Under Fire by Eric Meyer

Author:Eric Meyer [Meyer, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

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"What is it?"

Trinh Tac looked up; his expression still filled with irritation after the order that came down from Hanoi. From General Giap, no less. The Americans were hitting them hard, causing serious losses to the Vietcong forces massed inside the Iron Triangle, and troops were starting to desert. Men can only withstand high-explosive bombs, napalm, and artillery shells for so long before they start thinking of home. Their families waiting for them to return and wondering if they ever would. Men were slipping away, and Giap had made it clear they had to do something, and fast.

He hadn't wanted to bring out the howitzer, not until they'd thoroughly checked the surrounding area for enemy soldiers, but the order was to hit back at the Americans and restore morale. They’d brought out pieces of the gun one by one, men struggling, bent double, sweating and groaning under the massive weight as they dragged up the components of the artillery piece. At last it was all above ground, and it was time to assemble it and commence firing. Until the Americans reached the area.

A few brave men had thrown themselves at the enemy, fighting to hold them off while others battled to disassemble the gun and return it to its hiding place. Until time ran out, the Americans were close to uncovering the secret, and with no other choice, he'd ordered them to cover the remaining parts of the gun buried under loose earth and leaves, and the men had disappeared back underground.

"Commissar, there're two soldiers outside, next to the tree. I think they may have discovered our hiding place."

He cursed and went to look for himself. Fifty meters from the tree they had an observation post inside a clump of bamboos where a man peer out.

"How did we let them get this close?"

"Sir, we didn't have any choice. We were trying to hide the gun."

They were poking around, but he couldn’t see any sign of the bulky radio transmitters the Americans carried, which meant they had no way of telling the outside world what they'd discovered. There was still time.

"Take a squad. Get out there and kill them. Now!"

The man took off down the tunnel, and the fool was shouting for more men to join him. He wanted to bellow after him to tell him to keep his stupid mouth shut, that they’d hear him from outside, but he couldn’t shout without making the same mistake.

Reluctantly, he went after him, snatching up an AK-47 as he ran. This was too important, a mission tasked by none other than General Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander of the entire North Vietnamese forces. A man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Ho Chi Minh, the father of their war to liberate the South. But he failed to catch up with the faster, younger man, and heard him continue to shout, ordering men to the surface to kill the Americans.

He slowed. If they sent ten or twenty men up there, they were sure to get them all, but there’d be shooting.

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