Chapter 18: The Hapless Convoy
Thank you Yong1888 for the reminder, I didn't pay attention for a while, and the chapter was repeated.
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The corpses in the abandoned manor looked like a mother and daughter, huddled in the corner of the entrance hall and hugged each other. Because the corpses were already decomposing, it is impossible to tell how they died, but judging from the fact that the manor was shelled, it should have been a heart disease that caused them to be shocked to death by the shock wave of the cannonballs?
No kidding, the bomb missed its target, but the resulting shock wave was still hazardous, and quite harmful. Therefore, the correct way to deal with it is to lie on the ground and try to use your arms to prop up your body from the ground to have a gap, which is to reduce the damage to internal organs when the body vibrates; In addition, you need to cover your ears to protect your eardrums, so you need to tilt your upper body slightly and support the ground with your elbows, and you also need to open your mouth wide to reduce the impact damage caused by concussion.
Even if a trained soldier is subjected to shelling, many times he will forget the correct way to avoid shelling during training, and then on the surface it does not appear to be harmed, but the mouth and nose, and even the ears will bleed, which is the internal organs that are damaged by the concussion, such as the heart and blood vessels that cannot withstand the pressure and burst, which leads to internal bleeding in a close step, and all kinds of death methods that cannot see the external injury.
Trained soldiers are still like that, and it is difficult to expect civilians to know how to protect themselves from shelling, and if there are any congenital diseases in the body, the shock of shelling can easily harvest fragile lives.
Leaving behind the necessary sentry personnel, most of the team members, including Richie, found places to rest that they thought were hidden, and they would not fall into a deep sleep at all when they were in enemy territory, so even the slightest movement could make people wake up from a slight sleep state immediately.
"What's the situation?"
"The convoy, a convoy that left the field hospital."
Litchie patted Andreas. Heisenberg was beside his shoulder, motioning for a position to give way, and then picked up a telescope to observe.
It was indeed a convoy, and the direction was out of the field hospital. The convoy was full of trucks, some of the soldiers dressed in dark khaki were scattered on the trucks, some of them clutching bottles of wine, and more of them were munching on bread.
[It is the number and insignia of the Newfoundland Regiment.] How did they get out of the field hospital? 】
During World War I, officers and soldiers had numbers written on their uniforms, usually in the more conspicuous places of helmet and collar.
For example, the Commonwealth countries on the Entente side need to use the badge to indicate which member state they are from, or which place they belong to (France is called 'province', and Britain is called 'territory'), and for example, the Allied country needs to use the badge to indicate which state they belong to (such as Bavaria, also known as the kingdom), and the badge becomes a way to identify.
This is the case in all countries participating in the war, and the reserve force is mainly used to make it easier to identify which officer or soldier belongs to which unit, and is usually used to quickly assemble troops. In addition, the purpose of the other layer is to prevent soldiers from fleeing from the war, because in the situation of static war, what number belongs to which defense zone (war zone) is fixed.
Li Qi was observing the convoy, and the speed of the convoy in his field of vision was not fast, and just as he was counting the number of trucks to the number of "five", three planes flew in the sky, which was a two-winged model, looking like the German "Albatross".
Three albatross came over, and the convoy was visibly panicked, and before they could dodge, one albatross had already adjusted its course and dropped the bomb, and in an instant the truck in Richie's sight burst into flames.
Because he was watching through a telescope, Li Qi was able to see the whole process very carefully, it was a picture of the truck exploding first, and the process of the explosion was that the whole truck slammed into a burst, and the flesh and blood of people were sprayed out along with the flames, and the whole scene was extremely hot.
Why are there planes? Of course, Li Qi didn't know, but he also saw the picture in the sloping anticline woods. Modell, the two of them scolded at the same time in their hearts.
[There was an accident last night, and now it's done again! ] 】
Except for the truck that exploded at the beginning, one of the other trucks was lifted by a bomb dropped from the sky, and the moment the truck overturned could be clearly seen, and the soldiers on the car tried to jump out of the car but were too late, and were directly crushed under the upturned truck.
Another truck slammed into the steering wheel, and two trucks collided, and the people in the two cars fell to the ground, and the first moment they stopped, they got out of the car in an embarrassed manner, and then fled in all directions even more embarrassed.
The remaining four trucks, which were operated off the main road, may have been driven too quickly with the steering wheel and rolled over on its own. The driver of one of the other three trucks may have been stunned or did not pay attention, and directly knocked down a soldier who ran into him in a panic, and then ran over the wheels directly.
For the Canadian soldiers, who had not spotted the German planes earlier, the bombing came very suddenly, but the three albatross came suddenly and left very quickly.
Justin, who was lucky enough not to die but was in a hurry to dodge and got a foot on his feet. Judd, he was pointing in the direction of the departure of the three albatrosses, and kept scolding.
The southwest direction here is not the location of the Central Powers, it is the territory of the Entente. Judd was scolding "Murder! And so on.
"That Canadian officer was scolding the French, and he was scolding the United States." Amberg. Goethe, who spoke English and lip lips, explained: "The Canadian officer thought that the albatross was entirely the fault of France and the United States. ”
Li Qi immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
What does it mean to scold the United States? Could it be that the Yankees already have troops secretly participating in the war!? 】
Richie and Wah ~ R ~ T. Of course, Moder didn't know what the brief bombing was about, and they were complaining in their hearts that the air force would be a surprise.
"What's going on!?" Wa~er~ter. Moder was extremely resentful: "I originally felt that the other party had too many armed personnel, and although the operation was feasible, the success rate was low, but now I have done it again!" ”
However, it seems that the Air Force can't blame it? After all, they were carrying out a secret operation.
On the other side, Richie, he watched the group of Canadians carry the wounded into the car, drop the overturned and colliding truck, and of course, the bodies of the dead but broken "dog tags", and the group left in the intact car.
[In that degree of collision, the truck can actually drive in addition to the deformation of the body, right? ] 】
And regardless of the watt ~ er ~ special. Morder didn't care about the amount of resentment in his heart because of the misunderstanding, and regardless of what Richie was thinking about hitting the truck, neither of them could actually decide whether to continue the operation or not, and from the moment they began to infiltrate, they fell into a situation where they opened their bows and did not look back.
Now, the two gangs can only continue to lurk, waiting for the Allied generals who may or may not appear. If the target they were waiting for did not appear, they would have to wait until the day the Allies launched the Battle of the Somme before terminating the operation.