Building madman

After Zheng He's fleet left Xiangjiang, major adjustments were made.

The iron-clad ships equipped with gas turbines were divided into three batches and moved to the front, middle, and rear positions of the team. They were towed, pushed, and pushed to accelerate the speed of the wooden warships in a headwind environment.

When there is a tailwind, the wooden warship relies on the mounted turbine device to drive the armored ship.

Two days later, Zheng He's fleet traversed the South China Sea, near the Maliu Strait.

During the voyage, apart from docking in the Paracel Islands, I encountered two leading-class civilian fishing boats and three ocean-going oil tankers.

This made Ge Xiaotian feel the power of nature, the vast sea, turbulent Pengbai, occasionally smashing waves, occasionally squally winds, occasionally torrential rains, and it is far from human strength.

Fortunately, along the way, the system ship was very powerful and did not suffer any damage.

This also made Ge Xiaotian experience the pleasure of conquering.

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The Malacca Strait is a shortcut from the Pacific Ocean to Sangeyang. It is a thousand kilometers in length. It is under the jurisdiction of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. It belongs to the parent star public waterway. It is open all year round and is completely free.

But as the saying goes, free is the most expensive. If you want to use the Malacca Strait, you need to pay some'price'.

After all, the three countries under its jurisdiction also need to make money and also need to develop. Every day, so many freighters come and go from their doorsteps. They are 85% of the crude oil channels in sub-regional countries such as China and Wadao. Even if they are not robbers, Will give birth to some ideas, otherwise, where are the four dragons in the sub-region.

The cost of using the Malacca Strait is not to pay directly, which is a bit too obvious, but to stop.

There are more than 300 docks on both sides, free to choose, rest, transshipment goods, and foreign trade...

What?

Go straight?

Sorry, the channel is only 20 to 30 meters deep. A few days ago, a 300,000-ton oil tanker ran aground and the channel was blocked. If you want to pass, you can only wait a few days.

Compared with the cost of the detour, 90% of the ships will dock here for 3-15 days.

And those 10% of the ships that choose to orbit, will encounter pirates 100%, or the one that dared to fire the guns while driving the warship...

Zheng He’s voyages to the West have reported to the parent star’s navigation agency as early as last year, and also applied for the use of the channel two months in advance.

With the joint efforts of the Holden Consortium, KS Group, Finnish Construction, French Hilton and other large international companies, the three countries readily agreed to vacate the channel.

In other words, they also have appropriate reasons to block the passage of freighters from other companies.

In this regard, Ge Xiaotian did not engage in Yaozi, nor did he develop his own business.

The purpose of this trip to Europe is to drag back the large iron bumps, and other things can be put away first.

however!

August 5

It took a day to cross the Maliu Strait and not long after entering Sangeyang, the fleet ran into trouble.

This is a sunny afternoon.

The sponge is calm and the sky is blue.

Ge Xiaotian was experiencing VR omnidirectional combat with Holden and others, and a roar came from the front of the fleet.

Six fairly advanced medium-sized modified fishing boats, surrounded by more than 20 speedboats, approached oncomingly and quickly approached the iron armored ship in front.

A notification from the person in charge from the dedicated channel:

"Boss, it should be a pirate."

Hearing the sound, Ge Xiaotian, Holden and others walked into the cockpit of the treasure ship and checked the opponent's lineup through electronic monitoring.

There are about three to four hundred people.

All of them wore miscellaneous clothing, embraced the ice bear suddenly, and there were more than a dozen shoulder tubes...

Most of the modified fishing boats have large-caliber turrets...

Horton did not hesitate to dial the satellite liaison device of the North American fleet and call the nearest warship to come for support.

And ahead, ten seconds later, there was already a fire...

I had conducted anti-piracy exercises before, and now I encounter pirates, so I can’t show my cowardice...

Wearing Tiancheng-standard tooling, Tianwei has come up with Huaxia Tututu that is comparable to the opponent...

Rumbling...

Another two minutes passed, the iron armor was full of smoke, and one of the fishing boats modified by the pirates was on fire...

In addition, the speedboat rushed to the back of the ironclad ship, a freighter modified from a wooden warship...

The firefight is more intense...

Horton was unbelievable, "It's incredible, the mother star still has such a powerful foreign pirate group."

"The world's great wonders."

Ge Xiaotian was very calm, lighting a cigarette, concealing his trembling fingers, "Lao Huo, when will the North American fleet come?"

"It should be soon. They are repairing in Sri Lanka, saying that they are sending two Apaches first."

"That's good!"

Ge Xiaotian let out a long breath of smoke, and he held a communicator next to him to contact Daoyi, the person in charge of the fleet, and quietly sent an encrypted message.

Rumbling...

Seeing that the pirates in front were unable to quickly take down the fleet guards, they were a little frustrated. Two rounds of shelling sank three wooden ships, shouting and cursing, and evacuated to the southern waters...

Holden picked up the communicator again and contacted the North American fleet...

Ge Xiaotian counts the losses...

An hour later, two Apaches whizzed past...

Instead of saying hello to Zheng He's fleet, he chased after the pirates who were evacuating towards the South Pole...

Another hour later, a destroyer broke through the waves.

Ge Xiaotian and Holden boarded the ship, thanks to the support of the North American fleet, Holden secretly handed the North American officer a magnetic card...

The third day.

Zheng He's fleet bypassed the Maldives...

That night.

A rush of alarm broke the silence.

"Boss, after encountering a torpedo, the wooden cargo ship at the rear is ready to shield the armored ship..."

Boom!

Before the words fell, the fire suddenly appeared, and a huge fifty-meter ship was torn apart in a loud noise...

Horton and others were stunned.

"Crazy, where are so many pirates?"

"It may be that we were too swagger."

Ge Xiaotian pressed the counterattack command.

The fleet passes through many countries and is not allowed to carry weapons, but in order to protect itself, its own ships have installed crossbows, ballistas, and ultra-long-range catapults...

The searchlight was turned on, and the electronic monitoring showed more than a dozen pirates modified from fishing boats. The most eye-catching one was the rows of Katyushas resembling oil pipes.

"Oh my god, damn it!"

Horton couldn't help covering his forehead, "That group of pigs, I actually gave my money to that group of pigs." (Magnetic card given to the commander of the North American fleet)

"Old Huo, this time looks good on our own."

"No, I want to ask Xiaobu, where did my money go? My fleet has encountered super pirates one after another!"

"..."

The corner of Ge Xiaotian's mouth was slightly raised, and he squeezed out a frown and called the Tianwei in front of him, "All pay attention to self-protection, and would rather abandon the ship than have any casualties!"

The pirate seemed to hear this command, and Katyusha was flying all over the sky...

Rumbling...

The three iron-clad ships at the front were all covered with wounds, and the wooden ships at the rear sank one after another...

Among them is a Holden cargo ship carrying DuPont band-aids...

Fortunately, the North American fleet came faster this time. Five Apaches flew at extremely high speed with searchlights. Before they were close, they turned on the shooting mode...

However, the pirate group has left early...

Horton boarded the North American warship angrily, spitting at the North American officer and cursed:

"I suspect that there is an insider among you, someone betrayed the news!"

On the other side, Daoyi had contacted Nong Qijiu, and then quietly found Ge Xiaotian.

"Boss, there is also a North American fleet close to the Mediterranean. We need to do it again to lead them all away..."

"Again and again, go around Soma and come with the real pirate, or else the North American fleet will always return without success, and it will be suspicious."

"The Soma pirates don't have the strength and the courage to rob our fleet."

"Aren't you stupid, let Nong Qijiu give him military equipment? Don't rumbling, you have to be abrupt, more is better, and by the way, shoot documentary films about the battle for freighters to show the demeanor of Tianwei security..."