章 63: | 063 | Operation Hammer of Dawn: Defensive Line

In the first defensive line residing a couple of clicks westward from the delta site were the 1st Infantry Company, the 2nd Mechanized Company, and the 3rd Armored Company. 

These companies numbered over 600 soldiers and a hundred military vehicles, signifying their capabilities of defending the first defensive line.

Many soldiers prepared themselves behind their sandbags as they heard thunderous echoes brought about by the artillery shelling of the delta site.

Crimson lights flickered in the distance along with resounding bellowing cries of death and suffering. It was quite a sight, but a familiar one to the soldiers of the United Army.

"Prepare yourselves!"

"We are the defense line that separates them and the Port of Dawn. We must not fall." One of the lieutenants leading their platoons uttered a short speech.

It was a simple yet foreboding of what was to come.