M'kay...
attacking hospital.BTW,
many of the people in Chara were Communist hard-linersChara Airport, April 1st, 1984, less than 6 months after
NATO's Able Archer excercises:
Sitting on the runway's tramax, idle, were three Shaanxi Y-8 Transports (chinese An-12s), sporting civillian markings although not responding to the air-traffic controler besides waggling their rudders in acknowledgement to recieving signals. Leaving one to assume they were having radio-problems. Likewise, the crews refused to open their doors to boarding and inspection parties, citing it would be easier to keep the passengers in quarantine rather than mess with rushing them through Russian-customs.
Largely because the entire flight was meant to land in Moahi, China; as such was a domestic flight, and was never cleared for international.
Meanwhile, over the Chara deserts flew another three Shaanxi Y-8 transports, bearing military markings and with full escort of two Nanchang Q-5A strike-fighters (each bearing a single nuclear warhead and dozens of rockets) and four of the new J-8II with a nose less like a MiG-21, and more like a Su-23. At the same time, a dozen Chengdu J-7 (Chinese copies of the MiG-21) sat on the tarmac of Maohi airfield, ready to assist within five minutes of takeoff.
The overflying force of planes made numerous appeals that they were mearly ferrying material to the west, to halt American Aggressions in the Indo-Pakistani conflict, and be permitted to fly past, ut as they done so, the bay doors opened on the Y-8s, and out dropped two Type 63 APCs, a Type 63 Tank. and over 90 paratroopers upon the airfield. One of these paratroopers was Staff Seargant Yihu Qin, whose immediate objective was to reach a parked Y-8 and retrieve his Type 62 tank (which was already being warmed-up by the loadmaster and pilot).
The Q-5 attack-airraft then made strafing-runs with their rockets against communications and the Bakyal-Amur Mailnine (BAM) just as conventional ground forces had cut the Trans-Siberian lines to the south. Special instructions were made to leave the hardened hangars intact, for later use as a friendly forward airbase. It was hoped that by not utilizing nuclear arms until the very last moment, they could disperse their own military and critical civillian assets into the Soviet interior before any nuclear reprisals. There was of course, a slight chance the Americans would assist; or hinder.
Even so, the KGB Border gaurd was not caught unawares. The placement of three nearly identical transports to the same airport was enough suspicion to get them mobolized, and the air-assault was swiftly met with a helicopter counter-assault of Mil Mi-24 Gunships and VDV shock-troops riding in Mil Mi-8 Assault Helicopters, quickly reducing the airstrip into a rocket-pocketed morass and inflicting heavy casualties as their own forces came-in with fighters and interceptors to chase and hunt-down their foe. But it was too late, a mortar-barrage had now caught them in the open taxiways and highways leading throughout the region...
A partisan-movement had already formed...Sgt Qin manuvered his tank into the hills with several paratroopers clinging to his turret to flush the enemy out.
As they rolled into a partisan bastion of Novaya Chara from over the dunes, swift vengeance shall befall any who resists.-Meanwhile Chinese forces (Yihu Qin in particular), just returned from
this, In 1979, both sides were learning to fight.
Post 2 (in response to a 2 paragraph monolouge of a girl watching the planes fly overhead, and only remarking that "this is bad", and OOCly prods me to move my forces along by saying "this is all I've got, LOL")
After a brief yet faitful night-time firefight behind a convienent hillside, Qin's tank was the only one to leave the battle unscathed; one with a disabled turret had to tow the other which had lost a track back down the road where they could dig-in and repair what little fire-support vehicles they had.
Through the commander's IR scope, they spied a lone figure standing in the path of their tank column: a pacifist, much like the one who had sacrificed themselves in the 1976 counter-revolution in front of his Type 62's treads*. Except this time something stirred in his mind...
Poking his head out, he spoke to the woman in russian, albeit with a broken foriegn accent:
"You there, little girl. This place is hereby under martial law of the People's Republic of China. It is not safe here. Return to your home or risk becoming a prisioner of war for breaking curfew."The tank's loader quickly turned the tank's Type 77 heavy machine-gun at the girl as the driver revved the engine in anticipation of the order to run her over beneath the treads. Over the main-gun's barrel sat the remains of a HJ-73B Sagger ATGM's wire-spool.
Meanwhile overhead in the darkness, piston-powered Y-5 biplanes and CJ-6 monoplanes towed gliders of reinforcements under the cover of darkness, while the Y-5s landed in order to evacuate casualties and politically-important prisioners and documents. The heavier Li-2s would wait until the the night after the airfield had been properly repaired before taking the gliders back.
*Not to be confused with
the more famous 1989 incident, involving Type 59s.
**Additional:
is part of Chinese 15th Airborne CorpsWill be bringing
Type 85 double 23mm AAA, 120mm 2S11 Sani mortars, 122mm howitzers, 130mm MRLS, and GAZ-66 trucks.
Post 3 (one of the players decided to stand in front of a tank-column)
The commander hopped-out of his hatch, zip-ties at hand and ready to detain the woman before she could go around causing trouble or relaying their strength and positions to the Russians.
But then Shang Shi Yihu Qin was insulted by the implication he did not understand the teachings of Sun Tzu and Moa Zedong, that the hearts and minds of the people must be won-over if there was any hope for the bloodshed to end, for the people's war to be a success; when in fact he was one of the 'new breed' of Chinese officers, an intellectual from the prospering capitol of Bejing.
The derisive remark that soldiers were the slag of humanity boiled up a rage inside him*.
When she had her back turned, he tackled her forcefully to the ground for resisting arrest after refusing the curfew. He then produced a thick strip of cloth and had her gagged to maintain noise-discipline, and then placed a burlap-sack over her face to prevent her from gathering more information for the enemy. Then, he and the loader forced her upon the engine-deck and lashed her to the hand-holds on the rear of the turret.
From there, they would have her placed in the confines of a re-education camp, to undo all the communist revisionism the Soviet-Union had polluted her mind with. In Qin's mind, there was only one true communism, and her's was not it. Nor were the combatant he'd slain earlier that night mere civillians.
The cultural revolution would continue as planned.
*As of 1978, all officers below fourty years of age were required to partake in some form of secondary (college) education and several years in a military-academy.
((Was busy researching the little things of the subject, for this, and several other RPs; it's pretty hard to get good accounts of the WZ-131/
Type 62-I's performance [Note turret-bustle and side-skirts to act as spaced armor against RPG-attack]))
Post 4 (Yay! Getting a plot that doesn't involve brutally murdering the main-character!)
Qin thought over this information. Shadow did not exist on any legal records aside from perhaps an expired Visa, no papers of identification on her (they already checked), no next of kin, and no known residence. It was under his authority to grant her refugee-status and place her in a humanitarian-aid camp [the less P.C. term is a "Concentration-camp" or "Internment-camp"]... but in a time of war such a post was often a death-sentance without trial of one sort or another. In addition, having no identification meant no burial-marker or hope for release even after the war ends (if she even survives that long) due to lack of documentation to even
start a trial.
A more pragmatic officer may have simply shot the grieving woman, to reunite her with her brother.
Luckily for her, Qin was a hopeless idealist. His mind raced to think of a plan to keep her out of harm's way, without drawing attention. Fraternization with the enemy was still punishable by death.
"You will be assigned seprate accomodation in the company-barracks. Your duties will be assigned to you once you have been situated. Welcome to the 15th Armored Corps, Lei Beng 'Shadow'." At the last three untranslated words, it drew the attention of all others in the tank. He had assigned her a rank in their platoon, effectively drafting her into the People's Liberation Army. Once the payroll was adjusted, her name and rank would be made to coincide with a dead-soldier's serial number, thus gaining her a legal status and further protection under the Geneva Convention.
((Oddly enough, something like this Actually happened in Russia,
between a Russian Tank-Commander and a US Paratrooper. The dual-rank in the Soviet Army prevented him from being rendered 'inconvienent' when word of his apparent death had reached Moscow from America.))
