Ballistic Silence of Special Years

After a false alarm, the convoy moved on.

There are still bushes occasionally appearing on the side of the road, and some passers-by pass by.

I don't know how long this yellow mud road has not been repaired. It is full of potholes, and the quality of the road is really not flattering.

But Li Zheng discovered that this road was not always a yellow mud road. There was some aging and hardened asphalt on the side of the road, and occasionally some asphalt blocks appeared in the middle of the road. It seemed that it used to be an asphalt road, but it was abandoned later.

Just such a road is already a highway here.

This level of urban construction cannot be compared with domestic ones.

Get rich first and build roads first.

The traffic here is so bad, how can there be any economics to talk about?
Some are just resources, and you can survive by buying a little bit of resources.

The question is, did the war cause the economic decline, or did the economic decline cause the war?
Li Zheng was suddenly a little dazed.

This question actually kept revolving around in my mind.

When the time came, he finally restrained his mind and concentrated his attention on vigilance.

Now he is just a peacekeeper, a fast-moving soldier. His task is to be vigilant and protect the safety of his teammates.

As for the sorrow and backwardness in this land, it is beyond his control, nor can he solve it, and it is not his turn to think about such profound issues at this time.

The road stretches all the way to the outskirts.

Li Zheng thought to himself, it seems that this camp is also on the outskirts of the city.

In fact, it is normal to think about it.

It is said that the station is not far from the line of fire. To put it bluntly, there are two groups of people fighting. The police came in between and pulled up a ceasefire line, saying that you all stop fighting, stop and talk!

The bus was bouncing all the time.

Sometimes a large crater suddenly appeared in the middle of the road. It was obvious from the shape of the crater, and vehicles had to drive past it carefully. Sometimes there were so many craters that the driver had no choice but to run over them.

During the period, I passed some towns and markets, and at important intersections, I could see barbed wire fences and machine gun bunkers built with sandbags. Some soldiers with live ammunition were there holding guns for vigilance, adding to the tense atmosphere. There was some gunpowder smell.

Many of the passers-by in twos and threes were women, but every woman had a big basket full of things on her head, or a plastic tank with oil or water in it.

Of course, Li Zheng guessed it was water.

The people here are so poor, except for business people, where can they get the money to buy cars and gas.

Cars are a luxury here, even if they are some tattered second-hand cars, not to mention trucks and trucks, even a bicycle, if you can own it, you are the most beautiful kid in the village!
Li Zheng saw that most of the people here didn't have shoes.

Including adults and children, no shoes.

They stood on the side of the road in groups of three and four, staring at the speeding convoy with a strange look in their eyes.

Li Zheng savored that look carefully.

What he found was not surprise and surprise, but something called "numbness".

There was no hope, no excitement, and no joy in the eyes.

Only numbness.

Only numbness remained.

This made him feel a little uncomfortable, even sighed. …

"Why do all the children here have pots hanging on their chests?" Fatty Wei behind Li Zheng couldn't help but ask.

Yang Hui, who was also in the car, couldn't help but tease when he heard the words: "Fatty Wei, let me give you an idea, I'm sure there will be an answer."

"What's the idea?"

"You ask the driver to stop, then get out of the car and ask the children, we will go to the camp to wait for you first, and you will come over later by taxi."

Yang Hui's words made the other people in the car couldn't help laughing.

Fatty Wei felt that his IQ had been greatly insulted, so he pointed his middle finger at Yang Hui and said, "Da V Yang, don't come and make fun of me! I'm not stupid!"

Fatty Wei never dared or could get out of the car, but his words aroused Li Zheng's interest.

He observed it carefully, and sure enough, as Fatty Wei said, almost every child

After careful observation, he found that the children on the side of the road outside the car window were indeed as Fatty Wei said, with basins hanging on their chests, and they were still dirty.

"Deputy platoon leader, do you think the basins hanging on these children's chests are used for eating?"

Tong Zhi nodded: "Maybe it's not for eating."

Li Zheng was shocked: "Is it for begging?"

Tong Zhi sighed and said, "I don't know either. Don't ask me. If you ask me again, I will give the same answer as Yang Hui. Get off the car and ask."

Li Zheng couldn't help but laugh.

Staying alert in the car, Li Zheng felt a little bored.

He discovered a strange phenomenon.

The driving style of the team I am in...

To be precise, the driving trajectory is a bit strange.

Whether it is an escort car or a bus, they all follow each other closely, but a certain distance must be maintained.

Li Zheng understood that it was out of safety considerations.

Otherwise, everyone in one IED will go to heaven together.

But no matter what location, or how fast the vehicle is, or how large the distance between the cars is, the driver in the front driver's seat will firmly control the vehicle's trajectory and let his car run over the ruts of the vehicle in front.

Li Zheng looked at it and felt that this technique is awesome, because the ruts do overlap almost exactly the same.

"Deputy platoon leader, have you seen these cars? Is it the same reason as we are crossing minefields by deliberately following the ruts in front?"

There is such a requirement for the squad to pass through the minefield. The soldiers in the rear must follow the footprints in front and cannot deviate.

Tong Zhi said: "That's right, that's the truth. If you haven't learned special driving, you will understand that what they do is actually avoiding things like IEDs and landmines."

After about half an hour, the convoy finally made a turn at a fork in the road and turned into a dirt road next to it.

After walking about 100 meters along the dirt road, a complex of buildings appeared in front of us.

This is a broken courtyard surrounded by earthen walls, with an area of ​​about 5000 square meters by visual inspection.

The car stopped on the dirt road outside the building.

Soon, Commander Xia notified everyone on the wireless channel: "Get out of the car and assemble!"

The door of the bus finally opened, and the people who got off the bus were the people in the quick reverse row, and under the command of Shen Jun, they immediately began to establish a cordon.

"and many more!"

Just after accepting the task, Tong Zhi stopped everyone before they dispersed.

"Each group calls an engineer and takes a mine detector."

Tong Zhi looked around, it was barren and overgrown with weeds everywhere, his sensitive nerves told himself that there might be things like landmines here.

"Old Tong, you are very thoughtful." Shen Jun said, "I'll call some engineering brothers over here, you guys wait here."