Chapter 31: the battle begins

Rustle!! Rustle!! The forest leaves swayed gently to the rhythm of the wind, as activities began in the temporary terrorist camp.

Clark joined the other soldiers, as they checked their weapons, before proceeding to load their resources for the inevitable battle. After taking the armor yesterday, he went to the other armory where normal weapons are stored.

In there, he dropped his old gun, exchanging it for a better machine gun and a sword made from reinforced steel. Almost all the other newly graduated terrorist soldiers made the same decision.

He was assigned to be in a vehicle, at the forefront of the formation of vehicles. The 2 high-grade soldiers who fought yesterday, to ensure their escape, were in the same car with him. The engines of the vehicles roared to life, as they started moving forward orderly.

Vroom!! Vroom!! The vehicles moved with such momentum like they were going to a world war, as their hardened tires left deep trails behind in the forest surface.

Well, their situation was similar to war for survival in a sense, so the description is accurate. The advancing line of vehicles didn’t have to travel too long, as they encountered the first police blockade.

"We already met the police, so fast," Clark thought in trepidation, as he prepared himself for battle.

The policemen acted fast, as they immediately erected exotic shields to form a blockade. This battle formation was mainly used by the Spartan soldiers when fighting international wars. Clark figured that they probably paid a high price to obtain these goodies.

After observing the situation, the 2 high-grade soldiers' expressions became grave, as their irises constricted in alarm. Exotic shields used in such huge quantities were not normal, the cost was simply astronomical.

They both steeled their minds, as they transmitted their order to all the vehicles through a military voice transmitter. Attack!! They yelled as they both launched themselves from the vehicle with force. Clark decided to be more prudent, he already recognized that this was going to be harder than he thought.

Tu! Tu! Tu! Tu! Bullets rained down on them, as the policemen unleashed hell without restraint.

Most of the terrorist soldiers jumped down from their vehicles to get better positions, as they returned fire. They immediately started using the trees around for cover, to avoid taking their opponent's full and concentrated firepower.

Boom!! The trees fell, as grenades were released by the policemen into their midst. Huge, red explosions rocked the forest, as the soldiers started dying in the dozens, while their vehicles continued forward.

The 2 high-grade soldiers finally arrived at the center of the battlefield, as they used their exotic swords to demolish the police shields obstructing their way. They focused on destroying the shields, as their soldier’s bullets just couldn’t penetrate them.

They already lost dozens of soldiers, but no single police had died because of the shields erected. Clark was prepared to show himself in this battle, but he secretly changed his bullets with temporary paralysis bullets.

These bullets will make his victims lose control of themselves and faint for hours, instead of dying. Despite him being with terrorists, he was still a soldier. He had morals to follow, to control himself.

As the 2 high-grade soldiers slowly broke the combined shield made by the countless policemen, the space they created gradually became big enough to allow a large group of soldiers to shoot through at their opponents.

As the soldiers hid behind trees shooting cautiously, Clark finally took over the battle.

Tu! Tu! Tu! Tu! He openly dashed out of his position, his figure blurred, as he moved towards the central police blockade while his gun sprayed bullets out in waves at the unlucky policemen facing him.

He aimed to only get headshots, to increase the speed of the paralysis and sleepy effect of his bullets. With this, no one noticed his trick due to how chaotic the battle was.

He waited patiently till the battle was chaotic enough before he acted, as he was sure that the commander’s keen senses couldn’t see his actions clearly in such a chaotic battle, but could still see his magnificence.

The policemen focused fired him, as a bunch of bullets was shot out at him. He started dodging while leaving the bullets he couldn’t dodge to his armor.

As the battle raged on, he arrived quickly among the policemen but declined to use his sword on them. He simply maneuvered between them like a fish in water, as he shot them down in droves, clearing a path in the middle of their formation.

They were not fighting a battle to get the last man standing, this was a battle against time to escape.

The first terrorist-owned vehicles finally drove into the path that he created, as the others quickly followed, driving closer. The police concentrated their firepower here, as more soldiers also joined him to defend the path that he created.

The battle became heated, as a policeman and soldier died every second. 30 minutes later, all the vehicles finally got past the blockade as the soldiers shot while rushing forward to re-enter the vehicles.

The policemen didn’t relent either, as they still shot at them. After they boarded their vehicles, they picked up speed as they quickly left, but the policemen still chased after them. The terrorist’s large entourage of vehicles was simply too large a target to evade police pursuit, after just a single maneuver.

They were on the run, but luck simply refused to be in their favor. “The police reinforcement, shit,” a lot of soldiers cursed, as they encountered a new police division.

The new police vehicles came from their front with momentum like a beast tide, as they already started firing at them. No one gave a new order, so the terrorists continued forward, as they tried to bulldoze their way out.

The policemen stood their ground, as they retaliated with as much force as their opponents gave them. Due to the rapid-fire circulating, some vehicles quickly went on fire as the commotion increased, including some police cars also.

It wasn’t long before the original pursuing police force caught up. The pressure that the terrorists faced increased exponentially, as they received fire from both sides.

They didn’t come down this time, as they shot at their opponents directly from their vehicles.

“Retreat into the forest”, they finally received a new order directly from their commander, which they acknowledged as they all tried retreating into the forest.

Their intention was clear, but these muscle-brained policemen refused to relent, as they advanced to block their retreat.

Some new soldiers already started feeling despair, as the temporary leader of the policemen yelled at them to surrender.

His voice echoed around the battlefield, through a voice amplifying machine. He was well protected by a special exotic shield, which their bullets couldn’t penetrate, and he was positioned deep behind the police formation lines.

Boom!! As morale ran low, everyone suddenly heard a very glaring gunshot sound reverberating around the battlefield, drawing all attention. Clark’s eyes widened, as the well-protected police leader’s brain exploded into a bloody mess.

“Who shot that,” he wondered in astonishment, as the policemen watched in horror.

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