The high-explosive bomb exploded instantly and the damage caused by it immediately stopped the counterattack that the other side was about to start. At the same time, Ruan Qingcha ignored the pain in his cheek that was hit by the airflow and controlled the engine to instantly increase the speed of the ship.

"Get down! Get down quickly!"

Wei Ran reminded loudly, "The other party did not have direct fire coverage. They probably planned to capture us alive! But now..."

"Da da da da da!"

Before he could finish his words, the people on the other side controlled the machine guns and fired a dense barrage, almost chasing the speeding boat, creating a series of splashes on the water.

"Boom!"

Li Youfu fired a second grenade at the opponent, but this time, when the grenade hit the ground, thick red smoke began to rise.

"The Americans will help us kill them"

As Li Youfu spoke, he quickly put on a high-explosive grenade and hit it.

"boom!"

With another explosion, the opponent's machine gun finally misfired. But Li Youfu did not stop. Instead, he fired high-explosive bombs or smoke bombs one after another until he left the range of the grenade launcher.

He didn't dare to get too entangled, and he didn't even care about whether he would be exposed. Ruan Qingcha, whose cheeks were already red, also increased the power of the engine to the maximum while the former was busy launching grenades.

Amidst the churning sound of the engine, this long, narrow and light boat even gave an obvious "push-back" feeling to Wei Yan, who was lying on the bow box and holding a telescope to look for the enemy.

Soon, as the ship ran farther and faster, the enemy who had planned to ambush them finally ceased fire, leaving only the smoke of various colors that still filled the coast.

"Troye!"

Zach returned the camera that had been empty of film to the other party, "You are already a qualified soldier. Of course, you are already a qualified frontline war reporter!"

"Thank you for the compliment," Li Youfu responded with a smile, and at the same time took the camera handed to him.

"Do you often encounter such dangers?" When Zach asked this question, he pointed in the direction behind him with his thumb.

"They have been attacking our material transportation channels"

Charlie, who had already put away his weapons, answered this question on Li Youfu's behalf, "The most important thing is that they want to catch people alive and ask for more information, otherwise we may not survive at all."

“It’s time to end the small talk.”

Ruan Qingcha at the stern of the boat reminded, "We are about to dock."

Before she finished speaking, the boat also turned into a not-so-wide river under her control, and after driving along the river at high speed for less than ten minutes, the engine suddenly turned off.

"Sit tight!"

Following Li Youfu's preemptive reminder, Ruan Qingcha also relied on her slender body to press down on the joystick and lift the propeller that was originally extended into the water out of the water.

With almost two legs, the boat was driven by inertia and rushed up the muddy river bank in a way that could be called silky smooth.

Before the boat came to a complete stop, Li Youfu, Charlie and Ruan Qingcha quickly jumped off and loaded the wooden boxes on the boat onto the two bicycles.

This was not over yet. Ruan Qingcha quickly pulled out two wooden sticks from the cabin and placed them across the beams and back seats of the two bicycles. Then he worked with Li Youfu and Charlie to lift the boat up.

"Hurry up!" Ruan Qingcha urged, taking the weapons of the three of them on his back.

Li Youfu and Li Youfu also did not dare to delay. One hand on the left and the other on the right held the handlebars extended by wooden sticks, and the other hand placed the boats on the two bicycles and began to drill through the jungle.

"You two, don't be in a daze, hurry up and follow us!"

Ruan Qingcha urged, but she was busy cleaning the traces left by the boat and the marks left by the bicycle on the mud.

After only running forward for less than a hundred meters, Li Youfu and his wife stopped the car. Amidst the roar of the helicopter that was getting closer and closer, they squatted on the edge of a bush and reached into the soil to lift it hard.

, revealing a slender tunnel large enough to fit the boat into.

"Come and help!"

In fact, without him even having to say hello, Wei Ran and Zach had already run over, helped Charlie lift the boat down, and pushed it into the pit paved with pillars.

Immediately afterwards, Li Youfu opened another well-hidden cover not far away, using his body as support, allowing Charlie and Wei Ran to push bicycles filled with cargo and hide in with Zach, and then

After Ruan Qingcha cleaned up the last trace and hid in, he squatted down and let the bamboo cover above his head fall down to cover everyone tightly.

Only two minutes later, a reconnaissance helicopter also flew overhead at low altitude.

In a tunnel that was dark and damp, with a layer of water under his feet that was almost submerged to his knees, Zach squinted his eyes and looked up at the light-transmitting gap between the bamboo covers above his head and asked in a low voice, "Troye, what's next?

how far?"

"Going straight along the river just now is Quang Tri Province..."

"So this is not far from Xishan Base?" Zach asked immediately.

"Khe Sanh Base?"

Le Huu Phuc shook his head, "The Americans have abandoned the Khe Sanh base. In July 1968, the Americans evacuated from there. Didn't you get the news in the prisoner of war camp?"

"General Westmoreland did not go to the prisoner of war camp to communicate..."

"It seems that you really can't get any outside information in the prisoner of war camp."

Li Youfu said with a strange expression, "General Westmoreland was transferred back to the United States in June of 1968, and now the one who calls the shots is General Creighton Abrams.

It was also under his order that the Americans withdrew from Khe Sanh. In fact, not only the Khe Sanh base, but also Route 9 is almost under our control now.

If it weren't for our companions to find you two easily by taking that highway, we wouldn't actually have to go around in such a big circle."

"So we have to go through Quang Tri Province?" Zach asked with a frown.

“It’s not as troublesome as you think.”

Li Youfu carefully pushed up the cover above his head to create a gap, and while observing the outside, he said, "As long as we pass through the jungle here, we are not far from Hue. There is a camp with stick people along the way. Of course, it is not the one we had before.

The one I went to."

"There were five or six villages along the way."

Ruan Qingcha sighed and said, "But those villages were either burned down by the hateful Hambang people, or they couldn't be moved because the defoliated rice couldn't survive."

"And the plane also planted a lot of landmines around it," Charlie added subconsciously, "There are also helicopters patrolling frequently during the day."

"Don't worry, I will send you..."

“Just send it here”

Zach said abruptly, "Troy, that's enough. Whether it's for friends or other reasons, you've done enough. Next, help me draw a map, and then we can walk back by ourselves."

, right, Victor?”

"it's up to you"

Wei Ran responded nonchalantly, but in fact all his attention was focused on the sky outside the gap. According to American behavior, the reconnaissance helicopter would definitely be followed by an armed helicopter.

"Let's wait for a while"

Li Youfu said, "At least let me take you through the minefield before you make a decision."

Without waiting for Zach to agree or refuse, the rumbling propeller roared from far to near again, and Li Youfu immediately lowered the slightly propped up cover again, blocking the narrow sky.

After a moment of waiting, accompanied by the strong smell of defoliant, the roar of the propeller above his head gradually disappeared. When Li Youfu carefully pushed open the bamboo cover covered with a layer of soil and weeds, there was still a layer of white floating in the sky.

fog.

"Walk"

Li Youfu greeted in a low voice, completely opened the bamboo cover, and after Ruan Qingcha and Charlie pushed the two bicycles out, he continued walking forward with Wei Ran and Zach without any explanation.

It took more than two hours to push the bicycle forward in the jungle. The heavy rain poured down without any warning. Li Youfu and Charlie immediately, with the help of Ruan Qingcha, moved the two bicycles full of supplies.

The bicycle was pushed under a big tree next to the foot of the mountain, and then covered with a green tarpaulin.

"While it's raining, I'll take you through that minefield."

Li Youfu hurriedly took out two sets of fourth-class US military uniforms prepared in advance from his bag and handed them to Wei Ran and Zach. Then he took off the camera around his neck and handed it to Ruan Qingcha, "This is a rare opportunity, Zach, Vick

"More, please put on your clothes quickly. When it rains, American planes rarely come out, and both the South Vietnamese and our patrols will stop to rest."

"Then let's go." Zach and Wei Ran looked at each other and quickly changed into the clothes provided by the other party.

"Victor"

Just when the three of them were about to set off, Ruan Qingcha, who had already put away the camera, came over. After some hesitation, he pulled out the 1911 pistol on his waist and handed it over, "This is your sidearm."

, give it back to you, don’t shoot at my compatriots.”

"Okay," Wei Ran said, taking the pistol and putting it on his belt.

Not daring to waste any more time, the two of them, led by Li Youfu, disappeared into the leafless jungle with Ruan Qingcha and Charlie's frowning and worried expressions on their faces.

"Brother Menglong, they...will he come back?" Ruan Qingcha asked helplessly.

"Yes." Charlie was particularly confident, "He will definitely come back."

"You must come back..." Ruan Qingcha prayed silently, her eyes always staring in the direction where the three disappeared.

In the jungle shrouded in heavy rain, a stone the size of a washbasin was just held by Zach with his hand, and then it was wrapped in the surrounding mud, passed through the gap between him and Wei Ran, and rolled toward the bottom of the slope.

, and finally crashed into the turbid flash flood with a "crash".

"careful"

Li Youfu, who was walking in the front, caught Zach who almost fell down after him. Wei Ran, who was about to take a secret photo of the two of them, also watched helplessly as one of Zach's tire slippers flipped over to the top of his foot, and the other
To be continued...