Chapter 530: Upper Valley Estuary

In the northern province of Iraq, at the junction of Syria and Iraq, the Tigris River from Turkey runs through this plateau, and the mountains formed around the Caspian Sea meander to the river, forming a beautiful and spectacular landscape picture.

This is one of the birthplaces of civilization in the Middle East. It has a history of more than 5,000 years of human habitation. After dynasties changed and civilizations went south, this place has gradually become a past tense in the long river of human history.

But in today's modern society, there are still many villages and tribes that still maintain ancient living customs.

It retains the most primitive appearance of life, and similarly, it is also the most closed here.

There is not even a mobile phone signal, only a satellite phone, which can communicate with the outside world.

There are farmhouses deep in the mountains and rivers. The primitive life keeps the nature pure here. The black goat alpine grains have become the only reliance for people's life here.

The lack of news and little contact with the outside world have also caused the people here to be simple-minded, follow ancient traditions, and are being swayed by extreme emotions and thoughts, and violence and threats cannot be swayed.

The peace here is long gone, far away from the order of civilization, everything is so primitive.

Steep mountains and hidden cedar forests make this the best place to avoid aerial reconnaissance strikes and satellite surveillance.

Therefore, such a place has become a paradise for many extremist organizations, and it has also become an excellent place for many people to avoid outside detection and hunting.

And because there is no external communication, it is difficult for people here to receive news from the outside world, and there is no phone to contact the outside. Hiding in such a place is perfect.

However, in this world, there has never been an impenetrable wall, let alone in the context of the big world, the mountainous area in the north of Iraq has always been the favorite place for extremist organizations to hide.

So such an environment is the best hiding place. But it is also the favorite place of all intelligence personnel.

Even, in places you don't know, there are people hiding in the dark house. Use the satellite phone to communicate with the outside world. Once the valuable news is passed on, the dollars exchanged are enough to provide a family with food and clothing for a lifetime.

But once discovered, the exchange will be the bloodiest revenge, and even being suspected casually will immediately lead to murder.

Nobody here stands up for them. Not even any laws and enforcers,

It is just to follow the living habits handed down from ancient times.

At the mouth of the Shanggu River, a small village is located on a small plain where mountains and rivers flow, surrounded by straight and towering mountains, with a small mountain spring and stream sandwiched between the mountains on both sides.

The mouth of the Shanggu River is located in this place, facing the two high mountains in the east and west, so that this small village under the deep mountain stream has an average sunshine time of less than three hours a day, and the night always comes very fast.

Because the mountains on both sides are very straight. Surrounded by mountains, forests and shrubs, all radio equipment entering this small mountain village will lose its effect. Only those satellite communication devices can barely reach the outside.

The mountain range from high to low makes this small mountain stream only have one path in and out, and there is no other way in and out.

In the mountain stream, there are about twenty families, almost all of them are old people and children. It is rare to see young men and women.

Because of the hardships of life, almost all the middle-aged people in every family are struggling to make a living, leaving behind some women and old people and children.

It can be said that the small village here is completely a village with little defense. But if you think this way, you are wrong, because almost everyone here has a rifle on their backs, most of them are AK-47, which is enough to show the toughness of the people in this small mountain village.

Especially when grazing black goats in the mountains. The old people and children in the group also carried weapons and went out in groups.

Because even if they are far away from the outside world, they can understand the dangers of the world. The more they are in such a place, the more dangerous they are.

However, the weapons in their hands are at most to defend against those thieves or homeless people, and they cannot stop those real extremist organizations at all.

The upper valley estuary, which has been under control for more than three years, has also become one of the most hidden ISIS sites.

However, the original villagers here have not suffered any persecution. When Baghdadi appeared, he won the support of these ignorant villagers as a caliph.

At the same time, Baghdadi also brought them a lot of daily necessities, and built a small generator set in the mountains to provide electricity to the villagers.

Of course, to provide the necessary power supply to the own headquarters. After all, if there is no power supply for communication equipment, it is just scrap iron, and when necessary, various batteries need to be charged. Without power, we can’t stay here for a day. .

The reason why Baghdadi's identity can be respected here is also closely related to the many practical benefits he has brought.

After all, no one is a fool, one side is a gun and the other is a better life, and the people here also know how to make a choice.

Above the mountain stream, under the dense forest filled with the smell of sheep dung, in the bushes, two motionless figures have been lurking here for three days.

During these three days, the two of them did not leave their current positions no matter whether they were eating, drinking or lying. In the past three days, the two of them just took turns to rest and continuously monitor the mouth of the Shanggu River below.

It’s just that three days have passed, and the small village they monitored did not show any abnormalities at all. There are more than 20 households with less than 60 people. Such a population base is already very small for ordinary families in the Middle East. .

And it was all old people and children, and some women in green cloaks.

However, the two did not relax because of this, because behind the village there was a wooden house that was obviously far away from the village.

The size of the wooden house is not small, and it is larger than the average house in the village. The building materials are all locally sourced from nearby fir trees.

And the eyes of the two were almost all fixed on this wooden house, because in this wooden house, there was a thin antenna that was always swaying in the breeze of the mountain forest.

At the same time, in front of the wooden house, there is also a large tripod for receiving satellite signals, and you can see obvious lines connected to the wooden house.

Through these three days of observation, all the villagers at the mouth of the Shanggu River will not approach this wooden house, and there are at least two armed men patrolling around the wooden house every day.

In the village, there are also about 20 armed men active, and they usually live in the same house with those villagers. (To be continued.) SJGSF0916