1

After a moment of silence, Han Jiang suddenly asked Makarov again, "You saw that mysterious pattern at the base, what about the back?" Bultenko is dead, what about the other cadets? ”

"Han! That's what I'm going to say to you that really scares me. Makarov's face was heavy.

"Oh? What's more frightening to you? Han Jiang and Tang Feng were surprised.

"Do you remember the old man I met at the Petersburg train station?" Makarov asked them rhetorically.

"Yes. You say the man is your colleague in the KGB. Tang Feng said.

"Well, that guy is the lieutenant colonel who came to the forward base to replace me, his name is Shchedrin."

"Oh? Looks like this man knows a lot! Han Jiang said.

"I worked with Shchedrin for a while before I went to the forward base, so we're old acquaintances. But I haven't met Shchedrin since he took over the Forward Base, so I didn't know anything about the Forward Base after that, and it wasn't until I met him in Petersburg that he told me that something had happened to the Forward Base! ”

"Something's wrong?" Tang Feng and Han Jiang were both surprised.

"Just as I went to China to participate in that scientific expedition changed my fate, what happened to the base later also changed the fate of Xie Delin, because the base had an accident, Xie Delin was removed from his post for review, and finally ordered to retire early, which is why Xie Delin, a successful businessman later."

"I don't care about the fate of this Shchedrin, what happened to the base?" Han Jiang couldn't wait to ask.

"Han, don't worry, later I asked Yelena to go to Xie Delin again and asked for many details, let me think about it, I ...... Where do I start? At this moment, fragments of memory and Shchedrin's narrative were constantly intertwined and collided in Makarov's mind, and finally, a bloody and terrible picture slowly and slowly converged and unfolded in Makarov's mind......

After Burdenko's death, the investigation team sent from above quickly determined that Burdenko had died in a plane crash. After dealing with Buldenko's funeral, Makarov received an order from the headquarters that a lieutenant colonel would be sent to take over Buldenko's position, Makarov did not know if this Shchedrin was the Shchedrin he had worked with, but the Shchedrin he knew was only a major.

On this day, Lieutenant Nikolai, who had come to the base in Makarovla, drove to a helicopter landing site outside the base and waited for the newly assigned lieutenant colonel. Makarov looked at the sky, the rare wind and sunshine, and sighed: "Nikolai, this Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin is luckier than me!" The day I arrived at the base, the sandstorm caused us to land at a landing site a dozen kilometers away, and perhaps Buldenko's bad luck with me began at that time. ”

"Yes! I was the one who picked you up. Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, with all due respect, how come you are also superstitious? I didn't see you like that before! Is it because of the death of Comrade Burtenko? Lieutenant Nikolai asked.

"Maybe! Anyway, if you stay in this place for a long time, you will sigh that the world is impermanent. Makarov sighed.

While the two were talking, a strong wind blew in the distance, and a Mi-8 helicopter flew from the north, Makarov and Nikolai hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and hid sideways behind the jeep, and only after the helicopter landed and came to a standstill, did they get out of the back of the jeep.

When the helicopter hatch opened, and Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin appeared in front of Makarov, Makarov was sure that this was the Shchedrin he knew, and after the two hugged tightly, Makarov smiled: "I didn't expect to see you here, when I received the order, I was still thinking about how Shchedrin became a lieutenant colonel?" It turns out that you are elevated. ”

"What a high ascension! If those people at the headquarters don't give me an exceptional promotion, who wants to come to this hellish place! Shchedrin complained.

"It seems that you didn't come in vain!"

"Of course, it is a good thing to be promoted exceptionally, but if you throw your life away in this barren Gobi like Bultenko, it will not be worth it!" Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin had a good calculation.

"Hey! I didn't expect Burdenko to ...... In fact, he will be able to transfer back soon, life is impermanent! Makarov sighed.

After Shchedrin met Lieutenant Nikolai again, the three returned to the base together, and Shchedrin was arranged to stay in Burdenko's original room.

2

That night, Makarov briefly briefed Shchedrin about the base, then handed over the key that Buldenko was in charge of to Shchedrin, opened the tin cabinet, and counted the funds, weapons and ammunition with Shchedrin.

Makarov was very serious when he counted the count, but Shchedrin was cynical, and when Makarov finished the count, Shchedrin smiled and said: "Ivan, you are still so serious about doing things." ”

"Nope! I'm far worse than Burdenko. Makarov said humbly.

"There's nothing wrong with being serious, but sometimes you have to divide the place, just like Burdenko, no matter how hard you work in this place, no one can see it, and you end up putting your life into it."

Although Makarov had an unhappy affair with Buldenko, he still could not agree with others to say this about Buldenko, especially after Buldenko's death. He ignored Xie Delin, and still carefully checked whether the safe and tin cabinet were locked.

Shchedrin suddenly smiled again: "Ivan, I came from the headquarters this time and heard a lot of news, I have a good news and a bad news to tell you here. Which one do you want to hear first? ”

Makarov knew that Shchedrin had always been a well-informed person, "Then listen to the bad news first!" ”

Shchedrin shrugged his shoulders, "Actually, this bad news is good news for you, and it is also good news for me......"

"Then you can tell the good news first!" Makarov was not very interested in the above news.

"The good news is that you'll be transferred away soon."

"Oh!" Makarov was stunned, "This is indeed good news. But are your sources reliable? ”

"Absolutely! Within half a year, your appointment will definitely come down, and it may not take half a year. Shchedrin said with an oath.

"Are you so sure?" Makarov will be skeptical.

"Of course. And you're likely to be promoted to colonel this year, and you see what good news I've brought you. ”

"Have you figured out who will replace me? You know, if it weren't for Buldenko's death, you wouldn't have been sent here, and it stands to reason that Buldenko and I should have almost been transferred back, but no one wanted to replace us, so we ...... "Makarov has been polished by the desert wind and sand very calmly."

"Your successor? Rest assured, there may never be a replacement for you. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Makarov looked at Shchedrin suspiciously.

"That's the bad news I'm going to tell you, I've heard at headquarters that there's an intention to abolish this forward base."

"What? Revoke the base?! Makarov was surprised, "Those trainees are about to finish their training, how can they be revoked?" Not ready to send them to China? Then our hard work in the past few years has not been in vain! ”

"Huh." Shchedrin laughed, "Ivan, I told you before, pay more attention to politics, in the eyes of politicians, we are just a pawn, when we need to use you, we will send you up, and when we don't need you, we will remove you." ”

"In other words, our chess piece is useless now?"

"What will be the final outcome, it's hard to say now, the situation is still being observed, the international situation has changed a lot compared with previous years, China's domestic situation has gradually stabilized, and the upper echelons have expressed the intention of improving relations with China, so Comrade Andropov may never use us as a chess piece again."

"He's the one who sent me here in the first place." Makarov muttered that while he was happy to be able to go home, the abolition of the base made him feel like years of hard work for himself and Bultenko had been in vain.

"So I don't think there will be any more people sent to the base, and after you are transferred, I will end everything here. I wish that day would come sooner. ”

"To end it all? How does it end? ”

"I guess the base will be canceled, and these cadets will be sent to prison, and that's it."

"Send back to prison?!" Makarov's heart trembled, and he moved with compassion again.

"Yes! These people are already dangerous elements, and with the training they have had in the past few years, they are even more dangerous, so they must be sent back to prison. ”

Makarov had long thought that for these trainees, they would either be sent to China or locked them up again, and Buldenko's initial promise to them was nothing more than a dead letter. However, when he heard this ending from Shchedrin's mouth, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"What I said today, you have to keep it secret, and you must not reveal it to those students, otherwise we will be unlucky." Shchedrin told Makarov.

Makarov nodded, he certainly knew what the consequences would be if these words reached the ears of the cadets.

3

The next day, Makarov introduced Shchedrin to meet with all the trainees, and he introduced Li Guowen to Shchedrin, "This is the oldest and best trainee here. ”

Xie Delin smiled and shook Li Guowen's hand with an exception, and said, "I remember you." ”

Shchedrin did remember Li Guowen, and when Makarov was transferred, Shchedrin simply handed over the responsibility of training the trainees to Li Guowen, because Shchedrin had already received accurate information, and the base would soon be revoked.

Shchedrin looked out the window at the cadets who continued to train, anxiously looking forward to revoking the order to advance to the base. Since Makarov left, the base has not been equipped with any equipment, and the funds have become less and less, and it has gradually dropped to half of what it used to be, but the order to revoke the base has not been seen for a long time.

In this way, another two years passed while waiting, until one day in late autumn, when snowflakes rarely fell on the Gobi Desert, and Shchedrin finally looked forward to the paper revoking the order to advance to the base. In addition to his excitement, he was surrounded by deep apprehension, and according to the orders from above, all forty-eight cadets were to be escorted to the prison in Irkutsk, and then they could end their mission at the forward base.

Shchedrin had moved to Makarov's room since Makarov left, because he always felt bad luck in Buldenko's room, and Burdenko always seemed to be haunted, which gave Shchedrin nightmares.

At this moment, Shchedrin had been preparing for two weeks to "end it all", and he looked out the window at the snowflakes that were still falling, and his thoughts had already flown back to Moscow, "It's time to end all this!" Shchedrin muttered to himself.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the house, and Shchedrin opened the door, it was Lieutenant Nikolai. Shchedrin let Nikolai in, poked his head out again, looked outside the house, the base was covered with snow, there was a dead silence, and seeing that there was nothing unusual, Shchedrin closed the door and returned to the house.

"Is there anything unusual about those students?" Shchedrin asked Nikolai.

"Nope. Everything works fine. ”

"That's for the best. I now formally inform you that we will act tomorrow. Shchedrin straightened his face and said with a straight face.

"Tomorrow? Isn't it a bit tight on time? Nikolai hesitated.

"The night is long and there are many dreams, since you want to act, you will quickly cut through the chaos." Shchedrin paused for a moment and said his arrangement, "That's how I arranged it. Tomorrow morning we will gather the cadets and divide them into six squads for a meeting, during which the special forces from Irkutsk will surround the base and occupy all the key posts; Then I announced to all the cadets that the order to revoke the base was made, and after reading the order, I put them in six squads and flew to Irkutsk. In this process, dare to resist and kill, remember! If you dare to resist, you will be killed! ”

After Shchedrin finished talking about his plan, Nikolai thought for a moment, "The plan is good, but I'm worried about ......"

"Worried about what?"

"I'm worried that we don't have enough manpower!"

"Huh!" Shchedrin smiled, "Your worries are unnecessary, the special forces from Irkutsk have a company, plus the personnel in the base, I think it is more than enough to deal with those unarmed cadets." Shchedrin looked confident.

"I'm afraid...... I'm afraid that those guys will die and fight as trapped beasts, they are all masters trained by Burtenko! "Lieutenant Nikolai looked visibly lacking in confidence.

"Our special forces are also masters, what is there to worry about! Okay, that's it, you go back and get ready. "Shchedrin has made up his mind.

Sending Nikolai away, Shchedrin drank coffee while thinking about his plan from beginning to end, and after making sure that it was correct, Shchedrin felt a wave of sleepiness, so he collapsed on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

4

In the wee hours of the morning, Shchedrin was suddenly awakened by a burst of gunshots, he sat up suddenly, rubbed his temples, and felt that his brain was groggy, why did he sleep so deadly?

Shchedrin was suspicious, the gunshots outside the house became more and more dense, and then there was a rapid knock on the door, Shchedrin was startled, his heart immediately hung in his throat, he pulled out a pistol from under the pillow, opened the safe, jumped out of bed, came to the window, looked out of the door, could not see the situation outside the house clearly, he came to the door again, and asked: "Who?" ”

"It's me! Nikolai! ”

Shchedrin heard that it was Nikolai's voice, and hurriedly opened the door, Nikolai stumbled and ran into the house, "Comrade Shchedrin, no...... Oh no, those cadets rioted! ”

"What? Insurrection! Shchedrin sat down on the ground in shock.

At that moment, "Bang! "Bang!" Two stray bullets hit the door of the house made of iron sheets, and a shining spark popped out.

Nikolai hurriedly shot back at the outside of the house, and then slammed the door shut.

"Who leaked the news?" Shchedrin had already guessed that the cadets must have heard something.

"Hurry up and figure it out! Otherwise, we'll all explain it here! Nikolai shouted.

At this time, bullets kept hitting the iron sheet outside the house, and Nikolai wanted to shoot back, but he pulled the trigger several times before he found that the gun was out of bullets. Nikolai threw away the gun in his hand and shouted to Shchedrin: "Let's run!" ”

Shchedrin did not pay attention to Nikolai, he suddenly stood up suddenly, walked to Bultenko's room with some staggering steps, he took out the key to the tin cabinet with trembling hands, Makarov and Burdenko's keys were there, he did not know which key was used to open the tin cabinet, Nikolai also followed, when the two of them saw the situation in the cabinet, they were all stunned.

"I said where did they get their weapons, and heavy machine guns, it turns out that all the weapons in the cabinet were stolen by them!" Nikolai shouted in despair.

Shchedrin looked at the empty cabinet in distraction, the weapons and ammunition on the middle and lower floors were gone, and the archives on the upper floor were gone, and he opened the safe again, and the banknotes in the safe were gone. He couldn't remember when these things in the cabinet were lost? Yesterday, I opened the cabinet and counted the items, all of which were intact, could it be that I was sleeping just now, but the key was placed under my pillow......

"Let's go! If you don't leave, we'll be done, these people are all masters, and they have weapons......" Saying that, Nikolai pulled Shchedrin and ran out of the tin house, they didn't dare to fight, let alone to quell the riot, the two braved the stray bullets that passed by from time to time, all the way wild, it had just snowed on the Gobi Desert, and they couldn't tell the direction, but they kept running in the snow, sliding into the snow again and again, and getting up again and again, until they saw the dawn in the east, they collapsed on the snow.

The two of them gasped for breath, the night's running had exhausted their physical strength, Shchedrin was lying in the snow, and suddenly felt the earth trembling slightly, and on the horizon in the distance, two black dots were approaching him, could it be that the group of students were chasing after him? Shchedrin bracked himself and tried to stand up, but he fell down again, he was exhausted, he had given up trying to survive, just lying quietly on the snow, watching the two black dots slowly approach......

5

When Shchedrin woke up, it was already the afternoon and he found himself lying in a barracks of Soviet troops in Mongolia, where he and Nikolai were rescued by two patrolling armored vehicles.

When the two officers asked him about the situation, Shchedrin only revealed his identity, but refused to say what had happened.

Shchedrin neither dared to say nor report to the higher-ups, he only begged the officers to send him and Nikolai back to the forward base. Before nightfall, he and Nikolai were sent back to the forward base, where he found that it had been controlled by more than 100 special forces who had come to the forward base to carry out escort missions.

It was only after Shchedrin was so bad that he persuaded the commander of the special forces not to report what had happened here to the headquarters first, and that he would report to the headquarters two days later.

Shchedrin and Nikolai looked at the scene in despair, and the two soldiers who had been on duty at the sentry last night had their necks broken; In the barracks, there were four or five soldiers who had just picked up arms, and their flesh and blood were blurred by the 12.7mm bullets fired by the heavy machine guns; inside the base, several other officers and soldiers were lying around, and there were some fragments of corpses that had been shattered, which was terrible to see; Shchedrin trembled and pushed open another door, and a smell of blood and medicine rushed into his nostrils, Shchedrin recognized that this was the base's infirmary, only to see the military doctor face down, falling on the table, red blood dripping all over the table, already solidified.

"I broke my neck and stabbed me again, and I stabbed me straight in the heart." Nikolai said after examining the body of the military doctor.

"Break your neck?"

"Well, it's the same technique as the soldiers at the sentry."

"Why is that? Don't shoot first, kill the soldiers on the sentry, it's easy to understand, why they also used this technique to kill the military doctor, if it's already fighting, you can use bullets when it's done. ”

Nikolai thought for a moment, "Maybe those cadets infiltrated the medic first. ”

"Dive in first? What are they going to do? Shchedrin immediately thought of something, he touched the blood on the table, "The blood has coagulated, it seems that the military doctor died earlier than the others." ”

Shchedrin rummaged through the medicine cabinet in the infirmary again, "The sleeping pills are gone." ”

Shchedrin began to understand why he slept so heavily last night, and after looking at the whole scene, there was not a single body of the students, and the angry Shchedrin understood that this time he had made a big disaster, if he could not catch all the escaped students, he would not only be removed from his post and investigated, but also have to go to the military court.

Shchedrin understood that he only had two days, and he had to capture all the escaped cadets within two days, but he did not dare to make a noise, and the only forces that could be mobilized were him and Nikolai, as well as the special forces of this company.

Shchedrin and the commander of the special forces agreed that now that the snow was freezing and the place was sparsely populated, those who escaped would definitely not be able to go far, and they should be able to find those students by helicopter in the air. As a result, the helicopter that was supposed to be used to escort the trainees began to search for the 48 escaped trainees on the snow-covered Gobi.

6

After two days of searching, Shchedrin searched almost every inch of land near the base, but he didn't even see a single figure of a student. Shchedrin was extremely depressed, did these students all fly? How far can they go on this deserted Gobi Desert? There were four jeeps and two trucks at the base, and the trucks and two jeeps were destroyed in the firefight, and only two intact jeeps were driven away. The fuel carried by the two jeeps was also very limited, but so far, the helicopter has not found the two jeeps.

Just when Shchedrin was puzzled, suddenly Nikolai stumbled in, "Oh no, Lieutenant Colonel!" ”

"What's wrong?" Shchedrin was shocked.

"A police station in Irkutsk was ...... Washed in blood! ”

"What? Irkutsk! What do you mean? Without waiting for Nikolai to answer, Shchedrin immediately understood what Nikolai meant, "...... You mean that the cadets bloodied the police department? ”

"Who do you think will be able to wash the police station in blood at this time?"

"But...... But this is a thousand miles away from Irkutsk, how can they ...... in two days" Shchedrin still refused to believe it, and he decided to go and see for himself.

Shchedrin and Nikolai soon flew to the police station in Irkutsk, and as soon as they entered the gate, Shchedrin could almost determine that it must be the students who made this masterpiece, and the head of the local KGB told Shchedrin: "The eleven policemen on duty that night were all killed, and all of them were killed with one shot, the murderer was cruel and extremely accurate, using a TT-33 pistol, and after shooting the policeman, the gang stole the guns and cash from the police station." ”

TT-33 pistol, isn't this exactly the batch of pistols that were lost at the base? They already have so many weapons and ammunition, and they are robbing the police station, what are they going to do? Is it necessary to equip a unit? Thinking of this, Shchedrin trembled, he hurriedly held on to the wall beside him, but suddenly found that his hand touched a touch of red, it was blood! He took two steps back, leaned against a table, and looked intently, only to see a blood-drawn pattern on the snow-white wall—a wolf with an eagle about to fly.

This...... What is it? The emblem of this gang? Shchedrin was shocked by the pattern drawn in blood, and was silent for a long time, and the head of the KGB pointed to the wall and introduced: "This group still has this!" It's so rampant, openly hostile to us. ”

Shchedrin shook his head, trying to keep himself calm, he knew that this matter could no longer be hidden, since this group of people dared to wash the police station in Irkutsk, they would definitely dare to go to Moscow, to Leningrad, to make a bigger noise, Shchedrin thought of the military court, thought of the prison, he did not want to spend the rest of his life in prison, Shchedrin did not dare to think about it anymore......

Shchedrin began to regret himself and the group of students, no! It's been more than two years with these devils, and I have seriously underestimated their strength, Burtenko! Shchedrin didn't know why he suddenly remembered Bultenko, how on earth did this madman train these devils?

Shchedrin was about to collapse, he quickly judged the situation, his strength was far from enough, and he needed greater support. Everyone at the scene was staring at Shchedrin, not knowing why he was so out of shape, and Shchedrin finally slowly burst out of his mouth with a sentence, "I want to talk to Comrade Andropov." ”

The head of the local KGB quickly connected him to the phone number of KGB Chairman Andropov.

7

Shchedrin briefly reported to Andropov about the riots at the base, and after a suffocating silence, Andropov's scolding came from the other end of the phone, Shchedrin could only listen silently, Andropov was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had only come to report now, but after scolding Shchedrin, Andropov's tone softened again, "Now I order you, Comrade Shchedrin immediately leads people to arrest those who escaped students one by one, not one less!" Those who resist stubbornly can be killed on the spot. Now only you are familiar with those guys, so you must complete the task, as long as you can catch these guys back, or shoot them to death, I can not blame you for your mistakes, otherwise if you let them continue to make trouble, not only will you go to court-martial, I am afraid that I will also be implicated, and our KGB will lose face. ”

"Yes! I'm going to get those guys back. Shchedrin assured on the other end of the phone, but he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

"In addition, I now authorize you to mobilize all the KGB forces in Siberia and the Far East."

"Including a higher rank than me?"

"All, including the generals, as long as you get those guys to rest. Another thing you should keep in mind is that you must pay attention to confidentiality. ”

Hearing what Andropov said, Shchedrin finally found a little confidence in his heart, and he suddenly thought of someone, "Comrade Chairman, I want Comrade Makarov to also come and act with me, after all, he knows this group of students very well......"

After a while of silence on the other end of the phone, Andropov said slowly: "I will consider your suggestion, you should act now." ”

After talking, Shchedrin regained his spirits, and he, Nikolai, as well as the head of the local KGB, carefully analyzed the situation, believing that these cadets would not dare to stay in the Soviet Union for a long time after such a catastrophe, and they would definitely find an opportunity to escape from the Soviet Union, and China in the south was heavily defended, and most of them would not go; To the west, to Moscow, where the guards have been heightened and the distance is long, passing through the vast hinterland of the Soviet Union, most of these cadets will not venture there; To the north is the Arctic Circle, from which it is even more impossible to escape; The direction in which they are most likely to escape is to head east, board a ship in the harbor and escape.

"Then the largest port to the east is Vladivostok (called Vladivostok in Russia, and it is called Vladivostok in this book), so we need to strengthen the monitoring of Vladivostok to prevent them from hijacking ships and escaping!" After Xie Delin finished deducing, he admonished: "At the same time, we must also strengthen the vigilance in several other directions. ”

After the meeting, Shchedrin and Nikola rushed to Vladivostok with a special force. Within two days, Shchedrin received exciting information that local KGB agents had found two military jeeps in an abandoned warehouse, and at the same time, the police department reported that two vehicles had been stolen in Irkutsk.

Shchedrin went to the warehouse to check the two military jeeps, and sure enough, they were the two jeeps that had been stolen from the base. It seems that their inference is valid, and the group fled to Vladivostok, from where they planned to escape overseas by boat.

After a burst of excitement, there was even greater nervousness, Shedlin had already learned the skills of those students, whether his own centaurs could catch those devils, Shedlin had no bottom in his heart.

Shchedrin had civilian clothes in all the ports, and even most of the ships had his informants, but he did not yet have full control over the foreign ships, so Shchedrin especially strengthened the monitoring of foreign ships docked in the harbor.

However, more than half a month passed, but the group of students seemed to have evaporated from the world, there was no news, they did not continue to commit crimes, and there was no accurate information to prove that these people had left Vladivostok, and Shchedrin had to wonder if the group of students had escaped from Vladivostok, until one day, an American freighter flying the Stars and Stripes sailed into the port of Vladivostok, and Shchedrin's hope was ignited again.

8

In order to prevent the cadets from escaping Vladivostok among the foreign crew members who had come ashore, the KGB instructed the local ports to give only four landing places to the American freighter, named "Joyce."

In the thick rain and fog, the captain of the ship "Joyce" and three other crew members went ashore with umbrellas, and from the moment their feet set foot on Soviet soil, they were already under the watchful eye of Shchedrin's men.

Before nightfall, agents monitoring the docks reported to Shchedrin that the captain and two crew members had returned to the ship, but one crew member was missing. Shchedrin was puzzled when the agent on the other end reported to him: "The crew went alone to an abandoned factory on the outskirts. ”

Shchedrin's eyes lit up, there was a door! While ordering the agents on the other end to continue to monitor, he mobilized special forces and a large number of agents to secretly infiltrate the area around the abandoned factory.

As soon as Shchedrin got out of the car, an agent in charge of monitoring the abandoned factory excitedly reported to him, "We saw the gang, and the gang was in this abandoned factory. ”

"Are you sure?" Xie Delin was surprised and delighted, he didn't expect that his waiting for so many days would finally pay off.

"Sure, but they all have weapons, and they're dangerous."

"Surrounded on all sides?"

"Three-layer encirclement, surrounded by factories all around, but ,......"

"But what?"

"This factory faces the sea."

"Linhai?" Shchedrin's heart sank.

"But it's full of cliffs dozens of meters high."

"That's good. In addition, we ask the Coast Guard to cooperate with us. ”

Shchedrin pulled out his pistol and looked around, there were four or five hundred agents, police, special forces, and in such a remote place, it was a godsend!

Thinking of this, Shchedrin no longer hesitated, and wanted to attack, but the agent reminded him, "That American is still inside, if we attack ...... force"

Shchedrin also hesitated, he didn't want to cause an international dispute, so he ordered the encirclement to be tightened and prepared for battle, and at the same time shouted to the inside with a loudspeaker, "The people inside have been surrounded, hurry up and come out and surrender!" ”

There was not a single movement in the abandoned factory, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Shchedrin shouted three more times, but there was still no response, he decided not to wait, and was about to give the order for a storm, when suddenly, the small door on the wall of the factory opened, and a man in a seaman's uniform walked out, and the man shouted at Shchedrin in proficient Russian: "Don't shoot!" I'm American. ”

"Put your hands behind your head and come over." Shchedrin shouted at the American.

The American seafarer clasped his hands behind his head and walked up to Shchedrin step by step, Shchedrin grimaced and shouted: "Passport! ”

The American seafarer carefully pulled his passport out of his pocket under the gaze of seven or eight guns, and Shchedrin took it, glanced at it, and muttered the name on the passport - "Warren White." Shchedrin compared the photos and asked, "What are you trying to do with this group of dangerous people when you come here so late?" ”

"I didn't do anything, I was just asked by a friend to come and meet these people, and then you guys arrived." White explained, somewhat alarmed.

Shchedrin didn't continue to ask, he only wanted to catch those students now, which was more important than interrogating this White, "Take him down!" Shchedrin ordered.

After White was taken down, Shchedrin had no scruples, and with a wave of his hand, the spears and sprints in the hands of the special forces and agents poured down towards the abandoned factory. However, in the face of such heavy artillery fire, there was not a trace of resistance in the factory, and Shchedrin was greatly surprised...... He didn't dare to think about it, so he hurriedly ordered the armored vehicles of the special forces to rush into the factory, and several armored vehicles crashed into the wall of the factory at once, rushed in, and then shot at the abandoned factory building in the factory, but there was still no resistance in the factory.

Shchedrin became more and more confused, he ordered the special forces to stop the attack, and he himself led the agents to the abandoned factory step by step.

9

Just when Shchedrin and the agents were only ten meters away from the abandoned factory, suddenly, a dense number of bullets were fired from the factory, and even a few were thrown*.

The agents around Shchedrin were caught off guard and fell down one after another, Shchedrin hurriedly lay on the ground, stray bullets kept flying over his head, completely suppressing their firepower, Shchedrin was terrified, this group of students waited until they approached before shooting, and their psychological quality was far above the agents.

Fortunately, Shchedrin was still outnumbered, especially the heavy weapons of the special forces came in handy, Shchedrin fought and retreated, retreated to a safe place, and no longer dared to rashly attack, and ordered the special forces to use the most fierce firepower to raze the factory to the ground.

This abandoned factory building was unexpectedly strong, and after more than ten minutes of onslaught, the battered factory building is still standing there! Shchedrin decided to change his tactics and ordered the armored vehicles to concentrate their fire on several key parts of the plant, and after another fierce attack, the plant finally collapsed.

Dust rose from the rain and fog, and bricks and rubble flew and smashed on the ground and on the steel plates of armored vehicles...... Without waiting for the dust to clear, Shchedrin ordered the whole line to be pressed and the encirclement narrowed, Shchedrin thought that most of the students hiding in the factory should be dead, and the barrier had been lost, and victory was in sight, but between the ruins and broken walls, the firepower of the counterattack was still strong.

Shchedrin had no other choice, he ordered that the dangerous elements must be completely eliminated before dark, the abandoned factory was very large, although it had collapsed, but Shchedrin's people were fiercely blocked in front of every ruin.

More than ten minutes later, Shchedrin replaced himself with a light machine gun and killed one of the trainees with his own hands, basically clearing the trainees from the ruins of the factory. At this time, the drizzle had turned into a pouring rain, and Xie Delin didn't care about the heavy rain, he looked at the corpses left between the ruins, and most of them were his own people, and only more than twenty corpses belonged to those students.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, that group of cadets fled to the cliff by the sea." Nikolai reported loudly.

"Chase!" Shchedrin gritted his teeth and shouted.

Shchedrin and his people quickly approached the cliff, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and finally surrounded the remaining dozen or so students on the cliff.

Beneath the black cliffs was the furious sea, and it was a terrible day today, with strong winds and huge waves, constantly crashing against the rock walls below the cliffs.

The gunfire stopped, and through the heavy rain and fog, Xie Delin had already recognized that the person facing him was Li Guowen. Li Guowen was also staring at Xie Delin, his eyes were bloodshot, there were several gunshot wounds on his body, and blood was bubbling out, Xie Delin was surprised by Li Guowen's perseverance, this guy was seriously injured, and he was still standing upright with a gun.

"Li Guowen, you are very remarkable, you actually killed so many of us." Xie Delin first hid himself behind a rock, and then shouted at Li Guowen.

Li Guowen was still motionless, standing in place, he sneered twice, and shouted: "Thank you for the praise, this is all thanks to you." ”

"Yes! Burtenko was a good teacher. ”

"Hmph, it's a pity he's dead."

"So none of you are afraid, no one can stop you."

"You forced it. If you hadn't disbanded the base and sent us back to prison, we wouldn't be where we are today! Li Guowen shouted with a hint of despair.

"How did you know that the base was going to be revoked and you sent back to prison?"

"Hmph, don't forget that we're agents now, and probably even better than you. I remember that Burdenko once said that when a good agent wants to get something, nothing in the world can stop him. ”

"He's trained to that standard, aren't you?"

"Of course, you won't understand the hardships we suffered on the Gobi Desert."

"Can you tell me where you're going?" Shchedrin wanted to say something.

"Go far, far, far, get out of here and live another life." Li Guowen's words are still leaky.

"You expect that the American to get out of here? Let me tell you, they've been under our surveillance for a long time. ”

"Haha, we don't count on anyone. Burdenko also told us that a good agent cannot trust anyone in a desperate situation. ”

"Don't be stubborn, I'm going to see how you can get away today?"

Li Guowen didn't answer, just a burst of wild laughter, the laughter and the furious sea were intertwined, which actually made Shchedrin tremble.

"You have no way to escape, it is better to lay down your arms and surrender early! I can guarantee your safety. ”

"You promise? I'm afraid you won't be able to save your own life! After speaking, Li Guowen laughed again.

Xie Delin was annoyed and angry, he stood up from behind the rock, raised his gun and was about to shoot at Li Guowen, but Xie Delin was surprised to find that Li Guowen and the dozen or so students all threw away the guns in their hands and stood in two rows. They can't support it and are going to surrender?! Shchedrin thought, but he didn't dare to slack off, his fingers still tightly clasped on the trigger.

I saw those students neatly stepping back, one step, two steps, three steps...... With the edge of the cliff behind them, what are they going to do? Shchedrin stared at the student in front of him suspiciously, and suddenly he thought - they were going to jump off the cliff!

"Order Comrade Shchedrin to immediately lead people to arrest none of the students who escaped, not a single one! Those who resist stubbornly can be killed on the spot. "The order of KGB Chairman Andropov suddenly sounded in Shchedrin's ears, and Shchedrin immediately pulled the trigger without hesitation, not letting one go!

Shchedrin's gunfire was an order, and almost at the same time, more than a hundred muzzles erupted tongues of fire at the same time, and those trainees who were already unarmed were all beaten into a sieve the moment they jumped off the cliff......