Chereads / Iron Storm: Heroes of Steel / Chapter 12 - Chapter 12, Against the Odds

Chapter 12 - Chapter 12, Against the Odds

Anna wiped sweat from her eyes and head as she stood up, Red Army and Poles continue to battle each other.

Another Armored car was destroyed leaving the Super Tank defenseless, the top open as a man with a full grown beard and a hat with a red star watched on.

Motion his hand for more troops to keep up the attack. Machine Guns the Poles were using had to be picked up and carried back into the town.

Anna ran with the Poles as they put up boxes, wagons and other materials to create barricades; The Poles ran either wounded or not but still determined to fight and some wanted to flee.

"No retreat! no retreat! no glory for cowards!" A machine gun went off shooting those who wish to desert. Anna watched with shock at this action but her shock was pushed aside as more of the Red Army charged.

Poles fired their rifles making the streets fill with bodies of Red Army. Anna held the Webley Revolver looking at it she had to kill a man in self defense but that doesn't make it any easier.

Anna watched over as one of the Poles who put on heavy plated armor begin to waddle while carrying what looked to be Gatling gun with a hand crank and handle.

The Armored Pole begin to crank the handle as the gun begin to spin while holding the handle, once he got into the opening rifle bullets bounced off of him and the next crack of the handle begin to spray bullets.

Many Red Army Soldiers dropped and cried when the bullets ripped into their flesh. The Armored Pole held his ground continuously firing the gatling gun, more Bolsheviks ran for cover while firing their Mosin rifles.

Eventually the Armored Pole begin to kneel down as he fired his Gatling gun while the plated armor he wore begin to have holes with red liquid pouring through.

Then he fell to the ground letting go of his weapon, the Red Army Soldiers continue their charge while the Poles fixed their bayonets and counter charged.

The streets became a massive fight; Bayonets, Clubs, Knives and fists. Red Army and Poles were stabbing, punching and shoving each other.

Anna hide behind a wall while patching a wounded Polish Soldier who suffered a gunshot to the stomach. "Keep fighting! For Poland!" One of the Polish Officer raising a Saber shouted.

She keep on apply medical treatment to the Soldier before he passed on from this world. Anna clenched her eyes tightly as tears filled them.

More Polish defenders ran into the streets battling the Bolsheviks then the Red Army begin to pull back from their attack.

The Poles used this to their advantage driving the Bolsheviks out of the town firing into their backs as they retreated.

"Poland shall never fall!" One eager Pole screamed waving the Polish flag to the retreating Bolsheviks. Anna walked over through the bodies of deceased Poles and Bolsheviks.

Suddenly a groan caught Anna's attention as she ran to a wounded Soldier who happen to be one of the Red Army.

He groaned while he held his wound, Anna held the revolver aimed at him. She knows he's the enemy and he has killed many Poles today.

Anna held the revolver while her finger gently held the trigger but she felt she was trembling she needs to fire like what she did in the trenches.

Anna proceed to put the Revolver in her medical bag and took out a water canteen helping the man drink.

Then she open his shirt and used some tweezers to pull out the bullet while using a rag which is soaked in Rubbing Alcohol and begin to press it on his wound causing him to move in agony while Anna hushed him.

Two Poles noticed her walking over as one said "Ah you caught a Red? didn't think a Paramedic could do that" One held his shoulders and the other grabbed his legs picking him up.

"We'll bring him in for questioning" They say, Anna wanted to say something but she didn't. Grabbing her medical bag and ran back to the front.

The Super Tank begin to roll back with the retreating Red Army. The Poles shouted and cheered at their victory over the Red Army.

At Night; The Poles begin to dance and cheer as they were able to defend their town and possibly slow down the Red Army.

Anna sat down eating some soup while thinking back to the Russian she had killed during the attack. It goes against the Hippocratic oath "Do no Harm" but he was trying to kill her or worst so she wonders where's the line between Self Defense and Murder.

"The Reds have proclaimed their Nation as the Soviet Union, the Western Allies and their United Nations Alliance can only slow them down if we're going to win this war we must take Moscow!" One Soldier said.

"The Whites recapturing Tsaritsyn from the Reds seem to make it easier for us meaning their Forces are split" "Any other Resistance to the Reds are being put down..plus they still got Communist Volunteers with them, Hell I heard Mongolia's Khan has been removed"

Anna listen to the conversation, the war was raging fiercely first in Russia now it's spread into Mongolia, parts of China and now into Western Europe. She can only imagine what happened if the Western Allies never intervene in the War.

Afterwards, Anna went to bed as she lay down and closed her eyes preparing for the next day.

By the next morning; News came in as new batches of weapons have came into Poland from the Allied Nations.

New Machine Guns such as a new American invention called the Thompson Machine Gun nicknamed a Trench Sweeper like the Winchester Model 1897 Shotgun.

The Thompson can hold a stick or drum mag and has a rapid fire like the German's MP18. The Poles were thankful for the weapons coming from Rifles to Automatic rifles.

Poland was still using light tanks which were used by Germany and Russia as for their Mechs the most popular Mech is their Smialy Mechs.

Anna walked with a group of Polish Scouts to link up another group of Polish Volunteers near Krak贸w.

Anna had a holster for the revolver and her bag had plenty of medical supplies and ammo for others and her safety.

Anna put on her hat and fixed her Medical armband as she marched with the Poles to Krak贸w.