The dirt kicked up as the tracers danced around Andrei. The soldier swore and leaped down into a gully to avoid incoming fire. as the roar of the machine gun kept going. Andrei cycled his bolt action rifle and began climbing up the lip of the gully. “Come on,” He’d align the sights and fire a shot that went right over the heads of the gun crew. Another burst threw Andrei back down into the hole, he felt the rough texture in his hands. Lifting his head he noticed the corpses that fell in behind him. Andrei picked himself up, and his rifle. He cycled the action and looked back up at the lip. The machinegun crew’s distant shouting was muffled to Andrei as his ears rang from the crackling and whizz of bullets flying overhead. The support gunner took off from the position with his rifle. Andrei looked at his belt grabbed the hand grenade, pulled the pin, and hurled it over the lip which exploded in front of the position. The crew was sent down to the ground from the blast, Andrei knew it was his time. Then there was the sickening sounds of a rifle cycling, he turned to his right. The Soteron soldier aiming his rifle at him, this was it.

*Bam, Bam, Bam!*

The Sot screamed in agony as he fell into the gully from the roar of a heavy revolver. The gunsmoke diffused into the air, as Lyuba and two others hopped down as gunfire roared over their heads. “Fancy meeting you here again,” Andrei shouted looking at his comrades. “I couldn’t let you get yourself killed!” Lyuba said painstakingly reloading her pistol with the loading rod, after taking a little break from a horrible but reliable pistol. They formed up, as one of the soldiers passed a hand grenade for each. They all pulled and hurled their volley of carnage at the enemy, utterly destroying the position and its crew ahead of them. “Come on!” Andrei shouted as he motioned with his arm, leading the charge out of the gully. Lyuba’s ear turned as it absorbed the sounds of the wounded, she saw the hand stick out from under the brush. She then rapidly approached and pulled the poor soul out for treatment that would save his life. She knew this was going to be a long hard war.