It was already completely dark, and several cars of Lin Rui and others finally entered the eastern border of Afghanistan.

In fact, after entering this border passage, people know what a mountain path is, the road is rugged, rocky, and the slope up the mountain is more than 40, and off-road vehicles can't climb it at all. It's no wonder that little donkeys are of course preferred here, and this kind of livestock is more useful than carts.

After a while, Lin Rui and the others had no choice but to abandon the assault vehicle and walk through the mountains and mountains to the nearest Afghan checkpoint, where they had agreed to meet.

The checkpoint is on the side of the road below the mountain, and the section of the canyon guarded is dozens of kilometers long, more than a kilometer wide in places, and hundreds of meters in narrow places, and a river passes through the canyon, and most of the area on both sides of the canyon is steep cliffs. From the time the British controlled it, it was strategically located for a long time. And a military fortress was built here.

The view in the canyon is very open, there are no tall trees, only rocks, weeds and low bushes. But the checkpoint was so quiet that there was hardly any movement.

Lin Rui, who went out to explore the way, hid behind the boulder and carefully observed the situation of the distant checkpoint and the terrain around it, the checkpoint was located in the middle of the canyon, cutting off the canyon passage, the original ancient British fortress was built on a high ground, the right side was close to the cliff of the canyon, and the left side was a river that had long dried up.

The wall of the checkpoint is made of large stones more than one meter long and more than 20 centimeters back, ten meters high, and there are battlements on it, which looks like a corner of the Great Wall from a distance. The entrance to the checkpoint was small, just over two metres wide, with two iron gates tightly closed.

"That's not right. Lin Rui said in a low voice. Through the telescope, he could clearly see that the bluestone of the wall had left a dense white spot, which was hit by a machine gun, and the bullet hit the wall only leaving a white spot, without the slightest damage to the city wall.

In front of the fortress was an open area, with many craters in the ground, and some pieces of rubble scattered around, left by the explosion. Looking at the defense situation here, Lin Rui's brows furrowed. The walls of the fortress were strong, and the defenses were tighter than he could have imagined. And although the place has been cleaned, it can still be seen that there has been a certain scale of fighting.

Originally, this was the meeting place agreed between them and the U.S. military, but now there are no Americans. Lin Rui's eyes flickered, and he whispered to Jiang Andao, "Contact those Americans to confirm their situation." ”

"I couldn't get in touch, and the communication was unusually interrupted. Shogishi shook his head.

"Maybe it's not an anomalous outage, it's that they're all dead. Lin Rui said in a low voice.

"They have two squads, and a larger number of Afghan security forces, and they have the air superiority of drones. Crazy Horse frowned, "Enough to deal with these *armed men." ”

"Unless they're not dealing with the Afghan army. Lin Rui handed the telescope to Crazy Horse in a low voice, "Two o'clock, you can see for yourself." ”

Crazy Horse looked through his binoculars, and saw only a piece of gray-white wreckage hidden in the trees. "Damn, they shot down the drone. Crazy Horse whispered, "Looks like the response is over." Damn it, didn't these guys say it should be okay? Now what are we going to do?"

Shogan pointed to the topographic map and whispered, "The enemy must have occupied the fortress that saw the checkpoint first." When the U.S. troops and the Afghan armed forces arrived to meet us, they were annihilated in one fell swoop. Here, heavy weapons cannot be brought in, light weapons do not work at all against the wall, there are cliffs on the right, and large rivers on the left.

The river is a ten-meter-high wall, in front of which is an open field, not only has nowhere to hide, but also has mines laid out, and it is impossible to rely on it at all.

The other team members were silent as they looked at the checkpoint in front of them, thinking about countermeasures.

Sergey looked at it for a while, then crawled to the left side, he picked up weeds and a kind of long strip of low bushes, looked at it, he wanted to test the depth of the river. He felt a few small stones from the ground and threw them into the river, and the sound of the small stones falling into the water and the splash of the water could tell the approximate depth of the river. After the test, he crawled to the side of the team members and asked softly, "How about the boss, do you have a plan?"

"No, it looks like it's only going to pass through the water. That position is a dead end for their defense," Lin Rui replied in a low voice.

"That's what I thought about too. Sergei whispered.

"But there's a problem, what do we do with the hostages? we might be able to swim across the river in arms, and climb over the rock wall on one side and get around these militants without them being aware of it. But what about the hostages? They don't have the ability, and they're the target of this mission. Jiang Jian said in a low voice.

"Okay, it's too close here to be exposed, so let's withdraw a little bit before we talk about it. Lin Rui ordered the O2 team to withdraw from the hidden location, and then return to the back of the small hill.

After arriving at the safe area, Lin Rui immediately asked the general to gather the team members to study the combat plan. He whispered, "We now have two rescued hostages, and they are the main targets of this operation, so it is impossible to leave them behind. So it is impossible to get around silently. And attacking such a fortress is nothing more than two methods, a strong attack and a sneak attack. Assault is definitely not good for us, so there is only one way to sneak attack, I need you to talk about your thoughts, how to get through this difficulty?"

Sergei preemptively expressed his opinion, "To enter this fortress, the probability from the front is very small, there are only two roads to consider, one is to come down from the cliff, I observed, this road does not work. One is that the cliff is too high, and the bottom of the cliff is concave inward, and after hanging down, it will not necessarily fall somewhere in the fortress.

Then I can only go up from the river on the left, as long as I can reach the left wall, it will not be a problem to climb up, but I don't think everyone can do it, and there are two towers and searchlights on the left, so you can clearly see the situation there, otherwise the defense above the top of the left wall will not be so loose. “

"That's right, if you climb on a stone wall, unless you're a monkey, you can climb in less than twenty seconds. Otherwise, you will be used as a live target by the other party. Crazy Horse shook his head and said, "The path you mentioned, don't even think about it, there is no feasibility at all." ”

"But as long as I can blend in, I can cooperate with the squad and break it from the inside. Sergei was not convinced.