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.Their shooting wasn't very accurate in the gloom – I guessed that they couldn’t have much in the way of night-vision gear themselves – but it forced us to try to keep our heads down.As a distraction, it worked beautifully.“I have reports from the other command posts, Ed; they’re repelling similar attacks from the surrounding area.”“So we’re surrounded,” I said, bleakly.It wasn't that big a surprise, but it meant that there would be nowhere for us to run to if we lost the battle.This wasn't a simple FOB, or even another town, but the centre of the new government.If it fell, the Warriors would destroy, in a stroke, much of our remaining manpower.They would destroy the remaining towns within the month.“Remind them to conserve firepower as much as possible…”“They know,” Mac reminded me.I recognised his mothering tone and nodded slightly.I had been overdoing the redundant orders, after all, and we hadn’t trained the men to be dumb cannon fodder.The best of them would have given my old Company a run for its money.“Do you hear that?”I listened and heard the sound of vehicles revving up their engines.A moment later, they came into view on the night vision goggles, a trio of large trucks advancing towards us.A shell burst in the sky and suddenly the entire scene was illuminated in ghostly green light, sending everything into sharp relief.I pulled off the goggles, cursing under my breath, and saw a set of trucks advancing towards the first line of defences.I hadn’t expected a star shell, although in hindsight it made a certain kind of sense.They were used by the police to hunt for missing people in certain kinds of terrain.The Warriors must have looted it from a police station.My mind refused to admit the possibility that some policemen had gone over to the Warriors.“Hellfire,” I muttered, as the vehicles came closer.The ghostly light made it easier to see just how heavily armoured the Warriors had made them, strapping on enough armour to make them resemble some of the weirder vehicles we’d had in Iraq, after our standard vehicles had proven to be too lightly armoured for the task.Hell, perhaps the person pulling the strings had been in Iraq as well, although I didn’t want to consider that possibility either.Soldiers are generally good people, but some had broken under combat, or snapped and done terrible things.“I doubt that we can take those out with rifle fire.”“No,” Mac agreed.The vehicles in question had once been heavy bulldozers, with similar tracks to a tank.Shooting out their wheels wasn't a possibility…and, judging from the armour, it wouldn’t be easy to kill the driver either.At least there weren't any human shields, I told myself, and sighed in relief.The Warriors either rated this entire attack force as expendable – which struck me as a bit unlikely – or they’d run out of human shields, which was also unlikely.It was fairly possible that they just hadn’t decided to bring them all the way from their bases, or maybe they were worried about a rebellion…“Maybe they are expendable, after all,” I muttered.Daniel had given us figures that, I suspected, were at least an order of magnitude too high.We’d had enough trouble feeding four thousand men, women and children.The Warriors couldn’t have hosted and fed ten thousand men, let alone a hundred thousand, could they? I didn’t care how much they’d had in the way of stockpiled food; even a full-sized LOG would have had problems feeding that many for more than a month.I doubted that they really had more than ten thousand Warriors – after all, they had to feed the women and children as well – and if they were having problems, was it possible that they’d sent the men here to die? It struck me that they would probably see nothing wrong with a high friendly body count, after all.The men would have been killed in the service of God.I said as much to Mac [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Their shooting wasn't very accurate in the gloom – I guessed that they couldn’t have much in the way of night-vision gear themselves – but it forced us to try to keep our heads down.As a distraction, it worked beautifully.“I have reports from the other command posts, Ed; they’re repelling similar attacks from the surrounding area.”“So we’re surrounded,” I said, bleakly.It wasn't that big a surprise, but it meant that there would be nowhere for us to run to if we lost the battle.This wasn't a simple FOB, or even another town, but the centre of the new government.If it fell, the Warriors would destroy, in a stroke, much of our remaining manpower.They would destroy the remaining towns within the month.“Remind them to conserve firepower as much as possible…”“They know,” Mac reminded me.I recognised his mothering tone and nodded slightly.I had been overdoing the redundant orders, after all, and we hadn’t trained the men to be dumb cannon fodder.The best of them would have given my old Company a run for its money.“Do you hear that?”I listened and heard the sound of vehicles revving up their engines.A moment later, they came into view on the night vision goggles, a trio of large trucks advancing towards us.A shell burst in the sky and suddenly the entire scene was illuminated in ghostly green light, sending everything into sharp relief.I pulled off the goggles, cursing under my breath, and saw a set of trucks advancing towards the first line of defences.I hadn’t expected a star shell, although in hindsight it made a certain kind of sense.They were used by the police to hunt for missing people in certain kinds of terrain.The Warriors must have looted it from a police station.My mind refused to admit the possibility that some policemen had gone over to the Warriors.“Hellfire,” I muttered, as the vehicles came closer.The ghostly light made it easier to see just how heavily armoured the Warriors had made them, strapping on enough armour to make them resemble some of the weirder vehicles we’d had in Iraq, after our standard vehicles had proven to be too lightly armoured for the task.Hell, perhaps the person pulling the strings had been in Iraq as well, although I didn’t want to consider that possibility either.Soldiers are generally good people, but some had broken under combat, or snapped and done terrible things.“I doubt that we can take those out with rifle fire.”“No,” Mac agreed.The vehicles in question had once been heavy bulldozers, with similar tracks to a tank.Shooting out their wheels wasn't a possibility…and, judging from the armour, it wouldn’t be easy to kill the driver either.At least there weren't any human shields, I told myself, and sighed in relief.The Warriors either rated this entire attack force as expendable – which struck me as a bit unlikely – or they’d run out of human shields, which was also unlikely.It was fairly possible that they just hadn’t decided to bring them all the way from their bases, or maybe they were worried about a rebellion…“Maybe they are expendable, after all,” I muttered.Daniel had given us figures that, I suspected, were at least an order of magnitude too high.We’d had enough trouble feeding four thousand men, women and children.The Warriors couldn’t have hosted and fed ten thousand men, let alone a hundred thousand, could they? I didn’t care how much they’d had in the way of stockpiled food; even a full-sized LOG would have had problems feeding that many for more than a month.I doubted that they really had more than ten thousand Warriors – after all, they had to feed the women and children as well – and if they were having problems, was it possible that they’d sent the men here to die? It struck me that they would probably see nothing wrong with a high friendly body count, after all.The men would have been killed in the service of God.I said as much to Mac [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]