To move the prisoners road and
rail links would be used wherever this benefited transporting the prisoners, if
a town had working easily repaired rail links these would be used rather than
the roads which would be a back up.
A new type of armoured lorry with solid rubber tyres on sprung
suspensions would move the prisoners to the camps, a hundred at a time in heavy
steel container like structures driven by a soldier and backed up by a single
soldier manning the roof mounted enclosed weapon/observation turret. These
trucks were christened Virgin Mary’s by the English army on account of the
merciless/merciful role that the vehicles would play in the mass murder of
hundreds of thousands of people in what was once England. They were shortened
to Mary’s; religion was the barrel of a gun here in late 21st
Century England. Armed vehicles to swiftly hunt down escaped prisoners not
taken care of by the defences were developed, examples were a single seat
armoured cars equipped with either a machine gun, grenade launcher or laser
weapon, mobile wheel driven drone vehicles using a similar artificial
technology to the Devil Snail units to hunt and to kill with similar weapons,
simple helicopters to hunt down prisoners or deter/defeat an armed attack
carrying nothing more hi-tech than an infra-red site and a laser or machine gun
and many more mobile systems including ones for use on the railways and even on
canals. The system would be put in place within a month and implemented and
then Operation Jericho would begin.
Sometime later… English army operations continued as normal with alert
guards and troops posted at regular intervals along the occupied area, backed up
by Devil Snail attack units. Troops moved into the occupied towns unaffected by
nuclear blast or fallout and rounded up civilians, troublemakers, any gangsters
who could be caught and many other people. The camps were ready. People were
ferried along the transportation routes in Mary armoured transporters, by rail
and even down a canal that remained intact. On the first day ten thousand
people were taken, mostly by force, to their deaths; how fast they died
depended on if they cooperated in the war factories that had been set up, if
they struggled or fought back and on who they were, for example if they had
attacked the army before, then they were shot. Old people, the infirm and
demented were also killed and set on fire with flamethrower teams whose job it
was to burn the bodies. Not even the bones remained afterwards.
In this large town in eastern England three hundred people were brought
in from surrounding villages and towns to be put to work in the single war
factory that had been set up in an old hospital, this made machine gun bullets.
Light weight engineering equipment was brought in along with brass for the
shell casings, copper and steel for the bullet jackets and lead for the bullet
core, then finally chemical raw materials to make the cordite charge to fire
the bullet and for the tracer rounds. A hundred people would work in this
single factory producing a hundred and sixty thousand bullets a day, with extra
brutality this figure should improve to more than double that on each twelve
hour shift without a break.
A total of eighty people were shot due to being old, infirm and ill in
some way or troublemakers. Fifty people worked in the limestone quarry mining
and quarrying this carboniferous rock in order to build a new military base and
fortified fort to guard the approaches to the town. Seventy people were a
reserve to add to the factory and quarry workers when they started to die over
the next few days and weeks. When they were all dead and burned more people
would be brought in and so the cycle of brutality would continue until everyone
was dead.
The first escape attempt occurred on the third day, a group of middle
aged men with fear in their eyes, already exhausted by twelve hour shifts in
the war factory, made a run for it. Six of them split into three groups of two
and headed in different directions at the end of their work shift. On roll call
the guards noticed them missing and sounded the alarm, soldiers rallied to the
area wearing protective suits and carrying evil looking machine guns. Six Devil
Snail attack units fanned out to search for the escaping prisoners, when caught
an example had to be made to deter further attempts to escape. This didn’t take
long.
Two were found in an abandoned house trying to lie low until the fuss
had gone down, they were brought back hand cuffed and badly beaten up. Fifty
minutes later a single man was brought back with laser wounds to his legs, a
Devil Snail had open fire on him after tracking his movements for two miles by
infra red. Four soldiers had to be called in to secure the crippled man and
transport him on a jeep type vehicle back to the command area near the factory,
where the others were securely held. This man’s accomplice had been blown up by
land mines in only one of two mined areas near the town, shredding his body
into a hundred pieces. The mines were turned off and the bits of body were
collected and brought back in; of the six that got away four had been accounted
for.
The last group made it four miles from the town by following the
underground drains; in doing so they picked up huge doses of radiation from the
contaminated water that ran into the drains. Feeling unwell after an eight hour
journey through the subterranean tunnels they surfaced at a dilapidated road on
the outskirts of town, lifting the heavy dirty metal man-hole cover they
cautiously peered out into the coming dawn. Nothing was visible, at least to
them. On English army TV monitors the men glowed bright white on infra red and
remote cannons fired large shells containing man-catching nets from three miles
away. The bangs were clearly audible from long distance, both men started to
run into the cover of some evergreen trees but it was too late! Incoming net
carrying shells flew in zeroing in on their position, popping open to fling
metal wire nets onto the captives. They screamed and cursed, struggling to free
themselves as the nets became tighter cutting into their flesh, thus subduing
them. An army patrol picked them up twenty minutes later.
Back at the command centre the captured men were paraded in front of the
others, an example would be made. Body parts of one were placed on the dirty
ground, to say: “Look at me! I escaped and look what happened to me. Now I’m
dead!”
The four who could stand were paraded along the yard, hands cuffed
behind them. Each one had wounds of some type from being beaten up or to the
cuts from the metal nets, these wounds were untended. An officer came up with a
small laser pistol, he screamed, “Now hear this. I will not tolerate any escape
attempts. As you can see, this first attempt failed. I guarantee there won’t be
any others!”
Raising the weapon he aimed it at one man and fired; the purple beam hit
the man in the chest making him scream and try to run. The officer aimed at his
left leg and fired again, the man collapsed to the floor crying in agony as
again the officer fired three more times. A smell of burnt flash wafted through
the air as the prisoner hovered close to death; horrible cauterised laser
wounds scarred his body. With a single three-second beam to his head he was
executed, his head collapsed into a burning boiling brew of brains, blood, bone
and hair – an awful sight that made two of the remaining prisoners vomit. The
man who had been shot in the legs was sat on the floor, unable to stand. He
said, “You fuckin’ cunt! That man was my friend!”
In a move swifter than a hawk the officer turned and glared at the
wounded man through his respirator, he swore and shot the wounded man ten times
at varying places on his body. He squirmed, cried and screamed before he died
having outlived seven of the ten laser shots.
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