Battlefield Chronicles
Operation Blue Pearl
Chapter 2
The searing pain, which Groener expected did not come. The Chinese soldier ran away leaving the knife stuck in his lower ribs. A marine medic noticed and ran over and told him to lie down. He was not bleeding because the knife held the blood vessels together. Dalert had run over and was trying to comfort Groener. The medic pulled out a needle and thread. He with the help of Dalert dragged Groener to the side of the street in an alley. The medic slowly removed the knife. When it was out he opened the wound slightly and looked inside. He took a small tube of clear thick liquid and put some on the inside of the wound. Groener felt cold despite the almost horrendous heat. The medic was now sewing together the outer wound. Dalert asked the medic what the liquid was. The medic said anti bacterial glue. It dissolves the flesh together to prevent internal bleeding. The medic checked him over one more time and said to Dalert "keep him here until this skirmish is over and we can get him some real medical support." Sarge ran over with Crabsen. Sarge barked into his radio "medevac now!" The woman was heard saying "Negative LZ is way too hot wait till things cool down and will come and get him." Sarge swore and told Dalert to watch him. The Chinese were more focused on a squad of marines. One of the marines threw a frag and the explosion appeared to take a Chinese man's head off. It rolled a few feet and fell into the canal. Sholksor meanwhile had seen a Special Forces soldier trying to cross the canal by swimming. Sholksor fired and the shot hit the man and he floated, face down in the water. Groener felt weak. He felt something being shoved in between his lips. It was a water bottle, but it had a strange aftertaste. His head swam and he passed out. While this was happening Crabsen was trying to hold off an enemy squad, and he was being quickly overrun. Sarge ran to the rescue but a man holding his combat knife attacked him and forced him into a hand to hand engagement. Sarge obviously won, overpowering the man and shoving his own knife through the man's spine. He got up and left it and went to help Crabsen.
A few blocks down, an APC was attacking some American positions. Sholksor was using a laser designator, and was painting a target for some F-18's. The roar of the jet's turbines was quiet at first then loud, followed by massive explosions. The APC was reduced to wreckage. The remaining Chinese forces had withdrawn from the area and were heading to the construction sites in a desperate defense to protect the command post across the deep canal. A Blackhawk landed down, and Groener was picked up by Sarge. Sarge carried the unconscious man to the Blackhawk. Halfway there a man wearing ordinary clothes jumped out and took Groener in his own arms and carried him the rest of the way. The man's identification tag said he was a doctor on the aircraft carrier. He hopped on the helicopter and took off. Sarge walked away. Damn, he thought. "Is he going to make?" Crabsen asked. Sarge replied with "How the hell should I know!" "I'm not sure was Crabsen's" meek response. Just then Sholksor walked up and said "Sarge, I found something alarming". "What is it Sholksor" "It's a jerry can, but it has Russian markings on it". Sarge replied "If it has Russian markings I think the European Union's new ally is too good to be true. I am going to report this immediately." Sarge radioed and another marine walked up. He had a big radio backpack and he said to Sarge when he was finished on the radio, "I just contacted the medical ward. They said your friend is perfectly fine. In a couple of days he will return to you. Good luck" then the man walked away. Sarge said to all of his men "Were damn lucky then." Crabsen said "Thank god" and even Sholksor looked very relieved. But it dawned on Sarge that Dalert was missing. He quickly told everybody to look for him. After running around the area, Sarge found Dalert lying in a pool of his own congealing blood. Crabsen walked up and saw the body. Dalert's eyes were half closed and he had a stab wound on his throat, and multiple bullet wounds. Sarge investigated the clothing closely and found smoke and gunpowder residue, stippling. It told them that his throat was cut and then he was blasted at point blank range. His M249 SAW was missing, probably taken. Sarge picked up his helmet and took his M16A2 and stuck the butt in the ground then he put Dalert's helmet on it. Sholksor walked up and picked up the body and carried it back to the docks to be taken back to America. Sarge and Crabsen walked to the temporary armory, and Sarge got a new MI6. He also grabbed a new knife, and he also grabbed some HE Grenades. His current MI6 lacked an M203. Crabsen turned in his carbine for G36C assault rifle. Sholksor walked up and talked quietly to the man who was handing out guns and ammunition. He grabbed some clips and a few grenades. They met at a building that had been converted into a mess hall. They all ate their food in complete silence. The entire mess hall was quiet. Everyone looked gloomy. One man was in the corner with his head in his hands, a few of his friends were trying to comfort him. Sarge said I got our orders. We wait here at temporary base for Groener to come back then we move out to relieve the assault forces farther in the city. The days passed slowly. They went to a memorial right in the base for all the men who died in the battle. Nothing happened. No Chinese attacks, nothing. One day a Blackhawk landed not too far from the huts that the squad was living in. Sarge ran out in fatigues, and met Groener who was hopping out of the helicopter. Sholksor and Crabsen ran up looking really excited. Sarge told them to get into the city faster he had arranged for them to get a captured Chinese truck. The squad piled in and moved out. They spent ten minutes just getting out of the dock area. They stopped in a park that looked like it had been a battlefield. Not long after they approached an abandoned construction yard. A few marines leapt out of the unfinished building and came to greet them. The apparent leader said "You are danm relieve" sarge got up and stood his full height the soldier said "Your one big feller aren't ya?" Sarge said "Were taking this construction site, so shut up, and move out!" The marine walked away, muttering angrily. Here we go again, thought Groener.
To be continued…….
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