William W Johnstone - Ashes 28

Author:Standoff in the Ashes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-08-09T13:50:57+00:00

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everybody from the supply drop, General. I think we can more than hold our hold now.”

“We’d damn well better do more than that,” Ben yelled over the noise of battle.

“I hear you,” Chuck said.

Then there was no more time for conversation as a dozen of the choppers landed and began spilling out Black Shirts. Ben jerked a grenade from his battle harness and held it up so those around him could see. They nodded and grabbed grenades.

Ben pulled the pin and held the spoon down until those around him had time to do the same. “Now!” he yelled, and chucked the grenade.

One of the grenades-no one would ever be sure who threw it-landed inside a helicopter door just as the chopper was settling down in an empty lot alongside the church. It blew, and so did the chopper. The chopper must have been carrying a lot of explosives, or its fuel tanks had just been topped off. When it blew, it colored the evening skies, shattered nearby windows, and dotted the landscape with hot metal and various body parts. The concussion caught a second chopper and flipped it, landing the chopper upside down. The second chopper didn’t explode, but it sure ruined the evening of those Black Shirts who were inside-the resistance fighters on the ground further complicated their evening by opening fire on those who tried to escape the wrecked chopper.

The Black Shirts had not anticipated so great a number of resistance fighters, nor had they suspected the men and women would be so well-armed. They had landed smack in the middle of a firestorm.

And the firestorm was gathering strength as the fires of hate were fanned-the hatred of those opposed to living under any type of socialistic government had been intense,

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