The Fall by Sean Deville

Author:Sean Deville [Deville, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2019-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

23.08.19

Peak District, UK

Tom had shown apprehension at letting so many people onto his property, but realistically, what was there he could have done to prevent it? Begrudgingly he had allowed Nick and the SAS to set up in the various buildings of the farm, but Tom had put his foot down and said that the main farmhouse was for his family only. Nick and Haggard had acquiesced to that demand, but only because the other farm buildings gave them enough shelter.

Right now, the bulk of the SAS were working on improving the farm’s perimeter. To the casual human, it was truly impenetrable. The farm was basically a plot of land in the shape of a triangle, two of the sides bordered by a fast flowing river. The third wall was an assortment of barbed wire and bramble hedges. The problem with that was the undead didn’t care about their skin being cut to ribbons. If enough of them came, they would press against any barrier and sacrifice their own to get through it, and there were areas that they might be able to push through with enough persistence. So the soldiers worked on strengthening the defences, going so far as to put barricades in the small road that led to the farm in the hope of steering any undead away onto a different path. They still planned to leave at some point, so a route out for the APC’s was kept.

A few dozen claymore mines and grenade traps were put at the barrier’s weakest locations. Taking the lessons from history, the banks of the river were also set up with flare traps just in case something, or someone, made it across. As fast as the river was, military history had shown never to fully rely on natural barriers. Be it the impassable Alps with Hannibal, or the mangrove swamps for the Japanese invasion of Singapore, man often found a way to penetrate the obstacles created by nature.

The final touch in the defences was to program the three surveillance drones they had to rotate around the property, the heat vision cameras they contained there more for the warning of any human incursion. The soldiers knew that the zombies weren’t the only threats here. The drones would work in shifts to allow for their batteries to be regularly recharged. Nobody would be sneaking up on the defenders anytime soon.

As defences went, what they had was pretty solid. The dirt path from the road that led to the heart of the farm was the weakest part of it, and this could easily be covered by snipers and the fifty calibre machine guns the APC’s had been blessed with.

While the SAS men did what they were trained for, Nick convened his war council. Nick, Natasha, Jeff, Haggard, Whittaker, Beckington and Jessica all now had a part in what happened next. Azrael was also here, still in handcuffs. Nick had something he wanted to discuss.

There hadn’t been much of a chance to formulate an official strategy since their retreat from Preston.

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