Chapter 408: The Crying Liu Yongan
Ignoring the excited cheers of Abadi and the others, after Liu Yongan took the phone, he cried when he heard Hailong's voice and said: "Boss, I can't help you, I didn't bring the fleet well, and I was attacked by pirates." **.β
Hearing that Liu Yongan could still cry so loudly, he knew that this thing was fine, and Hailong said with a smile: "What are you crying about, what a big deal, tell me what's going on, and whether there are any dead people or our old brothers." β
Hearing Hailong's words, Liu Yongan also knew that now was not the time to cry, and at that moment, he told the truth of the matter.
Since Helong agreed to fund Lilian's ongoing delivery of supplies, Lilian's orphanage in Somalia has grown rapidly.
Within a few months, the number of refugees and orphans had reached 20,000, and Lillian had quickly established her prestige in Somalia, and the whole of Somalia knew that Lillian was taking in the widows, the elderly, and the weak.
However, although Lilian's prestige was established, there was no corresponding force to protect it, and although Lilian had collected 20,000 refugees, there were less than 1,000 young people under her command.
Among these 1,000 people, only 300 are in charge of military tasks, and the remaining 700 people are engaged in labor work, after all, the residence of 20,000 people requires a lot of young people to do heavy physical work.
Although there are few people, because of Liu Yongan's continuous delivery of daily necessities, the camp of 20,000 people has maintained daily necessities for two months at any time.
This has aroused the covetousness of the surrounding forces of Somalia, as the poorest country in the world, Somalia has been constantly at war since the 60s of the last century.
Twenty years ago, the United Nations intervened to help Somalia establish its state, and Somalia was formally reunified, but less than three years later, there was a military coup, and less than two years after the military coup d'Γ©tat, the military government collapsed. Somalia has officially entered the era of warlord strife.
After decades of war, the current Somalia has entered the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period similar to China, with seven major forces, namely the four major tribes of Somalia.
The largest of these tribes split into four factions, and together with the other three tribes, they form the largest seven in Somalia.
Aside from these seven, the small forces are based on tribes and cannot be counted at all, and Lilian's location happens to be within the range of one of the seven major forces, the Durba Hunt sub-clan.
Aladi was the leader of the Durba's sub-tribe, Muhammad. Barre's cousin, because Barre's control is in the northeastern region of Somalia. The coastline from the Suez Canal to the Gulf of Aden is an area controlled by Barre.
So, Barre remotely controlled his cousin Abadi to work as a pirate, relying on the kidnapping of passing ships in the Suez Canal and extorting ransom for high sums of money.
In the past few years, Barre has relied on Abadi's pirates to extort billions of dollars, but most of this money has been squandered by Barre and his family.
Barre was reckless at home, relying on robbery and constantly buying weapons to provoke wars, resulting in a large number of orphans, widows, and old and weak people under his rule, but Barre did not think at all about improving the living conditions of the people under his rule.
According to a survey organized by the United Nations. On average, two people die every day for every 10,000 people in Somalia, and the cause of death is starvation, which is 3 million people under Barre's rule. This meant that 600 people starved to death every day under Barre's rule, but Barre never cared about these things.
But Lilian's presence makes Barre feel in danger. If Barre is the devil from hell, then Lillian is the saint who fell from heaven.
Lillian continues to collect refugees and help orphans. Helping the old and weak, in just one year, Lilian was almost deified in northeastern Somalia.
Everyone looks into the distance at the mention of Lillian and her refugee camp in Guthira, and many orphans and widows who can't survive in their tribes go to Lillian's refugee camp for help.
Because of Hilong's financial support, Liu Yongan led four fleets to continuously transport all kinds of daily necessities for Lilian, so that all the refugees who came to ask for help would receive Lilian's help.
Therefore, in just one year, there were 20,000 more people under Lilian's banner, although most of these 20,000 people were orphans and widows, less than a thousand young and strong, and most of the strong ones were only about 16-year-old children, and adults were all dragged to join the army, but these people were Lilian's most staunch followers.
As Lillian's prestige in the territory of the Durbahunt sub-clan grew, Barre sensed a threat from Lillian.
Therefore, Barre put his mind away from how to kill Lilian, but he sent troops directly, and Barre couldn't do this, because many soldiers in his army had families in Lilian's refugee camp.
If he really sent troops directly to attack the refugee camp, it is estimated that as soon as the order is issued, the army will have to mutiny, but if he does not send troops, Lilian will continue to grow and develop, and his position will be in danger.
In order to prevent this from happening, Barre thought of many ways, and finally one of the most practical was to let his cousin Abadi be the bad guy.
After two years of robbery, Abadi's armed forces at this time have reached 700 people, and the weapons in his hands are all Italian standard armaments bought from the Italian mafia, light and heavy machine guns, portable mortars, rocket artillery and other weapons, these weapons are enough to support Abadi's 700 people for more than a year of military battles.
There are more than a dozen pirate ships in the sea, each of which is a speedboat of more than 500 tons, which is not only used for robbery, but also for warships used in battles with other six major families.
Abadi also purchased more than a dozen 5,000-ton merchant ships, specifically for short-distance trade, relying on the Suez Canal, this year's launch of ten new 5,000-ton merchant ships, so that Alphadi in just a few months to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
With such military strength, Abadi is already a little invincible, except for his cousin, no one is convinced, and when he heard his cousin ask him to attack Lilian's refugee camp, Abadi has long heard about Lilian's red-haired beauty.
There was a thief at the moment, but it was not realistic to immediately lead people to attack Lilian's base camp, he only had 700 people, and it was said that Lilian's base camp already had 20,000 people.
Although most of them are old and weak, women and children. However, Lillian is said to have found a wealthy husband abroad and shipped him weapons and equipment worth tens of millions of dollars.
And constantly transporting supplies, the entire base camp was run by Lilian like an iron bucket, even if he led people to attack it, his men would definitely suffer heavy casualties, which was not in his own interests.
Alphadi began to think of a solution, and when his men reported to Abadi that four more merchant ships were carrying supplies to Lilian's location, an idea came to Abadi's mind.
Alphadi decided to ambush four merchant ships that were delivering goods to Lilian. Once the four cargo ships were captured, Lillian had to send troops to the rescue.
At that time, he declared to the public that Lilian harbored evil intentions and only collected refugees in order to expand the territory, and now that she has a strong hand, she has begun to expand her territory.
I fought Lillian in self-defense, and in this way, Lillian's reputation was completely stinky, and at the same time. If you attack Lilian's base camp again, no one will say anything about you.
Liu Yongan has been in charge of transporting supplies for Lilian, and although he can often encounter small groups of pirates on dozens of deliveries, he has nearly 100 marines in his hands. The weapons and equipment are so advanced, after a small group of pirates are eliminated by themselves, the nearby pirates know that they are strong, and no pirates dare to rob them anymore.
It has been months since a pirate has been encountered. This time, Liu Yongan couldn't help but be a little arrogant, and the ship traveled to the waters of Somalia. Although the speed of the ship was slow, the vigilance on board was poor.
The soldiers in charge of the guard were also dozing, Liu Yongan and Xu Bodang fell asleep early, but in the middle of the night, the ship was ambushed by 500 pirates led by Abadi himself.
The dead people were all soldiers who were in charge of guarding the ship, because of carelessness, they were all wiped by the pirates who touched the ship at night, and when Liu Yongan and the others were woken up, what they saw was Abadi's smug smile and the black muzzle of the gun.
The ship was then driven back to the port of Esma, not far from Lilian's small town of Gutila, which was a simple port without a deep-water port, and Liu Yongan's large ships had to dock in the sea.
More than 100 people, including Liu Yongan, who were kidnapped, were taken to the prison in Esma Town, and after Liu Yongan was caught, Abadi immediately wrote a letter to Lilian, but when he made the payment, he did not write his own name, but the name of a small local pirate group "Bedi Guerrilla".
When Lilian, her brother Zhang Rang and others received the letter and the photos of Liu Yongan and others being kidnapped, the hot-tempered Zhang Rang was going to take 200 people to Esma Town.
Lilian is clear about the Bedi guerrillas, who have an armed force of more than 200 people who have been fighting guerrillas all over Somalia, and they never imagined that they would go to the sea to attack Liu Yongan's fleet.
In order to rescue Liu Yongan and the others, Lilian brought more than 200 people and the cash mentioned in the letter to the outside of Esma Town.
Lilian thought that the other party really just wanted money, but she was ambushed by carelessness, and Lilian's troops suffered heavy losses, so she had no choice but to flee, and the two sides chased and finally got trapped in a valley.
Seeing that Lilian had become a trapped beast, Abadi suddenly thought of a better idea, that is, to blackmail Hilong, Abadi knew that Hilong was a big financier, and he had given Lilian tens of millions of dollars in funding over the years, and through inquiring about the news, he knew that Hilong had actually bought oil fields in Iran.
If Lilian and Liu Yongan were killed like this, Abadi felt that he had lost a lot, the purpose of this attack had been achieved, Lilian led troops to Esma Town, and his cousin Barre had already let the whole of Somalia know about the situation through the newspaper.
In the newspapers, Lillian has been portrayed as a careerist and a demon, and now Lillian's reputation has become stinky, even if she doesn't kill Lillian now, her cousin Barre can lead troops to encircle and suppress Lillian's base camp in Gutila, and the result will be the same at that time.
But if he doesn't kill Lilian now but blackmails the big financier behind him, Hailong, a boss with an oil field, how can his family have billions of dollars.
In Abadi's opinion, he doesn't want much, only a billion dollars, and the other party should be able to give up this money, with this idea, after Abadi led troops to besiege Lilian.
Abadi asked his secretary to call Helong, and Liu Yongan, who had been brought to the scene as bait since Lilian near Abadi, saw all this.
When Hailong asked Liu Yongan what had happened, Liu Yongan told him everything he saw. (To be continued......)