THE GREEN KING (part 66)
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The Candlesticks
of Bogota
There were five
trucks, preceded by a Jeep. As planned , Eliahou’s machine gun fired first,
raking the column on its right. The incendiary chlorate grenade that was to
have blown up the Jeep bounced on the hood with no result. It was simple
contraption made of whisky bottle filled with chlorate, powdered sugar, and
resin sealed with around piece of felt, completed by a small flask made of thin
glass that held the sulfuric acid. Before throwing it, one had to break the
flask so that the acid filtered through the felt. Then, it was better not to
waste any time.
Yoel saw Reb
get up thirty feet to his right. At no time did he seem in a hurry; his
movements were always accomplished in what appeared to be detached nonchalance.
He reached the road in four big steps. He jumped over the low embankment and
went directly towards the head of the column, across from the Jeep. The machine
gun was still firing, and the path of its bullets must have passed very close
to him. In his large left hand, he held four or five grenade bottles by the neck,
the way Grinzing waitresses served new wine. A few yards from the Jeep, he
shattered a flask of acid, patiently counted to three, and threw a grenade at
the centre of the grille, between the headlights. The vehicle rapidly caught
fire. Reb had already dodged it. He tackled the first truck, blew it up in the
same way. Then another, and another, while all the machine guns were still
firing.
He wasn’t even
hit. The action didn’t last long. From the first shot fired by the machine gun
to the breakaway signal given by Eliahou, no more than two minutes elapsed. The
withdrawal of the commando team took place as planned. Four hundred yards from
the road and the burning vehicles, where the British were still shooting, just
in case, a regrouping took place, only to disband. Bainish and Klimrod were
relieved of their precious arms.
TO BE CONTINUED
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