Able Sentry: The Next War (Kirov Series Book 50) by John Schettler

Author:John Schettler [Schettler, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Writing Shop Press
Published: 2020-02-25T13:00:00+00:00

03:00 Local, 8 JAN 2026

Brigadier Hale was gratified that there wasn’t much fight in the Egyptian platoon holding Fort Siwa. The stone works could have been a formidable obstacle, as they did not want to use heavy weapons to destroy the place. The threat posed by six hovering Apaches in the night was enough to convince the Egyptians that captivity was preferable to death that night. They knew they might only hold the fort for a few hours at best, and their lives were not worth that. There was nothing pressing about the situation in the overall scheme of things. They knew that reinforcements were coming from the east, and soon it would be the British Paras trying to hold on here, in much the same situation as they found themselves now.

So Fort Siwa surrendered under a white flag at three in the morning. The rest of the Egyptian battalion, except for a group of stragglers still fighting in the groves to the southeast, were all herded into a 500 meter wide pocket near the Safari Gardens, including the Battalion HQ. Brigadier Hale started negotiations that hour to see if he could get the remainder of the Egyptian troops there to lay down their arms.

“Tell them I’ve got 18 Apaches out there, and I won’t have to worry about using them in the terrain they now hold. So they can either spend the rest of the morning sleeping in one of these nice little resorts here, or they can die under the chain guns and rocket fire from those helos. Oh yes, Lieutenant. Tell them if they reserve at the inns now, I’ll throw in free breakfast.”

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