Chapter 15 Entering enemy-occupied territory
Chapter 15 Entering enemy-occupied territory
Safely escorting Hasanna from Government-held areas to Fynid-controlled areas would pass through Government areas to extremist-held territory. There are many crises on the way, there can be no slackness, danger will appear at any time, Ling Moyu can't care about fatigue, cheer up, and disappear into the vast night all the way north.
"I have a maritime satellite phone in my backpack, so you can contact your family and see how to get in touch with them." Ling Moyu said.
Hasanna found the satellite phone and called her father, who was pleasantly surprised that he would send a team to meet them, but the situation was too complicated to go too far, so they had to wait for them in a small village near Idlip.
It is difficult to get from the area controlled by government forces to the extremist-controlled area, where both sides have planted a large number of mines on the front line, and snipers exist like ghosts in the middle of the rubble, and the slightest appearance can be shot in the head.
Ling Moyu decided to bypass from the west, and according to the information he had, there was a control vacuum in the areas controlled by the Turkmen in the west, the government troops were unable to station, and the extremist groups had just suffered heavy losses and had no time to look west.
It turned out that after several years of continuous attacks by the extremists, the strength of the government army was greatly reduced, and they could not effectively cope with the excessively long front, so they could only retreat to the important strongholds, and only breathed a breath.
The Russians, who have always firmly supported them behind the government army, can't stand it, so they can only go to the forefront, personally participate in the battle, dispatch fighter jets to carry out precision strikes against extremists, and the extremists are holding their heads, and effective air strikes have helped the government army stabilize the war situation, but it is a little reluctant to go deeper.
At this time, an unexpected event changed the tide of the war, the Turkmens controlled the area in the west near the border, they were not extreme, but they were also against the government, just at this time an attack plane crashed due to mechanical problems, and the two pilots successfully ejected and parachuted. Falling right on the territory of the Turkmens, one of the pilots was shot by the Turkmens, and the other escaped by narrowly and reported to the Russians when he returned.
The style of the Russians has always been that "the iron rod sweeps unstoppable, and if it is blocked, the iron rod is thickened!" Where can I swallow this breath, so special forces were sent to reconnoiter the situation of the Turkmen. One night the Turkmen gathered to celebrate the holiday, and at 2 a.m. the Russians sent long-range rocket units to carry out a massive carpet shelling of the Turkmens.
The Turkmen armed forces, numbering about 1,000 men, were wiped out in their slumber, and less than 40 percent of the remaining remnants of the defeated army had to withdraw from their positions and defect to their supporters, the Iliones, giving up a large area to the west.
The mountainous and hilly western part of the country is not rich in production, industry is underdeveloped, and the population is not large, and all parties are exhausted, and for the time being there is no surplus of vital forces to control such a vast and relatively barren area. So where is it easy to bypass the fighting positions of the two sides, enter the area controlled by the extremists, and then find a way to return to the area controlled by the Finnids, this is Ling Moyu's wishful thinking.
It was past ten midnight, there was no moon in the sky, it was indeed like clouds, the night of the desert seemed extraordinarily cold and pure, there was not a trace of impurities in the sky, and the stars were like a group of children blinking their eyes, silently gazing at the boundless desolate earth.
When it was almost dawn, they came to a village in the area controlled by the former Turkmen, which was also a mess, full of dilapidated houses and scattered rubble, Ling Moyu was too tired and needed to rest.
Ling Moyu found a dilapidated courtyard, half of the courtyard wall at the main gate had collapsed, and the gate was gone, but there was a backyard in this courtyard that was quite complete, Ling Moyu drove the car into the backyard just because of the house and the wall, and the car was not visible from the outside.
The goal of the car was too obvious, Ling Moyu didn't plan to rest in the car, they got out of the car and walked into the house with no doors and windows, fortunately there was a big bed window in the back room, and the doors and windows were still there.
The two of them didn't care about anything else, they fell asleep on the bed, and after a long time, there was a noise outside, as if it was very chaotic, and the sky was already bright. Although in a deep sleep, years of battlefield experience allowed him to remain vigilant enough even when he fell asleep, and when he opened his eyes, he found Hasanna lying soundly asleep in his arms.
He didn't wake her up, but carefully removed her arm, got out of bed, tiptoed to the window, and looked out.
A group of men and women dressed in traditional Middle Eastern costumes, the men were wearing black robes, wrapped in black turbans, and the people who were covered in black robes were women, and they could not see their faces at all, except for a small net-like observation hole in front of their eyes, and several children. Adults and children with large bags and small bags rushed in from the collapsed gate in a panic, Ling Moyu picked up the assault rifle in his hand and pointed it at the door, and these people entered the house at once.
Ling Moyu shouted: "Don't move, raise your hands!" At his sound, several women and children inside fell to their knees at once, one child cried, and the rest trembled and did not dare to move.
Seeing this, Hazanne also woke up, and when she saw this, she came up and picked up the crying child, and asked, "Who are you, where did you come from, where are you going, and how did you get here?" ”
"We are civilians, we have no weapons, don't hurt us, we escaped from Idlip, we can't live there anymore, we heard that the people here have fled and become a place where no one cares, so we risked our lives to run here. We want to go from here to Ilion and from Ilion to Europe. These are my family, please spare us! A man knelt on the ground and pleaded.
"You said you ran out of Idlip, what's going on there?" Ling Moyu asked.
"It's not a place for people, their people control all the civilian facilities and food sources, sell us at five times higher prices than before the war, and a lot of things are shoddy, and many people don't have enough to eat. Even if you starve, you will have to be afraid all day long, and maybe one day, you will be accused of being a heretic and dragged out and shot. Many of the young men were taken to participate in what they called 'jihad', and three of my neighbour's sons were taken away and heard had died in battle. They also often searched for young girls to contribute to the jihad, and many were tortured to death. The man began to cry.
"I have two sons and three daughters, I don't want them to continue such a tragic fate, I heard that I can go abroad here, so I escaped with my neighbors, and walked for a day and a night to get here, what I said is the truth, please believe us!" The man's voice was not like a lie.
"Do you still have such extra clothes, a men's suit for a woman?" Ling Moyu asked.
"Yes, you can give you whatever you want, just don't hurt us." The man said hurriedly.
The woman next to her took out two sets of clothes from the box she carried, Hazanne put down the child and took the clothes, Ling Moyu took out some money from his pocket and gave them it, and said, "You go out from here, follow the road outside the village all the way to the west, at most there is one day to go, you can reach the border, and the front is safe." Ling Moyu said.
Those people were grateful and left from here. "When we change into these clothes, we are going to enter the territory of the extremists, so we need to be extra careful." Ling Moyu said.