Chapter 36: The Conspiracy of the Two Chiefs

It was late at night, and the four men in the adobe bungalow wiped out all the food and fruit wine on the table, and with the help of the wine, Farhad and Elliham, told the story of how to let the two siblings of Maijid and Saeed ride their camels into the desert and the isthmus canyons to lure the members of the expedition team to the oasis, which involved an extremely difficult matter!

Song Xiaoshuang and Isabel had just arrived at the oasis and encountered desert robbers, which was just an episode in the overall plan discussed by Farhad and Eliham, of course, without Song Xiaoshuang and Isabel, whether the tribe with two tribal warriors gathered in one place could defeat the armed robbers of more than a hundred people, it was another matter.

It turned out that Eliham and her tribal warriors came from the Tuareg tribe, an oasis in the desert of northwestern neighboring Mali. There was a repeated exchange of fire between government troops, guerrillas, militants, and terrorists.

The situation is very chaotic every day, the tribe for their own safety, buy some guns on the black market for self-protection armed tribal fighters, who knows not long after, the small towns in the nearby desert area are controlled by the armed forces of extreme terrorists, and the residents of the desert oasis towns who do not obey their will are killed.

Eliham, who has become the leader of the new tribe by virtue of his personal strength, decides to take his people across the desert border with his tribe and temporarily take refuge in a refugee camp in a desert oasis on the border of Mauritania before the terrorists loot the tribe by armed force.

Before the refugee camp was built, it was an army border checkpoint, and a small number of soldiers were stationed on weekdays only to play a symbolic role, surrounded by desert, and it was impossible to completely prevent nomads from crossing the border (because of the historical reasons of West Africa and the particularity of the desert, the nationals of the two countries could move freely at the border), and the border checkpoint was only sent more manpower after the war broke out in neighboring countries to prevent terrorist armed forces from crossing the border and harassing them, maintain national security, and at the same time follow the will of the superiors. A large area has been set aside for refugees crossing the border to provide the most basic food and water supplies, and a significant number of Malian refugees living in various parts of the desert are already living in this camp, which has never been featured in the news.

At that time, Eliham was still holding a bit of luck, thinking that the war would always end and that he would soon be able to return home, so he let the women, children, old and children of the tribe be accompanied by more than a dozen tribal warriors with guns, take a small number of camels, drive goats, cattle and donkeys to set off, and rush to the border refugee camp in advance, and he led less than forty tribal warriors to ride camels as mobile forces to rescue another oasis tribe not far away.

The tribal leader there sent someone on a camel to urgently contact him, saying that the oasis was under attack by the armed forces of terrorists, and of course Eliham, who was also of the Tuareg tribe, would not sit idly by and succeeded in driving away a small team of armed forces of terrorists after a bloody battle.

The tribal leader pleaded with Eliham to protect the entire tribe and retreat hundreds of kilometers south to a city recaptured by government forces, where not only government troops but also United Nations and African Union peacekeepers were relatively safe.

Looking at hundreds of old and weak women and children, Eliham, who was riding on a camel and preparing to leave, couldn't bear it, gritted his teeth and agreed to the request of the old tribal leader, led more than 30 tribal warriors to stay overnight, and guarded the entire tribe with the few remaining tribal warriors of another tribe for more than a week to rush to the vicinity of the city, and then rode back on a camel to the west to the border refugee camp.

Eliham led the tribal warriors through the desert, and it took many days of hard work, needless to say, but what made her regret was that she had just rushed to a stone hill near the refugee camp at ten o'clock at dusk, ready to find some stone caves or something to hide her guns and go to the refugee camp with the common swords of the tribe (tribal warriors bring swords into the refugee camp can be said to be for self-defense, but it is not good to bring firearms, after all, the refugee camp belongs to military control), and she heard a fierce firefight coming from the refugee camp built in the desert next to the slow mountain area!

As a tribal leader, Eliham is naturally wise and resolute, and quickly sent people out to reconnoitre, and the tribal warriors reported that there were more than 200 armed bandits of unknown origin, sweatshirts, long pants, and well-armed firearms, riding camels and driving off-road vehicles were attacking the border checkpoint, dozens of soldiers were fighting back, and more than 100 bandits set up anti-aircraft machine guns and mortars in the outer area of the refugee camp to monitor the refugees living in the entire refugee camp. There were at least 1,000 people in this refugee camp, and they went to the nearby bushes and grasses to graze cattle, sheep, and camels, so that they would not starve to death, and many of the refugees rushed back with their cattle under the threat of armed bandits.

What made the tribal warrior a little strange was that he could see through the binoculars that the armed robbers had waded through a minefield with barbed wire, but the defensive mines buried in the sand did not explode?

It seems that the mines in the minefield have been cleared by the soldiers in advance, and there are thousands of people in the refugee camp, including the elderly, weak, women and children, especially children, in order to avoid accidents, it is very possible for the soldiers to quietly remove the mines, but this situation was detected by the armed bandits who were preparing to occupy the refugee camp, and the number of more than 300 people belonged to the armed bandits of a reinforced battalion, and it was easy to capture the border checkpoint of dozens of people.

Of course, Eliham understood that with the more than ten tribal warriors who had entered the refugee camp in advance, the weapons must not have been brought into the refugee camp, and the thirty or so people around him would only be wiped out!

After pacifying the tribal warriors around him, he personally led the two tribal warriors out of the camp in the middle of the night to reconnoitre, but because the armed bandits were very tightly guarded, there was no chance to sneak into the refugee camp at all, and he could not know the specific situation inside, so Eliham had to turn back to the mountain, withdraw in the early morning, and continue to advance into the desert to the southwest.

She remembered that a few years ago, she and her father, who was still a minister of the Arab League, had stayed for a few days in an oasis tribe in the desert deep 200 kilometers across the border, in the name of contacting the feelings of the Tuareg tribe, where the young tribal leader, Fahad, who had worked as a mercenary but had a righteous and resolute temperament, was deeply loved by the tribal villagers.

Two days later, when Eliham arrived at Fahad's oasis tribe with more than thirty tribal warriors, of course he was welcomed by Fahad, but after learning of Eliham's intentions, he asked him to lead the tribe's Tuareg warriors to engage a reinforced battalion of armed bandits, and after killing the mercenaries who crawled out of the pile of dead people, Fahad refused Eliham's request for the first time, and Fahad felt that it was too unwise to use the existing strength of the tribe to exchange fire with well-armed armed bandits.

There are only about 100 young and middle-aged men in the oasis tribe under the control of Farhad, and many of them have gone to live in big cities, and the tribe can now gather only a few dozen people, even if they are all gathered together, there is no problem in giving their lives for the honor of the tribe, but even so, with the addition of more than 30 tribal warriors in Eliham, there are only more than 100 people, and there are only a few old guns, so there is no possibility of winning the war.

Fahad had to comfort Eliham by buying the weapons he could buy on the black market and see what was going on. Perhaps by this time the government has already sent troops to retake border checkpoints and refugee camps, and the radio does not always report which town has been recaptured by Malian government forces, and the Mauritanian government may soon broadcast the news that the border checkpoints and refugee camps have been recaptured.

Who knew that many days had passed, whether it was the tribal villagers who had returned to the oasis from the city, or from the radio, there was not a single bit of news about the border checkpoint and the refugee camp, and Farhad also felt that something was wrong, according to common sense, this was simply impossible, what he heard on the radio was only the repeated broadcast of previous news, as if the place had not been captured by armed bandits, there must be something wrong with this.

Fahad couldn't sit still, and after Eliham exchanged a lot of diamonds for some old AK47 assault rifles and a lot of ammunition on the black market, Fahad and Eliham took a crack team of only a few people and rushed to the refugee camp on the border line again to reconnoiter the situation, because for the sake of safety, Fahad and Eliham only reconnoitred on the periphery.

To the surprise of the two, every day, more than 10 large off-road vehicles with rear cargo boxes took hundreds of young and middle-aged male and female refugees from the refugee camp to a nearby canyon, where there was already a simple mine hole, and all kinds of armed guards were densely packed at the entrance of the mine.

When the refugees who were mining at the entrance of the mine completed the handover and got off the bus, Farhad ventured close to the mine and was only a few dozen meters away from the mine, hiding next to a very hidden and sunken stone wall, and noticed that the refugees who got on or off the bus were wearing rotten robes and many of them were rotten into strips of cloth, as if they had not changed their clothes for a long time, and their faces were like puppets.

This can only be seen on the faces of people who have lived in concentration camps for a long time, and the refugee camps have been occupied by armed bandits for less than half a month, and the refugees will not even have the slightest feeling of resistance because of the hard mining, and Farhad is very surprised.

Later, after the off-road vehicle picked people up and the refugees who went down to the mine walked into the mine with a hat with a miner's lamp on, two armed bandits who were bored hiding next to the heavy machine guns at the sentry said that they had missed a piece of information that Farhad considered extremely important. The two bandits said that the bosses above (referring to the leaders of the armed bandits) had felt that the mining progress was not fast enough, and speculated that it was possible to loot an oasis tribe again and snatch people back to mine.

After receiving such information, Farhad felt the need to hurry back to the oasis, it was useless to stay here, and after picking up a small piece of stone containing minerals in the corner of the dumped tailings ore pile without a trace, Farhad and Eliham rode back to the oasis tribe on camels with a capable reconnaissance team.

Farhad began to worry about the fate of the tribe, which was the closest oasis to the refugee camp, only 200 kilometers, and had to think about the old and weak women and children of the tribe, but Farhad and Eliham tried their best to get more ammunition to store, and also purchased a few satellite phones, a small number of remote control monitors hung on the date palm trees on the periphery of the oasis, and the monitoring room was powered by solar panels installed on an off-road vehicle.

Such a passive defense is never the way to go, and Farhad understands that there is no information about the situation in the refugee camp in the government news, and there must be some problem that is difficult to overcome, or something else that is difficult to think of, hoping that the government's few army daylilies are cold.

After Farhad and Eliham's careful planning, a plan that doesn't seem very moral has come out, that is, to kidnap some influential people and groups who can be on the news to the Oasis tribe as soon as possible in the near future, and make things bigger and have an impact, Farhad told the situation of the refugee camp to attract the attention of the outside world, this is the main purpose to be achieved, and the secondary purpose is to do so, even if the armed bandits want to loot the Oasis tribe, they must also take into account that Farhad's Oasis tribe is on the news and increase the concerns of the bandit leader.

At a time when Farhad and Elham were thinking about whether to hijack the tour group or call some scientists who were conducting research in the desert, a comprehensive field expedition team led by French scientist Isabel and scientists from all over the world would once again go deep into an isthmus canyon deep in the desert to conduct research and research in the newly laid tribal eyeline of the newly laid tribe in the desert city of Attar and using satellite phones to make regular calls.

For this kind of information, Farhad and Ellie Ham immediately decided that it would be him, and they would get the investigation team led by Isabel to imprison them in the oasis, and then release a big news to attract the attention of the outside world.

Soon, Farhad sent out a team of several elite people who went to the refugee camp with him to reconnoitre, accompanied by the two siblings McJid and Saeed, and in the face of their father's serious expression, the trainee little wizard McJid and his younger brother Saeed felt that this was a very meaningful and important event.

After riding a camel to the outside of the Isthmus Gorge and separating from the tribe's elite team, McJid and Said, with their innocence and clever brains, managed to fool everyone in the expedition team, including Song Xiaoshuang (Song Xiaoshuang just felt that something was wrong at the time, it was an instinct, and it could not be used as evidence to stop Isabel from rushing to the Oasis tribe).

McJid found that there was only one uncle and an aunt and she couldn't think about going back to the tribe, and she wouldn't go to tell the truth, so she could only take Isabel and Song Xiaoshuang back to the Oasis tribe, but she made a mistake, McJid didn't tell the truth, which indirectly played a great role in the tribe's defense and counterattack of the armed robbers!