Pirate groups, on the other hand, have built up their own armed forces in areas far from the control of government forces, excluding both government forces and al-Shabaab rebels, forming a third armed force.

Thinking of this, Shi Shaoying's mind involuntarily appeared of cottages, wooden fences, a few hangers, and bandit soldiers A and bandit B who were holding steps and talking with cigarettes in their mouths, which can be described as a picture of a thousand times in Chinese TV dramas. If there is a girl's scream suddenly, and then you see a bandit chasing after him with a wolf-like green light in his eyes, a girl whose clothes are torn to tatters and who runs away with a terrified expression on her face, and the surrounding bandits A, B, C, and D let out an extremely obscene smile while watching, it will be more realistic and perfect.

Seeing the thoughtful expression on Shi Shaoying's face, Kai Berin smiled indifferently and said nothing. It was only in the afternoon of the next day that she suddenly ordered the entire convoy to stop advancing, and then handed a telescope to Shi Shaoying.

In the distance, a patch of blue appeared, and the blue sky and blue ground formed a blue world that did not distinguish between each other. Seeing this scene, Shi Shaoying knew that they were about to reach the end of this land, and that vast blue that seemed to be boundless was the Indian Ocean.

Raising the telescope in his hand and looking into the distance, Shi Shaoying saw a prosperous city built on a mountain with its back to the Indian Ocean.

That's right, prosperity!

This seaside city is not big, and the first thing that attracted Shi Shaoying's attention was a team composed of Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and other Japanese off-road vehicles. They form a long queue outside the small seaside town, and in terms of length, the number of these cars is even more than a hundred.

They crowded the entire highway with the most arrogant attitude, Shi Shaoying took out his binoculars to take a closer look, and he was a little surprised to find that in this convoy, in addition to off-road vehicles that can adapt to bad road conditions, there are also BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other high-end cars. It was only at this time that Shi Shaoying noticed another difference in this small seaside town...... Its roads are newly built!

While the quality of the road is nowhere near enough to make a designer sports car run at full speed, it is a miracle for the gravel-lined roads in Somalia.

From the perspective of a professional soldier, this small seaside town has a very advantageous location.

It is built on a hill and overlooks the surrounding area, and if anyone tries to attack the city, without heavy offensive weapons and aerial fire suppression, they will inevitably pay the heaviest price. At the same time, the small city is backed by the Indian Ocean, and unless an encirclement attack is launched from both the ground and the sea, the people in the small city will be able to escape by sea by boat, even if they are surrounded by heavy troops.

Roads, power stations, small but very bustling business districts, schools, coffee houses, internet cafes, restaurants, beautiful sea and beaches...... This small seaside city already has all the facilities of a tourist city, but there are still traces of poverty and backwardness in some corners of the city. Prosperity and poverty coexist, and even blend with each other, which shows that it has not been around for long.

In the face of such an incredibly prosperous seaside town in Somalia, Shi Shaoying couldn't imagine that this was the real stronghold of Somali pirates. If Kaiberin did not lie to him, in the city there were more than two thousand pirates. When Shi Shaoying's gaze skimmed through the telescope over a two-story private villa with an iron fence enclosing a courtyard, the pupils of his eyes suddenly contracted slightly.

The private villa has a distinct English style, beautifully built and elegant. In the rotation of the automatic spray, the precious fresh water is splashed onto the ground like rain, and it is a method that is extravagant and almost criminal to create a mesmerizing green lawn. In the middle of this lawn, a beautiful fish carved out of marble raised the vase in her hand, and a clear spring flowed out of the vase's mouth, and after drawing a crystal track mark in the air, it fell to the waterhole at her feet, making a series of gurgling sounds like small rivers.

A lawn, a statue, the person who designed this villa, just with a few strokes of chat, just used artificial methods, ingenuity to integrate the most beautiful Tianlai and the most beautiful picture in nature into this private world.

It's a pity that the miscellaneous items piled up randomly in the villa, the cars that are directly rolled on the lawn without pity, and the beer bottles and food left behind by the barbecue party that I don't know when it will be held, plus a few untrained dogs running around the yard and making the excrement all over the yard destroy all the artistic conception cleanly. Seeing this scene, even if there were not a few artistic cells in his body, Shi Shaoying still shook his head and sighed lightly.

But what really made Shi Shaoying vigilant was the fact that around the villa, there were several people wearing American camouflage uniforms and holding AK automatic rifles. Judging from their gun-wielding movements and the degree of cooperation between them, although they have not received special training, they are also veterans who have been tested by war and know how to effectively protect themselves on the battlefield.

There are eight to twelve bodyguards in a villa, and if this is really the stronghold of Somali pirates, then the person who is qualified to live in it and have so many bodyguards for himself must be the leader or even the head of a pirate gang!

Seeing this scene, Shi Shaoying suddenly thought of a cross talk "thief company" that Niu Qun and Feng Gong had performed, and there was a paragraph in that cross talk that was quite exciting, and it was applauded by the audience: The more thieves' dens, the more important it is to do a good job of security and anti-theft!

The villa and the bodyguards inside fully explain that the above paragraph is not exactly a joke!

Removing his vision from the villa and expanding around with the villa as a dot, Shi Shaoying soon discovered that armed members with loaded guns could be seen everywhere in the coastal city of Eyler. Unlike other cities, the equipment carried here is more focused on assault weapons such as bazookas and heavy machine guns.

"Huh?"

Shi Shaoying let out a light sigh in his mouth, because he saw that more than a dozen crew members who had just come out of the harbor were not only equipped with American-style squad light machine guns and RPG rocket launchers, but also carried two individual shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile launchers on their shoulders!

This man-portable surface-to-air missile launcher once shone on the battlefield in Afghanistan, where the Afghan guerrillas used the "Stinger" missiles aided by the United States to shoot down many helicopter gunships of the former Soviet Air Force.

Although he had already begun to look at the pirates of Elle, Shi Shaoying was still shocked when he looked at the shoulder-mounted ground-to-air missiles on the two pirates.

The missile launchers carried by the two crew members were longer and larger in caliber than the Stinger type, and the estimated effective range and effective altitude were much higher than those of the Stinger missile. As a former professional soldier, Shi Shaoying thought in his heart...... Could it be that this is the new "Misagh2" man-portable missile, which is developed and manufactured by Iran itself, which can track and destroy low-flying targets, fill the gap in radar blind spots, and even carry out electronic warfare with the enemy when necessary?

Walking out of the port, perhaps because of the great harvest of this trip so full of excitement, a crew member who greeted people when he saw them, because the mood was too happy and the pace was flying, and the missile launcher on his back was too long, without him paying attention, he actually let one side of the launcher and the stone pillar on the side of the road collide fiercely, making a crisp sound of "bang", and even the crew member was pushed by the reaction force to stumble slightly, but after his body regained balance, he didn't look at it and continued to greet the people around him enthusiastically, the eyeballs are constantly rolling on the chest of a young girl. Even the companions around the crew were all looking like they were not doing anything, still talking and laughing.

It was only at this time that Shi Shaoying woke up like a dream and shouted in a low voice: "Fuck! ”

What kind of bullshit is to an empty shoulder-fired missile launcher, it is clearly a steel pipe that I don't know where to find a piece of more than two meters long, weld a handle on it, and then pretend to install a "high-tech" radar sight, even if it is a finished play!

This thing looks like the caliber is not small, the barrel is super long, and the power seems to be impossible to ignore. If a helicopter gunship pilot suddenly saw someone aiming at him with such a thing below, and was still pretending to lock on, preparing to launch or something, he would probably be taken aback, and then immediately report to the headquarters and ask to return.

It would be even more perfect if the group below could be a little more professional and install an infrared emitter on the copycat version of the individual shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile launcher, and the first-level red alert issued by the anti-radar alert device on the helicopter after detecting the infrared light is enough to scare the vast majority of pilots into running away.

It is not shameful to be shot down by the enemy on the battlefield and even to be captured by mistake, but if you are shot down by a missile by pirates in the course of an absolutely superior and high-profile anti-piracy operation, and after being captured, you will be able to demand an astronomical ransom from your own country, it will be a shame to be thrown into the Himalayas!

A large number of heavy weapons, including heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, are deployed layer by layer; More than 2,000 armed pirates were stationed at the station; Plus a strategic point that can be attacked, retreated, and defended, and it is impossible to be completely blocked. Taken together, these factors are enough to create a Somali army with only a few thousand soldiers, several months of unpaid wages, and a flawedly low morale.

The most terrible thing is that after the pirates gained a lot of wealth through robbery, they greatly stimulated the local economy through indulgence and profligacy, and some of them may even take out some of the funds for free to invest in the basic suggestions of the city, so that the whole city flourished in an unnatural state At the same time, it also gained a lot of civilian support, and in the eyes of the civilians of this city, pirates have even become a glorious profession, becoming their patron saints, and they are also willing to provide various services to the pirates!

Whether it is the Somali government army or the Al-Qaida-backed Al-Shabaab armed rebels, in the face of such a well-armed and well-equipped strategic location where the "military and civilians" are united, they will either stay away or find a way to cooperate, unless their commander suddenly goes crazy with a water in the head, and no one will try to attack Elle.

Shi Shaoying admitted that he was really shocked.

This is Elle, the true stronghold of Somali pirates!

"Actually, what you see is only part of our community."

Kabeline seemed to like to see Shi Shaoying's surprised look, and at the right time she fanned the wind again to add a little fire, "Eller, Garoway, and Haraldera are all our strongholds, and they are all developing into new cities under the stimulation of our group. More and more people are joining us or serving us, because compared to the bloody wars, droughts, and famines caused by rising food prices in other regions, the areas under our control can be supplied with electricity 24 hours a day, hot water for bathing at any time, children can go to school, and they can be healed when they are sick, and it can already be called paradise. ”

"By the way, do you know why local officials don't allow reporters to go in and interview pirates when it's clear that pirates are being held in Bossaso prison?"

Shi Shaoying shook his head, the reason why Sikong Bowen gave up Bossaso and took Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as his first stop, was because Bossaso was not allowed to interview pirates, and some government officials, including the governor, were quite resistant to reporters, so she was forced to change her plan.

"Journalists from Western countries have gone to Bossaso prison to cover the news, but their final report has been seriously lost, deliberately showing a group of crazy and bloody money-seeking madmen in front of the public to satisfy the audience's suspicions about piracy, and get them to vote for their country's navy to go to Somalia to fight piracy. So from that moment on, Bossaso closed the prison's doors to journalists from all over the world. ”

Shi Shaoying nodded subconsciously, in order to achieve political goals, some Western media reporters deliberately ignore the facts for propaganda, this kind of trick has long been commonplace in Shi Shaoying's eyes, and China has been demonized more than once in the pen of those reporters. But soon Shi Shaoying was stunned, because he finally figured out the meaning behind Kai Beilin's words...... Even in Bossaso, far from Elle, some government officials behaved under the influence of pirates. At the very least, they were unhappy with the unfair treatment of the pirates.

Pirates, this particular group is by no means a street rat in Somalia, they already have their own solid base, they have widespread support, and are even slowly developing their own unique culture.

The convoy was moving again, and soon their small convoy was on the road that had not been built long ago. Since the relationship between the two has reached the level of "friendship", Shi Shaoying can sit in the passenger seat next to Kai Belin, staring at the approaching town of Elle through the front windshield of the car, and he can feel a vigorous vitality coming to his face from a long distance.

"Didi......"

A series of car horns that were almost hysterical suddenly came from behind him, Shi Shaoying turned around, and a Humvee H3 six-wheeled military jeep chased after him all the way, and a few stinky boys sent most of their bodies out of the window, shaking the wine bottle in their hands while shouting loudly at everyone in their team. For a while, Shi Shaoying's ears were filled with the roar of ghosts and wolves, as well as the crazy heavy metal music coming out of the car stereo. There was a kid who was probably drunk, and he actually picked up an AK in full view of everyone, peeking out of the automatic skylight, and shooting at the sky in a series of non-stop strafing.

Seeing this, Cabeline smiled, she took a pistol from a bodyguard behind her, leaned out of the window and shot all the bullets in the magazine to the sky, and then threw the pistol back to the bodyguard.

Kai Belin was in a very good mood at this time, and found that Shi Shaoying was looking at her with a strange expression, and she shouted loudly: "Don't forget that we are pirates, we can laugh and call if we want, we have already been labeled as pirates who are rampant and lawless!" ”

At the end, Cabeline laughed out loud and slammed the brakes straight to the bottom. There was a sharp grinding sound between the tires of the car and the ground, and before the car could stop Kai Belin, he jumped out of the car and ran out, hugging the driver of the Hummer jeep who also braked urgently, and the foreheads of the two of them were intimately pressed together for half a minute, and the two of them were like brothers who would never meet again.

The two of them were arguing for five or six minutes, and Kai Belin talked quickly with the man who looked to be in his thirties and had a face full of long-term sea breezes, and after a long time, she suddenly turned around and smiled at Shi Shaoying and exclaimed: "Introduction, this is my best friend Yamur, he has just accomplished an incredible feat, he has created a miracle, he is our hero!" ”

Although he couldn't understand Chinese, when Kabeline introduced himself to Shi Shaoying with an excited face, Yamur nodded and smiled at Shi Shaoying, and stretched out his hand with a sister-like attitude, as if he wanted to rub Kabelin's hair, but in the end, because the height difference between the two people was too big, he gently patted Kabelin's shoulder twice.

"Do you know what he did? Shi Shaoying, can you imagine what Yamur did? ”

Kabelin's face shone with excitement at this time, and she looked at Shi Shaoying and shouted: "Yamur hijacked a Japanese cargo ship in the northern sea three months ago, but before he could bring the ship to a safe place, he was hijacked by the cruiser of the US Navy, and finally seven warships surrounded them, and this encirclement is a whole three months!" ”

(To be continued)