Joel lay in a crater more than half a meter deep, looking at the sky full of gunsmoke, and there was not a trace of starlight in sight.

"Hey, Peter." He shouted to his comrades lying beside him, "Listen to the guys of Company E that our way to the rear has been cut off by the Germans?" ”

"It seems that yes, otherwise why did E Company, which was originally planned to withdraw to the rear, come back?" Peter rolled over and replied in his thick North England accent.

"That means we're surrounded?" Joel asked again.

"Surrounding? We now have Germans in the north, south, and east, but not in the west—because there's the sea. Peter pointed to the west, "So, if the sea is the enemy, then we are surrounded." ”

"So what are we going to do?" Joel half-sat up, "Are we going to be home?" Peter, can't we go home? ”

"I don't know." Peter shook his head, "Unless we can defeat the Germans in the back of our way, we can only hope that there will be enough ships to take us home from the sea." ”

"Boat?" Joel thought for a moment, "Doesn't the Royal Navy have a lot of ships?" Will they come and pick us up? ”

"Royal Navy?" Peter smiled, "They should be scared by the Germans, right?" Hehe, that fool of Cunningham, who was able to be defeated by the Germans at sea, simply disgraced Nelson's face. ”

"Is that so......" Joel lay back on the ground, "I'm homesick, Peter, are you homesick?" I think my mom cooks the dishes, you know Peter, my mom cooks ......"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about your mother." Peter was a little impatient with Joel's words, and he interrupted Joel with a wave of his hand, "Hurry up and rest, you'll have to deal with the Germans on the other side tomorrow." ”

"But can't we rest?" Joel said suspiciously, "The company commander said that we have to be on duty, and he said that the Germans might attack us in the middle of the night, and we won't ......."

"The Germans are full of food and attack us in the middle of the night?" Peter smiled wryly, "They just need to keep surrounding us like this, and we will all starve to death in less than a month...... If they can trap us, why do they go to such lengths to sneak up on us at night? ”

"Is that so? All right. Joel listened to Peter, just as before.

Nineteen years old, born in Luton, to a wealthy and well-educated child, Joel is now a recruit in the 31st Infantry Division of the First Army of the British Expeditionary Force for less than five months, and it has only been a little more than a month since he was sent to the mainland to actually fight in the war.

Peter, on the other hand, is completely different from Joel, who is five years older than Joel and three years older than Joel, he was born in a small town in the North of England, his family is not wealthy, and he grew up in an extremely bad environment, which made him develop many vices from an early age.

I have to say that education as a child can really determine a person's future, when Peter was eighteen years old, he became addicted to drugs, which made the family who was not rich soon become in debt because of his drug addiction, but the four walls of the family did not stop Peter's drug addiction, he set his sights on a store in the town.

Soon, Peter was sentenced to three years in prison for theft.

I don't know if God noticed the poor child, and Peter was fortunate enough to be placed in a very humane and responsible prison.

His three years in prison changed Peter a lot, as he realized his mistakes with the help of some well-wishers, how much of a bastard he was in the past, and determined to change himself completely.

Three years passed quickly, and Peter soon left prison to return to his debt-ridden home, and looking at his parents, who were young but unusually old, he decided to find a decent job to earn money to pay for his past mistakes.

But in those years, the whole world was in the midst of the recovery period of the Great Depression, and there were large numbers of skilled workers waiting to be employed, and what factory would recruit people with criminal records like Peter in this environment?

Not surprisingly, Peter couldn't find a job after two months of searching, and he unconsciously set his sights on crime again. Fortunately, the conscience he cultivated during his three years in prison stopped him at the last moment.

One day, Peter went out on the street as usual to look for work, and in the midst of his usual rejection he saw a poster, an army recruitment poster.

Desperate, Peter chose to join the British Army after an ideological struggle, and the good body trained by three years of labor successfully helped him pass the army's almost rigorous physical examination.

As the first generation after World War I, Peter was not as fearful of war as his father's, so when Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles, Peter, along with other young soldiers, cried from morning to night to send troops to Germany, to give the German Führer a little color.

This blind self-confidence did not disappear because of the strong military strength shown by the German blitzkrieg against Poland, they only attributed the reason to the uselessness of the Polish army, and they naively thought that the German army could only bully and bully second-rate countries, and if they ran into the elite British and French allies, the situation would definitely be different.

This continued until they set foot on Belgian soil and faced the German steel torrent for the first time.

He still vividly remembers the sound of the 37mm anti-tank gun hitting the main armor of the German tank and being bounced off, and he still clearly remembers the wail of his comrades when they were run over by the tracks of the German tank.

However, what he remembered most was the terrible screaming of the German Stuka fighter plane as it dived at high speed.

Thinking about it, Peter seemed to hear the hellish voice again.

"Whew!"

Peter opened his eyes to speak, for the voice seemed to be true.

"German air raids! German air strikes! Stealthy and hidden! A British soldier jumped out of his bunker and shouted hoarsely to his companion.

"Damn! Joel! Get up! Go to the anti-aircraft bunkers! Peter quickly got up from the ground and pulled Joel hard beside him.

"Good...... Okay......" Joel also hurriedly got up, and the two stumbled all the way to the air-raid bunker not far away.

As soon as the two men entered the bunker on their hind feet, the illumination shells fired by the German ground forces lit up the sky, completely exposing the situation of the British ground positions to the eyes of dozens of Stuka pilots in the sky.

As the bomb drop button on the Stuka was pressed, more than 100 250KG aerial bombs broke away from the wings and flew towards the British positions below.