Once inside, he heard the chaos amongst the staff officers as everybody was trying to complete their tasks at the same time. They were supposed to have dedicated command trailers for this kind of work on the modern battlefield but the Chinese UAVs in the skies above had rendered that possibility suicidal. They had been trying to locate and terminate Adesara and his staff for days now. Their tactic was simple: if they spotted anything that remotely looked like his command post, he could expect an artillery strike on it within minutes. The Chinese had been doing that for days. Till they had been able to, that is! The Smerch counter-battery launchers near Saser had effectively neutralized the field guns and short-range rocket launchers within the two Divisions facing Adesara’s defenses. That had brought a welcome respite to Adesara’s besieged staff. Still, he insisted on maintaining headquarters security. “So how is the deployment taking shape?”
