It's okay to be chased by machine guns and machine guns, but what is it like to be chased by shells? The buttocks are on fire, the head is smoking, and there are snake pits and wormholes under your feet, and you may ascend to heaven at any time, this extraordinary feeling is not everyone has the opportunity to experience!

Finally ran down the hill into the woods, Weiss did not continue to run in a straight line, but took an irregular Z-shaped route, and ran for about ten minutes in the explosion of the earth shaking the mountain, and his physical strength had reached the limit, and he could not maintain a high-speed sprint with all his strength, so his pace slowed down. Fortunately, the enemy did not have clairvoyance or biodetectors, and when he entered the woods, the hot artillery fire faded away. The Norman soldiers behind were not as unscrupulous as their warships, and even if they pursued them with all their might, they did not enter the woods so quickly, and when they saw a winding ravine in front of them, Weiss flew into it as if they had been pardoned. Before he could catch his breath, he suddenly found someone next to him, looked at it, and wiped it, it was actually several fighters of the guerrilla advance team, and he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"You ...... How do you ...... Still here? I'm not...... Calling you ...... Come on? ”

Weiss's appearance did not frighten the soldiers, and the highest rank among them was a medium-sized sergeant, who approached and explained: "Sir, we found that you have not yet withdrawn, and we are worried about you, so we have offered to stay and respond. ”

The soldiers were kind, Weiss was pleased, how could he blame them for not obeying orders? Although everyone takes care of each other together, the current situation is not that there is one more person and more strength, but that the more people there are, the easier it is to expose the target. It's even worse if someone gets hurt and has to slow down.

When the breath calmed down a little, Weiss's first sentence told everyone: "Everyone be careful!" Protect yourself! ”

Warfare is unforgiving, and if you're unlucky, it's useless to be careful—a word of advice that, from a philosophical point of view, is less effective than prayer. For the next few minutes, the Normans cast a wide net of artillery fire, coming and going, less than a hundred feet from the ravine, and the violent explosion made people feel terrible, a state of pain in which all the organs were about to burst and the soul was forced out of the body. When the artillery fire stopped, one of the fighters exclaimed softly: "Oh no, the enemy battleship is coming!" ”

When they looked up, they saw that the huge Norman cruiser had flown into the woods, and its bottom was probably less than a hundred feet above the ground, which was the height that a fir tree about thirty years old could grow, and in the vast mountain forest where few people lived, hundreds of years old trees abounded. The armor of the cruiser is not worth mentioning in front of the flying battleships that once ran rampant in the sky, and even the heavy anti-aircraft guns equipped with the ground forces can penetrate it relatively easily, but for trees, even the hardest tree species and the thickest parts, it has the advantage of destroying the withering and decaying, so this Norman cruiser can reduce the altitude so low. Suddenly there was no gunfire on the battlefield, only the rumbling of the battleship's engines, and in its open gun emplacements, the gunners poked their heads out, and as soon as there was a sound from the ground, whether it was talking or shooting, they could clearly catch it, and then smash the enemy like a hammer to a walnut; As long as they spot an enemy in the woods, whether stationary or running, they can lock on to the target like a falcon and hunt a rabbit, and hunt it down with ease......

The mental pressure brought to the soldiers by such dark clouds on the enemy ship can be imagined, and it is a natural reaction to run away. Weiss hurriedly lowered his voice and reminded: "Everyone should be hidden, don't act rashly without my orders!" ”

This ravine, which is already in the woodland, has dense foliage that not only blocks the sun, but also obscures the enemy's vision, and the guerrilla task force fighters are wearing dark yellow-green camouflage that matches the autumn and winter field environment in the Lorraine region, and the concealment effect has an additional bonus. The flight altitude of the Norman cruiser at this time was equivalent to the top of a building next to five or six stories at the bottom of the ship, and the height of the hull was three stories high, which meant that the gunners in the open air were observing the ground from a position of 6-8 floors, and their eyes were not as keen as a real falcon.

Previously, in order to pursue the opponent's snipers, the Norman cruiser had already increased its speed, and its more than 300-foot-long hull flew over Weiss's head in ten seconds, the light brightened again, and the boundless sky was also returned to sight, and the terrible psychological pressure was suddenly reduced by half.

When the enemy ships were a little farther away, Weiss turned lightly and slowly, and looked towards the hill where he had been and which was now "bald", where there was no enemy at the top, but a group of Norman soldiers came around from a lower position on the mountainside, and if they were to move at full speed, it would only take three or five minutes to approach the ravine. The best way to delay them is undoubtedly a deadly cold shot. Weiss looked left and right, and there was a bush not far away. Winter is getting closer, and most of the leaves of this low shrub have fallen off, and although it can still provide some shade, it is still a little short of Weiss's request. He took a handkerchief out of his pocket, dipped it in muddy water, and skillfully wrapped it around the muzzle of the gun - this would both make the sound of the gun more muffled and absorb the smoke from the gun's fire to a certain extent - smokeless powder was not smokeless, but burned with less solid residue, and in this relatively cold weather, the burning gas of the hot gunpowder rushed into the cold air to form a white mist, which lasted for a short time, but if you were careful, you could still track the location of the shooter!

The group of Norman soldiers in sight, after coming to the hillside on this side, took a loose battle reconnaissance formation as before, and the front and rear teams alternately covered and rolled forward, which showed that there was a good tacit understanding between the soldiers. When Weiss used a special vision to observe their state, he found that the energy and physical strength of these people had not decreased much, and it was not easy to maintain such a strong fighting spirit when the troops had been repeatedly attacked and the casualty ratio exceeded seventy percent.

After much hesitation, Weiss closed the safety of his rifle and beckoned his soldiers to follow him north, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy had not yet entered the woods. One by one, the men cautiously moved along the ravine, and after some distance, the Norman cruiser actually came back in a circle, and they hurriedly crawled down. The dull roar of machinery was getting closer, and the invisible pressure from before came again, and this time, they also heard someone above shouting in Ulster: "Surrender or kill!" Released after the war! ”

When communicating with the fighters of the guerrilla advance detachment on weekdays, he did not shy away from this special experience of his own, and also told these soldiers with a frank attitude that unless they were in a desperate situation or had an irresistible situation such as serious injury or coma, otherwise, laying down their arms would mean giving up their ideals and denying themselves, and even if they could live until the end of the war, they would inevitably spend their lives in endless chagrin and self-blame in the future.

As Weiss believed and was proud of, none of the warriors beside him wavered, and the Normans on the battleship not only shouted to the ground, but also threw things down, and the falling things did not explode, but some fell on the stones with a clattering sound, sounding like some kind of metal object. When the battleship moved away from them, Weiss glanced up and saw a yellow and clear thing not far away, a cannonball casing.

The Normans are so wealthy that they don't need to be recycled?

Whatever the Norman crew thought, wherever the battleship flew, they threw things - judging by the silhouette of the falling objects, there were not only shell shells, but also cans and the like. Those people seem to want to humiliate and provoke their opponents in this way, so that they have the same choice between laying down their arms and raising them. Weiss dismissed this trick and immediately looked around with a special vision. After this delay, the Norman soldiers who were chasing from behind had already entered the woods, but the funny thing was that they stopped from time to time to inspect the objects on the ground, and it was clear that the scrap left by the Norman crew interfered with their tracking of their targets, and even led them astray!

The enemy has gone astray?

Seeing the Norman soldiers chasing them southwest, Weiss wondered for a moment that the enemy was getting farther and farther away, and he finally believed in this wonderful fact, and breathed a sigh of relief. Risking to move under the nose of the enemy, the slightest mistake may lead to the annihilation of the whole army, and it seems dangerous to continue to hide here, as long as you hold on for another two or three hours, it will be dark!

Carefully judging the situation, Weiss said in a low voice: "Don't move, everyone, listen to my command!" ”

One of the advantages of having fewer people is that orders can be communicated instantaneously and actions can be highly consistent. The commander spoke, and the warriors lay silently in the wet ravine, not moving except to breathe and blink. Ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed, and every once in a while, Weiss looked up, and did not know what those Norman soldiers were eyeing or what traces they had found, and pursued them farther and farther to the southwest, and their follow-up personnel also followed to track this line, more than two hundred men and horses, divided into three echelons, front and back, like a rushing river, and then turned a corner in front, and never returned.

Half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half...... As time passed, Weiss and the soldiers remained in one position, although their limbs were numb, and they became wet inside and out, and they felt uncomfortable, but this silent way was still more relaxed than running for their lives under the guns of the enemy—if it weren't for the fact that they were on the battlefield and always had a string in their heads, some of them might have fallen asleep.

Following the direction of the ground forces, the Norman cruiser also gradually flew away, and the world fell silent. The land ploughed by the shells was pitted, and many of the trees that had grown for decades or centuries had their trunks broken and their roots scorched. Everything here will not be able to return to its original state in a short period of time. Once upon a time, young soldiers longed for a war to make a name for themselves, but after experiencing the poison of war, they realized how naïve this idea was. The horror of war lies in the disregard for life, in the endless killing, in the destruction of everything......

When it finally got dark, Weiss crawled out of the ravine with his muddy warriors, looked at everything around him, and felt the aftermath of his life. The darkness of the night has put on a natural invisibility cloak for them, and they can come and go freely and easily in the future, whether they are evacuating or raiding!