Chapter 442:

On the side of the road, several sneaky figures suddenly attracted Xiao Mubai's attention.

Actually, it's not sneaky, but the behavior is indeed a little suspicious, and the behavior of these war correspondents is extremely special when all the people in the town are fighting with weapons.

Xiao Mubai took the binoculars and looked over, and after paying a little attention, he noticed that these people were shooting the news.

Looking at it, Xiao Mubai was suddenly happy, it was really a place not to meet in life, I didn't expect these people to be Holmes and them, and Mia's chick was also there, but the other party's situation didn't seem to be very good.

I have heard that war correspondents are a very dangerous job, and it is difficult for outsiders to know how close they are to the war.

They are war correspondents, but in war, bullets don't have long eyes, and accidental injuries are inevitable.

Xiao Mubai once read a report that war correspondents are a high-risk group in journalism, and their casualty rate is usually higher than that of soldiers who fight on the battlefield. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more than 100 journalists have died in the crossfire in the past decade, with the Middle East being one of the deadliest locations for journalists.

In 2013, in the world's top 10 high-risk occupations, the fifth place was a war correspondent in Syria. In 2012 alone, at least 39 journalists were killed and 21 kidnapped, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists.

About a hundred war correspondents die every year, and this is a death, not a simple casualty. Syria is arguably the most dangerous place in the world for media workers.

I didn't expect Holmes and them to really come over, Xiao Mubai was a little incredulous, and suddenly thought of Holmes's personality, and he could understand them, whether it was for faith and money, they were very courageous.

But courage alone does not guarantee that the process of shooting news will always be smooth, the battle is going on all the time, death is happening all the time, no one is superior to the bullet, whether it is a reporter or a soldier.

Xiao Mubai saw that in order to shoot the battle scene at a closer distance, they did not hesitate to face the battle at close range, the sound of gunfire echoed in their ears, the shells fell coldly beside them, and soldiers would pass by them all the time.

In the line of sight, Mia at this time was no longer as glamorous and moving, wearing a desert camouflage with a security force logo, facing the camera directed by Holmes, and all the battle scenes behind her were taken into the camera.

In a short period of time, Xiao Mubai found a little abnormal, several people were wearing desert camouflage with security force logos, so they should have secretly blended into the battlefield, the perimeter had been blocked by the military police, and it was difficult for ordinary people to enter and exit.

And this is also the source of their troubles, because wearing the uniforms of the opposition security forces, the government army can easily find out that the person opposite is the enemy, and since it is the enemy, there is no reason to let it go.

So, trouble ensued, a squad of soldiers of the government army, fire around the two-story town post office building where they were located, a BMP-2 armored car, a team of more than a dozen soldiers.

Fortunately, there were also soldiers of Company A of the Free Army beside them, less than the strength of a squad, and they were scattered on a street of more than ten meters, and the battle line was too long to concentrate the firepower, and it was impossible to suppress the firepower of the government army.

Xiao Mubai taught himself lip language, he could see the squirming of Mia's lips in the magnification shot, she was now saying: "The firepower of the government army is very strong, more than the strength of a mechanized infantry regiment to besiege the anti-government army, it has been half an hour since the battle began, and this infantry squad beside me has lost one-third of its troops. ”

"It may not be long before government forces capture the small town of Sulan, which is already less than 10 kilometers away from the opposition-held city, and the situation is precarious......"

Fierce battles affected the filming at any time, and they persevered in filming despite difficulties, but there were always various unexpected factors that hindered the filming process.

"Da Da Da!"

Just as Mia was holding the microphone anchor, the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle of the government army exerted force, and the machine gun of 30 mm caliber bullets hit the wall of the post office building continuously, and the entire wall suddenly seemed to be hollowed out, and a huge clod of earth fell from it, almost hitting the telephoto lens in Holmes's hand.

Several people were taken aback by this huge movement, and when they found that there was no loss, they wanted to continue shooting, but they found that the government infantry squad advanced more than ten meters and was closer to them, and the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle drove directly in.

The 62-mm vehicle-mounted machine gun, with its black muzzle aimed directly at them, was swept by bullets as dense as a rain of arrows, and now let alone shooting, even the head did not dare to raise it.

Just now, a free army soldier was hiding a step slowly, his body hiding behind the cover had just finished shooting, and before he could retreat, he was hit by a dense number of bullets, his whole head was beaten to pieces, his face was blurred, and he couldn't die anymore.

Seven men, four of them, Holmes, Mia, Weber, and Rahman, as well as three other soldiers of the Free Army, hid in the alley behind the post office building, not daring to stick their heads out at all.

One of the three soldiers was wounded, he was shot in the neck, and he kept bleeding out, and his uniforms were stained red with blood, which looked extraordinarily oozing, and the soldiers around him couldn't cover it with gauze, and the blood spurted out directly just now.

Xiao Mubai estimated that this person should have been hit in the artery, and this situation means that the US military is powerless, let alone the Free Syrian Army.

Seven people, six to be exact, excluding Holmes with the camera and Webb who was still injured, there were four people who had the ability to resist, two of them were women, and they were unaware of their dangerous situation.

A few of them stayed in the alleyway and didn't know that the free army soldiers outside were far away from them, and now they could be said to be isolated, and it wouldn't be long before the government infantry squad armored vehicles advanced to the alleyway, and they were dead.

It may be nothing for a few of their journalists to be captured, and the government army is not an opposition, more or less concerned about international influence, and will not kill people like extremist groups to vent their anger, but the two Free Army soldiers are not so lucky, and if they are lucky, they may survive.

If you're unlucky, anything can happen.

Xiao Mubai was thinking about whether to save Holmes and them, whether it was out of friendship after a few days together, although he didn't think that he had any friendship, at most he could talk about it.

And out of admiration for their daring to go into danger, and perhaps the panicked look of hiding behind the wall in the camera moved him, Xiao Mubai actually had the urge to save them.

This impulse came inexplicably, and I don't know where this thought came from in my head, but it was out of control and couldn't be suppressed.

"I'm crazy!" Xiao Mubai despised himself.

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