A few of the ORMO tried to stop us as we went thru town but they didn’t put up much of a fight, especially after they saw the two M1’s. We hit the HQ quick and hard, putting a HEAT round right thru the building it was in then hitting it and then using our machine guns on the personnel in the area.
A few guys got away but not many. We turned around and headed south back to join our guys.
The Cav had quickly wiped out the supply troops and had managed to find four intact 5000 liter tanker trucks which turned out to be filled with diesel and gasoline! No wonder the Soviets had been able to move so fast! They were loading a bunch of jerry cans of fuel as well as Soviet and captured American ammo and supplies onto three other trucks. We were taking scattered enemy small arms fire and we wanted out as quickly as possible.
We got ready to put the rest of the supplies to the torch and head out when our scouts reported a bunch of HumVees and trucks heading for us from the center of the city. We waived them down as they came up, surprised to see other Americans in Lodz.
They turned out to be a Green Beret B Team heading out of Lodz to link up with the 5th Division on some kind of top secret mission. We told them that we were all that was left of the 5th unless they wanted to go to Kalisz and get captured by the Russians and the Poles. They said they had something big that had to get to the DIA or the brass but wouldn’t tell us what it was. We told them we were heading south and they could come with us or take their chances but either way we were leaving. The Cav pumped the rest of the alcohol out of their LAV-75’s and used it for their other vehicles and we did the same with our M1’s and filled our tanks with diesel.
We set fire to the rest of the dump and headed south for Piotrkow, planning after that to find some place to hide out and switch the rest of the vehicles to the gas we had just found and use it to get away faster. After all the damage we had done we knew the Russians would want us bad.
(oh and so you know - with the path we took the GM assigned values for meeting both the CAV and Strike Force Zulu and did a percentage roll - in both cases we made the dice rolls easily (or he did since he rolled them) and thus had us run into both units and join us)
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