While they were up there, the weather got darker and darker. At first it was just overcast, then dark clouds began building up to the west. A few spatters of rain began to fall.
Sakura Farnham:
"A choke point... I guess it is well set up. I am no expert. What did you want to show us, Marine?"
She had also appreciated that they gave them lunch, and a curry at that. Spot on.
On the rooftop corner OP the RM pointed out the fenceline to start. It was a double fenceline, wide enough to drive a Land Rover in between the fences. It was patrolled on foot, in a vehicle and by dog teams every day looking for breaches or buildups of the undead, although they seemed to have learned not to hang around it (despite the opinion they couldn't learn anything nor retain memories.)
Then he pointed out how the area separating the two buildings they were in from the gate was also blocked off by fencing on both sides to form a kind of secure "chicken" or "cattle run" leading directly from the gate to the buildings. (There were also subgates to allow for those patrols to go in between the fencelines.) And then how both buildings were blocked off by further fencing and Hesco barriers to form a fairly sturdy compound. In the secure space between the buildings were parked a couple Land Rovers, one up-armoured for patrols and an open-topped one for transport.
Anyone wishing to access to wider Poole secure zone from the wild suburbs to the NW would need to be admitted first to the courtyard in between the buildings, then go down the "cattle run" to the actual manned gate post they came through.
Suddenly, in the distance, they could hear gunfire. It started with a few faint pops, then rapidly built into a crescendo in less than 30 seconds. It was coming from the direction of the bridge access point to the NE of their position. This bridge led across a river into the densest part of Poole. It was sealed off at both ends and acted as the first line of defence. (The double fence was the second line.) As this happened the radio started blaring and the handful of soldiers manned the OP closest to the bridge, on the building's NE corner.
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