Lance was sitting on a bench near the officer"s club. Something was bothering his mind, but he shouldn"t be bothered if be didn"t have the memory of Lance Sharrington since he was another person inside his body."What is the future of my family?"
Lance was a son of a Duke, technically he had a vast land that is under his family commands, but that all gone in one night. He lost everything that has a connection to Lance"s live. He is considered dead.
"Hmm, and what is this knowledge of magic? Can I use it?" He thought as he used a [Fire] spell multiple Times like a person playing with a lighter.
A young officer approached him and told him, "Sir, General Kochler needs you on his office."
"Tell him that I Will be there soon," Lance said as he stood up from the bench.
The young officer walked away from him. Lance stood up, enjoying his young body. It has been three weeks since he was "stranded" on this island. To be honest, the airbase itself has grown into something similar to Ramstein airbase; it was a very lively base indeed. It just needs a couple civilians, and it will become a small town.
When he crossed the street, suddenly, a convoy of armored vehicles and main battle tanks were driven pa.s.sed him leaving a thick cloud of black diesel smoke. He coughed severely, "Blimey, where the heck does that Russian mechanized units go?" he said as he crossed the street on his way to General Kochler"s office.
He opened the door and got greeted by his secretary, one of his secretaries, "General, how may I help you?" he asked Lance.
"Could you tell General Kochler that I will drop by," Lance asked him.
"Yes sir, you can sit down while I Will Contact him," He said as he used the telephone on his desk to call him while I sat down on a waiting bench in front of him.
"Very much appreciated," I said as I opened a magazine in front of him.
It was a newspaper, but honestly, it was useless since it was very 60ish. Mostly about the cold wars, although the fact that Russian and American soldiers were working here, side by side like a buddy. No jokes really, its quite common that an American pilot piloted a Mig right here and viced Versa.
"Sir, he is in his office," He said to me, who was still reading the newspaper.
"Thank you," Lance said, and he stood up and left the newspaper on the bench and entered the general"s office, which was located right behind the secretary desk.
Lance opened the door and greeted by the warm breeze of the air conditioner on his office and a heated cushion of carpet. I sit on the chair in front of him.
"Sir, nice to see you," He said as they shook their hands.
"Nice to see you too. What do we get here, general?" Lance asked him.
He went for his file in his file drawer and grabbed a white file with writing cla.s.sified stamped on top of it. He gave the dossier to Lance, "Here you go, sir, you may read it for yourself."
"Much appreciated General," Lance said as he opened the files one by one.
The first page was full of writing, mostly those t.i.tles, descriptions, and by whom the report was written. The second page was the listing of the things of the recce mission. The third page until the tenth page was where things started to get interesting.
The third page contained the description of an abandoned structure on the Northern side of the island. It was gathered by the 10th recon squadron. The page following included a bunch of pictures taken from Soviet cameras in the 60s. It wasn"t helping much to be honest.
"So general, Have you sent any ground troops there?" Lance asked Kochler.
"Honestly, not yet. However, Sir can join the expeditionary forces today," General Kochler said.
"Ok, who is the platoon commander?" Lance asked him.
"Captain Yugorov, sir," The general answered him.
"Just me and that company alone?" Lance asked again.
"Yes," He answered.
"I Will take my leave then," Lance said as he stood up from the chair and left the room.
"The company is using a Russian vehicle. You can meet them near the entrance, sir," he said as Lance closed the door of his office.
Lance walked away from the general"s office to the entrance of the base. There was a company worth of armored vehicle column lining up on the entrance.
BMP-1, T-64, and some Ural-375 trucks were parked there with a bunch of soldiers wearing dark green KLMK uniform with telnyashka undershirt underneath their uniform. However, if you look closely, some of the soldiers weren"t Slavic and more white Americans.
"Good afternoon, gentlemen," Lance said while greeting the platoon commander.
"Nice to see you, General, my name is Mikhail Yugorov," He jumped from the top of the BMP and greeted Lance with a very distinctive Russian accent.
"Nice to see too, Capitan," Lance shook his hand in return.
Lance climbed to the top of the BMP, and the other soldiers were entering their own respective armored vehicle, and the vehicle started to leave the base.
Not much talking happened during the trip, but they traverse through the sh.o.r.eline using that heavy armored vehicle, which leaves a trail on the beach. The convoy was moving in a line fashion. The front is protected by the T-64 and followed by our vehicle, which was BMP-1, then the heavy truck was in the middle of the convoy. The convoy closed in the same manner.
"So Captain, what is the structure that we are visiting?" Lance asked him.
The Captain"s head stuck out from the cabin and got on top of the BMP as well. He sat on top of the turret while holding his AK-47. Lance had replaced his weaponry to AK-47 as well since the replacement parts for the AK-15 are not yet available.
"Well, sir, the structure we are visiting is some kind of defensive fortification about 2 km from the sh.o.r.eline. We still don"t know much since we are the first ground recon team that are sent there," Mikhail said in English with a thick Slavic accent from his mouth.
"Wow, Mikhail, I don"t know you can speak English fluently," Lance got surprised by his fluent English.
"Haha, trust me general, the Americans here also fluent in Russian. Вы можете говорить по-русски, верно?" He said to the American soldier inside the BTR.
Surprisingly enough, the American soldier responded with Russian as well, "Конечно товарищ," said the American soldier .
"Yeah, we sure can speak Russian, sir," Captain Yugorov said.
The trip wasn"t that long either since they just have to circle around the island. Though, a five hours trip while sitting on a metal thing would inevitably result in a very sore b.u.t.t. Luckily, the trip came to a close when we saw a suspicious opening in the forest.
Lance poked at the captain"s back, "Capitan, stop, look!" He said as he pointed his hands at an opening in the forest.
"CONVOY HALT!! Останови конвой !!" The captain shouted, and the whole convoy stopped.
The convoy stopped, and the infantry was mobilized to inspect that road, Lance was also included, but Mikhail stays in convoy. However, Lance didn"t mind too much about it. He walked with side by side with the commander of the squad itself. His name is Harold Alexanderson, his rank was a staff sergeant.
They weren"t alone as an infantry since they were being followed by one T-64 main battle tank. The T-64 is a Soviet second-generation main battle tank introduced in the early 1960s. It was a more advanced counterpart to the T-62: the T-64 served tank divisions, while the T-62 supported infantry in motorized rifle divisions. It introduced a number of advanced features including composite armor, a compact engine and transmission, and a smoothbore 125-mm gun equipped with an autoloader to allow the crew to be reduced to three so the tank could be smaller and lighter. In spite of being armed and armored like a heavy tank, the T-64 weighed only 38 tonnes. That thing was undoubtedly excellent fire support even if a big gigantic creature is going to attack us.
We walked in the gravel road until we reached the abandoned structure. The tank commander parked the tank in front of the fort gate that is closed tight. The fortress itself was made from reinforced bricks that are ideal for defense against naval cannon. The gate was made of wood that is not so ideal for armor, but light enough for human operators to open it, sadly though it was locked by a huge lock.
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We split the squad into three groups, three-person for each fireteam, which was commanded by one NCO except for my group, which was commanded by General Officer. We walked around the fortress, and the first thing we noticed is the number of holes that the fort had. The number of broken cannons was staggering, too, considering the fortress abandoned states.
"Gee, the fort was under a heavy attack, wasn"t it?" Lance said as she looked upwards towards the giant hole that the fort had.
"No doubt, sir, the size of the hole is enormous," said one of the private.
"Sir, do you think a naval battle happened here?" One of the corporals asked Lance.
"Obviously, but at what scale? This amount of holes only can be achieved by a fleet of frigates on this age, how many cannon that they had? 50 cannons and a fleet of it? d.a.m.n, this island should hold a strategic position for the kingdom," Lance said to the corporal.
"Sir, what should we do now?" The squad leader asked me.
"Call captain Yugorov, the area, is relatively safe for us and tell the tank to shoot open the door," Lance said to a soldier with a backpack that had an antenna and a telephone-like com kit.
"Roger that sir," he said as he told captain Yugorov to move in, and a cannon shot could be heard in the background in combination with heavy machine gunfire.
Lance expected the cannon shot, but he didn"t expect the heavy machine gun fire since the fortress itself was supposed to be empty. Well, better check things out before everything go FUBAR.
He ran to the tank with his group and readied his rifle in front of his shoulder in case something that he didn"t want to meet, came. However, the fear of the infested fortress slipped his mind since this is a magical world where everything happened.
On the gate of the fort, he could see the tank rained down the fortress with heavy machinegun rounds, and the soldiers were also started to close into the fortress while shooting their AK-47. The rain of bullets was raining the fort, engaging a target that Lance didn"t even know what.
After he peeked at the fortress, he finally saw what they engaging, a bunch of dead soldiers that had turned alive was. They walked like a mindless zombie, but still possessed enough threat for our company, so they decided to wipe them all out.
"Courtyard clear," the tank commander said as a bunch of zombies was lying on the ground.
Lance moved first to the fortress and opened a large brown broken door on the fortress located deep inside the fortress that leads to the room of the commander of the fort itself. He kicked opened the door and turned on the flashlight of his rifle. He encountered a zombie and put three rounds of 7.62 Russian to the torso of the zombie. He put the rifle on his back and continued to inspect the room with his TT-30 pistol.
He opened the wardrobe of the commander and coughed from the dust that was coming out of the wardrobe. He coughed severely to the point that he wore his gasmask that was placed on the back of his rig.
The wardrobe contained the outfit of the commanding officer of the fortress itself. It was a red coat with a signature officer hat on it. It was like a 17th-century British officer uniform. Well, the technology in this world is around that except for the part that magic is involved in this world.
"Good for disguise, I think," He said as he looked at the well preserved dusty uniform that is only needed to be washed once. He thought that that thing will come in handy later. However, he must be careful when using that uniform since he didn"t know the user of the uniform in the first place.
Suddenly, a lot of broom broom sound from the engine of the armored vehicle column had arrived at the fortress. The soldier had already moving to clear the multiple room that were available in the fort. The soldier had already strengthened the position by placing several DShK heavy machine guns on the hole in the wall. The tanks were on stand by in front of the gate of the fortress, and the BTRs were placed near the opening of the forest to protect them from any threat.
He looked up the roof and saw a chandelier placed on the room and turn it on by lowering it using the special lever on the wall near the door and light it up with his gas lighter. He raised the chandelier again, and the room was finally lit up by the candle and revealing a desk and a bed on the room, which was well preserved for its age. "I guess only the wardrobe that is full of dust," he wondered.
He rested in the almost cleaned bed and took a nap since the other soldiers were on their private time as well.
2100 hours, eight hours after the operation started.
He opened the door again and saw the full fortification that was made in a concise time. In the middle, he can see the main battle tank was stationed in the middle of the fort. In another section of the port, the soldiers were burning the bodies of the zombies. The soldiers had already stationed for a patrol on top of the fort wall. A lot of lamps were placed around the fort and enlightened it.
The captain approached me from behind and asked me, "Beautiful, isn"t it?"
"Yes, it is," Lance said as he gazed at the afternoon skies.
[Quest updated]
"System open quest."
[Showing available quests for user]
Main Quest:
[Exploring]
Discover the whole island and beat the dungeon: Landmark discovered 2/5. Dungeon beaten 0/1
Rewards: CVN-78 Aircraft carrier + Escort
[Closing]
"So I can summon the vehicle that I want right, nice."
[Emergency quest imminent, please check the quest board ASAP]
"System open quest."
[Showing available quests for user]
Emergency quest:
[Survive]
A whole fleet of the first-rate ship in combination of offensive from nearby dungeon has been sent to scout the unknown activity on the island. The threat will attack first and asked questions later. The airbase is relatively safe.
Objective: Survive
Rewards: Advancements of weapon technology to the year of 2008.
Main Quest:
[Exploring]
Discover the whole island and beat the dungeon: Landmark discovered 2/5. Dungeon beaten 0/1
Rewards: CVN-78 Aircraft carrier + Escort
[Closing]
"Capitan, do you know what a first-rate ship is?" Lance asked in curiousness.
"Well, why do you ask that?" Mikhail asked Lance back.
"Just wondering," Lance tried to hide the fact of the attack that is imminent on the fort.
"A first-rate ship was the designation for the largest ships of the line, equivalent to the "super-dreadnought" of more recent times. Some models were equipped with more than a hundred cannons. Well, the cannon can"t penetrate our armor, but that is not the problem, the problem layered on the unaware personnel casualties, why do you ask?" Mikhail asked.
"Get the general on the line and tell him to tell the squadrons and send a backup here, something is going to be very wrong tonight," Lance said.
"Yes sir," he said as he walked away from Lance.
Lance ran to the radio communication post and grabbed one of the headphones that were placed there. He heard the dialog between the radio communicator and the lookout on the MBT, BMP, and the patrol on top of the fort wall.
"Dimitri 1 to CP, An unknown light has been spotted in the south side of the fort, might be a threat, permission to engage?" He heard that from one of the tank commanders.
"Zoya 3 to CP, A white object has been spotted near the sea. The object is still unknown over and out," He heard that one from the BTR that was placed on the sh.o.r.eline.
Suddenly, rain of cannonb.a.l.l.s was fired at the fort.
"ALL UNITS TO COMBAT POSITION!! ALL UNITS TO COMBAT POSITION!!!"