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>C-5 Martins, Unexpected Encounter with AB-14/29s!
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On the other side of the peninsula, nobody knew anything about gigantic living stones, ethereal flame, spirits, or anything that may as well have been the ramblings of an overactive imagination- their problems had truth enough to them without the folk tales of the Huldraviklands creeping into their perception of reality.
Most of the action was blind firing- some shots traded, but the majority of successful deployments of ordinance were smoke, laid down to prevent more incoming. Shots splattered against armor- some finding more purchase than others, but as the battalion continued to move, Yule took heart in the fact that the losses were still mounting more quickly on the enemy’s side than the battalion’s.
What there was less heart to take in was that the enemy was now and truly well in amongst the formation. Ahead, that rot-hearted Twaryian ace that had hounded the battalion since its first operation was forming a wall, along with his castoff forces, barring the oh-so-close line of retreat. The heavy tank destroyers that once made a mockery of such machines as the T-15 were in far fewer quantity now- and Yule had no plan for them, besides their slow speed making the superior maneuverability of the battalion a clear advantage. Fighting them might not be avoidable with how little space was no being shared with so many foes- but so long as the battalion flowed through them like water, knocking out the faster foes, then if what Lieutenant Lutzow-Spelinger reported was true, nothing could prevent getting off this Judge-forsaken peninsula, to what future, he dared not hope overmuch about…
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