Tin Soldiers by Michael Farmer

Author:Michael Farmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Colonel Hassan Abdulamir watched his battalions attack from an elevated position to the north. He’d seen the easternmost battalion being engaged by antitank missiles. While the battalion suffered a few losses, they had inflicted more on the enemy forces. The American TOWs were out of the fight for now. Abdulamir nodded to himself. The Americans, outnumbered, could not afford to continue suffering such losses.

Unfortunately, the recon effort in this sector hadn’t been as effective as it had been farther west. He scanned to the west for the Bradleys they had been engaging. Nothing. Wait . . . tank fires. Yes, definitely tank main guns, but the infidels were hitting nothing. And he now knew where the next company in the Yankee line was.

Looking between the company positions, the colonel made his decision. Reaching for his radio, Abdulamir called his battalion commanders. After he had them all on the radio, he issued their final orders. There was a large gap in the American line between their mixed team in the east and the tanks in the west. No one was perfect. Unfortunately, every commander at some point was tasked to cover more terrain than he effectively could. When it happened, the commander had to overextend his forces to carry out his mission. This left gaps. Such was the case with the Americans in their current battle position—obviously a case of too much ground and too few forces.

Colonel Abdulamir had identified the gap, a seam between American forces, and now his brigade would make the division’s penetration through it. As he looked closer at the area, he could see the obstacle belt his recon elements had reported. Wire and mines. That would slow their momentum temporarily, but not for too long. He began arranging for the smoke that would be necessary to mask their breaching effort, and called his engineers to prepare them to come forward once the smokescreen was built sufficiently. Between his artillery, tanks, and BMPs, his forces would keep the American units occupied long enough to exploit the weak point in their defense and make the penetration. After all, without combat power facing them across the obstacle, it really wasn’t an obstacle, was it?

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