233: Chapter 231: Returning to the Rightful Owner 233: Chapter 231: Returning to the Rightful Owner Gao Yang’s scope now only held a pirate at the helm, and his first shot should have hit the pirate, but since the pirate still had the wheel, Gao Yang immediately fired a second shot.
The second bullet caused the pirate crouching in the cabin to topple to one side, and the speedboat finally lost control.
Its unfinished turn sent it rushing toward Gao Yang and his team, but its speed slowed.
Meanwhile, a pirate who had stayed on the fishing boat peeked out, grabbed a rifle, but instead of firing at Gao Yang or the crew, he twisted around and ducked back into the cabin.
Li Jinfang and his two companions burst out at the sound of Gao Yang’s first shot.
They were originally heading toward the two speedboats, but upon realizing that Gao Yang and Cui Bo had neutralized all the pirates on them, they immediately changed direction and headed for the fishing boat guarded by just one pirate.
As for the speedboat full of crew members, after all the pirates had been dealt with, the brave one finally regained control of the speedboat and steered it towards Gao Yang’s position, while the other out-of-control speedboat had already come to a stop.
Although its engine was still idling, the propeller had stopped working, and it wouldn’t move again unless someone throttled up.
The shore was lined with people who had originally come to welcome the victorious pirates, and several vehicles were scattered among them, but seeing the sudden turn of events at sea, everyone onshore was stunned.
Those without guns scattered, while those with guns began firing ferociously at the fishing boat where Gao Yang and his team were.
Gao Yang focused on the pirate’s fishing boat, ready to support Li Jinfang and his team in forcefully boarding it.
When the people on shore opened fire, Gao Yang bellowed, “Rabbit, free fire, scatter the people on the shore!”
Gao Yang’s fishing boat was only four to five hundred meters from shore, but fortunately, this distance was enough to ensure safety unless one was particularly unlucky to be hit by a stray bullet fired from an AK47.
Gao Yang was rather relaxed, but Cui Bo was far from it, for when the crowd scattered, four vehicles were revealed, and one pickup truck was conspicuously armed with a heavy machine gun.
Gao Yang kept his attention on the situation aboard the fishing boat, and hadn’t seen the heavy machine gun, but Cui Bo did.
As someone climbed into the vehicle and aimed the heavy machine gun at them, Cui Bo immediately fired, turning the man into a cloud of blood mist.
“Heavy machine gun!
Top threat!”
Just as Cui Bo shouted out, a series of bullets hit the bow of the boat not far in front of him.
Although the heavy machine gun had not opened fire, light machine guns from the crowd had begun shooting.
However, Cui Bo dared not shift his aim to counter the threat from the light machine guns, as he had to keep an eye on the heavy machine gun.
Gao Yang finally swung his gun toward the more significant threat of the machine gun; the single pirate remaining on the fishing boat was far less of a threat to Li Jinfang and his team than the machine guns on the shore.
Gao Yang quickly spotted the machine gunner prone on the beach, and promptly took a shot, but due to the machine gunner’s small target size and the slight undulation at sea disturbing his shooting, Gao Yang didn’t hit with his first shot.
He fired repeatedly and finally killed the machine gunner on his fourth shot.
The pirates were numerous; as soon as one shooter fell, another quickly took his place.
A person dragged the light machine gun away from the corpse Gao Yang had just killed, and immediately resumed firing.
A machine gun in the hands of a pirate was vastly different from one operated by Glolov.
If Glolov had been handling the machine gun, by now, Gao Yang and Cui Bo would have either been dead or pinned down, unable to raise their heads.
But the light machine gun in the pirates’ hands was only a moderate threat, not enough to exert too much pressure on Gao Yang.
The crew had reached the fishing boat with their speedboat, and at this point, Fernando yelled at the crew, “Don’t board, don’t board, get away and wait for us first!”
The crew’s speedboat had only slowed down slightly by Gao Yang’s side.
Upon hearing Fernando’s words, they immediately sped off towards the open sea again.
Just then, Cui Bo also yelled, “Magazine change!”
By now, Gao Yang was slowly getting used to shooting at sea.
Although the shore was a bit farther away, his accuracy had improved.
He had just used the second bullet to take out the machine gunner, and the light machine gun had momentarily ceased fire.
Hearing Cui Bo’s shout, Gao Yang immediately aimed at the heavy machine gun.
Under Cui Bo’s suppression, the heavy machine gun had not yet fired.
As Gao Yang aimed at the heavy machine gun, for the moment, no one dared to approach it, but even so, Gao Yang and Cui Bo didn’t dare relax their vigilance.
Cui Bo had thought about destroying the heavy machine gun but hadn’t had the chance to try since the machine gun was too small a target, and for now, he just needed to ensure that no one could operate it.
“They’ve boarded!”
Fernando shouted again, alerting Gao Yang that Li Jinfang and his team had boarded the fishing boat.
Soon after, Fernando bellowed, “They’ve succeeded!”
“Loaded, change targets!”
Fernando and Cui Bo’s shouts rose one after another.
Without walkie-talkies, communication could only be done through yelling, which caused quite a mess.
Amidst the chaos, Gao Yang glanced at Li Jinfang and his companions, and seeing that the three of them had begun throwing things from the fishing vessel to the speedboat, he immediately felt relieved and began to fire freely at the pirates on shore.
Cui Bo continued to focus on the heavy machine gun, ignoring everything else.
The situation was such that as long as the heavy machine gun couldn’t fire, there wasn’t much of a threat.
The AK47 bullets still had power at a distance of around five hundred meters, but they were completely inaccurate.
As for the light machine guns, Gao Yang took special care of them.
The two snipers had somehow managed to suppress the firepower of the hundred or so people on the shore, so it wasn’t too threatening.
Soon Fernando shouted again, “They’re coming down, oh, shit, what are they trying to do?”
Gao Yang took a glance and saw that Li Jinfang and the other two had returned to the speedboat from the fishing vessel, but instead of coming back immediately, they were heading toward the other speedboat that had stopped.
Gao Yang immediately understood that there must be a lot of equipment on that speedboat, otherwise Glolov and the others wouldn’t bother towing another speedboat for no reason.
Gao Yang turned his attention back to the shore.
The situation was looking up, and all they had to do was wait for Li Jinfang and his companions to turn the boat around so they could evacuate immediately.
It wasn’t too late to let them board slowly after moving away from the shore.
For now, Gao Yang and his group couldn’t retreat; they had to suppress the firepower on the shore to cover for Li Jinfang and his company.
Li Jinfang and his teammates were approaching the unmanned speedboat.
As the two speedboats pulled up side-by-side, Frey leaped into the other boat.
Seeing this, Gao Yang felt assured and bellowed, “Retreat!
Retreat!”
The speedboat was fast and agile.
Gao Yang yelled to Fernando, telling him it was time to reverse the fishing vessel, but just then, unexpectedly, a puff of white smoke suddenly emerged from behind a car on the shore.
“RPG!”
With Gao Yang’s hoarse scream, a rocket-propelled grenade flew past the bow of their boat.
Although it did not hit them, Gao Yang was horrified to find that three more plumes of white smoke had emerged from different locations on the shore.
Even though he couldn’t see the rockets that were already launched, Gao Yang knew that three more were coming.
Two of the rockets were widely off target, but one that came from the left struck the left side of the stern accurately, creating a massive hole with a booming explosion.
Those in the bow, including Gao Yang, weren’t hurt, and the big hole in the stern wasn’t below the waterline.
Bruce and Farah, who were in the middle of the vessel, were also unscathed, just shaken off their feet.
But at that moment, Fernando bellowed, “Abandon ship, hurry, abandon ship, the rudder and engine are busted!”
Bruce was too concerned to keep an eye on Farah and immediately rushed to the stern, trying to release the speedboat in tow, but after just one look, Bruce yelled, “The speedboat is damaged, call Toad to pick us up!”
However, Fernando shouted, “No, no, we need them to bring that fishing vessel back, the speedboat won’t get far on the open sea!”
But Bruce frantically retorted, “Take the speedboat to land somewhere else, we can’t delay any longer!”
There was some confusion on board, but Cui Bo had stayed in the same posture from beginning to end, still focusing on the heavy machine gun.
If they were fired upon by the heavy machine gun now, that would truly be apocalyptic.
Gao Yang refocused on the shore, trying to prevent the pirates from getting another chance to fire their rockets, but the recent barrage suggested that there were at least four launchers on the shore, spread out in different locations.
He couldn’t stop the enemy from launching more rockets.
“Get on the speedboat, call for backup, if no warship comes, then land elsewhere!”
Gao Yang’s order put an end to the argument between Bruce and Fernando.
Li Jinfang and his team had also realized that Gao Yang and his group were in trouble.
The two speedboats were already heading their way.
Just then, two more plumes of white smoke rose from the shore.
Gao Yang quickly turned his gun and shot dead the pirate who had just fired a rocket, but he couldn’t prevent the launch of the rocket, and killing one shooter was useless as long as the rocket launcher remained—it didn’t matter how many shooters he took down.
The two rockets hit the other fishing vessel, one after the other.
There was no need to consider boarding the other vessel now, and the vessel Gao Yang and his group were on began to sink.
Although the rockets hadn’t hit below the waterline, the fishing boat was still taking on water.
The pirates’ intentions were clear: disable both fishing vessels so Gao Yang and his group couldn’t get far if they tried to run.
Moreover, people on shore were starting to push small boats into the water.
If they didn’t evacuate quickly, Gao Yang and his team faced the danger of being surrounded by pirates at sea.
Just then, Bruce shouted in surprise, “Big Dog’s got his machine gun, and Little Fly’s got a rocket launcher!”
Following Bruce’s words, the distinctive sound of an M60 machine gun erupted.
Glolov had finally retrieved his machine gun and began artist-level suppression with it.
With Glolov’s machine gun covering fire, Gao Yang felt his stress greatly reduced.
At that moment, Frey also shouldered an M72 rocket launcher and fired into the densest part of the crowd on shore.
(To be continued.
If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for the recommendation ticket, monthly ticket.
Your support is my greatest motivation.
Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)