Chapter 35: Strike Back

* Long before the battle started, long before the first cartridges and bullets whistled, long before all that, I already had a clear idea of ​​what I wanted by coming here. My name is Alfar Zeldoris Cailum. Zell for the close friends, Master Zell for the others, Lieutenant Cailul for my men. I was born and raised in Galatea County, but when our mansion was bombed during the conflict in 1008 against Sunthunder my family decided to move to the capital. Today I am 18 years old and I am a Lieutenant in the army of my country, Elysion. My father is Count Alysser Cailum, once a commoner he obtained this title by marrying my mother Gilda Galatea Cailum. I have a little sister, Asgeir Melanie Cailum or Mell, she is still in high school and apparently she is a little genius. I too was a little genius in my home world. I was already good so going back to primary school to do the same things was a walk in the park. My mother's sister being the Duke's wife, I am ranked among the top potential heirs of the Duchy with my cousins. In short, my life is going pretty well, just one detail. One person. There is a girl, Arianne Rhodes. This woman is pretty much everything to me as I speak to you. I don't hide anything from Arianne I tell her everything, well almost everything but she and I are like Yin and Yang, brain and body, boxer and coach. Today I realize that discharging part of my responsibilities onto her ended up putting her in danger of death. Arianne is a civilian, and she will find herself on a battlefield where we have absolutely no idea what will happen. The moment I speak to you I find myself on a train with my guys, each holding their guns. The atmosphere that reigned was quite calm, I mean we were veterans now we had experienced a deployment in a war zone. But according to the general staff the North was second to none. Me and Beowulf are here to show they're wrong. We all had an outfit suitable for the mountain winter, white but we had a light blue coat over it. We didn't have much time to repaint them all too *.

* The story I am going to tell you will not even be cited in army reports, they will probably keep a copy, but it will be archived quickly. The only real witnesses of the events to come are in this train *.

* I am Alfar Zeldoris Cailum and this is my battle report *.

* December 23, 1018 7:45 am, the Beowulf task force was ordered to go to the North and automatically cease all enemy activity on the front. Several battalions have already had their asses kicked in the North, so much so that the general staff does not know what to do. Beowulf being still at the experimental stage we were ordered to go there just to test the ground. The truth is, they were so desperate that they willingly sent us to the pipe breaker. But I have a plan *.

-How are we going to get into the North Lieutenant? * Sergeant Daniels asked me *.

* During the staff meeting I asked that my non-commissioned officers are all present so they know what they will be dealing with *.

-Let's review our options. * Had I say *. The main road is blocked or even trapped. We can't go through the wolf's jaw otherwise we will have Tarkovia on our backs.

-And for the air way? * Asked Streiss *.

-Impossible. * Said Der Linde *. I took inventory, these motherfuckers seized 12 batteries of anti-aircraft guns. I wish they were rebels, but they know how to turn our weapons against us.

-We have already tried to approach by plane several times and we almost got shot. * Explained Decken *.

-Even you Decken? * Hartkins wondered *. So it's really fucked up by the air huh?

-Is there a way to get in while doing as little damage as possible, isn't it? * Habib asked *.

-There is one. But it is so obvious that it looks like a trap. * Friedich explained *. No, in fact it is clearly one.

-And that's why we're going to use it anyway.

* It should be noted that the railway leading to the arms factory had been left intact. Was it an oversight or just a trap? No, it was indeed a trap, but that was why Seb was not waiting for us there. Also aboard the train Daniels reminded me *.

- Lieutenant if it ever goes wrong, we're all going to die here.

- Trust Lieutenant Cailum. * Said Quincy *. War is his thing, he knows exactly what he's doing.

- Thank you for your trust, Rico. * I tell him smiling *.

* Seeing him blush every time I complimented him made me uncomfortable, only he was a loyal guy. While I was procrastinating the radio operator approached me *.

- Lieutenant, it's for you.

-Sheperd here Ghost. Tch I still do not get used to these nicknames Zell.

-Keep calm Decken. Sheperd Leader to Ghost Leader have you come across what I'm thinking?

-Affirmative. Right where Der Linde had actually drawn. Clearly freaking out.

* An amused smile crept onto my lips. It confirms my suspicions *.

-Unit Ghost act accordingly. You have a time slot of * I fix my watch *. 10 minutes. You have the green light.

-Oh ... But that's too much honor, Leader Sheperd.

* What I predicted was not just the ambush but what would happen afterwards. For some reason the enemy always knows when to attack them so I thought to myself suppose they derail the train with explosives. They weren't going to stop there, they were going to finish off the survivors and collect their weapons, which meant that a team would be stationed at the ambush points. Carefully observing the map Der Linde gave potential points, geographically favorable locations for an ambush on the railway line. So I sent the special forces section of Beowulf under the command of Masterm Sergeant Decken. Their unit had been dispatched half a day in advance to be in sync with the train. With a hundred guys divided into 6 teams they simultaneously fell on the 6 potential ambush points designated by Der Linde. One of them, the one that would turn out to be the most suspicious, was indeed full of enemies. The enemy was clearly more numerous but Decken and his guys were better armed, better trained and above all they had the effect of surprise *.

-We deal it quietly. * Ordered Troy *.

* The Wolves pulled out their knives and applied what was today the marine reco motto. Swift, Silent and Deadly. Trojan slaughtered half a dozen guys on his own and in just 2 minutes the ambush point was secure. They then defused the explosives and the Ghost unit again disappeared in the snow. Unlike the rest of us they had a mask covering half of the face with Shark or Wolf designs on it *.

-Lobisomem, with me.

-Aye Master Sergeant.

* Troy and his guys headed for the second ambush point where the other unit wait for them, still fast, undetected by the enemy thanks to their outfit, avoiding potentially trapped areas but especially cutting through the mountains as I read in several reports. Thanks to this way of moving they finally arrived at the second ambush point with half of his unit. As expected from Seb he did indeed have a second point in case the first did not work *.

-Second Lieutenant Der Linde is monstrous.

-Swan is always right. * Said Troy *. That's a thing i learn dealing with him.

* With the light blizzard blowing the Ghost unit placed above the mountain was totally invisible to their enemies. Hidden in ambush, they positioned shooters in the high points while others went down to eliminate the sentries with a knife. One of the Ghosts mimicked an animal's cry distracting a guard and another slit his throat. The sentries were killed one after the other but when a Ghost had finished killing a sentry he was grilled *.

-Hey there you motherfucker. Hands up.

* He got up and raised his hands high but before the guard could sound the alarm he took a Sniper bullet in the head. I heard the shot on the radio *.

- Ghost leader what was that noise?

* The small surprise attack had already derailed into a shootout. You know those call of duty missions where infiltration ends in gunfire? Well there it was practically the same. Troy and his guys opened fire on their enemy. There must be a hundred guys in those woods. Troy and his team were barely 40. And yet the Ghost unit was indeed an elite unit. The sniper killed the radio operator with a bullet in the throat, then destroyed the radio with a bullet, he then damaged the machine gun by shooting the barrel to deform it, then cut the explosive cable of the TnT *.

-Well done Corporal Tamer. * Thought Decken *.

* The ghost group was hiding behind trucks held at bay by enemy fire from other side of the road. One of his guys had a knee injured and was being treated by the medic, the enemy was throwing grenades at them forcing them to take cover behind the rocks. Strangely Troy felt that they too were elite soldiers, after all they were the last line between the train invasion and their area *.

-I see, Creuyf, Ridley grabbed the gatling and follow me. The other provide suppressing shots.

* Trojan Decken descended through the forest, rifle in hand, followed by his 2 men and then bypassed the enemy. Strangely in their bypass they fell on the enemy team who were also trying to bypass. Troy and his guys fired several rounds immobilizing the enemies 100 yards away and then a grenade launcher shot dispersed them. Decken then charged with his guys and they slashed everyone by gulping them down. After circling around the enemy position they sprayed them with heavy machine guns *.

-Take that you motherfuckers. * Cried Creuyf *.

* He decimated more than half of them and the fugitives were shot down by the snipers. The rest were taken prisoner *.

-These guys are good. * Says Ridley *. Despite our equipment, they stand up to us.

-It's true. But war remains a matter of circumstance. * Decken replied *. Sheperd leader, we cleaned up. Do you suspect a 3rd ambush point or is it good?

-I don't think there is another point otherwise it means that he would allocate more men and will have to move his positions.

-Ok received. Another thing Sheperd leader we took prisoners we are waiting for your passage to deliver them to you or ...

-Negative. Your section must remain mobile.

* The instant I told him that the train passed right in front of the 2nd ambush point. It was as if the time had frozen but I had meet my friend face or rather the eyes of my friend *

- Ghost leader disposed of the prisoners.

* The train passed immediately and the driver increased speed now that the way was clear. Decken nodded to his men *.

-Bump of motherfuckers. Seb will kill you all.

* The 40 prisoners were executed with a bullet in the back of the head *.

-It's good we are here to kill him too. * Said Troy *. Are you okay Abott? * He asked the injured *.

-I will survive Master Sergeant.

-Well. Davai puts him back on its feet. The rest of the section we move on to our next target.

* After this small assault it must have been panic among our enemies. Seb no longer had radio contact with his friends on the train line, in other words no one could warn him of an enemy attack coming from there. Yet this guy was a real machine, apparently he had a battery of protocol to follow in several cases. Several trucks full of armed men arrived at the factory. They were all on the war footing and they were armed, heavy machine gun, mortar, grenades, rifles. Once again they had been prepared for everything, at least almost everything because they were far from suspecting what was going to fall on them *.

-Come on you motherfuckers of Elysien we are expecting you.

* As the train approached its destination I got up and it was the sign for all my men who began to load their rifles, put on their gear, wear their helmets and so on. I walked through the compartments with my guys behind me all ready to do battle, these guys were the most determined guys I knew and they know how to make war. I stopped in the middle and they made room *.

-Camarade, I think the time has come. *I said*. You will be training for weeks, months for some and you have only one desire is to do battle.

-SIR YES SIR.

-These guys in the North there, they think they're invincible, invulnerable just because they've managed to fend off conscripts with no combat experience for almost 10 years now. They think they're good because they've only beaten up easy opponents, while Jean Uber from the Yukon is fighting better than them.

* My men let out some amused laughter *.

-But that's because they haven't faced real Elysian soldiers yet. The tough ones among the tough ones. The meanest, the baddest, the cruelest, dirtiest, and most vicious motherfucker in the entire Midgard Kingdom.

-HOOAAH

*I continued to walk in a circle in the middle of the wagon as their excitement grew visibly*.

-We are Wolves, born to hunt prey and devour it, if anyone gets in our way we devour them. Because the wolf is mean but also very vicious. We don't let it go, we support each other and we fight TOGETHER.

-AYE SIR.

-Because yes the Wolf likes to fight. But it's strange I don't feel any combative emotions among you, maybe I would have landed in midwives. ARE YOU SURE YOU BELONG TO MY WOLVES?

-SIR YES SIR

ARE YOU SURE YOU BELONG TO MY BATTLEFIELD?

-SIR YES SIR.

-AND THEM YOU THINK THEY BELONG TO IT?

-NO SIR.

* With my eyes and my gift I saw that the train was clearly boiling hot and I liked it because I too felt the excitement building *.

-Close your eyes and let's pray.

* My men closed their eyes and I saw around them a divine aura covering us and the whole train *.

-Lord Ares God of war, here your sons ready to march on the enemy position. Dear Joshua we humbly ask you to close your eyes to the atrocities we may commit on behalf of the Elysian people of his army and our homeland, Votan Allfather we ask you to keep your eyes open on this battle as you will not be disappointed .

* My men smiled amusedly. After all Votan only had one eye *.

-That said the god of Beowulf is none other than Ares himself. The god of war who guides us on the battlefield and through the fog of war. In your name we will fight and in your name we will Bring victory. HAIL ARES HAIL CHAOS.

-HAIL ARES

* When the train arrived at the station not a single shot was fired, yet there was a whole regiment waiting for us. The point is that they were surprised by what they found in front of them *.

-Holy fucking shit.

-It's a joke eh?

* From where we were you could feel the despair and discouragement on their faces. In front of them was not an ordinary train, it had 120mm turrets, loopholes for rifles and machine guns, it had mortars in the rear center of the train, the walls had been reinforced with steel plates in short in ordinary words it was a fucking armored train like Uncle Adolf's *.

-OPEN FIRE. * I ordered

* Every nook and cranny of the train had a place to put your gun. And on board, a company of 300 Wolves armed with DC rifles inspired by the semi-automatic Gewerh models of the Wermacht. 20 rounds each, Add to that the fact that Sheperd Company all have excellent marksmen who can cause fatal injuries up to 200 yards *.

-KILL THEM.

* A deluge of lead and bullets fell on the factory. In truth I believe that our enemies even regretted having surrounded us because being so close to the train impossible to miss them. The thing about war movies is that they rarely get us used to the first detail that strikes on the battlefield, the noise. Because yes a firearm makes a lot of noise, the sound was so deafening that we could not even shout orders. So I shouted into the train's loudspeakers *.

-CEASE THE FIRE.

* The guns stopped spitting fire immediately, around us it was a sea of ​​corpses, enemies covered in blood and shredded by the shells, but the worst part was that I was insensitive to it all. I had to lead my men to the front. I announced phase 2 of the attack and my men regrouped before exiting the train in a military coordination never seen before in the armies of this world. The resistance was very minor and our mastery of the CQC* ensured the capture of the buildings. Before even realizing it we had managed to recover both the factory and the prisoners who had been locked up there and the scientists who had been captured. Beowulf was quick and efficient in training *.

Ndt: Close quarter combat

- Fill up on beers * guys. Today it is the rebels who feast.

Ndt: Common names give to ammunition.

-Yes sir.

- Hurry up to go into defense mode. The fugitives will soon call for reinforcements and it will be brutal.

-Yes Sir.

* While it was running in all directions I was brought to the group of prisoners. There was about 2000 to see 3k to break everything and by analyzing their wavelength I could capture the atmosphere but most importantly, it was not there. What good was I having no hope anyway. *

- Fine work Staff Sergeant Hartkins.

-Thank you lieutenant.

-You're in charge of these guys ?/* Asked the most senior officer in the prisoners *. You all have funny emblems on your helmets it looks like ....

-Werewolfs. It symbolizes our warrior spirit and our will to fight.

-So young and so motivated. I am Major Krantz. * He said shaking my hand *. If you don't mind my guys and I would love to help you.

-Sorry sir, but with all due respect you will have to stay on the sidelines. Question of procedures. *I said*.

-How does that procedure?

* I can not explain to him that the captured soldiers turned crazy and campaigned for the rights of their enemies. In short, out of the question of integrating these loosers into my operation. I call for the doctor. and her section*

-Your guys are not aware of the battle plan or the movements and even less the tactics used. Moreover it is an operation to exterminate the enemy your rescue is really secondary. I will therefore ask you not to interfere with this operation. A section will take care of your case.

-U.... Understood.

-Sergeant Keita, we don't have time to inspect all these guys, find a place for shelter, it will heat up soon.

* I saw Habib come back with a bang *.

-The defenses are in place at the exact place where you asked us. But with all due respect, I don't think it is a good idea.

- Calm down Sergeant Major. Keikaku Doori. * Tell him I'm smiling *.

-Eh ?

* I gave him a sly smile and motioned for Keita to move them in a safe place as we returned to our positions *.

-Time for Payback Seb

*To be continued*

* In a testimony that he will give to the press Krantz will say: "He did not give me his rank and seeing how he commanded I thought he was a colonel. It's a shame because he had the right stuff. . But hey you know what happened "*.