Amorous Short Stories

Tao Yisu officially started his wandering career.

He didn't define it as kidnapping, nor did he want to define it as work. In fact, he didn't even know whether the decision he made was right or wrong.

He followed the magistrate to Hudaydah.

Chief Salim, Jordanian, 36 years old, father is a fanatical anti-Pakistani, participated in almost all wars against the Palestine Liberation Organization.Salim, who grew up in this educational background, had great national enthusiasm since he was a child, and urgently needed to express his enthusiasm by killing heretics.But time does not match it. By the time Salim is ready to go to the battlefield, Jordan has gradually stepped out of the quagmire of war.Salim's fanatical will to fight in the army could not be relieved, so he threw off his hat and left the army.He can choose to join some guerrilla groups, full of compatriots who are full of war sentiments like him and unwilling to reconcile, or choose the olive branch offered by NT.Salim finally chose NT because he thought about it carefully. It was also a war, and NT paid more money.Saleem also admitted that maybe he didn't care as much about the nation and the fate of the country as he thought.

Salim's feelings for Tao Yisu are very complicated. On the one hand, he knows that bringing the crown prince will be of great help to his promotion and salary increase, but on the other hand, he also knows that he has brought a bomb. If a person dies here, NT will definitely not be able to stay any longer.If Tao Yisu cared about the things around him, it would not be difficult for him to find that other people in the team were generally less friendly towards Tao Yisu, but Tao Yisu didn't have that kind of thought.

They took the mission in Hudaydah. North Yemen is relatively dominant in many aspects of this civil war. Because of the problems left over from the merger in 1990, the North Yemen army has a large number of troops and good weapons. NT naturally stands on the side that can afford it. On the one hand, although the money does not come directly from the North Yemeni government.The main task of Salem and the others is to unplug several southern strongholds around Sana, where someone is sending information to the south and inciting small-scale fighting.The news comes from the North Yemen Bureau of Investigation, but because the strongholds are relatively concealed and scattered, and some may take hostages, and the government troops are restrained in the battle, the government is more inclined to hire a third party.At the same time, a lieutenant was assigned to follow the team.

Starting from Hudaydah, head northeast to a small town called "Badr".The easternmost street in the town is occupied by the Southern faction. It is said to be a street, but it is only the length of five or six merchants. The problem is that the position occupied by the Southern faction has an absolute advantage.There is a tallest building here - the mosque, the town's security office, built just south of the mosque, and a hospital to the north.In addition, there is a wheat shop to the south of the security office, and a post office to the north of the hospital.Four or five meters in front of this row of buildings, the Southern Department used wheat bales to pull a defensive barrier as a buffer zone.Therefore, the Southern Department was able to occupy here for five days.

Once there, they settled in a slaughterhouse behind a butcher shop as a temporary base.Salem sent two men out to scout the terrain, leaving the spotters and snipers to find places to shoot.

Salim assigned tasks one by one, and when he saw Tao Yisu, he paused and walked over.Everyone was sent out, only Tao Yisu, Salim, and the lieutenant remained.Salim and the lieutenant sketched on the map and asked in detail about the internal structure of the three main buildings. They obviously didn't know much about some details.

Salim looked at Tao Yisu who was standing in the room with nothing to do as if God was outside him, and told him, "Go to the mayor, or some leader."

Tao Yisu nodded and walked out. Salim called him: "Can you speak Arabic?"

Tao Yisu shook his head.He speaks a little French, and most of the people he trains at the same time speak French.

Salim rolled his eyelids unconsciously, stood up straight, and walked out rubbing Tao Yisu's shoulder.

Tao Yisu looked at his back, walked slowly back to the table, looked at the map on the table, was very interested in a place marked with a red pen, and pointed with his finger: "What is this?"

"Blast point." The lieutenant answered him.

Tao Yisu was a little surprised that the lieutenant could speak English. "Why are you blowing up here?"

The lieutenant pointed at the map, drew north from the red cross, and stopped at the post office: "In this way, they have only one way out."

"And we go in from here?"

The lieutenant shook his head: "No, this is to lure them out." Then he frowned: "Go in? Why do you have such an idea?" This is too unprofessional.

Tao Yisu didn't answer, but instead asked him, "Where's the hostage?"

"I don't know, let's talk about it when the mayor comes."

The mayor, Salim, and the lieutenant gathered around the map and talked in Arabic.Tao Yisu didn't walk away, he was very interested in the map, and kept his eyes on it, even though he couldn't understand the Arabic text in the notes, or the signs on the map.

Salim noticed Tao Yisu and turned to ask the mayor if he could speak English. The mayor said proudly that he had studied abroad. Salim waved his hand to stop him from showing off, and the group talked in English.

Tao Yisu was able to understand.

The mayor told them that the owner of the wheat shop and the guards at the guard station were all dead. On the first day of occupation, the bodies were thrown out. The mayor and several men went to collect the corpses and evacuated them later. A street, but those people did not come up again. "Then there are not many of them." Salim took the cigarette from the mayor.The post office was not working that day, and there was an imam and several Muslims in the mosque. Most of the hostages should be from the hospital.Salim nodded after listening. The mayor said that there were no weapons or bombs in this town except the guards. Salim called a deputy and asked him to check how much explosives they brought. The deputy didn't take a while. He ran back and handed over a list.

Salim looked at it and frowned. The equipment in their hands had to go to a few places behind, obviously not all of it could be used here. He took out the cigarette butt and flicked it away with his index finger.

The lieutenant saw that Salim was looking bad, and tried to help: "Use bombs to open the way, part of them rush in from the red cross, and part of them ambushes at the exit of the post office, and still force them out from the post office, how about this?"

Salim put his hand on his brow: "We don't have many people, just two teams."

The group fell silent.

"Is it okay to set fire?" Tao Yisu never took his eyes off the map, and he found that although he didn't know these words, after looking at them for a long time, he seemed to be able to see the outline.

All three people at the table looked up at him.Tao Yisu didn't notice, he clicked around the wheat shop with his fingers, and then scratched on the "trench".

"What?" Salim asked him.

Only then did Tao Yisu realize the atmosphere, he was a little at a loss, and then restrained himself to talk about his thoughts.

After listening, the three looked over again, the lieutenant smiled and looked up at him: "Where did you come up with such an idea?"

I read it in a book.Tao Yisu turned his head to look at the wind outside the window.

Salim looked at Tao Yisu strangely, he didn't know that Tao Yisu was calling for Beifeng, he just felt that this action was a little nervous.

"What to use?" The mayor has already started to look at Tao Yisu.

Under the eyes of the three, Tao Yisu tentatively said, "Arrow?"

Salim smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up, and the two of them were left in a cloud.Salim leaned back, turned his head and whistled, and his deputy ran over. Salim called the mayor and told him to get something.

After a while, the people in Salem's unit began to assemble improvised bombs.They poured gasoline into the empty wine bottle, filled the bottle up to the neck, tore the rag, twisted it into a flower, stuffed it into the mouth of the bottle, and exposed a section as a fuse.Salim patted Tao Yisu's shoulder: "When the time comes, ignite the head, and it will burn if you hit it."

While other people were busy, Salem looked at the wheat shop with a telescope and looked around. There were a few places that he couldn't see clearly, and he needed to know where the projection effect was better.Salim put down the binoculars and looked at Tao Yisu: "Go and investigate." Tao Yisu nodded and got up, Salim stopped him, turned to look at the other team members: "Whoever is free, go with him."

No one answered.

Tao Yisu finally discovered his situation.Before he said he would go by himself, a young man stood up and said, "I'll go with him."

This young man was one of the last batch to scout the terrain. He was tall and strong, with a vertical scar on his right eye.

Tao Yisu was wearing a steel helmet, and the heavy feeling from the top of his head distorted his senses generally. When he stepped on the ground, he had the illusion that he was not in the shell.The rifle in his hand no longer felt heavy, so he adjusted the strap in an attempt to find the most comfortable position.The young man walked ahead of him, driving carefully.

"What's your name?" Tao Yisu asked him in broken French when he was resting behind the wall.

"They call me a rabbit." The young man marked on the map with a blue pen.

"Where are you from?"

The rabbit didn't answer, and didn't answer if he didn't want to answer, and didn't even bother to push and pull with Tao Yisu.

Tao Yisu also closed his mouth.

On the way back, Tao Yisu heard a noise and hurriedly raised his gun to fire, but the rabbit pushed down the barrel of the gun.It's some reptiles.Rabbit looked at Tao Yisu, a little surprised that he could hear such a small sound.

They retreated carefully, and the rabbit on the road spoke for the first time: "You can't be nervous. If you are nervous, you will kill the people next to you."

Everything was ready, and a group of people sat on the ground waiting for instructions.Several people in Salem sat at the table, smoking while communicating with the mayor.The fire plan was like the bomb plan, with little regard for the safety of the hostages. The mayor reacted and objected.Salim persuaded the mayor to be at ease, but the lieutenant didn't say a word.Salem could only deal with the mayor. Their main task was to get rid of the southern faction. Someone had to take the blame for the hostages.

Several people were arguing, and suddenly Salim and the lieutenant fell silent, looking up at the window at the same time.

Their reactions also attracted the attention of others.

Salim suddenly turned his head with his eyes wide open, and grabbed the mayor's shoulder: "Where is the air-raid shelter!"

As soon as Salem finished speaking, a bang approached, and almost at the same time, they heard a huge explosion.

The mayor led the way out of the slaughterhouse and ran to the front desk of the butcher shop. The others followed quickly. Tao Yisu watched smoke rising from the two streets outside the window, and then the plane grew bigger and bigger.When the rabbit was running, he pulled Tao Yisu, and Tao Yisu reacted and joined the team.There is an air-raid shelter under the storage room at the front desk of the butcher shop. The mayor and the butcher shop owner are friends, and they dug together before. When they ran over, the butcher shop owner's family was already hiding under it.The boss pulled the bolt, saying that it couldn't accommodate so many people, so Salim pulled out his gun and pointed it at him: "Come out."

So the boss let go, and a group of people squeezed in.

They huddled in the ground, and the explosion exploded overhead, shaking off dust and sawdust, which fell on Tao Yisu's head.Salim asked the mayor, "Is there a bomb shelter over there?"

The mayor shook his head: "These were all built before the merger between the North and the South, and the rich prepared them. The street was only built two or three years ago, and there were still many people from the south after the merger, so no air-raid shelters were built. "

Salim snorted and said nothing.Tao Yisu was next to him, watching everyone in a daze very calmly, only the butcher's family hugged each other and trembled.Salim looked in the direction of Tao Yisu's eyes, and suddenly asked him, "You don't speak Arabic?"

Tao Yisu shook his head: "I haven't learned yet."

Salim smiled, the ground was dark, and his face could not be seen clearly: "You are lucky, a person like Fox, no matter how hard he works, he will not be the leader of NT."

Tao Yisu turned his head to look at Salim, who hurriedly spread his hands: "It's nothing else, I'm disgusted with foxes too, he's half fighting, half speculating, and betting on the wrong color." Salim snorted, "White bastard."

Tao Yisu remembered Nian Yao's words: "Is he unable to keep South Africa?"

Salim shrugged his shoulders: "Yes, otherwise you, a young man, could threaten him?" Salim smiled, "After all, it is God who helped you, and you caught up with any timing..."

They stayed in the air-raid shelter for a day and a half, and the food was only canned food. The boss's family couldn't eat much, and everyone was suffering.

After Tao Yisu went out, he vomited in the corner of the wall. Salim patted him, called the rabbit to take care of him, and then went to the southern stronghold with the lieutenant and the mayor.

Tao Yisu also followed.

None of the buildings were spared, and they were blown into ruins. There were hostages who ran out in a panic and a few soldiers from the Southern Faction, scattered on the ground with broken arms and legs. The blood was black, but the reptiles went quickly.

Tao Yisu looked at the ruins, the wreckage and corpses on the ground, blood stains on the ground he stepped on, and this half of the street, both on the ground and on the ruined walls, was all red.Tao Yisu looked over bit by bit, full of sadness, but accidentally met a pair of closed eyes, Tao Yisu's scalp was numb, and he quickly turned his eyes away.

Salim searched for signs of life beside the ruins, whistled, and patted the lieutenant: "The Southern Department really helped us a lot..." Then he turned to the mayor, "There is no way to do this." The mayor's eyes were red, and he looked at the people on the ground, nailed to the spot, not moving.

When they went back to the butcher shop, the boss was also crying at the slaughterhouse he had destroyed. The bombing was second to none. Those homemade bombs burned it all down.

After counting the number of people, Salim got into the car, stretched out his arms and patted the roof of the car, calling out to the others: "Let's get on the road."