Chapter 37: Under the Praying Mantis and the Yellow Sparrow
I motioned for the two to stop, and I had to take a closer look at the situation on the other side. At least 50 meters ahead, there is no difference in the jungle of trees and various grasses, but if you look closely, you will see that there is a visual fault, and a forest behind this short layer is higher than where we are now, which may indicate that there is a low place not far ahead of us, where the visual fault is visible. I looked at the two companions beside me, motioned for them to separate to the left and right, and slowly moved forward. When I had walked twenty-three meters, I stopped again and motioned for my two companions to wait, and I decided to go there alone to have a look.
After receiving a response from my two companions, I slowly continued on my way, walking about ten meters away, and I could see the terrain in the direction in which they had disappeared. This is supposed to be a dry stretch of river with exposed tree roots under the riverbed. The people on the other side are probably hiding somewhere in the river at the moment.
I saw it and turned back to signal for my two companions to follow, and a moment later they came to my left and right. I pointed to the dry river and pulled out a stunner bomb for them to use it. The two of them nodded in understanding.
When the stunner bomb was thrown into the river less than 20 meters away and exploded, a cry rang out. Sure enough, the two bastards didn't run. But just as we were getting up to enter the river, gunshots rang out in the woods opposite, and several pistols rang out in succession, and one of my companions staggered down. At the same time, a figure rushed out of the river to my right, and I fell to the ground, then pulled out a grenade and threw it away, while my other companion was shooting at the opposite side.
Soon there was no movement on the other side, and I crawled to the side of the river and looked into the middle of the river, where there was a corpse lying inside, presumably killed by a grenade. But where else is the person? The one who shot at us on the other side? Probably not, the man was using a pistol and shouldn't have left a man to walk around the other side and shoot at us again. The guy on the other side should be the same sniper we wounded earlier, he pointed out that he had his pistol left and ran away first, so there should be someone around at this moment.
I looked back at my companion who had just been hit, and he was lying there as if he had been shot in the shoulder, not daring to move. I looked towards the trees opposite, there was no movement on the other side, I climbed forward a little further, and just then I heard a slight click on the underside of my left front. I immediately stopped, looked back at my companion and pointed to the place where the movement was coming from.
My companion looked at where I was pointing, nodded, and with me, pulled out the grenade again, and threw it down again. But as soon as we threw it, a figure came out very fast, and we had to lie down and hide when the grenade exploded. When the blast was over, I was about to shoot at the figure that had run away, when a bullet came from the woods on the other side, again the pistol. Although it was a pistol, it was quite accurate, and both shots hit the riverbed in front of me, splashing a cloud of dirt, and the other side was obviously trying to cover the retreat of the man in the river.
My companions immediately fought back against the opposite woods, and after a continuous burst of fire, the opposite side immediately stopped moving again. It is impossible for a pistol to kill a carbine or an assault rifle. I took advantage of this opportunity to immediately look at the man who had run out, who was obviously wounded and limped not far, and when I looked at him, he looked back at me and fired a shot, but not in the end. I recognized the man as one of Carl's pictures, that one was called Hash? Davey's black man, I quickly aimed at him, and after a short moment, the man fell. The pistol on the opposite side did not move after two simultaneous shots.
Just as I was about to get up and move forward, John's voice rang out in my ears, "We're leaning over to you." ”
I looked back to the back, and soon John was running through the woods with someone. I motioned for them to lower their bodies, and once they were in place, I pointed to the man I had just hit, "Huh? Davi. Then I pointed to the other side, "But the sniper is around with a pistol." ”
John nodded, "We can't wait here. It is necessary to keep going, and those behind will soon catch up. As he spoke, he looked at his companion who had been shot in the shoulder and was surrounded in the middle, "Take him with you." Let's go together. ”
"Understood." I answered, motioning for Walker to aim at the opposite side where the pistol had been fired. I crawled back and walked around the right side with another companion.
"There shouldn't be anyone on the other side. Gypsy, the man should have run away. Walker communicated to me as I walked around.
"Understood." I still found the place where the man shot, and it was the same as Walker said, the man was indeed gone. There were some blood stains on the tree he was leaning on, and there were bullet casings on the ground.
I looked at John and beckoned to them, "Come on." "Moments later we came to Hash? Next to Davey's body.
John crouched down and flipped him over, hush? Dawei was still out of breath at this time. When he saw us walking up to him, he instinctively reached for the M16 rifle that he had lost not far away, but gave up after touching it a few times but not touching it. He looked at us again, smiled, and said something in a low voice.
"What is he talking about?" Walker asked.
John looked back at us and said, "He said we're all going to hell." ”
Walker listened to the curse, took the pistol from me, and squeezed John away at Hash? Dawei was the two shots, "Let's go down and wait for your good friends first." ”
John glared at Walker, snatched his pistol and handed it to me, "Damn it." Calm down, we're not done yet. After speaking, he looked at his newly injured companion, "Liddell, can you do it?" ”
The man, Liddell, nodded his head and said he could hold on. John hummed and listened to the gunfire that had not stopped and kept moving, "We're not far from them." Pick it up, I repeat, our primary target is the wizard and his team. ”
So we headed in the direction of the gunfire coming from ahead again, and we continued to follow the trail left by the sniper's escape, who didn't take us around as I expected, because as we advanced, the gunfire in front of us grew louder. And about two hundred meters away from the dry river, we found a place where a fierce battle had taken place not long ago.
There are four bodies lying on the ground here, and we look through them briefly, these people are supposed to be from the SDF, and they are Pablo's people, because there is one person in it that I know, Nehwal. The man who went with us to ambush the guerrilla convoy and hack the Mexicans, and also participated in the capture of Silva. He was shot in the front, and the man fell backwards, his eyes staring blankly at the sky above him, and his mouth slightly open.
"Most of the people in front of us are Pablo. This man was chosen by Códobá and he would definitely have been with him, and Córdoba would have stayed with Pablo. John said as he reached out and closed Neval's eyes.
At that moment, the gunfire seemed to suddenly subside, and it began to rain in the rainforest, which gave me a strange feeling that sent chills all over my body, and I immediately realized that it might be someone or something in danger.
I patted John, looked around and said, "Something seems wrong." ”
John glanced at me, looked around, and said, "Everyone, pay attention to the movement around you. Let's not rush. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, I saw something move in the woods in front of me. I immediately took aim and prepared to shoot, just then Walker fired first.
"One o'clock direction!" Walker whispered after firing a shot.
Just as we looked in the direction Walker had said, bullets came at us as well, and as we tried to fight back, bullets flew again from a short left side of where we had just shot. It seems that the other side is prepared, this is not an encounter, they have already spread out their formation and surrounded them.
"Pay attention to the surroundings, everyone spread out. Don't rush back. John watched the other man's movements as he spoke, and only Walker fired a shot at the other man from time to time. John did this because the opponent did not show his full strength, and the current fire was more like a tentative attack than a proper attack, and if we counterattacked with all our strength at this moment, then we would expose our positions and firepower to the opponent, so the opponent who was in the attack could make very effective tactical adjustments to us.
"There are only a lot more people on the other side than we do." Walker whispered.
I looked at the woods around me and realized that these people were not like the guerrillas I had encountered before, their positions were moving quickly and in good coordination from all directions, and they were attacking us step by step.
"Could this be the wizard's man?" I whispered.
John didn't answer, but the fact that he didn't answer already shows that he also felt that these people were not simple. I couldn't help but clench the M4A1 in my hand, but then the other party's movement suddenly decreased, as if they had all stopped. And where there had been no gunfire before, it rang out again, could it be that the team, which was mostly Pablo, had exchanged fire again? So if we are in front of a wizard, who is responsible for attacking Pablo?
Just as I was wondering, there was a sudden movement in the direction of our two o'clock, and a dense stream of bullets came at our hiding place, before John could give the order to fight back. As if in a hurry to let us do that, a dozen or so people rushed out of the woods. They scattered under the cover of others, advancing while firing in Walker's direction.
John looked at those who were about to attack, and said, "Gypsies, York, Sdel." Fire! ”