489. Chapter 28
After communicating with Shatov, Lodi immediately mobilized all the small and small special teams scattered in this area, but Lodi did not let these people gather close to him, but let them divide up and guard the areas under their own care, focusing on the main roads leading to the airport, the border line and the areas controlled by the government and the army, and the bearded man was a scattered army that Lodi had only recently incorporated under his command.
The busy night has exhausted Lodi, and by the time he arranged the tasks at the various security points, it was already noon, and after doing this, Lodi's tiredness hit his body, he washed his face, and wanted to fall on the bed to rest for a while, but when his head just hit the pillow, an action team leader on duty here broke in.
"Captain of the Guard, I think our men may have found their whereabouts."
De Niro, the leader of the shift, excitedly told Lodi, who was leaning on the bed, to jump off the bed when he heard the 'rub'.
"Where did you find them? Have you confirmed? Are they the ones that lead to the border? ”
According to some previous information and the actions of other wanted former Yugoslav officials, Lodi focused his defense first on the routes leading to the border, but De Niro's answer was much more than he expected.
"If it's not the lines to the border, you might not think that they're going in this direction."
De Niro said in front of a military map on the wall, pointing out a route where the traces of those people were found, and extending along that line, it was the area where the fighting between the Cypriots and Albanians was most intense, and the independent army that had gained the advantage of the battlefield basically controlled the large and small passages there, and was clearing out the remnants of the government army one by one and some Saiyan armed teams who retreated into the mountains to fight guerrillas, according to common sense, it was definitely not a good place to take refuge.
"Are you sure they're going in that direction?"
Lodi still couldn't believe his eyes, looking at the map and then at De Niro on the side.
"It's almost certain that one of our secret intelligence agents also saw these people by accident, this morning on a country road, our intelligence officer was on his way home, he saw a car break down on the road, at first he wanted to go over and take a look, take a hand to help, but before he could get close there, he was stopped by a person on the side of the road, the man told him that this was a diplomatic vehicle, it was strictly forbidden to approach, our intelligence officer heard it and left without saying anything, but then he felt that it was strange, It was unusual for a diplomatic vehicle to appear in such a remote place, so he had not gone far and then made a detour back, and he wanted to observe it in secret, but when he had gone back there, he found that the men had long since left, and another important reason for his suspicion was that they were all Oriental faces, and he had not yet received the order from us to assist in the investigation, and he immediately reported the situation to his superiors after he received the order. ”
The head of operations reported what he had learned to his commander Lodi almost in one breath.
"What time did he see those people?"
Lodi knew he had caught the tails of those men, and the faces of the Orientals were a rarity here.
It was more than two hours ago, and our information transmission was unfavorable, and there was some time delay in the feedback to us.
"It's still too late, they may move faster in the initial section, these places are no man's land, and there is no war, but the further they go, the more difficult it will be for them, don't we all have people at key nodes in front of us? Now we have to keep an eye on it, and don't let them take advantage of the chaos, and I'll contact Gru over there right away. ”
After Lodi finished speaking, he picked up the phone and connected to Gru, who was directing the battle on the front line.
After informing Gru of the latest information, Lodi instructed De Niro:
"You first get me the map from here to that location, try to get the ones marked in detail, and then you have to hurry up and organize a capable team, ready to act with me at any time, remember, you must be those experienced veterans, raw melons and eggs are also given in vain, those people are not easy to deal with."
De Niro turned away with a bang, and then brought over several military maps, which Lodi pondered carefully.
Originally, Lodi was looking forward to collecting more clearer information during the period of preparation, but seeing that noon had passed, Lodi could no longer receive any information about the team's operations, Lodi couldn't stay here, according to all the information he had so far and his understanding of Semonov's temperament, Lodi had concluded that Semonov was very likely to go to the deep mountain base to join the SWAT brigade that had been sticking there, which also confirmed that their previous intelligence judgment was not wrong from another aspect, It's just that I didn't expect Semonov to be cunning and cunning, and he played a dark hand at the critical moment.
"De Niro, we will follow National Highway 7 as fast as possible to the location where those people were found, you immediately order that intelligence officer to wait there, he should be familiar with the road environment there, I need him to be our guide, this broken map looks very difficult, call your people to bring enough equipment, we will leave immediately."
After Lodi finished speaking, he took out two relatively detailed maps and put them on his body, picked up an assault rifle next to him and came to the outside of the house, there was already an improved off-road jeep waiting there, Lodi jumped into the car, and drove towards the suburbs with a dozen of his newly assembled men.
When Lodi met the intelligence agent who gave back the information, it was already late afternoon, and before Lodi could inquire in detail about what had happened, Shatov's phone call was tracked here.
"Lodi, you're on your way to base right now, right? Wait a minute, Beasley has an update to keep you informed. ”
After a loud crack, Shatov on the other end of the line was replaced by Beasley.
"Lodi, time is pressing, I'll make a long story short, our intelligence department listened to a phone call two days ago, and through the sound comparison to determine that one of the people was Kolarov, and the identity of the other person was unknown, and the content of the monitoring was also very simple and concise, at first glance it felt like the transportation of supplies and the transfer of the wounded, but our analysts found that the other party had twice mentioned one during the call, which we called ' H-07' is such a small village, and here's the problem, the village called 'H-07' was abandoned due to the war a few years ago, and it has long been an uninhabited village, and the call from the other party hinted that three people would go there to bring the supplies back. ”
Beasley, on the other end of the phone, breathed a sigh of relief and took the opportunity to confirm that Lodi was still listening online, and after receiving Lodi's confirmation, Beasley continued:
"Before, because this news was not related to the overall situation, our intelligence officers in the base camp did not pay much attention to it, and only made a record and reported it, but after receiving the information from you this morning, we reported this information and the place where you deduced that those people were going to the base camp again, and asked them to pay attention to the relevant information in this direction, the information that was recorded before showed its importance, and our analysts deduced from the possible routes of those people and the time required, that' H-07's small mountain village is supposed to be where they connect with each other. ”
Halfway through Beasley's words, Lodi realized that the village of 'H-07' was a junction, and as he answered the phone, he opened the old military map he had with him, marking the small village on the map according to the coordinates given by Beasley, and it would take them at least two or three hours to get there according to the distance.
"Lodi, you have to hurry, the agreed joint time of the other party is only about an hour away from now, once they are brought together, Kolarov's people are extremely familiar with the geography there, and it will be difficult for us to catch their tails again."
After putting down Shatov's phone, Lodi called the underground intelligence officer:
"Do you know that there is such a village in this location?"
Lodi asked, pointing to the triangular symbol on the map that he had just marked between the mountains.
The intelligence officer looked at it carefully for a while, shook his head, and said:
"I don't know, it's not my jurisdiction, but I know that there's a mountain path in that direction, it's not shown on this map, and that path should pass through this location to another village not far below, which is marked on the map, and by the way, that area is under the jurisdiction of an intelligence officer named Vojic, and he lives in the village I mentioned is marked, and he should know the situation on that line."
The intelligence officer's words reminded Lodi, the other party mentioned that Vojic himself knew, some time ago Lodi through Vojic's superiors also issued a co-optation order to him, there was a small group of civilian armed forces in that area before, these civilian armed forces with the nature of bandits once went to the base to prepare for robbery, but I didn't expect to be cleaned up by Kolarov's SWAT brigade guarding there, Kolarov chased this armed force all the way, if it weren't for their legs and feet running fast, breaking into the territory controlled by the independent ~ army, If it didn't work, Kolarov would clean them all up, so in a desperate situation, this group of armed men found a team leader under Lodi through an intermediary, and expressed his willingness to take refuge, and now it was the time to employ people, Lodi agreed almost without hesitation, Lodi knew very well that these people could not expect them to do big things, but it was more than enough to scare those people who resisted.