//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: A war story // by Col_R4inbow_D4sh //------------------------------// Chapter 5 "Okay everypony we need to Split up, some companies will go North-East and attacks the last Russian Fort, and the rest will counter attack." Big Mac said "Who should go where?" Rainbow asked "Well, where do you think the companies should go?" Big Mac asked "Hmm... Okay let me think." Rainbow replied "Alpha has much armor, Bravo has more mobile infantry and only little armor, Charlie got both, Delta is the elite toop, Foxtrot got only mobile infantry, and Sierra pretty much only got light and fast things... so perfect to spot for Yankee-Five... Rainbow thought" She thought "hmm... I would say Alpha goes into counter attack with charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, Bravo, Sierra, and Yankee-Five go attack the last fort..." Rainbow said "Okay, and who leads which company?" Big Mac asked "Big Mac: alpha, Spitfire: Bravo, Soarin: Charlie, Twilight: Delta, Fleetfoot: Foxtrot, Lighting Dust: Sierra and Yankee-Five." Rainbow replied "And you?" Soarin asked "You really have to ask?" Rainbow replied "So you with me then?" Soarin answered "Yep." Rainbow replied "Okay." Soarin replied "Now everypony, Operation: Rolling Thunder, starts now." Rainbow said "Yes Ma'am." Replied everypony With that everypony gathered they're gear and moved out, except for Alpha and Charlie. Because they first needed to get some reinforcements. 5 Minutes later in soarin's tank. "Sir send everything you got in equestria, and send it to albay to attack the chinese ground, we will hold them of in the North-East, we will push them back and do a counter attack." Rainbow said "Affirmative." The General answered "And Sir if you got 1 or 2 ships battleships, I want you to send them to asgard." Rainbow added She changed to the German channel "Here is Colonel Rainbow Dash, a large Chinese force is on the way to Kaligriff, We need reinforcements if we want to stop them." Rainbow said "Affirmative Colonel, sending out some battalions, But it will take some days." The commander answered "Commander no disrespect but we will need them latest tomorrow." Rainbow replied "I will see what I can do, but it isn't much I'm afraid. We could fly the light stuff over they should be there at 0900, but the Heavy armor needs 3 days to get to you." The Commander replied "Let's hope we still stand then." Rainbow answered "Good luck Ma'am." The Commander replied Rainbow got out of the tank and went over to Soarin and Big Mac "Light reinforcements will come in tomorrow at 0900." Rainbow told them "And the Heavy stuff?" Soarin asked "3 Days..." Rainbow replied "3 Days that will be to late!" Big Mac said "No it won't, Because I ordered the general to use all the available units in equestria and attack china from the North-East, that should force the chinese to split they're forces, in the meanwhile we defend here until the reinforcements arrive." Rainbow answered "That should help." Soarin replied "As soon as the reinforcements arrive we will counter attack and throw them back." Rainbow added "That's a pretty good plan, I think your getting into it again." Soarin replied "Okay everypony enough talking, Let's get ready and dig in." Rainbow answered The infantry set up sandbags, Mines and found good anti-tank positions, while the tanks positioned themselves to cover the streets The next day "Dash, my scouts just spotted the Chinese force, they will be here in about half an hour." Big Mac said "Okay everypony get ready." Rainbow answered The chinese force advanced at full speed, But as soon they hit our defence they got stopped in a instant, That first wave was pretty much the hardest, we only lost a quiet a few Tanks and Soldiers. "Big Mac, I just got informed that a platoon of Self-propelled artillery is ready and is standing by to support us when needed, If you got units you can't handle tell me the position and what and what type of unit, and I radio it over, Rainbow said "Affirmative," Big Mac answered some minutes later "Dash I need support against Heavy Tanks on coordinates: D13 and D14 Big Mac ordered "Affirmative, Radioing it over now," Rainbow answered A couple of seconds later, A Heavy artillery barrage began to rain down onto them "Perfect artillery hit, keep those coordinates coming." A observer said "Got medium armor on coordinates: C16," Big Mac said "Okay. Rainbow replied But this time, some of the medium tanks moved, only about 2 or 3 kept standing there. "Only minimal damage, better coordinates please, The observer said we were still outnumbered 10:1, And still they didn't got through, already in the first wave we took out we took out several companies, And still they came at us with the same amount of strength. It felt like a never ending wave. "This isn't normal anymore! Big Mac exclaimed "I know, but we can't fallback, If we do whole Equestria will fall before we know it," Rainbow answered "I know..., but how are we supposed to hold off a force like that, for 2 whole days?" Big Mac asked "I don't know... but we have to," Rainbow answered "Ma'am, the chinese force is falling back! one of the soliders exclaimed Finally at the end of the day the chinese force stopped they're attack, and retreated. "Okay everypony, regroup and get defensive positions up again." Rainbow said We tried to get some defences up again, we were so close to get overrun. But we stood our ground and won... at least for today The Next Day We had sentries up all night to warn us against a suprise attack, but there were none. "hmm, That's strange, No attacks at night...," Rainbow thought out loud "Dash we have to get ready, I'm sure they will attack soon," Big Mac said "Right," Rainbow answered But as the day proceed, We pretty much the only thing saw were some scouts, only several small attacks occurred, but nothing serious. Till now "What is this, that ain't attacking," Big Mac exclaimed "Hmm, I would say they are just testing us...," Soarin answered "Maybe" Big Mac replied The end of the day was close "I would say they won't attack today," Big Mac figured "Well let's hope for that, We will set up some sentries tonight again..., Platoon one, you have the first watch," Rainbow ordered "Affirmative, Ma'am One of the soldiers replied The Next Day Soarin and I walked around, looking how our soldier were positioned. "What happend yesterday?" Soarin asked "Nothing happend, Soarin." Rainbow answered "Yea that's it, why didn't anything happen?" Soarin replied "I don't know, maybe they waited for an opportunity to suprise us, or they are waiting for reinforcements," Rainbow answered "Why would they need more reinforcements? They already outnumber us 10:1," Soarin replied "I don't know and I don't care, Because it's they're loss, Today our reinforcements will arrive, and then we..." Rainbow cut herself off "And we what?" Soarin asked "Soarin, get down," Rainbow said "What?" Soarin asked "DOWN!" Rainbow shouted Soarin didn't got it, until seconds later a shot exploded only 10 metres away from him "Holy Fuck!" He exclaimed The chinese launched one big assault trying to get us out of town. "Damit, suprise attack! Rainbow exclaimed "You there soldier! Radio Big Mac the chinese are attacking!" Soarin shouted "Yes Sir," The soldier shouted back We tried to get back to our tank. "Come on Soarin don't stop!" Rainbow exclaimed "I wouldn't even think about it," Soarin replied We finally made it, Big Mac was already there and fighting back. As soon as we were back in our tank... "Here is Colonel Rainbow Dash, we need Artillery support on coordinates: B3-5 and C6-7, C13-15 and B9-11, Radioed Rainbow to the Artillery platoon "Affirmative firing for effect," The Soldier replied The artillery came in a little bit to late, most of the Chinese force already made it into the town. And with that the hit wasn't as devastating as hoped, but it did some damage "Damit they are in the town, Come on everypony we have to fight back," Rainbow said "Here is Big Mac, we can't stand that much more!" Rainbow Mac exclaimed "Try to hold them off as long as you can," Rainbow answered For every tank, jeep or soldier that attacked we were pushed back another inch, Before we knew we were at the town center, surrounded. "Gunner, 10 o'clock!" Soarin shouted "Big Mac, you take the right side and my Company the left side!" Rainbow ordered "Affirmative," Big Mac answered We had the better positions, but they had the numbers, We fought for hours losing quiet a few soldiers, but they still didn't broke us. "Come on we, don't give up!" Rainbow shouted "Dash, we can't hold on much longer!" Big Mac exclaimed "Okay, we are going to stand in a circle, Infantry and Light armor inside and giving fire support, while the Tanks take the fire! Rainbow ordered "Affirmative," Big Mac answered Finally after a few hours of struggling to keep the town, the reinforcements arrived, And Big Mac was right, the Germans were pissed..., Before the Chinese force knew, they were outnumbered 3:1 "Here's Commander Easyglider I heard you need support?" The commander asked jokingly "Bless you for coming Commander, We are pinned in the Center and could use some help!" Rainbow answered "Affirmative moving in now, The commander replied The Germans rushed into the the town and soon everything that the Chinese force conquered in hours, we took back in a time of minutes. The Chinese force was forced to retreat. On their retreat they sometimes tried to build defences to slow us down... But we advanced faster than they retreated. "If this is going like this the war is won in no time." Rainbow said "Ma'am if we keep this up we will outrun our supply line." The Commander answered "Well let's try to push them back as far as we can" Rainbow replied "Affirmative." The Commander replied We just drove and drove, though their desperate defences and straight though the night. The Next Day "Ma'am we outrun our Supply line." The Commander said "Affirmative, set up some defences here, till they caught up with us." Rainbow replied It took us nearly 3 days to get a stable supply line, for 3 days the Chinese were able to fortify their position. As soon we get resupplied we were off again "Damit, 3 fucking days!" Rainbow exclaimed "What do you mean?" The commander asked "The Chinese force now had 3 days to set up and fortify their postions" Rainbow answered "That shouldn't be a problem though," The commander replied "I hope so..., Rainbow replied A couple of hours later "Hmm... They have fortified themselves pretty heavy." Rainbow said "They got some support too, we don't outnumber them that much anymore..." The Commander added "If I'm not wrong we still outnumber them 2:1." Big Mac figured "That should be enough to break though." Soarin said "We don't know if they have more troops in the woods waiting to ambush us." Rainbow replied "Well theres only 1 way to find out Colonel." The Commander answered "I know, I still got a bad feeling about this. Let me do something first, than we can go." Rainbow replied "That's the spirit." The Commander replied -------------------- In Rainbow & Soarin's Tank "HQ here is Colonel Rainbow Dash, Send Hotel-Six-Niner with about 3 Platoons of heavy choppers to our position, and send some Napalm strikes onto coordinates: C2-3 till L2-3 and C16-17 till L16-17 and send some anti-tank strikes with a 15 or 20 second delay after them," Rainbow ordered "Affirmative, sending them out now. But it will take a few minutes," The soldier answered "Understood," Rainbow replied "What are you doing Dash?!" Soarin exclaimed "Trust me, I don't think we saw all of them till now." Rainbow answered "Hmm... Point" Soarin replied "Just like that?" Rainbow asked "What?" Soarin asked back "I would've... Nevermind, Now we can charge," Rainbow replied "Okay we're all set," Rainbow radioed to the commander "Okay then, let's go." The commander replied And so we began to move. We charged sometimes left or right 1 or 2 tanks or truck exploded, but we didn't slow down "Okay guys we nearly got them, but why aren't they falling back...," Rainbow asked "I don't know, maybe they want to die," The Commander suggested "Or maybe..." Rainbow got cut off The Napalm bomber arrived and dropped they're load, What came after, no one expected. "I... Knew it," Rainbow said The rest of the chinese force hid in the Forest, waiting to ambush us. "The force is bigger than I expected...," Rainbow said "Looks like now we are the ones who are outnumbered...," The Commander replied