Chapter 354 (1/2)

The ship was insignificant and there was nothing valuable on board. The reason why petru was interested was entirely because it was opened from Egypt.

Petru made special rules for all ships sailing out of Egypt:

If it has nothing to do with the government, it shall detain one tenth of the goods or money of equivalent value in accordance with normal practice; If it is a Coptic ship, it will be released directly; If he has anything to do with the Egyptian government, he will be impolite. Either the whole ship will leave, or all the goods will be empty, and there will be no drop of fuel left. If the crew of the ship is willing to join the civilians of pirates, he will welcome them. If anyone resists, he will be killed. Neither willing to join nor resist, let them float on the sea in a ship without fuel until someone comes to save them.

Although Egypt is not a big exporter, the targeted actions of the red beard thieves have seriously hindered Egypt's maritime trade. Not only does the risk of domestic ships going to sea become greater, but many trading partners who transport goods to Egypt through the Indian Ocean red sea route have also increased their prices by at least one tenth to offset their possible losses from pirates.

The Egyptian government had to respond by deploying more coast guard forces to patrol the Gulf of Aden. Every time a large cargo ship or cruise ship leaves the Red Sea, the Navy will send a Mubarak class frigate to guard it. Although this greatly increases the cost, it at least ensures the normal maritime trade of Egypt.

However, this ship is just an ordinary cargo ship. It was not accompanied by a warship when it came out from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden. Judging from the waterline of the ship, the cargo it carried was not heavy. It may be light materials such as cotton textiles or ceramics that take up a lot of space. These are important exports of Egypt except crude oil.

It seems that this is just an insignificant ship, perhaps owned by Copts, so even the Egyptian government is lazy to take care of it.

Of course, such a ship would not let the great red beard do it himself, so he just sent a small group of pirates to stare at it.

They are going to deal with the ship according to the rules set by petru, and then hand over to red beard. However, a small group of Pirates composed of seven or eight speedboats never returned, as if swallowed up by the winds and waves in the Gulf of Aden.

Petru was shocked when he got the news.

The Gulf of Aden is their most familiar sea area. These children who grew up in Somalia can go back and forth from Cape Fufeng to Socotra island in a canoe. How can dozens of people disappear at the same time?

Moreover, since petru organized the pirates, every operation has ships and people specially responsible for communication on the periphery. There are radio communication equipment on board. The pirates also have a maritime walkie talkie with encrypted frequency band. Even if they meet the navies of other countries, they report at least sometimes. How can dozens of people on seven or eight ships disappear at the same time?

Petru's first instinct was that it was a trap.

In the years of making waves at sea, the Egyptian government wanted to kill him all the time. They once cooperated with neighboring countries to jointly carry out a bandit suppression operation called ”thorn red” in the Gulf of Aden, in order to get rid of red beard.

The number of countries participating in the ”operation thorn red” has reached 21, with a total of more than 50 large ships and more than 20000 naval officers and soldiers from various countries cruising on the surface of the Indian Ocean Arabian Sea. If we only look at the scene and do not look at the quality, it even exceeds the Pacific Rim exercise led by the United States, which is known as the largest joint maritime anti-terrorism operation in history.

Fortunately, petru got the wind ahead of time and made sufficient preparations, while the major powers that openly supported the action were just pretending.

Petru knows very well that whether there are pirates in the Gulf of Aden or not in the United States, China or Russia, these countries actually don't care at all. What they care about is the maritime control of the Indian Ocean and their interests in Africa.