Chapter 164 Section 7

On the mountain road, Xia Lan led the way, and Geng Jihui followed. He subconsciously held the handle of the gun, and put his index finger outside the trigger guard, ready to fire at any time. Xia Lan smiled: "You don't have to be so nervous, there will be no enemy situation here during the day." Geng Jihui looked at her: "How long have you been here?" "It's been half a month, and you're also in the 'Tiger Wolf' reconnaissance operation?" "Yes, I didn't expect you to be here." Xia Lan climbed up the mountainside, and pointed back at the cottage and the mountains: "This is the only way to enter the 239 Boundary Monument. This secret corridor of the drug caravan has lasted for more than ten years. This village is called Langde, and Lang is in Miao. It means 'downstream' in Chinese."

"Is there a river here?" "De is the name of the river, but now it has dried up and has become a river bed. It is difficult for the village to draw water, and it needs to be carried from the other side of the mountain to this side. It takes a day to go back and forth. Langde is more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest county seat. The road is more than 70 kilometers long, surrounded by primeval forests, so you can only walk caravans, and you cannot pass motor vehicles. I came here to find out the law of armed drug trafficking activities in the Langde Corridor." "Do the drug dealers pass here regularly?"

"Almost once or twice a month, big or small. The types of drugs vary depending on the armed faction. Some are No. 4 heroin, some are semi-finished yellow arsenic, and some are directly opium cream. The beautiful cottage has suffered greatly since the establishment of this drug corridor. Many families are broken and miserable. Coupled with the lack of medical care, inconvenient transportation, and backward economy, after more than ten years, it has become what you see now Round." Geng Jihui picked up the binoculars and looked at the surrounding mountains. His eyes stopped on a hilltop: "Where was the war fought?"

"The hunters here ambushed a group of drug dealers the night before. They seized the opium and burned it there." "It's dangerous, they will retaliate!" "Yeah, I'm worried too." "You organized it?" "No, I only found out after the fighting started. They organized it spontaneously. The people here are suffering too much from drugs." Geng Jihui looked at the smoke: "The large-scale anti-drug operation has not yet started, and the purpose of the operation will be exposed when the troops go up the mountain. You have to arrange for the mountain people to move to the county seat quickly, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."

"Didn't I tell you? They have lived in this mountain for generations and can feel the breath of the mountain. They won't leave." Geng Jihui's face was heavy. "The troops can't go up the mountain, and they can't go down the mountain—now you're here!" Xia Lan looked at him, "Stay here and protect them!" "The order I received was to conduct long-distance infiltration and strategic reconnaissance." "I believe your bottom line is more than that, right?" Geng Jihui smiled: "Sure enough, I am worthy of being an intelligence staff officer, but I still need to report to the wolf head. Do you know what we call you?"

"Pavlichenko II." Geng Jihui continued to walk up the mountain. "Pavlichenko II? What do you mean?" "The female sniper Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlichenko of the Great Patriotic War of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, killed 309 Hitlerites in the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol. " Xia Lan smiled: "Oh my god! Am I that good?" Geng Jihui smiled: "This—you have to ask the paratroopers!" "Ask him why?" "Because he has done the most research on female snipers." Xia Lan thought about it: "Could it be that he wants to be a female sniper? If he has this wish, I can fulfill him with one blow!"

Geng Jihui couldn't help but laughed. While talking, the two walked towards the place where the thick smoke rose. Thick smoke was rising from a mountain nest.In the mountain nest, more than a dozen hunters were carrying shotguns or 56 and a half with dignified faces, standing by a fire pit, and the pit was burning, which was the source of the thick smoke. The white-haired patriarch stood beside the corpses of three hunters covered in white cloth. He held a wine glass, dipped his fingers in the wine and sprinkled it on the corpses, muttering words. Xia Lan walked over with Geng Jihui: "That's the patriarch, those are the hunters who died the night before yesterday."

Geng Jihui took off his black beret. The patriarch looked at them, Xia Lan said something, the patriarch nodded and said something. Xia Lan turned to Geng Jihui to translate: "He said, the People's Liberation Army is welcome. It's just that the village is too poor now, and there is nothing to entertain the People's Liberation Army. They will immediately organize people to go hunting in the mountains, and there will be some water and wine..." Geng Jihui said: "Tell the patriarch that you don't need to bother, we are here to survive in the wild. We know about the battle, and we hope we can provide some help."

Xia Lan talked to the patriarch for a while, and then turned to Geng Jihui to translate: "Then I am very grateful to the People's Liberation Army. We will obey the command of the People's Liberation Army and kill those wolves." "We are fighting side by side, and we are all new hunters in the mountains." Xia Lan translated, and the patriarch said loudly to the hunters. The hunters looked at Geng Jihui, raised their weapons and shouted. "They say—revenge! revenge! revenge!" Geng Jihui looked at these simple hunters and didn't speak. Xia Lan looked at him: "You will fight them off, right?"

Geng Jihui thought for a while: "It is impossible for us to stay here for a lifetime, and we still need to rely on their own strength in the future. We still want to organize a people's war. Are there militias in the cottage?" "There are militia platoons, but they haven't been trained for many years, so they don't exist. But these hunters have good marksmanship and they are familiar with the terrain." Geng Jihui nodded: "If you want to protect your homeland, you need to rely on them." He looked at the hunters, who looked very solemn under the light of the fire.