“Nathan is right. If we don’t retreat soon, the Malene helicopters will be here…”
"Wait, what's that?"
Some people agreed to the suggestion of evacuation, but a sharp-eyed person interrupted him, noticing a bright light shooting through the night sky where clouds obscured the stars.
"Boom!"
The semi-active laser seeker of the AGM-65E, following the coded laser beam emitted by the ScanEagle, precisely struck the speedboat that had been locked onto, causing it to explode into a fireball on the decaying dock.
"It's a missile, damn it, we've been exposed."
"call out"
Before it even reached the target fishing village, the fruit bat was like a ruthless missile launcher, immediately firing a second calf.
Unfortunately, the air-to-ground missiles that the old Harrier can launch are either anti-ship missiles like the Sea Hawk and Harpoon, or anti-tank missiles like the Maverick.
The English version of the Longbow Hellfire, which uses a millimeter-wave radar seeker, can only be launched by AV-8B and Harrier GR7/GR9. The Sea Harriers, which were all retired in 2006, were not adapted to use the Brimstone radar and therefore could not be used.
But the old ox was enough; the scanning eagle's laser beam locked onto the small boats on the other side of the dock.
"Boom!"
The refurbished AGM-65E, with its airburst warhead replaced, exploded in mid-air a few meters above the sea surface, and countless fragments wreaked havoc on the small boats with their single outboard motors amidst the flames and smoke.
Seeing this, everyone felt a chill; the other side was trying to cut off their retreat.
"Quick, everyone, get hidden..."
"There's no need to conceal it. These are missiles for reconnaissance and strike drones. They can only carry two to four missiles, so it's not cost-effective to use them against personnel targets."
That's the problem with having too many smart people; it easily leads to disagreements.
However, the guy who spoke last was wrong. Without an amphibious assault ship equipped with catapults, it is indeed quite difficult to deploy reconnaissance and strike drones at sea. The other side misjudged that the concentrated fire defense was a land-based attack by the Malayan military.
The hundreds of people either hid or stayed put, and soon they all heard the roar of fighter jet engines.
"Oh no, we've been scammed, quick..."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
The sea harriers swooped down towards the ground and fired rockets two at a time at the fleeing militants.
The two NATO-standard 19-tube 70mm rocket pods on the underwing pylons emptied all 38 Hydra rockets in one go.
The bat immediately pulled up its nose and began a second dive towards the ground.
"Knock knock knock"
Xia Yu's only upgrade to the Sea Harrier, the 27mm Mauser rotary cannon, began to roar.
The consequences of a brittle armor-piercing bullet weighing more than half a pound hitting a human body are far more severe than ingesting fragments of a rocket. An unlucky person who is accidentally hit will simply stop breathing.
After several rounds of firing, Fruit Bat emptied the cannon's ammunition, and the remaining fuel was also running low, so he had to return to base immediately.
The Abu Sayyaf members, who had been hiding in various corners watching the sea harriers fly away, had just breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that they had survived with great difficulty, when they faintly heard a noisy commotion again.
"Splash splash"
Oh no, it's a helicopter!
The fruit bat's attack is over, but the weasel is still following behind!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
"Boom!"
Xia Yu immediately unleashed a barrage of rockets, then switched back to French-made 68mm rockets, clearing out 12 rocket pods and instantly taking more than a dozen lives.
"Knock knock knock"
The Rh202 machine gun on the left followed suit, unleashing DM81 high-explosive rounds at those who refused to disperse and run away.
The rocket nest was cleared out immediately. The sniper opened the hatch on the right side, pushed out the sniper rifle on the swing-arm stabilizer, and took out the fleeing militants one by one.
"Damn it, the boss took the portable anti-aircraft missile. At this time, an anti-tank missile would be much better!"
Leaning against a large tree, the guy who had suggested evacuating earlier looked at the AS550, which seemed to be flying through the sky as if it were empty, and said angrily.
Unfortunately, their anti-tank missiles were left on speedboats and small boats, and all they had were RPGs that were difficult to hit small helicopters; once fired, they were just targets.
Fortunately, the fixed firing arc of the Rh202 cannon is less accurate than that of the turret. Xia Yu emptied his ammunition and only managed to kill a few dozen enemy soldiers.
However, the sniper quickly "scored" double digits. He felt like he was hunting wild boars in the Ao Taiya, with the boss's helicopter less than 100 meters above the ground.
Later in the fight, he dragged the T-5000 bolt-action sniper rifle back to the cabin, grabbed his boss's AK-105, and started firing at the pirates who wouldn't go to sea.
Xia Yu dared to do this because he was certain that the other side wouldn't have portable anti-aircraft missiles on the shore. Even if the Fennec Fox was equipped with additional armor, it could only block large-caliber machine gun bullets at most.
Only a ten-ton female deer platform has enough redundancy for titanium alloy protection; a two-ton fennec fox is only slightly better than a small antelope.
Of course, it's much better than a naked bird, which makes him feel completely insecure.
"Bang bang"
The sniper changed to the last rifle magazine, and after firing only a few shots, he could hear the distinctive noise of the hovercraft's engine.
Looking up, the Wild Horses, arriving late in the night vision goggles, were cutting through the waves and charging towards the dock.
The dilapidated dock, which had been damaged by multiple explosions, was not suitable for landing, but two BTR-80s had already plunged into the sea from the deck of the landing craft and, with the help of their underwater propulsion, made their way onto the beach.
The two 14.5mm machine guns on the turret, along with the Gatling gun of the same caliber on the Mustang, began firing at all the houses in the field of view.
To avoid leaks, Abusayev chose an abandoned fishing village with no villagers, thus reducing his leverage of using hostages as human shields.
The concentrated fire defense team doesn't need to think at all now. Everything that moves on the shore is a target. Just aim at them and empty your ammunition.
As for the hidden and unseen, the Jihuo, which had already entered the territorial waters of Malay, had its Oto Melara 76mm naval guns raised.
"Thump"
The mom-type pre-fragmented projectile, whose inner wall is covered with 3,000 small tungsten blocks weighing 0.5 grams each, accelerates out of the gun barrel.
"Knock knock"
The second and third shots followed immediately. The seawater circulation cooling system allowed this 76mm naval gun, hailed as the AK-47 of naval guns, to unleash a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute.
The shells supplied by the county were fired like they were free, until the first shell landed in the woods behind the abandoned fishing village where a landslide and mudslide had occurred.
"Boom boom boom"
After the A3 high-energy explosive inside the bomb was detonated by the FB371 proximity fuse, it scattered pre-formed tungsten balls—20 times more numerous than those in a 30mm programmable airburst bomb—all over the place. The top-down explosion left the pirates without the cover of trees, and since they weren't even wearing any Kevlar armor, they were riddled with holes by the tungsten balls.
With the thermal imaging provided by ScanEagle to lock onto the target, and the parameters directly set by inputting them into the computer, Lao Zhao and his team fired 20 pre-fragmented rounds in one go.
The forest, which had gradually recovered from the loss of human influence, once again returned to a deathly silence.
"This is a crab-eating macaque."
About an hour later, at dawn, the combat team members, carrying guns, stepped into the woods and grabbed a monkey carcass by its tail, pulling it up after it had bled to death.
These macaques, whose main food is crabs, are usually found on coastlines and islands. After the villagers moved away, they moved into fishing villages, and were then driven back into the forest by pirates who invaded the area, until they were caught in the crossfire of war and lost their lives.
I only regret not being born on Mount Emei, otherwise I could have snatched egg yolk pies to eat. It's nothing like eating my fill at the Malay Tungsten Sphere. It's just too miserable.
If even agile monkeys suffered like this, the pirates' fate was even worse.
"Splash splash"
The car couldn't drive into the village. When the Malai military helicopter arrived, the first thing they saw was body bags piled up all over the village, easily numbering in the hundreds.
These were the ones that stayed in the village and were wiped out in the first wave; the ones in the forest haven't been dealt with yet.
At least the Abu Sayyaf branch personnel guarding the outpost could see the bodies, but those who went out to sea to hunt were truly killed along with their boats and fish.
Some were fried, some were burned, and some sank; there was absolutely no need to salvage them.
This part only has video footage; the physical objects are those on the shore.
"mouth area"
Those in military uniforms were alright, but several men and women carrying cameras and video cameras, who looked like reporters, started vomiting.
They received the news before dawn and set off, so they definitely didn't have time for breakfast, and what they vomited was all leftovers from dinner.
This is the battlefield, where concentrated firepower is a one-sided, overwhelming attack on Abu Sayyaf.
Shah Juan had considered how to fight against the Malayan coast guard and navy, but the entrapment operation was a dead end. Faced with a three-way attack from the sea, land, and air, his expeditionary pirate gang of nearly 300 people was wiped out.
"Mr. Xia, the results of this operation are exceptionally fruitful!"
"I am speaking in accented Chinese," said Chief of Staff Wang, who arrived at the scene with the Malayan military.
"To be honest, I prefer fighting well-equipped opponents. Fighting these pirates always feels a bit like bullying them."
Xia Yu revealed his true thoughts.
"Their attacks on merchant ships and civilians are also bullying. From the moment they commit the crime, they should be prepared to be bullied. If they weren't so cunning, we would have sunk their ships and shelled their camps."
General Wang spoke from another perspective.
Yes, even the worst-equipped navy is better than pirates, let alone the Singaporeans.
It's a real shame that they couldn't track down these pirates at all, let alone carry out any kind of sting operation.
Outsourcing is more effective, but other PMC companies may not be as efficient as Jihuo Defense.
After all, it's a company that originated from Afica. Even though it's its first time venturing into maritime business, with the support of a major power behind it, it can still manage a dock landing ship equipped with 58 level-two combat systems.
However, this also showed the Kokushima Navy how useful hovercraft and unmanned combat vessels are.
Adhering to the "poisonous shrimp" policy, they abandoned their homeland after being attacked, and the navy will definitely launch a landing operation when they return to counterattack.
This is why they are vigorously developing dock landing ships and amphibious assault ships, and the supporting landing vehicles, the old-fashioned mechanical landing craft are certainly not as good as hovercraft.
Previously, I didn't want to buy the expensive LCAC from the old Magnesium, so I bought a European mechanical landing craft instead, but now it seems I have a new option.
As for unmanned combat boats, they are fantastic for them.
With a total population of less than 10 million and a navy of less than 10,000, there aren't enough personnel to allocate to small maritime vessels. Therefore, promoting unmanned operations is the most appropriate approach.
It's surprising that a country with over a billion people is so keen on unmanned warfare.
Well, a little bit of industrial resources can be mobilized to boost production capacity, but human life is obviously more precious.
Old Mag has always boasted about how much he values his soldiers, but his definition of "killed in action" and the compensation for their deaths reveal his true attitude towards them.
In a capitalist society, human life has a price. Their unmanned equipment is so expensive; they might as well treat people as consumables.
In contrast, in Singapore, where there are fewer people and more money, exchanging money for lives is a decision that would not be made without hesitation.
Chief of Staff Wang showed great interest in these two pieces of equipment from Jihuo Defense, which is also what Xia Yu hoped to see.
Good things should be shown off; how can buyers make a purchase if sellers don't showcase them?
“Abusayev was already severely weakened by the battle to capture Champa last year, which is why he was eager to turn into a pirate in order to obtain funds for expansion through kidnapping and extortion. Now that we have wiped out their expeditionary pirate team, the Natuna Sea will be stable for at least half a year.”
Taking this opportunity, Xia Yu and Chief of Staff Wang discussed the upcoming plans.
After successfully "making an example of the enemy," those small pirate gangs, as long as they still had some savings and food to eat, would not dare to commit crimes against the enemy and would focus their attention on them.
Therefore, the side of the Strait of Malacca closer to the Pacific Ocean will be stable for a while, but the side closer to the Indian Ocean will still require combat patrols.
"I don't need to be on board to oversee the next deployment. I hope your country can understand."
"I understand, of course I understand. Mr. Xia is very busy with work. With Abu Sayyaf as an example, I believe these pirates and thieves will make the right choice."
General Wang said they could understand.
The maritime business is handled by the Asian branch, so Xia Yu, the boss, is definitely still focused on the headquarters. Plus, his wife is about to have their second child, so it's not a big deal that he doesn't personally accompany the ship.
However, there was still some time before he officially returned to China, so he was just giving the client a heads-up.
Leaving the other party to handle the follow-up matters, Xia Yu first returned to the Jihuo ship a few nautical miles away, where Lao Ha's Yas ship was right next to him.
"Pop"
The cork was cleaved off by Xia Yu's naval short sword, and juice mixed with carbon dioxide sprayed out of the bottle.
This bottle of champagne is a Seiros champagne that he bought in France two years ago. It is made from grapes harvested in late 1988 and is worth more than 10,000 euros.
But Old Ha's attention was clearly on the tools his friend used to open the bottle.
These are relics from the Atago. After all, it was a warship sunk by a torpedo. Apart from the mushy bone fragments that couldn't be converted into carbon-based life forms, the various rusted items on board could still be restored to their original state.
Xia Yu had been longing for an army officer's sword, but he didn't have one yet. However, the navy idiot had over a hundred navy swords and naval short swords, ranging from general officers to sergeant candidates.
He picked out a short sword bestowed by the Emperor to use as a champagne knife. Or rather, such a short thing was not good for disembowelment, but it was also quite good as a handheld item with some practical value.
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