Apparently, the assault was to be made on the same plan as before. After
the last retreat of the enemy, their officers had succeeded in re-forming
them beyond the zone of French fire and now were about to hurl the troops
forward in another grand offensive against the farmhouse. The Germans
moved forward silently and doggedly.
"It'll be a little warmer this time," Hal muttered to himself.
And the lad was right.
Straight on came the Germans at the charge in spite of the withering fire
poured in among them by the French; straight up to the side of the house
they rushed, though there were many men who did not get that far; and
then the German troops deployed.
While perhaps a hundred men remained at the front of the house,
apparently to seek entrance through the doorway blocked with their own
dead, the others divided and dashed round the house, some to the right
and some to the left.
Now, for the first time, French troops who had not been posted at the
front windows came into action.
As the Germans rushed around the house, these French troops leaned from
their windows on the side of the house and poured volley after volley
into the German ranks.
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