Dark Days of the After (Book 3): Dark Days of the Apostasy by Schow Ryan

Author:Schow, Ryan [Schow, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival
Publisher: River City Publishing
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Quan and Longwei traveled through the night, encountering little resistance along the way, which surprised them both.

“Why do you think the roads are so empty?” Longwei asked.

“Think of the incoming barges in Long Beach and LA as the trough. Right now, it’s feeding time for the locals. Especially after the EMP. The chatter has been rampant though, at least on the lines of communication still operational. A lot of the Chicoms don’t think the EMP was a good idea. They’re nervous about resources, and many of them think the event was triggered too late. The South American Army has air support they brought in after the EMP hit and now they’re attacking some of the more northern cities. It’s got everyone hunkered down and waiting.”

“So now that the barges are arriving, they’re either down there picking up supplies or they’re dug in and waiting?”

“Exactly.”

“Well then, I guess our timing isn’t so bad,” Longwei said.

An hour later, they encountered the convoy. Quan felt a rise in his blood pressure. This was not excitement per se, more like a tightening of the sphincter.

“Is this them?” Longwei asked, a pair of binoculars up to his eyes. “I mean, it could be.”

He handed the binos to Quan.

“I don’t know,” he said, checking out the line of vehicles in the darkness. “It’s not as big as I thought it would be.”

The convoy was maybe half a mile ahead. Longwei took the binos back, watched them from a distance, then said, “They’re turning off the road. It looks like they’re hitting a rest station. Should we take the chance?”

“I think we have to,” he said. “They’re big enough to be a threat, but I’m still concerned they aren’t big enough to be the assault force we’re looking for.”

They stopped a quarter mile from the convoy, which had indeed come to a stop at a rest station. Everyone piled out of the truck to stretch.

“What’s our ROE?” Longwei asked.

“We’re going to need a recon/forward assault team,” Quan said, looking around at the men and enjoying the cool, fresh air. “We’ll be weapons ready, but with the intent of observation and reporting. We do not engage the targets until we confirm they are indeed the targets.”

“How will we know that?” one of the soldiers asked. He was already locked and loaded, like he’d been waiting for this the same way a kid waits for Christmas.

“Best guess based on intel. It’s my call, clear?”

“Clear,” everyone said.

Longwei situated his immediate team, then he and Quan suited up, put on their NVGs and ran through a quick comms check. When they were ready, the recon team set off into the dark as six men, or the “Inner Circle.” The IC6 consisted of Quan, Longwei and two counterparts each. The “Outer Circle” consisted of four snipers and a man on the RPG. That was the OC5. The remaining men and women held their positions, watching over the vehicle and its contents, as well as monitoring comms should the IC6 call for drone surveillance and/or support.

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