Meanwhile, Andrei concentrated on assessing the situation. He assumed that if reinforcements did arrive, the bandits would need time to get their bearings, and then some time to find traces of their APC and send out a pursuit. That's assuming they even found any traces. He caught himself calling the bandits idiots. That was a dangerous precedent. Never underestimate your opponent, even if they're acting like a complete imbecile—another of Rodionov's commandments, one he'd memorized well.
"Who can tell me what kind of explosion happened in the village?" asked Chekankin, a surviving soldier from Wurtz's crew and the unit's medic.
Vorobyov grimaced, revealing even, slightly yellowed teeth. Seva answered for him.
"That was our blunder. We killed the APC crews, but we didn't think to look in
