First Contact (Terran Chronicles) by Jackson James

Author:Jackson, James [Jackson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: James Jackson
Published: 2012-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven - War.

Location:

Pyongyang

North Korea

A single shot rings out, echoing across the border, to mark the beginning of a new day. The target a South Korean border guard slumps down and dies in a pool of blood, as his fellow guardsman raises the alarm. With military air forces grounded around the world, it was thought that no country would be willing to repeat the events that cost France their flagship carrier. It would however seem that one military power is willing to test another strategy.

A mighty noise can be heard thundering from across the Korean border to the north. Thousands of tanks, supported by numerous armored personnel carriers, backed by self propelled artillery units, move toward the border. A deafening barrage suddenly explodes all along the one hundred sixty miles of border. Over two thousand fixed artillery pieces commence fire and relentlessly pound positions in the South.

With satellite feeds and aerial surveillance non-existent, the South is caught completely by surprise. By the time the South Korean military realizes that this is a full scale assault, the North already has many spearheads with forces across the Demilitarized Zone. Minefields, electric fences, and tank traps cause grievous losses to the invaders, but still they come.

South Korea mobilizes while sending messages to her allies and the Gamin in the hopes of forcing a cessation of the North's assault. South Korea finds allies cannot help and as for the Gamin, they do not respond.

The invaders lose numerous tanks in their seemingly suicidal rush across the border. South Korean artillery pounds back at the aggressors, but are soon overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of tanks and ground troops. The North is committing their older units to the initial rush, leaving hundreds of tanks battered and ruined all along the border.

A massive contingent of armor heads straight for Seoul, another toward Inchon, The North does not use a single aircraft or naval vessel in its endeavors. Within an hour, the South has been effectively invaded with virtually all of its artillery destroyed or captured. With standard doctrine indicating that Seoul will be struck by artillery fire, the citizens are ordered to evacuate. With the sounds of artillery shells and tanks getting increasingly louder the people waste no time in evacuating.

Outside Seoul, a wall of tanks and artillery greet the first wave of attackers. As tank after attacking tank, is destroyed the commanders can only wonder at the tactics of the North. It becomes clear that these attacking units are very old indeed. As the wave of attackers gets closer, the defenders get another taste of losing when the first shells start landing all around them. A massive fixed artillery piece gets blown sky-high as its munitions storage is hit. The battle rages on, bloody and merciless for over an hour. As the fixed artillery gets overrun, tank squads start playing cat and mouse as they maneuver back and forth in their attempts to destroy each other. The South seems to be about to hold the line, when a new barrage lands among them.

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