"Battalion commander!" On this day, when I was training with the soldiers, the correspondent handed me the phone: "Commander Zhang's phone!" ”

"Urgent mission!" As soon as I took the phone, I heard Commander Zhang say on the other end of the microphone: "Immediately rush to the direction of Qiqihar with your troops, the sooner the better!" ”

"Yes!" I answered, and without saying a word, ordered the soldiers: "Assemble urgently!" ”

Ten minutes later, our company set off in twelve helicopters...... The reason why it takes ten minutes is because we need to fill up the helicopter.

At the moment of receiving the order, the staff of the synthetic battalion immediately calculated that our base was more than 1,500 kilometers away from Qiqihar in a straight line, and you must know that the maximum range of the Black Hawk helicopter was only more than 1,200 kilometers, so it was definitely necessary to fill up the tank and have a transfer station.

But I don't need to worry about this, I just need to take the combat troops to the helicopter, and let the staff coordinate and arrange everything else.

As the helicopter flew to its destination, I wondered in my heart...... What kind of task is this, so we are in such a hurry.

First of all, this Qiqihar is located in the north of our country, so it can basically be concluded that it has nothing to do with the Vietnamese devils in southern Xinjiang or the Indian devils in Tibet.

Judging from the map, our target location is not far from the Sino-Soviet border, could it be that something happened with the Soviet side?

It shouldn't be! At this time, it should be said that it was the least likely time for the Soviet Union to attack China, for the simple reason that on the one hand, he fell into an economic trap because of Vietnam. In Afghanistan it has fallen into another quagmire. On the other hand, it has to withstand the pressure of competition with the United States. At this time, if there is still a war with China, isn't it still looking for death? Just like a few years ago, he didn't even have the ability to support India in a war with us, and the Soviet leaders should not be stupid enough to do so.

Second, Qiqihar is more than 1,500 kilometers away from our base, and at the speed of 357 kilometers per hour of the Black Hawk helicopter, it will take four or five hours to fly, not counting the time spent on refueling at the transit station in the middle.

If this is an emergency, it will take us four or five hours to get there. Will it be too late?

Based on the above two points, my judgment is that this mission may not be an ordinary combat mission, and the reason why we are sent to deal with it is likely to be due to confidentiality reasons or political reasons.

Sure enough, after a while, Commander Zhang's voice came from the phone: "The situation is like this, we just received the news that at about 2:30 in the afternoon, a Soviet civil aviation AH-24b47845 suddenly landed in the wheat stubble field of the farm in Changjigang Township, Gannan County, Qiqihar City, and this civil aviation is very likely to have been hijacked!" ”

When I heard this, it dawned on me that it was a Soviet airliner that had been hijacked.

If this were a normal day, it wouldn't be a big deal. It's just a sudden international accident. But now is at a time when Sino-Soviet relations are so tense and delicate, and that is not a trivial matter.

The reason why it is said that Sino-Soviet relations are delicate. That's because the current situation in the Soviet Union has no intention of continuing the stalemate with China.

Now that the Soviet Union has been greatly damaged by the Vietnam issue and the Afghanistan issue, it is enough for him to face the United States, and if there is another China, and it is also a China that is getting stronger and stronger and has a clear upper hand in all aspects.

Although the period of reform and opening up has not been long, the gross domestic product (GDP) has nearly doubled from more than 300 billion yuan in 78 years to 600 billion yuan now, and the people's living standards have also been greatly improved. Militarily, Vietnam was powerless to fight back in the south, and the Sino-Indian issue was handled very appropriately in the west, and won praise and support from European and American countries...... At this time, European and American countries did not regard China as a threat, but regarded China as an ally to restrain the Soviet Union, so they did not preach the "China threat theory" everywhere like in modern times, but rather viewed China's development in a positive way.

From this point, we can also see the two sets of standards of European and American countries, whenever the development of a country is beneficial to them, they will look at it from a positive perspective, and once the development of this country threatens their status, then they should find all kinds of reasons to blame in every way, and it is best that the country does not develop or even regresses, so that they can settle down.

Therefore, after saving time and sizing up the situation, the Soviet Union actually had the intention of easing relations with China at this time, but it was just because what it did to China was a little too much...... A few years ago, the Soviet Union threatened to attack China with the north and south of Vietnam, so that China would face the danger of national extinction, so it is difficult to speak the other way for a while.

For China, there is actually a need for détente with the Soviet Union at this stage.

The reason is obvious, the reason why the United States will aid China so freely and generously is to restrain the Soviet Union, so what if the Soviet Union collapses?!

We Chinese understand the principle of "rabbits and dead dogs cook birds and hide their bows," and history has proved that anyone who is willing to be a lackey of the United States will not have any good fruits to eat.

For example, the military and political affairs were highly controlled by the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, especially Japan, and as soon as the industry caught up with 70 percent of the United States, it was "sheared," and then the economy was sluggish.

Another example is Libya, Iraq...... They were all propped up by the United States to deal with the anti-Americans, and there is no need to say what their final fate would be. Iraq was particularly wronged in this regard, because he was deceived by the United States into dealing with Iran, and it was clear that the United States had sent troops to Kuwait with the tacit approval of the Americans, but the United States turned around and used this as an excuse to justifiably send troops to Iraq.

China is different from these countries, these countries are small countries, and they are destined to be pawns rather than chess players in the game of great powers, which determines that they are destined to be sacrificed by the great powers at a certain time.

At this time, from the perspective of national interests, we should not hold the question of "the Soviet Union wanted to destroy us a few years ago, how can we ease relations with him now?" You should beat the reservoir dog as badly as you can! ”。

For individuals, it is possible to hold such thoughts, but as a country, it is not, and countries only consider each other based on one thing, that is, interests, and everything else is a floating cloud. Otherwise, a large country that can be a chess player is likely to become a pawn.

It is precisely because China does not want to be reduced to a pawn that it is willing to ease relations with the Soviet Union.

Therefore, under such a political environment, that is, when both China and the Soviet Union have the desire to ease relations, it is necessary to be particularly careful in handling this incident of the hijacking of Soviet civil aviation.

"It's not very clear now!" Commander Zhang said: "All we know is that there were 38 passengers and five crew members on board, one of whom was a hijacker, and it is not clear what his request was!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, and looked at my watch by the way, it was only more than half an hour before the incident, and the plane was still forced to land in the countryside, and the Russian interpreter may not have been there, so it was normal that I didn't figure out the situation.

"Now it is the troops of my 629th Regiment who are controlling the scene." Commander Zhang continued, "However, they have no experience in dealing with hijackers, so they can only delay as much time as possible and wait for you to arrive before taking action." ”

"Yes!" I answered, but I couldn't help but cry out in my heart.

These 629 regiment troops have no experience in dealing with hijackers, and neither do our agent companies!

You must know that we are soldiers who fight devils on the battlefield, and dealing with hijackers is not what we are good at, so I regret a little that I didn't bring the armed police company, and they should be better at dealing with this kind of thing.

But then again, at this time, the armed police company has been dispersed by us to train all over the country, and even if there are helicopters that can unite them in time, it will not cooperate for a long time, and who knows if it still has the original combat effectiveness.

After listening to me talk about this mission, Scar and several other cadres were also dumbfounded.

"Battalion commander!" Scar said in embarrassment: "I thought we were going to fight some kind of spies, but I didn't expect to deal with the hijacking!" This ......"

"Nothing, this is not this!" I interrupted Scar's words and said, "The superiors have given us this task, and we can only carry it out, and we can only succeed and not fail!" ”

"Yes!" The cadres responded in unison.

But having said that, in fact, even I don't know the bottom of my own heart, in modern times, I have seen the hijacking incident in movies and TV a lot, if we don't agree to the hijacker's request, he will kill someone every once in a while? And then what are we going to do?!

If it's in a private house, it's fine, we can still storm it, but this is a plane with only one hatch and no observation inside......

Just as our helicopter was heading towards its destination, information came from the staff headquarters in a row:

"We can't see what's going on inside the plane."

"They don't want to accept the food we offer!"

"The hijacker could not be identified."

……

None of the good news we got, and the news is almost the same as nothing, and we still can't get any more information.

The only useful thing is that after contacting Deputy Director Xie, Zhao Jingping used the connections of the Public Security Bureau to urgently find a few people who had flown on this type of plane, and then let them roughly recall the structure of the cabin...... At first, I thought it was very simple, this was a Soviet civil aircraft, and I only needed to contact the Soviet side, and there would be all kinds of jù coming over immediately, right?

But when I think about it, I think this idea is ridiculous, you must know that our country and the Soviet Union were still hostile at this time, and there was no channel for dialogue between them at all. (To be continued......)