Chapter 426

"Boom ~ ~"

with a roar of thunder, the pouring rain is pouring down, which blurs the distant mountains in an instant. Looking out of the window at the falling rain, mendinger's yellow eyebrows wrinkled involuntarily. He immediately turned his head, sat on the chair, put his hands on the typewriter, and quickly knocked out a beautiful string On April 17, 1987, precipitation continued in the southern foothills of the Himalayas, where roads were muddy and motor vehicles were unable to drive, so they had to rely on human and livestock to maintain their roads.

Unfortunately, last night, a sudden mountain torrent destroyed the only way to the outside, trapping not only the local people, but also the troops stationed here.

According to local officials, they have enough grain and other living materials for a month, and a number of troops have been stationed in rotation some time ago. In contrast, the situation in China across the border is more severe, because the average altitude of the Himalayas behind them is 6000-7000 km.

The sudden rainfall not only destroys the bridges, roads and farmland here, but also cuts off the external passage on the opposite side. In China, only 24 S-70 "Black Hawk" helicopters can fly over the towering Himalayas.

Obviously, the number of these helicopters is seriously insufficient, and they are unable to cope with the increasingly serious mountain torrents.

To this end, the commander of the local garrison said this morning that if the Chinese side is unable to provide relief to the disaster areas, they are willing to help China out of humanitarian reasons.

Although I would like to see the help of the local garrison on the Chinese side, the reality is not optimistic. Although the local officials and garrison officers have vowed to ensure that their supplies are abundant, even if the roads are destroyed, it will not affect their lives. According to my observation, there is little food and salt left for the local residents, but the local officials and garrison have not given them any The meaning of material.

Of course, the supplies of my foreign correspondent are guaranteed, but the price is three times higher than before, and only in pounds or dollars.

All kinds of signs show that the situation on the ground is not as optimistic as those officials and officers said. I will report the details later.

Reuters, Martin mendinger, yuluger.

When the last word was finished, mendingel took down the press release and read it carefully twice. He found no problem, so he was ready to go to the telegraph room in the back to send the press release to the branch of Reuters in New Delhi, and then formed a formal news through the branch and sent it to the whole world in the name of Reuters.

To this end, mendinger took out a small bottle of diesel oil from under the table and poured it into the small generator. Then he used his best effort to start the diesel generator. After waiting for five or six minutes, when the generator set was preheated, he turned on the power and started the radio transmitter.

But just when mendingel was busy and could finally send a message, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a tall man in a raincoat burst in. Mendingel frowned in displeasure and was just about to spit out fragrance to scold the visitor.

The intruder said, "a Skylark III crashed on the way here, killing all four people on board."

Hearing this, mendingel immediately took off the earphone on his head, stood up from his chair and asked the visitor in surprise: "really?"

The man took off his rain hat and showed a face full of beards and vicissitudes. He gave a proud smile to mendinger: "the news of our French helicopter is absolutely accurate."

"Is there anything more specific?" Asked mendingel.

However, the visitor took out a press release from his pocket and said impolitely, "send this to the AFP branch in New Delhi. I will tell you what you want."

Instead of answering, mendingel looked at the visitor with a vigilant look on his face: "Mr. Marcello, don't tell me that your Agence France Presse is so poor that it doesn't even have a transmitter for you."

Marcello did not care about the staller: "indeed, they did not give me a transmitter, but gave me a satellite phone, but without electricity, it was a brick, and it was not far away."

After hearing this, mendingel didn't know what to say. Before last night, the disaster situation didn't further expand. Fortunately, at least there is electricity in this place. But since the disaster was serious, the power facilities have been damaged. As for when it will be restored, no one knows.

Not to mention Marcelo's satellite phone, even mendinger's own is no different from a brick.

Fortunately, Reuters, who worked for mendinger, once traveled all over the South Asian subcontinent as a suzerain state, and even knew more about some places than the local government. Therefore, when mendinger arrived, in addition to the advanced satellite telephone, it was equipped with traditional small diesel generator and telegraph transmission equipment.

In this way, mendingel can continuously send front-line reports to his superiors. Marcello doesn't have this convenience, but he is not the kind of person who can get the best of things. He is a reporter stationed abroad. He naturally knows what he has in his hand.So after writing the press release, he immediately put on his raincoat and found it, just like his own home, without any embarrassment.

"OK, but the news of skylark III crash is not enough." They are all foreign correspondents from the top Western news agencies. Although they have competition, they belong to the same camp. It is very common for them to help each other. So mendingel took over Marcello's press release, but he didn't mean to discount the terms on his lips.

"Don't worry, I have two bottles of good wine. I'll bring them to you later." Marcelo said quickly.

After hearing this, mendingel nodded his head with satisfaction. At this moment, Marcelo suddenly bowed his head and said, "in fact, we can cooperate. In fact, this disaster has exposed the shortcomings of short-term air transportation between China and here."

Then he shoved the press release into mendinger's hand. Seeing Marcello's press release, mendinger immediately opened his eyes and nodded: "this angle is good, this angle is good."

Before the voice is heard, you can get to the side of the transmitter, put on the headset, and soon with the click and click sound, a string of characters will fly to New Delhi with the radio waves.

An article entitled "small multi-purpose aircraft is the key" was sent to the whole world through Reuters and AFP. It's OK in other places. New Delhi was very happy when they read this article. They have small multi-purpose aircraft in their hands. They not only have them, but also have them completely localized. Since even great powers like Britain and France think that this kind of equipment is the key, they still have to wait What? Just take it out and use it.

So not long after the reports of mendinger and Marcelo were officially published to the world, New Delhi announced that the donier-228 small transport aircraft, which was imported from the Federal Republic of Germany a few years ago and has been domestically made since last year, will participate in the disaster relief task at the northern border.

When the news came out, all parties were in an uproar!