Clan Season 3: Episode 10 - Calum's Tactics

By Leigh Barker

Clan: Season 3, Episode 10. Calum’s Tactics
...Calum and John are racing south to try to reach the young highland conscripts before the Albino’s murderers can ambush them on the road.
Two hundred poorly armed boys against more than three hundred cutthroats to whom killing is just part of their day.

Adriana has the conscripts’ papers so they could just walk away. But there is nowhere to go, with the English cavalry coming down the Edinburgh road to finish them if the Albino fails, and the North Sea blocking their escape east. There is only deadly open ground to Glasgow. Or straight south. Into the Albino’s ambush.

Calum has an audacious plan. In all his years of war this is the most desperate chance he’s ever taken, and one with unthinkable consequences if it fails.
There is no other choice. No other plan. This is all there is.

Live or die. The next twelve hours will decide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Mar 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370176984

Leigh Barker

Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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Clan

(Season 3)

(Episode 10)

Calum's Tactics

Copyright 2018 Leigh Barker

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ISBN: 9781370176984

Clan

Season 3

(Episode 10)

Leigh Barker

Calum’s Tactics

Andrew McLintock was nineteen, or at least that was what he told anyone who asked, albeit very few people did. Truth was he would be eighteen on his next birthday, and snow would’ve come and gone before that day.

He was excited to be marching to London, even if the marching was mostly walking along with one of the many groups of highlanders spread out along the road. Those who were used to walking were a long way out in front, while those more used to work needing less travel were bringing up the rear, m’be a mile behind his group. He was first to the top of the long hill, which meant he was leading the column. He pushed out his chest and then glanced around guiltily as he heard his mother telling him what came before a fall. But it felt good to be the leader, even if it was just being first up the hill.

He looked back along the road at his column stretching in dribs and drabs across the valley to the hills bordering the moor and saw two horsemen gallop over the distant hill. He stepped up onto a small mound to give him a better angle to watch them approach. Riders weren’t anything new, he’d seen many on his walk… his march south, but these two were in a big hurry. Pushing their horses like that meant they were going somewhere close by, or they didn’t care if they killed them. He couldn’t imagine anything so urgent it should cost the life of a horse, so he watched them with curiosity and a growing feeling that something was wrong.

Calum slowed his horse as he reached the first of the highlanders, and John fell in behind him as they worked their way through the young men, who watched them pass, giving them curious looks but saying nothing. It wasn’t every day they saw men with muskets across their backs and another tied to their saddles. They meant mischief.

Not dead yet, then, John said.

Aye, m’be God is being less of an arse than usual, Calum said, and pushed his horse to a trot along the open stretch of road to the next group.

Spread out like this is a good thing, John said, coming up alongside him.

Makes no difference, Calum said. D’ya see the weapons these wee laddies have?

John looked down at the ones he was passing. A few had old swords hung on string over their shoulders, but the rest had no more than a dirk stuck in their belts. Aye, those pretend redcoats could put these laddies to the sword without even breaking step.

That’s why we’re here, Calum said.

"Aye,