Last Stand (Black Ops Vietnam Book 5) by Eric Meyer

Author:Eric Meyer [Meyer, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-09T20:31:58+00:00

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Trinh Cam listened in astonishment as the man gasped out his story. Her fingers curled around the butt of her Makarov. She was tempted to shoot him for his failure, but she reasoned she needed to keep contact with her headquarters, and he was the only man skilled enough to operate the radio. The priority was to retrieve it, intact.

She had no doubt the enemy planned to smash the radio and block their means of communication. She shouted for men to join her. “We have an emergency, an intruder. If you see him, kill him.”

Men raced to join her, racing to intercept the enemy. As they ran, she continued to exhort them to go faster. “We must get that radio! Do whatever it takes to stop them from destroying it.”

They broke out into the open, and there was just the body of the soldier she’d assigned to crank the generator, sprawled over the bent and broken apparatus. Of the radio, there was no sign. She’d been wrong. The intention wasn’t to destroy the radio but to steal it. Probably they planned to use it to transmit disinformation, and that was another problem she’d have to deal with. She cursed in frustration. This should’ve been a simple operation to court martial the traitor, execute him, and head south to join the tidal wave of North Vietnamese troops making steady progress toward the final objective. Instead, they’d run into unexpected resistance. A bunch of unknown men, they could’ve been a military, or they could’ve been something else. Mercenaries maybe, but whatever they were, they were skilled fighters.

The tank complicated everything. How they’d managed to steal an armored vehicle belonging to the People’s Army was something they’d need to investigate later. The machine guns had cut a swathe through her small force, leaving her with twenty men at most. Thirty dead and wounded, and that would be difficult to explain. She ordered her men to spread out and search for the missing set.

They spent an hour searching for several hundred meters in every direction and found nothing. They heard the rumble of the tank engine, heard it fading into the distance to the south, and she had to confront the truth. They’d gone, they still had the T-54, and they still had the radio. Her troops hovered nearby, waiting for orders. Since the death of Lieutenant Duc, she addressed her newly promoted second-in-command, Sergeant Quan. She had no choice about her next course of action. As long as they had that radio, they could use it to cause chaos and check the momentum of the People’s Army's attack on the South. She had to get it back.

“Prepare to move out in five minutes. We’re going after them.”

His eyebrows shot up. An experienced sapper, he was that rare soldier in the Army of North Vietnam. A sapper who'd survived the fearful raids of attrition during frequent suicidal attacks on American and ARVN bases. He was short and wiry, with the slight build yet inner toughness of a marathon runner, but he would never run marathons.

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