A slight sea breeze blows, and five large fishing boats are breaking the waves in a zigzag pattern on a calm sea west of the Maldives archipelago in the Indian Ocean and north of the island of the Seychelles.

On the first merchant ship, a heroic man with a height of more than 1.9 meters stood firmly on the foredeck undulating with the waves, and the military binoculars in his hand were also looking ahead at all times, with dark skin and crisp short hair, he also looked a little charming.

And in fact, the twenty-nine-year-old Haraday? Siad? Ray, too, does feel that he has been successful.

Although his success originated from the robbery of ships at sea.

He didn't know that there was an old saying in the Far East called thirty, but Haradai was extremely satisfied with his current life, and he had been deeply glad that he had joined the very promising profession of pirates eight years earlier.

Eight years ago, the 21-year-old Haradeh was just a prison guard in Bossaso, the largest city in Puntland, northeastern Somalia, and most of the prisoners in Bossaso's largest prison were pirates.

As a result, one of the pirates in the prison tried to escape by buying a gun from him at a high price, and the price of the other party was really high at that time, which shocked Haraday.

Guns are not a difficult thing to do in Bossaso, and some vegetable markets can be seen selling guns and ammunition stalls, and the prices are very cheap.

You can see what this concept is if you think they can put it next to a vegetable stall.

But the pirates in prison are indeed very high, and they are dozens of times the profit when they turn over, which is simply a baptism for the impoverished Haradhi. The baptism lies in the magnanimity, boldness, and wealth of those pirates.

With this, Haradai and several prison guards directly sold a batch of guns. Then he deliberately disappeared while on duty, allowing the pirates to escape from prison. And several of their prison guards also discussed in private, and directly took off their police uniforms and became pirates.

From the initial obscurity, only relying on the money raised from selling guns to pirates, buying a dinghy and robbing along the coast, there was no lack of danger in the process, and finally gradually developed, and even relied on his own statement to be appreciated by another pirate leader, Haradai was able to control more and more of his subordinates, and his wealth was getting bigger and bigger. It was so big that he couldn't have imagined it before.

He used to earn an average of only a few hundred dollars a year when he was a prison guard, and that money was nothing short of scum in his hands now.

Today's Haradeco is also a popular figure in Bossaso, driving a luxury car, living in a luxury villa, and playing the most beautiful and fresh girl, which is simply a fairy-like day.

Even in Bosa Soharadai, he was still a celebrity, and his friends were all powerful people, and he felt that his life was really worthwhile to be able to do all this.

"General, those freighters should be about to appear." Just as Haraday looked out into the sea ahead. A short-haired man with the same dark complexion walked briskly and smiled at Haraday.

"Well, let the soldiers lift their spirits and be ready to fight at any time." Upon hearing this, Haradeh nodded slightly. According to the informant, several Indian merchant ships will appear in the area, as for the information on how to get it. In fact, most of the merchant ships going to sea in the world today have registration information. There is a record of where you are traveling from and what you are carrying. These are records in the hands of governments, and they are easy to manage, but there is no doubt that when they are recorded, they are also easy for pirates to operate.

Whether it's hacking or buying, as long as there is a useful method, it can be used, and according to the information received by Haradai, there is a ship under the command of an Indian business group with considerable influence that will surely add a lot of extension to his wealth ladder if it is taken.

This is a big operation, which is why Haraday will personally lead the team.

Otherwise, with his current position in the Somali Navy, he would not have to come forward at all.

The Somali Navy was originally created and named after the pirate leader who once appreciated and promoted Haradai, who called himself Admiral, and under him there was Haradai and another Vice Admiral.

This may be because the big bosses want to put on a veneer of legitimacy for their actions, and they also have their own press spokesmen, claiming that the Somali government is unable to defend its maritime rights and interests, and that foreign ships are blatantly violating the sovereignty of Somali territorial waters and plundering Somalia's fishery resources, so they will defend their sovereignty and so on.

To put it nicely, in fact, Haraday is somewhat disdainful of this, because the pirate groups off the coast of Somalia were initially forced to openly resist because fishing boats from all over the world openly entered the territorial waters of Somalia to plunder its fishery resources, causing a large number of Somali fishermen to suffer heavy losses and barely be able to sustain their lives.

The original people were indeed righteous on the Somali side, and they could not be called pirates, but heroes, because they were poor and backward, and their fishing methods were really not competitive at all compared with South Korea, Japan and other places.

But after years of development, all this has changed in nature, and now although they also rob fishing boats, they still prefer to engage in merchant ships and cargo ships because of their high profits.

Not to mention anything else, as one of the "vice admirals" of the Somali Navy, Haraday has millions of dollars in his accounts every year by looting and extortion, and tens of millions of dollars a year on the part of the big bosses.

"If I really am a vice admiral of Somalia, I am afraid that I am the most down-and-out vice admiral in the world." With a wry smile, Haraday glanced at his own ship, yes, which vice admiral doesn't even have a single gunboat under his command, only five fishing boats?

But in fact, it is impossible for them to be able to afford to drive gunboats, just kidding, more than 20 countries in the world have escort navies in Somalia, once they find suspicious ships, they will go up to search and inspect, if he drives gunboats, I am afraid they will not be able to get out of the Gulf of Aden.

These five large fishing boats are now owned by Haradai, each with five speedboats and a crew of about 30.

There are 150 people in total, and all of them are his subordinates under Lieutenant General Haradai.

Once they encounter a target, they will outflank them, use the fishing boat as a mother ship, release the speedboat down and gather a group of armed personnel to board the ship, and after controlling it, they will either quickly loot and escape, or press down and wait for the boss behind the scenes to pay the ransom.

And when they encounter the gunboats of the multinational navy, they will also be transformed into real fishing boats, and after they go ashore, they are even more serious people, living a chic and free life on land.

According to the World Research Survey, there are about 1,000 pirate members along the entire Somali coast in recent years.

In fact, this is all, at least Haraday is very dismissive, he has more than 100 people under his command, and the entire Somali Navy has another lieutenant general with more than 100 people, plus more than 200 elite troops of the big boss.

Their gang is an organization of nearly 500 people, and this is only the number of people who participated in regular hijacking activities, if you add other peripheral intelligence or something, the total number of the entire Somali Navy is about seven or eight hundred, and the Somali Navy is only the second largest pirate gang in the entire pirate group.

There are also the No. 1 Puntland Coast Guard, the No. 3 Somali Coast Guard, and the No. 4 Peninsula Navy, as well as a few scattered small groups.

Does that add up to just over 1,000? Pure.

The order had been given, and more than 100 of Haradai's men had also moved, some of them were gathered and armed, and as soon as the order was received, they would charge and sack in speedboats.

Everyone knows that there are many pirates in Somalia, and the average merchant ship is either escorted by frigates or has its own armament, and the target in front of us is no exception, it is said that there are two Indian warships to escort it, so Haradai will use all his forces.

It may sound ridiculous to use fishing boats to speed up the boat against warships, but in fact, in May 09, a group of Somali pirates on a mother ship and two speedboats tried to attack the French Navy's guided missile frigate Cheriss, or in May of that year, two pirate ships pursued the US Navy dry cargo and munitions ships, and almost succeeded, because the pirates had a limited range to let the other side escape.

Warships are not omnipotent, pirates are disguised as fishing boats, merchant ships, etc., and there are all kinds of national flags, and it is impossible for any warship to release missiles when it sees fishing boats and merchant ships, and it is estimated that it is difficult to fight with missiles when the distance is close to the speedboat, after all, the speedboat is very flexible when sprinting, and can only fight guns and the like.

As long as there are many ways to encircle and outflank, and fight to bleed and die, once they board it, the profits will be greater, after all, what can be escorted by warships is generally a big pie.

It was a tough battle, and Haraday's gaze grew cold.

To be able to rob for so many years and survive, he is a bold man, if he can succeed this time, he can get not only financial benefits, but also prestige, prestige in the group, for Haradai, who is no longer very willing to succumb to the big boss, this is a challenge, even if the other party was his Bole, after all, although the pirates have tried to loot warships, but so far they have not succeeded.

Pity...... The preparation was very sufficient, but I waited and waited, and after waiting for a long time, the Indian cargo ship in the news never appeared.

"General, something is wrong......

The black man who had come up to report once before also noticed that something was wrong and stepped forward to report very carefully.

"Damn, we may have been deceived." Haraday clenched his fist and slammed his palm against the steel-forged guardrail.

They may have really been deceived, and the source of this information is indeed the source of the organization through bribery, not hacking, and now there is obviously something wrong.

Could it be that I just slipped away from the sea breeze when I went to sea this time?

"There's a ship, General." But at this moment, a figure suddenly ran out of the rear cabin, and his shouting made Haradai's spirits lift even more, and he hurriedly picked up the telescope and began to search, and then found a huge freighter flying the Chinese flag coming from afar.

“……”

Haraday was speechless.

There is a ship, but why is it not an Indian freighter escorted by warships in the news, but just a lonely Chinese freighter? (To be continued.) )