The guide Afanti and the last commando Xiao Chen had been running in the desert all day and night without knowing it.
When they were about to climb a sand dune again, Afanti collapsed on the ground and said with a sad face: "I'm old and can't walk anymore. You should run first."
Xiao Chen stepped forward and grabbed Afanti by the collar and said: "Do you want those people to catch up and kill you? They have camels and guns. Do you want to die here alone without anyone knowing?"
What about your wife and your children?"
Hearing Xiao Chen mention his family, Afanti became more energetic, struggled to stand up and said, "Then let's run again."
The two of them ran for another eight hours at a stretch. Fortunately, Afanti had rich desert experience and finally allowed them to find a well. It was completely dark at this time, and the two of them were just about to get some water to drink. Suddenly,
Xiao Chen's ears perked up. He pressed Afanti's head into the sand dune with his hands and said, "Don't move, a car is coming, and there are people's voices." The two of them rolled into the ditch of the sand dune.
Sure enough, the sound of a car engine came from far away, and many people were talking in the car. It turned out that Li Xiaoning and the others had lost contact with the base for nearly two days. Hou Xiucai, who was left behind, was worried and called Tian Daqing. Tian Daqing called
Hearing this, he felt something was not good, so he quickly asked people from the local police station to bring a cart full of food and water to the desert to meet Li Xiaoning and the others. Hou Xiucai was worried and followed him personally.
After hearing his own voice, Afanti shouted excitedly from the back of the dune: "I am Afanti, I am here!"
When the responding staff saw that there were only two people, they quickly asked: "Where are the others?"
Xiao Chen said sadly: "We encountered an ambush. The leader and them all... all..."
"What happened? Did he die?" Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.
"Some were sacrificed, and some may have been captured!" Xiao Chen scratched his head and said, "The situation was too chaotic. I, I..."
"Where is Li Xiaoning? How is he?" Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.
"I...I don't know." Xiao Chen suppressed his face and turned red. "The last time I saw him, he seemed to have run out of bullets, but I'm not sure."
Hou Xiucai became anxious and immediately said: "Let's go rescue people quickly."
Xiao Chen quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, there are too many of them, and they all have automatic weapons. You have few people and few guns, so you can't deal with them. You'd better go back and report quickly and ask for support."
Hou Xiucai thought it was right and ordered the driver to turn around and return.
It was already past three in the morning when Hou Xiucai and the others rushed back to the Bostan Township Police Station. Tian Daqing also arrived with people, and their guide Afanti tremblingly told them about the encounter between the missing person team and the terrorists.
Tian Daqing was really anxious after hearing this. His son Tian Saifei was the first one to be knocked to the ground. He prepared the worst for the matter. The first possibility: Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning had been killed? The second possibility
:Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning were both beaten
Injured and now being tortured? The third possibility: Tian Saifei and Li Xiaoning escaped with their own wits? He analyzed every possibility, but no matter which outcome, he had to put his
When my son was found, he wanted to see him alive and his body after he died.
After calming down for a while, Tian Daqing immediately began to make arrangements: "The rescue team must be pulled up before dawn and march into the desert. I will call the provincial department immediately to request support."
Hou Xiucai also calmed down. The anti-terrorist special detachment still had seventy or eighty commandos available. He immediately called back and asked them to quickly organize a team to go into the desert to rescue the detained people and arrest the terrorists.
Cheng Xiaoxi has been in a trance since she saw Li Xiaoning again, so after interviewing Abdul again, she said she was not feeling well and returned to the hotel room and started calling Li Xiaoning. However, after several consecutive broadcasts, she said she was not feeling well.
Every time, Li Xiaoning's cell phone said coldly "Sorry, the user is not in the service area."
At first, Cheng Xiaoxi didn't pay much attention, because she knew the nature of Li Xiaoning's work and might be performing some confidential tasks. It was normal for her mobile phone to be unable to get through.
Cheng Xiaoxi's visit to Western Xinjiang was actually on a secret mission. It was called a reporter's interview, but the actual mission was to check the accounts of Abdul's charity machine purchases. This was because the national security had already discovered Abdul's background.
It is very complicated, and it is suspected that he provides large amounts of activity funds for terrorist organizations in Western Xinjiang. So, is the money from Abdul's so-called charity really pure? This mystery needs to be revealed by Cheng Xiaoxi.
Cheng Xiaoxi was still a woman after all. She waited for Li Xiaoning all night, but Li Xiaoning's cell phone still beeped with the message "Sorry, the user is not in the service area."
Cheng Xiaoxi decided to put aside the matter of Li Xiaoning for the time being. After submitting the first secret investigation report to her superiors in Yanjing, she decided to go to the bank in Tianshan City at dawn to learn about the relevant situation.
Hou Xiucai led forty commandos and walked in the Gobi for a whole day. The car could no longer move forward because from here on, it was a real desert and the car could not move.
Hou Xiucai took one look at the endless yellow sand and said: "Walking into the desert." Then everyone jumped out of the car and walked into the hinterland of the desert. This walk lasted most of the night. In the early morning, they walked in front.
The commandos suddenly discovered a row of messy camel prints and footprints extending westward.
Hou Xiucai said: "Follow the footprints and take a look." So, everyone followed the footprints and walked two to three hundred meters away, and found a pile of extinguished fires. It seemed that they had been newly built recently, because there was no sand on the fires.
A commando climbed onto a higher sand dune and looked around, finding that the footprints extended all the way to the west, but there were no people nearby.
Hou Xiucai asked people to take pictures of the footprints on the ground, and then compared them with those of Li Xiaoning and Tian Saifei, and found that there were no footprints of the two of them. It can be basically concluded that these footprints were left by terrorists.
"To chase or not to chase?" the team members asked eagerly.
Hou Xiucai didn't know how to judge. He refused to allow himself to make any mistakes. He asked Afanti, the guide who came with him, for advice: "How do you think we should go?"
Afanti suggested: "Let's go to the place of the accident first."
Hou Xiucai thought it made sense, nodded and said, "Just leave!"
After walking like this for a whole day, when it was almost dark again, Hou Xiucai's rescue team finally saw two commandos who had escaped from the hinterland of the desert. The two men's heads and faces were covered with blood, and the wounds were covered with dust and blood.
There were big black scars, and his eyes were so swollen that he couldn't even open them.
The two people who had narrowly escaped death hugged each other and cried when they saw Hou Xiucai and the others, causing many team members to shed tears. After the people who escaped had calmed down a little, everyone hurriedly gave them water and dry food brought from home.
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"Where is the detachment leader Hetian Saifei?" Hou Xiucai asked anxiously.
A commando recalled: "We were all beaten unconscious by those people. When we woke up, we found that the detachment leader and Tian Saifei were missing. They tied us in the Populus euphratica forest and could not move. Later, a woman named Nina appeared
The woman took advantage of the terrorist's break to untie us, and we escaped!"
"Nina?" Hou Xiucai asked subconsciously.
"It seems to be the woman of the terrorist leader Hassan," the commando said.
"Oh." Hou Xiucai nodded. He decided to send five people to send the two injured commandos back first! He led the team members to continue looking for Li Xiaoning and Tian Saifei.
They walked for another two hours, and it was completely dark. At this time, there was a faint flash of flashlight in front of them. Hou Xiucai observed it and said: "It seems to be one of our own, contact the other party!"
As expected, it was one of our own, and the other party sent out a signal with a flashlight. It turned out to be the search and rescue team led by Tian Daqing. The two teams merged together, and everyone's mood improved a little.
The next day, just after dawn, Hou Xiucai rushed everyone on the road. The team of more than 60 people was crawling in the desert.
Everyone was exhausted to death. Two of Tian Daqing's policemen sat down on the ground and said, "I can't leave anymore. I can't walk anymore."
Tian Daqing, who had served as a soldier and was very experienced in the desert environment, went over without saying a word, scolded and kicked him: "Go, if you don't go, you will die here. If you don't die from exhaustion, you have to go!"
The smart guide Afanti began to "lie" to everyone. He said: "Hey, boys, hurry up. There is a well not far ahead. You can walk there in half an hour."
Everyone became excited when they heard that there was water to drink, and the pace under their feet couldn't help but speed up. However, half an hour passed, and an hour passed, and they still didn't see the tempting well that Afanti mentioned. Afanti
Tiyou said seriously: "I'm not lying to you. If you walk for another half hour, I'm sure you'll be able to see that clear and sweet well."
Everyone knew Afanti's good intentions, and they walked forward gratefully. In this way, at about eleven o'clock in the afternoon, everyone finally saw the beautiful well that Afanti had exaggeratedly described along the way.
It's just a big sand pit. At the bottom of the sand pit is a pool of turbid water as big as the mouth of a bowl, which was dug by herdsmen who often go into the desert.
Although the well water was bitter and unpleasant to drink, everyone who was extremely thirsty didn't care about anything and rushed down to the sand pit to drink water. Without tools, everyone used mineral water bottles or helmets to fill it. A small pool of dirty water was poured out by everyone.
After digging, we found clear water. The more we dug, the clearer the water became. Some team members’ hands were bleeding from digging, and they continued to dig. People who have never lived in the desert for a few days cannot understand this feeling.
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Hou Xiucai filled a mineral water bottle with a bottle of water and handed it to Tian Daqing and said: "Tian Bureau, drink some water."
Tian Daqing took a sip and sighed: "I really hope Saifei and Captain Li can also drink this water."
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