Petru adheres to one principle – never take hostages to extort money from the government.

This assured him of the trust of the countries with whom he had secretly colluded.

For the sake of this principle, he never even tried to kidnap some Arabs to threaten the Egyptian government in order for them to release Ravieh. He knew very well that not only would he not save Lavier, but he would also make his reputation bad and bring more enemies.

In the process of integrating Somali pirates, the U.S. government secretly provided a lot of help, and many large enterprises and wealthy people who traded between Europe and Asia were willing to pay for peace, so Petru's business seemed to be smooth sailing.

He has helped many countries rescue hostages, hoping to rescue Ravier through some tortuous means. Both the United States and France have pressured Egypt to release Lavier, and no matter how it is calculated, Petrux's crimes have nothing to do with his woman. But the crimes he committed in Egypt were so great that other countries could not blatantly excuse a pirate, so the Egyptian government refused to let Lavier go.

Although he was unable to rescue anyone, many people assured him of it, including some brokers for government officials and influential wealthy businessmen. They assured that Lavier would do well in an Egyptian prison, just like staying in a hotel.

Petrux sent his henchmen to Egypt to see that, apart from loneliness, Lavier's living conditions were really good. There is the credit of those brokers, and the most important thing is that Petru is notorious, and no one wants to offend him. What if this madman comes back for revenge?

But the long-term raids from the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Sea have offended many people, such as India, a major country with aircraft carriers and dreams of dominating the Indian Ocean and controlling the golden shipping lanes at sea.

Petru had tried to make overtures to the Indians, but the Asan did not seem to have reached a tacit agreement with him, and when the U.S. Fifth Fleet turned a blind eye to Redbeard, Asan's warships began to take the initiative to escort merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, especially Arab ones.

Petru tried his best to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Indian Navy, and suffered a lot of losses as a result, not only was his range of activities forced to be reduced, but he even lost some of his maritime brothers who trusted him.

Many other pirate leaders began to blatantly oppose Petru, threatening to replace him, saying that he was a lackey of the government, and that the rules he had formulated were bullshit, and that they were trying to help the government encroach on and eliminate pirates, so that the poor in the Gulf of Aden would never have a place to leave.

In order to prove himself, after some patience, Petru decided to declare to the world that Redbeard was not something to be messed with.

He first purchased two old submarines through international arms dealers, laden with ammunition and lurking around the Karlsberg Ridge. Then he carefully planned to personally lead a group of elites who had once crossed the mercenary world like him and later joined the pirates, and unknowingly infiltrated Saudi Arabia and hijacked an Arab merchant fleet that was about to leave the Red Sea in the port of Jeddah.

The pirates disguised themselves as Arabs and traveled to a port in Asia according to the fleet's predetermined itinerary. The fleet deliberately approached the Indian Navy's sphere of influence as it exited the Gulf of Aden, and then encountered a small group of pirate attacks, and after sending a distress signal, an Indian destroyer came to the rescue and easily sank the incoming pirate speedboat.

But the merchant ship had already broken down due to pirate attacks, and after sailing some distance under the escort of warships, it began to sink into the water. Of course, these were also designed by Petru in order to transfer his own men to Indian warships.

The owner of the ocean-going vessel is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and both the cargo and the people on board are very important, which the Indian Navy confirmed through their Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, the warship received the entire crew before the merchant ship sank, and was ready to send them back to the Gulf of Aden and Saudi Arabia for handover.

Among the elite group of pirates led by Petrux were many veterans of the navy, who were no strangers to warships. With the three officers defenseless, it is not impossible to control the destroyer by force. But just in case, they took a more secure approach, salvaged a batch of delicious food adulterated with poison from the sinking merchant ship, and delivered it to the ship's galley.

After a harmonious and pleasant dinner between the military and the people, they easily controlled the warship, which was carrying 230 Indian officers and men.

Hijacking a warship, something that has never happened before in the history of modern piracy, Petru the Redbeard became the first man.

Of course, this is not the end of the matter. The Indian Navy was shocked to learn that their warship had been hijacked by pirates, and on the one hand, it concealed the information from the outside world, and on the other hand, sent a fleet to search and rescue it.

The Indian Ocean is huge, and if you want to hide a destroyer, of course, it is not difficult. But in that case, Petrux would have to hide it as a private collection in some unknown harbor, and no word could leak out, and the Asan would never budge in such a matter, no matter how bad they were.

Petru knew that he could not have a naval army that could compete with the great powers, so he did not intend to take the destroyer for himself.

Using his ships as bait, he played a game of cat and mouse on the vast sea between the Karlsberg Ridge and the Maldives with the Indian Navy fleet that came to the rescue.

Of course, it is impossible for them to really escape from the encirclement of the Indian Navy. So, after a week of maneuvering, they were besieged on the side of the Karlsberg Ridge.

When the Indian cats thought they had caught the mouse, two submarines lurking there attacked them, and the hijacked warships that had been fleeing began to fight back.

The end result was that the Indians were able to rescue their ship's officers and men, but they had to blow up and sink their own hostage, and three other warships were heavily damaged.

Although the losses of the pirates were not small, including the sinking of a submarine after being hit by a torpedo, and dozens of others died in the crossfire, this loss was really nothing in the eyes of outsiders compared to the strength of the opposing sides.

The Indian Navy, which is known as one of the world's maritime powers and invincible in the Indian Ocean, could not defeat a single pirate. Therefore, the three did not admit the existence of this matter, and did not even dare to publicly retaliate against Petru, because then it would be confirmed that they had been defeated by Petru.

Moreover, they themselves did not believe that a pirate had the courage or ability to fight their navy like this, and suspected that other countries were secretly doing it in the name of pirates, in order to test their strength and discourage their expansion in the Indian Ocean. China, Russia, the United States and Australia have all become objects of suspicion, and they even suspected that Saudi Arabia and pirates were colluding at one point.

India's hesitation and retreat gave Petru a chance to breathe for development.

This battle greatly boosted the confidence of the pirates, and pirates around the world idolized Petro the Redbeard as the king of the pirates of their time. More elites began to join his organization, and at one point his influence extended to the Mediterranean and Malacca, and even in the Atlantic, there were people who took his name to commit crimes.

Redbeard's fame is on the rise, and Petru's legendary pirate career continues, with some even suggesting that he simply land from Cape Thanh Fung, establish an armed government, and occupy all of Somalia. If he succeeds, he will be the head of a government, and Lavier will be the first lady of course, and there will be no reason for the Egyptian government to keep her in custody.

Some political brokers from Europe and the United States have also hinted that they can support his plan, and Petru is also a little tempted. If he is given a few more years and is well prepared, maybe he can really build his own empire from a pirate like Barbarossa the Redbeard back then.

Petru was ambitious until he grabbed a ship that he shouldn't have robbed.