Adrian's War by Lloyd Tackitt

Author:Lloyd Tackitt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-08-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

ADRIAN WATCHED THE CAMP FOR the rest of the day. After dark he left his vantage point and returned to the trails. He rebuilt the punji pits that had been stepped in. It only took a few minutes to freshen them up, and these men might be stupid enough to step in the same trap twice, so why not? He then moved over to the third trail and put traps alongside it. Eventually he was hoping to force the men to use this trail, or the road, whenever they left camp. It would take a while, but they would eventually notice that there were no traps on this trail or the road. They might notice that there were traps off each side of them. They would wonder why he was leaving them safe lanes of travel, and probably conclude that it was for his own use. They would be extra slow and careful but they would still use them, or else walk into the woods where there were no trails. Given what he had seen so far of them, he didn’t think they would take to the woods without a trail. To help make sure they didn’t venture into the woods, he placed traps in in the most likely paths they would use if they decided to avoid the trails.

Adrian had no way of trapping the road. It was an all-weather road made of gravel compacted into an iron-like surface from years of truck traffic. There were potholes, but men on foot would avoid them naturally, so punji pits weren’t an option. They would simply walk down the center of the road avoiding any kind of swipe traps. He placed traps parallel to the road, lots of them. If they wandered off the road, he wanted them to return right back to it. He had a reason for that. If he could increase the traffic on the road by decreasing it on the other trails, he would be more effective at hit and run ambushes along the road. More traffic meant more opportunities.

While Adrian was attacking out in the woods, it probably had not occurred to Wolfgang that he was also spending time to watching the camp. Now that he had attacked the camp itself, if Wolfgang had any sense, he would know that Adrian was watching the camp from the wood line. Once he came to that conclusion, the only rational reaction would be to search the wood line for tracks, and to establish a roving patrol that circled the camp just inside the wood line in hopes of finding him. It was only a matter of time before his lean-to vantage point was discovered.

With that in mind, Adrian began setting traps around his vantage point. He used every natural opening in the brush, every game trail, every feature a man was likely to follow or investigate. He placed so many traps that it was difficult for him to get in and out, and he knew where they all were.

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