The eastern coast of Somalia is plain with many sand dunes along the coast; The lowlands along the coast of the Gulf of Aden are the Giban Plain; The central part is the Somali Plateau with an altitude of 500 meters to 1500 meters, descending from north to south and southeast; mountainous in the north; The southwest is grassland, semi-desert and desert.

Somalia's rivers are intermittent except for the Shabelle and Juba rivers in the south.

Most of the region has a subtropical and tropical desert climate, and the southwest has a savannah climate, with high temperatures all year round, dry and little rain. Annual precipitation decreases from 500-600 mm to less than 100 mm from south to north.

On the southeastern coast, a hilly area of vegetation and a network of rocks and water, the meandering Shabelle River flows into the sea.

Here, a large number of Somali herders live.

Somalia is a country with very few natural resources, and only a few areas have enough drinking water and can be used for nomadic grazing.

In northern Somalia, camel farming is the main means of profit, while in the south it is raised with goats and bananas and some of the most popular internationally sought-after ingredients.

Somali black goats are the most expensive species of goats in the world and an important source of foreign exchange for Somalia.

In this area connecting the southwest and southeast, the largest number of herders also live.

But it is not a nomadic tribe, but a group of tribes large and small, or one or several families, settled here.

It has a savannah climate and follows the rules of survival in the savannah, and on both sides of this basin, it is not like the endless grasslands of Central Africa, although there are many grasslands, but on both sides of the basin, there are high canyons and hills, surrounded by rivers.

The long canyon can often even spread out for tens of kilometers, and the width of the canyon is also a few kilometers smaller, and even more than a dozen kilometers in the wide places.

After Fan Yize's operation against extremist groups began, a large number of special forces of the Red Police Corps entered this savannah.

According to the information that has been obtained, there is a secret training base of the youth army in the savannah, and the children captured or purchased by the youth army from all over Somalia are sent to a secret training base in the grassland valley for training.

There is also evidence that two of the Somali pirate groups active in the Gulf of Aden are directly controlled by the Somali Al-Shabaab.

These two pirates, once they hijacked a ship in the Gulf of Aden, would immediately drive the ship south to the nearby waters and wait for the ransom.

Far from the Gulf of Aden, and therefore away from the convoys of various countries, and the pirates could evacuate the ships with their hostages at any time and enter the dense steppe, which was extremely easy to hide.

Therefore, it is quite difficult to rescue the hostages, and the fees and costs paid are often higher than the ransom amount offered by the pirates.

After several days of weaving through the grasslands and gorges, this morning the Ghost Special Commando came to the mouth of the Shabelle River, resting in a wooded area near the shoreline.

After several days of grassland execution, every member of the ghost special commando team had some tiredness on their faces, including the captain Ghost Lin Tian.

In the semi-dry woods, the ghost special commandos, who had eaten dry food for a few days of marching, finally satisfied their appetites.

Taking advantage of the southeast wind blowing, the smoke drifts directly to the sea, roasting wild game.

"Captain, is the information accurate?" After a few days, nothing was found, and during the break, a ghost team member asked.

"There is no specific information, but it is the result of the analysis of the intelligence part, and there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that there must have been secret training camps for the youth army in this area. But where is this camp, the satellites have not been found, so we have to search more carefully and not let go of any targets. The ghost said.

"Isn't that just a blind guess, for a blind guess, not only us, but also the other two commandos, all of whom have been wild men in this jungle for several days." One of the team members muttered.

"It's like a jungle survival training, not to mention going out to drill the grassland, it's always more fun than staying at home and training non-stop." Another ghost team member on the side spoke.

Lin Tian had a hunch that there must be a battle to fight in the woods and grasslands they had drilled through in the past few days.

"Take a break in the afternoon, and we'll go into the Great Rift Valley in the evening, and if there really is a camp for the Young People's Army in this place, it should be in the Great Rift Valley."

When everyone heard this, they all nodded, and the occasional grumbling was unavoidable, but there would be no discount in the attitude and determination to carry out the task.

Just as the barbecue game began to smell like a roast, one of the ghost team members in charge of the guard suddenly said: "Captain, there is a situation on the sea, someone has swam from the Indian Ocean to the shore. ”

When Lin Tian heard this, he immediately came to the edge of the coastal cliff, picked up the telescope, and saw that on the relatively calm sea, a person was struggling to swim to the shore.

Although this person is very tanned, judging from the shape of his face and his clothes, he is not an African, but an Asian.

"Where are the Asians here?" Lin Tian muttered suspiciously, and looked at the telescope farther out on the sea, and in the distance, a floating ocean-going fishing boat could be seen faintly.

It was an apparently unsailing distant-water fishing vessel, which was allowed to float on the surface of the sea, almost six or seven kilometers from the shoreline.

Through the binoculars, you can see that although there is no flag flying on this fishing boat, it can be seen from the words sprayed on the boat that it is a fishing boat from his hometown.

"Look at this person, he should have come off the fishing boat, but why did he jump into the sea and swim to the shore with the help of the high tide?" The ghost team member who was watching said puzzledly.

"From that person, it is not difficult to see that something must have happened on the ship, perhaps encountering pirates." Lin Tian said.

"Didn't he escape, then?" The Ghost team asked.

"That's how it should be, you continue to stay here and observe, and report something as soon as you have it." Lin Tian put away the binoculars, immediately left the cliff, came to the temporary rest area, and gave an order: "Assault group and sniper group, act with me, and the others continue to rest and prepare for support." ”

"Captain, what's going on?" A member of the team asked.

"We may have found someone who has been hijacked by pirates, and hopefully there will be an unexpected reward." Lin Tian brought his own equipment and said.

Among the resting team members, six people stood up and followed Lin Tian around this cliff and walked down towards the shore below.