"Thank you so much anyway. Come, Dezhu and Big Mouth, help clean up this piece and let the two girls rest. ”

Zhou Yu called two helpers, moved the soft bed of branches that everyone had made closer to the bonfire, and separated them with backpacks on both sides, forming an independent small space, which made the two girls feel a sense of security in an instant, and it seemed that they met good people.

Frightened, tired and hungry, the two girls snuggled up to the campfire after eating the roasted sweet potatoes, their faces full of exhaustion, but they couldn't sleep for a while.

After a while, the younger bass looked at the campfire burning in front of him and hummed a folk tune.

"The silt flows everywhere, the silt flows sideways, the silt climbs everywhere, the silt flows sideways.

The mud flows down from a high place and climbs up from a low place.

The mud flooded to the knees and even to the waist.

People are stuck in the mud, stuck in the mud, and their pockets are full of mud, and even the bread they eat is muddy.

Sucker-like silt, vampire-like silt, engulfs people and suffocates people.

You're stuck in the mud like you're stuck in a blender.

It's a beast that wants revenge, and it wants revenge after punishing you.

The land, which has been plagued by many calamities, and the poor land in the trenches have long been riddled with holes, like a lying man who has been disemboweled, and is dying......"

Among the people present, only Zhou Yu could understand the meaning of her lyrics, and she was a little dumbfounded for a while, not knowing what to say.

Zhou Yu remembered that he had read in a book before that the mud of the First World War made it difficult for both warring sides, and even many bullets were stuck with mud and could not be fired in the gun, and finally the soldiers had to pee into it to clean the mud before the gun returned to normal.

Although the laborers didn't understand the meaning, they listened to it very energetically, and even suggested another song after the bass sang it.

In the end, they were driven away by Zhou Yu, so that the two girls could sleep peacefully without being disturbed.

It didn't take long for them to fall into a deep sleep, and the two of them snuggled up to each other, and it was not difficult to guess that they had also suffered a great deal of suffering and sin.

On the battlefield, no matter what color you are or what your background is, there is no difference between guns and nature.

Not far away, the artillery fire on the battlefield of Verdun did not stop all night, and the Germans frantically filled the front line with their soldiers, but the mile or two between the two sides had been blown into a thick mud by shells, like butter on bread.

The soldiers on both sides kept falling into the mud, cursing in low voices, but they were afraid that the curses would be heard by others and attract shells again.

They were carrying extremely heavy equipment, and if one accidentally fell into a deep, muddy crater, they were in danger of drowning.

Because the edge of the crater is too slippery, if there is no comrade-in-arms to stop and lend a hand, then there is a high probability that he will die in the mire with great grievances, without the pride of being a soldier.

The tragic situation in the Verdun theater was no less than that of the Somme, and as soon as the weather was dark, Zhou Yu climbed a tall tree branch and looked into the distance.

Everywhere he could, large areas of the battle were covered with corpses cascading in craters from the shells, soaked in muddy water and stench.

And if the shells from both sides were to fall into these puddles again, the corpses would be turned into stumps and broken arms, mixed with each other, and even the best doctors would not be able to piece them together on the body of their original owners.

But fortunately, the weather is cold at this time, and those stumps and broken arms will not rot for a while, otherwise this place will really become a hell on earth.

The next day, the weather cleared, and the damn freezing rain finally lifted its noble hand away from the sky.

The laborers of Task Force C13 plus Zhou Yu were now only two hundred and twenty-five people, plus two French medics.

Zhou Yu found a higher place to observe the battle situation, although he knew that the Battle of Verdun would eventually hold out and the Germans would end in defeat, but it would not be until December, and the time they were now in was the beginning of October, and it was definitely not what he wanted to see to suffer here for two months.

Williams and his men must have joined up with the defending French, and it seemed that they themselves had to be involved in repairing the defenders' trenches as soon as possible, and playing a small role in a war in which their personal strength was insignificant.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou! Look, there's a foreign devil over there! ”

Zhou Yu's train of thought was suddenly interrupted by the shouting of the dog, and the kid tugged on his sleeve and pointed in another direction.

"Where?"

Zhou Yu followed the dog through a bush, and at the invitation of the latter, climbed a crooked-necked tree that leaned out of the hillside.

"That's over there, they're sneaky, I just accidentally saw it here peeing."

Zhou Yu squinted his eyes and looked down through the cracks in the jagged branches, and about a few hundred meters away, a group of German soldiers were carrying wooden boxes to a hole in the ground, where they seemed to have dug an underground fortress.

Zhou Yu observed for a while, those German soldiers moved back and forth, there were hundreds of wooden boxes, and they didn't know what they contained.

Suddenly, one of the German soldiers broke free, and the wooden box fell to the ground, and the lid of the box was opened, and the neatly stacked shells rolled out.

This scene frightened the German officer in command next to him into a shock, and rushed forward to punch and kick the soldier.

They carefully wrapped the shells and put them back in the wooden box.

Zhou Yu saw it very clearly, it was boxes and boxes of shells, there were more than 100 boxes in total, could it be that this was an ammunition depot dug by the Germans in the dark?

His mind turned as if he remembered something, he used to read books, and he remembered that there was a book that recorded this.

The Battle of Verdun ended thanks to the crooked shelling of a squint-eyed Frenchman. The soldier had bad eyes and saw everything crookedly, but he didn't dare to tell his commander, so he went to manipulate the mortar, and the shell landed very outrageously in the distance.

But before his commander could teach him a lesson, the shell hit the ammunition depot that the Germans had secretly dug up, causing a chain explosion that caused tons of damage to the enemy.

The Verdun crisis began to reverse the identities of the offensive and defensive sides from this time, and the French army began to counterattack, and used the new 400 mm caliber cannon and Xu Jin barrage shooting technology to recapture the fortress of the Douao League in one fell swoop, and also beat the German army to the rear of the battle line at the beginning of the battle.

Zhou Yu rolled his eyes, "hissed" and said to himself: "It can't be such a coincidence...... Is this actually true? Still bumped into by us? Could it be that the fact is not that it is recorded in the book, it is the handwriting of an artillery soldier with strabismus, but the handwriting of our Chinese workers? ”

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu suppressed the excitement in his heart and whispered to the dog baby: "You stay here and don't make a sound, monitor this group of people, I will go back immediately to organize the manpower, if we don't make it, we can make a great contribution!" ”

"Great merit? It's true? ”

When the dog baby heard that her discovery could make a great contribution, she couldn't help but smile and be overjoyed.

Zhou Yu quickly ran back to the valley where the laborers were stationed, and gathered all the backbones of the crowd.

"We have discovered a secret arsenal of suspected enemy weapons in the valley a few hundred meters away, and I think so, before we go to Verdun to meet Williams, we can bring a great gift with us, which may help us get out of here as soon as possible! Whether it's to the UK or to the New World, we don't want to stay here anymore! ”

When the workers heard the news, they were all overjoyed, and they hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhou, then let's do it quickly!" I really don't want to spend a day in this damn Somme, I have nightmares every night and I'm going crazy! ”

"Mr. Zhou, we can only stay away from danger if we stay away from the Somme River and Verdun, we listen to you and him!"

"To Mr. Zhou, him! What do you say? ”

Everyone was emotional, and Zhou Yu pressed his hands weakly, signaling everyone to calm down.

He looked at Lu Xiucai on the side and asked, "Xiucai, how many guns do we have now?" How many grenades? ”

After the laborers converged, they gathered the guns and ammunition they had collected along the way and redistributed them.

Lu Xiucai was in charge of this matter, and when Zhou Yu asked him at this moment, he replied: "We can do one long rifle per person, but the bullet is limited, and some people can only use it as a stick." There were thirty-two pistols, an average of five rounds per gun, and a dagger with a surplus of one hand, and only twenty grenades. ”

"Twenty? Enough is enough! Now, find some brains with good witty memories, and I'm going to teach you how to shoot guns. ”

"Really?"

Hearing the news, everyone clenched their fists excitedly, but there are only so many guns, and bullets are scarce, so you have to find those brains who are good and bold.

With such a screening, people like Mu Dezhu, Gouwa, and Liu Banxian were screened out in the first round, and although Lu Xiucai was suitable in all aspects, only his eyes were not very good.

In Zhou Yu's opinion, he is a little short-sighted, although he can make up for this weakness by wearing glasses later, but now he can only stay in the rear to manage logistics.

However, Zhou Yu thought that the only one with marksmanship below him was Hong Agui, but the latter was now seriously injured and had no way to participate in this matter, so he had to train the others as soon as possible.