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    Update time: 2008-08-04

    "In the past few years of fighting the Taliban, we have never launched an offensive in winter."

    ¡°This is what a logistics officer from the Afghan Anti-Taliban Alliance said when I was sitting in the steaming desert a few days ago, admiring the wonderful scenery of snow falling in the distant mountains through a telescope.  I didn't care at the time, but now I finally understand what he meant.

    Knocking off the frozen ice on the soles of my feet, the snow that was originally as thin as a pancake gradually covered my feet, and I looked up at the snow-capped mountaintops above the tree line.  The werewolves walking in front were already stuck in ankle-deep snow, and the snow seemed to get deeper as they went up.  This reminds me of a briefing on the geography and meteorology of Afghanistan provided by the US military when I first arrived here. There was a paragraph about the mountainous areas that left a deep impression on me at the time.

    It is mentioned above that Afghanistan is located in the southwest of the Pamir Plateau, and the natural environment is very harsh.  85% of the entire territory is either rugged rocks or treacherous valleys. The altitude of most areas is between 5,000 and 6,500 meters. The north and south sides of the rolling Hindu Kush Mountains are dry desert or short grass.  The grassland has complex terrain.  According to experienced local soldiers, when carrying out combat transportation and supplies in the mountains of Afghanistan, 10 tanks are not as good as one donkey.

    As mentioned in the climate section, Afghanistan¡¯s climate is a continental climate, which is characterized by a huge difference in temperature between winter and summer, and a large temperature difference between day and night.  Most parts of the country experience hot and dry summers and severe cold and snowy winters.  The highest temperature in summer can reach about 40 degrees Celsius, and in winter the temperature can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius, which is comparable to the temperature in Siberia that can freeze steel.  Usually, winter enters at the end of November in central and northern Afghanistan, and sometimes winter comes even earlier.  During the winter from mid-to-late November to April of the following year, heavy snow will block all major roads, and the snow can be up to 3 meters thick.

    Although the weather is not so bad now, the biting cold wind has easily penetrated the not-so-thick military uniform and taken away the body temperature wrapped in the cloth.  After three hours of consumption, I even felt that the metal gun barrel in my hand was warmer than my own hands.

    "Plop!" The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground sounded. I turned around and saw Tang Tang being picked up by his teammates behind him.  Judging from her dizziness, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, purple lips but flushed face, she must have suffered from altitude sickness.

    "Don't help her! She needs to adapt on her own." I pushed away the men: "Do you have a headache? If it's just dizziness and fatigue, it's normal." I took out the anti-altitude sickness energy solution from her life-saving medicine bag  He handed it to her: "Talk less, walk slowly, drink more water, swallow slowly" After saying that, he looked at the other male soldiers and pointed to the shoulder straps of their backpacks: "Loose it, that thing will compress it."  The blood vessels in the shoulder affect the oxygen supply to the limbs. It may not matter on level ground, but at this height it will kill you."

    "Thank you!" Tang Tang felt much better after drinking this plateau-specific energy liquid specially provided by the United States.  When the female reporter Jieli arrived, everything was normal except for being a little tired and scared.

    "You are in good health! You climbed 1,700 meters in three hours without any adverse reactions! That's amazing!" I looked at the shivering woman and smiled: "Do you climb mountains often?"

    "My family has a hut in the Alps. My father and I often have picnics at an altitude of 3 or 4 kilometers above sea level. This level is not a problem for me." Jieli is indeed a child of a wealthy family. She has no excuse for being in good health.  There are mediocre routines like coaching every day.

    "When did your dad become so rich?" The werewolf saw us slowing down, so he turned back to check, and happened to hear Jie Li's words.  So while helping the soldiers pack their bags, he asked casually: "Could it be that he took some of the victims' possessions that were lost in transportation after the Rwanda genocide?"

    "Fart! You're stealing something from a dead person!" Jerry went crazy when she heard the werewolf's words. She seemed to have a good relationship with her father, but I didn't expect to hear the next words: "Even if you eat to death,  There are 'ghouls' who make human flesh, and they probably steal things from dead people, so don't compare what you've done with a noble person like my father. Otherwise, you're just bringing shame on yourself!"

    "Hi! Girl! I know your dad and have a good relationship with you, but that doesn't mean I allow you to insult my teammates. The nickname Ghoul is not nice, but my brother's character is definitely first-class" The first half of the werewolf's words  It made me feel good: "Although this guy often eats dead human flesh, I have never seen him eat anything from the dead."

    "Holy shit! I knew you son of a bitch couldn't spit out ivory from your mouth!?" I was checking the GPS coordinates when I heard the second half of his overtly and covertly embarrassing words. I was so angry that I almost held the life-saving electronics in my hand.  The equipment was smashed.

    "Youyouwhy aren't you worried?" A trembling voice came from behind. I looked back for a long time before I saw a soldier lowering his head and covering his face, muttering softly? After looking carefully, I realized it was the guy who beat the prisoners at the checkpoint and knocked off the butt of his gun.  It was dark at night and I couldn't see who was coming, but now I realized it was him.

    "Afraid, the bullets won't hit you?" After the werewolf arranged the equipment of the female soldier, he patted the guy on the shoulder.

    "Hey! Follow up behind. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, don't fall behind! I won't care about burying you if you freeze to death." The assassin was the vanguard walking at the front and had already climbed the hillside in front of him.

    "Follow our footsteps and don't go astray! There are many landmines in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan. The former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan for 10 years and buried 35 million landmines in Afghanistan, which has a population of only more than 20 million. Based on the population of Afghanistan, one  There are as many mines as there are people. There are still more than 10 million landmines buried here, and 80 Afghans are bombed every day. You don¡¯t want this opportunity to happen to you, right?" I said as I walked, and the people behind me were originally snaking.  After hearing what I said, the American soldiers immediately came over like followers, following my footsteps and not daring to cross the line.

    The water ghost heard my words on the radio and said: "I heard that at today's speed, it will take 4,300 years to clear all the landmines in Afghanistan! If 80 people are bombed every day, how many people can be killed in 4,300 years?"  ? Haven¡¯t all the Afghans been killed by the bombs?¡±

    "What the hell, I'm not a rich man." When I heard the water ghost picking on my poor language, I didn't bother to explain to him what probability was.

    The Hindu Kush Mountains, which run through the entire territory of Afghanistan, are basically rocky mountains here, with very little vegetation.  In summer, it looks gray from a distance, but now that it's snowing, everything has become an ice rink that's not slippery.  If you are not careful, you may fall off the cliff.

    According to the instructions on the map, we walked until noon before approaching the coordinates given to us by the Fuxiao base yesterday.  We no longer dare to entertain the thought of rescuing people. As long as we can get a radio station to call a plane to transport us back, we would be grateful.  When we lay on the top of the mountain and saw the charred rock and the several-meter-wide crater surrounding the downed Black Hawk helicopter in the distance, even the usually optimistic werewolf frowned.

    "Awesome! The whole army has been wiped out and the mission is over." The water ghost squinted his eyes and looked down. The reflection of the snow made it difficult for the eyes to distinguish the layers.  It is still cloudy, and when the sky clears up, the reflection from the snow surface can easily hurt people's eyes without eye protection.

    "No! Look at the footprints that are not covered by the snow. They have obviously escaped from here. What do you mean? Didn't you see it?" Tangtang and several American soldiers around him listened.  The ghost immediately became displeased with what he said. He pointed at a line of distant footprints next to the plane and started shouting.

    The assassin rolled his eyes at the American soldiers shouting red-faced and rough-necked, not even intending to scold them.  But that expression has told these guys that you are all idiots!

    "Stop talking nonsense! Do you have any right to interrupt what the commander is saying?" I tightened the snow camouflage around my body and knocked the helmet of a soldier next to me with my hand.

    "You are not our commanders at all. If you were our commanders, you would not leave our compatriots in trouble to die without saving them. You are just mercenaries who are only interested in profit and forget their loyalty. You are war hooligans!" Female soldier Tangtang  Despite her petite stature, she is quite courageous.  This sentence not only stunned the werewolf and us, but even the teammates around her were frightened by her explicit accusation. They lowered their heads in embarrassment and did not dare to look at us or her.

    The scene suddenly became cold. Everyone seemed to be frozen by the biting wind and snow, and no one said a word as they looked at each other.  Silence has become the best way for everyone to deal with the current situation.

    "Is this the common sentiment of all of you?" After a while, the werewolf raised the telescope and looked into the distance again, observing the enemy's situation and saying it calmly.

    A few days ago, the story that I killed an entire team of people because of a disagreement had already spread in the military. Several American soldiers and female reporters did not dare not reply, for fear that one wrong word would lead to death.

    "How long have you been training before you were sent here?" I held down the water ghost who was about to attack and took over the werewolf's words.

    "Three months."

    "Three months? You only participated in basic training, shooting training and basic skills training before letting you enter actual combat?"

    Her answer surprised me: "Has your service support brigade conducted mountain combat training?"

    "Yeah! I mentioned it before!" Tangtang thought about it awkwardly, and finally admitted without success: "But not much."

    "Oh! Then when you saw those footprints, you only thought that they were still alive, but have you ever thought about why these people ran down the mountain instead of coming to our current position? You must know that that direction goes deep into the depths of the enemy, and you will be trapped in many dangers.  Surrounded." I asked, pointing to the emergency landing point halfway up the mountain not far from us.

    "Perhaps it's because when they landed, there was enemy firepower at this location and they couldn't come over."

    ¡°???Okay!  But how could the enemy at this position pass through the rock mass and blast a crater behind the obstacle that was out of sight?  "I asked her, pointing to the huge rock that was half blown off protruding from the hillside one step closer to us.

    "Maybe it's a grenade!" A soldier on the side interrupted, and after saying this, his companion slapped him from behind.  Only a white-eyed guy like him would think such a big hole was caused by a grenade.

    "That means that our position is just under the cover of enemy artillery fire. If they run here, they will suffer heavy damage." Jieli?  Miles was smart enough to understand what I meant first.  Pointing to the peak across the mountain from the opposite side, he said: "Our current position is exactly at the sharp point of the bend of the canyon. There are three mountains running in parallel, two high and one low. There are artillery on the opposite mountain. If you want to escape, you can only run down."  The short peak in the middle blocks the enemy's view. So"

    "So, when we go out now, we will be exposed to the enemy's gunfire!" Other soldiers also realized that it turned out that we were standing under the enemy's gunfire and talking.  The two tall soldiers, who had been standing upright, immediately hunched over unconsciously.

    "No one will drag artillery to chase an escapee!" The assassin added at this time, and then pointed to the snow-white hillside in the far distance opposite and said: "Judging from the pursuit trajectory of the shells, they should be on our 1st  O'clock direction. About twenty degrees upward."

    "How did you calculate it?" Jie Li sneaked up to me, holding a small recording pen in her hand.

    "Based on the final impact point and the middle barrier as the reference point, the shooting position should be on the extension line of the two points. From the inclination of the crater, etc., we can see the angle at which the shell entered." I patted my head.  Helmet on the helmet: "If the ballistic calculation system in my helmet can still be used, it can triangulate based on several bullet impacts and get a very precise enemy position, but now visual inspection can only give a rough estimate."

    "I can't see the artillery position. There are too many caves, and they must be hiding in them." The werewolf and the assassin returned to everyone after observing with binoculars for a long time: "But they saw a large area of ??GSR (gunpowder residue), which is very new  ! It only appeared after the new snow started, and it has not been completely covered up yet."

    "It looks like someone crossed their line of fire in broad daylight. Maybe it was those British guys!" I sat behind the huge rock mass next to me and re-tightened the camouflage strip on the barrel.

    "Maybe! I hope they are not far away, I will try to call them." The assassin walked far away to contact the British.

    "We can't stand here anymore, they are too conspicuous! They can recognize us ten kilometers away." I pointed at the soldiers and reporters without snow camouflage clothes. The khaki desert uniforms were conspicuous in the snowy world.  pole.

    "Go and hide in that cave!" The werewolf pointed to a natural cave not far away. We didn't see many such caves along the way, and many of them were dug or opened manually.  But they have all been abandoned, presumably to deal with the Soviets.

    "Okay!" I took the soldiers and the water ghosts and hid in the cave.  The dry weather has evaporated all the water in the cave. Except for a few burnt black stools at the bottom of the cave, which prove that someone has passed by here to "take a souvenir", there is no other sign that this cave is a Tibetan Soldier Cave.

    "How do you feel?" The water ghost came to Jerry and handed her a high-energy chocolate bar. This thing was terrible to eat, but it could replenish the body's much-needed calories in the cold.

    "It's okay! It just feels a bit like a dream." Jerry took the chocolate and took a bite. She didn't expect to come here with us, nor did she expect to be blown over by a tank. She had nothing left except her camera.  , the clothes she wore were lent to her by an American soldier.

    "Stomp your feet! Feel the reaction from the ground against you, it will give you a real feeling." The water ghost squatted on the ground with his specially made 7.62mm mini machine gun and looked at the snow outside: "I really don't understand.  You people have nothing to do, why are you running to a place like this? If you don¡¯t care even if you die, isn¡¯t that a bit mean!¡±

    "The bounden duty of journalists is to report the truth of war in a timely, objective and fair manner, so that people can feel the cruelty of war and have a deeper understanding of the preciousness of peace. I am willing to give my life for this!" Jie Li was completely at this time  Without the pampering of the wealthy eldest daughter and the weakness of a woman, there is an awe-inspiring righteousness that makes people unable to face it.

    "Do you feel that everything you see can be seen in writing?" Seeing her idealistic look, I couldn't help but want to cool him down: "Think about those confiscated photos of you and the face of the coalition press officer.  .¡±

    "I have freedom of speech!" Jieli still firmly believes in this after so much: "This is the right given to us by the Constitution."

    "Really?" The assassin walked into the cave with a radio: "I helped several governments deal with some public opinion monitors who expressed too freely. In the end, the cause of his death was?When other colleagues¡¯ writings came out, it became an ¡®accident¡¯.  hey-hey!  "

    "You" Jie Li stared at the assassin with wide eyes: "Are you really an assassin?"

    "Are our nicknames just for fun?" The assassin raised his head from the map in his hand and looked at the woman in front of him.

    "What about him? Could it be" At this time, everyone's eyes focused on me again.

    "Hehe! Hehe!" The assassin just smiled and said nothing, but the meaning couldn't be more obvious.

    ¡°I¡¯m going to vomit!¡± The two women, Tang Tang and Jie Li, covered their mouths and ran towards the depths of the cave.

    "Is it fun?" I saw the smug assassin succeeding in his prank and scolded him coldly.  Too many people have used this matter to make fun of others, and I can no longer arouse any anger.

    "Haha! We couldn't contact the British. The strange thing is! We actually contacted a group of Canadians. They and the 187th Brigade were engaging in firefights with the enemy in the mountains 100 kilometers away. After receiving our distress signal, they even asked us to support them.  . Ha! Silly x!" The assassin marked the obtained coordinates on the GPS, and then used infrared rays to transmit the data to my machine: "It seems that the entire mountainous area is full of enemies. Through the Canadian radio, we have been informed  The news of the attack was reported back, but the reply from the base to us was very explosive."

    "What is it?" The water ghost stood up and looked at the assassin with a wry smile.

    "I heard that there was an incident in Chalajang Prison where Kunduz and Talukan prisoners of war were held. The prisoners captured the fortifications of the arsenal and occupied the prison, captured several CIA agents, and were fighting fiercely with the coalition forces. All the original  The air force that was scheduled to come to help has all been transferred back to suppress the attack." At this point, the assassin looked around at the less than ten teammates in the cave and smiled bitterly: "In addition, the defenders of Kunduz raised the white flag!"

    ¡°What does this have to do with us??!¡±

    "But in order to weaken the enemy's strength, the coalition forces deliberately let go of several groups of Taliban militants who were mixed in the fleeing team. It is said that more than 3,000 of those guys are retreating here. They are probably going into the mountains" the assassin finished.  He said with a worried look on his face: "Our way back is cut off, we can only advance but not retreat!"

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