Chapter 0104: Border
Back at the accommodation, we had a makeshift meeting, according to Kun Sang's confession, the drug traffickers who kidnapped the hostages and the knights they exterminated were from the same force, but they were not the general's men, they were a group of ** militants.
When they were chased to the end of the road by the knight's squad, they had to ask the general for help, and the general gave them this idea.
The leader of this force is called Shatai, who has been active in the Golden Triangle for a long time, and his forces are all over Myanmar and Thailand, and he is also a hegemon in the Golden Triangle.
This move angered the military, and they were bound to exterminate the Shatai power in Burma, but they were deeply entrenched in the Golden Triangle, and they have not been able to do anything to him for so many years.
So, Caesar received this task, in the face of the knight's detachment, although the drug trafficking forces of Shatai were outnumbered, they still couldn't resist a group of elusive masters, after playing hide and seek in the jungle for a few days, more than 150 people were hung up and half of them, and Shatai didn't care about how many people died, the key is that they couldn't get rid of the knight's tracking, and if they continued like this, it wouldn't take a few days to wipe out the whole army, and what was even more terrifying was that they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and the people who saw it were already dead.
In desperation, Shatai had no choice but to ask the general for help, and the general thought of a solution for him, which was to send someone to kidnap high-ranking government officials as hostages, so as to coerce the government to stop the attack, so Lana, the second person of the Shatai organization, led people into Thailand and successfully kidnapped the colonel officer and several government officials, and the government asked the knight for help, adding as much money as possible, as long as the hostages could be rescued alive.
The knight has a mission on his body, and although the fighting has stopped for the time being, his detachment has always had people following Shatai and can eat this group of drug traffickers at any time, so the knight took over this task for us, and it just so happened that we killed the hunters, so it was logical to get here.
After Rana kidnapped the hostages, the government forces immediately organized a rescue, and Major Pogon was the officer in charge of the rescue, and he chased Rana all the way from Shan State to Kachin State until he ran into Khunsan.
The Shatai organization is one of the major forces in the Golden Triangle, and if he dies, it will inevitably affect the stability here, and the various forces are likely to fall into a secret reshuffle, which is not good for the general, so he sent Kunsang to intercept the government forces and cover the retreat of Lana.
Before we arrived, Khunsang had been holding the government forces at the edge of the jungle for two days, which meant that Rana and his men had entered the jungle with their hostages, and it had been three days since today.
The militants entrenched in the Golden Triangle have grown up in the jungle, and their ability to drill into the forest is no worse than ours, and their destination is the Thai-Burmese border, and Rana hopes to negotiate with the government to exchange the lives of the hostages for the safety of Sharthay.
It is impossible for the government to accept negotiations, they will never compromise with the militants, especially after we arrive, we are mercenaries, we don't care if Rana leaves the country or not, we care about whether we can catch up with him.
According to the map, from the point where Rana entered the jungle, it is also 200 kilometers away from the nearest Thai-Myanmar border, and in three days, in such a dense jungle, even if we have physical strength, it is estimated that we can walk about 150 kilometers at most.
It was impossible for Lana and his men to cross this distance, not to mention that they also carried five hostages, all of whom were officials, but they did not have such strong physical strength, and it was estimated that they would have to rest for a while after walking two thousand meters.
The area is covered in tropical jungle and can only be met on foot unless a plane picks them up, which means that Rana should not have entered Thailand yet, and is at least 50 kilometers from the border.
If we let the Eagle send us into the jungle, we will have a chance to intercept Rana before he leaves the country and rescue the hostages.
From Khun Sang's mouth, we also learned an important news, not far from the Thai-Burmese border in western Thailand, there is a Phrang Temple, built in the middle of the mountains and dense forests, an ancient temple, where Rana wanted to hide the hostages.
It was a very secret place, even Kunsang didn't know where it was, but he had heard the name, if there was no one to show the way, it would be difficult to find, and it was also Lana's sphere of influence, even if he was found, he had the strength to protect himself.
My brothers are dismissive of this, in their words, there is no place that Caesar can't reach, and there is no task that Caesar can't accomplish, we can't guarantee that we can intercept Rana in such a large jungle, but as long as we find Parang Temple, we can guarantee that the hostages will be rescued, if Rana will really go!
After a battle with Kunsang, we arrived in Burma, presumably Rana already knows, the next move will definitely be more careful, the general may also cause us trouble behind the back, in fact, the general is the big problem.
That guy is rich and powerful, if he wants to keep Shatai with an iron heart, then the matter will be troublesome, and it is not yet clear the final attitude of the general, and the situation may change at any time.
I even suspect that we fell for the Burmese government, and he invited Caesar's mercenaries to do more than just deal with the Shatai forces, although we only took on this one mission, but there are too many characters involved, and maybe other forces will be involved in the future, if all the drug trafficking forces regard us as enemies, then we can only choose to kill them, maybe this is what the government wants to see the most.
But even if we know that this is the case, we must choose to fight, this is the sorrow of mercenaries, always just a gun in the hands of the employer, a group of tools to kill.
We all have this awareness, and we don't care about it, on the contrary, it can reduce our guilt, because we are just tools, just murder weapons, and the real killers are the employers behind them, and they are the ones who buy the lives of their enemies with their money.
After analyzing the current situation, we each replenished ammunition, carried the necessary equipment, and had five days' rations, and no one knew how many days this battle would take, and according to our plan, we could deal with the forces of Rana in five days.
But the plan can't catch up with the changes, especially on the battlefield, everything is changing rapidly, not to mention that there are so many uncertain factors, no one is sure whether the plan can be successfully completed.
However, what we are worried about is not whether we can complete the task, for the task, the brothers are absolutely sure, but whether it can be completed in five days, such a long march, we will not carry too much ammunition and food.
The food is okay, we are all wild people, we can survive in any harsh environment, the key is the ammunition, if the plan is not carried out smoothly, it can only mean that we are in other trouble, if we run out of ammunition before rescuing the hostages, then the fun will be great.
These are all within the scope of our consideration, and all possible factors, we must think that although this will not be of much help to the battle, and it is impossible to bring an extra bullet because of this, at least we can have a mental preparation before trouble arises, and this is enough.
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