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and mop up the survivors and any wounded, it will be good experience for them.’
    Communications Captain Tarkai awaited for the Blue Leopard officer to finish before speaking, his hands placed on his hips, ‘Fleet have some interesting equipment to add to the counterattack…I will arrange its deployment to the north and south of the specialist unit.’ He grimaced at the map before them, ‘There will be no other units to add to this sector for some time I think, so we had better limit casualties.’ He panned the map across, ‘Some earth soldiers and Trevakians are clearing the tunnels to the north, and we have two units holding the front defensive line…one or two companies will have been destroyed in the Morgon breakthrough…’ Pointing his fingers at the villages to the east as the map zoomed in on the holograms, ‘We need these troops back, and safely…there are some earth units amongst them…as well as the civilians that lived in the hamlets…it is our responsibility to protect them.’
    Major Hecklan smiled grimly, ‘Let’s hope our defences hold up then…before we launch the counterattack…’ He nodded to Jozefina, ‘It seems the reserve battalion…your Heathrow volunteers are about to come face to face with our enemy…we do not have enough soldiers in this sector to remove them from the line…let us just hope some of them survive to tell the tale…’ He indicated to Captain Mason, ‘Move the Americans to the north, I need some soldiers in the tunnels to release our own troops.’
    The American shrugged, ‘But Sir…the volunteers here have little to no experience…I should command them…’
    The Major raised his hand, ‘There are too few Americans to make a difference…we do not want to endanger your specialists…the tunnels need to be secured and quickly. Once we have driven the counterattack forward, I will release the reserves back to you…’ His eyes softened as he saw Mason’s frustration, ‘Don’t worry captain, they will only be used in the rear areas as per your wishes…perhaps this Lieutenant Kim can command them in the interim until they are returned to you.’
     
     
     

Chapter Two: Flight from Contax Base
     
    Shino stumbled on the stoned and snow covered track, her exhausted body dropping forwards as her knees skidded along the dirt. Gasping, she attempted to force herself upwards, Riaz grasping her right arm roughly and propelling them forward as she struggled to rise. She desperately sucked air in, coughing through the dust and smoke as her senses began to panic, vaguely aware of the abandoned airstrip to her right, the snowflakes beginning to drift and swirl to earth around them.
    Screaming from behind broke through her stinging half-blinded sight, the tears and dirt smeared across her face as she forced herself upwards. Riaz winced as his muscles tensed, the agony shooting through his limbs as he gritted his teeth, a whine of pain slipping from his lips in desperation, ‘Come on Shino…we need to keep moving!’
    Debra Hardie grasped Shino’s other arm, wrenching the small Philippine upwards, her voice feverishly raised as the blasts of warm air hit them from further back up the slope, explosions rocking the terrain as they were showered in dirt, ‘Get up…you are not on an effing break now!’
     
    More screams, the shouts of the wounded, panicked fleeing miners and soldiers next to them loud in their ears as running bodies swept past. Crashes behind as buildings collapsed in the mining village, the Morgon troops and grenadiers firing rockets into any structures that offered resistance, the remaining desperate Trevakian marines buying time for their escaping countrymen, time paid for with their lives.
    At the brow of the track, Captain Dugachard was shouting desperately at her remaining marines, the soldiers ducking behind any available cover to fire at the pursuing enemy. Smoke and dust billowed around them, their muzzle flashes lighting the terrain as