On July 9 at 0630, in front of the 63rd Infantry Army Group, the Prosen Army defensive positions.
Howling swept down from the sky, experienced Prosen veterans immediately sprinted into bomb shelters, while those too far to reach shelters sprawled in the trenches.
Following that, the earth began to shake, the blast waves from the explosions continuously plowed through the positions, overturning everything that could be flipped.
Former rookie Andreas, now a one-year veteran (having made his debut with the First Mobile Group Army), wore the insignia of an Exempt Soldier, exempt from various miscellaneous tasks.
Nevertheless, he still teamed up with old-timer Sergeant Kosolek, responsible for an MG42 machine gun in the heavy weapons squad.
This rare dual-vet machine gun unit huddled near the machine gun position in a bomb shelter, sharing cigarettes they had just got from the quartermaster.
Crammed in the same bomb shelter, the rookie Pyaje asked, "How can you be so calm?"