After talking about the former glory of the Public Square, Pierrebus also introduced a lot of other information as the helicopter flew over the city.
For example, the few remaining old government buildings and university campuses have now become the largest refugee camps in the city, and they are already full of refugees.
All valuables inside had been looted.
Even the metal window frames, door handles and door hinges, which were worth nothing, had been completely dismantled inside and out.
Looking down from the helicopter, Long Zhan could see the campus that was once called the Engineering College.
The academic atmosphere here has long since disappeared, and the open space is densely packed with displaced people, making temporary wooden huts built with various rudimentary materials.
The roofs are basically covered with rags, and the walls are made of scrap wood picked from garbage and rusty iron sheets.
Viewed from an airplane, they look like advanced abscesses in a 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 wondering why it was so deep, Pilms explained nervously.
It turns out that if you continue to move forward, you will soon enter the danger 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 emperor here.
This area controlled by Aidid was called the Black Sea Hell by Pierbus.
Foreigners can enter the urban area of Mogadishu. In fact, many foreigners do business here.
But if there is no last resort, no one, no matter black, white, or yellow, as long as they are not from the Habergide tribe, is willing to enter here.
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 made this trip today.
The "Black Sea Hell" is located in the golden city center, but today's scene is more bankrupt than other places.
Even from a height of 200 meters, Long Zhan could still clearly see that there were all kinds of debris and garbage everywhere, and various buildings had been seriously damaged in the battle.
Only the cactus 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 such a shabby capital...
He has learned a lot.
Clay and Brian had only worked in the Middle East, and this was their first mission in Africa. 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 means to have unruly people come out of poor mountains and rivers, and realized 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 down at the city below from the cabin, using his far superior memory to remember every street and house as much as possible.
As the saying goes: Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles.
As long as you keep this city in your mind and know which road leads to where, Long Zhan believes that he will benefit a lot in the next street battle.
This also became the first preparation for the Dragon War.
Super 68 wandered around the city for nearly an hour before finishing the sightseeing trip and preparing to return.
Long Zhan already had 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.
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 picture 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 Otherwise didn't speak.
It seemed that he was so shocked by the exaggerated scene formed by the gathering of tens of thousands of refugees below that he was so immersed in it that he had not yet reacted.
"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 recognized this symbol, and so did the name below.
Seeing the grain truck finally coming, the "refugee camp" that was originally 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.
Long Zhan, who had a better view from the helicopter, discovered that two cars were driving towards Mogadishu 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 going on on the two cars, and asked in confusion: "What are those two cars here for?"
"You'll see in a minute, this damn place will never be peaceful."
Pierbus did not answer directly, but deliberately left Long Zhan in suspense, and incidentally made an unpleasant comment.
