Deadly Enemy by Gray Lanter

Author:Gray Lanter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Castle Federation, The Terran Privateer, Space Carrier, Avalon, Dietmar Wehr, The Last Valkyrie, Ryk Brown, The Frontiers Saga, Rise Of Mankind, Fallen Empire, Craig Alanson, SpecOps, Expeditionary Force, JR Handley, John Walker, Rise Of Mankind, The Silver Ships, S. H. Jucha, Lindsay Buroker
Publisher: BlueShelfBooktore
Published: 2017-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Cajun, Tarum and I stood around a computer table. The screen flashed a picture of Sandeling three hundred years ago. Unlike the current frosty mess, the land looked like Kansas. The wheat on Sandeling – or what looked like wheat – stood only about three feet tall, yellow and waving in the wind. Tarum told me it used to grow over most of the planet. Like Kansas, the region we were interested in was mostly flat with one small mountain range.

The only thing with an attitude at all on the flat, yellow land was what might be described as the Sandeling equivalent of a black medieval castle. Three hundred years ago, the Cappnids had a thing for castles. Tarum pointed to it.

“We were always a rural people with no need of large buildings. This structure is the largest for five hundred miles, which is one reason the Soltarians are using it for a headquarters. Their soldiers, to the best of my knowledge, have only guns, but nothing larger. Some have pistols and others have what you call rifles, but they shoot bolts of fire.”

“Lasers,” I said. “How many soldiers are there?”

“My best guess is close to two thousand.”

“I have fifty men. That means the odds are forty to one.”

“But we’re Ryvenbark’s Raiders. We can take forty to one odds,” Cajun said.

“Yes, but the Soltarians have a defensive position. The odds are always with a defensive army in a situation like this. We have no cover. They have a wall in front of them. Which means a frontal assault when they have forty times our number would be foolish and deadly.”

“I see no other way,” Tarum said.

“There is another way. When Gen. Burnside attacked the dug-in Confederates at Fredericksburg there might have been no other way, but there is now.”

“They have scientific and military equipment in the castle. Underneath is one of our portals to our time machine.”

“So it’s the Grand Central Station of the past. Any nearby troops?”

“No. Their closest outpost is about two hundred miles. They have no transportation. If they go anywhere they have to walk. They could not bring any of their vehicles through the time gate.”

“Good. By the time reinforcements come we should be on our way back to the present,” I said. I tapped the map. “Is there any cover around this...? Let’s call it a castle. Any forests, any woods, anything like that?”

Tarum placed his finger off to the west, beyond the map. “About eight miles from the castle there is a forest with dense trees but paths through it. But for eight miles afterward there is open ground.”

“You thinking of an air attack?” Cajun asked.

“I sure am. We have about two dozen drones. We could fill them with explosives and send them in first. Blow the walls of the castle and kill a lot of the enemy. Hopefully, we can decimate their forces and then fly in and pick off the rest. Destroy any equipment or weapons they have and get back to the present before reinforcements can arrive.

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