As for the two lightly wounded people who were sent back to report the news, I don't know if they fled home directly, or if no one was interested in saving their captured leader, so it seems that this is the end of it.

Since last night, whether it is the more advanced Grim Reaper drone that came to the top shift, or the night vision device with tens of thousands of knives, the PMCs have been on alert all night, and they have not found any signs of anyone watching in the rainforest.

No one even tried to contact them about the exchange of hostages.

It seems that the anti-ZF forces on the island, whether it is the "Abu Zayev" group or some other extremist terrorist group, were frightened by the road ambush.

There was no complete direct route from the abandoned mine to the beach, so the convoy drove slowly, but everyone was in a state of excitement, and the hope of escape was close at hand.

Compared with PMCs, who could only obtain real-time battlefield information captured by Predator drones through high-priced satellite data traffic that charges thousands of dollars per minute, the seals have always been in the information chain of command of the U.S. military.

The state-of-the-art Reaper drone is in place before the seals arrive, replacing the obsolete goods used by the PMCs, and in the command center where they are located, there are always people glued to the screen 24 hours a day, monitoring the live image.

The drone is equipped with an advanced multispectral imaging system and synthetic aperture radar, which can effectively monitor the tropical rainforest in clear weather conditions.

Unless they come across a Yue G that can dig tunnels and pretend to be large trees, the seals will be the first to be alerted.

So for those passengers who had to squeeze into the back of the pickup, the potholes and the vines and branches that occasionally whipped their faces were the biggest threat.

The two all-terrain vehicles driven by the seals had gotten bogged down in mud puddles several times, but they were light enough to be easily pulled and dragged out.

After a short journey of less than 10 kilometers and nearly 40 minutes, the convoy finally arrived at the beach safely.

Considering that the beach is unobstructed, the convoy stopped at the woodline between the rainforest and the beach to wait for the Navy to pick up.

"We have guests."

The seals made a splash of news, but instead of seeing any frustration on Jason Hayes's face, Jack felt an indescribable oddity.

"Huh?" Jack was stunned, all the way was safe, and his perception did not detect anything abnormal, could it be that the drone had found something.

"Follow me." Jason Hayes shook his head and motioned for him to come with him.

Because this was neither a port nor a wharf, it was naturally impossible for the destroyer "Milius" to run to the beachhead, and could only anchor far away from the reef.

The two came to the beach, and Jack took the binoculars handed by the other party and looked at the small boat shadow on the sea in the distance.

Then someone couldn't help but exclaim.

"My God, I've heard that Somali pirates have attacked warships, but I didn't expect that there are such 'warriors' among Southeast Asian pirates."

The guided missile destroyer USS Milius, numbered DDG69, is the 19th ship of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, with a displacement of more than 9,200 tons, built in 1995.

For a person, 25 years old is in the prime of life, which belongs to the age of N times a night, of course, it is definitely not about getting up at night.

But for destroyers, the usual technical life is about 30 years, and 25 years old is a proper old age.

But even if the "Milius" is regarded as a 70-year-old man, it is a fully armed old man, and how can it be threatened by two armed fishing boats weighing less than 500 tons and a few small boats with machine guns.

It was this comical scene that Jack saw, two dilapidated fishing boats belonging to which force they belonged to, were charging at a large destroyer with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons in black smoke.

Around the broken fishing boat, there are more than a dozen small boats, following and moving forward, at first glance, it is actually a bit spectacular.

"What are they going to do? Are they going to try to capture an Aegis ship? ”

Hearing Jack's question, Jason Hayes didn't know how to answer for a while.

Seeing that the pirates were getting closer and closer, the "Milius", which had not been moving, finally had some reaction.

In Jack's telescope, the 5-inch gun, which was installed in the bow of the ship and did not look powerful at all, quickly turned the turret and pointed at the approaching fishing boat.

The caliber of the 5-inch naval gun is equivalent to 127 mm, which is just ten times the caliber of the Barrett that Jack used before.

However, the rate of fire and power of modern naval guns are obviously not comparable to those of World War II, such as today.

"Phew!"

A huge cannon sound came from a distance, and the fishing boat closest to the destroyer instantly burst into a cloud of black smoke, followed by two more shots.

After three rapid fires, the entire upper structure of the fishing boat bloomed like a trumpet flower.

Because the two sides were at least three or four nautical miles from the coast, Jack could not see through his binoculars whether the human bodies that had fallen into the water had been thrown into the sea by the explosion or had jumped off on their own, and there were no living people on board.

As the main guns fired, the 25mm guns on the side of the island also erupted tongues of fire, which should have been aimed at the boats.

The first fishing boat exploded less than a minute, and the other was also subjected to three rapid fire from the destroyer's main guns.

This one was even more unlucky, I don't know if the hull below the waterline was shelled, and it lasted less than five minutes before it capsized directly into the water.

A naval battle ended in a hurry.

When a mini Gatling's rubber boat was placed on the bow of the ship, and the passengers of Pioneer Flight 119 were put on the destroyer Milius, there was no body to be seen on the undulating sea, except for a few messy floating objects and oil stains.

The one-armed leader of the "Abu Zayev" group, Raduran Shasilen, died on the beach, and the leader of the PMC team, Shebek, ended his suffering with a pistol bullet.

It took more than ten hours for the Milius to transport the passengers to the military base on the island of Palawan, and all of them went to the hospital, including the four girls they rescued.

The tropical jungle is not so easy to treat, and many people have developed tropical diseases with different symptoms, and even some people have been infected by ticks.

After enduring three days of irregular blood draws, filming, and various means of examination, Jack and Jiejie were able to say goodbye to everyone and step on the military plane back to Los Angeles first.

(End of chapter)