Valkyria Squadron

Ch90: Operation Trident Hammer

New york port, Brooklyn, New york
March 5st
4:20 PM

The road to the port has been hard and difficult, After attacking the airport it was obvious that they would reinforce their positions and prepare to defend. Right now we have to fight through every street to reach the enemy base and destroy it. The progress has been quite slow and costly in our lives. Now the houses are nests for machine guns, snipers on rooftops, underground stations bunkers, and trenches. At all times we are receiving an ambush from some new direction. I never thought that I would see this city in this state in my life, especially after yesterday it was a calm and happy place, now it is the same hell that hit Europe so many times.

Right now I was inside a building just about 5 blocks from the port, I was taking a break with my team, those who survived the combat at the airport. The shots sound dangerously close, a block away, maybe someone on the street is shooting right now. Inside we were sitting anywhere and without any order, we had not stopped fighting since the day began, and when the order came to attack the port we immediately set off. We are taking advantage of a couple of minutes to regain our strength and eat something because I had not eaten all day since I woke up. Where we were, it seemed to be an apartment building, its inhabitants had been evacuated but they left everything behind, so we took advantage of it and searched the kitchens to steal food.

With these minutes of rest, some took advantage and let out their hidden emotions, others began to pray. And then there were those who like me already cared about nothing and we settled down to talk any nonsense in order to improve morale. Someone was talking about how he planned to go fishing in a lake with his son next month. Another about how he met a girl in a bar near here. In one of those, they asked me why now my skin was much redder than this morning. Well, that was because now I am an albino, so like them, I am a little weak in the light of the sun. Normally nothing happens to me, but on days like today that I have been outside almost all day, I get sunburned more easily than an ordinary person. But it is nothing serious, it is the same as when a person goes to the beach and tans, but it is nothing serious, only that can happen to me more easily. Tamamo tried to cook something using the "borrowed" kitchen room, but we ended up using a fire extinguisher.

Once the 82 had radioed us that they had managed to reach the edge of the port, so they occupied everyone for the final assault. I got up and went over the plan to give advice to the men under my command.

First of all our attack had been divided into three. The Bravo Group, now made up mainly of the 82nd, was still under Cedric's command and would take over the Naval Yard. They were accompanied by the majority of armored vehicles, as it was the largest base, with more enemies and the place was quite open, so it was more effective for tanks. The Alpha group was divided into two, the first, the main group would break through to arrive and attack the port as soon as possible, forcing the enemy to focus on defending the base. The second, where I was, would try to assault the south and reach the tunnel that connects with Manhattan, closing the path of enemies, then it will continue upwards to assault the port. Now, the empire for its part after the first defeat has formed several defensive lines, they knew that we would come from the airport, so they knew where to put their defenses quite well. As a result, the main group of Alpha had been delayed and they were still far from the port. The superiors changed the orders and now it is the turn of the second group to start the attack on the port alone and they hope that with that the defensive line that holds the first group is weak and they can arrive as reinforcements. Basically putting my team in the center of the stage again, the one we could win would depend on the secondary team being able to do enough damage, if we lost the naval port it would remain under the control of the Empire.
"Alright girls listen to me"
"Our break is over, we have to go back to the game"
"I can assure you that fighting in the harbor is the biggest hell you could have asked for"
"Narrow corridors, different height levels, short range of vision"
"This fucking place is a fucking maze full of deadly traps"
"There are certainly a lot of booby trap advance slowly and with great care"
"Think that absolutely everything has a bomb attached"
"As soon as we arrive we have to secure any high ground"
"The harbor cranes are perfect for snipers, both for them and for us"
"Our main objective is to destroy the tunnel, cut off the transit of enemy reinforcements to Manhattan"
"After that, we will draw attention as much as we can"
"We need to pretend that we are a larger group than we really are"
"I would like you to find good places to shoot and then switch to or another quickly to continue"
"If you can use windows, shoot from all of them"
"I do not need you to kill as many as you can, what I need is to make them think that we are a lot and that they bring all the soldiers that they can to attack us"
"With this, I hope, that the main group can finally move forward and arrive at our party"
"We will leave the real work of taking the port to those slow ones"
"If they fail, well then we will have to run away"
"But we will have fulfilled our real objective of destroying the tunnel"
"Did you understand? Did anyone take notes? Come on, it's not quantum physics, it's easy right"