The sun sank into the western sky, and there was still a touch of bright red in the sky. The Himalayan Mountains stand tall in the distance, and the ice and snow covering the peaks can be vaguely seen. This is a spectacular picture, solemn and sacred.
Three Ford Raptors drove out of Peshawar toward the Afghan border.
As night fell, the convoy arrived at the border checkpoint. The two Pakistani soldiers signaled the vehicle to pull over for inspection, while Tang Yuyan handed over a document from the car window. After reading the document, the two Pakistani soldiers immediately raised the railing to let them pass. As the three Ford Raptors drove forward, all the Pakistani fighters waved to the vehicles.
This situation made Xia Lei feel that even if there was a box-type nuclear bomb in the car, they would not care. The name Pakistan is not called for nothing. Only Chinese people who have traveled to Pakistan can understand this feeling.
At the border into Afghanistan, Xia Lei spoke up and said: "Why is it that only Pakistan has set up border checkpoints, but not Afghanistan?"
Tang Yuyan said: "If we set up a border checkpoint, who will be responsible for running it? The Saint Ita armed group or the overwhelmed government forces? Except for some important economic channels, the Afghan government forces will not control it. The road we chose is very remote. It is of no value to the Santa Ita armed group or the government forces, and if we were not lucky enough, we would not have encountered them."
"It's better to be careful." Xia Lei said, remembering his father Xia Changhe's warning.
The convoy drove forward for more than ten kilometers, when a dilapidated pickup truck appeared on the roadside among the mountains. It had no license plate and the vehicle logo was missing. It was impossible to tell what brand of vehicle it was.
Standing next to the front of the pickup truck was a middle-aged man wearing a turban. Xia Lei recognized him at a glance. He was Kalam, the guide of the Peshawar Intelligence Station.
Three Ford Raptors parked on the side of the road one after another. Tang Yuyan got out of the car and chatted with Karam for a few words, then got back in the car. Kalam led the way in his pickup truck, and three Ford Raptors followed the pickup truck and continued driving deeper into the mountains.
Afghanistan is known as a country of mountains, and the most common thing here is mountains. The bare, khaki-colored mountains, one after another, fill the field of vision. This is a land abandoned by the gods, and the people living on this land are suffering from war.
"How long does it take for us to reach the tribe you mentioned?" Xia Lei broke the silence in the car. He found that Tang Yuyan seemed a little nervous and less talkative as soon as she entered Afghanistan.
Tang Yuyan said: "If there is no trouble on the road, we will probably approach our destination around this time tomorrow. Don't be nervous, this route is very safe."
Xia Lei smiled, "I'm not nervous, but I think you are a little nervous, so I'm talking to you."
Tang Yuyan rolled her eyes at Xia Lei, "Am I nervous? Why don't I feel it? Don't be joking, I'm not nervous at all."
Xia Lei chuckled. He discovered that Tang Yuyan was actually a woman who loved face.
But at this moment, a ray of fire suddenly flew from the hillside on the left. In the night sky, this line of fire is very obvious. Xia Lei and Tang Yuyan's eyes moved away almost at the same time. Before Xia Lei could react, Tang Yuyan shouted, "Rockets! Get out of the way!"
Tang Yuyan's experience is indeed much stronger than Xia Lei's.
However, her warning was not as fast as the rocket. As soon as she finished speaking, the rocket hit the pickup truck driven by Kalam at the front. Boom! With a loud noise, the pickup truck weighing two tons was lifted into the sky, pouring flames and thick smoke and crashing into the vehicle where Tang Yuyan and Xia Lei were riding.
Tang Yuyan turned the steering wheel hard to avoid the car wreckage falling from the sky.
boom! The pickup truck driven by Kalam crashed on the mountain road and exploded immediately. Flames shot into the sky, and fragments of the vehicle flew everywhere like fragments of artillery shells. Although a Ford Raptor behind the car stopped in time, the windshield was directly shattered by debris, and the hood of the car was also blown off!
Another ray of fire flashed from the hillside.
This time, before it could fly closer, Xia Lei and Tang Yuyan pushed open the car door and jumped out.
Boom! The second rocket hit a rock in front. Half of the huge rock was blown off, and the remaining part rolled down to the middle of the mountain road. The unmanned Ax Raptor crashed into the rock and came to a stop.
"Fight!" Tang Yuyan roared and ran quickly to the bottom of a cliff, firing blindly at the hillside.
The agents in the two cars behind also quickly got out of the car, found a nearby bunker, and hid. Some fired blindly, while others used night vision equipment to search for targets and prepared to kill them with sniper rifles.
Xia Lei also hid behind a rock. His head was buzzing and his hands were trembling slightly. There were constant gunshots and explosions around him, as well as bullets flying overhead, but his mind was blank and he couldn't think. This is the battlefield, every bullet is ruthless, and every second is difficult!
Although he had the experience of using a sniper rifle to duel with three killers, it was not a battlefield at all, and it was not even a close battle, because the opponent could not get close to his sniper range of 3,200 meters. Once he gets close, he can kill the opponent with one bullet! But this time is completely different. This is a real battlefield, and you can tell just from the sound of the opponent's gunshots that there are definitely no less than twenty people. Twenty guns, and rockets, this is definitely a hail of bullets!
Tang Yuyan noticed Xia Lei's abnormal condition. She bit her lower lip, held the rifle in her hand, and rushed to Xia Lei's side.
Xia Lei looked at her blankly, showing no reaction.
"What's wrong with you?" Tang Yuyan grabbed Xia Lei's shoulders and shook her hard, "Cheer up!"
Boom! Another rocket exploded, and an agent's legs were blown off alive. The fragments of rock pierced into his body, and blood spurted out like a fountain. Such an injury cannot be saved even if you go to the operating table immediately, let alone in this barren mountain.
But it was this explosion that woke up Xia Lei. He shook his head vigorously, trying to dispel the fear in his heart and the discomfort of going to the battlefield for the first time.
"Can you still shoot? If not, let me do it!" Tang Yuyan shouted from Xia Lei.
"I can!" Xia Lei adjusted his posture behind the rock, and then poked out the sniper rifle from the surface of the rock. His body clung to the inside of the rock and he slowly poked his head upward. However, he did not fully explore the rock. Instead, he awakened the ability of his left eye to penetrate the top of the rock and search for the rocket launcher operator.
The bazooka operator is the biggest threat and must be killed.
The sight of the left eye quietly penetrated the uppermost part of the rock, and the situation on the opposite hillside was unobstructed. No less than thirty armed men were quickly advancing towards the mountain road. Wearing camouflage combat uniforms, protective gear and tactical helmets, they were extremely well-equipped. The front row of these armed personnel provided fire cover, and the rear row used the terrain to advance quickly, and then switched positions to provide fire cover and advance. Their combat literacy was simply not comparable to that of Saint Ita's armed personnel, nor could it be matched by the Afghan National Defense Forces. Comparable!
As soon as Xia Lei searched, he quickly discovered the armed man carrying an RPG rocket launcher. He was using the fire cover of his teammates to quietly lean forward and aim the infrared beam emitted from the sight at a rock. There were two Chinese agents hiding behind the rock. They were suppressed by the opponent's powerful firepower and were unable to raise their heads.
In Xia Lei's left eye, he could even see the sneer on the corner of the soldier's mouth carrying the RPG launcher.
"You guy, where has your courage gone? Give me the sniper rifle!" Tang Yuyan got angry.
Xia Lei blocked her view with his back, and then pulled the trigger. The modified sniper rifle made a muffled sound, and a bullet whizzed out, hitting the armed man carrying the RPG rocket launcher between the eyebrows. Half of the armed man's head was blown off, and rockets fired from the rocket launcher also flew into the sky because of his death.
By the time Tang Yuyan adjusted her sight, Xia Lei had already completed the sniping kill, but she didn't see any of the sniping process.
This was also the reason why Xia Lei blocked her sight with his back. He didn't want Tang Yuyan to notice that his head was still hiding under the rock when he sniped the RPG operator.
"I have killed the rocket launcher operator." Xia Lei said. At this moment, he has entered the state and gradually adapted to the atmosphere of the battlefield.
"You... how did you do that?" Tang Yuyan looked at Xia Lei in surprise, with unbelievable eyes, because it was too fast. If it were her, she would still be looking for the rocket launcher operator, and then she would also be looking for a suitable one. There was a chance to snipe, but Xia Lei killed the target in less than three seconds!
At this moment, a bullet suddenly hit the rock where the two men were hiding. The huge impact made the rock tremble, and the fragments of the rock that were blown away flew past the two people's heads.
That's the opponent's sniper.
"Cover me. The terrain here is too low. I need to find a high sniper point." Xia Lei said.
Tang Yuyan nodded, and then gave an order to the communicator, "Everyone, suppress fire!" After saying that, she stuck out the rifle in her hand from the side of the rock, and fired indiscriminately in the direction of the hillside.
Ta da da, da da da...
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang…
All the guns were firing, and the bullets drew shining trails in the night sky.
Xia Lei took advantage of the moment when the opponent's position was disrupted, and suddenly rushed out from behind the rock, and then ran and sprinted up the hillside on the other side. He didn't just run straight with his head down, but changed direction every few steps to prevent the opponent's sniper from having a chance to target him.
The hillside arrived in the blink of an eye, and a three-meter-high rock blocked the way. Xia Lei showed no sign of stopping while he was running. He kicked his feet on the ground, and his body immediately rose up from the ground, leaping to the top of the rock in a whoosh. Just as he jumped onto the rock, a bullet from a sniper rifle hit the rock under his feet, sending up a cloud of sparks and rock fragments.
The opponent's sniper obviously judged that he would climb the rock and fired, but he didn't expect that he jumped directly over the rock!
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