Chapter Twenty-Five: The Girl in the Reeds
025 Chapter 25 The Girl in the Reeds
It was Major Daga and Wang Xiaoyu who were tracked down, and the minibus in which Wang Xiaoyu and the two were riding passed through a number of checkpoints set up by the Wild Wolf Legion, and when they passed one of the checkpoints, everyone got off the bus and registered their ID cards. The information of Wang Xiaoyu and Yue, two inlandmen, was quickly reported.
By the time Thin Monkey's men reported the information to Major Dajia, half an hour had already passed, and the minibus had already driven into the Chongshan Mountains in Mianbei.
Dajia took people to chase after him, and at the same time made a phone call to arrange for people to intercept the Lashio passenger station, if Wang Xiaoyu and the two sat all the way to the station with the minibus, they would just fall into the net. Unexpectedly, the Chinese bus driver introduced them to the place where General Dai Anlan sacrificed, and Wang Xiaoyu was a die-hard fan of General Dai Anlan, and General Dai Anlan also had a great relationship with the grandfather Wang Xiaoyu was looking for, so they got off the bus halfway to worship. Unexpectedly, it was this move that allowed them to escape, I wonder if there is really a providence in the dark?
Daga led a group of people to the general's altar, searched left and right and found no one, Daga ordered the thin monkey: "You take a squad, chase along the mountain road, until you meet with the brothers in ambush in the back mountain, if you don't catch anyone, you two squads scatter, towards our side to search the mountain." ”
"Yes!" The skinny monkey took the order and left.
Daga pointed to a squad leader and said, "You take six people to search the top of the mountain, and if you don't find anyone, stand on a high place and stare at the foot of the mountain for four weeks, and immediately fire a warning shot when you find your whereabouts!" ”
"Yes!" The squad leader led the way.
Daga bent down and looked at the incense stick in front of the general's spiritual seat, the three inverted filter cigarettes had burned out, and he stretched out two rolling pin-like fingers to pinch a pinch of cigarette ash, which was still warm.
Daga stood up and looked down the hill to the left, where a mighty river, an important tributary of the Salween River, was slow and wide, and it could not swim without a boat. After searching for a long time in the telescope, let alone the boat, not even a wooden raft could be found, ruling out the possibility that the two people crossed the river and escaped.
There are also reeds in the east and west by the river, which are not very dense and not easy for Tibetans. So far, he had not heard any information from the back mountain and the top of the mountain, and with a wave of his hand, Daga led the rest of the people towards the river, which was the last hiding place for the two men.
This is a stone embankment for flood control, which is more than 10 meters wide and extends to the center of the river. At the junction of the stone embankment and the river, a dense circle of reeds grows, which is taller than a person. Wang Xiaoyu and the two hid behind the stone embankment, on the edge of the reeds. Seeing that the Dagarings were walking towards this side, Wang Xiaoyu said to the moon: "Brother, there is really no way, let's hide in the reeds and hide." ”
The moon said: "They are not stupid, these reeds by the river can hide people, can they not search when they arrive?" ”
Wang Xiaoyu said: "We poke the reed pole into the air, form a long tube to inhale, and hide under the water!" ”
The moon said, "You've watched too many movies, right?" What do you use to hollow out the reed pole here? There is no bamboo and no wire! ”
Wang Xiaoyu couldn't help but be deflated, none of the methods he thought of worked. Are they just waiting for someone to come and capture them alive? If it is not good, he should also hide on the outer edge of the reeds, and if the situation is not good, he can dive for 35 minutes at any time, and if he is lucky, he may be able to escape a catastrophe.
Thinking of this, he quietly retreated into the reeds. Suddenly, Xiaoyu felt that her waist had hit a hard object, and she felt a faint pain, and reached out to touch it, pressing a cold and hard wooden stake on her waist. Turning around slightly, the back of my hand touched a rough rope, the thickness of a baby's arm. Growing up by the river, he immediately reacted, it was a cable! Pulling hard, the aloe vera bush shook, and there was a crackling sound of water. With great joy in his heart, he said to the moon: "Brother, there is a boat in the reeds!" ”。
It was a six- or seven-meter-long Upong boat, very narrow, just over 1 meter wide. In the cabin under the black canopy, there was a foreign girl lying quietly, with blond hair, thin eyebrows like willow leaves, and her eyes closed. There was a thin black mole on the left cheek, and the cherry mouth looked a little pale, and a thin strand of blood flowed out along the corner of the mouth. There was also a wound on the left calf, which had been bandaged indiscriminately, and was still oozing blood. He greeted softly, but did not respond, shook her shoulder, and saw no movement. Touch your forehead, it's scary. Probe your nostrils and breathe. "She's unconscious." Wang Xiaoyu said, "Or I have a high fever and am confused."
At this time, the sky was already dark, the clouds were thick, there was no light, and there was a heavy fog in the river, and no human figure could be seen a few meters away, only the sound of chaotic footsteps running towards the stone dam. The moon didn't care whether there was anyone in the cabin, untied the rope, propped the bamboo pole on the stone, and the boat left the aloe vera bush and sailed towards the center of the river.
The water flow is slow and the river is wide. In the dark night, the boat that quietly rowed into the river did not know it. The moon rowed in front of the boat, Wang Xiaoyu stepped over the unconscious foreign girl, got out of Wupeng, came to the stern, and found an eight-horsepower gasoline propeller thruster fixed on the tail Xuan, gently knocking on the fuel tank, and most of it.
As soon as I arrived in the center of the river, there were still 100 meters away from the opposite bank, and on the bow of the boat, the moon holding the boat looked back behind him, and I couldn't see anything clearly on the black stone, and I secretly rejoiced in my luck.
Suddenly, there was a slight jolt of the ship, and there was a sudden motor sound at the stern. The boat suddenly picked up speed, and the moon that was caught off guard staggered and almost fell off the boat. When he came back to his senses, the Wufeng boat had already lifted its bow, parted the white waves, and sailed towards the opposite shore like an arrow. At this time, I heard Wang Xiaoyu's happy shout from the stern: "Brother, this motor is good!" ”
Perhaps the sound of a motor was heard on the shore, and someone on the embankment shouted: "Stop the boat, get to the shore!" "It's far away, drowned out by the sudden sound of motors. Sensing that the sound of the motor was fading away, the sound of gunfire on the embankment erupted, and tongues of fire spewed out like locusts at the boat. Fortunately, the other party did not carry night vision binoculars, but just fired in the direction of the sound, and it was dark and foggy and nothing could be seen, and the long and short guns were very lively, and some bullets flew into the sky, flying through the sky like meteors. Some of the bullets fell into the river, and the two only heard the sound of falling water in the thick fog, and they could not even see the splash, which did not pose much threat to the two. Xiao is like this, and the two of them are also extremely nervous, and unconsciously, the bamboo pole in their hands is faster.
In the dark, a shuttle of bullets passed through the dense fog and shot on the river surface more than 20 meters in front of the boat, splashing a series of high water columns, which frightened Wang Xiaoyu to hurriedly turn the rudder, and the canopy boat turned sideways on the river.
Soon, many people shouted in unison, and it was as if a tweeter had been set up by the river, and the sound was loud and clear. The moon said that he didn't understand, and Wang Xiaoyu said: "This is cotton language, although I don't understand it either, but I know it with my toes, it is to warn us that if we go again, we will be sunk!" ”
The moon said anxiously: "Oh, there is no place to hide in the center of the river!" ”
Wang Xiaoyu: "What are they slandering you, who can see Jiang Xin's things on such a dark night?" As soon as the words fell, another shuttle of bullets swept over, and a column splashed two or three meters away from the left boat. Frightened, the moon dropped the bamboo pole and hid in the Upong cabin.
Wang Xiaoyu was also so frightened that he lay on the stern of the boat, but he wondered, why did the enemy fight so accurately? Do they have infrared night vision? It was impossible, and if there were, the moon standing at the bow would have been headshot. At this time, because Wang Xiaoyu was lying on the stern, the hand controlling the throttle was released, the engine speed dropped, and the sound was quieter. Wang Xiaoyu suddenly gave himself a mouthful, isn't the engine constantly giving instructions to the enemy? Hurriedly got up again and turned off the engine. The boat drifted slowly down with the river, and the speed was slow, but no bullets hit the side of the boat again.
At this moment, in a European-style villa on the western outskirts of Yangon.
Another day has passed, and there is no valuable news from the front, and Colonel Kim of country M can only stare at the electronic screen in a daze, which is the real-time image transmitted back by the Predator drone that is reconnoitring in the air, hoping that the Predator drone can capture some useful information.
It is already night, and the UAVs are searching the ground with synthetic aperture radar infrared thermal imaging, which is full of high mountains and dense forests, and it is also difficult to search with modern reconnaissance equipment. Only the wide river surface, like a silver ribbon across the entire screen.
Colonel King stayed awake for two days and two nights, and even his iron-clad body felt tired. As soon as he sat down on the sofa, the assistant brought him a cup of coffee, and he took it, feeling that he didn't even have the energy to say "thank you". His hand flickered a button slightly, and the screen switched to a moving picture, showing the image transmitted by the drone in real time. The vast mountains and dense primeval forests can be seen clearly at night as well as during the day in front of synthetic aperture radar. However, in such a dense forest, it is difficult to find anyone, and even the roads marked on the map often disappear into the endless primeval forest. The terrain of northern cotton is completely different from the desert terrain of Iraq, full of sheltered mountains and blind spots for observation, and it is difficult for drones to find valuable targets.
The image swept past the bay where the foreign girl was found, only the surging river was still rushing and tumbling forward, the thatch on the shore was taller than a person, and the reeds at the water's edge were sparsely pulled in the east, and there was no trace of human beings in sight. Only a few messy footprints remained on the beach, as if mocking the incompetence of Colonel King's men.
The Predator drone flew leisurely over the top of the mountain, and a valley appeared in front of it, and at the bottom of the valley there was a wide river. Suddenly, a continuous light flashes on the shore in the lower left of the frame. Colonel Kim keenly sensed that there was a firefight, and he was about to zoom in on the screen to watch it carefully, but the idiot controller routinely controlled the drone to fly away along a fixed route, and the picture was a vast forest sea.
Colonel Kim angrily slapped the case, Huo Di stood up and scolded, "Shit! Then, there was a "bang", and a cup was dropped and rolled on the carpet, and the dark red carpet was dyed a brown color, which was the color of coffee. He picked up the phone with a grim face and cursed at the drone controller, Sergeant Benjamin.
Sergeant Benjamin is Carl. The drone operator on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Vincennes, who felt very depressed, flew the Predator drone from the Bay of Bengal to Mianbei, which is no better than a supersonic fighter jet, flying at a speed of only about 200 kilometers per hour and flying for more than six hours. Then you have to patrol for six hours, people are not iron, who can guarantee a high concentration for more than ten hours, and there will be no distractions? So he used GPS positioning to set up an automatic flight path in the mission area, so that he could reduce a lot of heavy labor, which could make him more relaxed, just now he was drinking coffee while performing the mission, and after being scolded by Colonel Kim, he had to cheer up and sit in front of the joystick of the UAV ground station again.
Colonel Kim also knew the virtues of these so-called high-quality talents, and now at a critical moment, for the sake of prudence, he temporarily shared the remote control of some of the function keys of the Predator drone.
After a minute, the screen slowly moves again to the spot where the continuous bright spot just came out. There was a group of people on the shore who opened fire on the heart of the river, and the fire was fierce, like a regular army. More than 400 meters away from them, on the river, a small wooden boat floated along the river, and there were people lying on their stomachs in the bow and stern, and these two people who were lying on their stomachs were crawling towards the cabin with their hands and feet. However, these two men are clearly male, and have nothing to do with the target of the tracking.
But who is hidden in the cabin? The boat's black pong is made of multiple layers of bamboo strips, and the outside is coated with a thick layer of tar to prevent waterproofing. Synthetic aperture radar and infrared imaging are powerless to do anything about the situation inside the cabin, and if it were in Africa or the Middle East, Colonel King would have ordered the opening of fire, and it would be a big deal to make them terrorists. But this is Mianbei, close to Huaxia, that is, let drones come here to carry out anti-terrorist missions, and country M has to threaten and give benefits at the same time, so that they ZF reluctantly agrees, and indiscriminate firing will only make things more complicated.
Colonel King ordered the nearest action team to approach the boat quickly and find out what was going on. He also ordered the Predator drone to focus on the small boat and try to figure out what was going on inside the Upong cabin. He had a gut feeling that the girl he was going after was in this boat. If it weren't for the fact that there were other armies on the shore eyeing him, he would have ordered the drone to fire directly, even if he killed three thousand by mistake, he wouldn't let her go!