Chapter 2: Night Attack: 6. The Ghost Strikes
After dark, except for the old man, who left two people to watch over the valley, everyone else returned to the temple one after another. When I heard that I was going to attack the mercenary camp at night, they all came together and had to go together. I listened to the situation of the mercenary camp introduced by Xiao Qi, and thought to myself that it would be better to make the movement bigger and dampen the spirit of these mercenaries.
When Aya heard about our plan, she insisted on going along. But she agreed to return to the temple after attacking the first camp and not follow me any further.
In the dead of night, I set out with the men to the mercenary camp. The night chill in the mountains is pervasive, and although it is still summer, under the night sky in the mountains of the plateau, I don't know where the cold comes from, so that everyone can't help but shiver. Under the pale moonlight, the mountains rise and fall in a strange posture. The trees on the mountain swelled like waves in the night wind. Wrapping up their clothes, they followed Dole who led the way, and walked cautiously along the path between the valleys.
The night obscured us, and the winds swirling in the valley obscured the sound of our marching footsteps.
At the mouth of the valley, we contacted the two men who had been kept under surveillance by the old man, and they told us about the mercenary armament. The camp was small, with only about a hundred people stationed, and it was supposed to be the vanguard of mercenaries. These two people observed very carefully, and they had a clear understanding of the mercenaries' open posts and secret posts and the places where the ammunition was stacked. They also discovered a new situation, saying that when it was almost dark, a team of more than thirty people came here. Each of them carried an ammunition box on their backs, but they did not linger after dropping down their belongings, but immediately returned the way they came.
What they found confirmed my previous judgment. These mercenaries really have a transport team, no wonder they can use heavy weapons with such impunity. Judging by the actions of these men who dropped their supplies and then returned, their camp should not be far from here. Their camp should be the camp of their large army. Their command center should be there, too.
I divided everyone into six groups, and I took Dole and Agma with me, first to deal with the sentinels at the mouth of the valley, and then to touch the mercenary camp and plant the explosives. After that, they went out of the mountain. Aya first went to the other side to recruit the Thousand Faces, and after the explosion, let the Thousand Faces attack the mercenaries. The other four groups were ambushed separately and formed multiple firing points. I ask them not to fall in love with the war, and to evacuate quickly if they fight.
After arranging the arrangement, Dole and Agma and I cleanly touched out the mercenary's two secret posts and one clear post. We quickly approached the mercenary's camp. I knew that the mercenaries had set up an electronic warning device outside the camp, and I was afraid that Dole and Agma would not know about this device and accidentally touch it. I briefly spoke to them and told them to stay out of the device's alert range. I allowed my body temperature to drop rapidly below the surface, and then the wind swept into the shadows outside the camp tent.
I reached into the tent where the mercenaries stored their ammunition, stuffed the timed bomb into the bottom ammo box, and snuck out to where Dole and Agma were lurking.
At this time, there were faint bursts of singing in the night sky, which were like silk, crying and complaining, as if there was an indescribable concern and an indescribable sadness. It makes people feel that it has poured into a shadow, dragged for a long time, like a layer of light ink faintly imprinted in their hearts. Like a soul drifting in the wind? The song echoed incredibly. It's like walking on the desert, and the space is full of suffocating dullness, even if you want to leave, you can't, you can't, you can't leave. The singing makes people feel as if they are lost in a dense forest, walking alone in the dark, constantly expecting the appearance of a person.
The song rises and falls in the wind of the valley, appearing and disappearing.
Bogda is right in front of you,
By the river are the flowers that you have brought from afar,
Splendid!
The home you love,
Thousands of bonfires have been lit,
Welcome to auspicious signs.
Your women,
I open my arms,
Waiting with irresistible bravery,
You who have swept the battlefield,
Return with the Divine Dawn. ……
There is a strange power in the song, like a mother calling for a wanderer who is far away, and like a girl looking forward to the lover on the way home. But in the empty night in the mountains on such an empty plateau, this song seems so strange and so worrying.
Agmar asked me a little nervously, "How can anyone sing here?" ”
I shook my head and let out a sigh of relief. said, "Your master is pretending to be a ghost and scaring people again!" ”
Doler was a little puzzled, "Is this my sister singing?" The singing makes people's hearts panic. ”
I said, "She's been like this since she was a kid and likes to be scared." Now that he's so old, he's still playing this kid's trick.
Agmar said, "Master, how can you be scary? ”
I pointed to the heights on the other side of the valley and said, "See for yourself! ”
At this time, high on the other side of the valley, under the hazy moonlight, stood a girl in white clothes fluttering and vague. I saw her slowly float down from a high place, singing while floating to the bottom.
The girl's white clothes fluttered, fluttering in the wind like a piece of paper. Her singing alarmed the mercenaries inside the tent, who came out of the tent one after another. Someone turned on the strong light, and in the strong beam of light, the girl disappeared leisurely, as if she disappeared in the air. Only the increasingly eerie singing echoed faintly in the night sky.
Before the mercenaries could recover their senses, I took Dole and Agmar with me from the other side of the valley, blowing like a wind towards the other exit of the valley. After taking out the sentry here, I stopped and asked Dole and Agma to watch the rest of the action.
At this time, I suddenly felt a little regretful. I said to Agmar and Dole, "There's a bit of a fly in the ointment to this plan. It's a pity, it's a pity. ”
Agma asked me, "What's the pity?" ”
I said, "After a moment of explosion, it would have been perfect if the people who had been arranged before didn't shoot!" ”
Doler looked up at me and asked, "Why?" ”
I said, "Aya dressed as a ghost to attract the mercenaries, then the ammunition exploded, and then the Thousand Faces attacked, and no one showed up the whole time. This kind of scene will make those mercenaries fearful and leave a shadow of terror in their hearts. ”