Fall of Houston Series | Book 5 | No Man's Land by Payne T.L

Author:Payne, T.L. [Payne, T.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival | Thriller
Published: 2021-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Isabella

Highway 67

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

July 10th

Event + Ten Months

After the incident on the bridge with the reconnaissance team's Humvee, they’d performed a thorough search and found nothing to give them any indication of who had attacked them or where the team had been taken.

Isabella had checked and rechecked her weapons and all her gear. She took deep breaths as the convoy turned around and got ready to head back the way they had come. They had to take an alternate route—they couldn’t take the chance that the enemy knew where they were heading. It would mean the trip would be longer—maybe a lot longer. They had to take roads the recon team hadn’t planned to use.

“I ain’t looking forward to those bumpy-ass dirt roads,” Specialist Fisher said as she shifted in her seat attempting to find a more comfortable position. Fisher rarely complained. She had trained harder and longer than any trooper in the platoon. She appeared to be on a mission to be the best at everything she did. Isabella was honored to serve with her. No one treated her like a fragile doll.

“I’m concerned about the horses. This is hard on them,” Isabella said.

“They’ll be fine. They’re tough-ass fighting machines like us.” She made a fist and flexed her bicep. She was a tough-ass fighting machine. Isabella wanted to be, but after months of inadequate food and the stress of surviving, she lacked the physical strength. She was a good mounted markswoman—put her on a horse and she could do some damage. Somehow, though, she had the feeling they’d never get close enough to the enemy to do any damage.

After backtracking to Walnut Ridge, the convoy headed farther east along Highway 412 to Paragould, Arkansas, before connecting to Highway 62. As they grew closer to the Missouri border, Isabella grew increasingly anxious. Their risk of encountering trouble only became greater. They hadn’t patrolled that far north. Other units had traveled north, but Isabella didn’t know which routes they’d taken.

“It’s gonna feel nice to be inside a cave. It’s damn hot and I could use some relief. How long do you think it might take to load that much gold?” Fisher asked.

“I don’t know. Quite a while, I’d imagine.” Isabella pictured the disabled truck loaded with crates of gold coins. The team that had hidden it had come up against perhaps the same forces that had hit their recon team. It had to have been some fight for them to abandon the gold in a cave. She’d heard they’d eventually died from the injuries they’d received that day. Too bad they’d had to destroy the truck. The truck would make getting the gold back to Fort Leonard Wood so much easier. She understood why General Waltrip had chosen the Horse Detachment to go in after the gold. The enemy wouldn’t be expecting it, and people dressed in civilian clothes riding horses wouldn’t attract as much attention as a military convoy. Dempsey’s men weren’t the only ones they’d need to guard the gold against.

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