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While this infernal cannonade was directed upon us we hung upon a slope of snow which had been pressed and polished to ice by the descending stones, and so steep that a single slip would have converted us into an avalanche also.
It was pitched in the shadow of a great rock, which seemed to offer a safe barrier against the cannonade from the heights.
The ice-pellets certainly hit us as bitterly as if they had been thrown in spite, and in the midst of this malicious cannonade we struck our tents and returned to Breuil.
The Jungfrau began her cannonade very early, five avalanches having thundered down her precipices before eight o’clock in the morning.
” With the adaptability under which men live in the fire zone, and without which, in fact, they could hardly live and keep their senses, they had in the space of an hour or two become so accustomed to the noise of the cannonade that its cessation had more power to wake them than its noisiest outbursts; and when, after the silence had lasted a few brief minutes, the batteries began to speak again, they turned over or lay down and slid off into heedless sleep.
” He was right, and presently they all heard the faint but penetrating whirr of an aeroplane’s engines, even above the louder and deeper note of the cannonade and rifle fire.
From Lake Narotch down to the Pripet Marshes the Russians maintained a lively cannonade at many points without, however, making any attacks in force.
Not a sound of the cannonade reached us; what had happened there we did not know, for the Austrians are attacking from a single base, and their battle line is not more than fifteen miles long, pivoting on a central position, whereas the Italian forces in this same sector are compelled, by the configuration of the mountains and the intersecting valleys, to fight separate actions which can only be coordinated with utmost difficulty.
The cannonade slackens.
Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball.
His eyes ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was a battery to their left.
The smoke above it had not yet dispersed.
Two mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill.
A small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, probably to strengthen the front line.
The smoke of the first shot had not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report.
The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back to Grunth to find Prince Bagration.
He heard the cannonade behind him growing louder and more frequent.
Evidently our guns had begun to reply.
From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.
Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.
Though Tushin's guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was firing incendiary balls at the village of Schon Grabern visible just opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing.
Tushin's battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the action did Prince Bagration, still hearing the cannonade in the center, send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order the battery to retire as quickly as possible.
When the supports attached to Tushin's battery had been moved away in the middle of the action by someone's order, the battery had continued firing and was only not captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended guns.
On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the French to suppose that here-in the center-the main Russian forces were concentrated.
Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated guns on the hillock.
The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, hung low over the field of battle on the horizon.
It was growing dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous.
The cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the right sounded oftener and nearer.
As soon as Tushin with his guns, continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, among them the staff officer and Zherkov, who had been twice sent to Tushin's battery but had never reached it.
Interrupting one another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, reprimanding and reproaching him.
Tushin gave no orders, and, silently-fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to weep without knowing why-rode behind on his artillery nag.
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages.
The jaunty infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of Tushin's wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on "Matvevna's Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostov, to avoid again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard.
Suddenly he heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, where he could never have expected the enemy to be.
The hussars remained in the same place for about an hour.
A cannonade began.
Count Ostermann with his suite rode up behind the squadron, halted, spoke to the commander of the regiment, and rode up the hill to the guns.
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