Mercenary’s War
Chapter 1124 - 1124 One Thousand One Hundred and Seven Forced Landing

1124: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Seven: Forced Landing 1124: Chapter One Thousand One Hundred and Seven: Forced Landing The helicopter might crash, and it could happen at any time—the only thing that’s impossible is for it to keep flying without any issues.

Therefore, finding a good spot for an emergency landing is very important.

Aleppo Prison has withstood the siege by the Rebel Army for almost a year.

It is now the closest and only safe haven.

If they were to land at the prison, it would take less than three minutes since the combat zone is right next to it.

Landing inside Aleppo Prison would at least provide high walls for protection, so they wouldn’t have to face an enemy siege immediately.

Therefore, Aleppo Prison is Satan’s best current refuge, the only viable location for an emergency landing, and luckily, Gao Yang and his team are very close, incredibly close, just a turn and two minutes’ flight away from Aleppo Prison.

Hearing Gao Yang’s shout, Eileen turned the helicopter in a new direction—it had been flying east, but now it was headed south.

“Be careful when entering the prison, the Rebel Army besieging it has anti-aircraft guns and missiles!”

Afraid that Eileen might overlook the besieging Rebel Army’s capabilities, Gao Yang quickly reminded her, and Eileen then shouted, “Understood, everyone hold tight!

Don’t fall out!”

Aleppo Prison was now a besieged fortress.

To enter, they’d have to fly over the Rebel Army encircling it.

All supplies to the prison at present come from airdrops, so the Rebel Army positions around it are always equipped with plenty of anti-air weapons.

Eileen lowered the altitude even further to break through the anti-aircraft defenses.

Skimming just above the treetops is the best and only way to do it.

Flying towards Aleppo Prison at the height of the treetops, they passed through a bombed-out copse with only a few trees still standing.

Looking at the scant trees almost scraping the cabin door, Gao Yang and the others grabbed onto anything that could steady their bodies.

Gao Yang had survived a crash before, and he certainly didn’t want to go through that again.

To facilitate a quick exit from the aircraft, Eileen had kept the tail cabin door open, so Gao Yang simply shut his eyes; if he didn’t, he couldn’t help but look out the back door, and seeing the ground flying by made his legs tremble and teeth chatter, feeling weak in the knees.

With closed eyes, out of sight, even if still scared, he wouldn’t pee his pants in fear.

With his eyes closed, listening to the occasional scream filled with terror from inside the cabin, and feeling the much stronger vibrations of the helicopter than usual, Gao Yang mentally cursed Justin over and over again.

It was Justin’s fault they had been pushed to the brink of annihilation.

If not for the intel he provided, how could Satan have possibly come to Aleppo to jump into a pit that had been dug by someone else?

During battle, there’s no time to think of such things, but now, while busy trying to escape, Gao Yang began to ponder how to have a word with Justin about this matter.

Actually, no need to talk.

If Justin had colluded with IS or Iron Madonna to trap them, once Gao Yang recovered his strength, survived this difficult situation, he would find a way to go after Justin and take his life.

Even if Justin hadn’t meant to trap them, as an information dealer—well known and always boasting about never selling false information—he still had some serious explaining to do.

The helicopter swept over the Rebel Army positions.

By the time the soldiers on the ground noticed it, the helicopter had already whizzed over their heads, leaving them nothing to do but eat dust.

Just then, Jansen, lying in the cabin, opened his eyes.

After moving his eyeballs back and forth, Jansen weakly raised his right hand to catch someone’s attention, and then whispered softly.

With the noise too loud to hear anything without shouting, Frey screamed, “Say it over the intercom!”

Jansen said vaguely over the intercom, “Where are we, in a helicopter?

Thank God, we actually left.”

Frey shouted, “We’re in a helicopter, but it’s hard to say whether we can leave or not.

Now pray to God that we land safely!

If you want to confess to God, hurry!”

Just then, Eileen shouted, “About to land.”

After passing over the Rebel Army position, the helicopter began to slow down.

As it flew over the high walls of the prison and started to descend, Gao Yang heard an ominous cracking sound, followed by a loud snap, and the helicopter lost control, starting to spin.

The main rotor was still working, but the tail rotor had failed.

This meant the helicopter could still maintain lift, but it was impossible to control direction.

The helicopter began to spin rapidly in the air, and centrifugal force was flinging Gao Yang and the others towards the tail cabin door.

However, since the helicopter had just started spinning, it wasn’t too fast, and they managed to grab onto things to avoid being thrown out of the tail cabin door.

The helicopter continued to fall in an increasingly rapid spin.

“Everyone be careful!

I’ll try to land smoothly, but the helicopter will tip over on landing!

Be careful not to get thrown out, and once it’s stable, hurry out to prevent the helicopter from catching fire and exploding!”

While Eileen screamed madly, she shut the tail cabin door, because the centrifugal force would throw people out in the middle of such a spinning descent.

The cabin door had barely closed when the aircraft touched down on the ground.

Eileen controlled it well, the descent was not fast, but as the spinning helicopter landed, the three landing gears couldn’t keep it stable, and the helicopter immediately tipped to one side.

The main rotor hit the ground and shattered immediately, its blades breaking off and shooting out in all directions.

Gao Yang desperately grabbed onto a handle with his left hand, but the moment they landed, he couldn’t hold on and was thrown to one side, everyone in the cabin was thrown into a tangled heap.

Gao Yang’s right arm was hit by someone, the pain made him yell out loud, but after the collision, the landing was complete, then Eileen shouted, “Get out quick, get out!”

The helicopter landed on its side, the tail hatch wouldn’t open.

Despite being battered, Rafael, who ended up on top of the heap, struggled to open the side hatch.

He then crawled out through the upward-facing side hatch and reached down, yelling, “Hurry up, I’ll pull you out!”

The main rotor was shattered clean off, leaving only the mast still spinning, but a moment before landing Eileen had already shut down the engine, so the speed of the mast rotation was slowing down.

Military helicopters are well-equipped for explosion prevention, not exploding as easily as they do in movies, but then again, it’s not uncommon for Mi-17s to become fireballs after crash-landing, so the sooner they got away, the better.

“Get the wounded out first!”

Glolov shouted, stood up from the heap, dragged Andy He over, then along with Jinfang, hoisted him towards the side hatch, where he was pulled out by Rafael.

First Andy He, then Jansen, and then Gao Yang.

When Gao Yang was pushed and pulled to the hatch, the first thing he saw was Rafael, then Eileen waiting on the ground along with the helicopter’s co-pilot, followed by a throng of soldiers running toward them.

Rafael pushed Gao Yang down, and as Gao Yang slid down from the belly of the aircraft, Eileen caught him in her arms.

After setting Gao Yang on the ground, Eileen shouted, “Get away from here fast!”

Gao Yang’s head was spinning; staggering, he took a few steps, grabbed Andy He, who was sitting on the ground grimacing in pain, then Andy stretched out his hand to pull Jansen, who was lying on the ground.

Gao Yang struggled to drag the two and shouted loudly, somehow summoning the strength to pull the two men and start moving forward.

Only four or five steps in, a group of bearded men in Syrian military uniform ran up to him.

The soldiers only glanced at the blood-covered men, didn’t need any explanations, and lifted them two or three at a time, racing away from the helicopter.

One Big Beard supported Gao Yang, and while dragging him away quickly, he shouted, “Are you alright?”

Gao Yang yelled back, “Go save others!”

Gao Yang looked back and saw that twenty or thirty people had already run up to the helicopter.

As each person emerged, they immediately pulled those dazed from the crash and ran off.

Eileen was also being pushed to run over, and the co-pilot along with the flight engineer had also escaped to a safe distance.

“Everyone’s out, everyone’s out!”

The last to leave the cabin, Glolov bellowed and then fiercely gestured for the soldiers surrounding the helicopter to get away.

Glolov took on Gao’s responsibility, though Gao was also a casualty.

Once they reached a safe distance, Big Beard again shouted, “Which unit are you from?

Who are you?”

The rebels don’t have helicopters; even if they did, they wouldn’t land in the prison.

So, the immediate reaction of the soldiers guarding Aleppo Prison was that one of their own had come, but seeing Gao and his companions so different from the Syrians, they immediately switched to asking who they were.

Gao sat on the ground, waved at the people who came to meet him after catching his breath, and gasped, “Don’t worry, we’re definitely friendly.”

At that moment, Glolov pointed to Gao and shouted loudly to a man speaking with him, “Go talk to him, he’s the highest commander.”

After speaking, Glolov too sat down on the ground, but immediately lay down.

An officer ran to Gao, shouting, “I am the highest commander here, may I ask who you are?”

Having a close brush with death, Gao really didn’t feel like talking.

He took a deep breath, then with difficulty, opened the pocket on the right side of his pants with his left hand, took out a military ID, and handed it to the questioning officer.

“I am Major General Gong Yang; you can contact the outside world, right?

Immediately get in touch with your highest commander, have him contact the Ministry of Defense, and they will confirm our identities.

Also, let the Ministry of Defense know that the Nightfiend Team has been ambushed, the operation failed, and now the entire Nightfiend Team has made an emergency landing at Aleppo Prison.

Go make the contact now, let me catch my breath, thank you.”

After saying that in an imperfect Arabic, Gao waved his hand tiredly and then said, “Make it quick, quick!” (To be continued.

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