Chapter 106: The River Valley Encounter
Liang Li looked at Song Xiaoshuang who was standing against the hood of the off-road vehicle, looking like she didn't understand what she said, Liang Li's Danfeng eyes instantly showed a sense of resentment, and she couldn't wait to kick Song Xiaoshuang away, Song Xiaoshuang is a guy who loves to pretend to be clumsy.
After a while, Liang Li's eyes flashed with light, and she gestured with one hand to talk to Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru alone, turned around and walked quickly to the corner of the reservoir area.
Song Xiaoshuang understood in seconds, and followed unhurriedly, Sima Yuru looked at the more than ten mercenaries who were discussing and talking in a low voice, and after a little hesitation, he still walked to the corner of the reservoir area.
In the corner of the reservoir area, more than a metre high, stacked flour bags with the United Nations logo are stacked on top of each other, as part of the United Nations collection of food supplies from member states to help Malian nationals in remote areas displaced by the war.
Although the city of Gao has been recaptured by the Malian government army and the French army, the nearby desert area is still under the control of the extremist rebel forces, and the flour cannot be distributed to the displaced Malian natives for various reasons, so it can only be temporarily stored in warehouses.
Seeing Song Xiaoshuang and Sima Yuru follow, Liang Li once again unfolded the desert topographic map on the flour bag, looking at Song Xiaoshuang, who had put away the ruffian habits and looked much more serious, Liang Li pointed to the topographic map, and spoke Chinese in a low voice but quickly: "Song Xiaoshuang, the United Horse Regiment has obtained relatively recent information from the commander of that tribal armed detachment, this damn bastard let us run for nothing, the gold products stored in the desert area by the Songhai Empire hundreds of years ago have been found by the extreme rebel forces, This is a large amount of gold, if all sold will have a significant impact on the world gold price, forming a large price fluctuation! ”
Liang Li looked at Song Xiaoshuang's thoughtful appearance and continued: "It is reported that the extremist rebel forces are now transferring gold products to this area, and the arsenal of the extremist rebel forces is also in this area, and the two detachments of the Tuareg tribal armed forces have also been operating in this area recently, and they may also be heading for the gold and arsenal, and the task given by the United Nations Mission is to confirm the authenticity of the gold and arsenal, and it is possible to get the gold and blow up the arsenal of the extreme rebels!" ”
Hearing what Liang Li said, Song Xiaoshuang didn't speak, put his finger on the desert topographic map spread on the flour bag, and paused solemnly before he said in a low tone: "The terrain of the gentle mountain area of the river valley is very complicated, and there is a plateau covering a wide area nearby. Moreover, those gringos in the United Nations Mission are not worthy of our trust, it is difficult to guarantee that they have some schemes in secret, we can complete the task at a discount, minimize the loss of personnel caused by the mission, and experienced mercenaries are not leeks! ”
Song Xiaoshuang's words made Liang Li's eyes light up, and she already understood that Song Xiaoshuang had a preliminary idea for the new information and tasks, Liang Li tilted her head and shouted at Eliza, who was wiping a high-precision sniper rifle next to the armored off-road vehicle dozens of meters away: "Eliza!" ”
Eliza heard the instructor Liang Li shouting, raised her head and saw that Liang Li was making a gesture, and immediately handed the sniper rifle to the black mercenary Alfs who was whispering beside her, quickly opened the door of the armored off-road vehicle, took out a small device that looked like a handheld PDA digital terminal, and walked to the corner of the reservoir area where Liang Li and the three of them were.
Alfs, who has a strong physique, is the fire support hand in the mercenary squad, and has always envied Eliza's South African-made high-precision sniper rifle, and after taking the rifle, a smile appeared on his black cheeks, and his fingers stroking the body of the sniper rifle are more satisfying than stroking the body of a girl.
Handheld electromagnetic signal shielding instrument for eavesdropping prevention!
Seeing Eliza, a white European girl with short hair and fair skin, carrying a small device that looks like a mobile phone and a handheld terminal, Sima Yuru's eyes are bright, knowing that this kind of highly professional anti-eavesdropping equipment is a high-priced equipment even within the scope of the military intelligence system, and Liang Li's xxx military contracting company is not well-known, but in fact, its strength is very strong!
Eliza stood next to the flour bag and pressed a few buttons on the electromagnetic signal shield in her hand, and when several indicators turned green and flashed, Eliza motioned for it.
"Well, the electromagnetic radiation of this thing itself is very strong, and there is similar equipment in the research institute, so it's better to use it sparingly, it will make a woman's face spots."
Song Xiaoshuang saw Eliza directly holding the shielding device in her hand, and whispered with a playful look on her face.
"Song Xiaoshuang, you bastard, hurry up and get to the point!"
Liang Li's charming face obviously had annoyed emotions, feeling that Song Xiaoshuang was always not doing right, and was very helpless about the ruffian habits he showed, and roared to let Song Xiaoshuang show her real skills to help her solve tricky tasks.
Song Xiaoshuang shrugged his shoulders slightly to indicate that he was just enlivening up the atmosphere, and then said disapprerovingly: "Okay, I think so, first of all, the time limit allowed for this reconnaissance mission is too tight, we should do this"
The sun has risen high in the morning, the west side of the vast plateau in northeastern Mali, the north-south seasonal river valley area is crisscrossed, in the yellowing and reddish gentle mountain sandy land, under the sunshine everywhere grow tall shrubs and grasses suitable for the arid desert climate, the time is already March, the green jade vegetation seems to be very luxuriant, much better than the pure desert environment of northern Mali.
At this time, on the top of a gentle mountain at a height of several hundred meters, Sima Yuru, who was wearing a desert training uniform, was wearing a single communicator, lying prone in the grass under a bush, holding a binoculars in his hand, and a pair of eyes observing the situation in Pingba Village, a river valley two kilometers away, through the telescope.
Everywhere in the village, you can see Tuareg villagers in robes, children grazing in the nearby grass with donkeys and goats, adults doing farm work in the fields with hoes, and old women smoking clay cigarettes on stone benches under the big trees at the entrance of the village, without covering their faces with scarves and wrinkled foreheads.
If it weren't for the bullet holes in the walls of the sandy bungalows everywhere in the village, and the branches of the trees at the entrance of the village were missing by half, it was a clear indication that there had been fierce battles here, and at first glance the village would have seemed normal.
From the bushes near Sima Yuru, most of the mercenaries in the mercenary team led by Liang Li are hiding in it, but Song Xiaoshuang and Liang Li are not on the top of Slow Mountain, an hour ago, Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang, who were driving a civilian modified Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle, had entered Pingba Village, which had a lot of sandy and dirt bungalows, both of them were gray and white stand-up collar robes, and there were no weapons on their bodies and off-road vehicles at all.
Yesterday afternoon, Liang Li adopted Song Xiaoshuang's seemingly impossible strategy, first replacing several armored off-road vehicles with ordinary civilian off-road vehicles, and with the instruction and cooperation of the Eastern Theater Command of the United Nations Mission in Gao City, the civilian off-road vehicles in which the mercenary detachment was lightly armed were allowed to leave Gao City by the defense area troops of the United Nations Mission in Peacekeepers, and rushed to the north-south area of the Slow Mountain River Valley several hundred kilometers away in the northeast along the desert road and the slow mountain road.
Civilian off-road vehicles are more prevalent in Mali, and all forces use civilian off-road vehicles without weapons as a means of transportation, such as the Tuareg tribal armed forces, and the same is true for the extremist rebel forces, and the mercenary team led by Liang Li takes civilian off-road vehicles, which will not be as eye-catching as armored off-road vehicles, and it can be seen at a glance that they are paramilitaries or peacekeepers, and they are "lucky" not to be intercepted by tribal armed forces and extreme rebel forces on the road.
After arriving at the predetermined area, Liang Li adopted Song Xiaoshuang's strategy, according to the latest intelligence collection and analysis, Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang drove a Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle straight to a Pingba village in the morning, intelligence analysis This village is the nest of a tribal armed detachment, the villagers are fierce and xenophobic, and they are not interested in heretical armed forces such as extremist rebel forces, and have fought many fierce battles with extremist armed forces.
Song Xiaoshuang's strategy was to directly contact the armed detachment of this tribe to verify again how accurate the information given by the United Nations Mission was, and then make a decision depending on the situation.
Song Xiaoshuang, who has experienced a lot of strange and bizarre things, does not want Liang Li to become a pawn sacrificed in other people's conspiracy, Song Xiaoshuang has a long time of contact with the desert natives of the Tuareg tribe, and has his own opinions on the origin of the Tuareg tribe's armed forces.
Whether it is the two tribal leaders of Farhad and Eliham, or the grassroots commanders of the tribal armed forces like Zahid, Song Xiaoshuang's deep understanding is that most of the tribal armed detachments that have broken up in order to fight for the right to exist of the tribe have returned to the areas where they originally pulled up their teams to take on the responsibility of defending the territory, and they are actually on the defensive, negotiating with the government army, but they have irreconcilable deep contradictions and hatred with the extreme rebel forces.
Sima Yuru felt a slight tremor of the individual communicator hanging on his shoulder, the shaking had a certain inherent frequency, and knew that it was Liang Li and Song Xiaoshuang who sent a signal that everything was going well, and once again used the telescope to look around the river valley near Pingba Village, and after finding no abnormality, he put away the telescope and quickly left from the bushes.
Ten minutes later, three civilian off-road vehicles drove onto the gravel dirt road leading to Pingba Village in the river valley, Sima Yuru sat in the first car, again holding a telescope to observe, and had already seen under the big tree at the entrance of the village, several men wearing robes and scarves to cover their faces and holding weapons stood there waiting, knowing that they were tribal fighters of the tribal armed detachment.
Sima Yuru was about to put away the binoculars, wanting Alfs to speed up a little faster, when the corner of the telescope eyepiece suddenly swept to the col opposite the river valley and countless sand and dust appeared, Sima Yuru felt that something was going to happen, took the binoculars and took a closer look, and found that it was a team of off-road vehicles and pickup trucks carrying armed members, which was speeding out of the dirt road behind the mountain col diagonally behind Pingba Village, less than a kilometer away from the village!
"Quick, speed up into the village, it's an extremist rebel army!"
Sima Yuru spoke French with a resolute expression, she didn't expect another encounter here.