With the help of the old guy, my speed has increased a lot. Not only was he able to lead the way, but he also helped me through some of the more difficult roads, and the key thing was that he also brought some food, although it was not the best hot food to restore my strength, but it was much better than walking hungry before. What's more, Yugovic is a real landsnake, and I am very impressed by his familiarity with the terrain and his ability to track in this environment. He always took me close and not far behind, and even after the sun went down, he was still able to quickly determine the direction in which they were going, and he continued to walk with me.

After dark, I followed Yugovic with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and it was about midnight that the old man slowly stopped. Then he helped me to sit down slowly.

I looked up at the sky after taking a few breaths, it was clear tonight and the moonlight was bright. There was a slight wind blowing in the woods, making a rustling sound. The old fellow looked around and motioned for me to wait here and not move, and I pulled him closer and said in a soft voice, "Are we at the border?" ”

Yugovich nodded, first pointing to the ground around us, and then also said in a very soft voice: "Look around here, the footprints are very messy, and a lot of grass has been flattened. It should be the NATO people who did a simple break here. Now we're going uphill, and if I'm right, by the time we start to feel downhill, after we climb the hill below, it should be the border. And our people should be not far away. ”

"Then let's hurry up. It's almost midnight now, and the people in NATO could move at any moment. I said and stood up.

When Yugovic saw me standing up and helped me up, he whispered, "Let's go over this hill first." After turning it over, find a place for you to stop, I'm going to scout and see the approximate location of the NATO people and then think of informing our people. ”

"Okay." I nodded in agreement, Yugovic is more professional than me in this situation, and I can only rely on him to do this.

We continued on the road and shortly afterwards climbed the hill and entered the downhill. As he entered the downhill slope, Yugovic walked slower and slower, and the gun in his hand was raised and the muzzle of the gun was raised. After walking for about twenty minutes, Yugovich took me to a tree. After motioning for me to squat down, he said in a very soft voice, "You wait here." The NATO people are probably in the area ahead of us, and I can already smell them. I myself touched the people who thought of informing us. ”

I nodded and motioned for him to be careful. He nodded, dropped his backpack and handed it to me, then walked out and quickly disappeared into the woods.

I stayed here and waited, and after about twenty minutes a bright light flashed from two o'clock, and then a burst of gunfire rang out. I shot Yugovich's bag on my back in advance. I looked ahead, and as the gunshots rang out, there wasn't much movement in the area I was looking at, but it was a little eerie quiet.

After a while, the movement became louder and louder, and the gunfire became more and more intense, and the area continued to expand. You can still faintly hear the sound of people shouting. From my point of view, the place of battle is about three or four hundred meters away from me. I was ready to get up and move forward, but I was afraid that I would be separated from Yugovich, and I only had a rifle and half a cartridge of bullets in my hand, and it was pitch black, and I might have been killed before I could see anyone.

I crouched down again, and I decided to wait. The scale of the exchange of fire grew larger and larger, and from time to time there was an explosion. Suddenly, there was movement from my side, and I turned my head to look at the muzzle of the gun.

"Gypsies? Are you still there? I'm Yugovic. ”

I lowered my gun and said, "I'm here." ”

Yugovic followed my voice and quickly came to me. He's still alone, and it seems that he hasn't joined our people for the most part.

"Let's get out of here." Yugovic said when he saw me.

When I saw him coming, I stretched out my hand to pull me up, and I guess the situation was not good, so I said, "What's the matter?" You didn't see them? ”

Yugovich pulled me up and said, "No. By the time I approached them, NATO people had already surrounded them. I had to shoot a warning shot first. ”

"Then what are you doing in such a panic?" I asked curiously.

Yugovic looked into the distance, "Because there are more than that." I saw another group of people coming from the main road. It's almost over. ”

"What then?" I asked.

Yugovic shook his head and pulled back in the direction of Kosovo, the direction in which I was coming, "There is definitely no chance to resist on the spot." Unless it's like the two of us. ”

Although I feel extremely aggrieved in the past two days, I really don't want to leave so easily. But I must admit that the old guy is right. The other side has night vision equipment, and the weapons and equipment are not at a disadvantage, and maybe they have a lot of advantages, after all, our gang is defeated, and a lot of guns and ammunition must have been lost, and 10,000 percent of the key equipment has been thrown away. If you resist standing still, there is bound to be no possibility of winning cheaply, but the unorganized bombing camp will collapse faster, and only small teams like the old fellow and I will try their luck to break through separately by taking advantage of the cover of the night and the surrounding woods and hillsides.

Hopefully Milk, they'll get out. I glanced in the direction of the firefight, and there was movement in the direction of the woods I was looking at, and in the moonlight I saw a black shadow flicker, and I immediately raised the muzzle of my gun and pulled the trigger on the black shadow.

After a short click, Jugovic realized that something was going on as soon as I was moving, and I continued to pull me back and look behind me. Immediately several bullets hit a tree I was passing by.

I didn't hear the gunshots, the other side had a weapon with a silencer. This must have been Yugovich who was targeted by the other party after shooting a warning shot, and followed the old guy.

"Follow me!" The old guy didn't shoot, he just pulled me and ran down the hill. From time to time, bullets flew from behind us, and from the angle of the shot, there should have been more than one person shooting at us.

We ran up the hill quickly, and the gunfire was scattered at the moment where the gunfire came from behind us, and hopefully they were breaking into pieces and organizing their own breakouts. Yugovic pulled me down the hill quickly, suddenly changed direction and stopped after a while, and he motioned for me to crouch down and not make a sound.

I nodded in understanding, crouched down slowly, and now I could clearly hear my wheezing, which was very loud at the moment, and I tried to calm my breath and looked at the woods. Yugovic crouched beside me, motionless and looking out. After about two or three minutes, there was movement thirty meters from us.

I couldn't see the person clearly, except that by the bright moonlight I faintly and briefly saw a shadow flash in the direction of Kosovo. At this time, I subconsciously slowly raised the gun, slowed down my breathing, and began to aim.

My movements caught Yugovich's attention, and he slowly turned his head to look at me, then raised his hand to press my gun and shook his head at me. So I put down my gun and just squatted quietly. The old fellow was the same, crouching motionless beside me, and the two of us were like two stone statues, barely moving except to breathe.

The two of us squatted for ten minutes without any extra movements, just listening to the gunfire at the border line, which slowly thinned out and felt farther and farther away from us as time went on. I guess the battle over there is almost over.

After barely feeling his feet and losing his balance, there was movement outside. Someone came from the direction of Kosovo, it should have been the one who was chasing us before. In a few moments, movement passed ahead of us, and then moved faster than it had pursued me and the old fellow towards the borderline. From the sound of footsteps, it sounded like two or three people.

After the other party walked away, the old guy let out a long sigh of relief. Then he sat on the ground. When I saw him like this, I knew that the danger had been lifted for the time being, and I sat down slowly, freeing my legs and feet completely.

"What do we do next?" I asked softly.

The old guy heard me ask about this, sighed and said, "It's definitely not okay to go directly to Serbia from here." We'll have to get out of here after a little rest. Who knows if those NATO guys will launch a search here, and there may be several such NATO teams on the border. The safest way at the moment is to go to Kosovo, go around there and then return to Serbia. ”

I know very well the logic of the old guy, which is to run to the non-combating area that seems to have been stabilized by the other party. This kind of move appeared among the people who fled during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, for example, during the defense of Nanjing, some people fled to Shanghai, which was already part of the occupied area at that time.

"Are you sure it's safest?" However, I didn't have a good impression of it, and in fact it was also an enemy-occupied area of the Albanian ethnic group, so I still asked worriedly.

Yugovic replied affirmatively, "Don't worry about meeting a large number of ethnic Albanians." Don't forget that they are also miserable during the day. At most, we've encountered some who have been broken up just as much as we are. ”

"That's dangerous, too. There were just two of us. I said.

"Yes. But it's safer than meeting NATO, isn't it? The old guy said.

I nodded in acceptance. Here, in this case, the old guy is much more reliable than me, an outsider. It must have been much safer to listen to him than I had thought of myself.

After a break of about ten minutes, after the legs and feet were completely rejuvenated, the old guy and I set off again, and headed in the direction of Kosovo again.