Snippet #2307073

The Sergeant turned to the squad and began barking orders. He put all of the team except for five soldiers, one of which was Robert, on the ridge with machine guns. He turned to the ones left.

"Alright. You five take cover under the ridge and take out anyone that gets past the machine gunners."

There were a few half-hearted "yes sir"s and the five moved down to the bottom and took cover behind trees or boulders. Robert was crouched behind a large boulder with one other soldier next to him. He peeked out from the boulder at the camp to see what would happen while he held his breath. After what felt like forever, he heard a gunshot saw a soldier fall over. At once, all of the soldiers in the base began scrambling to find out what was going on. Robert thought about how he had heard that the Legion doesn't have much order when a superior isn't around to give orders since the soldiers blindly follow their commander's orders. The person who got sniped was probably their head officer.

A few more legionaries were felled before they must have realized where the shots were coming from and began running towards their position. The group of legionaries were poorly equipped and were getting decimated by the machine gunners. Most of the soldiers were only equipped with machetes or knives and the ones that did have weapons only had pistols or shotguns. Only three legionaries were left. Two of them had pistols and fired up at the machine gunners and one was charging ahead of them with a machete.

Robert looked out from the boulder again and saw the corpses of legionaries lying on the ground and blood soaking into the sand. One of the legionaries managed to get a machine gunner. The soldier fell from his position on top of the ridge and fell to the ground with a sickening crack. Robert thought about how he was glad that the soldier was at least dead before he hit the ground. The machine gunners then killed both of the legionaries at once. Small puffs of smoke came up around them from missed shots and they both struggled to stand before falling on the ground. One of the soldiers with Robert spoke up.

"Is it over now?"

As though answering him, a legionary darted behind him and, before anyone could make a move, slit his throat with the machete. The legionary only took one step towards the next soldier before he was shot from multiple angles by the four remaining soldiers in Robert's team. Robert ran up to the soldier and checked his pulse. There was nothing. He stood up to watch the rangers move into the camp to clean up whoever was left and waited to receive his next orders.