Eric's words made Second Lieutenant Loria look a lot firmer, and he pursed his lips and nodded, "Good! I understand. ”

"Let's do it, then." Eric put away his map and stood up, looked at the mountains to the west, and said, "How do we get there?" ”

Donovan walked up to Eric with Pete and said, "You follow." I'll go ahead, Pete, you watch the right, Ensign Loria, you and your men pay attention to the left. We can't walk on the pavement and walk along the side of the road. On the way, try not to talk, follow one by one, and pay attention to your step. ”

Eric nodded, turned to look at Loria and said, "Explain to your people." Let's go. ”

Second Lieutenant Loria quickly summoned the three men who had come with him, and, after a quick explanation, followed Donovan and Pete down the road.

Pete didn't really like to do this kind of reconnaissance, because he always felt that there was danger hidden in the dark mountains, as if someone was watching them in the dark. Although he knew that this feeling was nonsense, more because of the lack of understanding of the road ahead, he just couldn't adjust himself to the state that he felt was best.

The road outside the city is not wide, only enough for two cars, in fact, it is only one of several roads in and out of the city in the west of the city. The reason why they chose this place is that the distance into the mountains is relatively short, and it is relatively close to the place where they have settled.

At this time, the sky has slowly brightened, and although I still can't see the road clearly, I can already see the outline of the hillside and the mountain in the distance. In fact, the ears are more useful than the eyes here, because the mountains are very quiet, and you can hear the sound of rubbing against the ground under your feet and the wind blowing through the trees in the mountains.

After walking about two kilometers, Donovan, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped. Pete, who had always been on high alert, immediately stood still and raised his gun to the right, that is, to the northeast, while the movement of the two of them caused a panic among Second Lieutenant Loria and his men, each of whom looked around with his gun in hand, completely unsure of what to do next. This made Eric, who was following them, shake his head helplessly.

The reason why Donovan stopped was that he saw a dark shadow on the road in front of him, he didn't know what it was, but he could only see the general outline and height like a truck. He slowly squatted down while watching, staring carefully at the dark shadow in the middle of the road in front of him for a moment, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he turned around and whispered, "Don't move here, pay attention to vigilance." With that, he reached out and patted Pete on the back lightly, and then walked out towards the black shadow.

Upon approaching the shadow, Pete smelled the smell of diesel, and then saw two shadows that looked like corpses lying on the side of the road not far from the shadow. Donovan slowed down and slowly walked towards a dark shadow on the side of the road, taking a closer look at the dark shadow after coming to the black figure, while Pete leaned towards the large black shadow on the road.

"It's a truck." Pete whispered, "It should have been ambushed." Pete said as he looked into the cab and turned around, "There's another dead man in the car." ”

Donovan put down the rifle in his hand and slowly squatted down, reached out and touched the corpse and said, "The body is already hard, it shouldn't have just died." It's not an ordinary person, it's wearing camouflage, I didn't see a gun, it should have been taken away. As he spoke, he stood up and said to Pete, "Let everyone else come." Let the Georgians see if it's their people or the Ossetians. ”

Pete immediately turned over and ran back, and after bringing everyone up, Second Lieutenant Loria stood up and looked at the corpse that had fallen to the ground, reached out and touched the other party's armband, and said, "This is our man." His armbands, armbands are from the 1st Brigade. ”

"Okay." Donovan nodded, "It doesn't seem peaceful here. ”

Glancing at the body and the wrecked truck, Eric said, "Keep going, maybe this is just the beginning." ”

"Don't move yet." Donovan re-picked up the gun, "Pete and I will take a look first. If everything is okay, I'll take you with me. ”

"How far are you going to go?" Eric asked.

"Now we're about two kilometres, and I'm going to go one kilometre ahead, three kilometres to the fork in the road where three mountain roads meet. If it's okay all the way, let's go back together. Donovan said.

"Nope." Eric immediately denied: "It's too slow. Soon it will be almost dawn, and after dawn the Russian offensive will begin, and then the Ossetians or Russians hiding in the vicinity will definitely be active, and who knows what will become of this place then? ”

Donovan looked at Eric and nodded, "Okay then." Let's go together. But be careful, everybody. Maybe you won't be able to go far to meet someone on the other side. ”

This obviously made Lieutenant Loria even more nervous, and he watched his three men quickly say two sentences, and although Pete couldn't understand what they were saying, he could clearly feel the fear in his heart from the tone and tone.

About fifteen minutes later, Pete and Donovan approached the junction of the main road and the mountain road. It's an uphill slope, and from a distance, you can vaguely see that there is a road leading to the mountain at 10 o'clock in the direction of 11 o'clock and 2 o'clock in the direction of 2 o'clock. There was no trace of a firefight around, let alone anything else, so the two of them squatted down at the intersection after observing back and forth.

Eric, after seeing Donovan stop, slowly came to Donovan's side and squatted down. Donovan looked very cautious, and after looking ahead with Pete again, he turned to look at Eric and pointed to the road in the direction of ten o'clock, and said in a very low voice, "According to the direction on the map, we should take this road." ”

Eric nodded and said, "Do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

"You're here waiting for me, staying with them. You have to stay here this time. Donovan didn't wait for Eric to reply, he reached out and patted Pete on the body, then got up and walked slowly towards the intersection in the direction of ten o'clock in front of him, and Pete followed him to Donovan, standing guard in the direction of two o'clock.

After walking about fifty or sixty meters, Donovan and Pete came to the mountain road. The road winds its way southwest, and on the left side of the road, if you leave the road and head straight south, there is a forest that looks gentle and slopes slightly.