Cleaning Up
Konrad and Mariusz carefully make their towards the town's modest docking facilities, meeting no resistance along the way. After emerging from the shadows of the intervening buildings, the broad river comes into view, the Krolowa poised a couple of hundred meters upstream near the moored dredging barge. The pair enter the first of the riverstide bunkers and find a quaker gun- a few pieces of plywood wired together and coated in lamp-black to resemble a heavy machine gun. From the cigarette butts and candy wrappers littering the bottom of the gun-pit, it looks like it must have housed a real weapon at one time.
Meanwhile, Stoner and Tuck examine the half-dozen IPAT corpses left behind on the battlefield. Despite the withdrawing enemy's having taken with them all of their dead comrades' weapons, much in the way of ammunition was left behind. Chopper and Tucker find six full 5.45mm magazines, three full 7.62mm S magazines, and six PACT fragmentation grenades. In addition to the ammo, Stoner finds a butterfly knife in the thigh pocket of one dead IPAT soldier and Tucker discovers a half-full pack of cigarettes in the chest pocket of another. Having scavenged what they can, the pair wash the blood from their hands using water from the canteen of one of the IPAT soldiers. Then, they move on at the double to catch up with Konrad and Mariusz.
The ground team reunites at shore bunker #2. The occupants- probably a pair of IPAT soldiers- look like their torsoes have been churned into gallons of rasberry jam by a direct hit by an 82mm HE round from the tug's Vasilek. Even if any of the group wanted to crawl down into the hole with the semi-obliterated corpses, it's unlikely they would find anything of use among the bits and pieces. The B-11 recoiless rifle from the pit lies a few meters away, the barrel dented in a couple of places. It's condition is probably beyond repair.
At the third and last bunker, the group finds a prize of sorts- 52 rounds of 12.7mm ammunition for the tug's hungry Dushkas. The IPAT HMG, however, is damaged. It looks like at least two rounds of 12.7mm from the tug have smashed into its receiver. The gunner, lying crumpled in the bottom of the pit, is missing the left side of his head. The assistant gunner, if there was one, is nowhere to be found.
As the group is preparing to head back to the UAZ with their loot, a squad of men dressed in Soviet cammies emerge crouching from the solitary riverside warehouse*, pointing their weapons nervously at the party. The team knows enough Russian to understand that they are being ordered to drop their weapons.
On the tug, Anneka examines Chopper's body and searches through his personal effects. He's a bloody mess- left arm almost severed just below the elbow, gunshot wounds in his left thigh, lower back in the vicinity of his left kidney, and upper back between the shoulder blades. To top it off, the front of his body is riddled with grenade fragments. No clue as to Chopper's motives for his sudden betrayal is found on his person. At the boat's stern, Anneka finds one Sando-ORMO soldier dead from a single close-range gunshot wound to the head. The other militiaman is missing**. Both left behind loaded AKM rifles. The dead man has four full mags in pouches on his webbing.
The rest of the tug team mans their stations, weary of an IPAT counter attack or Sando-ORMO double-cross. The mysterious drums on the barge are poised under their noses.
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*This is building atop which the tug's crew saw an AGS-17 positioned as she passed by T-breg on its way to the "rendezvous" with the IPAT ground convoy.
**Jason saw the second militiaman's body pitch overboard.
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