Chapter 119: Ch 117. Race against time

“Rapier squad, operation ‘Tsirkul’ ‘ Starts.”

Four operatives looked at the wall from behind a building.

The defenders on the wall started running away, to the Northern wall. But the operatives stayed still.

“Team B?” (R1)

“In position.” (R5)

“Team C?” (R1)

“Ready.” (R7)

“Team D?” (R1)

“All set.” (R9)

The operatives behind the squad leader gripped their Vals, waiting.

Rapier 1 glanced at the watch. It was 13 minutes until the missile arrives.

He gripped the gun, and breathed in.

Boom Boom

Tra-ta-ta-ta Boom

Boom Boom Boom

Echoes of explosions came from the Northern side.

Everything in the arsenal was unleashed: howitzers and mortars pounded the area around the wall; MLRS systems Grad, Uragan and Tornado were firing missiles, covering the entire area in shrapnel and cluster bomblets; AGS-17 and Kord were suppressing everything on the walls; and the howling jets dropped their munitions on the enemy’s heads.

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The Rapier squad held their breaths, looking at the squad leader’s clenched fist.

‘Fwoosh’

Simultaneously, the four operatives rushed towards a tower’s entrance.

Its door opened and a guard stepped out.

Pom-Pom

Two charged in and secured the sides, the following troops aimed above, and secured the stairs as they went up.

“Jerry, you’re ba…” On the next floor, a sitting guard started turning around.

Pom

‘Clear.’ (R2)

‘KICK’

A door was kicked open, and a chain of operatives charged forward, along the deserted wall.

Boom Boom

BOOM

Flashes and smoke of explosions earned but a glance from them, as the operatives charged towards the next tower.

‘Ping’

Something bounced off the floor near the operatives.

“Enemy fire!” (R1)

Pom-pom-pom-pom

Pom-pom Pom Pom-pom-pom

“Clear them!” The leader used his backpack as an impromptu shield.

On the second level of a wall tower were archers. It was hard to spot them, so the operatives had to suppress them with fire.

Men in gambesons hid behind the stone walls when bullets whistled past them or hit stone and cracked off small rocks.

“Stay clear!” Rapier 4 grabbed a metal tube that was hanging on his back.

FWOOSH

BOOM

A ball of fire exploded in the tower, followed by a thick black smoke.

The operatives didn’t wait for the smoke to clear up, being sure that the archers did not survive thermobaric grenade. They ran to the tower’s door, and prepared to breach. One wave of fingers, and it began.

‘KICK’

Clack Clack

Two grenades flew in and the operatives hid behind the tower walls.

BO-BOOM

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With the speed of a viper the operatives flew inside.

Pom-Pom

There was a body lying by the wall, but, just in case, it received two bullets.

‘KICK’

The door on the other side of the tower was not an obstacle either.

Pom-pom-pom Pom-pom-pom

The few soldiers remaining on the wall were met with claps of subsonic rounds. But the skirmish here was nothing in comparison with the carnage that was happening on the Northern wall.

Flashes of explosions, smoke trails of rockets, songs of the machine guns, and the howling of jets. An acre of the city was turned into Hell on Earth.

‘Fwoosh’

“Ho…!” When another round of shells whistled right above them, the operatives instinctively jumped down.

KABOOM

Unlike the other explosions, those shells resulted in a huge one.

The surprised operatives looked up and saw a huge pillar of smoke rising above the North-Eastern sector. The area outside the killzone.

“Damn, that was something…” (R2)

“The hell was that?” (R3)

As they ran forward to their objective, they speculated what it was: the explosion was way too much to be even a rocket from Buratino, and the MiG already dropped its bombs.

“Guys! That was that gunpowder storage we missed long ago!” (R1)

“Yahoo!” (R3)

Pom-pom-pom Pom-pom-pom

Pom-pom-pom

The operatives almost reached their objective, being a hundred meters away. At the same time, the enemy reinforcements showed up.

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Meanwhile, ten kilometers away.

Villagers were farming their fields. The distant claps of thunder startled them at first, but after they understood that it had nothing to do with them, they returned to plowing and watering.

It was another peaceful day at the farm.

NEOOOW

Suddenly, an unknown bird flew above the fields, howling like a dying dragon.

The peasants scattered around, fearing that it was a beast’s baby, and that its parents would soon arrive.

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Pom-pom-pom

“Hold them back!” Rapier leader leaped forward and dropped on his belly, sliding a meter more. He frantically pulled a metal box with a tripod out of the bag.

While the rest of the team were holding back the enemies that charged from both sides of the wall, the squad leader set up the laser designator as fast as humanly possible.

‘Click’

NEOOOW

Seconds after the laser beam was aimed, a missile flashed past the wall.

KABOOM

The closest of the four inner towers was engulfed in smoke, and soon the surroundings filled with screams and wailing of terrified people.

The scattered debris damaged buildings and killed people.

NEOOOW

NEOOOW NEOOOW

Three more missiles flew past soon after, destroying the remaining towers.

“Rapier squad to Beril-Main…!”

Pom-pom-pom Pom-pom-pom

“… Main objective…!”

Pom-pom-pom

“… Is fulfilled! Fal…!”

Pom-pom

“…ling back!” (R1)

“Copy.”

Pom-pom Pom

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