50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 828 Unexpected Enemy
The others have stayed behind, but how to stay safely on the ship is still a problem. The torpedo boat is not very big, with a length of 34.14 meters and a width of 6.77 meters.

You might not have a good grasp of what 34 meters means, so here's a rough explanation: a standard basketball court is 28 meters long, and 34 meters is the distance between the stands on both sides of a standard basketball court.

If you still don't understand, then look up at the residential building. The height of a single floor of a typical residential building is 3 meters. 34 meters is the height from the ground to the balcony of the 10th floor.

The width of a torpedo boat is about half that of a basketball court. Because of its shallow draft, it only has four decks, with a very small command room on the top.

The torpedo boat has a full crew of 21. In such a cramped space, it's impossible to hide one person while avoiding the 21 sailors on board without a better plan.

First of all, it's impossible to hide anyone in the top command room; someone is always there 24 hours a day, unless they can become invisible.

The second floor below the command center is mainly a public area, including a restaurant, kitchen, and lounge. It's a busy place and not suitable for Tibetans.

The last level is not worth mentioning; the engine room conditions are very poor. Once the speedboat is running, it gets unbearably hot and noisy inside.

In addition, the large amount of machinery and equipment piled up inside made the space extremely cramped, making it unsuitable for hiding people.

Only the third floor, which houses the crew's living quarters and various supply warehouses, is the only place where he could possibly hide.

With the sailors all on deck and no one on the third floor, he quickly scanned the entire speedboat to understand its structure.

He is currently in the food storage area on the third floor of the rear compartment. Behind the two food storage areas are two ammunition storage areas, and the four storage areas are arranged symmetrically in pairs.

Beyond that were the sailors' quarters, which were semi-open spaces and impossible to hide in, so he had no choice but to stay in one of the four warehouses.

All four warehouses are currently full of supplies. If he wants to stay in the food warehouse, he just needs to stay behind the pile of goods so that he won't be spotted by the people coming to unload the supplies.

Warehouses storing food and other logistical supplies are not secure enough; the best place to hide them is in an ammunition depot. When there is no war, the ammunition depot is locked, and no one can enter it.

Without hesitation, he left the food warehouse and closed the door behind him.

Then, he quickly arrived at the ammunition depot door, used the lock-picking tools in his spatial storage to quickly unlock the door, and then quietly slipped inside to lock it again.

Once in a safe place, Sun Zhiwei relaxed his tense body and sat down to rest on an ammunition box.

This ammunition depot is not very large. It stores the individual weapons, ammunition, bulletproof vests, diving suits and other equipment of all the sailors on the ship. Since they do not engage the enemy directly, they have even fewer opportunities to use them.

对面另一个弹药库里装的，大部分是船上2门AK-230型30mm双管舰炮的炮弹，还有12枚BB-1深水炸弹和6枚水雷。

An hour later, the ship started moving. Sun Zhiwei opened his spatial dimension and watched the fleet of ships outside file out of the dock.

Five Wasp-class missile boats and five Hufeng-class torpedo boats escorted the Petya-class corvette, sailing slowly southward at a speed of 15 knots.

They weren't stupid; they knew to conserve fuel from the start, and 15 knots was the most economical speed.

Upon seeing the fleet depart, Sun Zhiwei used his spatial teleportation to view the nautical chart unfolded on the frigate Cambridge, which clearly marked the route of the voyage.

While in the ammunition depot, Sun Zhiwei informed Dong Haoyang of the other party's itinerary, instructing them to patrol and wait near a small, deserted island 30 kilometers southwest of Lauter Island.

A distance of 500 kilometers, at a speed of 15 knots, would take 18 hours, almost a whole day. There was no need to be too tense; engagement with the enemy wouldn't happen until tomorrow. The boring voyage lasted for nearly 16 hours, and Sun Zhiwei, sitting in the ammunition depot, was drowsy from the shaking.

When they were 50 kilometers away from Lauter Island, five Wasp-class missile boats and five Hu Feng-class torpedo boats suddenly began to accelerate.

They quickly disembarked from the frigate, increased their speed to 30 knots, and headed towards Lauter Island.

Faced with this sudden change, Sun Zhiwei did not delay, but quickly sent a telegram to Dong Haoyang to report the movement of the speedboat formation.

At a speed of 30 knots, it would only take one hour to reach Lauter Island. The frigate squadron would have to increase its speed to deal with the attack by the speedboats.

Just as he finished sending the telegram, he suddenly heard the roar of airplanes overhead, but he found nothing in the space he had opened.

Upon seeing this, he immediately ran to the window to check.

Four three-plane formations of fighter jets flew over the speedboat formation, heading towards Lauter Island. Their flight altitude exceeded 3000 meters, placing them outside the range of space.

He recognized the aircraft; it was the MiG-21 fighter jet that the Russians had provided to the monkeys over the years.

The MiG-21 fighter jet's primary capability is air-to-air combat, and the missiles it carries are also air-to-air missiles. However, they can also carry conventional bombs, thus posing a threat to ground and sea targets.

He immediately turned the radio back on and urgently relayed the news of the MiG-21 to Dong Haoyang.

After sending the telegram, he felt a surge of anxiety. It turned out they had also prepared fighter jets; no wonder the naval formation was so weak.

He was careless. Ever since he single-handedly bombed the border and air force base of the monkeys and destroyed all the warplanes the monkeys had captured, the monkeys had rarely deployed warplanes in battles, so he had not included the monkeys' air force in the combat units.

But he forgot that the Russians have provided a lot of support to the monkeys over the years, including hundreds of MiG-21s and training many pilots for them.

There are 12 MiG-21s carrying conventional bombs now. I wonder if the two frigates can handle them.

Theoretically, it is possible. After all, the MiG-21 is just a fighter jet with a limited number of bombs and can only perform level bombing, posing little threat to moving targets on the sea surface.

His concern was that the MiG-21s would bypass the frigate's air defenses and fly directly to Big Natuna Island, bombing its cities and ports—that would be terrible.

Although Greater Natuna Island is accelerating the construction of its air defense capabilities, the timeframe is simply too short.

Currently, only a few cities on the island have built air defense missile sites, but a tight air defense fire network has not yet been formed.

But there's nothing he can do now. He can only trust his comrades and hope they can make their own assessment of the enemy's situation and take appropriate action.

This possibility is not low, because although his fleet is small in number, it only has two escort ships.

But the sailors on those two frigates were all retired veterans, as were the commanders; they had extensive experience in using the ships.

(End of this chapter)