Out on the right flank of our positions\u2014towards the mountains\u2014the rifles crackled merrily.
\u201cListen now! Isn\u2019t there heavy fighting up on the mountain in the Schwerer Zug\u2019s sector?\u201d we exclaimed.
We listened intently. A trick of the senses\u2014it was only the echo of machine-gun bursts being thrown a hundredfold back by the forest and the cliffs, but extremely vivid and misleading.
To an inexperienced observer it sounded like a violent clash between large forces. Even several times later, after I had become familiar with the strange echoes in the mountains, I caught myself thinking that firing had started again when the groups tested their machine guns\u2014it sounded so natural.
The unit was at the highest state of alert, and the excitement was intense; partisans seemed to be seen behind every bush and mound. <\/p>\n
The group was at the highest state of alert, and excitement was intense\u2014partisans seemed to be seen behind every bush and mound!<\/p>\n
B\u2026 conducted an interrogation: had anyone fired on them? <\/p>\n
\u201cNo!\u201d they thought not! No\u2014apparently not! But it was quite clear that there was fighting up near the Schwerer Zug\u2019s positions! <\/p>\n
\u201cRubbish!\u201d said B\u2026, \u201cwhen you fire in a forest, there is something called an echo. Remember that!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHas anyone seen or heard anything suspicious?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n They all had! One had seen a knife glint in the darkness\u2014another had noticed some dark figures disappearing between the bushes\u2014and a third had heard stealthy footsteps! <\/p>\n \u201cNow I\u2019m going to tell you something,\u201d B\u2026 remarked when the reports were finished. \u201cIt is excellent that you are alert and observant, but don\u2019t let your imagination run away with you. You must learn to distinguish between what is real and what is unreal. I am not going to run around being a babysitter for you! I want my night\u2019s rest! The First Punic War had ended, painlessly and bloodlessly, and peace had once again made its entry into Rastovichza.<\/p>\n Later we learned to distinguish the many sounds of the night from one another and acquired that instinct of warning, which is the front-line soldier\u2019s best protection against surprises and danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2792,"template":"","personer":[115],"class_list":["post-2802","litteratur_og_kilder","type-litteratur_og_kilder","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","personer-marius-soerensen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"personer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personer?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I have nothing against you testing the machine guns from time to time, but conducting a manhunt for shadows and other fanciful creatures\u2014we simply don\u2019t have the ammunition for that. Understood!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n