Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Battle of Sabha

Li Yue wanted to warn Guo Hu, but their car had already left the pier.In the rest of the time, one after another the evacuation teams boarded the ship... Fortunately, after more than two hours, Guo Hu and the others successfully brought 27 Jilin compatriots to the pier. When Li Yue saw the car approaching from a distance, he stepped forward to greet him with some excitement, wanting to see if his comrade-in-arms was safe.As soon as the car stopped, before Li Yue could get close to Guo Hu, 27 desperate compatriots cried and hugged him for a long time. Guo Hu stood aside, watching this scene with a smile.

The last batch of thousands of personnel from the base camp of China Communications Corporation began to board the ship one after another. The leader said that this can make all the people act in the same way and not get separated.Li Yue and others looked at such a neat army of state-owned enterprises, and their hearts were full of respect. At 17:08, the last evacuated compatriot boarded the ship. When Li Yue, Guo Hu and Xiao Ma were about to board the ship after completing the task, the deputy director Guo Shaochun suddenly called Li Yue: "I order you and Guo Hu to return to Tripoli immediately, and pay attention to organize the remaining evacuees along the way, and then Evacuate to the Ras Jedir port on the western front, Team Leader Fei Mingxing is waiting for you there."

"Li Yue, Guo Hu, see you at the Ras Jedir port. Let's leave Libya together." Fei Mingxing also sent a text message at the same time. "Xiao Ma, let's part here!" Li Yue and Guo Hu sent Ma Ke, the translator of Zhongtu Company, who had lived and died together for several days and fought side by side, onto the boat. The three young men hugged each other tightly, and then waved goodbye... … Li Yue and Guo Hu returned to our embassy in Tripoli at 12 o'clock that night.There, they met comrades-in-arms Liu Xiang and Tong Yingan who had been separated for a few days. "If you don't come back, we probably won't meet each other yet!" Liu Xiang told Li Yue, these days, he and Tong Ying'an are like robots at full throttle!The young man stared at his blood-red eyes, saying that he and Tong Ying'an were upstairs and downstairs, and they hadn't met once in two days.

"In addition to going to the bathroom, we just stay by the phone, 24 hours a day, and it's too late to answer the phone with all four limbs..." Tong Yingan said with a bearded face, and said that he only squinted for two hours in four days. The embassy is the front-line headquarters for the evacuation of the entire Libya, and the intensity of the work can be imagined.According to domestic instructions, Li Yue, Guo Hu and Tong Ying'an will move closer to Fei Mingxing on the western front and leave the country through the Li-Tu border.Liu Xiang is familiar with the situation in Libya and proficient in Arabic, so he stayed in the embassy to continue to help Ambassador Wang Wangsheng and the others complete the final evacuation work.

On March 1, according to Fei Mingxing's instructions, Li Yue drafted the front-line evacuation report of the first special operations team, and made a summary report to the country. After going through many dangers again, he arrived in Litu with Guo Hu and Tong Ying'an in the afternoon of the same day. Ras Jedir at the border crossing.They thought they could have a touching scene of "holding hands and looking at teary eyes" with the team leader Fei Mingxing, but they didn't even see his shadow. What caught their eyes were nameless corpses shot dead by the military and police...

Li Yue cried, Guo Hu cried, and Tong Yingan cried too. "How could he lie to us? How could it be like this..." The boys have been through life and death for a few days. They have been moved to tears many times by some special scenes, but they have never cried out.This time they looked at the lonely lights on the border port, and they even started to cry. Later, Fei Mingxing said: "For this matter, I have always felt very guilty, because I sent a text message to tell Li Yue before, saying that we will wait for them to leave together at the border. But at that time, I received instructions from China one after another. , said the situation was very critical, and ordered us to withdraw from Libya immediately. After returning to China, I asked Director Huang Ping why he must not let me wait for Li Yue and the others? Director Huang told me that the situation in Libya was extremely critical, and the frontline team members were always available May be sacrificed, if one can leave early, one will go, and one can come out alive, one will come out..."

When I interviewed Huang Ping, he confirmed Fei Mingxing's words: "The working group is carrying out a special mission. From the moment we saw them off at the Capital Airport, we prepared for the worst..." "We are proud of these young men! Their spirit and heroic deeds reflect the glorious image of the new generation of Chinese diplomats." State Councilor Dai Bingguo and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi have said this to me many times. Li Yue, Fei Mingxing, Bao Chen and other young men were all credited and rewarded later.This is something. Misrata's tears were not only shed by Li Yue and the others.Another young man, Ma Ke, was the last to board the ship among the more than 5,800 Chinese evacuated from Misrata.When this luxury cruise ship full of more than 2,100 people sailed out of Misrata, gradually entered the center of the Mediterranean Sea, and headed towards the Greek island of Crete, the wind and waves on the sea gradually calmed down, and the night became gentle. You can see scattered stars twinkling in the sky...

Ah, what a wonderful Mediterranean night! Those Chinese compatriots on the "Venizelos" cruise ship who had just experienced fear, hunger and death all fell asleep peacefully, dreaming of going home.Ma Ke, the young translator of Zhongtu Company, also fell into a deep sleep and fell asleep. Several people have come to invite him to have something to eat, but the young man just can't wake up. "He's so tired, let him sleep a little longer." The staff of CCCC couldn't recognize the young man's name, but they knew that he was one of the on-site organizers of more than 5,800 Chinese evacuees in the Misrata area.They respected him, loved him, and some even whispered that there were too few such young men nowadays.

"Thug..." "what sound?" In the early morning, someone on the boat woke up, and everyone on the boat woke up one after another. "Is it gunfire or cannon?" "Impossible, we are at sea now, how can there be wars at sea?" Someone walked from the cabin to the deck and immediately shouted: "It's a plane! It's our plane!" How can there be our plane?So everyone ran out of the cabin one after another, and ran to the deck to see that it was a helicopter of our Chinese Air Force!The fuselage has the Chinese flag pattern and the "August 1" logo!

How did our plane fly here? "Look, there are our warships over there!" "Ah, warship! It's really our warship!" It doesn't matter if it's called, the whole cruise ship is boiling.I saw all the Chinese compatriots running out of the cabin, and they looked at the Chinese warship "Xuzhou" parallel to the side of the cruise ship.There was a white slogan on a red background on the warship, and the words were gradually becoming clear-"Welcome to the motherland!" Everyone knew these five words, and these five words made more than 2,100 compatriots on the ship cheer for joy!Countless mouths are shouting the same slogan: "Long live the motherland!" "Long live the motherland!" "Long live the motherland..."

"At this moment, a friendly voice came from the loudspeaker on the warship:'Dear compatriots, we are the frigate "Xuzhou" of the Chinese Navy, and I am the captain. We are ordered to meet you and escort you back home. Home!' As soon as the sound from the loudspeaker fell, I heard slogans such as 'Thank you to the People's Liberation Army' and 'Long Live the Motherland', one after another like a roaring mountain and a tsunami. Everyone shouted desperately, shouted desperately, and shouted desperately to the warship and the sky. I waved to the helicopter... At that time, I didn't know why I kept crying. I wanted to see the compatriots around me, but I didn't dare to look, because they cried harder than I did... I have never seen this scene. We No one has ever imagined, nor seen the scene of a plane escorting us in the sky and a naval ship escorting us... What is happiness? What is pride? What is the warmth of the motherland? At that moment, I fully understood and Got it." When Marco was interviewed by me, talking about this scene, he was still in tears.Ah, Misrata, how many Chinese people you have shed tears! For some reason, since the turmoil in Tunisia, a chain reaction has been produced in some countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and a series of regime changes have been unexpected.Among them, Libya's Gaddafi is undoubtedly a character with a very different ending. The bloody scene where he was finally shot to death by opposition fighters with random guns made people all over the world shudder. In the middle and late stages of the turmoil, most people believed that Gaddafi would fight the final decisive battle with the opposition forces in Sabha, where he launched the "uprising", but the actual situation was not the case.The well-targeted bombing by NATO planes and the advanced tracking methods of the special forces of the United States, Britain, France and other countries made Gaddafi, who was hiding in Tibet, panic. He was like a mouse driven out of a cave, bumping head to head and spending the night. Days without sleep and food, he was driven to the small seaside town of Sirte, where he was captured alive in a cement pipe and died in humiliation instead of "glorious sacrifice" in his hometown - the Jeref Valley in the south . According to the information disclosed later by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Gaddafi and his sons really thought about abandoning the capital Tripoli after losing Benghazi, Zawiya, and Misrata, and led his elite troops to move to their hometown in the south. , in an attempt to use the tribal forces of his homeland, foreign mercenaries and some military forces to fight those "national traitors" who rebelled against him for a long time.It's just that his whereabouts are under the strict monitoring of NATO, the troops cannot be assembled, the convoy cannot be dispatched, and the number of bodyguards and cronies with him is getting smaller and smaller, so he cannot withdraw to the southern area full of deserts. Known as the "Desert Fox", Gaddafi thought he was smart, but he was defeated by Western countries' strategies and highly modernized military technology.In fact, when the anti-Kadha storm launched by the opposition in the coastal cities swept thousands of miles of city walls, there were also opposition forces in the hinterland of the southern desert centered on Sabha, which made Gaddafi and his regime in jeopardy within a few days. . Gaddafi is a cunning dictator who attaches great importance to his hometown. Although most of his hometowns are deserts, he spares no expense in construction. In recent years, many desert towns in Sabha and the south have been building residential houses. Naturally attracted some foreign construction companies.However, the climate here is extremely hot and dry, coupled with Gaddafi's capriciousness and lack of integrity, foreign companies are afraid of suffering and dare not take risks, so they seldom set foot after weighing.Only China State Construction Engineering Corporation, which has endured hardships and is good at earning small profits, is not afraid of hard work and comes here to contract projects.Along with Chinese construction companies, a large number of laborers from third world countries entered the hinterland of the desert to do coolies and earn small money. The horrific degree and predictable catastrophic consequences of the southern rebellion centered on Sabha have made foreigners living and working here terrified and sleepless.Among these foreigners, the Chinese are the first to bear the brunt, and the second is the large number of Egyptian and Algerian laborers. A reporter from the Associated Press published an article "Road to Escape in the Heart of the Desert" on the 24th, describing it as follows: The only airport in the south that can escape Libya by air is Sabha, where thousands of foreign laborers and contractors are now crowding into the airport terminal every day.The third-rate airport, which was originally only the size of a few football fields, suddenly became an escape channel for refugees scrambling for their lives.The precarious authorities informed that all commercial air tickets are to be stopped, and Sabha Airport will only accept charter and special flights from the 23rd.When this news came out, the entire terminal building and the apron were attacked and occupied by refugees from all over the world. Some business charter and special planes that occasionally flew in did not dare to land here, so the airport became a huge a sprawling refugee camp.Sabha is short of water and food. Refugees at the airport have to pay 20 or even 30 dollars to buy a bottle of mineral water, and the price of mineral water is still skyrocketing by more than 10 dollars a day. "If I can get out alive, even a $100 bottle of water is worth it to me!" said an Egyptian contractor.The scariest thing is not these.Just last night, suddenly a group of anti-Cards people broke into the airport with guns in their hands. They put their guns on the heads of airport leaders and customs officers, asking them to give up their jobs and join the common anti-Cards battle.If not, drive them out of the airport.So far, the original airport ground staff and customs officers fled and hid, and less than one-third of them stayed there to guard.There is a chartered flight from Dubai that has been here for 38 hours, but it has been unable to take off because of the lack of cooperation from the airport ground staff.The tens of thousands of refugees crowded in the airport and the foreign nationals who are still flocking to Sabha Airport, what they are most worried and terrified is that they heard that Gaddafi has already released the wind in Tripoli and said: "If the shopping on the coast cannot defend the revolution regime, Sabha will become the birthplace of the second uprising.” This means that Sabha may become the bloody place of the Libyan civil war at any time. The dangerous situation in Sabha made the 1.3 billion Chinese people who are thousands of miles away worried and concerned, because there are our compatriots who are contracting the project.If the two cities of Hun and Wodan in the northeast of Sabha are counted, there are as many as 20 Chinese construction contractors in this area, with more than 5,000 people.Without exception, these areas are located in the hinterland of the desert. Chinese contractors work here to earn money. They are centralized and self-contained. There are not many horizontal connections between them, and they are highly dispersed.Units vary in size, and units with a large number of employees, such as the Ghat project of China Hydropower, employ thousands of people, while the smallest construction unit, a ballast field project of China Earth, is located between Hun and Sabha. There are 22 people.When the anti-card movement was raging in other big cities, the road in the hinterland of the desert was also not calm. Some local people began to take advantage of the chaos to fish out of troubled waters. China Earth’s small business was doomed, suffering from harassment and robbery.The last time a group of thugs besieged the ballast yard, robbed the only two transport vehicles in the yard, and robbed the workers of food and personal belongings, and then drove the workers into the desert inhumanely under the scorching sun It was roasted for more than ten hours... If it hadn’t been for the other two Chinese company personnel who contracted the project in Bilat later passing by the dregs in the Suoda Mountains, the 22 Chinese workers would have been mummified in the desert. . The Sinohydro Ghat Project Department, which contracted the project in the most southwestern city of Ghat, held China's largest construction project in southern Libya. At that time, there were as many as 971 construction workers.Ghat is nearly 1,000 kilometers away from the capital Tripoli, but only one step away from Algeria, less than a hundred miles away.The opposition to Gaddafi's order in Benghazi has not ignited the "revolutionary fire" to this border town, but once the war in the interior of Libya spreads and cuts off the traffic to Ghat, this lonely border town will be destroyed. will become a dead city.There is no food, no vegetables, or even drinking water in the city. There are only 40 to 50 degrees of high temperature and occasional sandstorms that block out the sky. In other words, it can be killed without firing a single shot a city. Sabha, known as the "Southern Capital" of Libya, and its surrounding towns are generally in this situation. How can the fate of more than 5,000 Chinese workers who have dedicated themselves here silently make people worry! Southern Libya has always relied on blood transfusion from the north to survive and develop. Once the transportation is cut off, the southern cities will not surrender, and the final outcome is to return to the silent ancient desert era-human beings will not be able to survive in this area.Of course, Gaddafi took care of this "hometown of the uprising" that once brought him glory, and built a small airport in Sabha that is half military and half civilian. When the war started, Sabha’s small airport naturally became the focus of scrambling for the card protection and anti-card camps. The hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers who worked hard in the south and made small money, and the Chinese who traveled across the ocean also naturally regarded it as a A hopeful way of escape.Most of these hundreds of thousands of foreign workers are from neighboring Egypt, Sudan, and Algeria. Although they can only do some rough and heavy work under the guidance of the Chinese, if a disaster strikes, they are ordinary workers. The ability to escape in the desert is not even comparable to 100 Chinese. Now that the war is coming, fleeing for life has become the instinct of all foreign workers. At this time, money can still play a role, but it cannot play a decisive role.Sabha Airport has been in boundless panic since the 20th. If the plane does not come, even if a rich boss with tens of millions of dollars in his pocket is different from a penniless black wage earner?They could only curl up together in the waiting hall, smelling each other's sweat, scrambling for mineral water together... Under such circumstances, the fate of the Chinese people is definitely not much better.If the situation continues to deteriorate, those dark-skinned and skinny Africans will walk across the desert and return to their homeland-Sabha is not far from their country and homeland, only a few hundred miles away.However, the Chinese will be completely desperate. First, they are unable to compete with their African brothers in the desert. Second, the journey home is long and far away, almost out of reach. "Rumors say that Benghazi and Tripoli are already full of gunfire. If you are not paying attention in the area where the firefights are fought, you may be shot to death by missiles. There are no gunshots in most places in Sabha, but the way out here is cut off. This is desperate. The waiting is too uncomfortable. I would rather go to Benghazi to be baptized and escape under the hail of bullets, because after all, bullets have no eyes, and there may be a way to survive by obeying God’s arrangement. But in Sabha, if no one comes to rescue, we can only Waiting to die here..." After an employee of the China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau working in Aubari City, west of Sabha, sent this QQ message to his family, his wife and son ran from Langfang, Hebei to the CNPC headquarters in Beijing to find the leader. Weeping and begging to save her husband and "the father of the child", the scene is heart-wrenching. In fact, more than 5,000 Chinese compatriots trapped in Sabha have long been included in the national evacuation headquarters plan, but due to the particularity of this area, there seems to be only one rescue method that can be adopted: air evacuation. On February 23, Fei Mingxing, a member of the Visa Section of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the first special operation team to fly to Tripoli on Air China flight CCA060.In addition, no second Chinese aircraft can enter Libyan territory.What's more, Sabha is far away from the capital Tripoli, and is a small border town in the hinterland of the desert. The civil aviation department has denied the possibility of China sending charter flights to it from the very beginning. Could it be that the compatriots can only be trapped in the "double fire" (the high-temperature desert fire and the hail of bullets)?Obviously not.How to rescue more than 5,000 people from such a special place has become a huge problem before everyone.National emergency commander Zhang Dejiang turned his attention to State Councilor Dai Bingguo, and Dai Bingguo turned his attention to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with his expectations and hopes. He gave face-to-face instructions to Yang Jiechi, Song Tao and other leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... "We must formulate a practical, fast and effective plan. If the Sabha evacuation cannot be completed as scheduled, the results of all previous evacuation work will be greatly reduced!" Minister Yang Jiechi, Vice Minister Song Tao and other leaders spoke at the ministry emergency coordination meeting that day. so emphasized. In fact, the original plan formulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to send a special operation team into Sabha in order to be able to grasp the situation there in time and take effective actions accordingly.Unexpectedly, Huang Zhenyu, who took on this important task, led the third special operations team and encountered many difficulties before leaving the army.It was too late to get the air permits from several transit countries. The special plane stayed at Beijing Capital Airport for more than ten hours and was unable to take off until 2:28 a.m. on the 24th before flying from Beijing to Cairo, the capital of Egypt.After arriving in Cairo, my embassy in Egypt informed Huang Zhenyu that they originally planned to rent a charter flight to Sabha through EgyptAir, but after negotiating with EgyptAir, the charter plan failed. "We can only wait and see." The embassy said to the anxious Huang Zhenyu. Saving people is like putting out a fire, so there is no time to wait.Huang Zhenyu was dying of anxiety, and Huang Ping, who was far away on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, was even more anxious, because after collecting information from many surrounding countries, it was analyzed and judged that the situation in Sabha was already in jeopardy. Since the 24th, Sabha's airport "about the size of a bus station" has been in chaos, and flights cannot take off and land normally at all, and many surrounding countries are also constantly trying to send planes there in an attempt to pick them up of expatriates. The "bus station" was crowded and swaying by tens of thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives. "You go to Oman immediately. There is a chartered flight there that may reach Sabha." Domestically instructed Huang Zhenyu's third special operations team.Huang Zhenyu, who had just set up a contact line with the temporary headquarters in Sabha at the Cairo embassy, ​​packed their bags and headed to Cairo Airport for an urgent flight to Oman. When he arrived in Oman, Huang Zhenyu connected the satellite phone, and a frustrating news came: the plan to charter a flight from Oman to Sabha fell through. "The embassy in Egypt said that they are in contact with Dubai Airport, and they will arrange a charter flight to Sabha. Now you rush to Dubai. Hurry up!" This time it was Guo Shaochun who called Huang Zhenyu. What a toss! What kind of special operations team can't stand such a toss.The first group of Fei Mingxing and the others not only won the first battle beautifully, but also opened up the land passage on the Li-Turkey border, which is of great importance to the overall situation; , and rushed to Misrata.Only we are still wandering around like headless flies, what's the matter?The faces of several young people in the group were ashen, they didn't say anything, and they cursed in their hearts. "Damn it, it's Lao Ka who tormented us like this!" They cursed out loud.That's right, Libya was tormented by Gaddafi, and the people were full of dissatisfaction, and wars broke out everywhere. Huang Zhenyu and others flew non-stop from Muscat Airport in Oman to Dubai.Dubai is a real cow, not only has picturesque beaches and luxury villa areas, but also the towering "world's first floor" that can be seen dozens of kilometers away.Several team members who passed by Dubai for the first time had not had time to see the real face of this rich country in the Persian Gulf, and there was another reminder from China: "The plan has changed again. There is no charter flight from Dubai to Sabha. You should return to Cairo immediately. From there, take the charter flight that has just been booked and fly directly to Sabha." "It is equal to two days, because no airline is willing to fly to Libya, and we have been unable to find a charter flight to Sabha. We traveled back and forth to four countries, and finally arrived in Sabha at 1:33 am Beijing time on the 28th. The airport..." Xu Haifeng, a team member, said. Huang Zhenyu's team felt anxious and angry, because this day was the deadline for domestic orders to evacuate all Chinese citizens from Libya. But Huang Zhenyu and other boys don’t have to worry. First, the prelude to Sabha’s evacuation war has already been nervously opened during their “traveling around the four countries”; second, the real decisive moment is still waiting for the boys. Let’s look back at the Sabha evacuation battle on another front, which is the close cooperation between the self-rescue operations of the SASAC’s affiliated units and the Consular Protection Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Without such actions and cooperation, the Sabha evacuation operation would not be able to win. Liang——the deputy general manager of China Hydropower Group and the head of the general manager in Lili that we have mentioned before, this man in Northwest China is a tall man with many years of overseas contracting projects. He has rich experience, courage and strategy, and dares to take responsibility.When the first special operations group Fei Mingxing and the others needed to go to the western front to open up a land evacuation channel, Shiliang took the initiative to send a driver and two vehicles to escort them; He was also the one who ordered his driver to be a "death squad"; when the embassy wanted to escort dozens of international students but couldn't find a vehicle, it was also Liang who personally directed the delivery of the international students to the pier so that they could board the ship safely. "We rented the charter flights for Ethiopia and Sudan, but our own company only used two flights to evacuate the staff, and the rest were given to brother companies." "Since the 26th, many people have learned from the Internet and QQ news that China has decided to evacuate all Chinese from Libya before March 5th. Rumors that NATO will bomb Libya are spreading everywhere. Fly home. On February 27, the Chinese citizens in Benghazi on the east line and the Li-Turkey border on the west line were basically evacuated. Board the ship. Only the more than 5,000 Chinese workers in the south are still trapped there. I don’t know what to do. That area has the most people in our company, and there is only Gat. In addition to our own 971 people, there are more than 300 people It is impossible not to take them away. In addition, China Hydropower Group has withdrawn from the responsible unit. I feel a great responsibility. When I was very busy, the company headquarters in Tripoli suddenly became chaotic on the evening of the 26th. A person ran up to me and said that he wanted to evacuate. The reason was that once NATO bombed, Tripoli would definitely bear the brunt. Our company headquarters is in the city center, next to the Chinese embassy. "If you don't bomb, you will be scared to death. Let us go!" They said I said so. I said no. The reason is very simple. There are more than 2,000 people in our company in the south, and we are evacuating organizational units. We must not evacuate the company’s headquarters at this time. If anyone wants to leave, they can , but there is a condition: if you are a member of the Communist Party, then you immediately submit a report of quitting the party. After I say this, no one will speak anymore..." Liang said that he was restless all night, and he did not close his eyes for a minute. Things go wrong at this critical moment. When he woke up the next morning, a more unexpected incident made Liang break out in a cold sweat. "Boss, it's broken, it's broken! Come and see..." Liang was pushed and dragged out of the room to the balcony. "The flag of our embassy is gone!" "What's going on? The national flag is really gone!" Liang was shocked.Their company is very close to the Chinese embassy, ​​and as long as they look up, they can see the five-star red flag flying forever on the roof of the embassy.At this moment, the flag is gone!Could it be that NATO committed atrocities against our embassy in Libya just like the US bombed our embassy in Yugoslavia?Or was the embassy evacuated early? "Let's go and have a look!" Liang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked the driver to board the car and head straight to the embassy. "Boss, it's so early? Come on, I'm going to discuss something with you!" As soon as he arrived at the gate of the embassy, ​​Ambassador Wang Wangsheng came to meet him, rubbed his staring eyes, and greeted Liang warmly. "What's going on?" Liang yelled at Ambassador Wang in displeasure. "Well, what's the matter?" Ambassador Wang Wangsheng asked in puzzlement. "Look..." Bright hand pointed to the roof. "Hey, the strong wind broke our flagpole!" Wang Wangsheng was startled, and immediately patted Liang on the shoulder and said, "It's just in time for you to come, please help to get a stronger flagpole for us The national flag is raised! Or everyone thinks that something happened to us, or that we ran away!" "Wait!" Unexpectedly, Liang not only ignored Wang Wangsheng's words, but pulled the ambassador who was much older than him to him, and asked face to face, "Tell me the truth, are you leaving? Are you leaving something for yourself?" A runaway aircraft carrier?" Wang Wangsheng looked at Liang, who was half a head taller than himself, and said calmly: "It's a pity that China has not yet built such an aircraft carrier, and I can't afford to rent a foreign one." "Hahaha..." Liang suddenly laughed, "I'm just kidding you. Last night we were told that people from the embassy had run away. Why didn't we announce the evacuation? I told them that as long as the China Hydropower Company still If there is a person in Libya, I will not leave, let alone our embassy is still there! No, am I right?" Wang Wangsheng stretched out his thumb in front of Liang: "He is a hero! A true Communist!" "Come on, I will give you another task." Ambassador Wang Wangsheng said after inviting Liang into the embassy, ​​"The evacuation in the south is the last battle, but we are too far away from there, and the communication is basically cut off. The country is very anxious, and the pressure on the embassy is even greater. I can't get anyone out here, I want you to send someone to get in touch with Sabha right away..." "Coincidentally! I had this intention at first, and I just wanted to ask you for instructions and report!" Liang clapped his hands in response. "Then you go back immediately to organize people and set off immediately." "it is good!" Liang returned to the company's residence, and immediately held a meeting of all staff in accordance with the advice of Ambassador Wang Wangsheng. "Half of us will go south to open the passage through Sabha. This part will go there, organize the evacuation team and board the plane, and return home with the team. The other half will continue to stay in Tripoli until the company's People left Libya and then retreated..." After Liang announced this decision, the venue was silent, and no one answered.Everyone understands that although going south is risky, you can return home within a day or two; those who stay in Tripoli are unpredictable. "Well, everyone writes a word on the note - 'go' or 'stay', and then write their names. I can assure everyone that whether you write 'go' or 'stay', I will never I will disclose it to anyone at any time, and I will never make irresponsible remarks about you in the company at any time..." Liang specially added this paragraph. Still no response. "Let's write." The note was handed out to everyone, and it was handed back to Liang after a while. "At that time, I was holding more than a dozen flimsy little notes, but it felt like I was holding a heavy weight. I was really worried that everyone wrote the word 'go'. In fact, it is normal for everyone to write the word 'go'. , Who doesn’t have a wife and children, who is not afraid of death! But when I opened each sheet, all I saw was the word “stay”. At that moment, tears welled up in my eyes, and I couldn’t hold it back..." Liang was accepting my interview At that time, I was still moved by this incident, and the eyes of the seven-foot man glistened with tears. Liang himself stayed in Tripoli with seven or eight young people, and held on until March 2. After obtaining the consent of Ambassador Wang Wangsheng, he safely withdrew from Libya.Another group of people who went to Sabha, led by the deputy general manager Liu Qingfu, drove an off-road vehicle to the vast desert area in the south in the early morning of the second day after the meeting. "When we parted, everyone prepared for the worst in their hearts. We hugged each other with tears streaming down our faces. We couldn't part with each other. Even the Libyan employees present were very moved." Liang said. Liu Qingfu and his party ventured through the border and walked for more than ten hours before reaching Sabha.Their arrival provides a strong guarantee for better coordination of the assembly and evacuation of more than 2,000 people from Sinohydro.Later, Liu Qingfu did something that moved the Nepalese government very much: Entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he personally escorted more than 300 Nepalese workers from Sabha to Sudan, and then sent them back to their hometowns through a connecting flight from Sudan.This move moved the Nepalese authorities and people very much. Their Minister of Labor went to the airport to welcome them and presented flowers to Liu Qingfu and others. "The charter flight to escort the Nepalese workers is paid by our company." Liang is very proud of this. As the last point of evacuation, Sabha was specified in the evacuation plan proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the central government.At that time, I learned the latest situation and development trends of the situation in Libya through various channels, and believed that the actual situation in Sabha could allow large-scale evacuation of overseas Chinese.What the emergency command center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not expect was that the evacuation of Sabha, which was thought to be without suspense, was frustrated step by step, and the chain was broken step by step. As early as the evening of the 21st, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs drafted the evacuation plan for the central government under the auspices of Song Tao, Peng Jingtao, Chen Xiaodong, Huang Ping, Guo Shaochun, Ma Jisheng and other diplomatic "think tanks" had already evacuated from Sabha by plane. Our citizenship program is included in the program.After the meeting of the Central Evacuation Headquarters was held on the 22nd and the evacuation order was issued, Huang Ping and the others immediately asked our embassy in Egypt to know about the situation at Sabha Airport. On the 23rd, our embassy in Egypt reported that the airport can take off and land A320 and other aircraft with 150 to 180 seats. "That's great, so we can pick up the five or six thousand people there with 20 to 30 flights." Guo Shaochun and other comrades in the consular protection center were once very relaxed about this.They also imagined: "If the direct flight is not possible, our charter flight will make a ferry between Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt." It seems that this seems to be foolproof. From the 24th to the 26th, the center of gravity of the entire evacuation fell on the east and west lines of Benghazi and the Lithuanian border.When the passages between the two places were basically opened up and large-scale evacuation began, the focus of evacuation was concentrated on Sabha in the south.But the plan is not as fast as the change. The situation in Libya is changing rapidly during the war, and the situation in neighboring countries is also changing, and some unexpected things continue to happen. The first is that the flight to Sabha cannot be implemented, and the second is that the aircraft leased from neighboring countries cannot be rented.Because the legend that Sabha may become the last bastion of Gaddafi is getting closer and closer to the truth, that is to say, Sabha is more likely than Benghazi and Misrata to become the most brutal battle between the Kadha and anti-Kadhafi forces. place. "No matter who you find or what method you use, you must complete the task of renting an Egyptian flight!" Huang Ping and Guo Shaochun gave the embassy in Egypt a death order. "Didn't you say that the country sent a chartered plane?" the embassy staff asked puzzled.他们还不清楚，这个时候国内安排的民航飞机已经全部飞往希腊、马耳他和突尼斯等地，去接应那里中转过来的两三万同胞，根本抽不出航班飞往开罗和亚历山大。关键是利埃边境关闭后，开罗和亚历山大已无人可接应。 “宋大使，拜托了，你们无论如何要把埃航的飞机搞定！不然的话，塞卜哈那边麻烦就大了！”这时的黄屏自己都记不清到底多少次给宋爱国大使打电话了。 还有啥说的！国难当头，我等岂能不全力以赴！ 宋爱国他们还真把埃及航空公司搞定了：“他们给我们签了15个航班班次！”当驻埃及使馆把这一消息报告给部里时，领保中心值班的小伙子、姑娘们抱团蹦跳起来：“谢天谢地！塞卜哈有救了！” “马上通知黄振宇他们回开罗，立即进入塞卜哈！”这就有了黄屏命令还在阿曼、迪拜转悠的第三特别行动小组火速折回开罗的那个电话。 这已经是27日凌晨的事了。郁闷了好几天的黄振宇小组于当晚9点半左右从开罗起飞，到达塞卜哈已经是28日凌晨1时33分。在黄振宇他们到达之前，苏丹和迪拜来的两个航班接走了一批中国同胞。但不管怎么说，小伙子们觉得总算赶上了塞卜哈大批人员撤离行动的重头戏。“你们是第一架飞往塞卜哈的埃航班机，后面我们租了14个班次……”离开开罗时，使馆这样对黄振宇说。 “到塞卜哈后，往机场一看，好家伙，那才叫人山人海！我们想找自己的同胞，竟然还不好找！机场上聚集的大多是埃及人，至少有几万人！天黑乎乎的，我们与地面临时指挥部取得联系后，还算比较顺利地将一批同胞接上租来的埃航飞机。当时我们都很高兴，以为后续飞机来了就可以成批成批地走了，哪知第二班埃航飞机一落地就坏了大事……”徐海风心有余悸地说。 “80后”年轻外交官徐海风是我认识的参与此次撤离行动的三位苏州小老乡之一。小徐2004年从北京外国语大学毕业，曾在我驻利比亚使馆工作三年，因为熟悉当地情况，被部里挑选为工作组成员。 小徐说的“坏了大事”是指，当第二架埃航飞机从空中向地面慢慢滑行时，正值东方晨曦照耀，飞机机身上的埃航标志清晰可辨，这让几万埃及难民兴奋不已，大声狂呼： “我们的飞机！” “我们埃及的飞机！” “我们国家的飞机为什么载中国人而不载我们埃及人呢？” “冲啊！我们要坐自己的飞机回家！” 黄振宇、小徐等中方人员兴高采烈，正准备将一批同胞往机场内送，却见由喜转怒的埃及人像潮水一般涌向停机坪，冲进跑道，挡在埃航飞机前面，无数人高举着愤怒的拳头，喊着震耳欲聋的口号……塞卜哈机场彻底乱套了！ “这可怎么办？这可怎么办？”黄振宇急得满头大汗，在场的所有中国人则目瞪口呆地看着这一幕，一颗颗心全都凉了。他们知道这一下真的回不去了！回不去了啊！有人当场哭泣，有人甚至昏倒在地…… “总裁先生，我们正式租用了贵公司的飞机，你们必须保证把我们的人从塞卜哈运到开罗。”已经四天三夜没有合眼的宋爱国大使被黄振宇的电话震得耳朵快聋了，亲自给埃航总裁打电话。埃航总裁无奈地说：“中国是我们埃及的朋友，但是现在塞卜哈有几万埃及人要坐自己国家的飞机回国，如果我不顾他们的死活，再运送你们中国人，埃及政府和人民会惩罚我，用刀砍了我的头。” 宋爱国大使又给埃及的外长和副总理打电话，请求协调处理。对方同样以抱歉的口吻对他说：“如果我们埃及的飞机去塞卜哈只运你们中国人，我们的政府将会在民众的唾沫中被摧毁……” 宋爱国大使再无话可说。埃及新政府本来就很脆弱，处在很不稳定的“临时”状态，确实不能再让人家为难了。 “我们知道了。请放心，我们已经有了预案！”当黄振宇和宋爱国大使向国内报告埃航意外毁约时，黄屏司长俨然胸有成竹。 How is this going? 原来当黄振宇工作组租包机进塞卜哈屡屡生变时，外交部已经决定撤出塞卜哈的包机计划要做“PlanB”，也就是备用方案，要求驻埃及使馆千方百计租下埃航飞机。同时，周知驻周边国家甚至是驻中东地区国家使领馆，要求他们联系驻在国航空公司，收集了解可用运力情况。 埃航突然生变，备用方案迅速启动！接到国内领保中心指令后，相关各使领馆立即行动起来。驻迪拜的詹京保总领事第一个传来了好消息：“签下了两架飞机！准备直飞塞卜哈！”不久，驻土耳其大使宫小生也打来了报告利好的电话，还有驻苏丹大使李成文、驻约旦大使岳晓勇……燃眉之急顿解。这些，黄振宇和宋爱国大使当时并不知道，他们更不知道，就在前一天——27日，外交部里还发生了很多事。 上午10时，宋涛来到领保中心看望所有值班同志，他表情有些凝重地说：“大家还要做好打最艰苦硬仗的准备。” 上午10时30分，杨洁篪外长也来到领保中心。部长的表情与以往一样，始终文雅而温存地微笑着跟同志们说话。不过，他说的有几句话让领保中心的同志们感觉分量颇重：“我们的外交就是要贯彻'以人为本，执政为民'的理念，利比亚撤离工作是检验我们这一理念的试金石。人民在看着我们，全世界也在看着我们。” 这一天晚上8时50分，国务委员戴秉国出差回京，从机场直接到了外交部，看望亚非司和领保中心的同志们。当笑眯眯的老领导出现时，外交部南楼1115室——撤离应急指挥中心里的全体年轻外交官们一片掌声。戴秉国同志与大家一一握手后，声音高昂而又动情地说：“同志们干得漂亮！前方后方都干得漂亮！大家是在干一件中国五千年来从没有干过的事，震惊中外，世界瞩目。从22日国家应急总指挥部成立以来的短短六天时间，我们已经把三万多人从利比亚撤出，这可以说是个奇迹！同志们都在第一线战斗，从你们身上能看到新中国几十年来外交战线的优良作风一代一代地传了下来，也证明中国外交队伍是支过硬的、特别能战斗的队伍。3月5日，我们的'两会'要召开，中央希望我们能在这个时间节点上把撤离任务全部完成。大家还要辛苦几天，谢谢你们了！” “请首长放心！我们一定全力以赴！继续加油！”年轻外交官们齐声保证。 “请戴国委放心，现在我们将集中力量打好南部撤离这一仗！”黄屏在向戴秉国表态后，回头高声问同事们：“大家有没有决心把后面的事情做得更好？”“有！”回声震荡在外交部南楼。 戴秉国听后笑得很畅快！ 当晚午夜时分，戴秉国走进宋涛的办公室，告诉他，刚刚得到消息：胡锦涛主席和中央军委已经批准了出动军机前往塞卜哈接应同胞。 28日清晨，当第一缕朝晖照亮我空军某地机场时，师长俞金池亲自带领四个机组，驾驶四架伊尔-76军机，从中原大地起飞，在乌鲁木齐转场后飞向巴基斯坦，飞向沙特、阿曼…… 与此同时，国内外交部，我驻巴基斯坦使馆、驻沙特使馆、驻阿曼使馆、驻苏丹使馆、驻埃及使馆……正紧急地与万里空中航线之下的多个国家的外交部、国防部、航空部门商榷办理军机航行许可。 “这是我军军机首次赴海外接运受困同胞，首次到达非洲大陆，首次单程航距近万公里的历史性突破，中央军委、国防部、总参谋部等高度重视，是一次我军海外执行特殊任务的非战争军事行动。”负责具体协调、指挥此次军机行动的总参谋部应急办公室主任李海洋如此说。 “虽然我们事先已经知道军机要来塞卜哈接同胞，但当机身上印着'八一'标志的军机降落在塞卜哈机场的那一刻，机场上所有的中国人都激动得流下了眼泪，那场面我没有见过……那一刻，我感到做一个中国人特别自豪，简直是太自豪了！”徐海风这么说，黄振宇也这么说，我采访的许多中国工人都这么说。 “当时机场上还有几万埃及等国家的劳务人员，他们看到中国的一架架军机来接我们的情景，别提有多羡慕！”徐海风说，“之后我们撤得就比较顺利了。在机场我遇到了当年在的黎波里工作时认识的一位叫伊沙姆的利比亚航空部门官员，他一边不停地向我伸大拇指说中国太伟大，一边帮助我们打通机场出境通道，使得我们的撤离更加快捷。” 中国军机在塞卜哈和苏丹首都喀土穆之间不停地呼啸穿梭着，还有一架架从阿曼，从约旦，从埃塞俄比亚等国往返于塞卜哈……那些飞机上都是我们的同胞，还有尼泊尔等国的朋友。 再说黄振宇率领的工作组，遭遇埃航“撂挑子”后，也不全是一帆风顺。在国内外交部和驻外使领馆的努力下，十余架外航飞机租下了，可是飞机型号大小有别，距离利比亚远近不同，过境国家、待办手续也不一，这样它们抵达塞卜哈的时间和载客数总是个变量。 作为塞卜哈撤离行动的前线指挥，黄振宇充分考虑到了上述情况。他把撤离工作形成流程，并分工到人：“请你负责汇总统计航班情况，包括来源地、所属公司、起飞时间、预计抵达时间、可载客人数；请你负责与待撤的中资公司对接，根据载客量安排相应人数，再根据抵达时间通知他们提前从附近营地来机场集合；你负责现场组织待撤队伍、登记人员信息，与机场方面作好沟通，创造最大便利；你负责与国内领保中心联系，确保他们随时掌握情况，我们也要及时了解有无变化，同时与驻相关国家使领馆保持联系……”在一一作出布置后，黄振宇顿了顿又强调：“咱们的安排务必严丝合缝，不容有失！”于是工作组成员各自领命，全力投入撤离工作。 与此同时，一批批乘客被有序地送上了军机、包机。中方组织撤离的秩序和效率，令在场的利方机场官员直竖大拇指。 Beijing. 3月2日晚。根据国内领保中心的安排，黄振宇工作组已组织塞卜哈1506名中方人员撤往伊斯坦布尔，815人撤往迪拜，613人撤往约旦和阿曼，唯有喀土穆接运计划还在进行中…… 23时10分，黄屏接到黄振宇来自塞卜哈的电话：“报告司长，在塞卜哈的中方人员5650人（含七百余名外籍员工）全部撤离完毕。现在我和第三工作组的同志已经搭上最后一趟军机准备离开塞卜哈，请你指示！” “好样的，振宇！飞吧！飞回来吧！”黄屏响亮地命令道。这回激动得掉下眼泪的不是前方将士，而是黄屏和领保中心的全体参战人员。 23时30分，宋涛副部长代表外交部向中央和国务院报告：从利比亚境内撤离中国同胞的工作完成，共撤离35860人！ 这成为了中国外交史上一段特殊的记忆、一份特殊的光荣。 35860！这是个多么值得自豪、值得铭记的数字啊！ 将这些同胞排列在一起，一定是人头攒动，浩浩荡荡，壮观而雄伟；他们要是一起呐喊，一定如山呼海啸，震耳欲聋。在他们身后，站着几十万热泪盈眶、心怀感激的亲朋好友。 感谢你，祖国！感谢你，母亲！