Chapter 524 Three Short Three Long Three Short (1/2)

Li Duoyu, who was about to soak his feet, saw Zhang Erhu coming hurriedly, and shouted: "Captain Zhang is here, the door is not closed, you can come in directly."

When Zhang Erhu came, he was wet all over, and he stood at the door, and did not go into the hall.

Beside him stood a young man in uniform, who was also wet all over. After seeing this uniform, Li Duoyu couldn't help but be scared.

Three or four years ago, the public official wearing this uniform was definitely Li Duoyu's nightmare. It should be said that all smugglers are the most afraid and hated.

The Coast Guard department did not exist before, and it was established to crack down on smuggling.

The young man in uniform greeted Li Duoyu immediately after seeing him: "Hello, Director Li, I am Xu Huaishan from the Coast Guard."

Li Duoyu hurriedly replied: "Hello, Comrade Xu."

Li Duoyu, who had just taken off his Liberation shoes and was wearing flip-flops, asked in confusion: "Captain Zhang, what happened to you? Why are you all wet?"

Zhang Erhu said anxiously: "It's like this. I reported the search and rescue of the fishermen in Matsu to my superiors, and then the Coast Guard sent a ship to search.

But the Coast Guard ship is not familiar with the Dongjia Reef area. When it just arrived at Dongjia Reef, the propeller seemed to be caught on something, and then it lost power and ran aground directly.

I came back in an emergency assault boat. The situation is quite dangerous. You happen to have experience in rescuing people at Dongjia Reef. Can you please help me?"

After hearing this, Li Duoyu was a little speechless. Why did it feel so much like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather?

The real owner has not been found yet, and the person who went to find him is also in danger.

Speaking of this cartoon, Li Duoyu remembered that it was only broadcast this year. If the village had electricity, Li Haoran and the others should be able to see this excellent cartoon.

Li Duoyu glanced at his watch and frowned, saying, "The tide is only halfway out now. It's not easy to rescue them now."

Zhang Erhu said anxiously, "Why don't you go over and take a look first? The location where they hit the reef is not good. I'm worried that if the tide continues to recede, the boat may..."

Zhang Erhu didn't say it out loud. After all, this is a taboo for fishermen, but Li Duoyu understood it as soon as he heard it.

The ship that hit the reef is not afraid of high tides. What it fears most is that when the tide recedes, the unbalanced force will directly cause the boat to capsize.

Li Duoyu's face became serious: "How many people are there on the patrol boat?"

Comrade Xiao Xu on the side replied, "The emergency assault boat can only seat two people. Only Captain Zhang and I came back first. There are still four people on the patrol boat now."

Li Duoyu couldn't help rubbing his temples. There were really a lot of things about the typhoon this time. To be honest, he was really tired.

Just now he was just joking with Zhou Xiaoying. Even if he turned on the full automatic mode now, Li Duoyu didn't have the energy.

Li Duoyu had discovered that almost every time there was an accident in this sea area, it was at Dongjia Reef.

This place really needs to be publicized. Ships that are not familiar with the sea area really shouldn't go here.

Put a few more no-fly buoys there to remind passing ships to detour.

But if he went to Dongjia Reef for rescue, he wouldn't dare to go alone, let alone at night.

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said, "Captain Zhang, go find Chen Wenchao first. If he is free, I will go with you."

"Okay."

Zhang Erhu was very excited when he heard this. Li Duoyu could say such a thing, which meant he agreed.

Chen Wenchao was his subordinate, and the boss asked him if he wanted to go.

Would he not go?

Speaking of which, he was the one who asked for the sea patrol this time, but unfortunately he was not familiar with Dongjia Reef. He had just brought the sea patrol ship into that sea area and ran aground directly, which made him feel a little guilty.

If he had come directly to Li Duoyu at the beginning, the person would have been rescued by now.

"I'll go find Xiaochao right now."

As soon as Captain Zhang left, Li Duoyu took off his flip-flops and prepared to put on another pair of dry Liberation shoes.

Zhou Xiaoying sighed after seeing this, and said in a slightly tough tone: "Soak your feet first, then drink the hot soup I made for you, and then go out to do things."

Li Duoyu smiled: "I thought you wouldn't let me go out?"

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes at him: "If I don't let you go out, you will be obedient and not go out."

Li Duoyu smiled.

Zhou Xiaoying sighed helplessly: "Be careful, think more about me and Tutu when you do things."

"That's for sure. Do I look like someone who jokes with his life? If I'm really in danger, I'll run faster than anyone else."

"That's good to know. Others have families, and you have families too. Hurry up and soak your feet first."

Zhou Xiaoying didn't object to Li Duoyu's rescue. On the contrary, she supported him. But when she thought that he was also in danger, she felt particularly resistant.

Li Duoyu simply soaked his feet and drank a bowl of hot soup brought by Zhou Xiaoying, and then Chen Wenchao rushed to their home.

The four of them took Li Duoyu's fishing boat and towed a sampan with a diesel engine to Dongjia Reef.

At the same time, Zhou Xiaoying went to Tianhou Temple with a basket to pray for Mazu to bless them with safety and success.

In the past, Zhou Xiaoying didn't understand why A Niang always liked to worship and was so pious. Now she finally understood that if people guarding the shore didn't have a spiritual sustenance, it would be really hard.

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After driving for more than half an hour, Li Duoyu arrived at the scene of the accident. He could see a metal boat with lights on from a distance.

He also sent a distress signal to his fishing boat, and Li Duoyu simply replied.

Considering that the patrol boat seemed to have lost power after getting entangled with something and then ran aground, Li Duoyu asked again: "Comrade, did your patrol boat lose power first and then ran aground?"

Xu Huaishan replied: "Yes, it feels like the propeller was caught by something, and then it was pushed onto the reef by the waves without control."

If this is the case, Li Duoyu would not dare to approach Dongjia Reef rashly even if he is familiar with it.

Instead, he asked Chen Wenchao and Captain Zhang to get on the small sampan, and then stretched a bamboo pole with a hook into the sea to explore the way.

The result was just as he guessed, there were indeed unclean things in the nearby waters.

Before the sampan moved forward for a while, Chen Wenchao's bamboo pole stretched into the sea was bent very badly like a large fish.

Chen Wenchao quickly shouted: "Brother Yu, don't come over, my bamboo pole has hooked something, it feels very heavy."

After hearing the sound, Li Duoyu immediately stopped the boat, and at this time Chen Wenchao also pulled the hooked thing out of the water, but it turned out to be a ball of kelp rope rolled together.

After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu's mouth twitched, and seeing that there were still broken kelp hanging on the kelp rope, he roughly guessed where these kelp ropes came from.

Just as Chen Wenchao pulled up a kelp rope several dozen meters long, Captain Zhang on the side also hooked one. With so many kelp ropes, it's no wonder that the propeller of the patrol boat was directly stuck when passing here.

Captain Zhang, who was pulling the kelp rope, couldn't help but curse: "The people in Shangqi Village are really incapable of doing anything but causing trouble. Everyone else is collecting kelp, but they don't collect it properly. Now the pile of kelp ropes left in the sea are simply a disaster."

Captain Zhang was right. After the typhoon, at least three fishing boats that went out to sea in the nearby waters were caught by the kelp ropes of Shangqi Village.

The captains of the boats that were caught by the kelp ropes didn't know how many times they greeted Shangqi Village that day.

After spending half an hour clearing the kelp ropes on the way forward, Li Duoyu finally came to the patrol boat.

It was a patrol boat more than ten meters long and painted white. To be honest, the patrol boat was a bit shabby, even worse than Li Duoyu's fishing boat.

It was low tide now, and Li Duoyu didn't dare to drive the fishing boat too close. Under the illumination of the fishing boat's searchlight.

Li Duoyu found that the current situation of the patrol boat was not very optimistic.

Since the bow hit the reef first, the fishing boat is now at a 45-degree angle, and the stern seems to have taken in water.

You can see the people on the boat constantly scooping water out. If the tide continues to recede, the boat will inevitably capsize.

Li Duoyu's fishing boat dropped anchor about 50 meters away from the patrol boat.

Then he drove a small sampan with a four-centimeter-thick cable to the patrol boat and threw one end of the cable to them.

"You tied the rope to the strongest place at the stern. Now I can only pull it out for you by force."

After they tied it, Li Duoyu said, "Just leave one person who can drive the boat on the boat, and the rest go to my boat."

Li Duoyu couldn't guarantee whether the fishing boat would tilt at an angle when towing.

After receiving this group of comrades on the fishing boat, Li Duoyu found that they were all wet.

Maybe because they kept scooping water, several comrades came to the fishing boat and sat directly on the deck of the boat.

What surprised Li Duoyu was that he saw an old acquaintance among these comrades.

The middle-aged man, who was a generation older than him, couldn't help but sigh after seeing Li Duoyu: "Duoyu, it's been a long time since we last met. I didn't expect that I would be saved by you one day."

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly.

"Hello, Director Liu."

In fact, the sea patrols who caught smuggling were quite familiar with them. The sea patrols had a list of the more active smugglers in the town.

They just needed to catch them in the act at sea, and the names of Li Duoyu and Zhang Agui were on their arrest list.

After everything was ready, the fishing boat slowly retreated and prepared to start towing. Just when the cable was about to be stretched straight, Li Duoyu asked everyone to evacuate the deck and hung a piece of cloth on the stretched cable.

The sea patrol boats that often rescued people didn't expect that Li Duoyu was so professional. A comrade in their department was hit by a broken cable and several ribs were broken directly.

As the cable was straightened, the patrol boat was slowly dragged. Even at a distance of 50 or 60 meters, everyone could still clearly hear the harsh metal friction between the patrol boat and the reef.

But when pulling back, the entire hull of the patrol boat was at a 60-degree angle.

This sudden situation made everyone's heart rise to their throats.

The patrol boat was specially designed, just like Li Duoyu's fishing boat. The bow was relatively light, and the heaviest part of the whole body was the stern.

It was indeed irrational to start pulling from the stern, but there was no better way at the moment.

Li Duoyu could only grit his teeth, push the throttle of the fishing boat to the bottom, and drag the fishing boat off the reef at the fastest speed.

As long as the speed was fast enough, Li Duoyu could pull the patrol boat out of the reef before the fishing boat capsized.

As black smoke came out of Li Duoyu's fishing boat, the patrol boat that was about to capsize was successfully towed off the reef.

Now the whole boat was no longer in contact with the reef but floated up. The patrol comrades applauded Li Duoyu on the spot:

"Great, really great."

"Thank you so much."

If it were them just now, they really couldn't be as decisive as Li Duoyu.

Li Duoyu towed the patrol boat to the safe sea. Director Liu and his team immediately boarded the patrol boat, dropped anchor on the spot, and checked whether the hull was leaking.

"Very good, no leak."

Although there was no leak, the iron boat was pulled down like this, and it was necessary to return to the factory for repair.

Now, the propeller of the patrol boat is still hung with a lot of kelp ropes. The engine can be started, but the propeller can't turn at all.

Two comrades also tried to tie ropes and dive down to cut the kelp ropes, but they all failed.

Chen Wenchao wanted to dive down to help cut them. If he operated it, the probability of success would indeed be much higher.

But he was stopped by Li Duoyu. After all, there are too many turbulent currents in places like Dongjia Reef, so there is no need to take this risk.

Just tow their patrol boat back to Dandan Island, and when it gets light, just use a long knife to cut it.

Besides, he is tired enough today, and he really doesn't want to make any more trouble.

While chatting with Director Liu, Li Duoyu learned that the patrol boat came to Dongjia Reef because it was found that there was smoke on Dongjia Reef.

So he thought about searching to see if there were any fishermen on the Matsu side.

This time, the superiors attached great importance to this rescue mission, and even called them directly to tell them to do their best to help find the missing fishermen on Matsu.

At this point, Liu Zhifeng sighed helplessly: "We didn't find the person, but we had to trouble Director Li to come and rescue us."

Li Duoyu smiled: "It should be. When there are difficulties at sea, everyone helps each other. You have rescued our fishing boats many times."

But when Li Duoyu was about to pull the patrol boat back, a comrade from the patrol saw a red light on Dongjia Reef.

At the same time, there was a faint light flashing at them. The comrade named Xu Huaishan looked at the light for a few times and his face became solemn.

Three short, three long, and three short.

"Director Liu, the other party is using the international distress signal."

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other. It is very likely that the local fishermen do not understand the international distress signal. (End of this chapter)