Chapter 266: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Although female soldiers are not as rare in modern times as they used to be, they are still very interesting as the weak side in the war, not to mention the women of the Gulf region whose dogs stipulate that they are shy from head to toe and cannot be shown to outsiders. For most people, sending their wives, sisters, or daughters to war is blasphemy against the gods, and they can't go to heaven after death.
This is undoubtedly the most cruel punishment among religious believers, of course, perhaps the Kurds who share the same faith are an exception, they have always had a tradition of women's soldiers, but the problem is that even if there are female soldiers, they are all pure female soldiers, how can there be a female leader with a group of male soldiers? This is completely contrary to common sense in the Gulf region, where men are extremely patriarchal and inferior!
Zhou Ming was not interested in taking care of other people's religious affairs, so after a moment of stunned, Zhou Ming immediately came back to his senses and said to her: "Respected female leader, first of all, I am sorry for my uninvited arrival, and secondly, I need to go to Mahad immediately to meet your chief of Gaolan, because I have come today with news from the Republic of Kurdistan. ”
As the guide translated Zhou Ming's words bit by bit in Kud, Zhou Ming could see that the militants on the opposite side were obviously bright-eyed, looking at each other excitedly, and the female leader was also stunned, looking at Zhou Ming with an expression of surprise and incredulity.
Zhou Ming said this deliberately, and he also knew how lethal his words were to these Kurds, you must know that the Kurds, as one of the most populous ethnic groups in West Asia, have always been oppressed and ruled by other ethnic groups in history, so they are even more eager than the Jews to establish a country of their own nation, determine their own politics, economy and culture, and do not accept the rule of other ethnic groups.
And the Kurdish armed forces were also established for this wish, and now that they heard the news that Zhou Ming had brought the Republic of Kurdistan, how could they not make these Kurds excited?
But the female leader at the head was puzzled after being excited: "Huaxia, it's not a secret that we Kurds want to establish our own country, so your words are not convincing, or why did you bring this news?"
Facing the questioning of this Kurdish female leader, Zhou Ming sighed silently in his heart: It's really not so easy to fool!
But it's normal to think about it, after all, as the other side said, the Kurds' desire to establish their own state is completely open, and they have even been at war with the government forces in Salm for this, so it would be too mentally retarded for anyone to say that they would be let go by bringing news of the establishment of the state.
Despite this, Zhou Ming did not give up, and he asked the female leader: "Are you the chief of the Kurdish Mahad ghetto?"
The female leader shook her head and said no, and Zhou Ming then said, "Then since you are not the chief, then why should I tell you the news brought to the chief?"
"You damned heretic, do you know who she is? she's the daughter of our chieftain, the princess of Kudistan!"
Hearing the guide's translation, there were Kurdish militants who immediately shouted angrily, and even pointed their guns at Zhou Ming threateningly.
Zhou Ming didn't care about their threat, because if they wanted to shoot, they would have shot a long time ago, and now it's just a show, but what interests Zhou Ming is that this female leader is actually the daughter of the Kurdish chieftain he wants to meet, no wonder these soldiers are willing to listen to her orders.
Compared with these radical Kurdish guerrillas, the female leader who was Princess Kud was much calmer, she gestured to her soldiers to be quiet, and then said to Zhou Ming: "Indeed, there are some things that should be told to the chief, not to me, but only if you can meet the chief, just like you, as long as I give an order, I am afraid that you will be immediately beaten into a sieve, right?"
Zhou Ming nodded at this: "I believe in this, but Your Royal Highness Princess Kudistan, you don't know a thing, you have been surrounded, right?"
Hearing this, the female leader was stunned, Zhou Ming glanced back at Zhang Lin at this time, Zhang Lin whistled knowingly, and with Zhang Lin's whistle, bursts of gunfire suddenly rang out in the surrounding valleys, and this gunshot seemed to echo in the valley from all directions. The Kurdish guerrillas on the opposite side were taken aback, and they looked around in a panic, a little overwhelmed.
The female leader immediately shouted: "This is impossible! The surrounding valleys are all within our range of activity, it is impossible for your large force to ambush there, there should be at least more than 500 people listening to this gunshot, and it is impossible for our sentinels not to find it!"
Zhou Ming spread his hands and said helplessly: "People are like this, they always think that their logic is right, and they can even deny the facts that are happening in front of them." ”
"And. Zhou Ming continued, "I know you're angry right now, and I admit that you can kill us before my people attack, but I can only say that it's pointless, because I'm here to bring you good news, not to fight you, so if you understand this, please take us to Mahad, okay?"
The female leader, who had been silent, suddenly laughed after saying this, and she said to Zhou Ming: "We Kurds respect the strong, Huaxia, you have proved your strength, and we welcome you." ”
As the female leader spoke, the Kurdish guerrillas behind her put away their guns, and then the female leader asked her subordinates to drive, while she and several guerrillas got into Zhou Ming's minibus.
At this time, Zhang Lin blew a different whistle again, and saw nine black shadows running down from the mountains in different directions and returning to the car.
Seeing these nine people, the female leader's face darkened at that time, and she asked Zhou Ming, "This is the troops you are ambushing around?"
Zhou Ming nodded and replied as a matter of course: "Of course, I am a minibus, not a train, and it can only fit so many people." ”
In fact, the situation just now was the movement made by Zhang Lin's desert team, and Zhou Ming was worried that it would be difficult to convince the other party with just one mouth, so he asked them to sneak to the surrounding mountains by night, trying to make the appearance of many people as much as possible, so as to strengthen their momentum.
"You cunning liar!" the female leader snapped angrily.
"I'm sorry, but I've never said how many people I've ambushed, at least five hundred people guessed that you said it, and I didn't admit it. Zhou Ming said innocently.
The female leader screamed, looking a little crazy after being teased, Zhou Ming was watching her from the side, now in the car, there is Zhang Lin's desert team here, he doesn't think that the other party still has the ability to threaten his safety.
But in the end, the female leader reached out and grabbed the guide by the collar, lifted him up, and then drew the pistol from her waist and pointed it at his head, shooting at the guide's terrified screams.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out, and a bloody hole was punched out of the guide's head, and scarlet blood mixed with gray brains burst to the ground.
"Tell you the Huaxia people, this is the punishment for you for playing me!" the female leader put the gun back into her waist and said to Zhou Ming in English, "From now on I am your translator, without me you will wait to be executed by any Kurdish guerrillas you meet!"
After the female leader finished speaking, she sat in her seat, and Zhou Ming was also very helpless about the willfulness of the female leader, but anyway, the one who died was just a guide, and there was no decisive role, so if she died, she would die, and she couldn't really take off her pants and beat her ass for such an inconsequential dead person, then she would wait to be chased by the angry Kurds until the sea was dry and rotten.
The guide's body was then thrown out of the car, and the female leader asked her guerrillas to drive, and after nearly two hours of driving, Zhou Ming and the others finally arrived in Mahad.
Although it is the central Kurdish settlement, it looks like an ordinary county town in the country, and it is mainly divided into four main streets, east, west, north and south, and people, including the chieftain and all the Kurdish nobles, live in the royal palace in the middle.
The palace is a boxy earth-yellow castle, and on the four corners of the castle there are four onion domes with bay characteristics, which shine a little under the light, as if Allah is really the spokesman of the world.
After passing the inspection of the guards, Zhou Ming's minibus drove into the palace and entered the chief's palace in the middle.
After getting out of the car, Zhou Ming and the others were arranged to rest in a side hall, and the princess leader told Zhou Ming that her father had other guests, and asked them to wait here for a while, and she could provide them with drinks and maids if needed.
For this strange request, Zhou Ming refused without thinking, God knows why she said that, besides, now they haven't even seen the face of the Kurd chieftain, and they are messing up in his palace first, what kind of system is that.
So, Zhou Ming and the others waited here for about half an hour before someone walked in.
It was a tall Kurdish with a pair of piercing eyes, and his laughing voice came in before he arrived: "I heard that the Chinese envoy brought me the news of the founding of Kurdistan, welcome!"
Judging by his words and the translation of the female chieftain, he is the Kudish chieftain Gao Lan.
After some acquaintance and greetings, Chief Gao Lan invited Zhou Ming and they all sat down, and Zhou Ming first asked curiously: "Dear Chief Gao Lan, do you very much hope for the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan?"
Gao Lan nodded at this and said: "I hope very much, Mr. Zhou Ming from Huaxia, you may not know, we Kurds have had enough of the oppression and domination of other peoples in the past thousands of years, and we all dream of independence and want to have our own country!"
Zhou Ming then asked him, "Then the honorable chief of Gaolan, I wonder if you are willing to listen to me tell a story before I tell me the news?"
This sudden question made Gao Lan stunned for a moment, he obviously didn't understand what medicine was sold in Zhou Ming's gourd, but he still agreed to Zhou Ming, and then Zhou Ming said: "Thank you very much for the patience of Chief Gao Lan, my story happened a thousand years ago, and the location is in Bardina." ”
"At that time, there was a powerful Arab empire in Badina, but it was invaded by the Mongols and the empire was crushed, but a little prince escaped in the middle of the war and hid in a cave. But the cave was actually owned by a gang of robbers, and the robbers, feeling sad after hearing what had happened to the little prince, took the little prince and promised to help him overthrow the Mongols. ”
Zhou Ming continued: "Later, the little prince grew up day by day, and finally he became the leader of this gang of robbers, and on the day of the marriage of the Mongol Khan, the little prince led his people to drive out the Mongols!"
After listening to Zhou Ming's story, Gao Lan said: "If I guess correctly, this is the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, but you have changed some of it, but I don't understand what your intention is in telling me this story." ”
"Chief of Gaolan, you are the little prince in the story, the Salm regime is the forty thieves, and now it is the Mongols in the story who are invading Iraq, I mean I hope that the Kurds can join forces with Salm to resist the invasion of the Americans. Zhou Ming said.