The government forces and the Taliban frequently fought in this area. The battle situation was seesaw, and this area was also repeatedly attacked by the flames of war.
Therefore, this small town was almost riddled with holes and almost turned into a ruin. The residents of the town had all fled. In the early morning, the town was dead silent. Occasionally, the sound of gunfire from the distance would break the silence.
Xia Ruofei drove the car into the town and found an abandoned building far away from the main road.
This building had five floors. The outer wall was almost gone, and the other side was half collapsed. Xia Ruofei directly drove the car into the building, then jumped out of the car and casually found some bombed building debris to cover the outer wall.
In fact, the important things in the car were put into the Ring-Tu space. But in this war-torn country, a means of transportation was still very important, so Xia Ruofei still made some appropriate camouflage.
He wouldn't stay here for a long time, so he was too lazy to put the car into the space. After all, it was a big guy that weighed several tons. Every time he put it away, it would consume a lot of spiritual power.
After Xia Ruofei hid the car, he began to climb up the building. He moved dexterously in the pile of bricks. Many parts of the building's stairs had collapsed. Xia Ruofei was like an agile monkey climbing up quickly. In a short time, he reached the roof.
This was the tallest building in the whole town that hadn't collapsed yet. Xia Ruofei naturally chose this place to set up the radio antenna.
Xia Ruofei came to the rooftop. First, he used his spiritual power to check around. He didn't find any suspicious people nearby.
In fact, the residents of this small town either ran away or died. As long as there was no military activity nearby, this was basically a ghost town. No one would appear at all.
After Xia Ruofei confirmed that it was safe, he immediately moved his mind and took out the whole set of radio equipment from the space.
A pile of military green boxes appeared out of thin air on the rooftop.
Xia Ruofei quickly opened these boxes and began to assemble the equipment.
In fact, the main body of the radio station had already been assembled. He only needed to connect the lead-acid battery and some other small parts. After ten minutes, Xia Ruofei had already completed the assembly of the radio station.
Then he began to install the antenna.
The antenna was packed in a long canvas bag. After Xia Ruofei took it out, he first unfolded the antenna part, then pulled out the telescopic rod section by section, fixing the antenna on the rooftop.
Finally, Xia Ruofei connected the antenna to the radio station, and the assembly was complete.
When Xia Ruofei was in the army, he had also received training in reporting. However, he was not as proficient as a professional reporter. Furthermore, it had been a few years since he last received training, so he was a little rusty.
After turning on the power, he practiced first to familiarize himself with the keys.
To be honest, this type of radio had already been phased out by the armies of many countries. However, the reason for the phased out wasn't because of the poor confidentiality, but because of the more advanced digital encryption communication methods.
In fact, on the contrary, the possibility of this kind of frequency-hopping radio station being deciphered with a high-level codebook was extremely low.
It was probably because of this that Manzila chose to use this old radio station as an emergency communication channel with the Maud Mercenary Corps.
After Xia Ruofei familiarized himself with it for a while, he was ready to officially send out the report.
He had already translated the content he was going to send through the codebook and generated today's "anti-counterfeiting string code".
Xia Ruofei held a piece of paper full of numbers and skillfully pressed the key. A slight beeping sound began to ring on the rooftop.
The content he sent over was very short. He quickly reported the exact location of your department. Satan. Finally, there was a set of string codes. There wasn't much content in total.
Every time Xia Ruofei finished sending, he would pause for half a minute before sending it again. He repeated it a total of three times before ending the report.
Then, Xia Ruofei sat down on the rooftop, wearing his headphones and waiting for a reply. At the same time, he didn't forget to use his spiritual energy to alert his surroundings.
After about ten minutes, the indicator light on the radio flickered. Xia Ruofei sat up straight, picked up a pen and paper, and began to record.
The radio waves from the Maud Mercenary Corps were also sent three times. After Xia Ruofei recorded it the first time, he checked it from beginning to end the second time. After confirming that there were no errors, he didn't listen to it a third time.
He took out the laptop from the space, opened the codebook document, and began to decipher the message against the codebook.
After a while, the contents of the message appeared in front of Xia Ruofei.
"The current troops are camping in the woods eight kilometers south of Lucado Town in the Poeta region. They will move east tomorrow morning and cooperate with the main force to attack the area controlled by the government forces."
The signature was "Boulder".
A smile appeared on Xia Ruofei's face.
It was easy to have a clear location. Moreover, the message said that the troops were resting today and would attack east tomorrow morning.
Xia Ruofei had been in the army for more than five years. He knew very well that when there was a major mission on the second day, the training on the first day would usually be reduced so that the soldiers could conserve their energy. At night, they would definitely not toss around any more emergency gatherings.
Xia Ruofei didn't know if these mercenary groups would have an emergency gathering at night, but the way they led their troops was similar. Even if there was no emergency gathering, there would usually be some unexpected situations to train the soldiers' emergency response ability.
There was a combat mission tomorrow, so under normal circumstances, they wouldn't mess around with this tonight.
A relatively calm night was naturally a good time for Xia Ruofei to act.
Xia Ruofei took out the GPS and found the location of Lucado Town on it. Then, he went south and found the forest.
He didn't have a military map in his hand, and the map displayed on the GPS didn't have contour lines, so he couldn't see the terrain clearly. However, the forest was not very large. A team of more than a hundred people was stationed there, so it wasn't particularly difficult to find.
Xia Ruofei decided to investigate when he was near the forest.
So he first began to plan the route of action. It was about thirty kilometers from here to Lucado Town. There were two roads that could lead there. One of the roads was occupied by several villages along the way. The government sent fighter jets to bomb the area, so the road conditions were expected to be very bad.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei didn't hesitate and decided to take the other road, although it was a little longer.
In fact, it wasn't too far. The distance was about forty kilometers. Most of the areas along the way were controlled by the government.
Relatively speaking, the government was relatively friendly to international reporters.
Of course, the government wouldn't attack reporters for no reason. It was just that sometimes they didn't welcome reporters and their attitude was relatively rough.
Therefore, it was naturally better to have less contact with the government.
After planning the route, Xia Ruofei first put the laptop into the dimension, then got up and began to dismantle the radio.
After a while, he put away the antenna, dismantled the radio into several large parts, put them into a box, and put them into the dimension.
After packing up, Xia Ruofei got up and went downstairs. Soon, he came to the place where the car was hidden on the first floor.
He decided to wait until the sky darkened before starting the operation.
Forty to fifty kilometers, even if the road conditions were bad, he could definitely get there in two hours.
The second half of the night was the time when people slept the most, and the sentinels' reaction would be relatively slow. That was the best time to act.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei wasn't in a hurry to set off. This place was well hidden, so he decided to stay here until dark.
Xia Ruofei didn't get into the car to rest. Instead, he took out a camping mat from the dimension, cleared a space next to the car, and laid the camping mat. After that, he sat on the mat and leaned against the car tires to rest.
Of course, he also separated a strand of his mental strength to be on alert. If there was really an army approaching this area, he could immediately put the car into the dimension and quickly leave this place.
It was necessary to be vigilant at all times in the war zone. He could just treat it as training his mental strength.
Xia Ruofei leaned against the car and closed his eyes to rest. He felt like he was in a dream. These two days, he had been active in the war zone. The sound of gunfire seemed to be right next to his ears. It made him feel like he was back in the military era.
For the whole day, Xia Ruofei rested in this abandoned building. The sound of gunfire in the distance had been intermittent. It seemed like the battle was in a stalemate. Fortunately, the battlefield was at least a few kilometers away from here, so it was still peaceful here.
The bored Xia Ruofei even started to judge the distance or guess which weapons were shooting based on the sound of gunfire. Generally speaking, the weapons with more messy equipment were mostly from the government forces. Although the government forces had average combat power, their equipment was still relatively uniform even if they were old.
Finally, the sky gradually darkened, and the sound of gunfire in the distance became much sparser. It was estimated that both sides, who had been fighting for a day, had begun to rest. Of course, small scale disturbances were inevitable at night.
Xia Ruofei didn't know if the Maud mercenary group had participated in the battle during the day. It was too far away to hear.
Of course, he hoped that the mercenary group would also participate in the battle. This way, they would be even more tired at night.
It wasn't until the abandoned building became pitch-black that Xia Ruofei stood up and put away his things. Then, he went over to clear the cover he had set up during the day to both sides. He got into the car and started the engine.
Xia Ruofei backed the car out of the abandoned building, turned on the GPS, and began to follow the route set, heading in the direction of Lucado Town.
Thirty to forty kilometers away, if it was in the country, it could be driven there in half an hour.
However, the road conditions here in Wadi La were very bad, especially the road conditions in the war zone. From time to time, there would be huge craters. With poor visibility at night, it was easy for the car to fall into it.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei was also more careful. The speed of the car had not been raised, and his spiritual force was still investigating the front.
After driving for about an hour and a half, Xia Ruofei arrived near Lucado Town at around nine o'clock in the evening local time.
When he was still four or five kilometers away from Lucado Town, Xia Ruofei turned off the headlights and kept them off. With his spiritual force investigating, it didn't matter whether he turned on the headlights or not.
From afar, he saw that there seemed to be lights coming from Lucado Town, so he turned off the headlights without saying a word.
This area had already been plowed several times by the flames of war, and there would basically be no one there. There were lights in the town, which meant that there were most likely troops stationed there. If Xia Ruofei drove with the headlights on, the garrison in the town would be able to discover it from afar. Most likely, they would send someone over to investigate.
Along the way, he avoided several small units. Xia Ruofei did not want to cause any more trouble at this time.
When he approached Lucado Town, Xia Ruofei was even more certain that there were troops stationed in the town.
He judged that it should be the Nazi armed forces that were going to attack the eastern front with the Maud mercenary corps tomorrow morning.
Xia Ruofei did not continue to approach. Instead, he chose to circle around from the north of Lucado Town, and then circled around from the east to the woods south of the town. The east was controlled by the government forces, and he did not know the situation behind the Nazi armed forces, so it was safer to cross from the intersection of the two sides' control areas.
Relying on his large-scale spiritual force perception, Xia Ruofei drove the Ford off-road vehicle with all the lights turned off. He circled around the north side of Lucado Town and finally arrived at the woods where the Maud mercenary corps was stationed.
Two to three kilometers away from the woods, Xia Ruofei stopped the car.
After using his spiritual force to confirm that there were no hidden sentries or other people spying on him, he directly put the off-road vehicle into his space. Then, he drank a bottle of Spirit Pool Water to recover his spiritual force and rested for a while on the spot.
Xia Ruofei, who had already changed into black tights, was now lightly dressed. Like a leopard cat, he flashed towards the woods. His movements were very light and did not make any sound. Even the leaves on the ground were not moved. In a short while, he had melted into the night.
At this time, Xia Ruofei did not hesitate to use his spiritual force. He directly spread it out to the greatest extent possible to investigate the situation in the woods.
A team of more than a hundred people was basically the size of an ordinary company.
According to the information provided by Manzila, the Maud mercenary corps basically used a "three-three system" structure similar to that of the Huaxia army. That was, the entire mercenary corps was divided into three teams, each with more than thirty people; each team was divided into three groups, each with about ten people; and there were also some communicators, medics, orderlies, and so on.
In terms of leadership, Boulder Douglas was the leader of the mercenary corps, and a German named Klaten was Douglas's deputy. Apart from that, Douglas also had a trusted aide named Huey, who came from the United States like him.
Huey was roughly equivalent to the role of chief of staff in the mercenary corps. Of course, such a small company-sized force would not have a chief of staff.
The above four people were considered the leaders of the Maud mercenary corps, and there were also two or three staff officers. This was basically the entire composition of the headquarters.
After Xia Ruofei entered the woods, he nimbly climbed onto a tree. His spiritual force continued to radiate outwards, and the terrain in this area quickly formed a three-dimensional image in his mind.
Xia Ruofei, who came from the military, naturally knew what kind of terrain was most suitable for garrisoning troops.
He roughly judged the direction of the terrain and jumped up from the tree branch, pouncing towards another tree not far away like a big bird.
Just like that, Xia Ruofei moved about fifty meters in one direction.
During the entire process, his feet did not touch the ground. If he was a little closer, he would directly jump onto another tree. If he was a little further away, he would borrow the strength of the branches to swing. Even Tarzan in the movie was not as nimble as him.
Soon, Xia Ruofei stopped moving forward and quietly lay on a thick tree branch. His eyes were very bright in the dark night. Just now, his spiritual force had already detected the two hidden sentries lurking in the direction he was heading.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but smile. It seemed that his army's business was not out of practice yet!
His judgment just now was completely correct. Since a hidden sentry had already appeared, it meant that the Maud mercenary corps was not far away.
It was impossible for a small company-sized force to release sentries a few kilometers away.
Since he had found the exact location of the army, then this mercenary corps was his …
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