Southern Hôinôm | Marth, 1596
War run through Iririya's veins. Her own father was a veteran of the Kyrzbekistani civil war who had intervened in the Wadiyah civil war as part of the Kyrzbekistan's contingent. Four of seven Iririya's elder brothers had served in the armed forces as well.
She carefully but quickly looked through the sight of her rifle and shot and killed his aim, a young Hoinomese enemy who fell as a bag of potatoes, becoming the 12th victim of her body count only that day.
While preparing her rifle for the next shot, she could barely avoid thinking for a second that person that she helped to become a corpse was more a teenager than a man.
Iririya felt that this wasn't her war, fighting in a civil war thousands and thousands kilometres from home. Killing for a revolutionary faction against a rival one, which differences she could barely understood.
But those thoughts immediately faded away, and she slowly crawled for her next shot.
Only a few miles from where Iririya was, Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz Laysanur was walking in along Commander Trai Công Lê, who had become his main confidant in the last weeks.
Ilgiz was sent by Kyrzbekistani government to secretly serve as a military advisor for the so-called People's Democratic Republic of Hôinôm, although his actual role had become way wider than that.
"The new Mayari administration is certainly making things harder", Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz Laysanur told Commander Trai. "It's more and more difficult crossing the border these days. Even with the help of our comrades in Mayari, it will be become more complicated to supply and sustain your advance against your enemies. Soon, the rest of being completely cut out will become very real".
"I understand", Trai replied. "We are already struggling to keep the effort. We have wasted too many resources and men just in the last weeks".
"If Tieguo is not an option either", Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz said, "the only way out would be a way toward the coast. Even without a navy, that would open new ways and we may do something".
"If things don't change", Ilgiz continued, "you will only slowly bleed to death".
"Let's go back", Trai said. "I feel Comrade Duông may bring some news".
Ilgiz nodded.
War run through Iririya's veins. Her own father was a veteran of the Kyrzbekistani civil war who had intervened in the Wadiyah civil war as part of the Kyrzbekistan's contingent. Four of seven Iririya's elder brothers had served in the armed forces as well.
She carefully but quickly looked through the sight of her rifle and shot and killed his aim, a young Hoinomese enemy who fell as a bag of potatoes, becoming the 12th victim of her body count only that day.
While preparing her rifle for the next shot, she could barely avoid thinking for a second that person that she helped to become a corpse was more a teenager than a man.
Iririya felt that this wasn't her war, fighting in a civil war thousands and thousands kilometres from home. Killing for a revolutionary faction against a rival one, which differences she could barely understood.
But those thoughts immediately faded away, and she slowly crawled for her next shot.
Only a few miles from where Iririya was, Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz Laysanur was walking in along Commander Trai Công Lê, who had become his main confidant in the last weeks.
Ilgiz was sent by Kyrzbekistani government to secretly serve as a military advisor for the so-called People's Democratic Republic of Hôinôm, although his actual role had become way wider than that.
"The new Mayari administration is certainly making things harder", Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz Laysanur told Commander Trai. "It's more and more difficult crossing the border these days. Even with the help of our comrades in Mayari, it will be become more complicated to supply and sustain your advance against your enemies. Soon, the rest of being completely cut out will become very real".
"I understand", Trai replied. "We are already struggling to keep the effort. We have wasted too many resources and men just in the last weeks".
"If Tieguo is not an option either", Lieutenant-Colonel Ilgiz said, "the only way out would be a way toward the coast. Even without a navy, that would open new ways and we may do something".
"If things don't change", Ilgiz continued, "you will only slowly bleed to death".
"Let's go back", Trai said. "I feel Comrade Duông may bring some news".
Ilgiz nodded.