The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 1: Thanks for the invitation. I'm in the trenches, getting shelled!

"Andryosha, Andryosha! Wake up! Are you alright?"

In a daze, Andrei felt as if someone was shaking him, and at the same time, a severe headache struck, causing him to groan involuntarily.

"Ouch, stop shaking me! My head hurts so much! Is there any water?"

Overwhelmed by pain and thirst, Andrei muttered to himself unconsciously. Then, he felt someone bring a water bottle to his lips.

After taking a couple of sips without hesitation, his headache seemed to lessen a little. As soon as he opened his eyes, he found himself huddled in a narrow space that resembled a cat's ear hole.

He opened his eyes wide in surprise and saw that a blonde girl dressed as a nun was kneeling on the ground beside him, holding his head and pouring water into his mouth from a jug.

Meanwhile, several soldiers wearing helmets and gray uniforms, holding rifles, were watching him nervously.

"Captain Vorontsov, you're finally awake! I almost lost my life trying to drag you into this hole!"

After cursing a couple of times, a bearded veteran looked at him with a worried expression and asked:

"How are you? Did the shell damage your brain?"

For a moment, Andrei didn't know how to respond to that question.

In fact, he still hasn't realized what happened and his mind is in a complete state of confusion.

He only remembered that he had just attended a class reunion last night. Seeing that his first love from high school was now married, he was depressed and drank a few more glasses of wine. He got so drunk on the way home that he passed out.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the cat-ear cave, surrounded by a group of dusty soldiers and a nun.

He looked down at himself and found that he was also wearing the same gray military uniform, with a pistol tucked into his waistband.

During his recent headache, he seemed to vaguely recall something.

But perhaps because of the shockwave from the shells, the memories in his mind were fragmented and couldn't be pieced together.

He only remembered that he seemed to have traveled through time, and the full name of his current body was Andrei Konstantinovich Vorontsov.

Based on his limited memory and the way things were going, he realized that they seemed to be officers of this group of soldiers.

So he immediately realized that now was definitely not the time to feign amnesia!
Otherwise, if the surrounding soldiers think he has become an idiot, they will definitely not listen to him anymore, and they might even think the worst and simply leave him here as a burden!

"Gentlemen, what's going on? Have the enemy charged in?"

Listening to the deafening artillery fire outside, Andrei suppressed his fear and asked in a slightly trembling voice.

It has to be said that the noise outside sounds much louder than the firecrackers during the Lunar New Year, and at least much louder than the noise from the ban on fireworks in recent years.

Hearing Andrei's words, the soldiers in the cave breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, the veteran spat and said:
"Boss, don't worry, the enemy hasn't charged up yet. They're just preparing their artillery fire!"

"Damn it, those damn Black Hawk devils didn't utter a single word before the war started, all they did was launch sneak attacks, they're a bunch of cowards!"

Black Hawk? What is a Black Hawk?

Could it be the name of a hostile country? Andrei tried to think, but the continuous sound of artillery fire outside was like a heavy hammer hitting his head, making it ache.

He touched his head and found that his hand was covered in blood.

Before Andrei could say anything, the nun beside him swiftly wrapped his head with bandages, saying softly as she did so:
"Andreosha, don't move around, be careful not to touch your wound!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers in the cat-ear hole booed.

"Yo yo yo, Andreosha! Sigh, the captain is indeed a captain, a seasoned lover indeed. Why does Yelena never talk to me like this?"

Yelena blushed slightly at the jeers from these people, as if she wanted to say something in rebuttal, but just then, the sound of cannons outside suddenly stopped.

Andrei was still stunned by the sudden cessation of the artillery fire, but the bearded veteran had already grabbed his rifle and leaped out first.

"Get out of there quickly! The artillery fire is about to end, and the enemy is about to charge!"

It was only then that Andrei came to his senses and recalled the infantry-artillery coordination tactics he had seen in the documentary. He immediately realized that the enemy was about to rush onto the trenches!
Without thinking, he picked up the whistle from his chest in a near-blank state and instinctively blew it!

Upon hearing the whistle, the other soldiers who were still in a daze rushed out, and even Sister Yelena took out a pistol from her waist and looked outside with a tense expression.

"Hurry, hurry, charge forward and hold them off! The enemy's canned food is coming!"

As Andrei and the others rushed outside the foxhole, they saw another officer wearing a peaked cap calling out to them from a distance.

Meanwhile, a heavy machine gun extending from the position not far away was already firing furiously under the control of two machine gunners.

Andrei didn't understand. What exactly was canned food?
Driven by curiosity, he quickly climbed the earthen steps in front of him and peered out through the gaps between the sandbags.

Just looking at it, Andrei was stunned by what he saw: a strange, large iron can with three mechanical legs, about the size of a jeep, was rapidly crawling toward him.

Meanwhile, the two turrets on either side of this large iron tank extended two sets of twin-mounted machine guns, which rotated flexibly in coordination with the entire iron tank, continuously sweeping and suppressing the front line of the trench.

Behind this large iron can, a squad of infantrymen wearing Prussian-style pointed steel helmets, breastplates, and carrying rifles were rapidly following.

Surprisingly, there was also a strange, tall infantryman with a burly build, a gorilla-like physique, and arms that could reach the ground, carrying a rocket launcher on his shoulder, who followed closely behind.

The machine gun that was firing continuously not far from Andrei instantly became the target of the gorilla infantryman.

A rocket was fired, and the two soldiers on the machine gun position, along with the heavy machine gun itself, were blown away.

While Andrei was still in surprise, on the other side of the battlefield:
As a green magic circle suddenly lit up in the sky, a series of emerald green fire rains fell from the sky, pouring down like rain onto a small section of trench, instantly setting the trench ablaze, and screams of agony filled the air.

Hearing the mournful cries around him, watching the multi-legged armored vehicles crawling towards him, the cyborg heavy gunners, and the magic in the distance.

Andrei clutched his head in despair, his face filled with existential dread.

"What the hell am I doing here? What kind of absurd world is this?"

But just then, a mechanical voice suddenly echoed in his mind:

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(End of this chapter)