Secondly, it was really unsafe to take the waterway at this time, but now that the situation was urgent, Zhou Jiping couldn't care less. He had already made up his mind to use more tugboats and reduce the number of people on each boat. Everyone on the boat also wore clothes.
Life jackets, and tie more ropes to adjacent boats to improve safety.
Although the current peak of the flood is strong and the water is strong, as long as you cross the Soyo River and turn to the wide Corinne River, the water flow is not very fast when you go down the current. With the flow of the water, plus
Get on the boat quickly, he should be able to land at dawn, and he can reach Singida before ten o'clock in the morning at the most.
The rainy season is the best season for collecting diamonds in Singida. Due to the combined effects of rainfall and floods, many diamonds are washed out of the streams in the valley, which means huge sums of money. Once these newly collected diamonds fall to the Confederacy
Not only that, there are nearly 300 men, women, and children from the Damon tribe in Singida. Zhou Jiping does not believe that the intruders will spare them.
The field company is worthy of being a sharp knife in Zhou Jiping's hand. As soon as these militant boys heard that there was a battle to be fought, they were ready in less than ten minutes. At the same time, twenty tugboats were divided into five groups and were waiting at Soyo.
There are only three people on each of these boats at the pier, which is less than half of the usual carrying capacity. Unless there is a huge lang, it will be difficult to capsize.
Before leaving, Zhou Jiping and Soyo handed over all matters to Huang Pihu and Elder Jiwayo. Then they took the soldiers of the field company and sailed into the boundless night by boat under the concerned eyes of everyone.
As soon as Zhou Jiping left, Soyo returned to peace. People whose dreams were disturbed by this episode, some went back to sleep, and others returned to their posts and continued to work, as if nothing had ever happened to Soyo.
However, Soyo is destined not to be peaceful tonight
Another four hours later, around 3:30 in the morning, when people sleep most soundly, there was some movement in Soyo under the night sky.
First, there were the places where the foreign prisoners of war were held at the outermost edge of Soyo, then there were the streets in the residential area of Soyo where leaders of various tribes lived together, and then near the command center far south of Soyo, they all emitted some strange sounds almost at the same time.
The noise is just that these noises are very subtle and difficult for ordinary people to detect.
It wasn't until a few minutes later, when dozens of shadowy figures walked out of the prisoner-of-war camp in the dark, that some native dogs raised outside Soyo were finally alarmed and barked. In the blink of an eye, more dogs
They also shouted together to warn people that something abnormal was happening.
Although Zhou Jiping told the story of military dogs, and the local dogs raised by the tribesmen also made some contributions in the defense of Soyo, these can only change the fate of these dogs to a certain extent, making them no longer
Just become food in the eyes of the people
In the eyes of most tribesmen, these thin and small local dogs still have little status. In addition, they have somewhat sensitive to neurotic tempers. They will scream at the slightest disturbance and often make people uneasy. Therefore, under normal circumstances,
These local dogs are kept on the outskirts of Soyo by the Free Army and are used exclusively for defense.
This time, when accidents happened in many places in Soyo at the same time, the first ones to notice and warn were these local dogs not far from the foreign prisoner of war camp. Soon, almost all the dogs in Soyo started barking and barking.
It tore apart the tranquil night sky and called out to the sleeping people. It was only then that the tribesmen, who had been accustomed to living peaceful lives since the end of the war, and even their vigilance dropped, realized that something big had happened.
The Free Army was alerted, and most of the troops began to gather. Some tribesmen on alert were also alerted. They picked up their spears one after another and looked outside. The sentries and officers on duty at night were even more nervous. They looked around one after another, trying to figure out what to do.
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However, what happened next was what really shocked them. The road leading to the residence of the tribal leader was blocked by a group of unidentified armed gunmen. Some tribesmen who tried to get closer to inspect were blocked by these gunmen with guns.
Immediately afterwards, those gunmen actually showed up holding many tribal leaders and their families hostage.
Elder Jiwayo, Huang Pihu, Elder Musoma, Kundala, Mumabe, Nizi, Uda, Anka... Almost all tribal leaders and their families were controlled by these gunmen, and they were also
When the hostages were pushed to the front and saw this scene, even the most confused people knew that something was wrong.
These tribal leaders were divided into groups of three, and each person was put on a small thumb cuff, and each other's arms were intertwined and tied together. Everyone could move by themselves, but because they were handcuffed to others,
At the same time, it is impossible to escape easily
The expressions on the faces of these tribal leaders are very complicated, with anger showing a bit of embarrassment, embarrassment and a bit of embarrassment and helplessness.
Normally, these tribal bosses are worshiped like gods by the tribesmen. How could they ever be so angry like today? Not to mention anyone who dares to offend them. Normally, the tribesmen just don’t care about any big or small things.
Should we rely on these tribal leaders to solve the problem? But today, these unidentified gunmen pointed their guns at these tribal leaders so rudely, and made a few rude scoldings at every turn, which really made them angry.
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But Qi Guiqi, these tribal bosses are also very clear-headed. These gunmen who don't know how to sneak into Soyo are very powerful characters, so they can avoid the layers of checkpoints of the Free Army, and then they can do it without anyone noticing.
Sneaking into Soyo and then grabbing them out of bed is not something that ordinary people can do. The wild boys from the field company can do it, but now that Zhou Jiping is not around, those from the field company are also stationed outside Soyo.
In the military camp, even if they can arrive in time now, there is no way to rescue them from the hands of these gunmen.
Fortunately, these gunmen have been relatively restrained since they started arresting people. So far, they have only knocked out a few people, and they have issued far more verbal threats than the use of force. But this made Elder Jiwayo even more worried.
Are you going to use them as hostages, and what conditions are you asking Zhou Jiping to agree to? And, who are these people? Do they have anything to do with the Northern Army?
Just when these tribal bosses were thinking wildly, negotiator Anderson, who had just arrived in Soyo during the day, appeared in front of people.