60 Defending The City of Toul (1)

H.A.U.N.T.S. Second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Gwen Oswald POV.

The vicount then give an order to his men to round up at the dropsite, while captain Iskandar give the same order to Faizal, who turns out to be the head of city guards. 10 minutes later, the vicount personal soldiers and the city guards have all arrived in the cargo dropsite. I then order them to line up to count them. When I finish the head count, I found out that some of the civilians, more specifically the local adventurers were also in the ranks, making the total men we have to 614 excluding vicount Jamal, captain Iskandar, me, and my team.

"Alright! I need 50 large men gather up in front of me, and 100 men with excelent sharp shooting gather up in front of my subordinate Conrad, right over there!"

After that, a group of centaurs, dwarf and few large human males and females gather infront of me. "Alright. I will give you a weapon to each one of you. Although the weapon it self rather light, the ammunition for it will be heavy."

I then summon an M32 and it's ammo. "This weapon is called, M32 or Milkor! You can shoot a rather powerfull bullet six times with it! After that, you will need to reload it! Let me demonstrate!"

'pomf' 'pomf' I then shot two rounds at an open space.

'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!' The two explosions startle many of the men.

"As you can see, few direct hit from it can even kill a wyvern! So you must be very carefull in handling it! That's why, there is a safety here, at the right side near the trigger! When you're not in combat, always! I repeat ALWAYS!! turn the safety on! Because when you're running at high speed! I'm talking about you centaurs! Or if you accidently drop it, it may accidently set off! The explosion it cause will almost without a doubt kill you and everyone else near you! After hearing all this, if you still dare to accept this weapon, line up! Also, I'm sorry to say, but you dwarfs will not get this weapon! You're to short to bring the spare ammo!"

After I say this, the rest of the group burst out laughing, while the dwarfs is near the boiling point. But before they can get angry, I start talking again. "In exchange, you dwarfs will get these two type!" I then summon the weapons. "This is the M134D, Minigun! And the other is MK-47, Striker! Rather than explaining these two weapons with words, let me just demonstrate it to you!"

I then turn the Minigun battery on, and shoot three seconds burst at the previous open space.

'brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt'

I can see few people got too scared, they even close their ears and squat down.

"As you can see, this thing were made to destroy cavalry! But this weapon can only be use as a turret, like those giant gun that you have! While the other one!"

I then sit down behind the Striker and shot 6 shot burst.

'pomf' 'pomf' 'pomf' 'pomf' 'pomf' 'pomf'

'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!' 'BOOM!!'

I then look at the men behind me. Although some of them still close their ears, large portion of them are getting used with the sound of explosion.

"From the looks of it, I guess there is nothing left to say. Alright! All of you stand by while I check the others!" I then stand up and called Conrad, Yuri and Feli to round up on me.

After we gather, I then ask their first impression about the men. "How is it Conrad?"

"I'm not sure. Although some of them have a qualities of a sniper, they are still to green. Even the best shooter among them probably can only hit a target at 500 to 600 meters, even though the M110 effective firing range is 800 metres."

"That's far enough. Feli, Yuri, how about you guys?"

"I'm afraid they will drain the ammo just to kill few dozens enemies."

"Feli's right. We better order them to shoot single shot only. That way, they won't run out of ammo faster."

"I understand the difficulty in training quick soldiers. But good thing is, we don't need them to be super elites like our own army. Our main objective is only to hold the enemies back for few hours. We just need to train them how to use our weapons, and how to destroy them in case of emergency."

"That is true. So.. what should we do now LC?"

After Conrad ask me that, I then give them their task. "Yuri, Feli, both of you start train them how to shoot the M4. And just as you said Yuri, semi auto shot only. Also, always remind them to turn the safety off when we are not in battle."

""Roger.""

"Conrad, you start the sniper training. If possible, made them able to hit target 700 meters away."

"I'll do what I can. But don't expect anything."

"I don't realy expect anything good. I'll go start training those dwarfs and centaurs how to use the Milkor, the Minigun, and the Striker. Also.. as always guys, hell..."

"""Is our heaven."""

We then do a fist bump and return to our students. 'Hell is our heaven'... it is the motto of the H.A.U.N.T.S unit. Six years ago, before our unit wasn't formed yet, the Prince give us the most hellish training, that even a saint can't handle. At that time, the Prince decided to name our unit H.A.U.N.T.S. Hearing the name, commander Faust can't help to comment on it. He said 'How appropriate. We're already living in hell, might as well make it our heaven.' Not long after that, the Prince heard about commander Faust's remark. He liked it so much, he made it into our unit's motto.

The meaning behind that motto is that 'no matter how difficult the situations is, it is still easy for us'. Now, I.. no, we got ourself a mission, whose success were highly depends on the will of others. Either we made it, or there will be 614 dead bodies left behind.

While I remembering all that, Vicount Jamal and Captain Iskandar ask me where they will be stationed to. I then told them to chose which ever they wish for. Be it A gunner/loader for the minigun or the striker, a sniper, or a simple rifleman, it's up to them. Hearing this, Captain Iskandar didn't hold back and choose to become a sniper. While because Vicount Jamal's lack of shooting training, we decided to make him a gunner for a minigun.

At first, I offer Vicount Jamal to become a loader, but he refuse. So I assign him into a minigunner, because how easy is it to operate the minigun. One just need to pull the two triggers, and follow the tracer rounds to fix their aim. For extra precaution, I also order Conrad to guard captain Iskandar, while I guard vicount Jamal.

But before I began the training, I ask Vicount Jamal to help me look around the city for the perfect spots, to place the miniguns, and strikers. Then, four and a half hour later, the Halo squadrons finally arrived. I can see a large number of Mi-26 flying over us. The two squadrons then land at the designated landing zone, a large open plains, north west of the city.