>>5359035Almost no one died in the return fire, but there was a lot of scared radio chatter. The squads that didn't get hit returned fire, marking and engaging targets that the mortars were firing upon as well. The brush had been burned apart and some of it had caught fire into an incredible blaze, but the explosions landing among it put some of it out. The rest of it was stamped out with help of the militias and civilians that moved into the air. They were afraid that all the cotton would be reduced to nothing, and so would the farmers.
It was confirmed that 20 vehicles had been hit with incendiary rockets and they went up in fireballs, the uniforms and weapons of the men inside catching fire with gasoline and seats of the vehicles. They had died instantly, or fallen out, rolling on the ground and screaming before they died of shock. It was a shocking and horrifying battle, something of myths and legends, definitely nightmares. 100 people were completely killed with no hope, and yet everyone else had very minor injuries if any. The Benin Army had stayed back because they couldn't help much, and when their mortars were available to help, the battle was already over. If the enemy had tried to fight a little longer, 12 more mortars would've wiped them out.. The enemy was in a completely different position, There was what appeared to be 600 or so bodies scattered across so many fields. Inside 200-300 meter by 200-300 meter hexgrids, six of them, their bodies were seemingly sprinkled about. Some of the rockets and weapons left over had exploded from being hit with force, but strangely enough almost all of their helmets and armor were still intact...
Some of the chest plates and helmets were bent, and obviously a lot of them had holes in them... but other then that they seemed fine.... This was because their helmets and chest plates were made of steel... AR-550 steel, very strong. It also explained why so many of them had strange small fragmentation wounds, and also why their vests, shoulder-pads, and neck coverings were made of a material similar to Kevlar..... Steel didn't absorb bullets, it shattered them and sent the fragments sideways and up. There was also mandibles to cover the face, also made of steel... And for every ten or so bodies, there was one or two examples of what looked like the bulky "FLASH" incendiary rocket system. They looked brand new and had scopes, other improvements. This is what killed the hundred brave souls.
