Courtyard House: A System Connecting Two Worlds, Resources for the Nation

The weapon handlers, who had been itching to get started, couldn't hold back any longer. With such advanced-looking weapons in their hands, how could they not use them?

In particular, the descriptions of the weapons in the user manual of this missile boat made him tremble with excitement just by glancing at them, as if he had just seen something amazing.

The label contained a term he had never heard before: fire control radar.

It is said that after locking onto a target, the ship's fire control system will automatically calculate parameters such as the target's heading, speed, distance, and wind speed, and then automatically set the weapon's attack trajectory!

This is absolutely outrageous!

The ship can aim at the enemy on its own without anyone having to aim it?

Then why would you need him to control the weapons?

Following the instructions in the operation manual he had studied before, he decisively activated the fire control system and then controlled the target lock.

The next second, the 20mm cannon emitted a deep roar.

Flames erupted from the cannon muzzle, and the shells flew in a continuous line, crashing into the pirate ship three hundred meters away with a piercing whistle.

At the same time, the weapons crews on the other two C14 ships also opened fire.

Three 20mm cannons, along with a spare heavy machine gun on the roof, instantly covered the three targets on the sea.

Those three pirate ships had never seen anything like this before.

Their hulls are all made of thin steel plates, which, as the fishermen say, "can be pierced through with a single shot."

The C14's 20mm cannon could carve a hole the size of a bowl in a steel plate with a single shell.

After the first volley of fire, a large section of the stern of the leftmost pirate ship was shattered, with wood chips and metal scraps flying everywhere.

In the second round, the ship was hit in the middle and burst into flames.

In the third round, the oil drums on the ship were hit and exploded, and the entire ship was engulfed in flames within seconds.

The remaining two ships didn't last more than two minutes either.

One of the ships had its waterline breached, and seawater rushed in through the breach, causing the ship to tilt rapidly. People on the deck jumped into the sea like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

The bridge of the other ship was hit directly by a shell, and the explosion ripped half of the hull off, causing the ship to spin and begin to sink.

The three pirate ships were all destroyed in less than five minutes.

As for those pirates, their fate was even worse!

A 20mm machine gun—that thing isn't just for hitting people, it's absolutely brutal!

The three C14s slowly slowed down and circled the nearly sunken pirate ship.

Scrap planks, oil drums, boxes, and several people struggling to stay afloat are floating on the sea.

"Rescue them," Li Weiguo ordered. "Rescue as many as you can; the living are always more useful than the dead. We'll interrogate them again when we get back to base."

Several soldiers picked up hooks and lifebuoys and began the salvage operation.

Just then, the lookout Xiao Zhou's voice rang out again, even more tense than before!

"Squad leader! There's a big ship about fifteen nautical miles ahead! A really big ship!"

Li Weiguo tensed up and raised his binoculars to look in that direction.

On the horizon where the sea meets the sky, a gray outline is slowly approaching.

As the distance closed, the outline became clearer and larger—it was a destroyer!

It is at least 120 meters long, with standard naval gray paint, a high-raised bow, main gun turrets facing forward, and a flag hanging on the mast.

A clear blue sky.

"Damn it... Baldy's side! Report to base immediately!"

Li Weiguo cursed, his tone filled with barely suppressed anger, but his voice lowered, "The Yang-class... looks like the Yang-class."

With his many years of experience, he certainly wouldn't be wrong.

Judging from its size and configuration, this is indeed a Yang-class destroyer.

With a displacement of over 3,000 tons, equipped with large-caliber main guns and torpedo tubes, it is one of the main surface warships of the bald head's side.

They like to come to this area of ​​water whenever they have nothing to do, calling it "patrol," but it's really just a way to show off their military power.

The largest warship in the South China Sea Fleet is only an old Japanese-built frigate, the Nanning, with a displacement of just over a thousand tons. Compared to the Yang-class destroyers, it's like a child in front of an adult.

In the past, whenever such a situation arose, the South China Sea Fleet could only follow from a distance, maintain a surveillance range, and then report to headquarters.

Once the other party enters our waters, we issue a warning and force them to leave.

But that's all. You can't beat them in a fight, and you can't catch them in a chase. All you can do is hold your breath and watch them swagger around before swaggering away.

Li Weiguo stared through his binoculars at the approaching gray behemoth getting closer and closer, gritting his teeth and remaining silent.

His cheeks were taut, and he gripped the binoculars so tightly they were almost deformed.

"Squad leader..." the communications officer's voice was tense, "the base has replied."

"explain."

"Return fire is permitted. However..." the communications officer swallowed hard, "but the commander said that if the other side does not enter our territorial waters, we should only fire warning shots and not initiate an attack. If they cross the territorial waters line, we can retaliate as appropriate."

Li Weiguo took a deep breath.

He lowered his binoculars, glanced up at the position of the destroyer, then looked down at the 13-meter-long C14 beneath his feet, before raising his binoculars again.

The destroyer was still approaching, and its course was clearly heading towards the location where the three pirate ships had sunk.

"Xiao Zhou," Li Weiguo called out, "measure its heading and distance."

Xiao Zhou gestured with the rangefinder, his voice urgent: "The course is pointing directly at us, the distance is approximately... thirteen nautical miles. At our current speed, we have about twenty minutes left."

twenty minutes.

Li Weiguo's mind raced. The wreckage of the pirate ship was still floating on the sea, and there were several people who had fallen into the water nearby.

That destroyer must have heard the explosion or received a distress signal and rushed over. Its purpose was either to salvage survivors or to demonstrate its power. Either way, it meant that it had crossed the territorial sea line.

"Squad leader," the gunner poked his head out from behind the machine gun, his voice brimming with excitement, "Should we fire?"

Li Weiguo did not answer. Their destroyer was as big as ten of their missile boats. How could they possibly fight them?

"boom!"

Just then, a loud bang came from afar, and a naval cannon shot hit the water not far in front of them!

"Damn it! They fired first! Contact the higher-ups immediately!"

Li Weiguo, who was still hesitating, really didn't expect that the bald man's ship would dare to cross the territorial sea line and fire a cannon!

This is a very serious act of provocation!

Even those at the base were a bit bewildered. Had the bald guy gone mad?

But now is not the time to talk about these things!

"Keep a close eye on their movements. The base will send reinforcements immediately. Please be extremely careful for yourselves!"

"Report, can we fight back?"

"Nonsense, he's already bombarding you with artillery, are you going to just let him be your target?"

"yes!"

As long as you can fight back, that's fine!

Fuck you!

"This is outrageous! Get the boats closer to me, ramp up the speed, and get the machine guns ready!"

A sinister smile appeared on Li Weiguo's face.

Given the speed of these three missile boats, it won't be easy for the enemy to hit them. What if these machine guns can penetrate the enemy's armor?

The driver roared and pushed the engine up, and the boat took off again at 45 knots.