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.50-caliber machine-gunfire.
Rebels quickly followed the tanks in, and one
block of the town was taken.
The Rebels did not take any prisoners.
"Tell Dan to move in," Ben ordered. "Plug
up all the escape holes he can."
If those in the town thought Ben Raines's initial
attack was brutal, they quickly found that running up
against Gray's Scouts was like swimming in a small
pond filled with alligators. No matter where one
turned, all they saw was hungry jaws filled with
deadly teeth.
The leader of the thugs who occupied Redding got on the
radio and called his counterpart thirty
miles south in Red Bluff. "Get gone!" he
shouted into the mike. "We've had it up here.
Raines is not takin' no prisoners. Head for
L.a. and link up with them down there. It's worser
than we was told. Ben Raines and the Rebs don't
got no mercy in them. They's out for blood and they
don't give a damn for laws or courts or
lawyers or nothin' like that. "He-was
The transmission ended abruptly as a
Rebel-held rocket launcher burped and the house
exploded in flames.
A squad of Rebels found what was once a
lovely home that now contained about a dozen women and
twice that many children, ranging in age from runny-nosed
infants in filth-encrusted diapers to boys and
girls nine or ten years old.
A Rebel looked at a woman, scarcely able
to contain his anger and his contempt for her. "Get up,"
he said through clenched teeth.
"Don't take the babies from us!" one woman
yelled. "They's good for trade."
"What?" a Rebel woman snapped at her.
"Trade? Don't be stupid, you bitch.
Trade?" Then it came to her who the women traded
the babies to. "You goddamn slime!"
"You ain't got no rat to talk to me like "at," the
woman said. "Times has been hard."
"I wonder if these people have ever heard of soap was
another Rebel said. "Jesus, it's rank in
here."
The women and kids were escorted to the edge of town,
where Ben's CP had been established. The children were
taken from the women and turned over to Doctor
Chase's medical people for exams and blood work.
"You cain't take my kid!" a woman screamed.
"I done got me a trade set up."