Ninth installment

The remains of the unit that were in this position left and we followed them, we went around the outskirts of the village and back into the center. The rest of PIV or what was left of it were already there, we found out that Colin just after he had reached the main hq in the center of the village. We had to go back to the end of the street to see what was happening but as soon as we arrived we came under heavy fire as the enemy had pinpointed this house as our new front line, there was no way that we could reach Eric without getting everyone who attempted a rescue killed and because of the amount of enemy fire we had to fall back, on the way Alan started going berserk saying that he had to go back to fight, he was shooting everywhere so George calmed him down and asked him to take care of the elderly and that seemed to work. By now the village command had decided it was time to leave but first we had to wait for the mortar unit to reach safety. We could not get anywhere near under constant shelling, the chetniks had positioned more snipers behind what was our bunker and could cover all the ground to our old hq, we had no chance it was as if they were coming in for the kill, all I could think about was Eric lying in the field, there was no way that I or anyone could get near to him to help if he was still alive, perhaps they would take him prisoner and if he was still alive to hospital but I remembered what I had been told about what they do to foreigners so I did not hold out much hope.