Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Old Gun
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While Liu Handong was busy tossing the satellite phone, Zhongyanhuang's headquarters was holding an ad hoc meeting of the emergency response team, which was composed of capable personnel from the company's global public relations and security departments, including former diplomats and former military officers who had carried out peacekeeping missions.
Zheng Jiayi participated in the meeting as a temporary team member, and as soon as she sat down, she saw Yang Xu, who was the deputy director of Zhongyanhuang's global public relations department and one of the members of the emergency team, at this moment he was bowing his head and writing something in his notebook, and he had no time to say hello to Zheng Jiayi.
Suddenly, everyone stood up, and it turned out that Song Jianfeng had arrived.
"Time is pressing, no need to say hello, everyone sit down, Jiayi, you can introduce the latest situation." Song Jianfeng sat down at the end of the conference table, looked down and flipped through the materials, and made simple annotations on it by the way.
Zheng Jiayi stood up: "At half past six this morning, I received a call from Liu Handong, a kidnapped employee of the Peshawar project, claiming that the kidnappers were annihilated by another group of armed men, and Tang Jianjun and Bai Furong were also taken away by them, the direction was due north, and he used an Iridium phone. ”
Yang Xu raised his hand and said: "I need a detailed number, and within ten minutes, I can get the latitude and longitude of the phone through the Guò Iridium Star Company, I think we must first determine the location, whether it is Pakistan or Afghanistan, before we can decide the next step." ”
Zheng Jiayi took out his mobile phone and reported the twelve-digit Iridium phone number.
Yang Xu also took out his mobile phone, connected to the audio system of the conference room with Bluetooth, and then dialed the Iridium company prefix service number, and after the English prompt sound came from the stereo, Yang Xu dialed the number provided by Zheng Jiayi.
The phone actually went through, and a male voice came: "Hello? ”
"Is it Liu Handong?" Yang Xu asked, "This is the headquarters of Zhongyanhuang, and I am Yang Xu from the global public relations department of Zhongyanhuang." ”
"I'm Liu Handong, what should I do now, please instruct."
"Tell me about your situation."
Liu Handong recounted the events of the night again, which was completely consistent with Zheng Jiayi's description.
"What happened when the phone was suddenly cut off?" Yang Xu is thoughtful and does not forget any details.
"The phone is dead, and now it's got a new battery."
Yang Xu said: "Take a look, there is a cover above the Iridium phone, with the word SOS printed on it, open it, and there is a red button below, don't be in a hurry to press it, set it according to my words first, so that you can send us your coordinates." ”
"Okay, you say, I'll write it down."
Yang Xu taught Liu Handong how to set up the mobile phone step by step, Iridium phone has a function, which can send the GPS position where the user is sitting to the network or the designated mobile phone, and it is displayed through Google Maps, which is very intuitive and practical.
"A mobile phone number is required." Yang Xu said that he was using his mobile phone to talk, so he had to borrow another one to receive location information.
Zheng Jiayi immediately reported his number.
Liu Handong was set up under Yang Xu's hand-in-hand teaching, pressed the SOS red button, and a few seconds later, Zheng Jiayi's mobile phone received a message, the specific longitude and latitude of Liu Handong's location were presented on Google Maps, Zheng Jiayi enlarged the map, and exclaimed: "They are already in Afghanistan." ”
Yang Xu looked at the map and said: "Liu Handong, your current location is in the mountainous area of southern Afghanistan, about fifty kilometers away from the Pakistani border, I will advise you to stay where you are and wait for rescue." ”
After speaking, he glanced at Song Jianfeng: "Mr. Song, what do you have to explain?" ”
Song Jianfeng glanced at Yang Xu appreciatively and nodded: "I don't have anything to say, you continue." ”
Yang Xu said into the microphone: "Liu Handong, the call is over for the time being, we will call you every half an hour, if there is a sudden incident, you can also call, that's it, I wish you peace." ”
The phone hung up, and Song Jianfeng began to say: "Comrades, the situation is becoming more and more complicated, there are no less than dozens of armed forces in Afghanistan that are large and small that are not subordinate to each other, and there are also shadows of Americans, and the hostages don't know who they were taken by, what is their purpose?" Whether it will be a hand-holding sheep or someone who will come to tie us up is an unknown, no matter how the situation changes, we still have to do everything possible to rescue our colleagues. ”
The members of the emergency response team all nodded their heads with stern expressions.
Yang Xu raised his hand: "Mr. Song, I Jianyi sent personnel with higher authority to Pakistan to coordinate the rescue work, the people were kidnapped in Peshawar, Pakistan has the responsibility and obligation, and the northwest of Pakistan and Afghanistan are of the same language and species, and the communication is relatively smooth, even if it is to deal with the Americans, it is more convenient than us." ”
Song Jianfeng deeply believes that the Americans have laid out Central Asia, Pakistan is very important, and Pakistan needs the vigorous cooperation of Pakistan on the issue of counter-terrorism, the CIA and Pakistan's intelligence agencies have close exchanges and cooperation, although China has extremely close diplomatic relations with Pakistan, but when it comes to Afghanistan, there is nothing to be done, for the sake of the three hostages, it is tantamount to a fantasy to expect to send special forces to secretly cross the border to rescue, and this matter still depends on the Pakistani side, with them as the main rescue.
Yang Xu is the deputy director of the Global Public Relations Department, the actual person in charge, young and promising, responsible, and just now his appearance is very good, meticulous, and proficient, but from the latitude and longitude, it can be seen that the hostage is now in Afghanistan, and he is quite familiar with the use of Iridium telephone, and he can do it in a few minutes if someone else is rambling for an hour.
"Xiao Yang, do you have any confidence in going to Islamabad and cooperating with the embassy to negotiate with the Pakistani government, and you must ensure the safety of our employees?"
Song Jianfeng is a person who has been the director of the public security department, and he is resolute in his work, Yang Xu can keep up with his rhythm, looked at his watch and said: "I can't catch up at six o'clock in the morning, there is a Southern Airlines flight stopping in Urumqi at seventeen o'clock in the afternoon, and I can arrive in Islamabad at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and I will book a ticket immediately." ”
"You take a special plane, I'll arrange it right away." Song Jianfeng waved his hand.
"It's good that you can stay in touch at any time on the plane." Yang Xu began to pack his things, "I need one, no, two Iridium phones, and enough authorization." ”
"It's all for you." Song Jianfeng said.
Zheng Jia raised his hand: "I have something to say." ”
Song Jian's razor-sharp gaze turned to her, and suddenly softened: "Jiayi, it's dangerous there, don't go." ”
Zheng Jiayi said with a straight face: "I think Liu Handong can play a bigger role, and we must mobilize a qiē force, even if it is an escaped hostage." ”
Song Jianfeng pondered for a moment and said: "What Jia Yi said is very reasonable, we don't have many chess pieces in our hands, I still know Liu Handong well, I use a lot, and it can play a key role, so let's go, Jia Yi, you can also go and cooperate with Yang Xu to carry out work." ”
"Yes." Zheng Jiayi also began to pack his things.
"Adjournment." Song Jianfeng glanced around, "I'm waiting for your good news." ”
Zhongyan Huang Office quickly contacted the airline, rented a Bombardier Challenger business jet, and the members of the emergency team packed up and rushed to the airport in the shortest time, with five members, the team leader is Yang Xu, and Zheng Jiayi joined as a temporary member, responsible for coordinating with Liu Handong.
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In an unknown small mountain village in Afghanistan, Liu Handong got a new outfit for himself, when he was kidnapped, he was still wearing orange and yellow medium-yellow overalls, the bright color is a live target in the Afghan landscape, he peeled off a knee-high robe from the corpse, and got a vest to put on, wearing a Pashtun hat on his head, plus an automatic rifle on his back, it looks a bit like an Afghan tribal armed man.
The old-fashioned rifle that Liu Handong got has a peculiar shape, it looks like a hybrid of a hybrid of a Type 56 semi-automatic and a Type 56 submachine gun, a wooden pallet, a 20-magazine magazine, which can be single or connected, the folding bayonet is still sharp, and the words "63-style" are on the receiver.
The gun that Ahmad used, older than this Type 63, had a ten-loading magazine and an iron hoop on the butt, and the inscription should be that of the British Lee. Enfield IV rifle.
"Boy, this gun can be your grandfather." Liu Handong rubbed the old gun and pulled the bolt with his hand, feeling that it was extremely smooth, and the old gun was well maintained.
The two searched for a long time, and found some useful things, three Soviet grenades, two military kettles, a Soviet military eight-fold telescope, and a Chinese-made 54-style pistol.
"This gun is good." Liu Handong became excited, withdrew the magazine and pulled the sleeve continuously, and the old May Fourth baked blue was all polished and shiny, and three Chinese characters were vaguely engraved on the sleeve.
"Luo Keqiang." This is a Chinese name, I don't know what era of martyr, died in Afghanistan, with guns obtained by locals, has been used until now.
At dawn, a red sun rose from the east, and the golden light was sprinkled in the lofty mountains of Afghanistan, Liu Handong looked at his position, a basin sandwiched in the mountains, with sparse vegetation on the mountains, full of sand and gravel, and a barren area.
The so-called cemetery of empires is a scene of Afghanistan, which has defeated the British Empire, dragged down the Soviet Union, and now dragged the United States into the quagmire since the last century.
"Boy, come back to Pakistan with me, arrange for you to be a small worker on the construction site, and never have to live a day of fighting and killing again, what do you think?" Liu Handong said.
Ahmed didn't understand his words, and his hands danced, his expression was excited, and he made slashing gestures one after another.
Liu Handong came back to his senses and asked, "You mean, you want to take revenge and kill all those masked guys?" As he spoke, he made a machine-gun firing motion.
Ahmet nodded violently, hatred in his eyes.
"When is the time for retribution?" Liu Handong said with emotion, "This is the only time, if you don't take it as an example, you will go back to Pakistan with me as a small worker after killing." ”