LWDD-9

==Chapter 9 Lest we drown in the darkness...==
by Cannonshop
-----
Recounts of the Kowloonse war efforts by a SLDF Major
-----
"...what are the Kowloonese good for?  They don't appear to have a single adequate 'Mechwarrior, most of them don't bother to speak, or seem to understand, English, and they're constantly taking heavy casualties.  Horrible soldiers, really. Their food is a form of torture, their culture? It's a bastardized remnant of everything the rest of humanity outgrew. Their uniforms are cheap and shoddy, their weapons are crap...so what do they bring?"
"Let me tell you a story.  The Rim Worlds forces on Eagle's Nest were hard core. They were dug into a bunker complex every bit as nasty as any Brian fortress, and it was going to take the 83rd months to dig them out-long enough, that it would impact finishing off the rest of the Rim Worlds Republic and securing our flank."
"So, General DeChevalier shows up, and in tow behind him, the Kowloonese.  The 171st Volunteers, and the 83rd's First, second and fourth battalions get pulled back.  Just infantry, you see?  That's what they brought, infantry and some of the saddest, cheapest, oldest tanks I've ever seen, and cheap, obsolete aerospace fighters, SB-27 Sabres, loaded with iron bombs."
"So, you're thinking it's a delaying action, maybe draw the Republican Guard units out, or buy time for a withdrawal?"
"Yeah...not so much."
"Ever seen what you can do with men who will pile bodies into an inferno strike to put it out?  Because I have."
"What do the little bastards bring?" (sip a drink)
"They're ****** RUTHLESS.  Not just 'shoot through the hostage' ruthless, but 'if you're not willing to shell your own position you're not willing to win' Ruthless."
''
"It took them 72 hours to crack a fortress my best combat engineering experts projected would take sixteen weeks without nukes. They didn't even wait for the fires to die down before they made their landings."
"How? They found the gaps and wedged them open with bodies to make a path for the SLDF.  Ngo lost half his first command breaking those fortresses, but he BROKE them open for us."
*;Chaim Lundgren, Major, 3rd Battalion, 83rd Battlemech Regiment.
-----
Previous Chapter - Return to Story Index - Next Chapter
Category:Lest we drown in the darkness Chapters