Jan left the yelling to Mariusz as it was his native language and hit the send button on his radio, speaking English.

"Sunray this is King One.  Troops from the OT are in the woods to our North West and your North.  They look to be routed but we'll make sure they surrender or leave."

Or die if they wanted a third option.

“Maruisz,” he continued in Polish having stopped transmitting.  “Take Pavel and search the OT and the bike.  You know what we want.”

Having reported to Konrad and directed Maruisz, Jan then dropped into a kneeling position and aimed his BG-15 in the direction of the fleeing troops.  If none of them surrendered then Jan planned to give them some encouragement to keep fleeing.


Jan
Reporting in, issuing orders and aiming/firing his BG-15 at the fleeing enemy troops – just to be clear if someone surrenders then he won’t fire, if someone fires at him he will fire an unaimed shot and if they just keep fleeing then he will aim and fire next round.
AK-74 (28/30 rounds - 9 mags total)
BG-15 (1/1 HE round - 12 HE rounds total)
Frag grenade x1
M72 LAW

As Tucker moves to get Jones' body, he ques the radio and transmits, "All units, I'm going to get Jones.  Tucker out!"

  Drew continues to sight in and aim for targets who he can deliver a burst of rounds.

Sgt Drew
M240 w/X rounds and a M9 in his belt
Aiming and delivering well aimed bursts at any visible enemy

Apel looks around for medical gear in the van.  Then he'll do what he can for Ondar.

Unable and/or unwilling to do much else, Quyen lays on the ground waiting for pickup. As she listened to the van's motor approaching, she rolled her head over to her side and glanced at her gear - taking a count of everything to make sure nothing was left behind.

As Apel took over the casualty point, she says, "If nobody happens to collect the explosives, somebody at least needs to grab the blasting machine. It's the only one we've got. It's over by Tucker and my position."

Dawid climbs into the driver's seat of the BTR-152 by crawling across from the passenger side door. Putting the armored truck into reverse, he backs up and away from the fire-threatened IED. This manouver brings the BTR-152 closer to the Rapira.

The burning STAR still poses a danger to the immediate area as well as obstructing the westbound lanes. It should burn itself out in the next 10-15 minutes, though. (OOC: I don't think anyone dragged the broken crate of 60mm HE mortar bombs away from the truck so the danger might actually be somewhat greater, ATM.)

In the nearby van, Apel tries to make Ondar and Minh as comfortable as possible. Tucker, it appears, has done a pretty good job of bandaging their respective wounds. Minh begins to realize that her latest wound is not very serious. The pain is nothing to sneer at, though.

Tucker, meanwhile, braves the danger posed by the unrecovered IED charges to recover what's left of Jones' body. He finds his dead comrade in a contorted heap on the roadway, several meters from where Tucker last saw him. He was probably blown into the road by the force of the first IED when it exploded. His RPK-74 is nowhere to be found. Tucker's eyes are watering from the woodsmoke (the woods are still smouldering).

Drew unleashes a burst of fire at the treeline 100m to the northeast. The enemy recedes deeper into cover. A couple of enemy fighters return fire. Bullets whiz, crack, and SNICK through the trees around you. Jan points his weapon at one of the muzzle flashes and quick-fires a 40mm HE grenade at it. The grenade explodes a ways past the treeline. There's movement in the trees. Figures bobbing left to right, disappearing and reappearing between the trees and brush. It seems as though the enemy are simply trying to quit the battlefield and make it to the relative safety of the woods to the northeast. While a few of the enemy (you estimate there are about 10 of them) lay down suppressive fire, the others are attempting to retreat. On the other hand, the enemy could be attempting a flanking move. Given their numbers and the casualties their unit (as a whole) has taken up to this point, this seems fairly unlikely.(Drew -10 rounds; Jan -1 40mm S)

Due to the incoming fire, it would be unsafe for Mariusz and Pavel to approach the burning SKOT. At the moment, they would have to low crawl to the road and along the roadside depression in order to avoid enemy observation/fire.

From the captured OT-64, Craig can't see the enemy to the north. There are too many trees in the way.

Konrad does his best to coordinate everyone's efforts. He tries to guide the BTR-152 towards the Rapira so that the former can be set up to tow the latter. The van is just too heavily loaded to pull the heavy AT gun at greater than a snail's pace. It is possible that the BTR-152 could tow the disabled SKOT. But, given the disparity in weight, this seems rather unlikely. Konrad shouts for Maciej to head for the captured SKOT. The former flight engineer leaves his comrades to manhandle the Rapira on their own and trots over to the SKOT where Craig and Arkadiusz a guarding the western flank.

"What do you need me to do?"

Next Moves?

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Tucker looks around quickly to see if there's anything else left from Jones before he tries to figure out how to carry/drag his body out of the smouldering area.  Slinging his rifle, Tucker will use the drag handle on Jones' webbing to get him out of the area so he can get some fresh air in his lungs again and to one of the vehicles to get out of here.  Tuck ques the radio again, "All posts, Tucker.  Moving back to exfil point with one KIA.  OUT!"

Tucker
Slung & Holstered weapons
Dragging Jones' body back to where he left Minh & Ondar

  Drew notes where the covering fire is comming from, he retorts,

"FUCKERS!!!!  ROCK ON! DUDES!"

  As he lets loose with a short aimed burst at the muzzle flashes who are laying down covering fire, unless he can catch a group of them in the open as the manuever.

With a "BRAAAAAAAAAAAA!P"
"GET SOME!!!!!"

Drew lets loose on his foe.

Sgt Drew
M240 w/90 rounds left
Lighting up enemy returning fire and those moving in the open

"Remind again before we leave and I'll get it.  How are you feeling?" ask Apel, moving on to Ondar.

Craig shows Maciej what he thinks the problem with the APC is and lets the man get to work. He then exits the APC and looks towards the gunfire trying to look through the trees.

Giving up he sits on the ground near the left wheel of the APC using it for cover as he watches the woods to East.

In reply to Cap'n Rae (msg #502):

Sweating freely, Dawid opened the driver's door and collapsed, sitting down by the front wheel. He lit a cigarette with shaking hands, spilling a few on the ground.

"Hold Mother, thank you, thank you, thank you."

He crossed himself with a trembling hand. Then, feeling decades older than he really was, he slowly stood up and stumbled to the back of the idling BTR to where the Rapira was being wheeled towards him.

"Okay, let's get this fucker hooked up and ready for transport. Radoslav, you manage to hit anything?"

Jan cursed himself for not taking the time to aim his grenade launcher before firing.  Hopefully the level of incoming fire the enemy was experiencing would keep them moving away and not let them regroup for a flanking manoeuvre.

"Sunray, this is King One," he transmitted in Enlgish.  "About ten enemy soldiers in the woods about 100m North of the centre of the ambush.  They could be withdrawing in good order or they could be flanking to the East.  Am setting up a blocking force in the tree line between them and the road.  Don't have sufficient troops to pursue though."

Jan doubted that Konrad wanted them to pursue anyway, particularly if the enemy were withdrawing rather than flanking.

"Drew," he continued having finished transmitting, "keep laying down fire on them.  Jacek and I will go to the end of this tree line to the East to stop them flanking us."  As he spoke he flipped open his BG-15 and reloaded it with another HE grenade.

He then switched to Polish.  "Mariusz.  Pavel.  Support Drew and check the OT if you can.  Jacek, you're still with me."

His orders issued Jan then led Jacek along the tree line that ran roughly Eastwards, keeping an eye out for enemy troops trying to cross the open ground to their tree line.  He kept Jacek and himself on the Southern side of the trees, using them for cover as necessary.


Jan
Reporting in, issuing orders, reloading his BG-15 and then moving Eastwards along the tree line with Jacek.
AK-74 (28/30 rounds - 9 mags total)
BG-15 (0/1 HE round - 11 HE rounds total)
Frag grenade x1
M72 LAW

"Pavel," Mariusz said, "support Drew with your RPD, get some cover first though."

He looked over at Drew and said, "If you keep firing I'll crawl up under cover and get to the OT and the side of the road. Once I've done that, I can cover your advance. That sound OK?"

Drew continues to aim and fire at visible targets shouts back,

"TRY BRINING THE OT'S GUNS ONLINE, IF YA CAN!  AND PUT THAT FIRE OUT!  I DON'T WANT IT BLOWING UP ON US WHILE WE'RE NEXT TO IT!"

sGT dREW
M240 w/ 90 rounds loaded and M9 in belt
Confirming Mars actions, laying down aimed fire, and advising him to put that fire out and possibly use the OT's weapons systems against the hostiles in the woods.

Mariusz dropped to the ground and started to scramble toward the burning SKOT. With luck, he thought, there might be something there to put the fire out, if not he could always try pissing on it.

Ondar leans against the inside of the opposite door, his head head swathed in bandages. He tries to smile but grimaces instead.

"I will be fine."

"We hit this thing! I can't believe it's still running. And we hit the first SKOT. Two for five- not too bad, eh?"

While Jan and Jacek move east along the treeline to make sure the enemy can't try a flanking move, Drew continues to keep the moving enemy under fire. They return a few shots but seem disinterested in continuing the fight. After a couple of minutes, the last of the enemy have disappeared into the thicker wooded area to the northeast. (Drew -20 rounds; Pavel -10 rounds)

Under the covering fire of Pavel and Drew, Mariusz is able to move to the 801 and north along the shallow roadside ditch towards the burning SKOT relatively unmolested. Smoke is now pouring out of all of the APC's open hatches, as well as from the nearly perfect hole in the midpoint of its starboard side. Mariusz can hear ammo cooking off inside the turret, creating an odd, metalic hammering noise. The SKOT is clearly beyond help.

As Tucker drags Jones' mangled body back towards the BTR-152, the second dynamite IED charge explodes, knocking Tucker backwards. He lands hard on his back on the unforgiving asphalt surface of the road, his K-pot helmet saving him from a concussion (or worse). Although dazed, he's otherwise unhurt. Same goes for Dawid, behind cover at the back of the BTR-152. The others are unhurt, being a relatively safe distance from the explosion.

As Tucker regains his senses, the Rapira crew continues to try to hook the AT gun up to the BTR-152.

Back in the captured SKOT at the back of the column, Maciej looks at the problem with the wiring behind the damaged dashboard. He reaches behind it and grabs a handful of wires. Pulling them up he examines the closely and sorts them.

"I need some tape and... er, pliers. I think I can fix this."

He jogs back to the van, giving the burning STAR a wide berth. After collecting the requisite tools from Minh's demo kit, Maciej returns to the SKOT and begins his repairs.

Next Moves?

OOC: THis will probably be the last turn at the ambush site. Last chance to do stuff here before the group heads back to the river for pick-up.
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Mariusz looked back at his coverers and yelled, "The SKOT is dead and beyond recovery!"

He accompanied the yell with a cutting sign accross his throat.

He turned around and trotted over to inspect the URAL and see if the riders had left anything interesting around the wreck.

Mariusz
Trying to loot around the URAL trike.

"Okay!  They're runnin anyhow....but lets secure the area just in case.  Drew turns his head at the metalicpopcorn like poping sounds comming from the burning vehicle and judges the distance and his own position to determine if he is safe or he should move.  If he is safe he will adjust his position so he can cover the others as they consolidate their position and gains...and loot any booty.

  He shouts over to Martz

Find anything good?

  As Mar is searching he will shout,

We may wanna sweep the woods for any strays left behind or gear they left."

Sgt Drew
M240 80 rounds and a M9 in his belt
Covering his comrades and making sure he is a safe distance from the burning APC and under some kind of cover should they take fire from the woods again

Craig moves back to the side door of the APC when Maciej returns. Covering the tree line while listening to the militiaman work there is little else left to do. He tries to remember where any unsearched bodies may be, but he thought they had been all looted.

He changes the magazine in his rifle for a fresh one and hits the transmit button on his radio;

“King this is King One, APC should be mobile soon any other tasking for the us ? Over”

Waiting for a reply Craig runs through the last engagement in his mind. Apart from his own mistake at the APC door he thought the men in his squad had preformed admirably especially the militiamen they where starting to come together. Catching Arkadiusz eye at the other door he gives him a thumbs up.

He shuffles into the interior of the APC giving it a thorough going over looking for intel and stowed gear, it was a lot easier now the bodies where on the side of the road.


HK G3SG/1 w/ Zeiss 1.5-6 x 42 mm, (20/20) + 6 spare magazines
L32A1 (Browning A5)  10" Barrel , 3+1 00,  11 of 00 buck, 4 slugs, 3 flechette
Browning HP (20/20) w/ silencer + 2 spare magazines
8 F-1 FRAG grenades, No.80 WP grenade, L13A2 CS grenade
Jan’s Squad
Searching APC for stowed gear and Intel
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"Sunray this is Starlight!"
"What the hell was that explosion!?"
Alarm could clearly be heard in her voice.

With his ears ringing and head pounding, Tucker is almost nauseous from the blast and being thorwn around like a doll.  Trying to get his bearings and makes sure that he feels to see if his weapon is still slung and he didn't drop anything.  He staggers back over to where Jones' body was left before his little flight and begins to drag him back, obviously disoriented and very tired.  Robert says nothing and just keeps dragging Jones back to the van.

The van rocks from the explosion and Apel instinctively throws his body over Ondar & Mihn.

"What the hell was that?!" ask Apel.  He pokes his head out of the van and makes sure that  they're not being attacked again.

"That was amazing! Really good work. As for me, ah, it didn't go so well even though I got a couple hits in myself. Well, let's get going, here."

He continued helping the crew limber the gun and attach it to the BTR-152.

"Let's drive by the motorcycle. I saw that it went down, and I'd like to grab it, see if we can fix it. I love that bike!"
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