After a false alarm, the convoy continued moving forward.
There are still occasional bushes on the roadside, and some passersby pass by.
This yellow mud road has not been repaired for an unknown period of time and is full of potholes. The quality of the road cannot be complimented.
But Li Zheng discovered that this road has not always been a yellow mud road. There is some aged and hardened asphalt on the roadside, and occasionally there will be some asphalt blocks in the middle of the road. It seems that it used to be an asphalt road, but it was later abandoned.
Just such a road is already a highway here.
This level of urban construction cannot be compared with that in China.
If you want to be rich first, build roads first.
The traffic here is so bad, how can there be any economic discussion?
Some are just resources, and you can only survive by buying a few resources.
The question is, does war lead to economic decline, or does economic decline lead to war?
Li Zheng suddenly felt a little confused.
This question actually kept turning around in my mind like a revolving door.
When it came, he finally calmed down and became fully alert.
Now he is just a peacekeeper, a quick counterattack soldier. His mission is to be vigilant and protect the safety of his teammates.
As for the sorrow and backwardness in this land, it is not something he can control or solve. It is not his turn to think about such profound issues at this time.
The road continues to the countryside.
Li Zheng thought to himself, it seems that this camp is also on the outskirts of the city.
In fact, it’s quite normal if you think about it.
It is said that the station is not far from the crossfire line. To put it bluntly, it is two groups of people fighting. The police came and stood in the middle, pulled up a ceasefire line and said that you should stop fighting, stop and talk!
The bus kept bumping.
Sometimes a large crater suddenly appears in the middle of the road. The shape of the crater is obvious, and vehicles have to drive over it cautiously. Sometimes there are so many craters that the driver has no choice but to run over it.
During this period, we passed through some towns and markets and other places. At important intersections, we could see barbed wire fences and machine gun bunkers built with sandbags. Some soldiers with live ammunition were there on guard with their guns, which added to the tense atmosphere.
There is some smell of gunpowder.
Many of the passers-by in twos and threes are women, but every woman is carrying a large basket full of things on her head, or a plastic can containing oil or water.
Of course, Li Zheng guessed it was water.
The people here are so poor. Except for those who are doing business, how can they get the money to buy cars and gas?
Cars are a luxury here, even if they are some shabby second-hand cars, not to mention bridges and trucks, even if it is a bicycle, if you can own one, you will be the most handsome boy in the village!
Li Zheng saw that most people here did not have shoes.
Both adults and children have no shoes.
They stood in groups on the roadside, staring at the passing motorcade with a strange look in their eyes.
Li Zheng studied the look in his eyes carefully.
What he discovered was not surprise or surprise, but something called "numbness".
There was no hope, no excitement, and no joy in his eyes.
There is only numbness.
Only numbness remains.
This made him feel a little uncomfortable, even sad.
"Why do all the children here have basins hanging on their chests?" Fatty Wei behind Li Zheng couldn't help but speak.
Yang Hui, who was also in the car, couldn't help but joked when he heard this: "Fat Wei, I'll give you an idea, and I'm sure you'll get the answer."
"What's the idea?"
"You ask the driver to stop the car, then get out of the car and ask those children. We'll wait for you at the camp first, and you'll drive over later."
Yang Hui's words made everyone else in the car couldn't help laughing.
Fatty Wei felt that his IQ had been greatly insulted. He raised his middle finger at Yang Hui and said, "Dave Yang, please stop trying to get rid of me! I'm not stupid!"
Fatty Wei definitely did not dare and could not get out of the car, but his words aroused Li Zheng's interest.
He observed carefully, and it turned out that as Fatty Wei said, almost every child
Observing carefully, he found that the child on the roadside outside the car window was indeed what Fatty Wei said, with a basin hanging on his chest, and he was 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 Zhengyi 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, you get out of the car and ask."
Li Zheng laughed dumbly.
Li Zheng, who was always vigilant in the car, was a little bored.
He discovered a strange phenomenon.
The way the convoy that I am a part of is driving...
To be precise, the driving trajectory is a bit strange.
Whether it is an escort vehicle or a bus, they all follow each other closely, but a certain distance must be maintained.
Li Zheng understood that this was for safety reasons.
Otherwise, everyone will go to heaven together.
But no matter what the location, how fast the vehicle is, or how large the gap between vehicles is, the driver in the driver's seat in front will tightly control the vehicle's driving trajectory and let his vehicle run over the ruts of the vehicle in front.
Li Zheng looked at it and felt that this technique was incredible, because the ruts did overlap almost exactly.
"Deputy platoon leader, have you seen these cars? Are you deliberately following the ruts in front of you like we are crossing a minefield?"
There is such a requirement when a small team passes through a minefield. The soldiers at the rear must follow the footsteps in front and cannot deviate.
Tong Zhi said: "Yes, that's the truth. If you haven't learned special driving, you will understand that if you do, they are actually avoiding IEDs and landmines."
After about half an hour, the convoy finally turned at a fork in the road and turned into a nearby dirt road.
After walking about a hundred meters along the dirt road, a building complex appeared in front of us.
This is a dilapidated courtyard surrounded by earth walls, with an area of approximately 5,000 square meters.
The car stopped on the dirt road outside the building.
Soon, Commander Xia informed everyone on the wireless channel: "Get off the car and gather!"
The door of the bus finally opened, and the first people who got off the bus were those who were rushing to reverse the queue. Under the command of Shen Jun, they immediately began to set up a cordon.
"etc!"
As soon as he received the mission and before they dispersed, Tong Zhi stopped everyone.
"Call an engineer from each team to take out the mine detector."
Tong Zhi looked around. The place was deserted and overgrown with weeds. His sensitive nerves told him that there might be landmines and the like here.
"Old Tong, you are very considerate." Shen Jun said, "I'm going to call a few engineering brothers over. You guys wait here."