Chapter 19: Activating the Savage Scorpion
Although the cave is not large, nineteen people can barely squeeze into the cave for the night.
Liu Guodong folded a large pile of dry firewood from the bushes outside the cave and lit a bonfire inside the cave. The team members were hungry and staggered. They were exhausted, and they trembled and moved to the campfire, stomping their feet to keep warm, and stretching out their palms that had frozen purple to bake the fire. Hirsalma herself sat down by the campfire and didn't want to move.
"Fuck off, all stand!"
Liu Guodong shouted and kicked one of the team members away from the campfire. The team members jumped up like springs and glared at Liu Guodong inexplicably.
Yu Songyuan had already rolled several basketball-sized snowballs from outside the hole, handed a Hisalma, and explained while wiping his hands and face, "Hirsalma, order everyone not to go near the campfire. Rub your face and hands with a snowball, then take off your shoes and rub your feet until it is hot. Otherwise, it will be roasted and even dead! ”
Liu Guodong rolled two more snowballs from outside the cave and handed them to the team members, "Don't be stunned, hurry up!" The players all came in with snowballs from outside the cave and learned to rub their hands and faces.
Liu Guodong himself took Havash and the small landlords out hunting.
The alpine meadows are densely planted with many animals, especially dozens of alpine sheep, and the food is very abundant. They went out for a while before bringing back two fat Siberian ibex.
It's snowing outside, and the team members are roasting lamb inside the cave. After dinner, Yu Songyuan ordered the team to take a nap and prepare to continue to march towards the mountains at dawn. He gave his sleeping bag to Hisalma, and he and Liu Guodong took turns sleeping, and there was always one person on duty with the small landlord.
The team rested until noon the next day, and then woke up one after another. At this time, Liu Guodong and the small landlord beat two fat Oriental argali. This time, he built a shelf out of tree branches, and it was a whole lamb, which was almost done. The smell of meat in the cave was fragrant, and when the team members woke up, they were all drooling and looking at it.
"This is a whole roasted lamb, if only there was more salt." In the past, in Kabul, it was only during Independence Day, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha. ”
Liu Guodong said, "Don't you just want to eat salt, look at what this is?" As he spoke, he handed her a large piece of wild dried fruit wrapped in plastic sheeting.
"What is this?" Hisalma opened it, picked up a walnut-sized red wild dried fruit, and as she asked, she pinched it open with her hand, unconsciously put the kernel in her mouth, and chewed it.
"It's delicious! Each person will be divided into two, and they will eat mutton in a while! ”
It turns out that this is a wild dried fruit with an extremely high salt content. Liu Guodong cut off the mutton one by one and distributed it to the team members, and everyone had a picnic with dried fruits. The fragrant lamb, salty and salty dried fruits with a hint of sweetness, is very tasty. Before the two sheep were finished, everyone couldn't eat them.
After a full meal, the members of the "Plateau Wolf Resistance" gathered around the campfire, some of whom were already drowsy. was about to climb above the snow line, Yu Songyuan looked at the defeat of this group of remnants, and suddenly decided to lurk in this hole for another night, so that these embarrassed team members could recover their strength again.
When the "Plateau Wolf Resistance Organization" was struggling on the line of life and death, at this time, there was another person who was more "concerned" about them than Mao Yankai, Caterpillar, and Shandra. This person is Gates, a native of M. After Aso's team entered the Yamato Islamic Republic, Izumi Inoue pretended to inadvertently inform him of this information.
Gates is casual on the surface, but he doesn't believe in the Japanese people in his heart. Gates looked down on the servile Japanese people, but he didn't hate polar bears. He hates the Chinese and is a staunch ** faction. He was an official of the Embassy in Islamabad and served in the Halal country for a long time, and was also the top official of the CIA in the Halal country.
Although the halal country is pro-American, it is more dependent on and trusts China. During his tenure in Islamabad, his main opponent was the KGB, but what he hated and feared more was the "Saudi" Mao Yankai.
Because, in the long-term secret war, what humiliated his career and professional attainments was that only until the end of 1983, before the Chinese "ghost" team entered West Asia, Mao Yankai, as Gates's main opponent, was only a shadow in the CIA's archives or in the eyes of Gates. No one knows who he really is, what he does, or even what he looks like.
After the brothers team entered Peshawar, less than two months, the night of Peshawar and the control of the Khyber Pass gradually returned to the hands of the Halal country, and the strategy and achievements of this tactical team both shocked Gates and frightened him even more. Mao Yankai has made his identity public, and now Gates is powerless. But the "ghosts" fell into the Kunar Valley, which was a godsend to get rid of them.
He lay on the map and studied it for a night, and came to the conclusion that in order to take revenge on the "ghosts," the "ghosts" would definitely seal the border line, and the "ghosts" were unlikely to break through the blockade line, and it was very likely that they would give play to the Chinese's tradition of guerrilla warfare and hide in the vast snowy mountains. Then, look for opportunities to cross the border and return to the land of halal.
That night, he sent a top-secret telegram activating two high-ranking agents hiding within the Kabul government forces. These two agents were both infiltrated in Kabul in 1978 when the military of the Shanren Islamic Republic launched the "Shahr Revolution".
These are two high-ranking operatives, codenamed "Savage" and "Scorpion". The two have served in the M Detachment of the British Marine Corps Special Boat Squad (SBS) for a long time, where they have served, trained and operated.
Founded in 1950, SBS has three detachments: C, S and M, Detachment C is responsible for coastal reconnaissance and infiltration and sabotage, Squad S is responsible for underwater blasting and deterrence tasks, and Detachment M is responsible for counter-terrorism, subversion and covert operations abroad, and is the highest level of top-secret assault force in the United Kingdom.
The "Savages" and "Scorpions" were recruited by Gates and sent into the territory of the Shanren Islamic Republic, which was originally prepared to deal with the leaders of the puppet government of the Shanren Islamic Republic. The chairman of the Presidium of the Revolutionary Committee of the Islamic Republic, Karmal, was incompetent and incapable of controlling the situation.
After the telegram was sent, Gates poured a glass of wine, leaned against the fireplace, and smiled comfortably as he stared at the roaring flames. He prepared three exquisite feasts for the Chinese "ghosts", namely Spetsnaz, the action group of the Japanese state, and the "wild man" and "scorpion". He firmly believes that China's "ghost" will never escape from his palm this time......
The "Plateau Wolf Resistance Group" hid in the cave for two days to rest, and after lunch on the third day, Yu Songyuan's team continued to move up the mountain.
After two days of rest in a warm cave, the members of the "Plateau Wolf Resistance Organization" had some blood on their faces, their physical strength had recovered a lot, and their morale was also higher. These were the two days when they had eaten most comfortably and enjoyed the most in the more than a month since they were on the run.
But the next trip will be even more difficult.
The further you climb up the mountain, the higher the altitude and the thinner the air. The members of the "Urban Mujahideen" resistance group used to be workers living in the cities, but now some of them have begun to develop altitude sickness.
The speed of the team slowed down, and some of the team members moved their heavy steps step by step as if they had been filled with lead on their legs.
Finally climb to the top of the mountain and enter an alpine meadow at the top of a large mountain.
This meadow is nearly a kilometer above sea level from the previous meadow, and it is already more than 4,000 meters above sea level. The meadows are covered with dark clouds, and the dense grass is about a meter high, shivering and swaying in the cold wind, and the mountain forest has long since stopped at an altitude of about 3,000 meters. From afar, it looks like a procession in the distance.
This alpine meadow is also a small basin with sparse shrubs such as cypress and rhododendrons. The most unusual thing is that in the middle of the alpine meadow, there is also an alpine glacial lake, the surface of which has been frozen, and the ice is covered with thick snow. Sweeping away the snow with your feet, you can clearly see schools of brown and other fish that you can't name from under the ice sheet.
There were snowflakes in the sky, and the snow on the ground was knee-deep, making it extremely difficult to move.
The wind was getting harder and harder, and it hurt like a knife on my face. The meadow is huge, about the size of dozens of football fields. There are more adaptable plateau wildlife here, especially sheep that are not afraid of the cold. Siberian ibex, kundu goat, Marco? Ballo sheep and oriental argali, flocks of herds quietly forage in the meadows.
It's like a fairyland, with war raging at the bottom of the mountain, but quiet and peaceful in the meadow.
Black bears and brown bears have hibernated, and snow leopards have taken refuge in secluded places. Strangely, before the 80s, there were many wolves on the plateau here, but in this alpine meadow, there were no wolves.
From time to time, birds fly in the cold sky, and vultures and eagle owls hover high in the sky. In the winter meadows, the sheep are not worried about the predators in the sky, and are busy arching the snow and gnawing on the stems of the dead grass. Indifferent to the group of living people who break in, turning a blind eye.
"There are animals here, food is not a problem. We're just hiding here, right? Moreover, the sheep are so quiet, there must be no jackals, tigers and leopards......"
Shisarma glanced at the snowy mountains not far away and said impatiently. She said a little weakly, but she said what was in the hearts of all the team members. Havash and the other team members also looked at Yu Songyuan pitifully. They were thinly dressed, and everyone looked apprehensive about climbing the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Yu Song looked at the snow-capped mountains under the dark clouds in the distance, and briefly thought about and weighed the current situation.
At this moment, the heavy snow has connected the meadow with the snow-capped mountains, and the sky and the earth are vast and white. Due to the abundant water vapor, the snowy mountains in the distance are already higher than the snow line, she stands in the sea of clouds, the mountains are almost always covered by thick clouds, like a girl who is ashamed to show her face, more like a goddess of ice and snow in full costume, making it difficult for people to see its beauty.
Although the scenery is stunning, beneath the beautiful exterior of the Daisetsuzan Mountains lies endless risks.
If you go up the mountain, you only need to go up a little higher, and when you reach about 4,500 meters, you will cross the snow line, and there will be a permanent snow glacial belt above. It was a forbidden area for human life, and only by hiding there could you escape the search of the Spetsnaz squad.
"No, we'll have to hide above the snow line. Maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, at the latest, they'll come and search. Seeing that Yu Songyuan was thinking deeply and did not answer the request of Shisharma and the team members, Liu Guodong said undoubtedly.
As soon as the words were finished, the little landlord had already whispered an alarm in his throat.