Reflexive Fire - 01 by Jack Murphy

Author:Jack Murphy [Murphy, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

Piet racked the bolt, ejecting the spent shell casing from his sniper rifle.

Occupying one of the haphazardly built wood and mud bunkers, the South African had lain down on top of the still warm body of its former occupant, his body torn apart with machine gun fire.

Sliding the sniper rifle's bolt home and chambering another round, he scanned for fresh targets.

Twenty

Deckard cursed under his breath.

After being on the road for six hours, Alpha and Bravo Companies had finally split up at their last check point. Driving cross country for the next couple hours, his company alone had suffered two flat tires on the winding dirt road leading towards the Chinese border.

Standing by his vehicle, he watched the Kazakhs through his PVS-14s. Using a tow strap, one truck successfully yanked another out of the mud, the recovery vehicle promptly becoming stuck itself.

They had made allowances for the effects the monsoon would have on the unimproved roads in their timeline, but that didn't make the situation any less frustrating.

The newly freed vehicle pulled ahead of the truck stuck in the mud, its tires spinning wildly, slinging mud behind it, before the driver accepted that four-wheel drive alone wasn't going to let him creep out of the watery pit. Dropping off the back of their vehicle, the Kazakhs ran another tow strap back to the hard point under the immobilized truck's bumper and locked it in place with a steel clevis, preparing to repeat the process.

Meanwhile he was receiving updates over the radio as Bravo Company crossed phase lines towards their own objectives. He noted that they had experienced similar mobility issues, including a rollover. Soon they would be arriving at their assigned objectives to the north. Meanwhile Charlie Company was already calling in OPSKEDS, or operational code words, to indicate that they were pulling off their objectives, mission complete.

Initial reports stated that Charlie Company had three men killed in action, ten wounded, and had successfully eliminated six drug laboratories, three UWSA garrisons, and took out a few enemy checkpoints as well. Adam had assumed command with Djokovic among the dead.

At least something was going according to plan.

Now he could only hope that the element of surprise hadn't been completely compromised. The enemy or a spotter planted among the locals could have called north, alerting Peng and his remaining militiamen.

Deckard could have held Charlie Company back and had each company strike simultaneously but the odds were that someone would be compromised somewhere, effectively denying the entire battalion an edge up on the enemy, rather than just one or two companies. It was a tactical decision and like most, there was no one hundred percent solution.

The assault truck's wheels found purchase as the tow strap tightened and the lead vehicle helped pull them out of the mud. Deckard climbed back on his truck, just as the convoy began moving. The roads were only getting more rugged the deeper into the bush they traveled. At times the mercenaries seated in the back of the trucks were leaning out over a sheer drop as the trucks skirted right along the edge of the road.

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