The Battle of Chenkov
30th Gelters Division, Chenkov OutskirtsFranzYou slowly wake back up. The first thing you see if a corpse, slumped over, sitting across from you. It's one of the men in your squad, with a hole through his neck, likely caused by shrapnel. As you think about shrapnel, you realize there's something stuck in your helmet. You pull it out, and realize it's a piece of shrapnel, coated in blood. Your ears also recover, and you realize that your squad has emptied out of the truck, and begun attacking the city.
ChloeYou jump out of the truck, running for cover. You see a shell crater about 10 feet away, and sprint over to it, holding your rifle. You dive into the crater as bullets kick up dust around you, and roll to the edge, looking for targets to shoot at. You quickly find the enemy machine gunner, sitting in the top floor window of a tenement, and fire a shot at him. The shot's dead on, but he swivels with the gun at the last moment, and the bullet misses by a hair. He quickly ducks into cover, feeling the bullet fly right past him.
4th Interceptor Unit, Above ChenkovAmandaAs your wingman dives into a Split-S, trying to avoid being shot out of the sky, you pull the stick into your gut, climbing above the Genitian fighter. The lone Genitian follows your wingman into the Split-S, but he can't quite get a gun solution. Your wingman begins to climb back up, and the Genitian follows him, lining you up for a perfect shot. As the Genitian gets a gun solution, opening up on your wingman, you begin to fire at him. Your bullets tear through his plane, and, in a few seconds, his controls are completely shot, with his engine on fire. As his prop begins to stutter, and he starts to stall, his canopy pops off and he jumps out, pulling the ripcord on his chute. Your wingman levels out, and you pull up alongside him to see how bad the damage is. His plane is full of fist-sized holes, from the cannon, he's leaking oil, and his canopy is full of smaller holes from machine guns. He radios you, and explains that he's leaking fuel and oil, and he's lost some of his control surfaces. He's going to head back to base, and try to land.
25th Rustov Division, Chenkov Outskirts VladimirYou give the order, and your men begin to open fire. The initial barrage of rifle and machine gun fire downs at least 5 Egicans as they're climbing out of their trucks. You yourself fire your pistol at them, and hit one Egican rifleman climbing over the side, who topples over and falls off the truck. The Egicans return fire, but the bullets glance off the wall of the building without doing any damage. Doing some quick guessing, you decide that each rifleman in your unit probably has about 150 rounds of ammunition. There's also a small ammo cache on the ground floor of the tenement. The machine-gunner probably has about 1000 rounds. You also notice, out of the corner of your eye, a small squad of marines, the first line of scouts, falling back towards your position.
GSD Sopstov, Docked in Chenkov HarborVasilyYou fire the large gun, and watch as the large cannon shell flies towards the Egican tanks. The shell flies straight through the first tank, setting it on fire, and hits another tank in the side, exploding. You realize as you watch the aftermath that the fuse on the shell was set incorrectly, but the results are even better than you could have expected. You can see two Egicans jumping out of the first tank, carrying a third, while it burns, and the second tank has been almost completely destroyed. You're pretty sure the tanks around the explosion were damaged as well, but none as badly as those two. The crew laughs at the results, and one of them claps you on the back.
5th Marines Squad, 4th Marines Battalion, Chenkov OutskirtsEverettYou and your squad were commandeered from your cruiser for the defense of Chenkov. Due to the small size of your unit, you were put on the outskirts to spot the Egicans, and delay them for a few minutes. After a short, undecisive firefight with a squad of Egican soldiers, your squad withdrew to the second line of defense. The nearest post you know of is a tenement, commanded by an officer named Vladimir. You've arrived in the area, and can see Vladimir's unit firing on the Egicans a few hundred yards behind you.
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