1145: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Ard Breakthrough 1145: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Ard Breakthrough Tears fall before words.
As Saidev heard the voice coming through the handset, he opened his mouth to speak but before he could say anything, tears began streaming down his eyes.
Gao Yang stood up, patted Saidev on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, “Don’t rush, take your ti.”
“Hello, it’s .”
When Saidev uttered his first words with a hoarse voice, Gao Yang walked away, sitting on the ground around thirty or forty ters from Saidev, waiting patiently.
Gao Yang began to feel hosick too, sitting there alone, recalling every little detail about his ho and the taste of dumplings.
It wasn’t long before Gao Yang wiped his face; after a while, he had to do it again, and eventually, he stopped bothering to wipe away the tears at all.
Saidev talked for a long ti, and Gao Yang sat for a long ti, but Gao Yang didn’t feel ti pass as ti seems to fly when one is lost in mories.
After a long while, Gao Yang didn’t realize Saidev had co over until he heard Saidev raising his voice the second ti he said ‘General’, which startled Gao Yang back to reality.
“Oh, you’ve finished the call?”
Saidev handed back the phone.
After Gao Yang put it in his pocket, Saidev reached out his hand.
When they grasped hands, Saidev held Gao Yang’s hand with both of his, tightly gripping it as he said with a serious face, “If I’m still alive to leave this place, I will repay you, I surely will!”
Gao Yang chuckled and said, “Buddy, it’s just a phone call.”
Saidev shook his head and whispered, “No, it’s not just a phone call, General.
I want to ask you, please help get my family out of the country.
I don’t want them to live in fear in Damascus anymore.
If, and I an if, I make it out alive, I will bring them back.
But if I don’t, let them live in Lebanon.”
Gao Yang frowned and said, “My friend, I don’t think you’re making a wise choice.
Lebanon…
how long do you think it will stay peaceful?”
Saidev let go of Gao Yang’s hand, his voice laced with resignation, “If I’m alive, I can take care of my family.
Actually, I don’t want them to leave Syria; my family has been well treated by the governnt.
But I am worried about the deteriorating security situation in Damascus.
Before I see no hope of leaving, I would rather have them hide in a place that is still safe for now.
At this mont, Beirut is much safer than Damascus.
Besides, my wife’s brother is in Lebanon, so they will have soone there to take care of them.
I wouldn’t be too worried.
If I manage to leave the prison alive, I will go and bring them back.”
Gao Yang nodded and said, “Alright, that’s not a problem.
When I get to Damascus, I’ll go to your house to pick up your family and take them to Beirut.
I promise you, as long as I’m alive, it will be done.”
Saidev heaved a deep sigh of relief and said, “General, my heart has never felt as at peace as it does this mont in over a year.
Thank you, General.”
Gao Yang smiled and said, “It’s nothing, this isn’t too difficult for .
By the way, now that you’ve contacted your family, how are they?
Is everything alright at ho?”
Saidev sighed and said, “It’s alright, life has beco a bit harder, but they’re secure.
The problem is, schools have closed down, so the kids can’t go to school.
There have been two suicide attacks near my house, but fortunately, my family was unhard.”
Gao Yang sincerely said, “In tis like these, suffering a bit is nothing; it’s good that everyone is safe.”
Saidev, deeply moved, nodded vigorously and said, “General, I suspect this attack by Division 134 will not achieve much.
If you’re planning to leave, how do you plan to get out?”
Gao Yang spread his hands helplessly and said, “Only by helicopter.
It’s risky, but I have urgent matters to attend to, so I’ll take the risk.”
Saidev said with a grave voice, “I’ve thought it over carefully.
What if you use a helicopter and the greatest danger cos from anti-aircraft missiles?
If the helicopter flies at ultra-low altitude while Division 134 conducts artillery strikes on the enemy, preventing them from using missiles for an attack, the helicopter can flee quickly before they have ti to react.
Would that work?”
Gao Yang, with a helpless gesture, said, “The Rebel Army currently prioritizes their air defenses.
They have many people assigned specifically to look out and, besides, flying at ultra-low altitude during the day is also very dangerous.
They’ve acquired a lot of the newer Northwest Wind Air Defense Missiles from France, which pose a much greater threat to helicopters than the older models the rebels used to have.”
Nightti flight would be better.
If we could fly at ultra-low altitudes at night, we wouldn’t need artillery support to divert the enemy’s attention.
But the problem is that ultra-low altitude night flights are too dangerous.
Only aircraft equipped with night vision can manage it, and unfortunately, our air force can’t spare any helicopters capable of night flights right now.
There are helicopters, but no qualified pilots.
And if we can’t achieve truly ultra-low altitude flight, it’s still too dangerous.”
After saying this, Gao Yang waved his hand, “However, these are all relative terms.
Originally, I had no pressing reason to leave, so I chose to stay rather than to risk leaving.
But now I must leave, so taking so risks is acceptable.”
What was once tily may no longer be so; the tis have changed, and the choices are definitely different.
Originally, I thought the siege by the Rebel Army could be broken in at most a month or two, so it would be possible to stay and wait for a while.
But now, the prospect of breaking the siege seems indefinitely far off, so Gao Yang is certainly willing to accept certain risks.
Saidev let out a sigh, “If only we had a helicopter that is fast, can fly low, and is capable of ultra-low altitude night flights, and of course, we’d need a pilot.
It’s a pity, Syria is still too backward; we simply don’t have any of these capabilities.”
Suddenly, Gao Yang raised his hand, “No, wait, wait, F**k!
We actually have such aircraft!”
Saidev exclaid in surprise, “We do?”
Gao Yang slapped his forehead in excitent, “Yes, we do!”
Gao Yang felt like smacking himself in the head; how could he have forgotten about the two Mi-24s sitting idle at the Damascus airport?
The Mi-24 can perform ultra-low altitude penetration, is fast, and can carry eight fully ard soldiers.
Without mounting weapons, even ten fully ard soldiers wouldn’t be an issue.
The key is that their Mi-24s are fitted with large night vision devices, making ultra-low altitude night flights possible.
Always using the Mi-24 purely as an ard helicopter, Gao Yang forgot they could actually use it to extract them.
Compared to the slower Mi-17 in terms of take-off and flight speed, using the Mi-24 would be much safer, not to ntion capable of ultra-low altitude night flights, making it easy to break through the Rebel Army’s defensive lines.
The biggest problem is finding a qualified pilot for the extraction, and whether the airport in Damascus is willing to dispatch the aircraft for the rescue.
Gao Yang felt that getting the airport to send an aircraft to rescue them wouldn’t be difficult at all; the Syrian side had always been very supportive and it was unlikely that they would just abandon them in jail.
So, as long as the pilot issue is resolved, this plan would be feasible.
After thinking it over, Gao Yang felt the pilot issue could also be resolved.
They could ask the airport to dispatch its own pilots, who just need to succeed in entering the prison; for the return flight, Eileen could pilot the helicopter.
But that seed unfair, as Syrian pilots were already insufficiently trained, and it was unrealistic to use helicopters for ultra-low altitude night flights; low altitude was already the limit, and it was too dangerous.
The air force had already lost one helicopter trying to help them; it’s inappropriate to take Syrian pilots’ lives lightly.
Another option was for Gao Yang to find pilots himself, which could also be easily solved.
Calling back the pilots who once flew Night Demon One and Two from Israel, or asking Polovich to find two skilled pilots to fly from Damascus to fetch them, either way, would work.
After all, as long as the money is good, there are plenty of skilled pilots available.
Having thought of a plan, Gao Yang could not sit still any longer.
He said to Saidev, “I need to make a few calls, wait for .”
Gao Yang didn’t call Dani first.
After so thought, he felt that looking for people from Israel would be more troubleso, especially considering the difficulty for pilots to enter and leave Israel.
So, he decided to find soone through Polovich instead.
Excitedly, he called Polovich, and as soon as Polovich picked up, Gao Yang said urgently, “Buddy, can you do a favor?
I’ll pay a high price for two Mi-24 pilots.
I need the best of the best.
Have them go to Damascus, fly to Aleppo Prison, and get us out.”
Polovich laughed and said, “My friend, have you finally had enough of the prison?”
Gao Yang responded with a bitter smile, “I’ve had enough.
Now, I don’t care even if the Rebel Army has ten thousand Northwest Wind Air Defense Missile launchers.
I need to leave, and I think that with your help in modifying the Mi-24s, I can now bear the risk of an ultra-low altitude night flight to get us out.
But this requires good pilots, and I need the best.”
Polovich said leisurely, “Speaking of the best, I consider myself not too shabby.”
Gao Yang replied with a wry smile, “Buddy, how often do you actually fly a helicopter these days?”
Polovich replied helplessly, “Alright, I indeed haven’t been flying much for quite so ti.
Let find you two pilots, I promise they will be the best I can find.
I can get the manpower, but it’d be a single mission and the price will be on the higher side.
Fifty thousand dollars per person.
However, it will take so ti to get them to Damascus, I estimate at least a week.”
Gao Yang said urgently, “A week?
No problem, that will do.
I’ve already waited over a month, what’s one more week?
Find four pilots and have them co with two aircraft to pick us up.
If it’s not possible to fly in without combat, then I’m ready for an ard breakout!” (To be continued.
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