The Apocalypse Crusade book 5: Day 5 by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

1-3:15 p.m.

Newville, Pennsylvania

General Cannan pulled the sat-phone from his ear and looked at it as if it had just bitten him. Slowly, he put it back up to his head. “Say again.” He was talking to a Lieutenant General…the new commander of the 2nd Corps. Supposedly that is. There had been a lot of weird shit going on with people impersonating generals and senators and governors.

Cannan hoped to God this was the case.

“General Leonard has been relieved of his command and arrested for refusing a direct order. This is Lieutenant General Boggs, we were on General Lunder’s staff together in Grafenwöhr.”

“I remember,” Cannan answered, forcing a touch of fake liveliness into his voice. He remembered Boggs as an ass-kisser even back then. “I’m sorry to hear about Leonard. He’s a good man who knows the value of a free hand when it comes to his divisional commanders.”

There was a lengthy pause before Boggs said, “He might have been a little too free. Your orders are changing. The 2nd Corps is no longer going to be standing on the defensive. The 3rd will be spearheading a drive to retake Pennsylvania.”

Once more Cannan looked at the phone incredulously. “Sir, that’s not a possibility just yet. Maybe when we get those units up from Fort Stewart and Fort Hood, that will be a consideration, until then…”

“Until then you will follow orders or be replaced,” Boggs barked. “My God, if this is how Leonard ran things, it’s no wonder he was arrested. Listen up, Cannan, the President has put up with as much shenanigans as he’s going to, so follow orders or you can join Leonard in prison. You will be attacking and you will follow my timetable. It’s as simple as that.”

For a good half minute, Cannan was silent as he considered handing in his resignation. An attack at this point was outrageous. He had studied the lay of the land and, as far as he knew, there wasn’t any objective that was worth giving up the defensive position he and his men had worked so hard to hold. It meant that the attack was either about Boggs’ vanity—he probably had a train of reporters in tow and wanted to look like the “man,”—or he was getting political pressure to do “something.”

Either way, an attack was stupid and Cannan knew that eventually he would come out and say it was stupid, though he was sure that he would use a great deal more colorful language than that. He would likely refuse and would be fired or worse. It would probably be worse.

If a man like Leonard, a man who was as by the book as they came, could be jailed, then it would almost be a guarantee that Cannan would be as well. He knew his tongue and his pig-headedness would get him in trouble.

At the same time, could he lay this squarely on his XO’s shoulders, knowing that Colonel Broadhurst was cut from the same cloth? Out of loyalty alone, it

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