Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Flight to Tripoli

Tripoli, what kind of city is that?It is a city more than 10,000 miles away from China in a straight line. It has been less than three months since Libyan Pan-African Airlines opened the route to Beijing. The flames of war have already burned this once picturesque Mediterranean city. Now, the world's eyes are on Tripoli, which has been torn apart by the war.Gaddafi's regime may be overthrown, which makes the long-awaited Western world ecstatic.The pretentious madman Gaddafi sat on the crater without knowing it, shouted arrogantly, raised his butcher knife, and prepared to inflict bloody violence on all opposition parties who attempted to overthrow his "dynasty".Tripoli was full of news and was watched by the whole world.

Just a few hours before China sent a special operations team to Tripoli, Wang Xuhong and Hua Yuqing, Political Counselors of the Embassy in Libya, went to Tripoli Airport to check the situation.When they went there, they couldn't believe their eyes. An international airport that was fine a few days ago is now in chaos like a roadside market.Most of the airport staff disappeared, and the police and soldiers armed with live ammunition to maintain order also lost control. Tens of thousands of refugees blocked the inside and outside of the airport.Gunshots, shouts, screams, and desperate cries intertwined, resounding through the airport like hell on earth.

The lives and dignity of the refugees were trampled on wantonly. From time to time, the bodies of refugees who were shot or trampled to death were randomly thrown aside like garbage.Here, humanity is wiped out; here, blood and tears flow.Whoever leaves earlier will save his life. Planes from dozens of countries including the European Union made forced landings, and the out-of-control airport runways were filled with irrational refugees, who frantically intercepted planes regardless, trying every means to board the plane and escape. Tripoli airport is in utter chaos, and the tragedies keep happening and will likely intensify.Now, the Chinese Special Operations Team must get there, no matter the cost!

"You must postpone your takeoff! Otherwise, you will not be able to land at Tripoli Airport." The front warned. "It can't be delayed any longer! It must take off immediately!" The country urged more and more urgently. "It's useless to take off, what should I do if I can't land?" the front answered. "If you can't land, you have to take off! It takes more than ten hours from Beijing to Tripoli. Let's talk after flying!" The domestic force ordered. "Take off!" At 17:48 p.m. on the 23rd, a special plane from Beijing Capital Airport roared into the clouds and flew towards the hellish and chaotic city on the south coast of the Mediterranean...

"At that time, there were only seven of us in the huge cabin except for the crew. As soon as I got on the plane, I called the team members together for a meeting. I said that now we are a combat team and must be united as one, and then I announced the division of labor. I asked Comrade Liu Xiang, who had been in Libya, to introduce the local situation." Fei Mingxing said, "It can be seen that all the members of the team that accepted the emergency mission are full of energy, and at the same time they are a little nervous. I ask everyone to rest first and run by themselves. Go to the pilot's cockpit, ask for the microphone in the captain's hand, and talk to the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is the first time in my life that I have used the pilot's phone to talk on the plane. I feel very unusual and feel strongly about this mission. particularity."

"Excuse me, where are we flying to?" Fei Mingxing asked. "It's not sure yet." Guo Shaochun said. "then what should we do?" "Waiting for notification." Fei Mingxing and the captain exchanged glances.There is no way, let’s fly, let’s talk west!This is a rare aviation mission.This is a combat mission. Back in the cabin, Fei Mingxing looked at his team members, no one was asleep. "Why didn't you sleep?" Fei Mingxing was a little annoyed, and wanted to ask this question, because maintaining a good physical and mental state is very important.The words came to his lips, but he didn't say it. Some of his teammates were taking notes and some were thinking. He knew that everyone was not at peace.As the team leader, Fei Mingxing was more nervous and restless than the team members at the moment.

"Fei Mingxing, you are the team leader. I want to tell you two things: one is that after you arrive at the front, if you encounter some emergencies and it is too late to report to the country, you can handle it yourself; You can hire local security forces, how and when to hire, it’s all up to you to decide based on the situation ahead. Understand?” "clear." "Fei Mingxing, I asked you to lead this working group. I have only one requirement for you: you are the first special plane sent by China, and you must rush into Libya immediately. The situation is unclear now, which one is it from Malta, Egypt or Greece?" It is not certain that the country has entered Libya. You must keep in touch with the airline at any time, rush into Libya as soon as possible, and report back the local situation! Do you understand? You must report the situation at all costs! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" How could Mingxing Fei fall asleep!From time to time, before boarding the plane, what Huang Ping and Guo Shaochun said to him "whispered their ears".The words were so heavy that Fei Mingxing couldn't breathe.The pressure in his heart was unknown to outsiders, but his son discovered it while watching TV. Fei Mingxing was interviewed by a CCTV reporter at the Capital Airport before departure. He said: "We know that this trip is a glorious mission and a heavy responsibility. We will do our best to do a good job." While watching TV at home, Fei Mingxing's son said to his mother who was doing housework: "Hi, Dad has a little today."

Madam Fei stopped what she was doing and asked, "What do you mean?" The child said: "I think he seems to have no idea when he speaks." Madam Fei smiled and said nothing, but sighed meaningfully—it was a worry deeply buried in her heart as a diplomat's wife. Fei Mingxing, who was in the air at this time, did not know what was happening at his home.What he was most concerned about was whether their plane could "rush into Libya" and from where. Director Huang Ping repeatedly reminded him with the word "chong" before leaving, which made him feel stressed. What does "rush" mean?Put it to death and come back to life?Regardless of charging forward, or breaking through dangers to gain the upper hand?There was a strong fighting atmosphere in it, and he couldn't help being nervous.Fei Mingxing couldn't help but look out from the porthole of the plane, there was nothing but the boundless darkness...

If only the sky had no borders!If only there were no wars in this world!In this way, our aircraft can fly wherever it wants to fly, and "rush" wherever it wants to land.The world is one family, and we live in a global village. When will the world be unified? Tens of thousands of compatriots in Libya are on the verge of life and death every second, and Fei Mingxing feels anxious and responsible for the first time in 45 years!He is the leader of the operation team, the pathfinder, and the vanguard, and everyone's ardent hopes and expectations are entrusted to him... Fei Mingxing didn't dare to think about it.He ran to the cockpit where the captain was again.

"Just received a call from the ground to let us land at Athens Airport." The captain brought good news to Fei Mingxing. "Great!" When Fei Mingxing told the players the news, the boys immediately became excited.They know that Athens and Libya are only separated by the Mediterranean Sea. As soon as the special plane landed at Athens Airport, Counselor Zheng Xiyuan boarded the plane and met Fei Mingxing. "When can we fly to Tripoli?" Fei Mingxing's full attention was on this point. "I don't know. We can only wait for news from Libya." Zheng Xiyuan gave Fei Mingxing a heavy blow. "Can't you hurry up?" Fei Mingxing asked Zheng Xiyuan, who was much older than him, in a blunt tone. "We have to ask Gaddafi!" Zheng Xiyuan said.Facing extremely severe tasks and tasks in a foreign country thousands of miles away from their motherland, these two fellow Sichuanese lost their old intimacy. Fei Mingxing looked helplessly at Zheng Xiyuan, and could only remain silent.Distraught Fei Mingxing and the others can only do one thing now: wait, wait for news from Libya. "Okay, it's time to fly!" After more than an hour, Zheng Xiyuan and the captain said to Fei Mingxing almost at the same time. "Brother, after returning to China, I'll go to the Sichuan Office to treat you to a treat!" Fei Mingxing said, hugging Zheng Xiyuan warmly. Zheng Xi patted Fei Mingxing's shoulder heavily in principle: "Take care." The special plane carrying the first special operation team for the evacuation of overseas Chinese roared from Athens Airport to Tripoli on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea... When describing the movement of the first special operations team, the time has actually passed more than ten hours.During this period, the situation in Libya continued to change.On the same day, Gaddafi slammed his opponents in a 23-minute telephone interview broadcast on TV, saying they were accomplices of al-Qaeda. "What's the matter with you? You bin Laden's accomplices are brainwashing our children, isn't that clear? So, I will hit you mercilessly until you are completely wiped out!" Gaddafi said The posture of swearing to fight to the end.At the same time, at the gate of the opposition camp in Benghazi, two machine guns kept firing into the sky to show that they were not afraid of Gaddafi's intimidation at all. On February 23, the situation in Libya entered a state of see-saw war in an all-round way, and it was hard to see who the ruling authorities and the opposition were.This is the most critical time—for countless foreigners in Libya, and also for the Chinese government and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which implements the specific action plan for the evacuation of overseas Chinese. "It's already the 24th! The second charter flight must take off!" Huang Ping weighed it over and over again, and after asking for instructions, he issued a clear order to the Civil Aviation Administration at 2 am on the 24th. Twenty-eight minutes later, the second special plane carrying the second and third special operations teams to Benghazi and Sabha took off from Beijing Capital Airport, and the destination was "unknown". The captain's instructions were to fly in the direction of Dubai or Cairo first, and talk later. At this time, the three action teams are all in the sky, waiting for the arrangement of unknown fate.Libya, you are so worrying! China is a socialist country, and the system and advantages of a socialist country have been distorted and ridiculed by many people, and this distorted and satirical tone sometimes buzzes in our country.This is not surprising, because we have grown so fast that those countries that have always considered themselves world hegemons feel uncomfortable.It is also because we are not thoughtful and balanced in some aspects in the process of becoming strong, so some of our own people are also in a bad mood. But there is one thing that even our hostile forces have to let go of their arrogance and completely admit defeat, that is, China's socialist system is unprecedented in the world at critical moments, especially when it comes to doing great things, doing great things, accomplishing great things, and accomplishing great things. Which country can match. Push forward a few years, it was 2008.Beijing held the Olympic Games that year. Think about how many Western forces provoked and disrupted us at that time. Later, when they saw our magnificent opening ceremony and a complete and successful full-time event, all crows in the world closed their mouths. In addition to amazed or amazed. Our country also experienced pain that year, that is, the "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake.Faced with the sudden natural disaster, nearly 100,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes were destroyed. Those hostile forces who hate and envy China's strong development are secretly happy, thinking that China will never recover from the fall.Unexpectedly, we not only quickly healed the pain caused by the disaster, but also changed those broken homes with the appearance of 30 to 50 years ahead! The system and system of a socialist country have been proven, it belongs to the people, and it works for the fundamental interests of the people.The Libyan evacuation once again proved this point.