Chapter 277: Hijacked

According to Mrs. Garbo's intelligence, Afody has a talent for being a pirate king, and since he changed his career to pirates, Somali pirates have completely bid farewell to the previous primitive plundering methods of robbing on fishing boats and grabbing regardless of the target, but have become a division of labor, purpose, and militarized plundering methods.

His men were specialized in negotiating ransoms, intelligence in ports along the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian Seas, and hijacking merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden and the waters around Somalia.

Usually pirates will use a modified tug or freighter to carry multiple speedboats out to sea, so that their radius of activity can be extended to hundreds of nautical miles from the shore, so that the way of sailing away from the Somali coast in the past can no longer avoid pirate attacks.

The mother ships of pirates are often equipped with radar and satellite positioning systems, and once they enter the sea area where the target may appear, they will turn on the radar to search.

Although the civilian radar used by these pirates is not accurate enough to lock on to the speed and approximate size of the ship, it is still possible to determine whether the object on the screen is moving in the direction of its own ship.

When the target ship is found, the mother ship first determines its sailing direction and then pursues it. When they get close to the target at a distance of 6-10 nautical miles, they start to launch speedboats to board and kidnap them.

In general, Somali pirates will dispatch 3-4 speedboats during a robbery, approaching the target ship from both sides at the same time. And the gun was fired to warn the targeted ship not to resist.

During the boarding operation, two speedboats threw hooks or rope ladders to the deck at different positions on both sides of the boat, and one or two speedboats were on guard with guns 100 meters away from the target boat. If necessary, you can always open fire on the crew on deck who dare to resist.

The pirates will take control of the cockpit as soon as they board the ship, lock the entire crew into the bottom cabin or concentrate on the deck, and then drive the hostages and the ship to the shore of the port under their control.

Since the relevant investigations have been carried out beforehand, and the owner can also be contacted directly through the captain. At this point, the pirate syndicate will have a special negotiator who will demand a certain amount of ransom from the shipowner to return the hostages and the hijacked ship.

In the negotiation process, the general pirate group will present evidence of the security of the hostages and the vessel, and the main content of the negotiation is the amount of the ransom, the time and place of payment, and the place and time of the delivery of the hostage.

As the leading figure of Somali pirates, Afodi naturally does not participate in the action himself, and when he has money, he will often help the poor fishermen in the coastal areas, which makes him have a deep local popular base

In 1993, the United States sent a Delta special team to arrest Somali warlord Farah Farah Brown. Aideed, due to intelligence errors and unexpected circumstances, coupled with the fact that he did not dare to shoot at civilians, ended up in the sea of people's war instead of being captured, and the entire Somalis in Mogadishu began to attack the American special forces.

Two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by Somalis with RPGs, and in the end, the special operators resisted desperately, and only after several hours of fierce fighting were they evacuated with the support of reinforcements, and the Hollywood blockbuster "Black Hawk Down" was based on this incident.

So it's not easy to capture this guy alive, and you must not force it.

The plan negotiated by the Iron Will was for the pirates to hijack the ship, and all of them hid in one of the ship's containers.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, this time the French sub-base did not come except for the reconnaissance satellites that used the network to invade European and American countries as everyone's eyes in the sky to monitor the overall situation.

And the iron and blood does not need to care about any international image at all, and does not dare to slaughter civilians, as long as someone dares to stand in the way, it is absolutely impossible for him to die without a place to be buried, from this point of view, mercenaries have an advantage over regular special forces.

The crowd spent two days in the bars of Port Said, presumably after they had been considered fat sheep by the pirates who were spying on the information here. Only then did he board the Pioneer and sail towards the Gulf of Aden.

Four days later, the Pioneer sailed into the Gulf of Aden, and sure enough, it didn't take long for it to meet pirates, but this wave of pirates came up to see that they were not in the stream, and a few scrawny guys on the speedboats converted from three small wooden boats held AK47s and RPGs, and shouted loudly in English with hand-held megaphones to slow down the Pioneers and not resist, otherwise they would open fire and so on.

They were outflanked from both sides of the freighter, and there was not even a mother ship behind them, and they had to admire these Somali pirates, and a few modified runabouts dared to come up and hijack the ship.

The captain's telescope observed the pirate flag sign planted on the speedboat, the pirate flag of several groups of forces in this place is different, and when he saw that it was not the flag of the Somali Navy, the captain looked at the surrounding sea area and saw that there were no other ships, and decisively ordered that all of them be killed and not left alive.

After hearing the captain's order to shoot, the gun king pulled the trigger of the 'Iron Fist' bazooka, and a tail flame came out from the launcher, and the rocket accurately hit a speedboat with a puff of white smoke.

There was a loud "boom", and a huge fire rose from the speedboat, and several pirates were blown to pieces, and the dinghy was cut in two. One goal is easy.

At the same time, Li Qingcang also aimed at the engine of a speedboat and fired a shot, the gun sounded, the engine of the speedboat immediately opened a big hole, a puff of green smoke came out, and the fire was immediately extinguished, King Kong held the Vulcan cannon for a while, and the pirates on the ship were like being slashed by a sharp blade over the waist, almost in no particular order, swept into two by a fire dragon, the upper half of the body fell into the sea, and the lower half of the body fell on the speedboat.

The ghost eye on the other side also aimed at the engine of the speedboat and fired a shot, but his McMillan sniper rifle was so powerful that with the sound of a huge gunshot, the bullets were fired, and the engine at the tail of the speedboat exploded, and the flying debris overturned the two pirates and threw them directly into the sea.

The ripper, pirate, and orc all pulled the assault rifle in their hands at the same time, and the remaining three pirates had a cloud of blood mist on their heads and fell into the sea together.

It was only a few seconds from the captain's order to the total annihilation of the enemy army, and the sailors of the Pioneer were dumbfounded, thinking that this was the real god of killing, and the so-called killers in his own gang were far worse than these.

Then the Gunner fired two more rockets, sinking the empty dinghy. After a few moments, the sea was calm, as if nothing had happened.

After the elimination of this group of pirates, everyone's vigilance has also increased, and the battle plan formulated by the captain is to be hijacked by the "Somali Navy", and the rest of the pirates will be killed if they meet him, leaving no one alive, and the province will let people know the details of the Pioneer.

After driving on the sea for another two hours, the mermaid who was observing the ship's radar in the main control room sounded the alarm, and a medium-sized ship appeared three nautical miles in front of the left, rapidly approaching our ship.

The captain hurriedly called the virus and asked him to immediately mobilize the satellites in the sky to transmit the real-time dynamics of the place to his military computer.

After a while, the virus invaded a reconnaissance satellite, and the clear satellite photos were sent to the captain's military computer through the signal of the satellite phone.

It is a large tugboat with four speedboats on the aft deck, and the flag on the bow is the symbol of the "Somali Navy".

The captain immediately called the captain of the Trailblazer, Marcus, over and told him not to resist when the pirates came, and to cooperate as much as possible to avoid being harmed.

The captain had long known their plan, so he naturally nodded in agreement. The captain led all his men into an empty container specially set up for them, which was buried in the bottom layer of the middle of many containers, with an opening at the bottom, connected to the deck, and could be accessed from the bottom compartment of the ship.

Li Qingcang disguised himself as a sailor and blended in with the real crew, the pulse transmitter implanted in his hip last time had not been removed, and this time it was just enough to be used, and he and the crew were held together in the pirates' special hostage place.

The captain can easily find the location of the hostage according to the pulse signal.

After everything is ready. Not long after, a large tugboat appeared in front of everyone, and when it was about a nautical mile away from the Trailblazer, the tugboat stopped sailing, released four speedboats from the tail, and headed towards the Trailblazer.

As they approached the freighter, the pirates in fancy costume raised their bullhorns and shouted in English: "Attention Pioneer crew!" We are the 'Somali Navy', you have entered our territorial waters, please stop the ship immediately for inspection, please do not resist, otherwise you will be killed! ”

Li Qingcang looked at this group of pretentious pirates on the deck, and laughed in his heart: "! It's like a regular army, and it's even entered their territorial waters, and I really think of myself as the master. ”

Now the captain and the others have all hid in the container, and the rest of the people naturally take Li Qingcang's head as the leader. This guy and sailor are all deliberately singled out to like to cause trouble, and they are brave and ruthless, so they are not very alarmed when they see the pirates approaching.

However, it should still be loaded, Li Qingcang asked the captain not to stop the ship first, increase the speed, the captain immediately complied, and ordered the Pioneer to speed up.

As soon as the pirates saw that the ship wanted to escape, they also increased their speed and chased after it, the speed of the large cargo ship was certainly not as fast as the runabout, and it didn't take long for a small boat to circle around the front of the bow, a swarthy, angry pirate carrying an RPG aimed at the Trailblazer, and another pirate held a horn and shouted: "Stop the ship, if you don't stop the ship, we will open fire!" ”

The pirates on the other three dinghys also approached the freighter, and one of the pirates on the speedboat also raised the AK47 in his hand and fired a short shot at the side of the cargo ship.

Li Qingcang signaled everyone to deliberately let out a frightened scream, and then instructed the captain to stop the ship immediately, and at the same time took out the white cloth that had been prepared, waved it at the pirates, and shouted: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, let's stop the ship." ”

The pirates laughed wildly when they saw the white flag raised on the cargo ship, and then two speedboats approached the cargo ship and stretched out a ladder with hooks to hold the side of the ship, and the pirates on the speedboat climbed up one by one as dexterously as apes.

The remaining two speedboats were parked about 100 meters away from the freighter, and the pirates on board were all armed with guns and bazookas to aim at the freighter in case anything happened.