"Boom! Rumble! The sound of violent explosions continued to ring in his ears, and Xia Wen opened his eyes in a daze, red, and was greeted by corpses and rivers of blood.
"Where am I?" As soon as he blurted out the words, Leon felt that something was wrong, although he could understand the meaning, but he did speak standard German
"Damn it, Leon, are you dead? If you don't die, hurry up and bring me the damn bullet on the side, and this group of bitches rushes up again!"
Lyons? Is it called me? Am I not shopping? How did you get here? Oh, remember, it was like I was hit by a car that ran a red light.
Without waiting for Leon to think about it, the roar sounded again: "Leon! Leon Andrés! What are you doing stupidly? Waiting for the other person to kill you? Bring me the bullets, oh damn it, the positions in the front second row are not moving! "
Leon came to his senses, looked at the Mauser 98 rifle in his hand, and understood that he may have crossed! There is no time to think about it, now it is important to save your life!
Leon looked in the direction of the roar that had just been heard, and a dusty officer was gritting his teeth and controlling the Maxim heavy machine gun in his hand to shoot frantically ahead, while a corpse was lying next to the machine gun.
Knowing his situation, Leon immediately ran along the trench with his rifle bowed and his head down towards the officer.
"Sir, what did you just say? The explosion was too loud! Leon asked cautiously.
"I'll let you bring a box of bullets! Stupid! Arden was killed just now! This bunch of British! The officer pointed to a ammunition storage point more than ten meters from the machine gun position, and to the dead secondary shooter next to the machine gun.
Leon then took a closer look at the corpse on the side, poor Arden was hit in the face by a bullet, and the powerful kinetic energy was only left half of Arden's corpse
"Vomit", Leon, who saw the corpse for the first time, vomited directly.
Seeing this, the officer mocked: "Haha, what's wrong with you today?" Did you have a bad stomach? "
Ignoring his cold words, Leon wiped his mouth clean, and jumped into the trench and ran towards the ammunition storage point with his head down, listening to the "pop" of bullets hitting sandbags overhead.
Leon carefully sorted out his thoughts while running, he was hit and killed by a car in his last life, he came here in vain, looking at weapons and military uniforms seems to be the last century, he should belong to Germany in World War I, but he is not familiar with the environment here, in case of being discovered, it will be over.
Leon suddenly had an idea, and I could pretend to be amnesia first and get some words from the officer just now.
Having made up my mind, I almost arrived at the ammunition storage point, and at hand was a box of bullets with machine gun bullets written in German. That's it, Leon picked up the box of bullets and returned in a panic
"Quick, quickly open the box, my chains are going to run out, oh, how does this Englishman think of locusts as much?" I can't finish fighting! The officer muttered to himself as he ordered Leon.
"Sir! I was stunned by a shell just now, where are we? Lyon took the opportunity to talk while unpacking the ammunition box.
The officer glanced at Leon suspiciously when he heard this, and Leon quickly pretended to be confused.
The officer, undoubting him, continued to strafe forward and said, "Huh? Amnesia? We are near the Somme! Fighting with the British, remember? "
Leon pretended to remember a little again, and continued to ask: "It seems to remember a little, sir, what's your name?" I'm in that troop here? "
"Damn, my name is Hunter, Hunter Lorenz! You are a soldier of the third company of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Regiment, 6th Army of the Second German Reich! I am your acting company commander! If you ask these idiot questions again, I'll kick your ass! Okay, give me a new chain, and my hands and feet are sharp! Hunter yelled impatiently.
"Yes! Sir! Leon immediately took out a new chain, but he didn't know how to install it.
"Oh, stupid, you can't even load a bullet? Give me! Hold up your rifle! You'll always use a rifle! "
Hearing this, Leon hurriedly peeked out his head from behind the sandbag, picked up the Mauser 98 rifle in his hand, looked at the British soldiers charging like a tide in front of the position, gritted his teeth, and thought in his heart that this is a battlefield, this is a battlefield! Then he pulled the trigger, and he didn't know if he hit it, because under the frenzied fire of the entire position, the British soldiers who charged intensively fell piece by piece like cut wheat, and then the people behind stepped on the bodies of the fallen people and continued to advance.
Suddenly Leon remembered what Hunter had just said to him, this is the Somme! Oh no, Lyon was full of despair, as a military enthusiast and his own knowledge of history told him that the Battle of the Somme broke out in 1916, with more than 1.3 million casualties on both sides, compared to the famous Battle of Verdun, known as the Verdun meat grinder, which was also killed and wounded by more than 700,000 casualties. The most desperate thing was that it was only 1916, more than two years before the end of World War I.
Leon's heart couldn't help but feel bitter, I just died once, God do you want me to die again?
At this time, a soldier carrying a document bag bent down and ran through the trench full of corpses and roaring bodies to Leon's side, lying down and shouting to Hunter on the side: "Company commander! An order from the regiment headquarters, ordering us to retreat to the fourth line of defense! "
Hunter asked while shooting, saying, "Retreat?" And what about the troops attacking Paris? What to do with their flanks? "
"I'm sorry sir! I don't know, I'm just relaying orders", after saying that, ran along the trench to other positions.
Attack Paris? Lyon was delighted that this was not the Battle of the Somme! The spring offensive against France in 1918 was also launched in cities such as Amiens near the Somme, which ended in German failure, and since then Germany was no longer able to launch an offensive, and after a few months Germany surrendered, and the chances of surviving themselves were greater.
Thinking of this, Leon adjusted his mood and said to Hunter: "Sir, I guess that most of the offensive group in the direction of Amiens has failed, and there is no point in us continuing to hold here",
Hunter thought for a while, sighed, pointed to a position on the left, and said: "You go from the traffic ditch to the position on the side of the row, let them withdraw, we will assemble in the village three kilometers behind, and then withdraw with the regiment headquarters to the fourth line of defense to rest."
"Good!" Leon replied, turning and entering a communication ditch deeper than the trench, and running in the direction Hunter was pointing.
Run away! This thought suddenly popped up in Leon's mind, no, no, the German overseer was ruthless, I better retreat with the troops, thinking crankily, Leon had already run into the position that Hunter was referring to, and the intensity here was even worse than the position where Hunter was, and there were few soldiers left in the trenches who were shooting
"What about your platoon commander? What about your platoon commander? Leon yelled as he grabbed a soldier who was shooting.
"Dead! The platoon commander was blown up by the British two hours ago! Mr. Sergeant! The soldier replied in a panic.
"Gather all of you here, retreat! Fall back! ", the soldier heard Leon's order, quickly turned and jumped into the trench, ran to the other soldiers, and relayed the order as he ran.
After a while, all the soldiers who were still alive stood beside Leon, and Leon counted, there were only 14 people in total, some of them were slightly wounded, and yes, here, serious injuries also equal death.
"Just received the order from the regiment headquarters, everyone withdrew to the fourth line of defense in the rear, which of you has the largest rank here?" , The group of grizzled soldiers looked at each other, and then the soldiers who had just gone to inform the others looked at Leon and said: "Mr. Sergeant, you have the highest rank here."
Leon was stunned and said: "Well, I am your acting platoon commander, now I order to abandon all heavy weapons and retreat with me", saying that he took the lead and turned to the traffic ditch and ran to the rear.
Leon led 14 men towards the village three kilometers away marked on the map, all along the way were all wounded German soldiers and medical personnel who retreated, judging by the high proportion of wounded soldiers, most of them were the main attacking troops who retreated first and were defeated.
"Is there anyone who hasn't been hurt yet? If you can run, you need a few people here! A senior officer stood on a rock and shouted into the crowd.
When Leon heard this, he quickly lowered his head and accelerated the speed of walking forward, silently saying in his heart, at this time to pull Zhuangding here, there is nothing good about ten ****, I still go quickly, you can't see me, you can't see me.
But God obviously did not give Leon a chance to go, "Hey, that sergeant, stop, yes, it's you", the officer saw Leon at a glance, and continued: "I order you to bring your men over!"
Leon had to sigh, led a dozen people around him to the officer, and asked as he went: "Sir, what's the matter?"
The officer saw that Leon was followed by more than a dozen people, his originally frowned brows stretched slightly, and asked: "Your unit number and your name!"
Lyon replied loudly: "Acting platoon commander of the first platoon of the third company of the third battalion of the 16th regiment of the 6th Army, Leon Andrés, sir.
The officer then said: "Very good! I am Lieutenant Colonel John of the 6th Army Headquarters, and now you need to command your men plus these 44 fools on the side to go to a village four kilometers to the south, where the field hospital of the military department was bitten by a group of Frenchmen, and I want you to unite with the guard company there to cover the retreat of the field hospital! The officer said as he pointed to a listless group of people beside him.
Leon exclaimed, "But sir, I'm just a sergeant, and the troops don't have heavy firepower." The officer frowned when he heard this, walked to the retreating crowd, pulled an ensign who was being helped to walk forward, and then tore off his collar badge and epaulettes, quickly returned to Leon, stuffed the epaulettes into Leon's hand, and said: "Man, you are now the commander of the second lieutenant company, the fourth company of the third battalion of the sixteenth infantry regiment!" All abandoned weapons on the way from here to the military hospital belong to you, is there any problem? "
Leon secretly sighed that the troops were already chaotic and could be promoted to rank at will, and seeing that the officer was resolute, he knew that it might be tragic to think of excuses to refuse again, so he immediately replied that there was no problem, and then quickly ran towards the direction pointed by Lieutenant Colonel John with the troops pieced together.
Leon thought while running, the unit he is carrying now is just a group of stragglers, and he should first reorganize the troops and then collect heavy weapons, otherwise if there are many French at that time, he will not be able to block their attack at all, and I don't want to just live and die again.
Having made up his mind, Leon said to the troops: "Stop and rest!" Then he pulled a few soldiers who had followed him to the side and asked, "What are the names of the guys?" Introduce yourself. "
"Report sir, my name is Hans"
"Jonas, sir."
"Hankel"
"Peter, sir."
Leon smiled at them and said, "Very well, you will each take 10 people and form a class, Hans you are the first class, Jonas the second class, Hankel third class, Peter fourth class, I take the fifth class, and then work with me to find out if there are any heavy weapons and ammunition nearby, I don't want to send them to death."
"Company commander, you are right, we have to arm ourselves!" Jonas agreed.
"Well, then go and choose someone." Leon said and walked towards the troops.
It has to be said that for the Germanic peoples, discipline is like carved into their bones, although this unit was temporarily put together, but still no one has the intention of escaping. The troops were quickly reorganized and headed towards the nearest abandoned position.
Soon, Lyon's party reached an apparently hastily abandoned position, two dark MG08/15 light machine guns were randomly thrown next to sandbags, and the heavy machine guns not far away were apparently damaged by man.
"Company commander, come and take a look! Here's the good stuff! Hans excitedly called not far away, and Leon ran over when he heard this, only to see a small gun lying quietly in a hidden trench, the French M1916 infantry gun, 37mm caliber, and two boxes of 12 shells next to it, which was a good thing, apparently the people who captured it forgot about it
"Oh Hans, well done!" Leon smiled and patted Hans on the shoulder, and then said to a few soldiers beside him: "Bring it and those shells, then bring the two light machine guns you just found, bring more bullets, we have to hurry!" After taking the lead in carrying a box of shells, the other soldiers hurriedly collected ammunition, picked up machine guns, and four or five soldiers pushed and pulled to fiddle with the infantry gun, and a group of people quickly advanced towards the destination.
The three-kilometer journey was not long, and soon a village with sporadic gunfire from time to time appeared in front of everyone, and Leon whispered: "Hide, hide." Then Hans called to his side and said to him, "You take the second squad to guard the infantry guns, and come back when I greet you." Then whispered to the others: "Ready for battle!" Jonas, you two shifts go to the left, Peter, you lean to the right, Hankel, you go with us in the middle, everyone disperse! Pay attention to the spacing! Let's go! Then he lifted the Mauser rifle in his hand and slowly touched it forward.
After a while, more than thirty French soldiers appeared in front of the troops, Leon saw that there were not many people, so he waved his hand to Hansbane, who was hiding behind the artillery, to signal them to follow, and then turned around and raised the rifle, at this time a middle-aged French **** man just turned his head, and saw a young German ** man holding a rifle to himself, he opened his mouth in surprise and wanted to make a sound, but the muzzle of the rifle in the German soldier's hand flashed, and he felt that someone had smashed a hammer in the chest, and he could no longer make a sound.
"Kill!" Leon roared angrily, as if to accompany Leon, and the light machine guns around him began to fire "suddenly", "Rush!" The Germans, armed with rifles already loaded with bayonets, opened fire and rushed towards the sluggish French soldiers.
More than thirty French troops did not last long before being killed by the sneaking Germans.
Leon trembled his hands, trying to grasp the gun in his hand, this was the second time he had shot and the first time he had killed, and it was so close that he could clearly see the fear in the enemy's eyes
"Phew," Leon exhaled, sorted out his emotions, and lifted his legs to walk towards the soldier who was full of excitement.
"Hurry up, enter the village and meet the people of the field hospital." Leon ordered, then walked towards the village with slightly heavy steps.
"Oh! Praise God! Reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! "As soon as I reached the entrance of the village, Leon heard a cheerful shout, and then a child about 17 years old popped out of the next house." Hello, Mr. Ensign! The soldier, who still had some pimples on his face, ran to Leon with a happy face, gave a standard Prussian military salute, and then continued: "Sir, you are finally here, I thought we were dead."
Leon smiled at him and said, "What about the rest of you? What about your sir? Take me to him. "
The kid scratched his head in embarrassment and said apologetically: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so excited, follow me." The field hospital was set up in a chapel in the middle of the village, and an elderly lieutenant colonel officer with a captain greeted Leon, saying as he went: "Hey! Man, thanks for coming over to save us, how many people did you bring? "
"Plus me 59." Leon replied with a salute.
"God! How did the idiots of the military department send less than 60 people over? Didn't I tell them that we were trapped by a whole 300-plus French army? The lieutenant colonel shouted in disappointment.
"Sir, don't you still have a guard company here?" Leon couldn't help but be a little puzzled
The lieutenant colonel patted his head, pointed to the captain officer on the side, and said: "This is the commander of the guard company, you can ask him about the situation yourself." After speaking, he bowed his head and turned to enter the church. "Man, I'm not in a good situation here, my troops have been reduced by more than half, there are only more than 70 people left, plus your people are also difficult to block the attacks of the French." The captain was also clearly a little disappointed. Leon frowned and said, "Mr. Captain, just now I came from behind and saw only a few dozen French troops sporadically, why didn't you break through?"
The captain sighed helplessly: "Most of the people in the field hospital were injured by poison gas bombs, and now the eyes can't see at all, and they can't break through."
Leon thought for a while and said, "In this way, I will take a squad to cover the retreat of these patients and medical personnel, let the invisible help the medical staff or our soldiers to go, I will leave the remaining four squads to you, you will stop the French here, and when we reach a safe place, you will retreat, okay?.
The captain nodded and said, "That's all it can be now, so hurry up and leave quickly with the non-combatants." When Leon heard this, he immediately shouted to the troops waiting outside: "Fifth shift, come in and help!" Then walk into the hospital.
Suddenly he found that a person lying on a hospital bed with gauze covered eyes was a little familiar, but he had not been in this world for a long time. Leon strangely walked up to the man and asked, "Hey, what's your name?"
The man heard someone next to him ask, so he smiled in the direction the voice came from: "My name is Adolf, Adolf Hitler.
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