Dream Guide - #350 - Chapter 350 The Legend of Red Beard

Petrou insisted on one principle – never kidnap hostages to extort money from the government.

This ensures the trust of those countries that are in cahoots with him.

In keeping with this principle, he never even tried to kidnap some Arabs to threaten the Egyptian government into letting Raviyeh go. He knew very well that not only would this not save Raviye, it 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 companies and wealthy people trading between Europe and Asia were also willing to pay to buy peace, so Petru’s career seemed to be smooth sailing.

He has helped many countries rescue hostages, hoping to rescue Raviye through some tortuous means. The United States and France have both pressured Egypt to release Lavier. No matter how you calculate it, Petrou’s crime has nothing to do with his woman. But the crimes he committed in Egypt were too great, and other countries could not blatantly excuse a pirate, so the Egyptian government has never let Raviye go.

Although no one could be rescued, many people assured Pettru, including some government officials’ brokers and influential wealthy businessmen. They assured that Raviye would live well in an Egyptian prison, just like living in a hotel.

Petrou sent his confidants to visit Egypt. Apart from the loneliness, Raviye’s living conditions were indeed good. This is partly due to the work of the brokers, but the most important thing is that Petru has a notorious reputation and no one wants to offend him. What if this madman comes back for revenge?

However, Petru’s long-term plundering from the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Sea still offended many people, such as India, a big country that owns aircraft carriers and has always dreamed of dominating the Indian Ocean and controlling the golden sea lanes.

Petru tried to show his favor to the Indians, but Asan did not seem to have any intention of reaching a tacit understanding with him. When the U.S. Fifth Fleet turned a blind eye to Red Beard, Asan’s warships began to Actively escort merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, especially Arab merchant ships.

Petrou tried his best to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Indian Navy, and suffered a lot of losses for this. Not only was his scope of activities forced to be compressed, but he even lost some maritime brothers who trusted him.

Many other pirate leaders began to blatantly oppose Petrou and threatened to replace him, saying that he was a lackey raised by the government and that the rules he formulated were bullshit. They were to help the government encroach on and eliminate pirates, so that the poor in the Gulf of Aden would never have anything to lose. A place to turn around.

In order to prove himself, after enduring for a period of time, Petru decided to announce to the world that Red Beard was not someone to be trifled with.

He first purchased two old submarines through international arms dealers, fully loaded with ammunition and lurking in the Carlsberg Ridge area. Then he carefully planned and personally led a group of elites who, like him, had once traversed the mercenary world and later joined the pirates, sneaked into Saudi Arabia without anyone noticing, and hijacked an Arab merchant fleet at Jeddah Port that was about to leave the Red Sea.

The pirates disguised themselves as Arabs and followed the fleet’s scheduled itinerary to a certain port in Asia. The fleet deliberately approached the Indian Navy’s sphere of influence when leaving the Gulf of Aden, and then was attacked by a small group of pirates. After sending a distress signal, an Indian destroyer came to the rescue and easily sank the incoming pirate speedboat.

However, the merchant ship had broken down due to being attacked by pirates. After sailing for a certain distance under the escort of warships, it began to take on water and sink. Of course, these were also designed by Petru, whose purpose was to transfer his people to Indian warships.

The owner of this ocean-going vessel is the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the cargo and people on board are very important, as confirmed by the Indian Navy through their Ministry of External Affairs. Therefore, the warship received all the crew before the merchant ship sank and prepared to send them back to the Gulf of Aden and Saudi Arabia for handover.

Among the pirate elites led by Petru, there are many navy veterans and they are no strangers to warships. With Asan’s officers unprepared, it was not impossible to control the destroyer through force. But just in case, they took a more prudent approach and rescued a batch of delicious food mixed with poison from the sinking merchant ship and sent it to the ship’s kitchen.

After a harmonious and pleasant dinner for the military and civilians, they easily took control of the warship carrying 230 Indian officers and soldiers.

Hijacking a warship was something that had never happened in the history of modern piracy, and Redbeard Petrou became the first.

Of course this matter won’t end like this. The Indian Navy was shocked when they learned that their warship had been hijacked by pirates. On the one hand, it concealed the news from the outside world, and on the other hand, it sent a fleet to search and rescue.

In the vast Indian Ocean, it is certainly not difficult to hide a destroyer. But in that case, Petru can only hide it as a private collection in some unknown harbor, and no information can be leaked out. No matter how bad the Asans are, they will never do anything like this. Will give in.

Petrou knew very well that he could not have a maritime army that could compete with the big powers, so he had no intention of taking the destroyer as his own.

He used the ship as a bait and led the Indian Navy fleet that came to the rescue to play a cat and mouse game on the vast sea between the Carlsberg Ridge and the Maldives.

Of course, they could not really escape from the Indian Navy’s encirclement and suppression. Therefore, after a week of struggle, they were besieged on the side of the Carlsberg Ridge.

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

The final result was that the Indian army successfully rescued their ship officers and soldiers, but they had to blow up and sink their hijacked ship, and three other warships were severely damaged.

Although the losses suffered by the pirates were not small, including a submarine that was hit by a torpedo and sank, and dozens of people died in the exchange of fire, compared to the strength of both sides, this loss is really insignificant in the eyes of outsiders. What kind of.

The Indian Navy, known as one of the world’s maritime powers and invincible in the Indian Ocean, could not defeat a pirate. When word of this spread, it was not as simple as losing face. Therefore, Asan refused to admit the existence of this matter even to death, and did not even dare to openly retaliate against Petru, because that would confirm that they had been defeated by Petru.

Moreover, they themselves do not believe that a pirate has the courage and ability to defeat their navy like this. They suspect that other countries secretly did this in the name of pirates in order to test their strength and attack their power in the Indian Ocean. expansion. China, Russia, the United States, and Australia have all become targets of suspicion. They even suspected that Saudi Arabia was colluding with pirates.

India’s hesitation and retreat gave Pettru a chance to breathe and develop.

This battle greatly inspired the confidence of the pirates. Pirates all over the world regarded Redbeard Pettru as their idol and considered him the contemporary king of pirates. More elites began to join his organization, and his power once extended to the Mediterranean and Malacca, and even people in the Atlantic Ocean committed crimes in his name.

Redbeard’s reputation was at its peak, and Petrou’s legendary pirate career continued. Some people even suggested that he simply land from Cape Feng, establish an armed government, and occupy the entire Somalia. If he succeeds, he will be the head of a country’s government, and Raviye will naturally become the first lady, and the Egyptian government will no longer have any reason to lock her up.

Some political brokers from Europe and the United States also hinted that they could support his plan, and Petru was a little tempted. If you give him a few more years and make adequate preparations, maybe he can really start off as a pirate and build his own empire like Barbarossa with the red beard.

Petru was ambitious until he grabbed a ship he shouldn’t have.