Chapter 172 Pirate Mothership
Just as he set the route and was about to leave, someone on the radio called him.
"Vladimir, Vladimir. This is Tianyu No. 3. Please answer if you hear it. An English call came over the radio.
"Tianyu No. 3? How does the name of this ship look like a Huaxia ship?" Xiao Peng thought for a while and tried to ask in Chinese: "This is the Vladimir, what is the matter?"
"Oh, Chinese folk?" came a surprised voice over the radio.
"I really didn't expect to hear the local voice so far away from home. Xiao Peng was also excited. When the fellow sees the fellow, the tears are full of eyes, as long as he goes out of China, no matter the Chinese people in the north and south, they are all fellow villagers.
There was a hearty laugh on the radio: "Haha, I saw your ship on the communication channel, I thought it was Lao Maozi's boat." To introduce myself, I am He Jianye, the captain of Tianyu 3. Contacting you is to ask if you are interested in joining the formation. β
"Formation, isn't the escort fleet returning to China?" "The Huaxia escort fleet has returned to China, where did the formation come from?
He Jianye said with a smile: "It is a spontaneous formation to improve the safety of passing through the Gulf of Aden. Thirteen ships have already gathered, waiting to pass through the Gulf of Aden. Isn't there power in numbers?"
When Xiao Peng heard this, he responded directly: "This is a good thing, I joined the formation." β
He Jianye informed Xiao Peng of the coordinates, and Xiao Peng drove directly to the gathering point. Sure enough, more than a dozen ships have already gathered, waiting to pass through the Gulf of Aden together.
Xiao Peng hadn't approached yet, but he received a radio signal prohibiting progress.
"What does this Nima mean, let us come and not let us come close?" Yang was furious.
At this time, there was another call over the radio: "Captain Xiao, I'm He Jianye." Can you hear me?"
Xiao Peng picked up the radio: "Captain He, what's the matter? I just arrived at the gathering point and was told that I can't move forward?"
He Jianye was stunned for a long time: "You said that the small boat flying the Chinese flag just now was your Vladimir?"
Xiao Peng was speechless. The 40-meter-long ocean-going fishing boat is a small boat in your mouth? But if you look at the ships moored there, well, they are all freighters and oil tankers with a length of 2 or 300 metersγγγγγγ
"That's right. Xiao Peng can only admit it.
"Okay, come here, by the way, join the messenger group. The channel is CH104. He Jianye advised.
As soon as Xiao Peng joined the channel, he heard a group of people laughing wildly.
"Gina, what are they talking about?" Xiao Peng parked in a safe position and asked Gina behind him.
Gina replied, "Someone was asking Captain He just now, saying that our ship was born from Tianyu 3, and such a small ship also came to join in the fun? β
Xiao Peng was angry, and directly switched the channel: "Captain He, which grandson talks so much?"
He Jianye was obviously also angry: "Made, I'm angry, it's MOL and NYK's ships that are looking for trouble!"
When Xiao Peng heard this, he became even more angry: "This group of grandsons of the Japanese kingdom, looking for death, right?"
NYK and MOL are both Fortune 500 companies, you know, among the world's top 500 companies, there are only four shipping companies, and the country occupies two of them. Cargo ships of these two companies can be seen on almost any route in the world. In this temporary formation, there were eight ships of these two companies.
"Okay, Captain Xiao, don't be angry, we can take care of ourselves when we go out, don't delay the business because of these nonsense, don't take any protection money they say to heart, leave the Gulf of Aden. He Jianye persuaded.
Xiao Peng thought about it, too, it's not worth it to be angry now, wait until you leave the Gulf of Aden and then settle accounts with them!
Xiao Peng simply turned off the radio, out of sight and out of mind, waiting to be unplugged.
Three hours later, the formation finally arrived and set sail.
However, in this fleet, the Vladimir is indeed the smallest ship, and the smallest of the rest of the ships is one hundred and fifty meters upward. In the end, the formation did not collect Xiao Peng's so-called 'protection fee', but let the Vladimir sail at the top of the formation.
This is clearly bullying people, Xiao Peng wants to withdraw from the formation directly, isn't it just a pirate? It's not that there are no weapons on the ship, besides, the idea of being a radar is still afraid that he won't be able to avoid pirates? If it weren't for He Jianye contacting him and being too happy to hear the voice of his fellow countrymen, Xiao Peng would not have joined this formation, and the speed was still slow.
He Jianye has always persuaded him and accompanied him to sail at the forefront of the fleet. Xiao Peng then agreed to continue to stay in the formation.
"Captain Xiao, your temper is really explosive, it's the first time you've gone to the ocean, right?" He Jianye and Xiao Peng chatted.
Xiao Peng picked up the radio: "Captain He, how do you know?"
He Jianye said with a smile: "When I first went to the ocean, I was like you, young and vigorous, and short-tempered, and now for so many years, I have seen too many such things." I'm already out of it. β
"Made, do these people think we Huaxia people are easy to bully?" Xiao Peng scolded.
He Jianye's tone was full of helplessness: "In the final analysis, it is caused by us Huaxia people ourselves, and Huaxia people are still too accustomed to forbearance." β
Xiao Peng smiled: "Just like this time?"
He Jianye didn't know how to answer after hearing it. This time, Xiao Peng's forbearance was really because of He Jianye's persuasion.
Xiao Peng didn't want to say anything more, but when he heard He Jianye say this, Xiao Peng was really a little angry, and he had to find a way to teach these grandsons of the Japanese country a lesson.
But what can be done? With so many giant oil tankers, I really have no heart, can I take out an RPG to bomb them? That is really an international dispute. Made, if you really can't cross the Gulf of Aden, you can find a way to get on their boat and beat them up to get angry. That's it!
Xiao Peng was still there thinking about how to retaliate, but Yang Meng, who was driving the boat on the side, called him: "Xiao Peng, there is an oil tanker over there in front of us on the right, it looks like it is on the same route as us, flying the Panamanian flag, and the name of the ship is not clear." I think there seems to be something wrong with this ship. β
Xiao Peng looked at it, there was a huge ship on the sea in the distance that was slowly moving forward, it looked old, but such ships were very common on ocean routes, Xiao Peng had seen more tattered ones, as long as he could make money, what about taking some risks?
"What's wrong with such a ship? Can such a slow ship be sent out to rob? Can it catch up with us? Not to mention us, it can't catch up with the big tankers behind it." β
Yang Meng pointed to the electronic route map and said, "If we follow its current direction, we will meet it in an hour." And don't you think the draft of that ship is too shallow?"
When Xiao Peng heard this, he took the telescope from Yang Meng's hand and took a closer look, and sure enough, the oil tanker had a very shallow draft and obviously did not carry cargo. It's 200 nautical miles away from the coastline, so what are the tankers doing here without cargo? Even if the tankers are unloaded, they will be loaded on the return trip, so how can they run here empty?
Xiao Peng's mind turned, and he directly threw his mind into the sea, and quickly approached the oil tanker to find out.
When the mind clone approached the tanker, Xiao Peng didn't find anything wrong with the tanker, but when Xiao Peng's mind clone reached the other side of the tanker, Xiao Peng really found out.
This is really a pirate ship, with more than a dozen small speedboats strapped to the hull on the other side of the tanker, each of which is filled with pirates armed with RPGs and AKs, and the pirates are talking and laughing while taking drugs. It doesn't feel like I'm going out to rob, it's more like a spring outing.
Xiao Peng hurriedly retracted his mind clone and turned on the radio: "A pirate ship has been found in front of the right side of the route. β
Who knew that the sound of laughter on the radio was indeed a mockery: "Huaxia boy, are you stupid when you are scared? When you see a ship, you say it is a pirate ship? If that broken oil tanker is a pirate ship, I am a cruiser of the Stars and Stripes!"
"Don't laugh at him. Maybe he's scared out of the way by now. β
"The sea is not a place for boats like you to play. β
"It's funny, and you found pirates? It's 200 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia, and those little broken speedboats of Somali pirates ran out of gas before they got here. β
Xiao Peng stretched out his hands: "Okay, in that case, I will break away from the formation, and you will change ships to pilot." β
Those who should be reminded have been reminded that it is not my business for you to die by yourselves.
Xiao Peng didn't even think about it, so he had to change his route and sail in the direction of Yemen. "Captain Ho, you follow my ship immediately, I'm not kidding, the pirates are really coming. β
Xiao Peng thought that he would listen to him if he had to persuade He Jianye more, but he didn't expect that He Jianye had already changed his course and left the formation earlier than himself.
He Jianye's hearty laughter came from the radio: "Of course I believe my fellow countryman, you don't need to say that I came with me." β
Xiao Peng was a little puzzled: "Captain He, you believe in me too much, right?"
He Jianye's voice came: "I recognized them when I saw them just now, they are the pirate mothership of the Puntland Guard! A broken ship with a group of small speedboats, specializing in raids!"
Xiao Peng was a little surprised: "Captain He, how did you know?"
The so-called 'Puntland Guard' is one of the four major pirate groups in Somalia and the largest. They were well-armed and had fierce firepower. And all of them are outlaws, taking drugs before each robbery, and they have a fatal mentality if they don't succeed.
He Jianye sighed: "I have been hijacked by them in a similar way. Thanks to the escort fleet, I was able to escape. But I remember their methods well. Approach the target as if nothing happened, and then put down the speedboat and quickly approach the robbery. β
"Then why didn't you just remind them?"
"You reminded them, didn't you? They don't believe it themselves, blame us?"
Xiao Peng is happy, this Captain He is not as kind as he thinks. It's a rhythm waiting to see the excitement!
But......
I like it!