In the near future China has achieved the dominance that it has long sought and most of the countries of Asia have fallen under China’s sway. The USA has been in decline and retreating from outside obligations for a decade. A misworded declaration of discord at home, mostly in the Old South of the US, gives the Chinese the excuse - albeit a thin one -for invading the US.
The governors of the states of the Old South put out the call for militias to form, and beg for help from the other states of the union when it becomes apparent that the Chinese invasion fleet, transported primarily by European nations, will come ashore on the east coast, from the Carolinas down to Florida. Divided loyalties of the different regions of the US delay the needed help, forcing the states of the south to stand on their own and defend themselves from the invaders.
First Sergeant James Griffin, formerly of the 82nd Airborne, and later, retired from the North Carolina National Guard, finds himself back in uniform with soldiers the ages of his own grandsons. Griffin’s Charlie Company, First Battalion, Twenty-first Brigade of the North Carolina State Guard quickly finds itself on the front lines, between a Chinese infantry division and the enemy’s attempt at breaking out from a stalled invasion. Both battalions of the Twenty-first Brigade and a volunteer cavalry regiment are all that stands in the way, with Griffin’s men at the tip of the spear.
But all is not what it appears to be; not all of the Chinese soldiers are Chinese and do not want to fight. Others are from satellite countries and would rather fight against the Chinese. On the American side there are officers and senior sergeants that have nursed hatreds from the days of fighting back in Iraq and Afghanistan. These men choose to settle old scores rather than to lead their men in the fight of their lives.
This is the story of an old soldier, the men he leads and their struggles to fight and win against the Chinese invaders, while having to keep one eye open for the backstabbers on their own side.
The governors of the states of the Old South put out the call for militias to form, and beg for help from the other states of the union when it becomes apparent that the Chinese invasion fleet, transported primarily by European nations, will come ashore on the east coast, from the Carolinas down to Florida. Divided loyalties of the different regions of the US delay the needed help, forcing the states of the south to stand on their own and defend themselves from the invaders.
First Sergeant James Griffin, formerly of the 82nd Airborne, and later, retired from the North Carolina National Guard, finds himself back in uniform with soldiers the ages of his own grandsons. Griffin’s Charlie Company, First Battalion, Twenty-first Brigade of the North Carolina State Guard quickly finds itself on the front lines, between a Chinese infantry division and the enemy’s attempt at breaking out from a stalled invasion. Both battalions of the Twenty-first Brigade and a volunteer cavalry regiment are all that stands in the way, with Griffin’s men at the tip of the spear.
But all is not what it appears to be; not all of the Chinese soldiers are Chinese and do not want to fight. Others are from satellite countries and would rather fight against the Chinese. On the American side there are officers and senior sergeants that have nursed hatreds from the days of fighting back in Iraq and Afghanistan. These men choose to settle old scores rather than to lead their men in the fight of their lives.
This is the story of an old soldier, the men he leads and their struggles to fight and win against the Chinese invaders, while having to keep one eye open for the backstabbers on their own side.
