Thorgrim, supported by Harald on one side, Starri on the other, was half-dragged, half carried through the door in the back, the others following behind, so that the church was between them and the Irish men-at-arms whom Godi reported cautiously advancing toward them. Perhaps you will trade it all with Lucifer for a cup of water, but I think not.”Īnd they went. “No man has interfered with your ritual of pagan vengeance.
Morrigan was standing there now, behind where Arinbjorn had been, a blood-tipped sword in her hand. His eyes went wide and his head snapped back and he made some weird noise, a liquid noise, and he collapsed, missing Thorgrim by inches, his arm falling across Thorgrim’s chest like a lover. Arinbjorn was above him, sword raised, and then the man’s throat seemed to explode in a shower of blood.
FIND AND DESTROY NORTHMENN LONGPHORT FREE
There was something inevitable, even comforting in the fall, as if he was free from the terrible burden of fighting now, as if he would just fall and keep falling until he had fallen clear into oblivion.Īnd then he hit, and the shuddering impact brought another scream of agony to his throat, but he clenched his teeth this time and held it back. “Here they come!” Godi shouted and Thorgrim was vaguely aware of a murmur running through the watching Northmen and then his foot tangled in an overturned chair and he went down, falling back, straight back. He was a leaking cask the strength was flowing out of him now, and soon he would die because he could no longer hope to do anything but fend off Arinbjorn’s attack, and even that he could not do much longer. And Thorgrim, growing weaker with each pulse of blood flowing from his wound, could do nothing but step back and step back again and try to keep Arinbjorn’s blade from getting past his defense.
“I see men pointing this way!”Īrinbjorn attacked again, driven by anger and a desperate need that Thorgrim could see in his eyes. There was no sound save for the two men gasping for breath, and then Godi’s voice came echoing down the length of the nave. He lashed out at Arinbjorn with his fist, connected with the side of his head and sent him stumbling back, but the punch was weak and he knew it, and he could see Arinbjorn had moved more from surprise than from the impact of the blow. Typical examples of using the find and destroy strategy are battles in the Ya-Drang Valley (1965) and the height of Hamburger (1969).Thorgrim shouted with agony, something he could not recall ever having done. Its use was due to the specifics of Vietnam’s natural conditions ( jungle and mountains), which made it difficult to detect large units of the NFED and the North Vietnamese army, as well as a lack of human resources: as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara noted, out of about 500 thousand US troops in South Vietnam (at the end 1967 ) only 70 thousand could be simultaneously involved in offensive operations the rest were in auxiliary units or were involved in the protection of facilities. The strategy was adopted by the American command in the summer of 1965. More often, fire contact did not occur, since the enemy forces simply did not appear in the search area.
In many cases, the unit that carried out the initial search (usually a platoon or company ) found the enemy only in an ambush and suffered losses. After the first fire contact, additional units were dispatched, blocking the enemy’s possible escape routes, while the detected forces were destroyed using aircraft and artillery. The essence of the strategy was that the detachment of the American army was supposed to go to the area controlled by the enemy to locate large enemy forces. įind and destroy ( Search and destroy or Seek and destroy ) is an offensive strategy developed in the mid-1960s at the beginning of the Vietnam War by US Commander-in-Chief William Westmoreland. American soldiers search homes of Vietnamese in search of members of the NLFL.
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