Chapter 212 You Choose

Cui Bo fired the third shot, and the tracer bullets landed next to the speedboat, but the speedboat still showed no sign of slowing down. At this time, Grolev immediately fired a bunch of bullets before Gao Yang could speak.

Because it is mainly for warning purposes, Grolev's machine gun belt contains a combination of three ordinary bullets and one tracer bullet. Such bullets will form an eye-catching barrage when it lands on the bow of the speedboat. , after causing a series of splashes, the speedboat finally began to slow down, getting slower and slower, but after the speedboat in the middle slowed down, the other two speedboats showed no intention of slowing down.

The other two speedboats were already very close to the tanker, which was about three to four hundred meters away. At this time, Cui Bo said loudly: "Are we going to hit the ship?"

After Gao Yang hesitated for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "No ship owner is willing to have a grudge with pirates. They will continue to run this route frequently in the future. We can't cause trouble to them, so we'd better stop attacking the ship first, toad,... Lai, you two go and guard the gangway first. If the pirates want to board the ship, shoot them down. As long as they don't board the ship, don't rush to shoot."

After arriving in the Gulf of Aden, every captain Gao Yang came into contact with once mentioned to Gao Yang that if it is not necessary, try not to have grudges with pirates. They all often run this route. If they really cause casualties to pirates, , and formed a deadly feud with the pirates, which is not good news for them.

There are now dozens of warships escorting the Gulf of Aden. However, although there are many warships, they still seem too few when spread out on the sea. It is simply unrealistic to rely solely on warships to escort the Gulf of Aden. Even if there are currently 10 warships escorting the Gulf of Aden There are many, but hijacked merchant ships are still common.

If those merchant ships wanted to be escorted by warships, they had to apply first and wait to form a large fleet before they could sail with the warships. However, although this is safer, it wastes a lot of time, and it is not always possible to wait for the escort of warships. After all, the warships of any country must first ensure the safety of its own country's merchant ships. For example, Panamanian merchant ships can only rely on luck to be escorted by warships. So they prefer to pay for armed guards.

But even if there are armed guards, if you form a deadly feud with a pirate, and you will be remembered by the pirates from then on, and they will harass you when you have nothing to do, this is something that no merchant ship captain can accept.

The main reason why merchant ships are still wary of having armed guards, for fear that they will be noticed by pirates, is because of the armed guards.

Private armed escort business. More than half of the market share is occupied by British security companies, and this is the result of the joining of some security companies in the United States and the Middle East in the past two years. Before this, British security companies accounted for 100% of the private armed escort business. More than eighty.

Few people and many boats. This created a seller's market for private armed escorts, and those British guys gathered some ship owners together to

Let the ship owners bid, and whoever pays the highest price will be escorted, but even if they receive money. This group of British people have no professional ethics. If the pirates really want to storm the ship at any cost, and they really gain the upper hand, these British security guards will definitely choose to surrender.

In fact, it cannot be said that those British people have no professional ethics, because they reached an agreement with the ship owner. They will all mention that the first thing they want to ensure is the safety of the security guards, not the safety of the merchant ships. Therefore, when the British security guards feel that their lives are threatened and they are unable to continue fighting, they can choose to surrender, and this is clear It was written in the contract, so even if the British chose to surrender, they could not be said to have violated the contract.

Pirates are watching under the ship, and the paid armed security guards on the ship may surrender at any time. Who dares to trust such armed guards?

Although in most cases, pirates will take the initiative to leave if they find that there are armed guards on the ship, there is still no merchant ship that dares to form a deadly feud with the pirates. The reason is very simple. What if those pirates really do it the next time they cross the Gulf of Aden? They risked their lives, but those armed security guards refused to stay with the pirates to the end. Aren't they still the unlucky ones?

Now the commission for a five-man combat team escorting a ship is US$5,000 a day, but the commission for six of them is US$15,000 a day, and this is even after splitting it half and half with the security company that cooperates with Gao Yang and the others. of money received.

The reason why the pay for the same task is several times different is very simple. It is because Gao Yang and the others are taking on the kind of work that absolutely guarantees the safety of merchant ships. British security companies can abandon the escort task at any time when they deem it necessary. As long as Gao Yang and the others are not dead, they cannot let pirates board the ship. This is why they make so much money.

The problem now is that Gao Yang and the others have to protect the ship to the death, and the captain also knows this. But the problem is that the ship may not be protected by Gao Yang and the others next time. Guard teams like Gao Yang and the others protect the merchant ships to the death. There are still too few. The main thing is that the British security team is paid to prepare to surrender and the pirates are hello, me and everyone. As long as the captain of the merchant ship cannot ensure that he can get armed guards like Gao Yang and others who will fight to the end every time, There is no way he would have a deadly feud with the pirates.

Gao Yang must consider his clients and cannot attack the pirates casually. But if the pirates really start boarding the ship, there will be nothing to be polite about. They can just beat them to death.

After waiting for Li Jinfang and Frye to hold the position of the main gangway, the two speedboats that did not stop turned left and right, and began to head towards the bow and stern of the oil tanker. The speed of the huge oil tanker was very slow. The pirate's speedboat can completely ignore the speed of the oil tanker.

At this time, Gao Yang and the others could clearly see the people on the speedboat, they were waving their AK rifles, and some of them were holding machetes in their hands, shouting and shouting at Gao Yang and them.

If the speedboat went around to the other side of the oil tanker, Gao Yang and the others would have to send someone to take care of the other side, and seeing these pirates ignore the warnings and shoot, it’s fine, and they have been demonstrating towards them, Gao Yang couldn’t help getting angry, and said loudly: " Don’t let them go around and put holes in their boat.”

Cui Bo immediately fired a shot at the speedboat rushing to the stern, the tracer bullet hit the side of the speedboat in the middle, and after a hole was made in the side of the boat, the bullet with almost no attenuation penetrated the bottom of the boat again, just wait a moment For a moment, the pirates who discovered that the ship was beginning to take on water immediately began to panic.

The reason why we hit the speedboat at the stern first is because the tanker has a gangway on the other side of the stern. Although it is only a spare, it is only three meters away from the water surface. Even if the oil tanker is not afraid of pirates boarding the ship, Gao Yang still wants to save some trouble and the most direct way is to scare those pirates away.

After a hole was punched in the bottom of the ship, the speedboat that circled to the stern immediately turned and headed away from the tanker. At this moment, Grolev's machine gun also fired, and the speedboat circled towards the bow of the tanker. The bow of the ship was hit and sawdust flew straight away. Although it did not hit the part below the waterline, Grolev's shooting finally scared the pirates.

Cui Bo and Grolev's shooting finally caused the speedboats on both sides to turn around and no longer tried to go around the other side of the tanker, but the pirates did not leave just yet, and the speedboat in the middle began to approach the tanker again. Yes, but the speed is very slow, and there is someone on the speedboat who has been waving a stick.

Gao Yang asked strangely: "What are these pirates planning to do? Are they trying to negotiate with us?"

Gao Yang also picked up the binoculars and looked at the speedboat in the middle, and he was surprised to find that the person standing at the bow seemed to be shouting, waving a white flag in one hand, and a stick in the other, but the stick There was a skull at the top. Seeing the skull waving by the man, Gao Yang didn't feel scared, but he just felt a little funny.

"What are these idiots doing? It's getting more and more interesting. It seems that our opponent belongs to the non-mainstream among pirates. Haha, are they planning to use witchcraft to hijack the ship? Or are they planning to surrender?"

While speaking, Gao Yang fired a shot, and the bullet hit the side of the boat, but the speedboat had no intention of stopping and still moved closer to them firmly.

Gao Yang thought for a while, and let the speedboat approach the oil tanker, just in case the seven or eight pirates on the speed boat would shoot suddenly. When the speed boat was only 20 to 30 meters away from the oil tanker, the speed boat turned around, They marched together in parallel, and then the black man holding the skull stick put down the white flag, picked up a loudspeaker and roared.

"We belong to the Skeleton Gang. We can let your boat go, but you have to pay 100,000 dollars, otherwise, we will start attacking! I'll give you five minutes, you'd better think it through."

Although the English spoken by the speaker was weird, he could understand it. Gao Yang was about to tell the pirate to let them go, when he heard Bruce say in a deep voice, "The captain is here."

Gao Yang turned his head and took a look, only to see the captain and a crew member running towards them in a hurry, no wonder the anxious voice of the liaison officer on the walkie-talkie could not be heard during this period of time, it turned out that the captain ran over in person.

In fact, after confirming that the pirates were encountered, the captain started to run on the deck of Gao Yang and the others, but the oil tanker was too big. When the pirates got to the side of the ship, the captain just rushed to Gao Yang and the others, and happened to hear the pirates clearly. shouting.

"Rongyang, are you planning to do this? Can you guarantee that pirates will not be allowed to board the ship?"

The captain of the oil tanker is an Iranian, in his fifties, with a big belly and a calm expression on his face, but his trembling voice betrayed his emotions. Gao Yang looked at the nervous captain and smiled. , said loudly: "What we do actually depends on you, sink their ships and kill them all, or scare them away, you choose."