Futuristic Battle of Chennai

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In the distant future a great battle took place, larger than the battles of WWII and WWIII. In this future humanity had recently recovered from the great nuclear war that happened in the 2040's, and arose from their chambers and created great empires by the year 3251. Over the course of the next six years numerous major events happened. Formation of key alliances, major wars, and even an extraterrestrial invasion. In the year 3257 the Eclipsian Federation, the largest nation on Earth and a nation recovering from numerous internal problems, attacked the colony of Tasmania under the control of the Kingdom of the Rockies. The Kingdom was a pacific colonial empire who controlled Australasia and numerous pacific islands including Hawaii. After this another army attacked the Sinai Peninsula which was under the control of the African Empire. This caused a large war between the secondary superpower and two middle powers. The combined African-Rockian fleet decimated the Eclipsian fleet at the Battle of the Indian Ocean. The dual fleet then blockaded the major Eclipsian shipyards at Gujarat, where they were met with the remainder of the Eclipsian navy and her Mobile Sea Platforms. The Battle of Gujarat ended in Eclipsian victory, while Sinai was a stalemate.

Then the first and only major land action took place at the coastal city of Chennai, where Rockian agents destroyed the city's coastal guns and fortifications to allow for an easier invasion. Once they were destroyed a combined landing force of Rockian and African troops landed on the beaches of the city and began to move in. The Eclipsian Army, who numbered 4 million in active troops alone, was arguably the most advanced army only rivaled by the Cascadian Army. Using hover tanks, battle armor, and advanced weaponry the army was not a force to take lightly. The initial Rockian invasion force was 100,000 men, but the Eclipsian response was 520,000 men which included twenty thousand of the Federation's elite force the Eclipsian Core. Slowly the battle grew to have nearly five million men from the Eclipsian Army and Core against just over four million Rockian-African troops. On land the Eclipsians had the advantage, but the Rockains were able to hold their positions due to the naval advantage.

This story does not follow the two nation's as they struggled to hold or capture the city, rather it is two soldiers and their perspective on how the battle raged. The entire Eclipsian force was professionally trained and ready for combat, while the Rockains had only half of their forces trained and the others levied. How will this battle go? Well we will just have to find out.

*Note the size of the Eclipsan Federation spans from Slovenia to Korea and controls Argentina, and that the Rockies control Canada and Alaska.​

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Frank Invermere made his way through the ruined alleyway as silently as he could, following the two battlesuit troopers leading the small group of soldiers. All that could be heard were the light footsteps of the soldiers and explosions in the far distance. Almost all the civilians had fled the city or moved to "safety camps" set up by the two warring nations. Those who remained hunkered down in the ruined buildings, waiting to die or for the battle to finally end. Their absence was deafening, the great city staying quiet as it collapsed. The sky reflected this dark mood, a stormy gray that promised rain soon. Rain was terrible here. It blocked your vision, hid your foes, made it hard to tell enemy from friend, and ruined food and caused sickness. There had already been two long rainstorms during the battle, and those had been about what Frank imagined Hell to look like.

The battlesuit troopers up front stopped and signaled the group to be silent and stand still. They raised their rifles and aimed at something. Frank saw it too: movement. In a crack in a broken wall something was moving. The battlesuits would pick someone to check it out, someone expendable, one of the levied troops. The lead gestured towards Frank. He froze; this was basically asking him to take a 50-50 chance of dying. He couldn't refuse, he'd be shot, and if he accepted, he'd also probably be shot. Nearly shaking from the fear, Frank slowly passed under a palm tree and towards the ruined wall. Terrified, he turned the corner with his gun raised to see who was there. A thin, sad looking dog looked back at him. Frank instantly relaxed and pulled out a small piece of bread from his pocket and offered it to the animal. "Just a dog," he said as the animal eagerly approached and ate from his hand. The dog was very friendly, obviously not a stray. Probably someone's pet that had gotten lost in the fighting. A lot of them had been killed by starving survivors and even soldiers; supplies were hard to get in on both sides and sometimes people had to do what they had to do. This dog had obviously made it though, another survivor in a city of death.

The group continued on. Mark noticed that the dog was now following them. He gave it another little piece of food and walked by it. Maybe he'd bring it back to camp. A lot of soldiers kept animals they found, both as a way to raise morale and, though nobody would say it out loud, as an emergency food source if needed. Suddenly, the man next to frank gained a bullet hole through his head and collapsed to the ground. "SNIPER, GET DOWN!" Frank yelled as he dived to the side. Another man screamed as a bullet went through his shoulder and the whole company ran behind cover. Mark desperately scanned the surrounding buildings, looking for the gunner, but no luck. The dog had run away behind a corner. As he panicked, a bullet whizzed past his cheek, suddenly making him focus. He looked up and saw the glint of a gun in the third story of a building across the street. He charged his gun, turned around, and aimed. The laser hit instantly, and a gun fell from the window while what looked like a woman collapsed inside. Mark still couldn't move: if there was one Eclipsian, there were more. Frank felt a raindrop hit his cheek. Space_Kaiser

 

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That day the city was oddly quiet. Asides from the occasional skirmish and bombings, the battle reached a silence that was calming and uneasy. At any moment either side could launch a offensive. Any of the three groups could strike. The reactionary force by the Eclipsians had split into three groups, the first would secure the north coast of the city, the second and largest would engage and confine the enemy in the south, while the third waited outside city lines and protected civilians leaving, as well as provide artillery support and box in the enemy in the event of the case the frontline collapsed. The third group's job was pretty boring until a request for an artillery strike or for reinforcements, and the first's mission was basically secured. As Private Sohrab Ahmadi can atest, the second group's mission was nothing but boring or safe.

Constant fighting on a daily basis was the norm, and for the most part the last two weeks the front line has barley changed in the south. Today that would be different. Eclipsian Command approved of a very bold plan to hopefully at least put pressure on the Rockians and Africans towards the coast. A further one million men from active duty were slowly coming in from disguised supply transports and most trickled into the second groups lines. As Ahmadi's squad was about to launch the offensive a Rockian patrol came by. The tanks not far behind them hadn't fully activated their hover drives and didn't make much noise, but were told to shut off anyways. A sniper in one of the few standing buildings next to Ahmadi fired into the patrol and blew the head off one of the Rockians. The next shot fired and just missed the head of another enemy, landing in the shoulder. After that the patrol went into cover and the sniper fired a third shot. Soon after a Rockian fired his rifle and nailed him, his gun dropping from the building. The squads had assembled and the tanks were given the all clear to turn on but at low speed to not give themselves away.

The field commander then called in an artillery strike onto the enemy patrol to hopefully silence them and to not prewarn their comrades. A few moments later and shells rained across them, landing in the enemy's general direction. With signs of enemy movement the commander decided to call for the offensive to start regardless. Across the line from one of the rivers towards the city limits Eclipsian troops begam to cross the general line and engaged the first enemies they would see. Where Ahmadi was the sqauds around them opened fire at the enemy and began supressing them as friendly tanks moved in to the side of the enemy and volley into the enemy before moving forward. It wasn't until after the tanks firing their volley did Ahamdi finally fire. As he did a few squads around him began to move towards the flank of where the enemy was while hid squad laid down suppressive fire for them.

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Frank hid behind a chunk of rubble, hearing debris and bullets whizzing by. He fired his gun whenever he could from behind his cover, but after a minute the artillery hit. Smoke and dust blinded him as blasts hit everything around him, and Frank was forced to retreat into a building. He climbed up to the second floor and hid in a bedroom beneath the window. Soon after, three of his teammates and one of the battlesuit troopers were in there as well. "We just got contact. The entire front line is like this, they're trying to make another assault. We need to get back to our section of the city immediately. We have to go, now." And without any further delay, the group rushed out and into the street.

The trip back was about half a mile, and they ran the whole way with the Eclipsians in pursuit. After 7 minutes of harrowing chase, they rushed behind the Rockian defenses and into their sector. The tanks and heavy guns were already firing as the Eclipsians emerged close behind them. Albert looked and saw that the dog had reappeared and followed him here. "Get to high ground, soldier! Hold 'em back with all you got." Frank climbed the stairs of an apartment building and set up to fire. He opened fire on the approaching Eclipsians. They wouldn't break this wall easily.

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Ahmadi and his group pushed forward, chasing the retreating Rockians. Tanks pushed up ahead and fired at the retreating soldiers, who miraculously were able to not get killed. Intelligence reports showed that their section had a fortified line in front of them, about half a mile from the initial engagement with the enemy patrol. The tanks and men pushed carefully after the Rockian survivors were out of sight, but still pushed fast until they would encounter resistance. When they did the force encountered heavy fire coming from the buildings and fortifications ahead. Ahmadi practically threw his body into cover onto a wall of an alley way that had been destroyed, having no good fire lane into the enemy. He peaked his head out just slightly and a wiz of rounds came at him, forcing him to put his whole body into cover. He could hear the enemy rockets landing onto the ground and friendly armor, some of which were disabled or destroyed. He went from standing in the cover to sitting down behind the wall, letting his body slide against it, as the reality of war set in on himself. As he was panicking a solider ran to him, while under fire and tapped him on his armor. "We gotta move! This position is no good, but the building right here provides a perfect firing lane into the flank of the enemy!" He yelled as explosions and gunfire came in behind them.

Ahmadi nodded his head and pulled out his breaching charge and gave it to the soldier. He took it and slowly walked against the wall of the building next to them, as to avoid get hit and killed. The soldier placed the breaching charge onto the wall and went back to Ahmadi. "Alright, now hit the fuse!" He said as Ahmadi fumbled around with his detonator before finally pressing the button. The wall exploded with force and made Ahamdi turn his head, even though his entire head was within a helmet. He felt a tap on his shoulder and saw the other soldier move his head towards the opened up wall. They both then ran towards the opening, experiencing a hail of gunfire as they made their way into the building. They entered into the building and stopped for a second to catch their breath. The run may have been short but it felt like a mile to Ahmadi, experiencing what it's like to be truly shot at for the first time. He lifted his head up to see the soldier on his communications device, preparing to talk into it. "This is Corporal Nikolay, I request reinforcements at this location. We have a firing lane that can nail into the flank of the enemy, so I request reinforcements." He said, with a response coming in a few seconds later.

It was at this point Ahamdi realized something, he had been separated from his squad when they approached this area. He was a twelve man squad, and everyone of which except for him had been fighting in Chennai for the past month. Ahmadi was one of the reinforcements that filled in the spot just days prior, hell he hadn't even gotten to know the names of most except for his squad leader. As he looked around the room they were in, there was a wall separating them and the open street that appeared to be thick enough to stop most incoming fire. He then felt a tap on his shoulder and looked at the source, the corporal. "We are getting two squads of reinforcements to secure this building and use it as a firing position. Expect the Rockies to face guns towards us, because they know ere here now. The two squads are coming in from the long away behind the building, avoiding the bullets that hit us. They'll be here in a few."

Ahmadi took all of this in and nodded his head, which garnered the attention of the corporal. "You're a reserve aren't you? What's your name and rank if you don't mind me asking." He said straightening himself out. "I-I'm not reserve. I'm active duty. I'm one of the reinforcements, I completed basic a few months ago. My name's Private Sohrab Ahamdi, it's good to meet you." Ahmadi said lifting up his gun, to show whatever resolve he had left in him. The corporal stared at him through his helmet, before finally speaking. "Alright, nice to meet you to private. We're going to secure the back door for allies to push in. Then when the squad leaders get here they'll tell us what to do." Ahmadi nodded his head and they moved their way around and finally found the back entrance, opening the door to see nearly twenty men waiting for them. Ahmadi and Nikolay moved out of the way for the two squads to enter the building, and they all met in a more open room to discuss their mission. "Alright men, I'm Lieutenant Chen and for now I'll be your mission commander. Right, so our mission is to secure this three story and provide our boys some fire support so we can have our main platoon breach the buildings across the street to begin sweeping through. You three take point." He said as he point towards Ahmadi, the corporal and another soldier.

The three lead the squads through the first floor, encountering nothing. The same story could be said with the second floor, which alone could offer a good fire support but the third story had to be cleared. Ahmadi was led the point for the first two stories, until as he made his way to the third story stairs where the other soldier over passed him. As the soldier passed through the stairwell opening a rain of gunfire hit him as he collapsed onto the stairs in front of them. Ahmadi took a step back from the deceased man and he could hear the enemy yelled out and shifting around. He then heard a grenade being thrown at them into the stairwell, landing next to Ahmadi. Instinctively he picked it up and tossed it over the stairs, where it exploded and a scream could be heard. He heard another pin and he turned around to see the corporal throwing a smoke onto the edge of the stairwell, covering the room in smoke. "Everyone, use thermals." The lieutenant said silently, and a second later Ahmadi switched to thermals. A few soldiers passed him silently, and readied grenades, then throwing them at the general direction of the enemy. He heard bangs and flashes as one of the soldiers in front moved his hand forward. They all walked up the stairs and, using their thermals, fired at any enemy in front of them. Despite the flashbangs and grenades a few still fired into the squads, hitting a couple of men. After a few minutes of gunfire the floor was secure, with about a dozen Rockians dead, and the whole building secure.

Shortly after they all took of their thermals and set up position. The gunfire and tanks rounds being fired from outside was still persistent, barely letting up. The lieutenant order an artillery and M.S-A.A.U support into the enemy fortifications ahead of them. A few minutes later loud whistling in the air could be heard and suddenly massive amounts of shells rained in from above smashing into the enemy walls and defenses. Right after a tank volley and rocket barrage hit the wall and buildings, and finally massive amounts of small arms fire pelted the enemy defenses. All around Ahmadi his fellow men fired their weapons into the flank of the enemy, so he raise his rifle and fired directly at an exposed Rockian nailing him all across his body. Then he began to lay down suppressing fire into the buildings to allow the platoon to enter the buildings, which after taking a few hits entered. Ahmadi looked over and saw another platoon in the distance doing the same thing. This could finally end the battle, he thought as he began to lay fire once more into the enemy.
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