Chapter 638: The Fire Phoenix Who Is Not Afraid of Heaven and Earth [Chapter 2]
The reason why I say that if we want to pretend to be miners and enter the mines, it is because the way up the mountain is blocked by our target's horseboy. Even if it is a path up the mountain, it is guarded by horses, and it is impossible for us to go up at all.
But that's what we heard in the town, and none of us knew exactly what was going on in the mountains. Hearing is believing, and seeing is believing, and of course we don't believe everything we hear.
In fact, we also thought about finding a guide to help us try the trail, after all, for an outsider who is not familiar with the local terrain at all, it is not so easy for us to find a trail to go uphill. It's a pity that none of the locals are willing to show us the way to that mountainous area, and they say that many local people in that mountainous area are afraid to cut firewood because there are landmines.
Locals also said that people outside thought that the mines in the mountainous area were planted during the previous war, but in fact the mine owner ordered them to be buried. It's just that the locals dare not speak out, they only dare to talk a few words behind their backs, and no one dares to speak out.
I don't have to think about it to know that the mine boss has already bought off the relevant relationship, and it is estimated that even if someone goes up to report, no one will care.
From what we heard locally, the locals hated the mine owner for a long time. It is said that he has contracted those mountains, but the money for the contract has been delayed for many years and has not been paid. Mining is also very polluting to the area, and the locals used to live entirely on aquaculture, and because there is a large river with clear water not far from the town, most people use the water from that river to raise fish in their homes. However, since the mining in the mountains began, the water in the river has become more and more muddy, especially when it rains heavily, you can see a lot of red water flowing into the river. After that, most of the fish in the pond could not be raised, and even if some people did not use the water of the river anymore, the fish raised were very small.
Not only that, but even the income from the vegetation in the local fields is getting lower and lower. We can all see this with our own eyes, because the corn and rice in the fields are growing poorly.
Unfortunately, this town is too remote, as the saying goes, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there is no way to avenge the wrongs. It is said that several people once organized a group to go to the county to file a complaint, and then never returned. The locals knew what was wrong with those people, but no one dared to say it.
In the eyes of the locals, our target is like the existence of the Lord of Yama, and whoever sees him has to take a detour. The locals were so afraid of him, who would dare to take us into the mountains. Even though we got all the information we got about it when Li Siting and I pretended to be reporters, and the locals wanted us to expose all the things about the mine owner, no one was willing to take us into the mountains.
Unable to find a guide to take us into the mountains, we had to think of something else.
Fortunately, after we inquired about the approximate location of the mine, I asked Yujie to find Feng Qing to get a high-definition satellite map of the local area.
From the satellite map, there is a large white area in the heart of this mountainous area, which is clearly the location of the mine we are targeting. As long as we follow the satellite map, it is not difficult to find the mine at all. The crux of the matter is that the locals say that the mountains are full of landmines, and we are not familiar with the terrain, so if we step on a mine in the mountains, we will die. The main thing is that several of us are not familiar with demining.
Actually, I learned to clear mines, but after all, I only trained for half a year. During that half a year, I had to learn so much that I couldn't learn everything very well. So I thought of Haozi, who was born as a demoman in the Engineer Corps.
I immediately called Hiroko and asked if he would clear mines. As soon as Haozi heard me say this, he immediately asked me worriedly if I had gone to Vietnam, because everyone knew that there were still many minefields on the Sino-Vietnamese border. Actually, I didn't know it before, and I only found out about it once when my dad mentioned it.
It is said that during the Sino-Vietnamese War, in order to prevent the infiltration of the other side's spies and scouts, the two sides carried out large-scale mines on the border, and only their own people knew where the mines were buried, not the enemy, so they effectively prevented the infiltration of the enemy's scouts.
The most terrible thing is that, according to my father, most of the mines on the Sino-Vietnamese border are anti-infantry mines, and if you step on them, even if they explode, it is difficult to kill people, and the purpose is to blow up the enemy, if you kill an enemy in wartime, that is to blow up an enemy, but if you blow up an enemy, then the enemy will send two soldiers to transport the wounded, so blowing up an enemy is equivalent to making the enemy lose the combat effectiveness of three soldiers, which greatly consumes the combat effectiveness of the other party. It is more beneficial to oneself than to blow one up.
As a matter of fact, what the outside world does not know is that, according to the relevant information that Feng Qing told me before my departure this time, the Guangxi border demining unit has almost cleared all the mines on the Vietnamese-Sino-Vietnamese border in recent years. However, there are still nearly 60 square kilometers of permanently sealed minefields in the Yunnan section. Fortunately, where we are now is still far from those 60 square kilometers. Therefore, after I told Haozi about it, Haozi immediately said: "He is very familiar with modern landmines, as long as they have been buried in recent years, he can easily deal with them." ”
When I heard Haozi say that, I was very happy. So I immediately called Long Qian again and asked Haozi to come over and help. Long Qian asked me why I suddenly wanted to let Haozi go over, and I said that our target was in the mine, and we were going to blow that bastard to death in the mine. Of course, I didn't dare to tell Long Qian that we were going into a minefield, so I asked Haozi to come over and help us clear mines.
Let her know this, and she'll jump high and call me back.
Hiroko arrived at 3 a.m. on the third day after we arrived. After we told him about the situation, he immediately said that he would leave before dawn. so as not to be spotted by that target's local eyeliner.
We felt that what Haozi said made sense, and we all agreed to Haozi's plan.
At five o'clock in the morning that day, Yang Zhe, Monkey, Li Siting, Haozi, Wu Chen, Yao Yiyang and I each carried a backpack and walked towards the mountain.
We followed the nearest route we calculated from the map, and it was also the most remote way around the mine. This path is also carefully calculated and designed by us. On the one hand, we avoided large areas of forest, which was also to avoid minefields, and on the other hand, we avoided many places that were easier to walk to reduce the chance of encountering landmines.
However, the unsatisfactory thing is that the route we chose had to climb several mountains, several of which were cliffs and had to be climbed. But for these cliffs, the monkey said that he could climb the mountain first, throw us a rope down, and let us climb up his rope.
At that time, I was a little skeptical, but when we came to the first cliff at noon, we saw that the monkey was really just like a monkey, climbing to the top of the cliff with his bare hands, and we all knew that the monkey was still a master climber. Of course, we don't know that when the monkey master first taught him monkey boxing, the most he asked him to do was to climb the rock with his bare hands, so as to exercise the strength of his ten fingers.
There were monkeys to show us the way, and the cliffs were almost flat for us. After all, he threw us a climbing rope on the cliff, and it was still easy for us to climb the mountain along the rope.
As we expected, we walked for two days to reach the mine. Once we got to the mine, we had two more days to prepare for the target. There's plenty of time.
Unfortunately, we had an accident in the evening.
In the evening, we climbed over a large mountain and came to a canyon. It was already getting dark, and Hiroko said that the march at night was too dangerous for mines to be found, so he suggested that we camp in a col and rest.
After that, a few of us took a knife and cleared the small trees in the col and prepared to set up a tent. As a result, not long after cleaning up, Li Siting suddenly screamed: "Ah, snake ......"
Turning her head, Li Yuting saw a black and white poisonous snake coiled on a small tree one meter away from Li Yuting. This snake is very common in our country, and I also have it in my hometown. As soon as I saw the white and black rings in the pattern, I exclaimed, "it, silver krait." Fourth sister, run ......"
"Woo, come and save me......" What I never dreamed of was that Li Siting stood in front of the snake in a daze and cried directly.
Nima, I'm drunk too. As one of the top ten killers of the Blood Night, she was actually scared to cry by a snake, and even her feet were scared weak, and she didn't know how to run.
"A snake can scare you into crying, don't you know how to cut it with your mountain knife!" I cursed with disdain and hurried away at her. I was closest to her at the time, so of course I had to rush over and help.
As a result, at this moment, Li Siting suddenly cried again: "Don't run around, there is a mine here, I stepped on a mine...... Ah, it's coming at me......"
"What, you stepped on a mine!" I exclaimed. At this moment, I finally knew about Li Siting, but when I saw that the silver snake did swim slowly towards her along the branch, I was too scared to move, so I quickly turned around and shouted: "Brother Hao, my fourth sister stepped on a landmine, come and help." ”
As soon as the words fell, I quickly pulled out two flying knives, ready to use the flying knives to kill the silver krait snake in front of Li Siting. Because she was only six or seven meters away from me now, and despite the small size of the krait, I was still confident that I could handle it with a throwing knife. As a result, just as I raised the flying knife, I habitually took a step back with my right foot, which I wanted to use to exert force, but as soon as I took this step, I suddenly heard a "pop" sound of metal hitting under my feet.
At that moment, my heart suddenly shuddered, and I knew it was over.
At the same time, I saw Yang Zhe and Monkey, Wu Chen, Yao Yiyang and others running towards me and Li Siting. I quickly shouted, "Don't come here, there are a lot of mines here." ”
"Stand still, don't run around!" Haozi also shouted.
At that moment, everyone was stunned.
Haozi took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Don't move, generally there will not be only one or two places where mines are found, there must be several mines nearby, this is the most cruel way to bury anti-infantry mines." Someone stepped on one and lured other comrades-in-arms to clear the mine or the mine had been triggered, so they lured other comrades-in-arms to the rescue, and as a result, they would be hit one after another. ”
"Huh, huh......" Haozi quickly took a few deep breaths before beckoning to everyone and motioning for everyone to squat: "You all squat in place, I'll go to fight the fire phoenix first." ”
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's coming...... Li Siting was so frightened that her hand holding the knife was trembling, the silver snake was in front of her, but she just didn't want to use the knife to cut it in two.
"Fourth sister, don't rush, I'm begging you, do you dare to chop that snake with one knife." I'm disdainful of authenticity.
"Woo, it's coming, I'm not afraid of heaven and earth, I'm afraid of snakes......" Li Siting was really scared and cried.
Nima, who was scared like this by a snake, still has the face to say that she is not afraid of heaven and earth......
I'm curious if anyone knows that the Fire Phoenix, known as the top ten killers of the blood color, was scared to cry by a snake, I wonder how others will feel.