After escaping the pursuit of the Tuareg, Lin Rui and the others had a much easier time walking through the jungle, and the Malian soldiers were more familiar with the jungle in this area than elsewhere.
Because some of them were once stationed in Gao, they knew exactly where there were swamps, where there were clean water sources, where there were ant nests, where there were beehives, and where there might be wild beasts.
Originally planned to take two days, under the leadership of Malian soldiers who were familiar with the terrain, they arrived near Gao and reached the edge of the jungle in just one day.
But when they got here, Lin Rui stopped everyone and ordered them to camp on the spot, because if they went further, they would be out of the jungle.
A large number of traces of human activities have begun to appear here. A large number of tree stumps left by felled trees were found in the forest edge area. They also found some barren graves that seemed to have been buried recently. In addition, they also found a large area that had been abandoned. But it is a village that has not been abandoned for a long time.
Lin Rui took Lincoln, Kuai Ma, Black Mamba and others to inspect an abandoned village. They saw a large number of abandoned objects in the village, as well as many extremely crude shacks, but now they were completely infested with snakes and insects. Occupied.
In addition, they also saw many skeletonized and mutilated corpses hanging on the trees outside the abandoned village. There were also some fragments of tattered clothes hanging on these corpses, exuding a foul smell.
Several Malian soldiers held their breath as they examined several corpses. Their mood suddenly became heavy, and a violent aura filled their bodies. Because from the torn clothes of these corpses, he found that these corpses were all local civilians. He could guess without thinking that this village was visited by the Tuareg people when they were repairing the railway.
Most of the villagers were probably captured and used as laborers. The people who were hanged here were most likely executed here because they tried to escape or resisted the bullying of the armed elements, or even just because they were sick and lost the ability to work.
Because there are many bones of old people and children among them.
And the large barren grave in the forest is the mass grave where the villagers who died here are buried. Although there is no careful inventory, it can be roughly seen that the number of people who died here is probably not less than a hundred.
This is another outrageous atrocity, and such things are actually very common in Africa. Racial conflicts have once again vividly demonstrated human cruelty, making Malian soldiers like them furious.
¡°I couldn¡¯t help but even my hands were trembling slightly.
"Damn, these bastards! This is a massacre of civilians!" Anker looked at the tragedy in front of him and couldn't help the anger in his heart. He cursed angrily and suddenly punched a tree nearby. .
The rough bark immediately scratched the skin on his hands, and a stream of bright red blood flowed down.
Another Malian officer behind him was also trembling slightly, his lips trembling as he looked at the corpses of the Malian people hanging from the trees and the unmarked graves in front of him, tears welling up in his eyes.
Because someone in his family was also captured by Tuareg armed forces. Now he doesn¡¯t know where he was taken and whether he is still alive. But it is conceivable that his family will not be in a good situation. If it doesn¡¯t happen, it will already be like this. Like these people who were buried, it is no longer known where their bones were buried.
The intense anger made him unable to contain it, and the veins on the back of the hand holding the gun bulged.
Anker closed his eyes, suppressed the anger in his heart, and slowly opened his eyes.
Lin Rui glanced at Anker, reached out and patted his shoulder, and said softly: "Anker, I understand your mood, don't think too much! What you have to do now is to make the enemy pay with blood. They To kill you Malians, then you must try your best to kill them all!
Let them be afraid of you from the bottom of their hearts and never dare to treat you like this again! let's go! "
And these mercenaries are also looking at the tragic scene in front of them. For them, killing is not a big deal. They are in this business to begin with. Who doesn¡¯t have dozens of lives on his body?
In the past, I was often hired to participate in some tribal conflicts. I don¡¯t know that some African peoples, after winning, will cut off the heads of their enemies and bring them back to the tribe to show off their achievements.
But they have never seen such a tragic scene. They already know what the piles of earthen bags on the ground are covered with vines and weeds, and there are also so many corpses of old, weak, women and children hanging here.
A mercenary saw that all the Malians were extremely angry, so he curiously used the stumbling localHe lay there for more than an hour before retreating into the jungle.
"There must be Tuareg Liberation Organization outposts nearby. The distance will not be more than five kilometers, at most about five kilometers! Each outpost has a squad of Tuareg Liberation Organization stationed to patrol.
In addition, there are guerrillas to assist them in patrolling the railway lines. Each time they patrol, it takes about an hour, and they use staggered patrols in opposite directions, passing through once every half an hour!
It seems that the Tuareg Liberation Organization attaches great importance to this railway line. Even with insufficient troops, it has mobilized so many troops to garrison the railway line! "
Lin Rui did not wipe the cow dung off his face, squatting in the forest and said to Sergei and Anker. Anker nodded and said: "Yes! Boss, you're right! These guys are really cautious! They keep a close eye on the railway! It's not easy for us to make a move this time!"
Lin Rui shook his head and said: "Destroying the railway track is not a problem! This is a trivial matter, half an hour is enough for us to blow up a long section of railway track! Don't think about it for now!
Let¡¯s go to the nearby train station to see what¡¯s going on there! "
Tamana is just a small town near Gao. It can¡¯t even be called a city. It is much smaller than ordinary small cities. Currently, there are only one to two hundred households, with logging, grazing and planting as the main sources of income.
Before the construction of the railway, there was no place name here, and no one lived here. It was precisely because the railway was built here and a small station was built here that passing trains had to replenish water and coal, so a small town was formed here. .
Since the railway was built, the population in this area has begun to increase, allowing the land here to be developed and gradually forming large areas of farmland. Because passing trains need to add coal and water here, the fifth regiment of the Tuareg Liberation Organization left two companies here to garrison.
However, due to the need to guard the railway line, most of the Tuareg Liberation Organization troops are distributed in outposts along the railway. Therefore, these two companies usually only have two platoons of the Tuareg Liberation Organization staying at the train station.
About twenty kilometers south from here is a small town called Kabuga. According to information previously confessed by prisoners of the Tuareg Liberation Organization, a member of the Third Regiment of the Tuareg Liberation Organization is stationed here. company.
And about fifty kilometers to the north from Tamana is Kabuga. Directly east of Kabuga is Gao, an important town in northern Mali.
The main force of the third regiment of the Tuareg Liberation Organization is now in Kabuja, while the main force of the fifth regiment is approaching Gao.
So the Tuareg Liberation Organization has a lot of troops in this area, and the third regiment has been ordered to move in in large numbers and start setting up defenses in the northwest.
Therefore, the Tuareg Liberation Organization has recently strengthened the transportation of materials to the Third Regiment and the Fifth Regiment.
Mainly to replenish them with a large amount of ammunition, artillery that was not transported with the army, a small number of combat vehicles and fuel, so this railway is now very busy.
Lin Rui and the others, like three inconspicuous haystacks, slowly dived to the hilly ground less than 500 meters west of Binbao Station, then lay down here and began to observe the station.
It was already dusk at this time, and the setting sun was making its final struggle on the jungle behind them, shining sunlight on them.
With the help of the light of the setting sun, through the eyepiece of the telescope, Lin Rui saw that the station was not big, the railway was old, and there were only a few railway lines for dispatching. And the train is also very old-fashioned.
The station can accommodate up to several trains for dispatching or coal and water adding operations. And now, there are three trains parked in the station.
It can be clearly seen through the telescope that two of the trains are filled with various supplies, and they are even loaded with artillery of unknown type covered with tarpaulin. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com