50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 797 Beneficial Without Cost

In fact, their guess was not wrong; many people did indeed disappear along the way.

Although they had tanks and helicopters escorting them, there are all sorts of people, and there are always some who are reckless, fearless, or hoping to pull off a heist.

Sun Zhiwei never tolerated those who courted their own demise; whenever he encountered someone aiming a gun at the convoy on the road, they would disappear.

The disappearance of these people didn't attract much attention because the whole city was in chaos.

The convoy continued forward under Sun Zhiwei's leadership, with him changing direction from time to time.

He navigated potholes, barricades, and ambushes, taking many detours before finally leading the entire convoy into the streets of the embassy district three hours later.

Once they reached the embassy district, they were considered to have entered the security zone. Black Hawk helicopters escorted them all the way before finally returning to the embassy to land.

Once the convoy entered the embassy compound, the first phase of the evacuation was officially completed.

After completing his assigned tasks in four days, Sun Zhiwei began preparing for the next phase of the mission.

Only then did he realize that these two days seemed to be the time when Dai Ying and the Mao family were about to evacuate.

The Royal British Cruises ship Britannia, docked in the harbor, is a medium-sized cruise ship with a capacity of 5000 passengers and can carry thousands of people at a time.

Since there weren't many people in Yemen that needed to be evacuated, they helped other countries in the embassy district evacuate many people.

Originally, the British had reserved several hundred places for our embassy this time. In the past, the Britannia helped us transport four or five hundred staff members to Kyrgyzstan.

They even brought out the Queen's Lounge from the cruise ship to house people, showing their sincerity in repairing it. They really earned a lot of favor from our family.

Why is that? Sun Zhiwei knew perfectly well.

The Queen is currently in our country, and her main goal is to repair relations between the two countries. This evacuation of our citizens is a good opportunity for her to curry favor.

They also helped other embassies evacuate their diplomatic personnel, which earned their Queen considerable international prestige.

Sun Zhiwei was very clear-headed. Yemen was originally British territory, but now it was divided into north and south. Wasn't this exactly what they had done?

Even the current conflict in Yemen bears the shadow of Downing Street.

Most of the major regional conflicts around the world in later generations were messes left behind by Britain and other European and American countries deliberately dividing up territory during the decolonization process after World War II.

Sun Zhiwei remembers other people's kindness and will respond with the same kindness.

But you must understand the logic behind things clearly. You need to know who did the bad thing and who did the good thing so that you won't be fooled.

In the past few days, the British and the Russians have already discussed and prepared to evacuate and board the ship, but our own frigate will arrive in two days.

After thinking for a moment, Sun Zhiwei asked the embassy leaders to contact the two companies and ask them to postpone their evacuation so that everyone could leave together in two days.

Sun Zhiwei believes that our words carry more weight now, because we have five tanks and one armed helicopter at our disposal.

The distance from the embassy district to the port is not short, and there is fighting in many places along the way.

They only have one Russian tank escorting them, which cannot absolutely guarantee the safety of the personnel along the way.

If we add our five tanks and one helicopter, it will be much safer. Sure enough, after the embassy leaders made the contact, the British embassy and the Russian embassy immediately agreed to change the evacuation time, and the three parties agreed to depart together in three days.

The embassy leadership was also clever; after understanding Sun Zhiwei's meaning, they sent someone to notify all the nearby embassies of the evacuation time.

If they also need to evacuate, they can drive and follow our convoy.

The two merchant ships used to evacuate our family members were the "Weihe" container ship, which weighs more than 25,000 tons, and the "Shijingshan" cargo ship, which weighs 20,000 tons.

Although these two ships are not cruise ships and the conditions are not very good, they are huge. They can fit not only a thousand people, but even ten thousand people if they squeeze in.

Anyway, they don't need to go far, and they don't need to provide food and drink. As long as they spend a few hours sailing the ship to the port of Ji Bti, which is more than 200 kilometers away, the evacuation will be considered successful.

This kind of effortless favor, which Ying can do, we can do too.

Time flew by, and two days later, the small fleet consisting of the No. 2 and No. 3 frigates successfully arrived in the Gulf of Aden.

Subsequently, they joined the "Weihe" and "Shijingshan" ships, which were already waiting in the open sea, and successfully docked in the port of Aden, right next to the Russian warships.

Once the news of the warships' arrival in port was received, the embassy immediately notified both the British and Russian families that the evacuation of the embassy district would commence on time as agreed.

On the morning of the seventh day, as dawn broke, the entire embassy district came alive with activity, as almost all the embassies joined the evacuation operation.

All the cars from the various embassies drove onto the streets of the embassy district, and the military attachés of each embassy managed their own motorcades and were responsible for maintaining order in the motorcades.

At exactly 9 o'clock, the Russian T-80 tanks, with their thick armor and tough armor, took the lead and cleared the way.

Sun Zhiwei commanded five Type 69 tanks, which were evenly distributed throughout the embassy convoy and moved with it.

Hundreds of cars drove in a long procession toward the port of Aden, making quite a commotion.

After the convoy left the embassy district, a large crowd began to gather on both sides of the road. Some were locals watching the spectacle, while others were armed personnel from both sides of the conflict.

Some people are just watching the show, but others are starting to get restless.

Seeing that the situation was gradually getting out of control, Sun Zhiwei immediately ordered all the tanks to rotate their gun turrets and point their dark cannons at both sides of the road over the radio.

When the surrounding crowd saw the dark cannon barrel pointed at them, their expressions changed drastically, and their initial restless thoughts immediately subsided.

In fact, Sun Zhiwei really hoped that some fool would fire the first shot, so that he could rightfully kill a group of people and clear the way for what lay ahead.

Unfortunately, no one dared to open fire on them.

The dark, gaping cannons on the numerous tanks were a real deterrent, and the Black Hawk helicopters circling overhead further discouraged their adventurous thoughts.

Sun Zhiwei's command vehicle was at the back, and even after traveling dozens of kilometers, it still didn't get a chance to fire.

Although it was a great pity that we couldn't fire the cannons, it was also a happy thing that we were able to safely evacuate to the port.

After the convoy entered the port, the process of boarding the ship began in a flurry of activity.

The Russian family members were the fewest, and they quickly boarded their own warships. After leaving, they would directly pass through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea to send their embassy staff home.

(End of this chapter)