50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 791 Evacuation Plan
While they were moving supplies, Sun Zhiwei called the guard captain, Wu Yanming, to have breakfast together and asked him about some things.

"Yesterday you told me how many guards each side had, the Helmuksai residential area and the medical team's side?"

“There is a 10-man guard squad in the Hel Muksa community. Four of the ten men can drive tanks, and five of them, including the squad leader, can fly helicopters.”

"The medical team in Abyan province has a five-person team, two of whom can drive tanks and three can fly helicopters. Their team leader can do both."

Wu Yanming seemed to have guessed what Sun Zhiwei wanted to ask, so he gave a very detailed explanation.

Upon hearing Wu Yanming's subsequent introduction, Sun Zhiwei immediately became interested in the medical team's guard squad leader.

It's normal for the other side to be able to drive tanks, because there are currently 11 tank divisions in China, each with 15000 personnel, which makes a total of 165,000 armored troops.

Based on the current total military strength of 325 million, five or six out of every 100 soldiers can drive tanks.

The soldiers who were sent to protect the embassy and medical teams were all elites in the military, and the proportion was even higher.

However, there are more people who can fly helicopters than those who can drive tanks, and there is a blind spot in this knowledge that needs to be noted.

It is now 1986. Our Air Force has 14 corps-level units, 3400 combat aircraft, and a total of over 50 personnel.

Leaving aside the quality issues, in terms of numbers, there are far more pilots than armored soldiers.

Therefore, Sun Zhiwei was not surprised that there were more people in the escort team who could fly helicopters than those who could drive tanks.

What surprised him was that the captain of that half-team of the medical team was proficient in both, which was quite remarkable.

It's important to know that there's a hierarchy of disdain within the military, and it's not uncommon for children from armored corps compounds in Beijing to compete with children from air force compounds.

As far as he knew, he was the first person to learn driving skills from both sides. Most of the soldiers who were able to learn both driving skills afterward came from the Qingdao Special Training Base.

Therefore, Sun Zhiwei guessed that the squad leader of the medical team had undergone special training at the Qingdao base, but he probably did not pass all the special training assessments to enter the special forces and was considered a eliminated personnel.

Even so, the soldiers selected and eliminated by special forces are much stronger than ordinary soldiers.

While eating breakfast, Sun Zhiwei counted the number of people. According to the number Wu Yanming had just reported, there were a total of 12 people who could drive tanks.

A Type 69 tank needs four crew members to maintain full combat capability. He made a rough estimate and came up with a basic plan in mind.

After finishing his meal, Sun Zhiwei went directly to the embassy leader and explained his rescue plan to him.

The first step was to use Black Hawk helicopters to fly directly to the Abyan Province medical center, hundreds of kilometers away, and bring all personnel back by air.

There are 4 attending physicians, 12 nurses, and 5 security personnel at the medical center, a total of 21 people. The Black Hawk's cabin isn't large, but it can be transported in two trips if you squeeze in a bit.

The second step is to gather all the tank crews, airlift them directly to the Helmuksai district, and then use tanks and helicopters to escort the convoy back.

Naturally, there are a few problems in this second step. One is that Sun Zhiwei needs to provide the tanks guarding the Hel Muksa community.

Of course, that's no problem. Sun Zhiwei got five tanks from Sri Lanka. Two are currently guarding the embassy gate, and the other three are available for use.

Another issue is that transporting a large number of people requires many passenger vehicles, which he will need to find later. This rescue operation only requires a small number of personnel from the security detail; the embassy will not need to do anything.

What the embassy needs to do most right now is to prepare a place to accommodate more people.

There are now more than 500 people in the embassy. All the rooms in the embassy that are available for people to live in have already been allocated, and some people need to live in tents in the garden.

If another 200 or so people were to arrive, it would indeed be a huge problem, but that's not Sun Zhiwei's problem. He just needs to submit the issue to the embassy, ​​and they will naturally find a solution.

After Sun Zhiwei finalized the plan, the embassy immediately contacted the medical team.

The medical team is currently located about 60 or 70 kilometers away in Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.

In the northern part of Zinjibar city, an abandoned general hospital was rented by the aid medical team and is now being operated by them in a fairly large-scale manner.

But now that war has broken out, they have no choice but to evacuate. Whether they can return later depends on diplomatic communication.

After the embassy contacted the medical team, it asked them to prepare for evacuation immediately so that they could quickly pick up Sun Zhiwei and fly him directly back to the embassy once he arrived there.

Sun Zhiwei did not set off immediately, but wandered around the embassy for a while before going to the rooftop.

Soon, the Black Hawk helicopter was started up. Once it had enough power, the Black Hawk took off from the rooftop and flew directly eastward along the coastline.

Twenty minutes later, Sun Zhiwei saw the red flag hanging on the roof of the Zinjibar City Medical Team Hospital. After confirming that there was no danger in the surrounding area, he parked the Black Hawk on the lawn in front of the hospital.

As soon as he came to a stop, three soldiers surrounded him, one of whom was Yu Kang, the squad leader of the guards he was very interested in.

"Who is Captain Yu Kang?" Sun Zhiwei asked while saluting.

The shortest of the three soldiers returned the salute and said, "I am Yu Kang."

"Okay, you drive back to the city, I'll assist you in the passenger seat. Are the doctors ready? Why haven't I seen them come out yet?"

Yu Kang hesitated to say "this," and remained silent.

Sun Zhiwei said somewhat angrily, "This evacuation is an order from higher up, you must know that, right? The armed militants outside are almost here, what's going on with you?"

At this moment, a doctor in a white coat and a nurse rushed out of the hospital. Upon seeing Sun Zhiwei in his pilot's uniform, the doctor in the white coat immediately apologized:
"Excuse me, sir, there's a major surgery that can't be stopped. The hospital director and vice director are both on the operating table and can't get off. Could you please wait a moment?"

Sun Zhiwei was annoyed that the first step of his plan had gone wrong.

But they've already made it very clear that the doctor is performing surgery, and he can't just drag the person away and let the patient die on the operating table.

He could only suppress his anxiety and say, "Okay, we can't finish in one trip anyway. You all gather the nurses first, and I'll take a group of nurses with me."

Before he could finish speaking, the female nurse who had come over with the doctor in the white coat spoke up: "I'm the head nurse. I'd like to ask if it's possible to take the patient with us?"

(End of this chapter)