Wan Lin and the others climbed over the previous hills and climbed to the top of a thousand-meter mountain. Abu and Huwa panted and climbed to the top, looked around, and sat down under a big tree.
The two of them were panting heavily while looking up at Wan Lin who was observing the surroundings. Seeing his long breathing and expressionless face, they couldn't understand why this young soldier couldn't even breathe after running such a long mountain road.
Huwa breathed heavily for a while and saw Wan Lin bending over and said in a low voice: "There are people from the other side on the mountain in front. They will shoot when they see people. I was shot by them here. You can see it from the mountain. The canyon where the big river enters can be reached by bypassing the mountain and reaching the cliffs on the side of the canyon."
After listening to Huwa's words, Wan Lin pondered for a while. The hilltop opposite is the commanding height into the canyon and is the first line of defense in the valley. The opponent will definitely send heavy troops to defend it. He heard Huwa said in the forest that at the bottom of the mountain is the channel that follows the river into the valley. Heavy vehicles can be driven. All supplies in the valley are transported into the canyon through this road.
This road was built by Ao Kun more than ten years ago after he bribed government officials to establish a foothold in the area and hired a large number of local mountain people. Through this road, it can be connected to some important towns in the surrounding mountains. This gradually ensured that the valley Livelihoods and material supplies for thousands of people
Wan Lin stared at the mountain in front of him and hesitated in his heart whether to risk climbing to the top of the mountain to reconnoiter the enemy's defense posture and the situation in the valley. But he looked at Abu and Huwa and shook his head. It was too dangerous here. Once discovered by the enemy, he could quickly Escape, but the two of them have no combat experience and it will be dangerous then.
"Let's sneak around here from the side and take a look at the cliff on the side of the canyon." Wan Lin looked up at Huwa and made a circle shape with his hand.
Huwa nodded and took off the bamboo tube from his waist. He drank some water and stood up. He pulled Abu and ran down the side of the mountain. Wan Lin lowered his head and gestured with Xiaohua for a while before running down.
The autumn night sky looks unusually high. Stars are shining in the distant sky, shining on and off the rolling hills. A bright moon with a golden color hangs diagonally in the sky. In the distance, there is a faint sound of rapids crashing on the shore. From time to time in the mountains, There were several deep cries of beasts and the shrill cries of nightingales.
Under such good night vision conditions, Wan Lin did not dare to be careless at all. He asked Abu and Huwa to follow him and imitate his movements. He ran a few steps and then disappeared behind trees or rocks in the mountains to carefully observe the surroundings. Then he suddenly got up and ran quickly to the next hiding place. During this period, he saw patrols walking leisurely in the mountains from time to time.
Several people were running and stopping on the mountain ridge. The speed was much better than before. The eyes of the three of them were shining in the dark night. No one dared to be careless. Xiaohua had already run ahead.
When it took a few people more than two hours to get around the mountain in front of them from the mountainside, they hid their bodies and looked behind them. At some point, two small red dots lit up on the top of the dark mountain. They flickered brightly and dimly on the top of the mountain. It was the people on guard who couldn't bear the loneliness of the night and lit up cigarettes. A gust of mountain wind seemed to be mixed with the whispered words of the sentry on the top of the mountain.
Wan Lin turned around and waved to the two people behind him. He bent down and ran quickly up the foothills on the side of the canyon. Several people turned around and quickly lay down behind a boulder and stuck their heads out to look at the cliffs on the side of the canyon.
The mountains on the side of the canyon are extremely steep. The mountains are rugged with strange rocks. There are huge rocks everywhere. There are curved and extending cracks between the rocks. Some trees and weeds are stubbornly getting out of the cracks in the rocks.
An undulating foothill is formed between the foot of the mountain and the adjacent mountains. The foothills are hundreds of meters wide. One foothill extends along the mountain. On the foothills, there are springs with water pillars or high and low mountain springs emerging from the cracks in the rocks. Streams are formed between the stone cracks; vegetation is lush in the surrounding soil
The continuously gushing spring water falls on the surrounding stones and makes a pleasant sound of "ding ding dong dong". The surrounding streams are like silver ribbons extending outward in the night, making people feel like they have entered a dream.
Wan Lin was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him. He didn't expect the night view here to be so beautiful. He shook his head and found that Xiao Hua had run out of the foothills and kept leaping across the shining streams along the steep mountain to the cliff above. Run up
He raised his night vision binoculars and looked around for a while. He saw nothing unusual. Just as he was about to get up and rush towards the foothills in front of him, suddenly there were a few low voices in the distance, and then he saw three black figures standing on the hillside in the distance. rise
Wan Lin pulled Huwa, who was looking out with his head out, from the stone. He also squatted behind the stone, stretched out his hand to hold Huwa, and then stretched his right hand towards the bow string and shook his head gently at him.
Wan Lin understood that the other party had also set up a warning on the hillside behind the cliff. They might have spotted Xiaohua running on the hillside just now, so they stood up to observe what it was.
After a while, the voices in front stopped and Xiao Hua quietly emerged from the side. Wan Lin squatted and made gestures to Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua stood up and kept shaking her two front paws, and her eyes were glowing with blue light. Abu and the two looked at it in amazement. Everyone has an incredible look in their eyes
After a while, Wan Lin straightened up and lay on the boulder, deep in thought. Just now Xiaohua said that he ran around on the hillside behind the cliff and found that there were many caves on the steep hillside in front. When he approached the cave, he saw that there were people standing guard at the entrance of the cave with guns, and he felt the cave through his sense of smell. There were many people inside. Xiaohua alerted the sentries just now during the reconnaissance, so they sent a few people out of the cave to observe what was going on outside.
The corners of Wan Lin's mouth turned up. Such a tight defense further verified the speculation that there were holes in the canyon leading directly to the outside of the mountain. Otherwise, the enemy would not have deployed such a tight defense on the hillside.
Wan Lin stared at the dark cliff opposite and carefully analyzed the unexpected situation. According to Wan Lin and others' original assumptions, the other party was most likely to secretly strengthen their vigilance in the cave that penetrated the mountain, but Ao Kun was not on the hillside behind. Deploying large-scale troops, wouldn't it mean that "there is no silver here, three hundred taels" and directly let outsiders know his secret? Because this secret passage is the secret escape passage for the core figures of the drug trafficking group, and it is their core secret. It is impossible to let more people know it. people know
But the results of Xiaohua's reconnaissance are obviously contrary to their assumptions. There are security personnel hidden in all the caves on the hillside. Isn't Ao Kun worried that his secret will be known?