Chapter 180: Canyon Ambush Site
Dominic led the assault on the south side, while Commander Dax led the north side.
The Dagos Army had left one camp of guards in place on the east side of the river, at the entrance to the canyon, but there were only ten men, all drunk, and none on guard duty when Dominic arrived.
"Pistols are quieter." He whispered as the strike team spread out.
None of the Dagos soldiers even saw their death coming.
From across the canyon, Commander Dax signalled that they had also cleared the guards, and that they were settling in to wait for the next convoy to cross the river.
"You know, I’m almost starting to feel bad for them at this point. They’re stretched so thin, and the country is in so much worse shape than we thought, it feels like we’re bullying them, not the other way around." Princess Alexis noted as they prepared to intercept the next convoy along the road, which was already coming into sight on the horizon.
Dominic didn’t reply right away, but as they watched the convoy cross the river, he couldn’t help but agree with her assessment.
A single soldier wearing a Dagos Army coat was enough to assure the soldiers that all was well, and the convoy didn’t even space themselves out for safety.
Their steam trucks were overloaded, so they had chained them together, allowing the light ones at the front carrying nothing but their officers to pull the others up hills.
Because an extended chain was just more failure points, they were nearly bumper to bumper when the mortars began to rain down on them, and the majority of the force never even made it out of the trucks.