was not quite right.

"There's a situation ahead, and we need to avoid some dangers." Chen Qianfu is not from the family, just a senior employee. Ye Xinlai could not fully disclose information to them.

"Okay, you're the captain, you have the final say." Chen Qianfu shook his head and started sailing in the direction indicated by Ye Xinlai.

In the next trip, Ye Xinlai on the merchant ship received more and more warning information, from the hundreds of kilometers outside the Lion City, there are now warships or patrol boats with Britain inspecting the merchant ships passing through the entire strait.

They will insist on boarding the merchant ships, and then open all the warehouses for inspection, although due to the huge number of merchant ships passing through the strait, it is impossible to open and inspect every piece of goods, but according to the strength of their spot checks, there is a very high probability that Ye Xinlai and them will not include the goods

The 150 tonnes of "special goods" in the shipment list will be exposed.

It was a devastating blow to the merchant ship.

And not only will they lose this merchant ship, but the entire crew of the team will probably take it in.

Ye Xinlai strengthened his determination to go south.

After all, this sea area is vast, and no one can really block the entire sea area.

Two days later, when the Horn came to the waters of Karimata, Ye Xinlai had to take the risk of sending a telegram.

"Cousin, is the second uncle's house okay?"

This is to inquire about the direction of Palembang, and in their agreement, the eldest uncle's house is the Lion City, and the second uncle's house is naturally nearby Palembang.

"There are quite a lot of patients in the second uncle's house, don't read it." Soon Ye Xinlai received a call back, and Palembang was not good!

For the blockade, the British fleet is still very serious, and it will not release such a big gap for people to take advantage of the loopholes.

Ye Xinlai's face changed, and even the alternative port was blocked, and he didn't know where to go now.

A 5,000-ton ship can be relied on in a port anywhere, and something like a car, a big ship cannot be unloaded without docking, and the weight of the car can be simply carried away without manpower!

So if you run in circles, it's really not an option.

Ye Xinlai thought about it for a long time before he made up his mind.

"Turn the rudder, let's go to Danrong Fishing Port, unload a batch of cargo through our lifeboat, and then go to Palembang!" Ye Xinlai said to Chen Qianfu.

Ye Xinlai knows this area well, after all, he is an old expert who specializes in mixing the sea areas in this area, and he knows a lot about the large and small ports in this area.

Chen Qianfu knew that there was a batch of goods on his ship, and he might not be able to see people.

But as an old man in the fleet, he didn't want to pierce this layer of window paper, after all, it didn't have much to do with him.

On the contrary, he also wanted to eat on the fleet, so he didn't want anything to happen to the team. At the moment, if the unsightly goods can be handled as soon as possible, it is naturally the best, so that everyone does not have too much risk.

"Understood, target, Danrong Fishing Port!" Chen Qianfu, commanding the helmsman, began to turn and sail towards Belitung Island. This island is not big, it is about 80 kilometers from east to west, and the north-south direction is about the same, and it looks like a ball.

But the location is very important, right in the middle of Sumatra and Kalimantan. So it was taken down together, and there was a small new homeland defense force on the island.

The Horn traveled for several more hours and finally approached Belitung Island.

Ye Xinlai observed in the telescope for a long time, but did not find anything abnormal. So the Horn sailed to the sea closest to Belitung Island and stopped.

began to put down the lifeboat, and then Ye Xinlai sent three people to get on the lifeboat, ready to go to the shore to find the newly received person.

Ye Xinlai waited anxiously for the news.

But there was no new news for a while. Until it was almost dark again. A few boats came to face the sea.

Ye Xin came to see that all of them were fishing boats, and a nervous heart fell.

"Owner, owner, the receiving customer has been found!" Sure enough, the voice of his henchman was sent in the sea breeze, and this was indeed the next home who found the goods.

Although this is not the destination.

But according to the current situation, the chance of his big ship going through the blockade line without being detected is almost zero, so he can only unload the cargo here and change hands.

Several fishing boats were secured with ropes by the horns, and this side began to unload the boxes below.

Fortunately, there is also a hand-cranked crane on the ship, so that the manual unloading is not a complete way, tossing for most of the night, before unloading 150 tons of goods to several fishing boats, watching them disappear into the dark sea, Ye Xinlai wiped the sweat on his head, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go, let's go back to the Lion City." Ye Xinlai has no worries, and he has enough courage again.

He now has full import and export goods

The list of things is not afraid of being verified at all.

It took them an extra 6 days, and by the time they reached the sea outside the Lion City, the food prepared on the ship was almost exhausted.

At this time, Daiying's fleet asked to line up for inspection, Ye Xin looked at the long line of ships in front, rushed to the front in a lifeboat, and found the inspector with Ying, wanting to give priority to arranging it, who knew that people didn't eat Ye Xinlai's "little heart" at all, and slapped him back!

Seeing that the brothers on the boat were going to starve, Ye Xinlai could only take the risk of rowing a lifeboat into the port, found a familiar fishing boat, and urgently purchased a batch of daily necessities and sent them to the ship to tide over the difficulties.

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Obiying, Far Eastern Command.

"How's the lockdown going?" Montemali asked the intelligence officer.

"Your Excellency, things are not optimistic, hundreds of ships pass through the strait every day, our inspectors are now a little undermanned, and there are very few ships that can really find out the problem." The intelligence officer looked through the report book in his hand and replied seriously.

"In the last week, we have only seized a batch of Type 43 assault rifles from the mainland, and other than that, we have not made any notable gains, most of the ships of our fleet have been intercepted in the strait, and thousands of people have toiled around the ships every day, and the investment is really disproportionate compared to the gains."

"They have already started receiving military aid from the mainland. You can't be wrong with our intelligence sources. Therefore, we need to step up our inspection actions in this regard." Meng Guo Marley frowned and said.

"We're not just setting up interception nets near ports. It is also necessary to release a part of it, and intercept it randomly at a greater distance. Carry out offshore inspections."

Even if Meng Guo Marley doesn't know how Huang Qingyuan and them transported the weapons in place now? But it must have been by way of the sea, there is no doubt about that. Hundreds of tons of weapons are now simply not being transported over long distances by land.

The intelligence officers stationed within Wong Ching Yuen reported that "almost hundreds of tons" of weapons were being delivered to Malaysia and Sumatra every day.

Daiying's influence in Southeast Asia is by no means something that can be eliminated in the short term, even if Huang Qingyuan and them use the method of family binding to pull the key figures of these new homes into the same chariot, but among these people, there are always some people who can't resist the temptation.

When the Allies won the victory in Southeast Asia and began to prepare to enter the original place, they found that Malaysia could not enter the country alone, and the upper echelons may still be debating what means to take to solve the problem.

But the intelligence agencies could not wait to do nothing, and they began to constantly look for targets in the Huang Qingyuan group to make a breakthrough.

Under the lure, they soon found a breakthrough point, and they developed a reliable intelligence provider at the top.

Huang Qingyuan, who didn't have much experience in counter-espionage at all, didn't know that now the interior was full of holes, and a lot of information reported at the top level was almost seamlessly transmitted back to the British Military Intelligence Agency.

After several rounds of losses, Huang Qingyuan and his team, under Gao Jianwu's prompting, began to pay attention to the secrecy of the transportation of aid materials, and set up a special operations department, on the one hand, to reconnoiter the British blockade near the port and near the coast, and broadcast it through telegraphs, so that the ships transporting hard goods could avoid the edge.

This special operations office was carried out by a small number of people designated by Qin Jiafeng, and only Huang Qingyuan was completely aware of the inside situation, and the rest of the people did not even hear about it.

Stimulated by this incident, Qin Jiafeng's side has begun to set up an intelligence department. The first thing they had to do was internal secrecy.

In order to learn professional counter-espionage techniques, Huang Qingyuan has sent a telegram requesting support for counter-espionage experts.

Their request has been agreed to by the brigade commander, this matter is too important, if the internal intelligence leak is not solved as soon as possible, and then the battle situation is really entered, for Huang Qingyuan and them, it will be a disastrous consequence.

Now that the rain is coming, the atmosphere is getting more and more tense.

The reason why Montgamali has not yet done so is simply because the cabinet is still arguing over the budget for the upcoming military operation.

The seemingly powerful Belt Ying, after years of brutal war, not only directly killed a large number of young and middle-aged laborers; Moreover, it has reimbursed 1/4 of the country's wealth, 460,000 houses, the national debt has soared from 7.2 billion in 39 years to 21.4 billion in 45 years, and the foreign debt is as high as 3 billion, and the total industrial output value in the past 45 years has decreased by 20% compared with 38 years!

Meng Guo Mali is planning another big war, and the military budget required is as high as hundreds of millions, where does this money come from? The members of the two factions of the budget committee quarrel almost every day, and their faces are red and their necks are thick!

They can't wait for Meng Guo Marley to show up directly, and the aura of the king is just like to take it back.

However, after rounds of negotiations with Huang Qingyuan and them, this kind of concession from the Dominion could not satisfy Huang Qingyuan's appetite at all.

According to their demands, it must be completely independent and become a member of the new Blue Star Nation.

Not even joining a loose federation!

Of course, relatively speaking, they still have a little room for bargaining on this one.

In addition, they were almost directly blocked by Huang Qingyuan and them.