Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 438 Marching
The ins and outs of this attack were quickly pieced together from the words of the militia captain and the chief of police.

As we all know, there are indeed [-] criminal organizations in Guatemala, and most of them can get money from the banned black industries such as pornography, gambling and drugs.

The gang that attacked Liang En and the others on the roadside belonged to one of these criminal organizations, and there were about 70 armed personnel in the entire organization.

Compared with those top gangs with thousands of people, this gang can be said to be small, but in this remote and desolate area, an armed force of more than 70 people can run amok.

This is why this organization had the confidence to send messengers to the town before, and openly asked the local people to plant a variety of unique crops.

Because with the increase of organizational personnel, they feel that they can get rid of the status of mere middlemen in the past and start to develop towards the integration of production and sales, and their armed forces obviously give them enough confidence.

It's just that for a country that has fought a civil war for more than 30 years, the people here are definitely not docile lambs. After a simple comparison of the strengths of the two sides, the people in the town resolutely rejected the other party's request.

The reason for making this choice is also very simple. It is different from the current economic crops and food crops that can find many different distributors, even if they can’t sell them, they can use them by themselves. Once they grow unique products, it means their lifeline is pinched. In the hands of this gang.

Everyone knows the disadvantages of monopoly, let alone a group of outlaw lunatics monopolizing. Even if you think about it with your feet, you know that if you succumb, the income of the residents in the town will definitely drop a lot, and they will not even be able to support themselves. .

On the other hand, the officials of the Central American countries are also extremely unreliable. Even if they are fighting against the evil forces, they often just pick a few people at random to beat them.

In addition, the opponent's actions basically will not take the initiative to avoid those civilians or reduce various accidental injuries. , if it is close to the target, the probability of civilians being shot or bombed is not small.

Not to mention that the criminal gangs must have got the information and ran away before the official action, but the residents of these towns would definitely not be able to run away if they had families and businesses.

This is why the town resolutely expressed its refusal, and the armed forces in the town also ensured that they had enough confidence to say no to this group of gangsters.

As a country that has been in civil war for more than 30 years, those villages that have been able to exist all the time are not a tough bone to deal with today. For example, the target of Liang En this time is also the target of the bandit attack. The town of Maria is this kind of settlement.

The whole town is located on a peninsula by the river. It is not only fortified, but also has a 3m high rammed earth log wall with trenches and bunkers as fortifications. There is also a militia team of more than 30 people in the town.

Of course, the militiamen here refer to professionally trained armed personnel who are not part of the job. Except for them, there are nearly 300 people in the whole town who can take up guns to resist. Cooperating with fortifications can bring huge casualties to those attackers who do not have heavy weapons .

This is why the previous criminal gang was unwilling to attack head-on, because there is no difference between a frontal attack and suicide based on their numbers, so they had to find another way.

Through the eyeliner, the other party determined the location of the leaders of the armed men in the small town, and then tried to ambush on this road, beheading the defenders of that small town.

It turned out that three cars came in one go on this road where there were basically no people. At the same time, the cars were all elite armed personnel, causing half of their most elite attackers to die in the woods.

For Liang En and the others, it was within their expectations to intervene in a conflict for self-protection. After all, they had to be prepared to fight when they came to this place.

But they didn't expect that their own side could kill 15 people without injury when they were absolutely outnumbered, and then forced nearly 20 other people to flee in a panic.

After dragging the school bus from the side of the road and changing the tires, they drove to the target town with the guns and ammunition they had just seized.

It has to be said that the local gangsters, especially the gangsters in small-scale criminal organizations, are actually not doing very well. For example, the booty seized just now is very bad.

Among the 15 guns, only three ak47s and one m14 are regarded as regular weapons. The rest of the guns are not various single-shot shotguns or double-barreled shotguns, or self-made weapons full of green leather style purely made of iron pipes and wooden barrels. .

Especially those self-made weapons are unreliable no matter how they look at them. When shooting, people feel that the target is as dangerous as the user of the firearm, and the user of the firearm may even be more dangerous.

Because they saved the lives of the local police chief and militia captain in this accident, the rest of the journey was obviously smoother than previously expected.

Not only did they successfully get the supplies they needed most in the town, but they also got three professional hunters who had been hunting around to serve as their guides.

More importantly, they saw some small pieces of emerald fished out of the river here, proving that the deposit was indeed upstream.

Because of the help of these professionals, everyone's next jungle trip is obviously much easier than expected. At least the road is much shorter and easier to walk than the one they originally expected.

After riding their horses to a flat land on the mountainside, everyone quickly set up camp and made preparations for the night, while Liang En followed a guide and walked tens of meters forward to a small mound.

After simply cleaning up the tropical plants on the mound, Liang En found that it was not a mound at all, but a building wreck with Mayan-style stone carvings.

The reason why I chose this road today is that it is easier to walk, but another reason is that after learning of Liang En's identity and target, the police chief and militia captain who were rescued earlier mobilized everyone to recall what kind of people around him. Ancient ruins, as a result, someone recalled that there seemed to be ruins here.

In addition, this small town was actually built on an ancient village. Before leaving, Liang En went to the church in the town and recognized the Maya statues carved on the stone on the foundation. pattern.

Although it is said that all the remaining Mayan buildings are stone buildings, in fact, most of the ancient Maya lived in grass houses built of wood and various tropical herbs. Only nobles and priests could live in stone buildings.

However, this is a tropical rainforest, and those houses made of organic matter can easily disappear completely in the forest. Instead, those buildings that were rare in the Mayan era became representatives of ancient Mayan architecture.

For the ancient Mayans, places where stone buildings could be built were very important to them, and in theory, such a barren and desolate place should not have such high-end buildings, let alone Say it's in the jungle now.

So after seeing this wreck, Liang En became more confident in finding the mine. After all, an important emerald mine was enough for the ancient Mayans to build stone buildings in such a place.

(End of this chapter)