Refugee camp...... It is located just south of Peshawar.

The camp was located south because of the fear that the camp would pollute Peshawar's water supply...... Peshawar is located on the border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, and its climate is very similar to that of Afghanistan, that is, it has been dry and short for many years, with less than 300 mm of precipitation per year, and all of this precipitation is concentrated in winter, and almost no water falls in summer......

This makes water important for many cities in Afghanistan and Pakistan...... But then again, it's only possible to form a city near a water source, right? Otherwise, in such an area of extreme water shortage, so many people gathered together, and a large number of people would immediately die of thirst.

The same is true of Peshawar...... Its source is the Kabul River, a river that flows from Afghanistan to Pakistan from north to south...... Peshawar is on the west bank of the Kabul River.

In order to prevent the refugee camps from polluting water sources and then flowing into Peshawar...... The Pakistani government has concentrated refugees more than a dozen miles from Peshawar in the lower reaches of the Kabul River.

This made it necessary for our convoy to cross Peshawar and then go south...... Our base is located in the north, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Thereupon...... We had the pleasure of admiring the exotic city of Peshawar......

Peshawar is not as poor as I thought it would be...... It was even much better than many other places in our country at this time, with all kinds of exotic buildings, small traders and pedestrians selling along the streets, and in the middle of the road there were donkeys, motorcycles, cars, and many other means of transportation that I couldn't even name.

I found out later...... Peshawar is not a simple place, "Peshawar" ancient Sanskrit means "city of flowers", since ancient times it has been a large caravan distribution center...... The reason for this is its location at the intersection of several trade routes in Central Asia. It has been a major trading hub between the South Asian subcontinent and Central Asia for centuries.

It's no wonder that so many refugees from Afghanistan are pouring into Peshawar at the same time...... There are roads to Peshawar everywhere in Afghanistan. And Peshawar is also a big city. There is also a water source...... Let's not talk about whether you will starve to death, at least not by thirst!

The speed was slow as we had to cross the whole of Peshawar, and it took us more than an hour to reach our destination...... Refugee camp.

From afar, I saw that the refugee camp was in a dilapidated state, full of makeshift tents and grass tents, and some even found a few stone caves in the mountains and lived in them......

"This place would have been a village in our Peshawar!" "It's just that because most of the people have gone to Peshawar to work, and there are only a few old people and some dilapidated houses left, we have moved the old people to the city and converted them into refugee camps for refugees to live in!" ”

I heard Major Rana say this. I just noticed that there were some dilapidated houses in the middle of the camp, but there were too many tents and straw tents around it, so I didn't even notice it just now.

Several jeeps quickly drove down the path into the camp...... So all kinds of dirty messes came into our eyes, there were unkempt children, thin and dry wild dogs, and old men in tattered clothes...... Of course, there were some women among them, but they also wrapped themselves tightly in tulle, so I couldn't tell what they were like, but judging by the patches on the tulle and the jars with missing corners on their heads...... It's not going to be much better.

What surprised me a little was...... I noticed the people around me who were watching us. There was horror in their eyes......

I looked at Major Lana in confusion, and Major Lana just smiled wryly. "They are afraid to see them as soldiers!" ”

"Afraid of seeing soldiers?" I was a little strange: "weishenme? They should be afraid of the Soviet army, right? I think they should be able to see that we are not the Soviet army! ”

"No!" Major Rana shook his head: "The guerrillas sometimes come here...... The purpose was also to see if anyone could serve as a soldier, and sometimes the methods were extremely cruel...... On one occasion, just because a few sick refugees were making painful noises, they were noisy, and they shot them to death! ”

"How so?" I couldn't close my mouth for half a day: "I always thought that the guerrillas were the people's troops!" ”

"Not necessarily!" "As I said before, there is a part of the guerrillas who are drug dealers, and the Soviet army has occupied Afghanistan, so they are effectively anarchic, lawless, and have guns in their hands, so they can do anything!" ”

I couldn't help but feel a headache when I heard this...... So what's the difference between this and banditry!

"Of course!" Major Rana said: "There is no shortage of people in the guerrillas who are fighting to retake their homeland, but because it is too chaotic, there are people of all religions and nine ranks, and no one in each class and faction is subordinate to anyone, there is no unified management, and even there are frequent fights between the guerrillas...... It's no surprise that there would be such a mess! ”

I nodded, and then quickly thought again...... I don't know how many times this refugee camp has been looted by the bad guerrillas, and the strong men are afraid that they will also be robbed, so we will recruit troops now......

As I had hoped, Major Rana quickly gathered some of the refugees in the neighborhood...... It didn't seem difficult for Major Rana to do this, after all, the camp was built by the Pakistani government, and even the food that the camp relied on was provided by Pakistan, so Major Rana summoned the person in charge of the camp and only said a few words...... The refugee soon emerged like ants from the broken tent and straw.

Merely...... I was disappointed that, as Major Rana had said, I did not see anyone suitable for the army at all, either a woman, an old man, or a child......

"Battalion Commander Yang!" Major Rana said, "I asked their elders...... He said that some young adults have entered Peshawar to work, and they will come back in the evening, or ...... We're waiting here for the night? ”

"No!" I shook my head.

"Not really?" Major Rana was puzzled by my answer: "Elder Lahore said...... Because we subsidize the camps and give them a place to live...... That's why he told us this......"

"No, no need!" I said, "Those young men may be the only little labor they have left, and if we drain even that little labor, their lives will be even more unbearable!" ”

"That'...... What about your troops? ”

"Let's think of another way!" I replied.

Just as he was about to turn back, he couldn't bear to look at the refugees gathered around, so he asked the guards behind him, "How many of you...... Do you have anything to eat? ”

"Yes!" The guard stepped forward at me.

This is the habit of the soldiers, who always carry a few days of dry food with them wherever they go, so that they will not go hungry even if there is any emergency.

"All the ...... to the folks," I said, and then glanced at the scrawny children, and called out, "The children will divide first!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers answered, and immediately opened their backpacks and took out compressed biscuits and distributed them.

However...... The refugees may not believe that there is such a good thing in this matter, and the soldiers with guns not only do not rob them of their belongings, but also give them food...... You must know that for them, it is a society of the jungle, as long as whoever has a gun in his hand has power, so everyone is timid and afraid to accept these foods.

That's when Saheed and the Persian-speaking warriors I brought with me came into play, and they came up and made a big talk, handing the biscuits to the refugees as they spoke......

At first, a few children couldn't resist the temptation to run away with biscuits...... The other children saw that it was okay, so they rushed up in a swarm of three, seven, twenty-one...... Soon snatched up the compressed biscuits and cans in our hands, and the children who didn't grab them could only look at us with regret...... I can't wait for us to have some more food, but we don't have a taste in our hearts.

"Tell them!" I said to Saheed, "Don't be in a hurry...... We'll send them a batch of food later! ”

"Yes!" Sahayd answered, and passed on my words to the children...... But I could tell from the looks in the children's eyes that they didn't believe us.

But they don't blame them...... Perhaps, in their minds, this shijie should be cruel, untrustworthy, and hopeless...... So, of course, they won't take our word for it.

"Major Lana!" I turned to Major Rana and asked, "We would like to buy a batch of food aid camps from the Pakistani government...... Moreover, I also don't want this batch of grain to fall into the hands of the guerrillas, I wonder if there will be difficulties? ”

"This ......," Major Rana thought for a moment, said, "there will be no problem in buying grain...... Peshawar is a big trading city, and you can buy from anyone. Just not fall into the hands of the partisans...... It is necessary to send troops to protect the camps and to keep the guerrillas out of them. It takes a lot of troops...... Moreover, the guerrillas themselves are Afghans, and some of them are not evildoers...... Want to tell the difference between the haode guerrillas and the bad guerrillas......"

I nodded, I really didn't think it would be difficult...... It's really true that Rana said this, and the bad guys won't be written on their faces, how do you let Pakistan manage and how to judge.

"But I have an idea!" "We can send people to cook food and send it to the camps every day to distribute it......," said Major Rana Although this is a little troublesome, it is not easy to store because it has been prepared, and it is quickly eaten by refugees...... The guerrillas can't rob it if they want to! (To be continued......)