"Modesitt,.L.E.-.Flash" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

positioning showed that fire was coming from a knoll of sorts two
hundred meters to the southeast. Some sort of crude revetment,
but crude or not, it was good enough to stop lasers and hand
weapons.

More telltales flicked red and gone.

At eighty meters from the revetment, with a narrow clear line before
us, and slugs coming in at less than a meter above my head,
mowing down the tops of the soyl plants, and even the shorter and
bushier caak planted between the rows of soyl, I called a halt.
Hold. Launchers centered.

Centered.

Fire!

After the first stun-grenade dropped into the revetment, someone
tried to swing the old machine gun. They didn't get far.

A handful of illegals vaulted over the revetment and began to run.
At that range, even in the fields on the edge of the rain forest, the
HVs were effective. One hundred percent effective in the open.

In less than ten minutes, the field and the revetment were ours, but
I had the men play it safe, and it was more like a half hour before I
climbed over the edge of the makeshift revetment and surveyed
what lay there.

The heavy fire had come from more than a dozen locals. Bodies
were four men, six women, and two children. That didn't count the
others that delta company had taken down when they'd bolted the
makeshift revetment. The ones who had stayed inside had been
crouching behind rotten logs, plastered with dried mud and
covered with vegetation. I could see their ribs. One of the women
was ten years older than my mother. She looked that old, maybe
wasn't, but one side of her chest was blown away. That was what
happened when grenades designed to stun troops in nanite-
boosted uniforms went off too close to unprotected flesh. The old
woman's teeth were black stubs.

CI, Bravo two. Site secured. This time the uplink was clear. Ready
for documentation.

That's a negative, Bravo two. Torch and return. Torch and return.
Op concluded. Torch and return.

Interrogative, torch and return?

That's affirm. Torch and return. Notify when you reach pickup area.