Build Madness

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

The ironclad ships equipped with gas turbines were divided into three batches and moved to the front, middle, and rear of the team. They were dragged, pushed, and pushed respectively to speed up the speed of wooden warships in a headwind environment.

When the wind is down, the wooden battleship relies on the mounted turbine device to drive the ironclad ship.

Two days later, Zheng He's fleet crossed the South China Sea and approached the Malix Strait.

During the voyage, apart from stopping at the Xisha Islands, I encountered two leading civilian fishing boats and three ocean-going oil tankers, and never encountered others.

This made Ge Xiaotian feel the power of nature, the vast sea, turbulent, occasional shocking waves, occasional gusts of wind, occasional torrential rain, far beyond human power.

Fortunately, along the way, the system ships are very powerful and have not suffered any damage.

This also made Ge Xiaotian feel the thrill of conquest.

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The Maliu Strait is a shortcut from the Pacific Ocean to the Sange Ocean, with a total length of 1,000 kilometers. It is jointly administered by Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

But as the so-called free is the most expensive, if you want to use the Maliu Straits, you need to pay some 'price'.

After all, the three countries under their jurisdiction also need to make money and develop. Seeing so many freighters coming and going from their doorsteps every day, they are also 85% of the crude oil passages for sub-regional countries such as Huaxia and Wadao. Some ideas will be born, otherwise, where would the four tigers of the sub-region come from.

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

There are more than 300 piers on both sides, you can choose at will, you can rest, transship goods, and conduct foreign trade...

What?

Go straight there?

Sorry, the channel is only 20 to 30 meters deep. A 300,000-ton oil tanker ran aground a few days ago.

Compared with the cost of circumnavigation, 90% of the ships will stop here for 3 to 15 days.

And those 10% of the ships that choose to go around will encounter pirates 100% of the time, or the kind that drive a warship and dare to shoot...

The project of Zheng He's voyages to the Western Seas was reported to the navigation agency of the mother star as early as last year, and the application time for the use of the channel was also applied two months in advance.

With the joint efforts of large international companies such as the Holden Consortium, KS Group, Finger Construction, and French Hilton, the three countries readily agreed to the request to vacate the waterway.

In other words, they also have a valid reason to block the passage of other corporate freighters.

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

The purpose of going to Europe this time is to drag back the large iron lump, and other things can be put aside first.

However!

August 5th

It took a day to cross the Straits of Malacca, and not long after entering Sangeyang, the fleet ran into trouble.

It is a sunny afternoon.

The sponge is calm, and the blue sky is thousands of miles away.

Ge Xiaotian, Holden and others were experiencing VR omnidirectional combat, when a roar came from directly in front of the fleet.

Six relatively advanced medium-sized refitted fishing boats, surrounded by more than 20 speedboats, came head-on and quickly approached the frontmost iron-clad ship.

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

"Boss, it should be a pirate."

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

There are about three or four hundred people.

All of them are wearing miscellaneous outfits, hugging the ice bear Chuchu, and there are more than a dozen barrels on their shoulders...

Most of the refitted fishing boats have large caliber turrets...

Holden dialed the satellite contactor of the North American Fleet without hesitation, and called the nearest warship to come for support.

And ahead, after more than ten seconds, there was already an exchange of fire...

I have conducted anti-piracy drills at home long ago, and now I can't show my timidity when encountering pirates...

Tianwei, who was wearing Tiancheng's standard tooling, took out Huaxia Chuchu that was comparable to the opponent...

rumbling...

Another two minutes passed, the iron-clad ship was billowing with smoke, and one of the pirate-modified fishing boats was on fire...

In addition, the speedboat rushed to the back of the ironclad ship, and the freighter converted from a wooden battleship...

The firefight intensified...

Holden couldn't believe it, "It's unbelievable that there is such a powerful pirate group on the parent planet."

"The world's great wonders."

Ge Xiaotian was very calm, lit a cigarette, and covered up his trembling fingers, "Old Huo, when will the North American fleet arrive?"

"It should be soon. They are repairing in Sri Lanka. They said they will send two Apaches first."

"That's good!"

Ge Xiaotian let out a long puff of smoke, and Daoyi, who was holding a communicator next to him to contact the head of the fleet, quietly sent an encrypted message.

rumbling...

The pirates in front saw that they couldn't take down the fleet guards quickly, so they were a little frustrated. They sank three wooden ships with two rounds of shelling, shouted and cursed, and evacuated to the southern waters...

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

Ge Xiaotian counted the losses...

An hour later, two Apaches roared past...

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

Another hour later, a destroyer came through the waves.

Ge Xiaotian and Horton boarded the ship to thank the North American fleet for its support, while Horton secretly handed over a magnetic card to the North American chief...

It was three days later.

Zheng He's fleet rounded the Maldives...

That night.

Beep-beep-beep...

A loud siren broke the silence.

"Boss, encountered a torpedo, the wooden cargo ship behind is ready to block the ironclad ship..."

Boom!

Before the words fell, the flames suddenly appeared, and a giant ship of 50 meters was torn apart by the loud noise...

Horton and the others were stunned.

"Crazy, where are there so many pirates?"

"Maybe we are too ostentatious."

Ge Xiaotian pressed the counterattack command.

The fleet passes through many countries and is not allowed to carry armaments. However, in order to protect themselves, their own ships are equipped with bed crossbows, ballistas, and ultra-long-range trebuchets...

The searchlights were turned on, and the electronic surveillance showed more than a dozen pirate ships converted from fishing boats. The most eye-catching ones were rows of Katyushas that looked like oil pipes.

"Oh my god, damn it!"

Holden couldn't help covering his forehead, "I gave my money to those pigs." (Magnetic card given to the captain of the North American Fleet)

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

"No, I want to question Xiao Bu, where did my money go, and my fleet encountered super pirates one after another!"

"..."

The corners of Ge Xiaotian's mouth were slightly raised, and with a frown on his face, he called to the Tianwei in front, "Everyone pay attention to self-protection, and would rather abandon the ship than suffer any casualties!"

The pirates seem to have heard this order, and Katyushas are flying all over the sky...

rumbling...

The three ironclad ships at the front were covered with bruises, and the wooden ships at the rear sank one after another...

Among them was a Holden cargo ship carrying DuPont Band-Aids...

Fortunately, the North American fleet came faster this time. Five Apaches flew in at a high speed with their searchlights. Before they approached, they turned on the strafing mode...

However, the pirate group has left early...

Holden boarded the North American warship angrily, spit at the North American chief and cursed:

"I suspect that there is a traitor among you, and someone betrayed the news!"

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

"Boss, there is also a North American fleet near the Mediterranean Sea. We need to come again and lure them all away..."

"Once again, go around Soma and come with real pirates, otherwise the North American fleet will always return without success and will become suspicious."

"The Soma pirates don't have the strength, nor the guts to rob our fleet."

"Aren't you stupid, ask Nong Qijiu to send him armaments, don't rumble, just chug, the more the better, and by the way, shoot a documentary about the fight for the freighter, to show the demeanor of Tianwei's security..."