Intrepid
“In the far distance, white-clad figures in a well-spread-out line moved down the valley, stopping here and there for a moment to shoot, then hurrying to keep up with the flow.On her left, the line hurried faster, aiming itself at the painfully vulnerable hole into the hill.Higher up the hill, a couple of those two-wheeled carts were also being pushed toward the obvious target.Cortez had spotted the chink in her armor and was aiming everything he had left at it. Kris was tempted to start shootin...g from where she lay now, but it was a good six or seven hundred meters. Nearly two hundred yards closer lay what was left of a clump of trees.And the surviving enemy riflemen.Staff Sergeant O’Mally pointed at his enemy. “We’ve got ’em lying down, acting very dead, but I don’t trust ’em any more than I’d trust a Marine in that situation.”Kris eyed the lumps of intermingled dirt, bodies, and fallen branches in what once had been a lovely orchard. No way of telling now what had grown there.MoreLess
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