Take this companion of his? I looked at the man crouching against the wall, "Can he go?" Can you move? ”

"It should work." Ahmed said, "Akmal said they were lucky to get here, and they weren't seriously injured. Otherwise, you won't be able to get here. He paused for a moment and continued, "Most of them are hungry. As long as you are full, it should not be a problem to take a break. ”

"That's good. Take him with you as long as you can move. I retracted my gaze and looked at Ahmed, "You and your little friend should also get some rest." ”

Ahmed nodded at me and said, "Don't worry. Such a road cannot stop us. With that, he turned and walked towards his companion.

I looked at the sides of the valley, flanked by the upward slopes. I don't know if there will be a signal to contact the old guy after climbing up the hill. I haven't been in touch for two or three days, and more importantly I've found a target here, and now I have to inform him, not only to report the good news, but also because we need him to make arrangements there and make arrangements for us to get out of here. We're now in the eastern part of Afghanistan, and I don't want to cross Afghanistan like that to Turkmenistan in the northwest. That's just too dangerous.

I looked at Ahmed, who was already resting and eating, and said, "Can you climb the mountains on both sides?" ”

Ahmed looked at the sides of the valley and said, "There should be." Just find a local and they'll have their way there. With that, he looked at Qasim, who was still talking to Akmall, and said something to him. Qasim looked at me and nodded, and then sent his men out the door to find someone.

"Someone will come and take you up in a moment." Ahmed said.

I nodded and looked at the team members who were also resting, "Salim, take everyone to rest." If there is anything missing, try to add it. Lukovich, get the satellite phone ready and go mountain climbing with me in a moment. ”

"Climbing the mountain again? If I do this again, I'm really going to use climbing. Lukovic complained.

"I'll go too." The gardener on one side stood up and said, "I want to climb up and see." ”

"Aren't you tired?" I asked curiously.

Without waiting for the gardener to answer, Lukovich already said with a disdainful expression: "He said that looking from the distance on the mountain can relax the heart and release any inner pressure." I feel like I only have legs and feet to relax and release right now. No.. It should be liberating. “

"Okay." Again, I can't fully understand the gardener's thoughts, but as one of the most polite of us here, I have no objection. "As long as you're not tired, that's fine, put down your backpack and bring your gun."

A moment later, the man sent by Qasim returned, but instead of a local villager, he was looking for an armed man who had brought us here.

This man came to us and said something to us, I didn't know what he was talking about, I looked back at the Turkmen Bilamov in the ranks: "What is he talking about?" ”

"He said that the mountain road is not easy to walk, and it is necessary to climb very high. , let's not have to, it's better not to go. “

"Tell him. I just need to go to high places. I need a signal. I said.

After Bilamov explained to the man, he nodded and motioned for us to follow him. I looked at Bilamov and said, "Bring a gun and come with me." “

Bilamov reluctantly stood up, slung his gun on his back, and walked over to us amid the schadenfreude laughter of his Turkmen companions. So the four of us followed the TLB out of the village and up the hill from a more gentle slope on the east side of the village.

Soon after I started climbing, I regretted it a little, because there was no way up the mountain, and I was really climbing, which made me feel very tired. After climbing for half an hour, we came to a relatively high place, and I immediately asked Lukovic to take out the phone and try to contact the old guy, but there was still no signal on the phone. There was no way we could keep going up, and after another 10 minutes or so of the climb, Lukovic asked for a break because he said he was really bored.

I stopped, I looked up, I didn't know how far I had to climb to get the damn satellite phone to get a signal, just as I was about to ask if the TLB had any advice. A burst of gunfire came up from the bottom of the mountain.

I immediately looked down, and I couldn't see the village below from me. It can only be roughly judged from the sound of gunfire that this is the sound of AK-47.

I looked at the TLB Armament, and he looked down with the same puzzled expression, and I said, "What's going on?" “

And just as I asked him what was going on, another burst of gunfire came up, and this shot seemed to answer with this TLB armament, because it was the voice of the Yankee M16.

"Yankee?" The gardener and Lukovich asked in unison.

I tried to contact the people in the village with the communicator I was carrying, but I didn't know if it was a signal transmission problem or if we were out of range and couldn't get in touch at all. I had to look at Lukovic and say, "Try to contact Younis here." The others follow me back! “

"Understood!" Lukovich nodded, quickly picked up the phone and began to make contact, while I quickly descended the same way with the gardener and Bilamov and the TLB. After about ten minutes of rapid walking, I saw the village below.

To the south of the village, at the entrance to the valley, a group of men was attacking the village. From what I can see, I can only roughly tell that there are about a dozen of them. I looked quickly into the village, where someone had been hit and fell to the ground near the south edge of the village. And the people of the village are fighting back.

Is this the beginning of a clean-up operation? Just as I was puzzled, I heard the sound of a helicopter from the distant sky. Then, on the north side of the valley, two helicopters flew at high speed, and after a circle, they hovered low to the north, apparently to pull people down.

What's to be done? Is this a clean-up of these TLB forces in the mountains? Shouldn't they solve the problem there in Kandahar? Did they shift the focus? When people thought that Kandahar would be besieged, they unexpectedly launched a sweep of this mountainous area... Or maybe there are some important people hidden in this mountain? Is it they who don't want to hunt?

As I thought so, the people of the village took up their positions and launched a counterattack, but few of them seemed to notice that behind them, to the north, there was already a group of people who had been roped down and prepared to attack the village in front and back.

I looked at the TLB and said, "Is it better to leave from the south or from the north?" ”

After Biramov had translated, the man quickly pointed to the south and said a word. Bilamov said quickly: "He said that it is better to go from the south. That's how we got here. If you go north, it will be troublesome if someone is chasing you, because the road to the north is more difficult. “

The battle has begun...

(End of chapter)