23/29 These peasants will go on ahead and raise all the villagers against us, and we should never get through. What regiment do you belong to, lads ?" for in the darkness he had been unable to see their faces. We were in charge of one of the wagons with sick. The wheel came off, and we were left behind the convoy while we were mending it. As we were at work, our weapons laid on the ground, some twenty men sprang out from some bushes hard by and fell upon us. |