Battleground Vietnam 06.Night of Destruction by Eric Meyer

Author:Eric Meyer [Eric Meyer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2021-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

We ducked back into cover while we worked out how to handle the problem. There was no other way to do it except the brutal and direct way. Kill them all. Brown and his three men were, despite their short period of imprisonment in this stinking pit, incapable of doing anything other than putting one foot in front of the other. The Viets had given them a hard time. They hadn’t drunk any liquid or eaten any food in the past twenty-four hours. They’d all been severely beaten and struggling to stay conscious in that stinking miasma they’d used for a prison.

“We have to do it the hard way,” Ray said, “Go in hard and fast, kill them quick, then jump in the jeep and get out of Dodge.”

“Ray, once we start driving we have to go all the way. Wasn’t it around forty klicks? That’s a long way to go if they come after us, and they sure as hell will come after us.”

“We don’t have any choice, pal. It’s either that, or we take on half the People’s Army.”

He was right, and we prepared to take down those soldiers clustered around the jeep. The trick would be to get them all without doing any serious damage to the GAZ. If we put a hole in the fuel line or something serious, forty klicks was a long way to run with a rabid and vengeful pack of Commies on your tail. Brown wanted to take part, but I pointed out they were unarmed, and I persuaded him to keep his men behind cover and keep their mouths shut.

We made sure we had full magazines in our M-16s, and Diep insisted on being part of the attack. Three men against ten, but we had the advantage of surprise. Ray took the lead, and there was no subtlety in his approach. He suddenly leaped out into the open, firing burst after burst that tore into the enemy, and I followed. Diep was at my shoulder, and he’d selected full auto on the AK-47, spraying bullets at the soldiers who turned and stared at us, not daring to believe what they faced. Two more went down, and we were closing on them, five men left, and they started to return fire. Bullets whistled and whined overhead, and we had no choice but to keep running. Racing toward them, I emptied a magazine, slammed in a replacement, my last, and kept running. Ray ran like a hare, going straight at them, an Army Ranger, his teeth bared in a savage grimace, and I’d guess he was at least as scary as the bullets he was firing.

We reached the jeep, and two soldiers had run, racing back along the track, heading north. I shouted at Diep to stay back while Ray and I went after them. He ignored me, caught up in the ferocity of the fight, and in the chance to kill men in the uniform of those who’d brought his life to ruin, and slaughtered his brother.

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