Volume 1 First Glimpse of Nightmare Chapter 17 Elite Troops
A few hours after entering this trial, I finally got the time information, and the sky in the afternoon was no different from the night on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke. We each took two pieces of black bread and a can of porridge and started to settle dinner. It's not a good meal, but it's an acceptable meal compared to the potatoes I had in Tomorrow's Prison. The three men also knew that they couldn't be too particular in the trial, so they frowned and dealt with dinner.
While we were eating, the commander came over and sat down next to us with the same meal. "Soldiers," he said, nibbling on bread, "I don't think you're like those men." "We've all stopped moving, is this man clever enough to see through our Trialists?" "Sir," I began, "what do you mean by that?" "Hmph, you're real soldiers. The commander looked at the rest of the French soldiers who were eating in the woods, "They are now nothing more than walking dead under the ravages of this war." You are different, you still have fighting spirit in your eyes. ”
I said to myself that after all, we had just entered this scene for no more than five hours, and it was hard to say whether we would have the current morale after five days. "Dare to ask sir, who are you?" I asked. "Young man," he replied, "shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking your elders?" I replied, "My name is... Adrian, "I'm starting to make up four French names at a rapid pace," the very good-looking little guy is called Arnaud, "let's be the reincarnation of the Assassin of the Eagle Eagle," the chubby soldier is called Adolf, "anyway, at this time the Adolf is still an unknown little soldier, and he is being beaten on the Somme," this one, well, let's call Assi." "To be honest, I quite enjoyed this kind of scene where Yuan Yi wanted to explode but had to restrain because of the occasion.
"The four of us are a squad, our captain died in battle a few days ago, we were also separated from the large army, and now the four of us have no clear orders from our superiors, so we can only go to the nearest reinforcements of friendly troops. I continued. "Yes. The commander replied, "We will be stationed on Heights 304 for a while to buy time to set up artillery on the other side of the river." If you are still alive when you retreat, and I am still alive, you can follow the old man. He finished his dinner and got up to leave. "Sir!" I cried, "dare to ask for your name?" Henri Philippe Pétain. He did not look back, "You may call me, General Pétain." ”
"Wang Xu," Yuan Yi raised his hand to help me close my chin, "What is the origin of this Petain?" "Haha," I smirked twice, "Petain, if it is the Petain I know, it is the hero of the First World War of France and the traitor of the Second World War." He should now be the commander-in-chief of the French army in the Verdun area, and the matter has turned out to be a big deal, brothers, as long as we can hold this thigh, we won't worry that we won't be able to pass this trial!" "But with such a small number of people, can he hold this 304 height?" asked Greene worriedly. "It's hard to say," I bit my finger, "although there are only thirty people, these thirty people are definitely the elite of the elite, maybe a soldier will jump out and rush into the enemy line with a spear and shout that the enemy is shameful, I will take off his clothes." "Taking advantage of Li Feiying's ears now, my ears can't hear clearly, and it is a pastime to hurry up and complain.
After the meal, I was about to find a place to put water in the wild ferry without a boat, when I heard another French soldier shouting: "The Germans are attacking again!" I rubbed my feelings, and the Germans just went back for dinner, and they came again just after eating, aren't they afraid of being angry? I picked up the MP18 and lay down in the trenches to observe the German attack.
This time, the German attack was no longer rushing up as before, but first set up a gun line in the distance, and suppressed the French troops on this side with firepower, and then the German infantry advanced step by step relying on the bunkers, and it seemed that the losses of the last attack exceeded the expectations of the German command, and this time they began to act cautiously.
"Yuan Yi, the chakra in your body is enough to put the Hao Fireball Technique a few times now?" I asked, "The chakra that was lost before has not fully recovered, and now it can only be put once." Yuan Yi replied, "Wait a little longer, you should be able to put it again." "Okay. I replied that I could not expect to bombard the enemy with him.
By this time, Petain's soldiers had already engaged the Germans. This group of soldiers is worthy of being the elite, relying on their outstanding psychological quality and excellent battlefield skills, under the suppression of enemy firepower, they blocked the pace of the German army's advance.
Counting the enemy annihilation in the afternoon, I had already killed thirty German soldiers in a short time, Li Feiying and Yuan Yi followed closely behind me, and Ge Lin was a little worse, just in his early twenties. Due to the smoke of gunpowder, the sky quickly darkened. The searchlight equipment prepared before the 304th Heights had been destroyed during the day, and it was a little difficult to illuminate the entire front with only the two searchlights brought by Petain, and for a time the battle line began to fall to the German side.
"Don't wear out, use a grenade!" I could faintly make out Pétain's voice in the darkness, and with a series of bolts, the forward troops of the Germans who were about to rush into the position were blown to pieces.
This wave used up more than half of our grenade reserves, but fortunately the Germans were repulsed again, and they had to withdraw to regroup the offensive. We took the time to rest for a while, and about an hour later, the Germans attacked again.
"Whew... Whew..."There was an ominous heavy breathing sound in the darkness, "This meow..."I was always on my toes, so I quickly went into a state of readiness, "It looks like a flamethrower!"
Under the strafing of searchlights, nearly 100 German soldiers bent over their waists and touched the high ground, interspersed with more than a dozen tall soldiers wearing thick armor and closed masks. Carrying oil tanks on their backs and carrying ejectors, they slowly walked towards our positions.
"Fire!", "Throw!" Pétain and the German commander ordered at the same time. The ordinary German soldiers used the darkness and cover to push forward, which was not a good long-range target, and although the flamethrowers could only be beaten like iron Hanhan because of their bulky armor, the French soldiers soon realized that it was the heavy armor that caused their bullets to cause no effective damage at all.
And the Pyros weren't just beaten, they pulled out their grenades from their waists one by one and threw them at our positions with all their might. Before the soldiers stationed in the front trenches could react, they were consumed by the merciless fire.
"Beware of incendiary bombs!" called Petain, "Captain Honoré, take your men and set up a new line behind us, and take the rest with me!" "'Hold on to me' is clearly more morale-boosting than 'stand it out for me'. "!" Under the interference of fire and smoke, an incendiary bomb flew straight into the trench where the four of us were. My brain reacted, and it said something to, but my body didn't keep up, so I had to wait for death.
Fortunately, Li Feiying's body reaction speed should be higher than his brain, and he kicked the incendiary bomb to the other side of the trench. The incendiary bomb exploded in mid-air, and Greene raised his shield in time to protect the three of us, and although he lost some health, it was a blessing that no one hung up.
Under the suppression of incendiary bombs, the Germans had already approached the front and began to engage in positional and hand-to-hand combat with the French soldiers. And when we turned back from the damn incendiary bomb, a flamethrower was already standing in front of us, a cluster of fire in front of the nozzle reflecting our stunned faces.