"Did you see that?" A man dressed as a herdsman held a telescope and pointed to the distance down the mountain and said, "That's their airport."
Behind him were seven or eight people, all dressed as local herdsmen or farmers. The herdsmen were Kazakhs, and the farmers were Uighurs or Hans. Each of them had a machete hanging on their waist, and some even carried rifles. Behind the speaking herdsman
, stood Wu Yanbin.
Wu Yanbin took the telescope and looked far down the mountain from among the trees.
The slopes of the Tianshan Mountains slowly extend until a few kilometers away, the terrain is basically flat. The woods are gone and replaced by a grassland with a little sparkling water bubbles.
Dihua Airport is right there. This airport was built when the First Division of the People's Guard first arrived. Even the watchtowers and machine gun bunkers around the airport were also built by the Ming army at that time. However, they are now all inserted
The red flag of the Soviet Army was displayed, and it was filled with Soviet aircraft.
Shishi Gege was dressed as a Kazakh shepherd girl and wore a veil. She took the telescope, looked down for a while, shook her head and said:
"No, it's too tight. Alas, we built those watchtowers. If I had known, we wouldn't have built so many. Let's go."
She waved her hand, and Wu Yanbin and several locals followed her and disappeared into the dense forest.
The group of people walked in the forest for an hour or so and came to a mountain depression. There were several log shacks built here, and a dozen or so people were making fires to cook, some were mending, and some were cleaning guns and sharpening knives.
In addition to the dozen or so people outside, there are also a dozen or so people in several shacks. Together with the seven or eight people who have just returned, there are a total of about forty people here.
This is a local resistance force, which can be said to be a guerrilla force.
Three days ago, Xiang Xiaoqiang, Shi Shigege and Wu Yanbin used their identities as "actors" to sneak out. Wu Yanbin stole a donkey and asked Xiang Xiaoqiang to sit on it. The three of them ran out of Dihua City and stayed at a herdsman's house.
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This family of herdsmen had just had their livestock confiscated by the Soviets and could no longer survive. Moreover, this family of herdsmen were two brothers, both bachelors and had no worries. They were packing their things and preparing to go to the Tianshan Mountains to join the guerrillas. Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others
He was overjoyed and quickly said that they were also looking for guerrillas.
Although the two herdsmen are Kazakhs, the Han people are the main ethnic group in northern Xinjiang and Dihua, and the ethnic minorities generally speak Chinese. Without saying anything, the herdsmen brothers immediately patted their chests and were willing to take them to find the guerrillas.
In fact, most of these teams who were forced to resist were locals, and they knew each other well with the local farmers and herdsmen. They often relied on the herdsmen to pass news, deliver food, etc. They were all familiar with each other. Sure enough, the next day,
Early in the morning, two herdsmen packed up their beds, took pots and knives, and took Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others up the mountain. It didn't take much trouble, and they only climbed the mountain for half a day before they found the guerrilla camp.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was lucky to have a donkey to sit on, otherwise he would have died due to his injuries that were not fully healed.
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In a shack, Xiang Xiaoqiang lay on a sheepskin and looked at the old imam who was mending clothes. What was surprising at first was that this old imam was also in the guerrillas and seemed to have become a spiritual leader. The old man was dressed in white.
He is wearing a robe, wearing a turban, and a long beard. He is thin, kind-hearted, and has kind and powerful eyes...
Ah! How like Bin Laden!
During these three days, every morning, morning, noon, afternoon, and dusk, the old imam would chant sutras and pray for all the team members. These guerrillas would also kneel down and pray in the direction of the holy city of Mecca. No matter where they were at that time
What are you doing, how busy you are, five times a day, unstoppable.
All this was eye-opening for Wu Yanbin and Shi Shigege, but it also gave Xiang Xiaoqiang a very familiar feeling.
How like the Taliban guerrillas!
Thanks to the old imam, Xiang Xiaoqiang and the other three became honored guests in the guerrillas. The old imam knew the identities of him and Shi Shigege. Now, they have become the spiritual sustenance of the guerrillas. Guerrilla
The team knows Xiang Xiaoqiang
He is the leader of a powerful army, and this army also has a bloody feud with the Soviet army. It wants to drive the Soviet army out of their hometown. More importantly, this army also has tanks like the Soviet army.
There are planes and cannons.
For the past two or three days, everyone gathered around the fire every night and listened to Xiang Xiaoqiang and the other three people talking about the outside world. Xiang Xiaoqiang made the Ming Dynasty extremely powerful, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union was overthrown.
However, Shi Shigege said it from another angle. She described Xiang Xiaoqiang as the unshakable general of the Ming Empire, and in the entire Ming Empire, only Xiang Xiaoqiang strongly advocated fighting the Soviet army to the end and regaining the northern border. Other DPRK officials
The ministers are all cowards. As long as Xiang Xiaoqiang does not go back, they will sue for peace with the Soviet Union and leave northern Xinjiang to the Soviet Union for eternal rule. And as long as Xiang Xiaoqiang can go back, the Ming Dynasty can mobilize the whole country to fight the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union
It won't last long.
In this way, the remediation guerrillas also hope that Xiang Xiaoqiang's injury will recover soon, and then find a way to help him escape back.
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Now, Shi Shigege and the others have returned from their investigation. The situation is not optimistic. The airport at the foot of the mountain is closely watched by the Soviet army, and it seems that they cannot get in. They can only go and have a look at night. However, there must be little hope at night.
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However, if you want to escape to the area controlled by the Ming army, what else can you do if you don't need an airplane?
Fourteenth Gege was also sitting in the shack, sitting next to Xiang Xiaoqiang's bunk, drawing on the ground with branches, and saying:
"The Soviets didn't add any facilities, basically the ones we built originally. However, what we originally built was to prevent sneak attacks, so it can be said to be airtight. Look, all the twin-engine bombers parked here are about
There is a squadron with more than a dozen aircraft. No fighter planes were seen. This shows that the Soviets have regarded Dihua as the rear area. At least it is semi-rear area."
He nodded to Xiaoqiang and sighed:
"Twin-engine bombers have a combat radius of at least six to seven hundred kilometers, and the airports are usually placed at the rear. Fighters have short range, and the airports are usually closer to the front line. We haven't seen any shelling or bombing in recent days, right?
?Guess where the battle line is now?"
Fourteen Gege continued to draw on the ground with branches, and said in deep thought:
"It's hard to say. There is no radio or radio. However, judging from the location of the bomber airport, the battle line may be in the Hami area, or further east... It can even be said that where the Soviet army advances eastward depends entirely on
The extent of Stalin's appetite does not depend on the strength of our army's resistance. Now is the early stage of the war. We have rushed to respond, and we have no plans to fight.
With such a large transportation capacity, it is estimated that the troops fighting the Soviet army these days can only make a drop in the bucket. We do not have so many cars to transport troops and supplies, and we do not have flatbed trucks to transport tanks over long distances. As for the Soviet tanks, we see
The ones that arrived were mainly bt-7s. Those fast tanks are obviously more suitable for long-distance attacks than our tanks. Their mobility is too good."
"There are also numbers," Xiang Xiaoqiang sighed. "Whether it is planes or tanks, we are not as good as them in terms of numbers."
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At this moment, someone shouted outside. Wu Yanbin got into the shack and called to Xiaoqiang and Shi Shigege to come out and take a look.
The two of them were confused, but Xiang Xiaoqiang also wanted to go out for some air. He let Wu Yanbin support him and slowly walked out of the shack.
Several people were standing on high places, pointing in the distance, and saying something loudly. They all spoke the local ethnic language, and Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't understand it. He let Wu Yanbin support him, struggled to climb the col, and stood there.
A high point on a hillside, looking to the north.
In the distant sky, an earthy yellow line appeared. It gradually became thicker and thicker, and soon turned into a yellow curtain connecting the sky above and the earth below.
"What is that?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang asked, squinting his eyes.
Shi Shigege's expression slowly changed. She said softly:
"Sir, have you forgotten what you encountered in Zhangye and Jiuquan?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang said "Ah" and immediately said:
"Sandstorm!"
Then, something flashed in his mind, and he said with great genius:
"The sandstorm can protect us from sneaking into the airport! When it gets dark and the sky is dark again! No matter what searchlights, machine gun fortresses, watchtowers, or dogs... they won't work at all.