The stern of the K42 boat hit the bow of the No. 53 ship hard.
Li Hai felt the ship tremble slightly. At this time, only the mast of the K42 boat could be seen in the bridge command center - the missile boat was too short, even the No. 53 ship was shorter than the new Youth class.
However, the sailors of the world's third-largest navy on the K42 missile boat felt very different.
They felt as if they had been hit by an eight-magnitude earthquake. Some people who had not sat down properly were bumping around under the violent impact. The force of the impact was so great that the bow of the boat tilted to the left, and hit the steel frame of the left side of the No. 53 ship heavily. A large piece of the left side of the bow was suddenly dented.
By the time the dust settled, the cabin was already a mess.
Soon, they discovered that a large amount of water was entering the stern of the boat, and the speed dropped off a cliff.
After the No. 53 ship drove a certain distance, Li Hai ran to the outside passage and looked back, and then he saw the tragic situation of the K42 ship. The ship must be abandoned immediately, otherwise everyone on it will fall into the water. The K43 missile boat was on the other side. They were stunned, as if they were petrified by the scene in front of them, and they stood there dumbly.
"Ask them if they need rescue." Li Hai said.
When Wu Tong, who followed him out to watch the fun, heard this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. When the sea breeze blew, it seemed to float on Li Hai's face. Li Hai looked at Wu Tong in surprise, and Wu Tong covered his mouth and stared. With innocent eyes.
Li Hai wiped his face with his sleeve and said nothing.
Wu Tong thought to himself, this captain has such serious thoughts at such a young age, and he is so shrewd in calculating every step. First, he took the initiative to speak out, and then he was "forced" to take professional and necessary decisive measures. In the process, it was clearly shown that our ship was hit by the target boat, and now he took the initiative to call out whether humanitarianism was needed. Rescue…
The captain might have planned it from the beginning and issued one instruction after another, leading to the somewhat strange situation in front of him.
Wu Tong's guess was basically accurate. Li Hai's purpose was to force the opponent to leave our route by creating such strong psychological pressure. However, Li Hai did not expect that the opponent's boat handling level was so rubbish that he did not avoid it, causing This is the current situation.
Frankly speaking, Li Hai felt a little secretly happy.
Wu Tong immediately went to call him, and he called him several times in a row but there was no response. It seemed that the captain of the K42 boat, who had regained his composure, realized that if he accepted the humanitarian rescue provided by the other party, he would really be embarrassed and thrown into his grandma's house. You must know that his home port is only more than ten nautical miles away. And there is a friendly boat nearby.
"Captain, the other party didn't reply." Wu Tong reported.
Li Hai took a glance and saw that the K43 missile boat finally came to his senses and rushed towards the K42 missile boat with all his strength - the K42 missile boat was sinking.
How could a body weighing several hundred tons withstand an impact at such a high speed? It was lucky that it didn't break into pieces.
"Report from the damage control department?" Li Hai asked.
A few seconds later, Li Hai saw the report. He frowned and said, "Just a scratch on the paint?"
Chang Haizhou nodded, "Yes, both the bow and the middle part of the hull, there is no impact."
"This old ship is quite strong." Li Hai said with a smile.
Chang Haizhou said with a smile, "The quality of the ships of the world's third navy may not be satisfactory."
The two looked at each other and smiled without saying anything.
"Leave here at full speed. I don't want to deal with a group of missile boats." Li Hai gave a new order.
The only option now is to risk going through the shallow water channel at full speed to avoid being trapped by the wolf pack tactics of missile boats - causing the opponent to suffer a heavy loss and not running away!
The pressure was put on Chen Yun again. In fact, her pressure had never been relieved. It can be said that the safety of all the officers and soldiers on the ship and the No. 53 ship, including the success or failure of the mission, has been tied to her alone from the moment she entered the Palk Strait.
Anyone who has driven a frigate knows that driving a 4,000-ton ship with a draft of more than four meters through a channel with a maximum water depth of more than five meters at high speed, and this channel is nearly a hundred kilometers long, with the narrowest part only about ten kilometers long, is suitable for navigation. The width is only more than 20 meters. This is not an adventure, but a suicide.
Who would have dared to imagine that all these pressures would be placed on the weak shoulders of a weak woman.
Just after an extremely thrilling head-to-head confrontation, Chen Yun's nerves were stretched to the extreme and were already operating in an overloaded state. At this time, except for the captain's instructions, no other sounds could affect her concentration.
Li Hai noticed Chen Yun's high nervousness and said slowly, "The draft of our ship at this time is 4.3 meters, and the water depth at the shallowest point of the channel is 4.7 meters. This means that the bottom of our ship is far from the seabed obstacles. There is a full distance of forty centimeters. What is the concept of forty centimeters? It is approximately equal to the length of the forearm."
He said and gestured. Chen Yun looked down at his forearm, then immediately raised his head and returned his gaze to the waterway.
Li Hai said slowly, "Just do it now as you usually train. You will have no problem at all. Believe in yourself and our ship maneuvering skills."
"Understood." Chen Yun said in a deep voice, her voice was very soft, as if louder would affect the navigation.
Chen Yun's steering movements were very particular, like driving a large truck. From time to time, he made small adjustments to the left and right to keep the course absolutely correct. This is not easy to do because it requires a full understanding of the ship's driving status and habits. Even if there are two identical ships, their errors are completely different.
It is precisely based on this understanding that Chen Yun does not need to calculate, but can eliminate errors and make up for them through some micro-manipulation based on his feelings.
It is not easy to drive a car in a straight line, and it is even more difficult to drive a boat in a straight line, because you have to take into account the influence of water flow direction, wind direction, wind speed, etc., and the requirements are sometimes even higher than that of a sniper.
For most helmsmen, it is almost impossible for the ship they are driving to travel exactly on the route they want, with the error within one meter - that is a frigate of several thousand tons.
Li Hai's words had some effect.
Chen Yun thought, yes, there is still a full forty centimeters, and there are no winds and waves in the strait. The draft of the ship can remain unchanged, so there is nothing to worry about. Just drive forward at full speed.
The tense nerve lines have relaxed a bit, the movements have become more natural, and the concentration is still high. The water depth of the channel is only one aspect. Chen Yun needs to constantly pay attention to the ships passing by, most of which are small civilian ships. She cannot complete this work alone. Therefore, three people are responsible for watching the situation in front of the channel and on the left and right sides, reminding Chen Yun to pay attention to avoidance, or shouting to the target ship, asking them to slow down, turn or even stop the ship and wait. Take measures to avoid it. Wu Tong kept shouting to the ships in front of the channel, asking them to immediately turn around and give way.
All positions work well together.
At this time, the missile boat base of the world's third navy sounded a shrill battle alarm, and the missile boats, gunboats, torpedo boats, etc. on duty were ready to go, but the result was that everything went wrong. First, the personnel responsible for operating these boats were in a hurry. It took more than ten minutes to complete the assembly of personnel. By the time they arrived at the dock, twenty minutes had passed. Then when the engines were started, the engines of the two gunboats turned out to be silent. After some fiddling, the two missile boats and three torpedo boats finally left their berths.
At this time, Ship No. 53 had traveled more than 20 kilometers.
Their situation is not over yet.
Just after leaving the dock, the boiler of a torpedo boat suddenly exploded, and thick black smoke came out of the engine room. The damage control personnel took incorrect fire-fighting measures without understanding the cause of the failure. As a result, the engine was scrapped, the torpedo boat completely lost power, and it decisively collapsed.
The commander ordered the remaining boats to quickly form a formation and then pursue the No. 53 ship at full speed. As a result, during the formation of the formation, a Vera-class missile boat was possessed by something unknown and hit the tail of a torpedo boat, destroying the propeller of the torpedo boat.
The captain of the command boat running in front and the other missile boat looked back and said, well, of the seven boats, two of them simply couldn't start. One of the boats had a boiler explosion when they left the dock, and now two more boats are colliding. Five of them went, leaving only one old-fashioned torpedo boat following behind.
The old-fashioned torpedo boat was an imported product, but the ones that had the accident were all domestic products.
The speedboat formation lost most of its combat effectiveness before it was completed. This will happen to the world's third-largest navy.
In desperation, the base commander could only order the remaining two boats to chase the No. 53 ship quickly, and at the same time shouted to the No. 53 ship on the VHF, ordering it to stop for inspection. On the No. 53 ship, Wu Tong followed the professional propaganda manual and combined with the specific situation, easily responded to the other party's propaganda, and in turn asked the other party not to interfere, otherwise professional and necessary decisive measures would be taken.
After chasing for a while, the base commander saw a strange scene on the radar screen. Thousand-ton frigates can actually run faster than missile boats and torpedo boats! Putting aside the restrictions on the waterway, when the base commander saw the data calculated by the staff, his first reaction was to not believe it.
There is no frigate that can run 40 knots!
At this moment, the No. 53 ship was performing a furious show on the waterway of the Palk Strait at a high speed of 40 knots. All kinds of ships in front of the waterway were trying to avoid being smashed into pieces by this giant!
The base commander was furious, slapped the staff officer in the face, and cursed, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Recalculate!"
The staff officer calculated again aggrievedly, and the data obtained was even more exaggerated - at this time, the speed of the No. 53 ship actually reached 41 knots!
What a meeting it has just been!
The speed is 76.6 kilometers per hour, which is an extremely rare speed on the sea. Hong Kong's famous large aircraft used for smuggling can reach the front and more than half of the hull is out of the water, which is only 40 knots.
This is a frigate with a displacement of four thousand tons!
The base commander watched his two missile boats and torpedo boats on pursuit and interception missions getting further and further away. He even lost sight of the opponent's butt lights. He excitedly shouted, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Not long after, the No. 53 ship soared out of the Palk Strait, leaving the pursuers far away. Without slowing down, it continued to sail towards the designated sea area at ultra-high speed... (End of this chapter)
