Chapter 939 The Jackals Have Arrived!
Chapter 939 The Jackals Have Arrived!
Some of the items can be bought with money, but others, such as boats, large quantities of gasoline, and firearms, require Su Zihang's connections to obtain safely.
The day after Hu Kan delivered the letter, along with the equipment came his warning.
—The jackals have arrived!
After reading the note, Chu Xin crumpled it into a ball. A strong sense of crisis caused various thoughts to flash through her mind in an instant.
Then, without hesitation, they loaded supplies onto the ship, ready to depart at any time.
The new ship has a larger interior space, but overall it still meets Chu Xin's requirements for lightness and speed.
In particular, the ship has been modified, with steel plates welded to the hull, two torpedo tubes hidden under the deck, and the bow and stern have also been modified and adjusted to be more suitable for defense and attack.
It's obviously designed to look like this on purpose.
It seems that Su Zihang started preparing the ship immediately after parting ways with them. After Chu Xin saw the ship, she was very grateful for his efforts and even more unwilling to involve him. So, once everything was ready, they set off that very night.
Without turning on navigation lights, they relied solely on their compass and star positions to navigate stealthily through the troughs of the waves.
The Bashi Channel is located between Taiwan and Luzon Island in the Philippines, connecting the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean. The northern entrance of the Balintang Channel is the narrowest, and it is usually used by merchant ships and cargo ships. It was also an important smuggling route for Japan after the war.
From Kyushu to Luzon, and then to the South China Sea, this route is rife with smuggling activities, including arms, gold, drugs, and human trafficking. Chu Xin bets that if the other party is coming, they will definitely use this route.
As dawn approached, they finally arrived. After a night of sea breeze, Chu Xin's clothes were already soaked with moisture from the night.
Ge Shaoting walked over, still half asleep. "You really didn't rest?"
"Hmm, I can't sleep," Chu Xin said softly. Seeing the shapes of the rocky islands rising and falling on the sea in the distance, she immediately called out to Hu Kan, "The Babuyan Islands are just ahead, let's go!"
The advantages they had gained in the two naval battles had already been exposed. If there were to be a third battle, even with thorough preparations, they might not be able to withstand a targeted attack from the enemy. Therefore, Chu Xin planned to try a different approach this time.
Hu Kan obeyed the order to turn the rudder, and the ship, like a black fish, silently glided past the shadows of the reefs in the last darkness before dawn.
Chu Xin's decision was correct; on the very night she stayed in the Babuyan Islands, the person she had been waiting for arrived.
To facilitate their operation, the enemy's ship was equipped with more firepower than Black Shark's pirate ship, and even had radar.
Therefore, Chu Xin's location was also exposed when she discovered them.
In a short while, without even meeting face to face, a shell came flying with a whoosh, leaving a trail of sparks as it landed on a truck-sized rock not far away.
"boom!"
The reef shattered into pieces, and the huge shockwave caused the boats docked at the shore to rock violently. Chu Xin reacted quickly and grabbed Ge Shaoting, who was about to fall into the sea.
"Hold on tight!"
Ge Shaoting steadied himself and immediately looked toward the site of the explosion. He broke out in a cold sweat. Such a large reef had been blown to pieces, yet they were unharmed.
"We're so close, how come our ship wasn't affected? What the hell are they doing?"
It sounds loud, but its power is really not that great.
Chu Xin had no time to pay attention to him. She withdrew the mental energy she had just used to resist the aftershocks of the explosion and focused her mental energy on the movements of the enemy ship. At the same time, she urgently gestured to Hu Kan to make him move.
Shout to Yang Zheng again, "Light the fire!"
So before the enemy's second shell hit, their ship quickly moved to a different position, and the two torpedo tubes on the deck spewed out pale blue flames. The torpedoes, like two silver shuttles, plunged into the waves, leaving faint trails as they rushed straight towards the enemy ship.
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