50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 798 Borrowing and Returning

However, although the Russian personnel all boarded the warship, the warship did not leave immediately.

Sun Zhiwei quickly understood their thoughts: the Russian warships were escorting the others as they boarded the ship.

Although there are three warships in the port, our two frigates are only 3000 tons each. They are more than enough for self-defense, but not enough to pose a sufficient threat to the two sides engaged in combat on shore.

But the Russian warship was a genuine 10,000-ton warship, with several massive cannons thicker than a man's waist, capable of destroying a building with a single shot.

With this giant warship of the Russians standing in the harbor, the deterrent effect was maximized, preventing either side in the war from making any rash moves.

Sun Zhiwei relayed the Russian army's intentions to the other ships via radio.

Upon hearing the news, all the ships picking up people at the port were very grateful for the kindness of the Russians and sounded their horns to pay tribute to them. The Russian warships also sounded their horns in response.

Amidst the chaotic evacuation at the port, a touch of warmth suddenly emerged.

After this incident, order was restored at the port, and thousands of evacuees began to line up voluntarily.

The "Weihe" and "Shijingshan" ships first picked up our more than 800 people and then began to receive personnel evacuated from other embassies.

The Britannia was doing the same thing, but the two sides were doing it in slightly different ways.

Although the Britannia was also assisting other countries with their evacuations, Westerners are used to arrogance and treat other countries differently.

They first accepted personnel from European countries, followed by Commonwealth member states. After all European allies and member states had boarded, they would accept personnel from other countries as needed, depending on available space on the ship.

The "Weihe" and "Shijingshan" ships are different; in addition to their own citizens, they accept evacuees from all countries equally.

As a result, embassies of various small countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America voluntarily boarded our two ships.

Several hours later, after all the thousands of people at the dock had boarded the ship, Sun Zhiwei notified all the tank crews to abandon the tanks guarding the port and board the ship to evacuate.

The temporary tank crew reluctantly left the tank and boarded two merchant ships.

With a long blast of its horn, the Russian warship led the way out of the dock, and the other ships in the fleet also set sail together.

Our two frigates, one in the middle of the convoy and the other at the rear, escorted the other ships and sailed into the Gulf of Aden in a single column.

The port was now deserted, with hundreds of vehicles of various sizes abandoned there, along with six tanks and two medical vehicles.

Just after the fleet turned out of the port, the six tanks and two medical vehicles on the dock suddenly disappeared.

Among the fleet, Sun Zhiwei, who had retrieved the Type 69 tank, smiled with satisfaction. The T-80, however, was an unexpected surprise; it could be sent back to China to be dismantled and studied later.

Those five Type 69 tanks were obtained from Sri Lanka. They paid him for them, and they're a friendly country. He's only borrowing them temporarily, but he doesn't intend to not return them.

He used five Type 69 tanks during this evacuation, and more than one person witnessed it. When news spread that Sri Lanka had lost five tanks, some people with ulterior motives would make the connection, and that would cause problems.

Therefore, he planned to return the five Type 69 tanks intact, so that the loss of the tanks would be forgotten.

If anyone asked again later, he could legitimately say that he had borrowed them. Although the person who borrowed them was unaware that five tanks had been borrowed from their home. Only then did all the evacuees relax; once they left Aden and reached the sea, they were safe, escorted by warships, and no longer afraid of pirate attacks.

The Gulf of Aden is not a large area, only 300 kilometers wide at its widest point, but it is already international waters not far from the port.

So the fleet quickly entered international waters, and just as everyone was rejoicing, a violent explosion suddenly came from the direction of the port, which was already far away.

Everyone in the fleet looked in the direction of the sound, only to see that the port of Aden, from which they had just left, was now engulfed in flames amidst a series of explosions, with thick smoke billowing into the sky.

What if everyone is still in the port at this time?

The moment this thought crossed everyone's minds, they broke out in a cold sweat. Luckily, they had left in time, otherwise...
Four hours later, the Russian warships, which had been traveling together, began to change course and head north. They were about to enter the Red Sea and return home via the Suez Canal, and the other ships sounded their horns to see them off.

Four hours later, under the escort of our two frigates, the evacuating ships successfully entered the port of Jilin, and the mission was successfully completed.

The staff's return home and other matters were naturally handled by the staff on Ji B Ti's side, and Sun Zhiwei and his team's task was considered complete.

This mission, which began when Sun Zhiwei received the assignment in Beijing, lasted for nine days and covered a distance of over 12,000 kilometers.

During the operation, two frigates, two merchant ships, five tanks, and two Black Hawk helicopters were deployed, successfully evacuating 869 personnel without any casualties.

In addition, we assisted in transporting more than 1200 staff members from 12 countries, which has truly enhanced our country's reputation.

The mission was completed, and the two frigates were about to return home. However, Sun Zhiwei was unwilling to drift at sea with them for seven or eight days. He directly arranged for a helicopter to take him to port in Kyrgyzstan.

The next day, two container trucks rented by Sun Zhiwei drove into the Kyrgyz Embassy, ​​accompanied by an ambulance and a converted medical bus.

The two containers contained all the medical equipment in the hospital that the hospital's director had asked him to protect.

The director of the Yemeni medical team, who had not yet left, was overwhelmed with emotion upon seeing the medical equipment. He wanted to find Sun Zhiwei to express his gratitude, but he could no longer find him.

By this time, Sun Zhiwei had changed his appearance and boarded a plane to Colombo at the airport in Jilin.

He was going to return the five borrowed tanks and also visit the gem mines in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka, along with Brazil, South Africa, Myanmar, and Thailand, is considered one of the world's five most important gem-producing countries.

Sri Lanka has been supplying gemstones, especially sapphires, to the world for 3000 years.

Most of its territory is covered with gemstone-producing parent rocks (highly crystalline metamorphic rocks from the Precambrian period).

The world's largest sapphires, star rubies, star sapphires (Star of India), cat's eye, and alexandrite all come from Sri Lanka.

There are two main gem mining areas in Sri Lanka, one of which is the Ratnapura region southeast of Colombo.

The ancient riverbed of the Karu River, which splits into two in Ratnapura, nurtures one-third of the country's gemstones, making it the largest gemstone mining region in Asia.

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