"Let me go, Le Dur..."

Dewar struggling to free Ledure's hand, he shouted loudly: "I admit it wrong, you are right, now what is the use of these, we..."

"boom....."

Just then another heavy shell fell and exploded less than ten meters from the wall of the outpost. The powerful blast shock wave, mixed with countless pieces of earth and stone, violently hit the seemingly solid outer wall of the post, and the dirt and smoke rushed into the post from the large and small observation shooting holes with the violent airflow and placed it for shooting The machine gun in the hole was easily blown away by the airflow like a piece of firewood, and hit the wall on the other side. The air was filled with a pungent fire gas and thick smoke, and everyone in the room was coughed up with excitement.

The soldiers were terrified by the situation they had never met before. They curled their heads to the ground, they trembling, coughing, crying, screaming loudly. The wooden structure above the bunker gave a terrible moan of terror, and the dust and sawdust that accumulated in the gaps of the logs fell like rain in the fierce tremor, causing the soldiers to scream again in a panic.

"Don't panic everyone!"

Le Dour stood up from the ground shaking, shaking his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the dizziness in his head. He was standing too close to the shooting hole in front of him, and the shock wave gave him a lesson without hesitation.

"Dewar, Dewar, how are you?"

Le Dour rocked and bent down, shoving and pushing down his comrades beside him. There was no response from Dewar. He fell there motionlessly, and Le Duer saw a bright red blood flow slowly fall from his ears. Le Dur was taken aback, and he quickly put his hand on Dewar's neck to test his pulse.

"Fortunately, I was stunned." Le Dour turned Dewar over and let him lie on his back to prevent him from being injured by the next explosion. Then he stood up and walked towards his young men shivering at the foot of the wall.

"All stand up for me, cowards, all cowards. You see what you look like now, even a hen looks braver than you."

Leval kicked his men hard, and he pulled the soldiers by the neck to grab them one by one from the ground.

"You have to remember that you are a soldier, France needs you to protect..." Le Dour shook his head, his ears kept buzzing, making his loud cry sound like it was far away The same is true from places. This feeling has not passed for more than 20 years, so he can't help but miss those days in the trenches, when the shelling was really called violent.

"Take your weapons, wear your helmets, **** things."

Le Dur pushed the frightened soldiers fiercely, roaring to prepare them for battle. Suddenly, the rough wooden door of the post was knocked hard, and then a few people rushed into the house in disarray. Le Dur pulled out his pistol quickly, but when he saw the rush in, he quickly lowered his muzzle.

"You guys are still alive. I thought you were finished. Don't stand there silly. Pier, David, don't hurry up and pick up your weapons."

Le Dour ordered loudly. The soldiers who rushed in were Pier, David and two new logistic soldiers. Le Duer was attracted by the two new faces. They were two tall black soldiers, wearing brown military uniforms and wearing "Adrian" helmets. Although they were as gray and dirty as Pier, they But Zhang Heidian's shiny face had a careless look, and no panic and fear could be found in their eyes. What surprised him even more was that the two men were still carrying bread in their hands. Rattan basket.

"Is the Colonial Legion? Algeria or Guinea?" Le Dour asked the two black soldiers with nods.

"Ivory Coast." One of the black soldiers replied loudly.

"Very good, are you armed?"

Two black soldiers shook their heads.

"Just find one here. You will probably need it immediately."

Le Dour turned his head and shouted loudly at his men: "Everyone took their weapons to their respective posts, and we must fight back."

The soldiers had recovered from the panic in front, and they loudly agreed to run towards their respective shooting positions. Le Dur turned around and ran to the phone to pick up the handset, and he shook the handle on the phone.

"Damn, the phone line may have been interrupted." Le Dour dropped the receiver severely, and he shouted back to the soldiers loudly: "It is our luck that the Germans did not cover us with large caliber guns. They may think that it is a waste to use gun groups to destroy our targets. From the current situation, they only use three large-caliber long-range artillery at most. Don’t panic, they will not hit us so easily, believe me. "

"Boom..." Another shell hit the front of the outpost, and the dust on the wooden roof of the outpost fell like rain again.

"Bah... Bah... these **** Germans." Le Dour beat the dust and wood chips that fell on his hair and military uniform, then put on his helmet and lay down on the front of the observation window to raise the telescope to the opposite shore. Looking away.

"Damn, it seems that the Germans figured it out, it was an infantry artillery." Le Dour exclaimed, and from the telescope he saw a group of German soldiers struggling to push two large-caliber infantry artillery out of the woods.

"The situation is different now. We are going to retreat and bring weapons and ammunition that we can carry. We are going to leave this place." For the first time, Le Dour showed a look of panic. He shouted nervously to his men.

"Sergeant, they are not ready to shoot. We can now use 37mm guns to deal with them." Lafayette called with a machine gun.

"No kidding, it's a 75mm cannon. At this distance they can't miss. We can only kill one of them at most, and then we will be bombarded by the other. Take your machine gun and Ammunition, don’t forget your rifle."

Le Dour directs the other men to collect various weapons and ammunition that can be taken away. He loudly refutes Lafayette's ridiculous suggestions.

"They only need more than a minute to prepare for shelling. Although I am not afraid of sacrifice, this sacrifice must be valuable. I don't like this stupid method of death." Le Duer was still in a coma. Dewar, carrying his rifle in his hand.

"Now that we have lost contact with the regiment, they still do not believe the news of the German attack. We must now return to the regiment to report on the situation here. Staying here to make unnecessary sacrifices does not stop the Germans from progressing, Without our precise report, the brothers in the regiment would be suddenly attacked by the Germans." After finishing Le Duer kicked the wooden door, he shouted to his men: "Let's go, follow me, Don’t hesitate along the way, don’t stop your steps no matter what happens.” Then he rushed out of the post with Dewar behind his back.

The soldiers quickly picked up their weapons and carried heavy ammunition boxes. They followed their squad leader desperately and ran towards the food truck that was parked behind the hillside. Before they even ran twenty meters away, the post behind them flew into the sky with two violent explosions. Large pieces of rubble and logs kept falling around the team. There were also weapons parts and ammunition that had not been taken away, and the wheel of a 37-mm rapid-fire gun rolled and smoked in front of them.

The soldiers remembered what the sergeant said to them. They ran desperately, and no one turned back or stopped. They were advancing against the heavy rain of wood, stone and steel, and their eyes were fixed on the broken truck on the road not far away. Everyone has only one belief in mind, and run, as long as they run to the truck, it is safe. Le Dour first ran to the truck. He opened the door of the cab and tried to push Dewar in. Then he closed the door and turned to the other side to sit in the cab and start the car.

"Hurry up, boys. We'll get out of here quickly." Le Dour leaned out of the cab and yelled at his men who were rolling down the slope. The soldiers finally rushed to the truck. They overwhelmed the fence and rolled into the carriage. Then they threw their weapons and ammunition on the floor of the carriage and began to gasp.

"It seems that the training of you guys is not enough! Everyone is okay, is anyone injured?" Le Dour shouted through the window behind the cab and asked loudly.

"It's okay, only David's arm was smashed with gravel, but it was just a skin injury and his bones were not broken." Lafayette replied loudly.

"That's good, bandage him first." Le Dour pulled the gear, and then said aloud: "Everyone is seated, we are on the road." Le Dour stepped on the accelerator, and the truck roared. Turning his head, he rolled up a soot, and then hurried towards the village of Itna.

Guderian stood on the turret of his armored command vehicle, frowning at the calm Somme River in front of him. A team of tanks was carefully passing the pontoon on the river, and the infantry and tanks that had already boarded the opposite bank were arranged in chaos. Going inland in their respective formations.

Gudrian turned his head and shouted to the adjutant standing by the car: "Order the engineers to speed up and build the next pontoon as soon as possible. Let the convoys behind slow down and don’t huddle together. It seems that we are behind ."

"Follow the order, General." The adjutant quickly saluted Goodrian and then ran towards the communication car beside him.

"General, we have not fallen behind. Both General Krest and General Reinhardt have encountered fierce resistance. They are fighting for a breakthrough with the enemy. I think we are the first force to break through the Somme." Gu Derian's chief of staff said with a telegram aside.

"According to intelligence, the ferry we chose should not have any defense. This is the weakest link in the French line. But when our engineering troops arrived, we found that the French had actually set up on the dirt **** there. A sentry." The chief of staff said, pointing to a small dirt **** on the opposite bank, and now there was only a pile of smoking debris on the slope.

"As a result, they had to call for long-range artillery support. An artillery reconnaissance instruction team cooperated with the three 150-mm self-propelled artillery of the 20th Artillery Regiment to carry out long-range artillery bombardment of the fortification, but the effect was very poor. Finally, the third one caught up behind The 75mm infantry artillery of the nineteen mechanized infantry battalion solved the problem. As a result, half an hour was wasted." The chief of staff reported lightly.

Guderian looked back depressedly towards the engineers who were busy on the bank of the river. Now the engineers are relying on two mechanical air pumps to inflate the huge pontoons. Three or four of the same pontoons have been pushed into the river. Here, there are two engineers on each pontoon holding long blazes. They cried out loudly, trying to line up those pontoons so that other engineers on the shore would pave the pontoon with metal bridges.

"It's still too slow. We must occupy the village of Itna before dark, and we can't exceed midnight at the latest. We will have a deep impact on the French Fourth Army tomorrow morning. Know the head of state against me in this battle. The performance is full of expectations. If I cannot complete the combat mission within the prescribed time this time, I don’t know how to face him again.” Goodrian said to his chief of staff with anxiety.

"I believe we will be able to complete the mission as planned. I did not expect the head of state to be so confident in us. He gave you his immediate first infantry division to command, and his Corps of Corpus followed us closely. Behind. The direct legion of the head of state will fight for you. This kind of honor is not available to anyone. I think our soldiers are well aware of this, and they have done a lot. General, you should now come up with it The kind of momentum that you had in the previous stage of battle came out, and we have to show it well in front of the head of state.

"I know what I should do, Chief of Staff. Well, we cross the river." The tank finally climbed slowly over the pontoon, and now that the pontoon was empty, Guderian turned back and shouted to his men To: "We are all on board, we are going to cross the river. The team keeps moving forward." Then he drilled into the turret.

Along with the roar of the engine, a thick blue smoke erupted from the exhaust pipe of the armored vehicle. The armored command vehicle slowly climbed up the road towards the pontoon. Behind Guderian is his direct tank battalion, which is composed entirely of No. 3 and No. 4 tanks. The iron crusade painted on the gray turret of the steel giants and the big white g under the sun Dazzling light.

Just as Guderian led his huge armored legion across the Somme, the trucks of Le Dour and his men stumbled into the village of Itna. The truck drove fast on the narrow streets of the village. With the honking of the horn, French soldiers on the street panicked to avoid. The place where the truck passed left a high dust and an angry curse.

The crazy truck finally stopped in front of the regiment department. Le Dour opened the door and quickly jumped out of the cab. With the help of his men, he lifted Dewar off the car. The guards at the entrance of the regiment didn't understand what was going on, and they gathered around nervously to ask the seemingly disturbed soldiers about the situation.

"Hurry up, I will report to the lieutenant colonel first. You will carry Sergeant Dewar to the hospital and wait to gather here." Le Duer hurried to the regiment after explaining to the soldiers. Go.

"I don't think everybody needs to go to the hospital, you two just need to carry Sergeant Dewar to go, and David, you also have to look at your arm. Others help me unload the weapons and ammunition from the car, the car We can’t stop here, we have to move it away.” When Le Dour entered the regiment, Lafayette turned to his comrades and said that now he is the best soldier in this group of soldiers with the highest rank.

Under the direction of Lafayette, the soldiers lifted the pile of ammunition and guns from the truck, and then pushed the truck into the open space on the other side of the street. After they had done all this, they sat down in the open space outside the regiment, and they waited for Le Dur to come out while sorting the weapons. It didn't take long for Lafayette to see the commander Lieutenant Colonel Devadue walked out of the regiment with a serious face, followed by a group of officers like the lieutenant colonel and the staff. Lafayette quickly greeted his comrades and stood up to salute the officers. Lieutenant Colonel Devadue slightly nodded to them and then got into his car. The other officers didn't even look at them. They panicked into another car, and then the two cars roared toward the other side of the street.

"Lafayette." Le Duer slowly stepped out of the front door of the regiment, and he greeted his little machine gunner loudly. Hearing Ledure's cry, Lafayette quickly turned around.

"Yes, sergeant."

"Hurry and ask the brethren to prepare, we have a job."

"Follow the order, Sergeant. Everyone will tidy up." Lafayette carried his rifle on his back, carrying the machine gun and ammunition and walking towards Le Dour.

"Sergeant, have you reported it to the lieutenant colonel."

"Yes." Le Dour took the rifle handed to him by another soldier, then pulled the bolt off and looked at the magazine.

"Then Lieutenant Colonel said nothing." Lafayette asked.

"What did you say?" Le Dour turned his head suspiciously at Lafayette.

"That, our retreat." Lafayette whispered.

"Oh, you said this thing." Le Dour smiled softly. He pressed the visor of the Lafayette helmet with his hand and said aloud, "No, nothing. Now he still has nothing to say." More important things to consider."

Le Dour said to his men: "We now have a new job and we are placed on the first company position. We will be there to stop the German attack."

Then he said to the two black soldiers: "You two are now under my command and you don't have to go back to the logistics team. Lafayette, find them two rifles."

"Follow the orders, Sergeant." Lafayette agreed with his head. The two black soldiers still had the expression of carelessness, they just nodded to Le Doure to show that.

"Okay, take our things, stand upright... line up, and start walking towards the continuous position." Le Dour, carrying his rifle and shouting the password, led his soldiers to march toward the outer periphery of the village.

They found the company commander Lieutenant Dolwan in the command post of the outer position. It seemed that he was very happy that Lieutenant Colonel Devadue assigned them to his team. He slapped Leduur's shoulders vigorously. In the last war, he once fought alongside Leduore. He knew the abilities of this experienced veteran.

Then Dolwan took them to a defensive bunker made of large pieces of gravel. He pointed to the bunker that was more than ten meters long and said: "This is your position."

"Why isn't it the first line of defense." Lafayette whispered to Piere next to him. He saw the soldiers in the far field strengthening their trenches, and it seemed that the battle report had been released. They The final preparations before the war are being made.

I didn't expect Lafayette to hear such a whisper, and Lieutenant Dolwan was heard. The lieutenant frowned and turned to Lafayette, saying, "Soldier, what are you talking about?"

"Reporter, nothing was said." Lafayette whispered back.

"I heard, you said why not put you on the first line of defense, do you?" Dolwan's voice became severe.

"Yes, sir."

"There is no second line of defense, and there is the first line of defense from the outskirts of the village to you. We have no retreat in front of the Germans. We can only guard every inch of trenches, every firepower, every bunker. Every soldier We must defend France with our lives. We must not have the slightest idea of ​​retreat. This is the same as the outer trenches. You and the soldiers in the outer trenches are the same. You must fight for France to the end."

Dolwan watched Lafayette's lowering head continue to say: "I forgive you for that kind of remarks, you can see that you are a very good soldier, you have a strong will to fight, which is good. But You should also have the qualities that a good soldier must possess, that is, obey orders. Obey the orders of superiors unconditionally, order you to defend where you stay, order you to insist on you must die there. Determined. Do you understand?"

"Understood, sir." Lafayette's body burst into heat, and he answered with a loud chest.

"Very good, soldier."

A smile appeared on the corner of Dolwan's mouth, and then he pointed to the two "Huggins" 37mm anti-tank guns not far away and said, "This is why you are here. These cannons are our last barriers." We don’t have many of these anti-tank weapons, they are assigned to various important positions. But my soldiers have been arranged on various positions, there is no extra personnel to protect these guns. I’m still looking for The soldiers who didn’t defend the two guns were worried, and they didn’t expect the lieutenant colonel to send you over to me. Your task is to stand by this position. You must not let any German infantry approach these cannons. Do you understand?”

"Understood, sir." The soldiers answered loudly.

"Okay, you have three machine guns. You should be able to do this. I'll send someone to send you some ammunition later. Now you can disband and build your own shooting position." Dolwan ordered with a smile.

"Observe, sir." The soldiers scattered, they chose a position that was more suitable for the hypothetical weapon in the bunker, and then began to carry the sandbags stacked on the side to build a shooting position.

"Le Dur, you come with me." Dolwan pulled in Le Dur who was about to go up to help. He pulled Le Dur aside and said with a smile: "You have a good team of soldiers."

"Yeah, they are all good guys, especially the Lafayette. He was like me 20 years ago." Le Dour turned his head and looked at the busy men with a proud look.

"How about, come to me. At my side, we fight side by side like we did twenty years ago." Dolwan said in a low voice: "I will send another non-commissioned officer to lead these children, you just Rest assured. I need you and your experience very much now. As you said before, they are excellent and should be able to take care of themselves."

"Are you talking about going to the club?" Le Duer groaned for a while, then he said firmly to Dolwan: "No, I think I still want to stay here, these children need me more than you. They all trust Me, without me, they are likely to lose their lives for some stupid reasons. This is my responsibility, I have to take care of them until the last second. You mean I know very clearly, Dolwan, I appreciate your kindness . But I really can’t leave these guys.”

"Well, I know I can't convince you, then let it be your way." Dolwan nodded understandingly, and he sighed deeply.

"Be careful, old friend. This time the Germans attacked across the board and took care of themselves." Dolwan said sadly.

"I understand, I know, old friend, you take care of yourself too." Le Dur patted Dolwan's shoulder.

"Then I'm gone, there are still some important things to be prepared." Dolwan turned and walked towards the outer fortifications.

"Goodbye, old friend." Le Dour said softly to Dolwan's back, then turned around and walked towards his men.

"How are you doing, boys... um? Pier? What are you doing, what is that, do you want to build a grave for yourself in advance? David, how is your hand... ... Purwan, that is a grenade. Do you want to blow all of us up to heaven? Lafayette, if the Germans saw me the first time, it would be you, what are you doing with the machine gun mount so high, you are waiting Can't wait to meet the angel?"

Le Dour's courageous voice echoed over this small position.

When the last sandbag was put on the stone wall, Le Dour stood up and looked towards the horizon, a look of anxiety in his eyes.

Rolling smoke has risen on the horizon, and the powerful German armored legion is approaching here quickly, which will be a brutal fierce battle.

Le Duer has a vague feeling in his heart, this battle will also be his last battle in this world

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