The Western Front - Parts 1-3 (Western Front Series) by Garrett Archer

Author:Garrett, Archer [Garrett, Archer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2012-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

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After a short while, they approached the scene. Checkpoint Two was several police cruisers parked across the highway. The assailants were a dozen men hidden behind a deuce and a half with an M2 Browning mounted in the back of the truck. Checkpoint Two was utterly and helplessly pinned to the ground by the machine gun’s fire.

Geram pulled off the highway a little less than a thousand hundred yards from the attackers. He eased the Bronco behind a thick stand of trees that acted as a wind break for one of the fields along the road. Sasha whined in protest as they left her in the back seat.

They moved along the woods line on the right-of-way of the road. The gunfire ahead of them was brutal.

Geram explained his plan to Jake and Kate, “We stay low and out of the checkpoint’s line of fire as we approach. When we get a couple hundred yards away, we find a safe position in the woods and start picking these guys off. As long as they don’t see us coming, we should be fine.”

As they neared the predetermined distance, they searched and found a fallen oak tree not far in the woods. The thick trunk provided excellent cover. There was a narrow gap between the ground and the tree that was suitable for firing through.

Geram removed the night-vision scope from the FAL and peered through the rear aperture sight. He searched for the gunner on the M2 atop the deuce and a half. Jake and Kate had matching, scoped AR-15s, and had already settled on their targets. The assailants’ backs were fully exposed. They were so confident in their superior firepower, and focused on overrunning the checkpoint, they failed to consider a counter-assault from the direction they had come from.

On the count of three they fired simultaneously, downing their marks. As the sound of the Browning faded, the raiders looked about in dismay. One man left his position to climb up to the gun, but Geram caught him mid-stride. Kate and Jake had also found and dropped their second targets. The attackers were now in a full panic. Half of their group and been killed in a matter of seconds and they had no idea where the gunfire was coming from. One man tried to run to the woods on the opposite side of the road, but was downed by a member of Checkpoint Two.

The raiders’ resolve had been shattered. They formed a circular pattern and began to frantically fire in all directions. Two more of the assailants were gunned down by Checkpoint Two, before the remaining three flung their rifles sidelong and lay prone on the pavement. As the gunfire subsided, a man from the checkpoint shouted, “Hold your fire, Bronco! I think that’s all of them.”

Geram shouted back in response, “You’ve got three down behind the deuce. Go ahead and retrieve them; we’ll provide cover.”

“Roger, coming forward.”

The men of the checkpoint advanced and secured the remaining assailants in the back of one of the bullet-riddled cruisers.

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