2021 by Martin Wiseman

Author:Martin Wiseman [Wiseman, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Martin Wiseman
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Day Nine:

15th January 2021

Just Outside Lodi,

California, U.S.A.

The United States government sent out just over two hundred and fifty investigators to try and establish the exact size of the huge dead zone area around California.

Only twenty seven even returned, with the others all having overstepped the point where they could escape back out again.

General O’Dowd meanwhile, had poured over detailed maps showing the terrain and had decided that Lodi in California was to be the best point to launch an all out counterattack against the creatures.

He had picked a point where he hoped they hadn’t yet reached, but also strategically it was also an area that was reasonably flat that his troops could easily access.

The largest horse drawn artillery unit since the American Civil War was soon assembled on United States’ soil.

General O’Dowd, a keen military historian himself, at first suggested it would be like the great American Victory over the Villista forces back in 1916, until he remembered of course, it was the same 7th Calvary who had perished at the hands of the mostly Sioux Indians at the battle at the Little Big Horn some forty years earlier.

When General O’Dowd was finally able to view his assembled army however, he compared it to that of Alexander the Great who had conquered Egypt, Greece and the entire might of the Persian Empire with an almighty army that must have looked vaguely similar to his own.

Such an enormous army was impossible to keep secret and very soon it sparked off a media frenzy all around the world as reporters demanded to know what on earth was going on.

The President however, had decided to remain tight lipped issuing only a statement that the Army was taking part in secret strategic ‘manoeuvres’ within the area.

Any attention on what was happening in the Lodi area met with swift thrift from members of the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, The National Guard and members of all three armed forces.

Whilst any attention from the air was met with the deployment of military jets or helicopters to drive any intruders away before they got anywhere even remotely near the assembled army or the dead zone itself.

Factories containing any equipment to mass produce cog wheels or mass automated welding machines were immediately requisitioned and had simply been seized by the army in the evening, with the owners and factory workers arriving to work the next day to discover themselves locked out of their own factories.

Using the simple template Joan, Stuart, Jack and their fellow scientists all between them had designed, specialist government industrial scientists, engineers and other experts were now mass producing these crude weapons at a truly astounding rate.

Joan had called them ‘catapults’ but later Stuart suggested to her that they were far more like giant ‘crossbows’ instead.

Soon, huge fleets of articulated trucks loaded with the weapons and their ammunition were rolling in to Lodi and secretly taken photos of the individual parts began to appear on the internet along with many government conspiracy theories.

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