Chapter 525: Mother's Treatment
More than ten nautical miles before the transport ship arrived at Iwo Jima, Smith and his six escorts got off the ship, and then swam to Iwo Jima wearing diving equipment.
Smith is not stupid, a distance of more than ten nautical miles, he and his people must die halfway through the swim in full armor, so he has already prepared, a large wooden raft, full of grass and branches, their equipment is placed under those grass and branches, as for the personnel, they all hold the ropes on the wooden raft and float with the wooden raft.
He had been here many times, and the U.S. military had a gas station here, so he chose the place where he could be pushed forward by the current, and from here he drifted along the current to Iwo Jima, which was slower but safer, and the time was exactly at midnight, and most importantly, the speed was out of his plan.
Smith is not stupid, he knows very well in his heart that the success rate of relying only on his two half-people to save Mrs. Fanel is less than 20%, but he still refuses the Chinese side to send him people, the purpose is to ask the Chinese side to send Shangguan Feng to him, and he knows that even if the Chinese high-level knows his little abacus, they will still send Shangguan Feng.
It's just that Shangguan Feng hasn't come back from going out now, so his thin donkey's behavior of pulling hard must not be fast, and he must leave time for Shangguan Feng to come, and in order to plan safely, he also has to investigate the situation on the island well, and the action to save people must not be missed, otherwise the president and the secretary of state will be thrown here.
Pinching the time on the waterproof watch, Smith finally arrived near Iwo Jima at dusk, from here they could already smell the pungent smell of sulfur, at most more than an hour later, they could arrive, but here Smith ordered to stop advancing, and the seven men tied themselves with ropes, anchored the wooden raft and then entered a state of rest.
The six guards didn't understand why Smith stopped here, because there were many small islands around Iwo Jima, and it was better to hide there temporarily and wait for dark, which was better than soaking in the sea, but seeing that Smith didn't explain, these people didn't dare to ask, so they had to accompany him here to wait.
It's not that Smith doesn't know that it's better to go to the surrounding islands than here, but he is afraid that Shangguan Feng, who came in a hurry, can't find him, so he chooses to stop in the water, as soon as Shangguan Feng comes, the people on the Chinese side will tell him that these people are these people and this big wooden raft, and it is still easy to find this big wooden raft on the sea, which is better than finding himself in those subtropical jungles on the island.
But Smith thought of almost everything, except that he didn't expect the sharks in the sea, which can be considered lucky for them, only the great white shark came, not the kind of megalodon that dared to scare the air.
Just when a few of them were soaking in the water and falling asleep, one of the team members suddenly felt that his thigh was hit by something, because it was dark, so he looked down and didn't find anything, just when he didn't know why, suddenly his companion next to him screamed and sank into the water at once.
Smith and a few others woke up immediately, but they didn't know what was going on, at this moment, another team member screamed desperately and twisted his body, seeing that he was about to sink under the water, a companion hurriedly supported him with his hand, but when he lifted him up hard, he suddenly felt a light hand, and then the upper body of this team member was lifted above his head.
The blood flowing from the upper body instantly poured the team member's head and face, and he screamed in horror, but Smith's face changed dramatically and shouted: "Quick, hurry up on the wooden row, quick." ”
Just as everyone was climbing up the wooden platoon, the team member who was doused with blood let out a scream, and then the rest of the people saw the water next to him tumbling, and almost in the blink of an eye, the team member's body suddenly split apart and ran in different directions.
Smith pulled one of the team members onto the wooden platoon and wiped the water on his face, picked up his automatic rifle and pointed it at the surface of the water and said, "Don't use light, don't use light, put a good silencer on the gun, put on the silencer." ”
The remaining three team members followed his example and said, "Mr. President, what have we encountered?" Sharks? ”
Smith looked at the calm water with his gun and said, "It should be, try to stay away from the edge of the wooden raft, and don't make unnecessary movements." ”
Smith had been in the sea a few times before, so he knew what to do if such a situation arose, but it was only a rough idea, he hadn't encountered a shark in the previous missions, and these coping methods were all from the training manual.
The three guards also picked up their guns according to his method, they were all trained special forces, although they did not have Smith's veteran combat experience, but they were all in shock, a soldier gently put down his gun, pulled out a powerful electric shock baton from the tarp on the top layer of the wooden platoon, listened carefully with his ears sideways, and then said softly: "I feel that something is swimming against the wooden platoon below, our guns are not very powerful, if the shark is too big, it will not have much effect on the gun." ”
Another team member said, "Where's our shark repellent?" ”
Another member of the team said: "Everyone has an open shark repellent in their leg pockets, but it doesn't seem to work at the moment, could it be that these sharks have variants?" ”
Smith snorted slightly, "Let's go, use the pulp on the wooden raft to get closer to the nearest island." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a great white shark suddenly jumped several meters high from the water, bit the team member's head and dragged him into the sea.
Smith was so angry that he couldn't save his own people anyway, so he immediately opened fire, but when the bullet hit the shark, it made a muffled sound like a knife piercing leather, and in the blink of an eye, the whole sea was silent again.
Smith gritted his teeth, four of the six people he brought with him died in the blink of an eye, and even if he could get to Iwo Jima, he probably wouldn't have a chance to save Secretary of State Fanel.
The anti-shark agent was useless, and the only way to do it was to trap it, so Smith took out a few cans of beef and picked them open with a knife, took out the beef inside, stuffed a grenade with a safety and pressed it with the canned lid, and threw it into the water.
Soon after the grenade can entered the water, a dull explosion came from underwater, and soon after, a huge black shadow slowly surfaced, and everyone did not dare to turn on the flashlight, so Smith whispered: "Paddle, let's get out of here as soon as possible." ”
The two team members immediately pulled out the oars on the wooden raft and stretched them into the water to row, but after they rowed for a while, the team member on the left suddenly exclaimed, and fell headlong into the sea, and after a bubble bubbled, there was no sound at all.
Smith's face turned pale, because he saw what had just happened, a huge black shadow suddenly emerged from the water and bit the oar, and in an instant brought his companion into the water, it seemed that the shark below was not a shark at all, so Smith hurriedly pulled another team member to the middle of the wooden platoon, and looked at the sea with his gun back to back and said, "Wait for dawn, keep silent." ”
After all, the raft was large and heavy, so although Smith felt several arches from under the raft, he could not overturn the raft, but this did not mean that the danger was lifted, and because the anchor ingots under them were put away, the raft began to drift down the current again, and the direction was their destination, Iwo Jima.
At this time, Smith could no longer care about careful reconnaissance before going to the island, because he could feel several sharks swimming back and forth under the wooden rafts, and from time to time they appeared around the wooden rafts, knocking the wooden rafts into a creaking noise, no matter how dangerous it was, he had to land on the island as soon as possible.
A little later, there was a possibility that the raft would be shattered, and by dawn, they would definitely be seen by the people on the island, and in any case, going to the island was now their only viable way, so Smith let the raft get to the island, and they took some of the supplies on the raft and disappeared into the dense forest on the island.
The rafts had no choice but to be thrown on the beach, because the two of them were not strong enough to drag them to the shore, and there was no way to destroy them, so they had to abandon them, although the consequence of doing so was that they might be found after dawn.
Smith was familiar with the place, so as soon as he landed on the island, he quickly began to move towards the mountains in the south of the island, where there was a command post built by the Japanese, although it was now abandoned, but because of its strong defenses, it was the best place to be held, and Mrs. Farnell should have been imprisoned there.
This was the result of inadequate investigation, and if Smith had had time to conduct a more detailed investigation, perhaps it would not have been the consequence, and Mrs. Fannell was not locked up in a military base in the south of the island at all, but in a house in the middle of the island.
Being locked up in this place was the result of Mrs. Fanel's strong demands, and those people did put Mrs. Fanel in an underground fortification in the southern mountains, but Mrs. Fanel protested with a hunger strike, and was forced to move her to a former residential area in the middle of the island, the old lady's statement was very simple, the underground fortifications were damp and stuffy, and there was no sunshine, she was old, and she had arthritis, and she had to live in a sunny place, otherwise she would die.
Her captors had no choice but to put her in a house, and they were not ordered to kill the American secretary of state.
Landon Bruce's order was indeed to kill Mrs. Farnell, but the person who carried out the order did not dare to do so, it must be the US Secretary of State, if the matter of killing her is found out, will his own people still have a way to live?
The mercenary army in charge of guarding Mrs. Farnell is a mercenary army in Africa, this mercenary army known as the vanguard of justice in Africa was originally the army of Congo, Rwanda and other turbulent regions, some government troops, some are anti-government forces and private guards, they were fighting with themselves in Africa, who knew that suddenly a catastrophe appeared, the whole world fell into chaos, and those countries and consortia that supported them in the war behind their backs were all too busy to take care of themselves, how could they have the spare power to fund them to fight? So these Africans stopped and looked at the outside world ignorantly, not knowing what was going on.
The cataclysm will do more damage to the more developed regions, but it is really no harm to the Central African region, where even three or four floors are called edifices, their losses are not large, but the weapons and ammunition that support them can no longer be transported, these African black buddies are not very good at living, and they have not saved much in the past, just when they were staring at each other, the Nazis came and swept the whole of Africa with the trend of withering and decaying.
These black buddies in Africa are the opponents of the Nazis, but they don't want the Nazis to surrender if they want to, the Nazis are pure nationalists, they treat the non-Aryans who are also white as livestock, and these black Africans are even less regarded by them as people, so they use completely high-pressure methods, and after a large number of killings, the rest of the population is forced to produce war for them.
However, some of the former African army personnel escaped from Africa through various means, they did not care whether they were enemies in the past, and in the face of the Nazis, these people finally united together to form this African vanguard of justice, ready to fight back to their homeland.
However, because the level of education is too low and the people are lazy, although the coalition army knows that these people do not take them seriously, they just give them some weapons, find a small place in India to settle these people, and leave them alone.
These people felt that they were left out in the cold, so they repeatedly asked to participate in the war like the coalition army, but when they found out that the coalition army had no plan to attack Africa for the time being, they were reluctant to come, and the coalition high-level was so angry that they had no choice, so let them go, anyway, they are also international coalition forces, and they can be regarded as representatives of a country and region in it.
But these black buddies couldn't wait a little impatiently, and when they were making a fuss and they didn't have a clear idea, Langdon Bruce secretly sent an order, promising to give them a lot of arms aid, and send professionals to train them to fight, all they had to do was to watch the old lady Fannell according to Langdon's presidential order, and kill her if they didn't obey.
The leader of this army was stupid as soon as he received this order, and the vice president of the United States asked himself to take out the secretary of state of the United States? Under which law? Do you know about this?
According to the location provided by Langdon Bruce, the leader came to Iwo Jima with a battalion of personnel and Old Lady Farnell, although he had to be imprisoned according to Langdon Bruce's order, but he was not stupid, how he thought about this thing and how it tasted wrong, how he touched it, how he felt and how his back was cold, so he didn't dare to really poison Old Lady Farnell no matter what.
Not only did he not dare to poison him, but he also left a way back for himself, not only brought his wife and sister to take care of Mrs. Farnell, but also called one by one: "Mother", which is more filial than his own son, and when he came up, he told Langdon what Bruce let him do, and also bit Langdon back, saying that Langdon had removed the ship that sent them, and now he and Mrs. Fane have become prisoners on the island.
So Smith was really unlucky this time, if he could wait until daylight, he would have seen in the telescope the old lady Fannell sunbathing on the beach, and a few beautiful women waiting for her.