They drove the vehicles into a mountain col, picked suitable spots to put up camouflage nets that could both conceal them and block the sun. Once they reached the gap between the hills only ten kilometers from the border, Gao Yang directed the establishment of their first temporary camp.
The convoy couldn't go any farther; it had to be dispersed and hidden. If they wanted to reach the real forward positions, they'd have to walk there, or drive close and then go on foot, otherwise they'd be easily spotted by the Shah People.
The Houthis Armed Forces had already deployed about six hundred men in the area, but these troops were spread out, with no real defensive positions set up. It wasn't that the Houthis didn't want to station formed units here, it was that logistics couldn't keep up.
