THE UNEXPECTED HAS HAPPENED (2 page)

They had managed to get three rifle cleaning kits from the dead soldiers and a few hand grenades, not much else. A few days ago they saw a Chinese supply truck and they were able to attack it, and kill the two passengers in the truck. And the truck carried food and some medical supplies. They had enough food to eat, for water; they made a homemade filter to clean the water before drinking. They used the water from the rain, and then filtered that water. Much cleaner than swamp, water.

The supply truck had some backpacks that they took also. Scott would give David one person to go with him and George, along with one AK 47, ammo and some food and water. David said that would be appreciated and they would leave in the morning. David told Scott he would name their camp number 100 A. He wanted to set up some kind of organization for others they might find in their search for other Americans.

Scott and David both went over there ideas on taking back the country from the Chinese. It was decided they had to defeat the Chinese and kill as many as they could. And take back a piece at a time of land, until they were all killed trying or when America was restored to its rightful owners again, who did not include the Chinese.

Scott told David there was a small clearing up ahead a mile or so and Jerry who was going with us knew how to get there. He knew there was one small house in the area and he was sure the Chinese had taken over the house. They would have to be careful. It would give them a chance to get more weapons for their search for other Americans or it could get them killed, whichever came first.

David told Scott thanks and said goodbye to the members of his camp, then they headed for the house a mile or so away. David and his group took their time as to not alert anyone with noise. They arrived early afternoon and set in the wood lines, observing for any activity. At the house was one US Army Humvee and two Chinese soldiers sitting outside apparently playing cards, they looked bored.

David would change the boredom for them soon enough, he waited longer to make sure other soldiers or people did not appear. Their plan was to get close enough to kill them both with the one AK 47 they had, and then to check for any other weapons and supplies they might have. The stuff they find hauled back to the woods.

The time he gave them to make the attack and get any weapons or supplies was three mins. After whoever heard, the gunshot would be en route to the house. Jerry gave David and George a fast lesson on how to load and shoot the AK 47 the best he could. He could not shoot the weapon to teach them. The Chinese would hear the gunshots. They both owned guns so it should not be a problem.

David wanted everyone to get as far back in the woods as they could. So in case someone came to investigate the gunshots they wouldn’t be seen. Jerry, are you ready? He said he was and David told him to take the two soldiers out, now. Two bursts of the AK 47 and two Chinese lay dead. David’s group moved in. No one else was in the house; they grabbed weapons and supplies and headed to the woods. They did it all in three minutes flat, David was impressed.

They carried all the stuff they got from the house and headed deeper into the swamp. A few minutes later they saw two SUV’s pull up. They had five men in each SUV. David had the guys lie flat on the ground and not to make a sound. David summed up they were some kind of Chinese fast reaction force. They meant business. David and his men each had a fully loaded AK 47 and they sat quietly and waited for the Chinese. And would this be their last day in this world or would they live another day.

The Chinese scouted the area, looking for any signs of the attackers. And unfortunately it did not take them long. Someone when carrying the stuff we took from the house dropped a few things on the ground. David’s men pushed the safety lever to the firing position, sat, and waited. They could feel the heartbeat of the person next to them beating that is how scared they were, sweat was just dripping off the three of them. The Chinese slowly entered the woods. David whispered don’t shoot until he shot first.

The Chinese got down on the ground and crawled along, hiding behind any small trees or palmetto bushes they could find. David heard a terrifying scream, a minute later followed by AK 47 blasts. Two of their soldiers tried to run out of the swamps, cut down by their own people with a few AK 47 blasts.

David had no idea why they shot the first time and why the scream. The soldiers kept coming, slowly heading towards David. The palmettos were thick in front of David’s position. It was the soldiers’ one mistake. They stood up for a brief moment to walk around the bushes and that is when David’s guys opened up… With everything, they had. Just thirty feet away they tore the Chinese apart.

They saw in the distance about four Americans closing in on their location. They helped them get the weapons and any supplies they could help carry and they told David to hurry up and follow him to his camp. More Chinese would come later to check on the task force to see why they did not return. They needed to move fast and get out of the area before it was too late. David found out what the screaming was about, A diamond back rattlesnake must have bitten a soldier and his own people killed the guy who was bitten, and the snake.

David’s group followed the new group of Americans to their camp. They arrived in the camp and no one was there waiting for them. David asked where all their people were. They said it was only the four of them. When Jerry was teaching them how to use the AK 47 David kept is mouth shut. He did not want to go into details, and tell Jerry that he knew the AK 47 well and he has used it to take peoples lives away from them. David fought in Afghanistan and he trained in Panama for jungle warfare, France for French commando training. The truth was David had trained in many combat scenarios and he had killed more than he ever wanted to admit to.

When assigned to a quick response task force in Kabul, he responded to a call that the local hotel had come under attack. His task force responded with four mrap vehicles with 50mm machine guns mounted on top. The Taliban had attacked the building; they started at the bottom floor working their way to the top. Once they reached the top they would take RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launchers and PPK machine guns and try to terrorize the city.

David’s task force assigned the mission to stop them before they reached the top floor. David had no idea why America was back in Afghanistan they left in 2014 and he was back there in 2020 flushing the Taliban out of a hotel. That would be when he decided after serving for ten years in the army he had had enough.

When his task force entered, the building there was no resistance. They started to clear the rooms on the bottom floor one room at a time. They set up guards to make sure no one could enter the hotel, and the Afghanistan police blocked off all the roads going to and leaving the hotel. They cleared the few civilians out of the rooms and had them leave the hotel. They were accompanied by a squad of Afghani army people, they were there as support to David’s task force and for translators. Everything was going ok until they started clearing the second floor and that is when David’s nightmares began.

He was clearing a room when he saw an AK 47 rifle’s muffle point out from behind a desk in the room. He opened up with three round bursts from his m-4 rifle killing a small girl who was no more that eight years old. That was three years ago and he still has constant nightmares and there is not a night that goes by that he does not see that little girls face in his dreams. He wakes up to a cold sweat and shivers every night, he cannot shake the nightmare it is always there to haunt his nights. He left the Army as a platoon Sgt, E-7 SFC.

He has a scar where a 7.62x39 mm round tore part of his thigh away, he has no limp when he walks but at times, he has pain where the bullet tore a chunk of his thigh away. He has a bronze star with a V for valor and a purple heart. The Bronze star was when he rescued a fire team that was pinned down when their Humvee broke down. They came under attack by the Taliban.

One of the fire team members shot dead and the other three would not live much longer. David saw the Taliban’s location and crashed his Humvee into it killing one of them and then getting out and rushing their location with his m-4 he killed the remaining four people. This allowed for the three remaining members of the fire team to live to see another day. David has not talked to anyone about Afghanistan and he knows one day he will have to, he is not ready for that day to come yet.

Back at the camp of the group of four people, who leader was Bryant. The men discussed everything that has happened and what would their next plan be. David told Bryant about camp 100 A and asked him if he knew about the people there. He knew some people were in that area but he never went back to check, there was too much happening around his camp. The Chinese had made patrols and they knew some people were out there but they did not find them yet.

This caused Bryant to keep a low profile. During the attack on the two Chinese at the house they seized two RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launchers. David wanted Bryant to send two of his people back to camp 100 A in the morning with one RPG-7 and ammo for it, along with four AK-47 rifles and ammo. He wanted the two people to stay at camp 100 A and help out there. Bryant and the other person could go with him, George and Jerry.

He told Bryant they had to check one of the big areas near a city and get more people if they want to have a chance. They had no chance with five people. They would leave in the morning and head towards the city, with any luck they would find Americans along the way. They would make a gurney with the parachute string and branches they found at the house and use it to carry the extra weapons and ammo they acquired.

They had enough food and water for a few days, from what they acquired at the house. The four people had some food and water at their camp to add to their supply.

The following day they parted their ways and David’s group of five now headed towards the first city they would come to. Three hours into their walk they ran into a group of Americans, seven in all. They had two women and five men armed with only one AK-47.

We set down and took a break so we could talk and pass new information between us. The new group had just escaped from a camp in the city. It’s a four-hour walk from where they were now. Thirty people from their group ran like hell to escape, and twenty-three gunned down. 

David asked their leader Sam how many were at their camp. Sam told him that he had no way of telling. His guess there had to be at least 10,000 maybe more. The camp was huge. A death camp would be a better name for it. “Sam how many people did the Chinese have guarding the camp” David asked. Maybe 500 soldiers or there about Sam said. David knew there was no way in hell they could attack a force that large.

They would stay away from the camp and use their efforts to neutralize a smaller force of Chinese. With any luck, they would pick up a few more Americans. They needed to set up a camp far enough from the city where they would not be found by the Chinese. They start guerilla warfare tactics. The Chinese were too large to hit head on, so they would antagonize and bust up the soldiers' morale.

The Chinese had a mix of civilian and military, the civilians trained by the military. He was sure most were ex military, they both used the same tactics while fighting. They were going to have three groups once their attacks would start, two for attacking and one for support. To cover the other two groups if the Chinese moved in on them. Now they needed to find more people and try to set up a camp before they could have small guerilla warfare types of attacks.

Sam told David the city where they would attack would be Naples, their camp that they escaped was at Golden gate and they would stay away from that area for now. As the talks continued David had everyone lye flat on the ground, they could hear people walking through the woods. The group had three people with bows it appeared they were hunting. They were American and David stood up to get their attention. The three people were men in their twenties. David told them to join in on their talks.

The men had avoided capture by the Chinese and they used the waterways to avoid capture. They had set up a camp with 100 people and they were out looking for something to help feed their camp. Turns out the Chinese could not be everywhere at one time and they had missed a few areas. The riots in Port Royal during 2019 left the rich area of Naples, a battered community of burnt down houses. In which many houses bulldozed down to the ground. He said, at one time it was a Beautiful area, with multi million dollar homes, now it looked like a graveyard.

They found four large houses that had a lot of damage from the fires, they fixed them up somewhat and their people were living in the houses. The most desirable area, had now become a hell hole that even the Chinese if they saw it, would turn away thinking no one could live there.

Sam said what was nice is they found houses that had working generators and they had electric. The Chinese did not send out any patrols to their area so lights during the night did not draw attention. They found an old marina where they left their boats and the owners left once the Chinese came. The underground gas tanks filled, and a backup generator that worked. They had a few cars and trucks they drove around where their houses were, but they could not drive them to the city, to many Chinese doing patrols.

The main concentration and the military headquarters for that area was thirty miles away in Ft Myers. Everything controlled from there. They had set up smaller command centers in Naples, they received all their orders from Ft Myers. If you want to break the camel's back that is the area to hit. David said they first had to hit the smaller areas that would draw attention from the main headquarters in Ft Myers. They would send people to investigate, and when they did, they could ambush them.

David asked Sam about the camp in Golden Gate, Sam told David there were at least 500 guards and maybe more. They put all the people they captured in that camp. The problem he saw with taking that camp is the high risk they would have of killing Americans who were caught in the crossfire. David wanted to know if Sam could get more people. Sam told him there was a chance to get a few more hundred at best.