Commonality Games by Mark Rounds

Author:Mark Rounds [Rounds, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter X

Jarl and his troops used the smoke to reach the brush at the bottom of the hill. There, they ditched their cycles and proceeded on foot. The noise of their cycles engine would give away any chance they might have at surprise and that edge would be critical to the success of their mission.

They set up ambush positions near the road. They also set up grenade booby traps around their location, leaving a path for retreat. Then, all there was left to do was wait. So they waited.

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As soon the smoke cleared, Haloran got her troops out of their holes. She knew that she had just a few moments before the Krasni attack began, and she wanted to make the hill top as secure as possible. All the troopers had fighting positions dug, but they needed to drop some trees to cover the front and dig some hull down positions for the armored cars and anti-tank units.

She tried hard not to look at the wreck of the tank destroyer, but the carnage drew her gaze back again and again. She had done it, she was responsible. And the worst of it was, those troopers riding in and on the vehicle died the kind of death contestants in the games, even with the best of medical attention, didn't come back from.

She hardly had time to get maudlin. Her troopers began to call for the all clear. As soon as they were down, charges started going off. After about thirty seconds, the last boom and rattle ceased. Haloran quickly toured the hill. She liked what she saw. Not only were there fighting positions for each trooper, there were several vehicle positions dug and there were even a few secondary positions completed in case the forward positions were overrun.

She had not quite finished when they started to receive machine gun fire. It was high and wildly off to the right at first. This told the defending troops that they were being fired on from considerable range. That was the Coriolis effect messing with the enemy’s aiming again. Even so, the Krasni had taken their time getting in position.

Haloran had not set lookouts because she needed everyone to dig in. The advantage was the good defenses they were now hiding in. The disadvantage was that they did not see the Krasni ambush unit that went around to the north. The one on the south was visible, but well out of range. All that was left was the waiting, so they watched the Krasni, and waited.

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