Chapter 1039 Peshawar

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Liu Dong, who was injured and sick himself, did not go up to join in the fun, but after bypassing the checkpoint in front, he returned to the road next to him from the ravine and ravine, of course, this time driving his own Humvee!

But before Liu Dong drove far, he saw two yellow-skinned and black-eyed buddies waving to get a ride on the side of the road!

These two people are the same as the guys who Liu Dong saw confronting the Americans at the border checkpoint before, and they also have voice recorders and portable cameras in their hands!

Because the other party may be his own compatriots, Liu Dong slowly stopped the car!

When he rolled down the window, the two people who came up to greet him were obviously stunned. Obviously, they didn't expect to meet an East Asian with such an obvious appearance here!

"Sir, are you Chinese?" a tall, thin young man tentatively asked.

"That's right, I'm Chinese!" Liu Dong said directly in Chinese.

"Great!Sir, can you give us a ride, we want to go to Peshawar, but we can't get a taxi for a while!" said the tall and thin man in a cheerful and apprehensive tone.

"It's okay, come up, I just happen to go to Peshawar too!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

"Great, thank you!"

After saying that, the tall and thin man waved to his companion who looked a little shy!

Soon, the two of them sat in the back seat of Liu Dong's Humvee!

"Thank you so much, sir, we've been waiting here for almost two hours, and we don't even have a rental car, if I hadn't run into you. I'm afraid our brothers are really going to sleep in the wilderness!" said the tall and thin man.

"Thank you you doesn't have to. Piggybacking on you is also a drop-by. And we're still compatriots! By the way, you guys are carrying cameras, both of you are reporters?" asked Liu Dong as he drove.

"Yes, we used to be reporters for Hunan TV, but we offended the leader and were fired!" said the dismissal of the tall and thin man, who looked a little angry!

"Then why did you get to Pakistan?" Liu said.

"Isn't this the war in Afghanistan? My brother and I want to come over and break through, and if we get a valuable manuscript, it will be convenient to find a job again!"

Hearing this, Liu Dong couldn't help but shake his head secretly. These two guys are really bold enough, even he feels that Afghanistan is extremely dangerous and has to take a detour many times, these two people actually dare to drill into it by themselves in a daze!

"Then why didn't you go to Afghanistan, but lingered in Pakistan?" Liu Dong continued.

"We wanted to go to Afghanistan too, but the damn Americans blocked all the entrances to and from Afghanistan, barred journalists from all over the world, and even heard that al-Qaeda refused to allow journalists!

"Actually, we wanted to buy a few donkeys and go in from the mountains to bypass the American checkpoints, just like journalists from other countries. But the donkey sellers took the opportunity to raise the price, a few hundred dollars to $5,000! So I can only sigh with joy!"

He didn't speak just now, carrying the camera, and the relatively strong young man said with a look of indignation.

After he finished speaking, the tall and thin young man next to him also nodded with a bitter face.

Seeing them like this, Liu Dong smiled and said, "Then you are preparing to return from Peshawar?"

"Well, the little savings that our brothers saved when they were working before are almost all spent now, and if we don't go back, we probably won't even be able to afford a ticket back to China!" said the tall and thin man with a bitter face.

Seeing them worrying about their livelihood and career, although Liu Dong is a few years younger than them, he understands their difficulties very well in his heart, and seeing them is like seeing himself who has just come out of high school.

I think that at that time, I had no long life, let alone any means of making a living, except for moving bricks on the construction site, I could only go to the restaurant to brush dishes and dishes, or work as a security guard!

After nearly two years of hard work, I slowly found my future in Quancheng Antique Street!

If it weren't for the accident of Relic Yuanguang, Liu Dong believed that even if he was not as successful as he is now, he would not be as good as he is now, because his efforts have almost reached the critical point of success!

Recalling the hardships of the past, Liu Dong had the idea of helping the two compatriots in front of him!

"By the way, after chatting for so long, I still don't know your names?" Liu Dong said.

"Oh, my name is Bai Quan, and this is my best friend Ren Guohui next to me, we are college classmates!

After the tall and thin man finished his introduction, the slightly wooden sturdy man nodded at Liu Dong in the reflector!

"Well, sir, how did you come to Pakistan?

"I'm here to do business! I don't want to go to the war-torn land of Afghanistan! By the way, I'm about the same age as you, call me Liu Dong, sir, I'm too unaccustomed to hearing it!"

"Then you're welcome!" said Bai Quan, who had a relatively active personality.

When he finished speaking, the roar of a helicopter suddenly came from afar!

Soon, four Apache helicopters escorted a large transport helicopter in the center, from far and near, flew over the sky above Liu Dong's head, and headed straight for Afghanistan!

Looking at them, Liu Dong's brows furrowed unconsciously.

"Hey, Liu Dong, are you dumbfounded? You haven't even seen the famous Apache gunship, have you?"

Liu Dongdao, who calmed down his complexion, said: "I naturally know about the Apache helicopter, but isn't this already Pakistan? Why are there American helicopter gunships?"

"Don't you know?"

Looking at the surprised look on Bai Quan's face, Liu Dong immediately understood something in his heart, "I really don't know this, in fact, I just came to Pakistan yesterday!"

"Oh, that's no wonder! In order to fight Afghanistan, the United States leased a military base in Peshawar with the Pakistani government on the condition of reducing its debts! Now they are stationing a large number of troops and weapons and equipment, all of which are prepared to launch a ground war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and completely conquer the southeastern provinces where the Taliban's stubborn resistance is the fiercest!"

"Really?" Liu Dong's eyes flashed with a cold light!

He doesn't feel how generous he is, since he was a child, as long as he is bullied by others, no matter what means he uses, he must get it back!

This time, the two American Apache almost sent him and Xiao Jinzi to the Western Heavens, how could Liu Dong be indifferent to such a big enmity related to his life!

"Look, that's the American military base in Peshawar!"

Looking in the direction of Bai Quan's finger, a few kilometers in front of Liu Dong's left, surrounded by heavy barbed wire, a huge military base loomed in front of Liu Dong's eyes!

Although you can only see the petshawar base from a distance in the car at this moment, the rows of M1A2 main battle tanks inside, as well as the Apache gunships listed on the tarmac, and even the F-15E Eagle heavy air superiority fighter gliding and taking off!

Of course, what is in the more sealed military warehouses, because the distance is too far Liu Dong does not know!

But looking at the huge size of this military base and the amount of material storage, "if it is blown up, I believe the Americans will be distressed!"

With this thought, Liu Dong's car gradually drove into the city where his figure had been revealed!

Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, is the most ethnic city in Pakistan and was designated as its capital in 58 BC by King Kasserga I of Gandhara of the Kushan Dynasty.

Due to its location on several major trade routes in Central Asia, it has been a major trading hub between the South Asian subcontinent and Central Asia for centuries. King Gassera of the Kushan Empire, who advocated Buddhism, once established his capital here, which was one of the centers of Buddhist culture. In the 4~6th century, the Chinese Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian, the Northern Wei Dynasty envoy Song Yun and the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang had been here, Xuanzang said in the "Tang Dynasty Western Regions" that this is the "flowers and fruits" of the country of abundance.

However, Liu Dong, who entered the city at this moment, did not see the shadow of this South Asian transportation hub as a country of abundance, but Pashtun refugees who had fled the war from Afghanistan crowded the streets of Peshawar, which is not very wide.

If you add to that the American GIs who have a lot of money to go on vacation, and the merchants who came here because of the war, this city with a population of less than one million is full of a bit of deformed prosperity!

"Where do you live, I'll send you back?" Liu Dong said.

"That's embarrassing!"

Even so, it was obvious that Bai Quan was reluctant to get out of the car! It was still far from where they lived!

"We live in the Walled City!" Ren Guohui is obviously much more upright than Bai Quan!

Looking at the embarrassment on Bai Quan's face, Liu Dong smiled: "It's also my first time to come to Peshawar, I don't know where the walled city is, if you know the way, just show me the way, right?"

"We know the way!"

Bai Quan hurriedly said.

Subsequently, under the guidance of the other party, Liu Dong drove through Peshawar, an ancient city full of Pashtun culture, Buddhist culture, Islamic culture and colonial culture!

As one of the oldest cities in the world, Liu Dong has rarely seen anything too modern along the way in this conservative Islamic city! If there is anything that stands out, it must be the numerous and ornately decorated mosques!

As for Buddhism, which first existed here, it has been completely excluded from this place for 2,000 years!

………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)

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