Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 510: Full fire, more blossoms

After checking the watch with Tashi and the person in charge on the shore, Shahjuan ended the communication and picked up his M4 carbine.

In the Philippines, Abu Sayyaf militants use more light weapons such as M16s.

Some were purchased in an organized and centralized manner, and some were trophies from battles with the military and police. However, the gun body was too long and required effective maintenance to ensure reliability, which was not conducive to use at sea.

So all the pirates in their branch were equipped with AK series, but as the leader, Shahjuan still had some privileges. He had his own carbine and night vision goggles.

These are perfect for boarding operations, helping them find the rich man in the maze-like yacht.

"Listen carefully. I will lead the others to board the boat from the waterfront platform at the stern. Sabaya, you climb up from the bow and rush to the cockpit to control the captain and the first mate. Don't let the people on duty ask for help from the outside world."

Half an hour before the operation, Shahjuan once again called his men together to confirm the division of labor for the operation.

Only half of the people on the boat had guns, and the rest had sticks and machetes. Those who cooperated were beaten with two sticks, and those who did not cooperate were stabbed twice and thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

Time passed by minute by minute as he gave his instructions, until there were only ten minutes left.

"set off!"

The main ship No. 1 set off first, followed by the ship No. 2 that launched the drone. The three faster speedboats entered the anchorage first and were scattered among several merchant ships.

"Here they come, here they come, they are finally going to take action."

Looking at the ScanEagle thermal imaging images broadcast in real time on the control station screen, Lao Ha's heart finally settled down in his stomach.

"Everyone, be alert. We must not let them board the yacht. I will guard the stern, and you guard the bow and both sides."

Sitting in the weapons control room, Lao Ha gave orders to his guards.

The stern of the yacht was the easiest place for people to board, but they were surrounded by two armed fishing boats and three speedboats, and anyone could climb up with hooks and ropes.

There is no way. Although the Yas is a yacht converted from a Cotton Eyre-class frigate, the number of weapons and equipment and the number of combat personnel have been greatly reduced.

If Lao Ha didn't want to put people on the boat to fight, he could only let the guards use machine guns and grenade launchers to deal with the enemy's speedboat.

Of course, the safest approach is definitely the tactic proposed by Xia Yu, which is to let the FPV self-destruct aircraft board the ship, and take off these self-destruct units as soon as the battle starts to attack all marked ships.

However, our Prince Ha'anxun chose the difficult mode, or it is impossible that the dozens of guards he employed would not fire a single shot for more than ten years, right?
It is a rare opportunity to encounter such actual combat, so Lao Ha directly chose to train his troops. However, the pirates lacked willpower and were easy to run away, so they could not keep all seven ships.

Fortunately, there was an ambush line consisting of unmanned combat boats and air-cushion landing craft for concentrated fire defense outside them, and the mother ship, the concentrated fire, sailed to the sea area where Zhaxi was patrolling.

They are closer to Marley's coastline, so they can avoid consuming the Sea Harrier's already limited combat radius.

"Calling the weasel, here are the camels, they are approaching, we are ready to fight."

Lao Ha's call came from the radio channel.

"Good luck to you. I'll treat you to some juice after we kill these pirates."

Xia Yu said this and ended this brief communication.

Only when Lao Ha takes action can they close the net, so he must wait for good news from the other side.

In the weapons control room of the yacht, a military radar disguised as a civilian maritime radar locked onto Ship No. 2 which was wandering a few nautical miles away. Behind the enclosed deck on the port side, the chief guard of the escort team was holding an M240 general-purpose machine gun.

His sturdy arm muscles allowed him to hold down such a violent guy. The deputy guard captain on the starboard side was a little weaker and could only hold the M249 squad machine gun.

But the speedboat Sabaya was on turned off the outboard motor and paddled all the way to the bow.

"哐~~"

After the hook flew a few times and accelerated, it was skillfully thrown onto the boat's hook by the other party. The first guy climbed up the boat along the rope with AK on his back.

"Om~~"

Speedboats can be paddled by hand, but armed fishing boats weighing dozens or hundreds of tons cannot do that. Ship No. 1 where Shahjuan was located increased its horsepower and rushed out of the darkness, quickly approaching the hydrophilic platform at the stern of the Yas.

However, the roar of their ship's main engine masked the sound of the hydraulic mechanism's drive. Lao Sha, who was wearing night vision goggles at the bow, looked at the big thing rising from the stern of the yacht with some confusion.

Luxury yachts usually have onboard swimming pools near the hydrophilic platform, but because the converted platform is a warship and is too narrow, there is no swimming pool.

However, the designer still left this space empty. The teak deck split and retracted to both sides. The seven black 7mm gun muzzles slowly rose up and then aimed directly at the armed fishing boat dozens of meters away.

"Gulp~~"

Shahjuan swallowed and realized what he was facing. He dropped the M4 he was holding to the ground because of his shaking hands.

"Du~~"

Lao Ha behind the screen pressed the launch button without hesitation, and the goalkeeper's close-in defense system, which used the same Gatling cannon as the Warthog, began to roar.

The bright muzzle flame tore through the darkness, and in just 4 seconds of firing, 250 rounds of 30mm tracer high-explosive and small steel needle double-combination were fired.

"Boom~~"

At least hundreds of sub-caliber tungsten alloy fin-stabilized armor-piercing discarding sabot shells penetrated the target fishing boat and it disappeared on the sea surface. The remaining dozens of shells and high-explosive bombs detonated the target.

Lao Ha in the weapons control room slumped down in his chair with a comfortable expression on his face.

After he had his fun, his guards still had to get busy. After hearing the explosion, the captain of the guards holding the M240 quickly rushed to the bow from the port side and fired a volley of bullets at the two pirates who had just climbed onto the boat.

"Sudden~sudden~sudden~~"

The two men fell down immediately, and he rushed to the bow gun muzzle and continued firing downwards, killing three enemies along the rope like a string of gourds.

At this time, the remaining guards finally arrived, and everyone shot downwards together.

Sabaya and seven or eight of his men on the speedboat were all shot to pieces, but because the distance was too close, none of the 40mm grenades fired from their grenade launchers exploded.

In this case, the safety fuse has not been released. The guards of Lao Ha have the courage, but the business is still a little lacking. When they encounter such a "boarding operation", the defense of the concentrated fire...

No, Xia Yu would not allow this to happen.

"Shurafa, how is the situation?"

Lao Ha asked on the radio.

"Report to your highness, all the people on the boat have been shot and killed."

The captain of the guards reported immediately.

"Then withdraw quickly, the other ship is about to escape."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Shulafa immediately led the team to evacuate the bow deck area, which was usually off-limits.

"Om~~"

A MK-13 launcher carrying a Harpoon anti-ship missile rose from under the deck.

The million-dollar old Harpoon's engine ignited and it quickly disappeared into the night.

The Goalkeeper close-in defense system and MK-13 missile launcher were both original equipment of the Cotton Eyre-class frigates. When modifying the yacht, Lao Ha simply changed their deployment positions on the ship and made them concealed.

When encountering pirates in the Gulf of Guinea before, Lao Ha only shot two harpoons. This time, he was shaken to Southeast Asia by Xia Yu and had to use the goalkeeper.

The emotional value provided by that burst of bullets just now was much greater than that of target shooting, but His Royal Highness still forced himself to press the missile launch button and fired the harpoon.

There were nearly 200 people on the seven or eight merchant ships anchored in the anchorage, some on duty and some sleeping, but they were all awakened the moment the keeper opened fire.

He didn't even bother to put on clothes or shoes. He ran onto the deck barefoot in his shorts. Then he saw a scene he would never forget - an anti-ship missile flew into the air.

In that direction, I remember when the radio called, it was clearly a yacht? How did it suddenly become a warship? And it fired missiles in the middle of the night, and it didn't say that this anchorage was designated as an exercise area!

Several captains and first mates couldn't help but wonder.

"Boom~~"

After losing contact with Ship No. 1, Ship No. 2 learned from a speedboat that the boss and his crew were gone, so they ran back without any hesitation.

It only reached a top speed of 25 knots and didn't cover many nautical miles in seven or eight minutes before it was killed by a harpoon.

As for the remaining two speedboats, Lao Ha did not continue to load missiles. Instead, he lowered the MK-13 launcher and the goalkeeper back below the deck and let the captain weigh anchor and run away.

His Yas is not strictly weaponized, so it doesn't matter if ordinary people don't know about it, and the ports and countries where it docks can turn a blind eye.

But if it makes the headlines, it will be the end of us, and many civilian ports in developed countries will not be able to stop operating.

Therefore, the correct thing to do now is to run away as quickly as possible, and leave the remaining two speedboats to the concentrated fire defense.

"Dong~dong~dong~~"

Unmanned combat boats that can run at 40+ knots and air-cushion landing craft that can run at 50+ knots can easily catch up with Abu Sayyaf's modified speedboats that can only run at 35 knots.

The machine guns and triple-barreled machine guns easily sank the two speedboats, and Mustang finally stepped forward to pick up a few lucky ones who were not hit.

It is better to be judged alive than to be beaten into a pulp and fed to fish.

The few people who survived the robbery couldn't help but cry and hold their heads in their hands. As long as the hostages cooperated, they, as pirates, would not kill anyone they saw.

But the enemy who ambushed them this time was too unsportsmanlike. They didn't even see the enemy's shadow, and they were beaten to pieces along with their boats.

Even when we had gun battles with the Philippine military in the past, it was never like this. These guys didn't even treat them as human beings.

How to put it? Pirates who are imprisoned or detained enjoy the protection of international human rights law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. Pirates who are committing crimes naturally do not have human rights.

"Boss, what should we do?"

Hearing the chaotic calls for help and the deathly screams on the internal radio channel, the people on ships No. 3 and No. 4, which were responsible for patrol and support, also panicked.

Without the big leader Shahhuan, they became a group of scattered sand. Now the only one who can make decisions is their superior Tashi.

"We, we retreat..."

"Du~~"

The Fire Fighter, disguised as a merchant ship, suddenly opened fire. The 11 close-in defense guns on the ship fired at a rate more than twice that of the Goalkeeper, pouring ammunition like a rainstorm at Ship No. 3, which was locked on by the radar, and forever interrupted Zhaxi's evacuation order.

However, the range of close-in weapon systems is only four or five kilometers, unlike large-caliber naval guns that can fire more than ten kilometers away.

"Dong~dong~~"

After being modified and moved forward, the 76mm Otto naval gun fired two shells in succession into the dark night sky.

After flying in a parabola over 14.5 kilometers, two shells accurately hit the patrol ship No. 4, and all four armed fishing boats of the Abu Sayyaf expeditionary pirate gang were destroyed.

From the perspective of two scanning eagles deployed off the coast of Marley, two speedboats that could not be tracked by radar began to move.

On the screen of the control station, they all headed towards the shore at first, but one of them changed its course a few minutes later and headed quickly towards the uninhabited island reef area.

"The guys on this speedboat are pretty smart. They know that all the fishing boats have been knocked out and they can't go back to camp."

Xia Yu commented with a playful tone.

It is true that I cannot go back. If I go back, it will be easy for them to find out and catch me all at once, especially since my plan will be transparent to the enemy.

The correct approach would have been to use the complex terrain to shake off the tracking, but unfortunately, smart people were only a minority after all. The other panicked speedboat just went back quickly, thinking that there would be a sense of security only when there were more people.

But the scanning eagle in the sky followed them all the way, into Marley's territorial waters, until they arrived at their temporary camp.

This is a small fishing village on the seaside that was abandoned due to a geological disaster. Because the road connecting to the inland was washed away, except for a small number of adventure bloggers, no one would row a boat here normally.

However, no matter how secretly they hid, they were still tracked by the concentrated fire defense.

"Calling fruit bats, this is weasel, attack immediately!"

"Yes, boss!"

The hangar door of the dock landing ship opened upwards, and the Sea Harrier, fully fueled and loaded with ammunition, slid out of the hangar.

The wide flight deck can accommodate two Super Hornets to take off and land at the same time, but this distance is still not enough for the Sea Harrier to take off in a short distance.

"Om~~"

A large amount of jet fuel was injected into the combustion chamber of the Pegasus engine. The airflow from the rotating nozzle pushed the aircraft into the air and then drove at a high speed towards the location marked by the Scanning Eagle.

"Gone. All the fishing boats and speedboats are gone. We are the only ones back."

The members who climbed up from the semi-abandoned dock and returned to the camp said in a distraught tone.

"What should we do?"

Everyone present looked at each other, all at a loss.

"Evacuate, we must evacuate immediately. That yacht is for fishing. This is a conspiracy against us. The other party has predicted our every move. This camp is no longer safe. We have to leave here immediately."

Someone in the crowd spoke up.

The fact that Abu Sayyaf has been active from the last century to today is not only because of the poor performance of the Philippine military, but also because it is really something.

It is said that a scholar's rebellion will take ten years to succeed, but highly educated people have always been strong in their ability to stir up trouble.

In the underdeveloped Philippines, only those with a university diploma are eligible to work as domestic servants abroad. The country cannot provide enough jobs and cannot expand the scale of education, resulting in a surplus of highly educated idlers on the market.

It is understandable that some of them joined Abu Sayyaf.

(End of this chapter)