The two watched as the pirate boat fled like crazy for a while, then circled and headed towards the freighter.
When it got closer, it turned around again, made a circle and made another circle on the sea.
"No, they were worried about us shooting at him."
Li Zheng finally saw the clue.
Over there, the communication channel between Zhang Jian and the others and the command center came.
I don’t know why, but all the pirates who had originally encountered and briefly exchanged fire on the ship ran away.
Not a single one is left.
Of course, the commando team did not pursue the pirates. Instead, they chose to go down to the safe house on the bottom of the cabin to find the crew members hiding inside.
The Tiange had applied for escort before, so the structural diagram of their hull had been sent to the Naval Escort Center.
Zhang Jian and the others quickly found the safe house and began knocking on the door to let the crew members inside out.
Li Zheng and Hou Jun on the helicopter saw a surprising scene.
More and more pirates appeared on the deck.
After a while, there were already a dozen pirates occupying the left side of the ship, screaming and screaming into the sea.
The undamaged pirate boat increased its power and rushed up, grabbed the rope ladder that ran down from above, and tied the boat up.
The pirates got down from the side of the ship one by one and jumped into the boat.
"Command center, the pirates are in the ship, are they sniping?"
Li Zheng immediately reported the situation here to the command center.
He got a quick answer.
"Let them go without sniping."
"clear."
After Li Zheng finished replying, he turned off the safety and stood aside for the time being.
Hou Jun sighed: "I just don't understand. If we want to catch them, it's easy, but why do we let them go every time? If we do this, won't they become more rampant in the future?"
Li Zheng smiled and said: "Old squad leader, I don't understand the twists and turns here."
In fact, since 2008, the navies of many countries have sent cruisers, destroyers, frigates, supply ships and other surface ships to form escort formations to conduct escort and anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden. It has been more than ten years now.
But over the years, people who eat melons rarely hear news about how many pirates have been captured. What is the reason?
In fact, it is not difficult to understand.
To be honest, the SML pirates are all local people and live in poverty, so they started the piracy business. They put AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 rocket launchers in fishing boats and speedboats. Based on this, it is impossible to judge whether they are pirates or not. There is a high probability that they are pirates. They are the black uncles who fish.
What's more, SML is not a normal country in the strict sense. Although it has a government and an army, government orders cannot leave the capital Mogadishu, and other areas outside the capital are basically in a state of anarchy.
If the escort formation catches pirates, the general procedure is to hand them over to the local government for processing.
This is actually asking for trouble, and it is also very inconvenient. First, use a warship to carry these gangsters to a dock to dock, or drive directly to the vicinity of SML waters, and then use ship-based helicopters to send the pirates ashore. As a result, we still have to negotiate with the local government.
But the problem is that the escort ship is a warship, and the docking procedures are very cumbersome. The ship-based helicopter is also a military aircraft. To land in other people's airspace and hand over personnel, you need to go through a lot of procedures and communicate.
The efficiency of local government like SML...
Believe it or not, the pirates ate a lot of fat on the ship and the procedures were not completed yet?
If you can't send it back for the time being, you have to keep it yourself.
Where to raise is another question.
We are different from Yingjiang. There is a Guantánamo Bay overseas. We don’t have that kind of evil thing. It is estimated that he is raised on the ship and lives and eats with us.
Rabbits are very kind and righteous, and they must be treated humanely even if they fall into the hands of criminals. These guys are probably more comfortable on the ship than back in their own villages. If they don't leave, you still have to do ideological work to mobilize them to leave. ?
Therefore, when pirates are encountered, almost no one does such things as catching pirates and sending them ashore by ship or helicopter. In fact, they do not exist.
The number of Somali pirates captured by the navies of various countries is very limited. It is not that they have been caught before. However, as mentioned before, if you are caught, you will be in trouble with yourself. If you are injured, you need medical treatment, and if you are not sent back, you need to be recuperated. This is not catching pirates. This is It’s to invite the distinguished master to come back.
Since naval escort ships are deployed for a long period of time and perform tasks for at least 3-6 months, it is impossible to keep the pirates indefinitely, and it is impossible to capture the pirates back to their own country for trial and sentence.
Therefore, the escort navies of various countries are now sophisticated and thieves. They are unwilling to catch pirates anymore, and even if they are caught, they will be released immediately.
Nowadays, the practice of naval escort formations in various countries is to use non-lethal means to drive away suspected pirate ships. This is the most common approach. No one is willing to arrest people. If they are caught, they have to take care of their food, because the navy’s food Very good, some black uncles are unwilling to leave the warship even if they live or die.
There was a navy of a certain mysterious country. When they found a ship suspected of being pirates, they fired a shot at it. The pirates did not hit it. Instead, they discovered that it was a fishing boat. It was regarded as a joke by the escort formations of other countries. It also attracted people who were indifferent to civilians and abused. There are accusations of killing innocent people, lack of training, and low quality, so the current escort ships have learned well and will never fire easily.
Even the navy of the Thieving Eagle family, who loves to set the whole world on fire, catches and releases them. He once found that a black brother who entered the palace for the second time or even the third time was addicted to pirates. It was him who came and went. We are all old acquaintances.
So when everyone saw the familiar Brother Hei, they both looked at each other and smiled. Don't mess with me, and I won't shoot a shock bomb above your head.
To really eliminate pirates, we need the stability, economic development, and improvement of people's living standards in African countries. As Zhou Xingxing said, if everyone has food to eat, who would want to be a beggar?
As a result, the action team led by Zhang Jian on the ship also let the pirates go.
Several people on the plane also watched the pirates climb back into the speedboat one by one along the ladder on the side of the ship, hook up the small boat whose motor was damaged by Li Zheng, and run away quickly.
But they were not really idle. Li Zheng and the others soon had something to do.
The boarding party found the safe house and rescued the crew inside.
There was a wounded man inside, whose arm was wounded by a stray bullet produced by pirates. The medical conditions on the ship were limited, so he had to be sent by helicopter to the No. 3 ship, where there was a more professional medical room. After he was cured, he was sent back.
The helicopter landed on the Tiange, picked up the injured crew members, and first sent Li Zheng and Hou Jun back to the No. 2 ship, replenished fuel, and then flew to the sea area where the No. 3 comprehensive supply ship was located overnight.
This anti-piracy operation was very successful.
After returning, the formation commander publicly praised the No. 2 ship's performance last night on the radio, focusing on Zhang Jian.
Zhang Jian, who was named, was naturally elated.
After being a general, the praise he received this time was earned by his own strength, which is of course more fragrant than anything else.
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)
