At about 10 a.m., four lightly armoured off-road vehicles with heavy machine guns on their roofs appeared at a highway checkpoint set up in the desert a few kilometers northeast of the desert isolated city of Gao.

There is a seasonal river flowing down from the northeastern mountains near the checkpoint, and in March there is no water at all, just an earthen ditch more than 20 meters deep and tens of meters wide, and the gravel road through the desert has a cement road bridge in the earthen ditch, which is the traffic node in and out of the northeastern part of Gao, and the checkpoint is in the sand at the head of the concrete bridge.

If you don't go here to get to Gao, you have to take a detour for at least several kilometers, and many of the trails in the desert are mined, with warning signs in French and Arabic indicating the minefields ahead, and the minefields are said to be laid by Malian government forces and French ** teams, with the intention of closing the passage of the desert part of the desert to prevent the ubiquitous armed members of the extreme rebel army from raiding the city of Gao and the airport of Gao.

Although a UN flag had been hoisted on the SUV in advance, the black soldiers of the Malian government army guarding the road agency's checkpoint had waved a flag a few hundred meters away from the improvised checkpoint, signaling to pull over for inspection.

Behind the breastwork wall made of sandbags, two large-caliber heavy machine guns were erected, and the soldiers wearing helmets and fully armed looked vigilantly at several armored off-road vehicles that were quickly approaching the dust rolling, and if they found that something was wrong, they immediately pressed the pressure button of the heavy machine guns erected on the chest wall, fired rockets with rocket launchers, and saw four armored off-road vehicles with the United Nations flag hanging on the head, these old fritter soldiers who crawled out of the pile of dead did not let down their vigilance.

Liang Li, Song Xiaoshuang, and Sima Yuru sat in the second armored off-road vehicle, and Liang Li told the mercenaries in each car through the car intercom that they should not act recklessly, and they would be inspected.

Four armoured off-road vehicles were parked on a gravel road dozens of meters away from the checkpoint, and several black soldiers of the Malian government army (the majority of the Malian population were black-Africans) dressed in desert digital camouflage training uniforms, armed with weapons and helmets, and led by an Arab officer with a second lieutenant rank and a pistol holster on his belt on the collar of his training uniform, hurried to the first armoured SUV.

The second lieutenant, who was also wearing a helmet, spoke in French in a cold tone, motioned to the people on the off-road vehicle to hand over their passes and check them, and asked where they came from? What do you need to do to get to Gao, etc.

The person in the first armored off-road vehicle was Eliza, a sniper in the mercenary squad, who was familiar with how to pass through the checkpoint after many missions, and immediately took out a pass issued by the Mali Union Mission and handed it to the second lieutenant from the window, and answered the second lieutenant's questions one by one.

After taking the pass from Eliza's hand, the second lieutenant with a beard and a cold face saw that the pass was issued by the United Nations Mission in Mali and issued to the xxx military contracting company, and he knew that the opportunity to reap the benefits had come!

These mercenary companies under the banner of legality, whenever there is a war in the world, it is the time when the mercenary company makes war profits.

The second lieutenant pinched the plastic pass in the palm of his hand, his eyes swept over Eliza who was sitting in the car, and then looked at the other male and female mercenaries in the car, his eyes became a little flickering, and he quickly said in French: "This is an extraordinary time, and without the issuance stamp of the Eastern Theater Command of the United Nations Mission in Malaysia, I cannot allow armoured off-road vehicles with weapons and personnel with weapons to enter Gao City."

"Made, there are ruffians in all countries!"

Seeing the ensign next to the car with a hateful face, pinching the genuine pass and not letting it go, wanting to take advantage of it, Eliza scolded in her heart.

The pass issued by the headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Bamako passes through various theaters in Mali, and many United Nations staff also hold similar passes, but they can't be used here, and they also need the signature of the Eastern Theater Command, which is obviously Chiguo's threat, you must know that the Eastern Theater Command is in Gao, how can you get the signature of the headquarters if you don't go to Gao?

The second lieutenant obviously wanted the supplies that the off-road vehicle was equipped with, such as all kinds of canned food with high calories, and other good things that he looked down on, but Eliza didn't want to give the second lieutenant anything, if it wasn't for the instructor Liang Li's order not to move, she would have opened the car door and kicked the second lieutenant away.

When the second lieutenant made up his mind to ask for something, Liang Li, who was sitting in the second off-road vehicle, didn't want to weaken the name of the mercenary company, and like Eliza, he didn't want to give anything at all.

Although the xxx military contracting company is not famous, it can obtain a mercenary task under the United Nations, and it is also a military contracting company with a certain background, how can it give benefits to the soldiers, which will greatly deal a blow to the momentum of its mercenaries and is not conducive to future development.

Liang Li, who was a ruffian or something, hated it the most, and she already had an idea when her eyes rolled, but she noticed that Song Xiaoshuang, who was sitting next to her, said something in a very low voice against Sima Yuru's ear, Song Xiaoshuang showed a playful look on her face and did not speak, and gestured a few signs with her hands.

Liang Li suddenly realized that Song Xiaoshuang is a good brain, and he can come up with this method.

The second lieutenant standing next to the first armored off-road vehicle, the white lady (Eliza) who was in the car was very uninteresting, and she didn't know how to give some benefits and let them go, but she just stayed in the car and didn't move, and saw a man and two women and three Asians wearing training uniforms and no weapons coming down from the second armored off-road vehicle, and walking towards him quickly.

The second lieutenant is an old fritter, and he immediately knew that these three people were not ordinary people, and there didn't seem to be much annoyance on the faces of the three of them, but the second lieutenant had already felt the invisible pressure from the three of them, and the second lieutenant, who had been tested by the fire of war, understood that this was a powerful killing aura!

However, the second lieutenant is self-assured and well-informed, and the mercenary captain under the military contractor has also seen a lot, and he thinks that these three people will not treat him well, and they are not all kinds of staff of the United Nations, just some mercenaries, and they are still planning to get some benefits before the black soldiers around him put away the railings and let them go, so he is very calm about the approach of Song Xiaoshuang and the three.

"Second lieutenant, let me go immediately, these two military observers of the United Nations Mission in Mama are from Bamako, they have something important to rush to the Eastern Theater Command, and they have to go to the camp of the Chinese peacekeepers in Gao, now the time is a quarter past ten, we must rush to the Eastern Theater Command within fifteen minutes!"

Liang Li's tone was bold and imposing as a rainbow in French, Liang Li's voice did not fall, Sima Yuru, who was standing beside her, looked at the second lieutenant who had changed her face, and then said in extremely standard Arabic: "Now we have to go, second lieutenant, you go with us, and lead the way to the Eastern Theater Command in the front car."

Song Xiaoshuang didn't say a few words like Liang Li and Sima Yuru, but his eyes looked at the second lieutenant repeatedly, and the invisible killing aura released slightly made the second lieutenant feel unbearable, knowing that this expressionless soldier was the most powerful one, and he was really stupid if he didn't know how to advance or retreat.

The second lieutenant immediately put away the idea of reaping benefits, hurriedly returned the pass he was holding in his hand to Eliza in the car on the side, gestured for the black soldier to get up the railing blocking the road, walked to the sand next to the road, sat in the driver's seat of an old Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle, drove the off-road vehicle onto the gravel road and gestured, and he drove the way to the Eastern Theater Command.

The second lieutenant is not stupid, the status of the ** observers in the United Nations Mission is special, and if he delays important military information because he wants to get benefits from his mushrooms, he can't afford this responsibility.

Liang Li and the three of them quickly got on the armored off-road vehicle that drove to the side, and the four armored off-road vehicles drove under the guidance of the second lieutenant of the Land Rover Defender, and quickly crossed the cement bridge and rushed to the city of Gao

Soon after crossing the cement bridge, Song Xiaoshuang noticed that there were more desert gravel roads nearby, desert shrubs dotted on the sand beside the road, from time to time there were donkey carts, Malian blacks and Tuaregs riding motorcycles coming out of the forks in these roads, looking at the direction of many to Gao City, scattered buildings began to appear around and then residential areas, from time to time there were various vehicles sprayed with United Nations pattern signs from the side of the gravel road, rolling up countless dust, driving on the empty sandy gravel road, You can clearly hear the noisy sound of the rotors of the helicopter at Gao Airport.

Soon Song Xiaoshuang appeared in front of Song Xiaoshuang's eyes at the fenced Gao Airport, where there were radar antennas that were constantly rotating slowly, and many military vehicles and armored vehicles were parked near the abandoned airport terminal.

Song Xiaoshuang had already learned in advance that this was the French ** team stationed and guarded, unlike Timbuktu or the Malian government army guarding, the Malian government army's combat strength was too poor, and the city of Gao was faintly surrounded by extreme rebel forces, in order to ensure the safety of the airport, France sent the elite troops of the Foreign Legion, in order to deal with the increasingly large extreme rebel forces to harass and maintain peace in this area, the United Nations Mission in Gao has thousands of peacekeeping troops.

The second lieutenant of the Malian government army driving the Land Rover Defender SUV was only a few blocks away from the Eastern Theater Command when he turned around and drove out of Gao City, and there was already a clear temporary signage in front of him pointing to the Eastern Theater Command, and the second lieutenant had to rush back to the highway checkpoint.

In addition to the relatively low buildings, the layout of the desert city is not very rigorous and loose, everywhere there are sand passages for vehicles, all kinds of desert shrubs are dotted in the city, the residents of Gao City walking in the dusty sandy streets, see the armored off-road vehicles flying the United Nations flag driving by, there is no obvious expression on their faces, there are few vehicles in Gao City that do not have the United Nations logo, and there are really many United Nations staff in this isolated city.

Two blocks away from the Eastern Theater Command, a wheeled armored vehicle sprayed with the United Nations logo drove out of another block with a bang, followed by several four-wheeled off-road military vehicles with rough lines, the blue helmet of the United Nations peacekeeping force on the car was clearly a Chinese peacekeeper, and the four-wheeled off-road military vehicle was also a warrior off-road vehicle that Song Xiaoshuang was more familiar with!