Even the most intense artillery fire had pauses, even the most powerful firepower, and for those British soldiers caught in the fire, almost as soon as they saw a chance to escape, they jumped out of the crater and ran towards the rear. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The people who were running ran back to the trenches as fast as they could, jumping in. Tom, like the others, took the opportunity to run to the edge of the trench, and jumped in as fast as he could, and there were already quite a few people coming back before him, and many more running back behind him. But there are always lucky and unfortunate among those people, and some of the unfortunate people fall on the way back, but the more unfortunate ones are when they run back, they run into the barbed wire in a panic, and then they get stuck there, and they can only struggle in those places, and they can't escape at all.

Those who were trapped in the barbed wire were quickly engulfed in the artillery, and only a few lucky ones escaped the barbed wire with great difficulty, and then ran towards their positions.

"Quick! Fast...... Dills Run! Quick, this way! ”

Tom lay on his stomach in the trench, and before he could catch his breath and soothe his pounding heart, he saw Dils running out of the barbed wire and running towards him, and he immediately shouted nervously at Dils. Although Tom and Diers were not particularly close in the past when they were in the village, for Diels, his biggest dream was to become a servant of a certain master, and this is what he worked hard, for Tom, his dream was to go to London and become an apprentice in a factory in London, in short, the two had their own dreams.

But the wonder of fate lies in this, after the outbreak of war, a manservant, an apprentice, and both of them were drafted into the army, and Tom and Diers were not only drafted up, but even placed in the same company, which seemed lucky. The experience of training together between the two, coupled with the fact that they were from the same village, quickly cultivated a brotherly relationship. Even though they weren't very close in the past, they are now the closest friends, and it's only natural that they take care of each other on the battlefield. Compared to Tom, Diers was not so lucky, in the previous panic run, he fled into the barbed wire, although he was lucky to turn over the barbed wire, and was not swallowed by the fire, but the arms of his legs were still stabbed by the barbed wire, so that he walked very slowly, and the wound was bleeding from time to time.

But luck was also relative, as he ran towards his position, from time to time some shells would fall near him, and the smoke from the explosion would sometimes engulf him, and when the pillar of smoke rose into the sky, someone would always be blown up into the air and his body would be blown in two.

At this time, Tom always thought that after the smoke cleared, he would never see Dils' shadow again, but when the smoke cleared, he would always be pleasantly surprised to see Dils' figure appear in his sight again.

Even the bullets just flew close to him, and then deliberately avoided him, until they were somewhere else. Although Dils's movements were slow and clumsy, as if God had blessed him, neither the bullets nor the shells hurt him, and he ran towards his position, getting closer and closer to the trenches, and even had to turn over to get into cover. "It's good now......"

Just when Tom breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly, there was a low whistling sound in the air, which was the sound of the rapid-fire mortar unique to the Chinese, and only the Chinese had that kind of weapon, and the sound of that weapon left a nightmare memory in every British officer and soldier, just like the dense artillery fire they had fallen into before.

"Shelling! Lie down! Get down! ”

The roar of the officers immediately sounded in the trenches, and before the people could lie down, the violent explosion had swallowed up the officers' shouts, and in the next moment, there was a wave of rocking, shells fell to the ground, and the violent explosion lifted the earth into the sky, and the steel fragments scattered around, and some people who did not react quickly were suddenly blown into the sky.

The shelling came in a hurry, and in the interval between the shelling, Tom looked up, and he saw that when the mortar shell exploded, he did not know whether he fell or fell to the ground on his own initiative, anyway, he escaped the shelling, and now he was jumping up and trying to jump into the trench. "Well done! That's it...... Hurry, hurry! ”

Tom waved his hands anxiously and shouted, but before he could finish his words, his mouth was open but he couldn't make a sound, and his eyes were wide and he could hardly believe his eyes.

Dils, who had just stood up, fell down as if he had been hit hard by a hammer, and the red uniform made the blood less conspicuous, and in Tom's surprise, Dils, who was supposed to jump into the trench, had already fallen in front of the trench.

"Diels!"

After a moment of surprise, Tom shouted loudly, then discarded his rifle despite the shrapnel and bullets flying around him, and then jumped out of the trench desperately, not even thinking of dodging the bullets, but ran directly to Dears's side. Then he picked up Dils with his hand, and at this time, the blood oozing from Dils's body soaked his military uniform, and even the red military uniform could not hide the blood gushing out.

"Dears! How are you? My God, Liss is still waiting for you to go home, if you don't go back, you will be snatched away, my friend ......" At this time, there was no trace of blood on Dils' face, his lips were blue, beads of sweat on his forehead continued to gush out, his hand pressed against his chest, as if trying to stop the flow of blood, his distracted eyes looked ahead, the blue eyes that were once bright and high, this would have lost their brilliance, and his gaze was scattered. Blood was pouring from the corners of his mouth, and he couldn't even speak, and it took a while for Diers to squeak and squeak.

"They hit me, it's time to ...... Dead, those ...... Irish Hybrid ...... Hit me! Dils' words became so vague that Tom couldn't even hear what he was saying, just looked at his lips there, "Diels! I'm Tom! Did you hear that? See me? We said okay, let's go after Lys's ...... together."

Tom freed up a hand and shook it in front of Dils' eyes, and when he saw that Dils' eyes didn't react at all, he immediately became nervous, and he yelled loudly at the back.

"Stretcher! Come on the stretcher! Dears is injured! "The mortar shells flying from the Chinese did not stop because of his crying, and as for the Royal Navy, which once played a role, because there was no correct guidance, the suppression of the enemy's artillery fire was very poor, in fact, even if they found the target, the naval guns at sea did not pose much threat to the mortar positions located in the recess.

The surroundings of the British trenches were now filled with smoke mixed with limbs and dirt, and after the violent explosion, the billowing smoke continued to rise into the air, and the whizzing steel fragments made a death creak, searching for the flesh and blood that tried to stop him in the air, and any flesh that tried to stop him would be torn to pieces by the fragments.

The shelling is fierce!

The cannonballs, like raindrops, seem to remind everyone that this is a hell.

Many fell, and only a very small number came back alive. Everyone tried to dodge the heavy fire, but not everyone did. In the midst of the smoke, Tom was holding his friend's body, when suddenly a mortar shell landed not far from him, and only then did he bend down and protect his friend in his arms, allowing the dirt to fall on him. He didn't know how he was, he didn't know why he was so sad, but in the face of his seriously injured friend, his whole person became a little trance-like, and even a little overwhelmed.

As the smoke rose from the explosion, a man leaped out of the trench and ran to Tom's side as fast as he could. "What's wrong? …… Dilles ...... Still alive? ”

Running was Sergeant Smith, who appeared next to Tom, and when he looked down, he saw Diers in Tom's arms, his clothes stained red with blood, and he seemed to have a breath left. "Di ...... Diers can't. ”“…… Fast! Drag him back with me! ”

The sergeant didn't bother to say more, and immediately pulled Tom off, and with one hand he was about to drag him into the trench. Tom, who had no idea, saw that the sergeant was holding one shoulder of Dils, and hurriedly followed the example of the company commander to set up Dils' other shoulder, and then the two of them desperately dragged Dils to the trench.

Dils, whose head was drooping, did not cooperate with them at all, so that he seemed extremely student, and it was not easy for the two to drag him, and at this time, the Chinese shells still kept flying, as if they didn't want money, if they were slow, I was afraid that they themselves would die here with Dils. It was only at this time that Tom felt as if the Chinese shells were aimed at him, or that their shells had eyes, and the shells always seemed to be chasing them, and the air waves from each explosion seemed to knock them to the ground, but fortunately they were not far from the trenches, but only a few yards away. Finally, as a piece of debris passed over their shoulders, Tom and the sergeant finally dragged Dilse into the trench together.

"Dears......"

Just as they turned their eyes to Dils, trying to tell him that he was safe, they saw that Dils' head had been cut in half by shrapnel at some point, and the man was already dead...... It was a disastrous day for both the Irish and the British, as the Irish failed in their offensive and the British, as defenders, also paid a very heavy price.

Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself!

In order to achieve victory, both sides had to pay a very heavy price, and when the British and the Irlanders suffered defeats, the Chinese army, which was the other side of the war, was in a state of idleness.

The cannon roared on the front line, and when the battlefield was swallowed up by the smoke of artillery fire, a full ten kilometers away from the front line, among the tents on the grass, there was also a cloud of smoke - the tent was filled with green smoke, and a puff of smoke poured out of it.

However, this is not gunsmoke, but the smoke from the mouths of the soldiers, just yesterday, with the arrival of a supply ship, for these soldiers fighting in a foreign country brought greetings from the motherland - thousands of boxes of cigarettes as supplies sent to the front line, tobacco for the soldiers who have been in a nervous tension, has a certain relieving effect, from the time of the rebels, paper cigarettes have been the standard ration of the army, and at home, every soldier can get enough cigarettes, but here, The supply of cigarettes is a problem, after all, there are more important materials to transport than cigarettes. Despite this, the army still tries to ensure the demand for tobacco for front-line fighters, but it is not as secure as it is at home.

And now, with the arrival of these paper cigarettes, all the problems have been solved, they not only distributed cigarettes according to the regulations, but even gave the extra cigarettes to the soldiers at one time, so that many soldiers took the tobacco to the market and sold it to the Irish, for the Irish, cigarettes from China are also a rare luxury, and have always been popular with the locals. But many more of the warriors were smoking so much that the whole camp was filled with smoke.

Compared to the battlefield ten kilometers away, it was undoubtedly extremely quiet, and even made it seem like they were not fighting, but on vacation.

"Hi...... Writing letters again? ”

Jiang Guodong held a paper cigarette in his mouth, hummed the meat-flavored little song in the countryside, walked in from outside, sat on the ground, saw the people in the tent doing their own things, sat very bored for a while, stared at Lin Chuan, who was struggling to write, and then came up.

"Who wrote it for? It can't be the one who is good! ”

Lin Chuan put down the pen in his hand, stretched his somewhat sore legs, then stood up and said:

"Anyway, being idle is idle, and it's better to write some letters and kill time if there's nothing to do...... When has it been since you were still hanging out outside? Watch out for the gendarmes! ”

Writing letters, in the army more than ten years ago, ordinary soldiers still needed someone to write letters, but now almost every soldier can write letters by himself, but it is just a matter of whether the words look good or not.

Noticing the sweat on Jiang Guodong's face, Lin Chuan knew that this kid didn't know what to do outside just now, so he reminded him that this kid must have gone to get cigarettes or something to deceive the local girl again.

"Look at what you said, didn't you listen to the artillery that had been fired over there for so long, didn't the artillery stop, didn't you just run over and ask about the situation......

When Lin Chuan said this, he deliberately looked around and saw that everyone seemed to be interested, so he said.

"Guess what's going on at the front?"

"What else? Hit! ”

"Hit? Do you know what the front line looks like right now? ”

Smiling proudly, Lin Chuan looked at the curious comrades-in-arms and pretended to be mysterious.

"Just four words! Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood"

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