Posleen Fanfiction HOLY WAR by Chris Nuttall

Author:Chris Nuttall [Nuttall, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-07-17T08:51:22+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three: War In The Desert, Take One

Near Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Border

13th April 2006

Seen from the observation tower, the line of refugees streaming into Saudi Arabia seemed never-ending, people fleeing the Posleen. Smoke could be seen in the far distance – and the wind brought the sounds of endless fighting towards the Saudi position – but there was no sign of the Posleen. After the first nasty skirmish between desperate refugees, including former Iraqi soldiers suddenly as helpless as the rest, the Saudi Government had made the decision to open the borders. Kuwait, which had worked hard to transform itself into a military hedgehog, had refused; refugees were unceremoniously forced back into Iraq, or pointed towards Saudi Arabia.

Paul Kelly, formerly of the RAF Regiment and currently serving on detached duty, looked up at General Mujahid as he watched through binoculars. A handful of Saudi scouts were already deep within Iraq, using telephone cables to remain in touch with the regular army units on the border, but Kelly knew that General Mujahid was nervous. Hell, he was nervous; nothing in sixty years of the RAF’s ground forces had prepared him for anything like this.

He’d given up explaining to General Mujahid about rejuvenation. The fact that Kelly had literally seen service during World War Two meant little to the Saudi, who was acclaimed as one of the best Saudi field generals. It was true, in a sense; General Mujahid was actually fairly competent and had assembled a capable team around the headquarters, along with nearly one hundred thousand combat personnel. Two Armoured Brigades, three Mechanised Infantry Brigades and several reserve infantry formations were backed up by four of the most modern and capable Saudi Artillery Battalions. All in all, it was a powerful force…but it had a bitch of a task to handle.

Worse, Kelly knew that General Mujahid was perhaps the worst choice of General for the task. It was one of the rare occasions where the Saudi Royal Family had actually produced someone considered a military genius who actually had some competence. General Mujahid was an aggressive commander who was more than capable of acting on his own initiative…but he wasn’t a defending commander. He thought in terms of attack, attack, attack…and, against the Posleen, that was asking for disaster.

He thought he was the reincarnation of Erwin Rommel.

The real Rommel would have probably been asking for disaster as well.

“We have been rounding up all the former Iraqi soldiers,” General Mujahid commented, as Kelly entered the command tent. It was a supreme irony that the one general who actually shared the sufferings of his troops should be so unqualified to fight a battle against a Posleen force. “They have been offered a choice between joining my forces or being interned.”

Kelly nodded grimly. The Iraqi…situation was utterly shrouded in the fog of war. TERDEF reports placed a handful of operating Posleen landers – which meant that thousands more remained on the ground – but no one knew exactly what they were doing. Kelly had

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