After talking about the former glory of the Public Square, Pierrebus followed the helicopter flying over the city and introduced a lot of other information.
For example, the few remaining old government buildings and university campuses have now become the largest refugee camps in the city, and are already full of refugees.
All valuables inside have been looted.
Even the metal window frames, door handles and door hinges, which were worth nothing, had been completely dismantled inside and out.
Long Zhan looked down from the helicopter and could see the campus that was once called the Engineering College.
There has long been no academic atmosphere here, and the open space is densely packed with displaced people, making temporary wooden huts built with various rudimentary materials.
The roof is basically covered with rags, and the walls are made of scrap wood picked from the garbage and rusty iron sheets.
Viewed from an airplane, they look like advanced abscesses in the city.
Super 68 flew over the engineering college campus, and Pierbus began to increase the flight altitude again, until it rose to more than 200 meters.
Just when Long Zhan was curious about why it was so high, Pilms explained nervously.
It turns out that if you continue to move forward, you will soon enter a dangerous zone - the core area of the Habjid tribe's sphere of influence.
The surrounding Markham Road, Hawadi Street, Bakara Market, etc. are all Aidid's militia strongholds, and he is the Turkish emperor here.
This area controlled by Aidid was called the Black Sea Hell by Pierbus.
Foreigners can enter the urban area of Mogadishu, and in fact there are many foreigners doing business here.
But unless there is a last resort, no one is willing to enter here, no matter whether they are black, white, or yellow, as long as they are not from the Habjid tribe.
Especially now that Aidid has declared war on the peacekeeping forces, the helicopter will be hit by rockets if it flies too low.
If there was not enough intelligence to prove that Aidid's armed forces did not purchase surface-to-air missiles, it is estimated that Long Zhan would not have been able to make this trip today.
The "Black Sea Hell" is located in the golden city center, but today's scene is even more ruinous than other places.
Even from a height of 200 meters, Long Zhan could still clearly see that there were all kinds of debris and rubbish everywhere, and various buildings had been severely damaged by the battle.
Only the cacti plants on both sides of the street bring the only life to this place.
Sonny is also a well-informed person. He has been to various war zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, but in such a shabby capital...
He has gained a lot of experience.
Clay and Brian had only worked in the Middle East, and this was their first time in Africa to carry out a mission. The dilapidation of Mogadishu refreshed their understanding of "ruins".
The various topics discussed along the way were basically full of surprise and disbelief.
Long Zhan also fully realized at this moment what it meant to be in a poor place where ruthless people come from, and the "terror" hidden in this place.
In order to successfully achieve the goal and survive in the next big crisis.
Long Zhan did not intervene in everyone's chat, but always carefully looked at the city below from the cabin. He used his memory that was far beyond ordinary people to remember every street and every house as much as possible.
As the saying goes: Only when you know yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles without danger.
As long as you keep this city in your mind and know which road leads to where and how to go, Long Zhan believes that he will benefit a lot in the following street battles.
This also became the first preparation for the Dragon War.
Super 68 wandered around the city for nearly an hour, finished the sightseeing trip and prepared to return.
Long Zhan already has a city map of Mogadishu in his head.
On the way back to the base, Long Zhan asked curiously: "I heard that the supplies transported are often robbed. Didn't the peacekeeping troops take protective measures in advance when delivering supplies in the convoy?"
"This is incredible. Can't Aidid's militia be intercepted?" Sonny also expressed his opinion.
"You just came here and don't understand the situation. In fact, it is far from that easy. It just so happens that the International Red Cross is distributing food today. I will take you there. I hope I can make it in time."
After speaking, Pierbus adjusted his flight direction and flew northwest.
Half an hour later.
Super 68 flew over the Red Cross Food Distribution Center, showing what real chaos was to Long Zhan, Sonny and others in the cabin.
Centered on the two-story house of the food distribution center, there are countless simple tents spread over a 500-meter radius.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
The area within a 200-meter radius of the food distribution center was already surrounded by refugees who had been notified, and a steady stream of people were rushing here.
The number was at least ten to twenty thousand, and the food distribution center was completely surrounded.
The exaggerated scene in front of me is more appropriate to call it a refugee camp than a Red Cross food distribution center.
War always brings disaster to ordinary people.
"It seems that the grain transport convoy hasn't arrived yet. Should we continue waiting here, or go back directly?" Pierbus asked Long Zhan and others.
"You're already here, just wait a moment."
Long Zhan's doubts haven't been answered yet, so naturally he doesn't want to leave just like that.
Sonny, Clay and Oran didn't speak.
It seemed that he was shocked by the exaggerated scene of tens of thousands of refugees gathered together below, and he was so immersed in it that he didn't even react.
"Okay!"
Pierbus made a gesture and controlled the helicopter to start circling in the sky.
About ten minutes passed.
Two trucks appeared east of the "refugee camp". The route should be from Mogadishu Airport, and their destination is the food distribution center here.
Both trucks have red crosses on them, which are standard international humanitarian relief supplies.
Long Zhan recognizes this symbol, and so does the name below.
When I saw the grain truck finally coming, the "refugee camp" that had been relatively quiet despite the crowds suddenly began to boil like boiling water.
Hundreds of refugees swarmed in, swamping grain trucks.
The two trucks had to keep pressing their horns to move forward slowly at a turtle speed to the central food distribution center.
As the two trucks were surrounded by thousands of people, they slowly crawled towards the center circle.
Sitting on the helicopter, Long Zhan had a better view and discovered that two cars were driving towards this direction from the direction of Mogadishu City in the south.
Because it was traveling very fast, two long earth dragons were raised behind the car.
At this time, the two cars were still hundreds of meters away. Long Zhan couldn't see clearly what was happening on the two cars, and asked in confusion: "What are those two cars here for?"
"You'll see later, this damn place will never be peaceful."
Pierbus did not answer directly, but deliberately left Long Zhan in suspense, and incidentally made a very unpleasant complaint.