Seal Team Seven 09: War Cry by Keith Douglass

Author:Keith Douglass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

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In North Korean territory

Murdock checked the tanks again through his binoculars. They were over half a mile away heading in his general direction, but he had no thoughts that the tanks would charge through the woods when there was plenty of open ground around.

Unless they knew a general and his staff were hiding in this spot.

If the tanks came close enough, the soldiers might send a detail to the woods to gather firewood to heat up their tea.

The Korean scout and interpreter checked the tanks through Lam’s glasses.

“Reserve tanks,” the Korean said. “Not first-line outfit. Coming up to replace tanks lost so far in battle. Men behind would be replacement for infantry as well, not fighting unit. Many of these reserves are not well trained.”

“Hell, at nine-to-one odds you don’t have to be well trained,” Lam said. “Cap, we just dig into our hide-holes and wait and hope?”

“Unless you have some outstanding suggestions,” Murdock said. “I better go check out my own hole. Come on, ROK friend, you need a hiding place too.”

Fifteen minutes later the tanks had rolled even with the SEALs but a good half mile to the right. One squad of soldiers broke off from the main body and double-timed directly for the copse where the SEALs had hunkered down. The weather had turned cold again, but at least there was no snow. Only a few patches of white showed along the back sides of ridges. Inside the woods, the ground had not even frozen.

Murdock had put his hide-hole near the edge of the woods where he could see out north and west. He watched the North Korean soldiers jogging toward them. Eight men. He used the Motorola.

“We have eight visitors coming. Absolute silence. They may penetrate only the edge of the woods for fuel. If you get stepped on, don’t yell about it. If we take out one, we’ll have to waste all of them, and that would mean a larger force coming to investigate. We hide today and live to fight another way. Jaybird, crawl in and caution the Army to be absolutely quiet. Stay there. Now, no transmissions.”

The first NK soldier edged into the woods, his automatic rifle up and his body alert. He looked over the immediate area, and waved the rest of the squad forward.

The soldiers quickly began to pick up sticks, and break them into fire lengths, tying them into bundles. Within five minutes they had seven bundles and worked on finishing the last one. One of the North Koreans swore as he stumbled and fell flat in the woods near a large pine tree.

He got up slowly and shouted something to the others. They laughed. The bundles finished, the eight men tramped out of the woods. As they left, two of the eight stepped directly on Murdock’s back where he lay near the trail they had chosen. He bit his lip and weathered the last step, then gave a small sigh.

When the NKs were fifty yards away, Murdock used the mike.

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