Chapter 3 The benefits of knowing an additional foreign language
The two people shuttled through the trenches one after another, with shouts of death coming from around them from time to time, and occasionally there would be cold shots on the scalps of the two people. " "Whoosh" flew over.
He Chi lowered his waist very low. In order to prevent being accidentally injured by stray bullets, he also picked up a steel helmet and put it on his head. This shape was quite ugly, but he no longer cared about that much. .
Because the situation was worse than he imagined, the French army in this position was basically in a state of collapse and could no longer organize an organized counterattack. They were divided into twos and threes in various parts of the battlefield and were surrounded from all sides. Kill the Germans who come up.
From time to time, the moans of the injured before death could be heard, but neither Henry nor He Chi turned a deaf ear, and just silently quickened their pace.
Individual abilities are too insignificant on such a battlefield, and joining together can only make them one of the people who fall to the ground.
The surrounding trenches had obviously undergone brutal fighting, and there were corpses of German and French soldiers lying dead everywhere.
He Chi was lucky enough to follow Henry for more than a hundred meters on the battlefield where bullets were flying, and he was unscathed.
But their luck ran out after the next corner.
There were heavy footsteps from the other side of the tunnel, and the other party had obviously discovered them. The footsteps stopped seven or eight meters away.
Click!
That was the creepy sound of a gun being pulled.
The next second, a figure holding a weapon suddenly flashed out from the opposite side, and a German soldier faced them and raised his rifle.
The two sides faced each other at a distance of less than one meter, and Henry and the other party pulled the trigger almost at the same time.
Boom! ! ! !
A flower of blood bloomed from the German soldier's chest, and He Chi felt something flying over his head with a "whoosh".
It’s not over yet!
A German "corpse" that had fallen on the ground suddenly stood up, threw He Chi down at the back, and stabbed He Chi in the chest with a cold bayonet.
At the moment of life and death, He Chi almost subconsciously reacted and raised the backpack in his hand to greet him.
Poof!
The bayonet penetrated the backpack and was entangled with the contents inside. It was impossible to pull it out for a while. The two sides rolled on the ground and struggled with each other.
The German went to pinch He Chi's neck, but He Chi simply bit him in the face!
The pressure on his neck was getting tighter and tighter, and He Chi felt that he could no longer hold on.
Bang! Bang!
The sound of gunfire rang out, and Henry behind him took out his spare pistol and fired two shots at the Germans, and then saved He Chi, whose face was already turning purple due to lack of oxygen.
The two people who had narrowly escaped death were sweating profusely and panting constantly to calm down their emotions. When they pushed away the German corpse and prepared to move forward, an even more frightening sound came from the T-junction ahead. come over.
Puff, puff, puff, puff...
That was the sound of the Maxim machine gun firing continuously and the bullets hitting the soil.
50 meters ahead, a German heavy machine gun squad blocked the path forward. Five people plus a Maxim formed an unbreakable chasm.
At least not the two of them can break through.
"Damn! This is the only way back. If the Germans are here, we will be rats in the bag." Henry cursed in a low voice.
The worse is yet to come.
At least one squad of Germans armed with weapons surrounded them from the other direction of the tunnel.
At a distance of about 20 meters, both sides discovered each other, so they started shooting each other.
Henry's marksmanship was pretty good. The German soldier at the front was hit on the shoulder and fell down, while the others hid behind bunkers and fought back.
The Germans were very experienced in combat. They constantly used alternate covering fire to consume Henry's bullets, and then rushed out from behind the bunker when Henry needed to change bullets. Once five or six men rush into the trenches, the French, who are numerically inferior, will have no chance of winning.
Bang! ! !
Gunshots rang out from another direction, frightening the German soldiers who had just stepped back.
At a distance of about 15 meters, He Chi, who was wearing a steel helmet, pulled the bolt of the gun and fired the first shot in his life. The bullet flew to no one knows where, but at least it bluffed everyone on the opposite side. live.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Henry filled the rifle with bullets, and the two sides faced off again at a distance of more than ten meters.
The situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for this side, because the gunfire around has begun to become sparse, and it is obvious that the French troops on this front are being gradually cleared.
Once the German troops from other places surround them, the two of them will be dead.
"Think of a way, you are a veteran." He Chi shouted to Henry in French at the top of his lungs.
"Please! I have only been on the battlefield for three months. What can I do?" Henry fired a shot and turned around.
This is going to happen, He Chi, who was shooting randomly on the other side, thought to himself. Because he was distracted, he squatted down a little slowly, and a bullet grazed his helmet and flew out with a "ding" sound.
Hiring a shiver all over his body, He Chi knelt down and took off his helmet. The shape of this iron helmet was very similar to that of later firefighter helmets. There was a deep groove on the round arc top. scratches.
"Fortunately, the French helmet does not have the same design as the German lightning rod, otherwise I would not be a living target." He Chi cursed.
Wait!
Lightning rod?
A living target?
"Hey, man, I have an idea." After He Chi shouted, he took off the helmets from the corpses of the two German soldiers in the tunnel, and then put a helmet on Henry's head without any explanation. He went up and tried hard to peel off the German military uniforms.
After a while, the sound of gunfire disappeared, and 30 meters away, two steel helmets like lightning rods were exposed from the top of the tunnel. The German gunmen in the distance slowly approached them with doubts in their eyes. A T-junction blocked by heavy machine guns.
Under the gaze of the German machine gunners, two suspicious figures walked into the range of the machine guns. The German gunners only needed to hook their fingers to turn the two people into sieves.
The gunman did not do that, because both of them wore German-style helmets like lightning rods on their heads and wore somewhat tattered German military uniforms. This made the soldiers who were about to shoot hesitate.
What if it’s one of your own?
Just when the two people were about to cross this intersection, something happened suddenly. The guy in the lead tripped for some reason, and a boot covered with mud was thrown out.
That is a French army style boot!
An enemy? !
The gunman almost subconsciously pulled the trigger, but the sudden sound in his ear made his hand pause again.
Clear German "Don't shoot! It's me!"
This was shouted by the person behind.
A moment of hesitation prevented the bullet from being fired immediately. The person shouting behind him dragged and pushed his companion to the other side of the T-junction, and then the two of them ran towards the French position with their heads down.
At this time, no matter how stupid you are, you will realize that something is wrong, but Henry and He Chi, wearing German steel helmets, have already run out of the danger zone, and the German bullets only splashed a burst of dust behind the two people.
The two people ran desperately and jumped into the French position with all their strength. When they reached a safe place, Henry hugged He Chi and slapped him on the shoulder hard
"Brother, your trick is amazing! You can actually speak German. How many surprises have you not told me?"
He Chi was also laughing, and a silver coin disappeared from his trembling hand in his pocket. not see.
[L2 proficiency in German, one silver coin]
He Chi gasped for air, and Henry, who had narrowly escaped death, hummed a tune from his hometown happily, but he did not know that danger was approaching them.
Just as the two high-fived Xiang Qing, a smoking grenade rolled in front of them.
(End of this chapter)