Li Wei led a ragtag bunch to mooch a meal at the field mess in the 9th Army Group's second trench.
Afterward, they collected some equipment and supplies before returning to their Northeast 1-02 section.
The so-called Northeast 1-02 meant that "Northeast" referred to the Northeast Sector of the defensive line, "1" meant the foremost edge of the trench network, and "02" was the specific trench section.
This section of the defensive zone had originally been nearly seven hundred meters wide, but now less than three hundred remained.
More than half of the western side, along with the farther-west 1-01 section, had been flattened by the engineers with explosives.
The 9th Army Group's engineering units had moved with astonishing speed. Relying on the existing longitudinal communication trench, they had rapidly built a flanking defensive belt facing the Northern Russians' defensive zone.
As a result, the front-line trench in the Northeast Sector made an awkward turn halfway through section 1-02.
This newly formed salient was now under the joint defense of the 4th Brigade and a reinforced battalion from the 9th Army Group.
Weren't they afraid that stationing this bunch of good-for-nothings here would have them crumble at the first touch and drag their allies down with them?
While muttering inwardly, Li Wei planted her hands on her hips and stood atop the bunker that had just been assembled from Reinforced Concrete Prefabricates.
This was the tip of the entire salient, the exact center of its outward-curving arc, with an excellent Field of Vision.
Two or three hundred meters away, a towering Wall of Gray Mist rose from the ground. Its top connected with the leaden clouds high in the sky, making heaven and earth one color, with no clear boundary between them.
It was impossible to tell whether the leaden