Chapter 58 Sexy As A Man In A Skirt Pt 14

• The first volley caught us all by surprise. His top NCO went down immediately, dead before he hit the ground. His lieutenant was hit, his arm almost completely torn off. And the major went down right in front of me, shot through the thigh, the bone broken and sticking through. I was hit at the same time, but I had my vest on. Still broke a rib."
• "They still don't know how so many of them got so close without detection, but they estimated the enemy later at at least sixty. The Scots had forty men. Four died instantly, nine had serious wounds, and maybe half a dozen more slightly. Of course, we didn't know that at the time. The ones who could started returning fire. There was a real danger we would be over run."
• I paused, remembering the cries of our enemies, the screams of our dying and wounded. I could still smell the dust and the blood.