"Understood." After everyone answered in a low voice, John looked back at the direction of the river and quickly led everyone towards the woods by the river.

At the moment, on the river, the boat in which Bordachev's wife and children were riding was still floating down the river. The woman was very nervous at the moment, and not long ago, someone tried to drive a speedboat and stop her, but as the speedboat approached, she first blocked the child's ear with one hand, held him in her arms, and held the pistol that Baldachev had left for him in one hand, and fired a continuous wave of shots at the speedboat, and kept the bullets in the magazine.

Her attack caught the men on the speedboat by surprise. At the same time that someone was shot, a few shots hit the motor of the speedboat, directly destroying the motor. And the others couldn't fight back, after all, they had to catch it alive, so in the end they had to watch the wooden boat drift farther and farther again.

Escaping this did not let her relax, the child was frightened by the sound of gunfire and cried, and at the same time he had to control the direction of the boat, after all, it was not true that he would do nothing, it was as simple as floating along the water, once he drifted to the shore, it was all over. What's more, the pistol in his hand is of no use other than being used as a stone to throw at someone. And where exactly the front will drift to, and whether there will be other interceptors along the way, it is not known whether there will be other interceptors on the way. She first made it clear that she would leave the city by floating down the river as her husband had said, and then take the children to a safe place. And all that can be done now is to soothe the child who is still crying first.

But it wasn't long before she realized that she couldn't escape this time. Because soon there were some dark shadows by the river. These people obviously came on their own, but these people did not do it again, but from time to time someone was discussing, and the content of the discussion did not shy away from her, so she could be heard intermittently that these people were preparing to intercept themselves somewhere in the river.

But even if she knew, she couldn't do anything, and now she knew that she had fallen into the other party's pocket, and she was waiting for the other party to close. At that moment, the voice of someone talking was heard again from the front, and just as he was looking ahead, suddenly a bright light shone from the river in front of him.

"Prepare to stop her. Pull the net up. Someone shouted.

"Pull it up, hold the bow of the boat, and pay attention to the bow of the boat." Someone responded.

"Be careful, she has a gun."

"Don't worry, her gun should be out of ammunition." Someone shouted.

"How do you know? It's better to be careful. Someone said.

"Ma'am!" At this time, someone began to shout at her, "Give up resistance, for the sake of the children around you." We are not bad people, but people of the government, and we promise not to hurt you. ”

The woman was so blinded by the light that she couldn't look ahead, so she had to turn her back and hug the child next to her, she didn't need to answer, because there was no need, and she couldn't run away. Soon he will be caught and sent somewhere to be locked up. But maybe he will be able to meet Bordachev, her husband.

But just as she was thinking like this, a burst of gunfire suddenly came. She closed her glasses when she heard the gunshots, for she thought it was aimed at her, but the more intense gunfire that followed told her otherwise, that none of the sudden gunshots were directed at her.

She immediately looked back and saw that the light had been extinguished, and someone was shooting in the woods on the shore side. Some hit the boat on the river that was about to intercept them, while others hit the other side of the river.

I saw that someone was shooting back in the place where the shouting had just come from by the river, but after a while, one of these counterattackers was hit and fell.

Some people reacted quickly, lying on the river beach and shooting into the woods, but after a while, the man's side exploded, and the explosion splashed the mud and sand on the river beach very high, and some even landed on the side of their own boats. The person who was lying on the ground and shooting was silent, and should have died. Then someone rushed out of the woods and shouted at him.

Although she still didn't know what was going on, she had more or less realized that things had taken a turn for the better. So she turned her attention to the shore, the man who was running over, and listened carefully to what he was shouting.

Only to hear the man shout in slightly accented Russian: "Ma'am, we have come to take you out of here at the request of your husband." Please don't be nervous, soon you will hit a net and I will go over to control the wooden boat and then dock. We're going to get out of here as soon as possible. As the man shouted, two more figures appeared from the woods, and they hurried to the river, as if to examine the bodies they had slain.

The woman looked back and forth, although he didn't know who it was, and her husband, Baldachev, had not explained that such a situation would occur before he separated from her. But after hesitating for a moment, she chose to believe the person in front of her, at least what they were doing would show that they were not in the same group as the man who had just tried to intercept her, and that the accent of this person was clearly not Belarusian or Russian.

"My man went right away, ma'am. Please don't be nervous. You see that there are very few of us, and we must get out of here as soon as possible, otherwise these people's companions will soon arrive, so please cooperate with me. Complete the task given to us by your husband. The other party continued to shout.

The person who shouted was naturally John, and the ambush just now was very successful, not only because these people on the other side had no defense at all, and their attention was all focused on the river, and they didn't know that someone had touched their side, but also because they were close enough, so close that even at night, they could lock their exact location with some lights used by these people. That is, except for Pete, who took some trouble and fired several shots in a row to kill the two people on the other side, everyone else was successful in one blow and was quickly done.

Seeing that the woman did not answer, John naturally would not spend time here with her, and he immediately said to Thun and Matthew, who were leaning over: "Go over, bring the boat over." ”

Thun and Matthew immediately went down the river and swam towards the small wooden boat that had stopped after hitting the net, and when they were close to the hull, John shouted, "We will bring the boat to the shore, please don't be nervous, take care of the children." ”

"Okay... Good... The woman's heart is horizontal at the moment, and she can't run away anyway, no matter who the other party is, all she can do is cooperate.

Hearing the other party's reply, John breathed a long sigh of relief, and after doing it, he was most worried about the woman and the child being accidentally injured or doing something stupid that everyone didn't want to see because of the enemy's defense. Now that the woman had replied, and her tone was quite calm, she explained that nothing she was worried about had happened, and it would not happen.

Soon the little wooden boat was brought to shore, and Thun and Matthew quickly disembarked, and immediately put down their guns and began to change clothes with those they had killed, after all, in this weather, wearing soaked clothes, if not killed, they would have to freeze to death.

"Ma'am, we need to get out of here." John pointed in the direction of the woods and said, "We have to go that way and get in the car." ”

"Where is Baldachev?" The woman did not immediately disembark, but looked at John from inside the boat and asked.

"I don't know." John said: "To tell you the truth, there was nothing about him and you in my original mission, I was temporarily transferred, you should have heard the gunfire in the city before, we came here to save some other people." So now we are in a very dangerous situation, please hurry. ”

Hearing John say this, the woman was even more convinced that the person in front of her had not lied to him. She glanced at the child next to her and picked it up to get off the boat. At that moment, Curtman, who had been staying in the woods, ran up quickly, and immediately after seeing John, he said, "There's someone coming from behind, we have to get out of here." ”

"Let's go!" John turned his head to look at Thun and Matthew, who were still putting their clothes on, and said, "Collect some ammo." Hurry, hurry. ”

"We may not be able to go back the way we came." Curtman said, "They're coming from behind us. It just blocked our way. As he spoke, he nervously pointed to the guide and said, "We can only walk along the river." I'm trying to figure out how to cross the river. ”

John cursed in his heart, turned his head to look at the direction of the dark river flowing, and said, "That's all there is to it." Where are the people who answered us? ”

"The men of Hermet are on their way, and we are heading south, and there is a small town to the south, and we are now almost out of town. When you get to that town, you might be able to hide for a while. Curtman said.

"Then let's do it. Quick, you take them first. John pointed to the mother and daughter, then walked quickly to Pete's side in the woods and said, "Come with me." Let's get out of here. ”

Pete didn't speak, but immediately got up and ran out after John. And it was Ashraf who was here at this moment, and when he heard the gunshots not long ago, he realized that something was wrong, no matter how stupid the people who came here were, they would not shoot wildly at such a woman. So the only explanation is that the people who tried to capture the woman and child were attacked. And judging by the fact that I can't contact those people, they must be finished.

So Ashraf sped up, and after spotting the cars parked here, who he didn't know who they were, he led the men into the woods with their guns and cautiously touched them, and after some reconnaissance, found the corpses by the river.

"They should have run down the river." After a brief inspection, someone said to Ashraf: "I have seen the footprints by the river, and they have passed in the direction of the downstream. ”

"How many people?" Ashraf asked.

"About five or six people, seven or eight at most." "And the ammunition that our men had with them was taken away. ”

Ashraf nodded, and looked back at where the car had been parked, "There won't be many of them." This isn't their rendezvous either, and it looks like they arrived here on a makeshift basis, but we didn't expect them to do this trick at all. After speaking, he turned his head to look downstream, "Chase immediately, bring two teams of people to chase over." I immediately went out with the rest of the people and blocked their way. ”

"Understood." Ashraf's men agreed, and then said, "What will we do when we meet them?" ”

"Try to delay as much as possible." Ashraf said: "We want to live, I mean the woman and the child, they want to live." So besiege them first, and then figure out a way. Let's do it. ”

Ashraf's men immediately split up, and in the woods not far from here, John and Pete were running as fast as they could along the river, but even then they were not very fast, not only because the road was very difficult to walk, but also because of the woman with them. As a result, they ran for about twenty minutes before being overtaken by the Russians who were chasing after them.

"There's movement in the back." Pete noticed the movement behind him and walked quickly to John's side and whispered.

John didn't reply, as he expected, but after Curtman reported to him that someone had arrived, he began to think about how to make sure that he could escape with the woman and the child after they caught up. But there is no good way to think about it, it is obviously not possible to fight and retreat, and since you have found your traces, then the road ahead, that is, the direction of escape now, has become very dangerous, they can completely block themselves somewhere, after all, their current speed is too slow, and they lack manpower and weapons, there is no means to quickly break through and intercept, and the only thing that can be used may be that the Russians will not fight with themselves as soon as they are afraid of the lives of this woman and child, It will be somewhat more convergent. But this is not a long-term solution, once it is surrounded, although it can wait for its own support, it will only be a drop in the bucket at that time, and it will be useless at all.

So come to think of it。。。。。 The only way ... Thinking of this, he looked at Curtman, who had been running with women and children in front, he motioned to Pete to continue to pay attention to the movement behind him, and he quickened his pace to Kirtman's side and said, "It's not a way for us to run like this." There are already people following behind, and it will not be difficult to trap us as long as they have mastered our tracks. And we still have them with us, which is even more troublesome. We have to find a way to not go on like this. ”

Curtman actually thought of this, and never thought of a good solution, so after John proposed it, he didn't think about it and said, "If you have any idea, just say it." ”

"Now we have to go our separate ways." John whispered as he watched his steps.