Chapter 354

The ship was insignificant and there was nothing valuable on board. The reason why petru was interested was entirely because it was opened from Egypt.

Petru made special rules for all ships sailing out of Egypt:

If it has nothing to do with the government, it shall detain one tenth of the goods or money of equivalent value in accordance with normal practice; If it is a Coptic ship, it will be released directly; If he has anything to do with the Egyptian government, he will be impolite. Either the whole ship will leave, or all the goods will be empty, and there will be no drop of fuel left. If the crew of the ship is willing to join the civilians of pirates, he will welcome them. If anyone resists, he will be killed. Neither willing to join nor resist, let them float on the sea in a ship without fuel until someone comes to save them.

Although Egypt is not a big exporter, the targeted actions of the red beard thieves have seriously hindered Egypt's maritime trade. Not only does the risk of domestic ships going to sea become greater, but many trading partners who transport goods to Egypt through the Indian Ocean red sea route have also increased their prices by at least one tenth to offset their possible losses from pirates.

The Egyptian government had to respond by deploying more coast guard forces to patrol the Gulf of Aden. Every time a large cargo ship or cruise ship leaves the Red Sea, the Navy will send a Mubarak class frigate to guard it. Although this greatly increases the cost, it at least ensures the normal maritime trade of Egypt.

However, this ship is just an ordinary cargo ship. It was not accompanied by a warship when it came out from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden. Judging from the waterline of the ship, the cargo it carried was not heavy. It may be light materials such as cotton textiles or ceramics that take up a lot of space. These are important exports of Egypt except crude oil.

It seems that this is just an insignificant ship, perhaps owned by Copts, so even the Egyptian government is lazy to take care of it.

Of course, such a ship would not let the great red beard do it himself, so he just sent a small group of pirates to stare at it.

They are going to deal with the ship according to the rules set by petru, and then hand over to red beard. However, a small group of Pirates composed of seven or eight speedboats never returned, as if swallowed up by the winds and waves in the Gulf of Aden.

Petru was shocked when he got the news.

The Gulf of Aden is their most familiar sea area. These children who grew up in Somalia can go back and forth from Cape Fufeng to Socotra island in a canoe. How can dozens of people disappear at the same time?

Moreover, since petru organized the pirates, every operation has ships and people specially responsible for communication on the periphery. There are radio communication equipment on board. The pirates also have a maritime walkie talkie with encrypted frequency band. Even if they meet the navies of other countries, they report at least sometimes. How can dozens of people on seven or eight ships disappear at the same time?

Petru's first instinct was that it was a trap.

In the years of making waves at sea, the Egyptian government wanted to kill him all the time. They once cooperated with neighboring countries to jointly carry out a bandit suppression operation called "thorn red" in the Gulf of Aden, in order to get rid of red beard.

The number of countries participating in the "operation thorn red" has reached 21, with a total of more than 50 large ships and more than 20000 naval officers and soldiers from various countries cruising on the surface of the Indian Ocean Arabian Sea. If we only look at the scene and do not look at the quality, it even exceeds the Pacific Rim exercise led by the United States, which is known as the largest joint maritime anti-terrorism operation in history.

Fortunately, petru got the wind ahead of time and made sufficient preparations, while the major powers that openly supported the action were just pretending.

Petru knows very well that whether there are pirates in the Gulf of Aden or not in the United States, China or Russia, these countries actually don't care at all. What they care about is the maritime control of the Indian Ocean and their interests in Africa.

He made full use of this, avoided the sharp edge of great powers, allowed the warships of these countries to check and balance each other at sea, and deliberately gave them some heads so that they could maintain a good reputation in the world.

Due to the competition between these forces, the Indian Navy, which wanted to take this opportunity to raise its prestige and retaliate against petru, was constrained and timid everywhere.

Petru doesn't pay much attention to the remaining small navies. As long as we avoid their sharpness and don't be foolish enough to fight head-on, it's no big deal. He hid the fleet of the red beard army in a safe place, and then took a big vacation for his brothers to relax in casinos and brothels in the ports along the Mediterranean for a few weeks.

Of course, such a large-scale operation of "thorn red" is impossible without giving them a little sweetness and letting them catch a group of Pirates back. Petru took a small count and killed two birds with one stone, pushing out some powerful pirate gangs who don't usually get along with him.

At the end of the operation, the multinational coalition army did reap a lot, wiped out many pirates and claimed to have returned a calm Gulf of Aden to the world.

But in fact, the operation of "stabbing red" not only did not cause great losses to petru, but helped him eliminate the forces against red beard and further improve his strength. Meanwhile, the pirate organization was also unprecedentedly united and could hardly hear the voice against red beard.

Of course, the Egyptian government was unwilling. Later, it sent troops to attack red beard several times in a row. In addition to the Navy, they even used the most elite lightning troops.

However, in petru's view, Egypt's special forces are too delicious. He was originally born as a special forces soldier. Now he has money and power, important people and weapons. How can he be afraid of his special forces of the lightning force!

After several unsuccessful actions, the Egyptian government began to become cautious and cunning. First, they cooperated with the armed forces in Somalia, such as Somaliland and Puntland, and took advantage of their worries about the landing of the red beard forces to divide and crack down on the red beard forces. At the same time, their anti bandit operations have become more and more strategic and strategic.

So petru suspected that the ship was a trap designed by the Egyptian government.

But as the pirate king of the new era and the spiritual leader of the pirates in the Gulf of Aden, red bearded petru certainly can't let his dozens of brothers disappear in vain.

He sent someone to keep an eye on the seemingly ordinary cargo ship, but there was no trace of the navy in the waters around the cargo ship, and there were no submarines underwater.

After leaving the Gulf of Aden, the cargo ship headed southeast. It doesn't look like a trade ship to Arab countries. It may go to somewhere in Asia or Australia.

Petru wondered more where his brothers had gone? Is there a peerless beauty on the ship who has taken away the souls of these heroes?

Anyway, petru decided to get on the boat and have a look. So he stopped the ship and rushed up with the pirates.

It is strange that there is only one person on such a large ocean going cargo ship.