"You know why the pilots got arrested but you are still doing it." One of the soldiers inside the watchtower said to other soldier who was currently sitting and drinking.
"Yeah, because they were pilots and I am not." The man said while drinking leisurely. The night had fallen and within a hundred meters of the base, there were no lights to illuminate the darkness. The only light source they had was manually controlled military spotlight.
Unbeknownst to them, an army equipped with modern weaponry had already positioned themselves few hundreds meters away from the base waiting for signal. 2 tanks in each mountain positioned themselves and aimed towards the base. With high ground they had, the APCs inside the base were sitting ducks.
Half an hour later, the guy who was drinking had already passed out. The other guard was trying to wake him up while turning the spotlight. Then he heard loud engine sound coming from the darkness. Turning his spotlight to take a look, what he saw petrified him on the spot.
An army consisting few hundreds soldiers was rushing towards them protected by few IFVs and tanks. The man watching all reached to alarm button located in the watchtower and pressed it. Deafening alarm resounded inside the base. Every soldier who was sleeping woke up groggily before turning around to sleep again. None cared about the alarm, except the newly appointed Base Commander.
He ordered his men to wake everyone up. While they were rushing inside the base, they heard multiple loud sounds coming from the distance. Base Commander, as a experienced soldier he recognized the sound. It was an artillery firing. Before he could even react, multiple explosions happened and shook the ground.
The shells fired from the tanks located at the mountains hit the APCs as they were the first target. Four of them exploded with contact leaving the others damaged.
Three tank that pushing forward with infantries fired and demolished the walls of the base. Infantries and IFVs rushed inside from the breached wall. Once inside the base they were greeted by sloppy equipped soldiers. All of them raised their gun and fired. Infantries started hiding behind the IFVs while the IFVs provided them cover.
Returning the fire, infantries fought against the soldiers of the base. Tanks once again fired their shell hitting the walls of the barracks and destroying it. There was a complete chaos on Crow Empire's soldiers side. With the APCs destroyed, soldiers had no chance against mechanized company.
While the base was under attack, surrounding three bases sent reinforcements. They expect to arrive at the base in a hour. One of the reinforcements company consisted four hundred infantry packed in a personal carrier trucks guarded by 10 APCs. The other had 30 tanks, 10 IFVs and 10 APCs supporting the military command vehicle. The last one had 20 MRAP and 30 ACV. The outcome of the reinforcements arriving while Victor and his men were still in a gunfight would be devastating.
After ten minutes the base was captured while every Empire soldiers were killed. Victor then ordered his men to return their base. Victor is currently planing to change his outpost's location to prevent getting detected.
After 30 minutes they had arrived to the outpost and packed their stuff leaving the outpost. Victor had found better spot for his outpost which was two hours away from his location. To avoid detection Victor and his men moved without lights using only night vision goggles.
While Victor was on his way to new location for his outpost, reinforcements of Empire army arrived at the scene of destroyed fort. The walls of the base was destroyed, soldiers were laying on the ground with holes in their body.
The first reinforcements to arrive was a group consisting four hundred infantry packed in personal carrier trucks with protection provided from 10 APCs. After reaching to the base, infantries scattered around to check if there are any enemies left. APCs also scattered around to support infantries while they were searching around.
Thirty minutes later other reinforcements also arrived at scene as they joined in to the searching mission. Another thirty minutes later they found Base Commander who was shot but still alive. Medics quickly moved and began with their first aid.
The ranking officer in scene was Robert Colin who was a Brigadier General. After his soldiers confirmed that the area was secure he got out of the Commad Vehicle he was in.
With soldiers protecting him, Robert's gaze swiped the base. He walked inside while looking around. The walls were clearly breached either with artillery or a tank. Some soldiers had their body torn which points out that there was a heavy cal. gun that could torn someone's body. There were also large craters on the ground indicating that the attackers also had artillery support.
After analyzing everything, Robert become more confused. Who has tanks and artilleries that could destroy their base like this. Was it Nimbus Federation? But they couldn't get to the Empire's beaches without being detected. There isn't any powerful neighbouring country that could attack us. The only answer is what most scares the Robert, which was some soldiers and officers deciding to start a new civil war.
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After years of war and hellish days Robert lived, he doesn't want any war in his country. Especially new civil war making people kill their brothers.
After ten minutes, the base commander was carried by medics into one of the armored vehicle. Later the vehicle drove off towards a hospital with 1 APC support.
Robert ordered his men to report him everything they found. But to his disappointment they could find any information nor dead bodies left by them. Robert after receiving the reports got inside his command vehicle and reported to Chief of War.
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Imperion Capital City Of Crow Empire
Inside a majestic room filled with golden carvings and furnitures, there were eleven people sitting around a table. Five of them were on the left side while the other five was on right side. Last person was sitting at the end of the table. With his demeanor and elegance it's easy to guess who is he.
Emperor Adrian Crow. Hated by many and also loved by many. He was having conference with the rulers of his empire. Chief of War, Director of Treasury...etc. Right now all of them were listening the report Robert Colin gave.
Very same questions that resounded inside Robert's mind were asked. Who are they, what is the purpose of this attack and most importantly where are they right now. How can they leave without anyone noticing them. The answer for this question was hard and everyone had their own theory. Some of them believed it was the puppet country trying to liberate themselves while some said it was the Nimbus Federation successfully landing on their beach without detection. Some of them even thought this was the doing of dissenters.
There was a discussion about ten minutes before everyone fell silent. Adrian Crow as the emperor had his own theory. Which was the same theory Robert scared to think about. Even though Adrian had theory he wouldn't say it loud because that would raise discomfort among his men.
Making up his mind, Adrian issued an order. Martial Law and curfew will be declared. The moment he said that everyone inside the room had disbelief in their eyes. Even though there were continuous attacks, declaring martial law would result in people of the Empire to question the democracy not to mention curfew. All though thats what they had in their mind no one spoke.
They left the room one by one until only the Chief of War and the emperor was left inside. Adrian looked at him and sighed.
"I know you have worries but we cannot start the purge right now. First we need to settle this down. Do you have any new information found about them?" Said Adrian.
"No, they are like ghosts. Appearing suddenly attacking using the surprise element and vanishing without leaving anything to track. The things we know about them is that they have fine weaponry to destroy our base in less than half an hour. Another thing is still not confirmed but it's suspected that they're the supporters of Royalty. We tried contacting them with sending messages around to lure them but so far there aren't any contact made to us." Said Chief of War Maxwell Warlen.
"We should speed up the process. Let's start arresting the suspected dissenters while martial law declared. We will use any means necessary to get information about attackers. There will be a lot of voice coming from the people so get as much as riot equipments you can. The police will be last choice as we would have martial law declared." Adrian said and got up from his chair before walking towards the door. As he left Maxwell sighed and left the room.
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"I heard they are declaring martial law is that true?" Said a man holding a phone with his head tilted while moving his body back and forth. He's upper body was naked and there was a cigar in his mouth. In front of him was a woman who had perfect figure with plump and juicy butt. She was laying down on the bed while raising her hip for him.
"Yes, that's the decision came out from that meeting. You need to be careful. They are aware of your connections and they might try something." Said the man in phone. Hearing him the man increased his pace as the woman started moaning like crazy.
"I'm not concerned about them but the fact that we still don't have any idea on who is behind those attacks happening around the Empire is scaring me. If they are not on our side then we will have hard time." Said the man as the woman under him started twitching and moaning loudly. Hearing her the man paced up once again.
"We still don't have any information about them but I heard there's a new guy in town. He is the new owner of Warmonger Arms. I also heard that before coming back here, he was entrepreneur in other countries. No one knows how much wealth he has but buying a company, 2 mansions and 30 cars at once is speaking for itself. I want you to befriend with him and pull him to our side. He is a rich man with gun." Said the man in phone.
The guy listening to him finally finished and the woman layed down there as she was still twitching and fluids coming out from her.
"New player huh, let's see what he got." Said the guy before putting down the phone and getting up from the bed. He walked towards the window and looked outside to the magnificent and beautiful capital city, Imperion.