Vampire's Day (Book 2): Zero Model by Yuri Hamaganov

this. With the view from Butterfly, it looked like a ruthless battle between two anthills.
    “They're getting ready for a breakthrough!”
    In the western part of the besieged fortress, on the lawn in front of massive steel gates, the owners of the fortress were preparing for a breakthrough, using everything that could move. Butterfly saw pricey sports cars near power tinted SUVs, armored cars and buses. The organized defense collapsed, and the surviving defenders ran to the gate, trying to take their places in these cars. The attackers entered the captured fortress, but the huge steel gate was still closed.
    “Wait for the order!”
    Bumblebee’s pilots eagerly awaited the opportunity to fire guided missiles on the Colonel’s orders, but so far it hadn’t been forthcoming. Only now was it that Sarah noticed that Richardson was speaking to someone on the radio. This was from the city, she suddenly realized. It was likely that they would give fire support to one side of the violent conflict. But who would they support? Who was the Colonel speaking to? It was necessary to move faster. The attackers could be seen regrouping, pulling infantry to the streets and squares at the front gate. They knew that the enemies were about to try and break out and got ready to meet them.
    “The second hangar on the right side!”
    “What… Damn!”
    Within clouds of bluish diesel exhaust a camouflaged armored car with a rectangular turret crept from the second hangar.Sara h recognized a Russian anti-aircraft gun, able to break the Butterfly into pieces with one burst of its four barreled cannons.
    “Shilka on my radar. Should I destroy it?”
    “Set aside!”
    Butterfly descended, and Sarah saw that Shilka had no air target radar. She clearly distinguished hinged armor and drawers for extra ammunition. No, they weren’t going to shoot at air targets, the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns were needed for other work.
    Shilka took its place in front of the gate. Next to it waited a huge wheeled tractor with an armored cab and lowered bulldozer blade.
    “Wait for the order!”
    A powerful directed explosion broke the gate, knocking it down, but no one heard the roar of the explosion, all sounds drowned out by the deafening roar of Shilka’s four cannons, set for direct fire. A swarm of twenty-three millimeter shrapnel shells swept over a couple hundred meters and blew away the barrier, tearing apart dozens of people in a split second and turning machines into piles of charred metal.
    After giving the first burst, Shilka raised its cannons, moving the fire on the roof and upper floors of the houses in the square. The tractor rushed forward, brushing through the flaming skeleton of the truck. A couple of seconds later, and the whole cavalcade in the courtyard flowed into the passage. Some of the attackers who survived the deadly Shilka’s burst continued to fight. Sarah saw overturned and burning cars, but still the column pushed forward, punching its way with Shilka’s fire.
    “There are reinforcements on the side streets!”
    Unable to stop the breakthrough, the attackers rushed to get to the convoy on the outskirts. With blows from both flanks, the end of the battle approached.
    “Fire on the ambush, it’s necessary to open the way for them!”
    “Roger!”
    Bumblebee extended long smoke plumes of missiles to the city, tearing to pieces the columns of attackers in the narrow streets. The cavalcade meanwhile departed the city, leaving behind a half dozen wrecked and burned cars, including Shilka, that had shot every last shell, and was left on the outskirts with a broken caterpillar track.
    Everyone who escaped from the trap went east to the villages and plantations of weed in the foothills. There the column split up, and a small group led by a military armored car rushed to the base. Sarah saw great white flags attached to the hood of a black luxury limousine.
    “Provide him safe passage.”

34. Yes/No
     
    “I haven’t found