In the torrential rain on the Western Front, the sound of gunfire was ceaseless.
The position of the Algerian Army was located behind the junction of the British Expeditionary Force and the Eastern Army Group.
This area was the easiest for the Germans to penetrate and break through because the two armies spoke different languages and belonged to two different command systems, often resulting in chaos.
The defense line of the Algerian Army was there to remedy this shortcoming, akin to patching up a gap.
Thus, once a battle occurred here, it was a brutal melee, facing the best of the Germans: the Storm Assault Team.
Sergeant Haji, clad in a raincoat, knelt on one knee beside his friend and subordinate, Aburam.
They had just repelled an attack from the Storm Assault Team; Aburam had been stabbed in the abdomen by a German army bayonet and was gasping painfully under his rain poncho.
Veterans of war knew that a stab to the abdomen was the most painful way to die.
