Chapter 1700: No Hope
Buck, who had been smoked for nearly fifteen minutes, let go of the rifle in his hand completely weakly, and fell to the fire below that was about to burst out, rolling several times in a row, in addition to crushing the flames on his body, but also to unload the force, but his left shoulder hit a brick or something like that again, and Buck was almost out of his body in pain!
But he still didn't dare to make any sound, insisted on stumbling to his feet, slightly identifying his bearing, and slammed out of the window in the opposite direction of the convoy leaving!
With the impact of the window frame, he fell to the ground again, and Buck only felt the weight of the bag in his hand and let go of his hand, and immediately flipped into the ravine almost two meters wide next to it!
The fire on his body has finally been extinguished!
Stretched out his hand to clasp the cement gap next to him, floated his body on the water as much as possible, pulled off the Arab headscarf on his mouth and nose with difficulty, his eyes hurt as if he had been sprayed with chili pepper water, and the tears were called a watery stream, but he survived, and the most dangerous thing in the fireworks was not necessarily the fire, it was smoke, and the death and injury rate was even higher than that of direct burning.
It took nearly half an hour for Buck, who was almost out of strength, to slowly climb ashore, lying down weakly next to his bag, looking at the dazzling sun, but he could feel that his whole body seemed to be smoking, well, it should have been steamed.
Slowly climbed to the corner of the building and peeked out, and there was no relief that there was no figure, but he decided to immediately find another building to hide in, what if there were still people who came to pay homage to the martyr's monument?
The fire of the corpses was still burning, and Buck curled up and crawled to another house far from here, no longer having the strength to climb the attic, gasping for breath and having to find a piece of caffeinated gum to chew slowly before feeling the strength of his body regain bit by bit.
This lay down for a whole day, until the night slowly fell, Buck got up again, but the left shoulder had been bandaged with a self-adhesive bandage, as much as possible not to make a big move, it should be the ligament of the shoulder blade, this kind of injury except for rest, there is no shortcut.
The gun was gone, and the houses that were connected together eventually burned and collapsed, leaving only a wild dog dangling around the ruins, and Buck used to see only a burnt and deformed rifle in the ashes, but now ...... Try to get close to Reka City.
Fortunately, in addition to the shoulder, there is no other discomfort, there is no problem with replenishing energy and drinking water, Buck, who is carrying a bag on one shoulder, is back on the road in the night, and there are about ten kilometers left to reach the city, and Buck, who has reported his exact coordinates to Xiang Wan, got a hint from his wife:" According to the intelligence collected, since the IS army designated Reka City as the capital two years ago, those residential areas have run almost the same, that is, the main force of Syrian refugees, and the main urban area is the main area controlled by the IS army, and now there may be about 30,000 people in the urban area, the city was originally less than 100,000 people, according to international intelligence estimates, there are about 3,000 IS troops in Reka City, and now their main force should still be in Mosul, Iraq, and the spiritual leader of the IS army is said to be over there。 ”
Buck pondered as he walked: "Speaking of this, this is the capital, but the center of gravity is no longer here...... The general meeting may not be held here, so I will go over and see the situation, and after learning first-hand information, I will consider withdrawing from Syria and returning to the Dudeka side, going in from the Kurdish areas of Iraq, near Mosul. ”
Xiang Wan didn't have any worries at all: "Gu Lisha has already fed back the message, she has seen Dudeka and them, I heard that you went to Syria alone, and said that she wants you to contact her......"
Buck sighed, he had already seen the outline of the building in front of him, and after listening to his wife's advice to pay attention to safety, he hung up the phone.
At noon, Xiang Wan passed on the message, which was said to be an air raid by a joint strike by NATO's multinational air forces, aimed at testing the linkage capabilities of various countries and eliminating the living forces of the IS Army by the way, including the suburban oil refinery in Reka City......
With a fluttering order, this side is hell on earth.
Buck smiled a little wryly.
Close to the city, the buildings are basically made of stone, and there are few houses with more than three floors, so hundreds of residents in China may be able to solve the situation with one house, which is spread out here, like egg pancakes, and the whole residential area is black and oppressive, but it is as quiet as a ghost town.
Buck approached a house on the edge, turned around to find the ladder on the roof, and opened his thermal imaging lens at a higher angle, except for the slight warm color, the heat of the stone that belonged to the sun had not dissipated after a day's exposure, and only two living yellow-white lumps were found!
After quietly observing for a while, I finally found out that it should be two dogs!
This reassured Buck a little, walked briskly through the entire residential area, without too much cover, and then walked out from the other end of the two or three hundred meters, separated by about a kilometer or two of crop greenery, which was the capital of the IS army.
Saying that it is the capital, with the scale of thousands of people, there is no outlying sentry on a city, Buck thinks it is really outrageous.
The cat's waisted Buck basically moved along the low ridges of the fields, and the dense bushes separated by the fields helped him a lot, and he also picked up a wooden stick that he thought was very good as a crutch, and from time to time used the thermal sensor lens to check the surrounding situation, and finally walked into the city quietly in more than ten minutes, and sure enough, it was like the angle that Xiang Wan guided him, just turned along a row of walls, and in a section of collapsed and damaged walls, a huge sheet building stood in the center in the middle of a huge open space, which was one hundred and sixty meters wide, but only more than ten meters thick, and twenty-seven stories high!
A hotel built by Huaguo more than 10 years ago!
Originally the best hotel in Syria's sixth largest city.
Xiang Wan found all the original information about this building, it is the tallest building in the city, and Xiang Wan originally reminded Buck that this large building might be regarded as an important location by the IS army, and it could be avoided appropriately, but Buck chose to come over this way.
If nothing else, along the way, except for the faint side profile of the high-rise building, there is no light on this building that looks like a flat-screen TV!
It's so dark that it makes your heart palpitate!
In fact, for the urban area, which is surrounded by one or two low-rise residential buildings, such a building that stands out from the crowd is not the best tactical choice, and people with a little battlefield experience, especially those who are familiar with NATO's practices, will feel that such a building will definitely become a landmark building for air strikes, and if a large number of militants are found to be gathered in such a building in satellite reconnaissance and NATO's now popular drone survey, it will soon be named by cruise missiles.
Therefore, Buck felt that there was no need for the battle-hardened IS army to choose such a building, and for a city that had been largely cut off from water and electricity, it would be very inconvenient to survive in such high-rise buildings, at least the Eastern European buns he understood were not too keen to go to the building in the city.
After one last investigation with the thermal imaging lens, and indeed found no heat source, Buck fixed his backpack a little better, drank some water to adjust his breath, held a wooden stick in front of him, and began to crawl towards the building!
The closer you get to the goal, the more you can't be impetuous, even if it's a little slower, life preservation is the first element!
More than 200 meters of the fence in a straight line, you can understand how wide the green belt and parking lot around this hotel building are, and Buck encountered several abandoned car wrecks on the way, and you can feel rusty when you touch them, these extremist groups with only destructive power and no productivity are really like locusts, everywhere they go, full of desolation.
Almost comparable to the previous two or three kilometers of walking, Buck climbed for more than half an hour before finally arriving at the building.
Going upstairs overlooked most of the city's buildings, which was probably the last place he had taken to the northwest corner of the city, and after a day or two of careful observation, he could evacuate.
Buck didn't have much hope for the city.