After a thousand years of trading, start a million barrels of oil

Chapter 201 Attacked
Bopa lives in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, works for a local shipping company, and is the captain of the Tashan tanker.

His job is to start from the port of Sihanoukville, bypass the Strait of Malacca, enter the Indian Ocean, and then sail to the place where there is oil on the ground.

After filling up with oil, they will return along the same route, and with a full load of harvest, they will sail for several months at sea and return to their hometown again.

After completing each voyage, they will get generous rewards. After landing, the crew will indulge completely, go to bars to drink, go to nightclubs to relax, and completely release the loneliness and loneliness of these months of voyage.

But Bopa would not, he would usually have a drink with his brothers, thank them for their hard work and dedication, then quietly pay for the drinks, say hello and leave alone.

Because he can't wait to see his virtuous wife and lovely daughter, every time he sees his daughter Lia, she will happily run over and jump on him, put his arms around his neck and ask what he brought her again this time Anything?
Sometimes I would bring her some Middle Eastern-style jewelry, but she didn't seem to like it, and always pouted and said, 'This must be very expensive, I don't want it. '

On the contrary, she is particularly interested in cheap foods such as dates and olives, and sometimes takes them to school to share with classmates.

However, these things are too easy to put away, and few can keep fresh after several months of sea voyage.

So, later he would bring sheep rugs to Lia. The rugs made of Ankara wool from Turkey or purple lamb wool from Afghanistan were so beautiful that Lia spread them all over the room.

But this time, as the captain, Bopa came back from this route again after being fully loaded with crude oil from the destination. In addition to bringing a few beautiful woolen fabrics, he also missed his daughter and wife.

Boppa took out the pocket watch from his pocket, held it in his hand, and used his thumbnail to lift the cover. The cover partially hides the photos of his wife and daughter: "We will see them soon."

He has been at sea for many years and has seen all kinds of strong winds and waves. Typhoons and severe weather do not make him afraid. As an old sailor, he has rich experience in dealing with these problems.

There is only one exception, and that is pirates.

Most of their ships do not pass through the Gulf of Aden, so generally there is no need to worry about Somalia.

But whether it is the report of the International Maritime Bureau or their actual experience, after several years of silence in Somalia, there has been a sharp increase in piracy incidents in other parts of the world, including Southeast Asia.

No one dares to touch the territorial waters in the southern part of the Eastern Giant Dragon, but it's hard to say about other places.

It is possible to hire an international escort company or armed security guards to escort them, but the price is expensive, which will greatly dilute their return from one shipment. If the boss is not willing, they will hesitate and want to gamble their luck.

In this regard, Bopa is very envious of the merchant ships of Dongfang Julong's family. They can apply for warship escort after passing through some dangerous areas, and the most important thing is that they don't need to pay any fees.

As long as you submit an escort application to the Shipowners Association, and the Shipowners Association submits an escort application to the Ministry of Communications and determines the time and sea area, the escort formation will wait for you there.

A powerful country really embodies superiority everywhere, which is enviable.

But fortunately this time, according to past experience, they should have left the dangerous sea area, and the next step is getting closer to the home port. Bopati's heart finally relaxed a little bit after traveling all the way.

But at this moment, the first mate suddenly rushed into the cab and shouted to Boppa: "No, captain, pirates, there are pirates."

Bopa blinked his eyelids, and immediately became tense all over. He got up and followed the first officer, rushed out of the cab, and ran towards the strings.

He leaned on the railing and looked down, and sure enough, he saw a large number of speedboats rushing towards his boat.

Bopa immediately sounded the alarm and said to the first officer, "Quickly, speed up and sail out of this sea area."

This place is on the edge of the dangerous zone. As long as we drive a little further, the pirates will not dare to chase after it.

But how could the speed of the heavy oil tanker compare to the speedboat, and soon the speedboat was getting closer and closer, and was already advancing close to the bottom edge of their oil tanker.

Bopa quickly ordered again: "Quick, high-pressure water gun, use high-pressure water gun."

Under the leadership of Bopa, the crowd used the high-pressure water gun on the ship to spray water on the pirates, but it suppressed some people and forced them to drive the speedboat away.

But there were too many pirates, and they even brought weapons. The pirates were annoyed and started strafing with AK47s. Another pirate fired a shot with an RPG rocket, breaking the mast of the ship.

And soon some pirates hooked the ropes to the side of the ship and began to climb up.

Bopa continued to command the crowd, and after persisting for a while, he felt that this was not possible. These pirates were vicious and vicious, and it seemed that they could not be stopped from boarding the ship.

Compared with the hundreds of millions of crude oil, the lives of the crew are more important.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Bopa decisively ordered all the crew members to give up preventing the other party from boarding the ship, and all returned to the cabin.

He divided more than [-] crew members into two teams, one team rushed into the safety cabin, and the other team of experienced veteran crew members first separately shut down all the power systems on the ship, and then all evacuated into the safety cabin, waiting for rescue.

Meanwhile, Boppa radioed a distress message and had to wait.

Without the resistance of the crew, the pirates quickly boarded the tanker Tashan, quickly occupied several important positions on the ship, and began to search the cabin to see if there was anything valuable, but nothing too serious Great discovery.

But soon, they also found the safe cabin where the crew was hiding, and there was a burst of violent shooting at the hatch of the safe cabin.

Fortunately, the cabin door was strong enough, and the pirates were still desperate, wandering around the safe cabin, trying to find a breakthrough.

Soon, the pirates found the air vent of the safety cabin. They found a cutting machine and cut a hole in the steel plate of the air vent. One pirate put a gun into the air vent to shoot.

But Bopa had already seen through the pirates' minds, and asked the crew to find a bunker to hide in advance, but because of an accident, Bopa's abdomen was accidentally hit by a bullet, and blood flowed.

"Captain, how are you doing?" Seeing the situation, the crew members were all anxiously concerned.

"I'm fine, keep an eye on it." Boppa commanded while taking a clean cloth beside him to wrap up the wound.

A pirate saw that there was no sound in the cabin, so he went to the vent to check. Boppa knew that he couldn't be soft on these guys, and he didn't care about the pain, so he picked up a sharp wooden stick and stuck it in his eyes for a while. With a piercing scream, the pirate's left eye went blind.

The pirates had nothing to do with the crew for a while, so they simply gave up their attack temporarily, took a rest on the deck, and prepared to attack again later.

The crew knew that the pirates would not give up easily, and had already blocked all the hard things in the vents.

And the next thing they can do is to wait, hoping that the distress message sent before will be responded to.

(End of this chapter)