Volume 1: The Fields of the Old Home Chapter 6: A Company Makes a Charge

Alberta shuddered at the sight...... and watched as more than fifty soldiers died on the way of the charge...... He didn't know why he stopped and watched the scene...... Maybe he was afraid, maybe he didn't want to run for his life anymore, maybe he was tired of the war...... Perhaps he longed for a stray bullet to hit him and let him die like that.

Because he watched his father die. died right in front of his eyes, although his father was an adoptive father, he was watching his father die in front of his eyes...... He had to push the huge pillars that held the house out of the way and run away to watch his adoptive father die like that.

He may have thought that the bullet would hit him like this, but when the fifty or so soldiers died in the charge, he squatted down like a madman, holding his head, and then screaming wildly...... "Ah...... Yes! I'm going to die...... Those enemy soldiers are coming up! Yes...... Yes! I'm going to die...... I don't want to die......"

At this point, perhaps Alberta had forgotten that he still had legs, or perhaps he didn't dare to move at all......

Then, in a moment of frantic struggle, Alberta dropped an old photograph from his chest pocket...... Alberta looks like it's his engaged but unmarried lover: Alyssa.

Alberta suddenly regained his senses, and he muttered to himself, "Alyssa...... I want to see you! No way...... I'm going to find Alyssa! ”

But at this moment, when he had just regained his senses and was about to get up and run out of the bunker in the ruins, he clearly saw that on the opposite side, on the way where the second lieutenant and more than fifty soldiers were dead, the enemy army was already armed with advanced rifles and began their charge!

As if frightened, Alberta jumped to a cover behind him! He ran extremely fast, thinking quickly about running behind......

Maybe it was some enemy soldier who saw Alberta and jerked his gun up to deliver a barrage of bullets...... Alberta roared and ran in fright behind a ruined bunker.

Alberta didn't dare to stop, and when he ran behind cover, he slowed down, breathed hard and then exhaled violently, then inhaled violently, and then exhaled with all his might! Finally, he shouted, and ran desperately towards the opposite direction of the enemy's advance.

He faintly heard the gunfire behind him, and he didn't dare to delay, running wildly all the way......

When he felt a little safer, he came back to his senses and suddenly heard someone speaking in a foreign language...... His eyes widened instantly! He walked slowly forward, and came to the back of a ruined building, he did not dare to look up, but quietly looked out with his peripheral vision: he saw more than twenty enemy soldiers! The enemy soldiers were dressed in full-length dark blue uniforms, the enemy soldiers wore dark blue shako hats, the buttons of the dark blue uniforms were pure copper, and the guns in their hands had a magazine-like thing in the lower middle of the middle, and of course, there was a red center line on the soldiers' trousers.

Alberta didn't know that the small square box under the middle of the rifle they were holding was a magazine. Alberta had the courage to look up, and he covered his mouth with both hands, lest he make any noise out of nervousness.

Alberta looked up to find that more than two dozen soldiers on the opposite side were executing the captured defenders of Epale Harbour in batches...... The capture of the defenders, numbering probably more than a hundred, was ordered to kneel on the ground, which should have been a humiliation, and even more so a wanton show off of victory by the victors.

As one of the second lieutenants of the enemy soldiers gave the order, twelve of the more than twenty enemy soldiers stood in formation, and they raised their guns to aim at the defending soldiers who were kneeling on the ground at the orders of the second lieutenant.

The second lieutenant in the blue uniform gave the order, and the twelve men raised their guns in order, pulled the bolt, and then took aim...... They used this strange rifle and waited for the second lieutenant to give the order......

The defenders kneeling on the ground, some were silent and bloodless, some were silently reciting the words "ancestral protection", and some were crying and shouting: "Mother...... I don't want to die ......"

There was a captured soldier of the defenders who had been trembling, and he was not willing to die like this, he roared loudly and roared, and then pulled his legs and ran off into the distance, but when he stood up, the enemy soldier in a dark blue military uniform who was in charge of supervising raised his hand and shot the captured soldier to the ground...... Alberta could clearly see that his skull had been shattered and blood was pouring out of his skull...... Alberta covered her mouth vigorously, but tears flowed down her eyes instantly...... He was afraid that if he made a little noise, he would be killed......

The order of the enemy second lieutenant was given...... The twelve enemy soldiers, dressed in dark blue uniforms, opened fire one after another, capturing and killing the kneeling defenders on the ground......

Alberta looked at the blood on the ground, he couldn't bear it anymore, his hands trembled a little, so he let out a "wow" sound, and at this time, the second lieutenant on the opposite side spotted him and ordered his soldiers to start shooting at Alberta!

Rao is Alberta's quick response, and at the moment he makes a sound, he leans over and squats as fast as he can. A barrage of bullets hit the bunker in the ruins...... He curled up, holding his head and sobbing for death......

It was at this time that he heard gunshots from the opposite side...... He was stunned for a moment, then slowly moved his body, and saw with his peripheral vision that the more than twenty enemy soldiers were returning fire! On the opposite side of them, the defenders of the port of Epalai are charging and attacking!

The dark blue uniforms of the enemy soldiers, who did not have time to pay attention to the citizens of the port of Epalai, executed the prisoners as fast as they could, and fired back at the charging defenders of the port of Epalai...... The gunshots were incessant, and it seemed that they could crack the ears......

Alberta leaned down, and he fled as fast as he could, half-crawling...... He didn't know how long he had been running, how far he had run, he only felt that he could no longer run. He didn't know where it was. Although this is within the port town of Epalai, all the buildings are almost in ruins. Dilapidated...... So he didn't know what it was......

After Alberta stopped, he suddenly felt a chill near his neck, and he touched it with his hand and found that his hands were covered in blood...... He panicked, and then calmed down a little when he noticed that he only had a scrape on his neck...... He had seen too many dead soldiers in the war, and he touched the blood on his neck, and thought of the soldiers who died in the charge and the soldiers who were captured by the defenders...... A feeling of nausea rushed to his chest. He endured it, regained his composure, and never threw it up.

He faintly heard gunshots in the distance, and he leaned nervously, and then he realized that the gunshots were far away...... Presumably accompanied by the sound of the waves. Slowly, steadily, he came to the side of a ruin, and it was only then that he realized that he had run to the west coast of the port of Epalai! Only then did he realize that he had run a distance of nearly two thousand meters in one go...... All at once ran to the west coast of the port city of Epalai......

From a distance, there were more than 400 defenders in the bunkers of the fortifications on the beach...... There was probably a company, the company commander was making a final speech before the charge, the company commander was holding a megaphone, each platoon was about a hundred men, the second lieutenant platoon commander was arranging for the soldiers to hide behind the bunkers, and near the shore of the coast, the enemy troops had landed...... The enemy constantly bombarded the back of the bunkers with small-caliber field guns and curved artillery, so sooner or later, these defenders would be completely annihilated...... Therefore, the charge seems to be the only decision.

Despite the constant use of enemy field guns and curved guns, sometimes three or two defenders were blown away, and even the remains could not be found...... But the ensigns still desperately ordered their soldiers, hiding behind the bunker, not to move, not to charge! Hold on to formation and wait for the order to attack and charge the whole company!

The defenders in khaki lay on their bunkers, and after the company commander made his final short speech, the company commander roared angrily: "All company charge!" Then the company commander was the first to crawl out of the bunker...... Picking up the one-son rifle with the bayonet already loaded, he frantically attacked the enemy's beach-grabbing position......

Perhaps the company commander was indeed heroic, but according to the rules of the infantry, the company commander should not be the first to attack, otherwise there would be no one to command the entire company after the death of the company commander. Can...... It seems that this defending company knew that after launching a charge, this company would no longer need to be commanded...... Because there will be no one alive......

Look at that, the soldiers, like the waves of the sea, they are charging! In a company of more than four hundred men, the soldiers climbed into cover in turn and charged forward, and artillery fire fell on them. The soldiers were knocked off by the artillery and died on the ground, while others were hit by the enemy's repeating rifles and fell to the ground......

When the defenders charged, more than 200 of the 400 fell in just a dozen seconds...... Alberta saw the soldiers of the defenders of Epale charge! He knew that the defenders would not last long at all, and that they would not last long until the defenders were all dead...... These enemies in dark blue uniforms will rush up......

So Alberta ran backwards as fast as he could...... He thinks that this fight has nothing to do with him, all he cares about is his girlfriend who is engaged and divorced...... He didn't want anything to happen to his girlfriend. He didn't care if he was a selfish person or not, he only knew: his adoptive father died in front of his eyes, on a wooden pillar that he could not hold on...... He remembered his adoptive father's face when he was dying, his eyes closed...... He will never forget.

So he ran for his life, and he didn't know who the enemies were...... It is only known that they are dressed in dark blue military uniforms, with advanced rifles that transcend the era, and ironclad battleships that transcend the technology of the era......

As he ran aimlessly and his lungs were unable to breathe due to the rapid wheezing, he vaguely saw a crooked sign that read: 217 Trillis Street......

Alberta cried excitedly, he saw hope! 217 Trillis Avenue is the address of his engaged and divorced girlfriend, Alyssa! He had thought everything had been blown up, and he couldn't find his girlfriend's address...... But now, hope has risen again!

Alberta is anxious, those enemy soldiers with advanced rifles in their hands, don't come at this time, and rush to 217 Trillis Street......

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