Xixia dead book

Chapter 134 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (19)
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That night, Makarov briefly introduced the situation of the base to Shchedrin, then handed him the key that Buldenko was in charge of, opened the iron cabinet, and together with him checked the base's funds, weapons and ammunition .

Makarov was very serious when making the check, but Shchedrin had a cynical attitude.After Makarov finished checking, Shchedrin smiled and said, "Ivan, you are still so serious about things."

"No! I'm far behind Buldenko." Makarov said humbly.

"There is nothing wrong with being serious, but sometimes you have to divide the place, just like Burdenko. No matter how hard you work in this place, no one can see it. In the end, you will lose your life."

Although Makarov had an unhappiness with Burdenko, he still could not agree with other people's evaluation of Burdenko, especially after Burdenko's death.He ignored Schedrin, and still carefully checked whether the safe and the metal cabinet were locked.

Schedrin suddenly smiled again: "Ivan, I have heard a lot of news from the headquarters this time. I have a good news and a bad news to tell you. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Makarov knew that Shchedrin had always been a well-informed person: "Then let's hear the bad news first!"

Schedrin shrugged: "Actually, this bad news is good news for you, and it's good news for me too..."

"Then tell the good news first!" Makarov was not very interested in the above news.

"The good news is you'll be reassigned soon."

"Oh?" Makarov was taken aback. "This is indeed good news. But is your source reliable?"

"Absolutely reliable! Your transfer order will be confirmed within half a year, maybe within half a year." Schedrin vowed.

"Are you so sure?" Makarov was dubious.

"Certainly, and you'll probably be promoted to colonel this year. Look what good news I have for you."

"Have you figured out who will be sent to replace me? You know, if it wasn't for Burdenko's death, you wouldn't have been sent here. It stands to reason that both Burtenko and I should be transferred back, but there is no one." You are willing to take over from us, that's why..." Makarov was already calmed down by the wind and sand in the desert.

"Who will succeed you? Don't worry, there may never be someone who will succeed you."

"What do you mean?" Makarov looked at Shchedrin suspiciously.

"This is the bad news I want to tell you. I heard at the headquarters that the advanced base has been intentionally withdrawn."

"What? Cancel the base?!" Makarov was quite surprised, "Those trainees are about to finish their training, why are they cancelled? We are not going to send them to China? Then all our painstaking efforts over the past few years have been in vain. ?”

"Hehe." Schedrin laughed, "Ivan, I told you before, pay more attention to politics. In the eyes of politicians, we are just pawns, and we will send you when we need you." Go up, and take you down when you don't need it."

"That is to say, our pawn is useless now?"

"It's hard to say what the final outcome will be. The higher-ups are still observing the situation. Compared with the previous few years, the current international situation has undergone great changes. China's domestic situation has gradually stabilized. relationship. So Comrade Andropov may never use our pawn again."

"He sent me here at the beginning." Makarov murmured, although he was happy to be able to go home, but the withdrawal of the base made him feel that his and Buldenko's years of hard work had been wasted.

"So I reckon that the higher-ups will not send anyone to the base. After you transfer, I will finish everything here. I really hope that day will come sooner."

"End all this? How?"

"I figured the base would be dismantled and the cadets would be sent to prison, that's all."

"Send it back to prison?!" Makarov's heart trembled, and he felt compassion again.

"That's right! These people are dangerous elements in the first place, and with the years of training, they are even more dangerous, so we must send them back to prison."

Makarov had long thought that for these students, they would either be sent to China or be locked up again. Buldenko's promise to them at the beginning was just a dead letter.But when he heard the ending from Schedrin, he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

"What I said today, you must keep it a secret, and you must not reveal it to those students, otherwise we will be in trouble." Shchedlin told Makarov.

Makarov nodded.Of course he knew what the consequences would be if what they said reached the students.

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The next day, Makarov introduced Shchedrin to all the students.He especially introduced Li Guowen to Xie Delin: "This is the oldest student here, and also the student with the best training results."

Xie Delin made an exception with a smile, shook hands with Li Guowen, and said, "I remember you."

Xie Delin did remember Li Guowen.After Makarov was transferred away, Schedrin simply handed over the responsibility of training the trainees to Li Guowen, because he had received accurate information that the base would be disbanded soon.

Looking out the window at the trainees who continued their training, Schedrin was anxiously looking forward to revoking the paper order to advance to the base.Since Makarov left, the base has not added any equipment, and the funds have been decreasing, and have gradually dropped to half of the past, but the paper order has not been seen for a long time.

In this way, another two years passed while waiting.Until one day in late autumn, when snowflakes rarely fell on the Gobi Desert, Schedrin finally hoped for the paper to revoke the order to advance to the base.Amidst the excitement, he was surrounded by deep worries: According to the order from above, all 48 trainees must be escorted to the prison in Irkutsk, and then they can end their missions at the forward base.

Since Makarov left, Shchedrin moved into Makarov's room because he always felt that Buldenko's room was unlucky.Buldenko always seemed to haunt him, giving him nightmares.

At this moment, Shchedrin has been preparing for two weeks to "end it all". Although he is looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, his thoughts have already flown back to Moscow. "It's time to end this!" Shchedrin muttered to himself.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Schedrin opened it, only to find that it was Lieutenant Nikolai.Schedrin let Nicholas into the house, then poked his head out to look outside. The base was covered with snow and there was a dead silence.Seeing nothing unusual, Xiedlin closed the door and went back into the house.

"Is there anything unusual about those students?" Schedrin asked Nicholas.

"No. Everything is fine."

"That's the best. I'll officially inform you now that we'll act tomorrow." Shedlin straightened his face and said sternly.

"Tomorrow? Isn't time a little tight?" Nicholas hesitated.

"The night is long and there are many dreams. Since we want to act, we should cut the mess quickly." Shedlin paused and said his arrangement, "I arranged it like this. We will gather the students tomorrow morning and divide them into six teams for a meeting. At that time, the special forces from Irkutsk will completely surround the base and occupy all the key positions; then I will announce the order to cancel the base to all the students. After reading the order, they will be divided into six teams. Put on six helicopters and fly to Irkutsk. During this process, anyone who dares to resist will be shot. Remember! Anyone who resists will be shot to death!"

After Schedrin finished talking about his plan, Nicholas thought about it and said: "The plan is very good, but I'm worried..."

"worry about what?"

"I'm worried that we don't have enough manpower!"

"Hehe!" Shchedrin laughed, "Your worry is unnecessary, the special forces from Irkutsk have a company, plus the personnel in the base, I think it is more than enough to deal with those unarmed students. "Schedrin looked confident.

"I'm afraid...I'm afraid that those guys will be caught in a trap and fight trapped beasts. They are all masters trained by Buldenko!" Lieutenant Nikolai seemed to lack confidence.

"Our special forces are also masters, so there is nothing to worry about! Well, let's do this, you should go back and get ready." Schedrin had made up his mind.

After sending Nicholas away, while drinking coffee, Schedrin thought over his plan from beginning to end.After confirming that it was correct, he felt a burst of drowsiness, so he fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

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In the early hours of the morning, Schedrin was suddenly awakened by a burst of gunfire.He sat up abruptly and rubbed his temples, feeling his brain was heavy.How could I sleep so dead?

Schedrin was still suspicious, but the gunshots outside the house became more and more intense, followed by a rapid knock on the door.Shchedlin was startled, and his heart immediately hung in his throat.He took out the pistol from under the pillow, opened the safety, jumped out of bed and went to the window, looked out the door, but couldn't see the situation outside the house clearly.He came to the door again and asked, "Who?"

"It's me! Nikolai!"

Schedrin recognized Nikolai's voice and hurriedly opened the door.Nicholas stumbled, rolled and crawled into the room: "Comrade Schedrin, no...it's not good, those students rioted!"

"What? Riot!" Shchedrin sat down on the ground in shock.

At this moment, "bang...bang" two stray bullets hit the door made of iron sheet, sparking sparks burst out.

Nicholas rushed out of the house to fight back, and then closed the door.

"Who leaked the news?" Schedrin guessed that the students must have heard something.

"Hurry up and think of a way! Otherwise, we'll be here!" Nicholas shouted.

At this time, bullets kept hitting the iron sheet outside the house. Nicholas wanted to shoot back, but he pulled the trigger a few times before he realized that there was no bullet in the gun.Nikolai threw away the gun in his hand and shouted to Shchedrin: "Let's run!"

Shchedrin ignored Nikolai, he stood up abruptly, staggered to Brdenko's room, and took out the key of the iron cabinet with trembling hands.Both Makarov's and Buldenko's keys were there, and he didn't know which key he used to open the tin cabinet.Nicholas followed in, and when they saw the situation in the cabinet, they were both stunned.

"I said where did they get the weapons and heavy machine guns, so they stole all the weapons in the cabinet!" Nicholas shouted in despair.

Schedrin stared blankly at the empty cabinets. The weapons and ammunition in the middle and lower floors were all gone, and the files on the upper floor were also gone.Trembling, he opened the safe again, and the banknotes in the safe disappeared.He couldn't remember when these things in the cabinet were lost.Yesterday I opened the cabinet and checked the items, and they were all in good condition. Could it be when I was sleeping just now?But the key is under my pillow...

"Let's go! If you don't go, it's over for us. These people are masters, and they have weapons..." As he said, Nicholas rushed out of the iron house with Shchedrin.They dare not fight, let alone put down the riot.Braving the stray bullets that passed by from time to time, the two ran wildly all the way.It had just snowed on the Gobi Desert, and the two couldn't tell the direction, they just kept running in the snow.Slipped and fell in the snow again and again, got up again and again, until they saw the dawn in the east, and the two collapsed on the snow.

The two of them were panting heavily, and the whole night's running had already exhausted their physical strength.Lying in the snow, Schedrin suddenly felt the ground tremble slightly, and on the horizon in the distance, two black spots were approaching him.Could it be that group of students came after them?Schedrin braced himself to stand up, but fell down again.He was exhausted and had given up trying to survive. He just lay quietly on the snow, watching the two black dots slowly approaching...

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When Schedrin woke up, it was already afternoon.He found himself lying in a military camp, which was a Soviet military camp in Mongolia, and he and Nikolai were rescued by two patrolling armored vehicles.

When two officers asked him about the situation, Schedrin only revealed his identity, but refused to say what happened.Firstly, the advance base is a secret, and secondly, such a family scandal should not be publicized.

Schedrin neither dared to say nor reported to his superiors. He only asked the officer to send him and Nikolai back to the forward base.Before nightfall, he and Nikolai were sent back to the forward base.He found that this place has been controlled by more than 100 special forces who came to the forward base to perform escort tasks.

It was only after Schedrin talked about it that he persuaded the commander of the special forces not to report what happened here to the headquarters, and he would report to the headquarters two days later.

Shchedrin and Nicholas looked at the scene in dismay.The two soldiers who were on duty at the sentry post last night had their necks broken; in the barracks, four or five soldiers who had just picked up their weapons were sieved by the 12.7mm bullets fired by the heavy machine gun, and their flesh was mutilated; , there were several other officers and soldiers lying staggered here and there, as well as some fragments of corpses blown up by grenades, which was horrible.Shchedrin pushed open a door in fear, and a smell of blood and medicine rushed into his nostrils intertwined.He recognized that this was the infirmary of the base, and saw the military doctor lying face down on the table, with bright red blood dripping all over the table, which had solidified together.

"The neck was broken, and then stabbed again, straight to the heart." Nicholas checked the body of the military doctor.

"Break your neck?"

"Well, it's the same method as the soldiers on the sentry post."

"Why is this? It's easy to understand why they didn't shoot and kill the soldiers on the sentry post. Why did they also use this method to kill the military doctor? If there is already a fight, bullets can be used."

Nicholas thought for a while: "Maybe those students sneaked into the military doctor's place first."

"Sneak in first? What are they going to do?" Sheidlin immediately thought of something. He touched the blood on the table. "The blood has solidified. It seems that the military doctor died earlier than the others."

Schedrin rummaged through the medicine cabinet in the infirmary again: "The sleeping pills are all gone."

Schedrin began to understand why he slept so deeply last night.After checking the whole scene, there was not a single dead body of a student.Frustrated, Xie Delin understood that he had caused a catastrophe this time. If he could not catch all the students who escaped, he would not only be dismissed from his post and investigated, but also go to a court-martial.He suddenly fell from the excitement of going home to the bottom.

Schedrin understood that he only had two days, and he must capture all the escaped students within two days.And he didn't dare to say anything, the only forces he could mobilize were him, Nicholas, and the special forces of this company.

Schedrin and the commander of the special forces agreed that now that the snow is freezing and the place is sparsely populated, those students who escaped must not be far away. Using a helicopter to search in the air, they should be able to find those students.Therefore, the helicopter that was originally intended to escort the students began to search for the 48 escaped students on the vast Gobi covered by heavy snow.

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After two days of searching, Schedrin searched almost every inch of land near the base, but he didn't even see a single student.Schedrin was extremely depressed, could these students know how to fly?How far can they go on this deserted Gobi Desert?There were originally four jeeps and two trucks at the base. Both the truck and the two jeeps were destroyed in the firefight, and only two intact jeeps were driven away. The two jeeps could not seat so many people, and the fuel the jeeps carried was too large. Very limited, how can they get away?But so far, the helicopter has not been able to find the two jeeps.

Just when Schedrin was puzzled, Nicholas stumbled in and said, "It's not good, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"What's wrong?" Schedrin was shocked.

"A police station in Irkutsk was ... bloodbathed!"

"What? Irkutsk! What do you mean?" Without waiting for Nikolai to answer, Shchedrin immediately understood what he meant, "...you mean, those students bloodbathed the police station?"

"Who else do you think can bloodbath the police station at this time?"

"But...but it's thousands of miles away from Irkutsk, how could they..." Shchedlin refused to believe it, and decided to go and see for himself.

Shchedrin and Nikolai took a helicopter and soon flew to the police station in Irkutsk.As soon as he entered the gate, Schedrin could almost tell that those students must have made this "masterpiece".

The person in charge of the local KGB introduced to Schedrin: "All the 11 policemen on duty that night were killed, and they were all killed by one shot. The murderer's methods were brutal and his marksmanship was extremely accurate, using a TT-33 pistol. After shooting the policeman, the group Robbed guns and cash from the police station."

(End of this chapter)