Chapter 838 Planting and blaming

On the sea of the Gulf of Aden, 130 kilometers north of the important port city of the Gulf of Aden in northern Somalia, the missile destroyer 'Shenzhen' of the Chinese escort fleet has just completed the replenishment of items on the supply ship and is slowly sailing towards the mouth of the Red Sea. She will start her third time in the Red Sea. Escort.

The calm sea of the Gulf of Aden is not so calm. Here, more than 2,000 ships pass by every day, and it is also full of 'fed warships' sent by many countries around the world. Therefore, Colonel Jiang Tianxing, the captain of the destroyer 'Shenzhen', will keep the officers and soldiers on the warship vigilant every day. This is not only for the so-called pirates, but also for the international honor of the Chinese navy.

When carrying out escort missions, the destroyer Shenzhen also trains and sometimes observes the navies of other countries, drawing from everything that is beneficial to the Chinese navy.

The Gulf of Aden is not only a place where countries show the existence of naval armed forces, but also a stage for silent competition and confrontation.

On this day, I thought I had embarked on the same 'boring' voyage as the previous two times, but suddenly, Jiang Tianxing found an unusual thing.

That is, in the public channel, someone called for help. Because of the special geographical location of the Gulf of Aden and the presence of Somali pirates, here, every ship that needs to pass by will be notified to use a public channel to maintain smooth communication at any time, so that once attacked by pirates, the news can be transmitted to hundreds of kilometers of the Gulf of Aden through this channel. On the sea, it can not only remind other civilian ships to pay attention, but also be caught by the nearby escort fleet and support nearby.

But this time, in the public channel, there is an unusual confidence, an American cargo ship asking for help. Although this distress signal was sent to the U.S. Navy, nearby civilian ships and warships from other countries received this signal at the same time.

The U.S. cargo ship was intercepted by the Somali navy? This is a very serious and interesting thing. In the Gulf of Aden, there has been no interception of American cargo ships for the time being. Not only were the crew members of many civil cargo ships surprised, but also Jiang Tianxing paid attention to them.

A few days ago, he received an order from the command of the escort fleet to strengthen his vigilance and remain vigilant at all times. Although the superiors did not clearly say about the XX123 flight, here, Jiang Tianxing can receive countless civil signal broadcasts every day. Naturally, it is very clear what caused the superiors to do so.

What Jiang Tianxing didn't expect was that while his motherland was still fighting a war of words with the United States, the "small" Somali navy began to take action, first of which was to intercept the boarding and inspection of American cargo ships on the high seas.

Jiang Tianxing reported this matter to the headquarters while thinking about what he should do? But in the end, he found that he could not do anything in this matter. He could not take the 'Shenzhen' to support the confrontation between the Somali navy and the US navy without the order of his superiors.

After getting the coordinates of the incident, Jiang Tianxing ordered to speed up, but he was not ready to go directly to the scene of the incident. He planned to get close to the scene of the accident and wait for the domestic order.

"Captain, there is a situation!" Just then, a radar soldier issued a warning.

Jiang Tian walked to the radar soldier and saw the light spots on the radar display screen, which represented the light spots of the aircraft.

"Altitude 3000... Speed 480... Captain, it should be the kind of seagull attack aircraft in Somalia, a total of 12." The radar soldier captured the radar information into the database and soon got the information he wanted.

"Is their direction XX/XXX?" Jiang Tianxing was shocked and immediately asked.

"Yes, captain. If there is no accident, they will pass over us in three minutes." The radar soldier then reported.

Jiang Tianxing came to the cockpit glass and looked at the southern sky with a telescope. Two minutes later, a group of black spots appeared in the telescope, and then these black spots became clearer and clearer. Under the high-power telescope, it was almost in front of him.

Seeing the C-801 anti-ship missile he was very familiar with under the Seagull attack aircraft, Jiang Tianxing knew that the matter was serious. Somalia has even sent planes. Are you going to fight with the U.S. Navy in the Gulf of Aden?

"Captain, there is another thing. Our radar found that several aircraft have just taken off and landed over northern Somalia. According to statistics, there are at least 40 aircraft, some of which are SU-27SS fighters of the Somali Air Force." The radar soldier once again reported a message that the air-to-air alert radar on the destroyer can search for air targets 350 kilometers away, and the destroyer is now more than 100 kilometers away from northern Somalia, which can almost completely detect and record the flight data of aircraft over the Somali mainland.

Is there really going to be a war? Does Somalia really want to compete with the United States in the Gulf of Aden?

There are many of the same ideas as Jiang Tianxing. Many of them are [***] ships that have received the 'Jewel' distress signal, and some of them are concerned that the surrounding countries equipped with long-range warning radar have noticed abnormal air force movements in northern Somalia.

... In the Office of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ministry of National Defense of Mogadishu, Li Mo is listening to the report of the Minister of Intelligence Wang Ning.

"The navy has controlled the captain of the 'Jeweller' and 16 crew members. On the cargo ship, the navy searched out a batch of smuggled chemicals. In addition, we also found a secret that a container containing arms was found on the American cargo ship."

"Arms? You mean that American ship smuggled arms? Li Mo asked excitedly. He asked the navy to intercept the U.S. cargo ship in retaliation for the shooting down of flight XX123 by the U.S. Navy a few days ago. For the ruler of a country, it is too simple to calculate an unprepared civilian cargo ship, and on ocean-going cargo ships, there are often some smuggled supplies and even violations. The products are very normal.

As long as you check carefully, you can always find out some problems. What's more, Li Mo also prepared the pirates as a big killer. In the "Light of Peace" exercise conducted by multinational special forces, the pirate group secretly controlled by the United States was defeated in one fell swoop. In that operation, Somalia also arrested a group of pirates. Li Mo intends to connect the cargo ship with pirates on the previous charge of collusion with pirates.

Most of these pirates are Somalis. They themselves face the trial of the Somali political axe, but if they perform well, their sentences can be commuted, and they will not harm their families. Therefore, at the hint of the leader of the pirate group "Aden Bay Hunter" under Li Mo's hint, the pirates immediately expressed their willingness to point out the informant who were providing them with clues and intelligence.

This is how the blame comes from. Li Moke doesn't care about humanity and inhumanity. He just wants to retaliate against the United States.

If you shoot down a civil airliner and kill more than a dozen Somalis, I will arrest more than a dozen Americans and put them on trial for 'collusion with pirates'. Not only to let these Americans go to prison, but also to make your reputation internationally.

As for conflicts or even local wars, Li Mo doesn't care at all. Unless Americans are in an Iraq war, Somalia is not afraid of small-scale conflicts.

Somalia is neither Iraq nor Afghanistan. Under Li Mo's rule, the army is monolithic, and there is also a third OECD alliance. At that time, Li Mo will let other member states fulfill their responsibilities. What's more, Somalia also has nuclear weapons, which is a nuclear state. Even if it is defeated in a conventional war, it will not encounter the same outcome as Iraq and Afghanistan.

If Li Mo doesn't die, no one can support a puppet regime in Somalia.

"Since the arms have been searched, the charge of the cargo ship 'Jewel' colluding with pirates to provide cargo ship intelligence and arms for pirates can be confirmed. Qingqing, let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hold a press conference to announce this matter to the public, telling them that the details of the matter should be made public, and the U.S. cargo ships and crew colluding with pirates should be strongly condemned in this matter. Li Mo cigaretteled a cigarette and said to the female secretary on one side with a smile.

Half an hour later, the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned more than 20 domestic and foreign media to reveal the matter to the outside world in the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, it was specially proposed that the relevant Somali departments received information from inside the pirate group to intercept the cargo ship Jewel, and then found a large number of smuggled goods and weapons used to make anti-kill weapons on the cargo ship during the subsequent boarding and inspection. Chemicals, in addition to as many as three tons of munitions, according to the pirates captured in Somalia, the arms transported by the 'Jewel' are mainly to reorganize the Abdi pirate group that was destroyed by the Somali political axe last year.

In his speech, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeatedly hinted that the exterminated pirate group was related to a certain country and was a pirate organization secretly supported by a certain country to achieve certain political purposes.

More than 20 media reporters were stunned after listening to the spokesperson's speech. When they received the notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they felt that there was big news, but they didn't expect it to be such 'big' news. The Somali navy intercepted an American cargo ship and boarded the ship for inspection, and found a large number of chemicals and munitions that made 'weapons of death and injuries'. Does this American freighter have anything to do with the Somali Pirates?

These news topics are extremely eye-catching to readers. Once published, they can definitely increase the sales of newspapers.

"Excuse me, where is the cargo ship Jewel and the crew on it now? Were there any casualties during your boarding inspection? A media reporter from France asked. In his words, it can be heard that this person is extremely worried about the quality of the Somali navy, fearing that the Somali navy will fire on the crew on the civilian cargo ship.

After all, two such things have happened this month. One in the North Pacific, a Chinese cargo ship was sunk by the Russian navy. One was an air crash that happened a few days ago and is still making a lot of noise internationally. It was shot down by the US [***] ship. It is difficult to guarantee whether the Somali navy opened fire on the U.S. cargo ship in retaliation.

(to be continued)