Chapter 1 A Little Butterfly
"Boom! Rumble! The violent explosion continued to sound in his ears, and Xia Wen opened his eyes in a daze, red, and what greeted him was corpses and rivers of blood.
"Where am I?" As soon as he blurted out the words, Xia Wen felt that something was wrong, although he could understand the meaning, but he did speak standard German.
"Damn it, Leon, are you dead? If you're not dead, hurry up and get me the damn bullet on the side, this group of bitch Britons are rushing up again! β
Xia Wen was stunned, Leon? Is it calling me? Am I not shopping? How did you get here? Oh, I remember, it looks like I was hit by a car that ran a red light.
Without waiting for Xia Wen to think about it, the roar sounded again: "Leon! Leon AndrΓ©s! What are you doing stupidly? Waiting for the other side to come and kill you? Bring me the bullets, oh shit, the position in the front two rows is not moving! β
Xia Wen came back to his senses, looked at the Mauser Type 98 rifle in his hand, and understood that he might have crossed over! It's too late to think about it, it's time to save your life!
Xia Wen looked in the direction of the roar just now, a dusty officer was gritting his teeth and controlling the Makqin heavy machine gun in his hand to shoot frantically forward, and there was a corpse next to the machine gun.
Xia Wen, oh no, after Leon figured out his situation, he immediately ran along the trench with his rifle in his hand and his head down.
"Sir, what did you just say? The explosion was too loud! Leon asked cautiously.
"I'll tell you to bring a box of bullets! Idiot! Arden was killed just now! This bunch of shit British! The officer pointed to an ammunition storage point more than ten meters away from the machine-gun position, and to the dead secondary shooter next to the machine-gun.
Leon took a closer look at the corpse on the side, poor Arden was hit in the face by a bullet, and the powerful kinetic energy only left half of Arden's corpse.
"Vomit", Leon, who saw the corpse for the first time, spit out directly.
Seeing this, the officer sneered: "Haha, what's wrong with you today? Do you have a bad stomach? β
Leon ignored his cold words, wiped his mouth clean, and ran to the ammunition storage point with his head down, jumping into the trench and running towards the ammunition storage point, listening to the "poof" of the bullets hitting the sandbags overhead.
Leon carefully sorted out his thoughts while running, he was hit by a car in his last life, and he came here for unknown reasons, looking at the weapons and military uniforms as if they were in the last century, he should belong to Germany in World War I, but he was not familiar with the environment here, and if he was discovered, it would be over.
Leon suddenly had a flash of inspiration, I can pretend to be amnesiac first, and get a word from the officer just now.
I made up my mind, and almost arrived at the ammunition storage point, with a box of bullets written in German on it, machine gun bullets. That's it, Leon picked up the box of bullets and returned in a panic.
"Quick, open the box, my chain is about to run out, oh, how can this Englishman think as many locusts? I can't finish fighting! The officer muttered to himself as he ordered Leon.
"Sir! I was stunned by a cannonball, where are we? Leon took the opportunity to talk as he unmantled the ammunition box.
The officer looked at Leon suspiciously, and Leon quickly pretended to be confused.
The officer did not suspect him, and continued to strafe forward, saying, "Huh? Amnesia? We are near the Somme! Fighting the British and French, remember? β
Leon pretended to remember a little again, and continued: "I seem to remember a little, sir, what is your name?" Am I in that unit? β
"Damn, my name is Hunter, Hunter Lorentz! You are a soldier of the 3rd Battalion and 3rd Company of the 16th Regiment of the Sixth Army of the Second German Reich! I'm your acting company commander! If you ask these idiot questions again, I'll kick your ass! Okay, give me a new elastic chain, and be nimble! Hunter yelled impatiently.
"Yes! Sir! Leon immediately took out a new chain, but he didn't know how to put it.
"Oh, stupid, you can't even load bullets? Give me! Pick up your rifle! You're going to use a rifle! β
Hearing this, Leon hurriedly showed his head from behind the sandbag, picked up the Mauser Type 98 rifle in his hand, looked at the British soldiers charging like a tide in front of the position, gritted his teeth, and muttered in his heart that this is on the battlefield, this is on the battlefield! Then he pulled the trigger, and I don't know if I hit it, because under the frantic fire of the entire position, the British soldiers who charged intensively fell one by one like wheat that had been cut, and then the people behind stepped on the corpses of the fallen people and continued to advance.
Suddenly, Leon remembered what Hunter had just said to him, that this is the Somme! Oh no, Leon's heart was full of despair, as a military enthusiast and his own historical knowledge told him that the Battle of the Somme broke out in 1916, with a total of more than 1.3 million casualties on both sides, compared to the famous Battle of Verdun, known as the meat grinder of Verdun, which also suffered more than 700,000 casualties. The most desperate thing is that it was only 1916, more than two years before the end of the First World War.
Leon couldn't help but feel a pang of distress in his heart, I just died once, why do you want me to die again?
At this moment, a soldier with a document bag on his back bent down and ran through a trench full of corpses and roaring bodies to Leon's side, and leaned down and shouted to Hunter on the side: "Company commander! The order of the regimental headquarters, which ordered us to retreat to the fourth line of defense! β
Hunter asked as he shot, saying, "Retreat?" And what about the troops attacking Paris? What to do with their flanks? β
"I'm sorry sir! I don't know, I'm just delivering orders", said running along the trench to other positions.
Attack Paris? Lyon's heart rejoices, this is not the Battle of the Somme! The spring offensive against Germany against France in 1918 was also launched in cities such as Amiens near the Somme, and this offensive ended in German defeat, and since then Germany was no longer capable of launching an offensive, and Germany surrendered a few months later, and its chances of survival were greater!
Thinking of this, Leon adjusted his mood and said to Hunter: "Sir, I guess most likely the offensive group in the direction of Amiens has failed, and it makes no sense for us to continue to hold here",
Khan thought for a moment, sighed, pointed to a position on the left, and said: "You go to the position of the side row from the communication ditch, let them withdraw, and we will gather in the village three kilometers behind, and then withdraw with the regimental headquarters to the fourth line of defense to rest."
"Good!" Leon replied, turning and running into a ditch deeper than the trench, and running in the direction Hunter had pointed.
Run away! This thought suddenly popped up in Leon's heart, no, no, the German army overseers are ruthless, I better retreat with the troops, thinking wildly, Leon has run into the position that Hunter pointed to, the tragedy here is even more tragic than the position where Hunter is, and there are few soldiers left in the trenches who are shooting.
"Where's your platoon leader? What about your platoon commanders? Leon yelled as he grabbed a soldier who was shooting.
"Dead! The platoon commander was blown up by the British two hours ago! Mr. Sergeant! The soldier replied in a panic.
"Gather all of you here, retreat! Fall back! Hearing Leon's order, the soldier quickly turned around and jumped into the trench and ran to the other soldiers, delivering orders as he ran.
After a while, all the soldiers who were still alive stood beside Leon, and Leon counted them, there were only 14 people in total, some of them were slightly wounded, yes, here serious injuries are equal to death.
"I just received an order from the regimental headquarters, everyone retreats to the fourth line of defense in the rear, who of you has the biggest rank here?" The group of grizzled soldiers looked at each other, and then the soldier who had just gone to inform the others looked at Leon and said, "Mr. Sergeant, you have the highest rank here."
Leon was stunned for a moment, and said, "Okay, I'm your acting platoon commander, now I order to abandon all heavy weapons and retreat with me", and then took the lead and turned to the traffic ditch and ran to the rear.