Ashes - Battle In The Ashes

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Author：William W. Johnstone
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Fiction Literature
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Chapter One."Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion ...
Chapter Three.When the news of the night"s work reached Jesus Hoffman early the next morning, the man very nearly lost his composure. He forced himself to be civil to the messenger and sat back down at his table, looking at his breakfast. He pushed it from him; his appet.i.te was gone.
Chapter Four.The Rebels broke up into small teams and began scouring the countryside, going house to house and alerting the people there. It was a futile gesture, and they all knew it, but all felt it was something that must be done. They asked each person they contacted to alert at least two more families. Most survivors agreed to move north; some refused to leave.
Chapter Five.John Masters looked the part. And he played it well. He was one of those quasi ignorant, heavy-jowled, pus-gutted, piggy-eyed loudmouths who had an unshakable opinion on everything and was given to thundering G.o.dlike p.r.o.nouncements through a bullhorn, which his followers hung on breathlessly. To say his followers were just slightly less knowledgeable than John would be like saying fire is hot.
Chapter Six.The old cars and trucks smoked and rattled and rolled on, the occupants staring silently through hate-filled eyes at the Rebels as they drove past.
Chapter Seven After chatting for a few minutes, with Lamar bringing Ben up to date on conditions in the neutral zone, he asked, "Where do you want my MASH units, Ben?"
Chapter Eight.The Rebels lost five people, with a dozen wounded, two of them seriously. Miles north of the burning camps of Brodermann"s troops, they quietly buried their dead in secluded places and conducted simple ceremonies.
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Chapter Ten."Not d.a.m.n likely," Ben said, after reading the communique just decoded by his people. He laughed softly. "So Herr Hoffman plans to strike fear into our hearts by flexing his muscles, eh? All right. We"ll let him flex his muscles. Corrie, has this communiquebeen sent out to all our people?"
Chapter Eleven.The Rebels were all over the Blackshirts before they could reposition from west to east. This was b.l.o.o.d.y and brutal hand to hand fighting, something the Rebels had perfected over the long years of war. This was pistol and knife and hatchet and club warfare. Back to the raw basics.The Blackshirts had never, ever, encountered such savagery. The Rebels did not come screaming over the top-they came like deadly silent wraiths and it was that very silence that panicked and broke the enemy line.
Chapter Twelve."Our Scouts on the western and eastern fringes of Hoffman"s position report hearing planes go over last night," Corrie told Ben. "They did not return."
Chapter Thirteen The Rebels punched at Hoffman"s lines from all directions, using mortars, rockets, and light arms. Every Rebel who could carry a rifle took part. It was. .h.i.t hard and run like h.e.l.l. They didn"t really inflict a lot of physical damage, since the majority of Rebels had moved north of I-20, but the psychological effects on the Black-shirts was significant.
Chapter Fourteen The battle for the headquarters of General von Hanstein was very short and very brutal. The Rebels and the GSG 9 men took only a few prisoners, General von Hanstein among them. The (Rebels and the GSG 9 personnel gathered up all the weapons, ammo, and food, loaded up the beds of trucks, and took off, heading south. The radio operator had been killed in the first burst of gunfire, so it was doubtful he managed to get off any messages ... but Ben wasn"t going to take any chances.
Chapter One.The Const.i.tution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Chapter Two.At dawn, Hoffman"s big guns had been moved into position and opened up.
Chapter Three.With the surrender of half a dozen of Hoffman"s battalions-and the Blackshirt battalions were full strength battalions-Ben now not only had sufficient troops to be a real problem to those loyal to Hoffman, he also had captured large numbers of weapons and vehicles, and one of those battalions coming over to the Rebel side was a towed artillery battalion, with dozens of 155-mm howitzers and the heavy 6x6 trucks needed to pull them, and the eleven man crews needed to make them fully operational. The 155s had an enormous range and Ben was smiling as he inspected the guns and crews, who had burned their hated black shirts and were now dressed in a variety of colors.
Chapter Four.Hoffman"s face drained of color. n.o.body-n.o.body- spoke to him in such a manner. Hoffman sat, momentarily speechless. A small smile curved the lips of the old soldier. He knew only too well what Ben Raines was doing. And he knew without any doubt that his nephew was going to take the bait. Frederich Rasbach started making plans that moment. Even before Hoffman found his voice in retort, the old soldier had made up his mind to take a few troops and leave. North America was about to become very unhealthy. Frederich rose and moved toward the door. There, he paused, to confirm his suspicions.
Chapter Five.When the first artillery rounds. .h.i.t, Hoffman was just sitting down for coffee with General Brodermann. His HQ was several miles from the explosions, but he still heard the booming.
Chapter Six.Corrie looked up, surprise on her face. "General!" she called to Ben, seated across the room, his eyes poring over maps.
Chapter Seven.Ben and his light battalion, actually about three companies strong, pulled out within the hour and headed east. Ben had said nothing about what he had in mind. But everyone in the headquarters battalion knew they were not going to Base Camp One for R&R. Quiet bets were made among the men and women as to their final destination.
Chapter Eight.Corrie received messages all that morning about the surrendering of Hoffman"s Blackshirts, from squad size to company size, they were laying down their arms and walking out with their hands up. But no one from Hoffman"s First Division had surrendered, and not one SS trooper had shown the white flag. So that made Field Marshal Hoffman still a very dangerous enemy. Ben did some head work and concluded that Hoffman could still field about twenty thousand men, perhaps more than that, and allof them hard-core n.a.z.is and dedicated to Hoffman and his dream of a new n.a.z.i empire rising up all over America.
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Chapter Nine.Ben recovered his balance and threw a short hard right fist that landed dead center on Flapper"s big red nose. Flapper"s big red nose suddenly got bigger and redder as he stumbled backward and fell hard to the asphalt, landing on his b.u.t.t.
Chapter Ten In slightly less than fifteen minutes, eight towns that once bordered the Georgia line were reduced to blazing rubble and thick, swirling, choking smoke from the artillery barrage. Wink had finally used some common sense and moved women and children back to the center of his controlled territory, momentarily out of harm"s way. But when the barrage ended, not quite half of those men he had a.s.signed to the eastern front lines made it out of the savage barrage of HE, WP, and antipersonnel rounds that rained down on their heads from miles away.
Chapter Eleven.By the middle of the afternoon, women and kids began leaving the contested areas, a few elderly people with them."Corrie, tell our medical people to treat the very young and the very old," Ben said. "The rest of them can go to h.e.l.l."
Chapter Twelve.The convoy bulled their way through the night until about midnight, when the skies opened up and began a torrential rain on them; a hard rain that slowed the convoy down to a careful creep. The roads were in horrible shape anyway. After years of neglect, they were full of ruts and holes and places where entire sections had been washed out by flooding. Scouts had gone racing ahead, bouncing over, around and through the holes and sometimes leaving the road altogether, driving in the ditches and in fields, doing their best to stay ahead of the convoy.
Chapter Thirteen.Dr. Chase took an immediate dislike to both Dr. Sessions and his wife.
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Chapter Fourteen.The badly shaken survivors of the attack were gathered up and placed under guard. A man was brought to see Ben. Ben sat on a camp stool on the front lawn of an old home, under the shade of a huge tree. The home had been a nice one, made of native stone. Ben looked at the man with a b.l.o.o.d.y bandage around his head.