Chapter IV: The Armed Forces Under Leadership (I)

After discussion, the Serbs settled on the plan. Tomorrow we will set out, and the thirty men we have brought with us will be used as the last reserve with the hundred or so men of Kostic. In fact, we don't have any tasks, we wait for news from a distance at the receiving point, and we may help carry the wounded when the time comes.

Milk and I are perfectly acceptable and even happy to see such an arrangement. It is undoubtedly impractical and dangerous for us to show off their skills in an unfamiliar place. We are happy to see others do it first, and watching others compete with our enemies can make our future actions more secure.

But Kostic was clearly unhappy with the arrangement, and I watched the conversation and assignment of tasks. Among these four people, the thin man and the fat man are obviously the powerful factions within this organization, and they may have nominally received Kostic's moderation and accepted his leadership, but in fact, judging from the plans made by these two people and their attitude towards us, these two people are actually ... In Chinese, it is Bahu. The fat one may be a little better, less noticeable. Thin people are different, very unfriendly. Judging by the arrangement of this operation, Kostic's men are not strong in combat and do not have many manpower. He didn't have much control over the armament of the others, so the plan was made by the fat and thin duo. This is not just because of what Kostic said about their two experienced old comrades, but more importantly because these two people are disobedient, but they have to rely on them.

And that Ke Qiman made me the most interesting. This man doesn't seem to be in the same league as the fat and thin duo, but there is also a distance from Kostic. This person seems to be the character of a good old man, and both sides are more or less talking, and neither side is offended. There are a lot of people in his hands, but he doesn't want to be the protagonist, just be a supporting role. From his enthusiastic initiative and our acquaintance, we can see that this person is very different from fat and thin, but this person feels a little cunning to me, and getting along with this person may be more brainy than getting along with fat and thin.

When I got back to the station, I told Milk and the Drag Bottle how I felt. Milk thought I was right, but he also felt that there was something wrong with the organization, and the will was not very united. He thinks that the Serbs we brought with us were originally sent to Paul to train in order to increase Kostic's leverage. This Kostic should have a background in the government, and his mission may be to better serve Serbia by controlling these Serb forces that are no longer under the control of the government, and to be able to act according to their plan and get into as little trouble as possible. But in order to keep it secret and not to be caught, Kostic received very limited support, the most obvious being that he was poorly armed, probably recruited by himself at zero time, without any government action in it, so that a group of Serbs engaged in various industries were organized to send to Paul.

For this situation, Milk and I feel that at least it is not very bad, at least we don't have to worry about using it as cannon fodder.

The next day we were each given our weapons, and Kostic led us out with one of his retinues. The other three were not with us, and they were said to have returned to their respective operations after the meeting.

Around noon, the car carrying us stopped. I looked out and saw a couple of trucks parked on the side of the road, along with a group of people. The men were armed, but their expressions were relaxed, and Kostic was talking to two of them.

"Sir, please come over with Mr. Milk." Kostic's attendant came over to me and said it.

"Looks like we're going to introduce someone to us again." Milk, who was behind me, heard the attendant speak up.

I got out of the car and said, "That's different. This time it should be the leader's descendant, and it's not the same thing as those guys. ”

When we got to Kostic's side, before Kostic could speak, the two men standing in front of him were already smiling and holding out their hands to me and Milk.

One of them, an older man with a beard, shook hands with me and said, "My name is Yugovich, but most people call me uncle." ”

A man in his twenties and thirties beside him shook hands with Milk and said, "Dravich, I'm mainly assisting Uncle in his work." ”

After Milk and I shook hands with the two of them, Kostic said, "Yugovic is the commander of my squad. Yesterday you may have been from our right

As I heard it, I commanded a team of 100 people. The exact number is one hundred and ten. These people are not quite the same as the three of them, and many of my people don't have much combat experience, so generally the three of them are responsible for major combat operations. As he said that, he looked at me and Milk and smiled, "But now it's different, now that you're here, I think you're going to make a big difference to our team." ”

After a brief pleasantries, we set off again, and my uncle invited me and Milk to ride with him. Milk and I readily agreed, after all, it would be beneficial to have more contact with this person in the future.

The uncle took us into a truck with tarpaulins, Dravic did not come with him, he was in an SUV with the leader. In addition to him, there were about a dozen armed men on the truck, and the uncle told us that these were his competent team.

I glanced at the number of these people, a total of fifteen people, judging by their attire and temperament, they should have had combat experience.

After the introduction, the uncle said to me and Milk, "I'm sorry to let you come and squeeze the truck with us, you had a chance to sit comfortably." ”

I took out my cigarette and handed it to my uncle, and smiled and said it was nothing. Milk lit a cigarette and said, "Nothing. It's better than walking, and what I'm most afraid of is walking. ”

"Oh? It seems that you have suffered a lot from walking. The uncle glanced at Milk.

Milk smiled and pointed at me, "He's there, too." We ran and ran together in the mountains and forests, and we were about to become savages. ”

The uncle thought about it when he heard him say this, and said, "Can you ask, where are you fighting in the mountains?" ”

"Chechnya. Damn place. Milk whispered.

I noticed that the uncle looked back at his subordinates, and then the uncle turned back and said, "It seems that the leader is right, you are here to bring us changes." ”

"Uncle. We're here to fight. Fighting side by side with you, I don't want to say those big words, I just want to say that I hope we can all survive and live to complete our respective tasks. I said.

Yugovic was stunned for a moment when I said this, then leaned back beside the carriage, took a long puff of cigarette and said, "Yes." Stay alive. Sometimes I really regret how I didn't leave this country. ”

I didn't know that it was that sentence that touched the uncle, Milk glanced at him and said, "Uncle has always been a soldier before? ”

Yugovich smiled and said, "When I was young. And the Croats, the Albanians, fought. As he spoke, he pointed to the people next to him, "I brought these people out." ”

"What about the others?" Milk then asked.

Yugovic shook his head, "Those were recruited by Dravich and the leadership. ”

From his expression and the tone of this sentence, it can be known that the other people are estimated to be a group of people who are not much stronger than ordinary people, or a group of hot-blooded young people.

"And where are the others? I don't think there are a hundred people here. Milk asked.

I'm also interested in this, I only saw two trucks parked on the side of the road before, which is not enough to carry that many people. I really want to know how bad the strength of the leading comrades is.

"I've gone to the staging ground." "They've already gone to the planned place," Yugovic said. This was a big move, and Dravic was very excited, and after confirming the plan, he let people go, saying that they wanted to familiarize themselves with the environment. ”

Milk and I looked at each other, and I could tell from Yugovich's words that there were also contradictions in this armed force led by Kostic, and it seemed to be quite powerful.

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p; "Isn't this time just for receptionists and reserves? What do you need to be familiar with? Milk asked curiously.

"Huh." Yugovic did not speak, but smiled. A young man next to him said, "Because they don't know how to fight at all." ”

"Shut up. Don't talk about that. Jugovich said, glaring at the man.

Then we were all able to avoid the conversation about the operation and the personnel, and everyone started chatting nonsense, plus smoking cigarette after cigarette. After dark, the convoy stopped because we had reached our destination.